This is a weird take, being delayed to the Switch’s successor probably wouldn’t need a full reboot, it would just be like Twilight Princess or BotW where they are delayed until the launch of the new system.

Although given that the Switch had several early titles that also had Wii U versions, seems possible they could do something like that here too.

Leakers already found some of the stuff related to the DLC for Pokemon SV. Guess the Expansion Pass will be out in time for the Holidays 2023. That’s a longer wait than we had for Sword/Shield, but there may be more content this time around to make up for it.

If you mean 2 new generations of Pokemon per console generation, we’ve gotten 1 or 2 new generations of Pokemon per system, just due to how long systems last. It’s very unlikely that we’d get a third generation of Pokemon on Switch because it’s very unlikely that the Switch will last until 2025 (the earliest we’d get…

Pokémon has issues because Game Freak is a lousy studio. Plain and simple. I love Pokémon more than anything, and its devs are a bunch of jackasses.

I can hear it, and even from the first trailer I’ve gotten Twili vibes, but it unfortunately feels unlikely to me that they’ll return. I feel like Zelda games rarely bring back artifacts/peoples from past games (at least anything introduced after OoT). They did bring back the Rito though, so who knows.

This feels like a weird way to think about it to me, you’re not really “worse off,” you just have some different weapons than you did before. I can see that from a perspective of being used to upgrading weapons in RPGs it would feel like a regression to not always get stronger weapons but I also play a lot of RPGs and…

I feel like this is the kind of thing they always say, regardless of when the next system is coming. I also don’t expect it before early 2024, I can’t imagine it’s coming this year, but even when the Wii U bombed and they announced the “NX” they still acted like they would keep supporting the Wii U.

Real talk there will be at least one more main Mario and Pokemon game. They didn’t announce it yet because it’s more than a year away.

This is the only reason I liked the weapon degradation in BotW. I’ve never liked any weapon system where you have to maintain your weapons, that just makes it into a chore, but by making them entirely disposable while showering you with weapons they made it so you don’t have to worry about that and you can just go…

The artbook (and several bits from the trailers) gives me hope that there’ll be a good bit of horror, hopefully that translates to creepy enemies and not just vibes and visuals. I loved BotW but definitely miss the weirdness of a lot of earlier titles.

How can you mention the vehicles and not mention that it seems pretty clear that you can build these vehicles?

And those vehicles look very unrefined, modular, and literally glued together

It’s funny when bonuses like this reveal features that I care more about than the bonuses themselves. Like okay a couple of those gliders are fine but I don’t care about them specifically that much, but I think it’s interesting that we’ll get to customize our glider at all and look forward to seeing what options I can…

“Backlash” feels like an overreaction to me? For a lot of people, this is BotW but with new stuff and it’s good enough for them, and for other people, they can just wait and see what’s in the next trailer. I don’t see why “the trailers haven’t shown me enough yet” is worthy of “backlash.”

I’m pretty sure there’s vehicle construction, considering how unrefined and modular that car/truck/whatever looked and the drone/helicopter thingy looked like the fans were kinda glued on, and in one shot you see a wheel being pulled out of a swamp. Not sure how that’ll play, but if that’s what’s going on in there,…

Honestly I always though gen 6 and 7 did 3D graphics pretty well. I dreaded them moving to 3D but I thought the cel shading and outlines looked great (although admittedly there were just a few Pokemon that lost something in the move to 3D). Much better than gen 5's very pixelated awkward attempt to add some movement…

I’m not sure “surprise” is the most accurate description when the past 4 Februaries have had directs (even if the 2020 one was just Animal Crossing) :p

It’s hard to imagine James Cameron and 20th Century Studios can be delighted with Ubisoft for the next Avatar game to have become one of their unreleasables. Originally announced in 2017, to be developed by Ubisoft’s Swedish studio, Massive, some six years later and there’s little to see of it.

I’m not sure I believe this, since there was no end to bitching about LGPE and SwSh, and also because the fandom is so big and widespread that the idea of “standard” for the fanbase doesn’t really exist. But either way, even if this is the “standard” for the fanbase, that doesn’t make it any less crazy to me.