...and as someone who has been with the series since the beginning, let me tell you I am 100% prepared to see Game Freak abandon every single one of those cool ideas by the next game rather than try to iterate on them.

I still can’t shake the vibe that these “expansions” are (at least partially) just demos for the next entries in the series, re-using SwSh content where necessary.

Is this a confirmation that DD2 will use 3D character models? Because if that was a first look at them, those were some pretty slick models that still retained 100% of the 2D sprites’ style.

Oh so we’re just gonna put popular beloved video game characters in Smash now when I have this whole list of obscure anime characters and 90s mascots who would be SO MUCH BETTER

Yeah, I think you’re misinterpreting what he said. He said Nintendo brought the idea to him and he told them it would be challenging.

Really? I feel like they went with Steve because Minecraft has ten times the fans of Halo and Conker combined.

I agree! XIII had a cool world and the concepts were great and all it’s just that that was it. That was the whole game. Here are some cool ideas we had. Lightning Returns had some AMAZING-looking set pieces, but that’s all they were. cool looking things. You never really feel like you know what it is or why you’re…

According to the FF14 players, the guy directing this one has some narrative skill.

You must be new to this. What you call anti-consumer, Nintendo calls “business as usual”. Choosing not to participate is a fine decision but just know that it won’t even come close to making the statement you’re hoping it’ll make as Nintendo knows full well they can do whatever they want and millions of people will…

My friend’s 9-year-old son was playing an “old-school” Pokemon game the other day. “You know from way back before they could make games be 3D”

Man, just can the bullshit and give me Sonic Mania 2 already.

Guess we know now why Nintendo has been cracking down so hard on the fanmade Mario 64 Switch port with widescreen and better textures.

Pretty sure the YM2612 outputs sounds on the same frequency as my soul.

Since when does the US Military “serve their country”?

At no point in my comment did I come anywhere close to insinuating that I endorse Mr. Trump’s decision (in fact I thought my phrasing summed up my opinion on his decision making process quite well) or that basing game design entirely around money-making is a behavior exclusive to any region or organization.

Oh plenty of Western developers do this too. The article was about tencent and my comment was about why I don’t feel bad for them.

Look, I hate your idiot president as much as the next guy but as someone who has a real passion for game design, TenCent’s famous “monetization-first” approach to the craft makes me physically ill so I kind of don’t mind seeing someone telling them to fuck off.

While not quiiiite the same thing, I almost get a Banjo-Kazooie Nuts n Bolts kind of feeling from this game.

We are free from the hunger because we worship the hunger.

Every time Nintendo schedules any manner of new title announcement, somewhere in the world there is a man in a Captain Falcon shirt huddled up in the corner with his knees pulled to his chest muttering “this one’s the one... this one’s the one...”