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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Apr 6, 2023 12:29:13 GMT -5
Engage's story is one of the more disappointing aspects of a video game I liked that I can remember.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 6, 2023 12:47:04 GMT -5
Final Fantasy pixels is coming to Switch on the 19th!!! Now we can play FF6 on Nintendo again! Might wait til a sale though And with that, Super Mario RPG is the only SNES Classic game not on Switch in any particular format.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Apr 6, 2023 13:00:52 GMT -5
And chronotrigger
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 6, 2023 23:51:52 GMT -5
Between how long Engage was rumored to be sitting finished for, how quickly they blew through the DLC, the overall phoned-in feeling nature of the game, and the skipped numbering in the data I kind of suspect we might get another Fire Emblem game before the year is out.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 7, 2023 14:43:27 GMT -5
For a long while now been having this Kirby vs. Advance Wars vs. Pikmin vs. Mario Strikers (with Bayonetta 2 on the fringe) split about what to get with the voucher program with Tears of the Kingdom, complicated by the fact I haven't actually decided yet if I even want ToTk and at least in the moment am kind of leaning no. I'm more partial to waiting for later in the year on Pikmin, since it's not been a super long time since I first played 3 so kind of not dying for a new experience there. Is a part of me tempted to just pick one up and get Kirby and Advance Wars with it.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 8, 2023 0:48:01 GMT -5
Final Fantasy pixels is coming to Switch on the 19th!!! Now we can play FF6 on Nintendo again! Might wait til a sale though And with that, Super Mario RPG is the only SNES Classic game not on Switch in any particular format. Does bare noting there is another - Japanese one had Legend of the Mystical Ninja and that isn't available either. All the other Japan-exclusive ones are though.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 8, 2023 0:59:45 GMT -5
Between how long Engage was rumored to be sitting finished for, how quickly they blew through the DLC, the overall phoned-in feeling nature of the game, and the skipped numbering in the data I kind of suspect we might get another Fire Emblem game before the year is out. If they want to, say, toss us Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn as a package deal remaster, I'd be game, especially if they maybe threw in some bonuses like Casual mode so there's be more incentive to try using some otherwise unviable characters like Meg in Radiant Dawn.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 8, 2023 1:01:27 GMT -5
And with that, Super Mario RPG is the only SNES Classic game not on Switch in any particular format. Does bare noting there is another - Japanese one had Legend of the Mystical Ninja and that isn't available either. All the other Japan-exclusive ones are though. Yeah, I guess that counts as well.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 8, 2023 6:59:08 GMT -5
Given Konami's recent trend of collections, it wouldn't surprise me to see various Goemon titles like Mystical Ninja end up on Switch, even if just in Japan.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Apr 8, 2023 9:35:09 GMT -5
Between how long Engage was rumored to be sitting finished for, how quickly they blew through the DLC, the overall phoned-in feeling nature of the game, and the skipped numbering in the data I kind of suspect we might get another Fire Emblem game before the year is out. I don't even know if I called it phoned in, because the Gameplay itself is strong. Looking back on it, and it was supposed to be a 30th Anniversary, it tried to be a bit of a love letter to past games with a pretty basic story, but it just failed. I actually felt the DLC was probably the best part because the main character had a few fleeting moments where they acted like something other than a crybaby or idiot, but even by the end, it was back to square one. I don't think I played a Fire Emblem game where I was so disinterested in the supports and with so many characters that just seemed neutered. Maybe it's because it came after 3 Houses. Anyway, I don't look at the game as bad, because it's not, just disappointing.
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Post by Raskovnik on Apr 8, 2023 11:14:41 GMT -5
The DLC is weird to me because it’s supposed to have a bunch of characters acting the opposite of their usual personality but what is the inverse of zero?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 9, 2023 3:01:04 GMT -5
The DLC is weird to me because it’s supposed to have a bunch of characters acting the opposite of their usual personality but what is the inverse of zero? So Yunaka's boring but the entire rest of the cast is now interesting?
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 11, 2023 18:37:44 GMT -5
Pokemon Stadium should be up in the next hour or so
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Post by chrom on Apr 11, 2023 19:34:09 GMT -5
With the rental Pokemon, you can get up to Surge in the Pokemon League, after that you'll get creamed by Erika and the rest.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 11, 2023 20:41:47 GMT -5
So the GB Pokemon games are confirmed likely not happening.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Apr 12, 2023 2:02:12 GMT -5
So the GB Pokemon games are confirmed likely not happening. It doesn’t say they’re not happening but just you can’t transfer Pokemon from the GB games in that version…and of course you can’t…they haven’t even uploaded them yet so you can’t upload them from games that don’t exist on the service yet.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 12, 2023 4:13:04 GMT -5
If they're going to keep up this insufferable drip feed garbage they could at least do more for the month than a game where you can play the minigames and the rest of it's basically an unusable pile of trash. I know it's technically possible to beat the game with rentals but it's an awful grind to do so and since you don't get the rewards from it there's not really any actual point compared to just playing a different Pokemon game.
Speaking of Pokemon-related disasters, I kind of can't believe they even released the Pokemon TV app for the Switch with how damn bad it is. Thing immediately crashes half the time you open it and after every episode it temporarily disconnects and then for some reason boots you to the juniors section, it renders it basically impossible to actually use the thing for more than an episode or two at a time.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 12, 2023 7:59:04 GMT -5
SPEAKING OF THE POKEMANS
My son was given a Pokemon card by someone at Kindergarten and it was like a switch flipped in his head. He went from 0 to OBSESSED with Pokemon, going so far as drawing his own Pokemon cards on a nearly daily basis.
He's asked about getting a Pokemon video game and I'm totally out of the loop on those. I haven't played since Red/Blue!
So what game should I get?
I do have a remaining Nintendo voucher, and Scarlet/Violet, Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, Legends: Arceus, Sword/Shield, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee are all available on there.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 12, 2023 8:14:01 GMT -5
SPEAKING OF THE POKEMANS My son was given a Pokemon card by someone at Kindergarten and it was like a switch flipped in his head. He went from 0 to OBSESSED with Pokemon, going so far as drawing his own Pokemon cards on a nearly daily basis. He's asked about getting a Pokemon video game and I'm totally out of the loop on those. I haven't played since Red/Blue! So what game should I get? I do have a remaining Nintendo voucher, and Scarlet/Violet, Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, Legends: Arceus, Sword/Shield, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee are all available on there. I'm kind of of three minds on it. - Let's Go. It's far from the best of the lot, but it's very much designed to be baby's-first-Pokemon, keeping the mechanics pretty much at the most simple and straighforward they've been since Gen 1 and with only that Pokedex (and some alternate forms of some of them from Gen 7) present. For a kindergartner it'd probably be an excellent way to be introduced to the series since it's very much designed to ease you in. It's also a remake of Red & Blue (well, of Yellow) so you'd probably recognize a lot of aspects of it and be able to talk about it more. - Scarlet & Violet. I feel like they're probably the best of the Switch games, even in spite of their frequent glitches, and while they shake up the structure quite a bit with the open world shift and can be harder than normal in some respects they're pretty indictive of a lot of what the earlier games are like in terms of their core mechanics if there's a resulting desire to back up and play ones before them at some point. - Diamond & Pearl. They're the most straightforward and traditional of the Pokemon games in the Switch, very much embracing the way the games were structured from Gens 1-6 or so given they're very faithful throwbacks to Gen 4. They also have the most available Pokemon (without DLC) of any of the Switch games if that counts for anything. The only one I'd really say you could go outright wrong with is Arceus. It's much more difficult than usual for the series and plays radically differently as well, being very much a total oddball in the franchise in a lot of respects along with just generally having a darker tone to it than most of the games do. It's a fun game but if it were your introduction to the series it'd be a wildly misleading place to start. Ultimately for the target audience here I'd probably go with Let's Go. It's structured in such a way as to be extremely newcomer-friendly - frequent tutorials on type combinations and checks to make sure you're doing things correctly (like some of the gyms won't even let you do them unless you have a Pokemon with you that can pretty much carry you through the whole thing), stats system is steamlined a lot, catching Pokemon is greatly simplified, very basic, low stakes story, game just kind of freely hands out useful stuff like the starters to make a quality team with - that's more clearly aimed specifically as kids than the generally more all-ages approach of a lot of the series.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 12, 2023 17:46:58 GMT -5
So the GB Pokemon games are confirmed likely not happening. It doesn’t say they’re not happening but just you can’t transfer Pokemon from the GB games in that version…and of course you can’t…they haven’t even uploaded them yet so you can’t upload them from games that don’t exist on the service yet. Gen 1 didn’t come out on 3DS until 2016, and Gen 2 didn’t come out until 2017 for 3DS. GB/GBC VC launched on 3DS 2011, so still a reasonable chance we see those games at some point. Although, I think I’d be more interested in seeing the Gen 3 games get ported at this point. Haven’t played those nearly as much as Gen 1 and 2
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