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@Bolt_Strike it has both mega evolutions and tera forms. So the point is largely to create an arena dedicated to unifying Pokemon battle mechanics.

The other point is likely the mobile phone app. This basically lets people not able to bring their switch with them still play Pokemon.

Combine this with home, tcg pocket, and go ... And Nintendo is slowly turning phones into a secondary console for themselves.

Since they abandoned dedicated handheld gaming devices with the hybrid switch, this might be part of Nintendo's effort to have a platform besides the switch that appeals to that handheld market that wants gaming in their pocket.

@rjejr I doubt you use both like mice at once. It's rather difficult to to two different things with each hand at once. Even if you are good with both hands.

Most likely the double mouse Lazer is for either two player. Or both sensors will be used to like ... Gauge distance between both remotes or something.

@larryisaman exactly. People are STILL releasing good games on the switch. Sure it struggles with more powerful games. But Nintendo keeping it's games less graphic greedy has likely helped keep cost down compared to these other games costing tens of millions on graphics alone.

It's still time for an upgrade, but some people are acting like it needs to outperform the PS5 ...which is crazy for something handheld to outdo the best Sony could put out.

Give me MegaMan legends collection already. Complete with the tron bonny game.

Nintendo micromanages because they learned from experience.

They tried being hands off with a live action Mario movie back in the 80s ... It ended up a mad Max like hell scape full of drugs and sex and they had to spend a lot trying to salvage it.

Frankly speaking if they feel the need to keep asking for corrections then your probably not doing the job right.

@MeloMan it's also the only timeline that "river Zora" actually exist in. They aren't in the other timelines because they are a mutation of "ocean Zora" and this mutation only occured in that timeline.
Funnily enough the Rito are also a Zora mutation so Nintendo really likes to use Zora as a base for other races.

@larryisaman I will clarify one thing.

it's not COMPLETELY disjointed as part of the issue is the timeline Nintendo created attempts to resolve some rather heavy retcons.

With the first Zelda games the world was already fully dominated and twisted by Ganon. Who resembled a big pig monster.

But then after following that formula for a while They decided to do more "peaceful kingdom gets overrun by the Dark Lord" type story and some races like the Zora were retconned into peaceful races.

To explain this away they made these new games take place BEFORE the older games, and then to avoid needing to bring the games back into the dark future they split the timeline.

I do agree it's rather messy but it ended up that way largely because they made it up to resolve the massive lore gaps from basically hard rebooting the world building they'd built up.

in any ways the massive departure seen in BoTW is similar. But I guess Nintendo realized pulling the same trick again wouldn't work so they just explicitely placed them outside of the timeline.

I still say the timeline has value for it's aid in world building ... but we just don't need to take it too seriously because the overall events don't really connect beyond simply establishing Ganon, Link, and Zelda exist.

All we need to care about is stuff like "Okay so in this timeline Ocean and River Zora both exist but in that timeline they don't" and stuff like that.

@larryisaman the value in the timeline is mainly in the world building.

We don't need characters to mention past events but it's difficult to really establish a rich world and culture with just one game.

So the timeline allows games to rely on prior games world building and build off of it.

@Serpenterror the tales of series has always had a lot of outfits and accessories.

Graces F was one of the first times the devs played with dlc and they went absolutely nuts with it. they sold basically every outfit you used to be able to unlock in the game as dlc ... Each single outfit as a separate dlc.

For example the "angel set" is a halo and wing accessories. Those used to be found in game and were found in game again in other games.

But THIS game was when the devs really tried to milk that dlc greed. Back when a lot of devs were trying to lock everything they could behind paywalls.

@Cronodoug fingers crossed. Nintendo has been very non censorship with the Switch but it's possible they'll just default to applying the same censors they did before.

Hopefully not but we'll have to wait and see to be sure.

@DoBetterNintendo What annoys me is they have a "20 player game mode" but only 4 or 8 party lobbies.

I want them to really expad on this and let players play with 20 people lobbies.

In fact the 8 player bowser battle should be doubled to two teams of 8 to 10 that compete to see who can beat bowser the fastest.

they already time and grade your performance so just make it a live competition of two teams.

I like Jamboree overall but it does feel like a lot of missed potential to really go big. A lot of party games are enjoyed on Twitch streams these days and big party party games are great for allowing viewers to reasonably expect to join in.

@Axecon "Bigger than previous ones" is probably an exageration.

Don't get me wrong I am hyped for it. But XCX is known for being lighter on the story and being really a lot like a single player MMO.

While that style has some fans it's not entirely what JRPG fans like the most. Most XC fans will probably get the game anyway, but it's questionable how many outside that circle will take an interest in it.

@Tyranexx Also XCX takes place is a sci-fi future version of OUR world. Like actual IRL cities are referenced. So rather than an entirely fantasy setting with sci-fi elements it goes really hard on the sci-fi.

@RupeeClock

To add onto this the origional Wii release of Xenoblade Chronicles was a limited release. For a long time it was a rare gem of a Wii title. So it had a cult following rather than massive sales.

So the franchise didn't really gain traction until Xenoblade chronicles 2 on the Switch and the DE edition of the first game.
So the majority of fans didn't even get into the series until after the Wii U.

So this is a game most had only vagly heard of and even some Wii U owners probably didn't play it simply because it was still relatively uknown.

This is entirely what I expected and I'm happy with it.
I just want to collect the cards and I'm not in a grand rush to do so.

So I'm fine at best getting the premium pass once in a while and just taking what I can get.

A gatcha only really needs to allow you to reasonably play without paying to be fair and you open at least two packs a day without even doing anything.

It's a neat little card collector game with a PvP attached to give you something to do with your collection.

@MirrorFate2 oh I have no idea. I ordered a physical copy. I just know this from the pre release trailers.

Now I did see a few examples like a flying mini game. So it's not only rhythm at least.

No idea beyond that.

@MirrorFate2 some involve motion controls. So you'll probably need them for those.

@MirrorFate2 Some minigames require joy-con motion controls. But you can turn those off if you want to avoid them apparently. It seems they added a fair bit of customization to this one so you aren't entirely forced to play by the default rulebook.

@koopababble Nintendo should do this more often. As much as I hesitate to turn the Online Subscription into a "get it early" thing ... scalping has gotten so bad in some cases that big items like consoles can take over a year to become avaliable to normal people at actual market price.

So if it holds back scalpers then it's worth it at this point.

@BANJO From what I've seen ... if you were going to play any Mario Party game Solo this would be it.

The fact it has better online support than previous titles is also a help. So you don't need a group of friends together every single time.

But of course mario Party is at it's best with friends. So keep that in mind.

What's really baffling about the Eurogamer review if there is a pro-mode that removes the luck based mini games.

So like ... If you want to be try hard about it you can do that.

To still complain is to act like simply having luck heavy mini games at all is a negative.

@axelhander IT's not a copyright violation as long as it's not an actual Nintendo IP.

The larger issue is that it being unliscenced means it's simply not approved by Nintendo to run on their system.

The reason the liscensing system exists is to prevent any random crap from being sold as a legitimate game.

You think shovel ware is bad now? Imagine if some of those ***** online flash games were put on store shelves!

Thus Nintendo has good reason to not allow unliscenced games to be sold for their console ... whoever this is the NES, Nintendo isn't selling NES cartridges anymore.

so it's questionable if they'd care since this won't really affect their brand. Because that's the issue here. IF people could flood the market with ***** games Nintendo never approved of when we could get ... poop commando and child abuse simulator on the Nintendo switch (You know someone would try to do that if they could).

But since it's not a console they are actively selling for and the new Tengen isn't pretending it's supported by Nintendo ... it should be fine.

@Cia Oh for sure. I'm looking forward to this game because it seems fun but this does not look like a big budget title. This looks like an experimental side game made with a small team.

most likely because the big teams are probably preparing the Switch 2's line up.

But even if the graphics don't look high budget ... they look nice enough and it's the gameplay I'm more interested in anyway so it's fine.

@epicgamner We're done really. I wouldn't really count the Layton crossover because that's not purely an AA game.

Not saying it's bad but it's kind of it's own thing rather than part of the series.

So with this every proper AA game is now on the switch and in English as well.

That being said there is a decent chance of them making a new AA game at this point. It would be odd to invest this much in porting every single game to modern hardware and just drop the series right there.

@Uncle_Franklin This isn't at all like NFT.

NFT was the attempt at using a blockchain digital reciet to pretend an indavidual png image was a unique and "valuable" artwork and that you could monetize the hell out of it. There were a lot of issues with it

But this is more like lootboxes if you want a comparison outside of Gatcha games themselves. It's spending money for randomly obtained digital items. Those digital items aren't framed as unique, but you have to get them on YOUR account to have access to them yourself. But that's kinda how the physical cards were too so really it's just a digital version of what they had before.

@Anti-Matter IDK scalping might be a bit hard. You can likely buy cards for your account but they are digital so it's not like you can buy them all up.

You can also trade but that's card to card so unless there is a way to sell individual cards the only way to profit would be an unofficial market system of "you pay me and I trade this good card for one of your junk cards".

Scalping happens because of physical limited quantity which isn't really the case here.

Now what's more likely to happen is people build up account with lots of good cards and then sell the entire account people have been doing that with Gatcha games for ages. But that market is limited since you have to build up each account.

@Dom_31 As long as they give out free packs then it won't be bad to just passively collect free cards for the sake of just having what you get.

Paying likely won't be necessary unless you want every card or want to be competative ... which is fine really.

Mobile games need people to pay to keep their continuous development cycle going. That's just how it works. But as long as paying is a choice and not a hard requirement to fuction in the game then it's good enough.

As someone that used to collect the cards I'm mildly looking foward to it ... might even drop a LITTLE money on it. But I have no intention of spending a lot.

Still making their already well established cardgame a digital mobile game was a good move. It won't even hurt card sales since people that want to collect physical cards will still want to do so.

@SwitchForce A few I'd say are REALLY questionable with how they almost look like pure reskins on Pokemon models.

But to be fair most aren't THAT blatant so worst case scenario the devs have to update the game with a few designs tweeked.

Nothing about the designs as a whole or it's fundemental design is taken from Pokemon that's not legally countable as inspired.

Like they capture the Pal's in balls ... that's OBVIOUSLY from Pokemon but they're also legally distinct enough from Pokeballs that it's not an issue unless they make them red topped and white bottomed.

But what I find funny is the modders already trying to just traight up put Pokemon int he game ... the game's already in a grey area as it is and they just can't resist putting full on Pokemon in the game.

So far Nintendo's only taken legal action against a modder that was charging for his Pokemon mod which was really dumb of him.

it's become the popular thing to dog on Nintendo but for the most part as long as you're not profiting off their IP in some way they don't tend to bother too many.

They have a weird obsession with footage on Youtube that they need to work out but it's fine otherwise.

@Unit_DTH Heavily disagree with basically everything you said.

Yes I'm not the biggest fan of all Pokemon designs but even the latest gen had a fair few solid ones. A the very least Palworld with many designs looking copied from Pokemon is ... hardly the glowing beacon of origionality that's going to teach Gamefreak a lesson.

As far as innovation they tried that but it always gets muted responses at best.

There was Pokemon Ranger, Pokemon mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Colliseum just to name a few.

Pokemon has made other games with other styles. It's just the mainline entries generally go for more gradual and safe improvements over doing anything major. Because the one time they tried to softreboot the series with black and white everyone attacked them for it.

My point is the idea Pokemon never innovated is a false narrative. It's just the mainline entries have an issue and it's largely the fans fault. Because fans always deman more of the same and always take issue with any innocation attempted.

And if you think Palworld at all represents innovation ... it's a typical survival crafting game with typical shooting mechanics and typical creature capturing mechanics. Wether the game is fun is one thing but it's certianly not innocative. It's different from mainline Pokemon because it's an entirely different genera.

now all of this isn't saying Pokemon couldn't stand to improve in some areas. But this nonsense of blind hate and vague demands for innovation while also not being happy with innovation like Scarlet and Violet bieng more open world ... WTF are you even expecting at this point? Be specific if you want your conplaints to matter.

However I do FULLY AGREE with you on that last part. We don't need to police this stuff for Game Freak. Lets stop feeding the fire by overly reacting to it and just watch it unfold more or less. It's fine to still discuss the game but the more toxic responses to Palworld need to stop.

@Dr_Lugae Yeah like there is one Pal that is litterally just Goodra fused with Meganium.

I supported Tem Tem and that actually followed a lot of Pokemon mechanics. So I have no issue with Pokemon clones themselves.

But A LOT of the designs, especially the ones most heavily marketed, look like either direct clones or like fusions ... well made fusions mind you. But some of them are stupidly close.

As for an actual lawsuit ... I don't know as even if they are close they're also not exact so it goes into a grey area.

But really people acting like this is a "threat" to Pokemon are just being stupid. Pokemon is an RPG. This is an open world survival and crafting game with at best some light RPG elements thrown in.

It's not even really the same genera. This isn't "the pokemon game we always wanted" it's an entirely different kind of game.

If you like it that's fine but I do wish people would stop pretending like "the pokemon killer has arrived".

@Jappio 5 had a weak story IMO and 6 is fairly well known as being the low point in the series.

But while we don't know A LOT about D7's story the developers have stated they are trying to return to form after D6's failure.

So at the very least there was a deliberate effort by the devs to avoid the mistakes of 6.

@Drac_Mazoku Yeah I'm still not happy with the switch from the lovely HD 2D sprites to 3D but these do look a lot better than D6 did so I'll tolerate it.

As a whole it looks like a great return to form.

Man I'm just lucky with Xenoblade I guess. I secured Xenoblade Chronicles 3 collector's edition (one of the only collector's editions I"ve ever gotten) and got the Pyra+Mythra amiibo's at normal price.

I actually missed the preorder but managed to lock in an order through gamestop right when they became avalaible through their online store.

@Axecon She's not really diving into her source material though which is the weird part.
She emphathizes arcade games rather than Video Games

While both are games and Mario has some roots in Arcade his series is almost entirely on consoles.

Again this feels too much like a "How do you do, fellow Kid's" moment.

Which ... is fine I guess. Not like I"m offended by it even if it feels like a rather shallow effort to connect with fans. But it does make me roll my eyes a bit.

I'm not going to try to define what is or isn't a gamer ... HOWEVER. This just reaks of a "How do you do, fellow kids?" moment.

Just because you voice act Peach in an animated movie doesn't mean you have to be a gamer to be "hip with the kids". You can just be a normal voice actress playing Peach ... we REALLY do not care as much as she thinks we do.

So while she's allowed to claim to be a gamer if she wants ... I'm honestly embarassed for her and this is really not a good look and comes off as way too out of touch and desperate.

@JessieAouV You know the femanist crowds and their "always beleive women" mantra ... unless the woman crosses them in some way. Then she's a "traitor" and no longer worth believing.

But as far as femanist politics are concerned she's still okay so they'll beleive her no matter what simply because she's female.

But it's because of women like this taking advantage of that mentality that people need to stop that. You start believing a group of people by default without proof and there WILL be people who take advantage of that no matter what group you're talking about.

@Ogbert depending on the team size an exe's paycheck doens't go as far as you'd think. Something like 100k might sound like a lot for example but just 100 employees and taht's only 1k each and many games these days have HUNDREDS of people on them.

I'm not saying they aren't overpayed BTW. But cutting their paychecks would only give emoyees a small bonus unless you gave the lions share of that paycheck to specific employees. Like in this case voice actors.

But raising the price of games by ... lets say 50% would be incrase funds by a lot more than an exec's pay cut. Espeically in the long run as it makes the games themselves more profitable.

@WallyWest IT's a typical back pedal of a liar called out on their *****.

If there was at least room for interpretation then you could MAYBE say she's just clarifying what she meant to say before. But there was very little room for interpretation in her initial claims and her response to the bloomberg post is nothing short of pathetic.

She's litterally just trying to discredit the entire thing as corporations protecting their interests ... while asking people to totally trust her that she's not simply after her own interests.

Just because people tend to doubt corporations these days (and for good reason) doesn't mean some random VA is automatically more reputable. Especially when she contradicts herself constantly.

@roboshort exactly. As much as I would love to say VA's, programmers, and others should be payed more ... the fact is there is a point where is you pay everyone too much you'll NEVER make that money back. So unless someone's just giving you extra money out of generocity you'd be bankrupt in no time.

Of course we could also suck it up and pay more for games. THen paying employees more would be possible. But we all know the average gamer won't accept that so the situation is what it is.

@iLikeUrAttitude I gave it a shot just because I could. I wasn't TOO invested although I did have it on a seperate screen for several hours in an attempt to get through.

It was frustraiting but I was ready to fail.