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

It's starting to spread to people questioning other Nintendo franchises now.

All those Breath of The Wild 10/10's are now suspect because of IGN's Pokemon Review

I feel as if I have been vindicated.
No, it's not. Nice try, buddy. You're not getting your Sony wet dream because Game Freak are incompetent buffoons and journos are useless, Nintendo did genuinely put out some good exclusives these past couple years.
 
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No, it's not. Nice try, buddy. You're not getting your Sony wet dream because Game Freak are incompetent buffoons, Nintendo put out some good exclusives these past couple years.
It has nothing to do with Sony

It has everything to do with BOTW lacking content entirely and using seeds to cover it's fucking mess of a development cycle where they couldn't be bothered to make meaningful shit in the overworld.

People have been saying for years that Japan needed to have a third bomb dropped on it, Sword and Shield finally made that dream come true~
 
TPC clearly knew about the nostalgia factor. It's why they pushed the "original 151" so much, down to Pokemon Go launching with solely them. Normies know about the original 151, maybe the new Pokemon from Gold/Silver, and a few of the highly marketed ones or furbait from the newer generations.

Sword and Shield doesn't even have all 3 of the original starters. Many fan favorites and iconic Pokemon were cut as well. Even some of the heavily marketed Pokemon from the past who made appearances in spin-off titles or crossover titles were gone. Then there's the fact that older Pokemon and moves were cut, especially when Game Freak made sure to avoid a repeat of the issue where Pokemon from Gens 1-2 were not transferable to 3+ for years.

Cyber Sleuth also didn't have every single Digimon and it makes sense when there's around 1,300 with many being reskins/variants. But they made sure to cover the bases when it came to the most popular Digimon. Sword and Shield couldn't be bothered to do that.
Original 3 starters are all in the code along with the gen 7 starters weirdly enough.
 
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TPC clearly knew about the nostalgia factor. It's why they pushed the "original 151" so much, down to Pokemon Go launching with solely them. Normies know about the original 151, maybe the new Pokemon from Gold/Silver, and a few of the highly marketed ones or furbait from the newer generations.

Sword and Shield doesn't even have all 3 of the original starters. Many fan favorites and iconic Pokemon were cut as well. Even some of the heavily marketed Pokemon from the past who made appearances in spin-off titles or crossover titles were gone. Then there's the fact that older Pokemon and moves were cut, especially when Game Freak made sure to avoid a repeat of the issue where Pokemon from Gens 1-2 were not transferable to 3+ for years.

Cyber Sleuth also didn't have every single Digimon and it makes sense when there's around 1,300 with many being reskins/variants. But they made sure to cover the bases when it came to the most popular Digimon. Sword and Shield couldn't be bothered to do that.

I think major and most obvious issue is that including all the Pokemon would not take a significant amount of effort on the part of Game Freak. All the models of Pokemon are directs rips from the 3DS titles. The engine the game runs on is a fork of Let's Go. They had all the tools to make make a good game already at their disposal, and they just cobbled some shit together and pretend it's the greatest game they've ever released. The game is wholly lacking in content, anesthetics, polish, and features. This would still be a glaring issue with all the Pokemon in the game. I just would have shielded the game from all this increased scrutiny.
 
I never understood the sentiment of "they ruined my childhood" until now. I feel old. It's less of a feeling that the games are getting bad, and more of a revelation that they may have always been soulless corporate nonsense.

Ha ha, old man.

But in all honesty, that's a bad mindset to have - Just because something is bad now, doesn't mean that there wasn't passion in the games before hand - There was. Gen 1 was broken, but you could tell that a lot of work went into the games considering the hardware limitations at the time.

Again, the reason why things seem to have gotten bad was when the game's mainline jumped to the 3d era.

I guarantee you, that if the games were still in 2-d, none of these problems would exist. Hell, we'd probably marvel at the pixel art right now - But, if wishes were fishes...

I tried to find it but I can't find it anywhere, I don't think its up anymore if it ever was. I wish it was real. Please be sure to share all cringey posts wherever they are from ❣

And don't forget to archive. Seriously, people need to archive shit around here.

I'm at least happy Cincinno made it in, though no Sawsbuck or Blastoise does made me really sad.

Blastoise is in the game.
 
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It has everything to do with BOTW lacking content entirely and using seeds to cover it's fucking mess of a development cycle where they couldn't be bothered to make meaningful shit in the overworld.
What is with your video game sperging lately? You bring up BOTW all the time in this section, it's getting weird.

Either way SwSh is apparently easy as shit which I'm pretty sure is the main reason they're getting such good reviews. That and money.
 
It has nothing to do with Sony

It has everything to do with BOTW lacking content entirely and using seeds to cover it's fucking mess of a development cycle where they couldn't be bothered to make meaningful shit in the overworld.

People have been saying for years that Japan needed to have a third bomb dropped on it, Sword and Shield finally made that dream come true~
One mediocre/bad Pokemon game isn't going to crash Nintendo, Jesus Christ. Especially if it sells pretty well despite the negative reaction.
 
It's starting to spread to people questioning other Nintendo franchises now.

All those Breath of The Wild 10/10's are now suspect because of IGN's Pokemon Review

I feel as if I have been vindicated.
It has nothing to do with Sony

It has everything to do with BOTW lacking content entirely and using seeds to cover it's fucking mess of a development cycle where they couldn't be bothered to make meaningful shit in the overworld.

People have been saying for years that Japan needed to have a third bomb dropped on it, Sword and Shield finally made that dream come true~

Don’t jizz your pants just yet, you crazy Sony fanboy.
 
It has nothing to do with Sony

It has everything to do with BOTW lacking content entirely and using seeds to cover it's fucking mess of a development cycle where they couldn't be bothered to make meaningful shit in the overworld.

People have been saying for years that Japan needed to have a third bomb dropped on it, Sword and Shield finally made that dream come true~
Breath of the Wild was epic what are you talking about
 
Been thinking about this quote lately. Ironic...
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Digimon Cyber Sleuth is a fantastic game in almost every way. However I would not recommend it to anyone who wants an alternative to SwSh for a few reasons.

-Despite the great story there is a TON of filler. It is ten times worse than Gen VII.
-The dungeons are very sparse and extremely linear.
-There is no open world.
-The battle system is almost the exact same rock paper scissors as the Pokemon games.
-The game is extremely easy except and Hard Mode is supposedly extremely unbalanced.
-All the Digimon in your party get EXP, including the ones in your reserve slots. Permanent EXP share.
-Speaking of EXP there are Digimon with EXP boosting abilities that stack. You can get them pretty early in the game. Late game if you get those same Digimon that can hold EXP items that stack even more you can fly to level 99 in a matter of four or five battles.
-The battle animation are much better than SwSh...except only for signature moves. Normal moves are poor quality and recycled a lot.

Don’t get me wrong these games are amazing and I would highly recommend them but people who haven’t played them need to take into account that both games suffer the same problems as the 3DS and Switch Pokemon games.
 
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You know, I've been trying to think about why I'm not as bothered about the Dexit as most people and I've come to the conclusion that it's because I emulated a lot of the games. I played Blue when it came out and I had friends who had Red so we traded. I was hyped for Gold/Silver so I got Silver when it came out because I still had a gameboy, but by that point a lot of my friends had moved on, so I didn't trade much with anyone. I never had an advance, so it wasn't until several years later that I played Ruby/Sapphire on visualboy and Diamond/Sapphire on DeSmuME, neither of which allow for trading. I did have a DS eventually that I played Heart Gold on, purely for nostalgia, but I emulated Black I think around the time of its release (or as soon as a rom was available). I haven't played Black2, X/Y or Sun/Moon. But basically, the way I played all of the Pokemon games meant that even if I had favorites, I couldn't port them over. I had to play with the line up that was given to me. I'm used to playing with new sets and seeing old ones come and go.

I have a Switch now, so I probably will be playing Sword/Shield, but I can't imagine the actual dex affecting my opinion too badly. If the visual quality and difficulty is as bad as has been shown, then yeah, I'll be disappointed, but not getting all the starters? That's been my experience in nearly every single generation anyway.
 
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