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[ChikoLad]

>Playing Crash
>Spent a while figuring out how to get all of the boxes in Air Crash in Crash 2
>Finally figured it out and got all of the boxes
>Get to the end of the stage
>PlayStation boots to home menu by itself
>Try to go back into game
>"You do not have the permissions to run this software"
>BS, I actually bought this on my account
>Go to Restore Licenses
>Works, but the game has to reboot meaning I lost that Clear Gem

This is why I hate buying digital copies.

 

[praline]

I'd be down for a FEW direct.

 

[Wario Bros.]

I'm not banking on a Direct in the near future especially we just got one yesterday.

May I please be wrong, though?

 

[Opossum]

I'd be down for a FEW direct.

I have no doubt we'll get one, but I think that one might be August at the earliest.

 

[Deleted member]

*Logs on Netflix*
"Castlevania Netflix Original"
Oh, it's already out? Let's see how this goes
>4 episodes
Uh, I don't think they had much faith in this

 

[Arcanir]

Someone wrote a summary of the new Pokemon movie "Pokemon: I Choose You" after watching its world premiere screening at Japan Expo. Water Pokemon Master from Pokebeach shared the summary on his website.

For those want to read the movie summary, you can read it here. Be warned that it contains spoilers from the movie, so if you decide to read it, do so at your own risk.

This was what the author of the summary said about his overall thoughts on the movie:



He did enjoy some of the scenes though.

I read through the summary, and I'd thought I'd jot down some thoughts:

Spoiler: Movie spoilers

So it turns out those two new trainers that accompany Ash, the ones with Piplup and Lucario respectively, are from Sinnoh. The girl is from Twinleaf Town, while the boy is from Veilstone City. Yeah, they amp up the Sinnoh hints even more with their origins.

Necrozma doesn't show up at all in this movie. Not surprising.

From what we got of the summary, Marshadow seems like a minor character for most of the movie until the last third of it, where the Pokemon becomes an antagonist of some sort. I'm interested what made Marshadow go wild. Hopefully, it's not from silly reasons.

That scene with Ash and Pikachu sounds pretty good. Pikachu managing to talk human speech for a split second is surprising.

But in all, this movie doesn't seem like a kind that would "wow" me thus far. I'll have to watch it for myself to see what I think of it, but I guess it might be best to walk into it with low expectations. The last Pokemon movie that I really enjoyed was the Zoroark movie. All the gen 5 and 6 movies ranged from disappointing to bad IMO. We'll see how movie 20 compares to the others. I'm curious to know how the other reviews will turn out.

Spoiler

I had a bad feeling about it after seeing some of the promotions in the past few months, but it seems like my concerns were unfortunately correct. Reading through the summary, I have to agree with the above posts that it sounds like a mess. It's seems like it's trying to market so many things that it loses sight of a consistent plot and as a result its characters and storyline become underdeveloped. Granted, this is an issue with some of the other movies (Hoopa's especially), but considering some of the risks the movie seemed to be taking for celebrating the 20th anniversary it's a shame that it hit this one as well.

Maybe seeing it in person will change my perception, but considering what I've heard of the movie I can't say I expect too much.

Spoiler

Nothing was said about Luxray, though, which confuses me since it was showing up in promotional material.

Spoiler

According to another viewer, Luxray only appears briefly in a flashback as it died protecting Soji from a snowstorm. There may be a bit more to it in relevance to Soji's character, but it's otherwise seems to be unimportant.

 

[praline]

I have no doubt we'll get one, but I think that one might be August at the earliest.

But I want it noooowwwwwwww!

 

[Cutie Gwen]

*Logs on Netflix*
"Castlevania Netflix Original"
Oh, it's already out? Let's see how this goes
>4 episodes
Uh, I don't think they had much faith in this

They renewed it for a second season last week

 

[Schnee117]

#RWBY Volume 5 premieres October 14th!
Three new character shorts to air before premiere!#RTXAustin pic.twitter.com/YH1QwoJEBh

— Rooster Teeth (@RoosterTeeth) July 7, 2017

Non first scrubs get it a week later

 

[Deleted member]

Also, I have zero knowledge on Castlevania lote so I won't base my opinions on the series on whether it's a faithful adaptation or not.
Which will likely make for an interesting perspective when comparing to others.

They renewed it for a second season last week

Hopefully that means something

#RWBY Volume 5 premieres October 14th!
Three new character shorts to air before premiere!#RTXAustin pic.twitter.com/YH1QwoJEBh

— Rooster Teeth (@RoosterTeeth) July 7, 2017

Non first scrubs get it a week later

Not if KissAnime is working properly by then

Three shorts though? I wonder on who they'll be focused on: Team JNR, the three flat villains or something else?

 

[Metal Shop X]

HOLY GOD, AFTER COUNTLESS TRY, I FINALLY DID THE LAST CHALLENGE WITH AZRAEL. (And all the other challenge before it)
AND LET ME TELL YOU, THIS IS THE GREATEST FEELING EVER. :D
God, I love fighting game and I love even more video games.
And best of all, I had the Kamina color while using him, ROW ROW, FIGHT THE POWAH.

 

[Schnee117]

Three shorts though? I wonder on who they'll be focused on: Team JNR, the three flat villains or something else?

It's confirmed to be WBY
Weiss' is out next week apparently

 

[Opossum]

Kind of not surprised to hear about the new Pokémon movie's problems, honestly. I'll admit I was kind of hoping for the best, considering Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel was, in my opinion, kind of a return to form after a long string of meh to downright poor films (even then, VatMM had its issues, but it felt more like a pre-Unova film).

Ah well.

 

[Schnee117]

CRWBY mentioned EVO next week

mfw

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

#RWBY Volume 5 premieres October 14th!
Three new character shorts to air before premiere!#RTXAustin pic.twitter.com/YH1QwoJEBh

— Rooster Teeth (@RoosterTeeth) July 7, 2017

Non first scrubs get it a week later

Looking forward to it.

Avoiding spoilers is going to be a pain though.

 

[Metal Shop X]

"last post on the previous page"

Damn you Smashboard!! I curse you as I curse when I got the wrong move in a combo!

 

[Aetheri]

Metroid Direct?

No? Asking for too much...okay....

*keeps waiting for September*

Actually speaking of Metroid...there's the two Metroid speedruns followed by the 8 hour long FFVII speedrun tonight...that'll be cool to watch, though its a shame I won't be able to watch the entire run because it'll likely end by the time I have to go to work tomorrow...

 

[Wario Bros.]

Oh good! I found a tablet stylus at my house so I don't have to buy one. And it works on the Switch like I wanted.

Now I can make Splatoon 2 drawing easily (using my fingers sucked).

 

[Mythra]

Kind of not surprised to hear about the new Pokémon movie's problems, honestly. I'll admit I was kind of hoping for the best, considering Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel was, in my opinion, kind of a return to form after a long string of meh to downright poor films (even then, VatMM had its issues, but it felt more like a pre-Unova film).

Ah well.

Tbh this movie lost steam when they put a new story in the Kanto era. We expected based Brock and got random dudes.
Basically Rebuild of Pokégelion :V

I liked the last two XY movies and VatMM indeed felt like they picked up the pace with the Mega Battles and rad teamwork.

M21 better be an Ultra Beast fest.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

****, I need more coffee

 

[Erureido]

Kind of not surprised to hear about the new Pokémon movie's problems, honestly. I'll admit I was kind of hoping for the best, considering Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel was, in my opinion, kind of a return to form after a long string of meh to downright poor films (even then, VatMM had its issues, but it felt more like a pre-Unova film).

Ah well.

Yeah, I too would rank the Magearna movie as the best of the gen 5 and 6 movies combined. The side characters, including Volcanion and Magearna, were more enjoyable compared to the others. Jarvis (forgot his English name, but I do remember that was his Japanese name) was definitely the best villain we had from the gen 5 and 6 movies because of how cruel he was.

But when compared to the gen 1-4 movies, I still didn't like the Magearna movie that much. To me, Magearna movie lacked the charm that the better movies had. Even though Jarvis was one of the better villains in recent films, he was still nowhere as memorable as the other two most cold-hearted and sadistic villains: Iron-Masked Maurderer and Grings Kodai. Both had more backstory and cruelty going for them than Jarvis did.

 

[Wario Bros.]

From the official Smash Mouth Twitter:

I see you, I see everything! pic.twitter.com/VKiOAoOvDk

— Smash Mouth (@smashmouth) June 29, 2017

“There's a meaning behind it but not sure the band wants to dive into it. Let me ask them.”

Weird but safe bet it's Hey! Pikmin related

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

Mystery Direct? Did I miss something.

Also, hi guys! I'm back!

 

[Moydow]

I'm stuck with a 4* Mae too. -Spd even. >.<

The best thing about her, though, is that thanks to Blue Tome Experience she's ridiculously easy to train. I got her from lv 20 to 40 without needing a Stamina refresh. :D

Mine is +Def -Res. Not great, but not crippling either since Blárowl lets her make up the missing Res; it does make Iceberg a little less useful as her special, though. I personally skipped on Blue Tome Exp so she would have more SP left over for more useful skills, and I'm not in any hurry to level her up anyway (though not wasting a team would be handy). Can just put her through the Training Tower for a day or two if I need to.

 

[Deleted member]

Well, I found the Castlevania not!anime to be quite good. The action scenes were actually really well animated and choreographed.

That'd be kinky, Vlad.
Also @Prince Alucard your performance was great

Spoiler

Floating Vampire Jesus is a title you should be honored to have

 

[Hat N' Clogs]

I'm back from camp counseling. i hope you all are well

 

[N3ON]

Oh god, I don't think I have the fortitude to endure everybody boarding the rollercoaster of emotions with another nebulous direct "placeholder". v_v

Especially since if it happened in the next week or two I'd be quite surprised.

 

[praline]

My face when I listen to the Off the Hook song so much that I can almost understand what they're saying.

 

[A Distant Demon]

Yesterday:
"Oh cool a testfire! I would love to be able to play some splatoon 2 early as practice for when I buy it"
"hmm those hours will probably be iffy, and I always work that day"

Today:
*checks my hours for next week
"AHHHHHH **** THOSE I WORK THE EXACT SAME HOURS AS THE TESTFIRE DOESNT IT GODDAMMIT"
*come home*
*testfire STARTS when my work ends*

Can't wait ti play
I haven't used one of these in ages

 

[Aetheri]

I'm thinking it may be likely that this Nintendo Direct will have a focus on third parties...that's one of the key things that's missing for the Switch as most worthwhile games available for the system are 1st party titles...

Reggie also said there's still unannounced games set for release this year, and at this point more than halfway through the year they might as well announce them sooner than later...

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I didnt take music theory but man, this is intresting

 

[Delzethin]

We're back to this again.

There was a problem fetching the tweet

So we've reason to believe another mini-Direct is imminent, but no clue how big it could be. Hm...

I'm not sure what they have planned, to be honest. Maybe a FE Warriors one since there're modes to elaborate on and such, maybe a Kirby trailer to reveal the spinoff set for later this year? Or maybe something smaller. Or who knows, maybe they want to push Mario + Rabbids a little further and get more people to look past the bizarre concept.

Smash would be the dream here, but there're too many intangibles to say...

 

[redfeatherraven]

****, I need more coffee

I got you fam.

 

[Chrono.]

So we've reason to believe another mini-Direct is imminent, but no clue how big it could be. Hm...

I'm not sure what they have planned, to be honest. Maybe a FE Warriors one since there're modes to elaborate on and such, maybe a Kirby trailer to reveal the spinoff set for later this year? Or maybe something smaller. Or who knows, maybe they want to push Mario + Rabbids a little further and get more people to look past the bizarre concept.

Smash would be the dream here, but there're too many intangibles to say...

Could even be a 3DS focused one with indies thrown in.

 

[Wario Bros.]

I just now noticed the Off the Hook members both have moles.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I just want an animal crossing direct

 

[Cyn]

I just want an animal crossing direct

I'm totally with you on that. I'm weary about how AC mobile will be handled.

 

[praline]

I just now noticed the Off the Hook members both have moles.

All of the idols in Splatoon have them.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I'm totally with you on that. I'm weary about how AC mobile will be handled.

Tbh Im not worried about the app at all. I kinda forgot they were even doing it. As long as it isnt like pokemon go..I dont leave my house much if at all

 

[Deleted member]

It's obviously going to be an Etrian Odyssey Direct where they'll finally announce the long-awaited EO Dating Sim
You'll finally be able to take the likes of Fenrir, Ragelope and Juggernaut in a lovely date!

Im not worried about the app at all tbh

What if Animal Crossing Gacha?