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I still think it would have sold at least twice as much if they didn't call it "3". Pikmin desperately needs newcomers but that name scares them off. Also, why would you call attention to the fact that the game is a sequel if you never bother giving access to the old games on the same system?

@twztid13 I hope so. I'm not assuming anything until they officially say it lol

Why did they say two times that you can play with two players on one system? Please don't tell me this is a downgrade from the Wii U version

@nessisonett I know you're probably joking and I'm writing this for no reason, but in case anyone reading this didn't know, zfg didn't discover it, he just uses it in speedruns.

I'm okay with these sporadic announcements replacing Directs as long as they announce ahead of time when they're going to reveal it, and then premiere it on youtube or stream it, so that the surprise and suspense is still there.

First Party Softwar

Metroid Prime Trilogy for 35th anniversary maybe?

I really hope Metroid Prime 4 is a placeholder name, especially if Trilogy never gets ported

"We're celebrating Mario by not letting you play Mario"

These are two completely separate issues.

The scandals are important, but how is that in any way a counterpoint to #SaveSmash? The community doesn't want to be sponsored by Nintendo or any of that. They just want to be left alone to have tournaments, but Nintendo is actively bullying them and stopping any tournament/circuits/leagues/etc that has the potential to get big, Melee and Ultimate alike.

Smash has done a much better job than other communities with these scandals. They knew making this stuff public would make the community look bad, but they fought to ban these big streamers/players anyway. That's saying a lot when a lot of people in positions of power/influence (gaming community or not) get away with these kinds of things all the time.

https://twitter.com/anonymoussmash2/status/1331031597647355905

This was the original tweet that sparked #SaveSmash, might want to include this in the article if anyone sees this. It explains how it's not just a Melee thing, and how Nintendo actively tried to stop events for all Smash games in general for years. It's anonymous but many people who have been heavily involved with this stuff have said it's accurate.

But do you have to wait a week for it to recharge?

I wouldn't mind this, but it would honestly be kind of disappointing to me. I would much rather that they go straight into a new 2D Metroid. If they have to port/remake something, I'd much rather see Zero Mission or Fusion.

Battlegrounds is misspelled in the YouTube video title lol

What about Mystery of the Emblem?

"Battles can last a little long: the timer takes too long to speed up"
This is definitely the biggest flaw to me. It feels like the first half of every match (at the very least) is just boring and repetitive, and you're just waiting for the timer to speed up.

Mario Galaxy gets the spin remapped to a button but Odyssey still requires motion controls for several actions that could easily have the option to be remapped to buttons

I don't know why people are so sure about Sunshine. Nothing about this implies Sunshine in particular. The beach could just as easily be from any Mario game with a beach, even Odyssey. Huckit Crabs weren't even in Sunshine.

All these pictures of Mario are really unusual though. Nintendo doesn't usually make a bunch of high quality images that aren't associated with a game coming out. It could be Odyssey 2 or Sunshine, or they just randomly decided to do this for 35th anniversary.

I honestly never minded that they wanted to make a new battle system every single game. I like the idea of a series that completely reinvents itself every entry. So I don't have a problem with the fact that they haven't returned to the 64/TTYD battle style. But I do have a problem with the fact that every battle system since Sticker Star has been so poorly thought out and just ruined the games for me. They all have a good concept, but they don't build on it nearly enough so it gets old fast. I just can't enjoy a game where the thing you do over half the time is just not interesting and you constantly want to avoid it.

I also could never get into this game, despite trying it at several points of my life. It wasn't until this year that I finally finished it for the first time on SNES Online, and still couldn't enjoy it very much.

I disagree about the mechanics. Yoshi's movement and all the general mechanics are great. Some people are annoyed about Baby Mario, but that was almost never an issue. In my finished playthrough, I don't think I died a SINGLE time that way.

Instead, all my deaths were from pits or instant-death objects like spikes. I never liked games that obsolete their own health bars because you almost always die from instant-death stuff anyway. It makes it so that 95% of the time, Yoshi's Island is super easy, then you die to an instant death thing, then have to spend so much time going through all the easy stuff again (especially if you want to re-obtain ALL the collectibles again) just to get back to the one hard part.

I purchased the expansion pass a long time ago and never got the Leon one or the Pikachu/Eevee ones and none of the suggestions are working. It's not a big deal, but I'm just confused why it's not working.

Open world could work in a future Pokemon generation if they use this kind of level scaling, instead of just the Wild Area.

Solomon's Key is legitimately amazing, I wonder if it would be much higher if more people played it. (Zelda 2 is also underrated imo)

If we get Metroid 5 and a real Paper Mario game both in 2020, I'm gonna lose it

That title is phrased in a way that makes it sound like they announced all the remaining gen 8 pokemon lol

I'm kinda disappointed they didn't just use Professor Magnolia from the games instead of creating another generic-looking professor.

The exact same thing is happening with Hero in Smash, so it's funny that this happened at almost the same time.

(He's not being banned but something is going to have to be figured out if both players speak a different language. Especially if they both want to use Hero. Then one of them won't be able to read their own moves no mater what language you pick!)

@sikthvash Thank you, you're the first comment I've seen talk about Pro Controller drifting. I've had it since release and had no issues until about a couple weeks ago, but it's still weird to me that this happens after 2 years, when every other type of controller I've had are still fine, even the ones that are over a decade old.

I haven't had issues with joycons, but that's probably only because I use pro controller 99% of the time. In the past couple weeks my pro controller just inputs down by default at random times. Is that normal after using it for 2 and a half years? I've never had this happen for other types of controllers, even after a decade of use.

What does "rebuild them from scratch" mean? They definitely look the same, so anything they had to do to convert them couldn't have been that labor-intensive. I could be wrong, but if I am, they're still being incredibly vague about this for no reason.

@neufel They have a good size comparison here.

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/compare/

Alcremie is Slurpuff done right. Yamper was already shown in the E3 demo but is still amazing, I hope it gets an evolution. The other two new ones are all right. Duraludon looks a lot less cool when they put it next to a classic like Tyranitar lol.

Chairman Rose is definitely the villain and his company is the evil team, he even has a secretary that can be a team admin.

Exclusive Gym Leaders are probably the dumbest form of version differences they have thought up. These characters are really unique and have separate types, it would have been nice to fight both of them.

@dartmonkey Oh, thank you for the reply! I thought that was a possibility, but I didn't want to grind thousands of coins until I was sure.

"Her third and final job is reserved for when you've completed all other jobs."
There must be more to it. I looked up complete lists online and I confirmed that I completed all of them except that final job, yet it's still not showing up. I talked to all the characters and did anything I could think of, but nothing worked.

I'm probably never going to play this, but I'm still excited for it just because the game looks visually amazing and we'll get to see a lot of high-quality character models and animations, at least if the ones we saw in the first trailer are anything to go by.

I wouldn't use the word "overnight", he's been a prominent competitor in all big tournaments for like 10+ years and everyone knew he could do it, was just a matter of time (Armada quitting and dodging HBox in the bracket also helped). But stupid nitpicking aside, this was a great interview, especially the Zig-Zag part lol

Balance was definitely not a factor in this decision. Pokemon has never put time or effort into balance. And even if they did have a sudden change of heart, there's SO much that can be done - giving Pokemon more moves, stat buffs, etc. to make more Pokemon relevant. Removing Pokemon is the last possible thing you would think of for this. There's also so many Pokemon that are SO CLOSE to being useful in their own unique way but are crippled by weird things like not having the right moves or not the right stat distribution. Or you could just have a tier system like Smogon so tons more Pokemon would be viable.

@Luke937 It's probably going to be the same ruleset as all the qualifiers unfortunately

@Fantasia They're all shaped slightly different, especially at the edges, and have different blast zones (and I heard a few have some glitches). When you have to memorize all these small differences for 50+ stages, it's not really worth it anymore, especially since it's just for an aesthetic change. In Ultimate, they're all exactly the same so we can finally see a variety of FD and Battlefield designs in tournament.

"If only they used more different stages and items, there’d be a lot more variety in the gameplay."
Competitive players DO like using as many stages as possible. It's just that it took forever for the hazard toggle to be introduced so every game only had about 6 legal stages. But Ultimate finally has a hazard toggle, and this time they didn't mess up the Omega stages and Battlefield stages, so stage variety will be FAR better in this one.

I have no idea why he wants items in competitive though. Items are clearly designed to be random and chaotic, which is perfect for a casual game, but pretty unfair in a competitive game.

They remove so many features to make it as much as gen 1 as possible, but the one feature they decide to keep is... Mega Evolution... why...

What I don't get is that it says there's 56 stages in Smash Wii U but I only count 55, and even SmashWiki says so. Am I missing something?

So many people complaining in the comments... They literally found all this Fortnite stuff on the eShop and everything, what more proof do you want that it's coming?

How do you charge it if you don't get an AC Adapter?

I'm not saying this isn't amazing, but there's world records and new accomplishments in speedruns for many different Mario games all the time (and many other Nintendo games for that matter) so this feels like a weird random choice for a news article. Definitely not complaining though.

@Desdar300 I never said I disliked the final island. I really enjoyed it, but it still seemed weirdly short compared to the other islands. Either way, I don't actually believe they pushed the game aside to work on Pokemon Switch, I was mostly just talking about it as a possible unlikely scenario.

@UmbreonsPapa I've always said there was no chance of Pokemon Switch coming out this year because a late 2018 release would be only 2 full years after Sun/Moon, and there's always been at least 3 years between every generation. But your comment was the first thing that convinced me 2018 MIGHT still be possible. The final island in Sun/Moon and so many other things felt rushed, which makes me think you're right about them starting on Gen 8 for Switch early. I still highly doubt it though because XY and SM were both revealed long before April of their release year, and they've never saved the reveal for E3 before.

@Gerbwmu It's mentioned in the article that it's not for Pokemon Switch, it's for a Pokemon not yet released for the 3DS games.

You forgot Sector A, it's in the second-to-last room in the top right after you beat all the enemies in case anyone else came here for that.

I don't understand the point of the news channel at all. Never have I learned anything new by checking it, I always hear about things quicker via all the different sources on the internet.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Why do you imply that speedrunners don't take their time to soak everything in and enjoy the game? That seems to be a common misunderstanding; speedrunners enjoy the game the same as anybody else does, especially on their first playthrough. The only difference is that once they're done, they love the game so much and want to keep going deeper, learn more about it, and get better at it, and speedrunning is often one of the best ways to do that for single-player Nintendo games.