Ashunera84

Every game is a "niche" game.

Air Riders is amazing, and deserves a big audience. Online and local play are a blast.

It's actually my least favourite mode. It's awesome, but the intensity of Air Ride is tough to beat for me.

I don't understand why you'd want to watch someone else play a video game unless you are simply unable to play it yourself.

Spent like 5 hours playing with family the other night and had an absolute blast. Top tier party game, mountains of content, loads of variety, simple to play but with a massive skill cap, with visuals and performance of the highest order. Few games are crafted with such care and attention to detail and polished to such a shine.

This was a solid game. Really cool ending. Slightly odd how much scripted physical damage she takes without dying though.

You'd think from reading posts on the internet that the whole of humanity considers Nintendo and the Switch 2 to be the most evil, vile scum of the earth. Just another example of the vocal minority being louder than their opinions warrant.

He's a tool either way.

@IceClimbersMain it does a great job of ripping off pokemon designs, yeah.

What a shocker that media isn't for public use by default. It's not like we've had warnings on games, movies, music etc. For 50 freaking years about not using media publicly or anything.

The apparent volume of complaining on the internet sometimes does and sometimes does not correlate with the number of people upset about something.

I need to fly across this canyon so I'm gonna turn into a flippin' ostrich.

We aren't entitled to luxuries.
If creators of luxuries go out of business, those luxuries disappear and those that remain tend to go up in price due to reduced competition.

Game prices are going up. Just like everything else. There's a point where revenue can no longer grow to cover development costs by increasing audience - we've been past that point for a few years.
There comes a time when rising costs need to be dealt with in different ways. Price goes up (directly or indirectly) or quality goes down. That's where the industry is at.

Pokemon games will never look good if they want a random assortment of 15+ high fidelity monster models on the screen at any given time, and the biggest bottleneck may be loading those textures (hence the world itself having ugly ones).

@Entrr_username as voluminous as your assumptions are and as strong as your emotions are, they do not matter. Pocket Pair makes their money off plagiarism. When they stop making their money off plagiarism, Nintendo will stop suing them.

@Jeronan the first Digimon game released in Sept 1998.

@Entrr_username doesn't matter if they are braindead or not in your opinion, if people buy Palworld thinking it's Pokemon, Palworld is stealing money from the Pokemon company. This is Pocket Pair's business model. They did it before Palworld and they will do it after if left unchecked. Their next game looks an awful lot like Hollow Knight.

@GabrielBacakPS nobody is going to confuse those. They use very different artistic styles. Unlike palworld. Nobody is going to buy a pokemon game thinking it's dragon quest. People might buy palworld thinking it's pokemon due to similarities in the monster designs and art style.

Why do people think these no-gameplay trailers are any good?

EA also releases the same 4 sports games every year with no changes.

I love my steam deck, but it's really finicky with setup, settings, controls and compatibility just like PCs are. And this is the major advantage of uniform consoles - they are simply plug and play with no hassle.

NHL or bust! Only fun realistic sports game.

Need some fun hockey games like Tape to Tape.

Account-level achievements are an addiction tactic. Good on Nintendo for not having them.

I'd be ok with something like getting a profile icon for seeing credits roll, but beyond that, achievements don't do positive things for games.

@nin10doom it's no different other than being on the label instead of not. It's just an excuse to whine.

Could try not plagiarizing.

@Ironcore 30 is just fine for a game like this. It's not a competitive shooter.

@ChakraStomps mostly basing it on Breath of the Wild, which was certainly an upgrade, but not a mind-blowing one. Of course your reasoning is perfectly valid and may have something to do with the long wait for the game.

I can't imagine a scenario in which it doesn't follow the Breath of the Wild precedent, though the Switch 2 version may be a fairly minor upgrade.

@Spider-Kev not so confident people are knowingly buying them. It's far more likely they are being sold to people who don't know they are fake.

Astral Chain should be about 40 spots higher.

My guess is Champions will be like a battle-based companion app to the main line games that handles rule sets, balance tweaks etc. and the battles themselves with access to the full national dex, while the main line games keep their trimmed local dex.

This is how I've wanted to see it done ever since they announced the main line won't have the complete dex anymore.

No more remakes. Release the originals, enable online play. That's it.

Load times on ps1 were embarrassing.

Skill mode for weapons. Bananas, green shells, maybe Bob-ombs, Mushrooms. Nothing else.

Tone down the weapons a bit and it's all good.

This is solid. Couple things:

• put software name in a readable font? Many store pages have unreadable names until you've selected them.
• metacritic scores if user/NL scores aren't plentiful enough?

@PKDuckman literally all of that can be true alongside what I said.

@RunninBlue I don't think I said that anywhere.

Businesses in China are far more heavily controlled than most of the english-speaking world. China blocks a great deal of information entering and leaving the country, and prevents countless businesses from working there for many arbitrary reasons or for their propaganda.

Engaging in spying on other nations doesn't mean you shouldn't protect yourself from spying.

@RunninBlue it's the degree of control their government has over those companies and the type of business they do. A beverage company for example wouldn't have any way of gathering insane amounts of personal data like tech companies do and therefore wouldn't be labeled like this.

Tech companies are, by virtue of how one does business in China, government espionage tools almost by default.

This has been fairly high on my list. The demo was a blast.

What are you talking about when you say "X"?

Playstation and Microsoft bosses have been questioning the future of consoles for 25 years.

@Dee123 absolutely. Pocket Pair is a rip-off company. Compare their next game to Hollow Knight. This type of stuff isn't inspiration. It's plain old plagiarism. And a former employee said as much.

If you add enough cheese, anything can be good.

Unfortunately, this remake subtracted cheese and is just bland as a result.

Pretty minor adjustment tbh

I periodically lick switch cartridges when I start to doubt my memory of their insanely bad taste.

The team responsible for making the game isn't the issue here, Ubisoft.

Noticed yes, bothered no

It's easy to hate on Nintendo or TPC for this, but Palworld's developers have made a habit of copying other works a little too closely.

Maybe you dislike TPC... but what if their next game rips off Team Cherry, an ACTUAL small indie dev team? Oh, right, they are doing EXACTLY that.

IP protection needs to be strong in the creative space.

I wanna take you for a riiide.