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

[NerdShamer]

Wow, it took them this long for them to turn the series into an action RPG. And for some reason, I can't shake the feeling that Z-A will be another dud

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Wow, it took them this long for them to turn the series into an action RPG.

I mean of course it did. For all their demands Pokemon fans rarely want what they say they want.

It makes sense it would take them till they have the hardware to do to actually try and in a spin off game no less.

 

[NerdShamer]

Yeah, but this just feels like something that can easily be cheesed, in a way. I kind of expect the fights to be extremely short-lived if AoE spam becomes an thing.

Plus, AZ actually looks like an stoner. But considering how he was the hobo king, it's quite the improvement

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Yeah, but this just feels like something that can easily be cheesed, in a way. I kind of expect the fights to be extremely short-lived if AoE spam becomes an thing.

It’s Pokemon. Fights aren’t heard unless they pull something like the Volo fight. Which i expect they might.

And AoE spam was always a thing.

 

[30+GameOvers]

on a different topic:
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Z-A on the left, SV on the right. They have had at least three years of active development and have actively gone backwards in modeling and texturing the Pokémon themselves by almost every single metric. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THAT.

Spoiler: for autists who can't see the differences due to bad posing

• Chikorita has lost the upper lip that made its mouth look like a mouth and not a sticker
• It has also lost all of its skin texture
• Its eyes are no longer indented or shaded, once again leading to looking like a sticker
• It's so saturated you can barely make out where the scleras end and the skin begins
• Mega Lucario has similarly lost all of SV Lucario's metallic texturing,
• as well as the fur texturing,
• any shading on the eyes,
• and the indentation that actually made them look like eyes.

I can't even claim that this is good for unifying the aesthetics like I wanted to, because look at that fucking fountain compared to Chikorita. Look at the tiles underneath Mega Lucario. This game is having the opposite problem of SV, where the textures on the buildings actually look so much better than the ones on the Pokémon that it's distracting.

I think that's all the ranting I'm going to do for today done though, I am so exhausted it's not even funny. I already had a year to stop caring about this game and haven't got enough energy to change that for the following year. Guess I'll just go find something else to play lol

So the models are getting WORSE now? LMFAO
Reminder, the reason for Dexit(the single most devastating event that cost them thousands if not millions in sales) was so that the devs had time to work on "graphics and animations" for Sword/Shield, statement as ridiculous now as it was back then.
Well, I guess that time is getting used wisely by cutting more corners and recycling content for overpaid DLC, huh? LMAO
And pokecucks wonder why Palworld is so popular

Edit: Whoever is making these thumbnails, I want to punch them in the face

I can tell they're all some variation of a normalfag twitter/reddit meme, and that makes me hate it even more.
Protip: Throwing in le funny maymays at the viewer doesn't make your video better, it just makes me more likely to never watch it in the first place. Bonus for clickbait titles, as if anyone who is even vaguely into competitive Pokemon wouldn't know what they're talking about(and whoever isn't, why are they watching these in the first place?).

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

I surprised my husband with a very expensive plush, back when we were teenagers. We were still long-distance dating at the time, so I made him turn on his webcam to show him, and he was so excited to see it. I love pokemon because it's a thing I can do with him, but that memory in particular makes me smile.

I am going to kill myself.

 

[Sharpeteer]

It’s also been 8 years since LGPE and we are still in need of GSC remake. ORAS was 11 years ago,

They really need to honestly be able to remake faster.

Or figure out how to port older versions and just add updated trading and battling like RBY virtual consoles had.

What they really need to do is remake the games necessary to eliminate the dependency on the Pokemon Bank service, and the 3DS games.

I am amazed the Pokemon Bank transfer functionality on the 3DS still works, but it's only a matter of time until they shut that down, and once they do, all of the old games (Gens 1-7) and their exclusives are completely cut off unless they have Switch versions, or you know how to use PKhex to manually transfer.

 

[30+GameOvers]

It’s also been 8 years since LGPE and we are still in need of GSC remake. ORAS was 11 years ago,

Why on earth would you want LGPE 2? We already have HGSS, there isn't going to be a better remake than these two. Have you already forgotten about BDSP? Gamefreak can't even remake one of their best games anymore, even when they're largely just doing a 1:1 vs whatever ORAS was doing
>But muh B team!
The entirety of Gamefreak is a B team now, so that would make the BDSP devs more of a C team. My point still stands, you're not getting any better remakes anytime soon, all the talent in these studios dried up and I doubt there is any incentive for anyone at the company to do better when they know releasing a broken piece of shit like SV will still sell anyways.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Why on earth would you want LGPE 2?

I don’t.

My point is even that is almost a decade old. My point is they don’t remake fast enough. BDSP is 4. At the rate we are going Jhoto will be 20 at least before we get back to it. BW is 15.

By the time they’ve done everything they are currently at least 5 more years will have likely gone by. And that just getting Bank up to date.

I’m saying they really just need a team whose sole job is remakes orbports like RBY/GSC considering the bare minimum time they take.

Most people don’t want to have to wait a decade at minimum to go back to a region and there’s so many games now there is a backlog that is already becoming silly.

A remake for one and Legends for another at least gives them a way to revisit regions at a much faster pace.

Or they intended to make all remakes Legends games so they don’t have to deal with ‘what if server go off, how will I get Mon’

 

[Twin Addler]

happy Pokémon day.
What is your favorite Pokémon based memory?
What is the reason you hold Pokémon so dearly to your heart through adulthood?

When I managed to extract the physical Red cartridge and inject it on 3DS VC so I could transfer my childhood monsters onto modern games.

There's just something autistically satisfying about transferring them between games and it's why I'm genuinely excited for Champions since I'll get to mess around with the ones in my Home collection in it.

or you know how to use PKhex to manually transfer.

Sadly that can't even work since if you use PKHex to drag and drop a Pokemon from a Pre-Switch game onto a Switch game that Pokemon can't be used online or be put into Home (and by extension Champions) since they can tell that Pre-Switch mon never touched Home which is impossible.

 

[Sharpeteer]

Sadly that can't even work since if you use PKHex to drag and drop a Pokemon from a Pre-Switch game onto a Switch game that Pokemon can't be used online or be put into Home (and by extension Champions) since they can tell that Pre-Switch mon never touched Home which is impossible.

I don't remember the exact steps since it's been a while since I tested it, but just dragging and dropping isn't enough when going pre-Switch to Switch. You need to give the mon a Home ID, and then it will work online.

I remember testing it right before the 3DS eShop shut down because I was uncertain on whether or not Pokemon Bank would still work.

 

[Twin Addler]

You need to give the mon a Home ID, and then it will work online.

You can't do that. Home generates the ID server side. The ID also changes each time the Pokemon is uploaded. You can use the genned Pokemon on Battle Stadium or trades you just can't register them on Online Competitions or place them on Home.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

What is your favorite Pokémon based memory?

Pokemon Red, dicking around with MISSINGNO, and listening to all the different cries coming out of the scrambled Hall Of Fame

What is the reason you hold Pokémon so dearly to your heart through adulthood?

I mean I stopped playing after USUM, but before that it was basically a game that did something no other RPG at the time could do so easily.... get me hooked like a crack addict. I love the idea of catching monsters and training them as if they were my own IRL. It was even more fun when with each new game they added more features to keep you entertained. My favorite feature being the EV soccer game mode from Gen6 where you train your pokemon to give it the stats you want. Before that the game really didn't give you a clear way to keep track of your EVs and even leveling them up past the vitamins was a chore.

Currently I got around to getting the never version of Pokemon Infinite Fusion (v6.4.7) working on my Linux pc and have been addicted to trying to combine some really cool fusions. Specifically I'm doing an all bug team and combining them with things that don't make them suck as much as they already do. Currently i got two of them fused with a Sandslash that seems to make their defensive and offensive stats infinitely better than what they were before, specifically Ledian and it's horrendous Attack & Defense stat it has to begin with. I did the same thing with a Parasect and gained +12 speed, so it can abuse Spore a little better.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

A fucking shovelware title became one of the fastest-selling games on Steam and people still talk about it like it's an actual game instead of a scam like the rest of that studio's slop is.

Pokesimps will actually buy a 3/10 game + DLC for $120 because it has "Pokemon" in the name and say Palworld (a $30-flat game that has gotten two huge free content updates) is a scam with a straight face.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Pokesimps will actually buy a 3/10 game + DLC for $120 because it has "Pokemon" in the name and say Palworld (a $30-flat game that has gotten two huge free content updates) is a scam with a straight face.

There were better Chinese knockoff Pokemon games on mobile, so it's not like the bar is super high either. Still remember when they were posted and /vp/ jannies were seething as they deleted all these posts for being "off topic". Pokemon fans have to be the dumbest consoomers on the planet, even worse than gacha cattle(which I guess is fitting since large amount of Pokemon fanbase ARE gacha slop enthusiasts ever since Masters came out).

 

[Anonitolia]

Pokesimps will actually buy a 3/10 game + DLC for $120 because it has "Pokemon" in the name and say Palworld (a $30-flat game that has gotten two huge free content updates) is a scam with a straight face.

I'm calling Palworld a scam because it is a literal asset flip from a company known for making early access asset flips. Palworld itself is like 85% Craftopia with some mobile-tier monster designs slapped on top. If that isn't a scam, then the Nigerian prince offering me millions for my credit card info isn't either. Don't be as stupid as /vp/ is and make this all about one franchise vs another.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I'm calling Palworld a scam because it is a literal asset flip from a company known for making early access asset flips. Palworld itself is like 85% Craftopia with some mobile-tier monster designs slapped on top. If that isn't a scam, then the Nigerian prince offering me millions for my credit card info isn't either. Don't be as stupid as /vp/ is and make this all about one franchise vs another.

Still better than SV, Sword and Shield and probably better than AZ. You can call it a scam all you want, most people don't care.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

That new pocketmons vidya trailer is trending on Japan YT now, and seems to be the #1 trending vid.

"【公式】『Pokémon LEGENDS Z-A』2nd Trailer"

- ポケモン公式YouTubeチャンネル

So far to me it looks just as crappy as SV, with those same crappy SJW-friendly character designs.

PS: And what's the point of having embeds on other sites if it's the "Video unavailable Watch on YouTube" BS seemingly half the time?

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Still better than SV, Sword and Shield and probably better than AZ. You can call it a scam all you want, most people don't care.

Which is the funniest thing really. Cause a lot of the stuff people praised Palworld for was in Pokemon. Pokemon fans rarely if every made use of them.

Pokemon has an odd habbit of never making the things people want front and center.

 

[Registration]

On REBURST again. 2 volumes to go...

Did you ever wonder what Crustle would look like if you removed all the strata? What kind of body is inside it? Also when they mate with other pokemon, do they have to fuck a fucking strata or the crustle puts out his pussy outside, what about the egg then?


So they can make artifical burst stones out of living pokemon for them to use. So far it was never clarified how the stones are made.


Elektross with a mustache


And the trio is also here


The manga is almost ending, I am intriged at how it is going to end and if we will see Kyurem or Reshiram bursts.