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@tendonerd No problem - I would definitely recommend one of the main series Fire Emblems though. The story in Heroes is entirely a vehicle to sell the gacha to you; the main franchise (usually) does better.

@tendonerd The game constantly updates, dude. If you beat it a year ago, it's added a whole year's worth of story content since. Not that the writing for this one is any good, mind you.

So much for "nobody likes Fire Emblem" lol

Probably fake, but as long as it's not Geno I'm fine lol

@Ulysses This might have been a decent video to make when the game was announced for PS4. But the comparisons are old and stale. We get it-- the games are very similar. The horse, like that Playstation 4, has already been beaten to death. Unless there's any real news about it, it's time to move on.

Can we stow the Genshin/BotW comparisons away for a while? Unless Nintendo is suing on copyright grounds, I really don't see how it matters that much.

Oh, and how could I forget good old Kiryu-chan? Normally I wouldn't think Nintendo would let him in with the amount of violence he gets up to, but who's to say with Bayonetta there that we couldn't get away with it?

Reimu Hakurei would be a perfect fit for a Mii Gunner costume, but I think she should make it in as a normal character so we can hopefully get multiple Touhou songs.

@Kalmaro It is, but it's been a few years and I'd love to experience it again - especially now that I can put it on a bigger screen so I can play from a couch instead of my uncomfortable computer chair.

So glad this finally made it to Switch! Excited to play it again.

@ap0001 I think you - like most people - are overreacting to the number of Fire Emblem characters. Mario still has more (9 total to FE's 8) without even counting Yoshi or DK. And Pokemon has 8 as well, without even counting the Pokemon Trainer as three separate fighters. Fire Emblem is a landmark franchise that has been around for nearly 30 years, and has always been much bigger in Japan than in the west. It's not that surprising that it's received as much love from Sakurai as it has, especially after Melee essentially saved the franchise.

What's he going to do? Carry a package at you aggressively? I can't imagine this is going to be a thing.

I sure hope the NintendoLife writers back this decision as wholeheartedly as they did the Dex cut. I like Fire Emblem enough that I'm pretty happy with this, and even happier to see the regular complainers further enraged.

This is actually the funniest possible endgame for this fighter pack. Maybe if Smash players played other games we wouldn't be drowning in their tears.

Three fingers... three Mass Effect games! Mass Effect Trilogy for Switch and Commander Shepard as DLC 5!

Fingers crossed for Reimu Hakurei

@Chunkboi79 People would get so salty but that only makes me want that more lol

@Supadav03 I would hardly call the base game of Pokemon complete. The story was short, the post-game practically non-existent, and the Wild Area full of unpolished textures and rendering issues. All said and done, at release it should have only been worth $40 for the quantity and quality of content contained. These expansions would push it up to a $60 value, easily.

Furthermore, the Torna expansion is a false comparison. Torna was not a post-game, but rather a smaller spin-off marketed as both DLC and a stand-alone game. It is a prequel to Xenoblade 2, with an entirely new combat system and new playable characters. The Sword and Shield expansion pass is entirely post-game content, and is exclusively tied to the base game. They are two entirely separate situations.

@Supadav03 Sword and Shield went into full production about a year after the release of Sun/Moon, giving it approximately two years of development. The time that it took to make the entirety of this game-- which already suffers from complaints of a lacking post-game --compared to the size of the DLC does not match up, and indicates that this was already in development pre-release. Therefore, these zones and storylines were likely cut post-game content, justified by glorified accountants who realized that while a delay in the game's now yearly release cycle would bring them a drop in stocks (see example: Nintendo's stocks dropped after the delay of AC), releasing it later for half the price of the base game would supplement the company's profit margins nicely.

Anyway, the real strategy was always to just wait until the inevitable rerelease and buy that instead of the original release. I would've enjoyed Ultra Sun much more if I hadn't played Sun, and so on and so forth. I'll wait until they release the "ultimate edition" with DLC included in a year or two, then buy it used and on sale.

We really gonna call "selling cut content as $30 DLC instead of delaying the release date for a full game experience that's actually worth $60" a good thing?

@johnvboy I didn't ask one.

Admittedly I really think it unfair to take it out entirely on GameFreak and The Pokemon Company: six years ago, Nintendo released Fire Emblem Birthright, Fire Emblem Conquest, and Fire Emblem Revelations. While Conquest and Birthright were initially marketed as individual games taking place in the same universe that could be played completely separate of each other, it became clear upon release that both games were just two separate routes of the overarching Fire Emblem Fates, with the Fire Emblem Revelations DLC being a full game that contained the "True End" route. In total, a game initially marketed as $40 turned out to require $80 for the full experience, which is awful, deceptive marketing.

In short: this is not Nintendo's first foul with DLC that should have been part of the game to begin with, separated only for the sake of profits. However, whereas the case of Fire Emblem Fates dealt with lies of omission, the case of Pokemon Sword and Shield seems to deal in outright fabrications of intent. The reason for the disinclusion of these 200+ Pokemon in the base game is now clearly for DLC profits.

@johnvboy Not when it is a game marketed towards children with an increasing amount of financial agency over their parents' debit cards. Many parents nowadays are more than happy to let video games raise their children, and allow their children to freely govern anything they buy related to video games. In combination, this marketing practice becomes notably predatory, especially towards children who don't know any better. Admittedly, I can only name this as the case in the United States; I recognize that this is a UK-based website and that the status of Video Game Daycare Culture might be different across the pond.

@johnvboy I'm suggesting they should've put it in the base game to make it worth $60. Instead, they now want $90 for the same amount and quality of content that was in their $40 games. They ask this because they know that Pokemon is the highest grossing multimedia franchise of all time, and that it has millions of rabid fans who treat TPC like they're a family friend and will defend them to their last breath. The quality has steadily dropped over the last few games, but to ask for $90 to have the right to catch less Pokemon than you could in previous games with a brutally short story and middling graphics is abhorrent.

Wow, this looks good! I've been feeling pretty alienated from Pokemon lately with GameFreak and TPC's business practices, but this really hits me for that Pokemon need I've been having. Too bad March is such a crowded release month this year, though. I'll probably wait and buy it used.

National Dex pokemon and postgame content are now put behind a thirty dollar paywall, and people are going to pony up the money for a part of the game that was always part of the base game before. This is the new EA.

Interesting that the only decent argument seen for the dex cut was from the competitive scene. Though I've always felt that Pokemon should shine more as an RPG than an E-Sport, and that getting competitive over it is horrendously silly to begin with. A developer shift towards the competitive scene would also explain the graphical issues in the Wild Area, recycled animations and models, short story, weak post-game, and non-improved animations (despite GF and TPC's insistence that they have been improved).

The short answer is no - Sword and Shield was one of the franchise's bestselling launches, which will ensure that Masuda and the higher-ups at GameFreak and The Pokemon Company will institute absolutely no changes to their development cycle or upcoming games. Why change their business strategy when it's making them rich?

Three Houses snubbed for best soundtrack once again? Unshocking

@BlueBlur101 I haven't heard of this setting, is it listed on their website or something? This will honestly make my week

A lot less interested now that I know the characters are voiced. My favorite part of the original Lego Star Wars games was that they completely lacked dialogue, but still completely conveyed the full story of the first six movies. I suppose I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up after Lego Lord of the Rings just threw in voice lines from the movies entirely out of order.

Y'all really need to realize that @Patron is a parody account meant to mock a supposed overreactive left. It's pretty cut and dried satire. Your willingness to jump at his throat without applying any critical thinking makes it clear that you're the real snowflakes here.

Imagine losing the moral high ground to both EA and Fox. Talk about embarrassing. I've been doubtful of people who say these things as supposed jokes ever since Pewdiepie's "jokes," but hopefully a joke is all this was.

Cue every vic mignogna defender within a nautical mile rushing to the comments to espouse their love for an alleged sex offender. This thread's gonna be a mess.

I'm a bit wary about Disney comparisons here. Disney's got a monopoly on TV and movies, to the point where they created a second streaming service to earn more money despite already owning Hulu. The axe is sure to come down on Disney's nonsense, and probably sooner rather than later. Hoping Nintendo doesn't throw themselves on that executioner's block as well.

This is all great! Kinda wish they had some merch for their games from third-party devs like Kirby, Fire Emblem, Pokemon, etc. Maybe in the future?

Finally, a notable November release for Switch.

Congratulations to Pokemon Fans for once again blindly purchasing a game regardless of its quality, ensuring to GameFreak executives that a short dev cycle putting out off-quality games will make them more money than allowing the developers to take their time to make a game that actually lives up to the franchise name. Never again will those in charge care about Pokemon.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see how people getting upset over a faceless corporation charging more for a game that holds less is "not cool." Perhaps their upper management should consider that with the oodles of money they make off each Pokemon game, they don't actually have to churn out increasingly half-hearted games every year, and could possibly stand to put real effort into their games again. Then again, do they actually care as long as they're swimming in cash? Doubtful.

I feel bad for these devs. They're getting a lot of the public hate when said hate really should go to the penny-pinching decision-makers who decided that some yuan in their pockets meant enough to them that the entire company had to bend over and lick the CCP's boots. The devs didn't put the company's image through the ringer and start the worst PR crisis in their company's history; they just wanna make games.

Do note that I'm not saying you should run out and buy Blizzard games to support these well-meaning developers. It's still not worth it when Blizzard execs are making bank off of their sellout to the Chinese mainland government.

Here's hoping (in vain) for a remake of Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn. Or even a remake and localization of Genealogy of the Holy War or Thracia 776. With luck, they won't be sitting idle on the 30th anniversary of Fire Emblem next year.

"Boo hoo, big bad Nintendo won't let me see the cleavage of a fictional high schooler" please just go play senran kagura if you're horny, stop whining

@SmaggTheSmug The second half of the original wasn't there in Japanese. It was only in the English localization.

@AlternateButtons Since you don't seem to care about the actor being an awful person, or giving royalties to awful people, maybe you'd be happier if you knew he also broke his NDAs with Nintendo. Is that a good enough reason for you?

I really do feel the old version is better than it was in other languages, but maybe that's just because I feel it drives the point home even further. Oh well. As long as the screencaps are still on the internet, it's not like it's ridiculously censored as far as I'm concerned.

The date on the right is a giveaway that this is fake. Nothing related to smash was released on November 1st, 2018.

As is clear from this article, neither Masuda nor Gamefreak have any intention of listening to their fans, nor have they ever. This isn't the first time they've refused to hear us and it won't be the last. I encourage everyone who's displeased with their National Dex decision to vote with their wallets and skip these games.