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I haven't noticed it, but I do spend a suspicious amount of time sitting on people's rooftops...

Still I'd rather live in Tarrey Town.

And Europe gets shafted again. Not surprising, but disappointing for sure.

The Deponia collection comes a little too late, but depending on the price I might get it just to free up some space.

@Fujimoto-San
Yeah I did. I always set a reminder when I know about spirit events in advance.

They have sales literally every week.

Pikachu's being forced down our throats all the time already.

Way too expensive to import with shipping and custom fees. :/

@Fujimoto-San
Yeah, they usually get added with the update that comes with DLC characters, but until then the incomplete collection will annoy me a lot.

And I missed the Monster Hunter spirits I wish those spirit events were announced in the Switch news, I don't play this game that often anymore and news sites are spotty at best.

Map drawing and the like is fine (I love Etrian Odyssey) but having to control my character with the stylus just annoys me if it's more than simply moving them around. I think that's the reason I decided against buying it when I got my DS.

Today I learned that despite being advertised here, Germany as well as Austria and Switzerland don't even get the rereleased cards at all. Store exclusives are horrible but at least you have a chance.

My SNES carts are in their plastic bags (and two storage boxes) because a) my parents didn't keep the original boxes and b) I'm not a fan of cardboard anyway. But ever since the DS games got proper boxes, I won't buy or keep games without them.

I don't know why anyone would leave loose carts flying around, but it does explain why so many people act like losing them is a real concern...

Now we just need more Joy-Con colors on the original Switch.

@Exciter89
For the most part, the Etrian Oyssey games are standalone games. There will be a few references and stuff, but nothing you need to enjoy the games or understand the story. Nexus is more of a "best of" game with returning dungeons and characters, and I personally enjoy how it plays with expectations when you've played the games its dungeons are based on, but again there's nothing that doesn't work without prior knowledge as far as I can tell.

Bravely Second is a direct sequel to Bravely Default.

Maybe I'm getting too old for this world. The idea that people agonize that much about how they voluntarily spend their free time is so bizarre.

If they get released in Europe and IF I can easily order them from a normal store with normal payment options, maybe I'll get the ones I like.

I wasn't a huge fan of Trio of Towns but loved the other 3DS games. This is disappointing. (And they REALLY need to fix the space issues, that used to drive me crazy in the first Story of Seasons game all the time)

The Story of Seasons remake already toed the line of tolerable chibi design for me, but it didn't look quite as cheap overall as this game. I get they were going for a recreation of the otiginals' pixel style, but it just doesn't translate all that well to 3D models, and Let's Go looking so much better just adds to the disappointment.

I was mostly hoping for the games to be less clunky on the technical side, but if I'm expected to pay full price for this I'd rather just replay the old ones.

The only thing I want to know more about right now is the Detective Pikachu sequel.

Ocarina of Time is starting to have the same oversaturation annoyance effect on me as Kanto in Pokemon games. I still had the most fun with the Oracle games, especially Ages.

Sounds more like the fans have an (over)hype problem.

I didn't have expectations other than something for Zelda and a Smash character reveal. I was hoping for AoC dlc and got that, plus a handful of other things I'll consider buying, so overall I'm pretty happy with it.

I don't really judge Directs by "meeting expectations" or overall "objective" quality, I just make lists of the things I want. The only time I remember being disappointed was when Miitopia was a port rather than a sequel.

I had no expectations and got plenty of things on my list now. Age of Calamity DLC and Legend of Mana are probably my favorite announcements for this years, Skyward Sword is nice too.

That definitely looks chaos-influenced. Love the hairstyles.

Glad to see they're back. Those random announcements where I know what theyr're about before even watching any trailers just don't do it for me. I like being in the right mindset for these things (and also being able to plan out my spending a few months in advance)

"Turning on a game to just relax and take the edge off, only for it to remind you of that thing that's been tearing the world apart?"

This requires you to have bought the game, and it can be reasonably expected of you to have at least read the eshop page to know what the game is about. If you don't like the subject matter, don't buy tge game, and it won't be on your system to blindside you.

Those can probably keep you safe from out of control jiggle physics too.

If they keep this up, I'm going to have to dedicate a memory card to Atelier games. Or get around to importing the Asian carts but the custom fees make that a financually unwise option.

Somehow I really like these games' menu icons.

There'll be enough announcements out of nowhere, like last year.

I'm good for now. Bravely Default in February, Stranger of Sword City in March, Snap in April, and then we'll likely know more about the months after that. And don't forget the Zelda anniversary.

You lost me at let's go mechanics.

It's all fun and games until others start playing too.

I explored the castle as much as I could without running into the last blight (great place but I wish you could teleport out) and now I'm pretty much just hanging out in/around Tarrey Town because I'm not killing Ganon before I finished all Divine Beasts and I'm ignoring Naboris because I can't be bothered to go through another of these things. It's been like that for over a year now.

I still feel cheated that I had to buy a random house that's not even really IN Hateno and then got to build a whole town with people who care enough about me to invite me to their wedding and I didn't get to live there? At least they could let me have one of those cute cube houses instead of a boring normal one.

I don't expect more than leaderboards and maybe liking other people's pic.

On one hand I'd love to give these game another chance (they were the least fun for me so far) but on the other I stopped playing every remake after 4-6 gyms...

This isn't judging you or anyone else who got the game for the lockdown, but it really does show the difference between people who were into AC as a life sim before and people who weren't in how they approach "boredom" phases.

If this is your first AC game, I can tell you I was super active during New Leaf times and this competitive mindset didn't really exist back then. And there's definitely still a huge community that doesn't focus on this.

Trying to get out of the "prettiest island competition" and "lockdown savior" modes is important. It's a game. It's supposed to be fun, not save the world.

So, as you said, Animal Crossing cannot be used as a flotation device when you're drowning in the ocean, but it can (literally) be that little island that lets you take a break from swimming.

The guys have to be the most boring designs I've seen in a while. I'm now placing all my hope in the game having one of the usual "secret" candidates and that he's more appealing. Or same-sex marriage.

How is a huge list of 1.99 games better than a huge list of 0.99 games?

How hard can it possibly be to announce these in advance?

That's not Sooga, but I'm still hoping for Astor.

@mlj11
They get added to the regular rotation later, usually with the next DLC pack update.

I play most of the games I buy, and cards cost extra so I don't buy digital games unless I'm actually interested in playing them. (I did grab some of the free games, but never downloaded them.)

With physical releases, I'm far more likely to pick something up to "complete" my collection, but only used and when they're cheap enough. The opposite Pokemon editions are a good example.

They're three months early.

Back in NL we told people who got the game later they can just do it next year.

Even after watching a trailer I can't figure out what's supposed to be standing out compared to other games. The most offensive thing I saw were the walking animations.

Time to panic buy everything I want at 11:50 despite making a list when the sale started, like I always do.

Please don't insult ramen like that.

If any other publisher takes over, that's actually goos news. Maybe we won't have to wait a decade for localizations anymore.

"All we do is push for the very best content. We would not be the type of partner you would want to work with."

They didn't even try to hide the "you suck" in there.

There's always a 50% discount on two or three of the 3DS ones, what's supposed to be special about it?

This is the perfect year to finally ditch the Gamestop codes for good.