ALazyUsername128

Can't say I'm too surprised. Have not had time for online matches myself, but am guessing dynamaxed sweepers are a problem.

I'd assume they're going to be every six months to a year for updates, maybe using yearly updates to leverage the renewal of subscriptions to the online service. Or maybe they'll shift fully to Valve time, which would be unfortunate.

Either way, would prefer to just be able to buy individual games for the ones I really want.

The worst case of belly button lint, ever.

Very tasty. Sell high.

Well, that's something. Unless their following games are masterful, have a feeling this decision will blow up in their faces.

Not for me.

It does scare me slightly whenever they publish another one of these mobile gacha games, that if it becomes huge like clash of clans, angry birds or whatever is currently the hot thing in the mobile freemium sphere that this market will become their main focus.

I'd really like to see a 2D Mario platformer done entirely in Yoichi Kotabe's art style with traditional animation. That would be cool.

Though more content like Super Mario Odyssey or Galaxy would be fine, just no more "new" Super Mario Bros please.

An amazing game that perfectly fit the role as introduction to the era of the Super Nintendo.

The only negative points I could think of (besides that the game has to end) would be fewer powerups then Super Mario 3. I guess Yoshi counts, though that still isn't the hammer suit

@Reigestugatensho

They really gotta honor that infamous hoax by giving mew a new form where it's merged with a truck

Well that works, though making it the fighting type is at least a little confusing considering the design.

Steadfast and yet another hyper beam clone makes me think it will be an underwhelming Pokemon...maybe they'll dump all of its base stats into attack and make it too slow to actually do anything.

I still want a glitch Pokemon

The microtransactions kind of smother any interest I may have had in this. A payment cap IS a good idea though.

An actual, official glitch themed pokemon would be cool.

So peachette is a thing now?

I find it a little eerie.

And here I was thinking it was a Celtic rune all these years

@UnseatingKDawg

That worked in the original game too.

Try throwing a fat egg at a message block in a stage like Lakitu's wall.

Don't have a SNES Mini, and so have never seen that issue before.
That seems rather....sloppy honestly.

@Alpha008

I suspect they are going to be used for pokemon recovery or stat enhancement, or to raise the levels for this game's equivalent of pokemon amie, replacing the cakes from the previous games.

Though this is conjecture.

EDIT: Looking at the screenshot again, I see spicy, dry, sweet, sour. These were flavors that were used for pokemon contest stats in older games, maybe that feature will be returning.

Am glad there are going to be more possible characters in the future, but this one doesn't really do much for me.

Not bad, though I don't entirely trust Gamefreak to make the ingredients for crafting the actually useful curries (EV reset effect, IV boost or maximize etc - IF they actually do serve this role in the game) reasonable for the player to obtain, which will encourage cheating.

You know there's gonna be a "gold curry" that has a crafting ingredient that you can only get once per playthrough

Glad to hear that the option to turn off the motion blur was carried over from the previous releases, it wasn't available when I played this sometime later last year. Having a mandatory download for accessing the other two games sucks, but it was also done on the other versions, so I can't say I'm surprised it was done here. Am fairly certain that the download size is reduced, at least in comparison to the ps4 version for loading up Spyro 2 and Spryo 3.

The first time Spyro has been respected in a long time, Toys for Bob did a pretty darn good job of capturing most of the style that made the original games great. Stewart Copeland's original soundtracks are also available from the start on all three games. Maybe they'll make a new game at some point?

@Heavyarms55

I've never used any of the online services for the tcg myself..was an early player back near the beginning, but pretty much stopped late third gen or so. Think the holon lab/Delta set was the last one I got boosters from. Can remember the early fourth gen sets kind of being flat with cg artwork on a lot of the cards, really haven't been a part of the loop since then.

I miss that old style artwork.

I'm going to give this game a chance, but there really isn't much in that video that gets me excited.

For me, it kind of felt like that image was an obscure reference to Yoshi's story, or at least some early development phase.

I still look at the prospect of an all streaming games service as the the starry-eyed dream of executives to finally realize their own private money bin to swim in.

Going to be very interesting to see how any of this will actually work with North American potato internet and data caps, unless they're going to emphasize glorious 480i quality, and after all the push to 4k ultra HD, the marketing should prove to be quite novel for the inevitable streaming only games.

@Aurumonado

You could complete it in those games, but required transferring from the older entries in addition to whatever requirements there were for gaining access to the transfer function.

Like the direction the trailer is going in. I hope they keep the ability to climb, remove or tweak the durability system and add more content to the overworld (caves, full dungeons, non fetch quests). If they're set on keeping durability, at least let the player craft or repair their equipment in some way.

I can appreciate what they were going for in botw with that setup, but for me it just became an annoyance after a while, and led to me avoiding fighting the mobs most of the time while traveling that expansive map.

Wow, this is kind of surreal. Have not seen the direct yet and took a little while for this to sink in as a non-troll post. Awesome choice, and it makes me very happy to see them given so e recognition after so much time in obscurity. I hope they're built as an interesting character, because this certainly makes me want to buy the fighter pass.

No Warioland? That definitely would be my most wanted series.

Golden Sun would be nice too, but if I remember correctly Dark Dawn sold rather poorly. Enjoyed the game myself though.

I better be able catch Havel the rock

Vaguely disappointed the graphic does not feature Snorlax or Slaking.

Cool for people who like Pokemon go, but not a feature I'll ever use.

I am going to buy this game, but do not see any advantage at all to preordering now.

Kind of surprised the article does not also mention that Concerned Ape is parting ways with Chucklefish as a publisher, with the exception of Switch and the mobile platform.

Mew is probably the only event Pokemon that I actually care about...but I think I'll just go back to looking under random trucks

I can't shake the feeling that if there is any truth to his statement, games from later systems being included in the service will be used to leverage the rumored "new" switch.

I kinda hope they just redesign the whole thing at some point. In its current form, it just does not work for me at all for randomly browsing and looking for games that may be appealing to me, and the minimalist design reminds me too much of some of the elements of the Windows 8 and 10 UI.

@ryancraddock

Ah, ok. Thanks for clearing that up!

@ryancraddock

151? Mew is actually obtainable through normal means in these games?

Could never really get into this game myself. The overall silly tone and procedural platforming were great, but the grinding just killed it for me, along with the feeling that it was impossible to achieve a win condition at any point early in the game. Contrasting this with something like spelunky or the binding of Isaac, where the player has a chance of getting a win even on their very first run, but likely failing due to a lack of experience at that point.

Kind of surprised to not see ocarina higher on that list.

On the other hand, hardly surprised to see super Mario 64 and Pokemon gold and silver at the top, they were legendary games.

@Trajan

Probably because of lugia, the mascot pokemon of the silver version being more popular.

Much meh, but the piranha plant was a weirdly interesting character choice.

I wonder if they've included the money in that project they'll need to lobby/bribe Comcast and the other ISPs to build out affordable fiber internet, otherwise the number of people who can realistically use the service will be quite limited...

I'd be curious to know what percentage of switch systems overall have been subscribed to the online service.

@Heavyarms55

They likely do it because of cheating/glitches/exploits from the previous games.

I really think the entire breeding aspect of the game needs an overhaul, walking back and forth to hatch eggs has gotten seriously old.

@greengecko007

Or make things like natures and the like changeable in the game...and not have some crazy cost associated with it that process that will just encourage people to cheat.

Hyper training was a good addition to the game for dealing with IV's, but the lv 100 requirement and annoyance of leveling in sun/moon alongside farming bottle caps kind of ruined it for me.

@Heavyarms55

I would welcome that, as long as the the Pokemon TCCG and mainline series kept their own identities.

Can't say I'm that excited for a Pokemon hearthstone.

Just needs a towering pillar of hats.