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Waiting for Prime 2 and 3 to be released first. I’ve never played them before and there’s no legal and convenient way to do so presently.

Seems weird they’d release Prime 1 targeting new audiences and then just never release 2 and 3 before 4.

@slowpoke_tail And right into the waiting arms of generative AI.

@JohnnyMind Agree. I think it’s dumb to have expiration dates on digital goods.

I’m having a blast with Metroid Prime 1 Remastered. Can’t wait to play Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered next to catch up on the story before Prime 4. Would be kinda silly if they released a sequel to a game that isn’t available to play.

Instead of Xenoblade 2 Switch 2 Edition patch/upgrade, I’d rather see a Xenosaga Definitive Edition Collection (full cartridge).

Hello from the far distant future of November 2025. We are now mere days away from the release of Metroid Prime 4 and there has still been no word on Prime 2 and 3 Switch releases in any form.

@John_Deacon
You’ll need the Nintendo Switch Online+Expansion Pak+Memory Pak tier subscription which introduces this basic QOL feature plus like one Wii game a year.

@Erigen You sound like a trustworthy chap. I mean nobody else has ever offered to protect me from velociraptors before. Do you prefer I bring unmarked cash in suitcase form, or bag form?

While not a Switch 2 title, I was able to pick up Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door for $30 at BestBuy.

I’m surprised they’re not enlisting the police to raid people’s homes and retrieve these characters.

“Let’s make storage the customer’s problem!”

Now do Phantasia and Destiny in 3D, you cowards.

Gen Z doesn’t care about gambling mechanics and dark patterns in video games, but it doesn’t mean they should be in them.

Just because you’ve trained a new sucker born every day to like your slop doesn’t mean it should be done.

The game does have problems, but there has been rarely a time when I’ve stopped playing for a moment to really think about something that’s ruining the experience for me.
I read the article about the ‘lifelessness’ of the NPCs being rooted in place, and at the time I hadn’t played the game yet, even reacting negatively towards the game for it based on the article alone. Once I actually began playing, it was a moot issue. There were a couple of times I stopped to go “oh yeah, wasn’t this a big deal?” only to conclude that, while yes it is a flaw, it didn’t detract from my experience in any significant way.
The lack of voice acting for important scenes is really the only notable issue for me that took me out of my immersion.
I think most of the big talking issues can be summed up with “oh yeah, and this minor thing also annoyed me a bit.”
Mind you, I’m playing the Switch 2 Edition, so I can’t comment on Switch 1 performance. (Going by previous titles on the Switch 1, I expect it to be an abysmal time.)

There will absolutely, 100% be GameCube and GameCube-inspired skins for this thing. I can’t see a reality where it doesn’t happen.

Ran into my first instance of running out of space on the default Switch 2 internal storage just the other day. Looked at express microsd cards and they’re expensive.
I’ll stick with games on cartridges for now thank you.

I think there’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation going on now because big publishers only really publish big game franchises, so the public has come to expect that all big publisher games need to be big budget games too, so big publishers only publish big game franchises.
There’s also a bit of a demand situation where if big publisher doesn’t publish big franchise game sequel, the public gets upset with them.
And of course the ever present issue of big publishers being risk averse, so they want to stick to what’s big and successful to minimize loss on more experimental games.
And lastly, big publishers have gotten into the habit of just buying up studios that have those experimental successes, sucking out anything useful and assimilating them into their own franchises, then discarding the empty husk.

@Yosher nothing killed my desire to work in the video game industry faster than the video game industry. They have a real image problem due to stuff exactly like this, and crunch, and abuse, and everything else they do.

No they aren’t and this analyst is wrong. Those games are perfect as is. You don’t remake the art just because it’s old.
The only thing they should do with these games is release a definitive edition (applies more to Chrono Trigger than ALttP, but you could add Four Swords in to that) for modern consoles and that’s it.

Current techbro industry trend and Square-Enix going all in on it; name a more iconic duo.

@Taya I don’t know why this needs to be continuously explained to people. Square-Enix, and other Japanese parties involved, don’t care about it being AI or LLM or generative or whatever the flavor term of the day is. They only care that the company is using their IP(s) in an unauthorized manners. They’re not opposed to AI, they’re opposed to their property being used without their permission.

@billychaos There’s nothing to be confused about here. It’s all financially motivated. That’s the start and stop of the reasoning.

I hope it adds more Pokemon and a new Dex. The most fun I have in Pokemon is catching them all. While I appreciate ZA for what it is, and what it has, I’m looking at what’s left to catch for my ZA livingdex and it’s starting to look very thin.

@automatom Ah yes, I see it now. Thank you for pointing out the design genius that is Residejoycon 2vil.

Looks like a cheap skin. Not even Dbrand quality. Is that what special edition hardware has become these days?

@Rob3008
They are not denouncing the use of generative AI. They are opposed to a foreign company infringing all of their IP. Theres a difference.

Pokemon is basically just Pro Bass Fishing without the water. Change my mind.

X&Y is in my opinion where things started going from great to just good.

I really don’t like rewards being locked behind competitive multiplayer. I hate pvp because it brings out the worst in me, so I avoid it wherever I can.

This feels like damage control because everyone is wising up to Xbox’s death spiraling. Microsoft will likely be just fine since most the world (at least the general workforce) runs on Windows, but the Xbox brand as a hardware company is toast, unless they pull some really magical innovation out of their butts for the next console. Just copying others isn’t good enough here.

I suppose what I’d like to see out of the Xbox hardware is more of a blurring between console and pc. Give people an easy-mode PC building. Go the Framework route with your console.

I picked up the game a little earlier than expected due to the high praise I’ve seen it receiving and I immediately ate my words. I made the mistake of ‘trying it out’ to see what it was like before I finished Sword (I’m going back and playing the ones I missed) and couldn’t put it down. I had to force myself to take a break.
It’s not without flaws, but it’s really damn good.

I can’t wait to see the documentaries in 5-10 years on ‘Xbox to Ex-box: What Went Wrong?’
But for now it’s frustrating watching the death spiral and denial in action.

But hey, there’s always Atari making a comeback (ha).

Just want to say that I’ve been pretty critical of the game in the comments of the various articles published by NintendoLife, and while the game does have its share of shortcomings, I was wrong about the overall game itself.
I sat down and started playing it this weekend and could. not. stop. It’s hands down my favorite Pokemon game in terms of gameplay and presentation so far. They fixed so many long-running series’ shortfalls. I really want this to be the direction of Pokemon going forward.
There are still gripes I have about the game (lack of voice acting in cutscenes, it doesn’t get out of its own way soon enough, the city isn’t alive enough), but the things they do nail, they nail.
I’d encourage anyone sitting on the fence on this one to just go ahead and take the plunge.

Anybody getting SEGA dejavu here?

This doesn’t affect me as I’ve been boycotting EA since around Mass Effect 3’s release. I encourage others to follow.

@Xeno_Aura There was something someone said one time many years ago that stuck with me. I’m afraid I don’t remember the source so I can’t attribute the quote to anyone.
“The internet always routes around damage.”
Web search companies are no longer trying to provide the best results for the user. Instead they’ve bungled up their search with sponsored results, fake results, and scam results. So users are going to use whatever alternative to find what they’re actually looking for, which happens to be AI.
The users are not to blame here, and many companies aren’t either, but this is a case of “this is why we don’t have nice things.” Too many bad actors INCLUDING GOOGLE have messed up the Internet ON PURPOSE in pursuit of profit.

@kal_el_07241 That sounds amazing. Thanks for the heads up.

I still have concerns, reservations, and criticisms, some of which won’t change, and some are rightly deserved, but I’m glad to see the general public sentiment is that it’s a really fun game. I’ll look into picking this one up once I’ve finished with Sword.

Edit: I only started playing Sword recently, which was right after I finished Legends Arceus, which was right after I finished Scarlet, which I only even bothered with once the performance issues were mostly fixed on the Switch 2.

@Lord some people genuinely hate it because they hate it, but a lot more people are just disappointed because we know they can do better but just don’t apply themselves. We want to see it be the best thing it can be because we love it.

@LastFootnote Xenosaga Ep 3.

@MoldyPasta This would be like giving your entire development team the pink slip. Ain’t no way Pokemon would return to Gamefreak after Monolithsoft made one.

@SlamDunk22_
This was my immediate reaction as well.
I know Pokemon games don’t have voice acting, but something about this one felt especially jarring.

This is why Nintendo prices the way they do.

@TitanSix Gamefreak is notorious for not respecting the player’s time. They add so much unnecessary time-wasting fluff to their games. I usually have a book near me to read during battles (for other Pokemon games, I haven’t played ZA) because there’s so much down time between turns.

They need to do something for the original Dragon Ball.

It’s 2025 and Pokemon is the most profitable franchise in existence. There’s zero excuse for this, especially when the anime manages to be fully voice acted.
I don’t even care if they only voice the cutscenes. Those at the bare minimum should be voiced. I’d even accept an Animal Crossing style audio for dialogue. It just needs to be something other than a complete void of sound.

@AgentGuapo I’ve been disappointed with every Asus product I’ve purchased in the last 10 years. I expect this would be no different. I have no intention of buying Asus anymore.

I’m waiting for reviews and general public opinion first. I’ll probably pick it up eventually though.

I could see a case being made for locking individual buttons, though I don’t know why anyone would lock the + and - buttons. The problem is that I want to lock SOME of them, not all of them. I don’t use GameChat and accidentally pressing this button is disruptive to gameplay for me, so I’d love to lock it, but not the rest. In fact, I use + and - regularly, so locking all of them isn’t saving me any time or frustration.
Now if they could be locked individually, that would be different.

@jojobar It’s true, but it’s improving the internet in a small way. I can now use ChatGPT as a general quick and easy web search for general information without having to deal with pages of garbage SEO ad delivery sites. Basically fixing all the problems that Google and other search engines have failed to address. It’s doing for search now what Google originally did back when it took over.
Sure sometimes the answers aren’t always correct, but the same could be said about normal web searches too.