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I see that this is about box art. But otherwise, aren't BW2 different games than BW1? Different regions, characters, stories, and Pokemon? Or are they enhanced versions of BW1?

$65 actually seems alright to me.

2DS and it's not even close. It's solid, comfortable, looks awesome. Every 3DS is too big. Same for the Switch. Switch Lite for me 100%.

Wow is the closest a vote has been?

@Wexter I believe I played all three on GameCube, but now that I think about it, I'm not sure where the discs are. Maybe I borrowed them. Relatedly, the Prince of Persia reboot of 2008 is one of my favorite games ever. I have that for PS3. My PS3 itself needs repairs through.

@Wexter all true. My only collection goals are GameCube and Wii U, and maybe GBA. I've curated them, so my collections are coming along nicely. When Kirby Air Riders was announced, I immediately went to eBay and bought Kirby Air Ride before the price spiked. I time I got it for $50. An hour later it was $80.

@NPC411 agreed. Those games are also $60, which in itself is an extraordinary expense. Not to say the price isn't justified. They're expensive to make. But point being I can buy a used GameCube or PS4 disc for a fraction of that and probably have just as much fun. A couple of days ago, I bought Mario and Sonic at Sochi for Wii U on eBay for $22. I can't wait.

@NPC411 I'm not sure what it would take to convince me to buy a Switch 2. Possibly nothing. If they made the best 3D Zelda of all time, maybe. But I don't see them surpassing Wind Waker or Breathe of the Wild. There are just far better ways to spend my money on games.

I also still haven't bought a PS5. There's nothing I really need to play.

I didn't play gen 3, or gen 4, or 6, 7, 8, or 9. But I chose Flygon because it's pretty awesome.

I have seen every movie though.

@shoeses we had the favorite gen 1 also. Let's see how long we can keep this up haha.

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@shoeses 🤜

They literaly buried the best announcement of the entire state of play.

Y'all do a nice job with the summary formatting

@Chlocean Fair. AI is an incorrect understanding. But each phoneme, as written, must have been matched somehow to the oral pronunciation, right? A program could not simply intuit how letters are pronounced, yes?

@PtM @Glrd @twadebarcelona thank you for the clarification. I enjoyed text-to-speech going way to messing with a Mac in like 1999. I do wonder now, though, what the difference is. I need to look into it further simply because I'm curious, but I suppose any text-to-speech function was simply a single voice hard-coded to match each phoneme? I also may have misunderstood the content of the Direct. I was thinking that you could carry on dynamic conversations with the NPCs, like a chat companion. But now, I think, the conversations are canned dialogue trees.

Is it safe to assume that the original didn't have voices? I mean, intelligible dialogue? The Al voices are a complete deal breaker for me. They're uncanny and dystopian and they truly make me uncomfortable. Not the voices. But the fact that they're AI generated. It's a good use of AI, if you're cool with AI. It makes perfect sense. But I still hate it.

@Markiemania95 thanks. I looked up current pricing. And it looks like one day is $65 off-season and $80 at peak. Children's passes are about $20 cheaper.Two day admission is $124 regardless of season, which is a $35 savings over two single day passes. These seem fair to me. If I were there and had time, I would go. Visiting Japan is not in the cards for me any time soon though.

@Questionable_Duck @AllBLK I need to clarify. I'm not an absolutist. Is a game is several years old, especially from a major publisher, then I'm normally ok with buying it on sale. But for indie games, I equate buying a game on sale to theft. It's not theft, not literally, and I exaggerate somewhat. And I also recognize the reality of the digital games market, especially for Steam. I.e., games only sell when they're on sale, and the sales boost literally bumps them up charts, increasing visibility. More players might lead to more reviews and exposure, etc, which might prolong the game's life. But, for me, buying a game discounted is robbing the developer and publisher of the renumeration their owed from their work creating the game. It's a matter of fair compensation. I am paying someone for their art and their labor and their contribution to culture, and I'm presumably enjoying their creation that I know took passion and sweat and tears and skill to bring forth. So my ability to experience their creation is deserving of sufficient return, the value of which they've decided at the 100% rate of their fee. To buy a game on sale is to selfishly take advantage of the cruel realities of the digital games marketplace. It circumvents equitable exchange and is unjust.

@Member_the_game I had this same conversation with my brother a couple weeks ago. I don't think increasing technical capability is really justified or necessary at this point. And, it's not financially viable. Companies already can't afford to make AAA games. The risk is already too high and fails more often than it succeeds. Investment in a multi-year, employment of hundreds development is a poor financial choice when you can spread your risk across a dozen cheaper games. It's Ubisoft vs Devolver Digital. And look how that's worked out. Developer Digital won't really benefit from more horsepower. Sony is the only company who's consistently profited from AAA publishing because they're really good at it PlayStation is a respected and beloved brand. But I'm not sure that Ghost of Yotei has been profitable so far, as an example of a recent release that argues against extreme financial investment. I would need to check. But as other examples, I don't believe FFVII Rebirth nor FFXVI were profitable either.

@Coalescence word.

Here's a rant at 7am that you should feel free to ignore. The fact is, I've been priced out of modern gaming, if only for console pricing alone. Game sales make them insanely, unreasonably affordable, but I'm ethically opposed to buying games on sale, so that doesn't affect the viability for purchasing modern games for me. It does for most other people though, so any argument against games being too expensive is completely invalid. Anyway, back to consoles, I couldn't possibly justify spending that kind of money. In my case, I'd prefer a PS5 anyway, but they're like $700..Fortunately for me, I prefer retro games, own a lot of retro consoles already, and their games are way more affordable. I can tell you right now that my next console is going to be either an Analogue Pocket or a Playdate, which are about $200-$250.

@Markiemania95 how much is it?

It's been five years!?

I bought Road Warren when it came out. I really want to play it, but I play mostly handheld these days. And the text is freaking tiny. Like 6 point font. Does Switch not have an accessibility feature to zoom in? I actually just learned that PlayStation does, which is great. But I think that text size overall is a huge issue in games. All games need massive scaling options for text and UI. It's the reason I didn't get the Metal Slug tactics game, because it's going to be too hard to read on my Switch. I'm not sure why the industry hasn't invested more into text scaling options. It's an obvious oversight.

What!? That's crazy and really sad that Nintendo isn't interested in supporting balance adjustments further. At least keep a skeleton team of a few people to adjust numbers for another year or so. I mean, they can be employed on other projects and be tapped to assist balance and fix glitches as needed. I seriously can't believe they're just ending support entirely. It means a dominant strategy will be found within the next couple of weeks, and it will remain OP forever.

Other M is awesome and I'll die on this hill

@beltmenot I think so. But also not. Everybody knows what @PinderSchloss says to be true. But everybody buys the games anyway. The Pokemon Company and Nintendo absolutely do not care about complaints without action. Money talks.

@Nick2054 my guess is the opposite. I think they'll pivot like Ubisoft did with Assassin's Creed when they had the same problem. Microsoft will switch to every other year, and invest more into making better campaigns. Meanwhile, they'll support multiplayer for longer.

I think it would be very sad for Microsoft to have invested $69 billion into Activision Blizzard mostly for Call of Duty, only to have the franchise die a couple years later. I don't play CoD, but my impression of the player base is that they want grounded, mostly-realistic combat and serious narrative campaigns, and it seems that the series has lost that over the last few years.

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.

Update: 14/18

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.