Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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if game freak want to save their garbage franchise, they should copy SMT like they did when they made the first game. and by copy i mean rip the mechanics and gameplay from new SMT games and then dumb it down for babies (this was how the pokemon rpg games were born)
 
if game freak want to save their garbage franchise, they should copy SMT like they did when they made the first game. and by copy i mean rip the mechanics and gameplay from new SMT games and then dumb it down for babies (this was how the pokemon rpg games were born)
And add the dating elements from Persona
 
It's also how the Pokemon RPG games became shitty.
Not saying Pokemon games have to be ballbustingly hard or anything. Just stop holding the player's hand throughout the entire fucking game.
yep. they suck. its time for everyone to move on finally, grow up and play JRPGS that arent terrible, of which there are many
 
if game freak want to save their garbage franchise, they should copy SMT like they did when they made the first game. and by copy i mean rip the mechanics and gameplay from new SMT games and then dumb it down for babies (this was how the pokemon rpg games were born)

Save their franchise from what exactly?

Because unfortunately, it isn't financial ruin.
 
from being terrible. obviously people love slop and will continue to consume slop in the future, but where does that end? if you have any faith in humanity, there will eventually be a competitor who will steal their market.
There was that one game that people were looking forward to, forgot the name but it was ancap pokemon with guns. Shame it never got off the ground, and apparently the community/dev team is full of troons too, welp.
 
if you have any faith in humanity, there will eventually be a competitor who will steal their market.
Unfortunately, the attempts that have tried have all either bombed, or otherwise failed to so much as gently nudge the table so Game Freak hasn’t paid attention to them.

Game Freak has this market on lock, because nothing really scratches the itch quite like Pokémon - and it’s been a disaster for Game Freak more than anything else. The problem is, for anything to actually manage to steal the market, they would have to quite frankly recapture the lightning in a bottle that started this series.
 
if you have any faith in humanity, there will eventually be a competitor who will steal their market.
There's faith and then there's delusion. Like or hate the franchise, it has over 25 years of dedication and a worldwide spread under its belt and is the most profitable media franchise on the planet. The chances of some unknown company swooping in and stealing the throne is essentially zero, no matter how good these theoretical games or franchises might be. The only way Pokémon is gonna go away is if the entire company shuts down for some reason.
 
Unfortunately, the attempts that have tried have all either bombed, or otherwise failed to so much as gently nudge the table so Game Freak hasn’t paid attention to them.
That's wrong, during Sun/Moon era Gamefreak legit saw Yokai Watch as a competitor. That didn't amount to anything, but it did influence that era of games, for example RotomDex and the Rotom Phone in every game going forward.
BTW Yokai Watch video game is pretty cool, it's pretty much exactly like pokemon but without the branding. I would give it a go if you're looking for alternatives.
 
it's pretty much exactly like pokemon but without the branding.
Bullshit, and the only part of your post I completely disagree with.

The two are quite similar, but they're really not the same. The most they have in common is catching magical creatures in an RPG and some base elements like a max party of six (not exclusive to Pokémon), being of Japanese origin, being tailored to kids and having a bird's-eye view for the camera (which they've ditched since 4).

Every Yo-Kai game is not turn-based; it's an auto-battler where, in any given battle, all you have to do is command three of your Yo-Kai at a time to target specific creatures by throwing a single pin on one while catching floating orbs that come across the screen every second or two.

If you're not doing that, you're paying attention to the bottom screen to do a dumb touchscreen minigame to supercharge their ultimate move or save them from the effects of an opponent's.

If you're not doing that, you're shuffling through your inventory to heal a member or try and entice an opponent to join your team (which has a very very high chance to fail until the late game).

Note that you're doing all this while your entire party will not shut the fuck up and stop screaming any given member's catchphrase every single time it makes an attack or gets injured.

It's a lot more fast-paced, with minimal involvement from you in terms of actual attacking (save for special moves or inspiriting) and a lot more emphasis on reflexes and team-related buffs.

Also worth noting is that Yo-Kai has a much cornier tone, and the monster designs follow suit. I think there's maybe like 20 "serious" monster designs in the entire franchise, and probably half of those are Jibanyan reskins.

I could go into more gameplay differences here, and I kind of want to, but I don't want to go on another autistic ramble like before and I haven't played through the YKW games nearly as much as I have any Pokémon title so it'd be harder to draw proper comparison between the two. Just know that the two series are very different, even if they don't appear to be on the surface, and that a fair amount of the similarities between them often come from Pokémon adopting them after Yo-Kai's release.

The entire YKW fever that hit Japan a few years back sent GF into such a panic that it's a miracle the entire company didn't implode right then and there. Probably didn't help that the whole fad struck just as so much stuff was changing hands at GF (lol Masuda -> Ohmori).
If Level-5 hadn't driven YKW into the ground so quickly, maybe that panic could've actually lasted and kept GF on their toes...
 
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There's faith and then there's delusion. Like or hate the franchise, it has over 25 years of dedication and a worldwide spread under its belt and is the most profitable media franchise on the planet. The chances of some unknown company swooping in and stealing the throne is essentially zero, no matter how good these theoretical games or franchises might be. The only way Pokémon is gonna go away is if the entire company shuts down for some reason.

2024 on the farms: Musk buys Pokeyman
 
Here are my observations on the BW3 source maps:
  • In the Desert Resort, there is a Youngster who wants to be a 'bad' dude, complete with shiny forehead, because of his brother, who is a SkinheadCue BallRoughneck. While the Roughneck is proud of hi shiny forehead, he wishes that his brother would grow up to being a respectable person.
  • A Nursery Aide wonders in the Marine Tube if you are an adult-looking precocious child or a childish adult but thinks that both are 'cute' in their own way.
  • A Female Swimmer in Route 21 says: 'I'm a girl with everything... Wel, everything but a place to put my PokéBalls!'
  • There is a subtle reference to the 'NINTENDO 64!!!!!!' meme.
  • Bianca's last name is Bel, her Nipponese name.
  • There are actually quite a few untouched leftovers from the original Pokémon Crystal, including the old labs, the old Fan Club, the second Center floor, Lance's Room, the National Park and the old Game Corners. Weirdly, the two new Corners have the same scripts the old ones have but with some changed names.
  • Th exact same MooMoo Miltank quest is there, excep that you need to feed a Flaaffy called 'Woolie' Oran d Sitrus Berries.
  • The same applies to the Goldenrod Station.
  • The game uses BOLD INFLATION. This leads t odd situations, including calling 'Scales' 'SCALEs'.
  • A few words are misspelled.
Frankly, the BROWN girl, the non-binary character choice, and the lesbians ar essentially all of the woke stuff in the hack.
I spent over one and a half hours decapitalising everything in the maps and fixing the spelling errors and inconsistencies, though I may have accidentally decapitalised some constants in the process.
 
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I recently captured a fair amount of Shiny Pokémon over the past two days in Scarlet:
  • A Hoothoot each day for two with a total Shiny count for the species going up to four
  • A Shiny Gurdurr, I had to do a double-take on this one due to the lighting at night making it difficult to tell apart from a regular Gurdurr. Thankfully the orange-red nose is a bit of a giveaway.
  • A Slugma, bringing the total Shiny count for that species up to two
  • Two Shiny Mimikyu via the combined chances of the special Mass Outbreaks released around Halloween and Sparkling Power 3: Ghost sandwich, with one of ‘em having the Calmness Mark
  • Two Duskull, both were obtained in the 30-minute window opened by the Sparkling Power 3: Ghost sandwich
Oh, and we’re getting another Eevee event this weekend. Normal Tera-Type Eevee’s popping up in 7-star raids and special Mass Outbreaks featuring Eevees with a higher chance of finding certain Marks (a Jittery, Intense, Intellectual, or Flustered Mark for Mass Outbreak Eevees are found in Paldea while Mass Outbreak Eevees found in Kitakami will come with a Rowdy, Excited, Calmness, or Unsure Mark). I don’t see a reason to ditch my Halloween Mass Outbreaks for these little furfuckers at all, I’ll just wait to see if they’ll do a better event around Christmas/New Year’s.
And add the dating elements from Persona
Sir, this is a children’s franchise…

…despite the very clear presence of “Pokémon Adults” in the fandom. We just ignore those ones.
 
It is criminal how you can't date the best character in SV:
Clive
Not gonna lie, it mildly amuses me how, despite the coomer bait characters/Pokémon, the community apparently decided that fucking Larry was the best character in the game. Not any of the Main Cast of characters, not the V-Tuber that apparently made a lot of actual vtubers annoyed, but fucking Larry the Overworked Salary Worker.

I get it, but it's amusing.
 
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