 Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of prime comments and again another shortened week this week We had a ton of videos go up Liberty down to only four comments probably our lowest amount total But I don't have a lot of time today to get out a longer episode, so we're going to try to keep it short We'll see what happens And the first comment we're gonna tackle this week comes from the death of neo gaff and how I feel about it Mr. Habes had this to say Where do you think everyone will go now and then it was replied to by dex to said Reddit it's that simple. I don't think it is that simple It appears that reset era.com is the new Neo gaff a neo gaff itself is back online But it's kind of a shell of its former self yet a lot of people torpedoing their accounts getting banned And in general there seems to be a very tiny user base Still there now, obviously, it's a heck of a lot more active than our own forums with neo gaff was you know the house of thousands upon thousands of fans and Reset era launched a few days after neo gaff went down and reset era I'm actually a member of reset era as well And it was approved for being part in the dinner prime Which is cool like Zelda informer was why I was approved for neo gas Penal prime approved me for reset era is great Reset era was founded by some of the former mods and some new people including people I really respect in the industry like Z huge X off of Twitter And just you know a bunch of people that I actually use For sourcing for finding out like leaks and stuff It's really great to see some of them behind reset era people who had just haven't been part of neo gaff for a very long time if ever and Yeah, they're I think at the time of me Like reporting on this talking about this was like 20,000 members that have joined reset era 20,000 think about that That's just an insane amount of people to join now I know some people say oh reddit because reddit is more popular has more people but when you look at I'm gonna throw up a screenshot quickly here of The front side of reset era right now and then the front side of gaming the gaming the main gaming channel on Reddit and you'll quickly see that there's a big reason people prefer something like reset era slash neo gaff over reddit That's a very different kind of place than reddit is so no reddit couldn't simply just replace neo gaff Reset era appears to be the new replacement for it I don't know how many people there that are developers and I know there's a bunch of media people there But yeah, we'll see what happens I'm enjoying my time at reset era so far everyone seems to be enjoying their time there And there doesn't seem to be as much political discourse and a bunch of the other things that Really drove drove neo gaff to being irrelevant for some people over the years Anyway, it's moving on Our second comment that we're gonna talk about from this week comes from the Pokemon on switch features their best developers while younger staff work on the 3ds and Daniel Evans had this to say new developers or vets don't matter much to me But certain personalities have a huge effect Miyamoto for example aims to simplify games he oversees He might not be a great fit for Pokemon, but for Mario He's perfect. Just keep him away from that paper Mario I hope that both Pokemon teams see the value in changing up the stories and goals in Pokemon We've seen a move away from badges and I think there's still so much room to expand an experiment with the world of Pokemon There's obviously a lot of room to expand the world of Pokemon. There's no You're not gonna see any argument for me suggesting otherwise It's interesting that you say that Miyamoto's goal is to simplify games he oversees Whereas I don't think that's the case of Miyamoto. I think Miyamoto likes to Head out too far down the new idea route as an example He definitely didn't simplify the new Star Fox game He actually made it more complicated by forcing these controls into the game Then a lot of people just didn't want if you for the for the parts of the game You can play without using motion controls. It is highly enjoyable now But yeah, I don't think Miyamoto is really a key cog there for your example, but I do understand What you're saying that obviously it matters who's like the director of the game more so than it matters Which team is making it whether it's younger developers or newer developers? Newer developers tend to have more fresh ideas and the older developers that are kind of stuck in their ways That's usually the contrast like Breath of the Wild had a lot of newer developers working on it with a lot of fresh ideas injected into it Whereas we could talk about AJ and almost influence all we want on the game, which is clearly there, you know He he controls the whole Zelda series So clearly it's there clearly the director's Influences there but more than that the developers at Nintendo get a lot of input into games now game freak is separate from Nintendo They're their own thing Nintendo technically doesn't own game freak So how they handle development might not be the same way that Nintendo does where Nintendo lets their developers inject their ideas into the game and then the director and the person in charge of it decides that those ideas stay in but yeah, it's It's definitely getting interesting. I don't know what they're gonna do. I didn't even know they abandoned the badge system This is how out of touch I am with Pokemon But yeah, there's definitely a lot that could still be done with Pokemon as evidenced by the ongoing Anime series and the fact the games have been around for so long. It's not like they're out of ideas. So yeah, we'll see I have high hopes for that game our next comment comes from the youtuber band three months for live streaming Super Mario Odyssey pre-launch and these last two Comments we're gonna take I have to do with Mario and Eladaya, I can't even pronounce it a la d ya had this to say his account should be permanently banned and his console should be Bricked along with the Nintendo account permanent ban. That's a little harsh because When we reported on that when I talked about it Obviously, it sucked it was happening. We don't know for 100% if it was an illegal copy of the game I suggested that he had an illegal copy of the game, but we don't know that Some people are saying that he just had a legal copy of the game from a retailer that broke street date Which to me felt confusing because he lives in Hong Kong and they don't have switch games in Hong Kong They don't have Nintendo switches in Hong Kong So having a retailer in Hong Kong break street date when they're not even supposed to have the system in the games It's really weird. That doesn't mean you can't get a hold of it I'm sure there's a black market. But then if you're getting it from a black market, that's illegal. Anyways, maybe he got it Well, he was out of country. Maybe he came to the US or some other low, you know Country stuff next to China and was able to get it by by some retailer in like Taiwan or something that broke street date And then brought it back to Hong Kong. I have no idea But that's why I'm a little hesitant to say he didn't get an illegal copy of the game when we're talking about the fact that Happened and obviously some people pointed out how there's no official emulator for switch. You're right. There's no there's no official emulator for switch But that doesn't mean that he can't find a way to run the game locally on the switch Now I know as far as we are aware There is no modding on switch right now that allows you to download a ROM into a cartridge or an SD card Throw it into the system and play it natively as far as we're aware. I did some research into this There is nothing that is publicly aware at least right now of that being possible and there might even be modders out There that are saying it's not possible. I don't know all I know is the guy played the game and streamed it And he got a three month ban Now I don't think he should be permanently banned More and more I hear about this the more and more I understand that it probably was a retail copy of the game No matter how he got his hands on it I don't think he should be permanently banned. I think Three months is fine. I know I suggest that maybe his account should just be shut down if he was a leaker, but if he's I don't know it's Now like he was streaming it weeks beforehand, right? It was a few days before and which helps us cause that it was a broken street date I think three months. It is fine I think he's learned his lesson already in fact and will probably never break Even if he gets a game before street date, we'll probably never stream a game before street date again Nintendo obviously did not take kindly to that and yeah, I mean life moves on I know I was a lot harsher in that video, but you know when you take time to reflect on things a little bit more You realize that maybe the situation was overblown a little bit But again if it was a leaked version and around like I everything I said stands But yeah, we'll we'll step off the gas pedal there three months seems fair For someone who probably didn't know they were doing anything wrong in the first place I'm moving on The last comment we're gonna talk about this this week is a rather lengthy one and it comes from the Super Mario Odyssey reviews are Topping Breath of the Wild and my hype is exploding. I mean you'll see I have Odyssey up there on the TV I have the game. I've streamed it a couple times plan to stream it later today if things work out But Which I know some of you guys would be overdosed so that we just had 5j. I know Yesterday and today also streaming Super Mario Odyssey, but I don't care. I'm gonna play it so why not stream it and Philip Stafford one of our regulars had this to say people need to play more before writing a review because sadly Mario is Objectionally not a 10. It's a solid 9 There are some serious control issues in the normal worlds most of the controls are good aside the hat There's no Z targeting instead. You have to shake the controller to auto aim now besides that being slower than hitting a button The problem is shaking the controller can allow you to do the spin attack as well So sometimes when you just want to attack a nearby enemy about to hit you you end up doing Long-winded spin attack another issue is you're not allowed to use the d-pad Which makes the platforming segments annoying? You need precise controls for precise platforming You also need to hit ZL to duck in the 2d segments Which is unnatural as you can get then there's special areas like the bullet bill maze Si or the actual controls flip-flop due to camera angles and which way you're facing It's bad. These aren't small control issues sadly. Why the bloody hell is there no z targeting lol Nintendo? You're the one to invented such for crying out loud. What were you thinking? Don't get me wrong It's still a great aim. Just know when you're 10 now I have not reviewing Super Mario Odyssey, so I can't sit there and defend why other people gave it a 10, but Let me just say this Nothing is objectionally not a 10 because reviews are subjective This is something that bothers me when we talk about reviews in general are people that That feel like reviews need to be objective if you want an objective review Go watch the technical analysis of the game from digital foundry. That's the only the only way you can be Objective about a game because when you're reviewing a product, it's about your experience with the game So if you play the game and you're like do this game is perfect. It's a 10 Okay, you you could try to argue against it just like you're trying to do with the controls here And I heard this kind of same argument really back in the skyward store when all these people were complaining about the controls Complaining about the controls. I love the controls so Am I wrong for thinking that game is a hell of a lot better than other people think it is no I'm not wrong because it's my Opinion it's my experience with the game and my experience with the game It is a lot higher rated than other people's experience with the game And just because those reviewers or certain reviewers their experience with the game warrants it a 10 Doesn't mean that your experience with the game is going to warrant it a 10 We're all very very different people Take an example, you know, I'm glad to know, you know, you basically say your issue with the game's controls I've seen other people say that the game is too linear or too easy I've seen other people say it's not as open as they would like yada yada yada yada yada like it's all about personal preferences, right? I don't like the fact there's no z targeting. I don't remember Mario ever having z targeting Why would the adzee targeting into Mario now when it's never been there just because you have throw an item? I don't get that. I think that takes away some of the skill of throwing the hat I think what's cool about throwing cappy is there are so many different like if you go to the action menu And you look there are so many different ways to throw cappy and use cappy And now I can understand why some people might be frustrated with the motion controls You're speaking to someone that has that happened sometimes I'm using the pro controller for my entire play through and if you then the motion controls are bad These and like split joy cons should try it with the pro controller Although it appears I'm having less issue with the motion controls than some other people are as an example to do a spin At that we grab the pro controller To have my hat do a spin I go like this That makes the hat spin around with the pro controller to have it like after you throw the hat to make it do the whole You know Auto-aim thing that you're talking about which isn't technically auto-aiming. It's I forget what they call that It's homing in So like the hat's doing its own thing. I just have to go like this Which is very different motion from this when I go like this it spins I go like this It it homes in and then there's certain like little flicking motions That'll make it do like the the vertical and I don't know that there's just a whole bunch of moves I didn't perfect it all of them, but the motion controls haven't really been giving me an issue And maybe it's because I'm using this instead of the joy cons. I I'm not really sure I I don't know the opposite Nintendo tells you the preferred way to play is the split joy car mode I haven't done that yet So maybe when I will I'll agree with some of your assessment But then if your assessment falls apart when I'm using the pro controller, okay Then the criticism is just that the joy cons are not the best way to play the game So I don't know it's I don't have as many issues with the controls as you do I'm in fact the controls almost feel better to me because the game in 60 frames per second like Mario's responding to me Way quicker than he did in other games Which I know some people are saying isn't happening, but it is for me So I I don't know Again a lot of things are subjective and like when you say you're now allowed to use a d-pad Which makes platforming saying what's annoying you need precise controls. I haven't had a problem with that We're in a 3d environment the d-pad to me is useless in a 3d environment because you're not on a grid Like the d-pad works really well for grid based platforming. That's not what this is So I don't know why people keep saying they need a d-pad when there's nothing the d-pad is doing that the controls That can't do and do better just get better at using the stick. I don't get it We're in a 3d environment Even when you're in the 2d environment, none of those 2d spaces are so difficult that they have that level of platforming That you need that sort of precision for So I don't get it at least from my experience so far. I haven't beaten the game So maybe there's some segments like in the 2d part where a d-pad would be better I don't know but then again, they probably figure most people playing aren't going to be like Oh, we go up here and then go down and use the d-pad Especially when the game's designed for joy cons that doesn't have a d-pad. I mean it is what it is And just just tackling some real that you seem to be You know, I need to hit ZL to duck at 2d segments. I mean, whatever Okay, I can see that's annoying, but I don't think it's unintuitive as you suggest or unnatural. It's just different You know, it's just different it's mapping it to a different button. I I don't really get why why that's suddenly a big issue Again for the most part, I just disagree with your general assessment of Super Mario Odyssey. Does that mean I think it's at a 10? No But it doesn't mean that I can't see why others think it's a 10 It's all about the subjective nature of reviews when you talk about objectively. It is not a 10 objectively what Do you know what reviews are reviews are subjective? Objective things are technical analysis. They're not your experience with a game And that's what people read reviews for are for their experience with a game You know your experience with the game might tell you it's not a 10 Because of these factors and that is 100% correct for you. That doesn't make it 100% correct Objectively because there are going to be plenty of people that disagree with you. So, oh, yeah It's subjective reviews are all subjective All of them. There's not a single review out there. No matter how much the reviewer might say I'm taking them objective view An objective view an objective view. They're not unless they're just doing an analysis If all they are doing is an analysis of the game and not impressions of the game or a review of the game Then fine like these are products, right? We're not talking about, you know I can grab this wallet here and beyond the aesthetics, right? Beyond the aesthetics of this wallet I could talk about the functionality of this wallet right about, you know, how many pockets it has How easy it is to fold with a certain number of bills and then I could take this and compare it to another wallet And compare how well that holds bills and how many cards it has and the quality and how it's held up over time That you could be objective about now. I can't be one thing I can't be objective of is this you see this art pattern You know, that's not an objective thing This is a subjective opinion that I prefer this art pattern this breathable art pattern on here compared to my other wallets That are plain black Again, that's a subjective thing, but the objective thing would be talking about the capabilities of the wallet. So That's what you can do with like a product when you're talking about a game a game is an experience and When you're experiencing something just like when you're watching a movie, there's no objective way to review that There's just an analysis from a technical standpoint And then there's the review and those are two separate things. They are intermingled Obviously like if the game has major frame rate jobs That's a technical thing that can also affect your experience with the game and technical things can obviously affect your experience with the game Anyways, but yeah, I think you get my point, right reviews cannot be objective analysis can be reviews are Completely 100% subjective. So yeah, when you say Odyssey can't be a 10 objectively Reviews aren't objective. So Anyways folks, that's gonna do it for this week on prime comments If you have something to say about what I had to say go on the comments below. Let me know what's up We just finished our super my Odyssey giveaway. 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