I honestly don't understand why this is a big deal. Instead of releasing a new pokemon game, and you know, focusing on new improvements and actually improving on the series. They fall back and rerelease the same shit with minor changes because people swarm over a nostaliga trip just to relive childhood experiences…

Here's my reaction.

"Take the IP in a new direction"

People reacting like it's the second coming of Christ.

Social commentary doesn't have to be on purpose.

As a programmer let me just say Nintendo has a huge point here, it is extremely hard to make such a coding change. Most likely they would have to edit something like

Of course, denying gay people the right to get married in a game about relationships and marriage is itself "social commentary."

Yeah, it's amazing that it's 2014 and people still talk about gay marriage as if it's a two-sided issue.

I have to say, Curse of Monkey Island got it very right

Yeah, I imagine those controls would have been pretty cool. If they had worked for me. Which they didn't.

the Jedi Knight games had some fun sabre combat, don't know if that counts...

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the Star Wars Room!

Just take a handful on your way out.

I posted this already on the announcement page, so this is for the obvious

Actually, it seems like you actually proved his/her point. Is anyone knocking down your door for calling that person a cunt? No. Your not the only one who has rights.

Freedom to say or do what you want does not mean you are free from the consequences of what you said or did.

there seems to be an extreme conflict of interests here that should be illegal.