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I first named mine Quill but I changed it to Chili, thinking of canning it to GhostPepper or something lol, but chili is an adorable name
Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States
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I named my Cyndaquil Cyndy, after the starter from the first time I did a Nuzlocke. They both ended up being female, so I has kinda obligated lol.
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When I get a copy of this game, I'm going to pick cyndaquil and name it Blaze. It's a pun on H-Typhlosionn having a stoner face, and a refenrence to Johnny Blaze, the first Ghost Rider.
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I know it didn't last long, but I actually really liked the part of the story where you get kicked out of the village because Kamada is a paranoid dick. I kinda wish you could have ended up living in that lady’s home as a sort of independent or moving in with one of the clans at the end instead of going back, but I get that might be a bit much to expect from Pokémon. Still, a much better story than the typical one.
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Man, the news about the 3DS e-shop being shut down next year has put me in the mood to rant about Gamefreak's stupid ass decisions regarding storing Pokemon in the modern era. Collecting Pokemon and being able to keep them through the generations has always been the primary appeal of the games to me. When Gens 1 and 2 couldn't transfer I chalked that up to them not expecting Pokemon to get as consistently popular as it was (and also I was a child), but they fixed that with the remakes and later even the compatible 3DS versions. This always being a physical hardware solution was nice, while it becomes commercially unlivable it is practically guaranteed to remain possible for pretty much as long as it'll be relevant via 3rd party purchases.
However, as soon as the 3DS generation started using Pokemon Bank I was already worried. The fact the storage is cloud based just added a pointless and dangerous layer of complexity out of your hands. The obvious better solution would have been some kind of app like Pokemon Box or Pokemon Ranch you downloaded for your 3DS to allow storing Pokemon on the 3DS for transfers between Gen VI and Gen VII... but this was well into Gamefreak's shitty phase, so crappier service with an added cost for minuscule data amounts other companies offer 10,000x more of for free was right up their alley. I didn't like it, but it wasn't the worst way they could have done it.
Gen VIII comes out and now it's the worst way they could have done it. The fact they didn't even think about a physical solution annoys me... I'm sure there is a way one of the switch's ports could link something into either a 3DS or a 3DS cartridge... but I'm no engineer, and it would be a somewhat niche thing you'd have to physically produce regardless so whatever, we'll give it a pass. However, once again... the Switch has wifi and some local wireless connectability so it should have not been too hard to do a Pokemon box/ranch app solution and connect to the 3DS for all the reasons I stated about Pokemon Bank. Now it's even worse for a few reasons. The first reason is the insane price gouging - literally increasing the price from Pokemon Bank by 4x and also having the gall to still require Bank's price as well. This could be bypassed if it weren't for the second reason...
Dexit. I could go on and on about how much I hate the removal of being able to have all the Pokemon in a game, but needless to say because my favorite thing about the game is collecting Pokemon through the generations this is a huge blow to my enjoyment of the franchise. This causes a really big problem beyond that though... because the game cannot accommodate all the Pokemon the Switch's only option for moving them up is to pay for the crappy, overpriced Pokemon Home. Because all the prior games had all the Pokemon if you didn't want to pay for Pokemon Bank, you could just keep the Pokemon on the cartridge. Now that isn't an option... so if you want them in the current gen limbo you have to keep up your nonsensically expensive subscription. Even if that wasn't the case, data is now saved on the Switch instead of the cartridge which I consider way more likely to have long term issues than a cartridge.
Because of all this I opted not to transfer my Pokemon up and I didn't buy a Gen VIII game until I could at a discount. I figured now my collection would have to be separated, keeping the old stuff on the 3DS cartridges and the new gens would have to reside in their individual game's data, which is not something I like or feel should have ever been the case when it was done much better in the past. Even then, I knew eventually the 3DS would lose it's servers. Now that it is upcoming the way it's being handled is not encouraging. Pokemon Bank will stop requiring a fee, but will also not be able to be downloaded. The fact this is pure software is already something I alluded to hating as it's more ephemeral than hardware, but it goes further. Pokemon Bank will be supported for an 'unspecified amount of time' according to Gamefreak. What happens after that time? Is that simply the end of the road and decades of support for moving Pokemon up the generations just disappears into the wind, the games' most unique feature going with it?
On my Pokemon Ultra Sun cartridge right now is a shiny Mightyena. It was the first legit shiny I ever encountered. I caught it in 2003, very nearly 2 decades ago. I have been able to bring it into every new game until Gen VIII decided not only could I not use it in game, but I'd have to pay $25 to even bench it in modern limbo. With it are other Pokemon... traded from old friends I haven't seen since middle school, ex-girlfriends that bring back plenty of bittersweet memories among other stories. Maybe I am being far too sentimental over what is basically nothing, lines of code that only represent a fictional creature... but it is this kind of thing that used to made Pokemon a unique franchise. The idea that it could all be thrown away like nothing because the most profitable IP in history doesn't want to lift a finger to put in the smallest amount of effort to preserve it's unique identity is just so sad.
TL;DR
Game Freak is a horrible company. Someone should grief their base in Minecraft.
However, as soon as the 3DS generation started using Pokemon Bank I was already worried. The fact the storage is cloud based just added a pointless and dangerous layer of complexity out of your hands. The obvious better solution would have been some kind of app like Pokemon Box or Pokemon Ranch you downloaded for your 3DS to allow storing Pokemon on the 3DS for transfers between Gen VI and Gen VII... but this was well into Gamefreak's shitty phase, so crappier service with an added cost for minuscule data amounts other companies offer 10,000x more of for free was right up their alley. I didn't like it, but it wasn't the worst way they could have done it.
Gen VIII comes out and now it's the worst way they could have done it. The fact they didn't even think about a physical solution annoys me... I'm sure there is a way one of the switch's ports could link something into either a 3DS or a 3DS cartridge... but I'm no engineer, and it would be a somewhat niche thing you'd have to physically produce regardless so whatever, we'll give it a pass. However, once again... the Switch has wifi and some local wireless connectability so it should have not been too hard to do a Pokemon box/ranch app solution and connect to the 3DS for all the reasons I stated about Pokemon Bank. Now it's even worse for a few reasons. The first reason is the insane price gouging - literally increasing the price from Pokemon Bank by 4x and also having the gall to still require Bank's price as well. This could be bypassed if it weren't for the second reason...
Dexit. I could go on and on about how much I hate the removal of being able to have all the Pokemon in a game, but needless to say because my favorite thing about the game is collecting Pokemon through the generations this is a huge blow to my enjoyment of the franchise. This causes a really big problem beyond that though... because the game cannot accommodate all the Pokemon the Switch's only option for moving them up is to pay for the crappy, overpriced Pokemon Home. Because all the prior games had all the Pokemon if you didn't want to pay for Pokemon Bank, you could just keep the Pokemon on the cartridge. Now that isn't an option... so if you want them in the current gen limbo you have to keep up your nonsensically expensive subscription. Even if that wasn't the case, data is now saved on the Switch instead of the cartridge which I consider way more likely to have long term issues than a cartridge.
Because of all this I opted not to transfer my Pokemon up and I didn't buy a Gen VIII game until I could at a discount. I figured now my collection would have to be separated, keeping the old stuff on the 3DS cartridges and the new gens would have to reside in their individual game's data, which is not something I like or feel should have ever been the case when it was done much better in the past. Even then, I knew eventually the 3DS would lose it's servers. Now that it is upcoming the way it's being handled is not encouraging. Pokemon Bank will stop requiring a fee, but will also not be able to be downloaded. The fact this is pure software is already something I alluded to hating as it's more ephemeral than hardware, but it goes further. Pokemon Bank will be supported for an 'unspecified amount of time' according to Gamefreak. What happens after that time? Is that simply the end of the road and decades of support for moving Pokemon up the generations just disappears into the wind, the games' most unique feature going with it?
On my Pokemon Ultra Sun cartridge right now is a shiny Mightyena. It was the first legit shiny I ever encountered. I caught it in 2003, very nearly 2 decades ago. I have been able to bring it into every new game until Gen VIII decided not only could I not use it in game, but I'd have to pay $25 to even bench it in modern limbo. With it are other Pokemon... traded from old friends I haven't seen since middle school, ex-girlfriends that bring back plenty of bittersweet memories among other stories. Maybe I am being far too sentimental over what is basically nothing, lines of code that only represent a fictional creature... but it is this kind of thing that used to made Pokemon a unique franchise. The idea that it could all be thrown away like nothing because the most profitable IP in history doesn't want to lift a finger to put in the smallest amount of effort to preserve it's unique identity is just so sad.
TL;DR
Game Freak is a horrible company. Someone should grief their base in Minecraft.
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Unironically related to Pokémon but the clown prince of faggotary SlugBox has the worse takes about Nintendo and their games also found it funny that he gave Nintendo and Pokémon shitty nicknames because somehow he thinks Nintendo will sue his ass. LOL
For real when did this faggot become a political fag for video games? Nigga you draw fucking porn online you are not Joe Biden you fucking nigga sucker! Why do all big porn artists try to suck dick for BLM and faggots like Joe Biden? We really need a purge for these losers. Reboot our timeline and start all over. Pokemon was a mistake and this loser will keep crying about Nintendo and Pokemon every 10,000 years for the 9000 times in a roll.
This comment is pretty based since it exposes Slugbox's bias when it comes to him talking trash about Nintendo and Pokemon vs talking nicely about Sony and their products. No matter what? Companies outside Nintendo will do way worse than what the big N is doing.
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I was going to post a long-winded rant about the 3DS/Wii U eShop shutting down and potentially killing Pokemon Bank with it, but since TPC actually did good thing for once and clarified that Bank will still be usable (if undownloadable unless you do funky, scurvy things to your 3DS) and free-to-use after the death date while @Professor G. Raff kind of covered my issues with the general "march of time" leaving he past behind I'll cover a different topic.
It seems that TPCi has finalized the beta for the Pokemon Trading Card Game Live app, Canadian players will be able to test out the game starting next week. The game still looks like it's trying to ride the coattails of YGO: Master Duel, MTG Arena, and other mobile TCG games in the forms of in-game currencies being tied to certain actions and having excess cards. They've also added a more traditional layout for what I assume is the PC/Mac version of the app (I sincerely hope said layout is also used for the tablet version of the app).
TPCi also updated their PTCGO Sunset Information page on their site. The only changes I noticed is that the amount of in-game currency you get for having a certain number of unopened packs on your PTCGO account when you transfer data to the PTCGL has doubled and that they've clarified that trade-locked cards (usually gained from opening packs obtained with the PTCGO's free in-game currency) WILL be included in the transfer process and that trade-locked packs will count towards the currency compensation.
It seems that TPCi has finalized the beta for the Pokemon Trading Card Game Live app, Canadian players will be able to test out the game starting next week. The game still looks like it's trying to ride the coattails of YGO: Master Duel, MTG Arena, and other mobile TCG games in the forms of in-game currencies being tied to certain actions and having excess cards. They've also added a more traditional layout for what I assume is the PC/Mac version of the app (I sincerely hope said layout is also used for the tablet version of the app).
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@Professor G. Raff
You can use the free version of Pokémon Home to put the Mightyena in BDSP if you have one of those. Pretty sure you still have to pay for Poké Transporter until March 2023 though.
You can use the free version of Pokémon Home to put the Mightyena in BDSP if you have one of those. Pretty sure you still have to pay for Poké Transporter until March 2023 though.
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I'm not to familiar with Slugbox, but I swore he did some art of Rosie from Animal Crossing . So I wonder why he has such a stick up his ass about Nintendo now?
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it's because years ago trolls pretended to be Nintendo to fuck his art career over-under lulz
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Watched the markiplier video up to the end of the first Gen - it wasn’t that interesting, really.
Best bit was his reaction to the bell sprout line.
Bellsprout: serious thought, decides to pass.
Weepinbell: even deeper thought, decides to smash.
Victreebell: takes one look at the teeth and yells Pass as quick as he can.
Best bit was his reaction to the bell sprout line.
Bellsprout: serious thought, decides to pass.
Weepinbell: even deeper thought, decides to smash.
Victreebell: takes one look at the teeth and yells Pass as quick as he can.
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Beat Legends Arceus and I feel like giving my thoughts. This is definitely the best Pokémon game since B2W2 IMO, it’s at least a solid B-tier. I only have a few complaints:
1. boss fights should require you to do battle instead of the best strategy just being to continue chucking balms
2. we’re still doing fades to black during cutscenes and we still have moves where the Pokémon isn’t actually animated like Bulldoze
3. framerate dips when the game is docked/Pokémon in the distance being animated at an incredibly low framerate as opposed to the game having distance models
4. game could use a bit more actual content, it’s obvious that the rank requirements are only there to distract you from how short the main story actually is
1. boss fights should require you to do battle instead of the best strategy just being to continue chucking balms
2. we’re still doing fades to black during cutscenes and we still have moves where the Pokémon isn’t actually animated like Bulldoze
3. framerate dips when the game is docked/Pokémon in the distance being animated at an incredibly low framerate as opposed to the game having distance models
4. game could use a bit more actual content, it’s obvious that the rank requirements are only there to distract you from how short the main story actually is
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I've wanted a shiny Liligant since black and white, so of course I find a shiny petilil in the one game Liligant looks different and scares me. I wish they would've just given it a short ballet skirt (like bellossom) or something. The white in between the green leotard and the rest of the legs just looks lazy, they really should've covered that.
Either way, if you're in a distortion, keep an eye on the outside of it for sparkles, that's the only reason I saw it.
Either way, if you're in a distortion, keep an eye on the outside of it for sparkles, that's the only reason I saw it.
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I really want to explore an ancient BOTW-style version of Kanto, and I really hope that doesn't make me sound like a genwunner, Johto and Hoenn might do too, those are just the 3 regions that seem most permanently burned into my mind so that I know them by heart
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Beat Arceus. Didn't finish the Pokedex because the game is frankly boring, finished the Giratina "plot" and got to rank 9. I can appreciate that this isn't just another "last gen but worse" standard issue Pokemon game, but if it weren't for the built-in enjoyment of building a team of Pokes I would have probably dropped this game after a few sessions. This is by and away the fastest I've ever gotten sick of an open-world or Pokemon game. Really glad I had a bunch of Gold Points to spend on it.
You guys either like Pokemon a lot more than I do or have really low standards.
Lmao, I love how top hats have just come to mean "Your comment made me mad".
You guys either like Pokemon a lot more than I do or have really low standards.
Lmao, I love how top hats have just come to mean "Your comment made me mad".
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I 'unno, I think the ratio they have right now is perfect as is. If the boss fights had more turn-based combat it might kill the pacing since most battles in PLA aren't that strategic and end in 2 or 3 turns anyways.
Hard Argee. Game Freak still acts like they're making games for the 3DS and the only reason they continue to do so is simply the fact that they can get away with it. Why change the game for the better when said game has sold more than Sw/Sh in the first week with glowing reviews all around?
EDIT: "It's because we love Pokemon more than we respect ourselves"-Girlfriend Reviews
We can all complain about the lack of optimization but at this point it's going to take the resurrected spirit of Iwata to fix all of Game Freaks' bullshit. You either have to live with it or play better optimized game.
Eh, 10 hours minimum of storied gameplay isn't what I'd call exactly short. Story I'd argue not even the main point this game, or any Pokemon game for that matter. The main appeal of pokemon has always been the Mons and 230ish of them running around out and about is quite good enough for an average player. The average player online seems to enjoy the anemic content without complaint so that's basically a win the Pokemon Company's eyes compared to the shitshow that was Sword & Shield.
I do agree more endgame content would be for the better. I'm 99 hours in and the best you can do after beating the main story is fill out the Pokedex, Shiny hunt, or master all those shitty balloon races. An online battle mode wouldn't be amiss to balance out the tedium.
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I wouldn’t be too surprised if a future update or expansion added Online Battles - considering the “changes” they made to battles in Legends, probably helped having a few million people look over it for any kinks that needed to be ironed out.