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@rupert_the_giantbear what's especially baffling is that the spinoff games consistently have GREAT visuals. Pokken and New Pokemon Snap are gorgeous. Of course they're developed by different studios. But that just points to how much Game Freak needs a serious shake up in some way. The budget is there to make these games look and play great, why isn't it being utilized?

I've been annoyed with people's constantb whining about the series. but I'm leaning towards joining those voices. this is ridiculous.

one reason i'm sick to death of the frame rate arms race. and 30fps looks better in general anyway. fight me

i really don't know how to describe the strange rage i feel when i see those rosy cheeks. i truly hate some of the American style cartoon art from that era

@Captain-N lmaooo do you even know how many hours goes into the VO recording session? and when someone says they get paid $4000 flat, that means ZERO royalties.

@Fizza Competitive play in SWSH was some of the most satisfying and also well-populated. The single player campaign was mediocre and people complained about the graphical fidelity, but I'm just gonna go ahead and say I loved the art design. And the expansions were frankly amazing.

@Edu23XWiiU in general i don't care for the obsession with maxing out frame rates. first off 60fps can sometimes look almost weirdly plasticky in its smoothness, i know it's because we're condition to think of 24fps as "cinematic" but still. more importantly if a game was designed and balanced to be played at a certain frame rate, it can really throw off the look, feel, and even gameplay significantly

tbh i didn't see anything i disliked. really liked the penguins and bowser, and glad the visual style is still very very nintendo

this is freaking stupid and wasteful. i ALMOST understand when it's done for games that cannot fit on a card (but why bother with a box then, too?) but there's no way this game is that chunky.

song and video are pretty good actually

@wiiware that's what bullet hell is all about. but it's actually pretty poorly executed here because of the bloom lighting, overdone damage/exploosion animations, and improper visual layering making it particularly unreadable

Bloom lighting in a shmup is a pretty stupid concept

@Shworange had the same situation with saints row 4. really enjoyed what i got for literally a buck and then it just stopped working after a certain point.

I'm just a hair too young to be nostalgic for classic Atari and it's generally too old and janky for my tastes but this package looks really good and a serious labor of love. Might have to look into it...

@Nanoline52 tbf ALL major entertainment awards are in a major way about industry politics. ALL of them in EVERY field of entertainment.

let me be real

the idea that it was "tears" and not "tears" was one of the stupidest fan theories i have ever heard

i know there is nothing inherently wrong with theorizing about lore in this way, nobody's hurting nobody, but for some reason i just find it so phenomenally silly and cringey. i guess it's just the idea of people thinking they're a lot more clever than they really are. it's silly in itself for me to feel this way but hey

@tabris95 i don't know what else you've done with your life but this comment is a truly grand achievement

@ChibiSmoothie that's actually what I'm looking forward to, having funky battles with my friends with the rentals' bizarre and suboptimal movesets. it really makes it a more interesting game in a lot of ways. no sarcasm

honestly both are cool but the western one loses out on the silly apple-red cheeks that western cartoonists thought looked cute on everybody for some inexplicable reason

it's a Chinese mitten crab based pokemon. hence the tufts

@fun_mat .......yes that is my opinion lol. that is how these conversations work lmao

I've played too much tetris and super precise shmups and been burned by the pad inputting diagonals inappropriately. the hori split dpad does feel worse on the touch but I've never had issues with it confusing inputs

@fun_mat hm, nice recs. i will say one big selling point of the hori split pad is the dpad is a significant upgrade from the pro controller's. i have no idea how nintendo ***** up the qc of their controllers so bad. remember when their ***** was basically indestructible?

@ChromaticDracula what i love is that they did go with a more detailed look but really still captured the same vibe the original style was going for, it looks awesome

@Tasuki tbf the last bit was huge and awesome

i truly do not understand the idea of paying a premium for "high end" switch controllers that lack the functionality of standard pro controllers. especially lacking gyro. lacking nfc and rumble is a bummer but it makes absolutely no sense when the form factor is the exact same.

the pro controller dpad is garbage tho

@Would_you_kindly plenty of horrendous examples before that too.

not to mention it's a pretty unethical company

not bad but not good enough to shake the Netflix stank. goddamn are they bad at everything these days

@gcunit they're labeled as such explicitly in the 2d games

@fun_mat Who's defending Nintendo? Nintendo didn't make these controllers lol. Hori did.

Missing that functionality does suck but also contributes hugely to the very low price. I do think it would be cool to offer a higher end model that doesn't lack these features but again it inevitably would be much more expensive, more than actual joycons almost certainly. Worth it, probably, but the really low price point results from excluding those and is very nice.

@VoidofLight I agree that the lack of that functionality is a major bummer, but "worthless" is a HUGE exaggeration. The impact of using the Split Pad Pro on the handheld experience is immense; not only does it relieve a LOT of the tension and discomfort in holding the Switch for long periods of time, the buttons, driftless sticks, and especially d-pad are all massive improvements, to the point of making some games that are pretty much unplayable with joy cons (read: any shmup or fighting game) fully playable.

The programmable back buttons and turbo function also don't get enough love.

I find myself yearning for HD rumble and NFC maybe once every 50 sessions. To be able to use them wirelessly in TV mode would be really killer though. But would certainly increase the price significantly.

@Zulzar and that's AWESOME

@Nintendo4Sonic what specifically is making you question this? lol

@somebread @CorePrideX Agreed, just seems the user I was replying to was complaining about the opposite

@Ryan_Again @somebread Wait are you sad that these comments aren't friendly to transphobes? 🤣🤣🤣

@Fath you're stressing way too much about things that don't affect you

just call individuals what they want to be called and move on with your life

@Orokosaki Good luck being taken seriously as a transphobe in 2022

@MajorTom this is not a good a joke as you think it is

I'll be honest, actually neither box art is particularly exciting or evocative, but the western one has nostalgia factor for me so that's where i went

I love the aesthetics and nothing else, it's a simple endless runner and not even a very good one. But it has a lot of personality, truly unique and strong in that regard. I bet his next project if any would be sick

@jowe_gw human rights are universal. violations of them should not be accepted from any place. that's why the UN has a human rights office, and that's why even countries that flagrantly violate human rights try to deny they're doing so.

why do you work so hard to make it OK to discriminate against lgbtq people?

@Dezzy70 yeahhh there's probably a reason your friend chooses not to engage with you on these issues.

@Dezzy70 i'm in the United States.

do you think that "beautiful equality" came about from people just not talking about homophobia and lgbtq issues? do you seriously think that is how such equality (which I'm sure you're overestimating) would spread outside London? or are you just satisfied with lgbtq people just being restricted to one safe city?

the more i read your responses the less I'm sure you're engaging in good faith, which is what i initially thought.

@Mortenb like..... banning same sex marriage, prosecuting trans people and their families,dropping hate crime protections from queer people (do you even know what the average lifespan of a trans Black woman in the states is? hint: it's not short because of diabetes), remember what happened to alan turing?......

was that a serious question? are you seriously just not familiar with the concept of homophobia?

@k8sMum that first is a fair line to draw but the second is kind of weird. especially considering the card thing is more of a motif than an expression of actual card-based mechanics. what are cards here could very well just be conventional weapon items; they just look like cards largely as an aesthetic choice

@somebread THANK YOU

i was especially disappointed as i loved the writing in donut country SO much.

great gameplay, aesthetics, and somehow, machine girl music that doesn't make me want to stab my ears with pens. god i hate so much of what they do normally.

but the writing is full of ultra-cringey pseudo anime character tropes, exacerbated by truly insufferable voice performances. at least it helps me skip through the dialogue quicker instead of listening to the entire voiced lines like i usually do before advancing dialogue.

and it's still not enough to make the game not amazing. but that's more a function of how great everything else was. a lesser game would have been completely ruined by the writing and the acting here

@Snatcher it's not much but a respectable start to your path toward absolution 🙏

@Mortenb "But Japan has a different concept and wants to keep reinforcing families procreating in traditional ways"

terrible justification for holding onto archaic and harmful practices and policies. how many lgbtq people from anywhere, but especially Japan and other countries with a "tradition" of discrimination against us (hint: that describes pretty much every country on earth today) have you actually talked to about what this stuff means for our lives?

@Dezzy70 you not being political is a function of your privilege to never have to be political to protect the lives of yourself, your loved ones, and people like you.

people like myself must be political else we take blow after blow to our own safety at the highest levels of lawmaking, and eventually end up with our very lives at risk from laws that prevent us from accessing Healthcare or facilitate persecution and violence from the government or other individuals. do you know who Alan turing is? we likely straight up wouldn't have video games period if it weren't for him.

if you actually care about a person in need, you would listen first to what they need, yes? if you actually do think it lgbtq people as equals, why would you not afford us the same when we're raising a stink about things that are harming us that we need support for, or express joy for things like this that may actually make a positive difference for us? if you don't, you don't actually treat us the same as you do cis straight people. you don't wilfully ignore others the way you do us.

@CANOEberry "disagreeing" on people's rights is not civil discourse. those who want people to shut up about our rights are being inherently disrespectful by even engaging from that direction regardless of how polite the phrasing. at best, you actually think you are doing good in the world by helping allow legitimately hateful bigots to engage in dialogue at a table they should simply not be permitted to sit at, as people who inherently do not respect others, and barring hurt and angry oppressed people from speaking out against that with emotional truthfulness, simply because you don't like the sound of people being upset. at worst, you may be one such bigot yourself. it is up to you to decide if you want to be either of those two, or if you want to be the kind of person who understands that "respectful dialogue" must be predicated on actual respect for other people, not just polite phrasing.