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@jaybird0922 At that point it won't even be a switch pro, it'll be a successor.

It was never real people just built false expectations for themselves and inevitably got disappointed when the 'Switch Pro' was nowhere to be seen.
At this point I'm surprised people are surprised.

Joycons are still a drifting pile of garbage, still need to send them to be repaired.
My Switch itself has a broken cooling fan and need to get that replaced and the kickstand is basically useless now.

Thems Fightin Herds and MH Rise by myself.

Smash and Dead by Daylight with friends.

Glad to see Xenoblade 3 in the top 2 spot, but in my personal opinion I think it deserves the top spot over Persona 5, being the pinnacle of it's masterpiece series and an actually new game.

EDIT: XC3 is currently at the top spot, but we'll clearly be seeing a back and forth.

Playing it right now funny enough, gonna focus on finishing the main quest for Sunbreak.

Well considering SE gave us Octopath, Live a Live, Triangle Strategy and upcoming Octopath II, I think it's safe to assume that SE knows theres an audience for niche games such as these.

Well deserved.
Glad to see that the charm of HD 2D games isn't wearing off anytime soon.

Pretty generous to be giving all of this for free.
Nowadays multiplayer and single player games are getting expansions/season passes, even from Nintendo.

This was a really good year for the Switch, Xenoblade 3 was by far to me the best release of the year followed by Them's Fightin Herds and then Splatoon 3 with a small gap.
I would be surprised if Xenoblade 3 isn't in the top 3 for this years list.

Doing more postgame in MH Stories 2, as well as smash and Thems Fightin Herds with friends.

If would be cool if this means we'll get to aee a grown up ash later on the series.

While I obviously put more hours into Splatoon 3 and enjoyed it, the garbage multiplayer SEVERELY holds it back, beating Xenoblade 3 made me feel a certain type of way.
It goes to the latter by far.
Runner up goes to Them's Fightin Herds - amazing entry level fighting game with a unique cast, good OST, interesting lore, crossplay AND rollback!

You say this like a 76 is a low or even bad score.

Playing a bit of Big Run with friends in Splatoon 3, occasionally smash, and by myself Monster Hunters Stories 2, I should be finishing it soon.

Thank god I haven't run into most if not any of these bugs but it's crazy how this game has so many especially compared to 2.

@__jamiie Hope you enjoy it!

Because it doesn't? There aren't roblox textures plastered over every area the art direction is actually good and not off putting like SV and lastly it doesn't seem to run like complete garbage like the latter.
For the record DQ Treasures visuals definitely leave more to desire but nothing will look as bad as pokemon SV.

I own a Switch only currently but I also want a Steam Deck, it just makes sense to have another console to play all the games your Switch can't (which is a lot) and if you factor in emulation the deck is a must have for me.

The artstyle and presentation for this is gorgeous, I might actually check this out.

Had my hopes up and thought I would see a 1st party game on sale, why did I even bother?

Hows the performance on this game?
That was one of my first concerns looking at the trailers.

@Specialstreamcannon

@Axecon My guy it's pokemon, the biggest media franchise period, even if DQ Treasures most likely turns out to be the better game (even then they're not that comparable) pokemon is still going to heavily outsell it.

Ok but why tho?

I can't wait, I been keeping my eye on this for a while, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat if it has the extra content from previous versions.

Not surprised in the slightest.

Based for doing this, but I'm worrying for any non Panda tournaments being shut down in the future.

@Fizza I know right, it's liked the devs are too scared to give the new weapons good kits now or overtune them like in previous games.

After playing all of them I only like the Snipewriter because I play chargers primarily and you can imagine my reaction whe nI saw the Snipewriters kit....
The main weapon is actually great it's just that for some reason they gave it the worst possible kit.
Sprinkler and Tacticooler on a backliner charger are you serious? Chargers almost always need bombs and if you're going to give it a "utility" sub at least make it so it isn't the worst one that doesn't benefit it at all, it would make a world of a difference if it had beakons, splash or even mines.
In the very least if the sub weapon was good I feel like I could make it work and there would be a ton more use but no both are bad and ironically it's still the best out of the 3 weapons.

With the Big Swig and Nova it's both the weapons and their kits being bad.
The Nova is a **5 shot kill** weapon with the same firerate as the base splattershot and not nearly enough range to compensate seeing how it's slightly below a pro for goodness sake. It kills slowly than an Aerospray! It's goal is obviously supposed to be a support weapon but it's already invalidated by other weapons with the same special (.52 gal which can actually fight and give support with its speical, inkbrush which is a much bettter skirmisher, tri stringer which has far better range and can give support at the same time) or the same sub (explosher which also has far more range can arguably turf better with it's special and zone out players, Nautilus which will use its sub often but can paint AND kill better).
So already off the bat we get one of the worst shooters to release thats already invalidated.
What they need to do to make this weapon actually usable is to either buff it's firerate, range, kill time or a combination of the three, but I have little faith in the devs at this point.

Then you have the Big Swig which is by far the worst roller out of the bunch, it doesn't kill anything except with it's vertical flick, it's horizontal flick doesn't kill even at point blank range and you can't run people over either.
But unlike the Nova I can say at least this has a niche since it's pretty good at painting and it's kit while pretty bad at least can make some use for your team a bit more in my opinion compared to the Nova.

The new weapons are really disappointing but at least we got other weapon kits and most of them are good.

Pretty good update overall but I don't like how they basically gave some of the worst possible kits for the new weapons, it heavily reduces their usage and makes it so most if not all of them will be irrelevant a week after this update. A lot of other weapons received bad kits too but it's especially bad when the new weapons are affected by this.
And some of them are just plain garbage like the Nova and Big Swig, meanwhile the Snipewriter has a lot of potential but it has a garbage kit so I find myself having a hard time using it.

Monster Hunter Stories 2
Smash, Splatoon 3, and Thems Fightin Herds with friends.

Great, more people will get to play this amazing game and it's expansion, however something that doesn't make sense is that Capcom after all this is still not allowing crossplay nor crossaves.
So people will have less of a reason to double dip and activity won't reach it's potential in the long run.

Granted this won't kill the game in the slightest (MHW still consistently gets 24k players daily 4 years after release on steam alone) but if Capcom is trying to reach to as many platforms as possible it doesn't make any sense to not include any of these features.

Is Gamefreak gonna take any accountability for the state of the game though?

Pretty big spike in sales for all platforms which is impressive.

Still one of the best games on the switch and JRPGs in general.
Also one of the best if not the best of it's series, it's combat system is still unbeaten, soundtrack arguably too, some characters just outshine most of the cast in any of the games except 3 and it has so much content and replay value compared to the others.

To me I still have a hard time deciding whether I like XC2 or XC3 more. I will have to revisit them both in the future to give my final opinion, perhaps after the dlc drops next year.

But anyways happy birthday XC2, although you have some major flaws you're still one of the best games out there.

The character designs are on point at least.

Yikes these look hideous, I really hope this isn't the real deal but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

Lmao you're actually delusional if you think Gamefreak will add even a fraction of these in an update, let alone over the course of the game.

On one hand the Japanese art is the cleanest and has the least amount of clutter while the USA boxart gives the best depiction of the gameplay and what you're getting into. I'd say it's 50/50 between them.

@5th313ment No problem, and they do you the edit option appears at the bottom of your comment when you hover over it.

@5th313ment Hey for future reference you can quote people directly so it makes your comments easier to understand for others.

To quote a message without tagging the person just do:

quote and /quote
But add brackets ([ ]) for each of them.
Editing this because doing it directly messed it up so you couldn't see it properly.

with the message between.

Heres what it should look like:

I really like chocolate milk

To quote a message while directly tagging the person just do the same thing but for the first quote command instead put an = sign and the respect username you want to quote.

quote=(user)(message in between) /quote

Don't forget to add the brackets to build a box around them ( [ ])

Remove the parenthesis by the way for both.

Heres what it should look like if you do it properly:

Just in case the quote examples don't get through heres a picture to better describe it:

Was playing Splatoon 3 for a while and grinding to S+10, now that I got it I'll take a break from the game until the content update next week.
In the mean time I'm getting back into playing my back catalogue being SMT 4, Monster Hunter Stories 2, and Them's Fightin Herds.

Good, they get to spend their money on a better game.

@Not_Soos Plot twist: This was the leaked Avatar game all along!

Making you walk 1000 steps to evolve a pokemon sounds horrible.
I could understand with eggs to an extent but this is one of the evolution mechanics that just waste your time.

Makes me wonder if GF will ever drop a patch to "fix" the performance issues or even address them.

I had a discussion about whether or not the performance issues would affect the sales or not, guess it didn't matter to people in the slightest lol.

I thought this was a card came from the opening lol

Neat but Xenoblade 3 easily clears it, pokemon right now is getting better but not award winning material, meanwhile Xenoblade is always putting out masterpieces.

@johnvboy Whats so hard to understand?
I just said if it took so long for a mode to come out they should've delayed the game altogether.

@johnvboy

Good for you, and I didn't insinuate that Nintendo ever lied about the golf mode, you're just being overly defensive as usual.

Yes SV released in a broken state and preferring the game to be delayed so it wouldn't be a mess at launch isn't anything out of the ordinary.
Instead of Nintendo Switch Sports delaying the game so people wouldn't be starved for content they just delayed a single mode 7 months after it's release while interest dies significantly.
Seriously if the launch was going to be this barebones they should've just delayed it, at least it runs well unlike SV.