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[Variahunter]

As a dude who consider most of their games super overrated, they did not have much mojo to lose to begin with.

But i would never trust reviews, just buy the game if you are interested and check by yourself.

Remember the media scored veilguard an 85...

People still buy their games en masse so i don't think they care.

Most of their games after the Wii era are a bit overrated, yes. But sometimes they still can produce revolutionary games like BotW, very influential, even if it has many flaws.

But the golden era Nintendo (NES/SNES/N64 and a bit of GC) ?
They were just untouchable and all the industry were trying to keep up, depending of the genre of course.
Like RPG, shooters or Fighting games were never their focus, even if Smash Bros Melee is probably the most technical fighting game ever...

 

[Dampf]

I always remember these three reviews when I hear metacritic doom and gloom

True, DKTF is easily a 90+ game. Better than Returns in every way.

People were just displeased it wasn't Metroid back in the day (including me)

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

The overwhelming response from players is that MK8 was better.

The overwhelming response from players has been "the previous one was better" for dozens of big IPs for 20+ years.
Just a few from the last few years:
TLOU2? 1 was better
Ragnarok? GOW 2018 was better
Spider-Man 2? 1 was better
Pokemon? Gold/Silver/Platinum/BW/SM was better.
Zelda? Twilight Princess was better

Mario Kart World is great, but coming after what is arguably the best game in the series and a game that has occupied and dominated its specific niche of the market for 10 years, it's hard to be excited for the new game.
The same will happen with the next Smash Bros. Good luck being greater that Ultimate.

I think the overwhelming response from players is just like a review - an opinion that may differ from yours, and is influenced by several biases.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

This is what happens when you got a bunch of Bank Suits in charge of the company.

It's no longer about the player experience or doing right by your customers it's all about squeezing pennies out of consumer base.

- There's no more Nintendo Club rewards
- There's no more Nintendo Select titles
- There's no more Nintendo Vouchers
- Their Hardware prices are out of control (a set of Joy Cons cost $109 here in Chicago)
- They had the gall to introduce the $80 price tag to the industry
- Regardless of rime or reason they have essentially given themselves (Poketopia) and 3rd party developers an out and they don't even have to release real physical games anymore

We the consumers were in a better position when Nintendo was struggling to be relevant and I miss the Reggie/Iwata era.

 

[Banjo64]

A disturbing trend