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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

... in addition to a number of other games that have iterated on the ideas.

I'm not gonna say that Nintendo is some saint of game design and innovation, but they're nowhere near the worst, either.

[–] oce@jlai.lu -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Certainly not the worst, I think they have good quality control. Quite similar to Disney, they are makers of good quality and safe products, able to satisfy the mass.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In addition to a number of products that push boundaries of what's possible in the industry.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That star wars sequel really was something...

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

So are we admonishing "playing it safe" here or are we shitting on attempted innovation? You don't get to do both.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Which made billions of dollars for them, that they then put towards things like Andor and Encanto and at least a third to half of the more recent Pixar movies.

No one's saying they don't also produce shit, but often that shit bankrolls the things that aren't.