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@PikaPhantom This. I'm taking a long break from the main games, but if they make a new PMD or Pokken etc. I'd eagerly give it a chance. In the meantime though, I'm gonna go back to RPGs I either skipped or wanna replay.

Couldn't force myself to do the post-game or anything else after beating Violet. It's so sad seeing Emerald & Platinum near the bottom because they'll never get proper remakes.

Maybe they had exactly 61 bad localizers currently earning the ire of people?

@fbnaulin IKR, how creatively bankrupt can you get?

I'm so happy this is getting support. Doesn't seem DOA like Pac-Man 99 but neither was Mario 35, so it makes me worry it'll randomly end one day.

Real weird that they're back to doing this, but hey, it's still cool.

At this rate I feel we'll see Remasters of 2 & 3 before 4 gets a trailer.

The AI use of pre-existing Pokemon was more or less debunked, with the origins of it going back to someone reacting to a Buzzfeed article saying something along the lines of 'they look AI generated'. And naturally none of the people screaming fact checked this. That and Steam forces companies to state if the game was made using any AI assets, again, not like I'd expect them to know.

Capcom U.S.A. Inc. v. Data East Corp. showed you need more than similarities to have a case, and Fighter's History was way closer to SF2 than Palworld is to Pokemon. So if this goes to court I don't see TPC winning, and that's more wasted money that could've gone to making their own product better.

@nimnio "If you’re okay with enjoying a game that lacks originality and rides on the coattails of others, then you’re part of a bigger problem in the gaming industry." Ah yes, bigger problems in the gaming community like Soulslikes & Metroidvanias, entire genres that exist of the coattails and ideas of specific games. Can't wait to see 'em and the scum who enjoy them get removed TBH.

Kirby gets a lot of random spin-offs, so I hope they're for those. Tragically Pokemon does not anymore. However, I still have not recovered from Kirby's Epic Yarn getting a Remaster for 3DS instead of Switch, the year the Switch came out, so fingers crossed.

Brawl was the peak for Casual Smash content, should be way higher.

@McBurn That's the thing none of the critics or articles point out though - outside of catching monsters, it plays nothing like Pokemon. If anything the 'copied homework' as NintendoLife put it was copied from ARK - the same game but instead of dinosaurs there's monsters. Even then, most of the designs give off Neopets and Spectrobes vibes more than Pokemon as someone who loves anything with monsters as the focus.

IDK, there's been a few duds but I think SE is doing pretty good right now. I'd hate to see niche or more specific concepts go out the door for the more streamlined stuff.

@RADMO So by your logic, no one can make a blue turtle because Squirtle exists. So the character Slash from TMNT is a rip-off of Squirtle and needs to be removed from all media, because he is a blue turtle. And you want people to take your screaming at these devs seriously.

@RADMO Oh I do apologize, Meowth is based off the Japanese beckoning-cat (that I can't spell the actual name of), a different pre-existing thing based off a regular cat. Purrloin is just a regular cat. But I won't get angry at you or the other people screaming not knowing of any mythologies or legends who think Pokemon invented dragons & fairies.

I think people need to be reminded that every Pokemon design ever is also based off something that already exists. I'm sorry, but TPC does not own Anubis or kitsune or cats or anything similar because they made Lucario, Ninetales, & Meowth - that's not how that works.

@NatiaAdamo I think they'd have to prove that a game that plays nothing like Pokemon or any Pokemon Spin-Off is cutting into their sales. It's not as simple as it is with ROMs & hacks. Even if they did, it'd be a horrible look attacking another monster game and show not only that they have a monopoly on anything with monsters, but show that they WANT a monopoly on it too.

Any Shooter, but only while Doom was relevant: OMG it's a Doom clone!

An Entire Genre literally named, designed after, & lifting ideas directly from Metroid: OMG that's so cool and original, can't have enough of 'em!

Any game with any kind of ally or friendly monsters for the past 28 years: OMG it's a shameless Pokemon clone! Ignore the fact it plays nothing like Pokemon!

Anything with monsters in your Party or Team is actually a Pokemon clone, including SMT which came before Pokemon. Ignore literally everything else.

GameFreak would really benefit from some new talent - the ideas for things like new Pokemon & stories are still good, but the skill of the actual dev team is... less than desirable, especially for the #1 IP on the planet. More people with more up-to-par coding skill & better understanding of other games would have less of a burden on GameFreak for the Pokemon crunch & give the original devs more time for new projects.

Don't care what it's called as long as it's backwards compatible.

Is this a case of an entire series being on YT via the Official Channel and this being a nothing burger? I know a lot of shows that have left services that are up in their entirety on YT like every Power Rangers Season and it's more important to make people aware of where it is rather than where it was.

The only people I hear using such a stereotype for gamers, or similar ones for anime fans, comic fans, or fans of any old series/idea/etc., are from a Venn Diagram of people who are Twitter addicts, Reddit addicts, and or journalists, most of which don't even consume the media they're arguing about with the people they're insulting.

I've been waiting for the Xbox release actually - don't travel as much and the Achievements would be nice. Absolutely LOVED the first game though, so I'm excited for when it does release Early 2024.

Can this one stay and the Halloween one come back? Just the fact they have different tracks that play help so much with your sanity than the single one that loops real fast.

Sadly I had to skip most of the Switch games this year. That Nintendo tax is a bit too much with my income level.

It's a bit of a Pandora's Box when deciding what is and isn't Indie, and it's why I almost always use 'Indie or small team/dev' instead of one or the other. Great example is Devolver Digital - they Publish and fund a lot of games, but a lot of those teams doing all the work are fairly small. Does that funding diminish the efforts of the teams dedicated to seeing their vision come true?

"Experience cooperative gameplay for the first time ever in a South Park game with up to three friends or ally bots - unleashing powerful, coordinated attacks on your foes."

This is factually wrong. I'm sure at least 2 of the N64 games had Splitscreen, but Tenorman's Revenge & Let's Go Tower Defense Play on 360 had co-op long before this. Tragic that Microsoft never made them backwards compatible or did ports, as they're gonna be lost forever for most once the digital stores close next year.

Like CoD and Assassin's Creed, regardless of the series quality, Pokemon is now too big to fail. The games can be terrible and broken, the anime boring and unwatchable, the TCG unbalanced and expensive - and people will still eat it up just because it's Pokemon.

But in a bittersweet way, I'm almost glad. I'm trying and playing more games than I was when Pokemon was at its peak, and the RPGs are so refreshing in comparison. Ironically really excited to see what the next Digimon game is that's having a smooth development from what Bandai's said - the Cyber Sleuth games, while they could be a bit grindy, were exactly what I wanted from Pokemon. Would 100% both again if the RPG To Do List wasn't already way too big and still growing!

I don't trust TPC in any capacity to give them the remakes they deserve. I'd rather just hope they add GameCube to the Expansion Pak of NSO and eventually Colosseum & XD.

@Gavintendo Not even confirmed yet and people like you are already being toxic. Is that really necessary? Is this the mentality you want to paint for the Nintendo install base for Third-Parties & indies??

Keep the original Switch to add another thing to keep charged in case the power goes out like my other past handhelds.

Very weird Alien Hominid gets a sequel, but when asked about a new Castle Crashers they said something along the lines of: 'we did all that they could do with the first game'. Wonder if this does well alongside the return to form of Beat 'Em Ups if they'd be willing to reconsider.

This game deserves to be on all Platformers possible.

@XenoShaun Spongebob was paid, FF7 & Tomb Raider are free. The game also has gotten a few missions from free updates, and has a DLC Roadmap for both paid and free content.

I know I'm in the minority, but I hated ORAS, and only liking the introduction of Megas & the Fairy-Type in XY make Gen 6 my least favorite by a landslide. Even back then I thought, 'well maybe I just have rose-tinted glasses for RSE'. Nope - went back, played Emerald, and had a blast. There were still instances against some Gym Leaders, the E4, & Wallace where I needed to think or use items. I haven't needed to use Items since the start of Gen 6. And I can't help but double-down on this opinion since the only main series games I've truly enjoyed since Gen 5 were Let's GO & Legends: Arceus.

If anything the start of the 3D games' debatable quality is bittersweet for me. I feel almost nothing but contempt for current Pokemon now, but it driving me away has also gotten me to try other RPGs and different genres that I would've never touched before. At least they can't take away the old games, as much as they go out of their way to make them unavailable... gonna be like losing a pet when my Colosseum disc gives out. Had that sucker since I was 5 - my first game ever.

@RupeeClock Would make sense considering they said the game was in the works as far back as 2017.

Backwards compatibility would make it a Day One buy for me. If not, the opposite - I can wait and have plenty left on the regular Switch to finish.

Pokemon Colosseum & XD Gale of Darkness remakes, but I can't see a reality where they wouldn't screw them up.

@JohnnyMind @Lizuka Edited.

So this is why the original-original was delisted on Xbox. Had nothing to do with a bunch of games leaving the 360 store at the same time. Veeeery cool off them.

Edit: Clarity I did not have at midnight.

This DLC isn't worth it unless you really want those 2 extra characters. Hardly worth 8 bucks let alone a new purchase of the game.

As long as it doesn't close in a few year like Mario 35 or Pac-Man 99 I'm down. They should honestly be making more of these just to give NSO more value.

Transformers is untapped potential for a Beat 'Em Up between the moves you could do like in Devastation due to transformation, vast Stage choices you could have from the show and movie's locales, & enemy and Stage Hazard varieties you'd get from the enemies both having Bot & vehicle forms. And with how many iconic characters there are and how many characters there are in general, they could have great boss fights and squeeze in a mid-boss in each Stage. The potential is ridiculous in the right hands.

Think The Simpsons, X-Men/Marvel, & Spider-Man (there's as many old games for the Wall Crawler as the rest of Marvel) could just get Cowabunga Collection equivalents and that would satiate most people.

@RobynAlecksys It's an Xbox One & PS4 game on those Platforms - the upgrade is to make them run better for Series consoles & PS5.

Was so disappointed to find out this was just Survival Mode & the 2 characters - from the gameplay they showed I thought there'd be a Sub-Story Mode w/ 5-8 Stages & another option for a shorter Arcade Mode run. I guess that's why it doesn't add Achievements or Trophies on other Platforms - it really is minimalistic for 8 bucks.

This game's new content lasted longer than the average Splatoon game as of this point.

They seem adamant on not changing the 2 map rotation & having every PVP Mode that's not Turf War behind Ranked so... I kinda got my fill of Splatoon as a whole after 1 & 2.

A free update for Master Mode would be enough if they don't have any actual DLC planned.

Wild that we got these before Startropics 2.