@Yosher Pokemon's I think the biggest outlier in that regard.
Sword/Shield are apparently in second place for the series, but they're still well-behind Red/Green/Blue/Yellow's combined 47 million listed on Wiki's list of best-selling video games, and still a ways behind the 31 million attributed just to Red/Green/Blue.
With BDSP having been made by ILCA, it's fair to say that a mainline game doesn't have to be made by Gamefreak. But personally, insomuch as it actually matters, I still think "Gamefreak only makes mainline games" holds true for now.
It's a Pokemon RPG where you pick a starter, catch pokemon, try to finish a pokedex, and so on. As far as I'm concerned it's a mainline game.
Village idiot is an established term meaning "the resident dumb guy in town". Someone known around the village for being dumb, in the same way "the town drunk" is the guy everyone knows is always drunk.
Most people wouldn't read that comment and think it's a general insult referring to all non-city people. That you saw that and immediately jumped to contempt probably says more about you than the original commentor. Sorta makes it look like you've just got a chip on your shoulder and were looking for the earliest opportunity to "stop being diplomatic" and call it a win. As certain people are so fond of saying, offense is taken, not given.
Wow, sure seems like a lot of people willingly and knowingly clicked an article about an openly politically-themed game just to complain about politics (that they disagree with) "being shoved in [their] face everywhere."
Imagine if all the amazon comments on 1984 were "well, I read books to escape, so I just don't see why he had to go and make it political. Frankly I think Orwell's fictionalized dystopian future is just a hysterical overreaction that fails to acknowledge both sides of the issue." Like, chill. There still is and always will be plenty of "apolitical" media out there for you to consume.
The real irony is probably that these complaints are coming from the same kind of people who accuse others of being sensitive snowflakes who need a safe space because they can't cope with views that disagree with them.
tbf, 90s era framerates probably woulda had it in the high teens to mid 20s. People complain when a game isn't 1080p60fps, but 60fps is hardly the standard even today, with a ton of big games opting for the 30fps Yooka-Laylee had.
Here's the thing. Your argument is that Nintendo can manage to port something like Captain Toad, a Mario spinoff, to both 3ds and Switch, two architectures the Wiiu original was never built for, while Gamefreak, when dealing with literally the most succesful franchise on the planet, struggled with simply reusing engine-agnostic assets that were explicitly built with the intent to reuse them on better hardware, and that in fact have already been reused on that same hardware less than a year ago.
Even if you're right, and they ran into issues with "porting" the original models over to the switch, it's still a very not good look for Gamefreak.
I'm not ignoring your point. The models were made to be reused. They were way better than was necessary for a 3ds game, because they were built with the idea that they would be using them for quite some time. And in fact, they have been using them in games on the Switch as recently as last year's Let's Go games.
They've already shown that the 3ds models are very scaleable and moving them onto phones and the switch is very doable, so the idea that with these games they absolutely had to start from scratch and make brand new models rings a little hollow. If they were able to reuse the 3ds models for Let's Go, but not for Sword/Shield, something has gone very wrong with their abilities as a developer.
If true, this doesn't speak well for Gamefreak's abilities as developers, nor their decision-making abilities. If they really decided to make, from scratch, brand new models that look nearly indistinguishable from the "future-proofed, too good for the 3ds" models they've been reusing in everything from PoGO to Let's Go, with the same exact poses and general lifelessness to them, that's some weird priorities on their part. You'd think a complete revamp would mean they'd have more to show for it, but as we've seen, the Sword/Shield models look about the same as the 3ds models do when you stop "down-scaling" them for the 3ds screen.
Plus, in hindsight it would mean the 3ds games ran like garbage for no real reason. If they were gonna make new models for the switch anyway, they could have used models more appropriate for the 3ds instead of those "future-proofed" models that they're claiming they abandoned.
If false, then, you know, lying isn't exactly a good look either, and people will find out if they're lying and call them on that eventually.
Really the only scenario where this isn't a bad look for the devs is if this is a mistranslation, as I've seen some on twitter suggesting.
Personally, unless they're saying "we've heard the complaints and we're committing to patching in the remaining pokemon post-launch", Gamefreak needs to just stop talking about this, because every excuse they've come up with just digs them further and further into that hole.
I mean, she's got a game coming this year, just like how there's a new Dragon Quest game and new Persona 5 games coming soon. And the second game in the series actually initially released as a digital download for the DSi a few years before being ported to other platforms. The first three games in the series have actually all been nintendo exclusives at one point or another; First one is still only on GBC and 3ds, second as I said was a DSi exclusive for a few years, and the third was only on 3ds and wiiu for about half a year.
Personally, I think saying spirits are off-limits for DLC is kinda baseless. It'd be like saying being a trophy rules out being DLC for Smash 4, and we all know how that turned out (coughMewtwocoughLucascough).
She does well enough in popularity polls, all things considered, and there was a big push during the ballot for Smash 4. Between the clear consideration the ballot has played in Ultimate's roster and Nintendo's recent push to treat indie games as seriously as other, bigger 3rd party games, I don't think it's the most farfetched thing in the world to think she might have a shot at Smash DLC.
Half of Shantae's games have been rated E10, same as Smash's rating. Both for, among other things, "suggestive themes". You're free to disagree, but clearly the people making the decisions don't think her design is any more suggestive than what's in Smash. And again, I'd point you back towards Zero Suit Samus's bikini outfit that you already brought up, and Shulk's "even less than a bikini" outfit. If you've got a problem with Shantae's outfit, you should have just as much a problem with outfits already in the game. Thus my point about it being no more extreme than what they've already put in.
Heck, you wanna talk about something being too much for Smash? They gave Joker a flippin' gun. Like an actual for real straight-up gun. That seems like it should raise way more eyebrows than someone dressed like she came off the set of I Dream of Jeannie or Aladdin.
I don't care that you personally think Toon Link or Bayonetta don't fit in Smash. My point is that, given who's already in Smash, based on content and designs they've already let in, I see no reason to think a character like Shantae should be considered off limits or "too suggestive" for consideration.
Lastly, I also think it's abso-freaking-lutely hilarious that in one paragraph you assume I'm a dude (I'm not, btw) and in another you bust out this gem: "funny you assume something about a total stranger on the net you can't possibly know anything about."
We're done here. If you're a troll, enjoy knowing that you got a rise out of me. If you're not, I'm sorry, but you're just gonna have to make peace with the fact that you have much higher standards of what is and isn't "acceptable" in media.
So characters from suggestive games can get in, Bayonetta's clothes are made from her hair and so she loses clothing when she attacks, and Samus's bikini is clearly fine, so I'm really struggling to see what the problem with Shantae is. The suggestiveness in Shantae is mostly tongue in cheek and not nearly as overt as Bayonneta's is, and frankly considering her pants she's more covered up than Samus in a bikini, so neither her design nor her game's content are really any more extreme than what we already have.
For what it's worth, you don't need the vine to get that lower red coin in the third room. It's obviously harder, but you can get it the same way you get the red coin on the left.
Only reason I know this is I didn't know the ground pound was a thing the dry bones shell could do. So i assumed the vine block was a misdirect and the "yoshi jump" was the intended way to get both of them.
This isn't news. We've known they were recycling models since the games were revealed. We've known since Sun/Moon, PoGO, and Let's Go all reused the X/Y models. It's why the 3ds games run so terribly when more than 2 pokemon are on screen at once.
That's exactly why people got upset over the decision to cut pokemon. Because the excuse was that there were too many to keep up with and that this cut would mean higher quality animations. Except for most pokemon, the HD models used in the new games will have been around since X/Y came out. Running the 3ds games in emulators proves that better hardware is basically all the 3DS models need to look like they do in Sword/Shield.
So after two gens of poor performance due to 3d models that were too good for the 3DS, they're cutting a bunch of pokemon out of the game entirely because, now that they have better hardware, they can only be bothered to reuse some of the HD models they already have rather than all of them, because "reasons".
I'm still interested in the games, but so far every explanation they've tried to give for why they won't be including data for every pokemon just hasn't been able to hold water.
My favorite video game book is this one I had as a kid that was like, equal parts walkthrough and novelization of Pokemon Snap. It was kinda cool seeing a more fleshed out story for the game.
You're putting way too much effort into getting to the island. The paraglider is way too involved. Theres literally a boat and a korok leaf on the island with a shrine north of Eventide.
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Re: Bandai Namco Has Slightly Changed Its New Logo
obviously they changed it to red because Nintendo's about to buy Bamco /s
Re: Metroid Dread Is About To Become The Best-Selling Game In The Series
@Yosher Pokemon's I think the biggest outlier in that regard.
Sword/Shield are apparently in second place for the series, but they're still well-behind Red/Green/Blue/Yellow's combined 47 million listed on Wiki's list of best-selling video games, and still a ways behind the 31 million attributed just to Red/Green/Blue.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Consider Pokémon Legends: Arceus To Be A Mainline Title?
With BDSP having been made by ILCA, it's fair to say that a mainline game doesn't have to be made by Gamefreak. But personally, insomuch as it actually matters, I still think "Gamefreak only makes mainline games" holds true for now.
It's a Pokemon RPG where you pick a starter, catch pokemon, try to finish a pokedex, and so on. As far as I'm concerned it's a mainline game.
Re: Battle Brexit On Switch With Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition
@CarpeDiem
Village idiot is an established term meaning "the resident dumb guy in town". Someone known around the village for being dumb, in the same way "the town drunk" is the guy everyone knows is always drunk.
Most people wouldn't read that comment and think it's a general insult referring to all non-city people. That you saw that and immediately jumped to contempt probably says more about you than the original commentor. Sorta makes it look like you've just got a chip on your shoulder and were looking for the earliest opportunity to "stop being diplomatic" and call it a win. As certain people are so fond of saying, offense is taken, not given.
Re: Battle Brexit On Switch With Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition
Wow, sure seems like a lot of people willingly and knowingly clicked an article about an openly politically-themed game just to complain about politics (that they disagree with) "being shoved in [their] face everywhere."
Imagine if all the amazon comments on 1984 were "well, I read books to escape, so I just don't see why he had to go and make it political. Frankly I think Orwell's fictionalized dystopian future is just a hysterical overreaction that fails to acknowledge both sides of the issue." Like, chill. There still is and always will be plenty of "apolitical" media out there for you to consume.
The real irony is probably that these complaints are coming from the same kind of people who accuse others of being sensitive snowflakes who need a safe space because they can't cope with views that disagree with them.
Re: Playtonic Devs Recall The Trials And Errors Of Making Yooka-Laylee
@mist
tbf, 90s era framerates probably woulda had it in the high teens to mid 20s. People complain when a game isn't 1080p60fps, but 60fps is hardly the standard even today, with a ton of big games opting for the 30fps Yooka-Laylee had.
Re: Game Freak Isn't Reusing 3DS Models In Pokémon Sword and Shield
@Aeleron0X
Here's the thing. Your argument is that Nintendo can manage to port something like Captain Toad, a Mario spinoff, to both 3ds and Switch, two architectures the Wiiu original was never built for, while Gamefreak, when dealing with literally the most succesful franchise on the planet, struggled with simply reusing engine-agnostic assets that were explicitly built with the intent to reuse them on better hardware, and that in fact have already been reused on that same hardware less than a year ago.
Even if you're right, and they ran into issues with "porting" the original models over to the switch, it's still a very not good look for Gamefreak.
Re: Game Freak Isn't Reusing 3DS Models In Pokémon Sword and Shield
@Aeleron0X
I'm not ignoring your point. The models were made to be reused. They were way better than was necessary for a 3ds game, because they were built with the idea that they would be using them for quite some time. And in fact, they have been using them in games on the Switch as recently as last year's Let's Go games.
They've already shown that the 3ds models are very scaleable and moving them onto phones and the switch is very doable, so the idea that with these games they absolutely had to start from scratch and make brand new models rings a little hollow. If they were able to reuse the 3ds models for Let's Go, but not for Sword/Shield, something has gone very wrong with their abilities as a developer.
Re: Game Freak Isn't Reusing 3DS Models In Pokémon Sword and Shield
@Aeleron0X
So the fact they actually have reused the same models from X/Y in everything from Sun/Moon to PoGO to Let's Go means what, exactly?
Re: Game Freak Isn't Reusing 3DS Models In Pokémon Sword and Shield
If true, this doesn't speak well for Gamefreak's abilities as developers, nor their decision-making abilities. If they really decided to make, from scratch, brand new models that look nearly indistinguishable from the "future-proofed, too good for the 3ds" models they've been reusing in everything from PoGO to Let's Go, with the same exact poses and general lifelessness to them, that's some weird priorities on their part. You'd think a complete revamp would mean they'd have more to show for it, but as we've seen, the Sword/Shield models look about the same as the 3ds models do when you stop "down-scaling" them for the 3ds screen.
Plus, in hindsight it would mean the 3ds games ran like garbage for no real reason. If they were gonna make new models for the switch anyway, they could have used models more appropriate for the 3ds instead of those "future-proofed" models that they're claiming they abandoned.
If false, then, you know, lying isn't exactly a good look either, and people will find out if they're lying and call them on that eventually.
Really the only scenario where this isn't a bad look for the devs is if this is a mistranslation, as I've seen some on twitter suggesting.
Personally, unless they're saying "we've heard the complaints and we're committing to patching in the remaining pokemon post-launch", Gamefreak needs to just stop talking about this, because every excuse they've come up with just digs them further and further into that hole.
Re: Random: Was Shantae The Half-Genie Hero Just Teased For Smash Bros. Ultimate?
@YourGoodFriendly
I mean, she's got a game coming this year, just like how there's a new Dragon Quest game and new Persona 5 games coming soon. And the second game in the series actually initially released as a digital download for the DSi a few years before being ported to other platforms. The first three games in the series have actually all been nintendo exclusives at one point or another; First one is still only on GBC and 3ds, second as I said was a DSi exclusive for a few years, and the third was only on 3ds and wiiu for about half a year.
Personally, I think saying spirits are off-limits for DLC is kinda baseless. It'd be like saying being a trophy rules out being DLC for Smash 4, and we all know how that turned out (coughMewtwocoughLucascough).
She does well enough in popularity polls, all things considered, and there was a big push during the ballot for Smash 4. Between the clear consideration the ballot has played in Ultimate's roster and Nintendo's recent push to treat indie games as seriously as other, bigger 3rd party games, I don't think it's the most farfetched thing in the world to think she might have a shot at Smash DLC.
Re: Studio Trigger Reveals Its Stunning Opening Animation For Shantae 5
@Vectorman
Half of Shantae's games have been rated E10, same as Smash's rating. Both for, among other things, "suggestive themes". You're free to disagree, but clearly the people making the decisions don't think her design is any more suggestive than what's in Smash. And again, I'd point you back towards Zero Suit Samus's bikini outfit that you already brought up, and Shulk's "even less than a bikini" outfit. If you've got a problem with Shantae's outfit, you should have just as much a problem with outfits already in the game. Thus my point about it being no more extreme than what they've already put in.
Heck, you wanna talk about something being too much for Smash? They gave Joker a flippin' gun. Like an actual for real straight-up gun. That seems like it should raise way more eyebrows than someone dressed like she came off the set of I Dream of Jeannie or Aladdin.
I don't care that you personally think Toon Link or Bayonetta don't fit in Smash. My point is that, given who's already in Smash, based on content and designs they've already let in, I see no reason to think a character like Shantae should be considered off limits or "too suggestive" for consideration.
Lastly, I also think it's abso-freaking-lutely hilarious that in one paragraph you assume I'm a dude (I'm not, btw) and in another you bust out this gem: "funny you assume something about a total stranger on the net you can't possibly know anything about."
We're done here. If you're a troll, enjoy knowing that you got a rise out of me. If you're not, I'm sorry, but you're just gonna have to make peace with the fact that you have much higher standards of what is and isn't "acceptable" in media.
Re: Studio Trigger Reveals Its Stunning Opening Animation For Shantae 5
@Vectorman
So characters from suggestive games can get in, Bayonetta's clothes are made from her hair and so she loses clothing when she attacks, and Samus's bikini is clearly fine, so I'm really struggling to see what the problem with Shantae is. The suggestiveness in Shantae is mostly tongue in cheek and not nearly as overt as Bayonneta's is, and frankly considering her pants she's more covered up than Samus in a bikini, so neither her design nor her game's content are really any more extreme than what we already have.
Re: Studio Trigger Reveals Its Stunning Opening Animation For Shantae 5
@Vectorman
Too suggestive? You do know they let Bayonetta in Smash right?
Re: Guide: Super Mario Maker 2 - How To Beat ‘Secret Of The Dry Bones Shell’
For what it's worth, you don't need the vine to get that lower red coin in the third room. It's obviously harder, but you can get it the same way you get the red coin on the left.
Only reason I know this is I didn't know the ground pound was a thing the dry bones shell could do. So i assumed the vine block was a misdirect and the "yoshi jump" was the intended way to get both of them.
Re: Is Game Freak "Recycling" 3DS Animations In Pokémon Sword And Shield On Switch?
This isn't news. We've known they were recycling models since the games were revealed. We've known since Sun/Moon, PoGO, and Let's Go all reused the X/Y models. It's why the 3ds games run so terribly when more than 2 pokemon are on screen at once.
That's exactly why people got upset over the decision to cut pokemon. Because the excuse was that there were too many to keep up with and that this cut would mean higher quality animations. Except for most pokemon, the HD models used in the new games will have been around since X/Y came out. Running the 3ds games in emulators proves that better hardware is basically all the 3DS models need to look like they do in Sword/Shield.
So after two gens of poor performance due to 3d models that were too good for the 3DS, they're cutting a bunch of pokemon out of the game entirely because, now that they have better hardware, they can only be bothered to reuse some of the HD models they already have rather than all of them, because "reasons".
I'm still interested in the games, but so far every explanation they've tried to give for why they won't be including data for every pokemon just hasn't been able to hold water.
Re: Competition: Win A Set Of Third Editions Books, Including Zelda, Dark Souls And Final Fantasy
My favorite video game book is this one I had as a kid that was like, equal parts walkthrough and novelization of Pokemon Snap. It was kinda cool seeing a more fleshed out story for the game.
Re: Guide: How To Beat Zelda: Breath Of The Wild's Hardest Shrine Quest, Eventide Island
You're putting way too much effort into getting to the island. The paraglider is way too involved. Theres literally a boat and a korok leaf on the island with a shrine north of Eventide.
Re: Weirdness: Club Nintendo Members Attempt to Sell Flipnote Studio 3D Codes on eBay
@Mataluigi
i'll take it if no one else wants it