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This was a hard one. Japan won out just barely from the expressions of the soldiers and the posture of the hero, though the painting and packaging design isn't all that clear, at is typical of Japanese boxes.

I've never played an Inazuma Eleven. Is there any reason to play the earlier entries now? Or does Victory Road basically invalidate the others?

@Quarbit that's just how I do

@Nintoz the cutoff date is November 22, which hasn't crossed yet, so that's dumb. But yeah therefore MP4 won't be eligible until next year.

I think the whole thing is a joke. But I made predictions anyway. Keep in mind, I haven't played a single game nominated except for No Man's Sky.

GOTY Clair Obscure
Performance Jennifer English
Ongoing FFXIV
Mobile Wuthering Waves
Art Clair Obscure
Score Clair Obscure
Adaptation Last of Us
Narrative Clair Obscure
Community Support Baldur's Gate
Multiplayer Arc Raiders
Indie Clair Obscure
VR Midnight Walk
Anticipated GTA VI
Action Ninja Gaiden
Familky DK Bananza
Sports Sonic Racing
eSports CS2
Direction Clair Obscure

Unrelated: But can we move the comment input field to the top of the comment list? It feels fairly absurd scrolling through 89 comments to leave my own.

Related: What's awesome about a Zelda movie franchise is that they can make complete different entries with different casts if they want. Like they could do a trilogy with this cast. And then do a totally different movie for Wind Waker.

Hey! This is a JRPG, like Mario Power Tennis. This looks awesome

Europe. Not even close

I cannot emphasize with this concern at all. You already have a great Animal Crossing, and you've already played it a bunch, and it sounds like you're going to play it a lot more. Or, you know, spend time on the thousands of other games there are to play. Animal Crossing is welcome to take another 5 years, or heck 10.

I liked Metroid II. A lot more than Samus Returns, which I didn't finish.

Actually I don't see the button. I just updated too

About time! Nintendo catching up to 20 year-old app features

All I want is Old Man Zuko

I'd love to get the Mech Warriors for SNES

@CaptainQuo this is the one I'm waiting for

Bricks of a feather snap together

Shocked Pikachu

So help me Zeus, if they include Shaolin Monks, I'll give my pinky toe for a copy of this game.

Can we start getting movies again? They aren't all great, but I still miss them.

@Grim thanks for the info! I'll take your advice and look into SMT instead.

Is P3 like... a reasonable game? Like not 90 hours and a million lines of dialogue that are effectively hours long cutscenes? I tried the demo for 4 or 5 and basically I hated it. I just wanted to try the combat, so I fast forwarded the dialogue and just mashed A, and after like half an hour I STILL didn't get to combat and quit.

Silver Surfer! The best comics character. If you haven't read comics much, I recommend reading the Silver Surfer debut. Start with Fantastic Four #48-50. Then the original Silver Surfer run of 18 issues by Stan Lee and John Buscema.

MK8 is immortal

I pre-ordered one of these and am excited to install it when it's ready. I feel bad he is in the red though. Also, frankly, I didn't know that the technology was not complete and working. Had I known that he was still protyping at the time, I would have not bought one because I would have trusted that it would eventually work. No regrets though.

Why does Nintendo allow 3-lap races at all, then? Why not have random just select from only the three intermission courses offered when selecting?

How the heck did Donkey Konga sell well enough for them to greenlight a sequel?

I guess I'm confused about the disdain for key cards versus digital. I'm opposed to the concept too. But when the option is key card or digital, why not choose key card? At least you can lend it out and sell it that way. It's closer to ownership than digital. Am I missing something?

This is a close one. I can see why the votes are pretty evenly spread.

@dskatter do you own them for Nintendo exclusives, then?

@Medic_alert thanks for the recommendation

Funny, because I learned about this this morning listening to the Hard Fork podcast from the NY Times, and they were decidedly more optimistic in their coverage. I find that non-games journalism almost always gets gaming stories wrong. That said, it's only a matter of time before AI can destroy any Pokemon game. It's funny now, but it won't be soon.

Nooooooooooo

I'm sorry to say it, but that's on him. He knew about the glitch, and yet he risked falling into it for no good reason.

So what IS Ubisoft releasing this year?

@Wool_Sheep I think they've fully remade the game since then. That's why it keeps getting delayed. It's basically a new game, I'd bet.

@Lizuka agreed. A full remake is not going to do all that well. Certainly not enough to justify it financially, even if it does earn a profit.

The Japanese one looks like the fake art GameStop prints off to display on the box when they didn't have the original

Those are total vote counts? Doesn't famitsu have like a million subscribers?

I heard there's another grip that isn't powered and doesn't charge? Is that true? Is the grip that comes in the box with the Switch itself the charging grip?

Good thing they said something in advance haha. That would not have gone over well

Did y'all ever do a poll asking us if we intend to buy one at all, or later, or wait for a lite or OLED, etc?

Assassin's Creed is 9th already? What did it debut at?

@johnedwin the list is from user voting, not editorial, so you can be the change you want to see!

"Remember, the ranking below is dynamic and will change according to each game's User Rating in our database. If you haven't previously, feel free to rate the new games and let's see where they settle on the list. Enjoy!"

Wow I had no idea they are up to 50. I'm playing Phantasy Star IV and Beyond Oasis on my Classics Collection right now. PSIV is excellent, and Beyond Oasis is a lot of fun too

This would be psychotic, but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt until confirmed

@sixrings Disney+ has gotten insane with advertising. I have the cheapest tier, but a 40 minute episode of Skeleton Crew has three minutes of ads every five minutes. And I've been trying to figure out when the breaking point is for me. I don't know.

@molkom I didn't learn until recently that it doesn't have a camera built in because it seemed so obvious. 3DS had two cameras.

@bleeflooflah right. The actual problem is that wages have not kept pace with costs or rent. So we all have less money than we did 20 years ago.

@Andy_Witmyer I can't imagine PS5 prices coming down for several years.

GameCube was my first personal console purchase. Had played all of the others via my siblings before. But a couple of my brothers and I split the Sunshine bundle. For GBA, I've only ever owned the Micro, which I believe I bought used at a game store. It broke pretty quickly, but I still have it of course and intend to get it repaired some day. I think I inherited the first DS. I bought a DS Lite eventually, which I still this might be the best handheld ever. Close tie with the Micro for me. I'm so happy Reggie lost the argument bringing it to the states, but I wish they'd produced way more. I bought a 2DS used, which I like very much, but my SD card stopped working so I've got to get that in order eventually. I wish they'd made more 2DS's also. Magically underrated model. 've never actually owned Wii technically, but I have my brother's now that I can basically keep. I bought Wii U used on Craigslist, I believe, for Mario Kart. One of my favorite consoles; played Battalion Wars II yesterday. I finally got a Switch to play Tears of the Kingdom, but I didn't want to buy one lol so I asked my friend to give me his launch model, which he kindly did. Turns out I didn't like TotK anyway haha, but I've played a ton of Switch since, mostly on my Lite though, which I also bought used. Otherwise, I bought a PS4 new, and I think that's all. I'll get a PS5 eventually to play Ghost of Yotei. I'm also planning on getting a Playdate soon.