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Way more accurate than the Miyamoto quote, since plenty of rushed games come out fine, and plenty of delayed games are still bad. Including Nintendo games. Miyamoto's quote implies any game that is delayed eventually comes out and is great.

Knew Twin Snakes would come on top. Personally I think it’s an awful attempt to remake a great game, and fails to understand the vibe of Kojima’s game entirely.

@GrailUK It's more than just paying for the game 5 days early. I did it for Forza Horizon 5, and will do it for the upcoming Forza Motorsport, but the price of the 'premium upgrade' is the same price as the future DLC packs, so the new cars, tracks, or in Horizon's case, expansion maps. If you know you'll want the DLC anyway, it's a no brainer to get 5 days 'early access' from it too.

Aww yeah! Loved this back in the day. The Jedi Knight follow ups were better IMO but I’d still pick this up.

Mario's peak in popularity was before Martinet came along, so I wouldn't worry about him stepping away.

I feel like you've let yourselves down a bit by talking about your surprise that these are just re-releases. Konami have always been pretty clear about that.

Think Nintendo Life could do with some refresher courses on the differences between re-releases, roms, ports, remasters and remakes.

I've felt this way for over 20 years. You don't need to buy separate TVs to watch different channels. I always buy every console from Nintendo, Sony and MS, and I'd much rather just buy one.

I’m generally fed up of re-releases and remakes, but I’ll pick this one up as setting up a Wii to play these is a bit of a chore.

People acting like Twin Snakes is comparable to REmake or Metroid Prime Remastered... no, it's a different game. It doesn't even feel like a game from the same series as the others. The cut scenes are goofy, the voice acting and music is terrible, while the mechanics they added from MGS2, while sticking to the original MGS map just break the gameplay.

A 10 from Edge means something. One of the few reviewers that actually uses the full scale instead of just scoring everything between 7 and 10. Famitsu, not so much. Quite well known they’ve taken payment for perfect scores multiple times.

The stuff people always think of as E3 has never really been part of E3. The presentations, where announcements are made, are not officially part of it. As people who just enjoy it online, the booths on the show floor are irrelevant.

I never understand why some people are so happy there's not been a Pro version. You don't want to buy a new console? You don't have to. If a Pro version came out and you didn't buy it, you keep on having the same experience you say you've been happy with for years. For the rest of us, good games are being let down by the hardware and we'd happily pay to play them as intended. It doesn't effect your experience.

This raid was a lot easier than expected. I was almost certain they’d give it iron tail to cause trouble for the obvious fairy choice. It’s still a post game raid, you should probably be level 100, but it can be solo’d with a huge power/shell bell Azumarill.

I’m sure the only bug fixes will be for the duplication glitch. I think they’ll work on the rest for a future patch, but not expecting in here.

@Gavin5001 Charizard or any of it's line can't be caught in Paldea. The only way to get one in Scarlet and Violet will be to transfer in from Home which is next Spring, or do the raid in December.

Even if the reviews had said the performance is so bad, don't buy this game, it wouldn't have affected the sales. The vast majority of people who buy games don't read reviews, and I'd say that percentage is even higher for a series like Pokemon.

There's a decent game under the performance issues. It has that usual Nintendo open world problem of feeling a bit empty, and not very alive, but that will improve as they make more of these games. My biggest hope now is that they have 4 years until the 30th anniversary, which is when they probably want Gen 10 to hit. Please, Game Freak, no more spin-offs until then. Get ILCA to do Let's Go Johto, fill another year by giving us old Pokemon games through the Switch 'Virtual Console' and just concentrate on nailing Gen 10.

Game Freak need to recruit people that are used to working on bigger games. I cut them a bit of slack at the start as they were forced to jump from being a handheld developer to a console developer, but at this point they have probably had access to Switch development kits for not far off a decade.

It’s not just performance struggles, but there’s cut corners everywhere that make the game feel so low budget.

This gen's pokemon designs are so divisive. It's got some of the BEST designs, but also some that are... eh. The wandering Gimmighoul looks like a bad fakemon, and this #1000 Pokemon is not really any better.

I've just started playing it this morning, and even after reading all the reviews about poor performance, I'm actually shocked this game has been released like this.

It’s easy to moan about the Switch hardware being out dated. It is, and I will never understand how some people are gleeful every time a rumoured Switch Pro announcement fails to happen. I just don’t get that attitude. You don’t want an upgraded model? Don’t buy one.

However, regardless of all that, GF are really struggling with the Switch. You can’t say it’s entirely due to them making a game that’s too ambitious for the hardware. It’s really no more demanding than Breath of the Wild and that game runs like a dream compared to this.

It will still sell amazingly, and GF will never feel the pressure to get better at optimisation.

Thank goodness they're letting us get codes via email this time. I get why they do this, they probably get paid by the stores to get customers through the door, but 5 mythicals are all I'm missing from a living dex, and two of them were part of the last Game giveaway (Volcanion and Marshadow), and my closest two game stores are now just corners inside Sports Direct where the staff didn't know anything about the codes, so I've missed out on that one.

Also I think it's fine to do these giveaways at this point. The game is 3 years old and about to be replaced by a new generation. They've got much better at putting mythicals in the games the last few years, rather than just being distributions, but this is just a sort of goodbye present to Gen 8.

Makes sense. We're now seeing the effect Covid had on stuff as so many people stopped working two years ago, and nobody really has much for this year, so why not bulk out your release schedule with remasters?

I normally have no time for remasters and remakes, but having a way to play MP on a modern TV without waggle controls would be worth it for me.

If Persona is the big announcement, when we've pretty much known it's happening for over two weeks now, then this will be very disappointing.

@Ricube You might know this already, but apparently the ownership of the IP is a complete mess. Nobody is quite sure who owns it, and they can't be bothered to do the work to find out. I'd also love to be able to play the originals or get a sequel, but Nightdive Studios tried pretty hard to 'remaster' the two games about a decade ago and ended up giving up over the ownership debacle.

I don’t have much faith it will be good. The actual people who made Banjo couldn’t even do a good job with Yooka Laylee.

I really wouldn’t put so much faith in stuff being ‘officially licensed’. Just means they paid Nintendo to use their IP to advertise fast food.

Always frustrates me what hobbyists are able to do in their spare time. Just think what Nintendo could do, but won't.

Subtle hints in the names? I mean in usual Pokemon style they're about as subtle as a sledgehammer.

Koraidon looks pretty good, although I don't like the other one at all. It's all personal preference, but I've always thought Pokemon should be creatures, and stuff with machinery or something built in have always been weird to me.

@nocdaes All that stuff is irrelevant. All the FIFA license gets you is the name FIFA and the World Cup every four years. And FIFA wanted a billion dollars for four years of the license.

The leagues, clubs and players are licensed from other organisations.

FIFA are the ones that will lose out, and for most people that’s a good thing. Nobody other than EA will be able to afford the 250 million a year fee to use the name and also make money off the game.

Remember, it’s literally just the FIFA name. All clubs, players and leagues will still be licensed as that’s nothing to do with FIFA.

People definitely would. I remember everyone on here being annoyed at Breath of the Wild launching on NX, saying they didn't care and they'd buy it on the Wii U. We all know how that worked out.

May as well start at the beginning. Games take so long to get made now. There seems a pretty standard 6 year gap between Zelda titles, and there were 8 years between DQ 9 and 11.

The Playstation sub seems really poor value compared to Game Pass Ultimate, even if you pay RRP for GPU. However, it's so easy to buy a year of Xbox Gold for £35 and convert that to a year of GPU. Less than £3 a month for all that content, including day 1 first party games.

People acting like these trends wouldn't be exactly the same for a US list. If anything, that would be 'worse' as Madden, FIFA and NBA 2K are near the top of the yearly charts every single year, along with CoD.

8/10 from Edge is an amazing score. They use the full scale, so an average game gets a 5 for them rather than the 7 or even 8 most websites would give an average game.

This probably won't even be out until we're in the next gen (similar to Elder Scrolls VI). The same fuss will happen over them trying to squeeze it onto PS5/Series X as Cyberpunk on PS4/XB1.

@Martijn87 How does the quantity help? It's an average. MS didn't publish a ton of games, but all the stuff they did put out was reviewed really, really well.

They're never going to have all of them in one game again, but they should at least make sure everything still missing from the Switch era games is there.

It coming in 2022 is a bit concerning, but it was a WAY better reveal than Legends Arceus got.

Not sure why everyone is so convinced we're getting PLA DLC. What would be the focus of it?

I don't think we're getting gen 9 this year either. Actually, I hope we're not. Take your time with it, and get ILCA to knock out Let's Go Johto if you absolutely need a holiday release.

Nintendo's 'mistake' was made when creating the eShop, not in shutting it down. The same will happen to the Switch eShop, because eventually nobody will be using a Switch, so a store front you can only access through the Switch will not be worth keeping open. Look at how MS handle the Xbox store. Nobody is worried about original Xbox games being taken off sale, because they are not stuck on a store that can only be accessed by a 20 year old console.

Nintendo are just bad at this. Look at the whole Pokemon Bank/Home thing. It looks pretty certain when we move to the next hardware, there will be yet another new cloud-based Pokemon storage because Nintendo either doesn't know how to get things to talk to each other, or more likely, doesn't want to. This is the company that invented so many anti-consumer business practices in the 80s. Of course they want everything to be left behind so you re-buy a bunch of stuff every time you get new consoles.

I think it's people just grabbing the games while they can. I think you need a Pokemon Bank sub to be able to download Poketransporter, so if they wait for Pokemon bank to go free, Poketransporter will no longer be available and they won't be able to transfer anything out of the old games.

This will keep happening as long as they tie the stores to the console. In this regard, MS have done a great job because the Xbox Store isn't tied to a console in the same way. There's no Xbox 360 Store, Xbox One Store etc. It's just the Xbox Store, and they let you access it through any of the consoles or PC.

To everyone mocking digital gaming... how is this any different to physical? Everyone that bought the digital version can still play it, just like everyone that bought the physical one. You just won't be able to buy it anymore, which is exactly the same for the physical edition.

In an ironic twist, it's probably those physical games that are in more danger of becoming unplayable. I'm quite confident future Xbox consoles are going to continue playing all my previous gen games, but are consoles even going to have a disc drive next generation? Seems highly unlikely. So actually all those physical 360 games I have become obsolete, but the digital stuff I can still download on an Xbox console 15 years from now and play.

In reality, not that much? I have pretty much everything I want from those stores.

The Virtual Console stuff and DLC for Fire Emblem is about all I'd be bummed about if I ever had to replace my 3DS. Most of the actual games are now available elsewhere anyway.

It's still a bummer though. I can go still buy digital games for the original Xbox, 20 years later and I have no concern those games are going to become impossible to buy anytime soon.

I think Nintendo shut down stuff WAY too soon, but some of those reactions are ridiculous. It's not going to stop you playing your games.

Then again, this seems to happen a lot. I've seen loads of people think that Pokemon Bank shut down as they saw the story about them no longer accepting credit cards as payment.

Sony is better, but they're not great either. Xbox and Steam seem the only stores I feel truly confident are always going to be there, as Sony, like Nintendo, creating a new store for each console, so inevitably they will close at some stage.

It should have been free anyway, but it's good they're keeping it up a while longer yet. I've been dreading the day they close it down, as it then cuts off any pre-switch Pokemon game forever.

I'm pretty confident this is just something cut from a previous version of the opening. Every Pokemon game starts with you in your room, and I imagine they were going to do the same with this.

@MysticX Usually a big new release drops between 80 and 90% in week the first few weeks as the vast majority of people that wanted it near launch will get it day 1.