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If this was just the first stage, I'd go Totodile. But blastoise edges out over Feraligator, when it comes to their final Evo. Still my favorite gen 2 starter though.

This game is bringing horrid MTX practices a bit too close for comfort, in regards to a lot of my favorite game franchises.

Interesting marketing, but I can't say I'm a fan of this kind of reveal. So I think I'll just catch a highlight reel from GameXplain, or some other gaming tuber, after the stream. I don't want to get strung along on this ride.

I just hope it doesn't end up like most games with this type of theming. You're not going to have long to get your message across, if the gameplay is absolutely boring.

@Heavyarms55 The problem with monopoly is that boardgames have come a long way. There are a lot of better options out there, both on the casual and hardcore ends of the spectrum. But yeah, I agree. It gets a bad rap that it doesn't deserve.

Also, people like to use a bunch of broken houserules that screw up the game economy. Which makes the game virtually unplayable, and can be impossible to finish in a reasonable time. Not to mention, they forget the property auction rule. Which fills the board up faster. The vast majority of people I played it with were just taught to play it wrong.

Nice to see some of the dragons/psuedo-legendaries make it. But I'm just here wondering what shield's equivalent of Sirfetch'd is.

Waiting for the bigger cards to tumble in price, or for Nintendo to release a switch with more storage. Even buying the vaste majority of my games in physical form. The updates, and DLC, are already filling up my 128 gig card

Good thing PlayAsia has that physical. Gonna have to go full hermit during the winter to clear out all these games though.

@RedderRugfish I can also list off a bunch of cartoon, movie, and comic franchises that can say the same. So if we let that be the judge, you might as well say hello to Shrek, Garfield, and almost the entirety of Disney's catalogue.

I guess I'm an opportunist for doing this. But I'm already setting money aside for a liquidation sale, similar to the Toys R Us situation. Without a significant change, I don't see them surviving the next console generation.

The NA one has less noisy text than the EU version, and it gets the name right. But I have no clue what they were doing with that image composition.

On the other hand, the EU handles the background better. But the text is too messy, and I hate the name change. At least for that version. GrailUk shows a German version that's a lot better.

Overall, though, the Japanese version is superior on all fronts. I mean, I much prefer the box shape of the NA/EU SNES games. But their artists definitely utilized the vertical length of the box to good effect.

Honestly, if they're not going to bother with the national dex. I hope they introduce a lot more variation within more pokemon species. Including, but not limited to, Galar forms of old pokemon and minor variations like this.

Gimme that Starfox 2 eventually, pl0x. Then we can talk about Starfox 64 on the off chance they add N64 games in some form.

That aside, things are starting to get good. I still appreciate having the NES games, and I hope they keep releasing more alongside the SNES games. But the SNES games are where games start feeling beefier. Looking forward to being able to carry all of these around with me.

If games were food. This is basically Nintendo announcing another course while I'm struggling to finish what's on my plate. I'd pretty much need to no-life it for a week or two to catch up.

@YourGoodFriendly oh, well I guess I focused on the 4 months thing. In that case, I wouldn't expect much more than a few hints at games that may hit next year... At some point. Nintendo likes to keep a lot of things under wraps.

I mean, all they gave us during last year's september direct was just "2019" for a few titles. So I wouldn't expect a lot from a September direct. If we're lucky, we'll get a few announcements for January and a January/February direct to fill out that time.

@Joeynator3000 They're a subsidiary of Xbox game studios, so yeah. They count as first party.

@MsJubilee I mean, I don't blame you for being cautious. But it's worth mentioning that id Software isn't directly controlled by Bethesda. It just has the same parent company. For the most part, they are very seperate from Bethesda.

Looking pretty good so far. Looks like we'll have decent game variety, and the games I've seen look fun. So I'll probably pick it up at some point as part of my usual Nintendo party filler.

Now I'm just waiting for Strikers and Mario Golf. Then my weekend party filler combo will be complete.

@FiveDigitLP Yeah, the parkour elements of mirror's edge type parkour games, and ehat looks like powers/gadget from Dishonored/Bioshock. That sounds like a pretty cool combo. Especially when wrapped in a cyberpunk theme. Which is one of the few themes that's not grossly oversaturated right now. At least not yet, anyway.

Though, I have a feeling that might change after Cyberpunk 2077. So I'm glad this game will get in before the wave drowns it out. Lol

I'm getting some dishonored and mirror's edge vibes here. Which are both good things. Can't wait to see some raw gameplay.

Well, at least the title prepared me for the dissappointment. Pretty neat looking case. I still prefer steelbooks myself. But if I had the option to get this in a CE for NA. I probably would.

Was holding out on this, and a few other big Indies, for this very reason. Glad to see them starting to get physical releases.

Might have to check for the steelbook at some point, since that's really what interests me. Really wish NOA gave us these beefier CE's more.

Intriguing. I wonder what the game will be.

Due to how good the Crash and Spyro trilogies are, I'm somewhat interested. But the moment I see another ingame store is the moment I pass on that game. Even without it, I'll probably wait on it.

I stupidly jumped into CTR thinking it was safe, despite the in-game shop. But then I felt the grind for the Tawna event, and quickly realized my mistake. Go figure, it was just a taste of the grind for the potential whales when they rolled out the MTX.

Argh... I hate the mixed color sets, even if we get NA ones with their opposites. I'd much rather a staggered release of full color sets. Even if it's just one set every few months.

Cooking Mama using blockchain, and the comments section being more volatile than an EA/Activision story... What?

I just see this as a smart, and safe, move. It creates good PR, and let's them get ahead of regulation, rather than being forced to do it later.

It doesn't look like we're getting a huge improvement in graphics, animation, or art style. So Gamefreak better show off something to make it worthwhile. Because I'm afraid what I'm seeing just isn't worth the 60 dollars.

I ended up getting it myself when it dropped to 20-something USD. (On sale) Before that, it was a hard sell. Partly because I'm burned out on Ubisoft open world games, and partly because it's not all on Cart. But it's worth it at these prices. If only to have the Fox and Arwing figures on your shelf.

As for the game itself, it's alright. Aside from the combat, it still shares a lot in common with Ubisofts typical Open world games. Meaning most of the "content" is open world fluff. I found myself starting to get bored towards the end, and just started rushing through the main and starfox story content. Both of which are fairly short, if you ignore most side missions.

Worth a play through at this price. But I'd avoid it if you're an obsessive completionist. 100%ing it is tedious as hell.

Yup, kind of figured this was the case. The way the shop was set up, the seasons, and just how grindy it all was. All of these things pointed to a game primed for MTX. I stopped bothering with the Tawna event when I realized how much I'd have to grind to unlock them.

I guess this is just the thing they do now. Shipping without MTX, and adding them in later. It's an easy way to avoid negative attention during launch. But I thought they'd at least be patient enough to wait until the holiday season passed.

Welp, time to not even bother with Beenox games for the first year or two. Can't be too certain they won't dump MTX into their games.

This is to no one's surprise. I fully expect a cheaper Switch-mini by this, or the next year's, holiday season. This should be enough to get in more casual people, kids, and 3DS holdouts.

Then, ideally, they can head off or respond to the next gen with a Switch Pro for core gamers. It would be enough to get more games at a consistent 60/720p on portable and 60/1080p TV to make me happy.

I also want the pro. But the mini just makes sense financially, at this point. If they push it out just before holidays, I can see it making a killing.

@Dev893 I doubt it. Game development takes awhile to get anything worthy of showing to the public, and they confirmed that they basically scrapped what the previous studio was doing.

With them still looking for an art director, I imagine they're still in hiring and pre-production phase. Where they're still sketching out the direction they want the game to go. There's no reason to say anything about it because there's not much to say.

I'm not sure it means much, since a lot of companies make speculative mock-ups all the time. But that switch mini mock-up looks really clean, to be honest.

This could just mean Nintendo of Europe isn't as adamant about the warning label on the front of the box. Regardless, if it's not all on cart I'll just hold off for a massive sale instead. I have no interest in paying full price for digital games.

I mean, was he wrong to want to cancel it? As it was, with Save the World, the game was a flop. The Fortnite we have today is basically an entirely different game. Only made because of the BR hype PUBG created.

With a 40 minute runtime, I don't expect all of it is going to be brief announcements. So I expect a deep dive on one or more games, along with some dates for games we know about, and a dash of surprise announcements to top it off. Not to mention some DLC, like the new Smash character.

Nintendo really doesn't have to do much to shine for E3 right now. Everyone else is mostly throwing softballs.

I doubt many of us are surprised. But I guess it's good to have confirmation. Now I just need to dodge all the leaks, real or fake, for a few more days. Lol

I'm extremely curious to see who's next after Joker. If they follow it up with generic FE protagonist #6, a lot of people will probably be underwhelmed (I'm giving Corrin and Robin a pass, since they actually have their own gimmick.)

I can't help but roll my eyes a little at the dynamax gimmick. I also think it's a bit much to praise the wild area, because it's nothing groundbreaking for the genre. It's not much different than hyrule fields, or similar areas in a lot of adventure/JRPG games, or even the pokemon series itself. Granted, it looks beefier than previous games. So that's good.

All that being said, I'm a lot happer with Sword/Shield overall than I was with Let's Go. While it's not exactly a huge jump, it seems like an actual step forward for the series. Not a step back, like Let's Go was. I'm still starved for information on things like clothing, side content, amount of catchable Pokemon, story, and so on. But I'm feeling a bit more optimistic than I was initially.

@ricardosteve Neither was I, text just doesn't convey tone well. Lol

@ricardosteve The Switch took Japan from the PS4 awhile ago. Japan generally likes Nintendo's handhelds more than other consoles, so it's not a huge surprise.

I don't have enough time in the day to play all of the good JRPG's releasing nowadays. I don't see a reason to buy something that feels like it was thrown together in a day on RPGmaker.

The artstyle doesn't look amazing, but the game mechanics look fun to me. If the performance is ok, I'll end up getting it eventually. If only because this genre is still lacking, on Switch.

@Jayenkai If you've played a grand theft auto game, then you pretty much know what you're getting. You need to do story missions to unlock some of the on-map optional missions. But the map is free roam, for the most part.

The main difference between the two series is tone. GTA is a parody of real life that's just a little over the top. Saint's Row, on the other hand, started off as a GTA-like series. But SR3, and onward, just go completely over the top. If you don't mind goofy, then SR 3 is a fun open world game, with cars.

For me, it was BOTW, and I don't regret it. But I completely understand Smash Ultimate, Super Mario Odyssey, or MK8 as well. I have all of them now and they're amazing games.

As long as they don't do something silly, like force motion controls, I'm fine with it. My concerns still remain with the mechanics side of it, and whether they actually take advantage of the added power in the Switch. That 20 dollar price hike needs to feel worth it.

@sanderev Yeah, the dock. I hate that damn dongle hanging off my switch. Lol

@sanderev Not only better WiFi. But an actual ethernet port as well. I'd like to cut out that USB-A middleman for my wired connection. :/

@sanderev People don't seem to understand that dedicated servers add an extra middleman, which isn't good for every type of game. Especially if said server is further away than the person(s) you're fighting.