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Don’t know if Sakurai was throwing shade. But I DO know, he was probably thinking how ***** Pokemon asset artists and art direction was when Sword and Shield came out.

What he is talking about here is very fundamental in graphics.

@PJOReilly

Always great to have different explanations of the new game mechanics, even as a Xenoblade veteran. Quick note: picture #3 contains a spoiler… may wanna change that 😉

Edit: just read your response on top about the brief spoiler warning etc.

Just wait, we will be seeing this Fire Emblem being ported or remake to the Switch next year. That’s why they are ending it early on the DS 🤣

@russell-marlow
Not to jump into your conversations…but gore isn’t edgy at all. Or rather, gore doesn’t make it automatically edgy. It’s quite pedestrian in film for example. Another example is a game with a walking duck frustrating people is more “edgy” than a lot of games with gore.

It’s not for sale. It’s will be a permanent display copy. 🤣

Not really interested in the Mario sets so far … if only Lego would make these following Nintendo sets:

• Hyrule Castle with Zelda and Link figurines (not duplo Mario heads)
• Splatoon courses, or giant Marina and Pearl
• Xenoblade mechs and characters
• Kiby, Starfy or Yoshi characters
• Metroid EMMI robot or Samus

I loved the art style of WInd Waker. I remember wanting to get the game just on the art style alone. Twilight Princess turned me off the whole series.

At this point, they are making it very easy for me to just ignore them and their games completely from now on. And I’ve got much of their games on 3DS and Switch.

Where is the second Ace Attorney trilogy?
How about giving us Miles Edgeworth Investigations 1 AND 2?
And Megaman Battle Network

I am pretty sure Animal Crossing fans would want to build their own island, and investors would be the only one that wants Reggie’s. 😉

Where is Megaman Battle Network 3 and 4?

I will just subscribe for Astoboy Omega Force. Still have the original cart. One of the best games on GBA.

@victordamazio

Frankly, does anyone know what “political correctness” is? Simply put, it is asking us to treat another as we would to ourselves.

Would you like to be depicted as “savages” or “uncivilized” just because you happen to be this or that? Or would you want to be called derogatory names because you are you? Or how about being treated as second class citizen just cause?

And it isn’t about censoring your “freedom” either. We all chose to live in society and there is a minimal of decorum we as a society decided to follow. You can’t just run around naked or pee anywhere you want. Or commit any crimes we want. There are consequences to our actions.

I am shock StarCraft is in the Hall of Fame before the first Civilization. Not to mention World of Warcraft before the original Warcraft. This “spread the love” type of Hall of Fame is the problem.

Atlas, Square, I am waiting for you!

@Royalblues Haha don’t diss Klefki. They are quite a formidable battle Pokemon against the legendaries in those Sword/Shield max raid dens.

It’s weird why some hate Spirit of Justice so much for its gameplay and not the original trilogy. The level of supernatural detective work is comparable to the originals. The Fays were all over it. Since, the game is set in a “foreign” land, I don’t think we will get the same game mechanics again. Each of the second trilogy has a different system. The least appealing of which was the reading of emotions by some high tech gizmo in my opinion. That wasn’t my fave in the second trilogy.

@Ramen756 You may be right with SH and SMTV at atlas. …Now does that mean we will get the next Persona on Switch in exchange for not getting any Persona before? 😝

However, with KH, either Square is being cheap or lazy to not port it properly onto Switch. With their Marvel’s Guardians game being another cloud version…I sure hope Square doesn’t make it into a habit… and habits are hard to change. That’s what I am worried about.

I do give chops for the

The Switch’s trajectory is worrisome. There are already too many cloud games and with each passing day, it seems the Switch’s tech is getting outdated faster and faster.

Aside from serious technical barriers requiring a cloud version, this example of Square and its KH port further normalizes cloud gaming on the Switch even when it can be natively ported. More and more developers has and will continue to ignore native versions for the Switch if a lazy cloud version would suffice. Or they will outright ignore the Switch altogether like Atlus and Soul Hackers 2.

I have the Ace Attorny 3DS games already. But the question is why hasn’t capcom updated them for switch? :/ as for the other games… Pushmo and co is a must.

To everyone surprised with Animal Crossing being in the Top 10, there is a huge world wide community posting designs, design codes and memes of the game. With the 2.0 update last year and the DLC, there are still new things being discovered. The game is far from dead.

Since many of players aren’t usually tweeting about the latest gaming news, this may come as a surprise to you only because you may not be connected to them. If you have a chance, check out the millions of castle builds right now. They are stunning. ACNH Players are doing some very creative things.

@ModdedInkling Agreed. But I don’t know if the Wii and DS era were any better, especially the DS and 3DS. By the end of the DS and 3DS, their tech probably have dropped significantly enough for Nintendo to be making a substantial profit off hardware alone. Even with the current Switch, they are making a boat load just from the system. The upgraded OLED is minuscule especially with the price raise.

I can’t say if this is the case, but after the Wii U, I am sure Nintendo is playing it very conservative. Their venture into DLCs for their main games this Gen is an example. Without the DLC, Animal Crossing New Horizons is half of what New Leaf was in content. Even with the DLC, it is still lacking. Similarly with the Mario sport games, it seems they are purposely holding back content to provide them as DLC or regular “updates”. Speaking of which, the Pokemon Company has perfected this strategy with Sword/Shield and probably with Platium content for Brilliant Diamon and Pearl.

@ModdedInkling When any game franchise purposely split a game into 2 exact ones in the guise of “exclusive” content/Pokémons is from the get-go about money. Not to mention all those loot box trading/battling cards. The Pokémon Company as a whole is a toy/brand company that is focused on making money off their Pokémon IP.

As for Game Freaks’ art department, their excuse has always been they want to maintain a smaller development team and company in general (which is another way of trying to nickel and dime their way off their own developers and squeezing them for all their worth.) Both companies are only looking out for their bottom line.

Similarly, Nintendo isn’t exactly known to be generous when it comes to providing services for their asking price. NSO I am looking at you. Or eating any costs off from their game consoles to providing beefier tech at an affordable price like Sony and Microsoft.

This is what I think they call satire.

This is one of the best IPs from the 21st century Nintendo. Mario, Pokemon and friends, frankly, are so last century. 😉

@NOALink I didn’t ask for another Pokemon’s attempt at a decent 3D game either. But they are releasing one this month with reskinned Zelda and Monster Hunter Rise/Story assets and gameplay. And don’t get me started on Metroid Prime 4…, I doubt many born in this century asked for it to begin with. 😉

@fafonio X1 Definitive Ed. is less of a remake than upgrading the game to modern graphics so that X1 looks similar to X2. The awkward walking animation and horrible side quests are still part of the game, not to mention the horrible arts selection along the bottom screen. It’s more of a remaster than remake.

@OnlyItsMeReid I love X2 more than X1 but I think if they really update X1’s battle system and other quality of life stuff, the game can definitely be amazing. I hope I get to see an X1 remake one day.

Great to see Animal Crossing New Horizons and Splatoon 2 up in the top 5. The dev team behind both games deserve praise and a raise. They have really helped Nintendo stay relevant with the broader gaming community. Perhaps the big N should consider a Splatoon or AC movie….Mario and DK’s appeal isn’t what it used to be. Even Splatoon has more action than jumping on a mushroom 😝.

But awesome to see Xenoblade and Xenogears up in the top 50. Monolithsoft deserves more support from Nintendo if they want to broaden their IP beyond plumping, bananas and a small electric rodent.

At this point, I am ok with Atlus not porting P4, P5, and/or the entire Persona series over. That would be one less JRPG game series nibbling at my wallet. Thank You. 😀

@Silly_G But by then, we will have access to Pokemon home anyways. There will be plenty of legendaries for all.

@Ludovsky That is a possibility, but a rather bad decision. They can easily restrict people who haven’t finished the game to GTS with a single line of code and/or stop people from using national dex Pokémons elsewhere in the game. Arbitrarily locking GTS is essentially them preventing players from accessing in game content that we already paid for… so if I were to start playing this game in a years time, GTS will be available to me right away then? Does that even make sense?

@VoidofLight Yes, it is likely not ILCA’s fault. But this isn’t the first time a Pokémon game has been launched half finished. So who’s fault is it? There is absolutely no excuse for a profitable company as TPC to keep releasing these subpar games. I think we need to be honest here and say that the TPC needs to hire more developers or provide more resources for these developers to meet their deadlines. They have been doing this for over 20 years. If a project manager keeps screwing their project timelines and deliverables this long, they would have been fired ages ago.

@Purgatorium I agree. Bobby Kotick may be the person-of-concern today, but he didn’t create this hostile work environment alone. This is a systemic problem at Activision Blizzard. From him, the board, HR, and any other higher ups, they are there to protect the bottom line and their own self interests only.

I recall someone from HR once called employees “human capital”. Employees are not seen as individual human beings, but capital to be shuffled around and used.

@QueenKittenWrite What if I want to play Persona 5 Royal? I don’t think that is on the PS3.

@MrSquee Compairing SMT sales and Persona sales is a little disingenuous since both are very different games and series even if they are related. It is like comparing sales of Final Fantasy with Chocobo Mystery Dungeon. But if we compare SMT games, 5 did better than 3’s sales. So…wouldn’t that be a positive for Atlus?

@MrSquee SMTV hasn’t even come out for a week yet. I will wait and see how well the game does after December at least. Plus, it’s still unrealistic to compare an old game port to a new game. Perhaps Atlus was testing the Switch market with the old ports and has actually determined the Switch is worth the investment and put in more effort onto SMTV. We don’t know.

And Atlus hasn’t even brought over the Etrian Odyssey series yet either. That will do better than the old ports.

@MrSquee Has Atlus considered not porting over old or not-so -hot-titles to the switch and justify their sales as to why Switch players aren’t supporting them?

SMT3HD sounds like a nightmare of a game when contemporary conveniences are concerned. And I have all SMT game and spin-off on the 3DS. And TMS#FE has no English voiceovers which will turn some off. It’s like EA using FIFA sales on the Switch to justify why they aren’t porting other games over.

Edit: Forgot to note that there is still Black Friday and I am sure many are waiting for sales then to decide on their purchases. Not to mention Pokemon….

This is the reason why I will not get Persona Strikers on Switch UNTIL Altus brings Persona 5 over. Just as I won’t get into the Trails of Cold Steel series until the first ones are ported over which they are. And for that game, it seems the stories are linked.

I don’t care for exclusivity. But I do care that I only have time for one console system. I won’t buy another just to get one or two games.

@tseliot I think those are his kids.

@Wilforce Most likely Celine Dion if we are going up age groups. Bette Midler is more of your grandparents age group.

Christina was one of the judges on The Voice, loads of kids know who she is. Plus she has one of the most amazing voices whether you like her songs or not. I would say only Ariana Grande can compete in vocal ranges. They are in the league of Mariah Carey.

The people who liked Christina back in the day are likely parents now like her or soon to be. She is exactly what Nintendo needs to target the over 30+ audience….which consists of more than double the demographic of children and teenage Switch players. Switch players are mostly over 20.

Just checked YouTube, she has a new Spanish song out 2 weeks ago and has over 13 million views already.

Great respect for Miyamoto, but as long as the Nintendo top brass can ground his “ingenuity” when it comes to hardware, motion control, peripherals, and whatever “new” way of gaming he can think of, we would be good.

FYI, as someone in the linked Twitter thread commented, Tom Nook was always the President. It’s nothing new. 😉

I don’t understand the “next console won’t be backwards compatible” idea with Nintendo… if they are smart, they would be backwards compatible considering the huge back catalogue and installed base.

Haha I say that’s still one froggy chair, but with 6 different customization options. 😉

@iaLgan Yes, the Pokemon competitive scene will move forward, but I don’t think they will make BDSP or Arceus their jump off point to next gen…. It wouldn’t make sense Haha, Do we know if Platium stuff will be dlc or already in BDSP?

@iaLgan Haha Are we sure there aren’t going to be any DLC for SMT5? With Pokemon, I am not sure if this remake will last a while like Sword/Shield, since the competitive scene will stay with SS, and not move to BDSP. There are rumours of a national dex heading to SS….

It’s Shin Megami Tensi V vs Pokemon BDSP!

Which do I play first?

Does anyone know if Chris Pratt can do different voices?

He was great in the Lego Movie, but he sounded like himself. With Mario and Garfield, I don’t want to get them mixed up. Haha

Cloud? Dead on arrival for me.

@Nanoline52 First, let us be clear about why and how Apple could right out ban Epic from being on the AppStore for 5 years after the verdict. Epic first violated their developer contract with Apple by forcing their own payment system which led to being kicked out of the AppStore. At that point, Epic has already lost their developer status because of their violation. This, as we all know, is what led to the legal case.

Even after the legal verdict in favour of Epic, that didn’t change the fact that they DID violate their developer contract with Apple, and thus loosing their privileges to sell through the AppStore.

The court did not require Apple to void all their current contracts or reinstate Epic back into the AppStore. It was stated anyone who violated the developer contract are not allowed to be back on the AppStore for 5 years. Apple did not make an example of Epic or was petty specifically to them. Apple did what their own developer contracted stated…..which Epic agreed and signed at the time. Epic is not the first developer nor the last developer to be banned.