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

[Gravityqueen4life]

All im expecting is slob.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Oh boy its Game Freak slop time, dated gameplay and shitty visuals meanwhile speds will scream that its groundbreaking.

 

[Anonitolia]

I really cannot get over how the logo looks like someone getting kicked in the crotch. I swear i'm not going crazy, it's like one of those 50s advertisement people. Hold on, i'm going to illustrate it

Spoiler: original people

sourced from this Disneyland advertisement from 1967, not the 50s, so I was a little bit off

-mods merged my double-post, above was formerly separate. Anyways, a Presents play-by-play follows-

it begins (with mobileslop as always)
Concierge promo, then GO reminder, Masters reminder, Cafe announcement
Speed is so breakneck that they've gone through these four in about two minutes
(will continue editing as things are announced)
Darkrai and Cresselia in Sleep coming soon, how these guys weren't in there from launch is a miracle
Suicune reminder in Unite, Alolan Raichu (April) and Alcremie being added (can't remember if they were already?)
New battle type called First to 500? I think this was already announced
we're at the six minute mark btw they're going through these fast
every new announcement is being transitioned into with pokemon from various generations. Gen 5 before a TCG Pocket announcement...
...which is just announcing that Triumphant Light set that I think got posted about a day or two early?
releasing tomorrow
Kalos border before another new TCG announcement, except this one is for the actual TCG game. Return of megas as ex in 2025. Mega Lucario and Gardevoir announced.

-actual game news from here on out-
rotom phone case giveaway for SV, SB00KCASE for Scarlet and VB00KCASE for Violet
Starters in Mighty Tera Raids, pseudo raids planned for the future
covering the rest in spoilers
new competitive MOBILE APP (also available on Switch) with SwSh models, seems to be a Stadium successor. Purely competitive. Includes Megas, Tera. Called "Pokemon Champions". "Now in development", developed by The Pokemon Works (planned by GF). Compatibility with HOME planned, but there's a little blurb about not every HOME mon being available in the game. Lollll
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Latin American Spanish available for Z-A and Champions at launch, and will be used in future expansions as well. Some blabbing about being able to reach more audiences than ever before for about 80% of this announcement, you can skip it after the first 20 seconds if you must watch it
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Z-A news.
For Switch
Protagonists are completely different-looking to Serena and Calem, graphics are indeed SV style but dont look so shit.
Chikorita, Totodile, Tepig starters, yes really. Makes 0 sense and I'm very confused.
Some weird shit to do with teleportation? You get to climb on buildings and glide across them or something.
Game looks super fucking plastic. Like holy shit I can't get over this, it's like a slighly worse LGPE.
Lots and lots of megas returning.
Younger A-Z with Eternal Floette.
Zygarde 10% looking over the city, narration begins
Patrat confirmed lmaooo
High-tech redevelopment plan. Prism Tower is already there. Still seems to be set in the past?
Character designs are fucking ridiculous, one dude has an entire fucking child's head for a hairstyle.
Quasar Inc is who you're working for, I think? Bosses are unrecognizable. New people I think.
Lumiose has "wild zones", new habitats where Pokemon can thrive.
UI looks vaguely similar to Palworld but I might be drawing false correlations
BATTLES ARE COMPLETELY REAL-TIME. NO TURN-BASED.
0 mention of new mmegas. Only returning ones shown.
Megas have "C+" moves? no idea what that means
STILL NO DEFINITIVE RELEASE DATE HAHAHAHA
just "late 2025"
God bless
Penny phone ring at the end of Z-A announcement, with some weird thing about a "match announcement" or something?

End of Direct

 

[Computer God Autism]

LATAM gobbledygook, Pokemon has fallen billions must release

 

[anliteralidiot]

Chikorita, Totodile, Tepig starters, yes really. Makes 0 sense and I'm very confused.

I don't hate it, the g2 starters need more love. Especially chikorita.

 

[Anonitolia]

I don't hate it, the g2 starters need more love. Especially chikorita.

I don't disagree, these three are notorious for being underloved... but why two Johto starters? Seriously, I get Chikorita but Totodile is relatively popular and it's really awkward to only replace the most popular member of the Johto trio.

Also, I really hate the new designs a lot. Like oh my god lol. I couldn't have dreamed up worse designs if I tried.

EDIT: leak from a minute before the Presents indicates this shit has been in dev since 2023. Lol lmao

 

[Computer God Autism]

Tepig, Tottodile and Chikorita.

I get that Kalos starters are bad, but none of these interest me either; Johto has the least interesting slate of starters for me of the original 5 gens and Tepig is a poor man's Infernape/Blaziken. Given they went with two Johto starters I wouldn't be surprised if they were originally going to go with all the Johto starters but cut Cyndaquill due to Typhlosion getting infamous due to the leaks.

Also I hate Rotom phones. I miss the day when there was still some separation between the Pokedex and mobile phones. They're annoying enough irl the last thing I want is one that can actively bother you on a whim.

Character designs are barely better than Galar/Paldea, still look ugly and bear little resemblance to the original Kalos designs. Gen 6 did a lot of things wrong but one of the few things it did get right was character design, sad to see them dump on that in pursuit of some mystery meat international standard.

 

[Anonitolia]

I wouldn't be surprised if they were originally going to go with all the Johto starters but cut Cyndaquill due to Typhlosion getting infamous due to the leaks.

Not possible given the fact that this trio had been decided on by 2023. It's just confusing.

 

[Kerry]

>Popplio wasn't chosen for the Water starter
>Turtwig wasn't chosen for Grass starter
>Fennekin wasn't chosen for Fire starter
shit company, hope they go under

 

[anliteralidiot]

I don't disagree, these three are notorious for being underloved... but why two Johto starters? Seriously, I get Chikorita but Totodile is relatively popular and it's really awkward to only replace the most popular member of the Johto trio.

Also, I really hate the new designs a lot. Like oh my god lol. I couldn't have dreamed up worse designs if I tried.

...mega potential? Like, maybe they were the ones with the best mega designs? No idea, but we better get megas from them.
Also it's back.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Well colour me dissapointed but not at all surprised.

 

[Anonitolia]

...mega potential? Like, maybe they were the ones with the best mega designs? No idea, but we better get megas from them.

I'm going to be honest
I don't expect new megas
maybe one or two for Zygarde and Zeraora just due to the teraleak shit, but I think there's a damn good reason that all of the focus in every trailer surrounding megas involved showing off many (not even ALL) old megas
every chance that they're just saving it for later, but given that PLA only introduced 7 new regional variants... I highly doubt there are going to be even more megas and frankly i'm expecting less

 

[30+GameOvers]

Glad I focused on catching Articuno instead of watching this mess. I would infinitely prefer Eternal Floette be introduced in a mainline game than another PLA like slop. Don't expect extra points for bringing back Megas when we had them in Gen 7, as they were expected to be there.

I don't disagree, these three are notorious for being underloved... but why two Johto starters? Seriously, I get Chikorita but Totodile is relatively popular and it's really awkward to only replace the most popular member of the Johto trio.

Also, I really hate the new designs a lot. Like oh my god lol. I couldn't have dreamed up worse designs if I tried.

EDIT: leak from a minute before the Presents indicates this shit has been in dev since 2023. Lol lmao
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lmfao, what the hell is going on with Gamefreak that everything is getting leaked? Is this brand new or was this part of the Teraleak?

 

[UCT]

Wow another year another waste of fucking time. You know people keep lumping Nintendo and the Pokemon Company/Game Freak as being the same thing but at least Nintendo realizes when they have nothing to show they don’t waste our time. The Xenoblade overview trailer the other day was about as long as anything actually worthwhile in this whole thing. Also another year without them caring to just re-releasing the older Pokemon games on the NSO or as purchasable products in the eshop…. But hey least we have a new season of a Netflix show no one gives a fuck about lol.

But moving on to my thoughts on the only parts that matter. Champions isn’t a known quantity yet so I’ll hold my whole opinions because if it’s a real full stadium/battle revolution style game that’s cool but if it’s just a battle sim and that’s all I’m less interested. Z-A looks interesting but I need more gameplay and to see the actual point and structure of the gameplay itself. By this point with Legends Arceus we had a basic idea of what our goals would be in the game, completing the Pokédex and solving the overall mystery of why we are here in the past. All I see from Z-A is we’re just some teens from out of town visiting a future city and Zygardes there I guess. I do like that we have control over more of the battle, that’s actually really cool even though it’s just going to be removed in the next mainline game anyway. But I really liked Arceus and they are taking their time with it so I’m hopeful.

Overall this was a waste of fucking time that could’ve just been a 5 minute overview trailer.

 

[McMitch]

Lumiose has "wild zones", new habitats where Pokemon can thrive.

See, it’s contrivances like this; where they had the initial idea of setting the game in one city without thinking ahead how to organically implement the core game setting of wandering into different locales to find Pokémon, that tells me this game isn’t going to be good.

 

[Anonitolia]

Is this brand new or was this part of the Teraleak?

Brand new, literal "my dad works at Nintendo" situation

 

[6MillionCoofs]

lmfao, what the hell is going on with Gamefreak that everything is getting leaked? Is this brand new or was this part of the Teraleak?

Everything for every major game is getting leaked now and has been getting leaked for years. Simple fact is you can’t stop it at this point.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

First pocketmon I ever got: a Charmander in Blue, who later became a Charizard.

First pocketmon I ever caught? I dunno, maybe a Pidgey?

 

[6MillionCoofs]

See, it’s contrivances like this; where they had the initial idea of setting the game in one city without thinking ahead how to organically implement the core game setting of wandering into different locales to find Pokémon, that tells me this game isn’t going to be good.

If they wanted to do this they needed to set it in the past, where all the zones can be sprawling and connected or so far into the future that new habbits have been created.

It feels like they had the idea and then realised Zones would be way easier to implement

 

[Anonitolia]

Shot of the new character designs I've been bitching about. They look like worse New Snap designs. Which is impressive given that New Snap included Discount Shauna and protagonists so bland that they almost rival SV's.

Also, upon further reflection, that A-Z has a cane. He is definitely not younger. And that guy has a Buneary on his head, not a small child with pom-poms... are they going to pull another Saguaro and make him all soft and cuddly on the inside? Boring

EDIT: some more info from the Z-A website:
new map of Lumiose with terrible resolution, this is ripped directly from the site and yet zooming in is still all blurry lol. Almost every single person is brown, so it's very accurate to modern Paris

Staying at a hotel called "Hotel Z" that "tackles incidents throughout the city." Screenshots of the game look a little better than SV, but holy shit the bar is so low that basically means nothing.
These are also incredibly blurry, but given that the map wasn't any better I'm willing to chalk that up to the website for once.


"Quasartico Inc." runs the wild zones? That'll probably matter



notice how every single Pokémon lacks model updates

btw they DEFINITELY took some shit from Palworld. The reticle and the little approximation of catch chance next to it looks too similar to be completely unrelated imo.

Z-A vs Palworld vs Arceus.

dumping more screens from the website...



Betting that this game is taking so long because they can't get the real-time stuff right, not because they're fixing bugs.

Official art of the protags (unnamed as of now):


and some more screenshots





Rivals, AZ, more art:

AZ is noted to claim he's over three thosuand years old, so I guess the setting is modern? Dumb

CEO of obviously evil big bad corpo standing in the same pose as Geeta, which bothers me and makes me think it's going to be another anti-twist where they're never actually evil

and that's about it.

This list seems to consist of the only megas that are returning for sure:

Looking forward to the outrage when they announce that not all megas will be coming back.