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@meeto_1 It's funny, I kinda like games that Monolith soft helps with, more than I like the ones they lead on. (Breath of the Wild for example verses Xenoblade 2) In Xenoblade 2 it felt like they did a great job on things like the expansive lands but not a great job on the little things like not having the camera go nuts in tightly done towns, or making it clear what part of a town you're in so you don't get confused. Oh also those little item spawn points those were total bull compared to how you gathered items in BoTW.

That said I remember thinking for a long time that it'd be hard to update Pokemon's mechanics to something modern and not have it just be garbage like Pokemon Go's fighting mechanics. But Xenoblade 2 actually had a combat style that I could see being adapted to fit Pokemon. Imagine if you could take six pokemon with you and have one travel around with you out of it's ball (could even allow you to ride some of them if you want.) And then you encounter wild Pokemon they'd just straight up attack you and your partner Pokemon. Youd' then use the left stick to run for cover from the wild pokemon, and use the arrow buttons on the joycon to select one of four different attack styles. You could have some less strong moves go faster, and you could have some stronger moves go slower. If you need to swap you'd hit a menu button to pick a different pokemon and then you'd have to wait during the animation for the pokemon coming back and the new one coming out and getting it's bearings to attack the wild one. You could even make it so that your pokemon could get ganged up on by wild ones. The trainer would have health so you'd need to keep an eye on the battle and it'd actually be more like in the anime where the trainers actually are announcing what moves the pokemon should make.

I think it'd probably have to be a spin off game, but they could do a base game where you can play through the first three regions and then later unlock more with DLC or just have them released later.

It'd a big investment, way more than Game Freak normally spends on a Pokemon title, but imagine if you could travel through multiple regions in one game? Heck they wouldn't even need to make it just the first three regions. They could make it Kanto, Alolah, another one.

On the one hand, this is clearly a Cuphead knock off not just taking inspiration. The running, air dodging and constant shooting are dead give aways plus the animation is VERY similar.

On the other hand it's really up to Cuphead's devs to sue if they have a problem with it.

I just recently paid for Chrono Trigger for iOS and have been playing it on my AppleTV 4K. The controls aren’t as good as the SNES and the text boxes feel super out of place since they’re this weird marble texture that doesn’t look anything like the original game. But it’s still a lot of fun to replay. I feel like if they were willing to invest in it then Chrono Trigger could be a fantastic remake. But I don’t know if Square Enix really wants to invest in their old SNES games. The mobile port of FF6 looks like a mutilated fetus covered in wasabi.

I feel like Chrono Trigger could even make a cool Netflix series. The story is so goofy + fantastic.

I think Chrono Trigger and the Other SNES RPGs could probably really benefit from being redone in the same style as Octopath. I’d just hate to see them redo any of them as badly as they did Secret of Mana.

I wonder how often he thinks to himself, "Nobody is going to notice that this is a dev only thing..." and then realizes he was wrong.

There aren’t a lot of good grass Pokemon in sword and shield so venasaur is pretty great.

While high speed internet may be more common, the US political system has ensured that the US is way behind other countries because of the same toxic approach to capitalism that allowed Microsoft to become to big in gaming.

The best thing that could happen for their cloud gaming strategy would be if somebody like Bernie got elected and demanded that the US's ISPs actually do their job and serve the people. Until then you'll at least need systems to be able to play games locally even if they're all download only.

I also think Microsoft is over estimating how important graphics are to people. A well crafted game in a nice art style is fantastic. And I think in terms of games as a service, Apple Arcade could start to seriously chew into the home and mobile gaming market.

They'd have to be nuts to introduce a new one this year. The Switch 2/pro/whatever will be compared to the PS5 and and the Xbox Not a Tower. Better to give them a year or two to be the big impractically powerful things and continue to let ARM chips get beefier and more powerful.

The iPad Pro from 2018 is already similar in terms of power to the Xbox One S (according to Apple anyway) and the non-Apple ARM chips tend to be a year or two behind, so it's feasible that by the time that the new Microsoft and Sony consoles have been out for a year and a half, Nintendo might be able to release a portable that rivals the Xbox One and PS4 easily. And realistically, graphics improvements keep having diminishing returns.

It’s funny to think that at some point someone at Nintendo could have canned what would go on to become Smash, to focus on this other game. Kinda crazy.

I could see myself paying for the Pikmin Trilogy. Just Pikmin 3 I can play on my Wii U. Though I will highly recommend it to others.

I'd love a new Golden Sun game. I think they may have backed themselves into a corner with setting the next game up as a sequel to one that flopped. (I even bought Dark Dawn to play on the 3DS but I didn't finish it... it wasn't great.)

What they could do however is obviously make it a Switch game, set it 100 years later, give it an all new cast of characters, a new problem, have it link to the previous games plot-wise somehow, but have it turn out that you're playing 100 years later after the heroes lose in what would have been the sequel. That should give the writers plenty to work on.

Think of how now working with legit 3D models and all that they could use the adepts powers to use spells to influence the overworld. People have always dreamed for that in RPGs but there's not a lot where it really happens.

Dang... I can't even parry an attack reliably.

I mean Nintendo cleaned up a few years ago with Breathe of the Wild and Odyssey. Not to mention Fire Emblem won the fan vote. Personally for me Smash was my game of the year, partly because it was on the system I actually own and partly because it's a game that I can have 7 friends over to huddle around my 70 inch TV and we have a blast. Smash will probably end up being my game of the decade really. (Through Breath of the Wild was a fantastic experience.)

I wish the originals had been ported to Switch. I have a 3DS but just don't want to play any games on the 3DS.

That's fair, it's the most fun fighting game of all time.

Still disappointed they didn't make a lady Terry version.

Apparently King of Fighters has a tag team mechanic. So Terry might have a swap in fighter like Pokemon Trainer. (Actually come to think of it, we got Zelda and Sheik as separate characters, yet Pokemon Trainer is only one character...)

I'm betting that Terry swaps out into another character so they have to actually go over two move sets. They've said they're almost done for modes, but they could do something else like a new mode or something.

I wonder if in competitions they actually have anything to check if the person is cheating. I suspect if he had the option to cheat, he did.

Also dude can totally play Fortnite again, he'll just get the new account banned if they find out it's him. So what he actually means is, "I can't stream Fortnite again."

Currently not in a place where I have a lot of money coming in, so can't back. Also not a huge fan of skeletons...

Was it just me I was it almost all Gen 1 pokemon with a few Gen 8 and then one or two from neither? Like there's Lugia, and Wabafet, but other than that the only non Gen 1s that I noticed (granted I only watched it once) were Scorbunny and the electric dog one.

I wonder if he actually mixed up Peach and Zelda. Though in fairness he did say that he doesn't play a lot of Smash, so I imagine he probably remembers the characters and could tell them apart but probably just forgot which princess he was playing as. (Nintendo does have a lot of princesses.)

@sketchturner About two thirds come from the 3DS there's literally another article on the site right now that has both sales broken down

@rex_rex I don't play online much. I get destroyed when I do online haha. That said Octopath is fantastic!

@rex_rex It's pretty great for parties, it was my "I'm going to actually be selfish for once," purchase. It also helped that it was on an insane deal from Best Buy. The model normally would have been a $3000 TV when it was brand new. But somehow there was still some of last year's model in Best Buy's system and they discounted it and then also put it on sale for like $500 off. So I ended up getting it for $1000 Canadian (plus taxes and shipping).

The crazy thing is that in Canada, Best Buy doesn't even normally sell Visio TVs, but I'd been leaning toward getting one since they had announced HomeKit support in their last few years worth of TVs. Of course that does mean that if someone gets mad during Smash they can shout, "Hey Siri turn off the TV" and my HomePod will turn off the TV.

I'm having friends over for 8 player Smash on my 70 inch TV on Friday. Hope Terry is ready by then.

Nintendo is unlikely to do a Swtich Pro or Switch 2 or anything like that until Nvidia has a significantly more powerful processor. They're certainly not going to release games that need the new hardware for a long time either.

What'll probably happen is that they plan to stick with the Switch brand for minimum 10 years from launch day especially since it's selling well, and a lot of indie games don't even tax the hardware too much. (We're really at the point where increased graphics hardware really mostly benefits developers like EA who are bad at making efficient games and focus more on spectacle.)

Next year the PS5 and Xbox whatever will come out, and Nintendo will release some great games but no new hardware. They will probably do price drops to the Lite and the Switch since hardware costs will have come down. The year after that, they'll probably wait again.

By this point they'll either have Nvidia making a new processor with the same sort of focus on GPU performance as the X1 had, or generic Qualcomm ARM chips will have enough improved performance that Nintendo will be able to boast about playing old Switch games at 4K or doing ray tracing or whatever.

Nintendo is in the unfortunate position of relying on Nvidia for chips, And unfortunately the future where people cared about the GPU in their smartphones never materialized. Nvidia has made newer Tegra branded chips, but none of them are a proper successor for the X1 in the Switch.

The nice part is that since the processors are ARM chips Nintendo could theoretically buy chips from Qualcomm, Samsung or MediaTek however unless I've missed the news, none of those are rocking especially great GPUs integrated into the SOC, and that's what the Switch needs far more than a general purpose CPU.

We could see them move to a different ARM chip supplier if Nvidia is a pain to deal with (which I could see them being... they are the company that did such a bad job of getting along with Apple that Apple won't work with them anymore.)

The bad part is that while the CPU instruction set on another ARM processor will be compatible, the GPU is 100% Nvidia on the Tegra, so if they swap to a processor that uses Mali, Adreno or PowerVR, for graphics, but they'd have to do a ton of work tweaking the graphics APIs to make sure they perform the same.

This could make backwards compatibility difficult. Unlike the GameCube > Wii > Wii U, where it was always just moving to a new IBM made PPC chip and a new ATI/AMD GPU, it could be more difficult. Though in fairness, Apple switch from PowerVR to their own GPU in their chips and didn't skip a beat, so it's not impossible. I suspect that Nintendo hopefully will know if Nvidia is going to shaft them and will be able to prepare their software stack so that old code will run fine on whatever new chip they use.

It's a real shame that they can't just buy Apple's ARM chips to use.

I find it crazy the way that these bankers are able to pull random numbers out of their asses to manipulate stock prices and then punish companies for not meeting unrealistic expectations. This same sort of thing happens to Apple’s stock all the time.

That said I’m hoping the Lite sells well but I really hope it’s sales don’t overtake the proper Switch. In a few years I’d like to have a Switch that can handle docked 4K resolution. (Mostly because I got a great deal on a 70 inch 4K TV.)

I suspect some manager decided to try and sell the DLC they were working on as a full sequel or something. Who knows, maybe they'll release a sequel and say that you can merge the two games or buy them as a pack or something. Kinda the way they did with Torna.

Somebody should make a fighting game with all the characters that make no sense to put in Smash. And then people can realize how stupid putting Goku in is.

Also, I’m not convinced anyone seriously wants Goku in, I think it’s 99% trolls.

As far as who I am hoping for:
Dixie
Geno
Ribbon Girl/Min min/Twintell
Tetra/Toon Zelda
Paper Mario
Terra/Edward/Sagan/Celes
Chrono/Frog/Magus
Rabbid Peach

I’d also just love some alts, different characters with the same moves. Linkle, Funky Kong, Boshi, Ms. Pac-Man, octolings

The nice part is that since most of the characters are Nintendo owned, most of the roster will still be there. There may be a few companies that choose to not license their characters again because they think they're worth something more, (Square with Cloud and Hero) but I think most companies are smart enough to realize that they get more out of having their characters in Smash than Nintendo does. Sega has no reason to want Sonic out, given that his games only sell well when they're made by Christian Whitehead. Given that Bayonetta is basically a Nintendo franchise now, it wouldn't make sense to not license her. Konami could pull Snake, Simon and Richter, but that would be a pretty stupid move (especially Simon and Richter) as Smash is basically free advertising for their games. Capcom could pull Mega Man, but it's not like they're doing much with the IP they might as well just accept the free advertising, same with Ryu and Ken. SNK could pull Terry but... why? Microsoft probably wouldn't want to risk the flak of taking away Banjo.

So while he says "we will never be able to do this again" really the only company that I can possibly see being willing to shoot themselves in the face, is Square... because Square is like that. The rest of the companies involved all have pretty close ties to Nintendo, and have more to gain in being in Smash than Nintendo has to gain by having them.

The only thing that I can think of is that Sakurai MIGHT be getting tired of rebalancing characters all the time.

That said I suspect that when the Switch 2 comes out, they'll just keep this game, maybe release a deluxe version that has all the DLC fighters up to a certain date included. But I kind of don't think we'll need another Smash for another 10+ years.

It’s crazy because on the one hand people spend money because they love Pokémon. But by spending money on this kind of crap they make corporate execs think that this is actually what most Pokemon fans want over a flushed out game with a good battle system.

Like the budget for this thing is so much more than a full proper Pokemon game.

For all the people saying, "If you're X age and don't know who Terry is then..."

I'm 35 years old, live in Canada. My first console was in the second grade, it was a SNES. I played Mario 1, 2, and 3 on friends' NES consoles. I played Sonic games on friends' Genesis consoles (also on the one in the hospital when I shattered my femur, but don't worry I'm Canadian so it didn't bankrupt our family.)

I played a ton of games growing up, mostly stuck to Nintendo consoles. We didn't really have arcades here, I remember watching the demo screens for Marvel Vs. Capcom when I visited West Edmonton Mall as a kid. I remember at a roller rink we used to go to when I was in the seventh grade, there was a game that had fighting characters in it that Morrigan in it, but I don't remember which game that was. There was also a Simpsons arcade game.

But just because you had an arcade to go to to regularly spend quarters, doesn't mean that everyone who was the same age as you had that experience. First time I heard about Terry was when they gender swapped them for SNK's all female fighting game on the Switch. I'm not angry or especially unhappy about him. (Probably wouldn't have bought him if he wasn't part of the fighter's pass that I've already paid for.) But that doesn't make me, "not a real gamer." It means I was more interested in other games and never got into that genre, and that's okay.

Kinda crazy that Mario Kart 8 is up there but no Smash? Though I do know Mario Kart 8 went on sale kinda recently, not sure when but I remember buying it. So maybe that gave it a bit of a bump... Either way, people love their Mario Kart.

I feel like meta critic ought to be doing something to police these sorts of reviews.

SNK is one of those companies that I've never been interested in. If they did do Terry then it'd be cool if they gave him a female alt based on SNK's female fighting game.

Pretty sure anyone playing pokemon cards already has a V-Card.

The only game from the Genesis I really care about is Sonic 3 and Knuckles. I wish they'd just port over the PC version. (Though I can't really complain as Mania is just plain better.)

Other than that most of those old Genesis games haven't aged nearly as well as a lot of SNES titles did.

Hopefully they put Goku and Shrek in here and then the most annoying Smash fans can STFU.

That said is it just me or does the Rock look weirdly white.

@Camari Okay my post was a joke. But if your issue with slavery is that some people can have slaves but you don't have to, I think you've missed the mark

I love the region specific forms. Weezing looks awesome. Alolan Forms was actually what got me to buy a 3DS and play X while I waited for Sun and Moon to come out.

This sounds like Merc Missions from Xenoblade.

Though here's the question, do the Pokemon have a choice? Because Pokemon is really just adorable monster dog fights. Now it'll also be adorable monster slavery? Yikes.

Meh, I had been thinking of buying a pair and using one to try out Fire Emblem. Guess I saved myself some money. I just got laid off recently and I won't be making any big 80 CND game purchases any time soon. I've got Smash for multi player fun with friends. And I've got FF7 and 9 that I still need to replay after buying them for Switch. Probably would have used the second one for Link's Awakening or Pokemon.

Pokemon is one of those games that I could see myself buying day one, but Link's Awakening... I probably won't get that day one without some sort of discount.

@Chimaj apparently the other S tank make on male characters are just bromances. You can be really good friends/roommates but romance is limited to out of frame blow jobs.

One small contributing factor could be people who wanna romance a dude. Apparently the only way to have an M/M romance is with that house.

That purple one though... I don't even play handheld but...

Seriously though speaking of colours they should do a pack of turquoise and yellow joycons.

@Skunkfish It might have a smaller battery, but it also has a smaller screen. The screen is the bigger power draw, the SOC is the second biggest with most mobile devices. If the put the die shrunk version that the Lite is probably using in the Switch Proper then you'll probably see slightly improved battery life.

Honestly Nintendo leaving the option of TV play out of the Switch Lite was stupid. They could have released a simple USB-C cable or basic dock (the dock as it exists now probably only costs like 5 bucks to produce.) as an external option. As it is right now, who the heck would buy Mario Party or Overcooked for the Switch Lite? Heck, even Mario Kart 8. Sure you can do online play but the real reason so many kids in particular (the focus of this console) want a game console is for multi player with their friends.

My guess is that the Lite is using a newer die shrunk SOC, and Nintendo will be moving that SOC into the Switch Proper. Which means the new models will get better battery life.

How are they on 12 platforms but not iOS? Here’s hoping with gamepad support in iOS 13 they bring it to iOS. Maybe even Apple Arcade.

I wish that they'd done more with the villages in the game. Here's hoping that BOTW2 has more little things to do in each village other than buying supplies. (Though I did adore building Tarry Town!)

I feel like if the team had been given more time they might have flushed out the towns a bit more. But I actually came across this village pretty quickly. I remember wandering around in Faron with like three or four hearts.I ended up looking for one of those hidden shrines for forever and got struck by lightning. It was pretty epic and kind of scary. I love how the game didn't hold your hand.

I was also super lucky because I ended up finding the grove of hearty whatchamcallits so I could make dishes with tons of yellow hearts pretty early on. (Which was good because it took me forever to find my first great fairy!

Call me when Waluigi is playable.

(I wish I could be seriously but I'm not.)