As to your first point, these sides scrolling multiplayer Marios all seem to suffer the same fate, at least with 3-4 players. Two players is a little easier. The camera just isn't built for players to be all over the screen and have it keep up. And, it wouldn't work either to have each other simply completing a section one after another all the time. It's certainly not how people envision playing together, yet find out quite quickly how they are forced to play together. I think these games still shine the most when played solo.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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I get the frustrations but I have to say that the game solves my biggest issue with almost any multiplayer out there - being able to play with toddlers, kids and spouses who are not competent at gaming. I’m just so happy to be able to play together as 4 yoshis carrying the kids on our backs and lost lives dont matter!
Of course it is, Nintendo doesn't know how to properly integrate multi-player. Especially online. Sometimes they accidentally do an okay job, and there was a while where the handheld consoles did some cool stuff but some perverts on Pictochat scared them so bad you can't even talk to your friends in Smash Bros.
some perverts on Pictochat scared them so bad
let's not downplay what actually happened there. what Nintendo did in response was the correct decision. paedophiles are much more than "some perverts"
The correct response to pedos or whatever on your social service is moderating your social service. Every service has pedos and nazis until they're sufficiently discouraged by being banned and reported to authorities often enough.
Nintendo's response was "welp, we tried. Guess there's no way at all to let people meet each other and socialize through our games, because any form of communication can also be used for exposing children to sexual predators"
You want nintendo to review every single message sent in every language worldwide? All for the sake of a silly messaging platform no one needed?
I realize that won't happen, and that we don't need to send each other drawings via our nintedo system, I think it's a good thing to shut down avenues that give pedophiles direct access to children don't you?
How do other platforms, such as Sony, steam, discord, Microsoft, etc handle such things? Maybe we need to shut down those things too, eh? Can’t be too safe for the children!
Parental controls that functionally block the capability to communicate, or they just don't, and kids get abused.
Suppose a few molested kids is a price worth paying for you!
Your logic:
Video game message boards = kids getting molested and nothing else.
I feel sorry for you.
No, no, there were kids getting molested and also other things. I don't think that a few kids getting molested is worth being able to send stupid drawings to each other. How about you? Do you think a few kids getting molested is worth it, so you can do that? Is there a number of kids that make you say oh okay that's too many kids being molested ?
No I don’t think it’s worth it at all. Actually, do you think being able to drive to work is worth kids being run over as well? I don’t. Maybe car manufacturers should stop selling cars. Unless of course you think it’s okay for children to get run over. Surely you don’t. On that front, maybe we should close down playgrounds, unless you think it’s okay for children to get molested, because that happens in playgrounds as well. Surely you’re not okay with children being molested in playgrounds so you shouldn’t be okay with playgrounds altogether. This is how sense is made!
if there is a playground that molesters use to molest children, i 100% guarantee that the playground gets shut down.
I'm glad we agree that there is a systematic problem with people killing children with cars though, i agree we should be getting rid of cars from pedestrian areas. good we agree.
Why stop at cars? Or even pedestrian areas? Get rid of busses, scooters, skateboards, trains, airplanes! They all put children at risk. Better to take things away from everyone else than just to actually do something to fight the offenders!
i can barely see the goalposts at this point my dude. but yes if children are being molested we should consider, how many children are worth being molested for this thing to continue.
you're not gonna change my mind on that, and you're viewpoint seems to be that there is an acceptable amount of molested children so that you can send people drawings on a 3DS. cool, we very much disagree. my acceptable number is 0.
it's a shame you can't disable inbox replies on lemmy yet, but I'm so tired of this conversation, you won't change your mind, you aren't enlightening mine. you're just using massive hyperbole and coming off silly. I'm over it, so that's all I'll say. I'm not gonna respond again. have a good rest of your day. this conversation got neither of us anywhere.
I’m coming off as silly because the whole premise is silly. I’m just exaggerating it to make my point. Simple moderation would have solved the problem like it does anywhere else, but instead Nintendo opted for the lazy route and just nuked the whole thing for everybody. I never cared about picto-chat either way, I just think that approach is beyond stupid.
Every method of communication known to man short of identity verified adult-only channels is a potential direct route of communication from a child to a pedophile. No, I don't think that Lemmy, Discord, Reddit, Xbox Live, PSN, Steam, Twitter, Tumblr, XMPP, Signal, 4chan, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Messenger, SMS, Neopets, Geocities, Kik, Club Penguin, or IRC should be shut down because of that potential abuse case, and I don't think that Nintendo should avoid a decent friending/communication infrastructure because of it. And I've been using some of those services since i was a child. And no, I don't think that wholesale banning kids from communicating online so that companies get to distance themselves from abuse is the right answer either. But just not having a communication system because maybe someone will use it for child abuse or drug deals or media piracy or coordinating the assassination of the President?
You can turn online off from the pause screen, no need to run anywhere. But yeah multiplayer works a bit better in local than what you described. Haven’t bothered with online multiplayer at all.
Well now I feel kind of dumb. The pause menu was the first place I went and neither my wife or I noticed the prompt to disable online features, so we ended up quitting the level to hunt down the little wifi tower thing in the game. Next time we play, I'll look more carefully.
Local is much better in terms cooperative play, but what others are calling the "crown system" makes it really frustrating if any one person in the group decides to explore while waiting for someone else to try something.
Sorry, I didn't mean to indicate that it's available in the level, but you can definitely turn it off from the pause menu in the overworld, you don't need to run around to find the tower. I don't remember if you can do it in the level.
and yeah, multiplayer is frustrating. I still have never seen as good of a system as the lego games in any local multiplayer game.
Yes! While I don’t really play online this camera choice and crown system seems purposefully designed to cause fights between siblings. I can’t tell you how difficult it is to play this game with my kids and not have it end I tears 5 minutes in because someone didn’t wait or got the flag. It is maddening and basically ruined the game for ⅔ of my family
Yes, it's not ideal for coop. It still still miles better than Mario Bros U Deluxe which - together with issues listed in this post - had player collision. This made the game more frustrating than anything as suddenly there were more obstacles for everyone in a shape of diffetent players.
It is a problem with 2D mario. It's the same there was on Nintendo 3ds - the camera is your enemy in coop. I think 3D World is much better suited for shared screen/online as there's simply more space for the players.
Player collision was the best thing about the local coop! It both allowed you to work together to reach high-up places, as well as screw each other over for fun!
Player collision has caused more arguments with my kids than any other feature in video games. At a very minimum you should be able to turn it off and on.
Agreed. And not just player collision but combined with a screen aspect ratio such that the obvious solution - spreading out left to right - punishes the third and fourth player for the slightest delay.
I have the impression it’s hard, if not impossible to create a 2D platformer that is both enjoyable at 1 and 2 players. Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is a good example : Fun with friends, but solo is not on par with older 2D Mario.
Have you tried that new Mickey Mouse platformer? I think it does multiplayer platforming really well.
Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is a good example : Fun with friends, but solo is not on par with older 2D Mario.
What do you mean by that? (And another question, since I haven't played the Deluxe version on Swtich, only the "OG" U version; is there any difference, that maybe I don't know about or they are identical in terms of Marioness?)
When the game's level design is set up to comfortably accommodate four players (which NSMBU is), those accommodations don't necessarily make the game better when played solo. NSMBU has a lot of "extra" space and a really wide camera zoom compared to traditional 2D marios like World or Bros 3, and very few jumps require any degree of precision or P-speed (because if they did, it'd be really hard for four players to do them at the same time due to collision and camera shift).
Wonder has really tight level design, which makes the 2-4p feel cramped and necessitates the removal of player collision. But those changes make it a much better single player experience.
those two "modern" rayman games managed to make something that was enjoyable from 1-4 players - I would say that mario wonder leans pretty heavy on those for inspiration too (trying to make every level unique and surprising). but nintendo always add a tonne of awkwardness into their games for seemingly no reason
I used to think it was because they didn't look at competition so didn't know "the right well understood way", but then a lot of their games in the last decade have taken a lot of inspiration from others so that doesn't fly so well anymore
Yeah. Rayman Legends is a delight, and really the high watermark for platforming in multiplayer.
I can't speak strongly to single player, beacuse I've enjoyed it in single player, but it honestly pretty much 100% picks up a second, or third and fourth player every time I play it.
I personally had a lot of fun with my brother playing this. The only thing I dislike was the crown system which kept the camera focused on a single person, instead of expanding the camera to fit all players.
At least going off screen wouldn't kill you, but would rather turn you into a ghost and keep your power up when revived.
It's the correct opinion though.