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The only one of these that sounds like an unambiguously good idea to me is the button mapping.

@SwitchForce Wut?

Promising, but the fans often disagree with the critical consensus.

According to Metacritic, Emerald is one of the worst in the series and X/Y are among the best. I doubt most longtime fans would agree.

I wish these lists included actual numbers…

@Rhaoulos No, Horizon came out in Japan. Here is the old Week 1 sales data from march 2017.

https://www.gematsu.com/2017/03/media-create-sales-22717-3517

Decency bias aside, it’s cool seeing Western games like Undertale and Minecraft eating pretty well.

I’m surprised that my Top 10 largely resembles the conglomerate version, though I personally feel that Wind Waker is a bit overrated.

@Don I imagine one of the big issues is actually getting the hardware required to make the retro consoles.

Take the NES for example. It uses a Ricoh 2A03 microprocessor for a CPU. This was discontinued in 2003. So Nintendo would have to go out of their way to meet up with Ricoh, establish a new contract to make this microprocessor, somehow convince them to make a product only Nintendo themselves would ever want, and somehow make money off of a console that stopped being supported decades ago, with games largely available on other platforms.

Hell, look even something like the Wii U could be difficult to restart production for. Despite being relatively recent hardware, the "Espresso" CPU it used stopped getting produced in 2017. So even newer hardware can be hard to restart production for.

At that point, it is MUCH easier and cheaper to simply emulate the old hardware.

@NintendoByNature Heaven forbid the final boss of a game take more than one attempt!

For a bunch of people commenting on a video game news website’s “oddity of the day” story, y’all are being pretty judgemental.

Ah yes, the AI program Sonic Amateur Games Expo. Truly a worthy opponent.

@NinjaGuy69 Have you watched ANY Pokemon videos on YouTube since 2018 or so? One-Pokemon runs are a popular way to play these games nowadays.

Do you want us to use "Incompetent" instead?

It depends on the genre. 8 hours is long for a fighting game’s single player mode, moderate for a Metroid like game, and short for an RPG.

@NEStalgia Do you think fanfiction has the right to exist?

So have we seen anything in the larger Platinum regional dex yet?

@bones That comment was from last year.

I'm not a huge specs guy, but 720p docked is bizarrely low. ESPECIALLY for rail shooter style games like House of the Dead, where the graphics have historically been very good for their respective era and platforms (Virtua Cop in mid-90's arcades, Sin & Punishment on the N64, Resident Evil Chronicles on the Wii, etc). If they can't meet the usual standards in a remake of a 1996 game, I'm skeptical that the rest of the package will hold up.

This doesn’t sound THAT impressive, but bear in mind that seeing Pokemon in 3D alone was a selling point for the original, during the series peak in popularity.

How many crabs could Unreal Engine 4 do?

That sounds sort of impressive, until you remember that the Wii Virtual Console had around 400 games, including 169 titles from 6 distinct platforms within the console's first year in North America alone.

Is the performance at least better now than in the demo?

I'm willing to wait for new hardware before getting a new Mario Kart, especially since that will keep the vitally important online community of 8DX healthy for years to come. However, I think that Mario Kart 9 is a necessary part of the early lineup for whatever Nintendo releases after the Switch. That shouldn't be too much to ask for, since MK 64, Super Circuit, DS, and 7 all came out less than a year after the launch of their respective platforms.

In the meantime, I'd appreciate if the Mario Kart team worked on another project for the Switch. Who knows, maybe we'll get Nintendogs 3 (MK and Ndogs share a lot of key developers). Or maybe they could work on a new IP, or make a sequel to Arms (again, this appears to have heavily been an MK team project).

@matdub 1. They are designed to be very co-op friendly. 2. The same lack of difficulty that makes them co-op friendly also makes them more approachable to less skilled players. 3. LEGO games are graphically and mechanically simple enough to port to just about everything of note.

Because the alternative is hoping that older games get re-released on platforms you like at reasonable prices.

3D World only launched at 106,967 in Japan back in 2013, so this is impressive even considering how everything on the Switch sells.

Bummer. I had some fun with Rumble World, and was hoping this series could be interesting on Switch.

It's kind of bizarre that Greninja, the most popular Pokemon since Pikachu, is still not in the game.

@TheAwesomeBowser 2021 is the earliest we'll see them, considering how it took 4 years for the Wii U to get them, and 5 years for the Wii and 3DS to get them.

Bold of you to assume that we won’t also be getting another version or two of the game anyway.

@johnvboy Maybe the reason core Pokemon fans seem unsure what the perfect game would be is because they are a massive group with different histories with the series?

Some people want relatively big worlds to explore like in GSC. Some want adventures built around stories like in BW and SM. Some want a great competitive metagame, some will never touch it.

The reason Dexit has gotten so much ire is that it pisses off one group without directly benefitting another. Some people complained about Sun/Moon being so story focused and linear, but at least some people like that kind of experience. Do any players directly benefit from no National Dex?

@WoolooSweater I am of mixed feelings about this. They are inevitably going to have to cut the Dex, but why to 400 Pokemon? It’s just that we previously had more than that many in games since 2006. It’s like every new Pokemon effectively is standing in for five old ones.

If GameFreak announced “We are going to remove a similar number, I doubt as many people would have minded. After all, many people only became outspoken about Dexit after their personal favorite was cut. It just seems odd to me that GF would do this and NOT expect some sort of backlash, especially since this feature goes back for most of the series’ life.

@WoolooSweater What about Option 3, “new Pokemon get new models and animations while the older ones get updated on a case by case basis.” That is what Genius Sonority did for a decade with Stadium, Colosseum, and Battle Revolution. And generally, although Battle Revolution has its detractors, it wasn’t due to the fact that they were reusing N64 models.

People can accept less impressive graphics in return for a vast roster. This is how Pokemon could get away with looking worse than other handheld games.

My general negativity towards Sword/Shield aside, this sounds like an ideal size.

@NEStalgia The first step is to belittle and/or demonize people you disagree with, but you’d probably be fine at that.

@Riderkicker As someone who liked MK7, it lacked a few features that would otherwise be series mainstays.

@DrLockdown Same thing happened with the DS and especially the GBA.

I’d like yards. Maybe one could have a fenced in space with their house and a garden or something.

@Edu23XWiiU The game is hacked so that the upgrades and items are randomly mixed up.

I would love a sequel, but I’m worried it would have the same problem as Star Fox, where developers couldn’t figure out how to advance the formula.

@gauthieryannick Retro never touched Other M, they were making DKCR.

@Paperboy To my knowledge, the problems with Federation Force were less to do with the execution and more so the concept.

On Memorial Day in the USA, we remember the service of people who died in wars. Out of the 1.3 million of them, I’m pretty sure some were horrible people who did awful things. But that doesn’t invalidate the concept of the holiday.

Maybe they’re waiting until they can compress PS1 games to under 20 GB each?

I don’t care how nice the new graphics look, the original Spyro was 300 MB. Squeeze it on one disc or hire somebody who can.

@gloom Eh, it wasn’t a terrible pun. I just didn’t catch it.

@gloom Why? It’s not like haters haven’t already had a chance to play it. It’s not as if people reading a review weren’t looking for opinions about the game anyway.

@BladedKnight Just because I have a different opinion from you doesn't mean I;m trolling.

@BladedKnight Bubsy 3D won the Gold X award. Critics gave DMC had better review scores than Metal Gear Rising did back in early 2013, and would have you believe that Super Circuit for the GBA is the best Mario Kart.

British Journalism...

...heh!

M2 is still making these, so I’m still interested. Not in Sonic 1, since it’s the worst of the “Classic” games, but I’ll get one of them or another.