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@Spedfrom Man I bet you're fun at parties.

@Spedfrom Sure bro, the region that unironically mapped Jump to Up on the D-pad for decades, and used droplets of water as a favorite enemy, is an internationally well-known quality hotspot of game development. E: Also Poland and their game developers are unironically based but saying anything more than that would be a political discussion requiring nuance. I would imagine since you're the expert on the EU, you know that treating the body as a monolith is just as stupid as doing that with the US.

Poor Meowth just tryna focus and drive the car with all the chaos in the back, eternally best Pokemon.

So Game Mill is publishing something from an actually legit arcade developer? Okay I guess why not.

@Sambuc I watched a video on that recently, apparently the driving model was changed for the worse from the JP version for some reason.

@Spedfrom Rockstar North is Scottish not English. Don't talk to me about not knowing things and then call Scots English. E: Also you didn't even list the Crysis games which are some of the best games to come from Europe lmao. Learn to take a joke.

@poyo_pie Fair enough

@axelhander It was in the DF video. Best guess is because it was originally a Switch title. So yeah frankly a lot of my long term hopes for the Switch2 are riding on DLSS, but I'm waiting until N actually starts uses DLSS in their first-party titles, before giving it as a big plus to Switch2.

^ A frame drop to 40 would make it tournament illegal unless it's strictly in single-player.

@ButterySmooth30FPS I think it's bafflement and frankly an emotional reaction that a months-old console apparently has problems running a fighting game, with DLSS... no I'm not a developer but how about a 240p base upscaled to either 1080p or 720p depending on performance? Considering the admittedly less complex SF6 scales 540p -> 1080. Can Switch 2 really not handle that? Also apparently it's leaked a port is coming anyway so Harada might be trolling and baiting nerds like us.

@axelhander Google results are inconclusive but it seems that the Deck also uses FSR 3.1, a step down from the FSR 4 AMD is currently pushing with the improvements, with no word on a Deck implementation. All still hypothetical imo until more games on Switch2 have DLSS, because Bananza used FSR 1 for some reason.

@axelhander Fair, I forgot Steam Deck had FSR, in the past I thought DLSS > FSR pretty objectively quality-wise but I think sources have been saying FSR has been catching up. If someone does prefer DLSS that is a legitimate plus point though.

Is the input lag on their GC emulation any better?

They're not in the same genre admittedly but I can think of old Xbox Live games like Monday Night Combat with way more characters with personality, deeper gameplay and a lot more color for 10 - 15 bucks at the time depending on your region's Microsoft Points conversion.

@MikeP It's still a fun game but I think myself and a lot of other FG fans are interested in a 3D game like Virtua Fighter without super anime Rage moves and stuff like that, focusing on movement and defensive options... it's not like VF is thuper therial or anything with the ninja that can jump ten meters high lol.

Graphics look awful but if the gameplay is as interesting as you say and it's faithful to the source material I may well give it a look-in. I'm not even that into TMNT but the artstyle reminds me of the 2003 series, quite cool.

For real they should be able to considering the PC version has DLSS, one of the perks of Switch 2 > Steam Deck is DLSS support right?

The culture is more interested in the new Virtua Fighter

I don't know if they understood the implication but I for sure would've bought that Level 10 Splasher shirt

I feel like this game could benefit from minigames ala the Monkey Ball series

@LastFootnote It seems to be the latter if the intro links to Best Nintendo Switch Graphics - The Most Beautiful Switch Games.

@thatfuzzyb Morta's art is incredible, loved every second I've played so far.

I do love pixel art and can't really explain why, I don't think it's just nostalgia... I guess reminds me of pointillism which I also can't explain why I like it, I just do. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Morning%2C_Interior_-_Luce.jpeg

@Zeebor15 Yeah, I think we both know what it feels like to be a fan of a frankly shaky company that could blow over any minute to El Nino, or as Chris Farley would call it... The Nino!! But eh gotta live in the moment and I've been having more fun with SEGA's stuff than in a long while, imagine you feel the same about Atari, it's about the games and having decently passionate people at the helm. Got some Sonic playing cards at the mall, I'm saving them to open with a friend but I'm glad "Sonic's sh*tty friends", as they were always called, are back XD And while I've never played his games I think Bubsy's design is actually pretty awesome. I do really like cats though.

@dew12333 I appreciate the response and hope I wasn't too harsh. I do understand the issue is more complicated than I and some other people might make it sound, not even just from N's pressure but their solicitors and stockholders. At the end of the day though, it's an emotional reaction, but I'll always stand up for fan artists, perhaps because my father was an amateur artist, who often traced from album covers at the time but only as a collage of a greater whole. The Internet didn't exist back then, but if it did, I imagine he would've posted it online, and I would hope the feedback would've allowed him to properly improve as an artist, instead of being pulled down for copyright infringement. I personally think, especially in the modern AI world, it's more important than ever for actual artists to learn from each other, which often objectively includes tracing. But that's all my opinion of course.

Anyway, the outcome here seems to be the best for all involved. The Pokemon gets a cool new pose and official artwork without infringing on the original fan art, all is good by me

@martynstuff I don't even think it's legit but the article literally pointed out an example in 2020 of an "aaaaaaa" account actually being an official Mario anniversary account, just going incognito temporarily. What me and other people are wary of are people parking the accounts of every 5-year anniversary afterwards to troll, I personally think an actual N account would go for something way more arcane than just a bunch of "a"s again.

@ShonenJump121 Great thanks, I like to ask around and find indie artists who actually draw, to support with at least likes and comments.

Er, the trails behind the wheels also look like a cheap effect for the cars no one would buy in Fortnite... okay I'm done crapping on the game and legit hope it finds an audience I'm just trying to keep the comments semi-related XD

@Coalescence I personally don't see the reason to be cynical about this move... if anything the thing I'm most cynical about is that the ISEA does not have a branch in every state according to their website, not their fault but the fault of the missing states. Young people on this website, who don't have a branch: get off your butt and make playing games an extracurricular activity for college credit! XD

@Zeebor15 Ah I understand, as someone who doesn't hold SEGA stock but knows they could make Morbillion dollars by releasing a new OutRun, the autistic obsession with companies we're interested in!

I do like the new output of Nick games, and would have been one the maybe five kids at the perfect intersection of Sonic and (good seasons) SpongeBob fandoms like in the upcoming Sonic racer, so Wade and his bro must be doing something right!

Just pointing out the "awards" at the end of the match gave someone an award for giving the most high-five emotes. Straight up a participation trophy lol.

@ShonenJump121 It's annoying there's no way to PM but source on that PFP art of Samus pls? Looks cool.

@solarwolf07 I don't think gaming tournaments had enough broken bones, cheerleader routines for creepy dads and underage drinking to interest my school system. Well okay indie Smash tourneys do tend to involve the last one disturbingly often but hopefully not these officially-sanctioned ones!

@Dee123 Yeah. Jean Valjean stole the bread to feed his family, not to sell it to other hungry people at inflated prices.

@HeadPirate As someone who worked in large-scale retail during the absolute height of the card-collecting trend during COVID, we implemented a limit on the amount of packs you could purchase not to save card for little kids or something saccharine like that, but to prevent mad rushes over pieces of cardboard at a time when we were already dealing with organizations and hoarders buying excessive amounts of product. The same reason we implemented a limit on paper towels, it wasn't to save paper towels for the people or something ridiculous (that was just the lie we told customers who got p*ssy about it to shut them up), it was to prevent the cashiers from having to ring up a hundred rolls of toilet paper, along with products with loopholes to circumvent purchase limits, like soda where you can just buy different brands.

McDonald's cashiers and workers don't need to be slammed more than they already are by food-wasting scalping a-holes. Your stance is basically advocating for the same heartless capitalism you seem to be against, just because scalpers exist at the same time as mega-CEOs. People can be concerned about more than one thing.

@Deadsea1993 How about when the original Animal Crossing let players collect and play classic NES games? Modern Nintendo would never lol.

So in 2025 my highschool friends' clandestine Smash tournaments in empty classrooms during school rallies and crap like that could actually be officially endorsed and maybe even get us some extracurricular points? Damn kids nowadays have some perks.

@ParsnipHero It was a very mask off moment that after years and years of strenuously denying artificial scarcity was part of their strategy, they just outright embraced it, not even as part of a proper long tail strategy because the product isn't offered for sale anymore. Also impossible to play the officially translated version of Fire Emblem on NES now which I would 100% buy if possible.

@Zeebor15 Speaking of questions I'm not prepared to handle the answers for do you work for Atari or something or are you just super passionate about them, you seem to know a crapton about them (as someone who also makes long posts about obscure topics I understand 100% XD). Like who is "Wade". Personally speaking the coolest thing about their return is that the Atari billboards in Blade Runner aren't as dated as the Pan Am signs anymore lol.

@RupeeClock I'm not making an account to check but I bet literally ever major Mario anniversary for at least a hundred years is taken. Now I have the mental image of someone passing down their "X" account to their son, "do me proud son, troll them super hard on the 100th anniversary it'll be epic".

Man it's sad that youngins will play this game instead of, y'know, starting an actual campfire. No way N would have sanctioned this game if it was just aimed at the incredibly narrow "long-distance friends/family" market. Sad thing is I can't even blame em practically speaking, COVID really did break the brains of multiple generations. And I guess it could prevent a forest fire or two... meh...

@ChromaticDracula Tough to be noticed in a sea of crap like N-sanctioned "Chillin' by the Fire"? I basically agree with @ShieldHero except for AI "games" and to play devil's advocate we have no actual proof AI was involved in this game's creation.

Was going to say this account is ran by some weirdo who will post inflation "art" when this arbitrary deadline comes up, but I'll admit the fact they follow Nintendo JP and haven't been "dealt with" by N Ninjas yet is interesting. Still the probable explanation is that N's social media haven't noticed and don't care about Internet geek speculation.
E: At this point Twitter accounts of dead politicians have been resurrected and re-used by incredibly weird people... Twitter is so f'ing stupid

@poyo_pie It's almost been a week and it's still the most read article on this website

I personally don't think Gradius is a popular enough series to break it up like this, especially considering me and many others already bought the individual M2 version of many of these titles. They should have just made one big collection. I would have bought it if it had Gradius V.

EDIT: Btw @Tom-Massey, you seem to be the arcade port reviewer guy, do you have a reasonably reliable way to measure input lag? Do third party controllers with reduced input lag make a numbers comparison less important in your opinion?

This is the character design of the person in the thumbnail, when he's hunched over at this camera angle you wouldn't see the loincloth. For those worried considering this is JP he's actually one of the nicest characters in the series, prideful but that's it and everyone in Baki except Baki himself is prideful lol.

@Dr_Lugae Sonic the Hedgehog, with a pinball game (Pinball Party), fighting game (Sonic Battle), and platformer (Sonic Advance) released on the GBA alone from 2000 - 2003. Of course for some reason this is called floundering instead of interesting experimentation, I wonder if Pokemon fans will apply the same logic to their own series that experimentation doesn't equal successful execution, or ignore criticism as usual.

Can't believe this series still doesn't have voice-acting, how is it acceptable when literally every other Mons series I can think of has voice-acting for all the major characters.

Don't buy consoles on launch.

Wow that Zebra song is super catchy and stuck in my head now, thanks OP XD The chanting reminds me a bit of I Zimbra from Talking Heads, I wonder if the composer is also a fan.