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ThanosReXXX

@Zuljaras Indeed. Good find on that AGS-101 screen, by the way. I've still got my Game Boy Advance SP as well, but with the inferior screen. I never bothered to upgrade it, though. I also still own the regular Game Boy Advance, clear purple, non-backlit version.

'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.'

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NintendoByNature

@Tyranexx ahh thanks. Yea I figured might as well. Aside from trials in April, and tw101 in may I'm open. I do have some Wii u games i can play and finish up but theres always time for that.

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Tyranexx

@NintendoByNature Ah, so you're upcoming queue is quite light until we get more announcements. Wish I could say the same. XD I've been working quite a bit this week to try and finish a project and haven't been gaming much. I hope to take it easy some of tomorrow evening and Friday afternoon. Not running on the best sleep right now.

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NintendoByNature

@Tyranexx yea I'm playing thru Owlboy and ff7 atm and Owlboy only has a few hours left. Then I can play another megaman zero game or 2 which is only a few hours each. Assassins creed rebel collection can wait.

Oh and doom64 every so often. So animal crossing can get tossed in once im down with owlboy soon šŸ˜‹

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Heavyarms55

@Tyranexx If Let's Go offered the option to use the pro-controller, or two joycons in the conventional manner even while docked, my opinion would be much higher. That said, I don't hate the game, I just really don't like that control set up. If you intend to get both eventually though... probably do Let's Go first, because I can't imagine going back to Let's Go after playing Sw/Sh. I know there's a lot of "people" out there who have raw, vicious, unrestrained, foaming at the mouth hatred for the 8th generation of Pokemon - that's their right I suppose. But I happen to love it. I've dropped over 300 hours in Sw/Sh and that's before the DLC is even out. I think they are the best Pokemon titles since the DS days (though I'd still rank gens 4 and 5 higher for Platinum, HG/SS and BW2)

On another note - playing Let's Go first also gets you a free g-max Pikachu or Eevee in Sw/Sh just for having the save data on your system.

@ThanosReXXX A big part of it is, for me, better graphics from the new console is a given of course it's gonna look better. It's like when you order a pizza, you don't have to tell the store you want cheese. Of course the pizza is going to have cheese on it, it's what they do. Of course the new consoles are going to have better graphics, that's what new consoles do.

So for PS5 and XboxX I want to know what else is new. What makes them different or interesting or better in ways other than the expected fancier graphics.

And also like you point out, if graphics are my only concern, why am I not buying a gaming PC? Yes a gaming PC is more expensive, but it's also something I can upgrade in a couple years instead of buying PS5 Pro or XboxXPrimeMegaDeluxe Version 2.1 if I want to continue pushing those graphics as new tech comes out.

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Ninfan

@Anti-Matter your president is dead and your talking about using a toilet......thats not very good thats what my teachers would say....

Ninfan

HobbitGamer

Ninfan wrote:

@Anti-Matter your president is dead and your talking about using a toilet......thats not very good thats what my teachers would say....

My teachers would say ā€œread the statement againā€....

@NintendoByNature Awesome! My friend in Indiana downloaded it yesterday, too. He’s gonna go at normal pace so his little girl can too.

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Anti-Matter

Ninfan wrote:

@Anti-Matter your president is dead and your talking about using a toilet......thats not very good thats what my teachers would say....

That's very impolite to say dead for very important peoples such as president, king, sultan, queen, etc.
Say passed away instead.
Btw, you didn't even read my whole post.
Read again to see what i have posted on previous page.

Oh, btw...
Untitled

There are many kind of toilets on Animal Crossing New Leaf 3DS. 😁
Which one you like ?
Toilet or Super Toilet or Public Toilet or Portable Toilet ?
Oh... It has flushing sound effects as well. šŸ˜„

Anti-Matter

Tyranexx

@NintendoByNature I've heard FF 7 has some miles to it, though according to HLTB it's not the longest entry in the series. Looks like that honor may go to FF 12 if the two MMOs are ignored.

@Heavyarms55 I recall reading about the G-Max Pikachu and Eevee shortly before Sw/Sh launched. Nothing too crazy, but a perk is still a perk! Gigantamax looks pretty cool, though I'm afraid it's doomed to be another one and done gimmick.

If I recall, the control setup is just with one joy-con, correct? It seems odd yet intuitive for co-op play, but I'm surprised there aren't any other options. That's not a deal breaker for me, but it's certainly an odd design choice.

Funnily enough, Gens IV and V both rank highly for me as well. HG/SS are still my favorite set of games, and I hold all the other main series Pokemon games that graced the DS in high regard.

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bimmy-lee

@ThanosReXXX - That’s a cool Sega site, thanks. I missed it on the main page today. Yes, the Wii or really any VR are great for people watching in general, and if our alien overlords are watching that; it probably gives them a deep satisfaction that we’re still a long way off from discovering the Matrix.

@Tyranexx - Hopefully that was mold on the cucumbers and not Cucovid. Boom. I would eat an entire loaf of that homemade white bread. Find the recipe and make a couple loads, and I’ll trade you a sugar cream pie for one sometime.

@NintendoByNature @HobbitGamer - Those both earned an audible chuckle from me. Had kind of a whacky day and just starting in on the kitchen. I’ll be on later, but probably another 45 minutes to an hour. I’ll see what you two are up to if anything at that point.

limby-bee was a jerk.

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Heavyarms55

@Tyranexx I have no issue with the gimmicks being "one and done". I like the world building idea that different places have different battle styles and gimmicks. And frankly keeping them limits them from doing new things in the future. The simulator Pokemon Showdown has a custom ladder with the full national dex and all the gimmicks and it's absolute chaos. I really like this direction Pokemon is going because it feels like how card games have rotations. And there is no reason they cannot bring back any gimmick later on in a future game. Maybe in a few generations we go back to Kalos and megas come back or something. Or a new region that is closely related to Alola has its own Z-moves. Who knows?

Also yes, if I had to pick one set as my favorite Pokemon games, HGSS easily takes the win. Those games were as close to perfect as Pokemon ever got for me - but there were still a few details I'd like to change. If we ever get a second gen 2 remake, I'd like to see the new breeding and EV/IV training mechanics carried over and some level rebalancing in Kanto to make the post game more interesting.

I love gen 4 and 5 but my God, I could never go back to the old way of competitive Pokemon. I remember spending 2 days getting a Mamoswine with a perfect IV in attack alone and being proud of the accomplishment! Most people were happy just to have Pokemon with 2 perfect IVs! Something that would be laughably bad by today's standards. Sw/Sh improved that so very much! Competitive battling is almost the best it could be now. The only thing I think they really need to fix is to let people ditch that silly 20 minute time limit for single battles. It's perfect for VGC rules but way to short for 6v6 singles.

Also I really liked the Pokewalker from HGSS and I was bummed that the Pokeball+ from Let's Go was kind of a downgrade. I was very much that super nerd, walking around high school with the Pokewalker on my belt. And the walker was kind of Pokemon Go before Pokemon Go - it got me outside walking around when I almost never did before. I don't like cheesing systems like that by shaking the walker - or later the 3DS just to rack up steps.

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Tyranexx

@bimmy-lee Sounds like a deal! Thankfully I have plenty of great aunts and a grandmother I can consult...once we're out of pseudo-quarantine.

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Tyranexx

@Heavyarms55 I wish some gimmicks would return. I like mega evolution and some of the alternative battle formats that have appeared over time. Others I'm fine with them being left alone. Z-moves for example didn't really do much for me. I also miss some of the non-Pokemon extras too, such as secret bases and the movie studio near Virbank City in BW2.

I do get what you're saying about keeping all of the gimmicks being a bit much. I'm fine with them experimenting with new things, I just wish they'd keep around some of the better received ones.

HG/SS are near-perfect games in my eyes, but I do agree that there were a couple of small issues. Empty Kanto was a bit of a carryover from the original games I loved, but I feel like they could have went a bit further with the adjustments there. I can't say much on the breeding perfect Pokemon situation though; I didn't really have a way to easily get anywhere to play competitively back then and didn't have the patience for competitive play and breeding. Now it's a question of time and patience. XD I have noted people in my local PoGo group and elsewhere aboslutely loving how easy it is to build a good team in Gen VIII.

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Heavyarms55

@Tyranexx Well that's kind of what I am saying, there is nothing stopping GF from bringing back any gimmick at any point. For all we know, some of those features will be in the DLC for these games even. I loved the secret bases feature in ORAS for example and that would be a great addition to the wild area. And the Pokemon World Tournament in BW2 was super cool! They could do something like that again as well. And honestly I really do think they will. Unless @NEStalgia is right and we're on the verge of a new dark age. But that's beside the point.

And I do agree HG/SS were nearly perfect - but there were still some tweaks to be made. I played Pokemon Liquid Crystal, a fan remake of Crystal built on the GBA engine that was absolutely amazing! But it wasn't a 1:1 remake, they added additional rivals, a lot more exploring and a lot more content pre-and post E4. Though they never did - at least in the build I found a couple years ago, finish all the late game content they had planned. And it didn't feel like clutter it felt like Kanto was part 2, rather than the post game, which I liked and would love in another official revisit to those games potentially in the future.

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NintendoByNature

@hobbitgamer @bimmy-lee I'm ready when you are. Just hop on and I'll join.

Arena created.

Edit: hopped off guys. I know you're both busy with a.c. maybe this weekend or next week. Its a shame too, i had a real good arena name picked out. I guess youll never know now lol. Ill probabaly play some ff7 or Owlboy later tonight.

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Grumblevolcano

@Heavyarms55 I agree that the announcement of the expansion pass adds a lot of extra potential to Sword/Shield and I prefer that approach to 3rd versions.

Grumblevolcano

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NintendoByNature

@Tyranexx yea i checked hltb as well. I can manage 30-35 hours. And 5 hours in I actually love it. You can do x3 speed thru dialogue to speed things up which is nice. You should check it out. It's really good so far

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NotTelevision

@NintendoByNature Speeding through stuff is a real game changer with FF. I remember 7 took me probably 70-80 hours on the PS. A lot of time doing your typical leveling up through battles.

The story is good in the game, so don’t skip that part.

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Ninfan

I did not mean something bad saying dead, I mean you can say dead if it's in the correct tone of voice. ca'nt I.

Ninfan

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