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@Wexter
Ok it’s a scummy service. Just because you can get it cheaper by going in on a family plan doesn’t make it any better. Virtual Console was a great service in my experience with it and was more beneficial to the consumer.

@NintendoWife
You find out weaknesses by attacking an opponent and it will tell you if they are weak to that element. A lot of trial and error is involved. It’s not like Pokémon where you only have two types per monster. A single persona can have several strengths and only one weakness (some if you have a strong build could have no weakness). There is a skill you unlock as you go that’ll allow you to identify a enemies weakness. Once you have encountered an enemy the game logs this and you can pick an attack and choose a target it’ll say if it is weak or not and you can open a tab (analyze if I remember) and it’ll bring up detailed stats and weaknesses.

Crafting would definitely help my displeasure of this mechanic. Combine wood, metal, an optional elemental or the like modifier and a sword recipe and voila you have yourself a new sword! Combine a stone with a stick and you have an arrow!

It was graded a 9.2. I’ve seen copies like this sell for a good penny. Maybe there’s some legal recourse he could attempt to recoup the loss and prevent this from happening again.

@NintendoWife
Just what don’t you understand about Personas and fusion? Fusion is an essential mechanic in SMT and Persona. It allows you to create stronger demons/personas and transfer over special traits and attacks that are much different from the same ones you get through negotiation. For example you could have a light attribute attack on something that ordinarily wouldn’t or added resistance to certain elements.

While personas as a concept is more difficult to explain but the games do a decent job of explaining what they are. If you need a deeper explanation I suggest you read up on Jungian psychology.

@Rosu
It would’ve been preferable had they did a remaster akin to SMT3 combining the party control features of P3P with the added story content of FES and manual skill transferrance.

At least in P3P you can control your party members unlike in FES while it’s presentation is gorgeous it’s gameplay suffers. The gripe about fusion is justified however since they fixed that in SMT3 Remastered but didn’t add it to this.

18/24. Not too shabby though I feel cheated out of the trick questions, would’ve been 20/24 then.

I still find this show to be fun if not a little outrageous at times. Very interesting that someone in their teenage years actually wrote for the show as Tiny Toons actually had an episode written by a fan and was invited to help create the episode.

I’d be far more excited for Persona 3 and 4 had they been given a physical release so I’ll be reluctantly passing on them.

I’d love to see other classic game IPs they have under their belts a chance to shine. A modern take on Dynowarz would be interesting for example.

So who is excited for Operation Wolf Returns! I know I am!

@Lizuka
While I would love to see a remake the current port that’s due soon is likely all the effort they are going to do with it. Would’ve been nice to have a hybrid of Portable and FES but alas.

More collections would be nice. That is, of course, if they would make complete collections. (Ex they left out Castlevania Legends, Rondo of Blood, Kid Dracula GB, Contra Force and Alien Wars GB out of the Castlevania and Contra collections.)

But what we really want is newer entries into these classic series. I was less than impressed with Rogue Corps so they are really going to have to step it up a notch.

I for one would love to see more ports and physical editions for all their releases. Hoping a Soul Hackers 2 switch port will be announced before too long seeing as how it’s on everything else but Switch.

Not every game is going to be a multi million copy seller. I think they shouldn’t be afraid to try to revive these franchises. Will it be lightning in a bottle? Maybe. Maybe not. But nothing ventured nothing gained.

I saw this previewed in Nintendo Power and was blown away by it. Sadly I didn’t have a GameCube so I missed out on it. Getting a copy today is completely out of the question as it costs an arm and leg if not more on the used market. A port of this game on modern consoles is long overdue.

@Wexter
It’s all profit. Most of these games are around 20-30 years old. They certainly aren’t getting any money off of the secondhand market.

@Serpenterror
Why would it matter if they were using a in house emulator or M2s? Thing is you purchased the games. We should be able to transfer our games over and just use whatever emulation is being used to play them. You can have several different nes emulators in a pc and play the same ROMs on all of them.

Rather slim and dull pickings this week.

MGS Collection when? MGS GBC is arguably the best hands down. By the way y’all forgot about Snakes Revenge.

@nhSnork
I’d like to see some numbers that say VC sales were low. If VC sales were indeed low it would’ve been due to Nintendo not adding games to the service and not allowing crossbuy. Gamepass allows you to rent games on a sub but you can purchase individual games and play them for nonsubs. Nintendo call offer a similar deal.

What I can’t figure out is why have the standard version being a limited release through their online store rather than be an open preorder through brick and mortar retail stores. I can understand why a collectors edition would only be available in short supply and on their storefront but for a standard no frills release?

@nhSnork
If they were underwhelmed by it’s performance it was their own fault for not continually adding games to the service. So far it seems they have failed to learn this lesson but instead are forcing consumers to pay a yearly fee for a worser deal if you want access to the complete retro offerings.

@talllennart
Not everyone plays online. Kinda ridiculous to lock these games behind a subscription service to play online if you don’t care about playing online.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
At least I don’t have to pay $50 a year every year to play them on the collection. I don’t understand why they can’t offer them for individual purchases rather than as a part of the online sub.

All of these are already available via the Genesis Collection that’s been out for a few years now.

I have the vita game and I really enjoyed it so I’ll double dip on this.

Looks interesting. I’ll definitely be getting it (as a physical release).

The NA box art is definitely more iconic and shows what you will have a fight on your hands so I went with it. Although I’ll have to give a very close second to the EU cover.

The technical issues still don’t detract from the game itself. I’m having a great time with it but it does feel a step back compared to Arceus so a 7 is a reasonable score in my honest opinion.

@Crono1973
That defeats the point of being open world. I love the idea of Pokémon done in a BOTW style so you could go literally anywhere go through at your own pace your own way. But with that said having level scaling is honestly the best COA. Just leave the Pokémon at that location those levels you were when you leave.

@Crono1973
Level scaling as far as the story battles should be a thing. While you can run away from a wild encounter it’s not guaranteed as they can block your path so your level 5 Pokémon could easily be taken out by a level 45 wild encounter.

No level scaling is going to be a problem. Catching Pokémon and battles with 20-30 plus levels on you in either direction doesn’t sound fun or challenging. It would’ve been nice to see a Gym Leader change their teams up to reflect the scaling (example a low level gym with base Pokémon would become a gym with mid to full evolutions as it scales.)

@AtlanteanMan
This! I keep saying this over and over!

@DjinnFighter
The main draw of the online service is playing games online. If you don’t play online then why should you drop $50 a year to get access to offline retro games? They could still offer the expansion tier with those games and dlc included and have an option available for those that will not subscribe to get access to a self curated collection of older legacy titles.

If older games are so easily deliverable why the drip feed? Also why are they only available to subscribers instead of ala carte?

@Krysus
Having the Virtual Console would bring in additional revenue from those that don’t want to pay $50 a year if they don’t care about online play or the dlc (mostly for online games) and just want to play some classic games.

I can understand to an extent having to pay to play games online. What I don’t understand is why they keep the legacy games attached to the service instead of allowing us to cherry pick the games as you could with Virtual Console and essentially own them and not lose them every 12 months.

It wasn’t that out of the blue. I had my preorder in for it for a while and I managed to get a copy no problem.

@Eagly
I can’t take MatPat seriously. Most of his game theories don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

@Eagly
In some universe yes. Canon in Mario games though doesn’t really seem to exist. (A few exceptions do apply though like the Luigi’s Mansion series and possibly M&L RPGs)

@Eagly
He was de-evolved into fungus by Koopa when he staged a coup to take over Dinohattan and merge our dimension with theirs.

The ability to buy games on the classic games apps ala Virtual Console and not need to subscribe.

@PinderSchloss
Yeah but then others are going to order pictures as well so you are going to make more after the fact.

So the last offer was $15,000. And she wanted more?!

I’m still waiting on my physical copy.

No physical no purchase. No native port no chance in hell.

@YoshiF2
Same here.

I knew it smelled awful greedy and fishy.