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Why do people want so badly to dig into the private lives of people like this? Somehow I don't think you'd enjoy having the same treatment.

I mean, I guess no one forced him to take the interview but I still feel like asking about personal health issues is inappropriate.

Why does it look worse than GBA era Fire Emblem? You can do retro pixel art that looks great, even on older devices - case in point GBA era Fire Emblem!

People get mad at me for saying this sometimes, but there's a difference between retro-style and low quality.

I bought this game based on the hype but...

It's good but... I don't know. It's missing something. It just didn't pull me in like Xenoblade or Octopath or Tales of Vesperia or Dragon Quest... or really any of the big JRPGs I've played in recent years.

I can't really put my finger on exactly what it is missing though. It just didn't pull me in.

I absolutely agree with a person or a company's right to control their own IP. That said, I think there's legitimate reasoning to allow fan projects as well.

Nintendo seems reasonably consistent on this issue, so I am okay with it. It would bother me more if they played favorites, allowing some but not others.

I also think they need to better clear up their rules on what is allowed and what is not.

@marnelljm I play and watch the game. I don't see any of the issues you seem to have with it. You're entitled to like or dislike whatever you wish but I don't have to agree. The game is blazing, it's selling like mad. And yeah, a lot of that is scalpers at first, but scalpers don't scalp things that aren't popular and sought after.

PTCGO is super active. I can hop on any time of day and never have to wait for a game.

I watch several TCG YouTube channels and the only issue I consistently see is people wanting more. More cards, more products, more game.

There's some balance issues. But that's just metagame variation you see from time to time in any card game.

@marnelljm umm, are we playing the same card Game? The core game hasn't changed basically at all. They're adding a new gimmick because all the gen 7 stuff is rotating out next month. Pretty typical stuff.

Would have been nicer to get a proper spectator mode for SWSH but I suppose that ship had probably sailed at this point.

I still think the "outrage" was massively over blown. But that doesn't mean I don't prefer the 80m. Cause I do. Lol

I'll stick with Pokemon I think. Lol

Atlus is apparently completely unwilling to give us actual Persona 5 on Switch but boy do they like advertising it on Nintendo platforms. 🤔

You're kidding right? It's a freebie, and we don't know yet how rare this specific ball is gonna be in this game, but they're just Pokeballs. In 8 generations of games I have never found it even slightly difficult to have enough Pokeballs on my character.

I always hesitate to buy graphic t-shirts from unfamiliar companies online. I have been burned before with nice pictures printed on dirt cheap shirts that fall apart in mere months.

I am willing to pay more for quality items. Laugh all you want, I have several decade old t-shirts from Hot Topic that I still wear and still look decent. Compared to random online retailers where I got several shirts that were little more than cheap rags after less than 6 months.

@PipeGuy64Bit It comes from western capitalist thought. The mindset of making money is more important than anything else. The more you make, the "better" you are. So long as you can get away with it, anything goes.

Capitalism is the polite way of describing enshrined greed as a way of life.

@RadioHedgeFund It's my head-canon that someone at Niantic plays Pokemon VGC and is super sick of how prevalent Inceneroar is, and thus is doing everything they can to keep gen-7 starters out of PoGo. lol

This might be considered rude in some circles but... I don't really consider people who spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on stuff like this as collectors.

Normal folks just don't have that kind of money to burn.

This is the wealthy trying to turn everything into an investment game. Also known as gambling - because yes, that's what investments really are, a gamble. But being an "investor" is seen as respectable while "gamblers" are disreputable.

But I digress. Be it retro video games or Pokemon cards or maybe media merchandise or whatever. When we see these kinds of prices, it's not Johnny McLifetimefan. It's Billy McWantsToMakeADollar. It's people who are buying these things with the hope of selling them later at a higher price.

While collectors will buy and sell things too, they're in it for their passion, their hobby. The money might be nice, but it's not the goal.

While there probably are the disgustingly wealthy elite who are also hobbyists and fans - I just can't wrap my head around normal people spending the kind of money we always hear about on these items.

I was looking at Lego the other day while buying some gifts for my cousin's children, and I have to say, we're lucky.

We're lucky that video games haven't gone up in price the way Lego have. I can't believe just how massively expensive Lego is now. I'm shocked it has remained successful at the prices they sell at.

Kits that would have been 40-50 USD back in the 90s and 2000s are now nearly double that range. And there are kits well in excess of that as well. The whole range of toys seems nearly double the price it was 20 years ago. Maybe not quite double, I concede I could be misremembering, but I would remember spending that kind of money on them - as I often got gift cards for Christmas/Birthday so I could choose the sets I like.

If video games had increased like Lego have, then we're probably be spending 80-120 dollars per game right now.

I am very okay with this. Actually grabbed the dark challenger outfit.

I love Porygon-Z. But I have like 4 competitive ready ones. Including a shiny.

Thanks though.

Meanwhile PC games push 100gb or more fairly commonly now. I see no reason to complain about these.

This is just physical sales though, right? So couldn't that just suggest that Sony fans in Japan are trending towards digital releases?

I am not the Nintendoomed guy. But I do want honest reports. This feels misleading in this era of digital purchasing.

1200 dollars?! Are they out of their minds?! Not a chance in hell!

This is good news indeed! Gives me hope that Home will indeed be what Bank should have been. A way to preserve our collection going forward from multiple games! So that when Pokemon rotate back into the format in future games, we can bring back existing members of those species we already have.

A couple years in and I still consider the limited Pokedex the correct decision. It made SWSH have a fantastic metagame in VGC that I really enjoyed!

I look forward to new formats continuing to bring new mixtures of new and returning Pokemon.

As a fan of TCGs like Pokemon, Hearthstone and MTG, rotations are a given and were long overdue in Pokémon's video games.

Face it, Epic is so successful right now because of their bastardizations of other IP. From skins to mechanics to game modes.

They have so much money that they don't care who they step on or rip off.

@JasmineDragon Well okay then. I guess some kids do like them then. Honestly this is the first time I have actually heard someone say that but like I said, someone had to be buying them.

That's a much better gift than 100 pokeballs and 10 potions. Lol

I keep saying this because it keeps being true. Though I really dislike so many things about Fortnite, I mean so many things...

I can't help but have a level of respect for whoever or whatever it is that allows them to make so many deals with so many different companies to bastardize so many different IP.

Personally, I'm convinced they made some kind of Supernatural style deal with a crossroads demon or something.

Speaking of which, 10 bucks says Sam and Dean and Castiel end up in this game eventually too. With their Impala too. lol

So... what exactly do any of these do that's at all related to the Switch OLED model? Looks like regular stuff to me.

Also, and I don't mean to be rude, but does anyone actually use those plastic steering wheel props? They keep making them, so someone must be buying them but...

@Nin10dood Gamers of all ages is not the same as all gamers.

Wait, you're telling me Fortnite is relying on someone else's idea? NO! Why, I never saw that coming!

They should try harder to be and do their own thing. I wouldn't go so far as to call this series a ripoff but I think it's trying somewhat too hard to emulate certain things.

I miss the anesthetics of 80s and 90s game consoles. Today everything is a black or white rectangle. PS5 at least tried something new... but it's still just white and black.

I understand that for things like smartphones and tablets that that shape is simply the most practical, but for consoles and PCs they could take more creative liberty on occasion like they used to.

Yo this guy could have released this as a "fake leak" and I think a lot of people would have bought right into it. It looks just like official art! He nailed the style perfectly!

That ship has sailed Sakurai. And you know full well. People don't actually respect you. They only want things from you.

Welcome to the internet in 2021. Surprise! It's a terrible place because human beings are terrible creatures who are more inclined to be such with the "protection" of an anonymous username.

Aside from the novelty of this being based on Wolfe's Pokemon, there's nothing special here. You could make this Pokemon yourself from scratch in about an hour or so.

But if you play SWSH competitively - which is the only reason you'd want this - but don't actually already have a Coalossal... where have you been this whole time? It's probably one of the absolute BEST Pokemon possible in a dynamax metagame.

Which makes it being given away now kinda funny, since we just started the first non-dynamax metagame since SWSH dropped. lol

I grabbed this one and I do like it. But it's definitely more puzzle game than city builder. Which is a bit of a bummer.

But this is just physical sales right? That's not as impressive because it discounts likely thousands of digital sales.

Competition is welcome and the device certainly looks better than the Steamdeck, but android games and emulators? Meh.

Lol, just watched this video this morning before work. He's a fun oddball.

If this is real, I would be pretty cool with it. Hope they don't shift us with a lazy Port job though. There is absolutely no reason that these games shouldn't run buttery smooth on Switch.

Stopped reading after I saw it was F2P. Not for me. Pass.

I mean... it does look like a solid case. But the Switch distinctly does not lack nice case options. I don't see what makes this one particularly better than many other quality options.

@mr-duster Sorry that you find it hurtful, but it's not inaccurate. :/

Deliberate tie in with the upcoming Eevee focused TCG set perhaps?

@Bret lol, you say that like I haven't. I have played a ton of them. But I think they tend to push things too far for the average player. I like them personally but I wouldn't want the vanilla games to be that tough. Then younger players would struggle a lot. I want the games to be accessible but to still require the player to understand the basic mechanics beyond just over leveling and winning.

@link3710 But that shouldn't matter. He isn't running it on the solar power, he's charging the battery with it. The battery is where the actual power comes from.

@mr-duster It's an accurate description of the difficulty level of vanilla Pokemon single player.

@Godzilla2021 Semantics. Last meaningful update.

@westman98 Well that's stupid as hell.

Why a Pocket? I would rather use an IPS modded GBA. That way you can play almost any game from GB through GBA.

It doesn't matter what they tell us or what this game is. I can promise you that the community won't be happy. They never are.

Me, I just want to know what the point is to the game and if it retains traditional battle mechanics and Multi-player.

I really do not want real-time battles or any trainer involvement. I'd much rather have them actually make a fun and just modestly challenging single player experience that leads into Multi-player post game content.

Pokemon's battle mechanics are excellent. But I would forgive single player only fans for disagreement because the vanilla Pokemon games make little use of those mechanics in-game. You don't even need to know the type chart to beat most vanilla Pokemon games. That's not because the mechanics are bad but because they do design the games to be beatable by 5 year Olds who can't read...

I am all for updates to new games to fix bugs and such.

This is not a new game. I feel like it should have been ready right out the door.