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I'm surprised Gastrodon made it in. I'm still hoping Game Freak will change their minds and plan updates for all of them down the line. There's no reason they can't do that, and really it's the biggest deciding factor for me.

Biggest qualms for me are the online support being real laggy and the fact that leaderboard based rewards exist for level popularity. MM1 had the same issue where a kid in Mississippi could make the best level ever, but it would be overshadowed by a streamer's Hot Garbage he made as a joke. And not by a little bit, either. How many of the top level makers are streamers/youtube based personalities?

THAT SAID, I feel aside from 1 or 2 features that are caused mainly by limitations of the console, this is objectively the better game. Gameplay wise, what did we lose aside from 100 Mario Challenge and a high level cap? Some glitches, mostly? Even amiibo costumes' gameplay can be simulated with OTHER items, and though I really loved them and would like to see them again, they are mainly visual and only for 1 theme.

Jesus, I can see where they are coming from but I expected a full song. This isn't even enough to call a parody, the first what, 2 lines?

@Brianst0rm $20 a year is cheap, but it ain't free, especially considering if I wanted a specific NES game I could just drop $5 for it

As for missing virtual console on Wii, well people miss it for the SNES and N64 titles among other things

"So, a loud, super-dedicated fanbase that wants nothing more than to butt in, cause mayhem, and have their voices heard at any given opportunity? We wonder where the inspiration for that came from?"

Yeah yeah just pour gas on it

That;s a bit of an overreaction...

If it was an accident, why was it worded to say "Login is required to PLAY this title" rather than "required to access certain features"?

This looks like a backtrack, not a fix

@MagnaRoader launch switch here as well, left joy con was the first time I've ever seen an official controller break, been gaming for decades.

So you were lucky.

@Tasuki I imagine that voids any warranty you had, as it generally is with tech, unfortunately

Cool, but repairing them individually is a temporary fix. This was a good move, but not entirely the move that should have been made, which would be fixing the error entirely as soon as reports started coming in within months of the Switch's release, rather then waiting until legal action cropped up.

Don't get me wrong, I like this, but it still seems a bit annoying that it wasn't until the company had a risk that they decided to do anything about the problem.

And the issue isn't "I want new joycons!", barely anyone is saying that and people who paint everyone who has an issue with this as that are strawmanning, the issue is, I want to know that Nintendo will continue to make quality products in order to satisfy customers, not ignore them until profit margins are in danger

basically what I am saying is, they are fixing them for free, that's great, fantastic even, but that wasn't on the table until AFTER they got in trouble, and frankly, I shouldn't ever have to get them repaired at all. Aside from third party controllers, I have NEVER in my decades of gaming had an issue, and seeing how common it was shows that it's not an issue of lack of care.

I wish it didn't take a friggin lawsuit for this issue to finally get some response, but jeez, after over a year of issues, it's about time!

@AlternateButtons It ain't, there's a gap at the bottom of the joy stick unlike in most Nintendo controllers that allows dust to gather.

Unless by user error you mean "passively emitting dust like every animal on Earth", you are mistaken

@leathco I thought the last one was with Mario Party on N64 with the hand chaffing?

Dammit now I gotta go get a refund

$80 for controllers (What do you all mean by "accessories"? These aren't skins) is like $20 too expensive. It's more expensive to get a way to play games than to actually get games!

@electrolite77 I beg your pardon? I was just saying politically topical games have become more common. I wasn't criticizing their existence nor this game, just pointing out that they do.

Using games for escapism from politics I feel is less common than I thought

Would it be worth getting for mobile play if I have it on 3DS as well? Is it better than that version, I mean?

@Darthroseman Mario's graphics improved. He doesn't look just like he did in Sunshine, he looks better. You don't reuse assets for brand recognition.

@Kimyonaakuma The amount of work put in doesn't have an impact on the quality of the games, it's quality of work. If I spent 2 years remaking Pong but it was worse than the original, I shouldn't get praised for that.

People "complain" because it's okay to criticize a product. If someone is insulting you for liking it, that's one thing I won't support, but someone pointing out that compared to other new Switch Games and compared to earlier Pokemon Games that these HQ graphics are sub par, and very little reason to remove the point of the games, then that's fine.

So when are they going to show us the high quality models and animations instead of these Wiiware ones?

And again, if it was a time issue, they would just patch em in later.

And why do graphics matter? Gameplay first and foremost. If you have to sacrifice a core gameplay mechanic to try and make better graphics (and fail at that), you should aim for a different art style.

Free games are free games, but I'm waiting for quality to improve. A lot of Switch games seem to use P2P connections, so I'm wondering what Online money is going towards if not to at LEAST some quality games.

I was hoping that Tetris 99 was the advent of a more modern library being introduced to the service a la Playstation Plus, but it seems that we're gonna be just as disappointed for a bit as PS+ users, except instead of paying $60 for bargain bin modern games, it's $20 for bargain bin 80's games.

I'd hope for SNES games soon, but the NES had like 800 titles on it.

Still holding out hope for this generation's new mechanic. They haven't announced anything that really changes gameplay yet like they usually do, and I hope that this isn't what they consider a "gradual change"

Ah, so gigamaxing is like, Mega Evolving, then, which means that comes back in a sense.

Still waiting for this game's big new thing, though. They gotta be keeping something secret on-par with what most gens add, right? Mega Evolution, Triple Battles, Z-Moves, etc. I hope it's not just more Mega Evolutions with a different name

@Razer Holy strawman batman. I don't buy lootboxes, I have never played FIFA, so lemme say as someone who is not a hypocrite by your definition:

You can criticize things. That's not bad. It doesn't make you entitled. It's silly to just buy every product you can and claim that they are all perfect.

@westman98 But lootboxes are just the worst microtransaction, not the only bad one. Restricting what used to be a part of the main game behind a paywall is another bad DLC. Charging multiple times for it is even worse.

@westman98 I don't know what you think recurrent means, but if it's not a one time payment, it's recurrent, and something that important that used to be in the base game, simply enough storage space, being put behind a paywall is not something I would think anyone would defend

@westman98 Doesn't pokemon Bank cost money?

I hope this means they are still hiding some big new feature and that they don't consider a large open area as the game's most enticing mechanic.

@arsoneycad She didn't even break top 10 on the smash ballot iirc.
And having some nintendo exclusivity isn't my point. Name an official Nintendo game not made by nintendo. She's not considered a Nintendo Character. She's not considered an Icon of any Nintendo era like Snake, Banjo, or Dragon Quest's hero. And yes, I know there are 3rd party characters, but they are from games much more well received than Shantae. Seriously, go look at sales numbers and try arguing how recognizable she is in comparison to other characters.

And there IS a basis for spirits not becoming fighters. Piranha Plant had NO spirit before being introduced, the nipper evolved into Petey. No DLC character has had a spirit before being introduced.

Don't get your hopes up, and don't get others' hopes up: You're just gonna make yourselves sad. Just be patient for the next game.

No spirit nor assist trophy will become a fighter in Ultimate imo, and I think people who really think otherwise are gonna be disappointed.

She's on the table for future entries, I think, but not this one. Her games are cult classics with a passionate fanbase, but I mean, even Shovel Knight had more representation. Think logically, why Shantae over anyone else? her last game was 3 years ago. She doesn't have huge classic appeal for Nintendo as her first game was in 2002 and was the ONLY nintendo exclusive Shantae, which may I add, according to devs, sold very poorly. The second entry wasn't available for another 8 years and also released on MOBILE. Not handheld, I am talking the iPhone.

It's not happening this game. Maybe in the future, but the reason she's only a spirit and nothing more is that she's not as big a character as her fans think she is. Nothing against them, but objectively, it's not an incredibly well known franchise

Never really got the appeal of choose your own ending movies. Is the gameplay really just as good as Steamworld Quest in your opinion? Or is it just dialogue?

@JR150 People are fine with ports. Breath Of The Wild is fantastic. And isn't MK8 Deluxe kinda an upgrade?

@KBuckley27 People did not complain about reused things before because they didn't cut pokemon before with the reasoning that they had to make new animations.

The point isn't just that the textures, models, and animations are not new, that's fine, that's what we've expected since the HD models were made for X and Y and future games. The point is that there is cut content that was supposedly cut because of how difficult it would be to make new models, textures, and animations for 800+ pokemon, but they didn't make new models, textures, or animations, for ANY!

Imagine if every day you got a bag of fries from a restaurant, and every week the bag got bigger, and every month the fries tastier. Imagine then that one time, you get a SMALLER bag, and when you ask about it, the restaurant owner says it's because they are higher quality fries. When you bit into a stale week old fry and find out it's not actually higher quality, you really wonder why you actually got a smaller bag.

@mjharper "You have to pay $60 to say a game is bad"

Pokemon games are about the pokemon. We've had content cut before, and ya know? I could have stood it because we had new features. From adding new pokemon, to new things like Z Moves, mega Evolutions, Alolan forms.
But I draw the line at the core of the game. The Pokemon. Call me toxic or whatever, I really don't mind your opinion, but I feel that when Pokemon as a series no longer is about becoming attached to your pokemon or about "Catching Them All", that's where I think the line should be drawn.
Maybe I could be a lil more appreciative if we saw some new content, but we see pokemon getting bigger, the same quality of animation, and graphics that look more akin to late Wii games than what we've seen on the Switch.
If it's a size issue, I am sure people would buy the games if they were stylized to look like late gameboy, even DS titles with pixel art. People play games for gameplay, not amazing 3D models, and to use that as an excuse while also having had to downsize models to fit on the 3DS and having unused animations for all pokemon and remaking textures over and over with major bloat on a HANDHELD title, while also barely having a step up on an exponentially more powerful system seems like a copout.

I'm not saying this out of spite for the series, or Game Freak, but because I love the series, and I want to see more of it. Not less.

On one hand, in the long run this stinks

On the other, people complaining about a 32 level cap THE DAY THE GAME IS RELEASED probably are not making anything short of spam

@Ralizah There are many traditional levels in MM, it's just that autolevels and sprite art get voted to the top, which is a valid complaint. The tag system in this game may help rectify the issue quite a bit, however. May i suggest looking around for communities in places like Reddit or Discord that get levels together to share for the first game?

Ugh, they removed Mario getting stolen by goombas. 4/10, preorder cancelled.

I don't think someone tweeting #BringBacknationalDex is neutral. In any other context, I would agree that it could be neutral to only tweet a hashtag, i.e. #pokemon, but in this case, the hashtag itself conveys a kind of emotion that the AI ignored because this would be an exceptional case.

I also think it's weird to support a culling. Games before have restricted what pokemon could be obtained at what point via transfer. People wanting a new experience would still get a new experience, the focus would still be on the base pokemon until the main game was complete, and balancing could be solved by simply reducing how powerful pokemon could be upon transfer. Indifference makes sense, but to actually support it seems... intentionally contrarian.