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

[SummonerofLain]

That is jus that. I have lived in Hispanic ountries all my life... half of that spent me being unaware of any boys named 'Jessie'. Here, that is usually/exclusively a girl's name.
On that point, that is also why I never questioned how a girl would be named 'Wallace': the Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire games were literally my first exposure to the name.

That's a failure on the localization team's end then. They don't hire actual fans of their games. They hire the rainbow faggot brigade or some sort of nepotism/cronyism instead, Pokémon is not exclusive or immune to the universal destruction of culture worldwide or general incompetence.


Though they now have 2 Cafes in Japan in spite of Covid, and are for some reason trying to Larp as a high class fancy restaurant my sides!
One is in Tokyo and the other in Osaka.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

That's a failure on the localization team's end then. They don't hire actual fans of their games. They hire the rainbow faggot brigade or some sort of nepotism/cronyism instead, Pokémon is not exclusive or immune to the universal destruction of culture worldwide or general incompetence.

I got he games in English. Until Generation 6, Latin American store sold th English localisations, and the change was only because the games became multi-lingual.

 

[Archeops]

I know not many of you follow the TCG in a serious capacity, but the current Pokemon Trading Card Game Online app is planned to be sunsetted at a later date and will be replaced with a new app called Pokemon Trading Card Game Live.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Live 🎮 [SNEAK PEEK] 👀 | Official Trailer

Are you ready for the fresh challenge of Pokémon Trading Card Game Live?We’re giving you a preview of some of the customization, features, gameplay, and more...

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Overall the opinions I’m seeing are a mixed bag, some people are happy with the change whilst others (myself included) aren’t happy with it due to how fucking vague TPCi’s explanations for item transferral and in-game currencies are and how involved microtransactions will be in this new app.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

I know not many of you follow the TCG in a serious capacity, but the current Pokemon Trading Card Game Online app is planned to be sunsetted at a later date and will be replaced with a new app called Pokemon Trading Card Game Live.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Live 🎮 [SNEAK PEEK] 👀 | Official Trailer

Are you ready for the fresh challenge of Pokémon Trading Card Game Live?We’re giving you a preview of some of the customization, features, gameplay, and more...

youtu.be

Overall the opinions I’m seeing are a mixed bag, some people are happy with the change whilst others (myself included) aren’t happy with it due to how fucking vague TPCi’s explanations for item transferral and in-game currencies are and how involved microtransactions will be in this new app.

And to this day, I still wonder why every game relating to the TCG insists on having western-styled avatars. Like, if Pokémon Unite can have the signature anime artstyle, so can the TCG games.

 

[Archeops]

And to this day, I still wonder why every game relating to the TCG insists on having western-styled avatars. Like, if Pokémon Unite can have the signature anime artstyle, so can the TCG games.

The problem is that these TCG ventures are all published by TPCi (the original TCGO was developed by Dire Wolf Digital and this new app is developed in-house) and are largely meant for the Western market, things like Unite are by published by The Pokemon Company.

 

[Some Badger]

I'm almost positive the Mystic leader in Pokemon Go is some flavor of nonbinary canonically. Either that or there's been so much sperging about it on Twitter I have accepted it as fact.

Regarding Blanche, GO’s localization avoids pronouns whenever possible, leaving her gender up to interpretation. She is interpreted as female in other localizations though, and I believe Japanese is one of them.

 

[SnowBall]

I love how gen 1 and 2 purists justify the Johto Pokémon distribution as "being part of the experience" and "gives the games a sense of exploration and discovery that was part of the original series vision." They make it sound like it's some sort of deep meta commentary when in reality kids don't give a shit about that sort of thing. They just want to collect new Pokémon. Also Kanto wasn't even going to originally be in GSC.

Speaking of gen 1 and 2 fans it's funny when you realize many of them consider Crystal the last good Pokémon game and the ultimate Pokémon experience considering Masuda was the director and that he sub directed Gold and Silver. I also find it funny how genwunners accepted gen 2 fans amongst their ranks over the years. I don't think there are even any "pure" genwunners running around the fandom anymore. They just stick to general retro gaming circles on places like Reddit.

Sorry for the autism I just find fandom history and how terms mutate over the years a fascinating subject.

 

[McMitch]

I love how gen 1 and 2 purists justify the Johto Pokémon distribution as "being part of the experience" and "gives the games a sense of exploration and discovery that was part of the original series vision." They make it sound like it's some sort of deep meta commentary when in reality kids don't give a shit about that sort of thing. They just want to collect new Pokémon. Also Kanto wasn't even going to originally be in GSC.

Speaking of gen 1 and 2 fans it's funny when you realize many of them consider Crystal the last good Pokémon game and the ultimate Pokémon experience considering Masuda was the director and that he sub directed Gold and Silver. I also find it funny how genwunners accepted gen 2 fans amongst their ranks over the years. I don't think there are even any "pure" genwunners running around the fandom anymore. They just stick to general retro gaming circles on places like Reddit.

Sorry for the autism I just find fandom history and how terms mutate over the years a fascinating subject.

The absolute most fun I’ve had with any Pokémon game was messing around with the disassembly that’s been floating online, including adding gameplay elements (i.e. Fairy type) and quality of life improvements from later games.

 

[Wingnut]

New trailers just dropped for both games:

On HMs in BDSP: The official website says that you don't need an HM slave, it calls wild Pokemon to come help and use the move for you.

So it's essentially the Sun/Moon method, and thank God for that because as soon as I saw HMs I felt my party's usefulness drop off a clip.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Every other new design makes me cringe nowadays.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

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Every other new design makes me cringe nowadays.

I think it's pretty neat.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

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Every other new design makes me cringe nowadays.

It's like it's trying to be an old gen design and a new gen design at the same time.

 

[Resident Evil]

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Every other new design makes me cringe nowadays.

Reminds me of a mix between Kabutops, Scyther, and Alolan Golem.

Edit: No wonder, it’s the bi-volution for scyther.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Reminds me of a mix between Kabutops, Scyther, and Alolan Golem.

It’s Scyther’s new ancient evolution, Kleavor.

 

[Resident Evil]

Wait a minute.

Crazy ass thought.

What if, hear me out, since these Pokémon are extinct, is Kabuto and Kabutops the ancestor to Scyther, and in a sort of Wooly Mammoth fashion ala Cleavor, those traits went into extinction? The rock looks, the insectoid body, the actual real life heritage and linage of the Trilobite to Massive Insects, and the change from denser armor to massive attack power to evening out in things like the beatles (Scizor). Maybe that’s been a theory for awhile but that just hit me and it feels like my 3rd eye got opened.

 

[Wingnut]

Wait a minute.

Crazy ass thought.

What if, hear me out, since these Pokémon are extinct, is Kabuto and Kabutops the ancestor to Scyther, and in a sort of Wooly Mammoth fashion ala Cleavor, those traits went into extinction?

In a similar vein to the extinct Pokemon variants, I feel that pushes further the idea of Hisuian final evolutions for the 3 starters. Rowlet's final evolution is Ghost type because it's based on an extinct species, so maybe it will be Grass/Flying or something different since in ancient Sinnoh it's not extinct yet.

Regarding the others, Samurott is an obvious choice with the Samurai motif and I could see them taking a bipedal approach with the Hisuian variant since both Oshawatt and Dewott are bipedal already. Typhlosion might do the same and Hisuian Typhlosian will be quadrupedal like Cyndaquil and Quilava and more feral looking maybe.

I would be willing to bet money on Hisuian form final evolutions for the starters at this point with all the other extinct/ancient variants they've now revealed.

 

[Hamu Princess]

How are the people of Ancient Japan gonna explain this device?

 

[Resident Evil]

How are the people of Ancient Japan gonna explain this device?
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Explanation: arcues just shat it into existence and all other attempts to replicate it are the Dex and the Nav systems. Attempts to recreate ancient more advanced technology from God.

 

[Love Machine]

The kino kleavor.
It sucks that the typing for all these new pokemon keep overlapping.

 

[NerdShamer]

It sucks that the typing for all these new pokemon keep overlapping.

It's better than the legendary dragon spam.