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Re: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Swings Onto Switch Next Year

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@Maubari I'm pretty sure Nintendo's the one disrespecting it and the fans' respect for it is why they're disappointed. Games like Super Mario 3D World and Kirby's Return to Dreamland got entire extra campaigns along with general gameplay additions, while both modern DKC games just get tweaks to make them a little easier.

Re: The Pokémon Games Have Had Tremendous Success During The Switch Generation

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There's so many things about the Switch & Pokemon that were disappointed. SV & SwSh sold amazing despite being mid at best even excluding performance issues, Let's Go & Legends sold much worse despite being much more interesting games, and aside from mobile game ports, the Switch was dead for spin-offs - we got NewSnap which was fun, Rescue Team DX which was good but just a remake, & Pokken DX which is just a port. And a lack of spin-offs just puts more attention on the mainline games, which in this case is not good.

Re: Konami Celebrates 60 Million Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Downloads With Free Gems & Card Packs

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Now is genuinely a terrible time to jump back in or start, but there's still the 2nd Anniversary Campaign going on too, so worth it just to log in for 2K Gems & a few Packs. You can also enter the Codes 'YGO25MD' & 'YGO25DL' for a PFP and Sleeves, and if you have someone's referral code and are Bronze 4 or lower/a Returning Player, you can get a free Swordsoul Deck, and if you get to Bronze 4 (which is only 3 Wins + you can't Rank Down), you get more cards for it.

Re: It Looks Like Gold And Silver Will Feature In The Next 'Pokémon Presents'

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If they were remakes of HGSS specifically I feel like it'd be that Game Category instead. New Let's GO games would be interesting but feel unlikely with how mixed people felt about the originals with more popular Pokemon. A Legends game taking place in Johto & Kanto as one Region before separating would be cool. But most likely just RBY & GSC coming to NSO, maybe with Home support if we're lucky.

Re: The Pokémon Company Releases Official Statement About Palworld

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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.

Re: The Pokémon Company Releases Official Statement About Palworld

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@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.

Re: Pokémon Fans Set Their Sights On Palworld's Monster Designs

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@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.

Re: Pokémon Fans Set Their Sights On Palworld's Monster Designs

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@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.