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They can call it the P U.

Skarmory Super Mega Raid Day in Pokémon Go. Spent time with the lovely locals. My best was my first, a 14/15/15 shiny. My last raid was also a hundo. Four shinies in total. In hindsight, I'm regretting refraining from doing just a few more raids to bring my mega energy up to an even 10,000 so I can max out at least two, but I'm saving premium passes for the absolute onslaught of events in July...

One of the richest gaming publishers is too tight-arsed to put out what will quickly become one of the best selling games of all time on three odd UHD discs. Absolutely pathetic.

GTA V shipped on seven DVDs on PC, each with unique textured artwork, which would have made them even more expensive to produce (though after all this time, there's a massive post-installation download given all of the updates since its release).

@TripleJump : I was going to say that. I think the German version is outright called Pokémon Tekken.

Why couldn't that be a feature film?!

Frigibax Community Day in Pokémon Go. I hosted a Golden PokéStop Bonanza at 1:00pm while watching the World Cup match ahead of the ambassador-hosted Community Day at 2:00pm.

Close to 400 catches, 19 shinies (two with background), no hundos. My best catch was the shiny background with 13/14/15 IVs.

Mouse/touch controls is long overdue.

Now, if this is complete on cart, I'll gladly quadruple dip, but otherwise, I'll stick with my complete DRM-free PC version (with all DLC), which I'll be able to play on a handheld PC, and the S1 Jumbo cart.

@ElRoberico : The software on the physical cartridge is no different to the software in the eShop, so of course it will get the update.

GKC detected, purchase rejected.

I'd just be content with a Joy-Con pair that doesn't £%¥}£%€%£#€ing drift!

I've barely used them enough (and I'm certainly not even remotely rough with any of them), for about half of all of my Joy-Con (and I have most of the colours) to be drifting...

Slow few weeks for the rest of the world in Pokémon Go, but I've been meeting daily with one of the locals for 100 trades so we can get guaranteed XL candies (and he's gotten a few hundos from me too).

I'm just holding out for a themed model. Any model. Hell, I'd probably even take a Hello Kitty model just to break the monotony of grey!

IP-wise, I'm not terribly fussy. Pokémon and Fire Emblem are the safest options for me, but I'd take almost any Nintendo IP.

Too hard to tell without seeing the game in motion. All we saw was essentially a brief preview of a cutscene.

The 3DS remake looked gorgeous though, and Link was particularly adorable in that, so that got my vote.

First time a Dragon Quest game has attracted my attention. Glad it's coming to Switch 1 as well, though the Switch 2 GKC has really put me off. Might wait for a sale on the S1 version, then.

People foolish enough to "buy" the cloud versions knew what they were in for.

@Rhaoulos : I'm really pissed off at the fact that the Switch 2 physical editions don't include any of the DLC. My enthusiasm for these fell from 100 to zero very quickly.

It looks far better than Switch Sports, and if I hadn't known better, it also almost looks like a straight port of the original Wii Sports Resort.

I was also really disappointed with Switch Sports, as it didn't really hold my attention, and was lacking in personality that made the original games so endearing and replayable.

I just hope that all of the sports are on the cart at launch this time instead of releasing a glorified open beta with several sports missing.

@UnusedBabyWipes : I'm holding out for that too. And similar for Legends Z-A with the DLC.

I was initially excited... until I realised that the physical editions of XC2/3 won't include their respective expansion content.

What was great about double-dipping Wii U games on Switch was that they included any previously released DLC. Nintendo trying to make us buy them separately instead of finally giving us complete physical editions of these games is such a scummy move. I'll likely grab XC1, but skip the other two and just stick with my S1 carts.

Boring, generic cover with a critically panned port. This was such an easy skip back in the day.

I don't like either of the covers (Rayman looks particularly bizarre on the NA art), but I went with Europe, which is the same art we got in Australia.

I want to be excited, but knowing SEGA, it'll be a GKC physically, there'll be some overpriced "digital deluxe edition", have 20 patches, a content "roadmap" and/or paid DLC, and not to mention the use of AI (though Rockstar's use of it for automatically "upscaling" the GTA trilogy was far, far more egregious). Modern gaming is absolutely killing my enthusiasm for the hobby.

Oh, the wonders that humanity has achieved before GTA VI.

Just give us compilations will the classics already!

All I'm hearing here is "Buy our AI-generated slop for $80!"

My development isn't arrested enough to be caught dead wearing glorified communal bathroom sandals in public.

Will they be including any of the handheld adaptations as well?

Toy Story 3 also got adaptations for the DS and PSP. I don't know whether or not the PSP version is largely the same as the console versions, but they should have included the DS game as well.

@batmanbud2 : Origins was released on Wii and 3DS.

@nukatha @Broosh : I am officially a member of the "of a certain age" club as I understood all of that. 😅

Australia got the NA art too, and it's easily the best of the lot.

No global events in Pokémon Go this weekend (sadly), but I've met with one of our local players to do 100 daily trades for the guaranteed XL candies (and to ease our storage burden).

@8bit-Man : Likewise.

Incidentally, it's absolutely crazy that the Generations Pack was AU$120 (with free shipping) via a Canadian seller, while Requiem on its own in Australia retails for AU$130... for a damned keycard. Absolutely friggin' obscene.

13 years since CoD on a Nintendo platform...

Even the humble DS got something like six of 'em, and those were each made from scratch rather than ports.

They should have just used Wario as the mascot (maybe depicted with just his eyes and moustache), instead of the bloody mask face. Surely the game would have attracted more attention that way over the stupid mouthful of a title that somehow manages to be simultaneously generic and difficult to remember and say.

The demo is so ridiculously brief (only three microgames!) that they should have just made it a purchasable game instead of issuing a free demo (with almost nothing to do) and imposing online checks every time you want to play the full experience.

And it's basically a WarioWare game in design, so I don't get why they didn't just substitute the mask mascot for Wario himself (perhaps depicting him only by his eyes and moustache).

With how brief the demo was, it doesn't fill me with much optimism for the content that the paid packs will provide, as well done as everything has been so far.

And since they're only using still photos anyway, I don't get why this couldn't have been released on the Switch and Switch 2. The latter has the ability to connect to a camera, sure, but surely they could have given us the option to import photos as well. This would have been so much more fun (and replayable) as a party game than as a brief solo experience.

Musicology has entered my vocabulary.

Yet another attack on game preserva... oh, never mind.

Super Mega Falinks Raid Day in Pokémon Go. I didn't get quite as much Mega Energy as I would have liked, but at least my shiny choo choo from last year's Go Fest can now mega evolve.

I also got to Level 80. Hell yeah.

@Axecon : And that's still over 1.5 years away (assuming a late 2027 release).

@elpardo1984 : Hey, I'll take that if a themed bundle materialises later this year.

I shall look forward to Black Friday sales when their overstocked price-increased inventory struggles to sell. Hey, I'm an optimist. 🤞

And what in the hell is a "super game", because if something like Super Mario Galaxy isn't considered a "super game", then Sega sure as hell ain't coming up with a damn thing to outdo the likes of such a masterpiece.

@Phenzy : The GTA series had already given us a crazy taxi experience even before "Crazy Taxi" was a thing.

Why on Earth would there be a sequel? Is there a second planet that's soon going to smoosh into ours and make the map bigger?

The game's already gone through so many changes and refinements over the years that it's functionally a sequel compared to what it was a decade ago.

All good if it's a beefy game and everything is on the cart with no paid DLC on the horizon, but that's too much to ask, apparently, even for US$80...

@acNewUpdates : One of the pieces is for Arcanine's naughty bits, hence the age restriction.

I don't get why they didn't slap the WarioWare branding on this thing. As a slightly underperforming IP, this could have been such a great way to raise brand awareness and build up some excitement for future instalments on Switch 1/2.

I don't like seeing my mug, but this looks like such a great concept that could potentially become a viral sensation.

Will grab it whenever I pick up a Switch 2... one of these years...

Deino Community Day Classic in Pokémon Go today. My best catch was a shiny female with background, which reminds me that I need to evolve a few more for their special moves.

I'm also due to reach Level 80 next Saturday during Mega Falinks Super Raid Day.

I am a hardcore physical enthusiast because it's the only option that grants ownership and control over my purchase.

But... I would actually prefer digital if the software was DRM-free. That's why I abandoned Steam and now I almost only ever buy PC games from GOG or direct from the developers. If I can get all of my games installed across multiple devices without online checks, as well as being able to back up paid DLC and software updates for posterity, then hell yes, I'd absolutely consider abandoning physical in a heartbeat (and I might even double-dip on physical releases for larger games, which means even more money for the publishers).

I absolutely hate buying paid DLC for any physical game that I own as it's effectively converting the game into a part-physical, part-digital monstrosity that I'll never fully own (not to mention often being grossly overpriced), except perhaps in the extremely rare case that a revised physical release emerges with the DLC loaded onto the cartridge. I've skipped a number of games because of this.

As long as it's all digital, I kinda wish they'd throw in Welcome Tour to sweeten the deal, but this ain't Iwata-sama's Nintendo anymore.

Only the Pokopia "bundle" is kind of appealing, due to the lack of a proper physical release, but considering that its inclusion is factored into the price of the bundle, then I'd rather put that money toward the GKC anyway.

Sega needs to master the craft of making ordinary games of an acceptable quality before claiming to be working on their pretentious "sUPeR gAMes".