News at XI: Pro Evolution Gossip

If this works mostly like the original Labo VR stuff did then you should be able to play Virtual Boy games on a Playstation VR as well if you mix the cables around enough:

Real OLED 3D, just like Gunpei Yokoi always envisioned.

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Strongly feel that letting a Ditto turn into a human in official pokemon product is crossing a line in the sand.

Also wow they finally made a building game where the objective would be to expand a natural environment for the sake of the animals living in it, and whoops no immediately the Girltto clears forest to make farmland and a hut.

The audacity of selling Virtual Boy hardware in 2025, of charging someone a subscription fee in order to play Insmouse no Yakata, and then stopping before the finish line and not including the $4000 SD Gundam game in the service.

My metroid thoughts in chronological order:

  • “A Metroid racing game? Boy they sure like slapping the Metroid brand on game projects they don’t think are good enough to be Marios.”
  • “Oh, it’s free roam? They must be really confident in Prime 4 if they’re releasing two similar games.”
  • “Oh no, this is Prime 4? I guess that explains why it was delayed for 3 years; they are completely out of ideas for what to do with Metroid Prime.”
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Probably worth stating that those with a 3ds lying around can do exactly this :speak_no_evil:

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the metroid thing i thought was a reused idea from the concept of giving link a motorcycle for botw but i saw online they did give him one in the dlc so i guess its actually just that everyones getting motorcycles its hog season 30-50 feral kirbys.

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I don’t know if any (sub)series of games gave me bigger diminishing returns than Metroid Prime. Loved the first game, it felt revelatory back when it released, then I ran out of enthusiasm for the second game when I was 80% of the way through. Couldn’t muster any interest in the third and I feel genuine disdain for what I’m seeing in this new one.

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I think it looks neat.

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Yeah I think it looks alright. I’ll play it when I have a Switch 2 but I think the series peaked with the first one. Back then it was an open question if you could do Metroid well in 3D so when they pulled it off it was impressive. Much less so with each new iteration though.

The Detective Pikachu film did it, with Suki Waterhouse as the Ditto, and I was not mad at it.

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It’s incredible how little I remember a movie I watched. I’m not sure there’s any film that slipped from my brain as thoroughly as Detective Pikachu.

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I for one think the line was crossed when it changed its arms into blade tentacles and vomited water for the grass

all of this is why i support girl ditto

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that comic is unfair and spreading a false narrative

it’s a hundred bucks and the NSO and Expansion Pass subs

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Sony won’t even go “hey you freaks, here’s Jumping Flash or Fantavision or whatever weird shit you like that we don’t care about”

Phil Microsoft excitedly let’s you buy Voodoo Vince because it’s his favorite game and the AI murder machine won’t pay for itself

Nintendo goes “here’s our biggest failure ever. hundred bucks to play it right asshole. 90% of the library. maybe if you ask nicely we’ll ask the cool translady to fix up Virtual Lab”

it’s 2025 and Nintendo of America fucking teased being able to play Insomouse no Yakata by shoving your face up to a tablet that just had a price hike 8 years after it launched. I wish other companies were this generically corporate safe insane

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A hacked 3DS can play the virtual library at full speed in 3D right now.

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that’s the difference between sony and nintendo. they both disdain their history, but for entirely different reasons; nintendo hates it that they can’t exert absolute control for an entirely curated experience – so they just litigate and pretend – while sony hates even the suggestion that they used to be something besides naughty dog and god of war, they are embarrassed of anything that doesn’t remind you of prestige television

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sega gets my respect for letting fan games exist.

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also it’s wild to me that they turned god of war into a prestige drama, have any of yall ever played the original couple god of war games, those things were bottom of the barrel trash entertainment. and not even in a good way.

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I refuse on principle to play Dad of War precisely because the Jaffe games are such appalling and repulsive trash. If you want me to play your prestige thing, you can’t hitch your brand wagon to the videogame equivalent of Girls Gone Wild. Fuck all the way off

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DQ7 remake looks fantastic, total surprise there

Mario Wonder DLC is nice, that felt like it was due, I never finished it on Switch anyhow

Hades 2 looks great though I think I bought it on PC like a year ago already and am just waiting for it to exit early access

Fire Emblem looks bad though excepting Three Houses (which was uniquely good at being tacky in a Fire Emblemy way) I haven’t played a Fire Emblem in decades anyhow

Metroid still looks neither bad nor good

new Mario Tennis looks good but I feel like there has never been a particularly worth it Mario Tennis — the first one was a mediocre Virtua Tennis competitor and I feel like every installment since has been a very expensive version of the same thing that has a campaign mode chucked in to justify how expensive it is.

still psyched for new Resident Evil, that and Air Riders continue to look great

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