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I honestly never liked them, even as a kid when other people had these transparent purple GBCs. I'm the sort of person who always prefers the plainer looking consoles. The Switch Pro Controller is nice though, with its smokey black transparent finish.

Plain, sleek looking ones are also great and right behind for me. But I just love seeing the inside of a technical thing. It's neat.

Ha, this is clever

Still wouldn't do, all DW characters range from being historical to being part of the Three Kingdoms books, so either way, not original videogame characters that can be eligible for Smash.
Besides, Ryu Hayabusa is a better choice for a Tekmo Koei rep.

What did they call it?

Bells and Whistles.

Which, as I found out, was the name they released it with waaay back in the 90s outside of Japan, so it makes sense to use the name again, but still, adding "Twinbee" as a subtitle would've been useful. I read the name when going through the eShop releases this week and had no idea this was connected to the Twinbee series.

Bells and Whistles is like the perfect name for a remake's subtitle so it's weird they didn't go with that

At that point it almost felt like he was playing the "Self-Aware Ironic Humor" card, not helped by Sothis' "too many swordsman" comment.

In fairness a lot of Smash players even if they use a certain character haven't necessarily played the source games.

That said it's still pretty funny tho'. Smash was, from what I understand, THE reason most in the west knew about FE pre-Awakening. I kinda wonder if that's part of the reason the Smash team seems notably fond of the series.

Really got my fingers crossed. I knew Rayman didn't have a chance during the big hyped up fighters pass thing, but I hope he slips in through the cracks of the 'less important' general DLC offerings now like Piranha Plant did

An SC girl who ain't too big for Smash? Hehaichi? Maybe even a Weap- wait, smash is for good boys and girls, Weaponlord is too gory.

I don't even think the Arcade version of S1 was a particularly great feature. Not so much a "Woah that's cool" as it was a "Woah, why are they bothering with that?". I just don't understand the point of re-releasing any version of S1/2/CD that's not just an updated port mobile versions. 

I dunno, S1 without the boring slow stages is a pretty great feature in my book

and certainly more interesting than "This feature from 20 years ago again"

There's no reason that "Mega Play mode" couldn't be added in with relative ease. 

I'm just curious if there's anything else to this release. After they announced the game in 2018, going "Look Knuckles is in this game!" after over a year is kinda weak.

This release is also getting the arcade version of Sonic 2, drop-dash, ring-keep mode and Super Sonic mode. I know they teased cut-content. Keeping my expectations low.

Drop dash alone makes it worth it. The rest either has been in the 3DS version or just isn't interesting (the arcade version of S2 is barely different from the console release).

Sega, port the mobile versions and add the new features there you morons. Most of the work has been done for you already.

What cut-content could they add? 

Can only think of; the original intention for Sonic to become Super Sonic in Hidden Palace zone. Was there any other well known cut-content?

Time travel

y'know, entire zones

Not that I think it'll happen.

Yeah, I think that's way too ambitious. Would require an insane amount of work.

I don't know what else justifies the 1 1/2 years this has been in the oven, tho.

Low priority, changes to release schedule.

Because he likes Smash?

That part is good, but I like it even when Hop reminds you that you're rivals by saying "we're rivals" whenever you meet up. You only meet him in every route and city as he tells you where to go and showers you with exposition dumps, so it's nice to be reminded that he's supposed to be a rival and not just a guide.

If it were the gen 2 rival he'd be like "oh you wanna know what happened? I'm not telling you, lets battle!"

i'm ready for donkey kong news

I mean, same, but let's not get crazy

too late, 2020 is the year of kong or i riot

I'm still disappointed how SEGA nixed that Dreamcast/Saturn remaster line they were working on.

"we need more cult hits"

yeah sure tha-

"dreamcast games"

oh come on

Outside of Skies of Arcadia, the arguably best SEGA DC titles already got ports onto PC; I'd rather if they're gonna look at that era, they look to the Model 3 titles instead. But the earlier years still have plenty to work with - Power Drift is sorely missing from the AGES lineup, as is OutRunners. Daytona USA wouldn't go amiss if we look at Model 2, Streets of Rage II would make for great Mega Drive rep, etc.

I wouldn't even say the current stuff is that far gone on the whole. The oddest pick is probably G-LOC over After Burner, or Puyo Tsu when it's already on the SNES app (though to be fair I wouldn't have seen that coming either) - but I appreciate that for this round, they've dug up so much stuff that hasn't been ported, even within the games that have (such as the EN translation for Puyo). 

Model 3 and Saturn would be great, too.

I dunno, I just feel like they're not really attracting people the way they could. I myself freaking love that they're bringing stuff like Ichidant-R over, it's awesome. But I feel like I'm in a tiny minority with that. 

I dunno, I'm not a shareholder, but I'm kinda worried they're gonna pull the plug before getting to the mid-late 90s.

Pokemon Sword and Shield: ReMind

Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels like this.

There's hype?

It's just a predictable logo design. Nothing amazing about it what so ever.

5 Million people liked the simple "white logo on black background" thing on instagram so yeah I'd say there's hype

...people like Playstation, I don't see what's so complicated about this.

"People still like Playstation" and " 'basic, same-than-before-but-with-a-five logo' is the most liked gaming related post on instagram" are quite two different things. I don't think the former even remotely describes how insane this is.

It's not even the box or formfactor of the console, it's the most basic thing they could've shown and it gets an insane amount of attention. Sony is really killing it.

People really want their backwards compatablity, they gonna vote so their voices are heard

Gamers are weird

i'm excited because we can add an 1 or I to the logo and have it spell PIS5

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I'd prefer not to.

It'll be focused on Home and possibly Sleep. Home is due early this year and was talked about ages ago. It's basically a big part of SwSh so it needs to be talked about. Sleep on the other hand... I'm still surprised that such a thing exists.

Oh, it'll be a Sleepfest alright.