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If comments can be turned off for anything even remotely to do with American politics, could we turn comments off on these articles as well? It’s the same two “Nintendo is God and Pocketpair is the Devil” or “Pocketpair is an indie darling who fights on behalf of the people against the evil megacorp,” comments every single time. I’m tired man.

Why charge people $60 + DLC once to build a competitively viable team in the latest Pokémon game when you can charge them $50 a year until the end of time? Loving the free-to-play money printing world we live in right now

I feel like there’s still people out there that don’t know why Remoraid evolves into Octillery. Beta sprites people!

Pokémon Fans: “Cool it with the new Charizard forms every generation! He is so overhyped!”

Also Pokémon Fans when Charizard is an Option in a Poll:

Mouse mode is really exciting! There’s a lot of indies originally built for PC that I think would really benefit from the new control style, and Balatro was one of them. Definitely taking this for a spin later today

I need my papa NieR remake. I’m running low on copium.

The Good Zone

I have to give it to Gigalith, since he was my first shiny (named Heisenberg, of course).

I’m glad to hear it’s pretty good, but I’m really hesitant to try another sports title after the Drip Feed + Barebones Single Player experiences on offer on the Switch 1. If this turns out to be a pretty good game and the reviews reflect that, maybe this is the start of a Mario Sports comeback (please just give another Sluggers and a mechanical sequel to Charged).

Let’s just go all in if they go the NSO route: Gen 1 & 2 on Gameboy NSO, Gen 3 and FRLG on GBA NSO.

Think, Mark! If NoA allows hundreds of shovelware hentai games to appear on the eShop, would this be any different? The US version of the image must exist for some other reason than “because NoA is a bunch of religious bigots.” Please just process this for a second.

Just make it a Speedo instead and I feel like it’s less likely to be taken down

I’ve heard a lot of frame rates complaints since the trailer dropped. Where are all these people coming from? Splatoon, Smash, even Zelda to an extent absolutely need high frame rates so you can keep up. What exactly are you people doing in Animal Crossing that’s so high-octane that it requires a reaction time faster than a 30th of a second? It’s five bucks, man. Not every game needs 60FPS.

@ImpromptuR I believe the quote you highlighted is to specifically address that a reader might not be familiar with the reviewer. There’s no such thing as a 100% unbiased review, so the author is providing context for a personal preference that may have influenced her conclusions about the game. The way I see it, the point being made in this review is “I have higher standards for what constitutes ‘good JRPG combat.’ Pokémon games rarely meet this standard, but this game did so, which is a point in the game’s favor worth highlighting.”

This feels like an intentional part of the hype cycle at this point. I remember that Sun & Moon demo being datamined, and it feels like this has happened with every Pokémon game since. If GF and TPC truly didn’t want this to happen, wouldn’t they have figured out how to not include the entire game in the demo at this point?

My heart skipped a beat when I skimmed the title and read “New Horizons.” I thought for a second we were finally getting more Animal Crossing content, even if it was just some Pokémon items 😢

@ShieldHero I’ll bite. Renaissance art has a lot of instances of artists inspiring each other, especially given the emphasis on realism and detail not present in earlier artistic eras. The Last Supper and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are “similar” in the sense that they both had similar artistic goals of realism and depictions of religious imagery, but that’s where it ends. They are fundamentally different pieces in both scope and intent, and that’s quite alright.

This image is “similar” to Animal Crossing in the same way that Michelangelo’s art would be “similar” to Da Vinci’s if he had traced over The Last Supper, slightly altered the palette, and left out a few of the smaller details.

Gears 5 is cool and all man, but literally no one has brought up Wind Waker? It’s basically a Zelda game in every possible sense and they just added a little something to do between major areas, because why not? This will be a Metroid Prime game, but you’ll drive a motorcycle between certain areas rather than watching an elevator cutscene. That’s it.

This looks pretty fun, but I don’t think I would have paid $20 for Mushroom Kingdom and Luigi’s Balloon World in Odyssey, and I feel like that’s essentially what they’re asking me to do with this DLC pack.

The megamind sequel we deserve

Nintendo just patented JoJo

Well, I guess I have to hurry up and play it then before it gets watered down.

@kal_el_07241 my brother, all of those games also changed the landscape of open world games when they released too. That doesn’t mean BOTW didn’t do the same thing later on.

“Those eggs were a lie, Steven. A LIE! They give me no eagle powers! They give me no nutrients!”

It took this long for Go’s level cap to increase? There’s really no hope for us TCG Pocket players, is there?

@SpaceboyScreams Scarlet/Violet are really good games creatively in terms of story, gameplay structure, and Pokémon designs. I think they’re the best in those respects since the original DS.

The main problems with these games is the technical performance, which absolutely should not be a problem for a company in charge of the most successful IP on earth. Don’t misunderstand me, they should definitely be heavily critiqued for launching Scarlet/Violet in their original state.

All that to say, there’s signs that some people really did care when designing these games, even if the final product is ultimately subpar. I wouldn’t say they’re blatantly cashgrabs.

Looks like it’s finally time for Sifu. I’ve been interested ever since it was shown in a direct, but I just haven’t gotten around to it

Where is, “I haven’t bought it yet but I’m kind of interested”?

The dark hair does throw me off, but the shape of his face and features makes me believe it

My heart wants to believe this means we’re getting a bunch of classic Pokémon soundtracks shadow dropped on Nintendo Music, but my brain knows it’s either teasing some side mode in Z-A (like the contests in Gen 3 or the restaurants in Gen 6) or some upcoming Pokémon rhythm game. Any of these options is fine actually

I have to admit that I have spent almost no time at all playing as the critters/minions. I’m really charmed by the character costumes, especially since I didn’t play Tour. I’ve spent a lot of time as Biker Wario on the Chopper, but I’ve been trying out default Pauline in the Reel Racer because that’s a pretty snazzy combination.

@SplatRay001 I’m finding myself enjoying the intermissions way more than I expected, and even I wish this was an option. Maybe they’re worried having separate queues for “with intermissions” and “without intermissions” would make it too difficult to get matched up, but I don’t think they have to stress about it. Splatoon manages just fine with FIVE queues if you include Salmon Run, and I feel like Mario Kart has just as many dedicated online players.

I just go for gold the first time through. I’m very tired. But, it’s nice to have aiming for three stars available as something to get to later.

Brawl remake confirmed? When we pick Falcon we can hear “hyEEEAAHHUHH” in glorious HD.

Anything Paper Mario would be an insane deep cut. Kammy? Goombario? Rawk Hawk? Mr L? Count Bleck? Although, maybe a little more realistically, just putting actual Paper Mario in would be pretty interesting to begin with.

Revives long dormant series

Manages to create one of the greatest Metroidvanias of at least the last decade

Disbands the team responsible anyway

Refuses to elaborate

Yeah, unless they backpedal hard on the whole Lost Crown sequel thing, I don’t see myself looking forward to anything they’ve got.

Grant Kirkdoubt

@cylemmulo true. It really depends how long Nintendo sticks to the Switch branding/infrastructure, but now that you’ve got me thinking about it, the DS family lasted, what, 10-12 years?

The Mystery of the Soulless Cash Grab! C’mon man, $250 bucks for a few collectibles and a game that (possibly) won’t even work in 25 years?

If you’re the kind of guy that buys Madden every single year, you’ll be running out of storage FAST

I was very comfortable with $450 for the console. I justified $80 for MKW. But finding out the Amiibo were $30-$40 was too much for me. I’m pretty sure I’m done buying them, Yunobo or otherwise.

Stickerbrush Symphony is definitely a victory, but no loop for Phendrana in Metroid Prime or Hyrule Castle in BOTW still stings.

Sogaleo and Ilima feel specifically designed to give Snorlax his shot at the big time, and I’m all for that!

If they made it free for expansion pack subscribers, I’d think “That’s greedy, but I get it.” But as it is now, I think very few people will even bother to experience it.

We mustn’t forget good ol’ lefty Twlight Princess is entirely eligible.

Listen man, I’m waiting to play Deltrarune until all the chapters are out too, but it still stings to see it at the bottom of the list.

@ElkinFencer10 slightly larger than a Triple Whopper but slightly smaller than a Triple Whopper with cheese.

@mikegamer @Banjo- @N00BiSH I’m hoping the free-roaming open-world driving aspect is what this upcoming direct focuses on the most. The treehouse presented it as a way to see the finer details of tracks and find shortcuts, but I got the sense they were intentionally withholding information that couldn’t be shared until the direct. What else is there to even have a full, dedicated direct about? It’s my opinion that there’s a very big aspect of this game that we don’t know about yet, and it very likely ties into the open world.

@YaGirlSkyByte I feel like the babies could have seen more prints and more use in general had they built in more value to them besides removing damage when evolving. They would be a lot more interesting if they provided a permanent buff to the Basic played on top and any subsequent stages. I’ve only played Pocket, so maybe I’m out of my mind and that’s crazy overpowered for some reason that’s going over my head, but at least on paper it seems like a way to make baby cards actually relevant.

That card can’t stop me because I can’t read!