I don't disagree, I just find it very funny that your predictions were basically identical to mine with slightly less detail and a lot more cynicism.
Oh yes, downloading leaked files is alright but editing them in any way? Now THAT is crossing the line.
No, dumbass, it's the same principle of using any of Nintendo's source in something separate that you make. They'll whip your ass with a cane and sue you.
Pokemon Go is genuinely pretty fun. Niantic is still doing events all the time and there is a community day coming up January 5th for sprigatito!
Don't. Trust me that it's getting worse.
For video games, TPC will either try to make Z-A less of a rushed games or they're going to try to get away with releasing another sloppy game like SV. I guarantee you it will be more woke than SV. When more Megas will get leaked and announced, you're going to see some excited people, especially from the Pokemon Go scene. As for the anime, you're not going to see Ash unless they want to diminish him for girlboss Lyko and her DEI buddy Roy. Some Paldea Pokemon are popular, but the anime is still struggling to win people over (that said, season 2 is a little better from what I'm hearing). The TCG side...I don't know. I don't play the TCG game, but I don't see it stopping unless they do something stupid. PoGo is getting closer to the total number of Pokemon in the franchise, but now we're hitting lameass and Shiny-locked territories (SV's aren't really coded to exist because a lot of the "shinies" look really bad). I don't know how players are going to be excited for shiny-locked bosses. Max Out was a disaster of a season.
Not really. I got back into it last February, and it's been a mixed ride. Now there's a new pvp cheat where you can freeze someone out of the game, but you can beat his/her team. PVP is beyond fucked. Raids are still broken, and nobody out of spoofers really likes the Dynamx (nobody is doing 3*s) and Gigantamax content (If it weren't for Stardust, nobody would do Gmax fights because they're too costly and too demanding even for whales). People still hate the new avatars, and we're getting a new DEI model that looks like it came from Dustborn called Mia.
I mean you can make that argument for Fissure as well. It's a more powerful Earthquake after all.
Didn't mean power, I meant direction. Fissure seems to imply a straight line while earthquake implies everywhere. Same with Surf too.
If you dipped out before Platinum and HGSS you missed out on what most oldheads agree were the most solid mainline games. B2/BW2 are fun as well, though a lot of the issues that plague modern Pokemon had their beginnings with them.
Black/White and Black 2/White 2 are basically the only ones you should bother with (alongside the rest of Generation 4).
I love TRPGs so that actually looks cool, also I remember loving the Pokemon Dungeon games as well.
I stopped keeping up after Gen 6. I think X & Y are where cracks started to appear, but ORAS is pretty good (but no Battle Frontier).
Don't go around advertising where the source came from and I doubt anyone will care. Even Nintendo isn't going to autistically check every bit of code for some random romhack and check it with their own archives. I have my own doubts as to any of it happening, but that's less on the legal side or Nintendo fearmongering and more about my views on the fanbase itself and it's competency.
Platinum(third version of Diamond/Pearl), Heartgold Soulsilver(Gold Silver Crystal remake, best remakes by far), Black/White 2(fantastic title, might have to play the first games to get the full story), Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire(Not as good as Heartgold Soulsilver but worth it for the added content and the new Pokemon/updated mechanics) and Ultra Sun Moon(Last good mainline games and the last games where you could have every Pokemon and move. Linear and easy but still a fun time). Then there is Arceus Legends, which tries doing something different and is better for it. The rest are garbage, and aside from Platinum/Heartgold Soul Silver none of them are really as good as the earlier titles.
Same, ORAS is at least a better remake than anything on the switch and the music was great.
Thirding ORAS, ORAS was my fucking jam and it got me into shiny hunting.
