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

[Catgirl Tyranid]

What are you guys' predictions for the presents?

You can have legitimate bingo points or what you actually want them to do or show

"We have fired all our programmers and directors and hired the people that used to be at Genius Sorority. That being the case, the next game will be Pokemon: Shadow/Light Versions in which a plucky adventurer leaves their home town and has to fight back against a swelling darkness or creeping light depending on which game you pick.

Also, Pokemon Legend's Z-A or whatever is being replaced with a complete Remaster of Pokemon Coliseum complete with an open world. Since most of is desert, we're just going to use the Scarlet & Violet engine since it should be able to load the vast stretches of nothing fairly easily." (It will be a buggy mess regardless, but critically acclaimed as the best dark fantasy RPG Nintendo has ever released.)

 

[Squawking Macaw]

What are you guys' predictions for the presents?

You can have legitimate bingo points or what you actually want them to do or show

If someone does a bingo it should have "no new Mystery Dungeon" as the free space.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

The anime power-of-friendship BS added by the affection system was genuinely one of the worst ideas. I think I hate this more than the gamebreaking buffs.

I get what you mean. Ultra Necrozma should have knocked out my Decidueye in the climatic battle, but he held on for THREE straight turns and gave me the win. Talk about absurd luck.

 

[Grayback]

You spend a lot of time reading that an attack or effect occurred followed by watching the corresponding animation (if there is one). Pokemon, to this day, has not kicked this habit and it’s frustrating.

Dedicating a text box to every single effect makes battles in the main Pokemon games cumbersome and slow

it's just repeating information we already know.

We have to remember that it's geared toward new players who
1. don't already know what all of these effects do, and
2. won't be able to learn it in the first place if they're not told by the game what's happening.

I'd love for there to be an option in the settings to hide those messages.
I'd love for there to be icons that just sit next to a Pokémon in a battle to show you active stat boosts / decreases / perish song timers, or battlefield icons that indicate weather, terrain, remaining turns, etc.
Even better, I'd love for there to be an action log like you see in some RPGs or card games, where you can press a button to bring it up if you missed an effect and you want to go back and look at the list to see what happened.

But I think that the messages should stay as they are by default, until the player goes into the menu and changes that setting for themselves.
Like knowing to go change stuff like battle style or text speed.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Dale Used Pocket Sand! It's Super Effective!"

- Steamed Sam

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Even better, I'd love for there to be an action log like you see in some RPGs or card games, where you can press a button to bring it up if you missed an effect and you want to go back and look at the list to see what happened.

It'd be useful to have a message log like in the PMD series, where abilities, moves, etc. are highlighted in green and you can select them to see what they do. There's even a shortcut for it, B+Y.

 

[The Cum Beast]

Absolute state of modern pokemon.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Someone adjusted 3D Pokémon animations, aturation, and even shiny palettes.

His YouTube shorts have plenty of these 'glow ups', one per Pokémon.

 

[X-avier cuck]

"We have fired all our programmers and directors and hired the people that used to be at Genius Sorority. That being the case, the next game will be Pokemon: Shadow/Light Versions in which a plucky adventurer leaves their home town and has to fight back against a swelling darkness or creeping light depending on which game you pick.

Also, Pokemon Legend's Z-A or whatever is being replaced with a complete Remaster of Pokemon Coliseum complete with an open world. Since most of is desert, we're just going to use the Scarlet & Violet engine since it should be able to load the vast stretches of nothing fairly easily." (It will be a buggy mess regardless, but critically acclaimed as the best dark fantasy RPG Nintendo has ever released.)

The sad thing is that they did hire the Genius guys ( James Turner use to work for them), but they now only make mobile slop like Cafe Remix and whatnot

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Someone adjusted 3D Pokémon animations, aturation, and even shiny palettes.

His YouTube shorts have plenty of these 'glow ups', one per Pokémon.

>NEYEdoking
>JEAN five sprites
This dude says shit weird.

Otherwise, idk, the Gyarados one seems like it's a much better change but everything else still feels soulless. Doesn't have the same charm to them like the Stadium game models did. Still, an effort was made, so I'll give him that.

I like the scolipede nature differences though, mainly because scolipede is my favorite pokemon. But Nature animation differences should ABSOLUTELY be a thing because it gives the Pokemon more personality and can be easily detected when you're trying to catch a pokemon with a specific nature for (competitive) team building if you're not haxing.

 

[Imperial Commandos]

"We have fired all our programmers and directors and hired the people that used to be at Genius Sorority. That being the case, the next game will be Pokemon: Shadow/Light Versions in which a plucky adventurer leaves their home town and has to fight back against a swelling darkness or creeping light depending on which game you pick.

Is is pretty sad that the gamecube games did a better job capturing the spirit of pokemon and the anime than any of the mainline 3D games by gamefreak.

 

[X-avier cuck]

In the fairness, that's because most of the Colosseum games were using assets created by Nintendo EAD (the dudes that create Kirby and help with Smash) and due to stadium basically being made as a battle simulator that means they could go all out with the quality.


The problem with the Pokemon models has largely been remedied thanks to creatures Inc revamping a lot of the older models starting with Legends and that's continuing with scarlet and violet and now Legends Za.

The missing problem is that we lost the dynamic camera that we used to see on the handheld games and xy/usum.

They try to speed up a lot of the battle animations but it ends up making things look completely cheap and wonky.

 

[Abella]

Sometimes I’ll find lists from the Japanese part of twitter and I’ll find decks like this. The whole strategy is to either get a knockout with 8 damage counters or to use brute bonnet and then dastardly jab so that they’ll be down to 10 hp and KO’d due to poison checks. It’s complete ass and a glass cannon, but also hilarious because your prize mapping is just take the 1 prizes out and ignore the 2 prizes.

 

[Registration]

Just found out that the english voice actor of Meowth in the anime was a tranny that died (not because of suicide, shocking)

Maddie Blaustein - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Archeops]

Sometimes I’ll find lists from the Japanese part of twitter and I’ll find decks like this. The whole strategy is to either get a knockout with 8 damage counters or to use brute bonnet and then dastardly jab so that they’ll be down to 10 hp and KO’d due to poison checks. It’s complete ass and a glass cannon, but also hilarious because your prize mapping is just take the 1 prizes out and ignore the 2 prizes.

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I always find lists like these interesting in practice but they only do well in Japan due to the Japanese tournaments are structured (IIRC they’re Best of One rather than Best of Three like international tournaments are).

Oh, and a poison donk deck with Roaring Moon ex support won SPE Bologna (the link features one that got 9th at a previous SPE but since it’s from the same player I’m not expecting any big changes to the list).

 

[Abella]

I always find lists like these interesting in practice but they only do well in Japan due to the Japanese tournaments are structured (IIRC they’re Best of One rather than Best of Three like international tournaments are).

Oh, and a poison donk deck with Roaring Moon ex support won SPE Bologna (the link features one that got 9th at a previous SPE but since it’s from the same player I’m not expecting any big changes to the list).

Poison donk is a fun archetype in a format where everything is 2 prize dependent. That list was pretty neat and I’m glad to see something other than the same handful of decks win a regionals.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Z-A release date pretty much confirmed for October 16th 2025. My expectations are underground but it could be good. I will not buy it at release, though. I did that with Violet and have not even completed it, and I doubt I will.

 

[Abella]

Z-A release date pretty much confirmed for October 16th 2025. My expectations are underground but it could be good. I will not buy it at release, though. I did that with Violet and have not even completed it, and I doubt I will.

violet’s post game content left so much to be desired and you can’t even battle the elite 4 again.

 

[Registration]

So I finally beat the Elite 4 for the first time in Pokémon Unbound, nota gonna lie, I love this team, not only because they helped me in the harder fights in the game but without any idea, it was a quite balanced team against the elite 4 (Ghost, Ground, Fairy and Dragon) and somewhat could also beat the more balanced Champion.

The goat was of course Mega Garchomp, but holy shit Vikavolt decided the champion with two crits that made the fight way easier.

And I searched for the mega Sharpedo dstone and could never find it.



So after beating it, I go back home and found out that they stole my mother lol.

Lets see what the postgame has go offer.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Are there any Pokémon ROM hacks that have an actually good story?