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This Week in Games - Not The Best Of Pals

One small thing: Officially, the female protagonist's name in Persona 3 Portable is "Kotone Shiomi."

Oh, didn't know the Pal thing had base building/defence, it actually may like it, I am gonna place it in the wishlist and wait a year or 2 for it to be completed, I am quite pasient.

I love Nintendo and Super Smash Bros, but if I want to use Terry Bogard or Joker, I have to shell out an extra $55 for both fighter passes.

Pokémon has always been about the ultimate childhood fantasy: going around the world without grownups breathing down your neck, without having to go to school and do homework, and making friends with dinosaurs.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

Oh, didn't know the Pal thing had base building/defence, it actually may like it, I am gonna place it in the wishlist and wait a year or 2 for it to be completed, I am quite pasient.

And quite naive. Pocketpair's entire catalog is early access games, some of which have been that way for actual years. Craftopia seems to have been abandoned entirely in favor of Palworld. One of their titles, Never Grave might officially release in Q1 2024, but has already been delayed once. I suspect Palworld has already made all the money it needed to (and more) and will probably be dropped for the next quick buck once the hype cools off.

I tried Palworld for about an hour and a half, dropped it to play Valheim instead, then dropped that to go back to Valhelsia, because modded Minecraft still does it better, even in 2024.

I am glad Another Code seems to be getting the attention it deserves, though. The DS was a great system for adventure games, even if the genre as a whole was in a bit of a slump.

You can't buy them individually? I know you could with Smash Wii U and 3DS.

Should we hold off on Palworld until it goes through a few more updates? It's only early access, so I feel it could benefit greatly from some QOL changes here and there.

FilthyCasual wrote:

You can't buy them individually? I know you could with Smash Wii U and 3DS.

You can; Piranha Plant is $5, everyone else is $6 each.

Buying only one or two of the characters misses the point of the game still not being feature-complete without the rest of them. So you still need to pay the whole $55 if you want everything.

That being said, yeah, people need to understand Pokémon its a game for 10 years' old children, you can complain about the performance, but, complaining that the game doesn't have enough systems or becomes a Character Action Game is silly

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is a funny name given the absurd amount of money you'd have to pay for the DLC. I have no real interest in the game and kind of lost interested in the franchises after the original creator left (and even then the series kind of became long in the tooth before then with the rather pointless remakes and spin offs

It also doesn't help the target audience for the games now seems to be nothing more than pandering to streamers and their followers like Yong Yea and xQc and all the other people who were literally put in Isshin. It was like Cyberpunk's gimmick of having streamers in it but even worse since the original version didn't have them. I kind miss when "Yakuza" was more niche and focused on what it wanted to do rather than mass market appeal.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

That being said, yeah, people need to understand Pokémon its a game for 10 years' old children, you can complain about the performance, but, complaining that the game doesn't have enough systems or becomes a Character Action Game is silly

How is it silly when past Pokemon games had those? The company who said they no longer put effort into the game's content because kids have phones now so there's no reason to include post-game content like the Battle Frontier and other things for people to do. People aren't asking for the moon. They're asking for the series to stop being mediocre and soulless. But given how well Scarlet and Violet sold, I understand they have no reason to. They can put out a barely functioning and soulless game and be rewarded for it.

People aren't disappointed with modern Pokemon games because they're for kids, they're disappointed they're just mediocre. Mystery Dungeon EX was actually nice and had effort put into it, but the mainline games and their remakes have been just terrible.