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

[Metallic Blood]

Here’s the Top 8 Masters division TCG players (and the decks they’re running) at NAIC right now.
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I’m gonna be painfully honest with you guys, I really hate it when 3/4th of Day 2 consists of the same fucking deck. Thankfully Andrew Hendrick pulled out a win even though I hate Lost Box just as much as I hate Gardevoir ex.

In addition to the above, the promo and special Pikachu plush dropping at Worlds 2024 have been revealed. The promo card is another Paradise Resort (which is understandable, Tropical Beach was a cancer on the game and Champion’s Festival had some use in early Gardevoir ex decks) and the Pikachu plush is in snorkeling gear

Makes me glad that I'm playing with Iron Thorns EX, it's legit funny seeing the opponent do nothing when I have a big boy on the field. (Unless they Boss Order or run a Catcher card, which just makes me die if they use it early.)

 

[30+GameOvers]

Unlike what that touchy water Elite 4 guy in X & Y thinks, pocketmons battling isn't an art like the culinary arts.

(it about best solutions and best stats)

Also how do you get to that "World Champion" battle in ORAS with the remix of the Gen 1 champion theme? Can't find anything on Google because the algorithm "thinks" I "really meant" world championships IRL. Or ribbons ingame. Or champions of other games. Or B&W2 PWT.

XY had such forgettable characters that I can't remember a single Elite Four or Gym Leader. Only character from that game people tend to remember full stop is Serena thanks to the anime and the Hex Maniac thanks to her milkers. It will be really funny seeing Game Freak try to grasp at straws when they're going to try to give us memberberries from that game.

That theme isn't normally accessible in the game, it was something reserved for competitive events if I recall correctly.

https://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_Omega_Ruby_and_Alpha_Sapphire

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It will be really funny seeing Game Freak try to grasp at straws when they're going to try to give us memberberries from that game.

I think X&Y is where "cracks" start to appear in "core games": no secret bases or something like pocket mons contests, that unfinished power plant area, and same-y towns where every house can look exactly the same inside (like in Shalour City). At least ORAS is pretty good, with the only major flaw I can think of being no Battle Frontier like in Emerald, and just that teasing about it instead. After Gen 6 is where the downhill ride really begins, down to the buggy, somewhat "woke"-influenced mess of S&V.

https://tcrf.net/Pokémon_Omega_Ruby_and_Alpha_Sapphire

How'd you find that? It can be so ridiculously hard to find stuff online these days.

Are the quality of search results getting worse?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Then with Gen 7 and on, that's where the downhill ride really begins, down to the buggy and "woke"-influenced mess that is Scarlet and Violet.

Gen 7 was surprisingly good. The only real issue I had with it is the amount of cutscenes it had and the very low difficulty, other than that it had the best base for a Pokemon game since Gen 3/4. It just didn't do that much with it, in story mode at least. Competitive/Online and Battle Tree were amazing.
Afterwards? Yeah, Pokemon went to shit real quick. Even during that generation, as we also had pokemon leg piss on the Switch after that(Matsuda's last major title he worked on, if I recall), then the entirety of Gen 8/9.
TCRF has plenty of good articles on Pokemon games, altho it is lacking in other franchises. Disappointing, but with how many troons it has, it's to be expected.

 

[Archeops]

Makes me glad that I'm playing with Iron Thorns EX, it's legit funny seeing the opponent do nothing when I have a big boy on the field. (Unless they Boss Order or run a Catcher card, which just makes me die if they use it early.)

Funnily enough, Iron Thorns ex was present in the deck that got 1st place in the Masters Division. It was also present in a fair amount of other decks at NAIC too.

 

[NerdShamer]

Unlike what that touchy water Elite 4 guy in X & Y thinks, pocketmons battling isn't an art like the culinary arts

Maybe in the anime, though. But even then, that's an bit of an stretch

 

[30+GameOvers]

It goes without saying, but /vp/ is fucking garbage these days. You would think they would talk about the games more, but no it's just coomer threads or bait threads or nonsense shitpost threads. I'm seeing more and more phoneniggers there too so I wonder how many people who played the older games on real hardware are even left at this point.
Shame that the community and devs are so shit, you could have some good conversations there even a few years ago, but now most serious Pokemon threads aren't on /vp/ anymore. Hopefully the next gen will be just as much of a disaster as the last two were so we can at least have a bit of a revival of board culture, some of the best recent content has been made to mock SwSh or LGPE.

 

[Archeops]

It goes without saying, but /vp/ is fucking garbage these days. You would think they would talk about the games more, but no it's just coomer threads or bait threads or nonsense shitpost threads. I'm seeing more and more phoneniggers there too so I wonder how many people who played the older games on real hardware are even left at this point.
Shame that the community and devs are so shit, you could have some good conversations there even a few years ago, but now most serious Pokemon threads aren't on /vp/ anymore. Hopefully the next gen will be just as much of a disaster as the last two were so we can at least have a bit of a revival of board culture, some of the best recent content has been made to mock SwSh or LGPE.

The problem with /vp/ is that, like some of the other boards on 4chan, the lunatics have started to run the asylum (in the sense that furries and other never-do-wells have become part of 4chan’s moderation team, we already know that one of /vp/‘s mods is a blatant furfag that loves Braixen).

The only thing that could save ‘em is if TPCi and/or Nintendo sent them a DMCA takedown notice for the board due to all the furshit and lolicon al à Paheal but it could also have a chance of killing the board.

 

[NerdShamer]

It goes without saying, but /vp/ is fucking garbage these days

Most of the gaming boards have been shit for the past year or two

 

[30+GameOvers]

Most of the gaming boards have been shit for the past year or two

/vrpg/ and /vst/ are fine but they're also dead. /vp/ used to be decent too but now it's an asylum for pedos/furries that barely play the games.
It's not enough that the new games are shit, there is barely anywhere to talk about them on top of that.

 

[NerdShamer]

It's not enough that the new games are shit, there is barely anywhere to talk about them on top of that.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

So after a siesta of playing Pokémon XY, I tried out Ultra Moon and found myself quitting pretty quickly. The beginning is an on-rails tutorial, so many uncool Pokémon around, and it's fucking wispy whimpering Lillie again. The only reason I finished Sun back in the day was because sunk cost fallacy. Now I'm playing Omega Ruby, and feel convinced it's stellar, outside of good old bullshit Frontier being removed. Why didn't they put in DexNav again?

 

[30+GameOvers]

So after a siesta of playing Pokémon XY, I tried out Ultra Moon and found myself quitting pretty quickly. The beginning is an on-rails tutorial, so many uncool Pokémon around, and it's fucking wispy whimpering Lillie again. The only reason I finished Sun back in the day was because sunk cost fallacy. Now I'm playing Omega Ruby, and feel convinced it's stellar, outside of good old bullshit Frontier being removed. Why didn't they put in DexNav again?

There is enough changes in the Ultras to make it worth playing at least once. The on-rails tutorial isn't anything new, and it's easily one of the worst part of these games. Any decent title would have an option skip cutscenes, but alas Gamefreak doesn't know about that feature. Even when it was introduced in SwSh, it skips a grand total of like 3-4 cutscenes in the game, you still have to mash A for most of it.
Dexnav never being brought back is a crime. SOS just wasn't the same and it was extremely gimmicky.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"When you enter a Monster house in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon"

- iDeViL360

 

[Kari Kamiya]

*quietly contemplates life*

...yeah, can't argue with that.

 

[Strangolapreti]

I just finished explorers of sky, and now I have a couple of questions.
1: How good does it compares to the rest of the franchise? I would almost say that gen 4 is the peak, but never questioned which title is the actual best between sky, platinum and the gen2 remakes.
2: Would you believe me if I were to tell you that I played it only because of the soundtrack? Same reason I first picked up megaman...

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

1: How good does it compares to the rest of the franchise? I would almost say that gen 4 is the peak, but never questioned which title is the actual best between sky, platinum and the gen2 remakes.

It has a story that isn't crayon scribbles on a napkin.

2: Would you believe me if I were to tell you that I played it only because of the soundtrack? Same reason I first picked up megaman...

Yes. Great soundtrack.

 

[Strangolapreti]

It has a story that isn't crayon scribbles on a napkin.

I wish the post game was a little more like red rescue team, also the finale where your character is brought back as what's basically a living paradox could've been delayed a little, maybe by forcing you to complete a dungeon with your companion solo.

Yes. Great soundtrack.

I think it's the third time I listen at credits theme on repeat (first time was NITW and second was ds3). At the beginning I thought I would hate its upbeat start, but then I realized how it devolves back into sad and nostalgic, as if the start was an attempt at consolation or cope from your companion followed by acceptance.



I kinda hate that I couldn't evolve my eevee until much later than red rescue and had to use codes to find the right TMs and didn't had access to a few moves I wanterd. though being able to troll the final boss by letting it pick up that stupid reviser seed was worth it.

 

[Kurohige]

I wish the post game was a little more like red rescue team, also the finale where your character is brought back as what's basically a living paradox could've been delayed a little, maybe by forcing you to complete a dungeon with your companion solo.

It wasn't quite like that in SMD, but the true finale was pretty peak.

 

[Strangolapreti]

It wasn't quite like that in SMD, but the true finale was pretty peak.

Gen 4 is peak,there's not that much else to say.