Anyone else think Nintendo is creatively bankrupt? Besides games like Breath of the Wild and (maybe) Mario Odyssey, franchises like Kirby, Yoshi, Metroid, Starfox etc. have either become extremely stale or deviated off the public radar.
Kirby Star Allies is probably one of the worst Kirbys I've played. Taking aside all technical issues, which already bother me a lot, the game itself is another incremental sequel to Return to Dreamland and amazes me just how boring and uninteresting the series is now. Starfox peaked with Assault and everything after that has been either extremely bad or nothing at all. Zero was a lame reboot of 64 which was a reboot of Starfox 1. Adventures and Assault were the only games that tried to expand the series at least one time. Prime Trilogy was extremely good but Prime 4 is going to be a weird game, it has no plan or any reason to exist outside of fanservice. Last years of development were a complete waste and it's honestly scary just how bad it was going to be since when the hell has any company come out and publicly state they are completely restarting the development of a game? Retro is back I guess but the Retro of today is not the Retro of yesterday. Speaking of Retro they made two boring modern sequels to DKC and it's really sad that Donkey Kong is like New Super Mario Bros. but an entire concept spread out for a whole franchise.
I go back and look at the Gamecube library and try to compare it to the N64 and SNES and the amount of creative risk taking I see makes miss a time when video games were actually innovative.
>kirby >yoshi >metroid >starfox None of these are actually made by Nintendo >kirby Hal, they are a self owned company, they make what they want, they have even published games independantly, they stick with Nintendo because they make money for them and their fans still lvoe their games. It's shameful that Kirby Superstar was the best Kirby game >yoshi Hasn't been made by Nintendo for a while, the latest ones were made by Good Feel, who's main thing is making games with unique visual styles >metroid Yet again not made by Nintendo, at least not anymore, the last 3 were made by 3 different companies, Prime is the only one coming that's made by a Nintendo subsidiary >starfox You can blame Nigeru for the quality of Zero but even before that the last few weren't made by Nintendo, they were made by Plat and then Q games, Q games are shit.
>nintendo is creatively bankrupt Do some research. Splatoon exists, that game oozes creativity.
Tyler Reed
Who cares if they are not "made" by Nintendo, which I'm going to assume you mean the EAD teams. In fact in kind of beckons the question why Nintendo is not continuing the trend of having other developers work on original titles using their intellectual property? Fox in Starlink is lame and not a full game about Starfox and DKC Returns + Tropical Freeze are very average and boring compared to the three SNES games.
>Do some research. Splatoon exists, that game oozes creativity. lol Splatoon is one of the gayest things known to man kind and the fact that it has become one of Nintendo's recent hits is unbelievable.
Robert Carter
Nintendo died with Iwata and even then he was the one who allowed the current bland age of Nintendo to happen in the first place.
Kevin Bailey
>Speaking of Retro they made two boring modern sequels to DKC and it's really sad that Donkey Kong is like New Super Mario Bros. but an entire concept spread out for a whole franchise. you're a mongoloid and you wouldn't recognize creativity if it kicked you in your tranny vagina
Evan Bennett
He didn't call it bad he called it boring, and he's 100% right
Landon Rodriguez
>Anyone else think Nintendo is creatively bankrupt? stopped reading there you faggots have been saying this for decades
>calls the Donkey Kong Country Returns games boring >totally forgets Splatoon which is the most important new Nintendo IP since basically the NES era
I think you just don't like games anymore, or nostalgia is killing you. Also only a few missed chances on some franchises don't mean the whole company is dead, maybe those franchises are just too old.
Joshua Collins
They aren't made by Nintendo employees, they are developed by completely independant companies that get to make their own decisions, as long as it meets Nintendo's standards.
Tropical Freeze is excellent, it's level design is near perfect, only a retard would call it average and boring, it's easily better than DKC1/3 and in many places it's better than 2.
I'm just going to assume that you are shitposting, I find it too hard to believe that someone has so little knowledge and such bad taste.
Mason Sanders
Nice cherrypicking. What game is in the top left?
Jace Murphy
>Splatoon is one of the gayest things known to man kind and the fact that it has become one of Nintendo's recent hits is unbelievable. >"waaaah why do people like what I don't like stop liking things and let Nintendo die"
Go eat a bag of dicks you retarded fuck.
Luke Watson
>nintendo arent doing creative stuff anymore >what about sploon? >i dont like that game so therefor it doesnt count
wew thank god he told us in advance that his opinion is pure shit otherwise i would have believed he's retarded
Kayden Lopez
Dreams
Colton Torres
>Nintendo died with Iwata Bullshit. Iwata died with the WiiU and probably the most boring and stale Nintendo games era of all time. Anything after him passing out was an improvement. You're just idealizing Iwata.
Austin Lopez
>Splatoon is one of the gayest things known to man >using the word gay in such a way it has literally no definition Seriously, what does that even mean in this context?
Grayson Sanders
Just going to vent here and say, I feel like OP does but mainly towards Yoshi. I grew up liking and enjoying Yoshi's Island on the SNES. It was one of my favorite games, it still is. The series has had tons of low points, but I really think it started coming back with Woolly World. I gave it a chance and, yeah, it feels like the first game felt to me, just a different art style. It felt good. It felt right. But now comes this new one, and it made me start to thinking and coming this franchise to the ones I like more. Did I like Mario 3 because it felt the same as 1? Nope, not at all. I liked it cause it felt like a improvement, and had enough differences to make it feel entirely different. I felt this same way for Pikmin 2. And Mario Kart 8. Likely all of my favorite franchises. Except Yoshi. I liked Woolly World for nostalgia only. But now, I realize, there's only so far nostalgia can take my interest in a series, and this is that limit. I have no interest in the new one, even feel confused why it got made. Am I the only one who plays sequels for how different they can be over just nostalgia?
Josiah Lewis
Unreal 4 exists and holds the same functionality but instead you can make money from your games.
Charles Richardson
Honestly I just think Yoshi has become the "slowed down babby's first platformer with collectables" of Nintendo. Probably the competition with the faster Mario 2D games was too strong so they had to slow it down and aim to another public entirely. Don't expect another Yoshi game like Island any time soon, especially after the New Island fiasco.
Christian Murphy
>1-2-Switch >ARMS >Labo >Kirby Star Allies >Pokemon LGPE >Super Mario Party BOTW, SMO, and SSBU are all great games but I'm still pissed at Nintendo for releasing soulless garbages listed above. I'm not sure whatever the fuck happens to their quality control. It's even more disappointing that more than a million normaltards bought those garbages.
Summed up my feelings on the series perfectly user. It feels like they just make Yoshi games now to see how many different things they can make the same game out of, yarn, now cardboard. Reminds me of the fate the Paper Mario franchise suffered, god rest its soul.
Jonathan Harris
Yep, Nintendo has 5 years before they go to shit.
Christian Fisher
Not remotely the same thing.
Jordan James
The only legitmately good things there are Dreams and the remake, but even then thet SotC remake suffered from its own problems. The fact they are selling LA's remake for 60 is banking off of poor retarded nostalgia fags.
Jayden Barnes
I know right, it's well beyond anything Dreams can do.
