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@Snakesglowcaps I did. Feels really bad now, that everything that was on Wii U is now on Switch. I do feel like a *****

@Moistnado The irony is: it is actually a Wii U port. It was developed for Wii U, it was released on Wii U. Only because it was furthest down the line on Wii U, the remastering part became the part of the development process. The first game on Switch was also a sign of things to come: more remasters of any good Wii U game.

@GrandScribe Nah, seems pretty tame by any other standards. Nintendo's CEOs only make 20 time the average worker. That is incredibly tame. In American companies CEOs can make hundred or more times the average.

@Anti-Matter why though? It's literally a runner game.... you do run for the express reason of running. What would you gain from running in different direction? How do you even make a training game, where you don't control what person is doing? You have to have encounters in specific order and frequency to train different group of muscles.

@BenAV since they can't produce enough ring fits to satisfy demand and it's nintendo we are talking about, it will be a while before any sales occur (most likely years). But if you are willing to wait, there will probably be some overproduction at the end as always.

@Bunkerneath some people prefer this way of speedrunning. Some prefer 100% excellent execution. I prefer the middle ground, where bugs and features are still used and "gamed" to play faster, but you still required to see most of the game. That only depends on what do you want to see from the game and what entertains you. That is exactly why they have so many different categories in speedrunning (100%, no-glitch, no out-of-bounds, any% and so on).

@Rayquaza2510 Nah, it's not about perverts. I cannot fathom how that is more comfortable, but the idea presents itself nonetheless.

@the4seer wait.... it did not feel like to grindfest to raise the levels to 150, but now it is too much? Man, I love the game, but there are better ways to waste time than to play it that much.

@Spoony_Tech This years end? In a month? You are a bit weird, aren't you? Switch just sold 10 mil in Japan in almost three years. Sure, China's population is 10-times the Japan's. But you are giving them less than 1 month in a completely foreign market, compared to home turf? Was that a rhetorical question?

@PBandSmelly I like that you can guarantee something for a completely different entity

@TechaNinja Because it's player-driven content game? It depends not on single player that is done and "moved on", but on constant stream. Kinda like minecraft or any other similar games, where content is created by players and developers only provide additional features to improve such crafting.

The lack of finer details and simplicity of these and other earlier (gen 1-2) designs actually leaves a lot to the imagination and that, in my opinion, somehow makes them better.

@Expa0 I think it's the whole point about Leon. His cape is specifically a sports-car style promotion. And he does indeed take it off for his final fight with the protagonist (showing that he is more comfortable without it). There was also a phrase somewhere in the game, that one of Leon's fans cannot get how is he able to constantly wear the cloak this heavy. So his design, at the very least, is quite understandable (while still being silly and uncool).

@JaxonH they are 100% legally right. However, they did exploit the community. Sure, people who helped produce assets did it on their own, but they also thought that it might get them some credit or provide a step into the game-making business. Spoiler: it did not, neither it was a signed agreeement. And while chucklefish are right in the legal sense, they are still kinda unpleasant in the whole "people relations" part. And they are a publisher, this is one of the things, they should do right.

That is the coolest weezing in the town. Look at that spiffy top hat!

I have finished the game and so far I have had major slowdowns in 4 areas of the game (depends on how long the game was active as well). I have seen around 10 crashes, 4 falling through the level (twice on twin towers) and a variety of small bugs. I would still say that I loved the game, but it was rough. Wait for a month or two, and you will get a definite gem.

It's much more interesting to look at pareto analysis of the votes. 12% of pokemon got 60%, 28% of pokemon got 80% of votes, 45% of pokemon got 90% of votes. That basically shows that if you only included 12% of the most favourite families in the beginning half of the game (collectable at start) and then added another 16-33% (collectable at the post game), you would most likely get everyone happy. That graph shows exactly what gamefreak are saying: there are a lot of unneeded and unliked pokemon (sure, some person might still like them, but those pokemon are deviations).

@DarkLloyd nobody is forced to pay for gambling, drugs, prostitution and so on. Yet many countries make some or all of those things illegal. Same here, it's not for those who have no intention of using this thing, it's for those, who are too weak to be preyed upon. Belgium decided that these games are too predatory (maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but they decided thusly).

If I could somehow import my progress from the previous game on 3DS, I would try it again. But starting it all anew? No, thank you.

@HorridCrow it's doing it justice NOW. As in the game is being released just now. Back then, it was a much different story. But now? It's almost 20 years old and still gets an 8/10.

@wonderclassic the whole programming (moveset, event) for the mew might have been added at the last moment (after the code has been cleaned up), but that does not mean that some of it's prototypical sprite could not be drawn before. As you know, many sprites were changed and/or deleted. He might have simply said "Yeah, that's some old sprite". And then at the latest point (after the code was supposed to be finished) he added the rest.

Elesa is a model. So she is canonically the eye-candy. And I do love Sycamore's cool scientist vibes.

I just realised how much DBZ is there in the Mewtwo design. I know, I am a slow guy.

Well... that seems mild, but he probably didn't deserve ALL the ire he got. When I saw him a few times on nintendo events he did help out people himself. I would say the problem was not only him, but the whole Nintendo of Russia lack of resources (Yasha also being one of them).

@OorWullie
Same here, but that's why they have ways to make game easier. Slowed down to 70-80%, the game was perfect for me.

They certainly have stricken a good stride. Hopefully the high tide will last until the summer. Right now e-shop is overflowing with many interesting titles as an addition to first party heavy hitters.

@Heavyarms55 or maybe... Nintendo could just add GPS module to their Switch successor and not be afraid to open their ecosystem to apps and not just games. I know... such a wild idea, having connectivity in your mobile device is quite novel in this day and age.

@Giygas_95 don't forget that you will need to unlock many characters. If you have specific favourites, it might be wise to play some. There are some gimmicky ways to unlock them faster (it counts only the number of matches played).

Celeste is one of my favourite games this year, but it is so strange to see it on the same podium as major heavy-hitting AAA open-world games. So out of the blue (even though I love this weird outlier).

@MagnaRoader As it was answered already: there is story. But no, you can't finish it. The story is released very slowly over the course of many updates. Only recently have we began to see the whole scope of the story and see all the threads that has been woven. And it's been 5 years since the release. So, no, you can't finish it. But you can see plenty of climactic moments and fight an assortment of new and interesting enemies, that you won't see if you progress without those quests. The game is big, like seriously BIG. All of that time, they have been slowly building content. Most of it heavily repeatable. That's kinda the biggest problem with the game: you have too much to do at any point of time. If you are spending obscene amounts of time in the game, there will always be much more content, that you have finished leveling up (even if that's just new guns/mods/warframes).

"mobile phone. It’s always there, it’s always with you."

Yep, if only this phrase wasn't about your phones and was more about Switch, people would be ecstatic. That's exactly why we would have wanted all the apps and controls within the system itself, not outside (yes, I am aware that this requires computational power/battery as well). But that's still what is wanted.

@Dezzy Selling PCs, selling franchises, selling basically anything that is left.

I've played it and will continue to play it. Mostly, because in a game like I care little for high framerate. What is more damming for this game is how problematic UI is. I've played games like this and this particular game before, so abundance of systems was actually not enough for me and I would have preferred more complex systems. But the UI is so antiquated in this game, bringing more complexity seems impossible.

@Bondi_Surfer That is incorrect though. There is no objective way of rating a game. There is no way to objectively rate art, for example Black Square by Malevich. Objectively speaking, it's a black square. But it is rating as a very important piece because of it's time and ideas. Same here. It does and should get bonus points, because it is a time-piece. It doesn't get high grades, cause it's a piece of a bad time, but it gets decent grades as a museum exibition (although I would argue it should cost less as a museum piece).

@MegaMari0 Wait what? Your wife is a huge diablo fan and have not known of the diablo game that is 6 years old by now? That's one hell of a twist.

I live in Russia and the difference is much higher. Games on PC are 2-4 times cheaper (even without discounts).

I am highly disturbed by depiction of the person on the left. Is it a severely underage girl with all but her nipples covered? Either I am becoming old or Japanese media/games move in a direction that is more and more.

It's a great game though. I've never played souls games, but I wanted to experience them and love metroidvanias. So the game was great for me. I actually think that is one of the first reviews, where I cannot agree with nintendolife's assessment of the game.

@Moroboshi876 dude... you have no idea Selling what you don't own is the primo thing in trading. Not just borrowing stock from someone/some agency, but even borrowing from future. You can trade futures, which means you trade not the existing things, but things that will be produced in future and you try to guess what IT WILL be cost. So called obligations are also just that, it's basically a scrip that says "I will pay you at this date", only written by huge companies and even whole countries. Most trading actually just trades those things, that don't even exist yet. That way something like bitcoin is not so far off. Who cares if something physically exists, what matters is only what it will cost. So don't you worry, if one finds a way to monetize dreams, he would be the king of the world.

@HipsterInkling I still find it weird. This depiction is not "blackface", because it's not used to portray black people, and therefore cannot be racist, because it's not about race anyway. But yeah, maybe I don't see racism here because I am from a completely different country.

Wait... another one. Is wearing gorilla costume now considered racist? Just because gorilla is black and is an ape... Is it now racist? I think it's highly racist to consider that racist.

Wait... isn't thinking that human pretending to be a monkey and have a black-face is racist? Because non-racist should not make such a logic leap. I mean, many monkeys have black faces, that does not mean that they, by their existence, are racist. It's people making a dumb connection of monkey - people of african decent because of the tone of skin who are racist.

Every party is understandable though:

PS4 - We have the biggest marketshare and even losing one guy because he can go from our platform to competitors is a bad idea for us, so we have no incentive.
XBOX - We don't have any marketshare, we would like to move our product in any way possible. Especially since we own PC, we would just like you to buy games through our marketplace.
Nintendo - We are mildly positive about crossplay, cause those are the games we don't care about anyways. It's not like you can crossplay Splatoon 2 with anything else, out core games are still being released only on our platform. The rest can do whatever.

Looks almost like World of warcraft back in 2004. Same emptiness of landscape. It has been 14 years however, nowadays this level of detail just looks kinda pathetic.

They will probably do something stupid like those monster trucks with Hulk's hands or something similar.

It's not a piece of news though. Nintendo CANNOT monetize if Youtube does not allow to monetize. So no question about how it could have reacted. Also, 1k subs and 4000 hours are such a low bar, that's it's not, in fact, a bar. Even at this level you can't get ANY money by monetizing. So anyone who has an even lower sub count is either doing it for fun and a few friends or should look for another venue.

@WiltonRoots First, I've checked internet, and it seems your picture of your hands is not taken from somewhere on the internet. So that must be your picture. Do I then presume that those are your real hands?? Are you Andre the Giant?

@Nincompoop very positive outlook you have there It will take a lot of time for AI generation to go from acceptable to actually great. I would think some things, like generating interesting textures, backgrounds, unique monsters (as you've pointed out, making a unique and acceptable texture for a face is not that hard), but it will take a few gens to have AI make such intricacy that would go against AAA Nintendo (or other big devs) games (not that they can't use some specific aspects).

Well, that makes some of my gripes with the game go away. I still think that their minimap feature is somewhat bad and should have been figured out from the get-go.

@sirdupre From my limited understanding and you writing that they access bootrom sector, I have but one question:

If they indeed just put a linux on the system and have booted it without going in the system, would it even count as hacking the switch? They don't have Switch OS broken and therefore it can't run any of the Switch games, no? At this point they just made a very backwards working linux machine that can be best used as an emulator of other systems and not the system itself, no? From my understanding, this thing actually does nothing for piracy and just helps with homebrew? I have not read these guys twitter or anyhting, so I might be misundestanding what's going on completely.