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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Aug 6, 2023 9:07:12 GMT -5
I've been going with Seven Stars vs. Remake myself. I like this one
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 6, 2023 19:56:11 GMT -5
Prediction for the Pokemon Presents - they bring up NSO and everyone gets really hyped for two seconds then it's just, "The Trading Card Game goes up today!" and everyone gets pissed off.
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Post by chrom on Aug 6, 2023 19:57:59 GMT -5
Prediction for the Pokemon Presents - they bring up NSO and everyone gets really hyped for two seconds then it's just, "The Trading Card Game goes up today!" and everyone gets pissed off. Eh, I had the trading card game before, it wasn't half bad.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 6, 2023 20:03:57 GMT -5
Prediction for the Pokemon Presents - they bring up NSO and everyone gets really hyped for two seconds then it's just, "The Trading Card Game goes up today!" and everyone gets pissed off. Eh, I had the trading card game before, it wasn't half bad. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it being put up, it's quite good, just I know lot of people are going to forget they already announced it and get mad.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 7, 2023 9:12:05 GMT -5
Whoever had “Rockstar announces Nintendo Switch version of the original Red Dead Redemption” on their 2023 Bingo card, will you please reveal yourself to reception.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 7, 2023 13:38:03 GMT -5
Whoever had “Rockstar announces Nintendo Switch version of the original Red Dead Redemption” on their 2023 Bingo card, will you please reveal yourself to reception. Funny thing is there've actually been leaks to this effect bouncing around for months at this point. Still can't wait to get it though.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 7, 2023 15:14:55 GMT -5
Will wait for a price cut for RDR, but there will be some novelty to playing it on the go, especially given the lack of a PC port means no non-emulated version for Steam Deck.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Aug 7, 2023 17:52:15 GMT -5
Eh, I had the trading card game before, it wasn't half bad. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it being put up, it's quite good, just I know lot of people are going to forget they already announced it and get mad. It’s a really fun game, I just remember it being painfully slow to start. Can’t skip shit, takes like 90 minutes before they actually let you free in the game
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 7, 2023 20:31:33 GMT -5
It kind of genuinely offends me that Nintendo still can't be assed to do more than 30% off on something as unbelievably mid as Sushi Striker. No one cared about it when it came out, no one cares about it five years later, it's a port of a 3DS game, no one bought either version. Even at $35 I'd be genuinely stunned to hear of a single person buying this thing, it's exactly the kind of forgettable flop that people would impulse spend $5 on but has no business being anywhere higher than that anymore.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 7, 2023 20:35:03 GMT -5
Prediction for the Pokemon Presents - they bring up NSO and everyone gets really hyped for two seconds then it's just, "The Trading Card Game goes up today!" and everyone gets pissed off. So turns out I was super correct on this. A Nintendo newsletter jumped the gun and showed off it and the leaked Mewtwo raid.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 7, 2023 20:38:57 GMT -5
It kind of genuinely offends me that Nintendo still can't be assed to do more than 30% off on something as unbelievably mid as Sushi Striker. No one cared about it when it came out, no one cares about it five years later, it's a port of a 3DS game, no one bought either version. Even at $35 I'd be genuinely stunned to hear of a single person buying this thing, it's exactly the kind of forgettable flop that people would impulse spend $5 on but has no business being anywhere higher than that anymore. I feel like Code Name: STEAM is like the only time I remember them outright giving up on something and slashing the price hugely.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 7, 2023 22:03:41 GMT -5
I've found that unless the console itself is struggling, then Nintendo is strongly obsessed with maintaining an appearance of value for their first party stuff. With the N64, Gamecube, and Wii U you'd have selects and/or Greatest Hits that would be budgeted down the line, but now Nintendo will barely even do that for digital games let alone physical ones.
I love the Donkey Kong Country series, am desperate for a new game, and consider Tropical Freeze one of the greatest 2D platformers of all time. And I still haven't picked it up for Switch, because a now 10 year old game not being discounted to even $30 is absurd, and I just can't support that kind of stubborn avarice. I don't know if Nintendo's attitude about this is rooted in the North American Video Game Crash and they just concluded that excess price cuts of either games or consoles killed one's presence in the market, but its absurd to see, especially when the aforementioned struggling systems were willing to cut prices to spur sales.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2023 8:02:17 GMT -5
Pokemon Presents Open With Something That Actually Matters Challenge (Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE)
For real I'd be shocked if 0.01% of the fanbase remotely f***ing cares about the World Championships, what purpose is there in going on and on and on about it? It's not even like an, "It's not for me," thing, I don't care about the Detective Pikachu game either but that would be way more understandable to focus on, it just feels like some kind of," The Pokemon Company likes to blow itself," thing for them to constantly harp on about.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 8, 2023 8:09:21 GMT -5
Pokemon Presents Open With Something That Actually Matters Challenge (Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE) For real I'd be shocked if 0.01% of the fanbase remotely f***ing cares about the World Championships, what purpose is there in going on and on and on about it? Honestly, the reason I care about it at this point is because the Yu-Gi-Oh World Championships happened and after most of the weekend being held in a Japanese rented office space, this further makes that into an unbelievable embarrassment. Like, I care more about it because they treat it like a f***ing big deal.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2023 8:13:21 GMT -5
Does really feel like they kind of missed striking while the iron was hot with dubbing the new anime? It's quite a few episodes in at this point, and it'd have been a pretty ideal time to get the series dubbing at a more reasonable rate like most other 2023 anime, but they've just let things sit for a really long time now. I'm curious about it for sure but it's 20 episodes in by now and we still don't actually have a date yet.
That said it feels incredibly telling that they're like fully on the marketing train for that now while completely ignoring that there are still Ash episodes left to be dubbed.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2023 8:16:32 GMT -5
I find it incredibly jarring how they didn't really adjust Nemona's design at all to fit with the art style of everyone else in Masters. Looks incredibly out of place.
Not a bad voice for her though. Masters can be shaky on a lot of those but that one's kind of, "Yeah, sure, that sounds like her."
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2023 8:20:33 GMT -5
Stadium 2 and TCG up today. Still not really clear what the purpose of the former is supposed to be without the GB games but at least it's an N64 game, had a major dearth of those this year.
Been looking forward to the latter though, and that catches us up on the announced GB games. Now give us Mario Land 1 please.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2023 8:25:31 GMT -5
Being able to actually catch Mewtwo is a nice surprise, figured they wouldn't let you do that going by how SwSh handled that.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2023 8:37:01 GMT -5
DLC stuff is looking good, seems like some nice quality of life stuff and like interesting areas to explore, but it is really funny when they spend a super long time trying to milk eye candy from these when like even as someone who's played a ton of SV and likes it a lot I can tell you this game looks like total ass. Just feels really weird to be as confident in their visuals as they are.
Still, am pretty interested in the DLC, even if with that release date it's likely going to be a, "Play it for one day then shelf it until I get bored with Mortal Kombat," thing.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 8, 2023 9:04:14 GMT -5
TCG and Stadium 2 updates are live for the Game Boy Service
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