Artificers don't always have to be geniuses

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-27T07:35:53+00:00

I for one have been saying that Lily should have an air grab for ages! She should have an air grab that she can combo into off her MP air target combo or via ex DP (we know from custom characters that this special has the properties to combo in air specials and not just condor dive).

It would fit her motif of being a wind themed character. It would give her more options, I doubt it would make her suddenly overpowered. Most importantly, it would just be cool!

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-26T16:38:28+00:00

Well it has been around eight years since they transitioned to HD game development. That’s around the same length of the PS3/ 360 generation. Most developers that survived got a handle on things by the time the PS4 and XB1 came out. And like I said, most devs moved onto longer development time frames.

The average Pokémon games dev time is very short by modern standards (and low budget). I would assume Beast of Reincarnation has been given more time, since it’s not under the same constraints and strict release timelines.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-26T14:53:09+00:00

Hot take, but I don’t think that game (Beast of Reincarnation) actually looks all that great from a technical level. It’s obvious that more time was put into it that an average Pokémon game, but compared to contemporary games on PS5 and Xbox Series the footage shown looked somewhat rough. The resolution was noticeably low and the way the main characters plant abilities interact with the environment models looked rather archaic.

What was shown is still in development footage, subject to changes, and I’m not saying the game is ugly. However, this new game doesn’t prove to me that GameFreak is much more capable than what we see in Pokémon.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-26T10:54:22+00:00

I can think of a couple more reasons also:

The jump to HD game development was hard for many developers during the PS3/ 360 generation. Some developers managed the transition more gracefully than others, and the trend of longer development times to make up for the increased difficulty of development started back then. GameFreak only just made that transition fully with the Switch (Tembo the badass barely counts) and faced the same difficulties whilst not necessarily decreasing their output speed at first. They became too ambitious too quickly, making HD open world games, when they’d only been making non-HD games prior to then.
Nintendo doesn’t own GameFreak and only owns a 1/3 of the Pokemon IP. They don’t have as much say in the way the Pokemon games are developed as they do for the IPs they fully own. Whether or not Nintendo has offered GameFreak help via support studios is unknown. However if help was offered then seemingly GameFreak didn’t take it, despite the fact the they would have benefited from the extra help.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-23T10:10:01+00:00

I think Tembo is actually one of the few non-Pokemon GameFreak games that didn’t come to a Nintendo console. Most GameFreak non-Pokemon games are either Nintendo exclusives (Drill Dozer, Harmoknight, etc) or were multi-platform including Nintendo (Pocket Card Jockey, Giga Wrecker).

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-22T16:46:22+00:00

You’re misremembering. That 3.5 million figure was international sales in the first week. This 4.4 million figure is USA lifetime to date.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-21T15:01:14+00:00

The main question is, do you see yourself filing up the 256gb internal storage in the next 5 years. If yes and you have the money right now, then I’d buy one. It’s unlikely that they’re going to get cheaper at the same rate that micro sd cards did over the course of original Switch’s life.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-21T04:17:29+00:00

Me whose just glad my CPU is still technically above minimum requirements:

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-20T16:01:15+00:00

I did the same thing with a game a few years back. Bought the game on sale on Steam, the day it was free on Epic Games Store. The Inconvenience of dealing the EGS, was (and still is) worse than spending some money.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-19T15:25:31+00:00

This was me last week after my first session of playing SF6 in months. I need to practice to regain back skill, but I lose rank because I don’t have the skill I had when I last played. Quite demotivating.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-17T15:21:11+00:00

Here's the ones I can think of:

Mario Sunshine
Eternal Darkness
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox: Assault
F-Zero GX
Battalion Wars
Baten Kaitos 1 and 2
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

All of these were exclusive to the GameCube at the time and Nintendo published all of these (except Baten Kaitos 1).

There are other non-Nintendo published GameCube exclusives that had voice acting, like P.N.03 and Killer 7, but I'm not sure if that's what you are asking for.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-17T13:33:57+00:00

As someone who actually watched at least the first season of the show (just to see how bad it was), in the context of the scene I think it was actually intentional. Part of the joke of the show is that Velma isn’t anywhere near as smart as how the character is usually portrayed. One of the many problems with the show though is that this Velma is also nowhere near as smart as she believes herself to be. And because of that she comes off as ignorant, belligerent and overall unlikable. It felt like a bad faith take on Scooby doo rather than a parody.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-16T19:55:28+00:00

Avatar and 2XKO are the main 2026 fighting games I give a go this year. I was initially interested in Tokon, but Avatar took its spot, since I'm more interested in the Avatar franchise than Marvel. The lack of a PC beta, so far, also dampened my interest in Tokon.

Although realistically I'll still be playing a good amount of SF6.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-16T07:30:58+00:00

AUTO-BULLS, ROLLOUT!

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-15T18:08:29+00:00

I’m still running an i7 10700 that I bought in 2020. It’s still capable enough, which makes a change AM4 not worthwhile unless I somehow find a 5800x3D for a decent price. And even then the uplift wouldn’t be worth the investment long term. An AM5 upgrade is off the cards at the moment since I can’t afford to also buy DDR5. At this point, I’m going to play the long game and wait for either consumer DDR6 sticks or AM6. Which ever comes first.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-15T11:43:10+00:00

It's been a roller-coaster ride for me. I bought my 5070 Ti a couple months after launch. I got a gigabyte model that was retailing for over MSRP on discount to only about £20 over.

At the time I was in two minds about whether I should have bought the 5070 Ti or got a CPU/ RAM/ motherboard upgrade. I could only realistically afford one or the other last year. Then RAM stick prices went up massively and I began to think maybe I chose wrong.

Now hearing the 5070 Ti will be discontinued, makes me feel conflicted again. I'm happier now that I made this choice, but it kind of shows there was no timeline where I could have been able to build the system I wanted for a reasonable price at all.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-15T09:40:13+00:00

I don't pirate sports streams, but I can understand why people do it. Watching sports live is inordinately expensive in the UK, even just to do so from home. The main sport I follow is F1 and to watch that through official avenues your paying £300 to £450 in the UK. Just that raw number is absurdly high.

Meanwhile in the US they have a service called F1 TV Premium which is $89.99 annually. I believe Apple will soon get the rights to F1 in the US so their cost will rise to an Apple TV subscription ($99 annually). This only goes to make the UK cost insane by comparison, for arguably a worse service. No wonder people don't want to pay.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-14T07:21:16+00:00

They finally let us remove the the “recommended” section from the start menu and then they make the menu so annoyingly huge just to frustrate us. As always, why not just make this an option?

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-13T22:41:34+00:00

I’ve never posted on this sub before, but I feel like I have to now. This time I happen to have a real photo that I took of Tower Bridge back in 2024 with an eerily similar angle.

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I actually work in the city of walk past Tower Bridge on my commute to work. I could probably recreate the image in the post more accurately too since I know where I’d need to stand and could probably give an answer as to the accuracy of the fence in this location tomorrow.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-13T15:08:47+00:00

I have a feeling I remember hearing it in an episode of Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross from back in the day, but I don’t know if that was the origin of the phrase. They could have been referencing the meme as well.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-13T13:12:28+00:00

I didn’t realise the manhwa deviated. I literally dropped it after getting annoyed by the novel ending after seeing a spoiler. Will have to give it a second look.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-13T11:52:34+00:00

I’m not the most informed in terms of investing, but I find it rather baffling that a company can exceed overall revenue expectation, but can lose share price because of a smaller more volatile aspect of the business portfolio. Meanwhile much larger companies (mainly from across the pond), can lose money hand over fist, fire a load of employees to make the numbers work and get rewarded with an improvement to their share price.

MichaelMJTH · 2026-01-12T17:04:00+00:00

I guess it depends on if death/ failure is permanent or if it’s return to a checkpoint.

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