News at XI: Pro Evolution Gossip

oh no

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ubisoft-studio-halifax-closed-9.7036470

Ubisoft unionbusting

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man i am not hopeful about them improving the writing in a post-LLM world… guess i’ll just replay new order for the fifth time

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I didn’t play Youngblood (sounds like a lot of folks didn’t, and those who did dropped it pretty quick due to grindy bullshit), but reading about it and it seems that game wrote off the most important carrot on the Wolfenstein stick with Hitler getting offed prior to the start of the game.

So is this gonna be the game that led to BJ being all mopey in the French catacombs or something after that? Frankly after Indiana Jones it kinda seems like they oughta branch out.

(Not buying MS games anyway but still)

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Join us as we delve into Game Freak’s intense one-person, one-dog action RPG Beast of Reincarnation. For the first time, Game Freak will reveal details of our protagonist Emma’s innovative plant manipulation actions and gameplay with her canine companion, Koo.

One-person, one-dog is a great genre prefix.

OPODs

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Pandora’s box inches slightly more open every day

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Game Freak? I met them at the meetup. They were really nice

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Mario Tennis is probably my personal most egregious ā€œyou expect people to pay $60 for this how many times?ā€ series even though they’re all pretty good

I remember being embarrassed that I bought the one on the Gamecube only a few years after the original and being like ā€œthis is fun but I can’t do this againā€

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adding game freak to the boycott list i guess

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I mean, it’s not an exclusive if that matters, even if MS is trying to maybe make it look that way. There are PS5 trailers for it from last summer. Still sucks that they are doing promo work with MS, so can’t blame anyone for writing them off.

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I think a lot also has to do with the Switch 1 being released in March while the Switch 2 was released in June.

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Except the Wii U and 3DS ones, they’re kind of a mess.

I think a lot of it has to do with the switch 1 having breath of the wild at $300 while the switch 2 has metroid prime 4 at $450. it’s also an unclear ā€˜upgrade’ on a thing everyone already has, while the switch 1 was novel.

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Give me shape. I like that shape. It shapely.

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kenshiro coming to city of the wolves?

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance added to Nintendo Classics GameCube. Weirdly only a Japanese trailer so far.

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It feels like Nintendo tried to MinMax the Switch 2 in a very ā€œwhat is the most we can charge and how far apart can we spread our releases and still make all the moneyā€ way and might have pooched it a bit. I don’t think it is gonna be a Wii U or anything but they were handed a very favorable market situation and I don’t know that they have taken advantage at all.

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I’m always not sure to buy N64 and GC controllers for Switch.

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At this point I feel like I still have so many switch games to play and the switch 2 is just those same games but prettier? Unless there’s some new kind of game that just couldn’t have existed without the uh, joycon mice?

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