@benpack If the battle voices in Xenoblade are putting you off, you can turn them off in the settings and the cutscene voice acting will be unaffected. So maybe try that out. They do get a lot better as you get more abilities and combinations of characters and attacks though, and some of the post-battle conversations are fantastic.
@faridmon: You are not correct on your console/handheld point. Prior to Three Houses:
Console: OG, Gaiden, Mystery of the Emblem, Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn (7)
Handheld: Binding Blade, Blazing Blade, Sacred Stones, Shadow Dragon, New Mystery of the Emblem, Awakening, Fates, Echoes (8)
ALSO only two of those console games made it to the west, while 6/8 handheld ones did. And 5/7 console games came out on the NES and SNES. So from 2001 until now 10/12 games have been handheld only. It is absolutely a handheld dominant series, although Genealogy, Path of Radiance and now Three Houses are all console games and considered up there with the best of the best.
@robpigott: You are getting this confused with another case. There are two platonic S supports both with men, which some had assumed pre-release had been romances. They are identical whether you are male or female. Not an intentional bait and switch but should have been signposted better.
The Telltale/Skybound thing has been addressed in another post (though I would like to say that I do believe that they are letting their 100% justified opinions of Telltale's management colour their opinion of Skybound, which is separate), so I'll address the Smash thing primarily.
I just relistened. Jeff led by saying that Smash is not one of Nintendo's "big games", which is an opinion he has voiced before. He then changed his tack a little in response to Ben. However there are plenty of sales data pointing out that this is not the case, Smash is responsible for plenty of hardware sales. It is a juggernaut in its own right, bigger than Zelda and almost on a par with core Mario games. And hell, it doesn't look very good but Pokemon Let's Go will absolutely sell Switches to the casual market. And they have a mainline Pokemon game announced. The Switch absolutely has the big guns on the horizon. The worst Nintendo misconception by far is the one that they just have Mario and Zelda and that's it.
The actor who died was Scott Wilson. Andrew Lincoln is the lead who is leaving the show. Not a great look to mix them up just to accuse Kirkman of being insensitive.
On a much lighter note, Smash Bros. is a bigger franchise than Zelda easily. The sales data is all there, the critical reception is there, and yes, people buy systems for Smash Bros.
Please factcheck. I love the show but those bits were awkward to listen to, especially the first.
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