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

Executive Petrel said:
I'd love to see Gamefreak being ballsy, releasing a Mainline-Title with High-End graphics and a huge map to discorver for PC tho.
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People have been asking for high graphics PC games from Nintendo since at least 2007. Honestly, that’s both a) missing the point of Nintendo games as PC gamers have always been the opposite to their target demographic, and maybe stir some bad blood via emulation, rom hacks, and fan games, whether or not that’s justified; and b) indicative of the problem that these older Pokémon fans don’t actually know what they want. Adult Pokémon fans have been chasing the dragon that is the magic they felt for the franchise when they were six, which is obviously never going to happen.
Since the shift to HD, games aiming for a more realistic look have become a dime-a-dozen. The modern games market has proven that a strong, stylized art direction through development will always result in a better game than trying to allocate limited resources (even for a Pokémon game) from gameplay development towards achieving photo realism. The issue with Pokémon is its art direction stumbled at X and Y, and has been on a downward trend since. Pokémon design still undergoes the same philosophy it had thirty years ago, where what the Pokémon looks like and what it can do are largely arbitrary with a handful of more crafted exceptions. Combined with designs being submitted by multiple people with wildly varying art styles and a shift towards a more mainstream anime look, which designs just being animals with magic powers (Klefki and other in animated designs add a lot of variety) and Pokemon just ends up resembling a generic phone game, bootleg to itself.
The last time Game Freak really cared about art direction was Black and White. Part of that was, as you suggested, a return to their roots of some 200 Pokémon available, at least during the main part of the game. People derided it at the time, to where Black and White 2 completely scrapped that idea. Game Freak gets a lot of blame for being lazy/incompetent and just letting the franchise print money, but conveniently forget that when they did try and toe the line once they realized they had infinite money, fans shot themselves in the foot over it.

Fuck, I really didn’t intend this to turn into an essay.
 
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Two idiot LAPD officers just lost their court case over being fired because they ignored a robbery at a Macy's, even though they were called in for backup, trying to catch a Snorlax.


A couple of Los Angeles Police Department officers have been denied a new court review after being fired for ignoring a robbery in progress to catch a Snorlax in Pokemon Go.

Earlier this year, it was reported that officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell tried to catch a Snorlax in Pokemon Go despite getting a radio call that the Macy’s at Crenshaw Plaza was being robbed and cops had requested backup.

Lozano and Mitchell claimed that they never heard the request for backup because it was “loud”, resulting in their vehicle’s digital video system recording being reviewed.

According to court documents, one of the officers alerted his partner that a Snorlax “just popped up” and for 20 minutes, the two discussed Pokemon while they drove to different locations to hunt the creatures on their phones.

On the radio, the two even voiced struggles catching some of the critters, with one yelling, “Holy crap, man. This thing is fighting the crap out of me” before eventually catching a Togetic.

After making the catch, they claimed that other officers would be “jealous” of what they caught.

Both officers admitted that they left their patrol to search for the Snorlax and ended up being terminated in 2018, but on Wednesday April 20, 2022, they took their case to the California Supreme Court.

As reported by Bloomberg Law, the two had failed to convince the California Supreme Court that the recordings were used properly in the LAPD’s decision to terminate them.

This serves as a good lesson for any Pokemon enthusiast: don’t let your desire to catch em all get in the way of your day job, even if you work in the public sector.
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@Disc I'm a little too lazy to reply, tbh, but you make some good points, especially regarding SSBU. I still think they could do better but it's probably more difficult than we expect, to a degree.
 
Alright guys, new possible S/V leak just got out. Real or fake?


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Smuggly Prick said:
Alright guys, new possible S/V leak just got out. Real or fake?


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I find with how many people with actual talent make Fakémon, it’s easier to just ignore everything until release. Granted I like being surprised by the new Pokémon…

That said, a lot of effort for a Fakémon - though if that winds up being a Fuecoco evolution I’ll be slightly disappointed
 
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Smuggly Prick said:
Alright guys, new possible S/V leak just got out. Real or fake?


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While not a bad design, my money is on doubt because of the way the photo is framed. And I don’t mean the piss jar.

To take this photo, you’d have to be standing right over the artist’s desk. Which means the photographer is the artist (and they can probably figure out from their desk who it is) or the photographer snuck a photo of someone else’s desk (when they left? Unlikely, see piss jar). This also applies to anyone else whose desk it may be.

Edit: And if the leaker got the reference page as a file, then printed it, then took a picture, then sent that, well... that sounds like a stretch.

Fakemon creators have gotten very good at making fake reference pages, since the SuMo days. and it’s always starter Pokémon, too. At this point I genuinely trust reference pages less than I trust fuzzy motion blurred smartphone shots, and the attempt to ground this photo in reality is too suspicious to me.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
A "headcanon" I like is that the trainer doesn't give orders to pokemon - instead (s)he just stands by to provide items or switch out pokes, while the mons choose their own actions. The not following the trainer thing is because they don't really want to battle.

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Well, canonically, Red is the only instance where that is the case.
 
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a "shower thought":

>level 1 Steelix vs level 100 Pidgey
>Steelix moves first with Quick Claw using Iron Tail
>huge metal snake the size of a large truck slams down onto a small bird the size of a chicken
>the bird barely feels it
>the bird flaps little wings to stir up a little Gust
>not very effective
>yet the iron snake is instantly KO'd (unless Sturdy)

The pocketmons games can be rather wat.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
a "shower thought":

>level 1 Steelix vs level 100 Pidgey
>Steelix moves first with Quick Claw using Iron Tail
>huge metal snake the size of a large truck slams down onto a small bird the size of a chicken
>the bird barely feels it
>the bird flaps little wings to stir up a little Gust
>not very effective
>yet the iron snake is instantly KO'd (unless Sturdy)

The pocketmons games can be rather wat.
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Maybe they're using ki like DBZ. Or, hear me out, we're overthinking a kid's game.

Seriously though, dissonance between game mechanics and story are common, sometimes it can be unavoidable. I do think they should strive for consistency and logic where possible, however.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
Maybe they're using ki like DBZ. Or, hear me out, we're overthinking a kid's game.

Seriously though, dissonance between game mechanics and story are common, sometimes it can be unavoidable. I do think they should strive for consistency and logic where possible, however.
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it's perfectly logical that a creature trained to the peak of physical perfection would be able to fuck up a newborn with a coat of iron paint on it.
 
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