The people at Nintebdo do not think of a story and then make a game though . They think of a mechanic that ' s fun , and then build the story around it . What I meant though , wasn ' t the plot or narrative at all . It ' s the actual IP . The fact that it says Zelda on the box , is what sells . Of course , they have done a great service to the IP throughout the years to guarantee it has good quality associated with it . Games like Darksiders 2 were good , but the IP and themes didn ' t really stick for whatever reason . Announcing a Darksiders 3 wouldn ' t cause mainstream excitement for instance . <| sep |> Once there are no references to them they ' re garbage collected <| sep |> He came to visit me at work and I mentioned that I was feeling anxious because my doctor had left me a message saying I needed to call her about some blood test results . I told him I knew I was being silly because it was just likely that she couldn ' t leave the information in a message because of privacy regulations , but of course my brain was telling me it meant she needed to tell me I was dying or something . Instead of telling me I was overreacting , he told me that if the worst was true , he was going to throw me an awesome wake , and distracted me by planning the details . It ' s one of the things I love about him when I ' m upset over something stupid , and I know it ' s stupid , instead of making me feel more stupid , he just treats it as if it ' s serious and then gets silly with it so we ' re both laughing by the end of it .