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@AfroMario It isn't a good starting point for the series. X is an entirely different animal from mainline. Entirely different priorities. X focuses more on sidequests and the gameplay while mainline focuses more on the actual stories of the game.

@Grumblevolcano I mean Nintendogs is also on here and that's not on Switch. I think it's just a bunch of Nintendo's music from all eras.

They're going to get delayed again anyways.

Aside from that, haven't been interested in their games ever since they tried to make a trailer for a game only using generative Ai.

@Kazman2007 This is a wildly different game from the other Xenoblade games. Focuses more on an open world and side quests than it does the main story. The main story cuts off halfway through the narrative.

Hopefully the resources for this didn’t take away from mainline. Genuinely couldn’t get into this game- and I don’t intend on purchasing it again either.

@shiftbarackyeaugh 3 and 4 are being polished at the current. They’re probably releasing those two next year. It’ll be a paid release of the game containing chapters 1-4, and chapters 5-7 will be added down the line as updates I believe.

I haven't had overheating, but I noticed the battery has been draining a bit faster on the home screen (draining every minute or so, instead of keeping its charge for a while like it had been).

@Li_Bae Because the redditors responsible for what's going on and posting about it are from America? I've seen these posts by the people committing the acts.

Edit: Plus Asian tourists tend to be more respectful whilst American tourists are usually singled out as the group that isn't.

@N00BiSH That's fair. I've known people who never washed their hands at all, even before Covid happened. Don't get why it's just so hard for some to even do that.

This is only furthering the Japanese public's negative view on us Westerners when people do stuff like this. It sets a stereotype that we can't even follow the most basic rules, and showcases that a good chunk of people genuinely have no manners or understanding that other people outside of themselves exist.

This story about the photographs is annoying, but the story about the people ripping out power chords to prove that Nintendo is using "emulators" just baffles me. Would these people genuinely act like this in museums at their home country, or is this special because "It's Nintendo!!!"

Just hope that the game is good. Especially considering that it barely has any of the old staff working on it.

@Goat_FromBOTW Given that he made that claim years ago, it's most likely that he had a change of heart or decided to step down for health reasons. The man can barely do the Mario voice anymore, to the point where they had to start reusing clips from previous games to help supplement any of the new voice work.

Metaphor deserves to sell well. Genuinely great game.

@MondayMedley Ehh it isn't the end of the world. You can still take your mon from Galar and breed it in Paldea for it to register. The issue is primarily just that it takes a bit to actually do it (even with the reduced grind), and on top of that it's pretty much a measure to make sure that people still buy the new games when they come out. Especially given that GO exists, and would pretty much destroy any reason for people to have to buy SV in terms of events like these. That, and the expansions for SV (it's pretty scummy, even if I do like Scarlet and Violet at their core).

What sucks is that in order to complete the pokedex for each game, you genuinely have to catch all the mon in that game's pokedex and transfer them from that game. This means that if you need a gen 1 pokemon, yet already have it in HOME from something like Sun and Moon or Sword and Shield, you'd need to effectively go into Scarlet and Violet and catch it fresh.

Ironically I don't see why the game can't run on Switch 1. It's around the same level graphically as Persona 5.

I don't get why this game isn't immune, given that the main draw is literally playing with other people. There's not much to leak without friends..

@Pat_trick If you read the article they make it clear that you play them in "Chronological" order. So basically timeline order. Dragon Quest 3, then 1, then 2. Basically beat them in the order they're releasing the remakes in.

Unless Nintendo made an official NDA, they’re effectively going to have to deal with this being leaked. People didn’t listen to Toby Fox when he told them to not talk about Deltarune spoilers until a few days after chapter 1 launched. People aren’t going to listen to a mega corporation telling them not to talk about this test.

I’m worried about the lack of Yoko Shimomura music. If she hasn’t come back, then that singlehandedly ruins the game for me honestly.

It's fine as is, but it seems more like a vanity object rather than anything practical. You're effectively paying a premium for a novelty.

I wouldn't really buy this, given my phone does fine enough as is for an alarm clock. Having one that makes game noises when I get out of bed doesn't really seem like it's practical, especially as I get older. Would've been cool when I was a kid- but I'm 22 now.

Don’t get why I would get this if I have an alarm built in my phone.

I mean this is apparent that it was an expanded version of the Link to the Past map. Most likely far into the future of that version of Hyrule at that, given how the landmarks from Link to the Past and Link Between Worlds are pretty much run-down.

@Folkloner @nessisonett For me it's less playing as a girl and moreso just being tired of the echoes gimmick. I beat the game and started out pretty optimistic- only to be tired of it all by the end. I feel like the idea of the echoes was cool but the execution left so much to be desired.

If I hated women, I don't think I'd like Tales of Berseria- or hate the way that the female cast in Final Fantasy XVI were treated. I just don't like the main draw of Echoes of Wisdom's gameplay.

@EriXz Then it's more than likely they paid off the people who made it. Either buying the rights or paying them to step away from the project. Either way they have no legal grounds to just copyright strike Emulators.

@anoyonmus Yuzu got in trouble with Nintendo for selling patches for Tears of the Kingdom before the game came out. They were selling something for an IP they didn't own.

@EriXz Laws are apart of real life. Legally Nintendo isn’t allowed to take down emulators unless they promote piracy, make money off the emulator, or include the system bios.

@Arawn93 I never used emulation for free new Nintendo games. Always bought the games when they came out and opted to wait until they came out to get ahold of them. I only ever used emulation for preservation of games that weren't able to be played anymore.

@Medic_alert Even then, this lawsuit has already been fought by Sony, and Emulators were declared legal in the US. I don't get what grounds Nintendo has to stand on, unless the devs were doing something like Yuzu's devs- where Yuzu promoted piracy.

@PikminMarioKirby Emulation has nothing wrong with it. The issue arises from piracy. Emulation in and of itself isn't wrong, so long as you are dumping your own copies of your games. It keeps game preservation alive, and without emulation there would be a ton of games that people would never be able to experience again given that corporations have no interest in re-printing them. Look at the PS1 for example. Sony hasn't re-released many of those games, and so it fell onto people to actively archive them.

This is strange to me. Nintendo has no grounds to stand on here legally- at least if this is an American operated venture. Unless the team is profiting off of the production of the emulator, including the BIOs with the emulator, or promoting actual piracy, it doesn't really make sense as to why this emulator is getting shut down.

Sony tried to take down an Emulator years ago and never actually managed to do so. They threatened the creator with a lawsuit and ended up losing, with the courts dictating that the issue is with the BIOs being included.

Isn't the editor-in-chief's response Xenophobic? Blaming America for something we never even caused in the first place? CERO is the reason why they had to censor her outfit. To comply with Japanese age ratings, given how strict they are in comparison to the West.

Also, I don't really have any big qualms with the censored design. Nor do I with the original. Both are fine, and both can exist without issue imo.

@Nintendo_Thumb You can still tell stories without having a high budget. Sure it won’t be AAA hollywood blockbuster level, but you can still do something that resonates with people just as well if not better.

I do not see it as a tool as it removes the artist from the art. The intent behind lines. All Ai does is cheapen the actual process of creating. Making ugly as sin work that apes off of others. Wasting skills that people have by having it all automated. Even if you edit ai, it’s still effortless garbage. I see it as a waste and cheating actual artistic vision. It’s why I would rather die before using it in my own works.

@Deviant-Dork Art is intrinsically human. It’s a form of expression and storytelling. Ai removing the human from the equation means that culture will die and human expression will rot.

@Nintendo_Thumb Ai isn’t real art end of story. Nothing will change my stance.

It was humorous watching Palworld get revealed for PS5 when the suit was announced.

Not surprised in the fps dips. This artstyle was intensive in Link’s Awakening, and this game seems to be far larger in size.

@GooseLoose1 the handheld titles were mainline too.

@SteveDaSteve Most of the people who utilize it despise artists or don't want to actually learn the craft because they find it to be "busywork" or a "hassle." I've spoken to many people who defend Ai, and they all reach that same conclusion. That they personally dislike art and so they want to be able to "create" with no skill bar.

Another reason I say that Ai is for those who dislike art is because Ai removes most of the actual artistic process. You don't learn the skill, and you don't draw the picture. You type in words and keep adding/removing words to try to get something specific. It turns the process into rolling the dice instead of just flat out learning the skills necessary to do the work yourself.

Most people I've seen who use Ai only got into using it because of the clout they think they'd get for being a "good" artist. They want social media brownie points and upvotes instead of actually doing the craft because they enjoy it. The people who actually enjoy art are the ones not using Ai at all. The people like me. The people like those I attend university with. People who make art their career because they want to be creative. Because they enjoy what they're doing. Those very people who are threatened by the machines that are here to replace them.

Ai is like the assembly line. It's a conveyor that's made for the mass production of art pieces. Something which people will utilize instead of supporting smaller creators, and something they'll utilize to garner fame. It floods the internet burying any smaller creator who actually wanted to enjoy what they were doing and show the world. Suffocates them before they even get a chance.

@SteveDaSteve Except it doesn't learn like we do. Again, there's a separation between Ai and people. Ai can fake knowing art well, but it lacks a core thing that humans have. Actual intent. It heavily relies upon images that are already created while human beings don't. It doesn't think as it possesses no ability to do so. All it can do is translate text into image through a processing of 1's and 0's. It has no vision, and even with a person "supplying" said vision, it still won't put out the exact image within someone's mind.

It also removes the entirety of the artistic process. A tool made for those who despise art and nothing more.

@SteveDaSteve Human referencing and Ai are entirely different things. Human referencing isn't the only thing humans are capable of doing. People can use references, but just as equally if they understand the concepts they're drawing, they're able to draw anything that actually comes from their mind. Ai? Ai can only copy what it sees. It doesn't understand the rules of anatomy. It doesn't understand why human bodies bend or contort in the ways that they do. It lacks sentience, and therefore lacks intent. You could argue "well it's a tool, and therefore people can guide it to creating things," but even then that isn't right. Even if a person is behind the prompting, the prompt is the only control they have over the piece. They can't configure the composition or place the lines themselves. Thus they can't create said image that exists within the confines of their mind in the first place.

Ai is a pale imitation of actual human made work. To someone who isn't versed in actual art it may seem equal, but it really isn't. It will never be. It isn't cool either, given that again- all the images that it pulls from are sourced from people who never consented to their images being ripped online. Their hard work was ripped away to train what's effectively going to be their replacement (at least in the eyes of big corporations and people offering jobs).

@SteveDaSteve A lot of ai images are composed of data that was ripped from other people's artwork. Therefore it is stolen, as stolen art is fed into a database and spit back out into slop.

@SteveDaSteve I don’t think the actual artists who had their works stolen from appreciate that sentiment.

@Buizel If only. It would save me the headache of worrying about my own art getting stolen. Scared to post online because of how Ai databases are.

@Deviant-Dork Ehh even then I take it as a win because it's getting that "artwork" (if you can even call that mockery artwork in the first place) offline. Destroying it is always good in my book.

Edit: Plus, there could be a loophole Nintendo's exploiting to get the ai taken down. Probably flagging it as copyright infringement because it's their own character that they hold the copyright to.

Good. Whoever uses generative Ai deserves to have their "work" curbstomped into the earth.

@Snatcher Yep! They’re going to bring over every game they’re developing. Confirmed a while back by Level 5 themselves.

@Vivianeat Plus a reboot allows people to get invested with no strings attached. No prior games needing to be played or animes needing to be watched. Just start with the new game that was freshly brought over.

@Dimjimmer Probably Switch 2 and Metroid Prime 4. Level 5 has issues with announcing projects and not delivering them- only to announce even more projects.

@NinChocolate Doesn’t seem to be a mansion crawler given parts of the game will play outside of the mansion. Out in the city like in the original games.

@Spider-Kev Even with the delay they’ve confirmed it’s only the two lives being added and that’s all. The delay is most likely because of the open world, given how glitchy those tend to be.