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I still collect amiibo. Not gunning for a full set, but I still try to pick up as many as I reasonably can just because I love the dang things. I got Sephiroth and Kazuya, got all the Splatoon 3 ones + the Splatoon 2 Purple Squid restock, and a few MHRise ones. I have an app to track my collection, and I have close to 200 individual figures. (Almost a decade of collecting will do that too ya, oops!)

The magic of NFC toys was never lost on me lol; I still get excited about NFC tech because of brands like amiibo and Skylanders. So in a way, it makes me happy that Nintendo is the “last bastion” of “toys to life” or something stupid like that. I love physical media interacting with digital media; it’s special in a way most other things can’t be, I think.

Like, for instance, last year I held a 32 Smash Ultimate amiibo tourney for my friends where each amiibo had a friend’s name on it, and the person’s amiibo that won the tourney got the person a bunch of little prizes. It was so fun watching the jankily trained AI fight with all items and Stage Morph on alongside a small crowd of people, and having each person’s character represented by a physical toy added to the “immersion,” for lack of a better term, of the event.

So yes, in 2023 I do still care about amiibo. However, I do foresee amiibo quietly being canned in a year or two. Maybe once the Switch branding leaves, so will the amiibo branding?

edit: i said “too” instead of “to”, argument invalid

I preordered with no intent to actually start it yet LOL. I just knew that I’d want to have it for when I actually have time to play it.

Vander looks like that one KFC dating sim

@SwitchVogel Completely agreed. Last time I bought a full priced Ubi game was the original Mario + Rabbids and I learned my lesson there haha. I'm waiting for Sparks of Hope to dip to an appealing price because I know it eventually will. Not that I think they're bad games, I just know they'll inevitably go dirt cheap.

I like the JP one artistically but the Western one just works better at communicating what the game is about.

I'd argue Luigi is in such a unique position as a Nintendo character that no other character deserves a "year" like he does / did. Nobody else is second banana to one of the most recognizable pop culture icons ever.

Hooray, I’m glad it got restored! It’s one heck of a video; I got to watch it before its initial takedown.

I think I may download it in the event it ever gets removed again lol

I like the idea of a Splatoon SRPG, but that franchise needs a 2D platformer first. The ability to swim up walls is enough to sell me on the idea, but the new Zipcaster from Splatoon 3 would make for some awesome platforming combat / traversal.

It’s for the tears of the in-shambles Smash community.

As someone who plays Fortnite very regularly, I have a few thoughts.

I can see the concerns. Some of the tactics with the level up quests can be seen as encouraging more playtime (such as making missions disappear after an amount of time has passed).

However, ultimately this sounds like parents refusing to take accountability for letting their kids get addicted to a video game.

The only way you can get addicted to Fortnite is the same way you'd get addicted to any other fun game you really enjoy - allowing yourself to. Similar to games like Tetris, Fortnite can have a very "one more game" air to it that makes you want to play more; however, one must have the self control to stop playing.

Children don't have that kind of self control. Growing up, my parents only allowed me to play games on the weekends and I'm glad they did - I absolutely would've become more of an extreme gaming fanatic had they not put in measures such as this to prevent that.

TL;DR - To me, this sounds like Epic Games made a fun game, kids got unrestricted access to said fun game, parents wonder why kids won't stop playing said fun game and decide to sue said fun game instead of parenting their kids.

@Thwomp_Stomper They'd get sued for even talking about it; the new season is too addictive!

A bit off topic, but y’all are the only place I’ve seen that refers to these games as “ScarVi”. Nothing wrong with it (for sure beats typing out “Scarlet and Violet” five thousand times), but it was just something that I wanted to point out, haha.

To comment on the actual article, I didn’t realize the Pokémon size differences were that pronounced, I never caught the “Herba Mystica” reference, and I wish you could rename traded Pokémon more than once but at least you can do it at all. Cool finds all around.

IT’S BIG RUN TIME BABY!!!

Gonna be playing Big Run in Splatoon 3 (this event goes so hard yall) as well as some Fortnite (new season is very fun). May try to sneak in some Persona 5 Royal, but I’m going to mainly try and dedicate this weekend to getting some personal projects done. Maybe if I’m good enough at budgeting my time, I’ll finally sit down and finish Popgoes Arcade on Steam. Probably not though, haha.

Yall have a great weekend!

@andyg1412 Nah, I’m in the US. I appreciate you letting me know though; very cool of you!

Just need them to restock the FE series Tiki and Chrom; I've been missing those for years now...

I love that Pokemon is putting so much emphasis on the visual distinctions between Pokemon now, even if it is just size. Hopefully we can get more distinct changes in the future!

There's so many little pose references in here. When they go up the first lift he does the Mario 3D World run, and in the second lil clip they showed at TGA Mario literally did his Smash Forward Aerial. Neat!

Oh shoot, I assumed this was a sequel a la Cadence of Hyrule. This is still a really cool thing though!! I always think it's really cool when bigger companies let indie devs mess with their IP.

This looks like a great update! Pleeeeeaaaase let there be Dualies with Burst Bombs...

Edit: @/Fizza showed me in the forums that this update will, in fact, not be including Dualies with Burst Bombs. Trash update, actually.

Twitter may be a sinking ship, but Truck Freaks ride forever B)

lol jokes aside, I'm looking forward to seeing what the Truck Freak tier entails. If I don't see Undertale Fortnite AMV edits in my inbox by 6 PM sharp I am boycotting Toby Fox.

It would be really funny if Pokérus gets introduced in the update that lets you transfer to/from Pokémon HOME lol

The headline “Yuji Naka Arrested” is such a funny one LOL. Like, I understand that this is a serious situation, but what a goofy sounding headline.

I got clickbaited by this article I wish it would’ve been titled something like “Several Older Switch Games Get Stability Patches”

The Omega-3 remix of Clickbait has me more hyped than anything. That's so sick!!

I always like to say with Animal Crossing there’s stages to how I play it. ACNL had stages of playing it every day consistently, burning out, and then coming back to play it consistently again. Burnout periods on ACNL were usually only a few months.

I stopped playing ACNH in like, Fall of 2020 and I’m still on the burnout period for that game. I just don’t feel motivated to play it at all ever.

Shoutout to sites like Fangamer, Yetee, Shark Robot, etc. for selling gaming/general pop culture merch that is affordable, comfortable, well designed, representative of a wide variety of games and artists both indie and AAA, and doesn't have their company's name vainly slapped across it.

I would’ve gotten this model if I didn’t grab the Splatoon 3 edition. This looks gorgeous.

As a very little kid, I got nightmares from Smash Bros Brawl’s “game over” screen in Subspace Emissary. Something about that menacing orchestra sting combined with your lifeless character in a void scared the crap out of me.

A more conventional horror answer is that FNAF’s huge mainstream popularity happened when I was in around the ages of 11 and 12, and largely because of that franchise I now have a fear of what lurks in the dark when I’m alone. Thanks, Scott Cawthon! 😀👍

I may grab this later at a good sale price. I enjoyed the base game for what it was and having all the DLC on the cart would be nice.

Holy crap I have to buy this. Me and a buddy love playing games like this together so this is a no brainer for us.

I’m considering starting a family plan with my best friend so we can play the original Mario Party games together. However, other than this, I still can’t justify paying for the service. I really do want to play the N64 games but $50 a year is just a bit too expensive.

If you're at all interested in Metroid or ARMS, you'd be hard pressed to see them go for lower prices than these. Absolutely pick them up if you're able. Dread is an excellent single player experience that makes you feel so darn cool, and ARMS is one of my absolute favorite games and a wonderful multiplayer title.

At the very least give them there demos a go

Please come to North America 😭

I wonder what they do with these statues when they stop using them. They have to go somewhere, right? They don't just toss them out, I'd presume.

I met Charles at a local state convention back in 2018. My mother and grandmother took me to go meet him. I would've been 16 at the time.

He was so full of joy and genuine excitement. Even though he obviously wouldn't have remembered everyone he's met, he leaves such an impression on everyone he meets.

I got him to autograph my Gold Mario amiibo and he signed it from both Mario and Charles. As I left, he said in Mario's voice "Thank you so much for playing my game!" and I awkwardly replied in a Luigi voice "Thank you so much for making your game!" and he came back with a gleeful "Heehee!" as Mario. It was such a fun experience meeting him. He deserves the world.

I want the "life sized" plush so badly but there is no reasonable way to justify paying that much. Such is life...

@RupeeClock I was thinking they were indicators as well but I think they actually are new Pokémon given that there’s a Rookidee from SwSh on the radar as well.

I’d imagine this evo is Paldea exclusive, like the evos from Legends: Arceus. It’s a really neat design and the name is really fun to say.

WOW that's a really neat looking shot. I love the lil Biddybuds haha. And the toads look really nice as well!

WOWZA that Sephiroth figure is amazing. I absolutely love how detailed amiibo have become.

A good few of my most favorite games ever could fall under this umbrella, depending who you ask. ARMS and Fortnite aren’t exactly the biggest hits among us hardcore Nintendo fans, but I love those two games to death.

In terms of objectively bad games, a buddy and I played Lawnmower Game: Next Generation, a Switch eshop shovelware title, for our let’s play channel and we had an absolute blast. Any bad game is a good game if you play it with the right people.

Edit: I also really like crappy NES games. Urban Champion and Pro Wrestling as two of my favs.

Absolute class act waiting this long to launch physically just so they could include the DLC. I may double dip just to support the release but then again I may not haha. Regardless I think it's a really cool and good thing.

I’ve been slowly working my way through all of these. Picross is just an old reliable series that I really love and I’m glad there’s so much of it to enjoy.

@sketchturner Great choice. RoA is an excellent platform fighter. Awesome characters, deep but accessible mechanics, beautiful sprite art and music.

Yooo nice! I’m absolutely picking this up when I can; been wanting to for a while.

Finally, the first strand-type publishing company.

No matter what the crossover is, Among Usses dressed as other characters will never not be funny to me. The character design is so inherently simple, fun, and goofy that seeing them cosplay as Master Chief and VTubers feels very fun to me.

Professors using YouTube videos is nothing new (last semester my Social Problems prof played a video from the channel Company Man about a large scale financial scandal; I nearly fell out my seat when I heard the intro), but this is still really cool. Given that it’s Sakurai and his channel is so new, the teach probably didn’t just stumble upon it and is also a fan, which is an awesome thought.

Ugh, please rerelease the purple squid in North America. My Splatoon amiibo collection has been incomplete for years…

Edit from Oct. 1st: Holy cow I just found a purple squid amiibo in GameStop!! They did restock ‘em!

Seems like a really good patch. Splatoon 3 has been amazing for me so far (it feels like the sequel Splatoon 2 should’ve been, imo), and I’m glad to see some of its glaring wrinkles be ironed out.