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@cammers1995 Even then, young kids deserve better quality games than this.

It's insane how awful the animation looks in this game.

It's going to be weird to go back to 150CC after getting used to how 200CC controls.

I wish that they'd stop making everything open world, but eh.

@Ainze It's ironically more than a tiny change in code. For some reason with SV, the animations and in-game clock are tied to the game's FPS. It's why with emulators forcing 60FPS, the game breaks entirely. They had to optimize the game again and go through the code just to get this to work.

@OrangeSoda I prefer the higher FPS, but I agree that it feels cursed or forbidden given that this series usually barely hits 30 FPS.

I haven't gotten any updates on my purchase. I think Bestbuy is going to wait until the midnight launch to charge me.

@Lizuka There's a lot of songs that are pretty recognizable imo. The Ganondorf fight themes, the Final Fall, the Shrine theme, the Great Sky Island theme, Stormwind Ark's theme, the theme of the Spirit Temple, the Depths music.

Honestly, I'm excited to finally dive into my copy of Violet. I haven't played it, since I mainly just played Scarlet- but given that they're making the game perform better, I'll be able to enjoy it more than I already did (really loved the gameplay, just hated the issues with FPS and glitches).

@HingryHuppo They make their money off of hardware that's supplemented by Software. That's why they need exclusivity in the first place, because without said software being exclusive to their console- no one would buy their console. If you're a sega fan, you should know a bit about this, no?

@HingryHuppo You went on to use Sega as an example, which I brought up that Sega isn't an apt example as Nintendo and Sega are two entirely different companies with entirely different goals. I'm not being argumentative. I'm saying why the comparison you brought up in the first place isn't accurate.

Nintendo is again, a company that produces video game consoles. They make their money off of selling hardware. They sell said hardware at a loss however, and utilize software within that hardware to make that money back. Sega failed immensely in the console space, so they backed out and became a third party developer. Meanwhile Nintendo has been going strong solely based off of exclusive software on their hardware.

Also, you're forgetting that you're the one who responded to my comment in the first place. You came across as argumentative within the first comment, so I don't get why you're pinning the blame of this being an argument onto me.

@HingryHuppo Sega doesn't make consoles anymore, or make most of their sales from consoles. Nintendo makes most of their sales from hardware- and thus they need software to push said hardware.

@HingryHuppo These are different situations. Nintendo wouldn't team up with Microsoft to list one of their first party games on a list for PC games. This is legit just an AI making an error.

Nintendo losing exclusivity for their franchises and putting them on other platforms like PC will spell doom for the company, given they rely on exclusives to sell consoles. Nintendo is primarily a gaming company, while Sony and Microsoft aren't. Nintendo has more to lose than they have to gain with selling their games on platforms like Steam.

It was probably just Microsoft's Ai messing up. Nintendo wouldn't put their games on PC, since it would be shooting themselves in the foot.

@MirrorFate2 For Episode Aigis, I agree they butchered that, but I don't think they butchered the main story. Akihiko's the only one out of the new cast that sounds off, with the rest either sounding on par with their original voices, or better than their original voices.

I don't prefer Reload because of recency bias. I prefer it because it allows me to actually decide what I want my party members to do instead of forcing me to just roll with the punches that the NPC characters give me. I prefer Reload because it allows for that without taking away the cutscenes in their entirety, which Portable did.

I don't really care for the exclusion of the FEMC, and I say this as a woman myself. It sucks that a lot of the anime cutscenes were replaced, but given the small budget- and the fact that CG in games can reach the levels of those original scenes, it doesn't bug me as much. The only scene that I have issues with was the Awakening of Thanatos, which feels very stiff in comparison to the original animated scene. Would've preferred if they spent the budget on animating that instead of animating Yukari taking a shower.

@MirrorFate2 That has nothing to do with the quality of the voice performances? Also the original voice performances in Persona 3 were ten times worse. The characters had really unfitting voices and didn't sound right at all.

Nintendo Dystopia.

@N00BiSH Persona 6 is in development. It'll probably get a reveal trailer the same showcase that P4R gets revealed. These are produced by two different teams within P-Studio.

@MirrorFate2 The new cast in Reload is actually way better than the old? Like a lot of the voices for the characters in Reload actually fit the characters. Even fans of the original Persona 3 talk about how horrible the original voices for Aigis and Fuuka were.

As for Persona 4's remake, a good few of the older VAs probably weren't going to be able to return anyways. A lot of them either don't voice act at all anymore (Naoto's VA), or if they do, their voice aged a lot to the point where they don't really sound like the characters anymore. Persona 4 is notorious for recasting characters for every piece of media regarding it as well. Kanji got recasted in the anime, Chie's original VA got recasted in Golden. Naoto has been through 2-3 voices already. It sucks that Yuri wasn't allowed to come back even though he wanted to voice Yosuke again, but if they're going to have to replace some actors, they might as well replace all of them I guess.

It's probably just on there because Geoff includes anything that happens gaming-wise during the summer as part of Summer Games Fest, even if it actually isn't in the showcase. Genuinely hate this event.

@MrRom92 Not really missing the point here. Discounting a new Animal Crossing because "the old one sold well, and Nintendo will want to maximize profits by upgrading it and adding new content to it" is like saying "Splatoon 2 is going to get content updates through out the entirety of the system's life, and there won't be a Splatoon 3," or "Mario Kart 8 will just get more DLC because it's an evergreen title instead of them making a brand new Mario Kart!"

@MrRom92 Okay, and we're still getting a new Mario Kart despite 8 being the best selling in the series. We still got Splatoon 3 when Splatoon 2 was on the same console. We'll get a new Animal Crossing even with New Horizons being playable.

@sanderev Pokemon games are entirely different games with similar gameplay elements. Scarlet and Violet were games that needed performance patches because of the state which they released within. Animal Crossing is primarily the same experience, hence why we never got a remake of a prior Animal Crossing game before. Animal Crossing New Horizons released unfinished content-wise, but was polished.

Plus, Animal Crossing 6 is probably coming out either sometime at the end of this year- or sometime next given how New Horizon's dev cycle was only 7 years due to the transition into HD and the Wii U's issues.

@sanderev Unless the wait for the next Animal Crossing game is super long, I don't see a case where they update New Horizons. Especially if the new game is taking New Horizon's base and expanding upon it. Reusing assets and graphics that they already had made for New Horizons in the first place.

@Mz3player While that is true, I don't think that changes anything. Nintendo stopped adding content with the 2.0 update- making it clear that they're done with New Horizons in terms of content. Given how New Horizons functions as a game progression-wise, adding more content on top of what's already there would mess up the flow. Especially when the content that the updates added up to 2.0 was content that was supposed to be in the game at launch but was left out due them releasing the game unfinished. I also think given that the team made Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 on the same console, there's definitely room to argue that a new Animal Crossing is going to be made for Switch 2.

@Oldstalk Exactly. New Horizons selling well ensured that there's going to be a new game on the next system. Even if that new game won't sell as well as New Horizons did, they're definitely going to make use of the series' popularity.

@MrRom92 Oh boy, you must be incredibly new to the series then. They put a new Animal Crossing game on the 3DS even though it could play Wild World, which is a DS game. The Switch 2 is just the 3DS to the Switch's DS. We're 100% getting a new Animal Crossing game, and it's bound to come within the new few years given the dev cycle for the series.

@MrRom92 @YunoboCo It probably won't get an upgrade because the next Animal Crossing game is in the pipeline.

@Overzeal You should care, since you need to understand something to even have an opinion on it- or at least you should. Otherwise your argument is moot, and you're just raging online because you hate something you don't know a lick about.

@Overzeal It isn't done because they don't like the original though. It's done because the original jokes won't have the same impact due to different cultural contexts. Either that, or wordplay jokes literally won't work because words in Japanese don't exist in English, and words that exist in English don't exist in Japanese.

An Ai direct translation is genuinely going to make the quality of these games suffer more. Mainly because it's impossible to directly translate Japanese and keep the impact of what's being said. Most direct translations end up being extremely dry, even when the Japanese version ends up being poetic or interesting.

Localization, like it or not is actually needed. Sometimes it can be done poorly like with Yokai Watch, but a lot of games tend to be more respectful to the source material while relating it to other cultures.

@Overzeal It shouldn't, as the quality that you complain about for Localizations would only get worse due to the use of Ai. Ai has no understanding of the nuance of complexity of languages.

@DiggleDog It was a pretty niche series back when it launched on the 3DS. A lot of people are just discovering it- mainly through word of mouth with this new game I think.

@Wexter At this point, the sequel to X and Xenoblade 4 are pretty much one in the same.

@HeadPirate The issue is that there's still a substantial difference between Generative Ai and Procedural Generation. Procedural Generation requires a lot of human work to actually make something out of, while GenAi removes the human element from the process. All of the assets used in procedural generation has to still be hand-made by the team, as from my understanding, procedural generation just acts as a mixing and matching of those assets within pre-set perimeters.

GenAi on the other hand scrapes and is built off of data that isn't consensually scraped, and is harsher on the environment in the way that it is used. It is utilized to remove the actual artists from the art, and doesn't need a human hand to be utilized in the slightest.

While both of these are forms of Ai, there is a massive difference imo, which makes something like Procedural Generation more understandable and justifiable than Generative Ai.

@HeadPirate They're two different processes. One steals work from others in order to train the system, and the other doesn't. There's a reason why Generative Ai and Procedural Generation aren't called the same exact thing.

@Wexter I think the takeaway from the story is less that they use procedural generation and moreso that the devs have plans to utilize it for cityscapes, which gives us a slight idea what the next game they're developing is going to end up being like.

@Overzeal From what I've seen of things, they didn't really mess it up? Like at all? A lot of jokes were re-written, but that was mainly because the game had a bunch of jokes that were either specific to Japanese culture, or Japanese wordplay. Stuff that couldn't really carry the same meaning in the West. If you want a messed up Localization, play Yokai Watch- where they tried to erase all of Japanese culture from the game.

I don't really understand why so many people wanted the next Mario Kart game to be a Nintendo Kart racer. We already have Smash Bros. We don't need another crossover that overtakes something like Mario Kart.

It's nice to see that Diddy is back!

I camped out on the Bestbuy website and got a pre-order the night they dropped. It still has yet to be cancelled, so hopefully it won't be. Looking forwards to the 5th!

Yay! Switch 2 Pro rumors despite the console not even being out yet!!!!

As someone who's been playing the game, it's genuinely hard to pull myself away from it in order to do other things. The gameplay is that addicting. It genuinely is a worthy sequel to the other games in the series.

@babybilly No problem! I also wish more people would read these articles before saying anything on them. It would clear up a lot of misinfo.

I don't think they're going after James Earl Jone's wishes, but rather Epic's use of technology that so happens to utilize his voice. This tech seems to have breached some sort of agreement with SAG-AFTRA.

Even then though, I feel like this battle is worthless inherently. All they're doing is putting more negative publicity on them, and making people despise unions/be pro corporate more.

@babybilly I think the thing that people despise this Union for is mainly just the stunts they pulled to try to get conditions they wanted. The one that I remember off of the top of my head is the Bayonetta situation, where they got the original voice actor to go after Platinum for being "unfair" with the recasting of the character role. In that situation, they came across as bullies- which continues to follow them into a situation like this. You also have a lot of people who see Ai voice acting as not being a huge deal (despite it being a massive one), and so they're attacking anyone who's challenging that.

Another thing to note is that a lot of people here are mostly reacting to the headline, and they haven't actually read the statement put out by the union at all.

@BirdoDidNothingWrong I think it means the position as in, the place where the life master is. Not that you can skip or change what lives are maxed.

@BrazillianCara I'm glad they never learned or cared. Especially given that Toby Fox composed some of the best songs in modern Pokemon.

@nin10doom Unfortunately it seems more like a case where the game just didn't print many physical copies. I've seen this before with Yokai Watch 3. It happens when a company is about to either close operations overseas or close their company outright.

It's funny how Toby Fox's composition for the game is literally just from a weird Homestuck fanfic revolving around community drama. I can't talk about the topic here- but it genuinely felt like a troll move for him to include the motif in the song.

I genuinely don't understand how people think this is Ai. The text isn't even hallucinating like it tends to with Ai generated images.

@the_beaver Prices on PS5 and Steam are 59.99 and 69.99 depending on if you get the standard or deluxe editions of the game. Switch is the same, but Switch 2 (at least in Japan) has a 2 dollar increase.

@PikaPhantom Ahh yeah, that's true. Forgot Toby Fox said that in the letter. Was obsessing over the website.

@LEGEND_MARIOID I already own the other consoles, so it isn't really that relevant. If I'm buying a game and the Switch 2 with it, it's weird that I have to pay 2 dollars extra for an upgrade that's just the standard on PS5 or Steam.