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Guild Wars Reforged (PC)
Animal Crossing New Horizons Switch 2 Edition
Pokémon Legends Arceus
Pokémon Legends Z-A S2E
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For me this weekend Next week will be Resident Evil 9 and LeafGreen

@a1904 Yeah, people really seem to see a gaming company relaesing a paid game as a personal attack on them. Even though nobody is ever forcing them to play and pay for them. You can even just play the GBA versions, if you still have them, on a GBA.

Very simple, let people who want to enjoy these rereleases enjoy them.

LeafGreen has been preloaded to my Switch 2 Can't wait.

@AussieMcBucket Most likely it will, but they still need to release Home support for Legends Z-A. So it might take some time.

Those look really cool. But nah I'm not going to import them from Japan.

@Jeronan Nintendo owns a 33% stake in Pokémon. And no this "greed" (or as I would call it: normal business sense) is nothing new for Nintendo or the Pokémon company. And yeah, just like Ubisoft and EA (for now) Nintendo is a publicy traded company. So they have only, and I repeat ONLY, one task: make more money than last year. Otherwise shareholders would leave.

I can't wait. I hope they have something good for this anniversary.

@Riverlution Colloseum is NSO since it's not a main-line game. Just like Stadium / Stadium 2 are on NSO.

@Eel Honestly I see Gen 3 coming within 6 months as well. On 3DS they also released the Gen 1 games first and then Gen 2.

@Fizza I agree the price is high. But honestly they could've asked $60 for it and people would've bought them.

I will be getting LeafGreen for sure. (Played FireRed the first time around) I will get both if they support Home.

In b4 people complaining about that they aren't free on NSO and the price being $20.

Already too late..

I think they made the seperate releases simply because the NSO app wouldn't be able to work with Pokémon home which I am GUESSING that these WILL do. And the price.. yeah.. That was always going to happen.

Oh no! An upgrade costs €5. I paid twice that for dinner today!
Could this have been free? Yes.
Should this have been free? Maybe.
Am I angry that they had the nerve to ask €5? No.
Did I still buy it for the price of €5? Yes. I even used some unused eShop credit.

The upgrade looks stunning on Switch 2.

In the end, like the Animal Crossing Switch 2 Edition. This is just a minor upgrade, so the price isn't too high.
You can't have everything for free.

@brakeman90 I am talking about a certain group of people who absolutely hate everything that's not 60fps or higher. A subset of people who demand 60 fps in a slow paced game (Animal Crossing) and who compare every single game to PlayStation versions of those games (Digital Foundary for example). So yeah, PlayStation fanboys. And that is different from PlayStation fans, it's a subset of that group.

Generally people who take every bit of enjoyment out of gaming.

@Ironcore Incorrect. Everyone is allowed their own opinions. Also visual/30fps mode is the default. They just added the 60fps mode for the Playstation-fanboys.

@atmb82 Honestly a lot of people say "Amiibos" or "Pokémons" and in other languages it's even more common. So quite a normal mistake to make.

Nintendo keeps updating games every week seems like. I wonder they are going to have some sort of big Direct either late this month or early next month.

@michellelynn0976 It's usually not the devs who rush games. It's the publishers having a static release date with a "patch it later" mentality.

8/10 for me. Fun game but could've been more. Absolutely a game I will play for many years to come though.

Skyrim is absolutely a game where I would prefer visuals over performance. It's still a very beautiful game. And I really didn't have any issues playing the Switch 2 version.

But I am happy they fixed bugs and added a performance mode for the people who want that. I don't mind a stable 30fps at all.

@Jokerwolf I just picked the simplest one. Other games I could've picked are: The Elder Scrolls Skyrim (recent anniversary edition), World of Warcraft (still many many expansions and classic edition released), Morrowind, ..

There are enough games that are still being sold today (new) that are over 15 years old. No reason for pirating them. At all.

And sure there are always people going to pirate, or at least try to. And sure some of them would've never bought the game. But that DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT. For example; I will never buy a Rolex. So by your definition I would be allowed to steal one that is 15 years old? See how stupid that claim is?

Arceus. Ofcourse. I'd pick the Pokémon god. Also the reason we have the second best Pokémon game: Legends Arceus.

@Jokerwolf I disagree. Last Guild Wars 1 expansion (Eye of the north) was released in 2007. Which means according to you it would be okay to steal in 2022. The game is still very active and has only recently (last year) recieved a "Reforged" remaster. And the game still gets regular updates from the original development team.

Sure it's a PC MMORPG, but without a subscription. And still very active.

(the remastered version replaced the old version of the game, and people who had previously purchased the game got a free upggrade to the reforged edition. Which meant for me that the purchases I did 15+ years ago still have value. You can buy the reforged edition for $20 if you didn't have it. Then it includes just the 3 main campaigns (Prohecies, Factions and Nightfall) but you can buy the Eye of the North expansion seperately.)

If Nintendo made a Mario Football game that was actually good.. it would dethrone EA's Fifa/FC

@The_Nintendo_Expat Source: the law and the law. (DMCA, or similar in Europe) And I sleep happier when criminal orginasations are closed.

@CielloArc I think about 0% of Devkit users use them for piracy, where I also think around 0-1% of the emulartor users use them for actual game development. Most emulators are not equipped for that. (no real ways to debug code for example). That is the difference. Also nobody is complaining people use emulators for homebrew.

@solarwolf07 You don't have to get so agressive. I actually still have a (IPS screen) GameBoy Color and a ModRetro Chromatic. And I still have some of my old games (Tetris, Super Mario Land, Pokémon) and I even bough some 2nd hand games (Zelda mostly) and have recently bought a Chromatic game for my ModRetro Chromatic (next to the Tetris game that came with it).

But downloading dumps, even from games you already have is Piracy. Dumping them yourself is legal as long as you don't have to break an encryption. (which means that any Switch game dumped is just as illegal) Emulators are legal as long as you don't use them with copyrighted games.

@user0 Except not really. This used to be the case because of smaller and more efficient chips being produced. (Moore's law) Which these days really isn't the case anymore. And with high inflation and rising demand for (memory-) chips.. well..

Even Sony is delaying their next big console release. Prices for the Steam machine haven't been revealed yet (they would've been by now).

So.. I don't think this is all that unforseen. Prices of all computers or computer like devices are going to increase the coming 2-3 years. Yes, that also includes phones and consoles.

If you want to buy a Switch 2 within the next 2 years... do it soon.

Have the game on PC, but I might double dip if the censorship is kept to a minimum.

Gardevoir. Still one of the best overall Pokémon.

I am so happy Nintendo took down another dozen of pirates. Emulators are not always illegal, but most of them are used with pirated roms. Making them enablers.

Also I disagree with people saying "it's okay to pirate old games". Since still a lot of people play retro games on retro consoles.

@XCWarrior Why not Miltank? Whitney that's why.

Easy one: Celebi.

I'd say Pikach or Mew.

@Shaw_Brothers And I honestly can't blame them for all the game leaks Nintendo has had since the Switch 1 was hacked.

@SakuraHaruka Even a physical game on Switch / Switch 2 is digital. The cartridge is only a medium containing digital game files.

@MisterLizard Honestly, I like the minimalistic colors.

Already played a couple of matches, offline against the cpu and online. This game is fun. I'll be playing adventure over the weekend.

Already pre-ordered. I am very excited to play tennis with my Mario-buddies. And sure I wish it had more single player content, but I knew that wasn't going to happen.

But it's going to be a blast to play online, I'm sure.

@MattmanForever Anything less than a 40 hour single player mode would be too short for some. But even a 20 hour single player or a 10 hour single player would eat into multiplayer budget.

The price of $70 is literally nothing compared to the wages of developers, designers, etc. these days. Budgets on these games goes into millions.

@MattmanForever Adding a 40+ hour single player campaign to a multiplayer game is going to take resources from the multiplayer part. So it is always a balancing act. Or the game development would just be twice or more as long.

@KayFiOS Actually this game isn't developed by Nintendo themselves but by Camelot. Splatoon is developed by Nintendo.

@OmnitronVariant There are demos for Let's go Pikachu & Eevee, Pokkén Tournament, Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team on the eShop. So "never" is not very accurate.

There haven't been one in years, though.

@The_Nintendo_Expat The console games never had any real single player content. It was always single player on the handheld and multiplayer on console. The Switch / Switch 2 versions are basically still "console" games even though the consoles are also handhelds.

Honestly I would love to see a purely single player focussed Tennis game. But I don't think there is enough market for. (read: casual players don't care)

So it's a multiplayer party tennis game with a small single player mode?

Exactly as expected.

Honestly I didn't have any hopes it would be a JRPG-Tennis game like the GBA/GBC tennis games were. Still I miss those days.
But I did like Mario Tennis Aces on Switch, so I will still be picking this one up as well.

My most anticipated game for this year (for now) I really like the idea of combining Pokémon with DQ Builder.

@Anti-Matter "The budget is allocated more for the advertising than the actual Pokemon games.
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Branding blind loyalty too much..."

So... you mean that their allocated money to advertising actually works?

@sportymariosonicmixx The difference between the Switch and Switch 2 is a lot bigger than between 3DS and 3DS XL and even between 3DS and new 3DS. There is litterally NO comparison. The difference is even more than between the old GameBoy and the GameBoy Color which were 2 'generations' of handhelds.

@Markatron84 It's an alternative universe where Mario and Bowser are friends and only play sports, race karts or play board games together.

@Dazman It's not single or even cherry picked. It's the first one that came up when Googling for Pokémon glitches. I've could make a list as long as this entire article and I would still have not mentioned all of them.

And glitches like MissingNo (which could break your save data) haven't been in the series for years now. So yeah, a very clear case of retro glasses here.

@Dazman None?

And that is the most famous one. But every Pokémon game has jank, glitches and bugs. Since day one.

Some people really have pink colored retro glasses on here on this site. Because actually the jank is a lot less now than it used to be. But social media is a lot more now than then, so it's more visible.

@Dazman just janky 2D games then.

Why not on the eShop? I am not travelling to the US to play a demo.