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@the_beaver it's HDR compatible but not a real HDR display in specs, the nits and contrast ratio are too low. There's some benefit in highlights but very minimal.

Renting it, see no reason to own it but I'm stoked.

So if they'd just checked in with what fans thought about their ideas a few years ago - no team and no open world - we could have had a 10. We need to normalize idea crowdsourcing.

@MattmanForever Wow yeah I used the search feature and typed the word to gather some data I was curious about, crazy right? That number is beyond just common sentiment, that's bonified groupthink/mob mentality territory right there. Open to any actual arguments you might have though, was I wrong?

Wow, 13 comments using the word "isolated" so far. It's really sunk its teeth into the tiny Metroid cult. I guarantee none of you thought up that word yourself while you were playing the games as a kid or young adult. There's nothing inherently attractive about being physically isolated. There are NPCs all throughout the Hollow Knight games but I often feel more isolated in those games than any Metroid game I've ever played, it's not the absence of characters that creates the vibe you seek it's the haunting hopeless atmosphere which Miles is the complete antithesis of. I don't need to play the full game to know they really messed up in that regard, but does every Metroid game have to have the same vibe? Are Nintendo doomed to never branching the series out because some trained monkeys regurgitate "muh isolation" ad nauseum? I guess we'll see.

I just don't enjoy playing with strangers online, I never have. My immersion in games is like my immersion in a show, an album, a book or a painting, I like my peace and solitude while I absorb the story and artistry and experience things at my own pace in my own way. Elden Ring is my favorite game of all time so I really, REALLY want to be excited for this but I don't even see myself buying it right now.

@roy130390 ...Win? 🤷‍♂

I heckin love my 3DS, play it all the time, but I'll never download another update from them for... Reasons.

@HingryHuppo Go try to run and roll in a desert then get back to us.

Who is Nintendo protecting? Are they afraid these poor 4 year olds are going to grow up with a star fish p*rn addiction? Are parents flooding their emails about this? Maybe they could try chilling about one or two things in life for once and see how that effects their public image.

@Axecon Outlaws is fairly new. Nintendo doesn't really do "mature" games so "first" isn't really an award I'd give this since you'll be waiting a very long time for "second".

This is such a spin. The game still undersold Arceus by a lot despite its MUCH higher advertising budget and MUCH higher install base. Best selling physical game? Okay? Against what? Literally what's the competition? Can we get an article that talks about the actual numbers instead of just throwing around meaningless accomplishments in an attempt to glaze it?

@ShadLink oh that's why.

It's kind of embarassing to me that they added motion controls only for rotating items and didn't even bother letting you aim with them. If they add it in someday I'll reconsider, but robbing the graphical potential of the Switch 2 plus sticks only is a pass for me right now. Same with Power Wash Sim 2, they go through the effort of patching gyro into the last game just to rob people of it for the squeakuel, what gives these days?

Awesome, I'm glad someone competent at HDR is showing Nintendo the ropes. Mario Kart and Donkey Kong are stunning thanks largely to it and I'll buy any update for any old game that includes it.

@PoeTheLizard Yeah that's what I've heard and it makes sense, but DLSS, Unreal Engine and developer ingenuity are constantly evolving so who knows if someone finds a workaround. I personally can't stand it.

Have you seen the hair in AAA Switch 2 games? It's the same problem in all of them: Outlaws, Resident Evil, Elden Ring, etc. It's a ghastly, fuzzy, pixelated mess that leaves awful shadows on their faces. Until someone works something out, I'll take this over that any day.

@Metazoxan All you're doing is repeating what he said, I think you're the one missing the point.

Canceled my preorder.

I was hoping this series would have evolved or modernized a little bit. I'll play it and like it but nothing about this will captivate anyone past the 3 million fans that keep showing up every 20 years. Enemies still take shots like sponges. Still no satisfying combat or weapon recoil. Floaty movement, music that stopped feeling futuristic a couple years after 5th Element. This just won't excite enough people to breathe life into the series and make it successful enough to see a consistent release schedule. It feels tired and outdated and I already felt that way about 3 when it came out so very long ago.

I camp a lot, and work from my camper, and game in my camper. The Switch is connected to the monitor from behind a removable plastic panel so it's not in the way, invisible to thieves and just looks sleek. Portable docks are the only way this method would work for me. No more mini dock, no more Smash with the girlfriend in the mountains.

That voice acting is terrible. Can you turn it off?

People are really still whining about key cards? Look guys, you own the game. Wii and DSi games are still re-downloadable, that's 20 YEARS and no sign of being pulled despite maybe 5 people still playing those consoles. Your key cards are safe for around the same time as the life expectancy of cartridges/SSDs then, and guess what? Developers get to design their games based on the speed of the internal Switch 2 SSD speeds which is one major factor that makes it a next gen console. AND you can still resell the game. People need to get a grip and come to terms, you wanted a next gen handheld and this was the only way.

@ShadLink Leaks suggest otherwise actually. Early next year.

Nice to see the Switch Pro running games a bit better.

Not far off of Sony's numbers (38-40% active users subscribed) but WAY cheaper for the base price ($20 a year compared to $80 for Sony) so you have to wonder why Sony fans are willing to spend so much more. If they didn't make it necessary for voice chat on S2 and basic functionality I never would have spent a penny, it's just not a very compelling service compared to the competition, nevermind their atrocious $80 offering (which I would have loved some updated data on but they conveniently forgot, most likely still embarrassingly low). There should be active rewards like exclusive homecreen themes, MiiVerse and Pictochat should come back, user profiles where you can share screenshots and stuff, etc instead of holding important features ransom then throwing in a few ancient relic games we've all played a thousand times before at a trickling rate. Or just keep making Mario movies, whatever.

You love to see it. It's going to be a very capable little guy if it gets some steady output. I'm a little dismayed by its current output but I'm no stranger to console launches so I'm being patient.

If Nintendo were cool we would have gotten some Silksong icons. 1st party only is a drag.

@neogyo I would have been if my girlfriend hadn't gotten into it right when I thought I was done at around 500 hours. The more friends you have that are playing the more you get out of it imo. Then the DLC came out. She has even more hours than me at this point.

I'll get it even though I doubt it will hold my interest for very long. They should have done another massive furniture dump, upgraded the shop and added diagonal placements or something to mix it up a little. I'm so burned out on this game after 1k hours, I want to be excited but I'm jumping back in more for the habit than them doing anything substantial here. At the very least I'm relieved it's kinda tiny since that hopefully means more effort is being put into the next game for a swift release.

@HeadPirate Sooo many games on the 3DS have their speed tied to the framerate so that's probably why some people here are used to the idea that it's a common issue.

@topsekret My only issue with that theory is that it would be just as easy for them to patch in a swap to 30fps mode once you hit a certain number of visitors to maintain stability so people get the best of both worlds, as I think the vast minority of people playing this game play with more than a couple people at a time on average.

If you think they're playing coy about pushing out a sequel to the game that took the world by storm and made them SO MUCH MONEY a few years ago then you're a bit silly. The New Leaf DLC, Welcome Amiibo, was MASSIVE to hold people over a few more years but this one is actually kinda piddly in terms of new furniture, new villagers, etc. Like I'm sure the hotel and dream island will be fun for a little while but they're not banking on making much off of this, I guarantee you, it's just to keep the series fresh in people's minds so the reveal for the next game in a year or two doesn't fall on deaf ears.

3 or 4 new furniture sets isn't nearly enough to get me back. All the extra features in the world aren't worth anything if I'm restricted to using all the same decorations I've grown bored with over the last several years. They have SO MUCH from the mobile game that has yet to carry over. The shop still can't be upgraded, a massive downgrade from every AC before it. The 30fps on S2 was the nail in the coffin. Once again they hold themselves back from doing anything actually exciting because they'd rather make a quick penny on minimum effort, and this only serves to delay the next game by who knows how long. I can't count how many times by now I've started a Nintendo trailer with optimism and ended it with crushed hope.

They hardly showed any new furniture. A couple niche new sets and hotel themed stuff doesn't seem like enough to pull me back in. No 60fps? No HDR? What exactly am I spending $5 on? Just them upping the resolution and adding mouse controls? I wanted to be excited but it seems sloppy and lazy as per their usual MO.

@AmplifyMJ Ah yes everyone doing it for free in their spare time on YouTube are "experts".
@Coalescence Share with the class then, how much more professional, arduous, backbreaking work does it actually take? I'm wildly curious.

YouTube does what Nintendon't.

@Shade_Koopa Some things are objective. The list of objectively substandard practices evidenced in this game and several prior Pokemon games is exhaustive and irrefutable despite your personal experience inside those practices.
Nintendo are 1/3 owners and the publishers. To say they have no input is to be completely ignorant on how any of this works. No they don't develop the games but they have more than enough power to demand change and the bad look falls equally on their shoulders when they don't use that power.

ScarVi weren't even "good enough", those were hot trash and by far the worst games I've ever played in my life - not exaggerating. They're going to keep bleeding fans until it's absolutely necessary for them to change, and I may be middle-aged by then, which makes me sad.

@GetontheStiix So you see no room for improvement in the series? Which part about GameFreak makes you want us to shut up about them, their net worth or how sentimental you are about your childhood?

Why would anyone use YouTube on a system without AdBlock? That idea disgusts me.

@Cathalm Ah right of course. That did sell nearly 11 million in less than 2 months even if it only sold 4.3 million during its launch. I wonder how they'll end up comparing.

What else has come out since TotK to give it a run for its money? That was kinda the Switch 1's swan song until this game and Prime 4 (which probably won't sell more than 4 million in its lifetime) wasn't it? I really can't think of how this isn't obvious news, @Cathalm I've not heard a single "hater" say this game would "flop" but nearly a million sales less than Arceus globally (almost 1/3 fewer!!) is a big indicator that the fans weren't happy with the quality on display. IMO the real haters of Pokemon are the ones who don't want to see it get any better and who are strangely angry at the people trying to demand better. I don't get that.

@OmnitronVariant How is 28% less than the last game "bending over backwards"? The number is right there in front of your face and there's only one way to look at it. Yes it's still a big number but do you know how investors read charts? Because it doesn't seem like you know how investors read charts.

Excellent. I'm glad for the people who are enjoying it but deep down you all have to know we deserve better. 28% less than Arceus is a big message to the Pokemon Company that we're getting fed up with cut corners, it's time for the series to reach its potential.

@nukatha They dropped the streak challenges pretty quick, many many months ago. Of the hundreds if not a couple thousands of ranked battles I've done I've never lost to a Misty turn one, she's still very handy and sometimes broken and I'm sure it happens sometimes but it's much more rare since the meta in the first couple sets. Not trying to be argumentative, but if those were your main complaints it might be safe to try it again someday.

7 is about right. I do enjoy it for what it is as someone who is entirely free-to-play besides getting premium this month because I wanted to load up on shinedust for 2star trades next month (every EX pack guarantees a EX card which is 700 shinedust if you already have it, so I've gotten over 200k shinedust this month just from opening packs every day which is worth 8 2star trades). I'd love to spend a little money to amplify the experience but at $5 per 10-pack that's a bit rich for my blood, especially after all of the bummer 10-packs I've opened for free, I can easily see myself wasting a lot of money until I get what I want which is just not the type of value exchange I'm interested in.
I don't go for master ball because the reward is barely worth the effort, I'll get to Ultra 2 or 3 for a quick and easy 80 hourglasses and spend the rest of my time arranging my binders. I wish there was more to do, like a single player campaign ala the GBC game from the 90's. That, a smoother UI and a fair pricing on extra packs would see me hooked for years to come. As it stands I'm not sure how much longer I'll stick around.

Parts of it are really rough looking still, like the cutscenes where so many of the textures just jump in when they feel like it, the shadows on faces are terrible, and the haloing/ghost trail effect around a lot of things as you pan the camera, and especially how low-res her hair looks. Then parts of it are really pretty. The rough parts are enough to completely dissuade me though. If they can fix it (and let me have another demo) then I'm all in.

@graviton Oh trust me I agree 100%. I'm just harshing on them because they've shown such little competence in any area of development, either from being rushed or lazy or disrespectful to the consumer or all 3, but I'd still love to see them actually try.

I was so excited for Power Wash but I learned it doesn't have motion controls moments before I was about to buy it. What the actual heck.

I wish this game ran better on Switch 2. Outlaws gets so much support and looks and runs fantastic. I bought this game because random commentors praised the performance but I won't be making that mistake again, apparently some people can't feel stutters or sluggish frame pacing. I find it near unplayable unless I'm on a barren planet, and it's just not that good looking.

@cedarhyped They don't extend the story or anything like that, or if that exists I haven't tried it, I just mean messing around the map and testing out the mods, vibing, etc. has far extended my personal playtime and enjoyment. I wasn't ready to be done with the world after I beat the story with a couple different builds so I'm grateful the community really pulled through. Even just adding triple jump and flying completely transforms the game into something more exciting to navigate without making it feel too easy (the game does that on its own a little sooner than I'd like even on the hardest difficulty so I also love the mods that enhance the challenge).

@Jeronan It doesn't need them but I love them. I beat it a couple times without them but I'm personally so wildly passionate about modding communities, it keeps evolving what the game is capable of and extending the time of enjoyment I get out of it just like countless other games have, particularly Skyrim and Smash Bros Ultimate for me. Being able to fly in cars, have way more weapon and clothing and vehicle customizations, add a triple jump, fix personal gripes with many clunky aspects and bugs that the devs still haven't gotten to themselves, 4K textures, way more types of weather, etc etc etc turns this 100+ hour game into a 1000+ hour game easily and of course it's hard to go backwards after that. Plus it's just so fitting for a game that's all about... modding. lol