Digitally Downloaded writes: "It is high time that Nintendo started to look at building female heroes that don't need to be disguised as men, subservient to men or in desperate need of rescuing by men."
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
What's wrong with Samus? If you mean her, when saying "female heroes don't need to be disguised as men," I don't believe she's ever been disguised as a man. It's kind of a gender neutral suit if you ask me.
Peach is always kidnapped by Bowser. She is weaker. Why even have the Mario Mario character save her(the entire point of the games) if Peach could handle Bowser on her own?
Same thing Zelda. She cannot beat Ganon, and she was not even captured in Skyward Sword. She was being chased the whole time. If someone is weaker, they are weaker.
Samus does not need to dress as a man to have power. She dresses like that because because her ass would burn without that Varia suit.
The writer brings up the time period that these characters were made, but if Zero suit samus took the role now in 2012 you would have every womans group talking about how Samus is exploited bla bla.
The point is that Peach and Zelda are not the main heroes of the game. They NEED to be weak or a hero is not needed.
Why are feminists such blockheads that seem to be capable of all but building fair and sensible arguments?
Or what, do you really want every game in the world to be a vapid piece of software that specifically caters to your moronic ideals and tastes?
I'm quite sure Nintendo isn't filled with psychopathologic assholes that look to do nothing but objectify women. But, ironically in your argument, you too are treating women in a generalized manner- that which throws away all individualism and instead goes for a set standard born from the idiotic ambitions of a woman with far too much time and the group of equally brainless sheep (both female and, even worse, male) to follow suit.
What a poor piece of journalism this is, forgetting the utmost rule of that profession: impartiality. Forgetting that Nintendo heroines are not only iconic and revered (in ways more than just perversion, imbecile), but even have their own set of spinoffs and other roles that go beyond the conventional. So yes, the man who wrote this article is idiotic, biased, and all-around a terrible human being. Stop posting your worthless opinion on the internet, it's nothing more than something people point and laugh at. And with reason.
P.S.: This won't get you anything, man. Don't fall so low.
@MattS
Oh, but I have assisted to a sociology course before. I would never assist to something as ridiculous as a feminist center of indoctrination, though.
I like how you blame me of playing my way into authority, yet you attempt to criticize me with your almighty knowledge derived from a hour-long course on how women are obviously superior to you in every way imaginable. Feminism is a doctrine where those who apply it criticize all but themselves, obviously drunk in ego and vocal power. And, honestly, it's disgusting. If you truly took a sociology course, as you said you did, you'd realize that feminism falls in one of the worst kind of ideologies, being as bad as blind faith or political fanaticism. It's a dogma that literally no one should abide by, at the very least in not such extreme (and, truth be told, completly ridiculous) ways as you do in this piece of badly written opinions.
And yet you have the guts to call my interpretation equal to one of high school when you base yours on petty generalizations. Wow.
Oh, and last I checked, opinion pieces are best left to the people who have to say something, which is why you will almost never see a journalist actually write one of those unless it's their blog, and even then. Besides, no, journalism IS news reporting, most of all. It's the vigorous responsability of informing, not opining. Unless your journalism class was dictated by a jackass with no actual merit for the career.
But thank you for being such a try-hard. You've made my night, good man. I will continue to laugh at you, and so will others.
okay peach and depending on which version of zelda it is ill give you but what the heck is wrong with samus, granted she wasnt her best in other M but thats only one game.
You kind of answer your own question in the article when you say it is a cultural thing. Japan is traditional, the men go out and work, and the women stay home.
However, that is slowly changing in their society, but it just comes down to cultural differences.