Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Nintendo just f**ked up.." video.

@apeekintime I'm pretty sure the mere thought of that would make John Carmack puke. He is the one who advocated putting their games out as open source after a nominal period, which virtually no other game dev does. You can go out there and look at Doom and Quake source code right now if you want to learn how to write C code. He also specifically designed Doom to be modded with the .WAD file format. Funnily enough, Carmack also invented smooth scrolling on PC games, which at the time were notoriously bad for platform ports because they did not smoothly scroll the screen as in an NES or arcade machine; instead it was Zelda 1 style, where the screen refreshed all at once when you reached the end of the screen. He approached Nintendo, offering to port Super Mario Bros. to the PC, but they turned him down. So he used the tech to make Commander Keen instead, id's first successful game series. Sorry for the rant, but in short, it would be cosmic justice if id Software screwed over Nintendo, even though id in the early 90s would never have done that.
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@grom4818 If Ninty and The Pokemon Company didn't cling to the asinine idea that they should produce a new main line game, every single year, since the early 90's, we wouldn't have this problem. But they do, so we have it, and Pocketpair is here to say "ok, if you don't want to shake up the formula, we will." Gaming is for the consumer, not to line the pockets of shareholders with "safe" revenue streams.
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