burninmylight

"But you've read the title, you know where I'm going with this, and you probably agree with me: the Chao Garden is the best thing that the Sonic series has ever done. I can confidently say this without playing any other Sonic games, because it's just THAT good. Feel free to disagree in the comments, of course, but I am right. Sorry."

No, don't apologize for being absolutely correct. If Sonic is Inspector Gadget, then the Chao Garden is Penny & Brain.

Which one will Sega wise up and do first:

1) A Sonic game with Chao Gardens back in full force
2) Skies of Arcadia HD/Remake
3) Panzer Dragoon Saga Remake
4) A port of Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 to your smart-toaster so you can have another version of these games to play while you wait on your toast.

My money is on 4, but I'll take any of the first three.

@GameManAdvance

I am right there with you sir! The Advance Wars 1 + 2 Re-Boot was the highlight of E3 for me, and I'm now praying that this is a thing so I can finally get three steps closer to retiring my poor old GBA that I commonly have to resuscitate in order for it to read cartridges, and whose battery only lasts about 20 minutes unplugged.

I was just thinking the other day that I need to get around to getting this on Wii U. Will wait to see how the Switch version compares, but glad that it's getting a second lease on life!

@jump I've heard that Nintendo sent review copies on special bamboo cartridges so that you can tell which ones are authentic or not under UV light. We should force the reviewer to hand it over so we can inspect it.

@Heavyarms55

But you sure do care what you consider to be fake Pokemon fans have to say. You've spent a great deal of time and typing on it. I guess I'm not outraged enough and showing the requisite amount of clear opposition to your tastes to be considered an easy enough target to be worthy of your time.

Funny that you also speak of healthy behavior. I don't think turning a subgroup of a fanbase into strawmen just to bash them on the Internet from the safety of your keyboard is what I'd call healthy behavior either. You may not lurk around every CoD thread, but you sure did jump at your chance to spit on "self proclaimed" Pokemon fans the moment an article sprang up that wasn't even about Sword & Shield. Yep, really healthy behavior.

Now, to see if you stay true to your word of not caring what I have to say by refraining from a retort (a real retort, not what you think it means), or will you give in to your base tendencies and come back with something, preferably of substance this time? I'm thinking it's about 30/70.

@Heavyarms55

^ Logs on to complain about Pokemon fans with complaints about GameFreak and TPC, saying all these fans do is complain.

Derails half of the comment section in the process with this discussion and doesn't see the beautiful irony in the process.

This game has middling/mediocre reviews and a 75 percent discount half a year after release written all over it.

@Judgedean Really? Oh boy.

Want a real kick to the ribs? These Capcom games are on sale so much that you might as well consider it their normal prices. Look at the price history for Okami:

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/okami-hd

I got got like that a couple of times too in the early days of the Switch, until someone on this site told me about Deku Deals. Never again.

@nessisonett I've been in a coma for the past 15 months, and last time I checked the news, a few people were getting sore throats from some bad flu going around or something. Did something happen between now and then?

My brain read "Guardian Heroes" (the Saturn beat-em-up from Treasure), and I got excited for that.

It's important that games like this one get reviews, because if I see that thumbnail graphic and low price in the eShop, I write it off as low effort shovelware trash and never give it a chance.

@nessisonett Even funnier if it turned out to be the protagonist from the novel/Daniel Craig film Layer Cake.

@Gaeus So you think Atlus bases its time, budget and resources based on surveys with a limited scope that isn't indicative of the greater gaming community?

As I said in my first post, Atlus and Sega do this every year, but where are all the ports and new games from beloved IPs that commonly top the lists in these surveys?

And like its parent company Sega, these annual surveys will probably mean next to nothing, other than to get fans riled up over a fraction of a glimmer of hope to see ports of old games.

@nessisonett What indie devs has Nintendo swallowed up?

@BRAINFOX @RR529

Yeah, all three series are mostly unconnected. The original Zentraedi disappear after Macross, with the only reference to them being, "this person is the child of a human and Zentraedi", "Rick" makes a couple of cameos, and there is a significant timeskip between the three so that the narration can explain the vastly different settings and roster.

The reason Harmony Gold originally mashed the three series together back in the day was because there was a broadcasting rule that a series had to be at least 65 episodes long for weekday TV syndication. Given the time period and the rules, it seemed to make sense at the time.

@Teksetter Reading your post hit me with a sudden nostalgia bomb, hehe. That episode of Robotech you mentioned was the first and only one I had ever seen way back in the early days of Toonami in the mid-90s. I was too young and had no context for the show to understand it, but it was the first time I had seen an animated series deal with mature subject matter, so it was very jarring, and I still remember that feeling to this day. I suddenly thought about it 20 years later and found the entire series to watch it in detail, and realized how important Robotech was for establishing a foothold for anime in the West.

Oh yeah, and FFVII is a complete rip-off, Phantasy Star 2 DID IT FIRST!!!!

@arekdougy I barely made it past your kid's toddler stage before turning off the game forever, for the reasons you said. Once you buy the milking room and buy/acquire the seed maker, you're now swimming in cash (or you were already, because that's how you could afford them), you've befriended everyone 50 times over, and you've seen absolutely everything this game has to offer. And the initial game only had two overworld tracks that were supposed to last you hundreds of hours unless you connected the game to Friends of Mineral Town on the GBA.

This game was so boring to me that I've not just never played another HM game since, but I'm too scared to even touch Stardew Valley. Rune Factory is my jam though.

All that bit that Kate said about Nina, I'm in agreement with though.

@outsider83 The game has been on sale for up to 75 percent off of it's main price tag ($25 USD to $6.75 USD). If you decide to give it a try, wait for that kind of sale to soften the spending if it's not your cup of tea.

Even at it's best, a full run through of the game is barely more than an hour if you subtract the cutscenes. I'm absolutely of the mindset of SF64 > PD myself, but the latter is still enjoyable and worth the experience, especially at the sale price.

@TheFrenchiestFry What if I'm legit not interested in P5S because I don't have a console that has P5, so without any sort of knowledge of the lore or context for the references, in-jokes and relationships between characters, I feel like a major reason to play these sorts of games is lost on me?

Both Hyrule Warriors are perfectly playable if you know nothing of the LoZ series, but you get so much more out of them being a fan. I might be a Persona fan if I had access to the game(s) and had something to whet my appetite first.

So no outrage or boycotts here, just can't find a reason to be excited for yet another Musou game.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi Maybe they cleaned it up for the kids that ar watching? I don't know.

NMH without blood is like Mortal Kombat without blood.

@1ofUs

1. Take out sword
2. Look up every championship team in sports, memorize every popular song, and save all stock info from the last seven years.
3. Put sword back
4. PROFIT!!!

@michellelynn0976 Dang right you do. You keep right on being yourself, and don't let random strangers on the Internet steal your shine just for being a passionate fan with grounded opinions.

@Nintendoes Panzer Dragoon is barely one hour if you skip all of the cutscenes on a no-death run.

I remember this TV spot from back in the day, a little over a decade ago. There was also a great Zelda one to advertise the two Oracle games that had Link traversing a giant GBC.

@Optimist80

Your state is the prototype Joy Cons!

@DjinnFighter Thanks for the heads up, time to get Contra!

I wonder why Metal Slug X is on sale, but all of the other Metal Slugs available (1-5 ) are not.

@sixrings Nothing quite like seeing someone (or being that someone) on a beat 'em up like Dungeons & Dragons or Captain America and the Avengers, and seeing them on their last man, about to lose to a boss. So you hurry over, thrown in your quarters and jump in to turn the tide and save the day!

@MushHill_Act1-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC3cS1x7LlQ

@Kienda

I'm not gonna knocker it just yet. For all we know, it just might sweater meat oops i meant meet our expectations. The teaser was only about a minute and half long, so I doubt it showed us the udder variety of the juicy gameplay in hand across a wide variety of areolas to explore. I'll certainly be keeping my eyes on them.
EDIT: *it. Keeping my eyes on IT.

Anyways, ta-tas!

@HotGoomba___Rebrand

I'm sure that challenging them doesn't help.

@nessisonett

"Reports need to be contextualised, whether that’s through Sony’s approach to capture recordings alongside the offending material or through the use of a live human seeing every report request"

That's the big one. No more algorithms. Have departments in place to look at every report request by trained humans that can make sound judgement calls, and reach out to those who leave the reports.

The series is chock full of memorable and catchy themes that would translate well to a movie adaptation. Watch them use absolutely none of them and instead go for a generic modern pop rock soundtrack like you just heard in the trailer.

And that Nerscylla you just saw is the equivalent of of the original movie Sonic from its first trailer (you know the one).

Nope, doesn't feel me with more hope (but neither does it take it away, for my expectations can't get much lower.

Also, "Still, subsequent images and trailers have slowly but surely resorted our expectation that this might"

How awkward will it be the next time GameFreak develops a game for other consoles that skips Nintendo's? Anyone remember Tembo the Badass Elephant?

@Cormag

Sorry to hear about that, mate. I've lost jobs enough times to know how much that stings. And you're right; the masses at the bottom often have to suffer because of the poor decisions of the leadership at the top. I was one of many who was let go from a vendor in late February after it didn't get the big contract from a bank that it had been betting on for the better part of a year, but it's CEO and several members of upper management all still got their annual raises.

Thankfully, it turned out to be a blessing because I found work elsewhere, and I enjoy being here FAR more than there. I hope you're blessed with the same outcome.

@pip_muzz

Thank you for saving my Wii version from ever possibly being resold. No Genki Rockets, no dice.

At this point, I'm over the frustration and disappointment and am perfectly content to continue playing the Gen 7 games. Honestly, I kind of breathed a sigh of relief to find out that 234 are still absent, because I that still justifies $90 USD safely staying in my pocket and my backlog not collecting more dust while my entire gaming time gets engulfed by Pokemon.

I don't care about this game, but I will always appreciate a developer delaying a game to get it right on Day 1 as opposed to having to download a Day 1 patch bigger than the game's file itself just to make it decently playable, or even worse, wait for that patch weeks later.

@Bobb

I've almost gotten the game when it's been on sale in the eShop for pretty cheap a couple of times, but the fact that it's built entirely around co-op (as in trying to play solo will require some ridiculously long grinding times) with no couch co-op keeps turning me away.

This is it's second or third major patch that I remember, and each time I keep hoping to read that the game gets balanced for single player a bit more. Any game that requires me to find randoms I can't talk to or to do a sales pitch to friends and talk them into buying and playing the game with me is one that I don't want to bother with.

@TG16_IS_BAE I don't either, I just stupidly keep buying them, thinking that one day I'll get to them.

@Northwind I hope Nintendo is sorely disappointed and gives up on this artificial scarcity crap. If it didn't do that BS with SM3DAS, I probably would have preordered the physical copy, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was getting bullied. I decided not to buy it in any form out of principle, unless a second hand copy springs up somewhere, or if the games are released individually on the eShop, I'll just get the ones I want.

If I didn't do it with SM3DAS, I'm not doing it with a 30-year old game that time has long surpassed and already has a remake on the DS that is readily available on the Wii U eShop.

@TG16_IS_BAE

<<<<<<<<< This guy right here. I filled up an entire 128GB card on my 3DS. Filling up the Switch to 1TB would be a lot easier: not only are game sizes much larger in comparison, but Switch games are far more likely to have things like giant mandatory patches to fix developer's inadequacy and DLC, to say nothing of all of the digital-only ports and even larger selection of indy titles. Oh, and the sales.

I went crazy buying digital on Wii U and especially 3DS, but I've actually gone back to buying most retail games on cart for Switch to stave off spending so much on memory. Switching SD cards on Switch is easy but annoying, but what the hell was Nintendo thinking when it designed the N3DS?

Game Director, come talk to me when you put out an update that adds local multiplayer.

@Kameken It would have been so much smarter PR-wise for them to just go ahead and admit that they couldn't fit in all of the cut Pokemon due to time constraints because they wanted to ship the game last year, but they'd include all (or most) of the missing ones in a free update later on down the line.

I still haven't touched the games, and only now am I even being tempted. No amount of shilling fans and extra content that should have been in the base game can fix that; only content that should have been there in the first place.

GameFreak: "We've left out some Pokemon for balancing reasons, and they won't be added back later."

Adds Landorus later

"In a follow-up post, Mahler confirmed this patch would be included on the card in the physical version of the game."

That thud you heard was my face hitting the dirt after getting knocked from my fence post. If the devs are going to work that hard and be this customer-friendly, then I will acquire their game.

@Andee If you'd like a good vibe of how the general gameplay feels in single player (I'm going off of the GCN original, of course I haven't played this version), download the demo for Oninaki and try that.

It's playable alone, but is relatively simple with little variation on the core gameplay of running around wacking things. It would have been great for local co-op where the simple gameplay lends well to being supplementary entertainment to the time you spend with friends on the same couch, but for me at least, playing silently with friends or strangers a thousand miles away doesn't have the same appeal.

@Grandiajet They somehow made it more inconvenient than the GCN original.

It feels like this game is being sent out to tank.

@graysoncharles I'm waiting for preorders to open.

@scully1888 Oh I agree about No Mercy being the most fun, but I just felt like we should acknowledge THQ's attempts to carry on the formula after No Mercy; it wasn't like THQ thought that game was the pinnacle of possibilities and was a masterpiece that should never be touched again.

That being said, tell me more about this modding scene for the game, and where to get started. I've been thinking lately that if publishers won't give me the games I'd love to play again, then I'll resort to the efforts of other passionate fans.