Nintendo has absurdly good ratings to work for and a downright ridiculous employee retention rate, even compared to other japanese companies where it's far less common to quit than in the west. If there's ANYTHING positive you can say about nintendo, it's how good they are to their employees.
That's some bootlicking horseshit.
The other part was Neil Cuckmann spouting off nonsense about 90$ games
Oh no! All those people who bought an $80 device just so they could spend even more money buying legal copies of games, dumping them (only for personal use and not sharing them), and uploading the dumped roms of games they legally purchased to this device have been screwed over! All 7 of them!
Yes yes, we know, and torrenting is all piracy and evil too, thank god we have infrastructure-destroying laws on the books (like the DMCA, which hasn't at all been abused, e.g. to attack this site) to solve that problem too so those precious copyright holders can sleep better at night.
Will defend DK64. While it is certainly more cartoony, compared to what we have seen of Bananza, it overall does a better job staying true to DK tonally. It has a darker aesthetic and character to it, full of dark mines, caves and factories much like Rare’s 2D titles. Even the jungle is fairly muted, more heavy dark colors.Honestly of the Rare games, only DKC 1 and 2 had a cohesive art direction, 3 was so-so, enemies designs were way more silly, the Bear Brothers and Banana Birds felt that they were trying a "children's adventure" aproach to that title but still worked most of the time, meanwhile on DK 64 we were struck with stuff like this:
Most of the stuff that worked were characters directly imported from the first 2 games and new additions for the DK crew, everything else was all over the place.
Now on the gameplay department, the game is clearly more a spiritual sucessor to the Banjo games than a sequel to DK 64, is funny seeing people complaining about the straight-forward approach of Bananza when they spent years complaining about how 64 was convoluted with multiple gameplay styles. Reminds me when people started complaining about how 3D Mario got streamlined and when Odyssey released people came out of nowhere to claim 3D World wasn't that bad and deserved a second chance.
I pirate (including emulation, of which I have at least 10 emulators installed right now) at minimum 90% of the shit I play. I'm just not delusional and/or retarded enough to be surprised when basic ass countermeasures are taken.
"Surprised" isn't really the right word. You should be angry that a third party can remotely disable hardware you've paid for, regardless of reason.
You should be ashamed that you are a thief, regardless of the reason.
The complaint is that the Nintendo game with the cartoon monkey is too colorful and cheery and not edgy enough.
That era of mario having a realistic denim texture in brawl caused something downright weird in a lot of people's brains.
I don't get where this notion came from that any notable amount of people genuinely tried to mod or hack the Switch 2 without any expectation of Nintendo retialiating, or that anyone should oppose or mock anyone trying to do whatever with their consoles. I'm not even seeing people complain about the potential that hackers have for stealing Nintendo accounts or any other black hat shit they could pull against policy-abiding consumers. It's all just an indirect admittance of "My experience with Nintendo products is severely affected by what people do with their own Nintendo products, even if I will never actually interact with such people within or through said Nintendo products.".
I find personal entertainment in prodding people that are so self-righteous about stealing video games, a luxury product meant to kill time that most of the world can't afford to waste.
If they spent as much time actually playing the games they pirate, like I do, instead of bragging about how much they pirate and how much better they are for doing it and how everyone should be like them, and go out of their way to directly taunt corporations, maybe corpos wouldn't be locked in as much of an arms race as they are with piracy. A lot of the blame falls on zoomers who can't into the slightest amount of opsec, it was a rom site holocaust the moment an ios compatible emulator came out and crusty ipad kiddies just had to spend every waking moment bragging about something everyone else has had access to for many years.
The complaint is that the Nintendo game with the cartoon monkey is too colorful and cheery and not edgy enough.
As they say, "Discretion is the better part of valor.".
Seems fine elsewhere, this is just two different designs clashing more than anything.
