Nintendo's FY2026

[Yrassinad]

No, they don't. Metaphor is ugly on any hardware.

No it isn't. The only thing "ugly" about it is the models as you walk around the environment because of poor or non-existent anti-aliasing (something a Nintendo fanboy will be all too familiar with). The game looks great in combat and the UI elements and other hand drawn art is top tier. So is the art direction.

To prepare for Majora's Mask remake, it's a huge part of that game. Although it's also possible they're playing around with ideas for the next-gen open air Zelda

Latest rumors are saying MM isn't in any sort of production.

They do a lot of things other companies haven't done or can't do. It's not like BOTW only added climbing and that's it.
Rockstar is always gonna be limited by design if they stay in America and realism.

This is a dumb take. There are tons of things you can do in GTA games you can't do in Zelda games. Acting like a game needs to be fantasy/sci-fi in other to be creative is retarded. GTA offers a lot more freedom than the majority of fantasy and sci-fi games out there. Within years of BOTW, Ubisoft literally dropped a clone game. I'm not saying it's as good but acting like Nintendo is doing straight up impossible shit is just detached from reality. Maybe the ultrahand stuff in TOTK, sure.

GTA 5 map was the worst GTA map of all-time. Don't even start. And you play as a young merc, I'd prefer if they ditched TW and went all-in on Cyberpunk but it is what it is.

How was it the worst map of all time? More retarded takes. The only thing I can maybe see is that the ride along the coast from south to north was too long and straightforward, but other than that there's nothing wrong with the map. Anyway you don't even like GTA apparently, why are you trying to say which setting they should be using? Are you also ok if someone says Zelda should drop Ganondorf and fantasy settings and do something new instead?

Rockstar just doesn't have the balls to do anything else, let's face it. I agree in theory but more on a movie level than games level. They've already done America 50 times by now, GTA 4, 5 and 6 are also realistic enough so why would you wanna go back to anything else again. At least 4, 5, 6 had some novelty to it with the new graphics. GTA 7 isn't gonna have that at all.

This is ironic as hell. As if Nintendo ever took a shot at a real life setting. No, they also stay in their stylized comfort zones because that's what they're good at and what people want from them. Why the fuck would Rockstar move away from the thing people want from them and what they excel at? Just because some Nintendo fanboy on the internet is trying to come up with arguments to downplay their games because they routinely skip Nintendo hardware?

You want Rockstar to leave their expertise behind and take crazy risks to prove themselves, but explode in your pants when Nintendo lets you re-experience Zelda and Link teaming up to imprison Ganondorf for the 20th time.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised a Nintendo fanboy is so hyperfocused on the settings because interesting characters and stories are a foreign concept to you. They can do America for the "50th time" because every time they do it with a completely new story, characters and time period. And acting like America is some sort of standardized setting that's all the same is retarded too.

Most companies weren't smart like Capcom and Square Enix. Gotta start showing up if you want any sales at all.

I thought Nintendo has third party support now? Make up your mind dude. They either have it and people don't care, or they don't have it and that's why 80% of the money on Nintendo hardware goes to Nintendo itself.

 

[heroeskillrats]

This is a dumb take. There are tons of things you can do in GTA games you can't do in Zelda games.

Unless you've actually done creative shit for a living you wouldn't get it.

How was it the worst map of all time?

That's not even controversial, bro. A lot of GTA players say the same thing.

As if Nintendo ever took a shot at a real life setting. No, they also stay in their stylized comfort zones because that's what they're good at and what people want from them.

The company that's tried the most genres and taken the craziest risks are scared of moving out of their comfort zone? What comfort zone? Other companies would never in a million years do what Nintendo has because they're not brave enough.

You want Rockstar to leave their expertise behind and take crazy risks to prove themselves

How would it be crazy risky to make a GTA sci-fi, create your own brands, create your own things that you can then sell as merch?
It'd be the least risky project in AAA gaming history. They'd still be making an open world crime simulator.

 

[Yrassinad]

Unless you've actually done creative shit for a living you wouldn't get it.

Someone who has done creative shit wouldn't pussy out of realistic settings and would be able to work in those constraints and put out a creative work nonetheless.

That's not even controversial, bro. A lot of GTA players say the same thing.

It's impossible to argue with you because you always come up with these "just trust me bro" statements that you've seen somewhere in whatever online bubble you circulate in.

The company that's tried the most genres and taken the craziest risks are scared of moving out of their comfort zone? What comfort zone? Other companies would never in a million years do what Nintendo has because they're not brave enough.

Their comfort zone is the IPs they've relied for decades, which are all stylized. They have never done something in a realistic setting, have never done plenty of genres, only just started to write stories that couldn't be summed up on a napkin that require some actual voice acting and so on. Nintendo is super creative but acting like they don't have their own areas of strength and comfort just like Rockstar does is retarded. And demanding the latter to take shots at settings and genres they never did before while not expecting the same of the former, which has been around for much longer and has much more money and personnel at their disposal, is fucking stupid.

How would it be crazy risky to make a GTA sci-fi, create your own brands, create your own things that you can then sell as merch?
It'd be the least risky project in AAA gaming history. They'd still be making an open world crime simulator.

They already made their own brands and sell merch. In fact, the fact that they choose realistic settings means they can actually create merch that can be used in day to day life without looking like a schoolkid and isn't just some memorabilia for on your shelf. Modern settings are great because they're familiar to people, you don't have to waste any time on trying to explain the inner workings and rules of the universe to them before you can get to the thing people actually play Rockstar games for. We have plenty of studios making sci-fi and fantasy shit, but we have very few to no studios making open world games in modern settings.

 

[64bitmodels]

God damn why don't you two just have sex already jesus fuck

 

[voke]

Rockstar just doesn't have the balls to do anything else, let's face it. I agree in theory but more on a movie level than games level. They've already done America 50 times by now, GTA 4, 5 and 6 are also realistic enough so why would you wanna go back to anything else again. At least 4, 5, 6 had some novelty to it with the new graphics. GTA 7 isn't gonna have that at all.

The irony of this post.

Every Zelda game is literally Link saving Hyrule from Ganondorf again. Every mario game is Mario defeating Bowser. And you have the audacity to say R* is recycling the same premise over and over. You are actually retarded as hell.

 

[heroeskillrats]

Every Zelda game is literally Link saving Hyrule from Ganondorf again. Every mario game is Mario defeating Bowser.

Yeah and Zelda and Mario has reinvented itself many times over.

You are actually retarded as hell.

You're just insulting yourself if you can't even understand such a simple thing.

 

[voke]

Yeah and Zelda and Mario has reinvented itself many times over.


You're just insulting yourself if you can't even understand such a simple thing.

R* didn't reinvent themslves with RDR and RDR2?

gtf outta here and go play with ur princess peach doll or some shit

 

[SuperPotato]

Are we now seriously comparing Nintendo open world games to R*? That's even funnier than the "Nintendo has great third party support" stuff.

Breath of the wild has cool physics but the map itself is empty, the enemies are just copy and paste with different colors and you climb towers to unlock parts of the map (never seen that before)

 

[heroeskillrats]

It's impossible to argue with you because you always come up with these "just trust me bro" statements that you've seen somewhere in whatever online bubble you circulate in.

Right, the elusive GTA community. It's a secret club.

have never done plenty of genres

See you say shit that makes no sense at all.

R* didn't reinvent themslves with RDR and RDR2?

"I got a plan, Arthur. I just need money."