I said it before and I'll say it again: Sans/Frisk/something from Undertale/Deltarune.
Next barrier for Smash to break is the indie barrier and while there's a lot of fitting candidates, I'm placing my chips on Undertale.
I said it before and I'll say it again: Sans/Frisk/something from Undertale/Deltarune.
Next barrier for Smash to break is the indie barrier and while there's a lot of fitting candidates, I'm placing my chips on Undertale.
I actually like that they limit each gen to different sets of mons. Makes it more sustainable as the number of pokemon keeps increasing, and as a resulting makes balancing for power creep more realistic. Could also shake up competitive if certain mon are just outright not in this generation.
That said, I wish this meant more focus on newer mons and giving a break to gen 1 pokemon, since those appear in their entirety in Let's Go. Buuuut it's gen 1 so I guess the likes of gyarados, charizard, etc. will be in every gen for forever and ever.
Terrible legendaries, but the rest of the pokemon look super awesome. Starters in-game look great too, and I think we can all agree Corviknight is now one of the coolest pokemon ever. A taxi system where you get flown around by giant-ass steel crows is already my favorite thing about this region. Eldegoss and Wooloo look great but I find it hard to bond given Mareep and Whimsicott are my sheep and cotton ball of choice, respectively.
Embiggening looks stupid and the gym battles just look like regular gym battles but giant. Pretty meh on the whole thing, but I have hopes that they pull a gen 5 and the gym leaders have more personality than just sitting there waiting for people. If they're essentially sport celebrities, I want to see them walking around with adoring fans like Leon was shown to have.
Hop picks the starter that is weak against yours, so he's the lame rival I guess. Hau lowered the bar so much that it's possible Hop won't be that bad, but we'll see.
I wonder how prevalent the Wild Area concept will actually be. They make it sound like it connects you to multiple areas, but looking at the map it seems like maybe only the first handful of towns are by it. Maybe other areas also have similar "wild area" mechanics since they showed deserts and foggy forests? In any case, it's a clean addition that was actually exciting to see and it's cool to know classic stuff like random encounters still exist alongside it. Presumably. Hopefully.
Also, am I the only one constantly irritated by every pokemon direct/trailer featuring the same stupid songs with people going "wooooo OOOOOOOOOO ooooooo" ? I can see how it makes it sound kind of like a soccer chant or something but it'd be more notable if they hadn't constantly used a similar music style each and every time in recent memory.
I wasn't interested in the game originally, kind of got burned out on the previous one and failed to touch it again.
But some things mentioned here, such as the versus and co-op modes, the 100 story levels, and hell, even the voucher thing nintendo is doing… I'm pretty much in now. Looks super fun to compete by racing levels with people, and it's essentially $10 cheaper (and I get probably Pokemon for $10 cheaper as well!)
Super fun movie. I think as a pokemon fan it felt like such a landmark moment to see pokemon in live action actually done right, and the development of the relationship between the main characters was strong enough that the emotional beats actually mattered.
We may actually have an almost unprecedented instance of a video game movie being better than its source material (source material in this case being the DP game.) Can't wait to see what they do to follow up this movie and I look forward to seeing more pokemon adapted to the realistic aesthetic.
Just finished the second season last night
! Catra's character development is phenomenal, even if I am rooting for her much less in this season than in the last one. In the last season it was easier to feel her pain and want her to succeed, in this one her weaknesses break through so much more and make her harder to sympathize with overall. But they make for such great character development, particularly her interactions with Shadow Weaver, that I can't fault them for it. Her nastier streaks in this season all make sense character-wise, so it's not just an evil character being evil because evil, and I love that.
! Entrapta being wacky for the sake of wacky still kind of tires me, she's probably the least redeemable character for me. Almost everyone in the horde I can like for being on the Horde side due to their own personal reasons and ambitions, but Entrapta causing actual serious harm and potential death on an entire planet and just being derpily happy anyway and showing barely any remorse when interacting with clearly distraught Bow and Glimmer… it makes her seem so cruel to me.
! Talk about reasons and ambitions, I want to know more about how Scorpia wound up on the Horde side because she's quickly becoming one of the most likable characters. The planning episode threatened to go too far into her quirkiness, but it was still hilarious, and the show still makes her threatening when she's fighting the rebels. Then the sea hawk interaction in that one episode gave her such a strong showing that I start to hope she gets what she wants and Catra notices what she can provide.
! Bow is the other main winner of these episodes. He was always likable in the first season but in this one he was just particularly strong, often being the person in the main trio that brought everyone to their senses and moved the plot forward. The episode with his dads was also sheer fun, and his moment in the planning episode was easily a highlight of the season.
! Hope more episodes are coming soon, the more this show goes the more impressed I am by the writing and consistency of the characters. I wish is that the scope of the show was larger, but with only seven episodes in a season I'm perfectly fine with the fact that the show limits itself in how many characters get focus since it allows for those characters to have really strong arcs and personalities.
It's possibly the best platformer of our time.
Yes, it's worth it. Just be aware it's a challenging game, though it's paced fairly. Will require patience and effort.
There's still significant characters not in Smash.
Square Enix has the likes of Sora, Crono, and Slime (fuck you Erdrick, no one knows you)
Capcom does have stuff like MH and Resident Evil and Ace Attorney and Devil May Cry and…
Then there's all the significant non-Japanese game characters that are notable in the industry. Scorpion/Sub-Zero from MK, Doomguy from... Doom, Minecraft which is still stupidly popular, Master Chief, Lara Croft... we could get nuttier with the likes of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. Or shit, anything from Portal/Half-Life.
Or how about characters that are hugely well-known from already repped third party franchises? Tails/Robotnik are weird omissions, for example. Chun-Li is another Street Fighter icon that's lacking, but given Ken I'd probably assume no to this one.
OOOR, how about all the non-Pacman stuff Namco does? Tales of series has the likes of Yuri or Lloyd; Tekken has stuff like Kuma or Heihachi.
We could also get super weird: how about an Atari character, like a space invader? Or a Tetris character? At this point, why the fuck not? XD
Looking into current day I'm slowly convincing myself that Sans/Undertale has a shot at representation in some form or other too, given how it's one of the indies that has had a particularly strong penetration in the Japanese market. And there's also niche stuff like Monokuma that would be super dope and represent another genre of gaming, while also giving some attention to a company that has supported Nintendo for a while (Spike Chunsoft).
Man, Cloud really did break the barrier of what's possible. Then Piranha Plant extended that to the absurd and this is the world we live in now.
After what Reggie said at the game awards I'm also fairly convinced that the Fighter's Pass characters will all be third party.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if given the success of the game they expanded beyond that and added other characters to the game as either extra, free DLC, or as a second fighter's pass. But I would expect things more of the sort of popular echo fighter requests (Shadow, Octolings) or notable absences moreso than promotional FE/Pokemon characters if they do go beyond the current fighter's pass.
With Joker being the bar right now it'd honestly be disappointing if they opt for more FE/Pokemon, even if I do like both those series.
Everyone expects Erdrick, so I will instead speculate Banjo Kazooie as the next one.
Kind of in order but not really. Like, the difference between the top and bottom is significant, but not as much between 1 and 6 and so on.
Also all of these include evolutions and pre's and megas, except for Spritzee who evolves into my most hated pokemon.
Whimsicott
Spritzee
Popplio
Alolan Ninetales
Cinccino
Ribombee
Glaceon
Mawile
Ampharos
Clefairy
Came back to this game to get Sue, and got her after two weeks.
Time to abandon it once…
Lethe appears
Sigh, nevermind
I just realized how much of FE is about copying Pokemon.
We got breeding with Awakening, then Fates gave us multiple versions with a final third coming after, then with Echoes we got remakes, and now we have starters.
Edelgard is definitely the Scorbunny of the group.
Hornet was such a highlight from the first game to me that I want to believe.
@Cyan:
One you beat the Elite Four, you'll be let back into the EU.
Ever since hearing the idea of a UK based region I've been wondering about Team Brexit as a possible villain team.
I guessed the bunny right!
I'm so glad this direct was more in the style of the X and Y reveal. The region being so vertical feels weird to me, but the gameplay so far looks beautiful. I'm fairly excited.
Idk what it says in the Japanese at the bottom but that being a leak sounds like a reach. Not that I would complain though, that would be great.
I mean, bets don't really mean much when you follow leaks/rumors that heavily hint what the region is going to be.
A bet needs to be more ballsy, like final starter evo types or inspiration for starters. Stuff like that.
With that in mind, I predict a bat, a rabbit and a puffin. A squirrel wouldn't be surprising for grass, but if you have a grass bat you can have it evolve into a dragon so I'll go with that.
I would love either pokemon south America or Scandinavia. One because of potential for rich diversity in species and biomes, and the other to have a more chill and less happy environment to counter how happy-go-lucky alola was.
Agree that LBW wasn't very memorable and the item renting mechanic kind of broke the game (in my case, made it easier than it should have been), but it was definitely fun and the dungeons were fairly entertaining. In fact, they're probably the only thing I remember about the game, even if I don't remember the names of the dungeons themselves. The overworld and side quests are what did nothing for me.
As for Link's Awakening, I fail to see how the artistic style is a problem. So far it seems to nicely recreate the feeling of the original, and jives well with the gameplay. I don't think they were specifically going for claymation or toys, just going for a logical 3D transition of what it was before, so faulting them for not going all out with a toy/claymation style is faulting them for a design consideration we have, not them.
I'm less into FE these days, but definitely going for Three Houses based on what we know so far. It looks fun and the concept has potential.
That actually looks amazing.
I'm hesitant to trust again after I got burned by HK, but if the game is as fast and energetic as the trailer I have hope I may actually enjoy this one.
Also Hornet is such a great character, definitely deserves the attention.
I'm intrigued by the school setting. Gives it a nice context for raising and training units, and I hope it means no more of the whole business with breeding future kids.
Edelgard's design is giving the black eagles and edge for me, though the blue team looks classy and that dude has a lance. So far the deer one makes me think of hufflepuff so I'm respectfully keeping away.
But Metroid has a high profile title in development… how is that dead...
Talk to the likes of F-Zero and Kid Icarus, where the prospect is bleak.
While this decade is nothing like the 2000s for Pixar, to say there haven't been iconic moments is selling them short.
Coco was an excellent movie despite people being skeptical because of Book of Life. And like Satsuki says, that moment where the grandma has a moment of lucidity when hearing the song is nothing short of phenomenal, and as a Hispanic person watching this it really hits home too.
Inside Out had multiple fantastic scenes in terms of humor, and at least two scenes of serious emotional greatness. Riley going back home and finally crying will never not move me to tears. Animation-wise you also have stuff like the bit with abstract deconstruction, and comedy-wise there's dozens of excellent beats with anger, disgust and fear.
Incredibles 2 was definitely weaker, but the choreography of some scenes stands tall even among a decade of super hero movies. Nearly every action scene was a joy to watch, particularly the bike scene or Jack Jack fighting the raccoon.
Sure, quality dips because no company is perfect forever, but when the standard was so high in the first place following Toy Story 3, that's not such a bad thing. I will agree though that Good Dinosaur was terrible and should only be remembered as a lesson in it being ok to drop some ideas.
If three games is not a lean year, then…yee.
Guess we can throw Yoshi in there too?
Those are internally significant games for marketing push. Yoshi is march, Pokemon will probably be a Q4 marketing push, and you can fill in Q2 and Q3 with AC and Fire Emblem. I'd imagine an early summer release for AC and a late summer/early fall release for FE would be a logical way to structure things.
Of course, since this is the Switch this doesn't mean these are all the games we'll be getting, just the ones coming from Nintendo proper that we know of. There's a ton of smaller titles that get announced and released within a year, much like Super Mario Party was last year iirc, maybe Mario Tennis too? (can't remember when that was announced.) I imagine something like Luigi's Mansion 3 falls in place somewhere here, as a mario spinoff franchise that does decently well without reaching the numbers of Mario/Zelda/Pokemon/AC/Smash.
Then there's the third party stuff that we know of (Bayonetta 3, possibly; Crash Team Racing; Sonic w.e. bullshit they do this year) and all the third party stuff we also still don't know about. Some of it might even be Nintendo exclusive: I wouldn't be surprised to see something like what Mario + Rabbids and Starlink were for 2017 and 2018, respectively. (edit: I don't think starlink was exclusive, now I think of it, but the Fox thing probably was for sure.)
THEN you have the heavy push for DLC, particularly Smash where we have an entire year of [probably] structured releases, potentially also teasing further third person deals. I would be surprised if we don't see Persona content on Switch to draw from the Joker crossover. And of course, there's all the DLC we still don't know about… considering how much Smash is selling, I wouldn't be surprised if we got an Octo Expansion type situation take place, where they toss in even more content than initially planned like a mode, or a bunch of spirits or add extra echo fighters to their initial plan. You know, assuming they keep enslaving Sakurai to do it.
Toss in significant Indie negotiations that are turning the Switch into a better market for indies than steam is (then again, most things are and we have yet to see how Epic's service affects this), and we have more games on Switch than many people here will even have time to play.
Conclusion: no, I don't think this will be a lean year. Smash sold so many switches that I wouldn't be surprised if part of why they were fine delaying MP4 so much was because there's so much other content they can focus on to keep on driving software sales. Not to mention that MP4 itself is not as large scale of a property like AC or Pokemon are now, maybe even FE by this point. I imagine the only reason they even bothered sharing this with fans was to kill speculation and avoid fan backlash since MP after Federation Force became one of those cases of very passionate outcry for an actual game.
Which reminds me... we can always hope for Mother 3 :ninja:
Makes sense though… people in general respond positively to what looks familiar, so making creatures that somewhat resemble familiar animals while not quite being those animals means it's easier to make them endearing.
On the positive side, it could be an incentive to fix it for real the online.
Probably not. The tourney involves battlefy and requires players to set up their own battle arenas and decide which player has the best connection.
It requires literally no technical effort from Nintendo, so there's zero reason to believe this could motivate them to improve their shit infrastructure.
Nintendo is hosting an official smash tournament… mostly online lol
I think the thing that amuses me the most in this is not the fact the ruleset is set to Time for seven minutes, nor the fact that items are on low with smash balls on.
It's the fact that it's single elimination with no stage list lmao. It's will be super easy for people to set bullshit campy stages as their preferred stage for a match and then proceed to run away the second they have a lead.
For 7 minutes.
My prediction is that it will be worse than the 2016 movie, but better received, leading to controversy all over again over sexism, racism, and all that lovely stuff.
So, the dates for Epic-er Yarn and crafted world were revealed, (march),the plot of Crafted World has a trailer, and new (I said new? I meant nes) games were anounced for the online server, notably Joy Mech Fight, so you can be Sukapon and punch Sukapon now.
This means that a direct isn't as near as I expected, as these data points would have neatly fit in that.
Joy Mech Fight is apparently only releasing in Japan. Because as Nintendo's oldest philosophy best puts it: "If it's not in Japan, who the fuck gives a shit."
So instead, we get just the other two games. Not even a replacement.
What are your guys favorite Starter pokemon???
Not a lot of people may know this, but I love Popplio.
Honorable mentions: Fennekin, Cyndaquil, Snivy
I'm trying to Max them to satisfy my insane curiosity. And to add a free gacha waiting to my life to keep me from looking another.
Have you considered the possibility of no gacha?
I've got all spirits except for the Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee ones. Any way to get those without buying the games?
Every news article about these spirits claimed that they could be obtainable by other means, but I don't think Nintendo has announced any means yet. Might wind up being an event down the line.
The thing I want the most for the next Pokemon game is for leakers to shut the fuck up and just let people enjoy the pacing of release of information.
Maybe I'm just jaded because the Smash cycle involved such a stupid amount of rumors, insiders, "leakers", text leaks and all that, but it seriously just gets tiring. Particularly since when you follow gaming news and sites the leaks are outright shoved in your face more than half the time. Let pokemon company release information when they want and how they want and actually surprise people with that information.
It's like sitting down to enjoy a book while some asshole is sitting next to you screaming "HEY THERE'S SOME REALLY COOL STUFF IN TWO PAGES THAT WILL IMPACT X CHARACTER AND REVEAL Y INFO AND IT WILL BE SUPER COOL, TRUST ME." At a moderate level it can be enticing and make you curious for what's coming. But at the level it's like now it's just overwhelming and exhausting and makes you long for the release of everything officially not to enjoy it but just so people can stop being attention whores and shut the fuck up.
At the least with this one it's something so impossibly vague and uninformative that it can be ignored, pretty much the equivalent of saying "the game will have new stuff that will change the franchise!" (which could be said about every pokemon release ever). And "leaking" that the marketing cycle will be starting soon is not a leak as much as it is a reasonable assumption. Not to mention the fact that soon could mean next week as easily as it could mean March or April.
/rant
! What bothers me about the logic behind it being an "obvious" DQ character is the attempt to connect Brave to Hero to the Japanese term… but since codenames are usually English doesn't it make more sense that if it were DQ they would have just used the code Hero?
! I mean, there's even a game called Dragon Quest HEROES, with the Heroes ALSO in Japanese characters instead of yuusha or w.e.
So there's a precedent for the English word Heroes being used in connection to DQ, but no precedent that I know of of the English word Brave being associated in Japan with DQ.
! Compared to Bravely Default where Brave is literally the title of the game even in Japanese, right?
! It makes it feel like the reason for it being a DQ character comes more from trying to link this datamine to previous rumours (vergeben, other insiders), than from however obvious or not the code is. It feels like a conclusion drawn not from the premise but from pre-established assumptions of what the conclusion could be.
Re: leaked codename
! I kind of hope for Bravely Default in this context. Their team and the Octopath Traveler team have been super Nintendo friendly and they still have tons of potential with upcoming games.
! That said, DQ is probably more likely than that given that it's probably bigger in Japan, even if not in the west. Also I want it less and therefore BOOM.
! Also, other people are referencing Brave Vesperia as a possibility that this code is for Yuri. Idk how logical this is, but for what it's worth it makes as much sense that it's code for Repede, so we can hope for the cooler option.
Can't you just set your preferred ruleset and not take seriously any matches with cheese like this?
I mean, I think only once in around 15 matches or so I've done online did it force me into a free for all stock match. The rest has been solely my preference (3 stock, no items, battlefield)
It helps that it's hard to take GSP seriously since it's such an arbitrary value.
That's probably it.
Pretty much in most video games when the question comes up of why x voice isn't around or why they don't just add y conversation, a lot of the times it's probably voice acting issues. Hiring talent, recording voicework, testing it, bugging it, post-producing it and fixing issues is a particularly expensive process.
Especially with games like this one where any one voice line means having to bring back not just the actor for the Japanese version, but also the one for the US, China, European languages, etc.
Dark Samus is actually also exactly the same as Samus except for its attacks having more electricity elements while Samus has more fire.
Outside of that, I haven't heard any reported difference. The dodge looks different but supposedly lasts the same amount of time.
It's less of a glorified palette swap than Daisy, who is pretty much the exact same character as Peach. Which to me makes it more gross that Alph got stuck as an alt when he is essentially as different from Olimar as Daisy from Peach.
Everyone going nuts about spirits and here I am still highly focused on 1v1 and competitive.
Idk where else to gush, but I'm so psyched about how good Palutena is in this game. The difference of using other characters versus using her is, for me, the difference between an even match and a three stock. I'm so happy that for the first time the character I'm maiming is actually viable.
@Bond:
Finally completed World of Light 100% as well. As someone who relied on cheese for many of the tougher spirit battles, I got absolutely destroyed by the Giga Mac spirit several times.
Funny you say that, because that's one of the fights I cheesed hard.
Did a back throw on him on the very edge of the walk-off lol
[hide]How do you get the True Ending? Clear everything?[/hide]
! In the last area of the game you have light and dark fighting each other.
! You have to get to both Master Hand and Crazy hand twice each without overwhelmingly defining the balance for any side. Once both hands are defeated, they make a rift in the middle of the stage, and then you just have to made the battlefield neutral in order to use a bridge to get to the middle.
! Once you do that crack the hands opened, you take the middle path to fight both Dharkon and Galeem at the same time. I'm not sure if it's a thing that you have to keep both at around the same health, but I did just in case. For the record, for me the worth in pursuing it was the challenge to get there, not the actual ending which is pretty boring and inconsequential imo.
Finished the adventure mode last night
! The true ending kind of made the whole thing worth it. Unlike master fortress, it was super fun and felt challenging in a reasonable way, and the little bonus right before the end had me grinning. I did not expect it and I was super psyched about it.
! I will say I was a bit disappointed in that I had heard there were more cutscenes, but they were just generic things fighting each other. It still makes no sense that there's some light asshole and some dark asshole and for some reason we want to murder them both.
Outside of adventure, I've been playing tons of matches to get a grip on the characters I like. Palutena, Pkmn Trainer, Wolf and Ridley all wound up as pleasant to play as I was hoping. I love how much stronger Palutena feels, it's like controlling a higher tier character. And Ridley is so brutal and good, I love how he feels.
And then I'm also probably promoting Pichu from secondary to main status, because there's something about using it that feels super great, and it's super adorable in this game.
Still tons of secondaries I like, particularly Dark Samus. I'm also not using K. Rool, Zelda, Robin or Wii Fit as much as I thought I would.
Overall I love how fast everyone feels… the characters in general just make sense.
Why would anyone nerf Pichu? The character is good but it's the lightest in the game and it hurts itself. The trade off is logical, and more balanced than several in the cast who have good moves, good movement, and don't hurt themselves nor fly off the stage at 50%
Obviously Omega and Battlefields all will be legal, but my work is being really cool and I don't want anybody to get into a petty bickering match over who deserves the win and have that get the whole thing shut down.
Based on things my brother did to stall when I was playing him:
Honestly, there's so many stages to talk about in terms of how fucking terrible they are for actual matches that I could keep going for a while, but since it seems the stages that cause stupid deaths are probably not a concern, that opens up a lot of possibilities. Like, internal shrieking hanenbow.
I have also just finished unlocking all characters, though I did it through Smash battles and the cheese of switching language every battle.
OF COURSE, it figures that the character I wanted to use most, Palutena, was the fucking last one I got. Jesus shitfucks batman. But now I got her and she feels great and it's all good.