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Am I the only one who looks at the main hero of Everhood and immediately thinks "That looks like Geno"?

@Travisemo007 "Mobile BS Company"

ILCA has worked on stuff like Nier Automata, Dragon Quest XI, and several other big name titles that aren't at all mobile. That's already an impressive resume.

Gonna put this here so everyone understands and as a reminder:

The remakes are not being made by Game Freak. They are being made by the people who made Pokemon Home: ILCA.

So complaining about Game Freak in regards to the game's Chibi artstyle is utterly pointless and completely off base cause they don't have their hands in it with the exception of publishing it alongside Nintendo and The Pokemon Company

@gloom The remakes aren't even being made by Game Freak, so your whole comment is moot.

@Tyranexx I don't think that's a zipper... I think that's a latch.

@Heavyarms55 Give it a rest already. People are allowed to be critical and disappointed as much as you are allowed to be viscerally excited and happy. Stop acting like they have no reason to be unhappy and no cause for wanting better just because of your excitement and happiness. You're not wrong to be happy or excited. They aren't wrong for being critical or voicing disappointment.

I watched the Direct. The opening nostalgia trip had me smiling, tearing up, almost crying because Pokemon was a massive part of my childhood like so many others. New Pokemon Snap made me smile. The DP remakes made me a bit less so, and Pokemon Legends has my interest.

That does not however stop me from being critical. I want the game to be the best that it can possibly be. As things stand right now, it is The Wild Area: The Game, The Wild Area was a good concept, but making a whole game out of it requires something more. It needs more polish. Creating an entirely Open World Pokemon game where the Pokemon just move around like glorified robot sentries, is not enough.

Even if you're tired of all the people who are expressing negative opinions, saying they're "pretending to be fans" basically implies you think that people who are being so critical can't possibly be fans. Did you stop to think that maybe the disappointment stems from the fact they want better from Game Freak and the franchise?

What you're saying essentially boils down to the same kind of attitude a lot of conservatives show when people complain about how cruddy the US is: "If you don't like it, then leave." That's unreasonable. You're basically wanting your comment space to be utterly sterilized of negative feedback and not wanting people to voice discontent.

@Zach777 Considering they're pulling concepts from a game that has become influential enough to spawn imitators, and coming off of a concept that laid the groundwork for something such as this from Sword and Shield. It's not entitled to ask for the games to be better.

They made the games better over the years and now that the technology clearly allows for it, you're telling us it's entitled to ask Game Freak to try to push their formula and concept to the next level?

I can guarantee you that if Pokemon is somehow still around in the next 10 or even 20 years, the children of today will be acting like we are now if Game Freak continues to drag it's feet and hold back on how the concept of their games can grow. Pokemon Legends is a big step in the right direction toward doing that. Now Game Freak needs to keep stepping in that direction so that Pokemon as a concept can evolve further.

@Judal27 I have a problem with it being called "Early footage" myself... There's no way this hasn't been in the dev pipeline since somewhere after Sword and Shield's main development ended, and they're telling us it's gonna be out by next year? 12 months is not a lot of development time for a video game by any stretch.

@Kalmaro Unfortunately I have one major concern with Legends: that the Pokemon will have no behaviors outside idling, wandering, running away or being aggressive.

For a Pokemon game like this to truly work, they need to make the Pokemon more than statues or robots. They need to make them interact with the environment and each other, outside of battle.

Considering the fact it's only a year out, I hope doing that is their goal aside optimization, but considering how SWSH initially was, I have little hope.

@Menardi This was nowhere on my Saturday Bingo Card.

@Darlinfan Since you're obviously not getting it. I'll spell it out: the iconography and symbols have meaning to people who are still alive today, many with negative connotations. Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean it's no big deal. It's a completely selfish way of thinking. Realizing that forcing people to be okay with the continued existence of symbols of those regimes is wrong, is an act of sympathy and compassion.

Actually take yourself and imagine being a victim of those regimes, how would you feel to see people proudly parading those symbols and icons around? It's not hard to figure out how you'd probably feel about that.

@AtlanteanMan So symbols of people who espoused hate, tried to enslave or kill people, and used their religion among other things as excuses to do the aforementioned, should be allowed to stand in public as symbols of power of a failed regime? For someone who minored in history, you seem to have very little understanding of what that means to let them continue to stand. It says their view of the world, the one that allowed slavery and mistreatment of fellow human beings to stand for hundreds of years, will be tolerated and allowed to continue to exist, for no reason other than "Freedom of Speech"

Which, by the way, I feel the need to inform you, is not how it works. The First Amendment keeps the government from jailing you for things you've said (the kind of thing you could've had happen to you in Colonial England). It does not however protect you from the consequences of your own words. To use a phrase: "Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose."

@BloodNinja ... Are you for real? More than half the games on it are not shovelware, and actually have interesting concepts. Just because they don't jive with you doesn't make them shovelware.

@Denoloco Japan is their primary market.

@Henmii "First party is basically dead."

Because there isn't a plethora of their IPs on the table right now?

BotW2 is sill in dev. We have no news on MP4 but that doesn't mean it's dead (though I would say struggling right now). Splatoon 3 is in dev and who knows if they have anything else up their sleeves they're waiting to show.

Most of the stuff shown is for the next few months to boot. Who knows if there will be another direct this year like this one.

@Sabrewing Seems like this is a changing of the guard, like it was with Sonic X and then Colors.

@nessisonett That's a terrible analogy for a number of reasons.

For one thing you're framing children as victims and act as if playing games is something they do out of a compulsion from addiction (which literally rewires your brain to want the target of it) to something they do voluntarily, often with others, for fun.

Second. The analogy isn't anywhere close to reality unless you're talking about games that blatantly try to use addictive mechanics (in a similar way to gambling) to try to lure them into doing harmful things (spending lots of money).

Third. Asking the children is a good thing because ignoring their thoughts and such on this is not only eschewing a whole other data point, it's also denying a whole other perspective of the whole picture.

If you want to use that analogy, you have to apply it to everyone, not just the children. A lot of people are around my age of 29 and we still play video games. Is it because of addiction?

@doctorhino Pokken predates Jump Force dude, and they don't have anywhere close to the same fighting mechanics.

@Taekw0ndud I am on MAXIMUM RENDER DISTANCE!...And I STILL can't find WHO TF ASKED!

11/12, Lapras got me too.

@Supadav03 Even so, it proves that the lighting engine and animation makes all the difference.

@Ralizah Calling it a stuttery mess is just outright lying, it just doesn't run at 60 FPS.

@nessisonett @COVIDberry Since it's a racer, it would probably be a matter of balancing.

Changing the speed slightly (while still making it fast), minor changes to track features (like adding rails to places they don't exist, where able) for relatively for forgiving experience, and giving a player multiple machines during a race at the cost of getting passed up (but not too much) are probably the order of the day for differences in difficulty settings.

The AI of most racers, even in GX, isn't that sophisticated, they're made to go around the track as fast as possible and not much else in most cases, so messing with their AI would be far trickier.

@Lordplops -or you're being stupidly simplistic and not seeing the whole picture.

@StinkyHat I have to agree. At this point it feels almost like they're trying to keep stuff under wraps and save face rather than give us anything of value...

Almost like the game is in development hell (Heehee hoho) and has been for a long time.

@Aurumonado Her name was Longclaw.

I am still suspecting she isn't dead.

@Entrr_username People are allowed to be disappointed dude.

I like how everyone completely ignored Quarth's post.

@Ralek85 That's how it always is in musou games. It's also because Koei Tecmo uses the same engine for pretty much all their games and refuses to update or remake the damn thing to work better.

@QueenKittenWrite New isn't always better.

Also, don't be an a**hole.

@DK-Fan -or maybe it shows people are fed up with the crap.

@Pod Have to disagree, first movie was downright fun in general.

Also. Calling it that Longclaw isn't dead and somehow survived the encounter with the Echidnas.

Remember, if you didn't see the body, they may not be dead!

@Kirgo It really doesn't. Having fun what ifs doesn't ruin anything. It just makes more things for the fans to enjoy.

@Octorok385 -or maybe it's fine to have a little twist to it?

Also: Time loop.

@TheFrenchiestFry Having played the demo and seeing where the game starts, another fun thing to consider: This is very likely a time loop situation.

How many times do you think that Guardian has gone back by now?

@Shadowthrone That wasn't name-calling. Further. "You said I'm being obtuse, I'm not going to read the rest" is far more juvenile. You're basically rejecting purely because I told you you're not understanding the bigger picture.

So I'm going to reiterate this: Selling games as digital only is a terrible idea because of the fact accidents can happen. You're not always in control of when or how data is lost, no matter how much you'd like to think so, and even if you prepare accordingly, crap can still happen.

If you lose that data despite taking all the necessary precautions, and the digital only game is no longer being sold on it's appropriate storefront, then you're basically screwed.

-and while the "accidents can happen" argument can be applied to physical copies, there's one crucial difference: So long as copies of the game still exist in working condition, and you can buy it from someone, you can re-obtain it.

You can't do that with digital only in the vast majority of cases.

@Shadowthrone You're being incredibly obtuse and entirely missing the point: Selling games as digital only is terrible because if a game disappears from a digital store, that's it, you can't purchase it legally anymore.

So what happens if something happens to your digital copy? Say the data gets corrupted irreparably for some reason, or your backup gets corrupted, or your storage gets ruine in something unforeseen? If your digital copy is somehow lost and the software is no longer commercially available, then you're screwed out of an experience you paid for.

With physical, unless the data on the physical media is corrupted or the media itself is damaged to the point of no longer working, then you're good for as long as the physical media, or your hardware, lasts. Without physical as an option, piracy at that point becomes pretty much the only option for re-obtaining that data.

Going digital only will just increase the rate of piracy as games become no longer available for purchase.

@TheFrenchiestFry Detective Pikachu didn't involve stuff from our world though. The movie's story and setting is based on the Detective Pikachu game with some heavy tweaking, which in my opinion made the original story better in some ways.

@Kirby_Girl Listen, I was expecting this to be an entirely one-sided thing where the Monster's were taking a one-way trip to our Earth and causing chaos and everything that would inevitably ensue with that plotline. The fact both worlds are going to be featured is better than I was expecting by a far margin, so I'm going to reserve my right to be cautiously optimistic.

Some of you here in the comments, just... Wow.

Even with Paul Anderson's Resident Evil movies were drivel, it's like you guys didn't even pay attention to the trailer and were caught up entirely in going "It looks soooooooo baaaaaad!".

From the look of things, it looks like the gate mentioned in the trailer goes both ways, and that the movie starts off with the soldiers going to the world of Monster Hunter and that monsters end up invading our world via the gate.

It's not entirely out of the realm of the lore either, as in, crossing over worlds like this. We have examples from the likes of Metroid, Mega Man, Street Fighter and more, and even the Behemoth from Final Fantasy, and the Leshen from the Witcher. Even with them being collaborations it hints that the World of Monster Hunter can and is frequently connected to others.

@Eel Admit it, you love goofy Kohga. It's part of his charm!

@MrBlacky It's called that because of the specific characteristics of the game design of Metroid and Castlevania as they were originally conceived in the old days. Namely relating to their map design, general game flow and mechanics.

There's a reason Axiom Verge is called a Metroidvania, it's because it has the characteristics of a 2D Metroid or Castlevania game in it's design. Any game called by that gives you some idea of what to expect of it.

@MrBlacky

It's in the name: Metroidvania

@Inc Because it and Castlevania made an entire genre. Don't be such a twit.

@Einherjar Sadly, don't bet on it.

@Duffman92 There's nothing wrong with art styles being similar.

@TheFullAndy Do you know how many Monster Hunter games run at 30 FPS? Pretty much all of them, and they still run smoothly, and they are still a rewarding and great gameplay experience in general. So clearly a 60 FPS framerate isn't king. So long as it's mechanics and gameplay are good, a stable FPS is all the game really needs.

@Samuel-Flutter It's a Musou game. I doubt there won't be extra unlockable characters. Heck. Maybe we'll get Kass' master?

@Bolt_Strike I would go as far as to say Platinum are currently the kings of stylish beat-em up titles.

@TheFullAndy Really? A cliche response? That's all you have?

Just because I disagree doesn't mean I lack empathy. Nice try.

@TheFullAndy It's called being able to extrapolate your feelings and try to understand how it might feel for someone else to experience something similar or worse. Trying to put yourself in their shoes.

It's called empathy. Try it sometime.