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@Mauzuri You're asking the impossible.

@Yorumi Pokemon has technical problems, but some people blow some of the other problems out of proportion so much it comes off as them just ranting and raving.

@BloodNinja You dodged, some, but can you dodge a tomato with LEGS?!

@Laserbeak1982 to his tiniest bit of credit. I doubt the textures will look more hi-res on the actual hardware.

However, it will probably look better on our s reens while sitting away from the tube or switch screen, so...

@Dethmunk your aesthetic sense isn't the end all be all buddy, so kindly sit down and stew yourself.

@Fizza LOL this is the appropriate and hilarious response!

@Snatcher Cause they straight don't care about the law or the rules.

@Ralizah Even more funny when those people use their faux expertise exclusively to paint modders, and fan-game creators in a negative to outright demonic light.

@Varkster guy sounds like he's just being contrarian and throwing shade to try to justify himself.

@moodycat look. I know that since it's Pokemon early reception should be taken with a grain of salt and hyping responsibly is paramount but there's also a fine line between beaing realistic and being unabashedly cynical

@moodycat Why do I get this sneaking suspicion I know which side of the fence you're gonna fall on.

@RadioHedgeFund Then there's all the hoops, hurdles and pitfalls developers would have to jump to make NFT's viable in VGs. Long story short, they aren't.

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

Words of a game developer on the subject, dunno if it was posted before.

The TL;DR though is that NFT assets being integrated into games and then other, completely different games is an undertaking no company or development team would realistically even consider doing. The NFTs would just be abandoned and have no use or value once the game it's associated with ceases to be in some way or another.

@Savage_Joe Aren't they? Then what happens if they become fully integrated into mainstream gaming in general? How do we avoid them? How do we keep developers from trying to coerce or convince us, the average player, from being pulled into this, especially if they use this to make more money?

If allowed to proliferate, we'll eventually have no escape from them until or if they turn out to not be profitable and are abandoned.

Also, what you and @BloodNinja imply, as someone else mentioned, is we can't tackle NFTs as well as other problems. We can, and we should, especially people like me whose main interests involve both art, and video games.

@Savage_Joe you're engaging in whataboutism is what that is. Just because other stuff we do is bad for the planet doesn't excuse the harm of NFTs.

You're doing the equivalent of responding to "We should improve society" with "and yet, you participate in society! How curious!" and shows you're looking to dismiss legitimate issues out of hand.

Further is the severe thievery and grifting involved in the current NFT space. Even going so far as pilfering the works of the recently deceased for profit.

You act like you understand. Yet show you understand nothing about thise against.

@larryisaman To give examples:

Back when they started pushing hard for artists to join the scam, they would make claims to other artists who follow other artists that were vehemently against it that "they don't understand artists", or that they "want artists to not make any money"... Among a whole host of other response decoupled from reality.

They even have made a derogatory acronym term NGMI which means "Not gonna make it" a derisive jab at detractors implying they're not gonna get rich because they refuse to participate in the scam.

@larryisaman Have you seen the concerted effort their benefactors and proponents go through to demonize the opposition? It's borders unhinged insanity to downright brainrot levels of unhinged.

@Snatcher Agreed.

@StarPoint It doesn't look bland to me. It looks like they're aiming for a painterly aesthetic to me.

@Ralizah what does it take? Honest question.

The lack of cross-save is the main reason I'm refusing, but tempted to double dip. Especially cause most of my friends who I want to play it with may get it on PC... on a laptop that is 4+ years old now with screen problems beginning to crop up.

@wolvesboy A very refreshing comment to say the least.

@Tarolusa It's called not tipping your entire hand. Maybe they want players to discover some stuff for themselves? It's not that farfetched?

@mariomaster96 Cause some people can't live with people enjoying something they don't enjoy.

@SpaceboyScreams Or you could not be an arse, and put words in people's mouths.

Also, about holding the company to a higher standard. Okay, sure.

Now how will they achieve the higher standard you so desire? And before you use the tired old canard of giving them more time in the oven (which I do agree with, but is not the point I'm making) I think you need to understand that Game Freak is beholden to Nintendo and TPC, and that means their production schedules have to align with what TPC and Nintendo want to put out to try to keep Pokemon on people's minds. They can't just give them the finger and do whatever.

Nor do yo, or anyone else actually understand how the money the franchise makes is distributed or even used. How much of what the games and merch and cards make do you think even actually goes to GF? You act like GF has infinite money, but it's not like GF gets to pull what it needs from some Scrooge McDuck-like pool or vault of yen for it's ventures for anything it needs to do.

You and everyone are free to criticize them if the game isn't up to your standard. Fine. But you could also stop pretending like you know so much and know what's needed o fix this quality problem you have with the games.

@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.