Nintendo Europe is laying off a hundred thirty members of employees as a part of a big reorganization that may conjointly see its Großostheim premises in Deutschland shut.
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Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
That's awful, I hope they manage to find work somewhere soon.
That sucks, good luck.
future endeavored by the big N...that sucks
That sucks. Good thing it wasn't like Sony when they laid off 5000 employees a few months back.
I wonder what prompted the restructuring in the first place?
I'll bet you anything that this is due at least in part to Nintendo being forced to try and appease some of the sh*t-brained investors who only see the extra employees as an added expense.
IIRC, it was one of those mentally-challenged individuals that wanted Nintendo to go into mobile, then make people pay microtransactions to get Mario to jump a little higher.(Luigi and his already-naturally-higher jumps would like a word with that particular fool...)
Were it me, I would have relocated as many of those employees as possible to different branches instead of listening to investors that just want to cut costs for the sake of more $ by whatever means they can...