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

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So I've heard the soso reviews but I haven't played one of these since Alpha Sapphire. I understand the popin stuff is 'bad' but most people post the worst examples and I tend to deal with that better than most...Kind of looking forward into cracking this open this weekend/holiday.

I've also just been craving a turn based monster collector since I've exhausted my time with SMT V..I tend to play these type of games between rounds of online multiplayer stuff.
 
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This generation by far has some of the most boring, uninspired pokemon designs in the series. Most of them are either furry coombait or just get bigger. And Quaxly... poor, poor Quaxly... he didn't deserve to be given the Inteleon treatment. Game Freak did him dirty big time.

I did like the dough dog's evo though. That one was okay.
 
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Glad the reviews are not all giant praise fests like in previous instances.

Also glad that outside of performance issues, the games themselves seem to be great. Gen 9 will be a good time.

I find most of them to be okay. The best ones are def the ones used as promotional material but I do like the Paradox mons a lot.
 
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IGN shat all over the game's tech issues in their Nintendo podcast, despite saying the game was otherwise largely good. Funny enough I suspect a lot of their specific complaints regarding bugs were already fixed by now. Guess we'll have to wait a few days to find out.
 
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whatever I feel like said:
IGN shat all over the game's tech issues in their Nintendo podcast, despite saying the game was otherwise largely good. Funny enough I suspect a lot of their specific complaints regarding bugs were already fixed by now. Guess we'll have to wait a few days to find out.
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TBF IGN had the too much water so you gotta take any and all opinions they have, particularly about pokemon, with a meteorite of salt
 
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huecoffs02 said:
TBF IGN had the too much water so you gotta take any and all opinions they have, particularly about pokemon, with a meteorite of salt
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They're right though, Ruby/Sapphire had fuck all for things to do and having half of the map just be featureless surfing didn't help that.

whatever I feel like said:
IGN shat all over the game's tech issues in their Nintendo podcast, despite saying the game was otherwise largely good. Funny enough I suspect a lot of their specific complaints regarding bugs were already fixed by now. Guess we'll have to wait a few days to find out.
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Part of it is the game just doesn't run well on a stock switch, at all. The bugs i've been seeing are mostly like, massive frame drops and having to redraw the environment whenever the game has to cut to a new angle. Also, remember, GF was NEVER good at programming, just look at how long it took them to bring out the original pokemon and how shoddy the end product was. That never really changed unless someone like Iwata got involved.
 
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I’ve been playing the game since yesterday evening (I’ve beaten the Bug and Grass Gyms and I’ve beaten Titan Klawf and Orthworm) and I’m enjoying it so far, the performance issues are noticeable but I’ve played FAR worse games in my life. I’m looking at you, Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly for the GCN.

Oh, and some of the performance issues like the frame rate slow-downs and buggy shadows are due to the games suffering from memory leak. The easiest way to fix it on the player’s side (it’s a patchable issue but that’ll take time) is to limit yourself to 1-hour long play sessions, save and restart the game, and then fire up the game again.
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Was TCG Live still in the Canada-only Beta up until now?
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It expanded to a few more countries but this is the first time anyone in the US has been able to access it without a VPN.
 
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NoonmanR said:
Part of it is the game just doesn't run well on a stock switch, at all. The bugs i've been seeing are mostly like, massive frame drops and having to redraw the environment whenever the game has to cut to a new angle. Also, remember, GF was NEVER good at programming, just look at how long it took them to bring out the original pokemon and how shoddy the end product was. That never really changed unless someone like Iwata got involved.
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They had some others, like Pokemon appearing embedded in the floor in battles and at least one hard crash for a player who had autosave turned off for guide writing reasons (ouch.) And yeah, they went into the ridiculous pop-in issues too, being somehow even worse than Sw/Sh, a feat I would have seemed impossible previously.
 
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