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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.

@antisumo I think you're right again. As a Switch and PS5 owner, I'm naturally much more willing to pay full price for a Switch game than a PS5 game. Sony discounts AAA games much more frequently than Nintendo, so there I always wait for a price drop.

@antisumo From a Switch owner standpoint, you're completely right. PS5 and Xbox owners have way fewer reasons to be happy with this port.

I went there because I was curious and I don't regret it one bit. It was an amazing experience to discover a secret that is not the "intended" sequence of events and it feels so gratifying to go through so much trouble to have an amazing reveal at the end.
It's an experience I won't forget anytime soon.

They should go back to focusing on fixing their game.
I jest, I know they never will.

35 minutes of absolutely not addressing the atrocious performance issues and bugs in the game.
It's the first time I'm not buying a mainline Pokémon/DLC since the beginning. Congrats Game Freak, you did it.

I loved Patapon, but the singing in this game is unfortunately a bit annoying. Also the screen is way too busy and you barely see what's going on.
I hope they're able to polish the game into something better than this trailer shows.

Clearly Sony was irritated by the far superior game presented by its rival and forced it to be taken down. It's shameful to what lengths a company can go to shut down its competitors.

@darkswabber I was being sarcastic. Mortal Kombat is known for its large roster and I think it's wholly unnecessary to add characters from other franchises. Especially ones that clearly don't match.

I'm one of the heathens that prefers the DS remake.
Jokes aside, I like the characters a lot and I think the remake added depth to them, but of course the pixel graphics stood the test of time better.

On a side note I defeated the last boss with Kain alone using Jump after everyone else was killed. One of the best gaming memories I have.

Mortal Kombat has such a small roster that it definitely needs characters from other franchises to enrich it.

I know that some people loved the game like me and some didn't, which is understandable.
What I don't understand is people who played over one hundred hours of the game and then say: "It sucks, I hated it!". If you hated it so much why did you invest so much time in it? There's no need to play this game for 100 hours to see what's it like. By hour 10 or even earlier it's clear to see what the game is going for and if it's worth your time or not.

That is an amazing idea and it'll make a lot of people's lives much easier. It's really nice to see that accessibility is something in the spotlight recently. A lot of people being included in a way that couldn't have happened a few years ago.

Rule number one of the minus world:

You do NOT talk about the minus world.

@NintendoByNature If you find it too overwhelming it might be easier to start with one of the Souls games. None of them are open world so it makes it easier to find where you need to go without any guidance.
If you have a PS3 or PS5 I suggest you to start to Demon's Souls. It's shorter, divided in levels and generally easier than the other games. It's perfect to dip your feet in the water without being put off by the difficulty of the series.

Your subheading reads "Annual report also reveals gender pay gap in Japan".
Then during your article it's clearly stated that the salaries are according to experience and time working for the company.
You wanted the outrage clicks, didn't you?

More likely than not we're not getting a Switch successor until 2025. It's still selling too strong to justify a replacement. Of course a new Zelda definitely help boost these sales by a lot.

To anyone asking, in some areas the game dips below 20 FPS and it chugs like hell.
There's a good game there but it's buried beneath of host of unfixed technical issues.

Like most here I prefer Sub-Zero but Scorpion is the obvious commercial choice.

@ComfyAko I understand the feeling, but considering most AAA nowadays are open world sandbox games with loads of repetitive areas and repetitive collectibles, FFXVI does not fit this profile.
It's more linear and story focused with not much in the way of optional pointless content.

Fix the goddamn main game. Then I'll play the DLC.

@Arawn93 It's really nice of Bethesda to be so open to the modding community, but they basically used it as a crutch to not actually fix their own game.

Considering how little they've done to fix the thousand of bugs in the re-releases, completely undeserved.

The modding community carried this game on their backs.

The trailer didn't sell me at all on the game. But there's still a lot to be seem gameplay wise. If the other trailers focus on showing gameplay and it's solid, it could be interesting.

BotW had the same issue 90% of open world games have, huge map and not that much to do.

TotK fixed that beautifully. Everywhere I went I could find people and quests, I progressed through the game very organically because the many quests led me to exploring new areas and finding even more quests.

Nothing is as scary as Ikana Canyon in Majora's Mask. The theme still haunts me to this day.

@sixrings It's almost like Zelda is a Nintendo game! How dare Nintendolife report on a Nintendo related event!

@johnvboy Totally fair. My first comment carried some of my frustration with this game but you're totally in your right to enjoy it.

If you think it should be celebratee it's completely fair and I wouldn't want to take that from you.

@johnvboy I do agree with the last part, they're very flawed but definitely not unplayable.

The first part I feel differently though. Both Zelda games are 1080p and 30fps and I'm quite happy because they play smoothly with very few issues.

This game is by far the worst running game in the series and it's the first one that actually bothered me as I played. It slowed down quite frequently and the pop in made it quite difficult to search for Pokémon.

I think you oversimplified a bit by just putting people in a group of satisfied customers and overly critical ones. I'm one who enjoyed the games in the series but thinks that the fact that they're releasing one game almost every year is clearly hindering the quality of the overall products.

They're releasing more and games and more frequently in a strict timeline to match with the release of adjacent products, and it's definitely not because they love the fanbase, it's because of how much money the franchise makes for Nintendo.

@johnvboy It's thanks to an attitude like that they keep getting away with mediocre products. Pokémon survives a lot on brand recognition and very little on quality.

But yeah, roll on with the next games! I'm guessing the next is going to be the first game in the series with single digit FPS.

She looks like a character from a Zelda game. She's well designed and that's it, absolutely nothing outstanding.
Some people are a bit desperate to name any new character their "waifus" aren't they?

I think Miyamoto and a lot of people overestimate the relevance of critics. I know a good number of people that went to see the movie and most of them didn't even know that it got bad reviews.
It did well because it's an animation with Mario. Everybody knows Mario and most families like animated movies.

@SonOfDracula Great introduction to the series! Also very similar to mine, my parents got me IV as a gift and my friend had VI.

@Toads-Friend I love Nintendo games, I have been them since I was a child and I understand why some people enjoyed the movie but I didn't. It was well animated but it was too frantic, not well paced and I don't think the voice actors did a great job in giving personality to the characters.

So now you know someone who likes Nintendo that wasn't a big fan of the movie.

@Bret *People with bad taste.

An illumination movie with middling quality? I'm shocked!

I clapped! I clapped when I saw the Millennium Falcon!

It looks very mediocre.
How WB hasn't approached a studio to make a proper LoTR RPG yet is beyond me.

Gotta buy em all?