

Highlight of the Direct by far.
Highlight of the Direct by far.
No, because games haven’t been “destroyed”.
Any of the classic era Tales games. Destiny DC/2 both finally got fantranslations, but Namco keeps teasing that they want to bring over the games the west never got. Eventually. Someday. Maybe. Hopefully by the time I finish the rest of my JRPG backlog.
Re: Super Metroid, it’s a short enough game that even if a remake does happen, I’d say it’s worth playing the original now and then playing the remake too whenever one happens. Though I’m also hard-pressed to see what a remake could bring to the table honestly, it’s pretty much perfect as-is. Not like 1 and 2 which have aged horribly and needed a complete overhaul. I think I’d be concerned if they tried to mess with it.
Thinking about it more though, perhaps they do have something big enough to justify a separate Switch 1 Direct a week before the Switch 2 Direct. The question is, what could it be, what’s the biggest thing they wouldn’t save for Switch 2?
Last we heard, Prime 4 is still a Switch 1 game, though it really ought to be cross-gen at this point. I’m sure it’ll be in either tomorrow’s Direct or next week’s. The fact that there is a Direct tomorrow means I’m leaning towards this being the heavy hitter that justifies having a Switch 1 Direct. If it’s not though, we could see Prime 2/3 tomorrow and 4 next week.
Galaxy 2 seems like an obvious pick, people have been wondering where it is ever since it wasn’t in 3D All Stars. It’s too much of a safe pick to be the headliner though.
I’m hoping we see some cult classic brought back, something that will get a few people really really excited. F-Zero GX immediately comes to mind. But also, after they teased us with 99, we need a new F-Zero more than we need a remaster.
Mother 3 would break the internet, if it were to ever happen this would be the time to do it, but we all know it’s never happening. Mother 3 is purely a meme.
But off the top of my head I can’t think of what other cult hits would be a big deal right now.
Thinking in terms of what studios we haven’t heard from in a while, HAL and Intelligent Systems. There’s surely something Kirby and something Fire Emblem in the works, and those could be late Switch titles rather than Switch 2 titles.
Third parties, I’m gonna stake my bet that we’ll see Chrono Trigger. SE recently teased that they have multiple projects in the works, and CT remains conspicuously absent from Switch still. It’s also not something they’d need to save for Switch 2. So tomorrow is the most logical time to reveal it.
Silksong isn’t real. It’s a collective fever dream we all hallucinated. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Don’t expect anything too big, they’ll save the heavy hitters for Switch 2. Ports and remasters are the typical filler for the end of a console’s lifespan.
Is that something I should be apologizing for?
Tenacious D is not dead. Jack Black has confirmed that they will be back someday, they’re just taking a break.
It’s one thing to make those kinds of jokes here on Lemmy where the audience is almost all leftists who will cheer. But for a celebrity with a platform, you have to be aware that saying things like that will get them in trouble. It was honestly a shitty no-win situation all around and I don’t blame Jack Black for needing to distance himself for a bit. At least the band is not dead, this will blow over in due time and they’ll come back when it’s died down.
The movie was okayish at best, but at least Jack Black was the best part of it.
Also, anything with Jack Black is slop? Even School of Rock? Tenacious D? Weird: The Al Yankovic Story?
Is there SGB functionality for DK 94? Would be a huge downgrade not to have that.
Have you talked to her and told her those kinds of “jokes” make you uncomfortable? If you have and she pushes back, then I think it’s fair to question if you can be friends with someone who continues acting disrepectful even when asked not to.
But if you haven’t brought it up, maybe it’s possible she just needs someone to call her out and snap her out of it. Give her a chance to see if she can grow and change.
They said gen 4 and GBA. 2D platforms that’ll run on a cheap emulator handheld.
GBA:
Romhacks:
Arcade:
NES:
SNES:
GBC:
Anarchy means “without hierarchy”. Classes are a hierarchy, so by definition it wouldn’t be anarchy if you don’t dissolve class.
Ah, completely forgot ORAS!
Combined the worst parts of gen III with the worst parts of gen VI (that is to say, the engine).
RGBY - You had to be there. By today’s standards, these games are incredibly dated, to a point where it’s hard to explain to anyone who didn’t grow up on them why they were so magical. Despite feeling aged now, they honestly were ahead of their time in several ways, and there’s a reason these games took off and became such a massive cultural phenomenon that dominated the late 90s.
GSC - In comparison, it’s honestly surprising to me how well GSC still holds up after all these years. The sequel carries forward the magic of the first games, while polishing and improving the formula in every way. Being able to revisit Kanto for the postgame was the coolest thing ever, and it’s sad that we’ll never see anything like this again.
RSE - I will forever be a Hoenn hater. Coming off the heels of GSC, these games were just a massive step back in many ways. One region and 202 Pokemon. Weirdly unbalanced with the excessive amount of Water-types, and tedious amount of Surfing. Began the trend of Legendaries becoming more and more god-like, and forced in the story. Not a fan of the art style or trumpet-heavy OST either. Only good thing this game brought to the table was Abilities.
One thing I don’t think a lot of people today remember is that this was Dexit before Dexit. When RS first launched, you only had 202 Pokemon in the Hoenn Dex, a step back from GSC’s 251, and the missing 184 species were not mentioned or referenced at all. At the time, I thought that they had been retconned out! Eventually, linking to later gen III games would unlock the National Pokedex, but at launch no one knew that was going to be a thing. And it was still fairly wack how many games they spread it out over, gen III as a whole was a mess.
FRLG - RGBY minus the soul. It may be more modernized, but it just doesn’t hit the same. I know this is very much a “you had to be there” take.
Colosseum - Painfully slow. Never finished it. Never played XD either.
DPPt - These games were just… bland. There’s not much I can actively hate on as much as RSE beyond just how slow they were, but there’s also not much that stands out either. I don’t have much to say.
HGSS - IT’S PEAK. Does a much better job than FRLG of feeling faithful yet modern. And the sheer amount of bonus content they added in was incredible. By far the best game in the series, nothing else is even close.
BW - Gen V really had a hell of a vibe to it, this era felt like Game Freak really wanted to experiment and it paid off. I give this game a lot of credit for being the first and only entry to have a good plot. However I do feel that the gimmick of new species only wasn’t so great, dragged down by the fact that half the Unova Dex is blatant copies of existing Gen I mons. Why bother doing that?
BW2 - However, this game’s story was so bad that I stand by my conspiracy theory of it being a last-minute rewrite from a planned Gray. I wonder what that would’ve looked like. Other than that though, everything else about BW2 was quite strong.
XY - The jump to 3D was rough, but could’ve been a lot worse. These games honestly feel like an unfinished beta to me, there’s a really good game in here somewhere but it’s dragged down by performance woes and very very little content. With more time in the oven, I think Z could’ve been one of the best games in the series, but they never gave this game the Director’s Cut it needed.
SM - Since XY’s framerate was so troublesome, let’s make it worse by adding more models onscreen! Also, let’s drop XY’s best feature, the Player Search System, in favor of doing almost nothing on the bottom screen! People really liked Megas, so let’s replace those with attacks that just do big damage and call it a day! And let’s really go way overboard with the cutscenes, tons of long tedious cutscenes! Most of all it was the framerate that really pissed me off. This was actually the first time I bothered finishing the Regional Dex, but I was too fed up with the framerate that I decided I would wait until the next generation on new hardware to try for National…
And so that ended up being the last game I played. Skipped USUM because I didn’t want to deal with this engine any longer, and then SS… Seeing how they’d just been cutting more and more corners with each game, I simply saw Dexit as the last straw. Maybe I’d have been willing to accept it if they’d actually been bringing new things to the table to compensate, but they don’t. I’ve come to terms with the fact that the Pokemon that I know and love, the Pokemon that I grew up on, the Pokemon that I named my account after, is dead to me.
I’d say HGSS is much more polished, and the formula hasn’t changed much since anyway. Only major mechanic differences in XY would be Fairy-type and reusable TMs.
IMO, XY is pretty rough around the edges, felt a bit unfinished. There’s a good foundation in there, with more time in the oven Z potentially could’ve been one of the best games in the series…
I’d say HeartGold/SoulSilver were the absolute peak, and the best entry point. Faithful to the spirit of the originals while feeling sufficiently modernized, and they went above and beyond with how much bonus content they packed into it.
Because there’s a lot of shit to complain about, and it feels like things are getting steadily worse. Especially today when I’m watching the rise of fascism in real time, when I’m watching friends and family be persecuted by a push to make bigotry into law, and when it all feels like there’s nothing I can do about any of this because I’m just some guy.
Yes, I know that children are starving in Africa. No, pointing that out does not make me feel better.
but the shouty man on TV told me tariffs were good!