Nintendo has a reliable business model with their existing IPs. Their predictability is their success factor. It's why millions of people always get the new Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, etc. The further Nintendo strays from that model, the worse their entries do. I do think that Nintendo should introduce some new IPs but it makes less than zero sense to release a gritty Mario reboot. If Nintendo wants a mature platformer, they can start a new IP, and market the hell out of it.
Not that Nintendo would ever listen to these people anyway, fortunately. Nintards would buy a shovel load of dog shit as long as it had the Nintendo brand on there with a kooky yet sanitized background story featuring Shigeru Miyamoto.
Not really. Star Wars was a major part of popular culture. Just in its initial theatrical run in North America it was probably watched by 100 million people, let alone how many saw it on videos, then you have to take into account how many other pop culture sources made direct references to Star Wars, especially the main twist.
Ocarina of Time, on the other hand, sold 3.5 million copies in North America, maybe another million were given out as preorder incentives or pack-ins with Gamecubes, and the VC release sold at or under a million. Let's generously say that every single physical copy of the game was passed around to at least two other people, you're still barely over 10 million people who even played it, let alone saw the whole game through. Let's be unrealistically kind and say half of the people who played it saw it through to the end. So about five million people?
I'd say it's very easy to not be spoiled about Ocarina. It's so far from Star Wars in ubiquity that it's not even in the same galaxy. Especially since what he's probably trying to avoid with his black-out isn't stuff like sound bites from the story (that stuff tends to go around fast, like "I AM YOUR FATHER", "THE CAKE IS A LIE", and "WOULD YOU KINDLY"), but stuff like what the different areas look like, what kind of items to expect, bosses, that sort of thing. That stuff (as tragically obvious as it is because this is Zelda and it's been on rehash mode for a while) is probably easier to not be spoiled on than spoiled, even, yes, on GAF, because nobody really talks about it anymore. The only things you're liable to run in on places like GAF are that the water temple is hard, HOLY FUCK GAME OF THE FOREVER LET NO CRITICISM FALL ON ITS GENTLE HEAD, "HEY LINK WATCH OUT LISTEN", and that there is time travel.
Heh, I've never seen a Star Wars movie. Not even a single second of it. I've never watched an Indiana Jones either. I just saw The Godfather I and II last year (so many references and TV jokes suddenly made sense).
I agree with your point. Especially considering that more kids probably grew up playing PlayStation than Nintendo 64. I was a N64fag and never got around to playing some of the PS One classics until almost a decade later. It happens.
Holy shit, dude. I thought I was the only one that never saw those movies either! *high five*
I think I still got ya beat tho. I hadn't seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies until just last week, and even then, it was half of the Two Towers. Also never saw any of the Matrixes, No Country for Old Men, Avatar, Titanic, Spiderman 3, any Tarantino movie that wasn't Pulp Fiction or kill Bill, and a shitload of others.
I have yet to see an LOTR movie except for five minutes or so of The Two Towers and that was because our booze supply in college just got the DVD and wanted to watch it before going out to get it. I've never seen Star Trek (any movie or TV show), Monty Python, Spiderman 3, X-Men 3, etc. I never really cared for science fiction (not that all of the big movies I have not seen are science fiction) and again, being near dirt floor poor meant that there wasn't an option to watching these movies in a theater or on VHS.
