General Nintendo thread

Recent events have taught me just how insane people can get over stuff.

EDIT: page topper. I’m responding to this situation where a person was charged for canceling Nintendo of Japan events by threatening them with violence for bad games.

Edited by powerpuffbats on Apr 24th 2024 at 10:30:41 AM

My best weapons in "Uprising" are the kind with a high homing rate.

x4 Was the Mario vs Donkey Kong remake that bad?

Edited by 123tbones on Apr 24th 2024 at 1:14:43 AM

The guy probably thought "Tears of the Kingdom" (which I'm still playing through) is overrated.

In honesty, it was most likely Splatoon 3 they were flipping out about.

Honestly, I don’t know his problem, and it’s none of my business anyway.

I thought it was implied to be Splatoon 3?

Does it matter? Threatening violence because someone made a piece of media you don't like is NEVER ok.

Oh I was just connecting some events. Like I remembered some random complaint from a Japanese shareholders meeting that Splatoon 3 never had any "manly" emotes.

This is the first time I’m hearing about this.

If that's true... then those shareholders are supremely ignorant about what kind of game Splatoon is.

If they want a "manly" game they'll have to look elsewhere.

Edited by TheDarkMantis on Apr 24th 2024 at 2:53:53 PM

Wait I thought it was posted here before?

Nintendo Shareholders Disrupted by Angry Splatoon Fan

>Reportedly, the fan was unhappy with the number of customisation options available to male characters in Splatoon 3, including hairstyles and emotes, compared to those available to female characters.

I mean, I kinda have this issue as well. Especially for octolings, I really wish they got more hairstyles than just "afro, two kinds of mohawks, and box cut".

If it was posted before, it might have been in the Splatoon thread and that's why I didn't see it.

Also there are victory emotes based on victory animations from Splatoon 1 and 2, which only feature the female versions. Still a dumbass thing to bring up in a shareholder meeting, but not completely imaginary.

x3

Yeah I remember that. It's not entirely ridiculous since it has been criticized in the reddits that the customization options felt rather lacking and one-dimensional.

Good to see so many people in this thread agreeing with the violent psychopath. Warms my heart.

Well that guy from the shareholder meeting isn't the same as the guy that was just arrested. The guy at the shareholder meeting was some Splatoon fan who gathered up a bunch of money solely to buy enough stocks to get into the meeting and complain directly to the CEO that Splatoon needed options for the boys. If he started threatening Nintendo he would likely have made his demands more clear than saying he was doing it because Nintendo makes shit games.

Without any clarification about what game they were upset by, my first guess would be that the guy arrested for making threats was a Playstation fan. The console wars between Nintendo and Sony fans is even crazier in Japan than it is on English sites, they literally call each other cultists, pigs, and cockroaches over their console allegiances.

Don't forget about the existence of Foamstars, probably the first big attempt to rival Splatoon.

How could I forget? I never knew.

I could theoretically play Foamstars at any moment as it was a free PS plus game and kind of figure I should while I still can.

Those playstation fans better do some work then since PS 5 sales are dwindling in various famitsu reports.

And I mainly brought it up because there are definitely some really hilarious stock owner shenanigans. There's that guy who was an F-Zero fan for instance.

Edited by Ookamikun on Apr 26th 2024 at 2:52:42 AM

All of those events cancelled because of one person.

So, I just am thinking about how the Game Cube has been very Vindicated by History because many of the first party titles were very divisive at launch because of how they were very experimental with the gameplay.

Like you did have titles that were indeed being more traditional experiences (Melee, F-Zero GX, Twilight Princess, Thousand Year Door, Path of Radiance, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Mario Party), and then there were the titles that decided to be experimental (Luigi’s Mansion, Mario Sunshine, both Star Fox games, Wind Waker (though admittedly the gameplay was traditional, it got crap for the graphics), Double Dash, Metroid Prime, everything regarding Donkey Kong).

At the time, this was divisive as a lot of older Nintendo fans really just wanted a more traditional experience and they weren’t getting that all the time. However the kids who grew up with the GCN are now old enough to share their love for these games online.

At this point I say the current Nintendo nostalgia wave is Game Cube, GBA, DS, and Wii.

I've noticed that yeah. Given enough time, one grows to appreciate how those games experimented with the gameplay and mechanics of their franchises and breathed new life to them.