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    Super Smash Bros. 4

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    Wii Fit Trainer is the best new fighter in the history of forever. Between her and Villager, we should clearly be seeing an entire roster of characters who don't have names.

    Nintendog, Mii, The Tactician, Picross Player, Brain Trainer, etc

    Xbox One

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    Consoles of yesteryear promised things like better graphics and larger game scope. There was something to shoot for. Nowadays, thanks to digital downloads and independent game development, that kind of thing doesn't really apply anymore. Games can have ANY graphics, ANY scope, regardless of their platform. Honestly, at this point nothing short of photorealism would get a reaction out of people, and that's still a good ways off.

    Gaming as a medium is also reaching a sort of financial breaking point. You can't simply make things better, bigger, and faster anymore without breaking the bank. It's too expensive and risky. When you can sell over a million copies of a game and still not break even, that tells me that it might be time to dial back the glitz and glamour and great swaths of environment some games receive.

    But I think we'll sooner see the big players (ie, Sony, Microsoft, EA, Activision) burn themselves out entirely before they would ever scale back anything.

    Why don't I hate the old Final Fantasies?

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    I personally take FF6 as my favourite, followed by 5 and 8. The more recent FFs (ie, 11, 13, and 14) didn't appeal to me, and I'm starting to think Square-Enix is a victim of their own success. They've got this enormous fanbase of new and old gamers who all have a different favourite game, a different least-favourite, and everything else, and they seem torn between appealing to everyone, appealing to two demographics whose tastes have split hard recently, and trying something fresh.

    Back in the PS1 days, Squaresoft was lauded as having the best graphics around. Today, that seems almost absurd, but damn if they don't try to retake that crown. They seem obsessed with it in FF13, to the point where everything else suffers. It was gorgeous, but it wasn't a living, breathing world. It was a facade of propped-up setpieces that were strung together with as little logical string as was feasible. Now FF13-3 is announced and there's barely a single squeal of excitement. People are tired of Lightning's grim seriousness and her world's lack of wonder.

    Hopefully once this whole FF13 business is sorted Square-Enix gets a director at the helm of the series who cares more about creating an enriched world to explore and less about how feathery everyones' hair is.

    Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3) Discussion Thread

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    There are some ultimate familiars, actually: Dinoceros is one you can catch in the field, and puts all other mons to shame with his sheer insane damage output. Up his attack frequency and metamorphose him and he's basically unstoppable.

    There's also Sapdragons, which can only be earned in the post-game, as well as the only naturally-planet-aligned, Nobilia-species mon you get from clearing the coliseum (again, post-final boss).

    That said, as familiars grow higher in level you may see diminishing returns on stat growth. Drongos and Cutpurrses are such examples. There may be levels where their stats don't go up at all. These are called "early bloomers" -- they receive their best gains early on, before level 50. Late bloomers, on the other hand, start with pretty low stats gains but as their level increases they get much better stat gains, more so than early bloomers.

    But like I said, Dinoceros makes it all moot so maybe just recruit one of him and enjoy your new easy mode.

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