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I will only buy it if it has this on the title screen:

Iggy's Recking Balls, by virtue of it containing Iggy's Recking Balls.

LA Noire is currently £25.99 on game, which puts the standard eshop price of £44.99 to shame. Also, you won't be required to buy an SD card to fully download it.

Nice to see some significant reductions on new games though.

@Bobb

Only a month after its release, data miners found reference pictures in the app that matched two of the finalised heroes you see in the above video. Robin had a full character image, while Tharja had just a cropped portrait image.

If the game was released as originally planned, and going through each of the seasonal banners, you'd have had M.Robin, Tharja, Lissa, Chrom, another Chrom, Camilla, Xander, Lucina, Charlotte, Lyn, Caeda, Cordelia, Xander, Elise, Frederick, F.Robin, Gaius, Tiki, Leo, F.Corrin, Nowi, Henry, Jakob, Sakura, and, counting the seemingly unique children banner, Soleil, Shiro and Siegbert.

That amounts to 13 from Awakening, 12 from Fates, and 2 from elsewhere (and only because they're as popular characters as Lyn and Caeda).

I too would have liked to have seen more variety in the seasonal characters, and although Lissa, Tharja and male Robin don't have an alternate hero like some others (i.e Chrom with his regular and Spring variations), they could have taken the opportunity to introduce a few other characters from Awakening, like Kellam or Miriel. In fact, on the subreddit, people joked Hector (as he appears in FE6) would have made a suitable "Santa", although if they were going to class the sack as an axe, it would have clashed with Hector's standard weapon.

Then again, I stand a greater chance of getting a Vaike or a Miriel if they are added as regular heroes - Charlotte being unique as only appearing in the game as a special Valentines day unit - now, sadly unavailable for summoning.

I might be lucky this time - I've got close to 100 orbs stocked, and I've been relatively lucky in getting the special units during my time with the game when a special banner is going on.

@Bobb

You might not know this, but these characters were originally planned for when the game was to be released last Christmas, but the game was pushed back, and a Christmas event would have been inappropriate.

Someone on Reddit theorised that the heroes wouldn't have neccesarily all been 1-tile moving armoured units either, but the expert meta (in the arena for example) utilises armoured units, and, generally, those experts spend a lot of money on the game to create superior units. Thus, armoured units would be particularly attractive to them.

I can relate to Tharja as I wear shorts all year round.

Fantastic news! I played the 1st one on PC, that led me to buy the 2nd on PSP (though I have yet to play it), and I was looking to import the 3rd one, and mod my PSP to play that one.

I had heard Valkyria Revolution (the real fourth one) was a bit of a letdown, so I hope this one really does stay true to the original formula. I'll definitely look to pick it up one the switch, although I'm wary that it might be a situation where the publishers cheap out on a small capacity game card, and I'll have to download the remainder onto an SD card.

Also, I'd be surprised if it doesn't end up on PC too, given the success of the first game, but that's irrelevent to me as I'm pretty confident I'll opt to get this for the Switch.

I only have a Wario Amiibo, so it's tier one junk for me, I guess.

@CheddarSword

I've been playing Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends over the last month or so, and as far as introductions to the Musou subgenre, it's pretty great.

The roster is large and varied, and the characters are interesting, and the setting is really interesting - despite me having no prior knowledge of the source material - the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Epic.

I'm a bit underwhelmed by the new Fire Emblem Warriors game, even though I've preordered it, because, while I'm more familiar with the Fire Emblem universe, it would have been nice to have as large a roster (Orochi has 145, according to that trailer) - as many unique weapons - cameos of lesser fire emblem characters as officers (although Dynasty Warriors has hundreds of these, they're generic characters with mix-and-match headwear/voices/heads, so this wouldn't really work for Fire Emblem Warriors).

But then again, Fire Emblem Warriors brings some new mechanics to the table, so I'm hopeful it'll be fun in its own way.

If there is one game that would make me spend money on microtransactions, it's this game. I've withstood the temptation so far.

Sigurd, in particular is a particularly desirable unit, as has bonuses to both close and ranged attacks. He's being touted as a Reinhardt counter (a unit, I'm ashamed to admit I rely on to heavily).

As such, I've used up most of my orbs trying to get all of the special dancers in a previous banner (2 Azuras, 2 Shigures, and a single Inigo, so I stand next to no chance getting any of these three when they're made available, but at least, they'll be obtainable during later banners.

Instruction manuals are a lost art. I wish they'd put a little effort in to the digital ones if they'll insist on not including them any more.

There's always space for leaflets and system manuals in several different languages though.

You can save these though, and print and bind them yourself, if you're so inclined, although if I recall, there's a resource out there that has much more than just these SNES Mini games included.

If only she bought a treadmill, she wouldn't have to worry about dodging cakes. Or better still, an excercise bike, so she doesn't risk falling on her backside, and destroying the world, as demonstrated in the game over sequence.

@Uzukage

I was worried at first. It sounded like they were going to be throwaway indie games at first.

@GauBan

Are you sure you were quick enough?

O.K, I believe you. Other people in the thread have brought up the idea that the item might not be sellable under European law, so that's probably the reason.

@GauBan

You know that for a fact? It does sound feasible, but you never know - they could have assigned about 5 copies, which sold out almost immediately. Unless that's their policy - to not sell to UK from overseas stock?

It could have been nice to get one, solely for flipping on eBay, but while I have a modded SNES, I was never that keen on Street Fighter anyway. It might be intersting to see how much they turn up for on eBay once they're all out in the wild - particularly the glow-in-the-dark once - assuming they haven't all spontaneously combusted.

@Bunkerneath

All the cool kids mod their SNES to accommodate NTSC cartridges.

And if it doesn't sell 10,000, Capcom might reconsider their support of the Nintendo Switch.

By the way, UK stock's already gone.

They'd better have the proper installment on the Switch, if and when it's ever made, because I'd hate for this to be our consolation prize, while the PS4/XBONE/Steam/PSVita(!) gets NHM3.

Looks like it will be interesting though.

I don't know who this Ticaaalll person is supposed to be, but judging by his recent feed, he's a big fan of twitter prize draws.

@alasdair91

They'll need to be Lvl.20 or higher before you can use feathers. Once you have someone at the required level, select the allies tab, then advanced growth.

hmm...

[edit] I found it. The genuine game is #10 in the list when you search 'Fire Emblem'. I should have searched 'Fire Emblem Heroes'.

Trading on the GTS is such a pain. I know some pokemon are rarer than others, but many are asking for legendaries for simple pokemon - Cutiefly for Celesteela!.

Seeking is an absolute waste of time. Depositing is a safer bet, although you often have to wait a while for any trade to be fulfilled. With this in mind, the target of 1 million is still achievable - especially if people are going to be gaming it like @Dino293 is suggesting.

My pick

On closer inspection, the Bank pokedex includes the descriptive entries for pokemon as they appear in X/Y, Ruby/Sapphire and Sun/Moon, where applicable, as well as all variants (including shiny forms).

I was looking forward to being able to register all these new pokemon in a pokedex in my copy of Sun, to read all the descriptions, and browse the variants. I'm really disappointed we can't do that in the new game, and have to rely on going in to Pokemon Bank each time to check our progress with the national pokedex.

In any case, I'm now in the progress of transferring my pokemon over to Pokemon Sun - but not before cataloguing all the ones I am yet to get in X, and which ones I may need to trade for.

We're not hearing the full story here.

They're going to need more than that for me to buy it on launch.

That's excluding Zelda, which if the rumours are true, may not necessarily be available, day one in Europe.

And Skyrim is due in the Autumn? That's far too late. They're sending it out to die. Not that I'll be buying it anyway - I've already got the PC version.

As for games I will be looking to get, Disgaea (a nice surprise), Fire Emblem Warriors and Super Mario Odyssey are the only ones I've got to look forward to this year.
Beyond that, Xenoblade Chronicles looks like a sure bet, I'll probably want to get Dragon Quest, and I might get Stardew Valley (if the PC version doesn't tempt me first), but above all, Shin Megami Tensei V is the game I will buy a Switch for.

I've never really been that interested in Mario games.

But I'll probably get this. I like the open world design.

A system seller in my eyes. I can't settle for the WiiU version if the Switch one is going to be vastly superior.

Patrick Soderlund looked like he was there under duress.

Just like with the WiiU.

Maybe his hands were tied with GungHo to be honest.

@SmaMan

Are you a fan of Larry Bundy Jr. by any chance? He did a video on this, which featured that rant. It's the first one that came to mind when I saw links to tcrf.

"Cracked, Trained, Nobbed-Up and ½-parted by the amazing [BLANK]!!!"

No Sh*t(!)

The Animal Crossing GC port won't contain the NES games, be serious. They'll be introduced gradually, like with the Wii VC, the 3DS VC and the WiiU VC.

But I would be interested in playing a few Gamecube titles again - particularly Skies of Arcadia (if SEGA aren't interested in a remake), Luigi's Mansion and Tales of Symphonia.

I'll make sure to try the 7th Dragon demo at least.

That friendship trailer was cute. I'll be looking forward to this.

The Switch doesn't have dual screens, it probably doesn't have touchscreen or Stereoscopic 3DS, and it doesn't appear to have a camera either.

There's no reason why they won't continue supporting the 3DS for the time being, and continue to make games base aroun the hardware, but if their intention with the Switch is to merge the two platforms, going forward, I can't see them making a new dedicated handheld in the future. It'll be a shame to see the DS go the way of the Gameboy...

@AlexSora89

I did a google image search with that image you posted, and came across this!

http://garfemon.tumblr.com/

Not particularly...

But it's so going to be one of my favourite pokemon - along with Alolan Meowth.

@kokirii

You know what, I was thinking of Breath of the Wild.

"Inspired".

You know what they say - 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.' It looks very similar indeed, and with his blue tunic, the protagonist looks a bit like Skyward Sword Link too.

I don't remember reading about this game when that article was posted around 18 months ago, but it looks pretty well made. Music by Nobuo Uematsu too.

I probably won't buy it though - I think Breath of the Wild will be all the Zelda I'll need on the NX.

@allav866

So it was intentional? Ok. Well played, I guess.

@allav866

It happen*s*.

No wonder I've only been getting 4 streetpasses for the whole day. Coupled with the possibility there are less people with a 3DS around, gathering streetpasses is becoming increasingly harder.

It used to be that I could sit in a shopping centre for a few minutes, and I'd have my 10 hits that I could let in, then repeat for another 10, then I'd play the games when I got home.

The new streetpass games look like they're going to be difficult to finish off, due to this.

I had been trying to look into the Homepass system - with a little fiddling with your computer, you can turn it into its own network node, and collect as many hits as you want. It kind of goes against the original intention of streetpass, but it's looking quite appealing now.
That is, if I could get it to work...

I enjoy levelling up pokemon, and making them my own, so these distributions where they fling out untrainable lvl. 100 pokemon seems kind of pointless to me (I'm presuming they can't be bred). You can't even rename them. What am I supposed to do with them?

Nethertheless, it's one more pokemon I need to complete my X pokedex, so I'll go ahead and snap it up when the time comes.

I just want to be able to play Monster Hunter with a proper 2nd analogue stick, like I did with Monster Hunter Tri and 3 Ultimate.

I'd like him to revisit No More Heroes. In fact, I distinctly remember him saying he wanted to revisit NMH when Grasshopper was acquired by GungHo. I doubt either will come to fruition.

@MISTAH-JOSH

Have I just upset one of the shareholders for RCMADIAX Inc.?