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Playing some of these modern games at 9 or 10 has got to be bloody magical, not gonna lie.

My jaded, old arse already marvels at some new titles like a kid in the toy store but seeing BotW or totk for the first time as a child sounds like the sort of thing that's going to fundamentally form your taste in games.

This is stupid as hell but more xenosaga representation straight up deflated my excitement to play 2 in 60 fps 🤧

They really need to set that one apart...

Otherwise there's no point to not just continuing to support 3. Or just go ALL the way do the hub thing cod started a couple years ago. Splatoon diehards will rake me over the coals for this but the three games aren't THAT unique from one another.

Neat-looking set, but not "150 [insert currency here] neat"

Very excited to play this.

On another system. I still don't see what they can do make this run even remotely decent on switch 2 beyond completely neutering the game design itself and the visuals. The issues DD2 had with its performance were entirely on how they set up the game world, unless they figured out a way to take a HUUUUUGE load off the system in that regard it's going to be a struggle game on switch.

Glad I didn't get the dlc beforehand like I would with mainline monster hunter.

I'm not touching any more story or game with Navirou in it.

Think of the game what you will - and the final version of it honestly is pretty fun, overall - but this is THE best party in the series just off the sense of comeradery and friendship alone.

The story is pretty spotty in many ways but noctis' story is legitimately heartbreaking.

@Highlar75 they always announced there'd be dlc, I wouldn't expect this to be much more than the Rudy story, though.

@LastFootnote I'll never understand that sentiment because Capcom NEVER do surprise announcements at these showcases. They tell us exactly what to expect and yet, without fail, people will expect more and set themselves up for disappointment all on their own.

No Ascendance was expected but my MonHan rotted brain's still disappointed even though I'm looking forward to all three of those games' releases and updates 🤡

30 minutes seems VERY meaty, though. Usually these are shorter with info on more titles.

Something about this game just didn't grab me and the music was certainly part of that.

People love to meme about the switch era's soundtracks but BotW, totk and aoc all had incredible music where aoi just kind of...falls flat on every front.

These will always be a losing battle for the awful NA covers.

Hope the remake doesn't get that kind of cover in all regions.

Played this on ps5 but I think I might actually check how it runs on switch 2. It's already not particularly pretty on better hardware, imho.

@The-Chosen-one they literally went back and touched up every single cutscene, recorded new lines for a couple hours of content, add new quests, features, game modes and party members.
If any of the upgrade packs are worth paying for it's these.

@Vortexeo same, what's another 400 hours 😂
I'll probably be done in time for Genesis

@Greatluigi you actually can, no joke.

Anyone who enjoys Soulslikes and hasn't played Lies of P yet should check this out.

The game is legitimately the best of its genre since Bloodborne, including FromSoft's games.

Not gonna get it on the system - I don't think, at least, but I own Rise+Sunbreak on multiple systems, too 😅 - but I'm curious how it'll run/look and how well it will do.

Wilds is by far the best high rank game since portable 3rd, imho, and if they play their cards right Ascendance will probably become the best g rank/master rank title, too.

Is it true that most of them don't even include the POS "smart" brick?
I know most of the Star Wars ones don't - which, unironically, is probably for the better because people who get those might actually buy a second or third while they still think the functionality isn't absolute gutter trash - but I keep reading the pokemon sets don't come with it at all. Which would be hilariously greedy.

But also... It's insane how bad Lego continue to be at designing these Nintendo lines. There's two or three good ones here, the rest is lowkey uncanny at best, and ugly as hell at worst.

About what I expected except for the bit on its visuals. The artstyle is great and FAR better than the half-assed crafts stuff in Crafted World.

Bummer about the game being as...boring as it always looked.

It's gorgeous, Yoshi's cute as hell, the enemies are cute as hell.

I have zero interest in playing the game. Just doesn't seem like something I'd ever enjoy.

If SMW2:Yoshi's Island and Woolly World started a pattern I'll only have to wait until 2035 for another good Yoshi platformer in that same style /s

And nothing of value was lost.

One day, they'll make a good Zelda set. Trust..

@Misima Woolly World is definitely in that same ballpark.

It just looks incredibly boring.. Not every game has to appeal to me, personally, obviously. But this doesn't seem to be any more than a...pseudo Sandbox for VERY young children.

I really think Woolly World was the anomaly in this series...it's been downhill since the excellent original game, imho.

These are still the after effects of game dev exploding during covid. They hired way too many people, stretched themselves way too thin and failed to adjust management - or maybe failed to adjust to the bigger scale of their projects/having to manage all those additional people - and gaming as a whole is only now beginning to get "back to normal". The truth was always that 2020 was the anomaly, not an indicator of the future of game dev.

Then you throw in the idiocy of publicly traded publishers that have to present profits year on year because shareholders are completely f***ing out of touch with how the real world works and the insane push for gaas in the wake of the time during covid when more people played more videogames and it's not surprising whatsoever that these (relatively) small studios get the s*** ends of all the sticks long-term.

And all this was BEFORE we got into the insanity that is happening around the world atm.

It really sucks, I hope I don't come off as condescending or like I'm trying to say IG are at fault of this, they're not. And I really hope the studio and the people let go find success in the future regardless of this awful hand they're dealt.

@Chlocean I actually prefer ni no kuni 2 to the first one in just about every way but missing the little creatures.

I'm not talking about that tho. There was a mobile game that was called cross world or something similar.

I don't know why we still expect level-5 to deliver with their pitiful output over the past... Decade or so and the constant yapping about AI and crypto s*** (people also seem to have forgotten about the last ni no kuni literally being the worst kind of cashgrab ON TOP Of being some weird blockchain and nft thing)

Insane because I can't imagine people having that much fun with it if they don't get the references. The movie is random as hell in a pretty bad way, pretty much just fanservice for the sake of it, imho.

Who tf voted for Spidops and are you okay?

They're all terrible.. 😅

How many omnimon variants can they cram into it, digimon fans?

@gcunit I don't think pokopia is threatened by any new animal Crossing that takes after the games we had so far.

It's legitimately just better AC in almost every single way but having actual friendship mechanics and the variety of furniture and decoration items.

Short answer, xenoblade.

Long answer Xenoblade 1- 3 lol

I don't think I remember (m)any other big titles that had such a large drop-off in quality between TV and handheld mode, some of that s*** bordered on unplayable.

Leak enjoyers, are we waiting for more mega stones or was Garchomp Z the final one?

Everything I read about that union in particular makes me feel kind of vindictive about Capcom seemingly not willing to work with them.

I still don't understand what the target demographic here is.

These trailers are HARD toddler-coded, not gonna lie. They need to show more or just say it's baby's first platformer. I love Yoshi's Island, Woolly World and have some nostalgia for Story.

But this looks boring AF and the only appeal rn is the artstyle.

18+ because you have to drink to stomach the price for...that.

Pokopia seems to be sold out in a bunch of places in Germany, too.

Kind of feels like they got as blindsided by the GLOWING reviews as everyone else lol
It wasn't on my radar at all, but seeing how well it's received by...seemingly everyone, and after watching a little bit of gameplay it went onto my wishlist for now. Doubt it'll be discounted, because Pokémon/Nintendo, but I'll wait a couple months, I think.

@mattesdude yeah, I reserved it for pickup on Friday and when I managed to get to the store on Saturday morning there were zero copies on the shelves themselves.

At least for ps5. Switch section still had a handful.

The Xbox shelves were almost full 💀

@Erigen well, to be fair, there IS a giant woman and grace has an outfit that's modeled after THE giant resident evil woman 🤡

Pokemon Y being the other highest rated pokemon game says EVERYTHING you need to know about metacritic.
Awful generation, gen 1 and 2 are only worse because they're crusty and jank as hell. Besides those games X and Y are easily the worst entries.

@PepperMintRex probably not. Capcom don't really do surprise announcements during these showcases. They always announce exactly what's getting covered and people set themselves up for disappointment without fail.

We're really trying to act like this isn't a POS, huh?

@SlowPokemon oof, reading.

Thanks for pointing it out tho. Not gonna be a deal breaker, the game's still solid on its own, but it's a huge shame.

@AussieMcBucket sure, but they have Gen 3 games on switch now. Granted, I think with the information that the home transfer for those are one-way the hopes for XD and Colosseum are already pretty...dead lol

Not that I'd buy the Gen 3 games for how much they're asking.

I legitimately don't understand why they can't just give us a date. It's a month away, SURELY they know when it's available.

I'm also slightly worried it might not support Home, that is THE thing I'd be interested in, actually getting to play the game with the pokemon I want because the roster in XD is notoriously awful.

It actually looks good, visually.
I'm a little shocked, but maybe they really did get the message after how awful ScaVi looked.

I'm 100% expecting this to cost 50+ € and at that price it'd be an INSANE ripoff LMFAO

@Spider-Kev they weren't on the virtual console at all, I think the gameboy games cost 15 or so, though.

At half the price I would've considered it, especially because I'm 100% expecting a shadow drop for the gamecube games on pokemon day, if there's some connectivity there - via home or otherwise - that'd be an amazing way to replay the console games.

As it is, way too expensive for mediocre GBA RPGs

The demo being the way it is, and having beaten everything up to feral Dino Mike Tyson, has me pretty excited for stories 3...

After 2 being incredibly bland I was convinced I'd just skip these games going forward but it seems they actually managed to make the gameplay WAY more engaging this time and just the little Story in the demo and trailers is already infinitely more interesting than whatever was going on with the previous one.