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

[anliteralidiot]

i never really got into the whole Shiny craze. i thought it was neat in Gen2 when you encountered the Red Gyrados (mainly because Red is my favorite color), but otherwse there are very few shinies that appeal to me.

off the top of my head (besides the aformentioned Gyrados) the only Shinies I really like are Scolipede and Salamance. I could probably pick a few more, but otherwise everyone else just looks "sickly" like they got exposed to too much Nuclear Waste or something

Part of my collecting in PLA.is because I learned you can switch the Pokedex icons, and it really puts into perspective how many shinies are green and mustardy yellow.

That said, I know they weren't manually chosen until G6, so most are kinda rough.
Buuuuuut...

The beasts are subtle, but I really like them.

All black shinies are cool as fuck
I feel like shiny haters are this

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's disappointing how green Golbat evolves into a pink Crobat with green wings.

 

[Registration]

I think instead of a single shiny you could have variants like a black/gold/blue versions of all pokemon and they have different stats added to it (ex: + HP - defense)

So another layer of gameplay to consider

 

[Registration]

Is there any reason why they never did more TCG video games after the GBC?

I was reading this oneshot manga and I know nothing about the TCG. But I loved to play the Yu-Gi-Oh GBA games and learnt much just by playing it instead of the real card games.

Seems like a wasted opportunity to not use videogames to introduce them to the TCG.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/81c3faa2-7b13-4b9e-b1a1-9b7e208585c3/1

 

[ToroidalBoat]

TCG video games

That one rival (?) guy is ランド (Lando) in Japanese, but in English he's just "Ronald" instead.

(theme is still catchy though)

 

[chimpSculpture]

It's disappointing how green Golbat evolves into a pink Crobat with green wings.

I think a lot of the early shinies use ugly colours because the GBC had a limited colour palette, and then the GBA originally had a terrible muted display. Generation 2 and 3 have more than half their shinies bright neon pink or green. But then with generation 4 they're all great, with maybe two exceptions being boring.

I think a shiny hunting thread would be cool. I used to have shiny races with my brother when we were younger, in generation 6 or 7 you could sit down for a couple hours and expect one of the two games to get a shiny in that time very confidently.

I think instead of a single shiny you could have variants like a black/gold/blue versions of all pokemon and they have different stats added to it (ex: + HP - defense)

So another layer of gameplay to consider

Different kinds of rare individual Pokémon would be cool, but they absolutely cannot be that rare and have any kind of gameplay advantage. It would just be shit, not everything has to tie back to the battling. I like that Pokémon has variation in it's gameplay, some people are die hard competitive players but others focus on the collecting. There's smaller aspects like contests I'm sure lots of people like, and maybe some brain dead retards who play these games just for the story.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Generation 2 and 3 have more than half their shinies bright neon pink or green.

Shiny Roselia has sucky sickly colors.

 

[chimpSculpture]

Shiny Roselia has sucky sickly colors.

Roserade saves the evolution line in generation 4.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Aside from more realistic 'mon noises, another thing missed from the Stadium vidya is how 'mons could have varying colors based on nicknames. Not shinies, just changes of normal colors. Like a more green or more orange Electabuzz, or different Magneton magnets.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

>t. all 5 of my childhood gen 3 cartridges were fake

How'd this happen?

 

[anliteralidiot]

But then with generation 4 they're all great, with maybe two exceptions being boring.

Some of these didn't even make it to 3D, like Drapion... Skorupi gets to keep it's bright red, but Drapion fuckin sucks now.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

That said, I know they weren't manually chosen until G6, so most are kinda rough.

Sperging incoming but this myth needs to die in a fire already. It has been demonstrably false ever since shinies were introduced. Every single shiny that made it to the final games is handpicked. The only time that wasn't the case was in the Spaceworld demo, where it's extremely obvious.
Sure, a lot of blue Pokemon in gen 2 turn pink and vice versa:


However, not only are they not the exact same shade of blue/pink, but this ignores the ones that don't:


Pokemon with the exact same shade of color can have different shinies, even within the same evolutionary line, which I don't think would happen if they were picked by a machine. Look at the Pidgeot line, it has the exact same shade of brown in its body, but the shinies are yellow, gold and green:


Meanwhile, in the Spaceworld demo, where shinies weren't handpicked, every single Pokemon that shared a color also shared a shiny, no exceptions:

Spoiler: Offtopic art program sperging

Gathering all these sprites took a lot longer than I care to admit. Krita is shit at pixel art and Microsoft for some baffling reason is still trying to turn Paint into an actual art program, and every time it updates it gets worse at pixel art. Every time I move something or use the fill tool it creates a shitton of slightly off-color artifacts that I have to manually fix. It still doesn't have features to make it competent enough to use as an art program and now it's gotten worse at the only thing I use it for.

 

[Punished Magician]

How'd this happen?

Dad bought 'em on eBay.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Leaks are still dropping btw, altho unless you have the technical know-how to get them running, there isn't much left at this point. The FreakLeak site and /vp/ thread do have builds that have already been decompiled, one, anon even linked his VM so you can run his decompiled Gen 6 build.
I didn't see this posted, early Gen 4 bag mockup

GF photos from Hokkaido, these ones can probably be found in the "SomethingFun" folder that was linked all the way at the start

Meanwhile, on FreakLeak discord...

Imagine having to ask some tranny that calls itself "Hugette Hikari" if you can post leaks in a leak discord
High quality rip of various logos, including PSDs if you need them

https://litter.catbox.moe/5wq1m5.7z

New Hayabusa aka Legends Arceus build dropped and I am seeing people getting Beluga aka Let's Go games working. Good to see some progress on cracking these ha already been made.
I'm seeing reports that the leaker might have been v&. Honestly, if that's true, I can't say I care too much. Retard didn't bother dropping Gen 10 or ZA, which means he either didn't have them and leaked everything that was worthwhile or he's a massive moralfag that got what was coming to him. Hope he enjoys prison.

 

[anliteralidiot]

Spoiler: Offtopic art program sperging

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I just want to say that your post is very informative, and you're 1000% right about new ms paint. I keep a copy of old windows xp paint downloaded just for the exact same reasons you talked about (the UI in windows 11 paint kills me).

My one complaint, is that I can't see how they would, in good conscious, make garchomp's shiny like that, unless it was just a computer deciding it. A human wouldn't have decided that garchomp was good....

 

[30+GameOvers]

Here is a video of one of the HGSS leaks in action

That channel has similar videos all made recently, altho I don't know what these actually are yet. Just linking this one for now.

 

[chimpSculpture]

I just want to say that your post is very informative, and you're 1000% right about new ms paint. I keep a copy of old windows xp paint downloaded just for the exact same reasons you talked about (the UI in windows 11 paint kills me).

My one complaint, is that I can't see how they would, in good conscious, make garchomp's shiny like that, unless it was just a computer deciding it. A human wouldn't have decided that garchomp was good....
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I think it's intentional, but I'm not sure why they find value in these shinies looking like this. I do think that Pikachu's shiny is very similar to it's normal colours because it's the mascot of the series, and messing with the design of your ultra successful mascot unnecessarily is a bad idea.

Maybe the character designer of a Pokémon thinks that the colour scheme a species already has is the best, and don't want to see it looking worse.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

I just want to say that your post is very informative, and you're 1000% right about new ms paint. I keep a copy of old windows xp paint downloaded just for the exact same reasons you talked about (the UI in windows 11 paint kills me).

My one complaint, is that I can't see how they would, in good conscious, make garchomp's shiny like that, unless it was just a computer deciding it. A human wouldn't have decided that garchomp was good....
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The shinies that barely change did cross my mind. Perhaps they liked the colors so much that they didn't feel the need to create another palette?
And they still do this, Pokemon like Froakie, Togedemaru, Baxcalibur, the Maushold line, and the Charcadet line barely change, or just shift slightly in hue.

I think it's intentional, but I'm not sure why they find value in these shinies looking like this. I do think that Pikachu's shiny is very similar to it's normal colours because it's the mascot of the series, and messing with the design of your ultra successful mascot unnecessarily is a bad idea.

Maybe the character designer of a Pokémon thinks that the colour scheme a species already has is the best, and don't want to see it looking worse.

We thought of the same reason at the same time lol
I remember reading somewhere that GF originally wanted shiny Pikachu to be white, but I can't find where I read that. Would've been better than just being slightly darker.
Snopes fact check: false. I got it mixed up with the Spiky Eared Pichu, which was originally meant to be a white Pichu.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I backed up all these beta videos just in case. I'm already seeing some content I've never seen before, but then again, I haven't been exactly keeping up with the leaks lately.

Anon's autistic Gen 5 betamon chart, relating to the one only seen in the uncut intro

I knew these were already posted, but the newly leaked SV beta creeps me out

Reminds me of that mysterious greenfaced man in the PLA beta builds. Gamefreak must like making their early builds look like something straight out of a copypasta.
BTW, allegedly the reason for the character looking black like this is due to memory loading issues(lol) that the leakers have already fixed with a patch(lmfao)

 

[anliteralidiot]

And they still do this, Pokemon like Froakie, Togedemaru, Baxcalibur, the Maushold line, and the Charcadet line barely change, or just shift slightly in hue.

Charcadet is subtle, but having it just be the eyeball is good. Baxcaliber also looks more vibrant in the game, I like how teal it gets.
Froakie does the same as Garchomp, with the first and second evos having some continuity before a wildly different third...
But where Frogadier goes from being cloaked in shadow to all black...

Gabite loses all the vibrancy it had...

And it goes back to normal with Garchomp.