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

OddEyes said:
Ha ha, old man.

But in all honesty, that's a bad mindset to have - Just because something is bad now, doesn't mean that there wasn't passion in the games before hand - There was. Gen 1 was broken, but you could tell that a lot of work went into the games considering the hardware limitations at the time.

Again, the reason why things seem to have gotten bad was when the game's mainline jumped to the 3d era.

I guarantee you, that if the games were still in 2-d, none of these problems would exist. Hell, we'd probably marvel at the pixel art right now - But, if wishes were fishes...
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Yeah, you're right. I still have the older games that I'm fond of. I should just accept that this one isn't for me and be a man about it, it's just a kid's game.

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"these threats are totally credible and scary guys, trust me it's not just random people on the internet talking shit"
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As far as I've seen, even on /vp/ the extent of the anger has been extremely angry and funny vocaroos.
 
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As far as I've seen, even on /vp/ the extent of the anger has been extremely angry and funny vocaroos.
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and some /vtm/ level music parodies don't forget that
Kari Kamiya said:
Good God, what a faggot. You can still love a franchise while being critical of the direction it's going in.

I'm sure most Pokemon fans still remember the day when the 4KIDS actors were "replaced", therefore kicking off SOVA, but I feel like I'm the only one who still remembers the shitstorm than ensued in 2013 when the 16th movie was coming out. Everyone got excited for it because Mewtwo was announced to be in it, literally, that's the only reason people were talking about that film. Like I believe it was from February to sometime in April where people were gushing on about it because omigawd it's Mewtwo!!!, but then a second trailer came out and revealed Mewtwo had a feminine voice, and everyone lost their goddamn minds. That was also around the time the Corocoro Mega Evolution leak came out, and no one wanted to believe it was real. There were still people defending it, willing to give it a chance, and if you know where to look you can find fans of whom they called "Newtwo", but there's kind of a reason why it's the second-lowest grossing Pokemon movie. No one was happy with it, and it got to the point where the screenwriter locked his Twitter account from the bombardment of messages he got.

We pretty much didn't get the answer until just this year as to why they made that decision (they didn't have the rights to Mewtwo as a character, it was with Takeshi Shudo's estate), but it had soured a lot of people's opinions of the anime's direction. Yeah, Best Wishes already had done that, and it was one of the last criticisms of BW before the Unova League, but the damage had been done. People say XY went in a better direction, but the fanbase was long-since splintered, and it never got better. The AmourShippers are among some of the worst, most obnoxious shippers in the Pokemon fandom, and the heel-face turn of the fanbase towards Alain gave everyone whiplash (and me lots of lulz because these were the same people who praised him as a character during the Mega Evolution specials) when he "stole" the championship from Ash. And then the new art-style turned a lot of people off, and I dunno if there were any real controversies for the Sun and Moon anime season, but my point still stands: The Pokemon fanbase was always shitty, always broken.

This is just another day, another year of Pokemon controversy, but this is definitely trumping the anime fanbase's chimp outs. It was just a matter of time, if you ask me.

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It was so obvious BW was going to go one direction but the earthquake fucked it all up apparently, that's kinda why the series feels a bit rushed, that was where I dropped off for the anime but checked in with X and Y at least it had some cool animation for battles. Its probably that final match in the kalos league's backlash that Ash won Alola though
 
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Dennis Robert on Twitter

“@xoxogossipgita I'm a die-hard pokemon fan since red/blue but I'm more than willing to give the new games a chance before I *checks notes* start a petition to D*n*ld Tr*mp to block sales of these games. My favorite isn't in sw/sh and that's a bummer but I will carry on.”
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These faggots are mocking people who are upset about Game Freak lying about reused models while at the same time taking that White House petition seriously

So seriously, in fact, that he has to censor out Donald Trump's name
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Wew.
 
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Oh boy I can't stop following this exceptionalism. Here are some juicy updates. Japan has also joined full force.

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There is this shit going on in Japan, Japanese hatred for South Koreans is at an all time high. Apparently Game Freak seemed to cover up that this gym leader was a Taekwondoe Master instead of a Karate Master. I don't have much understanding of the cultural significance of this outside of the Japanese hating all other Asians historically, most infamously the Koreans and Chinese.
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Here's a good video explaining why the models are basically identical, he identifies the few minor changes in some models. In my opinion very little to almost no work was done on those "new" textures either. Anyone with basic knowledge of Photoshop can do that in about 15 minutes.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield Model Comparisons to 3DS Models

Recently, Sword and Shield has leaked out into the wild, and that means the model files for the game are also out there. It's time to finally look and see wh...
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Kari Kamiya said:
I'm sure most Pokemon fans still remember the day when the 4KIDS actors were "replaced", therefore kicking off SOVA, but I feel like I'm the only one who still remembers the shitstorm than ensued in 2013 when the 16th movie was coming out. Everyone got excited for it because Mewtwo was announced to be in it, literally, that's the only reason people were talking about that film. Like I believe it was from February to sometime in April where people were gushing on about it because omigawd it's Mewtwo!!!, but then a second trailer came out and revealed Mewtwo had a feminine voice, and everyone lost their goddamn minds. That was also around the time the Corocoro Mega Evolution leak came out, and no one wanted to believe it was real. There were still people defending it, willing to give it a chance, and if you know where to look you can find fans of whom they called "Newtwo", but there's kind of a reason why it's the second-lowest grossing Pokemon movie. No one was happy with it, and it got to the point where the screenwriter locked his Twitter account from the bombardment of messages he got.

We pretty much didn't get the answer until just this year as to why they made that decision (they didn't have the rights to Mewtwo as a character, it was with Takeshi Shudo's estate), but it had soured a lot of people's opinions of the anime's direction
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Wait what the fuck? How are you able to have the rights to make the Pokémon anime but not have the rights to Mewtwo’s “character”?
 
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well gentlemen, its about 7 hours before I have to own you all and buy 4 copies of this game. All i have to say is that it was a pleasure shitposting with you.


 
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You know what I think was the biggest problem?

Its Zelda BOTW and Super Mario Odyssey. Both games are old news now, but they were both revolutionary titles filled with little to complain about. They did a lot to evolve the franchises and were worthy of next Gen consoles.

People were expecting the same for what's definitely the 3rd most popular Nintendo product.

GF really dropped the ball.
 
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TrippinKahlua said:
You know what I think was the biggest problem?

Its Zelda BOTW and Super Mario Odyssey. Both games are old news now, but they were both revolutionary titles filled with little to complain about. They did a lot to evolve the franchises and were worthy of next Gen consoles.

People were expecting the same for what's definitely the 3rd most popular Nintendo product.

GF really dropped the ball.
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Yeah that and communication and marketing
the 24 hour stream was poorly thought out and even made a shill like Joe nearly lose his mind
and to say game freak fucked up so hard they at least need a PR team for themselves is a massive understatement
 
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rotollo said:
Yeah that and communication and marketing
the 24 hour stream was poorly thought out and even made a shill like Joe nearly lose his mind
and to say game freak fucked up so hard they at least need a PR team for themselves is a massive understatement
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This stream was a tipping point for a lot of people on how they felt about the game. It became obvious that Nintendo was intentionally trying to hide the game. Also this isn't talked about but the actual reveal was even poorly done, as one Ponyta didn't even have a fucking tail. No it wasn't a gender difference or anything, it was just some kind of weird glitch or oversight? I think everyone just deleted the whole thing from their memory.

On a side note. Comparisons are an insult to the graphics of OoT.

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I'm big on Star Wars, and with only one game every other year, I was hype for Fallen Order. I did however prepurchase Shield ages ago.

I watched a dude go through Death stranding twice, not once losing his temper. He did so within the first level of Fallen Order. It's an absolute shit show, so I'll be laughing at streamers rage quitting while playing Shield; not caring too much about the outrage because frankly I just wanna make a cute trainer.

That said, holy shit the combat UI is straight out of baby's first Tablet Friendly game.
 
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God 3D was a mistake. The juxtaposition of high-res 3D graphics with a lack of voice acting and the less-than-amazing animations is incredibly jarring. 2D lets you get away with it much easier, it just looks creepy here.
TrippinKahlua said:
You know what I think was the biggest problem?

Its Zelda BOTW and Super Mario Odyssey. Both games are old news now, but they were both revolutionary titles filled with little to complain about. They did a lot to evolve the franchises and were worthy of next Gen consoles.

People were expecting the same for what's definitely the 3rd most popular Nintendo product.

GF really dropped the ball.
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Heh, I literally bought those two games today with the $60 I was planning on spending on Pokémon, cuz they were half off at Walmart.
 
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