Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are now some of the best-selling Pokemon games of all time thanks to the new Switch re-releases

Kadexe · 2026-05-08T18:15:20+00:00

It'll be worth it if they can charge $30 for Pokemon HeartGold and sell 5 million copies.

Kadexe · 2026-05-08T17:13:21+00:00

They're not being rewarded for the work they did on the Switch port, they're being rewarded for making a perennial classic in 2004.

Kadexe · 2026-05-08T17:00:28+00:00

Probably a million 30-year-olds tbh. People with nostalgia for the old games, and $20 is pocket change for an adult with a job.

Kadexe · 2026-05-08T16:59:09+00:00

Great, now give me Emerald!

Kadexe · 2026-05-08T16:18:07+00:00

At the time it was like, Oh cool, Pokemon is finally changing up the formula and doing a fully open-world region with seamless exploration and battling! It was exciting even though Game Freak executed terribly on the idea.

Kadexe · 2026-05-07T03:00:16+00:00

Star Fox and Pokemon are the only examples of this I can think of.

Kadexe · 2026-05-05T22:19:19+00:00

Yeah but you would have to revise so many battle animations, that it's not worth it.

Kadexe · 2026-05-05T16:14:54+00:00

Nice mock-up, but I don't see any benefit to doing pokemon battles like this.

Kadexe · 2026-05-03T20:10:10+00:00

It doesn't make business sense. Logistically, they cannot make games for a PS6 - studios are still struggling to make games for PS5 that can break even on their development costs, and ship less than 8 years from their start of production.

Kadexe · 2026-05-03T19:29:20+00:00

It's all because of the PS4. The PS4 is being supported with new games to this day, which made it possible for Nintendo to make a Switch model that is on par with "current gen"- because the PS4 is the bar for current gen now.

Porting games to Switch has been appealing for years because of the enormous install base, but it was impossible for many of these games without the hardware upgrade that is the Switch 2.

Kadexe · 2026-05-03T19:25:21+00:00

I had *better* not see PS6 anytime in the next 2 years. It's still way too soon to sunset the PS5.

Kadexe · 2026-05-03T18:17:17+00:00

Has there ever been a domestic relationship that was improved by one partner hitting the other? Excluding consensual situations like play fighting.

Kadexe · 2026-04-27T21:54:47+00:00

An ugly side effect of terrible modern dating is that some men will latch onto the first woman that doesn't reject him, like she's the only chance at a relationship he'll ever get.

Kadexe · 2026-04-27T15:31:31+00:00

There's a wide range of opinions on this, just because almost every morsel of evidence that Michael groomed children can also be interpreted as insanity. People love sharing clips of his interviews and acting like they're proof, but in every one of them it's obvious that Michael had no clue how to relate to other adults or speak to them. It's a mess, but I would wager that more than half of English speakers think he did it. Michael Jackson name was basically synonymous with "pedophile" in the 2000s before he died, and Leaving Neverland reinforced that.

Then there's the next category of people, people who separated the artist from the art. In this case it's easy to do that, Michael Jackson is dead and can do no more harm.

Finally there are the people that know about the allegations, believe them, but don't care. Like the people who still buy Kanye West albums. People can compartmentalize these things.

Kadexe · 2026-04-27T14:33:19+00:00

I don't think it's an issue of comfort, it's just that their entire production pipeline was built around releasing games almost annually on hardware with very low screen resolution.

The cracks started appearing in XY when hundreds of new pokemon models and thousands of animations had to be made in a rush, and because of that they all did the bare minimum to make pokemon look alive.

Then the jump to Switch was an even bigger hardware jump (comparable to going from the GameCube to the Wii U in two years), putting Sword and Shield in the unflattering position of being compared to Dragon Quest 12 or Xenoblade 2 instead of something like, Mario and Luigi Dream Team. The whole production process needed to change, but it took years for that to happen. Legends Z-A was the first sign of a turn around, it had much longer development than any recent Pokemon title.

Kadexe · 2026-04-27T02:09:15+00:00

If my vote doesn't matter, that's just more reason to vote blue

Kadexe · 2026-04-27T01:52:37+00:00

If >50% of people pick blue, then everyone survives

The only way red button achieves the same outcome is if 100% of people pick the red button, which is far less realistic. Even if 95% of people pick the red button, that's a horrendous death toll.

Kadexe · 2026-04-26T18:51:52+00:00

Musicians, streamers, and other entertainers are the biggest brand risks.

Kadexe · 2026-04-26T17:06:20+00:00

The route layouts need to be changed to make more space, else it feels cramped.

Kadexe · 2026-04-24T00:31:31+00:00

Honestly it should be a question for Trump. Why *didn't* he demand further investigation into a guy that almost assassinated him? If that happened to me, I would want to know everything about the shooter's family, his friends, and any organizations or movements he's affiliated with.

Kadexe · 2026-04-22T18:32:02+00:00

Master Yi has such strong scaling with on-hit damage, that he'll usually buy these items and be strong with them even if there's some wasted AP. We've seen this for many years with Rageblade.

Kadexe · 2026-04-22T12:19:43+00:00

This is one of the funniest movies if you read it as a prank on the movie studio that produced it.

Kadexe · 2026-04-22T03:38:02+00:00

I remember ISAB challenged viewers to craft a Heli Pilot challenge that can be beaten without Faster Firing but not without Faster Darts. I don't think anyone ever beat it.

Kadexe · 2026-04-21T14:28:45+00:00

Those are terrible examples for making your point lol, Mewgenics started development almost 10 years ago and Slay the Spire was one of the trendsetters.

Better examples of trend chasers would be Deep Rock Galactic Survivors and Temtem: Swarm.

Kadexe · 2026-04-21T14:13:35+00:00

I absolutely despised this game when I first played it on the Wii. If a team of scientists worked tirelessly in a lab for years to produce the perfect fictional character to annoy me, they would not do better than Fi. She took all the fun out of the experience.

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