DarkKirby

I feel like while there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with Metroid Dread, it's basically another 2D Metroid game following the foot steps of previous similar games, so I don't see why Metroid Dread in particular would cause the series an explosion of popularity.

"At the time, The Pokémon Company's legal representation said it caused "irreparable injury" to the brand and undermined the carefully cultivated excitement and interest in the new games."

Sure, but the problem in general with the Sw/Sh leaks was the game itself, and those leaks weren't from a strategy guide. It sounds like they're essentially trying to make an example of these people to discourage other leakers, the ones that leaked things that actually mattered, and that they couldn't catch.

And truth be told, while I'm sure sales were lost, it's not like Sw/Sh was anything less than amazing sales wise. Pokemon games will sell in huge numbers regardless of the game as long as you call it a "main" line game.

This game looks very early in development, which it probably is.

One thing I noticed is you seem to be able to throw Pokeballs in the open world, but there is a cut whenever they show Pokemon attacking, so they either haven't integrated combat into the open world yet, combat will not be open world.

You thought main series Pokemon games couldn't be lazier?

Rather than actually remake Sinnoh in actually 3 dimensions with Sw/Sh's poor engine, which would already be low effort, they took a step further than that, and kept the layout the exact same and replaced the sprites with 3D models made to look like the sprites with the same terrible fixed overhead camera angle.

I guess if you're really a huge fan of retro graphics you'll be happy though.

I'm not sure why he thought he needed to address this, like it's surprising or something. Did he think there would be overwhelming positive reinforcement?

You'd think he's never seen a stream chat or youtube comment section before. I'm not talking about him specifically, I mean in general.

I hope Linkle is playable in the game for some reason.

What I miss is the convenience of all the announcements happening on the same week so it's easy to know when they all take place.

I'd rather there be a pool or garbage then niche games be filtered out for being too different.

The last thing I want is for digital game stores is to become like mainstream real life stores that only stock the mainstream accepted AAAs.

I'm not sure by what means this is the "First Pokemon Team Battle".

The ability to have multiple people battle on the same side of a fight has existed for a long time.

I don't expect it to be photo realistic or anything but this game looks really low budget.

Smash Community be like:

Look, nobody can take away from this game that it looks visually stunning, but the "shiny boots" attack has me fearing they've gone with a disposable item based battle system again, considering I don't see any FP either.

Now, I'm not of the opinion that every Paper Mario game need to be Thousand Year Door, but every disposable item based combat system Mario games have tried have ended up being terrible, so I don't know why they keep trying it.

Great that they're still having a presentation of some sort.

Please skip the live musical performances.

Turn based RPGs actually work perfectly fine on a smartphone (Fate Grand Order works fine), the issue isn't function, it's that it's difficult to convince people to pay $60 for stand alone smartphone game, and I don't want a Bravely Default F2P gacha game.

Why does Atlus have such a hard time believing that people want to play their games.

Yes, people would like to play your games.

And yes, having them not restricted to one language or platform would assist in that.

Sure, I'm not upset about this or anything, congrats to people who are happy, but to me ARMS basically existed to fill out the drought period for the Switch, it seems like people forgot about it as soon as there was something else to do.

Wow, this is great. Atlus actually porting their games?

Kind if still hoping for a PC release though.

Dreams is basically a parody creation platform as that's what it's most popular for though.

It's what a lot of people even go into the game looking for.

Not sure how you can enforce all original content.

Timmy and Tommy aren't Tom's children (as I'm sure people have already mentioned).

That said, this won't work, because Timmy & Tommy knew what kind of business they were getting themselves into when they took the job.

You get caught, you're let go of. Thems the rules.

The presentations were underwhelming for sure but I'm not sure that "vindicates" the Switch.

By that definition, marketing is more important that the actual product performance in determining the quality of a product.

Not saying the Switch is terrible by that definition either, I'm saying the presentations being underwhelming aren't related to the Switch at all.

Why does there need to be a "workaround" when the problem is caused by an intentional decision by Nintendo to not allow normal saving and back ups?

You're proposing to look for a solution for a problem you intentionally caused and refuse to stop causing.

I love the original Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (and its sequel) but I'm just not a fan of these "remakes" where they do little more than the bare minimum of a graphics improvement.

The engine doesn't even look new, it looks re-purposed from Super Mystery Dungeon.

Fool, you can't stop a virus by banning games.

Only Greenland can do that.

Yeah, but when are we getting a boob slider for men and women in AC?

It's official.

Gardevoir is more popular then Gengar.

Please mass produce Gardevoir merchandise now and buff Gardevoir in the games.

Give her Quiver Dance, Fire Blast, and Psystrike, and change Synchronize to Psychic Surge.

It should be noted that while industry critics seem to hate this movie (although I stopped taking most industry critics seriously years ago), audience scores are very high, and almost all Sonic fans say they love it.

Atlus, if you were not aware, is infamous for releasing almost all of their games on a single platform, and never porting them.

How the heck does Atlus actually think nobody wants games on any platform outside of the Sony ones or whatever one platform they put a game on?

Of course people want games to be multiplatform, because not everybody owns that 1 platform you put the game on.

And before someone restates the tired old excuse that Atlus can't afford to make their games multiplatform, the entire point of making a game multiplatform is to make more money off of already completed work with minimal effort.

I'm not even just talking about the Switch, which would take more effort to port modern AAAs to because of the hardware limitations, they don't port their games to the PC or Xbone where the transition would be much easier either.

@MegaVel91

Sure, but it's not like the studio that redid Sonic will see a penny of the money from this movie.

Wow, they really want to make their money back on whatever it cost them to redo Sonic. Super Bowl ads are expensive. I'm still not sure how well this movie is actually going to do.

Sure, Sonic doesn't look like a horror monster anymore, but the movie still looks like a silly kids movie.

Well, to be accurate, the guy he was handing it to because they were done taking pictures of him holding it dropped it, not him. He was aware the controller was not secured to the box, and was tilting the box to keep it inside. The person he handed it off to didn't realize this, and tipped the box upside down as he was taking it.

@Smashfan502

Exactly how does Ultra Instinct Goku specifically make Dragon Ball FighterZ better "as a game" over another character that isn't another Goku?

We don't even know how he plays yet, so you can't make a judgement on how he improves the game mechanically.

And if you're arguing that any new character would improve the game and it doesn't matter that it's another Goku, than that argument works both ways, and any other character would have equally been welcome.

And most people don't want even more Gokus.

You really shouldn't pre-order in general, because you never know what issues a game has that are being hidden. No, you can't "just trust the publisher", because their job first and foremost is to make the sale, honesty is only relevant if it increases sales.

If you're purchasing digitally, the game literally can't be sold out.

Pre-order bonuses are terrible to non existent these days as well.

That said, while Nintendo didn't do anything illegal, because they do things like ask you to agree to waive all your rights when making a purchase (which is itself a problem), not allowing a refund on a pre-order is simply anti- consumer, and that is the problem.

What the law decides is legal does not equal moral, and certainly not pro-consumer.

Steam in comparison, allows people to refund games within a few hours of playing it.

We all knew UI Goku was coming but it doesn't make Goku FighterZ any better for it.

I'm not invested enough to be upset but even if they were added a Three Houses character, Byleth is basically the safe boring choice.

If the claim that the DLC was decided before the game was released is true, that means Byleth was decided upon before anyone even played Three Houses.

The fact that Nintendo delayed the reveal until the middle of January means they knew Byleth wasn't going to be well received, January is the month companies have deemed non profitable and dump all the things they need to get rid of.

So who is this DLC for? Not Fire Emblem fans, because the series is already represented, and if they actually wanted to make Fire Emblem fans happy, they'd make one of the house leaders playable.

This DLC is likely just filler to put in the final slot of the first fighter pass since mystery season passes are often front loaded to convince people to buy the entire pass and people who would have purchased the season pass already have by this point.

Any characters they think are impressive and would make people happy they're going to front load into the second Fighter Pass, since they require a brand new purchase and can bring in more income.

I liked the first 2 Mystery Dungeon games (after that the story went downhill), but if this is purely a graphics update I'll pass.

I want more out of a "remake" than just updated graphics to justify playing it again.

Similarly, as much as I loved the original Link's Awakening, I was not interested in Switch "remake", because it was basically the exact same game with a newer graphics (arguably a worse art style).

"The Dex Cut was to balance the game".

Game Freak: Puts Landorus back into the game .

Behold the return of the meta god.

Nintendo congratulates themselves on the sales of Sword/Shield and thanks people for the support.

Purposely does not mention any issues people have with the game.

Spends the rest of the time explaining Pokemon Home.

Reveals annual subscription cost of the service.

Here comes Pokemon Home with a yearly subscription cost.

Okay?

Also, the FIFA games which thrive on predatory loot boxes despite being full priced and a lazy rehash every year raked it in like usual.

It wouldn't be better or worse, I'd be the same with different Pokemon.

Because of the turn based nature of the game, there will always be a handful of Pokemon that dominate and define the meta. And that issue stems from the balance of the game being poor in the first place.

To that point, people who play Pokemon purely for competitive reasons don't really care about the Pokemon selection, because they will always just choose the best Pokemon anyway regardless of what they are.

Well, I would like a good Golden Sun game, made by someone who isn't Camelot.

They screwed up Dark Dawn and I don't trust them anymore to make JRPGs.

Despite the long running power of friendship theme, being friends with your Pokemon making them legitimately more powerful is actually happening in Pokemon GO before the main series games.

First of all, you really, really shouldn't pre-order games.

Doing so means you have nothing but the publisher's marketing team to go by on if a game is good, and it's a salesmen job to sell you a product no matter what, regardless of how honest they are being.

Second, this lawsuit is essentially advocating the right of companies to dishonestly advertise and sell their products.

I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy Sword/Shield if you like it, but there was a very much intentional lack of information shared about Sword/Shield because Pokemon Company knew it might lose them some sales.

Did it tank sales? Of course not, it's Pokemon, it's pulling in money by the truckload like usual.

But things like how many Pokemon were cut, the reused models and animations, the popping, the performance issues, poor online, and the general lack of polish the game has is something customers have a right to know, and trying to use lawsuits to silence people who want to tell people about these problems is scummy as heck.

Meanwhile...

We know this already.

He's been trying to force gimmicks into all the games he's had his hands on, regardless of the experience is better than before, he only cares that it's different.

Because the paid subscription service for Mario Kart Tour went over so well.

I'm sure they're going to profit from this, but I myself quit this game a while ago because they started gate keeping good furniture from people who didn't pay, and made watering flowers a horrible chore.

Weren't Team Rocket illegally selling Slowpoke Tail in Gold/Silver or something?

Why is everyone posting this as "news" to defend Sword/Shield.

Anyone can make a petition.

Putting aside that this was quite obviously made as a joke, this petition doesn't even have steam. Less then 300 people have signed it.