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Yeah, that's EA for you

30 years is quite the accomplishment for an indie studio, congrats to them!

@Richnj glad to hear you enjoyed it

@Dakotastomp Sonic was a charming and fun film that used its admittedly cliche premise rather well. So far Monster Hunter doesn’t seem to have any of that, but we’ll have to wait for a trailer.

@KingBowser86 A scene in the sequel where Eggman goes inside an alien casino and flexes his 300 IQ to win at every game would be incredible

Wow!

This doesn't effect me and how I'll play the game whatsoever!

@KingBowser86 In the novelization, Sonic's powers are described as "Chaos-like", an obvious allusion to the emeralds. My theory is that Sonic got his powers from an emerald, more specifically the Master Emerald, since the Echidna tribe exists on Sonic's homeworld, and would explain his overwhelming power (probably just a "chosen one" situation). This could also explain how Sonic is able to use the emeralds to transform in the first place, since the Master Emerald is "the controller" of the emeralds and Sonic has it's powers.

That's a relief, I remember reading the previews they released back at the end of 2017 and really enjoying it

I read that this film has a budget of 60 million. To put that into perspective, Detective Pikachu had a budget of 130 Million, and Sonic had anywhere between 85 and 95 Million.

I really hope they use that comparatively small budget well, because I really want to see a hyper-detailed CGI cat.

I agree with him. Adding in the Chaos Emeralds to the story might have been a bit too much to explain for the first outing, and they would've felt very out of place.

I fully expect some mention of them in the sequel though.

I could see a more Sonic Adventure-like 3D Platformer working better for Shovel Knight, rather than a Super Mario 64 inspired one. If they were gonna keep the pogo mechanic, I could see it being pretty hard to utilize effectively in a 3D space and would be hard to land, so turning it more into a Homing Attack-like move would make sense to me.

No matter what direction they take a sequel, it's probably gonna be great.

@inenai Hopefully this result actually gets them to realize that Kanto isn't the only Pokemon region that exists.

I mean, it looks cool, I guess? That's about it.

Remember last year when Nintendo would announce and release games?

Me too

I fully intend on buying it

I honestly don't know why I haven't yet

As per the Yacht Club usual, it looks great! I very unironically love Wario's Woods and block puzzlers as a whole, so this is right up my alley.

New week, new indie game inspired by one of SEGA's old franchises they refuse to do anything with

Even still though, this looks rock solid, I'll keep my eye on it

Platinum Games announces Platinum Kart, a crossover racing game featuring characters from Bayonetta, Astral Chain, W101, and Nier, as well as guest characters Ape from Ape Escape and Andy from Advance Wars.

The gimmick is that you can lock-on to other racers and jump out of your kart to preform combos on them and knock them off the track.

It'll totally happen, trust me

Rise up, Clamperl Gang

I wanna play this game so badly, but $40 for an alpha build is a bit steep. I'll wait until either this new content comes out and really bolsters the experience, or just wait for the full release (probably the former)

My favorite film is doin' good

(yes, I am very biased)

"69% off"

heh, nice

Platinum announces new Amy Rose costume DLC exclusively for the original release of Bayonetta 1

Pokemon really is a game for all ages, huh?

everyone liked that

I doubt any companies will (or can) step in and take down stuff on Dreams, since it is user-generated. Honestly, some companies are probably happy with the content being made, since it could draw some attention to their brands and franchises. It's been a ton of fun to explore and play, and I've found a lot of gems and a lot of hilarious hot garbage.

It's kinda astonishing how successful CD Projekt Red is, but that success certainly isn't undeserved.

@Big_Fudge exactly. For a Metroidvania, Kunai feels very easy, not exactly a cakewalk, but easier than most others in the genre

As someone who’s actually played Kunai I really hope that this doesn’t hurt sales, as it’s one of the most unique Metroidvanias I’ve ever played

@bluesdance
yes
definitely
absolutely

Someone seems to have some Mario Kart bias

Who needs a Direct when you can have a single new image featuring details we already know

One of the things I'm most excited for in BotW 2 is that there will be even more crazy exploits, glitches and other neat things like this. If we're still finding things in the original, imagine how much will be crammed into the sequel.

Sort of odd, considering that all fan and general audience reactions have been overwhelmingly positive.

Just a friendly reminder to not listen to critics on everything and to not let their opinions impact your own.

I already own more Sonic merch than what would be deemed normal

I don't need any more

Honestly should just be free forever with Home releasing, but whatever, being free for a month is better than not being free at all.

I’m interested to see how Platinum handles a 2D Platformer, it’s sort of odd to see them branch out into different genres.

@Paraka In the end, Three Houses still succeeded, selling better than most FE’s without Smash’s help. That’s pretty much the entire point of my comment, that Fire Emblem doesn’t need Smash to succeed anymore.

When it comes to the DLC itself though, I would say that it failed in more ways than it succeeded. Nintendo is obviously still making money off the DLC sales, but for Three Houses sales to remain the same proves one of the points I made in my comment. I said that Nintendo advertising Three Houses to the Smash fanbase, a large portion of which has grown tired of FE characters in Smash, is a fruitless endeavor. Many Smash fans have either already played Three Houses (like myself) or have grown so tired of FE reps that they don’t even want to bother with playing the actual games. If the game doesn’t sell more because of the marketing, then it failed. There is no reason to continue advertising to a base that either already plays the games or just outright refuses to play them no matter what.

As been stated previously by other comments, Fire Emblem has a lot of characters in it’s games. Because of that it makes sense for there to be a bunch in order to make sure that every fan can have that character from whatever game they like the most.

My issue lies more in the marketing department. It’s common knowledge that Nintendo added in Corrin in Smash 4 for marketing with Fates. This makes sense, since Nintendo and Intelligent Systems probably didn’t want to have another potentially series ending disaster like they would’ve had with Awakening if it sold poorly. However, for Byleth, it makes significantly less sense to try and market Three Houses, a game that had come out 6 months prior and was the highest selling FE in America and one of the fastest selling in the series. Three Houses was already popular, Nintendo didn’t need to market it to the one group of people who they knew would react negatively to it. This isn’t to mention that FE Heroes is by far Nintendo’s mobile game that has yielded the highest profit, unless you count Pokémon GO.

There’s no reason for Nintendo to baby Fire Emblem anymore. It’s found it’s audience, it’s made it’s money, Three Houses even won the Player’s Choice for Game of the Year last year at the Game Awards. Nintendo shouldn’t treat it as a tiny series that they need to advertise for in Smash to get an extra 3 people to buy a copy of the latest game. There are so many other smaller game series that Nintendo owns that they could advertise for with DLC. Games like Xenoblade, The Wonderful 101, or whatever else they have cooking up for us over the next couple of years. But Nintendo keeps showing off Fire Emblem for no real reason. Heck, their constant advertising of Fire Emblem in Smash has probably created far more opposition to the series than it has interest in it.

That doesn’t mean I object to putting FE characters into Smash, but I think that their place should be earned like so many other series’ characters have been.

generic port begging comment here

This isn't exactly a new Gigantamax form, we've known about it for a while

Even still, I love his design and hopefully will be able to snag one

I'm not even that into Animal Crossing, but even I can tell this is just stupid

hopefully this will be another Super Mario Maker 2 situation and Nintendo will realize their mistake and fix it

probably not though

@Arkay It's the same case with Super Mario Party, they're both games that a ton of people have and are still selling consistently well, yet Nintendo refuses to give DLC to

I guess I have to play it now

I hope the move isn't an inconvenience to any of their employees

I don't have the time or patience to become a speedrunner, but that doesn't make this any less cool

At this point, Atlus should just port P5 over under a different name and call it a "spinoff" so Sony doesn't try and get them

I hope the film does well enough and is also GOOD enough to warrant the production of more Nintendo movies

a Metroid movie would truly be a sight to behold

They're preparing to announce a remake of Sonic 4

Trust me, my sister's best friend's uncle's dad works at Platinum

The action scenes shown off in this ad look really good and well shot

I am still hyped as all heck for this movie