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@Crockin Did it occur to you they may not want to reveal every little thing and keep some surprises?

I want F-Zero instead please Nintendo. Give Mario Kart a freaking rest. Putting the Blue Falcon, Mute City and Mii Costumes into Mario Kart is not a replacement for the genuine article.

Am I the only one looking at this and thinking the art style evokes The World Ends With You?

What I want is a trailer.

@Specter_of-the_OLED That was aimed at UltimateOtaku, who questioned if it was.

@UltimateOtaku91 It's being written by Ian Flynn, the one of the writers for IDW's Sonic comic series.

Let me explain this simply of why NFTs in gaming are a terrible idea.

To those who claim you can use those NFTs in other games.
That would require making new assets in each game after the game the NFTs are made in to allow those items the NFT is attached to, in order for it to be used across games.

This also doesn't account for the difference in functionality between systems or mechanics, and with each new game, the amount of assets needed to accommodate those NFTs would grow exponentially to the point it's no longer physically, or monetarily viable for the company, so they'll abandon it.

The most you could expect out of that is the NFT acting as a sort of ticket for redeeming a special version of an existing item already made for another game, cause data like that is easier to do and takes up less space. But that also doesn't change the issue of exponential growth of the data needed to accommodate them all.

-and all of that is before we get into the fact we already have seen what a real market would do with real money exchanging hands would do to a game. IIRC it was Diablo 3's auction house and from what I've read, it completely ruined that game.

There's a very long article on why this is bad, that explains it better than I am, it's pretty long though, but worth reading:

Here is the link: https://docseuss.medium.com/look-what-you-made-me-do-a-lot-of-people-have-asked-me-to-make-nft-games-and-i-wont-because-i-m-29c7cfdbbb79

From someone working at a developer and as one.

@UltimateOtaku91 Google already lists Frontiers as coming to Switch. News reports also report it as coming to Switch.

@ParadoxFawkes I have played games like CoD, but I've also played Hades and many more indies and games by triple A publishers over the years. I also grew up in the 90s in the era well before DLC as we know it today was even feasible let alone possible.

-and having played games all of my 30 years of life, I can tell you outright that the notion of any game that has DLC being unfinished, is bullshart. Look at Age of Calamity and it's predecessor. Look at Shin Megami Tensei V and it's two predecessors: IV and Apocalypse. Look at Animal Crossing's latest outing.

The main reason most indies don't do what the big companies do is cause most of them don't have the budget to even consider it in the beginning, and most can only do it after the money comes rolling in from successful sales, or using that money to try to put out another successful project.

That isn't to say there aren't any predatory DLC practices (Excuse me while I leer at the examples you mentioned and Tales of Arise, even...), but to act like a game is unfinished just because DLC exists for it is to not see the forest for the trees.

The whole, complete game already exists. You can play it from start to finish without the need for the DLC at all.

@JaxonH What do you want from Sonic? Honest question, and I'm not talking about a Sonic 3 + Knux collection. What would you want from an entirely new game? How would you evolve the old 2D concept of Sonic?

The way you make it sound, 3D is antithetical to Sonic, so how could it be made to work then? What mechanics would need to be present, which ones should be omitted? What kind of gimmick could tie it all together?

You talk about putting Sonic in games he doesn't belong, yet provide no solution of your own. Surely you have some idea?

@JaxonH I keep mentioning mining because PoW, as Hedgehong Engine mentioned, is still the norm, and the promise of a move from PoW to PoS has been being advertised for years now, yet the exodus from PoW to PoS has never happened. Why? Cause so many have too much invested in PoW. A wholesale move to PoS, will never happen unless those Proof of Work farms and such currencies, fail entirely.

And that is why I will keep talking about mining. It's obsolescence is a non-factor if it continues to be widely used, and so long as it is, that issue of waste for the sake of mining cryptocoins will still persist, and will continue to be an issue. You can't just magically sweep that under the rug just because a handful of Proof of Stake ops exist.

@falkyn What I am looking for is you to actually have the stones to back up your claims, rather than go "It's gonna be good just trust me" like so many of you expect people to do when throw out your word salad to people.

@JaxonH How's this for reasonable logic then? Those GPUs and similar parts are being used by the cryptospace purely for the sake of mining. Not for doing anything else, just that one specific function.

GPUs when used in actual, fully functioning computers and game consoles are used for multiple tasks. Including but not limited to speedy rendering and physics simulations.

It's like the difference between having a GPU solve X + Y = Z all day, every day and nothing else, and having a GPU render out pictures of Mt.Fuji or Mt.Everest from multiple angles. One is using a graphics rendering hardware purely for it's computational functions, while the other uses those functions to create something that can be easily appreciated.

That's what makes one more acceptable over the other: it has more net benefit to more people overall.

@JaxonH Nuanced discussion went out the window as soon as people started using NFTs to steal from people for the sake of trying to escape to delusions of grandeur in regards to wealth. Stepping on other people's hard work.

@falkyn More like "I can't be arsed, so I'll have you do the homework."

Not my job to prove your claims right, bucko.

@falkyn You sound like an evangelist. Back yourself up, cause nobody who has a decent head on their shoulders will take you on faith alone.

@icomma Thank you! The hat it's wearing is based on one I have IRL. A Cadet cap with a Smash pin button from the 2014 Smash 4 Wii U/3DS demo event at Best Buy.

@JaxonH Problem is the only available use case is the one that's the most infamous... and as I stated before, is being run by scammers, thieves, as well as people who have transmogrified their entire persona around their NFTs.

-and the environment isn't a weak argument either. Especially when you consider that massive mining farms exist, that have appropriated hundreds if not thousands of GPUs and other computer parts just for themselves. I've seen one of them. All those GPUs could be being used in computers for far more useful things than generating a digital token. Plus when all those GPUs die out, they'll be either sold to people who don't know any better or trashed, generating more waste.

https://antsstyle.medium.com/why-nfts-are-bad-the-long-version-2c16dae145e2

This also is another reason, in long form.

@ParadoxFawkes You are completely off your rocker. Vast majority of games today, even with DLC, have complete stories and endings, and full gameplay experiences. Just because a game doesn't come with all the DLC content packaged doesn't mean it's half-finished.

If no DLC were announced for a game at all, you would be singing a different tune about that game, but as soon as you hear about DLC you'll whine from the rooftops about how it's unfinished even though the game has a complete story and experience and the DLC is just extra content.

@icomma Yes, I did.

@AlexHarford They were never about helping artists. I'm one myself, and on top of that, hundreds of professional, and even deceased modern artists have had their works stolen and minted as NFTs against their will. Same artists have attracted clowns from the NFT and Cryptospace who act like the said artists are crazy for being against the get rich quick schema.

If you seriously believe the lie that NFTs were about helping artists, then you have to do more digging...

@Jokerwolf So what? I loved both of them, especially with Star Force's focus on the story and characters. Star Force 4 saw a descendant of Lan himself being Geo's partner, and them going around being hackers on the run. I want it.

@Einherjar While I would like a continuation of the X series... I personally want to see development of Star Force 4 restarted.

After what I heard about what they were planning with that. I want it sorely.

@westman98 Even if that's the case, it still comes off as incredibly weird. What if other people want to use this method in new ways in order to create new and interesting gameplay mechanics or games? See my last comment as to why that is.

You're patenting something useful to literally everyone that would allow new ideas to flourish and will nickel and dime anyone who dares to use anything too similar.

-and before someone makes the point: no, I wouldn't care if someone used my exact method for making a cool game or gameplay mechanic based around my tech with the engine. Cause the idea spreading around and making new and fun ways to play would be the entire damn point.

@TCF Maybe the reason is because, you know, patenting mechanics, a thing central to game design, seems incredibly weird and against good ethics in business.

It's like patenting a storyline from a book, or patenting a method of cooking food that literally anyone can do with practice. Or patenting a painting technique.

These are not things that are useful to patent in any form or fashion.

@Einherjar To whom was it directed?

@nessisonett wasn't that two years ago in 2020?

@Einherjar I don't think that's it so much. I think it's more that it's nice to hear an actor want to know as much as they can about a character you love so they can portray them well.

You don't hear many stories like this during production and you love to see it.

@Munchlax Maybe that's the strategy they're going for right now. Letting the game surprise you hopefully in a good way

I am honestly upset that Paper Mario got reduced to being a game about actual papercrafts instead of leaning into what made the original trilogy great.

I loved Voltorb for it's simple design and I am glad that was retained. I love him.

@HamatoYoshi source or be branded a liar.

@Grumblevolcano If it isn't, that will be a shock, for sure.

@Shadowmoon522 You had me until you decided to be a smarmy arse with that gif. Now I'm just going to ignore you.

@Shadowmoon522 Except, no? You don't make sense.
FRLG/HGSS/ORAS/BDSP are remakes. Plat is a special version like Yellow and Emerald. B2W2 is a sequel. USUM is like Yellow and Emerald as well. The expansions of SwSh are just that. Legends is none of these.

Legends Arceus is a new game that is a prequel designed like a GF-made spinoff. And unless GF or TPC say otherwise, a spinoff it'll remain.

@Axecon A few problems with your assessment:

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon was developed by Spike Chunsoft.
Pokemon Conquest was developed by Koei Tecmo.
Pokemon Colosseum/XD were developed by Genius Sorority.

Comparing Legends Arceus to the first two really isn't a fair comparison, and even with Colosseum/XD, it was basically a semi-mishmash of the mainline and Stadium games.

Legends Arceus despite being a spin-off is a glimpse of the direction that the series could be heading going forward, if GF decides to stick to it. A lot of new ideas for the series are being field, even if other games have done same or similar systems or even better.

That's part of what has me excited for it: I want to see if this will lead to new frontiers for the series.

@somebread Maybe because it's entirely ridiculous and their handwringing over it isn't founded in anything other than an apparent, complete inability to understand the idea that people have been making fangame projects under the names of their fave series for years and do it because that is what they want. And instead act like it's some brain-teaser when the solution is Plain Jane as hell.

@Tsuchinoko cause they don't have to and they would prefer this. Passion projects don't require or need a profit motive. It's not that hard to figure out and peeps like you act like it's some great mystery of the universe.

@Dragonite89 LolNo. I'm not even taking you seriously at this point. You're being such a try hard and continuously claiming I'm doing the things you are, and it's pathetic. Also the third time you've claimed I'm super pissy. Sounds like you're to convince yourself more than anyone else. XD

I truly pity you. Keep dreaming man.

@Dragonite89 Projecting yet again. I don't even need to one up you. You make it easy.

Also getting called super pissy by you is hilarious. Cause its truth only exist in your wild fantasies.

@Dragonite89 Yea, you don't care. You don't care enough to actually make decent points. You don't care enough to not use ad hominem, and so many other problems.

Super pissy? You're projecting. You're so repetitive and off kilter that it would be funny if you weren't so repetitive and boring.

You're like a mad dog, barking at people and thinking you're hot stuff. It's pathetic.

@SwissCheese The answer is the money is reinvested into other parts if the franchise. GF only gets a fraction of what the games see in sales.

@Dragonite89 I haven't bought BDSP, nor did I buy SwSh... But you sir, are being utterly whacked.

You don't read. You ignore the point. You continuously argue in bad faith. You continue to use ad hominem attacks.... And more.

Literally what is wrong with you?

You're spitting fire literally fir not outright agreeing with you and basically telling you "you don't speak for me". You're acting in an utterly childish manner and giving disproportionate responses to people's criticisms of you.

My advice? Grow up.

@Astral-Grain Oh buck off and let her have her fun!

@Berserker7 Political Correctness obviously isn't a trend and didn't appear just recently. You're blowing smoke up your own backside.

@Zyph You lucky duckling.

@Berserker7 They don't want more censorship cause they are already smart enough to know the kinds of things millennials have been railing against are not cool. So more censorship is pointless.

But political correctness will never die. There will always be politically and socially unacceptable things to say that people will get rammed over, often for good reason.

@CurtisABXY That I can certain vouch for. SMT in general focuses more on morality, law vs chaos, man vs gods, and similar themes in general. SMT main series in general deals with humans dealing with the machinations of gods and demons upon their world and struggling against them or embracing them.

@CurtisABXY All I will say is prepare for something that is going to be an entirely different flavor from what you're used to.