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@8bitSquid Signed up but I'm trying to find where to request the code. Where is it?

Bust out laughing looking at the last pic. I thought the PS5 was an empty shelf the way it was crammed into that entertainment center.

@TexanSansei *Per Save File. Just create a second account on your switch and do it again for the other Regi and horse. That's what I did for the Urshifu's

I guess I don't get the hate for this one. Just seems like a dating sim with a topical premise.

EDIT: Nvm, watched the trailer. I cringed extremely hard within the first few seconds and couldn't finish watching.

Saw the tagline and ran to the comments to say, "WHAT!? WANT!" ...That is all 😂

Came into this article prepared to roll my eyes at Nintendo, but that merch is a huge "YIKES". That Mew design is basically just pokemon merchandise.

I'm usually all about delays, because when they happen sans reports of behind-the-scenes drama, it usually turns out a high-quality game. But it's getting to a point where I'm starting to get worried =/

@Shadowmoon522 This. The uninitiated still think Digimon's a Pokemon knock-off. But Digimon has a TOOOOON of death and dark scenes. One lion-based digimon comes to mind.

Unfinished tracks, here I come!

I'm so hyped for this!

@shazbot Same! I got a PS3 when Galaxy 2 came out so I never got the chance to play it! Gahhh it's frustrating

It's about time Geralt went on a diet. Couldn't help but think of what a chubster he is during every second of gameplay

@TheFullAndy Of course I'm not saying they're going to do it for ALL future game sales 🙄 But what YOU'RE saying is that a top corporation will see a highly successful sales method... And neeeeever use it again?

Gahhh buckle in folks, this is the start of a new type of game marketing. Corporate will interpret this as people responding to the limited time sale rather than people wanting to play three highly rated Mario games on a beloved system.

Spellbreak for sure!

First thought in my head was to have non-players stomp across the tracks like living obstacles during play. Man, I announcements like this make me wish I was a kid again.

Psyched for the release!... But the limited run thing? God I hope this is a COVID thing and not the start of a new trend...

@nessisonett You and me both! A good game just got better!

It really irks me that this can't just be a fun casual rhythm game for KH fans and that it's part of the lore. Luckilyyyyyy, youtube exists! =D

Strong "meh" for this direct but I think they knew that. It's cool. Between Pikmin 3 coming out and COVID possibly delaying things, Nintendo can take a break this year.

I'm so bored with Pikachu, I would love to have it evolve. But it's almost certainly a fake out.

@ancientlii I'm basing the inevitable cap on the fact that, again, there's no such cartridge, and never will be one, that can hold infinite data. That's the case with everything in existence, nothing can hold something that's ever expanding except space. There's always inevitably going to be a cap. And even if there was, I wouldn't want it. To continue exponentially adding new pokemon, new animations for the pokemon, new moves for the pokemon, new forms for the pokemon, new characters for the games, etc, etc. Something would have to be sacrificed. Now, I've always argued that pokemon has been getting stagnant, and they need to innovate. Keeping old pokemon is not the issue

Pokemon Battle Revolution and Battle Stadium are bad comparisons. They're not RPGs. They're literally just battle simulators. So yes, the creators could take their times just to focus on the pokemon. They didn't have stories to write. They didn't have an entire region to traverse or puzzles to create. They didn't have new and interesting characters to create and write for. They didn't have new pokemon to create either. They literally just had to take the 493 pokemon (not 718; and only 151 in Pokemon Stadium and 252 in Pokemon Stadium 2) and animated attacks that were created, make them move in interesting ways and create models for characters.

I'm not saying that they didn't work hard. They did, but creating a game that's just back to back battling is completely different than creating a game with an adventure and RPG elements. And I'm not saying Pokemon Sword and Shield didn't cut a lot of corners and rush to get to the deadline. I think they did, and it shows. They absolutely need to start every pokemon from the ground up and not just copy/past "futureproofed" pokemon from XY to every game. But that takes time. Even if they hire more devs (which they absolutely should) that's time taken away from development to make the games evolve and become more interesting in other ways that the games have been lacking. That's space in the cartridge being taken away that could be utilized to make the series go above and beyond. Pokemon Sword and Shield has A LOT of issues, but Dexit is not one of them.

And what are you talking about? Pokemon Let's GO has the original 151 pokemon plus Meltan and Melmetal, not 808 pokemon. If you're talking about Pokemon Go? It's a phone application. It's not an entire RPG. None of the moves are animated like on the mainline games, there's not nearly as many items in the game, the pokemon don't have abilities, the game map is basically just Google Maps and there's only like... 5 written human characters

@ian8911 I'm not disagreeing with you on any of that except for Dexit. It's like you completely missed both mine and @Ashunera84 's points as far as why it's not plausible to keep adding new pokemon forever. Like I said, I completely agree that Gamefreak can hire more staff. I completely agree that there's no legitimate excuse why the animations are lazy and the gameplay is rushed. And I completely agree that Dexit is no excuse why the games are the way they are. Look through my past comments, I talk about how Gamefreak should do more and stop being lazy all the time. The ONLY thing I'm arguing is that Dexit itself is not a good argument. They can not add new pokemon forever. No matter how much you all complain about it, it's not going to happen. And it's not out of lack of desire, effort or resources. It's literally not possible to keep doing it. If it was possible to add new pokemon and keep the old ones until the sun burnt out, I'd be right there with you. But it's not.

@Ashunera84 Couldn't have said it better! (And I really mean it, it seems as though you have a better grasp of the processes and terminology of game development than I do 😂) And I agree about the jump from 2D to 3D and the jumps from different platforms. But although it could theoretically possible to take the assets they've created and move them all to a new Switch game while adding the pokemon they left out... I really hope they stick to their guns. It'll only serve to sate the people who oppose Dexit for a game or two before the permanent roster rotation is implemented.

@ian8911 I make that argument all the time. But when I say it, I mean that they have no excuse not to make the games better. But of COURSE they have an excuse for not shoving 893 pokemon into the new game. Having a ton of money doesn't mean being the top media franchise should be able to stuff a thousand pokemon into a game cartridge (which I guess would have unlimited space) AND fix its stagnation problem. If Dexiters have it their way, eventually, a mainline pokemon would eventually just be the Pokedex 3D app on the 3DS. It will have all the pokemon, they'll all have fresh animations, but there will be no room for anything else because all the resources would go to stuffing 893 pokemon into a single game cartridge.

I mainly tell Dexiters to get over it because this is something that no matter how much you complain about it, is not going to happen. I'm all for offering criticism towards a product because developers need to learn from the positives and the negatives to make for a better product, but I'm not for complaining over something that makes no sense to complain about. For Dexit, it was ALWAYS inevitable that this was going to happen. They can't exponentially create new pokemon and keep bringing back every single old one. When would you all have them start cutting pokemon? At 1000? At 1500? At 2000? It's just... Not... Possible.

I get the frustration at Pokemon, I talk about it a lot. But having every single monster they've ever invented go into a game is not the issue, nor is it plausible. Zelda BOTW only has 21 different creatures to fight, not including the fire, electric, ice, gold, white, etc variants of each of the creatures or the bosses, and it's lauded as one of the best video games of all time. Pokemon's issue is that it's maintained the exact same formula it's had for over 20 years and it keeps slapping a new coat of paint on it with every new game instead of truly trying to innovate.

@Robo-Knight You all need to get over that. I'm pretty critical on the recent generations of mainline Pokemon, but Dexit's one of the few things that I feel doesn't hold water. There's absolutely no way they were going to be able to keep adding new pokemon ad infinitum while maintaining the old pokemon, while adding more to the games in a single game forever. We're almost at 1000 pokemon as is. Time to do what other monster games do and have a rotating roster.

@Razer Good to know, thanks!

So I missed this one because I skipped the Wii U. Why didn't people like this one? Was it mainly the motion controls?

A lot of the designs look really busy. Like, a few of the monsters could do with the removal of tidbits around their collar or, removal of tufts of fur or way too many clashing colors in a single monster. Most of, what I assume, are legendaries look bad because of it. Waaaaaaay too much going on with a bunch of their designs...

With that being said, a ton of them are AWESOME. Loving some of these designs. If someone could go in and remove and/or edit the busier looking monsters, this would be a very very solid lineup.

Part of me wants this to come out this year. It's in the top 3 of my most wanted 2020 games... But with the absolute juggernaut of a year this is going to be as a dual nintendo/sony gamer, part of me's hoping it's 2021 for the sake of my wallet.

@sword_9mm Sure, I genuinely hope that happens for you. I'd play it.

@sword_9mm Whether you believe it or not, those games have extremely realistic looking graphics. ESPECIALLY Hellblade. And I'm not aiming for photorealistic, nor are the devs. Aiming for a generation for game lineups consisting entirely of only photorealistic games would not only kill creative ways to utilize the art form, but would use too much time and resources to be financially feasible. When I say that we're at the peak of graphic capability, I mean without devs requiring every game to take entire decades because they feel as though they need to make every dimple, every skin pore on a character (we'll mostly see the back of) look just like real life. Nor should they.

Look at Breath of the Wild, looks absolutely nothing like a PS4 or Xbox game graphics-wise but they utilized the limitations to make it look beautiful and play great. So beautiful that a number of upcoming games are attempting to imitate it.

@sword_9mm Have you played Hellblade, God of War or Horizon Zero Dawn?

Nintendo's always fit in their own lane, and I remember last year prior to the reveal of the new Xbox and Playstation that news outlets were emphasizing that the name of the game moving forward was not graphics, but performance. Which makes sense because graphics have almost gotten to their endpoint. There's only so detailed a game can get.

And because of this, the gaming landscape makes it conceivable to own both a Nintendo console and one of the powerful consoles at the same time. Nintendo's lineups exist independently of the other consoles.

@Rika_Yoshitake 🙋‍♂️ I called you negative. Never once complained about the price

@UmbreonsPapa Oh, I have high high hopes for Pokemon Journeys. It's only 30 episodes or so in and it has exceeded my expectations for how good a pokemon anime can be.

@Rika_Yoshitake Anyone ever tell you that all of your comments are extremely unpleasant? They're just so thoroughly and, most of the time, unnecessarily negative. And I say that not as a means to bully or troll, but in the hopes of encouraging genuine introspection.

Oh happy day, oh happy day!

@NotoriousWhiz 😂 Well typically I'd recommend you try it with a goat, but if you can't enjoy something while wearing a coat, then that's it, you're not going to enjoy it. Playing it with a goat would just be a step backwards.

Maybe it's age? I was all about Yoshi's Island when I was younger (And by younger, I mean from childhood to abooooout... maybe my mid-teens?) but now I have no drive to play it. Meanwhile, Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog and multiple other older games still very much hold up for me.

@Shepdawg1 Power of Us was actually really good, loaded with heart and gave life to the Pokemon World outside of what we see with Ash due to all the characters and their relationships with Pokemon.

That being said, this looks like it's going to be really really good as well. The anime has really been bringing its A-game in the show and the movies.

@zool Meh, these days, with so many available "good" or even "great" games, "not good" or "ok" does sort of equivocate to "bad". Mainly because if you're an informed consumer, then you'd ask yourself, "Why should I get this, when I could get a better game of its genre?"

Mediocre games exist for someone's relative to buy at a low price as a gift or the small groups that revel in seeing how mediocre or bad games like these are.

Leeeet's see. I have and/or I've played all of them except Burnout, Hyperlight, Starlink and... Minecraft

The online versions have been too scattered and underwhelming except for the PS5. With E3, I feel like companies knew they needed to bring it. But companies doing their own thing basically just seems the same as the rest of the year with random game announcements. Bandai's, for example, seemed to consist entirely of games that were already out and they ended it with, "See all the games that have been out for years that you can play?" E3 helped keep things focused at the very least.

Can't pinpoint an exact year, but yeeeeeah, like the article said, just because this year's quiet doesn't mean it's "THE WORST NINTENDO YEAR EVER". Still have a bazillion games to get from the eshop, and I have a hard time believing people were able to keep up with every single good release that's come out. I've been taking the time to get through my backlog and it's been kinda awesome. A quiet year's only a bad year if there's a lackluster console imo... Like the Wii U xP

10/15 and the only one I knew for sure was Majora's Mask.

I'm split on this. Looks like they put a ton of work into this game from the looks of the trailer and the splitting dialogue choices and etc. And I disagree on the notion that people shouldn't live out their fantasies on video games (that's partially what video games are for innit?)

But having seen how hard people simp in streams and get pretty creepy pretty hard and fast, I can see why streamers would be alarmed about a game that can potentially glorify modding for a gamer girl. The story of the game is that as a moderator, it's up to you to protect the streamer from a stalker right?

Huh neat. Looks like something that would've given Sonic a run for its money on Genesis in the 90's. Might need to scoop this up.

Even when this becomes affordable, I might hold off on it for some time. I genuinely wonder about the long-term repercussions, if there are any, of having those on the eyes

Sonic Mania is the GOAT of Sonic games, 2D or 3D. As far as 3D sonic goes?... Never got a chance to play Generations so I heard that was decent, but other than that, hasn't been a good one since the Adventure days.