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Isabelle was a wonder in New Leaf but it's obvious they added her to New Leaf without working out what to do with her first. I'd even love it if they added a cut scene of her doing a your of your island when a new villager moves in.. making up stuff as she goes.

@geni53yr7 Haha, the removed him for being scary.. imagine those poor traumatised children finding he's moved in and standing outside their house!

@locky-mavo I'm pretty sure there is a generation of gamers that think Sonic originated in the Mario Vs Sonic at the Olympics games.. either that or as a Smash fighter.

@retro_player_77 Man, I completely agree! Loved Match of the Millennium on my old Pocket Color.

Now if the Switch could add a horoscope & alarm I'd say its nearly caught up to the NGPC. XD

An on-rails game will always have a graphical advantage over a game with freedom of movement.. take Crash Bandicoot in the PS1, because it was on a linear path literally nothing outside what you could see existed so it could put more muscle into the things you could. It couldn't run otherwise.

GameFreak definitely should have brought in more help from Nintendo to get their 3D engine up to par but it's not as easy as GameFreak bad, Bandai good. Looking at a Bandai game is one thing, playing is quite another.

@IKAY You can see which game the pokemon originates from, so this wouldn't be so much of an issue. LV1 Charizard from PoGo? Legit. LV1 Charizard from RBY? Fake.

The time will be right when enough of the team have trained & worked on 3D dev kits enough to make it good. Last thing WayForward want to do is take a great 2D property & release a substandard 3D version. Cant think of any recent releases that have done that.. cough

@StevenG I'm not sure if it's an adult thing or just a cost-saving measure. However.. we'd all end up putting a screen protector on the glass screen to protect it from scratches anyway.

@TossedLlama @RR529 Not going to open up the "animé", "not animé" debate.. but one consideration is that when animé was first coming to the west two words were used to differentiate Western cartoons from Japanese cartoons.. japanimation & anime. Animé ended up winning, therefore it was specifically used to denote Japanese cartoons. I think that's one reason older animé fans get a little butthurt (I used to, but don't mind so much now).

Notably, most external countries have their own derivatives of animé & manga to show where they're from.. such as Korean Manhwa. Maybe Airbender should be "Wanimé" as it's from the West?

@BrintaPap One tip I can give you, I'd farm a shiny Geodude on Let's Go.. and put it up for trade on GTS for a Zamazenta or Zacian.

It usually takes a week or two, but I got two Zacian that way.

Yup, recently noticed that I couldn't use 69% in any of my Pokémon names anymore (I name them with their stats).

I can name my Wailord 5318008 however. No one tell Niantic that you can turn a phone upside down!

@Desrever @RiasGremory Whether the media is overreacting or not, the news today that people that have already recovered from Covid19 can & have become infected again is bad news.

@itslukec I also think it's a werewolf, though that brings with it the problem of effectively enslaving a human who's only occasionally a Pokémon.

However if you look at the boy's body (dont worry, I though it was a girl until
I realised that she'd be giving Ash full frontal nudity) markings particularly on his sides.. they match up with the bumps on the shadows sides. So it's either werewolf or Latios-style human form.

The kid's red/purpley hair is making me think either fire or poison for the main type.

This was the quickest episode of Boundary Breaks yet. Love it when debs leave something in the code accidentally.. though deliberate messages to modern pets are pretty funny too.

@gaga64 You're mixing move reviews & game reviews. Movie reviews can be written & posted on the day the critic is invited to see the film.. therefore an embargoe can only happen a few days before release. In this case an embargoe usually is a bad sign.

For a game however a website or critic will generally need to complete the game before release so can get a copy up to a year in advance.. an embargoe is necessary so the whole game, cutscenes, plots, everything is not ruined for months in advance.

Megaman's face just looks off, I think the mouth is too high & it's completely destroying the look for me.

@cptspaulding I bought it on Switch because I had fond memories of playing Monkey Target with my family. Unfortunately the mini games are less than an afterthought on BBHD.

Not even worth trading in since they slashed the price a few weeks after release.

Hmm, so Liverpool is about 4-5 hours by train. Question is whether I travel on the day or find somewhere to stay overnight.

@Jayofmaya Let's Go was a deliberately handicapped Pokémon Yellow port designed to sell the Pokéball Plus. Comparing that to Sw/Sh is like comparing Learn with Pokémon:Typing Adventure to Pokémon B/W.

I was genuinely concerned about Sw/Sh until I started playing Shield, it has a lot more depth & plenty of background improvements that you don't get from reviews. I'd definitely place Sw/Sh above X/Y or B/W especially for story & amount of endgame.

That being said, Splatoon is one of my favourite new IPs. If the Splatfests were still going Pokémon wouldn't have stood a chance.. Splatfests were a huge focus for a lot of my friends.

@BarefootBowser if Nintendo gave up, the patent trolls would have received millions of dollars in licensing fees as well as the trolls court costs. It likely would have opened up the path to the Switch's motion controls too.

However, by continuing & closing this case Nintendo have forced the trolls to pay for their court costs (likely millions) and prevented the trolls from using the case as a springboard into similar technology Nintendo has based on the Wiimote.. aka Joycon.

Oh and just about how much it actually costs to lose a case like this.. when Sony lost against Immersion for using their force feedback technology in the original Dualshock it cost Sony $140m.. Sony paid out $22 for using the force feedback just 2 years of working out an ongoing agreement.

@PBandSmelly @Heavyarms55 Dragon Ball ending with the Cell Saga was mostly a myth.. however Toriyama did confirm that he wasnt planning on stretching out the Buu saga so long. I believe skinny Buu was originally the final big bad.

As for milking the franchise, the only reason we have Dragon Ball Super is because Toriyama was SO badly treated by the Dragon Ball Evolution team which threw him off set for daring to suggest he knew the property a little better than them. The two DBZ movies that introduced Beerus were effectively his FU to Evolution (and performed better at the cinema).

Yet I bet there are still some Nintendoomers who think the Switch will fail..

@AnotherGoblin And a lot of those forms will have the option of "other".

@RetiredR Haha, I can't see them but I imagine there are a lot! I guess people don't like ear/penis jokes.

@SmaggTheSmug We're talking about the English translation of the game, I'm not imposing anything. If Gamefreak had used the word sex instead we'd not be having this discussion.. which was my only point.

@ToonStuff Awesome! However, I'm not defending gender labels, it just so happens there is a word which 100% specifies biological sex.. sex, and a word which has been more nuanced for the last 600 years.. gender. I think Gamefreak would have been better off with the former rather than the latter.

@Zuljaras There has always been a difference between sex & gender historically but during the 20th Century when homosexuallity started becoming illegal in many societies the words became more interchangeable.

However this is what the Oxford English Dictionary has to say: "either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female."

As you can see, the entry makes a distinction between sex & gender, however Merriam-Webster goes further into the differences and does not link gender specifically to male & female. Lexico actually gives quite a good summation of how the word's usage has changed over time.. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gender

@KingBowser86 You're likely right, looking at it from that point of view, peacocks makes have the large plumage to attract a mate, similarly with deer & antlers.

Though it still could be that pokemon use their ears to breed. No evidence to the contrary.

@Zuljaras There is no real "fault" really, though sex is more often associated with biological difference, while gender is more associate with sexual preference.

@KingKRoolMain To be honest it's Gamfreak's fault for using "gender" rather than "sex".

Making Epstein jokes on a Pokémon thread? That's gastly.

So does Gamefreak define females by being "lesser" hence the smaller ears etc.? Or is it that a pokemon's ears also work as their pee-pee? Is that why Ditto can breed with anything? Because it's whole body is ear??

This wouldn't have been that big to be honest, a lot of pokemon do have gender differences like male Sneasel and their big, hard throbbing ears.

@LUIGITORNADO To be honest, NLife will be accused of bias either way, there's been a growing crowd of people calling for the 'dex to be cut since RSE.. now a chunk of the fanbase complaining it has.

I'm not too surprised that each author is just putting his personal opinion across at this stage.

To be honest it wouldn't be a great political poster. If Britains wanted to live on an increasingly isolated island lead by a renowned swindler... they can just stay home.

News flash! Company will sell merchandise based on a film!! In other news, the sky is blue, bears poop in the woods & rain is wet!

I'm usually supportive of posts like this, but it definitely feels too early before there is a single image.

Sooo, no pics of the model outside of the box? An odd omission considering that you take the cart out of the box (the easiest part to imagine).

@nessisonett Huh-toll Hash-Nigh-Que. Announcers either contact the developers for an official pronunciation.. or just do it phonetically.

Well, at least they've not put the maintenance anywhere near the release of a Pokémon/form. That would be shooting themselves in the foot.

When is Gmax Snorlax out again?

@suikoden Indeed, an error that happens 100% of the time in quite a common game state should be impossible to miss with even the most minor play testing.

Just imagine Nintendo leaving a big untested error in their updates. How unstable!

@Lucarianzx Haha, sorry. Yup a crumpet is also a bready kind of griddle cake. They're not really that popular but seem to be a stereotype we got labelled with..

Crumpet is also derrogatory slang for an attractive woman mostly used by aging men.

@Lucarianzx UK really is opposite America, if you lose your job medicine becomes more accessible as job seekers get free prescriptions.

And crumpet is what old men call attractive women. As in "that's a nice bit of crumpet".

If you want a really cheap dock, buy a secondhand Nyko Switch Dock. They're small, cheap & won't fry the Lite as it doesn't have Docked Mode.

@BlackTalon2 I actually chose 616.. which is the actual number of the beast. 666 is actually a deliberate mistranslation that has been kept in most modern versions of the bible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

That's not why I chose the number however, 616 also happens to be number of the main Marvel Universe.. pretty sure that makes my trainer canon.

By far my least favourite generation, I dont think I even managed to finish Soul Silver when that was released a few years ago. Personally it wasn't until RSE that my Pokémon love was sold.

Probably wouldn't buy another remake, wouldn't want to reward Gamefreak for laziness, do we SwSh guys?

@Kidfunkadelic83 Canonically gym leaders are actually great trainers that use a "weak" team to give trainers a chance. I think this was mentioned in the anime a long time ago & in the games during B&W2.

However, I agree with your actual point.. the gym leaders have never been much of a challenge. I'm one of those that took Charmander in Red & Blue and even then I didn't really need to grind.

@shoeses *slowpoke newsday

@Anti-Matter Mhmm, Farfetch'd is cooked with it's leek if I remember correctly.

Pokémon have been on the menu for a long time. Slowpoke was eaten back in GSC and I believe there's a library in Diamond & Pearl with books about eating Magikarp and throwing the bones into the lake.

Basically Bulbasaur is a vegan snack.

Apparently my preorder is being delivered tomorrow (14th) by GAME online. Pretty lucky as well considering I'm working Friday & Saturday.. would be missing the whole launch!

My local GAME held a midnight launch for Sun/Moon. Was a pretty fun night!

@Shiryu Wonder if Mai would like that Nenderoid.. thigh gap much?

I have my copy of Shield arriving tomorrow & these reviews have simply confirmed what I thought.. Sword & Shield will be fun, competently made games. Flaws and all.

Having played since RBY, I can confirm that Sword & Shield are getting no where near the amount of hate that RSE (Gen 3) received leading up to their release, yet those games are (rightly) considered one of the best generations.

Could Gamefreak have taken their time and made the games better? Yes.

Should Gamefreak have taken more time and made the games better? Yes!

Will I have fun playing Sword and Shielf with my friends anyway? Heck yes!!!

@Andigaming I'm guessing it's because the game appears to be heavily based on Dragon Ball Dokkan Battle which also uses real-time battles.

Oh.. and if someone wanted to play turn based Pokemon on the go, there are plenty of handhelds they could pick up already.

@datamonkey @Zequio The Got-cha isn't a bot and doesn't have any AI. It just throws one pokéball & if that doesn't catch it, the pokémon runs away forever no matter how rare it may be.

The only thing that really helps with is farming stardust a little faster - a resource designed to make you waste (and buy) pokeballs.

A more accurate Zelda analogy would be like opening a game & finding you'd died 100 times but made 5 rupees.

EDIT: In fairness, I had one but only used the stop spinning function as it was freezing walking into work where I lived & it save me getting frost burn.

@Ralizah You're correct, the Dev team are the ones that work hard, break sweat working up to 70hr weeks to bring a game to life.. the ones making decisions on the eSport scene will be the much better paid PR and Management side of the business.

So leaks hurt the poorly paid hard workers, but dont effect the PR/Management side.

However, what you forget that people want to attack Blizzard completely free of nuance or tact so you (and I) will get voted down anyway.