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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TBH, it’s surprising it took until the Wii for Nintendo to learn this lesson on console.

Heck, the GBA didn’t even have an original Mario Playformer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Was a puzzle platformer rather than pure platformer, but I think Mario vs Donkey Kong might count?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Had anybody ever suggested otherwise? I'm assuming if there's any pressure to not use 2D, it's from game developers themselves because it's likely costlier/more labor intensive than just going with 3D. Otherwise, gamers just want to play good games, 2D or 3D doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would 2D be costlier or more labor-intensive than 3D? I would think it would be the opposite. When you add another dimension, it seems like things would be exponentially more complicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah, you have to be conscious of how much time and effort you have to invest in a game. And they're ultimately trying to make a profit.

It's hard to match 2D and 3D art styles, and comes with a whole host of other technical challenges mixing 2D and 3D.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fun concept. But it's not at all necessary, and sometimes high up people don't pay attention to or even know what they're asking of their developers to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Preaching to the choir, now get the team getting to work on a 2d Zelda game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also need a Zelda Maker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buy one! Buy them all!^Buy ^them ^all!^Buy ^^them ^^all!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That reddit syntax doesn't work on Lemmy. Your comment is just a caret mess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works on sync so I just hit send :v

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Sync is dumb and still uses reddit markdown. Pisses me off. It'll even edit perfectly good Lemmy spoiler syntax and turn it into reddit syntax when you edit one of your comments! Ridiculous.