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@LikelySatan I mean that’s totally fair. Variety is great and different things appeal to different people. I just know that I’ve played games before where the aesthetic turned me off, I didn’t play it, then later I finally did and the gameplay and other elements made up for it. But yes, I agree.

I understand filling the gap between the Mario Karts and Forzas of the world, but having cute characters be a turnoff deprives the player of some great games.

My wife is obsessed with this game and a few of my friends act like I’m some dubious corporate monster for preferring MKW. Still enjoy this game though.

Zero, and I mean absolutely no interest is having to spend money in addition to the subscription to play games from arguably the biggest Nintendo catastrophe of the 90s. The games weren’t stellar, the monochrome red (even if it’s a different color) is a turn off, and it was just overall a big disappointment. I remember receiving one from my parents when it was $49.99. I remember that Target couldn’t even give them away. The audacity of them to require an accessory is peak Nintendo nonsense.

Maybe he can make Power Rangers come back to life 🤣

Hah I kind of want both the 1st party and these. I know my wife shrieked when she saw the new colors.

@nhSnork Right? We have a 40+ year history of watching Nintendo in the gaming space and folks are always convinced that Nintendo is one crisis away from becoming a 3rd party developer. Nintendo: Doomed Since 1975.

I work 60+ hours every week doing a job I love and find myself thankful that I don’t have to resort to this type of depravity to make an extra buck. Goodness. I love Pokémon so much and I was one of the obsessed kids in the late 90s who saw all the movies in theaters, collected the cards, played the GameBoy and Nintendo 64 games, watched the anime, had toys/plushes, and even the yellow Pikachu GBC. At no point would even younger me feel compelled to behave like that.

It is a very unnerving copyright soup for sure.

Millennial here with innumerable Gen Z and cross-generational friends. What a load of bunk.

Yes. Yes it is. So boring and pointless.

Microsoft misled everyone with the Activision Blizzard King purchase. They lied to consumers, regulatory bodies, governments, and most egregiously, employees. After their behavior in the last few years, I’ve learned to expect their promises to fall on disappointment.

I had hoped that employees at these companies would find a better deal under Microsoft considering ActiBliz’s troubled history. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Their behavior has caused me to navigate away from the Xbox ecosystem on both PC and Xbox. I’ll play their games on Nintendo and PlayStation, but Xbox has completely lost their minds.

My wife bought the Switch version with the handheld being her favorite way to play. She was burned when she purchased the deluxe edition hoping for that early release and then it only happened on Xbox and PS5. Other than that awkward shaft Sega gave Switch users, she’s obsessed and loving it.

@Runex2121 I still have mine lol

I love that Nintendo is going for the authentic Virtual Boy experience:

• Expensive point of entry
• Headache-inducing red wire graphics attached to your face
• Mediocre software
• Backlash from their fans
• Not reading the room at all

Leave it up to Nintendo to offer that classic experience with all of its original authenticity

@roy130390 I agree. I feel like we are all so culturally compelled to try and compare everything like the Super Bowl is on the line that we often compare apples and oranges, robbing ourselves of having diverse gaming experiences. I don’t need Mario Kart World and Sonic Racing Crossworlds to give me the same experience. That’s why I just was kind of “meh” at Sega’s remake of their Sonic vs Mario Kart commercial. To me, they may as well have compared it to Burnout or something. Different vibes altogether.

They really dropped the ball on this one. I love Nintendo but this was short-sighted.

$35 per upgraded game? Am I missing something? Compared to all of the other price hikes in this industry lately, this almost feels merciful.

@LordPieFace I was 100% enjoying boba tea drinks in 2004.

Dammit. Now I have to play Fortnight.

Oh okay, so if I buy this on Switch 2 will there be ads? Because I purchased PvZ on iOS years ago and they updated my paid copy to have ads. I trust EA as far as I can throw them.

Yeah, all my good friends kiss me too when I save them from a fire-breathing turtle kaiju monster thing.

Oh look, SE making a decision that is both greedy and typical of them. Must be a day that ends in “y”.

I’m playing this on PC and Series X via GamePass and I simply disable the in-game music and control Spotify on Xbox or PC with my phone.

You mean all of these ports we already own elsewhere?

I live about an hour from there in the Denver area. Bennett is a small interstate town. If that truck was there early in the morning before dawn, places like this are dead at that time. Most of Colorado’s population is along the front range I-25 corridor, not in a small I-70 travel town in what we joke as “west Kansas”. While it’s still brazen and someone should have noticed, it’s likely that there weren’t many people around and the ones that were likely thought nothing of it.

This is just weird all around.

What a weird argument. Crappy video game adaptations of children’s movies will often be released at the same price as AAA titles. Games have always had general default price ranges regardless of developer or quality. Also, while GTA is GTA and will sell by the truckload, Mario Kart is one of the most successful and best-selling series of all time. When I see things like this, it instantly throws me back into a 1994 lunchroom where kids **** on one another’s choice of Sega VS Nintendo. It’s just juvenile and reductive.

Every time Nintendo comes out with a new device. Every. Single. Time. **Doomed** They’ve had their fumbles, we will remember Wii U. We remember GameCube foregoing a DVD player and not having the third party games people were obsessed over in the early 2000s. Well, us old people remember. Virtual Boy. Sure. Counting Nintendo out always seems like a fool’s errand though. Everyone seems to think they have a crystal ball in the industry and Nintendo is always a wild card.

It’s honestly a hot take. I game on anything and everything. This comparison is nonsense.

I personally think it’s a case of “everyone involved sucks” but using these clearly Pokemon-influenced designs, capture mechanics, etc. was always going to be a big risk for Pocketpair. I have a coworker that is rabidly defending Palworld against Nintendo. She then claims that Nintendo plagiarized the designs of the Pokemon creatures. When I told her that the concept of Pokemon had been brewing since the late 1980s, she just proceeded to call Nintendo altogether a giant plagiarism machine. I was flabbergasted.

Either way though, I’m not defending The Pokemon Company or Nintendo for being patent trolls, but when Palworld came out we all knew where the influence came from.

@Dimjimmer 10/10, no notes, excellent.

Honestly, the DC crossover comics have been fun. The Power Rangers one was great but left at a huge cliffhanger.

@Ironcore Fair. I’m sure they appreciate that. My only perspective is that with the consolidation of this industry, the extreme production costs AAA devs are addicted to, the innumerable jobs lost recently to Xbox’s shenanigans, the constant changing of financial hands, the goofy over-promising of Bungie and other companies, and the overall toxicity of the notion that games can have multiple or more specific target audiences, there is just so more at stake for the developers trying to put food on the table than “is this game too gay” or “does this character look like me?” I agree that a game should just be a game without politics in the mix, but sometimes the reality of life creeps in to our storytelling and the experiences games are trying to convey. Life, and the stories that we tell are messy.

@Ironcore That in discussions about the ongoing awful consolidation and corporate investment that keeps changing hands in this industry causing chaos, development time crunch, lost jobs, and terrible game quality, your take is “maybe this conservative government will keep DEI out of my video games”.

@Ironcore Interesting associations made here.