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

[Nauseated Courgi]

mate "not as polished" doesn't equate to "1.4 gigs when fully compressed and unoptimized enough to crash a computer during regular gameplay"
It made my PC with hundreds of gigs free chug and crashed after I tried to make my first fusion right at the first (non-starting) town
That's not "not as polished", that's unplayable

Sorry to hear that. The worst that the I've gotten from the game was a long ass start up time when the game is initially loading. The game was smooth beyond that.

 

[Anonitolia]

Off-topic, is there a thread for pokefuckers yet? They're so prolific at this point it's ridiculous. I'd blame the Vaporeon copypasta but that's been a thing for years. Regardless, /vp/ alone would give a thread like that infinite amounts of material...

 

[Disc]

Off-topic, is there a thread for pokefuckers yet? They're so prolific at this point it's ridiculous. I'd blame the Vaporeon copypasta but that's been a thing for years. Regardless, /vp/ alone would give a thread like that infinite amounts of material...

I think it's just merged with the general furry threads. Too much overlap to be worth seperating out.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

In addition to games that are finished, and still being updated with events and mystery gifts, I would like to throw in:

Pokemon Uranium: A complete fakemon game with a brand-new region, plot, typing, etc. Fakemons range from looking like absolute shit to like discount neopets to really fucking cool. Has a fun exploit where you can make multiple save files, and trade between them so you can get more EXP. Also has wonder trading. The downsides are that the plot, and characters are meh, and depending on what kind of computer you have, it can run like absolute dogshit.

Pokemon Insurgence: Pokemon Reborn's less shitty cousin. Regional 'mons before regional 'mons were a thing. All new regional 'mons look really fucking cool. Downsides are that the plot is absolute shit as well as the characters. Like really bad. Like they had to release a patch to make it less bad, and it's still really bad. This is a game where you entirely play it for the gameplay, and not the story because it utterly sucks balls. The other downside is that there is no one to prevent the title screen from being so loud besides just muting your computer.

 

[Lurker]

Pokemon Insurgence: Pokemon Reborn's less shitty cousin. Regional 'mons before regional 'mons were a thing. All new regional 'mons look really fucking cool. Downsides are that the plot is absolute shit as well as the characters. Like really bad. Like they had to release a patch to make it less bad, and it's still really bad. This is a game where you entirely play it for the gameplay, and not the story because it utterly sucks balls. The other downside is that there is no one to prevent the title screen from being so loud besides just muting your computer.

ditto (hue) pokemon insurgence. the delta pokemon concept is the only thing that drew me to this fangame. i have a save file on my old macbook, though even if i could retrieve it, who knows if it would even be playable.

but yeah, the delta pokemon are fucking based:

Spoiler: genwun starters WITH MEGA EVOLUTIONS

Fairy/Psychic

Ghost/Dragon

Dark/Fighting

btw i picked delta bulbasaur as my starter because i mean look at venusaur though

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

In addition to games that are finished, and still being updated with events and mystery gifts, I would like to throw in:

Pokemon Uranium: A complete fakemon game with a brand-new region, plot, typing, etc. Fakemons range from looking like absolute shit to like discount neopets to really fucking cool. Has a fun exploit where you can make multiple save files, and trade between them so you can get more EXP. Also has wonder trading. The downsides are that the plot, and characters are meh, and depending on what kind of computer you have, it can run like absolute dogshit.

Pokemon Insurgence: Pokemon Reborn's less shitty cousin. Regional 'mons before regional 'mons were a thing. All new regional 'mons look really fucking cool. Downsides are that the plot is absolute shit as well as the characters. Like really bad. Like they had to release a patch to make it less bad, and it's still really bad. This is a game where you entirely play it for the gameplay, and not the story because it utterly sucks balls. The other downside is that there is no one to prevent the title screen from being so loud besides just muting your computer.

I also read of Pokémon Xenoverse (if you can speak Italiano), though I wish tha they have put in the Mega Dragonite.
There is also the quest-based Pokémon Radiant Version, whcih is based off South Africa.

I did not play these, though, and I am only mentioning them because Bunny Tracks mentioned some fangames.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

ditto (hue) pokemon insurgence. the delta pokemon concept is the only thing that drew me to this fangame. i have a save file on my old macbook, though even if i could retrieve it, who knows if it would even be playable.

but yeah, the delta pokemon are fucking based:

Spoiler: genwun starters WITH MEGA EVOLUTIONS

View attachment 4752637 Fairy/Psychic View attachment 4752640

View attachment 4752644Ghost/Dragon View attachment 4752645

View attachment 4752649Dark/Fighting View attachment 4752650

btw i picked delta bulbasaur as my starter because i mean look at venusaur though

You forgot to put the female version of Venusaur in there:

Spoiler: Female Venusaur and Her Mega

 

[Mac Monster]

Fire Red: Rocket Edition
Hilarious story with fun gameplay and a good take on a fan-favorite concept. Due for a 2.0-style reimagining that'll do a lot of stuff as far as I'm aware but all I know personally is that it'll let you play as a girl. Author got blasted over an optional, very slightly edgy joke near the endgame and had to rework that so I think the hack can't be downloaded from Pokecommunity anymore, but otherwise it's well worth your time to seek out and very fun. Surprisingly replayable.

I never played this, so what was the edgy joke that got people so assblasted?

 

[Anonitolia]

I never played this, so what was the edgy joke that got people so assblasted?

a very mild trans joke
because of course

(tried finding a picture of the actual joke in-game, but I can't pinpoint it. Will edit it in if I do find the raw dialogue)

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

a very mild trans joke
because of course
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(tried finding a picture of the actual joke in-game, but I can't pinpoint it. Will edit it in if I do find the raw dialogue)

I'm not even going to read that because I don't want to.

 

[Anonitolia]

I'm not even going to read that because I don't want to.

fair
tldr a rocket grunt (reminder, literal criminal lowlife) calls jigglypuff gay earlier in the game, then claims he's been enlightened and proclaims them trannies instead later on
--
mods immediately got to shutting down discussion in support of the author and the author was forced to make a minor edit to the game (to remove the dialogue) and a rebuttal lest he have his hack taken down

here's that rebuttal
it's actually really funny because the author is insanely salty so I promise it's less hard to read than the braindead idiot who complained in the first place

 

[Professor G. Raff]

Some fun shit show stuff from the Trannies at Niantic via Pokemon Go.

Just today they put out a blog about how they want to strengthened the 'in-person experience' and work really hard to make it the pillar of the game. Then, with perfect comedic timing, they released an in-person only event that failed in many spectacular ways and is bugged to shit and seemingly keeps getting worse. It fucked up bad for New Zealand the first place to beta test all their shit, they gave them a make-up day, and being so far ahead they got it and the make-up version is supposedly also fucking up.

Spoofchads keep winning at Pokemon Go while legit players suffer and it's hilarious, Niantic is truly a comedy gold mine company.

 

[Anonitolia]

Some fun shit show stuff from the Trannies at Niantic via Pokemon Go.

Just today they put out a blog about how they want to strengthened the 'in-person experience' and work really hard to make it the pillar of the game. Then, with perfect comedic timing, they released an in-person only event that failed in many spectacular ways and is bugged to shit and seemingly keeps getting worse. It fucked up bad for New Zealand the first place to beta test all their shit, they gave them a make-up day, and being so far ahead they got it and the make-up version is supposedly also fucking up.

Spoofchads keep winning at Pokemon Go while legit players suffer and it's hilarious, Niantic is truly a comedy gold mine company.

God damn, every time I hear about this god forsaken app I am reminded of how it's somehow managed to be a continual trainwreck from day 1. How have they managed to stay the same level of incompetent for 6 straight years now? It's almost impressive.

 

[Nick Gars]

Some fun shit show stuff from the Trannies at Niantic via Pokemon Go.

Just today they put out a blog about how they want to strengthened the 'in-person experience' and work really hard to make it the pillar of the game. Then, with perfect comedic timing, they released an in-person only event that failed in many spectacular ways and is bugged to shit and seemingly keeps getting worse. It fucked up bad for New Zealand the first place to beta test all their shit, they gave them a make-up day, and being so far ahead they got it and the make-up version is supposedly also fucking up.

Spoofchads keep winning at Pokemon Go while legit players suffer and it's hilarious, Niantic is truly a comedy gold mine company.

Anything related to raids in that game is straight fucking cancer. Overall, no one actually gives a single flying fuck about the social aspect of the game and want it flat out done away with. Most people just want a time killer where they can catch Pokemon to send to other games.

Fuck you Niantic, I'm not gathering a group of 6 smelly losers I would never associate with otherwise to have a shot at catching some legendary I can get with far less effort in another game. Stop with the social shit, fuck off with your remote passes, make raids open global fuckin' lobbies and quit pretending you assholes actually make any of your money off of microtransactions.
Reeeing over.





In other news, the next SV update is to be distributed by the end of April.
No mention of the save bug, only the bad eggs (which are a non issue at this point, since the events pretty much over) and more "performance updates". Home should be expected as well, otherwise their promise of "early 2023" is a straight up fucking lie. Either they're fixing the corruption and trying to sweep it under the rug, or have decided it's not enough of a problem to bother with. Neither is really preferable.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

- Game Freak doesn't have to be beholden to all literally a thousand Pokémon that came over the last twenty-seven years before when designing new items and mechanics. A classic example is Tera-Electric, Air Balloon Shedinja - They don't have to make seasonal mechanics like tera work around weirdoes that could exploit them too easily.
- In addition, the shifting roster allows more Pokémon time to shine in competitive. Pokémon that'd be bullied out of taking a spot have a better chance of finding a niche if there's less alts to compete with for the spots.
- The big fear of Pokémon getting trapped in Home forever isn't bearing out in practice. The rosters in Gen 8 and 9 have overlap, but enough unique ones on either side that most Pokémon have gotten at least some chance to shine in a mainline game on switch. According to @Nick Gars in this very thread, the only ones who haven't appeared yet are Spinda, Furfrou, and Gen 5 Pokemon who are likely to appear in the inevitable Gen 5 remake games.
- The rule is literally something only Pokémon did regularly. Mon and mon-related games with far smaller total rosters chickened out far faster than Pokémon did, if they ever tried to keep to that rule at all. And they certainly never allow you to keep and transfer your Pokémon across games.
- People complaining about animation quality and variety don't acknowledge that Pokémon does things in the animation department that literally no other series does - most of which could be argued as stupid, or at least inefficient. See a previous post for more details. They don't do recolours in the traditional sense - even regional variants and fakes have their own models and animations. And likewise, they avoid the Agi-Agilao-Agidyne rule of just making the exact same moves but stronger.
People say that to be a good mon game, they should animate all the punch moves as punches and all the kick moves as kicks, without acknowledging that the games they're comparing to don't have that problem because they don't have the move variety to separate that stuff from each other.

Or Game Freak could actually make an effort to balance their competitive video game like a normal competitive video game. Instead of limiting player's options and being lazy as fuck about it in the process

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Or Game Freak could actually make an effort to balance their competitive video game like a normal competitive video game. Instead of limiting player's options and being lazy as fuck about it in the process

You actually think it's possible to make all 1000+ Pokemon be competitively viable? Let's be real here, with how powerful a legendary pokemon is compared to a pokemon like furret, that's a pipe dream at best.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

You actually think it's possible to make all 1000+ Pokemon be competitively viable?

If Game Freak started taking competitive more seriously and maybe hired more developers if their workload was that high, sure
Even many fangame creators can do a better job of balancing Pokemon than a professional game company such as Game Freak. It should not be that difficult

 

[Archeops]

It appears that TPCi has just pushed out a job listing that has a “deep understanding of Web3, including blockchain technologies and NFTs, and/or metaverse“ as one of its qualifications.

The Pokémon Company Is Looking To Hire Someone With NFT Knowledge

Porygon-B

www.nintendolife.com

I’d normally be worried about this but this is TPCi we’re talking about here, I‘m honestly surprised they don’t have someone like this already on-staff.

 

[Anonitolia]

It appears that TPCi has just pushed out a job listing that has a “deep understanding of Web3, including blockchain technologies and NFTs, and/or metaverse“ as one of its qualifications.

The Pokémon Company Is Looking To Hire Someone With NFT Knowledge

Porygon-B

www.nintendolife.com

I’d normally be worried about this but this is TPCi we’re talking about here, I‘m honestly surprised they don’t have someone like this already on-staff.

I wish I could go into the future to see how every geriatric employee there would react to some 30 year-old neckbeard with twenty-billion NFTs to his name explain to them how to work the web after being hired as the only candidate
Would be equally-as interested if the neckbeard was replaced by a Silicon Valley techbro, even if the results would probably be a bit less funny
This reeks of "how do you do fellow kids" to me instead of genuine interest, and watching scenarios like that play out in person is always hilarious

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

You actually think it's possible to make all 1000+ Pokemon be competitively viable? Let's be real here, with how powerful a legendary pokemon is compared to a pokemon like furret, that's a pipe dream at best.

If they go so far as to make its only selling point the national video game tournament for both the card game and video games, then yeah, a fraction of those resources could easily do it.