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Probably eventually on one of his Friday night streams or a future Frame Trap. It might be a while though. Last week he was talking about how he hadn't played much DS or Luigi's Mansion due to being busy with Box Peek and sort of not feeling in the mood.
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When 2020 hits and we're in the midst of next-gen mania...the betting specials are gonna be ON AND POPPING
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agreed, i'd expect there will be plenty to do specials on next year with the new console launches, especially if MS and Sony do their own separate non-E3 reveal shows.
Yup, we need to get crazy. Bets for scarlet, beta for ps5, and finally the main event BOSMAN VS HUBER the E3 showdown.
That Box Peek episode was great but not as great as the previous episode. This one would go into the HoG only after all the Nintendo anime. Whereas last week was a first ballot 24+ points Great.
Does anyone know when Jones usually picks up fan mail for the Tuesday stream? Trying to see if it's too late to get anything over for this coming Tuesday.
Huber and Ian are bang on about Luigi's Mansion 3 release date. A week earlier would have been perfect.
That was fucking dark.
Man, Kyle did a good job with that part with the music and everything.
I like the implications this episode presents for the show's endgame. Knowing Kyle, I don't think he'd introduce something as nuts as multiple dimensions without paying it off somehow. Hopefully. I'll be very disappointed if this episode was just a fun romp.
I mean, I don't watch a lot of anime at all, so I don't know if there's some trope where a show will introduce a weird idea and then never pay it off. If that's what Kyle's doing, then sure I guess. But I'll be bummed from a storytelling standpoint.
I mean, I don't watch a lot of anime at all, so I don't know if there's some trope where a show will introduce a weird idea and then never pay it off. If that's what Kyle's doing, then sure I guess. But I'll be bummed from a storytelling standpoint.
It's obviously because Kyle watched Evangelion and wanted to put some sort of major trauma in the show somehow. That's really it.
Didn't he just watch that though? Like after the Netflix release? These scripts are two years old. I don't think that's it.
He did say that it's unlikely that Evangelion would influence Box Peek, but it definitely felt like an Evangelion thing. I don't think that just because the main story is in place that he can't make something spontaneously.
The scripts for Box Peek were done two years ago. Both Peek Ref 12's and Kazomi's archs had been set in motion in the pilot already. The last two episodes were excursions to explore the world or side characters like many great shows do in their mid-to-late-stage before going back to wrap up the main plot. The last 3 episodes will be peak box peek again.
It's been my favorite episode because it fundamentally changes how you look at
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Spoiler Modes have been Patreon exclusive for quite some time now. It's just $1, though.
Ah I wondered why I hadn't seen one for a while. I might jump on it, just been really cutting it tight for money recently so despite the really low price, its one of those things where I'm struggling to justify it anyway if you know what I mean. Like it's only $1 but it's also one I should probably save for food lol. Might have to catch up with it in a month or two when things are hopefully looking up again.
About this week's podcast, what Kyle said about Pokemon being Barney. I mean, he's not wrong, but it wasn't always like this. Pokemon used to be like Pixar, making games not only for kids but people of all ages. I'm not saying that the current games still aren't liked by older audiences, but they could definitely be a lot better than they are now. Problems with over-tutorializing, lack of significant challenge, and overall lack of extra content have plagued the past few gens. That's not to mention that cutbacks on Pokemon and graphical/animation hangups that Sword and Shield have.
Do Gamefreak need to change? I guess we don't yet know if Sw/Sh sales have been affected by recent controversies, but I'm guessing they won't. But if they were able to straddle the line between the hardcore and casuals in previous gens, then they should be able to do that again. I guess my argument is, you should always be trying to expand the audience of your games without alienating the existing playerbase. And you shouldn't be able to get away with providing less and less with every new game but charging more in return, regardless of the game being for kids.
Do Gamefreak need to change? I guess we don't yet know if Sw/Sh sales have been affected by recent controversies, but I'm guessing they won't. But if they were able to straddle the line between the hardcore and casuals in previous gens, then they should be able to do that again. I guess my argument is, you should always be trying to expand the audience of your games without alienating the existing playerbase. And you shouldn't be able to get away with providing less and less with every new game but charging more in return, regardless of the game being for kids.
I haven't listened to the podcast yet but I agree with everything you've posted.
I'm also not a fan of the argument that Pokemon needs to be simplified and made more accessible for a new generation of gamers (an excuse used to often defend the over-tutoralization).
Plenty of kids grew up with Pokemon, myself included. I see no reason to believe that the current generation of kids is, for lack of a better word, dumber and this need even more hand holding for a series that has never been particularly complex to begin with.
Haven't listened to the podcast yet but you can put me in the camp that believes Pokémon benefits from QOL changes as it enters the console generation. I grew up with Blue and Yellow, then didn't play again until Diamond. By that point, at least at that point and time, I remember feeling that Pokémon had gotten bloated with things it didn't need. Was it wholly obtuse? No...but it wasn't what I remembered. I played about 5 hours of X when that was released before dropping it entirely.
Now I am 15 hours into Shield with 3 badges, and absolutely loving it. I know the dream would be to have Horizon: Zero Dawn's budget, and create a truly wide-open experience, but honestly, the game sells too well as-is to ever change. I'll listen to the podcast tomorrow and hone my thoughts, but yeah...I doubt Game Freak will ever break the formula because there is just no reason to do so.
Now I am 15 hours into Shield with 3 badges, and absolutely loving it. I know the dream would be to have Horizon: Zero Dawn's budget, and create a truly wide-open experience, but honestly, the game sells too well as-is to ever change. I'll listen to the podcast tomorrow and hone my thoughts, but yeah...I doubt Game Freak will ever break the formula because there is just no reason to do so.
Apparently SwSh's launch day sales were more double what Let's Go did in two days, and all SwSh's combined SKUs could potentially rival Smash's launch according to Benji's estimates. I doubt Gamefreak will see a need to change, unfortunately. SwSh really could have used an extra year of development.
Yeah the Barney comparison is a bit extreme, Pixar makes more sense. It's for everyone but designed with kids in mind first.
Haven't listened to the pokemon part of the podcast yet - have played Sw/Sh: It's less handholdy, less casual, more challenging and more ambitious than S/M, US/UM and LGP/LGE.
i'm having a blast with SwSh, way more than with any game this year so hopefully they don't.
I think Gamefreak can do more to please people unhappy with SwSh while keeping what makes the Pokemon formula so fun over 20 years later.
hardcore fans will never be happy again. i'm convinced, they don't really know what they want.
What makes you think that? A lot of fans are not happy with the changes that started from XY when the series jumped to the 3DS. A lot of the issues people have with the games currently traces back to the removal of options, removal of features, less exploration, and more forced linearity. On top of that, Game Freak has cut the one thing fans have invested decades of games and money over to preserve, and the games feel less polished than any other mainline release. I think it's clear where the discontent is coming from.
This sort of reaction is sort of a pent up release of frustration fans have endured for seven years now.