Meanwhile Metroid's 40th is seemingly as uneventful as its 30th. Though we got the amazing (fan) game AM2R for Metroid's 30th and goytendo immediately tried to kill it because it clowned on their own meager offering which was still cooking (Samus Returns).
Besides you still caring about franchise anniversaries for some fucking reason, you're still letting that stay rent free in your head?
I'm going to be honest here, I think you've kept yourself stuck to Nintendo IPs for too long because you really do act like the exact opposite of those Nintendrones who treat Nintendo as part of thier personality, except instead of the "THEY CAN NEVER DO NO WRONG" angle they have, you have this "They hate me and everything I liked about them, and I'm superior to them now because of X, Y and Z!" mentality when you can just... move on instead of playing their games, even the old ones for the umpteenth time, all for what? Some game that went through development hell that had no chance of being good and you didn't like that game alongside a lot of people also not liking it like? Thier recent games aiming for the audience that isn't people like you even when they never did and you were just in thier demographic once apon a time? The actions of a corporation that has a storied history of them doing the same actions and is nothing new and even on some occasions does have more nuance than "They didn't like that it was better than what they were making!" like what happened to AM2R and everyone knows will just get a slap on the wrist if the law does target them like any other multi-billion dollar corporation that you very likely used to let slide because of the man formerly in charge used parasocialism to his advantage?
The past nearly a year now since the Switch 2 happened has been quite the eye opening experience given just how much Nintendo has given flack for what they did regarding the thing that they have ethier already done or has already been done many times by other companies that has been seemingly memory holed or has basically been boiled down to "they are the evilist and greediest company and did this!" when actually brought up, and well... I can't help but roll my eyes at this now because people had thier chance to do something about it every time it popped up. People no longer owning thier games?, People had since 2004 when
Half-Life 2 came out with forced Steam DRM requirements paving the way to most phsyical releases dying out or being glorified installers at most and the majority of gamers just let it happen until over 10 years later, people's gears started to turn and realized "Wait, I really don't own my games!" and started complaining long after the big four game companies perfected the model to a mirror sheen. oh games cost upwards of $80? how many fucking games in general had DLC that jacked the price of the "complete experience" well over $60 if you didn't get a GOTY rerelease or get it on sale since the late 2000s, regardless if it was a case of cut content, on-disc content being made avalible, or genuinely new content put into the game?, especially now where they're almost always a "Deluxe Edition" that has shit that should have been in the base game for $70+? How long was $70 been the standard for just the base game ever since companies like Sony and Ubisoft forced it to be the standard. Oh they can brick you if you even mod it!, how many times did the console manufacuers explictily state this in thier EULAs that nobody reads and the many ban waves that came from people hacking thier consoles and going online with it? I can go on and on with many more examples as it's the same pattern every time.
It's just a very dour reminder that gaming for the past 20+ years has been a hell of the supermajority of normalfags' (and arguably the more hardcore gamers) own making that we all got to deal with now because people just couldn't say no or realize what was going to happen way too late and it became reality and it's just increacingly harder and harder to be mad about shit like this when it happens nearly all the time now and the only "real solutions" and future is emulation, which only amounts to living in the past while the present and future is burning down in real time in comparison while only thinking about "what could have been" or just give up the towel and find a different hobby, which is kinda hard with how fucked many of them are now.
