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@Yosher You know, it's one thing to have a grievance with what they decided to do.

Entirely another to imply desperation when you don't know anything about how they run as a publication. Good grief.

@Kilroy You still would've found out eventually even if NintendoLife didn't spoiler or report on it. Don't be thick.

Those of you complaining, the official twitter account posted it.

You would've found out eventually.

@Aquinas For the love of... Look, admittedly the recent outings with Pokemon haven't been the best by a fair margin. ScarVi from a technical standpoint was a mess. Pokemon Legends ZA was too subdued for that matter despite what it tries to do.

But reducing GameFreak to "makers of cashgrabs" is a bridge too far, and far and away not a fair assessment. Especially considering they have another title they're trying to push out during all of this in collaboration with other studios, and the fact Winds and Waves looks graphically a step up from both ScarVi and ZA... which isn't saying much but it's still there.

@SillyG she's neen voicing Tails since movie 2 my dude

@TobiasAmaranth ironically this could be useful in a way cause of the obscene amount of blocks in the game... to some people at least.

@Liam_Doolan

Moonblast is correct. I once tried to get a Pokemon to move into a house with no furnishing in it, and they refused.

Home is what you make of it, literally, and a place with no furnishings is at once, a space full of potential, but also a space of sadness. No feeling of being lived in.

@Aquinas Blah blah blah.

AI can be stopped. It is not some supernatural or natural force of nature that can't be opposed. It is a man-made tool and like any tool ir thing made by humans, it can be broken and destroyed, and therefore stopped.

This inevitability nonsense is why it's so difficult to fight back. People like you who throw their hands up as if they think we're trying to fight a tornado. Knock it off.

I've had it with this talk. Stop doing the AI chuds work for them by spreading learned helplessness.

@FantasiaWHT Whatanoutism doesn't win arguments, pal. Next please.

@Pillowpants Capcom wanted him to do the job without a union contract. That means not having those AI protections at all because having those protections would be part of the contract.

@StewdaMegaManNerd Buddy, that wouldn't fit. Online battles are the orher mode.

@Dom_31 I was genuinely expecting it to be no better than Legends ZA, so what I saw actually caught me off guard a bit.

Sweeper Woman was my choice, in the end.

Lets keep supporting her through all the rounds, whoever has this time!

@Hwatt and exactly what tasks offer no value, pray tell?

@Boxmonkey They don't own it, they have license to use it. Big difference. And they need that license or else it could land them in real legal trouble.

Resd that print more carefully and get off your high horse.

@Hwatt I would rather use my brain than let my intellect and imagination atrophy by using a Gen AI slop machine.

Or did you forget there was a study showing prolonged AI used damages your brain and makes you dumber?

@SuperEndriu Cause companies insist on spending a fortune on graphics rather than what actually matters, and then decided humans are the problem rather than increasingly exorbitant budgets and unnecessarily detailed games.

@KeeperBvK The man truly had an Icarus complex, unfortunately for us all.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Sound more than a little too full of yourself, tbh.

The hate for the game is strongly overblown. Period.

The game controls excellently and plays well, and the premise of the Lamorn is interesting, but what drags it down isn't the additional GalFed Troopers in the story, it's literally a litany of other things:

• The lack of enemy variety
• The linearity of the biomes
• The fact the majority of the biomes are ENTIRELY INDOORS.
• The fact that Sol Valley is just not an interesting place on it's own.
• The fact it takes too much from Prime 1.

All of those points basically sum up my feelings about the game in general.

All of this paired with the fact Nintendo basically told Retro to make Namco's failed concept "work" as told by recent interviews, forces me to be softer on the game. They made the best of a bad hand dealt to them by Nintendo.

@Robot99 Seems to me more like you just are a misanthrope in general. You sound like Dr.House.

I actually started yelling in my apartment at this announcement and I hope I don't get a noise complaint xD

@jerichofr You're pompous and a fool is what you are.

Get out of here you corndog.

RupeeClock has it mostly right. But that's not the full breadth of why GenAI stuff gets scrutinized so harshly. It's also because it is explicitly anti-human. I know that sound's dramatic, and it will sound like philosophy, but let me explain:

Being "creative" is something you train yourself to do. To a point. Anybody can come up with wild ideas, but as you learn more, expose yourself to more media, and learn more about how things in the world work, your imagination and creativity becomes more refined. Affected by your likes and dislikes in fiction and IRL.

Sure, you'll probably end up pulling stuff and tropes from things you like, but, it's not a bad thing. You cannot create what you've never seen without some basis to create it from. And to make it look appealing, you learn about artistic principles and fundamental concepts such as perspective, color theory, framing, etc. That learning, is very important.

Now, this might sound like "oh, the AI does that too!", but... no it doesn't. The GenAI stuff does -giving it the most generous description I can- at best, an extremely truncated, nuance-less version of what humans do, with some randomization thrown in for good measure.

When a human does what the GenAI is trying to mimic, it will inevitably be affected by our previous experiences, worldview, emotions connected to those things. They make us think about what we want to represent in an image, and how, even if you don't exactly have the terminology to concretely express it. All of those things are important -and inherent to- the creative process.

Giving that process over to the machine, robs you of the mental exercise the creative process gives your mind. All you see is the end result of the process. There's no journey, no real learning happening there. Sure, you can curate and redo the results over and over and over again...

But what did you learn that could make the resulting picture, better? Did you learn how to do it? What steps it takes to achieve that? Putting it into words makes it seem like a lot, but it's really not. Considering how fast the human brain calculates and makes decisions.

@swedetrap It was the same way in the original Kirby Air Ride too. The simple controls is part of the game's core design philosophy.

There a demo IDK about?

@MarkSeteth72 uh, yeah, that's called consistency

@Sonicka Tangle and Whisper are from the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comics. They were introduced in them, and basically instantly became hits among a lot of fans. Myself included.

Also agreed on Vyse. I want some hope that Skies of Arcadia will have a future.

The voice direction in this game in general was fine, I have no idea what someone earlier was talking about with it being "not ABYSMAL".

I'm kinda at the point where I have to ask. "What about it was so bad exactly?"

@rjejr Yes, I do, for the original HW, because it was a complete experience on it's own. Everything else that came after, no matter how massive the overall game is, is extra. The Definitive Edition having everything from the Wii U release, on the Switch is just an even bigger reason to double dip for it. Especially since on Switch 2 it runs at a full 60fps. Which looks and feels very nice.

It's wasn't stuff picked up off the cutting room floor. It was stuff planned to be added after launch for the Wii U release, to give people incentive to keep playing well beyond the original release and the original stuff the game had. So the idea that the existence of DLC makes a game "incomplete" is complete nonsense. You can finish the game with, or without it. It's entirely a choice driven decision.

Example, I have beaten the main story of DK Bananza, but I haven't bothered getting the DK Island DLC, because as cool as a modern reinvention of DK Island is for a modern DK game, what it comes with doesn't interest me. And I already paid a sum of money for the game as it is.

Also your baseball analogy makes no sense at all. You stay for the extra Innings because the game isn't finished, but that's because of rules and reasons that are inherent to the game itself, for example, a Tie Game, and the need for a tiebreaker.

That's nowhere near the same for video games. Let alone ones like Hyrule Warriors as a series. The stuff the game has all packaged in at launch, is the original, complete experience. Any DLC afterwards, is an add-on that is completely optional. Unlike extra Innings in baseball.

@rjejr Dude. I'm getting real tired of people making this ridiculous notion.

"There's any DLC at all, therefore it's not the full game!"

If there's a whole game that has a beginning and an end and the credits roll, it's a full game, for god's sake.

Yes, some games have had day one DLC, or had DLC on disc or cart, if you don't need it to complete the main bulk of the game, then it doesn't take away from it.

Idk if someone mentioned it yet, but even though the leak is unverified, I feel the need to put that 21.8 million USD or so bones into perspective:

That's over 3.3 billion yen.

And if we convert that to seconds of time. That's 3 times the time a lot of us on this site have been alive (96 years or so). That's not a small budget by any means.

@Zyph That's the point where you should just be willing to party with randoms. And believe me, I know the feeling of wanting to be able to handle most things solo. But getting to the point where you can do that takes of a heck of a lot of commitment.

I started my account back when Wukong was the new kid on the block and Melee still involved using Channeling via the right mouse button (using energy to power up your melee). I then went on hiatus from it and literally everything changed.

Now in the past several months I went from having pretty much no Prime frames to the majority of my stock of them being Primes. Also several Primed weapons and more too.

And up until a couple of months ago I was still scared to do anything up to Level 50 enemies solo. Now that's not a problem. Understanding how mods work for weapons is an absolute gamechanger.

@harrystein Yeah, no. That's pure nostalgia talking.

@TrueBlueYoshi The problem is Capcom oversaturated the market.

MMBN3,4 and 5 all came out within 2 years of each other. This is on top of X6, X7 and X8, and others.

Mega Man needs new games, but not so quickly that quality is lost. Mega Man 7 is a complete anomaly in the franchise of an actually good game being made in only 3 months.

@DangoTown So what if Bananza isnt?

Also, not the same quality as Odyssey? Game isn't even out yet and it's very obviously inspired by Odyssey's style?

How do you figure it isn't the same quality?

@DangoTown and what exactly do they have to prove?

@JohnnyMind How about you take a moment to think about why it may be a black and white issue for some people instead of taking a nonchalant pot shot?

@cyrus_zuo buddy, you and every person saying this hust continuously prove all you have are false equivalences. Ottocamn also shows they dunno what they're saying.

Photoshop, Cameras, Synthesizers, and more all required knowledge or specialized thereof in order to make best use of them.

You still had to learn how to convincingly edit photos/ synthesize pleasing sounds/ take great photos by experience and knowledge gained from learning, with overlap from art skills.

GenAI doesn't require that, as a supposed tool.

It's not the same as the AI machines used in medicine or other fields that are actually helpful either.

@JohnnyMind you do realize they're generating something they could literally take photos of by going outside?

It matters, pal.

Given up on any blue bomber related surprises ever happening tbh

Only thing I want is a new game.

@N00BiSH On my end, I just wish there was even more optional stuff to do. Like coming across other characters on the map and being able to challenge them to a race with a randomized challenge attached, or even challenges that focus on mastering the game's mechanics in some way.

Just... optional stuff you're not pressured to do, but it's there if you want it.

The other main thing I want is for Nintendo to give the other characters outside the big names some more costumes.

@Justifier I'm still waiting for the invite. : (

@Ogbert no! Do it more Devs! Make him suffer!!!

/joke

@PikminMarioKirby So your idea that it is a rushed game is based entirely on it's graphics, even though this is probably the intended look for the game, and the fact they decided to make these little Wild Park like areas, even though the game is straight up said to take place entirely within Lumiose City?

Do you understand how little sense you've just made?

And "I'm going off the fact these other games were rushed..."

So you already had a bias, and you're just looking for reasons to justify it.

And you admitting the game hasn't gone gold, implies they are still actively developing the game via giving it the finishing touches and further bug-testing before launch... Which is a completely normal thing for them to do as you've already stated.

Yeah. You're not a credible in the least.

@PikminMarioKirby Looks like an unfinished game based on what in the footage? What about it? What about the game in the footage makes it look "unfinished"?

All you've been doing this entire time is insisting, over, and over, and over, that it looks unfinished.

Yet you haven't even tried or bothered to elaborate on what.

And you keep talking about that they've moved on to the next game... Based on what? That it looks "unfinished" in a way you've yet to quantify in any way at all? You're basically claiming secret knowledge of TPC/Game Freak's operations, which, chances are, no, you don't.

So show receipts that prove they've already gone gold with the game and have ceased further development of Z-A, or stop claiming stuff you have no actual knowledge of.

And if you dare to go as far as saying "you can't see it, I can't help you" or any variant thereof, you'll have proven you're talking out your back end.