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These are pointless excuses now to be honest. They bought Bethesda so they have exclusivity. Simple as that. Somehow they can't straight-up just say that to our faces.

I'm also thinking of picking up a Series X just for GamePass.

I think my OG joy-cons drifted only once but that's 3 years after launch. Never experienced it again though my Lite drifted I think around 5-6 times already after subsequent cleaning.

Hopefully those "improvements" did make it to the new shipments. Thankfully right now my OLED white joy-cons have no signs whatsoever.

@MegaVel91 The game just showed up early in the mail the other day Lucky me~~

@SpiritGun7
Story and character interaction are loads better IMO compared to IV. It's still SMT through and through but you'll kinda see some elements that made Persona so good that made it into this.

Voice acting here is great as well. Personally I thought the acting in IV was a bit passive and emotionless but I would have preferred using JP voice acting but there's no option despite people saying it had dual audio. Searching around I believe it's an eShop download but it's still not available since the game is not yet officially released.

Got my copy of SMT V early. Reaaaally enjoying it so far. I'll maybe play BDSP at the end of the year. Looking forward to Kirby, Splatoon, Bayonetta, and Arceus next.

I'm willing to pay full price for this since I haven't played a single Prime game (except Hunters) even if it's just Prime 1 for now. Though it sucks for people who already did though.

Only game I'm interested in this list is BlazBlue.

Ah. Another added to the list.

Not hatin'. But in all of the Tencent acquisitions none of it had shown results. Dead zero. Nada.

The mech genre is pretty niche in the West compared to Japan so I wouldn't be surprised if this never comes out in English. I hope I'm wrong though as I personally enjoy these types of games. I even imported a lot of mech-style games from Japan especially in the PS2/3 era. Good thing the Super Robot series is available in English in the SE Asian market so I import those as well.

@HenHiro lol I specifically said middleware, if you're familiar with it. Game Engines are middleware tools though career-wise I have not utilized them. But to answer your question, I have about 10 years of C++ middleware development ranging from corporate embedded systems to consumer electronics utilizing also graphics APIs. You can maybe see the connection there. With enough coding experience you can easily draw basic polygons using existing libraries. You can already start developing an "engine" from there if you want. Just for curiosity's sake I tried UE3 a few years back since UE uses C++ as well. I have also used Unity back in college by helping out a friend.
All that said, my words against yours so make of that what you will. I normally don't state my background to support an argument since doing so just makes you look silly. But since you explicitly asked then there you go. Silly me.

John Riccitiello: This is a start of an unprecedented relationship with Weta

@HenHiro No I don't. I keep an open mind about things like this. And It's not that their engine is terrible, It's down to their design choices and style. If they wanted to they could have spent the time to polish animations and stuff in SwSh. In the end they chose not to. Let us remember that Pokemon is an All Ages franchise. They opt to design games as simple as possible for little kids to understand and doing complex graphic work isn't really a priority for them. Personally, I still didn't care since I still enjoyed the games. To each their own. Would I preferred more realistic motions and animations? Definitely but still keeping an open mind about circumstances.

FWIW, ILCA is a fairly young studio. Even if they had the cash pool of Game Freak or TPC, it boils down to their technical experiences and tools used in their previous work. The mostly do porting work and mobile games so they're experienced in Unity. That's fair. Does it get the job done? Sure. Does ILCA have the capability to understand spec sheets from Game Freak even when using 3rd party engines? Sure. As a result they chose Unity for Pokemon. I don't see anything remotely wrong with that other than the usual optimization problems associated with the engine we see with other devs ang games. As I said if they prioritize that I don't have a problem with it. Could they have done it more "properly" if they just made their own proprietary engine? I doubt it since middleware development is very costly (based on experience) as much as game development itself. They wouldn't have the time as well for something so gigantic a task just for a remake.

This applies to Game Freak with Arceus as well. Does the studio have experience in very complex graphics-intensive games in the past? Obviously no. Did that show in SwSh? Sure. Does Arceus look rough? Sure. Do I still like the style? Yeah, sure why not. Should I expect them to up their game in the graphics department for their next title? Absolutely.

I don't really care what engine runs what tbh as long as it's properly optimized on the target machine. Game looks good so I'll still play the heck out of it.

Every time I boot up Bayonetta it always reminds me of Okami. Really hoping for a sequel.

From this list specifically, I would say Tetris Effect is my top pick for last month. But I still really enjoyed my time with Crysis 2/3 which is pretty impressive performance-wise on Switch. I'm guessing my 3rd would be Fatal Frame and Dusk at 4th considering my little play time with those games. I'll be trying out Greylancer and maybe Voice of Cards at some point.

I heard 20XX is pretty close. Maybe a month from now. lol

I got spoiled with Advent Children so I would personally love a CGI Metroid movie. Doesn't really need to be live action. Even a Zelda CGI movie would be fantastic.

I would surely love to have Mortal Kombat 9 on Switch.

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Osaka will be my primary destination for my next visit to Japan. This is perfect.

Pretty good fixes overall. The game doesn't really need QoL updates at least not right now. Though an expansion down the line would be nice.

@Tibob Huh. Wasn't aware they worked things out in the end. Hopefully the employees found something to be happy about as well.

Still, the fact remains that their priorities is still pretty crappy, considering 90's Arcade Racer is still radio silence for over 6 years now.

I thought the devs already broke ties with Nicalis?

Bowser still won. Though still very unfortunate for Bowser. I bet Bowser's happy.

Not really news per se (at least from a typical consumer perspective). This kind restructuring when top execs leave is pretty common even with small companies. Thankfully they're a big enough company to still take care of their employees.

But I'm guessing that SVP prefers KFC's gaming efforts than of Nintendo's. lol

I'm down. The more weird RPGs we get the better

Surprising this isn't a cloud release

Amped up for this

@JustMonika Yeah, not sure why the pretty long wait. I'm guessing it's just low priority for them since it's essentially an Asian/JP release. Or they're just forcing us to buy digitally instead.
I'll still try to play it though once it arrives since it's Halloween and all or I'll just boot up my Wii U copy while waiting for it to arrive.

I'd say at least give us a port of Silent Hill 3. Easily the most scary out of all the games in the series for me. Though I'd be also down for 2.

So hyped for this!

@TsukiDeity I emailed Play-Asia a month ago and they said both the Asian and JP physical versions support English via patch. So it won't have English out of the box.

@Specter_of-the_OLED I think we need to at least applaud Nintendo for agreeing to have the game released on other platforms as they essentially co-own the series, making it available to more people. As the series producer already stated that new entries/remasters/remakes of the games need Nintendo's go signal; games post-Fatal Frame 3. I think these is one of those few franchises that would've been in limbo without someone stepping in.

A little bit unfair for that "Nintendon't". I believe Koei Tecmo themselves are handling publishing for this game (came with the agreement to release muliplat, I guess) which in turn handles digital and physical releases. It's already a common practice for them especially in the Asian market. I don't think the Big N has a hand on this aside from maybe some logistics.

Got the physical JP version from Play-Asia. Looking forward to some late night playthroughs with the fam this Halloween.

Now if we can only get another Silent Hill....

@Bakfug Fair point.

@VIIIAxel I'm not a copyright/trademark lawyer but I'm fairly certain you can't just copyright something as ambiguous as that keychain's shape. The Keyblade however is a different story and the character himself though I'm not too sure if they can just use Sora for anything else other than just the game.

It's not just an issue with Disney though. Nintendo would have to ask permission from every 3rd party publisher who owns a character in that mural assuming they do need permission to provide/sell that image/poster via their official channels.

Apart from Panic Button, It's great that Saber and Virtuous are taking the time and effort (and risks) to port/develop games on Switch.

Lisa's VA from Genshin Impact comes to mind immediately.

They can always seek advice from Shin'en since they're essentially compression wizards.

Cheers to another 1,000!

@ReWane Better read the article again.

TL;DR No.

Congrats to Suda! Hopefully he can create the games he actually want to create.

A little positivity in the comments couldn't hurt I guess.

I can't imagine all of these bugs were found in just 2 weeks since the game was released. Not to mention the time it takes for the patch cert process from Nintendo. I'm guessing they really wanted to launch the game alongside the OLED even with outstanding problems. Though the only issue I encountered was the frame drops.

The VA sounds vaguely familiar. Still, cool marketing for Legends.

Though as always the Pokemon twitter fandom toxicity is still off the charts.

Custom Robo would be a good fit for Suda. And the robo player will be Travis

I generally don't like day 1 DLC. But if I know that the game is already packed with content to begin with, feature complete (like let's say BotW or SSBU), and those additional stuff isn't integral then it's fine with me. Hopefully it's the case with this game.

And looking at the pricing I guess it's not so bad. Usually day 1 DLC I see everywhere else is $10 a piece minimum. Though I won't be touching those Mitama content. Still sucks this isn't part of the base game already so if they're gonna do this they better give us something juicy down the road.

@saryo We should just force them to publish their git commit messages

@westman98 Samus 'bout to serve french EMMI breakfast.

Curious to see if they fixed the sporadic performance issues recently discussed by Digital Foundry. Personally, I haven't encountered any in my play time.

I don't know about you but Dread should be nominated for Best Audio as well!

My favorite was the DLC guidance with Sephiroth and Pyra/Mythra. Hilarious
But this was pretty good. Nostalgia trip while watching the whole thing.

@Entwickler I loved Doom and Doom Eternal on Switch but the only thing that bugs me is the muddy colors and sometimes poor contrast. Whereas the Crysis remasters the colors are mostly spot on.