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Re: More Official Pokémon Go Gameplay Details Emerge

MetaRyan

I'm not sure why everyone was expecting a traditional Pokemon experience. I mean, sure, battles would be cool, but with how much work they have to do with AR and real-world integration, plus it being free-to-play (right?), I don't see battles being a thing any time soon. Too much work. Although, battles would make a cool update, or maybe when they make a sequel they could add them.

Re: Video: Learn About the Quirky History of Wii Sports and Its Role in Bringing Us Mii Characters

MetaRyan

Several gave said it already, but Miis are too limited. They need more customizability. Maybe not Sims level of customization, but it would be nice to have more control over the rest of the body, not just the face (while still keeping it family friendly). I'd also like to see better detail on Miis, since Miis were low detail 10 years ago. (Oh, and I haven't tried the Wii U's feature for taking your picture and making a Mii of it, but on the 3DS it was laughably bad. Nintendo should fix that on the NX.)

Re: Poll: Are You Ready to Download More of Your Retail Games From the eShop?

MetaRyan

I used to mostly download games, but then my 3DS's SD card corrupted, and I hadn't backed it up in a long time (it was broken for a while), so all my Animal Crossing and Pokemon Y save data is gone. I'm more inclined to buy cartridges now since I don't trust that downloaded games' save data will stay safe. If I have to buy it on the eShop I will, though.

Re: Talking Point: Sony's PlayStation VR Launch Adds Pressure to Nintendo's Holiday - and Perhaps NX - Plans

MetaRyan

VR will probably flop. Best case scenario it gets a small niche market, and then maybe in 2018-19 the tech gets cheap enough to get mainstream appeal.
The problem with VR right now is that all of the "cheap" (calling Gear VR and PSVR cheap) VR headsets are too low quality to be of any worth, and all the good VR headsets are $600+. The Kinect was cheaper, and even with $500 million in advertising it still flopped (kinda).
Oh, and there's no system-selling VR games anywhere on the horizon.

Re: Nintendo Announces The GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U

MetaRyan

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Stop keeping the GameCube controller-only snobs alive, Nintendo! You could have defeated the disease that has plagued Smash Bros local multiplayer matches for 6 years!
Oh well. I guess a Smash Bros get-together wouldn't be a Smash Bros get-together without that one guy that needs to use a GameCube controller.

Re: Meet Sticks, The New Member of Sonic Boom's "Core Ensemble"

MetaRyan

I think the voice is fine. Besides, they always "clean up" voices for stuff like this. Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon sounds a lot more nasal-ly in studio, but Dreamworks cleans up the audio. My guess is that Sticks will be similar.
(And it's interesting to see a negative reaction from the Nintendo crowd when there's such a positive reaction in the Sonic community.)

Re: Video: Mario Kart 8's Balloon-Popping Battle Mode Looks Something Like This

MetaRyan

Thank goodness. Except for Funky Stadium in MK Wii, just about every recent arena was terribly designed for kart battling. If karts didn't have things like momentum and speed, sure, the arenas would be great. However, they do, and courses that forget the physics of a kart aren't fun. Having tracks being adjusted for kart battling makes a lot more sense since the tracks are actually designed for karts. (Funky Stadium has the rare quality among battle courses of being fun to drive around on and having obstacles without high risk of losing all momentum due to bad level design.)

Re: The North American Version Of Tomodachi Life Will Only Be Playable In English

MetaRyan

Honestly, I'm fine with this. Using European translations in North America could mess up the game due to differences in speaking, and it since it takes a whole lot of time and resources just to localize this for one language, it doesn't make sense to right off the bat translate to a language that only around 2% of North America would benefit from (French) or a language only majorly used in a country/region (I'm not sure if Central America is counted in this) that doesn't seem to buy nearly as many video games as major video game countries, like Japan and the US (Spanish). If there's enough demand, Nintendo can either patch or re-release the game with more translations.

Re: Review: I am an Air Traffic Controller Airport Hero Hawaii (3DS eShop)

MetaRyan

Man, this game is fun, but there isn't a way to be able to see every plane's position at the airport, which is a problem. I've Game Over-ed a couple times on the Hard demo stage because planes would be in places I didn't want them too, but I couldn't see that until that stupid plane that needs to be towed to spot 61 would collide with them.

Re: Infamous Series was Originally Inspired by Animal Crossing

MetaRyan

You know you're on a Nintendo-oriented site when literally no one stylizes inFAMOUS correctly. Lowercase i and n, capital "famous", got it?
(Sorry, it just bugs me for some reason. I'm a Nintendo fan through and through, but I thought inFAMOUS [at least the first one] was a really good game.)