Game of Thrones: Nintendo - Lannisters
Some are born into greatness, others are made great, and still others climb to greatness upon a pile of Koopa corpses. What if the heroes and characters in the Nintendo universe were a little less Disney, and a little more Game of Thrones? What personalities would they match up with?
Cersei Lannister / Rosalina
Jaime Lannister / Dark Link
Joffrey Baratheon / Prince Bowser Koopa Jr.
Tyrion Lannister / Toad
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replySteven Wong posted a new article, Game of Thrones: Nintendo - Lannisters.
Some are born into greatness, others are made great, and still others climb to greatness upon a pile of Koopa corpses. What if the heroes and characters in the Nintendo universe were a little less Disney, and a little more Game of Thrones? What personalities would they match up with?-
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What now?
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I know it's probably slow news time but stop this right now.
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Hey, thanks for the feedback. We're trying out different types of features. In this case, we thought it might be fun to pick up Monday afternoon with something unexpected.
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To add onto this, your feedback is what's important to us. So if you guys don't think it's working, we'll send it out to sea.
Fare thee well, GoT Nintendo. We hardly knew ye!-
Spoilers: Mario gets beheaded.
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Two Toads are having an incestuous relationship, but no one could tell because they all look the same.
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Your other stuff is a lot of fun. The gaming recipes is a bit odd but fun.
This sort of comes off as cornballish. Don't let this experiment stop you from trying other things.-
The gaming recipe thing I like.
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I'm glad to see you guys try new things and I'm in favor of anything that brings views and revenue to the site, but this feature is fluffy in a way that seems to pander to the current popular infatuation with GOT. But again, I'd rather the front page turn into buzzfeed or upworthy with chatty unchanged, than see them both go down.
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We'd like to have it so that our front page content serves our readers and our Chatty audience AND have Chatty unchanged. That's why we appreciate having you guys around to keep us honest.
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Sooner or later when the shack gets back into a shack battle mode it would be cool to have some writers play and record content. There have been some good runs with games like Planetside 2, the Day Z mod, etc.
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Maybe instead of such silliness and clickbaiting you could do video reviews or quick looks or video interviews or other original video content that is not just 5 minutes of news? It seems like quick looks and let's plays is where the cool kids are at nowadays.
I'm not saying "be more like GiantBomb", but maybe, I don't know, be more like GiantBomb?-
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There was no real connection between the two. It *should* have been linked to the front page or an article you click through on the front page and then archived here. Things were pretty weird here right then so I know *why* there was no real coordination on that, but in the future I think it may happen.
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Dark Souls Nites was something I did for fun, very much for myself, that I wouldn't want to be part of my job. There were no expectations or obligations (that I felt at first, at least). I was dicking about and entertaining myself, and much of my motivation came from entertaining a few friends who watched. I would've stopped doing Dark Souls Nites before making it work.
Also I've largely tried to avoid picking up 'fans' because having fans is weird and horrible and I'd be wary of how posting DSN would work with that. That it did get a few fans organically was already weird to me. I've mostly succeeded at not having fans too, certainly helped by the obscurity, nature, and quality of my work as well.-
Too late, I'm already your undying fan!
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Oh like you'd know. I'm an expert in these matters. Harrumph harrumph.
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"I would've stopped doing Dark Souls Nites before making it work."
It's unfortunate more 'traditional' outlets don't realize that often the stuff that doesn't feel like work is what people want to watch. Put people on stuff they like and let others watch. It's simple.
I hope the shack can find a balance. I'd love to be spending half the time I spend watching GB vids a week watching Shack vids.-
That's not easy to just serve up. When it happens it's usually an accident.
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You are right. On the other hand we have examples of shack staff making that kind of content. Maybe the people in charge should take notice and make it easier for them to create it.
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Working with games can already make you fucking sick of games. At times before I went months without playing a single game. Turning the ways you relax with games into work is real risky for a line of work which already so strongly inspires unhappiness and burnout.
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Ozzie's adventures of playing every hero in Dota 2 five times!
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It's too pop culture influenced and we have two major threads for the show when it airs. So it kind of saturates that conversation of the most recent episode with an odd tangent and basically amounts to fan fiction.
I think a cool feature would be to take existing game franchises and introduce them into new genres. Solicit the community for ideas or submit something like photoshops for a theme. Like what a Mario RTS or Civilization game would look like. This way it's still within the game world but takes it to new frontiers. -
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Some constructive criticism: I think you know why this feature doesn't work, so let's talk about features that would work, or would work better.
* E3 is less than 3 weeks away. How about write-ups on games you plan to preview, and what you hope to see, or DON'T want to see, from the game.
* More than a dozen talented developers from Rare lost their jobs. Go shake down some contacts and get an interview (anonymous sources would be valid), or write a retrospective charting Rare from its early days to now, exploring what went right and wrong along the way.
* EA announced plans to announce 6 new properties at E3. Play off this announcement of pending announcements by writing up an editorial on game genres you feel would fill gaps in or complement upcoming EA games we do know about.
Just suggestions. Good luck!-
Yep these are all good content pieces which is something I think the Shack has lacked.
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It would be nice to see some features on indie or oddball games that have picked up on the shack at one time or another like Crusader Kings or Chivalry. Also be great to see interviews with some of these devs or in depth looks at the studios and their history.
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This is great SEO
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What is this shit?!
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Well, I liked it. Don't let the negativity get you down, guys. I give you props for creativity and effort even if the premise of this piece is rather absurd.
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At least it's not copypasta news. I welcome our new content overlords.
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This post amused me. Sorry to see so many people didn't like it. Sad to see it go so soon, but I'm sure you'll find something worthy to replace it!
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