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

[Nick Gars]

For anyone who says the starters look like fakemons, I understand but just give them time to exist. Every generation feels like that at reveal.

I'm glad it seems like they're sticking closer to the PLA formula as it works really well, just needs some improvements. Now that we're probably about to have over 1000 Pokemon in total, and we seem to be going in the direction most fans have wanted gameplay wise, I really wish they would slow down on games. What I would really, really like to see is for them to focus on production of a single Pokemon game for 4+ years of development time with the focus of bringing the complete Pokemon world (meaning every region, every Pokemon) to one game. Ideally it would be the perfect way to cap off the series as whole, especially because it's so unreasonably big now, but sadly dreams are just dreams. The series is way too profitable to let it die any time soon, let alone give it a proper send off.

 

[Rotollo 2]

Spoiler: 4k trailer screenshot

I really wish they would slow down on games.

I know it happened before with emerald and FRLG for two games in one year but I hope it doesnt become common like how 2 gens per console did after BW

 

[Buttigieg2020]

I was listening to Shofu an hour ago, and the point he made on BDSP makes me sad, bros:

It's just a half-assed holiday cash grab, that was overshadowed by PLA literally from its first announcement. And now Gen 9 is revealed? I've never felt so cucked as a Gen 4 fan, and I never even purchased the game.

But good thing Shaymin's coming, amirite?

Post Gen 4 Pokémon has been constant 1 step forward 1 step back for every entry anyway. Physical/Special split was the last major lasting gameplay change (besides fairy type). Bringing previous gens to that standard made sense. Since Gen 4 had it anyway, I’m not sure Gen 4 and after really need remakes at all. Cheap Ports like the red and blue 3ds ones would have been fine with me.

 

[Polyboros2]

Post Gen 4 Pokémon has been constant 1 step forward 1 step back for every entry anyway. Physical/Special split was the last major lasting gameplay change (besides fairy type). Bringing previous gens to that standard made sense. Since Gen 4 had it anyway, I’m not sure Gen 4 and after really need remakes at all. Cheap Ports like the red and blue 3ds ones would have been fine with me.

I agree there doesn't need to be any more remakes. Just port them with Pokemon Home functionality. I think Legends should, and considering it's success, will be how they revisit regions. I'd much rather visit a region in a different state(not necessarily always in the past) than play a barely more fleshed out retread of the previous one. I dunno how the cheap low effort Gen4 remakes did, but I hope to never see another one.

I think it'd be cool to see Legends Kyurem in a discovery/colonization of the new world in what would become the Unova region, starting out at a boat landing, and an early Castelia City builds up as you play the game.

 

[Leaf-eon]

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet look interesting but after swsh and bdsp, lets just say I don't have my hopes up.
As for the starters. The duck is my favorite so far, but I'm going to wait until the finale evolutions are reviled or leaked for the cat and crocodile to properly judge them.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet look interesting but after swsh and bdsp, lets just say I don't have my hopes up.
As for the starters. The duck is my favorite so far, but I'm going to wait until the finale evolutions are reviled or leaked for the cat and crocodile to properly judge them.

See, I’m curious to see the second stage, but I want to try and stay unspoiled on the final. Because I am a bit torn on who to go with.

 

[Disc]

there's a lot of weed jokes surrounding sprigatito.

Spoiler

The internet is hard at work already

None of them really landed with me, will have to see their evolutions to make a final pick.

This is fake. They already had a dragon evolutionary line around the theme of apples in the forgettable Gen V and VI games.

> Calls the Pokemon Direct from this actual morning fake
> Gets a pokemon's location wrong by like two whole consoles
> Still has the balls to call anyone else a tard

 

[Archeops]

I just saw the trailer and SV looks interesting.

Spoiler: My thoughts on SV

• The starters look okayish to me but I can see where people are coming from when they say they look like shit. That said I’ll probably start my standard playthrough with Fuecoco and my traditional JPN/foreign playthrough with Quaxly.
• I love how people are already speculating the final evos for the starters.
• The MCs look “off” to me (and a lot of other fans apparently) in-game but the Sugimori artwork looks okay. I hope it’s addressed at some point but with only around 9 months of dev time I doubt it will.
• The environments look great and I think choosing Spain for a new region is good (and it’s a hell of a lot better than India as far as tourism goes) but since this is the Switch we’re talking about here I’ll wait until we get a better view closer to release. Judging by the main site it looks like we’re keeping PLA’s open world design but catching Pokemon is going back to the original formula.
• Pokemon selection looks good if a bit too close to PLA’s. I’m also happy to see that Hisuian Pokemon are in the game, even if we know they were a shoe-in, and I hope we see a majority of ‘em in SV.
• OhgodpleasekeeptheDLCstructureandPokedexexpansionsthatSWSHhadIcan’tgobacktosequelgamesanymore

The Arceus DLC looks okay but I’ll have to check it out later. From what I’m hearing outbreaks have been given a serous upgrade at the cost of losing Shiny spawn resets.

Spoiler: 4k trailer screenshot

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I know it happened before with emerald and FRLG for two games in one year but I hope it doesnt become common like how 2 gens per console did after BW

You forgot to add the obligatory Pokemon-themed Funko POP to that pic.

 

[Rotollo 2]

Judging by the main site it looks like we’re keeping PLA’s open world design but catching Pokemon is going back to the original formula.

Oh god please don't have encounters work like SWSH, I just want pre-emptive strike mechanics again so looking for pokemon about to ram into you means something

Pokemon selection looks good if a bit too close to PLA’s. I’m also happy to see that Hisuian Pokemon are in the game, even if we know they were a shoe-in, and I hope we see a majority of ‘em in SV.

Again, shit will probably be a sinnoh vassal state with the ones that didnt show up like wooper and swablu being here

You forgot to add the obligatory Pokemon-themed Funko POP to that pic.

I stole it off /vp/ but I'll see what I can do for a funko pop edit

Spoiler: The average GO Player

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Goddamn it lol.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I just saw the trailer and SV looks interesting.

Spoiler: My thoughts on SV

• The starters look okayish to me but I can see where people are coming from when they say they look like shit. That said I’ll probably start my standard playthrough with Fuecoco and my traditional JPN/foreign playthrough with Quaxly.
• I love how people are already speculating the final evos for the starters.
• The MCs look “off” to me (and a lot of other fans apparently) in-game but the Sugimori artwork looks okay. I hope it’s addressed at some point but with only around 9 months of dev time I doubt it will.
• The environments look great and I think choosing Spain for a new region is good (and it’s a hell of a lot better than India as far as tourism goes) but since this is the Switch we’re talking about here I’ll wait until we get a better view closer to release. Judging by the main site it looks like we’re keeping PLA’s open world design but catching Pokemon is going back to the original formula.
• Pokemon selection looks good if a bit too close to PLA’s. I’m also happy to see that Hisuian Pokemon are in the game, even if we know they were a shoe-in, and I hope we see a majority of ‘em in SV.
• OhgodpleasekeeptheDLCstructureandPokedexexpansionsthatSWSHhadIcan’tgobacktosequelgamesanymore

The Arceus DLC looks okay but I’ll have to check it out later. From what I’m hearing outbreaks have been given a serous upgrade at the cost of losing Shiny spawn resets.


You forgot to add the obligatory Pokemon-themed Funko POP to that pic.

 

[Disc]

Ah, Pokemon.

 

[CharcoalChkn]

An entire generation of young girls are about to learn a very hard and sad lesson with the weed cats Evo line.

 

[SnowBall]

Going to be honest I think the starters actually look pretty decent. I definitely had a “What is this shit? Are those fakemon?” reaction to them at first but now they’ve grown on me. They’re a big step up from the SwSh starters. Honestly at this point I care more about what the final form of a starter is than the base form.

Surprised the fanbase isn’t talking more about the game being open world and seamless. Granted it would probably not be executed very well and shit can change but it’s a promising start at least.

That said I’m actually worried about the GF staff members with all the titles they are pushing out. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone drops dead from being over worked if it hasn’t already happened.

 

[Zeke Von Genbu]

Going to be honest I think the starters actually look pretty decent. I definitely had a “What is this shit? Are those fakemon?” reaction to them at first but now they’ve grown on me. They’re a big step up from the SwSh starters. Honestly at this point I care more about what the final form of a starter is than the base form.

Surprised the fanbase isn’t talking more about the game being open world and seamless. Granted it would probably not be executed very well and shit can change but it’s a promising start at least.

That said I’m actually worried about the GF staff members with all the titles they are pushing out. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone drops dead from being over worked if it hasn’t already happened.

Little Town Hero was made specifically to give the GF staff a break from churning out Pokemon for the last 20 years, and it wasn't well received so I can't imagine morale is great.

I personally think this forced 1 year = 1 game thing that the Pokemon Company tries to enforce is disastrous for the series unless they do what CoD does and bring in about 3-4 other studios to develop games alongside GF constantly.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

hehe weed cat

 

[Archeops]

Oh god please don't have encounters work like SWSH, I just want pre-emptive strike mechanics again so looking for pokemon about to ram into you means something

Like I said it’s mentioned on the games’ official site, if PLA-styled mechanics were in the game then they’d be here in the text.

Again, shit will probably be a sinnoh vassal state with the ones that didnt show up like wooper and swablu being here

I doubt it’ll be a vassal state since non-Japan regions are largely independant of each other. On the other hand that doesn’t rule out Japan-inspired architecture being somewhere in the game. As far as Hisuian Pokemon being present in SV I’d chalk that up due to

I stole it off /vp/ but I'll see what I can do for a funko pop edit

Spoiler: The average GO Player

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EDIT: I completely forgot to add this.

But here, a "better" Pokemon for this display.

Spoiler: A most cursed Pokemon POP

Now you have something that is part-soy, part-furfag, part-consoomer, and part-degenerate all in itty-bitty package!

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Interesting, regular outbreaks have better odds but massive outbreaks have other things that make ‘em unique.

EDIT: I really underestimated how BIG massive mass outbreaks are here... I actually managed to get a Shiny Scyther from one of the three spawns you have to investigate for Mai.

 

[Jordi El Nino Polla]

The absolute state of Pokemon. You retards are going to buy it, too.

 

[BlazikenLover]

Little Town Hero was made specifically to give the GF staff a break from churning out Pokemon for the last 20 years, and it wasn't well received so I can't imagine morale is great.

I personally think this forced 1 year = 1 game thing that the Pokemon Company tries to enforce is disastrous for the series unless they do what CoD does and bring in about 3-4 other studios to develop games alongside GF constantly.

Yeah, I feel the game should at least have one extra year of dev time at least and release a new generation every 4 years instead of 3.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I was reminded that should the Unown ever show up (lol doubt), there's a possibility there could be an Unown Ñ, and the thing that gets to me about this is that I can see this happening where they just take Unown N and stick a unibrow on it.