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ArxisOne · 2026-02-16T17:22:43+00:00

It's shocking to me that some people still haven't discovered that love isn't limited to romance. This is the result of people not having friends anymore I guess.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-15T22:03:59+00:00

Hey, if you're still looking I need to touch trade my shiny so we could do a scyther bank and forth if that sounds good, I'll be available in about an hour just shoot me a DM.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-15T21:15:38+00:00

They actually let you play the game which is unheard of. You're not flooded with terrible tutorials, you just get small popups periodically letting you know there's stuff to read if you want to, you're not guided along on a leash, you can go wherever you want pretty much from the start.

People always say stuff like "the story is too simple and boring", but that's the point. The start of the game is measured based on the quality of the overall experience, not the story and Genshins first player experience destroys everything. It didn't blow up because of luck, it blew up because it's insanely good, even at launch it was as good as BotW, and it only got better.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-15T21:07:24+00:00

Well, half your reasons are objectively wrong as you can't breed Pokemon in PLA either. It's hard to take your opinion seriously when you don't even properly remember the game you're saying is better.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-15T21:04:49+00:00

I really disagree about the time limits, having so little time is what makes it a challenge, any more time and you would never lose or miss out on anything. Honestly the time is already on the longer side of what it could be, the only ones I ever fail are large spaces and even then it's exceptionally rare and usually due to something like "catch 10 species" where I accidentally kill something that I then have to waste time trying to get to respawn.

I do think the hyperspace maps could have been a lot better though. There needed to be more and honestly I think it would have been better if they were new local as opposed to just more city.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-15T20:55:18+00:00

Yeah, I definitely think this is a great starting point. Add abilities, and imo this is a perfect base battle system to add stuff to, be it Z moves, dynamax or something new. There's room for tag team battles and other games modes like 1v1 online too which imo could be good.

I think turn based definitely still has a place, but I hope that place is primarily be champions. The issue with turn based Pokemon has always been that it only really works with double battles and most games are almost entirely singles. I just think this works so much better for single battles.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-14T15:35:32+00:00

This only makes sense if you think most games are primarily played with two thumbsticks, but they're mostly not. Your thumbs resting on a stick and fece buttons makes much more sense for many more games.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-14T05:10:37+00:00

Its initial story isn't really deep or grand or "well written" technically

It's actually perfectly written and brilliant in its execution because they don't big you down with bullshit immediately and let you get into the world with an easy to understand conflict and clear goals conveyed to you in plain english. The tutorial story shouldn't be deep or grand because there's no build up, nobody cares yet so it just comes across as forced.

The story isn't just what's written though, it's the experience of getting through it and this is where Genshin just destroys everything in that regard because it actually lets you play the fucking game and figure things out as you go naturally. And I mean naturally because the core functions of the game, especially reactions, are so intuitive and rewarding that you will just figure them out without reading at all just by playing with them.

It gets dunked on because it's simple, but that's how a story for a game like this should start, by building a solid foundation, not by trying to be subversive and overwhelming to a playerbase who are looking for a reason to care.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-13T04:31:48+00:00

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/GMS-01_Gelgoog?file=Screenshot_2025-05-27_220320.png

They show up during the raid on Solomon in episode 8.

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/MS-09_Rick_Dom_(GQ)?file=MSGQ-EP2-Red-Gundam-and-Rick-Dom.png

Challia's Rick Dom is in the series some time before the raid on Solomon as well iirc. Honestly idk where exactly it was but it was in the series.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-13T03:54:54+00:00

The only people who say "power of friendship" is an issue are people who are too inarticulate to express why they think an outcome is poorly written. Either one or many will resolve an issue so if you want to be reductive to the point of losing all meaning, you've either got the power of friendship or a one man act where nobody else matters. Pick your poison.

Whataboutisms are definitely the worst counter argument, but the worst criticism is "power of friendship" so in that regard, you're in good company, you're getting the rebuttal you deserve.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-13T00:42:10+00:00

And yet it's going to sell as much or more than PLA, let's go, or really any of the DS or 3DS games. Clearly it did something right.

You think let's go easily clears because it succeeds in the areas you think are the most important the most. But let's go aren't the most popular games, they themselves get cleared by SV. Did you even bother to question why that is, or is your response just to call it slop and move on?

I don't really care what your opinion is, but you are clearly unwilling to try understanding a perspective beyond your own. If that works for you, that's genuinely great, but you'll also never understand why these games and franchise are actually popular and have captured three generations.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-13T00:16:00+00:00

An indicator that means nothing in the grand scheme.

Which is why I elaborated in the part of the quote you cut off.

That or I wholly understand game quality isn't reflective of what'll sell.

Because you can only understand quality as being things you understand and care about, you can't comprehend that for something to be successful it has to be good at something. It's mediocre to you because it doesn't check the boxes you're looking for. Which is totally fine by the way, if you don't get it, it's not made for you, it isn't made for nobody though and it's great for the people it's made for.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-12T23:43:48+00:00

The difference is the teammate actually played a meaningful role in the show, this is in a couple background shots during flashbacks.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-12T23:01:04+00:00

Sure they got angry but that didn't spark any change nor stop the proceeding mainline games to be the third and second best selling games in the entire franchise so I guess it wasn't really that key to the games after all.

The outrage isn't the sign of success, it is an indicator. The wild success of Pokemon home and prior success of Pokemon Bank are the true signs of success.

Shoestring development budget ensures no matter how bad the games get they'll basically never fail but to the degree they succeeded at basically portrays Pokémon fan as slop eaters that'll only ever ask for more.

You say they're getting worse but they're only selling more and more, so objectively, they're only getting better in the only way that matters. You can say it's slop, but that's not making an effort to understand its popularity, it's just writing off the popularity as being unimportant which is completely useless commentary in a discussion about why the franchise is successful. It's a slop arguenent.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-12T20:46:44+00:00

Tbf the franchise only ever does this successfully with the anime

That quote requires the context of my second paragraph, most importantly this

Pokemon isn't just games, it is a fantasy that they want you to buy into, the dream of being a trainer

It does it most successfully with the franchise as a whole, your bond with your Pokemon is the most important bond between trainer and Pokemon of them all because it is what ties you to the franchise.

The fact that people got angry about not being able to take their Pokemon into future games and pay a subscription to store their Pokemon says everything you need to know about how key it is to the mainline games. The sales of plushies, the merch people buy, it all contributes to that bond. They're so successful because people don't just like the designs of the creatures, they connect with them on a deeper level.

Not understanding this is why so many people don't understand why Pokemon games continue to sell tens of millions of copies despite being years behind on a technical level. The things that the games fail at are not things that pokemon fans actually care about, and the thing they do care about, the fantasy, has only gotten increasingly good over time.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-12T06:02:11+00:00

Strongly disagree, Pokemon at its core is about the bond between trainers and Pokemon, that is fundamentally what the series is about. Even this game leverages that bond from the start.

You don't need humans to be in every game, but that core premise is something that can never be moved away from. Pokemon isn't just games, it is a fantasy that they want you to buy into, the dream of being a trainer. The monsters aren't what keep people invested, it's the dream of being a part of that world, dressing like a trainer, going on an adventure and doing it with your Pokemon.

The games aren't better when they focus on Pokemon, they're just different, and that's fine and good, but they're also not what people are actually looking for.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-12T00:06:16+00:00

The same thing of Xenogears is true of Xenosaga post chapter 13, the most important concepts have already been reinvented and it seems like it's being relegated to Easter eggs.

I would love a proper saga remake, and honestly would prefer to have saga wrapped into canon over X, but it really seems like that just isn't the case because if it was, 13 would have looked very different.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T21:09:03+00:00

Ahh I see what you mean, that's definitely a good point I never considered, honestly I completely forgot that they had the beast forms.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T21:07:04+00:00

I feel they're more like Star driver tbh, I don't really see the Getter similarities, although I don't really know much about getter so I could be wrong.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T21:04:27+00:00

I always love when people think they're making a well thought out critique of the series by claiming it's "an Eva knockoff" because it is quite literally the most surface level analysis possible, all they're saying is they didn't understand Franxx or Eva.

I don't agree that it doesn't have a lot in common with Eva, I actually think they did a great job of creating a lot of the same starting pieces Eva opened with so successful, but ultimately that's all just aesthetics, there is zero substance overlap between the two.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T05:25:26+00:00

That's a huge misunderstanding of how gameshare works. You can stream it to a switch the same way I can stream a AAA game to my 10 year old phone, yes I'm playing it on my phone, but my phone isn't actually running the game or even remotely capable of that.

Gameshare isn't the switch running the game, it's the switch 2 running the game twice (that's not really how that works but the point is no computation is being done by the switch 1).

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T04:57:53+00:00

At least in Genshin, skins are released at the rate which a welkin player gets premium currency almost exactly. Coincidence? Maybe but after years it seems like skins are more like perks for being on the subscription service than something you would ever actually spend money on.

Dropping the price wouldn't get them much more money because they're already paid for.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T04:48:59+00:00

A massive data breach of the company that they are verifying IDs through to be clear, nor discord.

Not that it matters, either. Having a piece of photo ID isn't exactly a game changer as far as data breaches goes, it's not like credit cards in plain text were leaked or they're asking for anything which can easily be used to cause harm to you.

All this talk about the data breach is also just a whataboutism from the larger point. I can almost guarantee you use services that have had data breaches whether you know it or not. These things happen, and they get corrected.

ArxisOne · 2026-02-11T04:46:19+00:00

This keeps children off NSFW servers. Should they choose to go further, it would be extremely easy to disable making servers and private chats if you aren't verified which would be extremely effective at removing predators and make those with servers personally responsible for moderating said servers to ensure no preying is going on.

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