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As always, let's all take a deep breath before we start internalizing these rumors as facts.

Story of Seasons was my first game in the Harvest Moon series. (I never got into the series until then because when I was a child, I read a GamePro review of the original SNES title that gave it the magazine's lowest possible score and said it was the most boring, repetitive thing ever.)

I was so blindsided by Eda's death, that once I figured out how Friendship/Romance Events worked, I restarted the game from scratch to see if I could befriend her and unlock an event that saved her. But no, the bell tolled for her regardless.

I'll readily admit that I personally don't care much for the art direction. That having been said, I'm not going to rant or rave about it as it's not a deal breaker.

I'm more concerned about the innards. Will it have Platinum's improvements instead of being a direct port of Diamond and Pearl? How much, if any, new content will it have beyond retreading DPPt? Are we getting a proper Battle Frontier? Things like that.

Looks about what I expected from a remake of Diamond and Pearl, visually. Who was expecting anything else? My questions are as follows:

How much of Platinum is being mixed into these games?
Battle Park or Battle Frontier?
Are we getting the entire Pokédex this time around, or is it (Platinum Sinnoh + Foreign Legendaries + Handful of Other Non-Native Pokémon)?

This is the Smash "leaker" scene writ large. How many swings and misses do we have to sit through before this ends?

It was about right for me. I didn't expect anything other than ports and remasters, but we're getting a concrete release date for No More Heroes 3, plus a new Mario Golf, a third Splatoon, a Xenoblade 2 rep for Smash Ultimate who wasn't the obvious pic of Rex, and a new FFT-style JRPG. I'm satisfied.

@BloodyMurder What goalposts? First time posting in this topic. The Wii U sale upswing was a direct response to the Switch version using the later censored build, yes, three years after its debut. I was more talking about sales and reception at launch.

Edit: Actually looking at those pictures, the low price (less than 700 yen for a Wii U game?) and the lack of an Amazon Prime logo make me wonder if most of those 2019 sales were just passing existing copies belonging to Amazon Marketplace resellers. I could be wrong though.

@BloodyMurder The censorship was not a major factor in that game flopping. It bombed on the Japanese Wii U as well. The bigger reason is that no one was in the market for what was pitched as a Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem crossover ending up as some kind of idol-thing with Fire Emblem characters as Stands.

Meh on 4K. I'd prefer the extra power be diverted instead into a consistent 60fps with three or more local players.

If I could get my hands on a PS5, the games I'd be most interested in would be Final Fantasy XVI, probably Bugsnax, that one game with Sackboy playing with three other Sackboys, and maybe replaying Ghost of Tsushima at 60fps. I have zero interest in anything Souls, so that rules out the Demon's Souls.

Most everything else I saw at the final PS5 reveal stream looked interchangeable to me. As I have mentioned on other forums, at least three of the PS5 games shown on that stream had characters jumping through rifts in spacetime, purely as if to show off SSD load speeds and ray tracing.

Edit: Apparently Monster Hunter World hits 60fps in both Resolution and Performance modes on the PS5. That would be another incentive, especially if you could play with PS4 people without issue.

3D remakes of the Oracle games... though wouldn't they need Capcom's permission for that?

I'd want a PS5, but not until at least one hardware revision and not until I don't have to fight scalpers for the chance to get one.

Reading this comment section, it's like I'm all the way back to 1996. Some part of me misses the old console wars.

I genuinely forgot it existed as well. Discord's just easier. Hell, the only things I use Nintendo's Online app for are searching for custom Smash stages and keeping track of my furniture in Animal Crossing.

I wonder if someone ever bought three of these things at once and stitched them together to create a makeshift Magneton.

@FroZtedFlakerZz No one "deserves" this. The hackers aren't heroes; they're opportunistic script kiddies holding private information involving not just businesses, but actual people, hostage for money. As I've said before when other companies like Capcom and Nintendo got hit, just because it's happening to a company you don't like, doesn't make it any less criminal or damaging.

@horizonisland Try much longer than that. This is the same company that went up against Blockbuster to stop people from renting video games without buying them. It's the same company that tried to take Galoob to court for the Game Genie.

Take off the rose-tinted glasses, and you'll find that Nintendo has always, without exception, been hideously "anti-consumer".

80% of this product is something most of us experienced on the Wii U six years ago, so I doubt leaks are going to have too much influence on the sales.

@SonOfVon He wasn't being arrested for hacking the game. He was being arrested for selling his hacks. Big distinction there.

As usual, the IP holders generally don't get this testy unless financial gain is involved. If he weren't selling them, he would have just gotten a hardware or IP ban.

If I wanted to buy something like this, it would not be for Cyberpunk 2077. Even if you have enough graphical power to brute-force the slapdash code so that it doesn't constantly bug out, it just looks like every overheated open-world game ever.

All things considered, six physical cores built into the APU of that little device doesn't seem bad for just $700. I remember Alienware putting a similar "Switch killer" concept that was lower powered than this on the drawing board. If it ever made it past the proof-of-concept phase, they would've been asking $1,200 for it, which would likely have doomed it from the start.

Gen 1 bias is a thing, so it can't be helped. I'm just pleasantly surprised that MY first Pokémon pal, Cyndaquil, ranked so high.

@Blarbeltharp To be fair, they never entirely abandoned that concept. Look at Binacle (Gen 6). Its evolution into Barbaracle is essentially seven Binacle combining together like some kind of bio-organic Megazord.

One thing I always liked was how the Game Boy versions of the KOF games included surprise hidden fighters who weren't in the original arcade/Neo Geo versions, like Nakoruru and Mr. Karate.

@Letzg077 I hope you're right. It just always helps to keep hopes and expectations tempered.

The Series X is doing better than I thought. It made five digits in a two-month period, which is practically a milestone as far as XBOX goes in Japan.

Please, for the love of all that's Nintendo, devote the trailer to what's not in the Wii U version that most of us here have already conquered.

I was going to purchase an XBOX Series X, not for me, but for my brother as a surprise birthday present. They lost that sale because I refuse to pay the scalper's pound of flesh.

@BloodyMurder Even Nintendo realized that shipping the Wii U 8 GB model was a mistake. The 8 GB model barely lasted a year before they quietly phased it out in favor of making the formerly premium black 32 GB model the standard.

@nessisonett @elias84631 This one is being played through official hardware, with the Pi just being at best a streamer/control overlay. Nintendo won't care.

@Letzg077 backlash made a difference for them to add 200+ mons via dlc

Sadly, no, it didn't. Listen to interviews with Masuda and they always were going to add Pokémon back in, though the general expectation was through title updates and newer games rather than DLC. The general gameplan from here on out seems to be to showcase a cross-section of creatures from throughout the series' history to each new region, some with regional variants.

"Backlash" generally doesn't work with megacorporations like these unless and until it impacts their bottom line. It's also, incidentally, why Nintendo can afford to be so tone-deaf with Smash's competitive scene.

@Jayenkai Sakurai has a massive collection of hardware from multiple companies and frequently mentions his time on PlayStation. Fils-Aime owned at least one XBOX.

Really, the "official" console wars largely went away with Yamauchi and Hirai. Arguably, Nintendo takes a harder line with certain elements of its own fanbase than with its "rivals".

This thing is slaying me. I did it right the first two times, but then flubbed it the next two. At this rate, I'm going to miss out on another set of DIY recipes.

@N8tiveT3ch Timed exclusivity clause. It's not coming to any platform other than a PlayStation until April 2021 at the earliest.

Back on topic, more than Sephiroth, I'm stoked for One-Winged Angel and the Lifestream added to Smash. I always said it was criminal that One-Winged Angel wasn't selectable as one of Cloud's themes even as far as back as Smash 4.

Reminder to everyone that Nintendo picked the fighters of this expansion pass well before Sakurai announced its existence to the world. Also, reminder that Smash trailers are almost always filmed months in advance, so do not expect any acknowledgement of the Splatoon/Melee kerfluffle.

As far as price cuts go, this isn't impressive at all. This is about how much I paid for a brand new copy at Amazon shortly after its launch.

@liveswired The potential issue here is that the modder outright says on the YouTube that he'll be sharing the mod, and at that via Patreon release. Patreon is a honey trap for these kinds of things given how easily projects can be tied to donation tiers (which counts under monetization and thus rips the "fair use" defense apart). That's how Nintendo was able to shut down Super Mario Bros. Z, among other things.

@masterLEON "I don't care if the Prince bought all that stock, I know my money doesn't go directly to him because revenue and stocks are separate."

Well, that and you might as well go naked and off the grid nowadays if you object to paying for something at least one unsavory person somewhere else in the world also has a stake in.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'll wait until the kinks are worked out before I plunge into any next generation hardware.

@RandomAfricanGamer That's not happening, and it shouldn't, for a variety of reasons.

(1) Knowing Nintendo, it's not going to re-release Melee for its own sake, but as part of a "Gamecube Mini" or "Super Smash Bros. Anthology" alongside 64 and Brawl. The most it would do is mainly a resolution bump for widescreen smoothing and maybe some bug-squashing, and that would be it. No support whatsoever for the tournament scene, and of course, no online except for maybe punching Brawl's already-existent online settings into Nintendo Switch Online instead of Gamespy's servers.

(2) The NTSC build that the overwhelming majority of Melee diehards play is deprecated — in other words, not even the newest build of the game. Much like the 3D All-Stars port of Mario 64 using the Rumble Pak-compatible Japanese build instead of the earlier USA build most everyone here is familiar with (no more "SO LONG GAY BOWSER", etc.), it would instead use the later PAL version which nerfed the Star Fox duo, changed the attack angles of characters like Marth, and buffed bottom-tier characters like Kirby and Bowser.

(3) You can forget about Slippi or any kind of rollback Netcode. Sakurai reportedly considered adding rollback to Ultimate but ran into issues. He didn't elaborate on what those issues were though.

(4) Because of these design issues, the resident E-celebs at the top of the scene would spurn it and exhort their followers to do so as well, and casuals would wonder why even bother with the older games when Ultimate has everyone in it and then some. The tournament scene is a miniscule fraction of the dozens of millions who have bought copies of the latest game in the series.

Asking Nintendo to do a "Melee HD" would be the ultimate Monkey's Paw.

As usual, I'll wait until the kinks are worked out before I jump into another console. This even goes for the Switch, which I didn't pick up until the 2019 hardware revision.

@Alucard83 Apples and oranges. 1 TB of flash memory meant for portable devices vs. 1 TB of hard disk memory runs on completely different pricing scales, and that's before you get into how much more expensive a comparable solid state drive can be.

And the hashtag has finally evolved. This is a good thing, as this issue being framed under the lens of Melee vs. Ultimate served no one.

@LatsaSpege There's also the fact that Capcom would be in trouble if enough of their top talent rebelled against them and stuck to Super Turbo or Third Strike while refusing to play the current game. (Something like this happened with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, contributing to Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite's commercial failure.)

With Nintendo, however, it's different. The handful of top talent in Melee is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of casuals who see "Smash" and buy the newest, shiniest thing. Every Melee pro could swear off from Smash entirely in protest against this, and more power to them if they do. But the resulting loss would barely be a rounding error in Nintendo's financial statements.

Instead of just ineffectually whining, I'm beginning to wonder if calling Nintendo's bluff and challenging the legality of the ban isn't the way to go. It worked with the first emulators and, even before then, with video game rentals.

Throw the book at anyone who pulls this. This is not a prank; it has gotten people killed in the past.

What they should have done is have a Game & Watch with the G&W Gallery games all packaged in, with both the original bug-people versions and the upgraded Game Boy (Advance) versions with Mario characters. I'd have bought that in a heartbeat.

Probably just squishing more Minecraft-related bugs.

@wariofart Voting with your wallet is a right and proper democratic action. The only real problem with it is the prospect of being outvoted.

Steve no longer holds his meat and can't mine his way through the floor. Good to know.

...so why were we going off on huge tangents about big balance changes to other characters again?

On the infintessimal chance Nintendo makes something like this official, we should be able to import data from other games with avatar stars (Pokémon Trainer, Robin, Villager, Corrin, Inkling, Byleth).

I still remember the PC Gaming Show of June 2020 and both YouTube and Twitch chats being flooded with "BLOODBORNE BLOODBORNE BLOODBORNE".