Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I wonder what do you think about Pokemon games with the clones on Switch / PS4 (Nexomon for example) so far ?

I do hope a lot of the QoL improvements make it into the next dual game. Game freak has been experimenting a lot in small ways.

That being said I will work on sword a bit more while I am in the mood for Pokemon. I’m less interested in BP now though. As it will have less QoL changes. I abandoned Diamond pretty early back in the day.

@JaxonH I think it has more to do with audience balance. The pics sound cool to us but plenty of the pokegang would find it tedious. Which would start a new batch of complaints.

Edit: wait. You can do what now with pics in Rise? Man you may have given me reason to go back.

The lack of a photo mode is a pity. The photo system they did provide is slow and clunky, and has limited options.

@Grumblevolcano What GameFreak needs (and won't happen) is separate teams for each style, so they can have longer dev times.

@Grumblevolcano I'm very intrigued as to what happens next in the series. People really like PLA so naturally it would stand to reason that they would want to repeat that success again. However, like you said, there are plenty of people who prefer traditional Pokemon instead. Especially competitive players who are basically just waiting for Gen 9/the end of the pandemic to kick back into gear. The remakes are fine since they can just pawn it off to ILCA now but as for the main series? Who knows.

@JaxonH The conversion is complete.
Also, I think Monolith Soft helped out as well so you're right on that front!

@Ryu_Niiyama
Oh ya! It's one of the most addicting things to do in Rise- cataloging every large monster, small monster and endemic life with self taken pics. I love it because I have a knack for photography and centering shots with the perfect background.

I spent soooo much time taking pics in Rise. Every time I'd hunt a new monster, first thing I'd do was have the action bar toggled to the camera first, so all I had to do was press D-pad Up to activate it (usually while riding my palamute for better mobility). Gyro aiming helps too.

@Fizza
Monolith Soft aren't the best at optimization, but they're a heck of a lot better than Gamefreak. So if that's true... it makes perfect sense.

Anybody else feel bad about just smacking Pokemon in the back of the head with those balls made out of stone and iron and wood (look at the ingredients for making a pokeball, you are hurling wood and metal at them)? I feel like every one I catch has a small concussion. Also I love the idle animation of the player character. When I saw mine shivering in the rain I did a doubletake. Not every dev pays attention to that so I always like to see immersive idle animations.

@JaxonH sigh. I guess I will go dig out my Rise cartridge. That does sound fun.

I am very much in the camp that if I had say a Pokemon Shield/Sword with Arceus' QoL changes it'd be my favourite Pokemon and probably one of my favourite games ever.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Forgive the long post, but here's a small sample of the photography in Rise. I have some 400+ pics but this is just 20 or so I had stored on my phone

@JaxonH lol thank you, I can see you are quite the photographer. I’d ignored the photo mode because I am not into poses/dynamic screenshots that much (I will screenshot things that happen but I have little interest in setting up poses or scripted shots). But the fact that the pic you take can be used on the monster record has certainly garnered my interest. Little things like that maintain my engagement. I may approach MH like a researcher (that hunts).

That Amaterasu skin is lovely though. I tried to make mine look like her (and she is named Amaterasu but the capcom skin is the best).

Not very far into Arceus yet but so far my only complaint is the amount of cutscenes/tutorials in the beginning of the game. It's not Skyward Sword levels of bad, but it's certainly jarring compared to BotW.

Otherwise I'm having a lot of fun with the game! Pokemon actually feel threatening for once.

I sincerely hope that the QoL changes to movesets makes its way over to Gen 9. Being able to swap moves on the go like that is huge

Apparently they'll function as an independent subsidiary and will have the option to publish games wherever they want, so they'll remain multiplatform.

Hmm doesn’t really impact Nintendo. I do wonder how all these acquisitions will shake out in a few years. I’ve felt like the big studios have put out less games in the past decade or so.

This isn’t going to end anytime soon. Sony says expect more to come and Microsoft definitely won’t be finished after Activision Blizzard goes through. This won’t be good in the long term.

I don't care as long as they don't get their claws into any major Japanese companies.

@Ralizah I think it’s only a matter of time until
Sony seeks to buy Square Enix or Capcom personally. Microsoft are less likely because of Japanese laws but definitely can see Sony going after one of them.

@FragRed These acquisitions take two to tango. If Capcom and Square Enix aren't looking to sell, then they won't be bought.

@IceClimbers Not necessarily. Remember they are both publicly listed, so a hostile takeover is possible.

@FragRed Eh, it'll be rough for a bit but this isnt the first time major players had a massive number of merges and acquisitions. It'll just lead to a new growth of AA options due to vacancies in the market when the big companies fall out.

Not that A-B or Bungie are really... Doing much anyways. They might have a lot of clout, but Bungie released one game in the last decade, and A-B is solely a CoD and once or twice a decade Blizzard title company.