Saturday, March 28, 2015

Zelda delayed... boo hoo, big deal.

It's amusing how much people complain about games not being finished but released anyway, but then the one developer that doesn't pull this shit delays its game so it's actually finished by the time it comes out and people complain about that too. If, as the devs claim, they had new ideas since December and need some time to implement them, I say let them. I'd much rather wait a bit longer and play a better game. I'm not worried at all. I seem to remember another game getting delay after delay after delay, what was it called? ...oh yes, TWILIGHT PRINCESS.

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  1. I've been playing Twilight Princess recently and I can see why it was your favorite game for over half a decade. Didn't Miyamoto himself claim that a rushed game is bad forever and a delayed game is eventually good?

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    1. Has his favorite game ever changed?

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    2. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Xenoblade_box_artwork.png

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    3. Oh that's quite surprising since you first came in touch with the game by you're viewers, but I can understand it. One of my favorites of all time too.

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  2. The gaming world seems to be full of hypocrites. They get butt-hurt when a game they really want is released too soon and is full of bugs and glitches that make the game unenjoyable. THEN they get butt-hurt when a game they really want is delayed and say the delay shouldn't exist at all when the end result will be a prestine product.

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  3. People expected Zelda to come out this year?

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    1. Well Nintendo DID say it was going to come out by the end of 2015 back in December.

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    2. Well I mean with the way Nintendo does with their major games, a lot of the times they're delayed so It's strange people are this surprised or scared about the delay

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  4. The problem to me isn't that Nintendo is making sure the game is up to their strict standards. It's that Nintendo has a bad habit of prematurely giving a release date and then changing it. Pretty much nobody expected the new Zelda to be ready by the end of this year, so why did they even say that it in the first place?

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  5. While I do understand your point and can agree with what you've said, I must say that I can understand people that are pissed as well. The thing is, this isn't an individual case. Nintendo already postponed several games in a short amount of time. If they need more time that's fine. And if they need to postpone a release that's fine too, since complications can always occur. However, if Nintendo can't seem to hold their release dates then don't give them and don't make the fans exciting just too disappoint them constantly. If they would of been honest about it from the beginning I'm sure many people wouldn't complain at all.

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  6. I mean, this was expected. Every console Zelda game gets delayed at least once. 2015 seemed too early after the announcement, anyway. Skyward Sword was released something around 2.5-3 years after its announcement, if I recall, and it was similar with TP. When they said 2015, my first reaction was "no fucking way that's happening". I don't really care, though. As you said, I'd rather wait than get an unfinished product. I've got plenty of other games to play in the meantime.

    Like Alpha Sapphire! Goddamn that game has a lot of postgame content compared to XY. Just finished the Delta episode last night, and since I was determined to catch Deoxys within the episode rather than killing it and catching it later, that was one of the most stressful legendaries to catch ever. Capturing Rayquaza + fighting Zinnia + capturing Deoxys all without a save break or being able to check the nature of Rayquaza or Deoxys until after the episode is over. Of course Deoxys hits like a truck until it uses Psycho Boost a few times, and has Recover to make it even worse. That was the one Pokemon where I felt lucky I used the EXP Share during the game. Managed to get a Timid Deoxys on the first try, though I had to settle for a Lax Rayquaza.

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    1. Just wanna chime in and say that it is technically possible to check the nature of your Rayquaza before you even fight Deoxys. The way I did it was I mucked around with an IV calculator briefly to see what Rayquaza's maximum stats are at Lv.70 and marked them down in a Notepad file. When the Zinnia fight starts, I went to the Pokemon option as if I was going to switch the Rayquaza out, and then I just compared its stats to the ones I had written down, using the IV calculator if necessary. Thanks to that, I got a 23-24/31/31/26-27/25/31 IVed Rayquaza with a Jolly nature.

      For Deoxys, though, I just decided to kill it and beat the Elite 4 to make it respawn. Which reminds me, I still need to actually catch it...

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    2. I did think of that possibility, but I'm too lazy to do all of that that brainwork, haha. I also didn't know if it was possible thanks to the variation of IVs.

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    3. The fact that every Legendary now automatically has 3-IVs helps a lot for that.

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