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

[30+GameOvers]

Remember when Gamefreak mocked the players for expecting a PWT 2.0 in Sword and Shield? In a DLC they paid 35$ for and was probably just cut postgame from the base game, no less?
Even then, PWT was just the Battle Dome from Emerald. Just that bit, outside of that and the Battle Tree from White version(I believe it was the equivalent of Battle Pyramid) and Battle Subway(Battle Tower) the Battle Frontier was still missing as early as those days. I still wouldn't give PWT that much credit, when we were expecting so much more from what was the equivalent of a "third version". It's telling that we're so far gone as a franchise that we're looking back in nostalgia for even one Battle Frontier facility being included in the game.
Speaking of which, does Scarlet and Violet have even the most basic Battle Tower clone in it, after all the DLC? If not, lmao. That will be the first game ever since the very first generation not to have one, and even then Pokemon Stadium kinda filled in that role already, making this the very first generation without a proper battling facility(and no, online doesn't count. The servers will shut down one day and it's just a half assed Showdown clone anyways).

 

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Remember when Gamefreak mocked the players for expecting a PWT 2.0 in Sword and Shield?

Thee shalt not giveth wage to those who is't despise thee!

 

[30+GameOvers]

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Thee shalt not giveth wage to those who is't despise thee!

I still see people unironically coping that Battle Frontier was not needed and that it was a GOOD thing they removed it from the franchise, because it gives Gamefreak more time to add features that MATTER, such as...umm, well...
Look, all that matters is that you don't need it, and you're an entitled incel for asking for it, okay? Maybe they will add Battle Tower back as a 35$ DLC but only if you start thanking Gamefreak for their great work on social media.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Thee shalt not giveth wage to those who is't despise thee!

That's what she said!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Remember when Gamefreak mocked the players for expecting a PWT 2.0 in Sword and Shield?

Remember a time when big media companies didn't try to shift blame to customers for crap products? And when they usually made stuff that didn't suck? Kiwi Farms remembers.

Speaking of which, does Scarlet and Violet have even the most basic Battle Tower clone in it, after all the DLC? If not, lmao.That will be the first game ever since the very first generation not to have one, and even then Pokemon Stadium kinda filled in that role already, making this the very first generation without a proper battling facility(and no, online doesn't count.

Thee shalt not giveth wage to those who is't despise thee!

Even with ORAS lacking a Battle Frontier, at least there is kind of a "Pokemon Stadium" built in it with both the Battle Test and Battle Mansion. If SV lacks even that sort of thing then it really sucks. Also I miss when new pocketmons games didn't even have DLC BS. Guess I made the right choice to "check out" of the pocketmons series after 6.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Even with ORAS lacking a Battle Frontier, at least there's kind of a "Pokemon Stadium" built in it with both the Battle Test and Battle Mansion. If SV lacks even that sort of thing then it really sucks. Also I miss when new pocketmons games didn't even have DLC BS. Guess I made the right choice to "check out" of the series after Gen 6.

Gen 7 is pretty good, gameplay mechanics wise. The story is boring and has way too many cutscenes, but the Battle Tree is worth it. You get both Megas and Z-Crystals(more involved gems from Gen 5) at the same time, so the power level is raised, it's pretty fun. I suggest you check it out.
Gen 8 and onwards is just shit, nothing worth talking about.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Gen 7 is pretty good, gameplay mechanics wise.

I still don't like the lack of normal gyms and gym leaders, the missing Pokedex entries, no surfing between islands, and no Battle Test thing (no forced saving and you can advance even if you lose). Also Gen 7 games have even more unfinished issues, or so I heard anyway. Still, they look better than the Switch games (especially SwSh and SV).

 

[Thiletonomics]

I still don't like the lack of normal gyms and gym leaders, the missing Pokedex entries, no surfing between islands, and no Battle Test thing (no forced saving and you can advance even if you lose). Also Gen 7 games have even more unfinished issues, or so I heard anyway. Still, they look better than the Switch games (especially SwSh and SV).

Some of the small missing things in Gen 7 are baffling, if you notice them. The previous games would keep track of the teams that you beat the Elite 4 & Champion with, and you can view them in the PC, but the Gen 7 games took that out, and replaced it with a guy that stands outside of the league entrance, and he only says the names of the Pokémon that you used to become the first Alola Champion, and the Pokémon that you used on your most recently Title Defense.

Someone also mentioned that they took out most of the various "Trainers Eye Meet" music themes that the various trainer classes have in Gen 7, and replaced with it just one generic theme.

And yet, even with those small missing things, the Alola games were the last ones that still felt like a Pokémon game.

Remember a time when big media companies didn't try to shift blame to customers for crap products? And when they usually made stuff that didn't suck? Kiwi Farms remembers.

It's now becoming a race to see what media company can make the most gaslighting comments to their audience. I think no one expected that the comments would go above "Pride and accomplishment", "Do you all not have phones?!", "Brutal Expectations", and "This is what makes The Sims 4 Special", but they have.

I also wouldn't be surprised if media companies get political leaders to make gaslighting comments to their audience because they don't like it. Seeing the likes of a Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, or Fumio Kishida, telling players that they are bigots, homophobes, transphobes, Gamergaters, ULTRA DARK MAGA, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, for not liking something like The Last of Us Part II, would actually be in character for them. Whether or not people will actually take that insult (but they call it "advice") to heart, is another thing.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

And yet, even with those small missing things, the Alola games were the last ones that still felt like a Pokémon game.

What are they like now? I take it they're like "smartphone-y" games that try to feel like "Pokemon Go"?

It's now becoming a race to see what media company can make the most gaslighting comments to their audience.

large Western (influenced) media companies before Current Year: "the customer is always right"

large Western (influenced) media companies during Current Year: "the customer is a Nazi bigot"

 

[30+GameOvers]

I still don't like the lack of normal gyms and gym leaders, the missing Pokedex entries, no surfing between islands, and no Battle Test thing (no forced saving and you can advance even if you lose). Also Gen 7 games have even more unfinished issues, or so I heard anyway. Still, they look better than the Switch games (especially SwSh and SV).

The trials essentially fulfill the roles of gyms, and I like how they made these challenges different for once. Missing Pokedex entries are whatever, lazy that they didn't copy and paste the ones that aren't in the local dex but nobody really cares about those anyways. Surfing between the islands has been added in the Ultra editon, I have no clue what you're on about with the Battle Test(Battle Tree/Tower clone?).
Gen 7 has a lot of unfinished content, but most of it was re-introduced in the Ultra games. Gen 6, on the other hand...
Switch Games are barely even considered real Pokemon games, SwSh is a 3DS game half assedly ported over to the Switch(with hilariously bad draw distance in the open world) and SV is a barely playable pre-alpha for an open world game. Arceus is a rather nice little game, and hopefully Z will also give us a halfway decent title.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

hopefully Z will also give us a halfway decent title

no clue what you're on about with the Battle Test

It's a feature in Gen 5 and 6 with 5 battles in a row going from easy to hard difficulty, and you get points based on how you battle.

(In ORAS the Battle Test is in the indoors part of Mauville City, next to that inversiony place where weaknesses become resistances.)

Gen 6, on the other hand...

I still think ORAS is OK: the Battle Test thing, all the water routes and underwater stuff, the secret bases, the soaring in the sky thing, and that battle replay thing-y.

X&Y has issues.

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).

 

[Level99Manchild]

Remember when Gamefreak mocked the players for expecting a PWT 2.0 in Sword and Shield? In a DLC they paid 35$ for and was probably just cut postgame from the base game, no less?

Remember when fans were told to fuck off over the National Dex being removed?

 

[Catastrophe-TM]

There's a thread on vp right now where someone has a beta rom of RS and is showing off images, but OP can't share the rom to prove its legit because supposedly "their friend will dox them horribly for it".

 

[30+GameOvers]

There's a thread on vp right now where someone has a beta rom of RS and is showing off images, but OP can't share the rom to prove its legit because supposedly "their friend will dox them horribly for it".

Fake and gay until he dumps it

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

There's a thread on vp right now where someone has a beta rom of RS and is showing off images, but OP can't share the rom to prove its legit because supposedly "their friend will dox them horribly for it".

>just as a reminder, this is a larp and nothing you see here is real until actually proven otherwise via examination of a rom. happy roleplaying!

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Fake and gay until he dumps it

I have to agree. Even ignoring my big dislike of 4chan, I remember the SpaceWorld ump having this wild, elaborate story tha turned ou to be untrue... this coming from a ROM that was actually dumped.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Speaking of which, does Scarlet and Violet have even the most basic Battle Tower clone in it, after all the DLC? If not, lmao. That will be the first game ever since the very first generation not to have one,

SV doesn’t have one. It’s why Part 2 of the DLC is so bad. You go to a facility that is all about competative double battles. And has an entire point based competition surronding it. And if you get a certain amount of points you can fight the leaders of the areas.

And yet despite that all being said in the narrative, there is no battle tower.

It’s worse than if they’d just had no tower and never said anything. Or even a sign saying one is being built.

 

[Anonitolia]

There's a thread on vp right now where someone has a beta rom of RS and is showing off images, but OP can't share the rom to prove its legit because supposedly "their friend will dox them horribly for it".

lol he fled the second thread immediately after making it
at least we got some cute Kaen fanart out of it

 

[AnotherPleb]

Speaking of which, does Scarlet and Violet have even the most basic Battle Tower clone in it, after all the DLC?

That would have required effort. All you have is shitty raids and tournaments, both of which will die out when online support is cut.

 

[Nick Gars]

The Rayquaza elite raid is already a shit show. The tranny cm and Niantic had a big brain idea to use Tik Tok to shill Pokemon Go, but the problem is Tik Tok is getting banned in some countries (Someone posted the codes on the Youtube commentary page to help people out) . They really need to fire their tranny cm because Kestral is incompetent.

I'm glad I got mine last year, seeing this shit show would make me fucking furious if I didn't already have several. It was a remote raid last year, fuck you, I'm not going out of my way to find 10 other smelly nerds in my area to get one with better IV's. Niantic is retarded, their CM needs to ACK off into oblivion already.



I am currently experiencing a weird glitch in GO. Theres a gym right next to my work, so obviously I take it and hold it when I'm there. I get home last night and get a notification my Garchomp has been knocked out of that gym,I get 50 coins, and revive him. Come back the next day... The gyms still my color...
And my Garchomp is still in there...
But he's also back with me...
But my "in gym" page shows nothing, and I don't get an "add to gym" icon when I view it. The journal entry doesn't even exist, but I know for a fact I saw the notification.

My Garchomp is presently "Schrodinger's Garchomp".
I can berry him, I can mega/power up the one with me, its fucking wierd. I would provide screen shots, but theres no way to really do that without running at least a location dox risk.