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

Lapis Lazuli said:
I don't get why they decided to choose scrambled up starters for Pokémon Legends. They could've gone another route, like say, give regular Pokémon the starter role rather than rehashing starters.
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1: In lore, people are still just settling in to the sinnoh region. It makes sense that the Pokemon for explorers are imports.
2: It lets games that might not get a remake for a few years at least get a reference, and seperates it from the other dp games coming out at nearly the same time.
3: It lets them mix things up a bit without disrupting the formula. you're asking for an alternate type trio because you know the games and the systems extremely well. The fire/water/grass trio explains itself, has extremely distinct colour themes, and is very approachable for newbies.
 
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1: In lore, people are still just settling in to the sinnoh region. It makes sense that the Pokemon for explorers are imports.
2: It lets games that might not get a remake for a few years at least get a reference, and seperates it from the other dp games coming out at nearly the same time.
3: It lets them mix things up a bit without disrupting the formula. you're asking for an alternate type trio because you know the games and the systems extremely well. The fire/water/grass trio explains itself, has extremely distinct colour themes, and is very approachable for newbies.
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1. Imports make sense, yes, but at the same time, these imports could've been anything else. Why specifically those three Pokémon? At least it isn't Kanto pandering again by forcing us to choose Charmander, though.
2. I guess you have a point there.
3. I'm pretty sure Legends wasn't explicitly advertised towards newbies. That would be Let's Go.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Porygon-Z is in the trailer. Wasn't he exclusive to Platinum?
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Well OBVIOUSLY theyll have all the pokemon in there... right? Also no all the gen 4 evos are available in platnium iirc. Only exclusive stuff on the pokemon side are origin form giritina and sky form shayman.
 
Oh god seeing twitter's reaction to Legends has been hilarious/Cathartic with everyone saying "WTF WHY WASN'T SWSH LIKE THIS" I'm just surprised it's only one game instead of having two versions
Love_Machine011 said:
Well OBVIOUSLY theyll have all the pokemon in there... right? Also no all the gen 4 evos are available in platnium iirc. Only exclusive stuff on the pokemon side are origin form giritina and sky form shayman.
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Don't forget the Rotom forms, tho I have a feeling that they will give rotom 25 new ones because of his recent shilling
 
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Lapis Lazuli said:
Imports make sense, yes, but at the same time, these imports could've been anything else. Why specifically those three Pokémon? At least it isn't Kanto pandering again by forcing us to choose Charmander, though.
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Because, along with the "fire, water and grass" match up being approachable for newbies, in world the starter pokemon are the more rare pokemon you can find (hence why you usually can only find the other starter pokemon in the post-game). If the professor just gave you a pokemon you can easily find in the wild, it would defeat the purpose of them being a starter pokemon.
Lapis Lazuli said:
I'm pretty sure Legends wasn't explicitly advertised towards newbies. That would be Let's Go.
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Yes, but people can jump into the games at any entry. Let's go was just overcompensating for the newbies.
 
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Rotollo said:
Oh god seeing twitter's reaction to this game has been hilarious/Cathartic with everyone saying "WTF WHY WASN'T SWSH LIKE THIS" I'm just surprised it's only one game instead of having two versions

Don't forget the Rotom forms, tho I have a feeling that they will give rotom 25 new ones because of his recent shilling
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Would would actually be kino is if they added the shayman, darkrai, and Acreaus events. That would be a hyper kino.
 
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I'm happy that they're separating the remake from the new game. I have a lot of childhood nostalgia for Gen4 so I'm happy the other studio is sticking closer to a remaster of Diamond/Pearl rather than making something different. They'll probably be overshadowed by Legends, but thats probably for the best considering the state of newfag fans.

I'm not so excited for Legends itself. It looks barebones atm. The starters are also meh for me, I would've preferred pokemon which weren't starters before. Still infinitely better than Sw/Sh's selection.
 
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Love_Machine011 said:
Would would actually be kino is if they added the shayman, darkrai, and Acreaus events. That would be a hyper kino.
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Didn't someone in the thread mention Arceus not having an official event in the original games? Because, I feel like Pokemon legends is suppose to make up for that.
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
Didn't someone in the thread mention Arceus not having an official event in the original games? Because, I feel like Pokemon legends is suppose to make up for that.
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There was an event in the games code where you get a flute, walk up to heaven on top of mount coronet, and battle arceaus. The flute was never officially released.
 
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I'm happy that they're separating the remake from the new game. I have a lot of childhood nostalgia for Gen4 so I'm happy the other studio is sticking closer to a remaster of Diamond/Pearl rather than making something different. They'll probably be overshadowed by Legends, but thats probably for the best considering the state of newfag fans.

I'm not so excited for Legends itself. It looks barebones atm. The starters are also meh for me, I would've preferred pokemon which weren't starters before. Still infinitely better than Sw/Sh's selection.
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To be fair, Breath of the Wild also looked pretty barebones until the Switch launch trailer. I hope there's stuff to do in the wild.
 
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I'm happy DP are getting faithful remakes, though the slightly off chibi style I don't care for personally. I'm more curious about what kind of compatibility the games will have. I assume they will support Home since the devs are the same, though future compatibility is a question. I really hope they include Pokedex entries for every Pokemon again in the national dex and don't cop out like Game Freak did and start only doing entries for regional dex mons. I loved getting little lore blurbs on every Pokemon.

I have so many questions we have no info on though.
They specifically said you can experience every Pokemon from those games, so does that mean all 493 that existed at Gen 4 are compatible?
Will the National Dex include 5th gen onward?
Can they trade with SwSh?
What about mega evolution?

I'm tentatively excited, especially since it's not GF doing the development.
 
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