There's something ironic that Disney needed to alter Cammy's legwear to accommodate cameoing in Wreck-It Ralph, and the western 3D Pixar/DreamWorks/etc. look Fortnite has adopted has forced them to copy the exact same look Disney went for.
Well, probably not EXACT same. I assume this is closer to SFV than SFII, having not played SFV yet. But the camo print legs are clearly referencing the old look.
@PortuGuy Could be, name sounds vaguely familiar. Not sure how many times I gotta say "I don't care" until people realize I really don't care. No offense intended either, just all these fantasy shows blur into one-another and I truly do not care. So no, nobody is trolling, just trying to stay on topic and I guess kicked a beehive. Eh.
@TheFrenchiestFry And judging by the previous comment as well, I've found the show has fans still. I wasn't aware there even was a comic behind it, just a bunch of Twitter nonsense upon announcement about teaming up an angel and a devil being non-Christian or something ridiculous to get up in arms over. Oh that and Amazon changing all their boxes to ads for the show for a time. Which is probably where I'm remembering the gay thing from, what with the devil dude draped over the angel guy. Besides, wouldn't be the first show based on a comic outright changing large portions of it. Walking Dead, anyone?
Either or, whatever, it is so largely not the point I was making anyways. If for example they're assumedly going at all a bit more mature direction than the game or anime or Detective Pikachu for an on-going narrative or whatever, I'm left to wonder how long until they have to address the whole "Poke Ball = slavery" subtext.
@Ks123 Would have, if I cared about the show. I hold no hopes or grievances for it, just recall the brain-dead complaints Twitter had about it on release and that's as far as my interaction with it. Either or, it's not important. What IS is how little it has to do with Pokemon's whole direction.
You could tell me the show's like NCIS or Star Trek or freaking Red Skeleton and I'm sure Pokemon fans would be left confused.
Ok. I don't follow celebrities so I don't know Mr. Henderson's catalogue and I haven't seen Lucifer. From what I recall, it's a dramedy about a gay angel and devil couple on Earth or something? Anyone talented enough can make any range of entertainment for various genres I suppose, but Pokemon as a whole seems a departure to be working on.
Pokemon has dark, mature moments but it typically not in the limelight or what they want to focus on. You might have legit Mafia/Yakuza hybrid Team Rocket from the manga, gen 5 bombing a whole city's civilization D-Day style or gen 7's mental and familial trauma storylines between Lusamine's and Guzma's respective abuse, but by and large the forefront is kid-friendly happy-go-lucky childish adventures. The company pretty much never even wants to dip their toes into teen-rated territory for their games. So I dunno what they would even do with a syndicated live-action Pokemon series that isn't just a replication of the "Kid's First Anime" they already got going for the past 25-ish years.
Curious to say the least, but not particularly hopeful anything astounding will come out of this. Just confusing direction.
I would imagine the fact that they already have a survey pre-written and expected in the event that people would not be happy with their game, already expecting and offering all the options on things specifically designed to be anti-consumer, then that tells all that needs to be known about how the game should be taken.
I do wonder who actually buys into these with enough of a percentage that the scalpers still find it profitable to continue doing. I know, we all know the whole "Sucker born every minute" shtick, but, like.....it's the internet, where information on schemes like these is easy to come across. Also anyone with the money on hand to buy one at those scalper prices should know better by now just by life experiences.
Been mulling around who Nintendo would want rather than what we'd want for some time, and I've been thinking on the possibility of it being Paper Mario. First-party makes it easy to add without needs for negotiation, Byleth's inclusion shows their recent timeframe looking to add characters to promote games that were still in development themselves during the subsequent Smash character's development (Technically also true with Roy, Greninja and Incineroar but was going with the most recent example), the character has a convenient already established fan base alongside the more recent game's new direction that they're trying to attract new customers with and ending the biggest Smash game with Mario where it also started with Mario sounds like the sort of artistic pomp Nintendo would like to showcase.
I'd be fine with Paper Mario personally, but I only played the first two games. Have Origami King but haven't had the desire to play it yet. So I'm quote-on-quote "part of the problem with Paper Mario" or so I hear from YouTubers. Eh. I suppose you can get a nice rounded moveset out of his hammer, spiked boots, the paint stuff from Color Splash being lifted from Inklings in Smash and those accordion arms from Origami King for grabs. Basic Mario in Smash is a nice mash-up from a bunch of 3D Mario games after all.
I'm kinda leaning to the sentimental side of the fan suggestions and would like it to be a Sakurai stand-in. The guy's looking on retirement. He's made this series to be his life's work as he says and its payoff has clearly shown. If Harada can sneak himself into Tekken and Soul Calibur every now and then, I don't see this being too big an ask.
But that's not the fun suggestion that fans will debate is so stupid to even suggest, so I dunno. The Dragon from Adventure to really throw the retro crowd a king-sized bone.
@Yomerodes To be fair against the Sans hype, that also comes a lot from outside meme interference. It's just a cool thing to love or hate Undertale and more importantly the skeleton brothers outside their actual importance and relevance to the game because....that's just how the internet turned out. Would not be surprised if those same folks lost their minds over.....I dunno, what was a popular meme at the time of Sans' reveal? Shaggy at 100% Ultra Instinct? Steamed Hams?
Because Skinner would make for a stupidly funny Mii, let's be honest. Just give him his knife from Vietnam and presto, you got a Mii Swordfighter
Anyways, joking aside, un/fortunately the Mii picks reflect both what would make good sales for both ends of the companies arrangements and what fans want to see make it in Smash. Like, I'm not a big fan of Shantae's weird Mii face dragging down the whole package. It's a little weird they went specifically with Pirate's Curse Shantae because of its history with Nintendo, but then made her a Mii Brawler instead of giving her the sword she has specifically for Pirate's Curse and having her as a Mii Swordfighter with vaguely similar moves as in her own game. But all that said.....SHANTAE'S IN SMASH BROS. Which is a net positive and something I'm happy to buy.
But next time they're just looking to fill in slots? Yeah, please try to go with characters that'd actually fit the Mii design.
@Yomerodes I'll just be that little bit of a nag and point out the girl's name from Celeste is not Celeste. Her name is Madeline. Celeste is the mountain. Yes, I do sound very much like those guys that point out that Link's not Zelda. And I'm only being that pest because of the ridiculous number of games I've played the past decade, Celeste is likely somewhere in that top 5 of the 2010's. It fights with Nier: Automata in my ranking a lot.
That detour aside, I agree. The other examples you gave are generally better suited for the Mii characters when specifically trying to emulate another unrelated character, the chibi-aesthetic just does not work on such a wide stroke of characters they've covered with them. Skull Kid is actually a fantastic example, other than the actual Mii moveset not really applying to Skull Kid w/ Majora's Mask, but that's hard to blame on the Smash team when there's literally next to nothing on the duo. But his already lanky super deformed-ish body fits the Mii mold perfectly. Compared and contrasted to the freaking Dovahkin, these compromises just don't always work.
I just wish the helmets with the face exposed or hair parts of these cosplay costumes at least came with a pasted on replacement face for the Miis. That'd help considerably to sell the look, if not at all a perfect solution.
Eh. The main problem with these Mii cosplay outfits is the Mii underneath is 100% always distinguishable from the character they're trying to stand in for. Look at Shantae. The outfit's fine if not one-for-one to any of the games, clearly trying to replicate Pirate's Curse though, or body designs quite matching if not too distracting, but those Mii faces won't be anything BUT Mii faces. The improved version in Miitopia would be an appreciated addition next Smash game, but.....that's next game, not this one and what was literally just announced.
The outfits really only work for me when they completely obscure the fact they're Miis while the character also is of their own similar cartoon style like Bomberman and Sans. The more details, realistic or anime aesthetic you get, the more they just look unappealing at this "meeting half-way" point.
Don't take this too much as pedantic complaining, the acknowledgement we'd like the characters at all is appreciated. It's cool to see DMC1 Dante too instead of the most recent incarnation I was expecting if anything. It's just mildly frustrating to have the effort put in but the whole idea is a turn-off from the get-go.
So, I didn't play the last one. Don't worry, I heard all the good things, I'm not putting it down, lower the pitchforks. But I am familiar with the Rabbids choke holding the Rayman series down for years until they finally split the two franchises firmly and generally I never want to see their mugs ever again. So the crossover element of this still baffles me a bit, because what's being gained by the Rabbids' addition as cast members? If anything I'd just want to bench them outside where necessary.
Mario in realistic sci-fi and duel-wielding guns akimbo is also going to never not be generally weird and off-putting. The guns being toy ray gun vacuum cleaners helps but it's still a hard sell of a setting even knowing the game's better qualities.
I think it's a bit like selling a newcomer on Kingdom Hearts these days that only knows modern post-renaissance Disney.
The split in the comments on this being a good look on Zelda or not reminds me how much prior Zeldas and BotW seemed to take large specific inspirations that couldn't be more at ends with one-another. OoT over the years made me realize how much it took from Berserk's success, right down to Navi just being Puck, and Twilight Princess leaned on it even harder. While, obviously, never getting AS medieval grimdark as Berserk reaches, it certainly is more in line with that western medieval fantasy world design. BotW on the other hand is as close to playing freaking Princess Mononoke as you'll ever get, it rides the Ghibli aesthetic all the way home. To the point now where I'm gonna be slightly disappointed if BotW 2 doesn't have a rotting pig demon tied to Ganondorf.
This doesn't have much to do with the actual topic here. In my opinion, I'm WAY more into the former than the latter as far as Zelda goes. (Ghibli films over Berserk manga is a harder choice there) And so I'm just way more into the feel of this tech demo than pretty much 90% of my BotW playthrough. But they each have their pros and cons and different demographics to appeal to.
I'm disassociated as can be from this whole experience as can be. I don't know the guy beyond the previous controversy, I had no idea there was some boxing match going on, I am clueless why we're all pretending Pokemon cards are a big deal again.
That said, I'm surprised said past controversy didn't do the guy in. This is the same one going up to recently killed bodies in that Japanese suicide forest and making fun of them. Folks of higher media standards get cut off for less egregious stunts.
It always confused me why people spend so much money on Pokemon Go. I don't exactly have a roburst locale with pokestops to make much use of the game, the pandemic permanently changing some public places loaded with them being locked off kinda killed my drive a lot. But since 2018 I've spent I think.....$2? They want a dollar to enter a community event day, yeah? Did two of those overall. Still got to level 33 with dozens upon dozens of shinies, luckies and high powered monsters.
It's just a good excuse for going for jogs to me.
I guess its just more expected to lay down some money in more populated areas where you don't go with gyms being defended for periods of 40+ days per serving.
@Luigisghost669 Not exactly a great comparison. Unless we're making the leap in logic that you were selling these chairs. And continued media presence surrounding these chairs for....some unusual reason.
@MrScorpion Glad this was all nice and cordial. Too often opposing sides of opinions online over the most trivial of things leave too many at each other's throats. I'm fine with the concept of emulators, you're not, no worlds are ending and villages being burned to the ground.
It would be nice if there was a generally agreed upon timeframe of emulating acceptance, I think. For example, I would think it mildly disdainful to getting something still of current generation and perhaps last 2 just for free. So say, from Crackdown (Xbox 360 launch) to New Pokemon Snap (Most current game for current consoles that comes immediately to mind) But what would be a respectful timeframe? I guess when they're fully out of print and the game/console's no longer on the owner's market? Which is why I'm less bothered with checking out a rare Japan-only SNES title that no one has any real plans on ever revisiting exporting or selling in general. Your typical "victimless crime" angle, I suppose.
@MrScorpion You do you, I guess. But worth noting that Doom's WAD scene is literally incentivized by Id themselves back then. Hell, back now, dunno if they got it on Switch's ports but on PlayStation and Xbox's ports they not only support WADs on wholly unrelated consoles, they've routinely updated the game with hand-picked "Best ofs" themselves you can play instead of the main single-player.
I suppose WADs are more akin to mods and personal tweeking to code the developers throw at the community than emulators explicitly. It'd be like getting mad at Valve for giving Source FilmMaker and GMod to the community. But the negativity, especially when times flies by and the guys and gals actually behind these old games give you their blessing, always befuddles me.
I've always wondered if those against emulators though have grievances with old school Doom WADs? Technically by all means fan favorite Chex Quest is just theft of a quazi-free source code and repurposing it for the world's strangest cereal tie-in and selling it back. I mean, it too is free and easy to find now for the longest time with a quick Google search but still.
Freaking video games as a whole is built off the backbone of copying previous hardware and software for continued use and repurposing.
I don't really use emulators myself. Not for some misplaced conception of higher morals, just a mix of I just haven't had much desire to, those I would I typically already have in abundance in other means and the laptop I'm stuck with isn't particularly good for or fun to use for games.
I think literally the only ones I have are a SNES one for specifically one game alone; the Japan-only SNES Sailor Moon JRPG that was made to be a whole extra season of the show/extra arc the manga simply doesn't have, that also never left the East, so curiosity was too much to bear not checking it out. And, uh, Halo Online/Eldewrito, if you want to count that weird middle ground.
That all said, it's cool to see this one still going strong for the often overlooked and neglected N64 in Nintendo's modern days. Good on them.
@SnackBox I'm not saying anyone can't have their initial reactions, by all means. But I intend to be more lenient until we have a bigger picture.
Of course, we had an issue with just that going into SwSh and the whole Dex cut hurricane of bad decisions and just generally poor information. God, reflecting on that, they still don't advertise or admit that SwSh is missing Pokemon in Japan, don't they? Remember that was a thing once the DLC started coming around. Even the new Snap game had the foresight to clarify, and that's the least-expected place for a full Dex to show with just some common sense.
Anyways, derailment aside, yeah we can all talk about what we do know on BDSP at the time being. I'm just not willing to lump it away as "Nothing more but Diamond/Pearl but 3D and slightly claymation" until we know more. For all we know, they're taking the Episode Delta concept from ORAS and expanding exponentially. Hell, have a hail mary, maybe they're finally acknowledging MissingNo. We just don't know what their plans are in great detail at the time, and as is I'm not set to burn it at the stake just yet. Just.....wishing its chibi models didn't look worse that ORAS's, blurriness and all.
@VoidofLight Eh, agree to disagree? You're right in concept, I think you're just underselling the Switch's examples and overselling what this trailer's got. It's just Let's Go's stuff zoomed in. BotW had similar grass. A strong art style really sells it.
That's why I still place Metroid Prime somewhere alongside the like's of Halo 3 as my Best Looking Games Ever list.
@DarthXenos I don't hate what we've seen thus far but it always leaves me asking "Why?". Wait until more info is out before giving it its proper criticism, but it appears going by the first trailer and accompanying details that it wants to go backwards from what FireRed/LeafGreen did for Gen 3, HeartGold/SoulSilver did for 4, so-on and so-forth. Each of those specifically went out of their way to not just recreate the previous title and update it to the new title of that generation but to also surpass them. Arguably Emerald is king of Gen 3, but FRLG I'd say surpass Ruby and Sapphire. HGSS were so good they fight for supremacy of the Pokemon series as a whole. ORAS do SOOOO much more than X and Y on top of Ruby and Sapphire, though it still is of course a shame the Emerald content they cut.
BDSP as is seems to just be Diamond and Pearl but given the Switch Link's Awakening deal. Possibly not even that, Switch Link's Awakening added the DX content. We might not even be getting Platinum content for BDSP if ORAS to Emerald is any example.
I'm hopeful I'd say, but Game Freak make it just so hard to get excited over their future prospects once reality sets in.
@VoidofLight Not in the tech biz myself, but by simple basis of looking with my eyes, nothing in this trailer exceeds what my Switch has done playing Doom 2016, Super Mario Odyssey or even Breath of the Wild, which I would argue is the most plain of the three by design. Tone down the particle effects a bit maybe, this isn't Jump Force, but this doesn't seem outside the Switch's range via past titles the console's less than matching market standards has still squeezed out.
Obviously in this hypothetical the game would still need some cleaning up, raise the framerate, etc. but this is essentially SwSh but better if laggier animations and quality of life customization things. That and their wild areas had the artistic care the Let's Go games had with their routes with an underwater one akin to ORAS. SwSh's wild areas filled their function but they were bizarrely barren and lifeless to look at.
Hm. Is this based on Naruto Storm content? Those run animations and especially the real-time combat look fairly familiar, but I'm afraid I never owned a Naruto game after PS2-era so have had limited contact with them. Also it's funny seeing everyone point out the run animation. Like, guys, have you never seen anime and anime-related video games, like, ever?
Disregarding possible baseline altered models and animations, that doesn't detract from that this looks exceptionally more pleasing a Pokemon title than what we've got in quite some time. Actually customizing your freaking Pokemon and Poke Balls to such a degree has been a desire since, god, generation 1 I guess with the anime teasing us at things that'll never come to pass in the games. Although Go and Let's Go have already challenged that with the many seasonal attire for starter Pokemon and Pikachu and Eevee got little odds and ends to wear in Kanto, so hey, there's a base to start off of.
@SimonCucho You seemed to have misunderstood. I do not mean out of touch with pop culture as a whole. I mean The Pokemon Company/Game Freak/Nintendo/Whichever scapegoat you prefer making weird choices in these musical talents that have nearly nothing to do with Pokemon and what the fanbase would know and like about it.
Of course there's the argument for blanket mass appeal outside the Pokemon fandom's niche appeal, that's clearly what they're going with. It's strange though they don't have something more like what Final Fantasy does with its anniversary concerts. Or Mario. Hell, Undertale in its short lifespan had something akin.
Since they're not interested in an orchestral approach and want this pop angle, by all means....so why not have these people do covers of, you know, the many versions of the Pokemon theme? Or music actually tailored to the series they're supposedly celebrating? As is, it's just the musician doing their regular business, with a Pikachu or something Pokemon related stapled to the side, all but unrelated.
I'm somewhat curious, who would the appropriate star singer to show for this Pokemon event that people be for folks to be less snide about?
Don't get me wrong, don't know this lady beyond recognizing hearing her name before, didn't even know what she looked like. And the Post Malone nonsense earlier in the year was painfully out of touch. But why ARE they so out of touch?
I suppose though it's a bit too unfair to bundle everyone into being against this, there's surely a market for this. Even commenters here, if sparingly. It's just...weird choice after weird choice from Pokemon as a whole, a continuous train of them since freaking Sword and Shield's announcement.
My gut response is "Clearing out the old guard for the new guard", this isn't intended specifically for the old fans but to make new ones of a new generation from outside the fanbase. But man is that a weird direction to go when also specifically celebrating how old you are.
Probably not the strongest argument, but just something to throw on the pile; if he left prior to the Wii U ports, sounds like he missed key details in that they do in fact own the source code he's assuming is still missing as it was at the time of his departure.
It's not exactly a LIKELY outcome, someone in his position at the time would probably be in a good place to know what's being saved or not, but he has also been gone for a good long while and things have transpired within that time.
@SwitchVogel That part I thought simple, actually. Closure. It's the definitive end of a series how the creator wanted it. Regardless of its metric of how good or bad it is to the individual, it's where anyone invested enough to reach the point before actually playing it would want to see how it goes.
Essentially how Kingdom Hearts 3 went for so many. Regardless how many popular online critics told you it came from the innermost circle of Hell and devoted fanboys praised it for putting all the pieces together, MANY people had to see it for themselves. Except in this case I suppose it'd be the other way around, it's a lot harder to find people calling out Mother 3's faults than its accomplishments.
It's amusing the disconnect between some other Nintendo franchises and Mother's with Nintendo's stance on emulation. Here you have a game that people will happily throw their money at to have but are being herded away to explicitly goes through shady means to play. But heaven forbid you want to see something Metroid or F-Zero or Pokemon.
Not a one-for-one, before you all shove your "ACK-shually"s down my throat. But it remains amusing nonetheless for years upon years.
The censorship angle over the Magypsies also seemed oblivious to me within the past 10-so years, because clearly we haven't had shows like Adventure Time or Steven Universe within those time frames become popular mainstream. But whatever, Nintendo has more riding on its middle-tier dead franchise than Warner Bros. top modern cartoons I suppose. It's just such a small detail. Not like we have had Vivian in Paper Mario before, right?
I can't even claim to be die-hard fan because yeah, EarthBound was pretty great but I didn't play this because duh, that's the whole issue we're here with and EarthBound Beginnings was....ok? Let's be generous and say it was competing with other games attentions at the time and lost. But it's just so silly what reasons could be holding them back by this point.
@Maulbert Thanks for the positivity. If that was all there was to it then you'd have a point. But this series has been around in Smash almost as long as the Smash series has existed and I've seen enough of its comings and goings over the years, just none firsthand until this recent....whatever Nintendo was on about with the first game's limited time release. I've seen people rave on and on about this Lyndis girl being the best of the series and all these units types and noteworthy characters like Hector glazed over in favor of vanilla base boredom Hero classes thrown in this game. Or would you tell me everyone loves the Hero class to the point the rest are ignorable?
I'm not going to say the game I played was all that fun nor looking at other entries seem to sway me much in another direction, but it doesn't take a deep examination that the FE crowd's getting a bad deal out of their representation. If you enjoy what Smash is offering though, by all means, have at it. I'd personally rather they cut the cast in half and get a polled top-tier option of the best, say, four classes and the best reps amongst those across the games. Assumedly Marth as the Hero is reserved space.
So, guess I'll throw in my two cents as well. My FE history is I got that eShop English release of the first game before Nintendo nuked it because people shouldn't have fun, went 5 turns before Marth got killed then never touched it again. Beyond that its just been Smash and liking that one soundtrack that plays for Roy in Melee when he's on the Zelda 2 stage. That's about it.
It seems to me the FE representation in Smash needs to be nuked from orbit and start over. Beyond Marth being as basic as he is well reflective of his NES origins, all these picks that are in Smash are way too same-y while also largely neglecting the whole point of Fire Emblem's gameplay and design. Now, that's not a FE-exclusive issue, Samus is here being very un-Samus until retroactive continuity brought us Metroid: Other M's combat and it started a community World War III over other issues. But beyond the "Hall of Fame" aspect Smash has evolved into, it should be foremost a showcase of characters reflective of their game's original design. The Dragon Quest Hero does this phenomenally. The Fire Emblem choices here are....Marth. 8 times thematically. Where's your flying horses? Your big beefy meat shields? You have Pokemon Trainer filling in for Red and Leaf with three options covering a major aspect of their series, where's the all-in-one platoon FE character/s?
Is this likely? Not really. I have personal preferences to change not just who's in the game series but tweak pretty much every single character, and realize its never gonna happen. But I will say Smash has done a great job at turning me away from wanting to explore Fire Emblem further, and looking into anyways it I find the FE crowd should probably be expecting more from the actual representation other than the number count of characters. Though if you ask me, it still is exceedingly bizarre it comes remotely in Pokemon or Mario's range, or ever Zelda's for that matter.
Or, you know, just let Sakurai make his dream Fire Emblem fighting game already he's been daydreaming about through Smash.
All this announcement does is remind me of Grandpa Simpson.
"I used to be with "it". But then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
It'll happen to YOU."
I don't know what a Post Malone is, and frankly i don't care what happened to Malone that this guy is post-about. Rap outside your intentionally kid-friendly variant and Pokemon seem an out-of-touch mix at a glance, though. And this guy's CGI looks like an unfinished Borderlands render. So count me out.
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Re: Two More Of Capcom's Legendary Street Fighters Join Fortnite
There's something ironic that Disney needed to alter Cammy's legwear to accommodate cameoing in Wreck-It Ralph, and the western 3D Pixar/DreamWorks/etc. look Fortnite has adopted has forced them to copy the exact same look Disney went for.
Well, probably not EXACT same. I assume this is closer to SFV than SFII, having not played SFV yet. But the camo print legs are clearly referencing the old look.
Re: Netflix Is Reportedly Working On A Live-Action Pokémon Series
@PortuGuy Could be, name sounds vaguely familiar. Not sure how many times I gotta say "I don't care" until people realize I really don't care. No offense intended either, just all these fantasy shows blur into one-another and I truly do not care. So no, nobody is trolling, just trying to stay on topic and I guess kicked a beehive. Eh.
Re: Netflix Is Reportedly Working On A Live-Action Pokémon Series
@TheFrenchiestFry And judging by the previous comment as well, I've found the show has fans still. I wasn't aware there even was a comic behind it, just a bunch of Twitter nonsense upon announcement about teaming up an angel and a devil being non-Christian or something ridiculous to get up in arms over. Oh that and Amazon changing all their boxes to ads for the show for a time. Which is probably where I'm remembering the gay thing from, what with the devil dude draped over the angel guy. Besides, wouldn't be the first show based on a comic outright changing large portions of it. Walking Dead, anyone?
Either or, whatever, it is so largely not the point I was making anyways. If for example they're assumedly going at all a bit more mature direction than the game or anime or Detective Pikachu for an on-going narrative or whatever, I'm left to wonder how long until they have to address the whole "Poke Ball = slavery" subtext.
Re: Netflix Is Reportedly Working On A Live-Action Pokémon Series
@Ks123 Would have, if I cared about the show. I hold no hopes or grievances for it, just recall the brain-dead complaints Twitter had about it on release and that's as far as my interaction with it. Either or, it's not important. What IS is how little it has to do with Pokemon's whole direction.
You could tell me the show's like NCIS or Star Trek or freaking Red Skeleton and I'm sure Pokemon fans would be left confused.
Re: Netflix Is Reportedly Working On A Live-Action Pokémon Series
Ok. I don't follow celebrities so I don't know Mr. Henderson's catalogue and I haven't seen Lucifer. From what I recall, it's a dramedy about a gay angel and devil couple on Earth or something? Anyone talented enough can make any range of entertainment for various genres I suppose, but Pokemon as a whole seems a departure to be working on.
Pokemon has dark, mature moments but it typically not in the limelight or what they want to focus on. You might have legit Mafia/Yakuza hybrid Team Rocket from the manga, gen 5 bombing a whole city's civilization D-Day style or gen 7's mental and familial trauma storylines between Lusamine's and Guzma's respective abuse, but by and large the forefront is kid-friendly happy-go-lucky childish adventures. The company pretty much never even wants to dip their toes into teen-rated territory for their games. So I dunno what they would even do with a syndicated live-action Pokemon series that isn't just a replication of the "Kid's First Anime" they already got going for the past 25-ish years.
Curious to say the least, but not particularly hopeful anything astounding will come out of this. Just confusing direction.
Re: Pokémon Unite Survey Wants To Know Which Parts Of The Game Frustrate You
I would imagine the fact that they already have a survey pre-written and expected in the event that people would not be happy with their game, already expecting and offering all the options on things specifically designed to be anti-consumer, then that tells all that needs to be known about how the game should be taken.
Re: Scalpers Set Their Sights On The Switch OLED As Pre-Orders Go Live In The US
I do wonder who actually buys into these with enough of a percentage that the scalpers still find it profitable to continue doing. I know, we all know the whole "Sucker born every minute" shtick, but, like.....it's the internet, where information on schemes like these is easy to come across. Also anyone with the money on hand to buy one at those scalper prices should know better by now just by life experiences.
Re: Sakurai Reminds Us There's Only One DLC Fighter Left For Smash Ultimate (Again)
Been mulling around who Nintendo would want rather than what we'd want for some time, and I've been thinking on the possibility of it being Paper Mario. First-party makes it easy to add without needs for negotiation, Byleth's inclusion shows their recent timeframe looking to add characters to promote games that were still in development themselves during the subsequent Smash character's development (Technically also true with Roy, Greninja and Incineroar but was going with the most recent example), the character has a convenient already established fan base alongside the more recent game's new direction that they're trying to attract new customers with and ending the biggest Smash game with Mario where it also started with Mario sounds like the sort of artistic pomp Nintendo would like to showcase.
I'd be fine with Paper Mario personally, but I only played the first two games. Have Origami King but haven't had the desire to play it yet. So I'm quote-on-quote "part of the problem with Paper Mario" or so I hear from YouTubers. Eh. I suppose you can get a nice rounded moveset out of his hammer, spiked boots, the paint stuff from Color Splash being lifted from Inklings in Smash and those accordion arms from Origami King for grabs. Basic Mario in Smash is a nice mash-up from a bunch of 3D Mario games after all.
Re: Sakurai Says Smash Bros. Ultimate's Next DLC Fighter Really Will Be The Last One
I'm kinda leaning to the sentimental side of the fan suggestions and would like it to be a Sakurai stand-in. The guy's looking on retirement. He's made this series to be his life's work as he says and its payoff has clearly shown. If Harada can sneak himself into Tekken and Soul Calibur every now and then, I don't see this being too big an ask.
But that's not the fun suggestion that fans will debate is so stupid to even suggest, so I dunno. The Dragon from Adventure to really throw the retro crowd a king-sized bone.
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
@Yomerodes To be fair against the Sans hype, that also comes a lot from outside meme interference. It's just a cool thing to love or hate Undertale and more importantly the skeleton brothers outside their actual importance and relevance to the game because....that's just how the internet turned out. Would not be surprised if those same folks lost their minds over.....I dunno, what was a popular meme at the time of Sans' reveal? Shaggy at 100% Ultra Instinct? Steamed Hams?
Because Skinner would make for a stupidly funny Mii, let's be honest. Just give him his knife from Vietnam and presto, you got a Mii Swordfighter
Anyways, joking aside, un/fortunately the Mii picks reflect both what would make good sales for both ends of the companies arrangements and what fans want to see make it in Smash. Like, I'm not a big fan of Shantae's weird Mii face dragging down the whole package. It's a little weird they went specifically with Pirate's Curse Shantae because of its history with Nintendo, but then made her a Mii Brawler instead of giving her the sword she has specifically for Pirate's Curse and having her as a Mii Swordfighter with vaguely similar moves as in her own game. But all that said.....SHANTAE'S IN SMASH BROS. Which is a net positive and something I'm happy to buy.
But next time they're just looking to fill in slots? Yeah, please try to go with characters that'd actually fit the Mii design.
Re: This Is What Kirby's New Tekken Form Looks Like In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
I appreciate that he just gets little studded mittens for his arm stubs.
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
@Yomerodes I'll just be that little bit of a nag and point out the girl's name from Celeste is not Celeste. Her name is Madeline. Celeste is the mountain. Yes, I do sound very much like those guys that point out that Link's not Zelda. And I'm only being that pest because of the ridiculous number of games I've played the past decade, Celeste is likely somewhere in that top 5 of the 2010's. It fights with Nier: Automata in my ranking a lot.
That detour aside, I agree. The other examples you gave are generally better suited for the Mii characters when specifically trying to emulate another unrelated character, the chibi-aesthetic just does not work on such a wide stroke of characters they've covered with them. Skull Kid is actually a fantastic example, other than the actual Mii moveset not really applying to Skull Kid w/ Majora's Mask, but that's hard to blame on the Smash team when there's literally next to nothing on the duo. But his already lanky super deformed-ish body fits the Mii mold perfectly. Compared and contrasted to the freaking Dovahkin, these compromises just don't always work.
I just wish the helmets with the face exposed or hair parts of these cosplay costumes at least came with a pasted on replacement face for the Miis. That'd help considerably to sell the look, if not at all a perfect solution.
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
Eh. The main problem with these Mii cosplay outfits is the Mii underneath is 100% always distinguishable from the character they're trying to stand in for. Look at Shantae. The outfit's fine if not one-for-one to any of the games, clearly trying to replicate Pirate's Curse though, or body designs quite matching if not too
distracting, but those Mii faces won't be anything BUT Mii faces. The improved version in Miitopia would be an appreciated addition next Smash game, but.....that's next game, not this one and what was literally just announced.
The outfits really only work for me when they completely obscure the fact they're Miis while the character also is of their own similar cartoon style like Bomberman and Sans. The more details, realistic or anime aesthetic you get, the more they just look unappealing at this "meeting half-way" point.
Don't take this too much as pedantic complaining, the acknowledgement we'd like the characters at all is appreciated. It's cool to see DMC1 Dante too instead of the most recent incarnation I was expecting if anything. It's just mildly frustrating to have the effort put in but the whole idea is a turn-off from the get-go.
Re: Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Officially Unveiled With 'Reveal' Trailer
So, I didn't play the last one. Don't worry, I heard all the good things, I'm not putting it down, lower the pitchforks. But I am familiar with the Rabbids choke holding the Rayman series down for years until they finally split the two franchises firmly and generally I never want to see their mugs ever again. So the crossover element of this still baffles me a bit, because what's being gained by the Rabbids' addition as cast members? If anything I'd just want to bench them outside where necessary.
Mario in realistic sci-fi and duel-wielding guns akimbo is also going to never not be generally weird and off-putting. The guns being toy ray gun vacuum cleaners helps but it's still a hard sell of a setting even knowing the game's better qualities.
I think it's a bit like selling a newcomer on Kingdom Hearts these days that only knows modern post-renaissance Disney.
Re: Random: Remember That Zelda HD Tech Demo For Wii U? It's Now 10 Years Old
The split in the comments on this being a good look on Zelda or not reminds me how much prior Zeldas and BotW seemed to take large specific inspirations that couldn't be more at ends with one-another. OoT over the years made me realize how much it took from Berserk's success, right down to Navi just being Puck, and Twilight Princess leaned on it even harder. While, obviously, never getting AS medieval grimdark as Berserk reaches, it certainly is more in line with that western medieval fantasy world design. BotW on the other hand is as close to playing freaking Princess Mononoke as you'll ever get, it rides the Ghibli aesthetic all the way home. To the point now where I'm gonna be slightly disappointed if BotW 2 doesn't have a rotting pig demon tied to Ganondorf.
This doesn't have much to do with the actual topic here. In my opinion, I'm WAY more into the former than the latter as far as Zelda goes. (Ghibli films over Berserk manga is a harder choice there) And so I'm just way more into the feel of this tech demo than pretty much 90% of my BotW playthrough. But they each have their pros and cons and different demographics to appeal to.
Re: Random: Logan Paul Thinks The Pokémon Card He Wore To The Mayweather Fight Is Now Worth A Million Dollars
I'm disassociated as can be from this whole experience as can be. I don't know the guy beyond the previous controversy, I had no idea there was some boxing match going on, I am clueless why we're all pretending Pokemon cards are a big deal again.
That said, I'm surprised said past controversy didn't do the guy in. This is the same one going up to recently killed bodies in that Japanese suicide forest and making fun of them. Folks of higher media standards get cut off for less egregious stunts.
Re: The Pokémon Company Recorded Its Highest Profits Ever In 2020
It always confused me why people spend so much money on Pokemon Go. I don't exactly have a roburst locale with pokestops to make much use of the game, the pandemic permanently changing some public places loaded with them being locked off kinda killed my drive a lot. But since 2018 I've spent I think.....$2? They want a dollar to enter a community event day, yeah? Did two of those overall. Still got to level 33 with dozens upon dozens of shinies, luckies and high powered monsters.
It's just a good excuse for going for jogs to me.
I guess its just more expected to lay down some money in more populated areas where you don't go with gyms being defended for periods of 40+ days per serving.
Re: Nintendo Wins $2.1 Million In Lawsuit Against ROM Website
@Luigisghost669 Not exactly a great comparison. Unless we're making the leap in logic that you were selling these chairs. And continued media presence surrounding these chairs for....some unusual reason.
Chair aficionados are a weird bunch, I'm sure.
Re: Project64 Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With A 3.0 Update
@MrScorpion Glad this was all nice and cordial. Too often opposing sides of opinions online over the most trivial of things leave too many at each other's throats. I'm fine with the concept of emulators, you're not, no worlds are ending and villages being burned to the ground.
It would be nice if there was a generally agreed upon timeframe of emulating acceptance, I think. For example, I would think it mildly disdainful to getting something still of current generation and perhaps last 2 just for free. So say, from Crackdown (Xbox 360 launch) to New Pokemon Snap (Most current game for current consoles that comes immediately to mind) But what would be a respectful timeframe? I guess when they're fully out of print and the game/console's no longer on the owner's market? Which is why I'm less bothered with checking out a rare Japan-only SNES title that no one has any real plans on ever revisiting exporting or selling in general. Your typical "victimless crime" angle, I suppose.
Re: Project64 Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With A 3.0 Update
@MrScorpion You do you, I guess. But worth noting that Doom's WAD scene is literally incentivized by Id themselves back then. Hell, back now, dunno if they got it on Switch's ports but on PlayStation and Xbox's ports they not only support WADs on wholly unrelated consoles, they've routinely updated the game with hand-picked "Best ofs" themselves you can play instead of the main single-player.
I suppose WADs are more akin to mods and personal tweeking to code the developers throw at the community than emulators explicitly. It'd be like getting mad at Valve for giving Source FilmMaker and GMod to the community. But the negativity, especially when times flies by and the guys and gals actually behind these old games give you their blessing, always befuddles me.
Re: Project64 Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With A 3.0 Update
I've always wondered if those against emulators though have grievances with old school Doom WADs? Technically by all means fan favorite Chex Quest is just theft of a quazi-free source code and repurposing it for the world's strangest cereal tie-in and selling it back. I mean, it too is free and easy to find now for the longest time with a quick Google search but still.
Freaking video games as a whole is built off the backbone of copying previous hardware and software for continued use and repurposing.
Re: Project64 Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With A 3.0 Update
I don't really use emulators myself. Not for some misplaced conception of higher morals, just a mix of I just haven't had much desire to, those I would I typically already have in abundance in other means and the laptop I'm stuck with isn't particularly good for or fun to use for games.
I think literally the only ones I have are a SNES one for specifically one game alone; the Japan-only SNES Sailor Moon JRPG that was made to be a whole extra season of the show/extra arc the manga simply doesn't have, that also never left the East, so curiosity was too much to bear not checking it out. And, uh, Halo Online/Eldewrito, if you want to count that weird middle ground.
That all said, it's cool to see this one still going strong for the often overlooked and neglected N64 in Nintendo's modern days. Good on them.
Re: Video: Pokémon Fan Reimagines The Diamond And Pearl Remakes As Full 3D Games
@SnackBox I'm not saying anyone can't have their initial reactions, by all means. But I intend to be more lenient until we have a bigger picture.
Of course, we had an issue with just that going into SwSh and the whole Dex cut hurricane of bad decisions and just generally poor information. God, reflecting on that, they still don't advertise or admit that SwSh is missing Pokemon in Japan, don't they? Remember that was a thing once the DLC started coming around. Even the new Snap game had the foresight to clarify, and that's the least-expected place for a full Dex to show with just some common sense.
Anyways, derailment aside, yeah we can all talk about what we do know on BDSP at the time being. I'm just not willing to lump it away as "Nothing more but Diamond/Pearl but 3D and slightly claymation" until we know more. For all we know, they're taking the Episode Delta concept from ORAS and expanding exponentially. Hell, have a hail mary, maybe they're finally acknowledging MissingNo. We just don't know what their plans are in great detail at the time, and as is I'm not set to burn it at the stake just yet. Just.....wishing its chibi models didn't look worse that ORAS's, blurriness and all.
Re: Video: Pokémon Fan Reimagines The Diamond And Pearl Remakes As Full 3D Games
@VoidofLight Eh, agree to disagree? You're right in concept, I think you're just underselling the Switch's examples and overselling what this trailer's got. It's just Let's Go's stuff zoomed in. BotW had similar grass. A strong art style really sells it.
That's why I still place Metroid Prime somewhere alongside the like's of Halo 3 as my Best Looking Games Ever list.
Re: Video: Pokémon Fan Reimagines The Diamond And Pearl Remakes As Full 3D Games
@DarthXenos I don't hate what we've seen thus far but it always leaves me asking "Why?". Wait until more info is out before giving it its proper criticism, but it appears going by the first trailer and accompanying details that it wants to go backwards from what FireRed/LeafGreen did for Gen 3, HeartGold/SoulSilver did for 4, so-on and so-forth. Each of those specifically went out of their way to not just recreate the previous title and update it to the new title of that generation but to also surpass them. Arguably Emerald is king of Gen 3, but FRLG I'd say surpass Ruby and Sapphire. HGSS were so good they fight for supremacy of the Pokemon series as a whole. ORAS do SOOOO much more than X and Y on top of Ruby and Sapphire, though it still is of course a shame the Emerald content they cut.
BDSP as is seems to just be Diamond and Pearl but given the Switch Link's Awakening deal. Possibly not even that, Switch Link's Awakening added the DX content. We might not even be getting Platinum content for BDSP if ORAS to Emerald is any example.
I'm hopeful I'd say, but Game Freak make it just so hard to get excited over their future prospects once reality sets in.
Re: Video: Pokémon Fan Reimagines The Diamond And Pearl Remakes As Full 3D Games
@VoidofLight Not in the tech biz myself, but by simple basis of looking with my eyes, nothing in this trailer exceeds what my Switch has done playing Doom 2016, Super Mario Odyssey or even Breath of the Wild, which I would argue is the most plain of the three by design. Tone down the particle effects a bit maybe, this isn't Jump Force, but this doesn't seem outside the Switch's range via past titles the console's less than matching market standards has still squeezed out.
Obviously in this hypothetical the game would still need some cleaning up, raise the framerate, etc. but this is essentially SwSh but better if laggier animations and quality of life customization things. That and their wild areas had the artistic care the Let's Go games had with their routes with an underwater one akin to ORAS. SwSh's wild areas filled their function but they were bizarrely barren and lifeless to look at.
Re: Video: Pokémon Fan Reimagines The Diamond And Pearl Remakes As Full 3D Games
Hm. Is this based on Naruto Storm content? Those run animations and especially the real-time combat look fairly familiar, but I'm afraid I never owned a Naruto game after PS2-era so have had limited contact with them. Also it's funny seeing everyone point out the run animation. Like, guys, have you never seen anime and anime-related video games, like, ever?
Disregarding possible baseline altered models and animations, that doesn't detract from that this looks exceptionally more pleasing a Pokemon title than what we've got in quite some time. Actually customizing your freaking Pokemon and Poke Balls to such a degree has been a desire since, god, generation 1 I guess with the anime teasing us at things that'll never come to pass in the games. Although Go and Let's Go have already challenged that with the many seasonal attire for starter Pokemon and Pikachu and Eevee got little odds and ends to wear in Kanto, so hey, there's a base to start off of.
Re: Katy Perry's Pokémon Song 'Electric' Drops This Friday
@SimonCucho I am. Looking it up, shame it was not a repeat attempt here in my opinion.
Little more to add other than "Oh well". Would have preferred that as an anniversary celebration.
C'est la vie.
Re: Katy Perry's Pokémon Song 'Electric' Drops This Friday
@SimonCucho You seemed to have misunderstood. I do not mean out of touch with pop culture as a whole. I mean The Pokemon Company/Game Freak/Nintendo/Whichever scapegoat you prefer making weird choices in these musical talents that have nearly nothing to do with Pokemon and what the fanbase would know and like about it.
Of course there's the argument for blanket mass appeal outside the Pokemon fandom's niche appeal, that's clearly what they're going with. It's strange though they don't have something more like what Final Fantasy does with its anniversary concerts. Or Mario. Hell, Undertale in its short lifespan had something akin.
Since they're not interested in an orchestral approach and want this pop angle, by all means....so why not have these people do covers of, you know, the many versions of the Pokemon theme? Or music actually tailored to the series they're supposedly celebrating? As is, it's just the musician doing their regular business, with a Pikachu or something Pokemon related stapled to the side, all but unrelated.
Re: Katy Perry's Pokémon Song 'Electric' Drops This Friday
I'm somewhat curious, who would the appropriate star singer to show for this Pokemon event that people be for folks to be less snide about?
Don't get me wrong, don't know this lady beyond recognizing hearing her name before, didn't even know what she looked like. And the Post Malone nonsense earlier in the year was painfully out of touch. But why ARE they so out of touch?
I suppose though it's a bit too unfair to bundle everyone into being against this, there's surely a market for this. Even commenters here, if sparingly. It's just...weird choice after weird choice from Pokemon as a whole, a continuous train of them since freaking Sword and Shield's announcement.
My gut response is "Clearing out the old guard for the new guard", this isn't intended specifically for the old fans but to make new ones of a new generation from outside the fanbase. But man is that a weird direction to go when also specifically celebrating how old you are.
Re: Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch Port? Unlikely, Says Former Retro Studios Dev
Probably not the strongest argument, but just something to throw on the pile; if he left prior to the Wii U ports, sounds like he missed key details in that they do in fact own the source code he's assuming is still missing as it was at the time of his departure.
It's not exactly a LIKELY outcome, someone in his position at the time would probably be in a good place to know what's being saved or not, but he has also been gone for a good long while and things have transpired within that time.
Re: Video: Now Is The Best Time To Release Mother 3
@SwitchVogel That part I thought simple, actually. Closure. It's the definitive end of a series how the creator wanted it. Regardless of its metric of how good or bad it is to the individual, it's where anyone invested enough to reach the point before actually playing it would want to see how it goes.
Essentially how Kingdom Hearts 3 went for so many. Regardless how many popular online critics told you it came from the innermost circle of Hell and devoted fanboys praised it for putting all the pieces together, MANY people had to see it for themselves. Except in this case I suppose it'd be the other way around, it's a lot harder to find people calling out Mother 3's faults than its accomplishments.
Re: Video: Now Is The Best Time To Release Mother 3
It's amusing the disconnect between some other Nintendo franchises and Mother's with Nintendo's stance on emulation. Here you have a game that people will happily throw their money at to have but are being herded away to explicitly goes through shady means to play. But heaven forbid you want to see something Metroid or F-Zero or Pokemon.
Not a one-for-one, before you all shove your "ACK-shually"s down my throat. But it remains amusing nonetheless for years upon years.
The censorship angle over the Magypsies also seemed oblivious to me within the past 10-so years, because clearly we haven't had shows like Adventure Time or Steven Universe within those time frames become popular mainstream. But whatever, Nintendo has more riding on its middle-tier dead franchise than Warner Bros. top modern cartoons I suppose. It's just such a small detail. Not like we have had Vivian in Paper Mario before, right?
I can't even claim to be die-hard fan because yeah, EarthBound was pretty great but I didn't play this because duh, that's the whole issue we're here with and EarthBound Beginnings was....ok? Let's be generous and say it was competing with other games attentions at the time and lost. But it's just so silly what reasons could be holding them back by this point.
Re: Random: Hey, There's Also A Smash Mod That Keeps Fire Emblem Content And Removes Everything Else
@Maulbert Thanks for the positivity. If that was all there was to it then you'd have a point. But this series has been around in Smash almost as long as the Smash series has existed and I've seen enough of its comings and goings over the years, just none firsthand until this recent....whatever Nintendo was on about with the first game's limited time release. I've seen people rave on and on about this Lyndis girl being the best of the series and all these units types and noteworthy characters like Hector glazed over in favor of vanilla base boredom Hero classes thrown in this game. Or would you tell me everyone loves the Hero class to the point the rest are ignorable?
I'm not going to say the game I played was all that fun nor looking at other entries seem to sway me much in another direction, but it doesn't take a deep examination that the FE crowd's getting a bad deal out of their representation. If you enjoy what Smash is offering though, by all means, have at it. I'd personally rather they cut the cast in half and get a polled top-tier option of the best, say, four classes and the best reps amongst those across the games. Assumedly Marth as the Hero is reserved space.
Re: Random: Hey, There's Also A Smash Mod That Keeps Fire Emblem Content And Removes Everything Else
So, guess I'll throw in my two cents as well. My FE history is I got that eShop English release of the first game before Nintendo nuked it because people shouldn't have fun, went 5 turns before Marth got killed then never touched it again. Beyond that its just been Smash and liking that one soundtrack that plays for Roy in Melee when he's on the Zelda 2 stage. That's about it.
It seems to me the FE representation in Smash needs to be nuked from orbit and start over. Beyond Marth being as basic as he is well reflective of his NES origins, all these picks that are in Smash are way too same-y while also largely neglecting the whole point of Fire Emblem's gameplay and design. Now, that's not a FE-exclusive issue, Samus is here being very un-Samus until retroactive continuity brought us Metroid: Other M's combat and it started a community World War III over other issues. But beyond the "Hall of Fame" aspect Smash has evolved into, it should be foremost a showcase of characters reflective of their game's original design. The Dragon Quest Hero does this phenomenally. The Fire Emblem choices here are....Marth. 8 times thematically. Where's your flying horses? Your big beefy meat shields? You have Pokemon Trainer filling in for Red and Leaf with three options covering a major aspect of their series, where's the all-in-one platoon FE character/s?
Is this likely? Not really. I have personal preferences to change not just who's in the game series but tweak pretty much every single character, and realize its never gonna happen. But I will say Smash has done a great job at turning me away from wanting to explore Fire Emblem further, and looking into anyways it I find the FE crowd should probably be expecting more from the actual representation other than the number count of characters. Though if you ask me, it still is exceedingly bizarre it comes remotely in Pokemon or Mario's range, or ever Zelda's for that matter.
Or, you know, just let Sakurai make his dream Fire Emblem fighting game already he's been daydreaming about through Smash.
Re: Two Of Capcom's Legendary Street Fighters Drop Into Fortnite
So....Marvel vs Capcom 4 isn't a PlayStation exclusive, nor an Xbox or Nintendo or even a PC one. It's a Fortnite exclusive. With guns.
Oh goodie.
Re: Post Malone To Star In Pokémon 25th Anniversary Virtual Concert
All this announcement does is remind me of Grandpa Simpson.
"I used to be with "it". But then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
It'll happen to YOU."
I don't know what a Post Malone is, and frankly i don't care what happened to Malone that this guy is post-about. Rap outside your intentionally kid-friendly variant and Pokemon seem an out-of-touch mix at a glance, though. And this guy's CGI looks like an unfinished Borderlands render. So count me out.