What I'd love to see more of in 2019 forums in general is just more conversations between posters. Nothing makes me more sad than a thread like, "What are you playing?" and responses that are just game names, or a game and a tiny description. Use that quote button! I just feel like voicing an opinion has superseded listening and responding. And that's what I feel are the strengths of forums; otherwise, it's just like Facebook posts and comments.
Good luck Playstation, you will never Direct your way into my Nintendo heart.
This is exactly the correct amount of weird.
Well I, for one, am very excited.
I kind of get where everyone's coming from, where there's a lot of disappointment around missed opportunities to make a really big change. But in the worst case scenario, this will be the biggest, best-looking, most ambitious Pokemon game yet. It has a fantastic setting, and the Pokemon aren't furry (something I was genuinely worried about).
There's only so much Pokemon you can sacrifice before you're not Pokemon anymore, and they don't want to lose their Pokemonness, on a gameplay or meta level. I know we're all right stick pros, but don't forget how much complication that brings for people new to games, and can you definitively say this game would be better if you were a new player and fought with the camera the whole time? Can you definitively say Pokemon would be better if it were an open world? Have you ever played a bad open world game?
I'm not saying the grand Pokemon quest couldn't be a good game; I very much hope it comes soon. But this is a scary time for Pokemon, and they specifically mentioned that the formula has gone stale; I just think they're playing it safe for now. The next game might not be Grand Pokemon Quest, but I think there's a lot left to be seen in Sword and Shield, and even more to be seen in the followup generation (a spinoff?).
Scorbunny evolves into a taller, fieryer, anglier rabbit (Feminine)
Grookey evolves into some samurai taiko master dude (Strong)
Sobble ugly ducklings into a water lizard poet with emo hair (Cool)
@mbun said in That's News!:
@inflorescence said:
The easiest explanation is that Philipp Brock regularly visits 8chan and didn't think it would be a big deal.
That feels like a major leap in logic to me. I personally think the easiest explanation is someone that uses or runs 8chan approached them asking for them to host an AMA on it, and the guy just did absolutely no research on the website ahead of time, probably wrongly assumed it was only about as bad as 4chan, which despite being treated as one of the worst places on the internet is really just an open version of the same stuff that also goes on places like Reddit where AMAs are common and never controversial. They're simply run differently, which has pros and cons for each.
To me, the leap in logic is in thinking that someone can spend an hour talking to people from 8chan, on 8chan, making loli jokes, and assuming that person didn't understand what they were doing. That reality makes less sense than "I just didn't realize I was in the sketchy part of town."
I mean, in the Game Informer article, Imran was saying that they were going along with loli jokes and stuff. I've never been to 8chan, but I guarantee that after 5 seconds of being on the site, you would understand what it's used for.
Plus, your PR person knows 4chan. You can infer from there what 8chan is. There's no way an online communications professional knows Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, but not 4chan.
The easiest explanation is that Philipp Brock regularly visits 8chan and didn't think it would be a big deal.