axelsaurus.bsky.social
Love illustration, animation, videogames and cinema. This is my personal account. May retweet nsfw.
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Can't wait for Mega Charizard -
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Expectation: ambitious remake of an iconic title
Reality: rerelease of the Zelda 1 amiibo
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Sure I understand that building social media for work is a whole lot different, if you have found a better space for that on Mastodon I don't see any issue. But that's also why I think it's niche-dependant, the average artist would starve if it mainly used Mastodon.
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Yeah that's the main issue, all the other reasons are basically why those people tend to be absent from there.
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I don't think "proving their worth" is remotely in their minds. They just want their series as a whole to stay successful, and capitalising on iconic titles from the past is one way aside from new entries.
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Depends on what they want to do. If it's something more barebone, sure, it'll be limited in scope but still more widely available. If it's a reimagining, they could capitalise on the iconic status of OoT with a fully modern presentation for a wider appeal.
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I think either a new remaster or full remake are more likely. As you said the og is already on NSO for the people who care about retrogaming, but if you want to capture the post-BotW audience you need a modern presentation. OoT 3D existing is more evidence of the intent rather than the opposite.
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Because OoT is an iconic game and it's in their interest to introduce it to the new, wider audience. NSO only cathers to a fraction of potential fans.
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I think they would certainly introduce elements from the new games, but I also think they've a deep respect of the og and know they can't mess too much with it.
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Ocarina 3D is a remaster.
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Of course there's room for villains with complex backgrounds, it can be interesting. I do feel though like sometimes a good ol simple metaphor of what's dangerous within humanity works just fine without having to add fake appendages of relatableness.
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I know you aren't into Zelda, but as a Zelda fan this triggers me deeply because I'm constantly in pain at the amount of "hey but this time Ganondorf should be written as a misunderstood gray villain" HE'S THE FUCKING KING OF EVIL, THE EMBODIMENT OF POWER WITHOUT WISDOM, LEAVE HIM ALONE
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I think Miraidon looks cooler for the average fan at first glance. Which is wrong of course, Koraidon is objectively much cooler and the real good doggo.
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What I don't like about this key art is that it's kinda generic. I think it gets through the fact that it's symbolic rather than literal, but it looks like a bajillion weird skeleton artworks I've seen countless times. I don't get the identity of the game from this.
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Zelda designs feel truly diverse. Especially the BotW/TotK era truly has something for everyone, in a way that some other games that strive for that maybe can't quite grasp, or get too one-sided.
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Whatever suits the best what they will try to do, as long as they stay heavily stylised and never go the full realism route (which I doubt they will). I think the BotW/TotK style was really the perfect blend of every previous TloZ, so if I'd have to guess I'd evolve that into a new distinct look.
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Yeah see my other reply
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What I mean is that futuristic-to-retro will likely be part of the theme, but not necessarily that the game will be about time travel or living into the future/past, although I suspect there could be some sci-fi shenanigans because GF really loves those.
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I agree with everything except that I think the teaser hinted at a futuristic-to-retro scenario, which is strengthened by the title (zed-to-a if you will) and by talonflame "becoming" fletching at the end of the "futuristic" part. It's true that we could be right in the middle though.
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I don't see why they would announce gen 10 before even having showed anything about ZA. Next year is a good time for gen 10, it's also the 30th anniversary.
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Does it? Have seen plenty of dickheads content policing there too despite staying there not for long. And very low engagement overall. I kinda lost my hopes about constructive social media, you can only try to curate your bubble.
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My boy, this despair is what all true artists strive for!
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So far I'm just resigned to jump ship when places get too shitty. It's far from ideal, but it's the least annoying compromise I've found through the years: mostly one platform at the time, whichever is less of a pain.
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Sure it has its advantages. I guess it can be more constructive if you have a dedicated server you fit in... But if you use your social media mostly for following stuff passively it's atrocious. Bsky is riskier long term but so far has the usability of twitter with less brainrot and algorithm bs.
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It's just that it's a pain to use. Finding people, following people from different servers, avoid content policing in servers. The feed is both narrow scoped and easily cluttered, you can't make threads etc... if you already have your stable community I guess it works, otherwise it's not worth it.
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Mastodon is only good for people who find their niche there. As a generalised social to have it just sucks, it's too clunky for almost everyone. I understand why some love it, but it's not an alternative to a twitter-like social.
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Bluesky isn't the saviour of anything, it's just marginally better than the shitfest Twitter has become, just as Twitter was marginally better than how Tumblr had become etc... and well Meta is the worst of them all.
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I know we'll never get rid of genAI unlike what happened with most of the cryptoshit promoted by the same people, but holy fuck if it's depressing. The fact that it gets conflated with other AI stuff by the tech guys to make it sound like part of the progress is outright infuriating.
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Yeah like, it's an issue when options are removed for censorship, not when *more* options are added to benefit everyone
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I cry a bit thinking we never got to do something like this in the game (without banana crimes involved at least)😔
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Yeah anniversaries can be used to capitalise on the fame of a franchise, but it's usually secondary to when the games are actually available. That's why 35th Zelda has been poorer than Mario's, and 40th DK complete radio silence etc...
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Can't wait for the sequel, the Intellivision Amico...