Other than the obligatory MJ eating popcorn gif, I did nothing else with that comment section. I figured it'd be a thorny one after noticing how many comments there were before clicking into the article. I'm a huge Pokemon fan, but I've always been a somewhat casual one. I didn't have the interest as a kid to get into the breeding/shiny hunting scene and had no way to really get into battling competitively (No solid way to practice, parents wouldn't have easily taken me to faraway events for something like that, etc.). Nowadays, it's down to the fact that I just don't want to dedicate so much of my limited free time to those extras when I could be playing a myriad of other awesome games. I think the last "big" thing that I did in the games was fully complete the Pokedex in Pokemon Diamond.
Personally, I understand why some people are raising a stink - I'd hate to possibly lose access to some of my hard-earned collection - but I think many are making it into more of a big deal than what it is. We don't even have all of the details for things like Pokemon Home yet.
In other news, I finally beat Mega Man X. The actual game got better once I obtained more weapons and upgrades, but those Sigma stages....Someone outside my house probably would've thought I was watching a sports game where my team was badly losing. The platforming in the game is superb, but some of the difficulty is all over the place in the normal stages. Whoever designed that platforming section in Sigma Stage 1 needs sucker-punched.
It's nice to see a bunch of familiar faces around the forums, after I took a hiatus for a few months. I still go on to the website daily, but I can't stand the comment section full of people attacking the editors here.
@Morpheel
In my mind, I have a little wish if next Pokemon games will be Open world like FF XII (segmented area so it will be easy for kids) and the Battle is like Yokai Watch 4 style and we can use until 3 Pokemons to join in battle. That's very drastic changes, but hey.... man can have a dream also. 😉
@Morpheel
Lemme guess.. Status quo for Pokemon games.
Btw, i found this quite amusing to compare Pokemon games with other Monster breeding games such as Monster Rancher by TECMO.
I still remembered the drastic changes from Monster Rancher 2 to 3 and from 3 to 4. It was like Day and Night. From 2 to 3, there were a lot of missing Monsters and there were some new Monsters added and new combination added with some removal of previous combination. And for Battle system aspect, from 3 to 4, it has drastic changes from 1 vs 1 become Tag Battle. And all the monsters have their signature animation moves and directly hit onto the opponent, unlike Pokemon that looks like classic Final Fantasy long distance attacks. To be honest, i have more impression with Monster Rancher 4 PS2 in term of gameplay mechanism and monster's animation moves than Pokemon games. But too bad, Monster Rancher franchise wasn't really popular as Pokemon. That's fine, Monster Rancher was a hidden gem for me.
We are kinda priviledged in the sense that nothing major or groundbreaking has happened to the main gameplay structure of the series in over 20 years. Change is hard for us to deal with, because the series has been like this, only making the necessary upgrades and never messing with the formula too much.
I think the main problem with the series right now is that the "main series" is becoming less and less the main focus of the pokemon company. There's new more profitable sources of income now. You can even see Gamefreak trying to come out of their pokemon cocoon and trying to expand their curriculum with new games.
To have gamefreak, a relatively small company, divide its precious development power to pursue its own original games in the midst of a new pokemon generation on new (more demanding) hardware, is kinda odd if you think about it.
@Morpheel that’s probably the best description of the concern. It’s sort of like the gameplay style change in Mass Effect 1 to the next. Those were dark times. Then there was the star child in 3, but we don’t really talk about that.
I think it’s good that S/S are still months out, maybe some new things will be touched on that will ease the change
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Huh, I would have just assumed ReaderRagfish was such a common handle, there would be hundreds, if not thousands, of you on the internet.
Just got back from a two year old’s birthday party. Everyone in attendance lives within 20 minutes of my house, and yet... the birthday party was held over an hour away. Over two hours of driving, the second half of which my kids were over tired and all jacked up on cake and ice cream. I need liquor.
@Lucarianzx I'm definitely a lapsed fan. Last game I played properly was gen 4. But I've been keeping up with all the new changes, and I've played a bit of gen 6 and 7.
I don't really care they're not all in the game. ''Catching them all'' was never possible without transferring a good chunk of them from Pokemon Bank, and that kinda feels like cheating anyway. And filling in a 300-400 dex is already hard enough I think.
Anyway, I do think that there are some legitimate complaints though. I've seen footage of Wingull roaming the field, but their wings aren't animated so it looks like they're just levitating. Stuff like that makes it look very low budget. So I think people have a point when they say that if they're not adding all the Pokemon in the game, they should at least make sure that those that are in the game have proper animations for everything they do in the overworld. It seems that there is no interaction between the Pokemon and their environment either.
@Octane Yeah, I do think Game Freak rushed this out. I saw comparisons with the tree textures to BOTW, and BOTW easily was the better of the two. Not to mention in all of the trailers I've seen, the battles are laggy and the shadows are weird. I think this will get fixed by release, but as a fan of the games, I'll still buy it.
I don't like Monster Hunter.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySCtUppltv_WhFobC0Rq8w? (My safe place)
I'm probably listening to green day right now.
I've no idea what you're talking about, though. There was no fighting going on, on my end.
@Ninfan Haha, no worries about the spelling mistakes, I think it's not too hard to figure out which game names you actually tried to type. I also own all these games, and there's indeed little, or nothing wrong with them. I don't exactly know what you were expecting, though. New as in a completely different experience as on other consoles? I think it's fair to say that you'll only get a different experience on Nintendo hardware.
After all: there's a reason that they call the Xbox and the PlayStation the HD twins. Besides a different library of games, they offer you pretty much the same range of experiences, but obviously, the difference is in the bigger titles and the services, which in my opinion are still best on Xbox, where it concerns online play, available free games, and the NetFlix-like GamePass service. But of course, that's just my opinion...
As for your list: it's smaller than I thought. You mentioned 20 games before, or was that also a typo?
Either way, I don't know what kinds of games you like, but far as I'm concerned, there's some titles and/or series that every Xbox owner should at least try (unless they REALLY don't like the type):
Gears of War
Halo
Halo Wars
Blue Dragon
FlatOut 2
Split/Second Velocity
Burnout Revenge
Burnout Paradise
Dead or Alive
Bullet Storm
Dragon Age
Dead Space
Pure
Ace Combat
Hydro Thunder Hurricane (digital game)
Blur
Rise of the Argonauts
Darksiders
Darkness
Forza Horizon
@bimmy-lee Glad we are on the same page concerning hooligans at a live sports event.
And let's not forget the WAY too commercial abomination that is the obligatory "kiss cam"...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
A really cool Japanese racing games that you should try to get your hands on, is called "Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula: Road to the Evolution". It's a mix between F-Zero and Formula One racing, so instead of ships floating in the air and racing, you're racing on wheels, but at break-neck speeds. And as I mentioned before, games of this type are often really arcade-like and not text heavy, so you'll have no problem navigating the menus, which by the way are mostly in English. Here's a video of the intro and some gameplay, courtesy of our fellow NLife member and retro game article writer @Shiryu:
And here's a small video with some other recommendations for Japanese titles:
Another NTSC-only game, and a REALLY decent 3D platformer, is i-Ninja.
And if you like wrestling games, then you might want to give Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs New Generation a try.
I didn't want to spam this entire post with videos, so to see some footage of i-Ninja and Ultimate Muscle, just click on their highlighted titles to go to a YouTube video of the games...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Finally pulled the trigger on a string trimmer. DeWalt 60v/flexvolt brushless trimmer. Home Depot didn’t have an extra battery, so I’ll have to see if Bezos stocks one. Bet he does. Haven’t used it yet, but it felt like a bad little machine swinging it around in the store. Something Leatherface could use in a pinch if he had some hacking to do, but didn’t have his trusty, one pull chainsaw handy.
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