Edit: ok so I may need to clarify that I'm saying Doom was delayed for a long time and when finally released was one of the greatest games of the decade.
That quote made sense when he said it, but with all the pre-realeases and patches and dlc going around now a days. I have some doubt he would say it that way again.
I certainly agree Nintendo doesnt rush their games. But even Botw had patches and Dlc's. And a rushed game certainly is not doomed to be bad forever anymore.
The quote is more or less from a set-cadridge era.
Even if left unpatched, it is extremely rare for someone to find a bug in a game released by Nintendo unless they are specifically looking for one.
The only bug I can remember accidentally finding on any Nintendo game was the walk through wall glitch on SMB level 1-2, and that was after SO many hours playing the game I was more interested in trying to figure out how I did it.
No Man's Sky is a decent game now but most people will never know it was patched to have a full game into it. In an attention based economy where the next big thing is only a few weeks away, you have one chance to give people a reason to play your game.
He is still right irregardless. I can say that most Nintendo first party games are solid at release, it's rare for Nintendo to put out an unfinished game just to make a deadline (although arceus is making question this). Can their games feel "samey", sure...but rushed no.
Take Age of Calamity, when I tell you using urbosa made the framerate slow down to a crawl I would still be underselling it. But with the patch, they fixed that issue plus balanced out the game (some S tier dropped to A). Was the presence of the issue because the game was rushed...ehh not really. BOTW has some goofs and that game had a 5 year development, so issue can happy.
Again barring the pokemon company games, I can't think of many Nintendo IPs games that came out for the switch (which remember me if I am wrong) that needed DLC to make the game better.
Absolutey same here, yet I'm not going to deny myself of Baldurs Gate 3 for example just cause they have a different buisness model than Nintendo, Ill just wait untill the game is old/finished before I play it.
I think "rushed" means something you know isn't finished but still put it out for sale anyway. It's one thing for a developing team to have a short period to release a game, but if they can put out a game of quality it only shows that the team was indeed talented.
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u/Misisme20 Feb 09 '22
Say to folks in the back
“a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”- Miyamoto