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@General_Mike I can tell you that 1, 2, and 3 are pretty rough by today's standards and don't hold up. This is a personal opinion of course, but I'd start with 4 and if you fall in love with 4-6, then go back and play the first 3.

Like most all FF none of the stories are connected, so you won't miss anything.

I was actually charged full price the day of preorder for the Switch Special Edition. It is interesting to me that some people weren't.

I'd like to say I look at them and then I do a lot of in depth analysis and research about their types, moves, and stats.

But no, I just look at the final evolutions and pick the one that looks the coolest.

I'm not as worried about being able to catch out of battle, but the battles themselves were so much more snappy, with far less dialogue for mundane things. After playing Pearl/Diamond remakes and quitting halfway through because battles were so terribly slow and boring, I don't know that I'd ever want to go back.

Maybe I'll just stick to Legends spinoff.

I think people are reading this all wrong.

From numerous interviews and articles it was very clearly a message that MS games would have achievements and that Xbox Live would be available through these games. Microsoft has been pushing for an open ecosystem, and I bet that talks broke down with Nintendo and they decided they didn't want another online infrastructure on their system.

Microsoft wasn't being arrogant and they weren't the reason it broke down like it did, guaranteed. They said that other platforms (not consumers) didn't want Xbox Live on other platforms, which was clearly what they wanted to achieve through Switch.

@RazumikhinPG Again, no. Looking for a guilty party who did something, and then finding the guilty party who acknowledges guilt on their own--not a witch hunt. That is just plain ol' catching someone red handed.

As to whether or not it is a big deal--no, it isn't the end of the world that a leak happened. Does Nintendo, as a business, want to control that messaging? Yes, they do, and it is every bit their right.

Also, Nintendo IS pretty careful with its review copies as you have to reach a certain point with traffic to even be considered. Then, to get a review copy you have to sign a legally binding NDA. This website knew what it was doing was wrong, did it anyway, and are paying the price. End of story.

@RazumikhinPG I think maybe our media and government constantly misuses the word witch hunt, and this has confused people as to what it means, but you know a witch hunt is a turn of phrase meant to describe when someone either makes up charges or searches for charges in order to acuse an innocent party, right?

When the party is guilty, it isn't a witch hunt. That is just good old fashioned justice.

Dexxers are the worst.

There is a way to make your voice heard in matters like this and it isn't hounding every Game Freak, Nintendo, and dev post on Twitter with nonsense memes or constant attacks. When you do that it diminishes the validity of your voice, even if you had something valid to say in the first place.

Console or dedicated handheld video games still have a stigma with some parents, which is always exceptionally frustrating to me. They are usually older parents or grandparents, or new age parents who raise their kids all organic with no screen time, but the idea behind it is daft anyway. There is fundamentally no difference between them playing with their legos or building in Minecraft, and yet because it is a game somehow it is not worthy of time. Some of these same parents let their kids watch nonstop YouTube or TV, which requires no interaction at all, at least video games require participation.

I wonder how much longer we will have to deal with this idea of video games being a negative thing for kids.

@SquallLeonhart86 Be a marathon watch for just the first movie.

@NIN10DOXD Story has never been a strongpoint of the series, even in the best of games. They pretty much copy paste the entire plot over and over, which is fine, because that isn't really what Pokemon has ever been about.

@SquallLeonhart86 Seems like more of a dig at Death Stranding than Pokemon.

@NEStalgia Just wanted to basically thumbs up everything you've written. You are incredibly well measured, intelligent in your arguments, and wholly thoughtful.

Way to be awesome at debating!

Even though these are intelligently formed opinions, they are likely ones made months ago, since the game literally just came out.

It is fans review bombing over the dex issue and couching that in partially formed opinions they've been building on since the dex issue was first brought up.

The gameplay is standard Pokemon. Story is standard Pokemon. To give it a 0 because you are upset about dex is disingenious at best and downright trolling at worst.

A bad response--a little pithy and combative--but I can understand the dev's frustration.

@HumanDog Your comment is essentially the abridged version of the internet. I would show historians your description as an accurate portrayal of all the things.

Because of course they will do this thing you've stated.

@Sidon_ZoraPrince That is the stuff we should be holding up. I'd like to check your stage out.

@Shadowmoon522 You would think so, but all of the Twitter accounts so proud of their immature stages are adults.

@Pluto14 I doubt many are offended by the immature sexual stuff, but we've been around enough to know often a handful ruin it for the rest of us. Nintendo has neutured or removed programs before to combat this stuff, and so one person's extremely stupid stage could end up with us losing a mode.

It is the frustration since kindergarten of a few idiots ruining it for everyone.

Man I hate people sometimes. This is why Nintendo always has a stranglehold on things like online and allowing sharing. I was so excited to see Nintendo allow videos and stages to be shared and the first thing people do is ruin it.

And people are proud of it! WHY? It shows zero humor, zero creativity, and is just a play for the lowest common denominator of laughs.

I think this unlikely, but if it is coming it would probably be a straght up port or maybe something with the Nintendo Online service.

The original looks fine. About time someone fixed Sonic's weird, gross, double-pupiled, giant eyeball.

I like this Peach, she has more personality than every official Peach artwork combined.

@ilh The industry isn't running out of ideas, it has always been like this. Companies are constantly iterating and borrowing from one another. Battle Royale is popular for a reason, and Tetris boils that reason down to bare essentials with one of the best designed games on the planet.

People who constantly use a meme until they run it into the ground are the internet equivalent of that guy in the breakroom that you don't really know, but you have this one mostly inconsequential laugh together.

Then every time you see him he uses this new inside joke as your only connection, desperate to connect in some way, until the point that when you see him you just walk the other way and cringe when he starts the joke.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I'm surprised it beat Red Dead. That game is going to be a megaton this month.

I'm sure glad this isn't how people feel about rare stuff I have in my home.

"I can't buy it so I'm going to steal it."

@JaxonH I agree it should be a non-issue, but I would also argue that there is no reason for them to take a stance like this, especially when they already look so bad as is with online.

@JaxonH Except for, it isn't how it works for all of their competitors, as outlined above. I've gone even further over the 6 months when my PS4 was stolen, and they retained all my saves.

One of the only features worth paying for is the game save backup, and asterisks just keep getting added to the feature. That is really what this article is, another asterisk.

I vote Nintendo changes its tagline to Two Step Forward, One Step Back.

I'll be buying it, considering how cheap it is. I think we know about all that is there, and I'm sure the voice chat app will continue to be awful. This is just one of those spaces where it seems Nintendo will never figure it out.

@roy130390 You aren't wrong, that wasn't my intent, but I approached it wrong clearly--enough so that two people called me out on it. My intent was only to disagree and state why I disagreed, nothing more.

@roy130390 I went exhaustively over this with another individual, so let me just say perhaps I worded things wrong, but I didn't see you calling the author out in stating his opinion was the only one.

When you state something as definitive as: "but for those that really get Monster Hunter there really is no competition between the two. Classic Monster Hunter provides the better experience."

Then you create problems all your own. The individual is essentially asserting if you are a REAL Monster Hunter fan you think that Classic is better. There are other sections that read in a mocking tone as well; just slapping an addendum on the end doesn't fix that.

@Razer I shouldn't have stated it the way I did I suppose. Concisely stating my thoughts should be something easy for a writer, but I clearly need improvement.

@Razer I feel like you are an intelligent individual, so taking one sentence and defining my entire point from that sentence seems asinine. I UNDERSTAND that he likes the game. I have no personal stock in, or care that he likes the game. I was stating I don't understand WHY, and felt his points were sometimes ill defined, or not backed up at all.

When you state something as definitive as: "but for those that really get Monster Hunter there really is no competition between the two. Classic Monster Hunter provides the better experience."

Then you create problems all your own. The individual is essentially asserting if you are a REAL Monster Hunter fan you think that Classic is better. There are other sections that read in a mocking tone as well; just slapping an addendum on the end doesn't fix that.

They can like whatever they want, and I'm allowed to disagree and express confusion at it. Nowhere did I say the author was simply wrong (as the author himself dictates, yet I didn't see you taking him to task), or their opinion was invalid.

If I say "I like Marvel movies." and you state "I don't understand why because XYZ" that isn't stating that you liking it is wrong, or invalidate my opinion.

@Razer I don't know about getting worked up, but you are certainly making me out to be some internet villian, sweeping in to belittle others opinions. I simply expressed my own, that is it. This thread is full of people doing just that, including a good majority agreeing with the author.

Did you similarly go to each of those in turn and exclaim that the author wasn't looking for their opinion, that he did not need their validation of his opinion?

I think not, you've targeted me because I've disagreed with an opinion, and calmly laid out my own without in any way attacking the author or belittling his/her/their opinion.

As a writer myself I want voices of varying opinions in my comments section, as long as that discussion is civil and ordered. I see no issue with addressing the article.

To be emphatically clear I feel like your responses have been calm, and carrying on a discussion. It is impossible to discern tone on the internet at times, so I thought I would assure you I don't think we are in an escalating shouting match here.

@roy130390 The "point" of the article was to share ones opinion, and then open the comments to do the same. This is what I've done--nothing more, nothing less.

As for exploration in World there is plenty of it, in order to find alot of the best items it is required. In fact, I would say the nature of the exploration quests allow you all the exploration you want. The world is more alive and interesting either way, more lived in.

A lot of these critiques of World read a lot like the Git Good posts of Dark Souls. Anybody who disagrees is on baby mode, and the hardcore community scoffs at anything that makes the game more accessible to newcomers.

Those changes though are what made the game the best selling game in the series, and in Capcom's history.

I never said his opinion was wrong, simply that I couldn't understand it, especially some of the sort of talking down he did about some of the mechanics of the "hunt". Which typically in the old games is randomly go into zones until you find him.

@Razer Honestly I feel you are getting worked up over me saying I don't understand the opinion. I then simply backed up the reasons why I don't understand. I was simply attempting to have a discussion, I didn't say you are wrong, and here is why.

I thought that was the point of the comments section, no?

I'll never understand the idea of liking old school MH over World. Just the pointless items you always have to stock up, longer than necessary gathering, horrendous load times, a dull and lifeless map compared to world that is locked off into zones, and those terrible, terrible paintballs.

The holding the hand complaint doesn't really make sense either, as it just does what every other game does and actually explain how to play it. Then, by modern game standards, it still barely explains its five billion menus.

The flies dont bother me either, because usually "hunting" a monster in the old game meant pointlessly roaming betweens zones hoping the monster was there, and then nailing it with a paintball and following it as it used shortcuts to warp into new zones.

After playing MHW I dont know that I can ever go back to the dull, lifeless older versions. You act like graphics are the main draw of the newer game, but I think you are missing the point. Instead it is shrugging off grindy baggage that has always made the game less fun and accessible while retaining what made it great: huge awesome boss fights.

I got a platinum on the PS4 version and it was a buggy mess, but a competent RPG. I don't think it reached the quality level that Nintendo usually requires to push something.

I'm incredibly hyped for Smash, so I figured I'd be all in for whatever LE they announced. This is very overwhelming though. The standard box art looks way better, I already have a pro controller, and this one actually looks bland.

Is it just me, or did this release date drop out of nowhere?

What an awful release date. At this point they should hold till early next year.

Jared Petty was really fond of this game also, it is how I'd first heard about it. Excited it is finally on consoles.

This game seems like it is never coming out.

Yeah, found out it was pretty common via Reddit, but the two I had didn't grow. It is caused by overtightened screws I think.

Right in my weak spot: collecting useless Nintendo plastic.

Not one person on their team felt Let's Go was a disappointment at all? That's hard to believe.

This is so weird and so Nintendo, I cant help, but think it is true.