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Can't wait for the underwhelming remake of Black and White to sell 10 million copies!
Consumers really know how to make the developers put any effort into their product!

Theft in California? Impossible!
But seriously, screw these thieves.

@Pipulitoch I hope this game sells well and they remake Hotel Dusk. The noir atmosphere and the art style of that game are so unique and enthralling.

@8bit-Man Interesting. From a gameplay perspective they're completely different games, but there are definitely similarities between the creatures. I guess it could become quite the issue if they decide to take further action.

@The-Chosen-one Good to know. It doesn't look like they have much of a case then.
Thanks for the info!

Anyone knowledgeable about copyright law here can tell if The Pokémon Company has anything to claim against Palworld?
To me it seems flimsy, but I'm no expert.

@Porky It's an old game, it was never a popular franchise, most people in the world don't play on a 3DS anymore. Should I go on?
Or you just want to argue with someone on the internet for the sake of it?

@Porky And? My joke was at the fact that it's not a popular game. It had absolutely nothing to do with Nintendo and their lack of competence.

Oh, no! I'm guessing the 0 people that played this game are going to be very upset!

@somnambulance Sorry, DLC can't count in that comparison. We're talking about main games. Also I'm not a masochist, so after suffering through the main game I didn't buy any DLC.
It's cool that you played competitively and have both sides of the coin to use as a comparison but let me counterpoint a few of the things you said.
Generation 5 is definitely harder than the other ones, play a bit to see how different it feels.
I do enjoy Pokémon for the fun of it, the thing is we have different concepts of fun. My fun is building a team and gradually making it stronger to build the increasing challenge of the game.
To be clear, I'm not advocating to just make the games harder, but couldn't they have difficulty settings so they could cater to people like you and me?

@Pod I didn't think about that and unfortunately I didn't know about the overworked people. I guess I withdraw my previous statement. If people suffered for them to cater to the fans it shows another example of corporate greed. About the quality of the film, I didn't watch it so I went with what most people said about it, I honestly thought fans were pleased.
I guess when it comes to big corporations you can't have good things. Overworking and releasing a poor product, that's very Hollywood of them.

Never! They're all precious! Even the ones I don't like.
I love collecting games and if I was richer I would have thousands of them. It's not just about playing them, it's about having and displaying them to others and yourself.

Ugly Sonic was one of the best cases of listening to feedback I've seen in my life. They released the trailer, everyone hated it. They understood the criticism, changed the design to match the games and everyone went to see the movie. They took the constructive part of the criticism and came out extremely successful because of it. It was brilliant.

@VoidofLight I think the team formation in Gen V is much more well thought out than other gens. A lot of bosses have balanced teams with Pokémon that cover the other weaknesses.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.

@somnambulance I do agree with some points you're making. But to say that Pokémon red and blue are easy tells me you haven't played the games in a while. They're much harder than recent titles and let's not forget Black and White, which offered hard but fair challenges and a compelling story to boot. Now the game even plays itself, to the point of having auto battles and level up items everywhere you go.
Saying that all the games were easy is an extreme generalisation. GameFreak itself admitted that these games take into account that a lot of people don't like to focus and make an effort, so they make the games as "accessible" as they can be. They've clearly confused accessibility with being easy and unengaging.
I understand that you appreciated the game, but there's a trend a GameFreak to make them as simplified as they can be and a lot is lost during that process.

@NinjaNicky 100% agreed. Pokémon became the Call of Duty of the Nintendo consoles. They never improve much, release buggy and unfinished products and yet you can't criticise it without being called a "hater". A lot of the fans turn a blind eye and it only encourages GameFreak to keep rushing games out the door to make more money.

@VoidofLight Sure, GameFreak. By your flawed logic, it must be doing something wrong, because I didn't enjoy the game at all. The problem is exactly in your comment. They're catering to people that don't like trainer battles and leaving people like me completely forgotten. The game is absurdly easy and battles are mostly irrelevant. Making the game extremely easy for accessibility is ok, as long as you remember about difficulty levels for people that prefer challenge.
And you are correct that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but to say that the developers "outdid themselves" is hardly believable when the game is such a technical mess.

@somnambulance @VoidofLight They weren't great. I wish the community would stop using
the goofy excuse of technical issues for this subpar product.
Empty towns with almost nothing to do except challenge the gym leader. Bland overworld with repetitive areas. Pokémon in areas that make no sense for them to be there. Very few trainers to battle and almost all of them have one or two Pokémon. The world is bland, it looks bland and it has absolutely no cohesion. Also of the three main routes only one has an interesting story. Horrible lack of animation for cutscenes that show the developers had no time to properly implement them.
This narrative that the game is only bad because of technical issues is absolutely false and it hides the fact that they had clear potential but are unfinished products that need to be released all the time to sell a product.
Nintendo needs new generations to sell new toys and GameFreak will never have enough time to properly develop a game. The bigger the scope of Pokémon games gets, the more unfinished they are going to come out.

Super Marty McFly! Traveling through time to save himself and the princess!

That's a huge W for Nintendo. These are one of the most creative and best RPGs on the GBA.

It's obviously called the Super Nintendo 64 Cube Wii Switch U.

Time to release Ocarina of Time 6D!

@huupawel The ones that did that haven't worked with Sony for a long while unfortunately.

@Yoshif3 True. I was so focused on the negative that I forgot the positive. Into the Spider-Verse was one of the most beautiful animations I've ever seen.

Sony pictures? The one with the awful Spider-Man movies and spin-offs? The one that thought that Morbius was a good idea?

They're slowing down on releases and the Switch is selling less software and hardware. A new console is inevitable but I think it'll be announced this year and released next year.

@Not_Soos Watch the second Karl Jobst video. The money is not all accounted for. He didn't just lie, he committed charity fraud.
Some people do deserve support, but a person who lied and took money from charity is not one of them.
If he really is a good person he should try to amend this by donating his money to charity, it would alleviate some of the damaging he caused by lying and using charity money for his own personal gain.

Why does the voice actor sound like an Italian mobster?

Banjo Kazooie wins by default. It's two video game icons finally coming back where they belong.

Oh, it's Nintendo Ghibli at it again!

If they give the franchise to a competent developer it will survive.

You know what's better than remakes? New games.

OoT still stands the test of time and it's playable on the Switch.

As much as I love the game, I'd rather money and time were spent on new ideas instead of this endless loop of nostalgia.

I think NintendoGhibli has been Ghibli a bit too Ghibli fixated with Ghibli Studio Ghibli.
Or is it just Ghibli me?

Nintendo is one lean mean money making machine.

Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're not. But tbh they never outright annoyed me. They feel pretty integrated with the atmosphere of the game.

@OldGamer999 True. Considering Nintendo stopped focusing on next gen graphics, I think they might keep the price lower to avoid direct comparison with the PS5.

@OldGamer999 Did the same thing. Nintendo delivers quality without going crazy with its pricing.

For me X and Y represent the beginning of the end of Pokémon. Every gen had different qualities and flaws, but always tried to push the series forward with new ideas. With X and Y the gimmick era starts, Mega Evolutions, Z moves, Dynamax, Terrastalization. Presented in one generation and forgotten in the next, gamefreak gave up on developing the series and focused on marketable gameplay "innovations".
They also took the battle towers away, diminishing the post-game and ignoring the people who play these games for the challenging battles.

Famitsu has the ability to be worse at reviewing than most western publications, which is no small feat.

I give famitsu 0/40

That strengthens the rumors of backwards compatibility which would make everyone in the world happy with the exception of that person with the article written here yesterday.

@Phillips455 Yes, the game you're thinking about is "The Alliance Alive". It's developed by the same developer and both games have similar art style and gameplay.

Meanwhile you have Indie games like Sea of Stars released for £20 in pristine quality.

AAA are justifying their price tags less and less.

I hope it's not true. I know the focus of the switch is not graphical fidelity, but being on the level of consoles released in 2013 is pretty pathetic. The Switch already suffers with performance with a lot of 3rd party games, releasing a new console this weak in the middle of this gen would make it very limited on 3rd party support. It was the downfall of some of their other consoles.

@Cashews These people have families too and Unity might be causing a lot of people to lose their source of income.
I might not affect you directly but it does affect a lot of people who have families and jobs.
Also you don't care if people live under a bridge? Really? You're ok with people being homeless. Maybe read about the subject a little bit, gather information and then after that form an opinion instead of spitting bile against people you don't know.
I never met you, I didn't like your attitude in this post yet I would never wish for you or your family to be homeless.

I am so glad I didn't buy this DLC. This game is the one that finally made me tired of being fooled by Game Freak. I'm tired of their technical incompetence and unwillingness to fix and improve their games.

I saw a few movies which she was in and I don't like her acting at all. She's wooden and can't express emotion.

Hopefully it doesn't become a trend, I'd rather have talented voice actors in games over has been celebrities.

@EarthboundBenjy But the truth doesn't fit the narrative does it? Documentaries rarely are balanced and mostly present certain groups as heroes and others as villains, not portraying the nuances that exist in us humans.

Someone wanted to make her a hero and a martyr when in reality she's just a human like all of us, but showing her like that would make it less dramatic.

@Captain_Toad I am. I don't like bullet hell games. Well made, but not for me.