There are over 1000 Pokemon at this point. There’s bound to be some level of similarity here and there. Gamefreak even designed Pokemon after other creatures, so it just seems somewhat silly to point a finger.

Maybe it had some glitches on release

I haven’t heard much about it as of late and won’t comment on its current state, but when it first came out it was a glitchy mess. Several reviewers mentioned how glitchy it was and docked it points. dunkey made a whole video showcasing glitches and odd design choices. It’s a step in the right direction, so they deserve credit, but that doesn’t change its shortcomings at launch.

Kind of seems silly to buy any game developed by Sonic Team these days. They are either half-baked ideas (Sonic with a sword? Sonic as a werewolf?) or glitchy messes with repetitive, cheap gameplay (Frontiers, Lost World). They seem to rarely learn from previous mistakes or grow as a development team, similar to Gamefreak. Both studios are sustained by name recognition.

This director doesn’t have many directing credits but seems that worked out well for The Super Mario Movie. His current catalog is averaging around 7 on IMDb, which is a far better indicator of quality than RT, so that’s promising.

I personally haven’t seen a FPS be unique or engaging since the last Bioshock… and before that was maybe the first Bioshock or FEAR lol

The MiLiTaRy Is CoOL vibe from COD, Battlefront and Halo never appealed to me, but Halo Combat Evolved on PC and Halo 3’s multiplayer was at least fun.

I’ve said this on smash forums before and had the toxic side of the fanbase lose their shit over it, but the next Smash Bros iteration should be a complete reset on the roster and that roster’s movesets. e.g. Samus Aran should be reworked to incorporate skills from Samus Returns, Fusion, the Prime series and Dread. Right now her moveset is stuck on her Super Metroid form. Link should be reworked to be more based on BotW/TotK. Mario should be reworked to incorporate Odyssey, Galaxy and Wonder.

I LOVE the Smash franchise and have devoted thousands of hours of my life to the series - but that doesn’t change many characters growing stale and being trapped in their pasts. Right now Smash celebrates gaming legacies, but it should be changed to celebrate more than just the distant legacies. The last 10 years of most characters are completely ignored by the current roster. It should celebrate those characters’ futures too.

Beating a dead horse at this point but if Nintendo ever truly cared about scalpers it would stop producing an environment for scalpers to flourish.

Please take this hostile, hateful and juvenile attitude elsewhere. No one here is impressed or captivated by it nor do we want it in this community.

This is why comments are so useful. I was already on the fence about viewing a site named futurism and your comment made sure I will avoid it moving forward.

Environmentalists paying attention to battery tech have learned too well to not take these kinds of announcements seriously after years and years of no major changes.

Happy to see them refer to the game as “complex”, something the New series lacked over time with redundant sequels. I’m looking forward to this one.

Eh, I don’t feel strongly enough to debate it in-depth, but if parents really don’t want their kids on websites just about every device imaginable that connects to the internet has parental control features. It shouldn’t be on the government to block websites when the actual action should be for parents to educate themselves on the devices and do their job by setting their own child’s limits - not rely on the government to blanket ban it for everyone else.

That would require parents do their jobs though and keep educated on the world around them, which overwhelmingly a lot of people just don’t feel like doing.

EDIT: Last thought, I was on the internet learning to do shit in middle school and owe a lot of my current career to that. I don’t think limiting children to the world around them is a recipe for success and is just a way to make people collectively stupider from lack of exposure.

Thanks - I’ll check out that channel. Appreciate it.

Are there recommended ones? Steam Deck gets a lot of the spotlight and it’s hard to trust many of the “review” sites anymore, especially with so many sites abusing SEO.

PC bros jerking off to 120 FPS, etc drive me nuts. If you play games just to compete over frames per second and not to enjoy games what are you doing? I’ve had multiple convos with PC nuts who said nothing about the game they were playing, just talked about how their rig was handling it.

Dude/dudette, I’m playing on a Switch. I don’t care lol

These days I primarily play games that are Nintendo IP (Nintendo’s couch co-op output is unrivaled and my partner and I play Nintendo games together often) or Sony exclusives (quality output is top-notch). I on-and-off look at Steam and have never been overwhelmingly impressed by the catalog of indie devs and am generally turned off by the over-saturation of lower-end pixel art prevalent in many indie titles. Sure, every so often something like Celeste or Hades comes along, but it’s somewhat rare for me to be taken by indie games. An immediate example of an indie game I’m playing with a friend right now, Children of Morta, the pixel art design makes it incredibly hard to see what is going on.

I’m also not willing to shell out $1000+ for a PC and accessories that I don’t want nor do I have space for that. The Steam Deck has my attention, but the screen is too low quality for me to pay that much for it; I already lived through that with the Switch. I barely played the Switch handheld and only traveled with it twice. If the Steam Deck has a V2 with a better screen, I’d consider it, but I’d still rather have a tv connected setup as those are way more comfortable to play than a handheld.

Everyone’s got preferences and mine are Sony/Nintendo consoles, a preference I’ve come to over many years and attempts at other things. It just sucks that shit has gotten so expensive again.

I skipped the PS4 gen to take a break and focus on other aspects of my life that needed attention, but was surprised at prices when I jumped back in. With how expensive gaming has gotten ($70 games, even more expensive consoles, required online payments to fully utilize systems/games, time investment to actually find a console before scalpers) I don’t know what my future in gaming looks like.

is still somehow around.

It seems like a lot of people underestimate companies’ ability to be multifaceted machines. Diversification of a company’s assets and abilities will always lead to a longer lifespan and happier investors, even if the public forgets about the biggest aspects of the brand. There’s always the flipside though, where companies are mismanaged into total collapse without a backup plan, like WeWork.

I have a former best friend who still somehow finds a way to fanboy over Musk, despite the excessive information about him and actions he’s taken. All very public and easy to find information, yet never swayed the guy’s opinion and the last time we talked about it he was still fanboying. It really should have been a warning sign of things to come with that friendship. Truly, only mentally and emotionally inept losers are still on Musk’s side and the former friend’s the only person I know who still has a favorable opinion of Musk.

I hope we sometime soon move beyond discussing Twitter and its saboteur. There’s so much more in tech happening than whatever headline he’s trying to grab with his newest sabotage.