Pikazilla
02.28.22 | That's it I'm fucking done
Gonna spend some time away from the internet as I weep in the shower |
CygnusX1
02.28.22 | That cat better not turn into a god damn furry |
Pikazilla
02.28.22 | quaxly looks like donald duck's estranged nephew |
trilo
02.28.22 | the frame drops in the trailer lol shit looks worse than a gamecube game and still runs like butt
will be another mediocre mainline game almost guaranteed
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ToSmokMuzyki
02.28.22 | dear god i thought those were fake and this was a rom post |
trilo
02.28.22 | grass starter aint it mf looks like one of the other many cat pokemon with paint bucket tool applied |
SteakByrnes
02.28.22 | I love the fire croc |
ArsMoriendi
02.28.22 | Fire starter looks good, the others do not. Guess if I get this I’ll go fire |
trilo
02.28.22 | fire croc is the best yeah
also this game is open world? shoot me |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.28.22 | they already made an apple dragon ffs |
SteakByrnes
02.28.22 | if it's just like legends arceus but with the regular battle system then I'll probably love it |
Pikazilla
02.28.22 | gamefreak stop with the fucking furries already |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.28.22 | how was ur shower weep |
Keyblade
02.28.22 | looks dope
fuecoco is a sick name, def gonna be my choice |
Tundra
02.28.22 | Finding it harder and harder to give a shit everytime a new Pokemon game rolls around. The fire type always entices me the most, and this time is no exception. Surely the graphics should atleast be as good as Breath of the Wilds... they have no excuse. |
Avagantamos
02.28.22 | how does the highest grossing franchise in the history of human existence consistently put out games with graphics 20 years behind the curve? |
Pikazilla
02.28.22 | Yeah, the graphics look like shit in the gameplay trailer. I can't believe that there are so many people around my age just getting into pokemon and saying how amazing Sw/Sh and Leg Arceus are. |
trilo
02.28.22 | "how does the highest grossing franchise in the history of human existence consistently put out games with graphics 20 years behind the curve?"
extreme incompetence, which is weird because some of the handheld games look timeless. like gen 3 still looks great.
maybe business reasons too. they've cut so many corners since B/W (the last really good mainline game) that it wouldn't surprise me if they put the bare minimum in to cut costs. they know this shit gon' sell |
Pikazilla
02.28.22 | It's not even incompetency, it's just pure fuck-you decision making. Gamefreak refuse to hire more staff and frankly don't care about quality anymore - Sw/Sh were the highest grossing pokemon games in the franchise. Why would they put in a modicum of effort if they are already getting record-breaking results? |
Trundle
02.28.22 | still stoked. |
ConcubinaryCode
02.28.22 | I haven't seen anyone actually praise swsh, but a lot of people like legends despite that having just as much stuff cut from it. The ability to just catch pokemon was a nice change of pace and the area progression was nice but everything else is so lacking.
I'm a little burnt out on pokemon so I might skip this one. |
nol
02.28.22 | It’s amazing how far the NeoPets™️ franchise has come |
AmericanFlagAsh
02.28.22 | The starters are so fucking cute, best starters since like Sinnoh
I want Sprigatito so bad |
AmericanFlagAsh
02.28.22 | Fuck anybody hating on the grass kitty, it's the best one, simplistic design, but lovely color details, the duck is amazing as well
ALSO SwSh were fun and brought a lot of needed features, the towns were cool, the pokemon were good (I truly don't care about them adding all 1000 pokemon anymore), but I agree the graphics were shit for what they should have been and it was way too easy
Arceus was a breath of fresh air to the series, so much fun to play, the writing for the side quests was pretty funny, the battle system felt way better, and you get used to the meh graphics. It is wild that BOTW came out on the same console AND the previous console and yet still look better...
The thing is, Pokemon was never about crazy good graphics, if you compare the games to other games on the same system they were never as good |
Keyblade
03.01.22 | gen 3 graphics still the peak of pokemon. I know ppl like gen 4 and 5, but I'm not a fan of the quasi-2.5d thing. full top down perspective + crisp sprites on a backlit GBA = perfect |
nol
03.01.22 | the game with the actual best graphics and animations is Pokémon Stadium |
Keyblade
03.01.22 | hell yea |
GreyShadow
03.01.22 | That cat better not turn into a god damn furry [2]
gen's 5 and 2 are my favorite spritewise.
3D, we finally have something pretty peak with New Snap. Pokken was objectively great but I still don't prefer the realistic approach. still good though.
I love the art style that Genius Sonority came up with for Colosseum, XD, and PBR. the colosseums were so lively. Pokken also shined in the settings department here. the closest GF got to with creating cool battle settings in 3D was probably Gen 6's elite 4. stadiums in SwSh were such a letdown so hopefully that isn't the norm |
GreyShadow
03.01.22 | anyway, best group of starters as a whole since maybe gen 4, gen 6 if i'm feeling nice (loooooooove Fenniken, Chespin is great, and idk never cared for Froakie but Greninja is my fave final starter evolution)
i feel like there's no way they'll fuck up Fuecoco's evolution, he'll either look badass or lovably derpy. way more worried for the other two especially my lil Spriggy |
Cygnatti
03.01.22 | Arceus is cool and this seems alright. Don’t rly care for the cat, we have so many already. |
TheSpaceMan
03.01.22 | i kinda fuck with the duck |
nol
03.01.22 | Cats gonna be a female incineroar everybody knows it, your homies know, everybody fucking know |
mrdogthrow
03.01.22 | every starter is cool af and im pleasantly surprised to see decent starter designs |
Pikazilla
03.01.22 | I think the duck is lame |
Pikazilla
03.01.22 | Ducklett wins |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
03.01.22 | Ngl the art direction and cartoony graphics in the modern Pokémon games has always struck me as a choice and has seemed befitting of the franchise I’ve grown up with, I’m not really out here bothered every year that the new Pocket monsters game doesn’t look like Ghost of Tsushima, I’m just tryna enslave some goofy animals and make them fight for my enjoyment |
Kompys2000
03.01.22 | There's something so simple and appealing about the 2d art the franchise used for ages that the modern games' artstyle just does not capture at allllll
Anyway new starter designs are fine apart from the duck, sprigatito is kinda adorable in a rlly obvious chibi kitten way and I'll put money on fire croc having the best-looking fully evolved design of any starter since sinnoh |
Demon of the Fall
03.01.22 | I know you guys are saying different things but I want to agree with both the last 2 comments re art / design, it's possible for both to be true.
I'm not sure what to think of this yet, (I haven't even bought a Switch yet). If it builds upon some of the things it looks like Arceus is promising and then incorporates them into a more traditional Pokémon experience, then yeah sure I'm interested. I'm always interested to be fair. Stupid nostalgia getting me again. |
Demon of the Fall
03.01.22 | prediction for the inevitable final evo secondary typings?
grass cat / dark
fire hippo / ground
water duck / it's a chuffing duck... so flying
edit: oh there's speculation the duck will become a knight (based on something I've never heard of - but presumably Spain/Portugal orientated)... so water/steel might be possible? |
SteakByrnes
03.01.22 | I haven't seen anybody call it a hippo yet lol that's a new one |
Demon of the Fall
03.01.22 | it's a crocodile, probably
but I dunno it does give me bi-pedal hippo vibes as well, lol |
Demon of the Fall
03.01.22 | I take it speculating about much is pointless at this stage, this is what happens when you try and internet something when the announcement happened days ago
see y'all in a few months I guess |
ArsMoriendi
03.01.22 | The duck is growing on me, but wow that cat still sucks |
GreyShadow
03.01.22 | cat is so perfect tbh |
ToSmokMuzyki
03.01.22 | jalapenos are a joke, ghost peppers are passe, scorpion pepps more like little snips, but now get ready for
DINO PEPPER |
keaton_86
03.02.22 | I'm just here to complain about the graphics. |
dedex
03.02.22 | duck is dope with the lil hat |
ghostalgeist
03.02.22 | the little cat is funny i like him |
SteakByrnes
03.02.22 | first time in a while that I actually like all the starters |
Demon of the Fall
03.02.22 | not bad designs, for sure
way better than Sw/Sh. I've not played the game so just basing it on the actual designs, really wasn't impressed with them. The monkey gorilla thing is okay (on final evo especially), the others were pretty bad.
the cat reminds me of Pokémon that already exist, like they made a regional variant of Purrloin or something... and the duck is basically Ducklett, but whatever, you can't come up with completely unique design concepts infinitely I suppose |
ToSmokMuzyki
03.04.22 | guys i just had an epic revelation
dino pepper doesnt seem to follow the fire zodiac pattern right? WRONG! looking at this little guy i couldnt help but think of baby bowser and that made me realize something--bowser was initially based on an OX! they wanted to put their own version of bowser into the game and thus dino pepper is a giant ox-fire-croco, even beginning to sprout horns in the shape of his pepper stem things |
ArsMoriendi
03.04.22 | I think it just breaks the zodiac |
ToSmokMuzyki
03.04.22 | nnnnnnnnooooooooooooooo |
Keyblade
03.05.22 | SW/SH saving grace is Rillaboom. sickest starter since gen 6 easy |
mrdogthrow
03.05.22 | weed cat |
Dedes
03.05.22 | Why do water starters keep getting shafted o man |
nightbringer
08.02.22 | I have pretty low hopes for these games. |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | New reveals tomorrow
And same |
Demon of the Fall
08.02.22 | 'SW/SH saving grace is Rillaboom. sickest starter since gen 6 easy'
nah, Decidueye is one of the GOATs
looking forward to playing the new ones in about 3 years time |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | Decidueye sucks. Gen 7 all around has crap starters. SW/SH starters are much better imo |
Demon of the Fall
08.02.22 | wow, now that's a weird take
like, even... Scorbunny? Worst starter of all time. Disclaimer: my opinions often change once I've actually gotten hold of the games, still need to play Sw/Sh.
Any murmurings of anything at all interesting about these new ones yet then? I haven't heard much apart from expected disappointment. I know Arceus played around with open world, are they incorporating that into gen 9 or don't we know? Presuming we call this 'gen 9' and Arceus is separate. |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | Arceus is still considered gen 8
Scorbunny is not good. Inteleon and Rillaboom are awesome. The only gen 7 starter I sorta like is Primarina and that looks like a drag queen Dewgong.
So far there has been a crap ton of leaks but those could all be lies. I just hope the cat evolution doesn't become bipedal; otherwise, it can join Incineroar in the fugly camp. |
el_newg
08.02.22 | yes Scarlet and Violet will be open world confirmed |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | oh boy, another computer-generated low-res-texture map here we go |
el_newg
08.02.22 | "In Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, the first open-world RPGs in the series, you’ll experience a world you’re free to explore at your leisure—not in an order dictated by the story. You’ll still meet, battle, train, and trade Pokémon while enjoying an unbound adventure." |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | the only thing you'll be bound by is the eyestrain from looking at those fields and trees |
el_newg
08.02.22 | yes graphics will be bad but character/poke designs being good and fun gameplay still make the games worth it for me. I liked PLA for those reasons |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | I just don't understand why the biggest franchise in the videogame history cannot allocate a larger budget to the visuals
nobody's asking for something revolutionary like crysis was back in the day
just make it look decent ffs |
el_newg
08.02.22 | yeah can't argue with that lol |
nightbringer
08.02.22 | Graphics aren't the only area in which many pokemon games manifest low effort. |
Demon of the Fall
08.02.22 | yeah I'm really not fussed about the graphics, I'll be very forgiving in that regard I imagine
could do with some more interesting map design akin to BW2 though, been lacking since (like I said, haven't played Sw/Sh but I don't get the impression they were revolutionary in this regard?)
If the designs are good, the map is interesting (actual 'off the beaten track' exploration - doesn't have to be completely open world) and they add some quality of life updates / features, then I can forgive poor graphics |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | a brief look into gf's game-creation process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV9dxzLHb40 |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | this one's even more questionable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbyWHpiyY8 |
trilo
08.02.22 | oh god it's gonna be open world?
into the dumpster |
Slex
08.02.22 | So after seeing those graphics and performance, do I gotta buy an SNES controller to play this or |
Pikazilla
08.02.22 | you'll be able to emulate it on windows 95, so dw |
Slex
08.02.22 | Okay word, don't see what everyone is complaining about since it will be F2P |
Cygnatti
08.02.22 | incineroar is fine smh |
GreyShadow
08.03.22 | i hate the new gimmick, how do they keep getting less imaginative with these forms |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | Funny thing is, they didn't even invent it |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | Damn, the new tera type mechanic is probably the biggest troll thing introduced in pokemon games ever |
Cygnatti
08.03.22 | looks mid tbh |
Asdfp277
08.03.22 | loving the new pokes revealed ;-; |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | what are the chances of the doggo evo being called doughmutt |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | and why does cetitan have pink circles around its eyes
it looks like goofy makeup |
ThyCrossAwaits
08.03.22 | Agreed, the Tera thing looked cool but then I heard the description and it’s pretty dumb.
Trying to recreate that thing they did with the TCG methinks |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | It's not exactly dumb, it's just super scummy. Any pokemon can have any tera type depending on a specific value, i.e. it works like hidden power. So if I bring in a Gyarados with tera type ground and teralize it during battle, it won't take any damage from a thunderbolt. Or I could bring one with tera type ghost, meaning it won't be affected by Fake Out. Or I could use one with tera type fire, so will o wisp won't do shit against it. Hilarious. Let the mind games begin. |
ThyCrossAwaits
08.03.22 | Forget making a quality game, we need to introduce a mechanic that fucks up the meta |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | Also, if the tera type is the same as one of the pokemon's primary types, STAB moves do even more damage than usual. The actual power boost is unknown as of yet. |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | Smogon will be in chaos, which I find super funny |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.03.22 | I loved the trailer
The game looks better than Sw/Sh and those didn't even look that bad besides the wild area, never had any lag besides raid battles, and the new gimmick could be very interesting, especially if they let it into competitive |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.03.22 | I'm literally replaying Shield right now and my first thought was "this game is a lot prettier than I remember" |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | I like the gimmick too. And I liked the trailer as well. The wild areas look underwhelming but everything town-related looks well designed. |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | Not sold on those legendary bikes though |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.03.22 | I will be getting the one that actually uses its wheels lmao |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | the other one is basically a flintstones meme lol |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | it took gamefreak over twenty years to give us a playable crystal onix |
Asdfp277
08.03.22 | what if onix is not in the game lmao |
Pikazilla
08.03.22 | they wouldn't dare |
Asdfp277
08.03.22 | hope not ! |
Colton
08.03.22 | literally all I care about is whether I can beat the entire game by just walking around and pressing A repeatedly or if there's any strategy at all. I'm 99% sure there won't be |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.03.22 | Try competitive then |
Colton
08.03.22 | that's a completely different thing |
Cygnatti
08.04.22 | I’m interested in the obvious past vs future dynamic being hinted at but knowing game freak it won’t mean shite |
Asdfp277
08.04.22 | the themes of gen 4 and gen 5 were somewhat explored in the games, though not much; maybe now that the console jump is over, it'd be an opportunity to bring that focus back to story themes |
Demon of the Fall
08.04.22 | Yeah not sure what to think about these games thus far, the tera gimmick does sound kind of silly, lol
any chance I'll actually get lost in a cave this time around? I miss that sometimes |
FreakMachine
08.04.22 | Series has sucked dick since gen 3, people need to stop complaining and vote with their wallets |
Demon of the Fall
08.04.22 | nah, the gen 5 sequels stand amongst the absolute best Pokémon games |
LightAndGlass
08.04.22 | Gen 5 was the last great one. It's been declining steadily since then, though I guess Sw/Sh was better than SuMo since I couldn't get myself to finish Gen 7. I'm not sure how much I care about Gen 9 yet. I don't like how the Tera gimmick slaps a ton of shit on top of the monsters' heads but the concept of it is pretty cool. |
Pikazilla
08.04.22 | Gen 7 was a fucking travesty |
Tundra
08.04.22 | Pokemon died after gen 5 |
FreakMachine
08.04.22 | Gen 5 was abyssmal. |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.04.22 | I replayed Moon recently, and then played Ultra Sun and honestly if there wasn't so much unnecessary hand holding and dialogue, those games are very cool. The elite four are not easy unless you grind. |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.04.22 | "Gen 5 was abyssmal"
Lmfao in what world, best gen in terms of story and mons |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.04.22 | "I don't like how the Tera gimmick slaps a ton of shit on top of the monsters' heads but the concept of it is pretty cool."
I really don't understand why people don't like the silly hats, they're fun |
Tundra
08.04.22 | Ok Sun and Moon had some cool stuff going for it I'll admit that, probably the best of the newer games, the hand holding in that game is still such an annoyance though, and the Pokemon in that game where super slow, a fast Pokemon was a rarity |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.04.22 | Omg when I replayed Moon a couple months ago I was like why the fuck are my Pokemon so slow |
Tundra
08.04.22 | Also Z moves sucked ass, they should've just kept doing mega evolution, mega evolution not a mainstay for every gen proceeding is baffling |
LightAndGlass
08.04.22 | "I really don't understand why people don't like the silly hats, they're fun"
Because I don't like how they look. A big part of Pokemon is using ones that you think look good and given that the hats don't look good, I'm not a fan. It's not anything deeper than that. |
Pikazilla
08.04.22 | it's called aslowla for a reason, boys and girls |
nightbringer
08.04.22 | The trailer has not made me hype. |
AmericanFlagAsh
08.04.22 | The hats are not on all the time tho? I'm going to assume you can just do it once per battle to one Pokemon |
LightAndGlass
08.04.22 | I'm assuming that's how they work too but I'm still not feeling them. Mega evolutions looked awesome but these are like TF2 hats. It'd be cooler if they only crystalized the Pokemon. |
el_newg
08.04.22 | well you can probably avoid using it. then it might make the game slightly harder and reduce some of the "wahh games are too easy (((((((because i've played the series for 20 years and know good battle strategies)))))" |
ToSmokMuzyki
08.05.22 | pokemon crystaller version |
Asdfp277
08.05.22 | pokemon x tf2 collab when |
Cygnatti
08.07.22 | gen 5 is overrated but it's good. gen 7 is good outside of how horrible the first 4 hours on each game are. |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | so apparently the entire gen 9 roster has been leaked |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | woah, they're not going to appreciate that!
I take it the new gen has the xp sharing feature Sw/Sh had? - I bet it does. I'd like the option to turn it off. I'm currently not far through the game (just received gift Toxel), but I've been using two entire teams to prevent over-levelling...
I may have actually taken it too far as I've ended up behind and struggling to catch anything (catching things seems harder this time around), but getting the balance right is tricky when you don't know what to expect (guess it'll be easier on the next run). It started due to the seeming necessity to box my starter as it was getting out of hand at one point early on. |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | Pretty sure the new xp system is there to stay. Given that the new one is an open-world game, I'd imagine the levels scale to your team's as you progress. |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | I like what recent rom hacks and fan games do - implement hard caps. That ensures you're never overleveled at any point in the story. |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | I personally can't wait for that new Dragon Quest game - no date announced for it though |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | Yes, pretty much. ORAS was the last thing I bought. |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | just buy them used, hehe
that way you can 'protest' against shitty half-baked games we still inexplicably enjoy (well... I do) and still get to play 'em |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | I was considering skipping the gen 4 remakes because apparently they're not overly different to the originals, but I'm probably kidding myself with that declaration
I'm definitely wanting to play Arceus though |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | Play Cult of the Lamb instead |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | nah, can't see me playing that one Pika
I'm casual af these days, seems a bit 'advanced' (like I might actually have to think about it a little) |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | How is it advanced lol
It's a game about the last sheep in the world getting sacrificed to some cthulhu shit and then forming a contract with some weirdass demon in order to get brought back to life |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | I checked to see what's involved, like there are many nuances to the gameplay aspects... is that not right then? The writer of the article made it sound complicated
for instance I love the way Elden Ring looks, it DOES appeal to me, yet if I was to actually purchase a copy it would likely sit there collecting dust because actually having to persevere in tackling the 'learning curve' is not something I like doing these days |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | The only 'learning curve' you'll have to tackle is figuring out boss attack patterns to beat them. |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | And comparing that game to Elden Ring is hilarious
It's almost as if anything harder than super mario bros is considered 'soulslike' in difficulty nowadays |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | that wasn't my intention
I wasn't comparing them, I was just illustrating the fact that even if a game appeals to me in a general sense, that I'll end up leaving it on the shelf if I cannot master it fairly easily.
Is that a 'me problem' or whatever? Well actually yes, I'm fully admitting that! I called myself 'casual af' after all, lol |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | but also IF I could muster the energy to put into a more difficult game, then Elden Ring would be right up there on my list of priorities, hence why I mentioned it in the first place |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | Elden Ring/Dark Souls/Bloodborne are much harder than any other game I know and part of the reason for that is the complete lack of in-game tutorial. You get thrown into their world, nobody tells you how anything works, there is no linear progression per se, and everything is up to you to figure out. |
Demon of the Fall
08.19.22 | yeah, so essentially just read up on it first!
also, my casual ways are partially due to the fact I redistribute most of my concentration towards whatever music I'm listening to - if I'm trying to work out how to play the game simultaneously, too much attention is diverted and I don't really HEAR the music, not properly
It's just a matter of priorities really, I don't have enough free time to dedicate a satisfactory amount of time to both |
Pikazilla
08.19.22 | The Paradox forms seem cool if the leaks are true
Kinda hilarious to see a Salamence that never got to learn to fly |
trilo
08.19.22 | "yeah, so essentially just read up on it first!"
but the great thing about them is you don't have to! there's just enough tutorial in the souls games to understand the controls and then you can just let 'er rip from there thanks to the gameplay essentially boiling down to bonking big monsters. that's a far cry from a lot of modern games that need excessive tutorialization because they cram every crafting, survival, XP, progression and skill tree system into them.
and the difficulty has always been overhyped. no excuses sir! |
nightbringer
08.20.22 | I'm definitely put off of Elden Ring by the difficulty. I just can't be bothered to fail at the same thing multiple times in order to learn the patterns or whatever. Ain't got the time. |
Pikazilla
08.20.22 | evo starters seem lame
and ofc the fucking cat becomes bipedal
guess we're gonna get another swarm of furry sickos getting banned from pokemon discord channels once again very soon |
Demon of the Fall
08.20.22 | is this official or leaked? Will have a look. Definitely would’ve preferred a 4-legged cat evo, the first form (forget the name) was cute |
Demon of the Fall
08.20.22 | ‘and the difficulty has always been overhyped. no excuses sir!‘
Does this extend to Bloodbourne? I have a copy lying around that I’m yet to play |
Pikazilla
08.20.22 | not official, but the leaker had pretty much revealed everything in the second trailer before it dropped so it can't be a coincidence
the starter theme is performers apparently |
Demon of the Fall
08.20.22 | I like the leaked starter type combos anyway
And I heard mention that Dunsparce is getting an evolution at long last! Surely my childhood dreams have not just come true? |
ToSmokMuzyki
08.20.22 | dunspunk |
Cygnatti
08.22.22 | the new items are HYPE |
nightbringer
08.22.22 | That substitute passing move seems broken. |
Pikazilla
08.22.22 | Nah it's great
Mirror herb is awesome too! |
Demon of the Fall
08.22.22 | couldn't you already baton pass subs?
guessing it doesn't work like that |
Pikazilla
08.22.22 | You can but that's done in two moves, not one |
Demon of the Fall
08.22.22 | oh, one move? That's cool I guess.
I imagine it is to give certain Pokemon a niche. i.e. it might not be awarded to everything that can currently use both baton pass and substitute (idk how many can actually use both?), possibly exclusive to a couple of new lines even |
Pikazilla
08.22.22 | Well first of all, a substitute is not necessarily killed in one move, it does have a set amount of health after all. Let's say you know the opposing mon might try to status you so you use shed tail (the newly introduced move). The mon you switch into gets a free sub, has full health, doesn't get status'd that turn (because of substitute), and thus gets a free next turn. If the opposing mon does try to do damage to you, your sub may survive a hit with the switch (type advantages and all), so once again free next turn. How OP is that? |
Pikazilla
08.22.22 | Alternatively, you can set up, use shed tail, and switch into an OP mon with boosted stats from the set up AND a sub. |
Demon of the Fall
08.22.22 | That does seem overpowered. I was just thinking if the Poke executing the sub (using shed tail) was comparatively weak, it would make this harder to execute as just having it out there for one turn might result in an instant KO.
I don't know about online, just guessing here |
Demon of the Fall
08.22.22 | as far I know most baton passers are quite fragile anyway, no? |
Pikazilla
08.22.22 | You don't know which mons will get access to shed tail now that it's a thing |
foxblood
08.22.22 | I love pokemon. the starters for S and V are lame and the graphical style is shit, but it seems ok otherwise. it doesn't seem any better than any other pokemon game though so i'm not really that invested. |
Demon of the Fall
08.23.22 | I do wonder how hyped I'll be for this
don't get me wrong I am currently enjoying Shield, but considering how obsessively I normally play these games I'm surprised Pokémon / a new console hasn't rendered my other games temporarily obsolete |
heyadam
09.07.22 | soooooon |
ConcubinaryCode
09.07.22 | So are the leaks legit? |
ToSmokMuzyki
09.07.22 | PEEEEEPPEEEEEEER DIIIINOOOOOO OOOOOOOXXXXXXXX |
Pikazilla
09.07.22 | "So are the leaks legit?"
Some yes
New trailer dropped
They are really trying to turn pokemon into a visual novel or something now huh |
ToSmokMuzyki
09.07.22 | MEGAMAN AND PROTOMAN |
AeniasGaming
09.07.22 | I think Ceruledge is in my top ten now. Love the Mega Man Star Force looking guy. |
Cygnatti
09.09.22 | Newest trailer thing is good across the board despite being a short one. |
Pikazilla
09.09.22 | Yes, agreed
Although did we really need another rock-type crab |
nightbringer
09.09.22 | But this one's really big. |
PotsyTater
09.09.22 | Ceruledge is so much cooler than the other guy. Officially getting violet.
Also yes we needed another crab because none of the crabs have been cool yet |
Pikazilla
09.09.22 | crawdaunt is not a crab |
Demon of the Fall
09.09.22 | lobster, same thing tho
New Pokes look bloody weird 😄 |
PotsyTater
09.09.22 | Krabby and kingler are low effort designs. They are classic in that they are gen 1 staples but they aren’t particularly cool. They are literally just normal ass crabs. Crawdaunt is quite obviously a crawfish…. Crustle is based on a hermit crab which is the Colton of crabs.
I’m excited for a new crab
|
Asdfp277
09.09.22 | car pokemon yesssssssssssssssssssssssss |
PotsyTater
09.09.22 | Crabs are way cooler than lobsters and crawfish. And crawfish are the least tasty. |
ToSmokMuzyki
09.10.22 | digimon starlight and violin |
Demon of the Fall
09.10.22 | wondering if this game will actually have logical level balancing, sW / sH is getting silly now - why are all the trainer’s Pokes significantly weaker than the wild ones? Bizarre. Even my rival would probably get smashed by the local wildlife!
Yeah fix this please |
ToSmokMuzyki
10.07.22 | this just in, the food mechanic is self fellatio https://youtu.be/4YEEDqke-D0&t=661s
|
Asdfp277
10.07.22 | loving farigiraf's design !! |
ToSmokMuzyki
10.07.22 | me: https://youtu.be/3gRTUVGon9A&t=9s |
PotsyTater
10.07.22 | I like farigiraf with his outer mouth closed. I wish that was just his head instead of having the lamer normal ass giraffe head inside |
ConcubinaryCode
10.07.22 | Is that actually its name? Lol |
Asdfp277
10.07.22 | people been saying that since gen 3 |
PotsyTater
10.07.22 | They’ve been wrong since gen 3 |
PotsyTater
10.07.22 | Designing Pokémon would be such a sick job
I imagine your day would go something like this:
“Yo you know the mantis shrimp?”
“Yeah”
“Imagine that, but also a toaster” |
ArsMoriendi
10.07.22 | If I could design Pokemon we'd finally get a bottlenose dolphin |
CygnusX1
10.07.22 | The new mons are pretty terrible looking so far. Like here's a diglett, but not really...how cool! |
ArsMoriendi
10.07.22 | idk man if you don't like smoliv and lechonk then you're just like a pokemon boomer |
ArsMoriendi
10.07.22 | Smoliv has legit more appeal than oddish despite being similar
10/10 grass type first stage |
PotsyTater
10.07.22 | @ars that’d be sick
Honestly the new poke pessimism always seems so contrived. Every gen people whine as if there haven’t been great and terrible Pokémon designs in every single gen proceeding it. Seeing how Pokémon can out-goof themselves is just as fun as seeing them make new baddies. The new sword knight guy is cool af and I love the fire and grass starters. New diglette is goofy af and I also love it. |
PotsyTater
10.07.22 | Also +1 lechonk |
ArsMoriendi
10.07.22 | Yeah do people really love voltorb, jynx, and boob-head-duck (magmar) when they say gen 1 is perfect? |
PotsyTater
10.07.22 | Lmao there are so many terrible terrible designs in the first three gens. It’s part of the charm to me. Pokémon is inherently goofy. |
Pikazilla
10.07.22 | I'm actually loving the new designs so far. The only gen I was super disappointed with was gen 7, but other than that, the majority of the newly added mons each gen have been great. So, the leaks have been on point so far, that means dunsparce evo reveal soon? Also, very excited for that new Volcarona. |
Gyromania
10.08.22 | These look insanely boring tbh. They just keep making the same game over and over again |
ToSmokMuzyki
10.08.22 | ^this one has like 4 paths tho
|
el_newg
10.08.22 | such a tired criticism. you can say that about every franchise except for like final fantasy |
PotsyTater
10.08.22 | Idk man I really think they should make the next one a first person shooter |
el_newg
10.09.22 | pokemon snap bro |
PotsyTater
10.09.22 | Pokémon Neck-Snap |
PotsyTater
10.14.22 | BELLIBOLT
LETS GOOOO |
AeniasGaming
10.14.22 | squishmallow |
PotsyTater
10.14.22 | As long as he has at least one evolution he’s gonna be a firm installation on my team |
PotsyTater
10.14.22 | What starters are you thinking of going with?
Toss up between touch grass cat and apple croc for me, will have to wait to see evos
Admiral quack ain’t it |
ConcubinaryCode
10.15.22 | Weed Cat fosho
Pepper croc is cute tho. Starters don't feel as special as they used to since global trading became a thing. |
PotsyTater
10.15.22 | True, but in each gen the one I start with is the only one I end up carrying in my team personally. I don’t trade and stuff until the end when I’m filling out my dex |
ArsMoriendi
10.15.22 | New electric type frog is amazing |
TheOrgazoid
10.15.22 | Gamefreak forgot how to innovate so long ago |
Sharenge
10.15.22 | I'll just be playing SoulSilver on my DS |
Groundking
10.15.22 | Pokemon just looks so shit in 3d. They need to go back to pixel art 2d |
ConcubinaryCode
10.15.22 | 3d poke is fine, they just need to make them not so sterile. A lot of the charm of gen 5 was how animated every pokemon was in battle. |
Demon of the Fall
11.09.22 | designs ain't too shabby so far
as a big ghost fan the doggo is cool, not sure what the chuff that chest thing is though
electric frog is good, I'm also down with the poison monkey thing (+ the grass / fire starters are both enticing), that will be a tough first-run choice
I probably won't play it for a while, but I'm on the hype train anyway, because I'm a basic bitch and any new Poke-game gets my attention |
Demon of the Fall
11.09.22 | 3DSs have access to gens 1 (digital), 2 (digital original / or remakes), 4, 5, 5v2, 6 & 7
the only thing you'd be missing is gen 3
I can't imagine a used 3DS is particularly pricey these days |
Demon of the Fall
11.09.22 | oh, didn't realise what I working with...
Nintendo handheld console, the one after the standard 'DS' (there's a 'Switch' now so it isn't the latest thing, so used ones should be cheaper).
Alternatively, you can use 'emulators' for PC (or potentially smartphone?) but I'm definitely not the person to ask about how you get that shit working |
Demon of the Fall
11.09.22 | 'oh my innocent child'
The games hold their prices like nobody's business, but are you saying even the consoles are expensive? I got mine for bob-on £100 (and that was many years ago, long before the Switch was even a thing). Weird. |
nightbringer
11.09.22 | If you have an Android phone, from the Play store download "My boy" for gba games or "My Old Boy" for gb and gbc games. Then, what you could do, is Google "GitHub ROMs mega thread". What you do at that site is up to you. |
Demon of the Fall
11.09.22 | the very first very old 'original' DS played GB advance games, I think. None of the others do.
oh wow, that's crazy Steak... yeah, I know it happened with XBOX/PS and shortages of electronic components etc. but I didn't know that was a thing too |
Demon of the Fall
11.09.22 | I bet demand was sky high as well, people at home, bored... I played a shit-ton of old games during lockdown, lol
but yeah, guess I should've foreseen these likely prices hikes on used shit as well
Pretty jealous of Storm right now, wish I could erase my memories of Pokemon and start from gen 2 again, or something
are you looking forward to this one Steak? I am, tentatively. SwSh was my first minor disappointment, really... couldn't even completely pinpoint why apart from the 'always on xP share issue' |
nol
11.09.22 | It’s the Gen I’m most excited for since V!
Already pre-ordered Violet. |
Demon of the Fall
11.15.22 | are my childhood dreams of a Dunsparce evo really happening? I heard rumours they might be |
heyadam
11.15.22 | Violet gang letsgoooo. Pretty hype! Even though sw/sh wasn't polished in the slightest, I still had a ton of fun with it as my first mainline entry since Silver lol. Looking forward to this one |
heyadam
11.15.22 | really trying to not look up the evo leaks haha. Def going Fuecoco tho |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.16.22 | they fucked up major |
TRMshadow
11.16.22 | My Non-spoilerey opinions: Naming team is at the top of their game this generation. Balances/nerfs are justified and make sense from a meta-perspective. Still feels like there are 2 very different teams making up pokemon designs, and one team is clearly the better. Still not playin'.
Edit: added "generation" |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.16.22 | they went well out of their way to make the lamest designs imaginable |
ConcubinaryCode
11.16.22 | 3ds has the gen 3 remakes Demon. Best handheld (besides emulation) if you wanna play the pokemon games. Getting all them would be pretty costly though. |
nash1311
11.16.22 | Someone sell me on playing this gen. I want to cause I love Pokémon but I feel like it’s gonna suck |
Cygnatti
11.16.22 | scarlet szn + fire croc time |
heyadam
11.16.22 | Violet has Dreepy — v hype on that. Still wish I would have dedicated to breeding a shiny dreepy in sword. Bred a shiny vulpix and then stopped playing lol |
Demon of the Fall
11.16.22 | '3ds has the gen 3 remakes Demon. Best handheld (besides emulation) if you wanna play the pokemon games. Getting all them would be pretty costly though.'
I know that, yet for some reason forgot to acknowledge it was a thing - idk, I didn't play the originals, so those games never felt like 'remakes' to me, whoops
3DS is definitely the way to go, yeah |
heyadam
11.16.22 | idk from what I've seen / heard from everyone that's gotten their hands on it so far has said that it's a good step forward, but there will always be things to complain about.
also does anyone know of any good guides for actually building good teams? What I've liked about pokemon is that it's fun for a filthy casual like me, but I've never been able to really go into the main meat of the battle system because I never had interest / time. I'm starting to be interested in just building fun but competitive teams to mess around on multiplayer with |
TRMshadow
11.17.22 | You never really HAVE to strategize a party for pokemon games. If you want to get through the story you can use practically anything as long as you're fine leveling a bit if you hit a wall; just catch and level up a pokemon if it looks cool. If you want to go a little deeper, just get a goods spread of types (maybe you don't need a 4th water type). |
ConcubinaryCode
11.17.22 | YouTube has proven you can use the most unviable shit and still win with enough time and tact. I saw someone beat bdsp with a bidoof and the e4 in that game are monsters. |
TRMshadow
11.17.22 | I mean, I watched a streamer beat the game by not using a single damaging attack, and that was gen 4 or something. The games have only gotten easier since then. |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.17.22 | karen's philosophy is all that matters during a playthrough. rly wish she had a different name
the actual gameplay to me looks good its just these have to be the laziest (in a nonexaggerated, genuine way) designs of any gen. usually i can still punch out at least 2 teams i rly want to play with but this struggled to even do 1 (managed it tho its still epic). this'll be the first game i outright reject all starters tho |
Demon of the Fall
11.17.22 | 'Sword and Shield really crushed my hype for pokemon'
yeah, my least fave gen for sure. I haven't played Arceus yet, should probably do that before the new ones. Glad to hear there have been some positive fan reactions to the changes for this gen. |
Ectier
11.17.22 | Im really keen for these games as is my depression lmao, like Elden ring may stop from spiralling too deep into my head. Demon Arceus was the best pokemon game ive played in about 10 years. |
Demon of the Fall
11.17.22 | Oh, I’ll defo get on Arceus, Eciter - I couldn’t decide if I liked they way it ‘looked’ or not, cool concept that might not actually be fun in reality, I wasn’t sure. I did very much like the whole open-world aspect though. |
ConcubinaryCode
11.17.22 | I caved and looked up the starter evos. I didn't expect them to go the direction they went in...
They're also trolling with the dunsparce evo |
nightbringer
11.17.22 | That dunsparce evo is beyond disappointing. |
Demon of the Fall
11.17.22 | Oh no, really Nightbringer? I was sooooo hyped for it 😕 |
nightbringer
11.17.22 | Yeah I love Dunsparce too but seriously... do not get your hopes up. |
Wadlez
11.17.22 | Game has worse early reviews then SW/SH lol |
Wadlez
11.17.22 | I mean its pokemon is inherently fun.. yea |
ThyCrossAwaits
11.18.22 | All the “bad” reviews say it’s a really fun game, it just technically runs badly. So hopefully it’ll be patched again and be ok. |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.18.22 | why are there so many options for eyelashes |
beefshoes
11.18.22 | Think I'll wait for a patch or two before buying. Really a shame as far as the performance is concerned, but hopefully it's something that can be fixed quickly. |
Demon of the Fall
11.18.22 | you guys weren't kidding re Dunsparce's evo, how underwhelming. It looks just like a bigger Dunsparce, laziest design ever
should've had a flying form or something |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.18.22 | troll evo for a troll pokemon i think its perfect
dat signature move tho |
Demon of the Fall
11.18.22 | trolled me ahrd, because I was excited for a hot minute...
then I actually checked out the little blighter!
will definitely end up perusing the entire Pokedex before I actually play this, an absolute inevitability I'm afraid |
nightbringer
11.19.22 | We'll just have to wait another 20 years for GameFreak to give Dunsparce an alternative evolution. |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.19.22 | regular dunsparce...with 2 heads!!!!
gotem |
loveisamixtape
11.19.22 | just bought violet, haven’t broken it out yet. oh to be a game journalist that gets paid 19k a year to write an article every year about how the trees in a pokemon game look bad, as if i’m supposed to give a shit |
ConcubinaryCode
11.19.22 | it's more older fans that cry about the graphics not matching the standards of other Nintendo games in my experience. The tech shit is annoying but it's like complaining cod is the same game every year. People just want to fight sentient animals and pet them and the roster is pretty solid. They finally added more than 100 since like gen 5. |
Demon of the Fall
11.19.22 | I checked the new dex / ‘mon and they do seem pretty solid on the whole
Some nice ‘exotic’ type combos too, like they made a grass / fire bell pepper plant thing, ‘scotch bonnet’? No idea… (it actually makes sense if that’s the design) and holy shit do I love the Primeape ghost evo… Annihilape or whatever. Fire & Grass starters are cool enough, too. Fire croc is definitely my fave but Ghosts are awesome, so that was always likely |
Demon of the Fall
11.19.22 | don’t give two craps about graphics but hopefully performance is okay |
nightbringer
11.19.22 | I don't care about graphics as such. I care about art style. And I do think the art style of recent pokemon games has been very uninspiring. |
Demon of the Fall
11.19.22 | Art style was fine for the most part on Sw/Sh tbh, yeah I miss the old school designs somewhat, but the new look of the games seems like an appropriate ‘modern’ evolution for the franchise.
Honestly, out of all the issues I had with those games, art-style was one of the lesser ones. Even if a couple of the Pokemon did look off. |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.19.22 | i got a shiny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
ConcubinaryCode
11.19.22 | They really desaturated their colors in the transition to 3d and a lot of models look lifeless compared to sprites but that's really the only big issue regarding the art design. Characters do look a little basic bitch this time around though. The protag looks like a fucking dweeb. Both genders. My swsh character looked boss at the end. |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.20.22 | said the dweebs |
ConcubinaryCode
11.20.22 | Touché |
heyadam
11.20.22 | frame rate is ass but game is fun |
heyadam
11.21.22 | just caught a shiny toxel! |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.21.22 | lucky bruv mine was a rookidee |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.21.22 | idk i like it for the most part. when im in a stronger area and my bros cant quite handle it i like to go back for revenge. still have to go peg those herds of tauros that spot is hell without something that wrecks them |
Demon of the Fall
11.21.22 | 'I’m trying to not look at the dex at all so I can be surprised by what these new guys evolve to be'
the problem with this is when a 'mon evolves and gains a secondary type you weren't expecting, thus sabotaging your perfectly planned, type-balanced team! I guess some people don't care about this stuff for in-game, but I cannot possibly abide any type duplicates |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.21.22 | meanwhile on another acc i be monoing grass |
DeadGuy
11.23.22 | You guys don't know about Missingno |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | enjoying the game, trying to understand how the map and pokemon spawning works. i randomly caught a level 27 vespiquen when all of my pokemon were still level 11 and nothing similar has happened since… map feels more alive than arceus but weirdly small. a pointless complaint i have is how useless zooming on the map feels when it just takes u all the way out when you zoom out from where u are
nonetheless i’m 52 pokemon in, have only done one gym, and yeah vibing |
Demon of the Fall
11.23.22 | ‘Not super concerned about type balancing for in-game and tbh, I barely even create a real team these days‘
definitely cannot relate, I could never play like that, lol
I’m pretty OCD with my Pokemon teams I guess!
Actual mono-type runs are cool tho, as mentioned ^ |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | bro i am literally stuck in the bottom of what i believe is south providence area five and can’t get out bc i can’t climb or swim. what the fuck |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | i straight up sent all of my pokémon except magikarp to a box and then willingly got slaughtered by a skiddo so i could escape
i didn’t think there was a way to fly to a pokemon center, i had Nothin |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | arceus rocks and swsh is easily the worst game they’ve ever made even tho i did beat it
i’ve never done a whole dex before but am determined to on this one. tryin to find gible rn trying to do minimal googling but may crack |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | my opinion is admittedly ignorant, i clocked out of pokemon after d/p era and have played every game since swsh. never got black or white, sun or moon, x or y. have played and beat the first three gens prob a hundred times though. diamond and platinum twice each |
Demon of the Fall
11.23.22 | ‘As a result, Bl/Wh 2 is the only game I have never played‘
I cannot put into words how much of an upgrade BW2 are over the original games. Expended roster, better world design (despite the same locale), added loads of stuff. Arguably better story if you care about that shit. It’s probably just the game BW1 should have been in the first place, yet it is a standalone experience. Top tier Pokémon games, easy.
Agreed that Sw/Sh are the weakest, persevering with my 2nd run now and I’m honestly struggling to care despite some theoretically cool ‘mons to play with |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | i didn’t lose one battle in swsh and i wasn’t even trying to be powerful |
Pikazilla
11.23.22 | Alright, thought I'd log on for the first time since like September, because S/V are finally out. Played quite a bit at my mate's and here are my thoughts:
-Game is a mess performance wise. So many bugs and technical issues. Lol'd at the framerate drops if it starts raining, especially in populated areas. Mons randomly falling into lakes, players falling through textures, ability to move twice as fast if you plug in a second controller - holy fuck is this game broken.
-Like the new roster a lot, the starters are great, the titans are cool, and clodsire is simply perfect. To add to that though, Palafin is rightfully crowned the second fugliest pokemon in existence after of course Incineroar. I understand that GF is trying to appeal to My Hero Academy (or whatever it is called) dweebs but this motherfucker has been getting a big ass lemon-sour wince from a large portion of the community and for good reason.
-The branching path is a cool concept that definitely needs to be expanded upon in the future versions.
-The outdoors map is more interesting than in Sw/Sh but the cities are just so... underwhelming. So much non-interactable stuff and wasted potential.
-Game has the worst gym leader roster of all time. Zero memorable characters, especially after Sw/Sh, which seemed pretty invested in that sort of character development. Also, why the f does GF hate ice type leaders so much? Pryce was the best we got and Grusha is fucking lame, wish I'd punch that kid.
-Open-world my ass. The levels do not scale so essentially there's far less freedom of exploration than the devs like you to believe you have.
-Why the f is the Paldean dex like 30% fairy types? Why is the best fairy counter a fairy type (Tinkaton, great mon btw). Why can't we finally get some decent offensive poison pokemon? The closest we got is probably Salazzle and that thing is super frail.
Overall, maybe 5/10
Can't wait for the new mons to be ported to essentials |
Demon of the Fall
11.23.22 | Lol @ Pika Sputting again just coz new Pokemon is out
we need you over in the music threads
|
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | don’t care about boring towns and lack of throwaway dialogue and pointless buildings, don’t care much about performance either (it’s pokemon) agree with most else you said esp the “open world” part, the fact that u have to go to the academy to navigate between the zones feels cut cornery
depending on end game etc it’ll prob land at like a 3.5 for me bc im still having fun and the dex is sick |
Demon of the Fall
11.23.22 | early days obviously, but would you guys say definitely play Arceus before this gen? I’m leaning that way, from what I’ve seen
(will inevitably end up playing both, anyway) |
loveisamixtape
11.23.22 | honestly maybe not, another criticism i have of s/v is that some
important things feel like a step BACK from arceus which in my opinion has far superior battle and encounter mechanics. the trade off is that the world feels emptier. arceus is awesome tho |
Scornfyre
11.23.22 | The new pokemon designs are genuinely awful. There's only like 3 I actually like, and even those wouldn't make any top 50 pokemon list of mine. |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.24.22 | ^i thought the same thing bc at first glance only megaman, box legend, n daimyo samurai lord caught my eye but now pepper monster among others is one of my favourites
everything that i thought rly sucked tho (eg the duck starter line) got infinitely worse actually seeing them in game |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.24.22 | my only real complaint is that battles need more speed/less lag (like bitch i know bullet seed hit 3 times and he fainted it happened 5 mins ago u dont need to tell me). animations are pretty smooth so i dont mind them being forced so much
but where the hell is my L for A button!??!?!?!? |
Demon of the Fall
11.24.22 | Hang on, there's no 'L for A' button?
this is almost permanent exp share levels of bullshit, wtf? |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.24.22 | yeah have they forgotten the sheer necessity of having one hand free like really :| |
Pikazilla
11.25.22 | I'm here just laughing at fucking smogon banning everything to ou and ubers on sight |
Cygnatti
11.25.22 | Good for them. The cat starter final design is good despite being bipedal Idk what y’all on. |
Demon of the Fall
11.25.22 | 'yeah have they forgotten the sheer necessity of having one hand free like really :|'
how am I supposed to drink coffee, beer or wank whilst playing now? |
Demon of the Fall
11.25.22 | also, I used to get repetitive strain discomfort with the old button system, having the main 'action' button assigned to the shoulder really alleviates any of those potential issues |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.25.22 | ghost dog gonna rip yo shit
farton is rly just a poke version of sput tho so |
Demon of the Fall
11.25.22 | love ghost dog's design, he'd be a shoo-in for my team if Annihilape didn't exist |
ToSmokMuzyki
11.25.22 | i think he's fugly as all hell
started a ghost mono tho and he wrecks everything |
Pikazilla
11.25.22 | Pretty much every ghost mon with decent atk/spd or atk/bulk that can learn pay respects is broken as fuck
I think both the doggo and annihilape are cool
Palafin is the fugly one |
Demon of the Fall
11.25.22 | yeah, Ghost mono!
...ghost mono on UltraSun is / was fun (still haven't quite finished it)
top 3 type (possibly my fave) |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | i’ve for sure fallen into the game at this point, dex is at like 122 or something which is way more than i’ve ever caught lol. the mechanics of your legendary improving as the game goes on adds a lot for me, i love gliding
if anyone with Scarlett wants to trade me a larvitar or pupitar i’d be stoked none of my scarlett friends have one somehow. if there’s anything u need that i have also, willing to help |
Pikazilla
12.04.22 | what's your team |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | i’m still maybe like halfway through each story line except for the titans, but i only have one left. my highest level on my team rn is 37
ampharos, shelgon, gyarados, gengar, quaquaval, dedenne is my main party currently. i sub out the dedenne slot every couple of hours but i rly like dedenne currently lol. i’ll probably sub both that and gyarados out, i’m still figuring out what i wanna have as my final core. it’s hard to part with ampharos |
Pikazilla
12.04.22 | Yeah, your team has too much overlap. Surprised you aren't trying out any of the new mons, some of them are great. I'd replace ampharos with a fire or ground type mon for better coverage. |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | i’m pretty impressed with a lot of the new pokemon designs and types tbh, just don’t know what exactly i want, the ground/ghost type is in consideration for core but not sure. want more dragon, salamance rocks but shelgon is a fucking chore to get thru |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | i also barely know the dif between anything post gen 4 and pre sword shield bc i never played b/w etc. gotta branch out .. |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | def need fire too tho you’re right i’m just picky |
Pikazilla
12.04.22 | I mean, it's all about just using what you like haha - if you like a particular mon, just go for it!
The mainline games aren't particularly challenging anyway, as long as you know the type chart - you can always win just by playing type advantages
Although I always like experimenting with the new mons to see how they play |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | oh for sure i just wanna feel good about it u know. i’m basically falling into what i always do which is water starter, long quest dragon type, gyarados (lit every game), electric type etc. i usually become paralyzed by indecision about who to work on and end up with a similar core. i intend to have dragonite eventually. but there are a few i ‘ve caught that i rly wanna check out like sliggoo and what it evolves into for instance . game is easy but nowhere near as embarrassingly easy as shield was. i felt like a 5 year old |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | it’s not, i hated wurmple tho tbh i have lifetime of bias against bug type
this game however is challenging that with certain hybrid types and just cooler bug designs. not to sound like a game blogger |
loveisamixtape
12.04.22 | they rly started trying to make bugs cooler in gen 4 but, as expected, the bug type elite 4 guy was by far the easiest of the 4 |
Demon of the Fall
12.05.22 | 'they rly started trying to make bugs cooler in gen 4 but, as expected, the bug type elite 4 guy was by far the easiest of the 4'
if I was ranking every type by newly introduced mons from gen 5 onwards, bug would legitimately have a genuine shot at #1... the difference is staggering (vs the early gens). So much awesomeness, so much variety. |
Demon of the Fall
12.05.22 | 'i usually become paralyzed by indecision about who to work on and end up with a similar core'
my long-term 'tried and tested' solution for this is to pre-plan and stick to it. Honestly, the only way I don't otherwise change Pokes every 5 seconds, is if I plan out a balanced team of the ones I want to use. Occasionally I get fed up with one and switch it out, but this happens rarely.
Sticking rigidly to 'no type overlaps' makes changing to whatever on the fly more cumbersome too, as dual types are everywhere now. |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.05.22 | wurmple best generic bug [2] |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.05.22 | 8 accs per switch means 8 save games ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
PotsyTater
12.06.22 | The terrible unforgivable map in the new game ruins everything it has going for it tbh
Probably the worst mainline Pokémon game |
PotsyTater
12.06.22 | I’d say the game feels like a beta but it feels more like a zeta |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.06.22 | learn to read a compass noob
i like fucking around on the mountain |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.06.22 | n000000000b [2] |
PotsyTater
12.06.22 | @grey agreed. Straight up one of the most lacklustre open worlds ever made. It’s giving PS1. The cities are shit too. |
PotsyTater
12.06.22 | agree the story is better than sword but sword at least felt like a finished game. I prefer sword as of now |
nol
12.06.22 | “I prefer sword as of now” lol |
nol
12.06.22 | bad take |
nol
12.06.22 | if they fix the performance issues it’s the best game in the series. Until then it’s both the best AND the worst game in the series. |
nol
12.06.22 | that is the only take |
nol
12.06.22 | I love it too but it’s also undeniably shit, like Colton said they are pushing the limits of how unfinished a game can be upon release. By a lot. |
nol
12.06.22 | If patches can make it Arceus levels of performance, I’ll stop caring. Til then my brain is bleeding a bit. Super fun game tho. |
nol
12.06.22 | but sword is fucking trash who cares if it’s “finished” |
nol
12.06.22 | also not forgiving the n64 textures in the open world, but of course XC3’s open world looks better?? The landscapes have always been the main draw of that series, XC looked amazing even on the Wii. It would be cool if the open world looked like what I was expecting, but I was never ever expecting it to look as good as XC3 lol. |
nol
12.06.22 | find a single other game that looks like XC3 on the switch. If you think you found one you are probably wrong.
That is all, I will now fade back to the shadows… |
loveisamixtape
12.06.22 | hard disagree about this being the worst, if anything it’s the best one i’ve played in like over 10 years, arceus crawled so this could walk. enjoying it a lot nonetheless and also disagree with whoever critiqued the gym leaders for not having personality… the normal type guy is so well made |
nol
12.06.22 | oh one more thing, check this 60 fps mod out if you are bummed about the framerate/other performance issues, especially if you have a gaming pc. This guy’s work on the game makes it look sooooooo much better and the mod will be public before the end of 2022 probs.
https://twitter.com/theboy181/status/1596759874654048263?s=20&t=cqMaDjLe9jI3EJfrf4xn7A |
CygnusX1
12.06.22 | Didn't play Arceus, but Violet has been 100x better than Sword so far. Sword was just dogshit. Violet has problems and ps2 ass graphics but the open world and the story is great. Poke designs are great too. Also Larry |
Demon of the Fall
12.06.22 | You guys are winning me around, I’ll just continue lurking until I eventually succumb and get it…
was gonna do Arceus first, but whatever |
Demon of the Fall
12.06.22 | I also thought Sw/Sh were disappointing in the main, definitely my least fave gen |
Trebor.
12.06.22 | I can't imagine a Pokemon game having a good story |
nol
12.06.22 | Arceus grew on me a lot not a bad game at all. Maybe the better place to start tbh, because I’d recommend waiting for a few more patches before buying SV. I don’t really wanna support their current business model
@trebor: it’s definitely still a Pokémon story, but it has its moments
There’s something that happens in the ending that is kinda hardcore, would never expect it in a Pokémon game or even any game rated E for Everyone. |
Demon of the Fall
12.06.22 | I just wanted to play with a brand new dex. Guess that makes sense if it needs serious patching though. I have (some) patience |
PotsyTater
12.06.22 | Idk boys, I hope I come around on the end / post game content but so far it just feels like sword x arceus but with worse ~literally everything~
The world is absolute trash and I don’t know how they even managed to make it worse than arceus’s, the cities are absolute trash, swords are better and at least make you want to explore them a bit, the combat is sluggish, sword beats it there too, the character customization is worse, the mount is wayyyy worse than any of the mounts in arceus and sword, the new Pokémon are worse, all the new mechanics and gimmicks are worse (let’s go, the base infiltrations, and crystallizing or whatever the fuck)…. Maybe the story gets better I can’t comment much on that rn but so far it’s nothing to be excited about… I’ve heard the elite four is trash too… the characters are no better and no worse than ever, they are just kind of there…
I’m not even just saying all this to make nilton grump his dundees, tho it is a bonus
It’s a really shit game so far
But it’s still slightly fun
|
PotsyTater
12.06.22 | Oh yeah the music is shit too |
nol
12.06.22 | ur trippin |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.06.22 | haha you wasted 60 bucks |
nol
12.06.22 | I hope pots got scarlet so he’s stuck with Orange stripey pants |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | part of team star arc shouldve been uniform modification (atticus mentions making their costumes i think)
theres some bombin tracks that dont rly go with the context (like i know shes technically the boss but does that zany techno rly fit) |
nol
12.07.22 | who cares
meanwhile I’ve evolved over 240 dunsparce and still have yet to get a 3-segmenter, I’m starting to side-eye that 1/100 ratio.. |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | i do. context matters. would cynthia be so formidable if her theme was some la de la track? |
artificialbrain
12.07.22 | DON’T THINK JUST BRAIN |
nol
12.07.22 | @smok: I was talking about character customization options, music matters way more to a pkmn game but imo the soundtrack is all stellar, besides the credits song |
nol
12.07.22 | I could be wearing a blowup trex costume for all I care |
nol
12.07.22 | and tbh gens 6-8 put more emphasis on fucking clothes than new Pokémon, so to me the readjustment of priorities is welcome. Class is in session, wear your fucking uniform. |
nol
12.07.22 | @Feather: good luck mine’s been shit |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | >I could be wearing a blowup trex costume for all I care
thats what im saying WHY ISNT THIS A THING
FUCK THE GRAPHICS, THE PERFORMANCE ISSUES
I WANT TO GO AROUND IN A TYRANTRUM COSTUME |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | just ran into a very kamen ridery shiny lokix :3 |
nol
12.07.22 | i just found not one but two shiny lechonks
now i regret fully hyper training, nature minting and pouring all of my XP candy into a regular, unevolved lechonk |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | thats a lot of bacon for your sandwiches |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | yea idk whats with ppls obsession with voice acting im like ??? how is that a major issue |
MoM
12.07.22 | All the voice actors should be hella elderly sounding and all the Pokémon should sound like Deebo |
nol
12.07.22 | oh my god imagine if they voice acted the Pokémon
that might actually make me quit the franchise lol |
nol
12.07.22 | pssssh I hit 400 days ago |
nol
12.07.22 | good work tho brother |
nol
12.07.22 | anyone needs anything hml |
nol
12.07.22 | The most frustrating thing about this game is that it has all the components to run perfectly fine. People got this game running beautifully on PC in less than a week working on it in their free time. If you don’t believe it can look good, look it up and see the results. It’s an entirely different game. I’m talking not only does it not stutter every millisecond and hits a steady 60 fps, but even the textures are wayyy more defined, without any kind of texture mod! Just using the actual components of the game on hardware that is actually powerful enough to run modern video games.
I’m not entirely blaming the switch for the shitshow state the game is in, because they absolutely could’ve done a better job with optimization, but all I’m saying is if the Pokémon Company ran with Sony, this whole ordeal would not be an ordeal. |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | replace all pokemon cries with 1010 variations of deebo making sounds agreed [2] |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | i'm all for anything that makes it run faster |
MoM
12.07.22 | Koraidon and Miraidon’s cries can just be Deebo saying the word “bike” |
PotsyTater
12.07.22 | @nol I got Violet for swordy ghost megaman but I half wish I got scarlet since the prehistoric variants are generally cooler lookin than the future ones |
PotsyTater
12.07.22 | “FUCK THE GRAPHICS, THE PERFORMANCE ISSUES
I WANT TO GO AROUND IN A TYRANTRUM COSTUME”
[2] |
Demon of the Fall
12.07.22 | 'oh my god imagine if they voice acted the Pokémon
that might actually make me quit the franchise lol'
although that does sound absolutely horrific, I can't actually remember the last time I unmuted a Pokémon game, so it'd be easy for me to ignore
adding yet another layer to the 'GameFreak can mess up whatever the fuck it likes and I'll still buy the damn thing' here. |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | just tattoo a heart to his chest
add 'mom' to the middle |
MoM
12.07.22 | @ Smok
https://youtu.be/2tIJqPS-pZw |
TheSpaceMan
12.07.22 | ah a new pokemon gen. time for me to play the previous gen OU on showdown for a year complaining that i hate the new mechanic (terralize or something?) and mons even though i havent bothered to actual learn what anything does |
TheSpaceMan
12.07.22 | ive done this since megas and i own up to it |
nol
12.07.22 | Terastalizing is cool and actually adds a layer of depth to the game, unlike dynamaxing which just made every move 100 accuracy fire blast and made everything take years even with animations off |
TheSpaceMan
12.07.22 | dynamizing is so fucking lame in every imaginable way |
TheSpaceMan
12.07.22 | im glad it wasnt used in smogon outside AG cause it just makes sweepers absurdly powerful and makes walls way less necessary cause you dont even have to switch into it and you keep any status buffs. why waste a turn switching out when your alakazam can just turn into a wall and upgrade his offensive moveset while doing it?
i didnt play ingame cause i dont have nintendo gear but i cant imagine its exciting to see pokemon just get massive. dumb af and it replaced megas which i actually liked. i have a lot to say on this |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | mom yeeeeessssssssss
thats palafin post krytonite |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | Really cool non-verbal communication accomplishments with strangers ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.07.22 | currently trying to full odds a shiny tarountula bc its awesome
scatterbugs can die >:( |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | fuck sake found a lechonk |
nol
12.08.22 | I need shiny rellor next, dung ball of golddddd
I think dynamaxing is straight up the worst concept ever introduced in any turn based rpg ever, not just Pokémon 😬 |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | omfg was going full odds bc i wanted it as first entry in dex but it turns out first entry is just whichever version you caught last whyyyyyyy |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | now sacrificing a pyre of 60 tarantulas to the gods |
MoM
12.08.22 | You have to eat the tarantulas in under a minute, competition-style. You get one glass of water and a lifeline |
nol
12.08.22 | that’s me but with 240 dwarf dudunsparce
they must be sacrificed to the Gods for me to receive my elongated blessed dududunsparce |
MoM
12.08.22 | https://tinyurl.com/y5an5cu8
The gods will eat well |
nol
12.08.22 | …but have you heard of dududududunsparce?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClZKipKDrxG/?igshid=OTRmMjhlYjM= |
MoM
12.08.22 | Praise be! The biblical accuracy! Thisn be the most gospel thing mine eyes have beheld in half an hou-arg! |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | i lied apparently it only works with mass outbreaks |
nol
12.08.22 | what only works with mass outbreaks? If you need shiny hunting help I’m your man that’s my area of expertise when it comes to Pokémon lol |
nol
12.08.22 | people are saying the dlc will take place in kalos, and I 100% believe it. There’s an area in Paldea in the top right of the map that you mysteriously can’t traverse, and it just so happens to match exactly with the border between Spain and France. since paldea is based on Spain and kalos on France… I think it’s safe to say megas are coming back |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | the 60 kills for a 1/1024. i thought i applied to everything but only masses apparently le sigh
also that sounds awesome |
nol
12.08.22 | make a bug sparkling sandwich, have you gotten to the endgame yet? |
nol
12.08.22 | looking for shinies without the shiny charm sounds kinda miserable lol, I purposefully avoided that and yeeted my way through the Pokédex as fast as possible, which wasn’t hard |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | its a bug mono i just started lmao i beat the main story on my main acc a bit ago but the way i play i just go crazy with all these scenarios and the switch's 8 accs + open world has unleashed that in an unparalleled way |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | ive always hated them making shinies so much easier bc it makes them less special imo (tho ofc ppl have always just hacked them/used glitches so it never rly mattered)
still i like the "challenge" of getting sthg full odds if its something i rly like (pheramosa full odds, snubbull in gen 2 full odds) but if its too much of a pain in the ass or i only like it mid i'll use the easy mechanics (would never have bothered to go for shiny gardevoir if oras chaining didnt exist)
in these games you can literally see 30+ mons in a min compared to like 2 and half so its way easier regardless just as long as you have a good eye haha (which i like the challenge of tbh) |
PotsyTater
12.08.22 | Dynamaxing was immeasurably better than sparklizing in every conceivable way, even if that solely hinges on the atmospherics and some Pokémon getting new forms
Sparkle power flower hat mode is a joke and the raids are absolute jank |
nol
12.08.22 | pots you are incorrect accept it |
nol
12.08.22 | literally nobody likes dynamaxing |
nol
12.08.22 | the whole game is jank tho so I won’t disagree with you there |
MoM
12.08.22 | All is chaos but a well-organised library. Embrace the jank, Hank |
nol
12.08.22 | @smok: I agree and disagree, it makes it actually possible and not pathological to look for shinies which is nice, there never really was THAT much of a reason for them to be as rare as they were. And really there’s always been ways to lower the odds, there’s a breeding method in friggin Pokémon Crystal that gives you 1/128 shiny odds. But on the other hand it’s SO fucking easy now, like I’ll get 3 shinies every time I play Violet or Arceus now. An overworld sound for shinies would totally be overkill, and I agree that it’s kinda fun to investigate them in the wild. |
nol
12.08.22 | I’ve gotten over 100 unique shinies in the past few months without even considering SV |
Pikazilla
12.08.22 | Dynamaxing looked cool but was absolute jank from gameplay point of view imo. Mons are just large hp sponges, that's generally it. Terastillization, on the other hand, may have a silly design but boy does it make the game ever much more exciting, especially when battling online - you can get so creative with mon sets now. Honestly, I can't wait for them to add more mons to see how what kinds of type/moveset/mon synergies you can try out in battle.
Also, the fact that smogon dweebs are malding over the new mons harder than ever only proves that the new gen roster is good. Get fucked, stallers and trick room users. |
CygnusX1
12.08.22 | The only thing cool about dynamaxing was the alternative forms (skyscraper pokemon lol). I hate the terrastalizing hats look but it's way more interesting of a mechanic. |
nol
12.08.22 | the fancy hats thing is goofy for sure but the reason people are about it is the strategic value it brings |
nol
12.08.22 | and I like the sparkles |
nol
12.08.22 | my team is:
Skeledirge
Shiny Pawmot
Quaquaval
Clodsire
Bellibolt (grass Tera)
Toedscruel (fire Tera)
But I also have a box of Pokémon I’m raising that accounts for every base type, every Tera type, and at least one Mon with matching base/tera type for every type
totally unnecessary to stick to a 6 Pokémon party in this game |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | I FOUND MY BOY!!! |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.08.22 | Get fucked, stallers and trick room users. [6893069303]
more so to the stall than the tr |
nol
12.09.22 | I wanna get into competitive battling but I’ve never even like watched people do it before so I’m gonna get railed. All I know is how to train perfect mons with nature minting, ev training, hyper training and such, idk what to do with them once I have them lol |
nol
12.09.22 | I’ve always been more of a collector, proud of my full living dex (minus a few prevolves), only recently gained an interest in the other side of things |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | u can get a taste of it by playing random battle on showdown |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | i miss a single cherry tomato slice and it screws up the entire sandwich
you picky little shit |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | on a side note as long as the toppings are touching the sandwich and havent disappeared it still counts so u can have ur burgers like 3/4 off but as long as they lean against it its perfect |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | learning how to breed/train a perfect mon is 100x harder than learning competetive meta lol |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | scratch that as long as its touching something that is touching the sandwich it still counts. burger is completely off the sandwich, but touching a smoked fillet that is leaning off the sandwich. 100% powers just call me chef ramsay |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | honestly i wouldnt even recommend random cause it can be a shit show esp in low elo, i would copy/paste a sample team on showdown for either OU or VGC (but you should totally do OU) |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | but i fully back the showdown idea, its really fun and the only pokemon i play |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | nah random is fun i get tired of using the same team over and over |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | sorry to interrupt your sando preaching |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | im not knocking randoms i just dont think youll learn the actual competetive meta that way. its arguably harder than normal teams cause you are working off RNG rather than synergy |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | plus its nearly impossible to predict things cause again, its not meta builds |
Pikazilla
12.09.22 | just make sure you play doubles because singles are dogshit |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | well the actual meta no i was saying just to get the idea. randoms still have meta-like movesets and u can get more comfortable when ur opponent has no idea what u have going on either as opposed to getting completely destroyed due to your own lack of knowledge |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | that makes sense actually |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | everytime i play randoms the opponent gets like landourous stealth rock and explosion as a lead and i get like a fucking atk EVd pichu as my lead |
nol
12.09.22 | “i would copy/paste a sample team“ that just doesn’t sound fun to me personally, whole thing has more value if I’m using Pokémon I’ve raised myself, especially the ones I’ve kept around for 20 odd years once home compatibility is a thing |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | just plug in your mons stats then you can just upload your in game team |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | that was just to make things easier. i agree i like building my own teams |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | but like the point is just to test things, so that you dont have to learn how to play comp in a tournament setting under actual pressure lol. once you get the vibe you could totally enter actual VGC events near you |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | i just personally dislike how nintendo has sculpted their comp scene with forcing double battles and allowing their silly stuff like dynamxing (which i obviously get cause its their game). showdown OU uses single battles and their own set of rules that are kinda inarguably more 'balanced' for competitive play (doesnt mean better or more fun though). like for example, sleep clauses, ban list, no baton passing speed etc |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | pretty sure VCG is only 4 man teams too, and 50% of your team will run protect. so it just limits the options. i guess it opens up cool doubles stuff tho like paralyzing your own shedinja to make it immune to toxic and burn |
Pikazilla
12.09.22 | I agree with the clauses but singles is generally shite because it relies a lot on switching all the time. In doubles, you can't just switch out into a mon that resists whatever moveset opponent is running because your move might get predicted and you'll get fucked hard by the second mon. Besides, pulling off dull af stalling shenanigans is much harder as well, that's also part of the beauty. |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | o for sure randoms u get a lot of imbalance bs but thats part of the fun
i find it hilarious both when ive been struggling with mostly nu mons but i weaken their team enough that in the last few turns im like btw my last mon is groudon and win, as well when they throw out fkn arceus or some shit early and i end up taking it out with bibarel or sthg |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | stall teams can get fucked agreed but switching head games is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
nol
12.09.22 | I gotta get my fucking 3 segment dudunsparce before I do anything |
nol
12.09.22 | Of course I’ve already found a shiny dunsparce |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.09.22 | bet its also the 3 segment one |
TheSpaceMan
12.09.22 | yeah i love the switch games. predicting switches feels so fkn good. the amount of heatrans of punched in the face when they were tryna flashfire me |
Pikazilla
12.09.22 | nol if you want a fun team for doubles
lead with prankster grafaiai and slaking
use doodle first turn
watch opponent shit their pants |
Pikazilla
12.09.22 | can even give slaking a life orb for better lulz |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.10.22 | even more lulz use doodle on slaking instead ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
nol
12.10.22 | I’m training a grafaifai with doodle so bet
Life orb and metronome are my go to items as wel |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.10.22 | https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/ze6zft/meme_i_made_oc/
LMAO |
nol
12.10.22 | 2 real :( they fuckin had to push it out before the holiday.
I’m so glad you don’t have to bike in infinite fucking circles to make eggs spawn anymore. Like you don’t even know man… |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.10.22 | yeah u can give em some privacy while doing the laundry or sthg |
nol
12.11.22 | I’ve now evolved 360 dunsparce, still no 3 segments 🙂
I desire death |
PotsyTater
12.12.22 | cAsSeOpIa WaS pEnNy AlL aLoNg 🙀🙀😱😱😱😱😱 !!?? |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.12.22 | holy shit spoilers report report report |
TheSpaceMan
12.12.22 | @pika, or a durant with traunt, use enrainment, then when it dies use dugtrio with arena trap. alternate between hone claws and protect then sweep with earthquake |
nol
12.12.22 | there’s literally never been a Pokémon game with a good story in the history of the franchise, so I’ll take what this game offers. The professor getting fucking murdered by a pokemon was an interesting plot twist. |
nol
12.12.22 | btw BW’s story is laughably terrible
fuck you evil team! Our legal cock fights can’t be considered animal cruelty because ✨friendship✨ |
Kompys2000
12.12.22 | Gen 5 classic example of vidya fans mistaking "lots of plot" for "good plot" |
nol
12.12.22 | good game tho, recently had to replay it to access the poketransfer function. There’s a lot of communication features that game tried to implement that simply did not work with the DS’s stone-age WiFi system, I’m very curious how that will work if they remade it for the switch |
MoM
12.12.22 | “ there’s literally never been a Pokémon game with a good story”
But Pokémon Snap? Pokémon Stadium? The Mystery Dungeons? |
nol
12.12.22 | I can’t wait to terastalyze mega evolutions |
nol
12.13.22 | finally got my 3 segment dudunsparce 🥲 only took 480 dunsparce evolutions 🥲🥲🥲 |
Minortimbo12
12.13.22 | black white is still better |
Minortimbo12
12.13.22 | and you can not only play it online, you can use wpa2 (if you have dsi or 3ds etc.) |
nol
12.13.22 | with the other 4 people playing it |
nol
12.15.22 | ok Scrolton |
nol
12.15.22 | So I’ve raised my skeledirge to lvl 100, as well as nature minting, hyper training, and ev training it. Is there anything I’m missing or are his stats as maxed as they can possibly be now?
Ev build is Sp. Atk and HP focused, I should probably learn slack off. |
nol
12.15.22 | Dudunsparce is next, I heard about this “paraflinching” technique that makes opposing Mon have a 30% chance to retaliate… sounds OP |
nol
12.15.22 | “Why is this Pokémon straight from Super Mar-
Why is this Pokémon straight from Minecraft?” |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.15.22 | why isnt skeledirge straight from bowser ffs |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.15.22 | altho i suppose its a combination of bowser and his clown car |
nol
12.15.22 | @feather: play arceus and you will lose many many more lol, you’ll also get more tho so 🤷🏾♂️
I’ve probs lost double digits |
nol
12.15.22 | once lost two shiny turtwigs in a fucking row because your balls bounce off their dumbass back shells and then they run off like little shits |
nol
12.16.22 | if you fire up PoGo on Saturday or Sunday you can get shinies of *checks notes*
Sandshrew, Alolan Sandshrew, Alolan Geodude, Hoppip, Spheal, and Stufful (Saturday)
Teddiursa, galarian zigzagoon, starly, roggenrola, litwick, and deino (sunday)
Bulbasaur, dratini, and mudkip (both days)
They’ll be spawning everywhere from 2pm-5pm local time at a fucking 4% shiny rate. Just absurd. I’ll be pissed if I don’t at least get one of each. |
nol
12.16.22 | i don’t actually play pogo but I absolutely keep my eye on these events so I can catch hella shinies and transfer them over to the main games, and this is their biggest shiny event in like 2 years. |
PotsyTater
12.16.22 | Hatched a 3 segment dumdumsparse on my 3rd try |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.16.22 | nol gonna smack yo ass |
nol
12.16.22 | i got a second 3 segment dumdum on the next egg I hatched lol |
ConcubinaryCode
12.16.22 | Semi related. Anyone ever send their joycons in for the drift to Nintendo and what was your experience? |
nol
12.16.22 | @conc: waste of time they’ll break again in a day. Buy 3rd party joycons with good reviews, it will be the best purchase you’ll ever make if you like playing portable. I recommend Hori Split Pad Pro on Amazon. |
nol
12.18.22 | not sure whether to laugh or die a bit inside every time I see someone spend 400K on a single apriball |
Colton
12.18.22 | yon ol youre the man |
PotsyTater
12.20.22 | I didn’t actually hatch a three segment dunsparce that was a lie and I will probably never try
I’m on area zero now and this is exponentially the worst Pokémon game of any I’ve played (only missed black 2 and sun)
Might even be worse than pearl remake |
PotsyTater
12.20.22 | I’ve always been a poke-optimist with new gens and defend the new designs and the lack of innovation in the games etc but this game is actually just shit trash trashy Garbo and it’s the first time I’ve felt like abandoning the franchise |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.20.22 | ^did exactly this with swsh for 3 years until this summer and loved it lmao |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.20.22 | had a hard time making my main sv team but a lot of things have grown on me |
Demon of the Fall
12.20.22 | 'I’m on area zero now and this is exponentially the worst Pokémon game of any I’ve played (only missed black 2 and sun)'
so wait, you didn't play the best Pokémon games of all time? lmao
(not Sun, referring to BW2 as 'games' here) |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | @not appreciate it. I play portable 99% of the time because playing on a bigger screen doesn't add much to me.
Agreed on bw2 being one of the best. The sequels are such an upgrade it's massive, the only thing I really see praise for in the originals is the story which why are you playing pokemon for that anyway? USUM are pretty good too I think people are turning around on it a bit since it's not as fresh as some of the other mediocre games they've made since it dropped. XY still kinda suck though, I'll be surprised if the dlc reintegrates it into SV. I told my friend to just stick with showdown if he just wants to play with the new pokes, which admittedly is pretty solid this gen |
Colton
12.20.22 | "the only thing I really see praise for in the originals is the story which why are you playing pokemon for that anyway?"
people say that about every aspect of these games. oh you want a good story? come on, it's Pokemon. you want decent graphics? dude why, it's Pokemon. you want the gameplay to not be the exact same as it was in 1995? lol it's Pokemon what do you expect. you want literally one aspect of the game to be up to par with any other game that's come out in the past 15 years? it's Pokemon man |
nol
12.20.22 | ok. |
nol
12.20.22 | if there was nothing fun about the game no one would play it |
nol
12.20.22 | and honestly nobody is saying that about SV, people are really upset about the performance issues, myself included |
nol
12.20.22 | also Colton we’ve played a lot of Smash Ultimate online together so I know you are willing to tolerate super fucking annoying performance issues in certain circumstances |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | Quite the leap you made Colt, a lot of fans praised the gameplay changes in Arceus even though it fell short in a lot of other aspects. Pokemon didn't find its success because of its technicalities, in depth combat, graphics, lore or any of that. It's popular because pokemon have a ton of iconic creatures that people adore and like training and having an adventure with and when game freak can't offer that is when pokemon will really die. |
nol
12.20.22 | yeah arceus gameplay is great, catching mechanics + strong/agile moves + a vastly different difficulty curve made for a refreshing Pokemon experience. Game really grew on me |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | It is still a fun game but it's obvious battling wasn't the focus for the game so it's lucky the other gameplay aspects hold up. I still hate they dropped the ability to just throw balls at wild pokes in SV. I do love that wild pokemon actually feel dangerous too. The Iceland area can get really crazy in particular. |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | I had more thoughts on story but its kimda ranty but w/e. I do actually hear the pokemon Manga gets to spend more time giving more in depth character to people (I wouldn't know) so maybe there's a meaningful story there but I don't expect it from the actual games and I find it really just distracts from the games. Especially when they're unskippable cutscenes. It would be cool if GF engaged in building up the world around pokemon but I don't expect them to and if they do it'll probably be unsatisfying. They don't even give good lore for the pokedex entries, which is the whole point of the series, to catch em all and become a master. There's literally like 5 sentences worth of lore for pokemon that go back 2 decades by now and it's really lame. At least L:A implemented something new to indicate filling out a pokedex but it was also a little underwhelming. Idk whether to blame Nintendo, pokeCo, or gamefreak really just doesn't want to expand its team to incorporate something more substantial for their games. I'm really tired of reading the same comments every time a new pokemon game drops. |
nol
12.20.22 | “I still hate they dropped the ability to just throw balls at wild pokes in SV.“ 100% agree
and yeah high level wild mon in arceus can fuck up even your lvl 100s with the right SS move or by being too fast. That’s definitely not true in SV lol |
nol
12.20.22 | @conc: sure each Pokédex entry has only a little lore but old school Pokemon have upwards of 30 different Pokédex entries in various games, add that to lore they’ve introduced through the manga and anime and there’s a cosmic fuckload of lore for Gen 1 Pokémon by now
like just go on bulbapedia and see what they have to say about geodude |
MoM
12.20.22 | “It would be cool if GF engaged in building up the world around pokemon but I don't expect them to and if they do it'll probably be unsatisfying”
Agreed. It’s some monkey paw shit. More world building might even be extra confusing given the vast amount of Pokémon that evolution would have cursed. Trying to make it all make sense with giant rock snakes and living windchimes and whatever the hell bulbasaur is (etc.) would probably just be ridiculous and maybe less is more here |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | @nol I'm just going off in game. They stopped updating pokedex entries back in like gen 5 or 6 and its just the same entries. Pidgeot flies at Mach 2 and catches fish or some shit w/e and it's been that way for a while. I don't read the Manga but would believe it is better in that regard. I think the anime even does that stuff better and I've only seen a handful of episodes. It's just disappointing more than anything. |
nol
12.20.22 | not entirely true, there’s definitely repeated entries, but there’s also new info here and there. Just browsing through geodude, it’s about half and half, with repeat entries coming as early as Gen 2 |
nol
12.20.22 | I randomly watched some of Journeys after not watching the anime since I was in early childhood lol, and I was pleasantly surprised by some Pokémon doing novel stuff. Mew transforming into diff Pokémon every two seconds, Drednaw’s neck stretching out like a snapping turtle, golurk transforming into a fucking cannon, etc. |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | I do support the people saying pokemon should have better animation. Imagine all the anime shit in the games. The dexit thing was overblown but it'd have been way more palatable if the animations had more character to them. The starters had the really good sig moves but that was kinda it. It was really annoying seeing people bring up the stadium moves because that game was just battling, the roster was smaller and moves were way less plentiful but I'd still love for them to put more resources toward animation. I've seen some fan shorts of groudons precipice blades where animators made the moves look like final fantasy spells, it's amazing |
nol
12.20.22 | that was my number 1 complaint about sword and shield, especially with them reusing the same fucking fugly models for 3 generations straight. Both Arceus and SV have pretty substantial improvements to animation and model design, but it could always be better. |
nol
12.20.22 | they should just hire the modern FF animators tbh, those games have like the polar opposite problem of Pokémon rn. Crazy beautiful games, but forgettable ass gameplay |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | They definitely touched them up but I don't think it makes up for it. Especially when the switch to 3d was supposed to future proof them it just doesn't feel like they put a lot of work into it. Then again the strict work schedule they have probably doesn't help. Someone mapped out the gaps between release dates and the longest we've gone without a new poke game is 750 days between gen 3 and 4 I wanna say. The largest media franchise doesn't mean shit when you still have a budget and a time frame. And most of the franchise's money comes from the merch, not the games themselves. |
nol
12.20.22 | Idk I still find the more fleshed out animations to be one of the most endearing parts of the game. Especially with the new mon released in this Gen, I feel the animations are what really sells the new designs. The way 3seg dududunsparce slithers, how toedscool runs, the way Loxic’s chainsaw legs pop out, etc.
And it takes a long time to see all these animations so like 150 hours in I’m still discovering cool animations
I think their new animations are high quality, there just could be more of them and they should be used in more appropriate situations. Like why doesn’t the sleep animation activate when you fall asleep in battle? |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.20.22 | whoa text
>I wish I could play it blind
that can be arranged ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | I think the sleep animation was just a bug from what I've heard but pokemon not freezing properly is definitely suspect. They can make cool animations but like you said you gotta invest to see them and I just hate having to see stuff like the pokemon move forward and some ghostly jaw appears for a bite animation.
I think it's really just a resource thing at the end of the day, it's why it's so annoying seeing other games compared to the pokemon games cuz devs prioritize other shit. Like You said ff games look spectacular but damn ff15 was a chore to get through because the gameplay was so tepid. But it is beautiful. Very few games straddle the line of looking amazing and having deep gameplay mechanics. I guess you could argue pokemon has neither but new poke designs are probably the first thing they do. |
nol
12.20.22 | “I just hate having to see stuff like the pokemon move forward and some ghostly jaw appears for a bite animation.“ yeah they need to fix that lol
the “fixed” sleeping animation just has them close their eyes, I wish it made them do what they do when they fall asleep in picnics |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.20.22 | they should add scat details to the pokedex
now thats world building |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.20.22 | no like an extra section detailing the avg size/texture like with footprints
i wonder what gardevoir's looks like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | Thinking about it they haven't made a housefly pokemon yet. That pokemon would definitely want to be shit all over. |
Colton
12.20.22 | "also Colton we’ve played a lot of Smash Ultimate online together so I know you are willing to tolerate super fucking annoying performance issues in certain circumstances"
honestly if both people in a match have a decent connection Ultimate's not as bad as people make it out to be. not to me anyway. SV looks a million times worse |
Colton
12.20.22 | Ultimate also runs at 60fps |
nol
12.20.22 | yeah but when it’s bad it’s BAD
we’ve both put like 1000 hours into that game man I know you know what I’m talking about. When the lag hits hard it’s worse than anything in Scarlet and Violet
but I’m also willing to tolerate it in smash because it’s such a fun game, same thing applies here |
nol
12.20.22 | it’s not an exact comparison but the fun factor of the game is absolutely why people are tolerating the performance |
nol
12.20.22 | Because I agree, the performance is one of the worst I’ve ever witnessed in a video game. I’ve had several times where I’ve had to stop what I’m doing because not only is the framerate dropping, but the entire game starts running at 1/3 speed. I’m not okay with that and I never will be. But it’s still fun. |
Colton
12.20.22 | I mean yeah of course, if the game wasn't fun and was also laggy as shit nobody would play it |
Colton
12.20.22 | i'm just saying gamefreak has conditioned people to expect so little out of so many aspects of their games that people become averse to the concept of even criticizing these aspects at all or wanting more because "dude it's pokemon" |
Colton
12.20.22 | not saying you are one of these people |
nol
12.20.22 | there’s a reason I’m looking into performance mods for my switch, I’ve never had to with any game before |
nol
12.20.22 | I do grimace every time I see someone say “personally I haven’t run into THAT many performance issues, I think it’s overblown” like dude are you blind |
Colton
12.20.22 | yeah or when people say they don't care about graphics as this weird kind of virtue signaling where it's like they think they're more sophisticated for only caring about gameplay or something |
Sharenge
12.20.22 | lol wut |
nol
12.20.22 | there’s still the chance nintendo holds to their word about looking into the performance issues. Their statement was very clear from a PR perspective and they also clearly were not referring to the patch that came out on the same day.
If they say that and nothing ever happens that’s bad for an entirely different list of reasons |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | Nintendo does get away with a lot of stuff because of their prestige and marketing. I wish people put more pressure on them sometimes cuz they're definitely wiping their ass with cash since the switch popped off. Cuz I don't think "voting with your wallet" does shit for franchises as big as these.
Not caring about graphics I can get when games like minecraft get as big as they do. There's def been a renaissance for pixel art games lately I don't think the fidelity is so much the problem as having a strong art style. There are still ps2 games that hold up well just because of stuff like that. |
nol
12.20.22 | The graphics issue in this game is more of the texture loading problem than anything (besides crappy terrains), modders got the game looking twice as detailed in a day, without any custom texture mods. Just the vanilla game running on better hardware.
There’s a vid I’m trying to find because seriously the difference is night and day, looks like an entirely different game. |
ConcubinaryCode
12.20.22 | Link if you find it cuz I'd like to see please. I also heard they render way too much stuff compared to how much you'd even see for the draw distance so optimization issue maybe? Idk |
nol
12.20.22 | check it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4WebUVm4IM&t=122s
The 60 fps mod is what I’m really excited for tho, I can take or leave the graphics except when you are too far away and the Pokémon are in n64 mode |
nol
12.20.22 | as the age old saying goes “Modders do what Nintendon’t” |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | ugh take it back to reddit
-sophisticated gameplayer |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | no no continue |
Gyromania
12.21.22 | These games look so uninspired at this point. Really is a shame that Pokemon hasn't evolved over the years |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | >that Pokemon hasn't evolved over the years
i see what u did there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | yea used to be stupidly time consuming. why is pawmot ice tho? |
Gyromania
12.21.22 | "i see what u did there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
yeah I did ;D |
Gyromania
12.21.22 | "I am a huge novice in competitive"
Idk if they've changed it much, but "competitive Pokemon" is an oxymoron lol. The scene has always basically been: run the most meta shit and farm for hundreds of hours to get the exaxct right stats you need. Very little actual skill involved and a painfully tedious grind |
nol
12.21.22 | “farm for hundreds of hours” that is no longer true |
Gyromania
12.21.22 | Okay that's huge then |
nol
12.21.22 | yeah it takes like an hour without items and 5 seconds with items which, if you’re actively doing Tera raids, you probably have |
nol
12.21.22 | IVs are basically meaningless now, unless you get your rocks off from it saying “best” instead of “hyper trained”
or you use trick room or something |
nol
12.21.22 | definitely EV train with the Power items, I ran out of vitamins quick |
nol
12.21.22 | the only thing about egg moves is I’m dumb so I fully raised my dudunsparce and skeledirge before I realized there’s egg moves I wanted, owel
“you can just pass the move by both pokemon being in daycare” you can pass it to a fully trained mon?? Big if true |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | its rly easy just use a mirror herb and they pick it up instantly in picnic, doesnt even consume the herb |
nol
12.21.22 | fuck yeah, gonna give skeledirge slack off and dudunsparce headbutt |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | yea theres a lot of egg moves that are otherwise unobtainable without bank
was trying to figure out how to get strength sap arboliva n this is the only way |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | lmao didnt even see u did that |
nol
12.21.22 | me either lol
By bank do you mean Home? If so I can wait, not a big deal |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | w/e theyre called lol ive never used em
i was sayin tho the mirror herb fixes everything they dont have to be opposite genders or egg groups or anything
like arboliva u give it the herb and have a polteageist with strength sap and it'll learn it |
Sharenge
12.21.22 | which Pokemon has the best snoot and why is it Seadra? |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.21.22 | bc seahorses are adorbs n the males give birth |
nol
12.22.22 | they don’t even have to be in the same egg group?? dankery |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.22.22 | nah this is strictly a monkey see monkey do deal no sexual contact necessary (but sometimes appreciated ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
nol
12.22.22 | dw my ditto has been sexually active |
nol
12.22.22 | some dude on Twitter told me shiny hunting paldean tauros was borderline impossible.. first of all, no, second of all, challenge accepted. prepare your nuts Deutsche Ditto |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.22.22 | scandalous! |
nol
12.22.22 | my skeledirge now knows slack off and my dududunsparce now knows headbutt, thx frends |
nol
12.22.22 | i really dislike it’s subscription based model (especially the price), but Pokemon Home is honestly a great service. 200 boxes is a game changer for collectors and smart phone compatibility is fucking great too. I can set up 3 simultaneous GTS trades while shitting at work.
oh and it has touch screen compatibility on switch, something the actual games are desperately lacking |
nol
12.22.22 | I wouldn’t be a Pokémon fan if it wasn’t for the fact I can still use Pokémon I caught when I was 3 years old. The networking between the games is insane if you think about it, what other video game franchise has even attempted that?
I can catch a Pokémon on my GameCube and transfer it to my iPhone in 10 minutes |
ToSmokMuzyki
12.22.22 | this is trv i just never had a reason to transfer other than for retro moves etc.
always preferred to keep them as the 'kings' of their own game |
nol
12.31.22 | okay, I want this mighty cinderace, I almost got it without going online, but now I am and tf is with these shitty slowbros doing nothing |
nol
12.31.22 | got his ass 😎 took half his hp in one hit with skele |
FreakMachine
02.04.23 | So, I started emulating these a couple of days ago. The framerate and graphical issues I cant speak for, given im downsampling it from 8k and therefore getting actual anti-aliasing as opposed to the garbage Switch, and using the 60fps mod, and I can say that these are the most inventive Pokemon games for years. They seriously need to do away with the whole party XP share though.
But yeah all the graphical complaints are baseless given its fkin Nintendo making a game primarily aimed at children, on an underpowered pile of crap machine. The current gen consoles have suddenly made every console gamer a framerate snob which is laughable to me given theyll be back to 30fps within a couple of years. The issues people were reporting at launch are non-issues within the confines of a Switch game, and are mostly remedied via emulation |
nol
02.04.23 | what about people who don’t have gaming pcs or want to play the game on the only console it’s available to buy for. lol |
PotsyTater
02.05.23 | Easily remedied by throwing your switch in the trash nol /s |
nol
02.05.23 | still hoping the patch this month makes some actual changes. haven’t been playing at all lately |
nol
02.05.23 | I got greninja and his idle animation is so fugly that I haven’t played since lol |
Demon of the Fall
02.05.23 | diving into Arceus first, finally decided to
Hopefully this is ‘fixed’ by the time I get around to it 😄 |
PotsyTater
02.06.23 | Arceus is much better imo |
Demon of the Fall
02.07.23 | hopefully the controls are less cumbersome when docked, only played it handheld so far and they appear quite unwieldy... probably just me though |
nol
02.08.23 | arceus is better yeah but much different.
the most cumbersome part about arceus going back is switching between each mount. But the mounts themselves feel way less jank. and the game has a ton of fun features, would recommend hunting raids, so much better than SV in that department |
nol
02.08.23 | my Pokémon-As-A-Utility side likes SV more but my Pokémon-As-A-Game side likes arceus more |
Demon of the Fall
02.08.23 | I haven't gotten very far, I'm just having trouble aiming / throwing Pokeballs on handheld at the minute, feels cumbersome due to where the buttons are, lol...
but admittedly there are way more controls than a mainline Pokémon game and I'm still getting used to them |
nol
02.08.23 | you better get used to ball throwing, basically every aspect of the game besides battles is built around the Throw a Thing mechanic
probably handles kinda rough on handheld with joycons. Best piece of advice is to stick to Feather/Sky/Jet balls. The description says they’re only useful for flying Pokémon but that’s BS they are way easier to aim in general. |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.15.23 | whoa a video game thread mostly about the video game |
sonictheplumber
02.15.23 | very transphobic games |
sonictheplumber
02.15.23 | funny how you collect "monsters" in this series, jews were commonly referred to as monsters |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.15.23 | LMAO |
DocSportello
02.15.23 | YOU ARE BEING TOO WOKE |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.15.23 | WHO THE HELL WANTS TO EXPLAIN THIS
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Probopass_(Pok%C3%A9mon) |
Demon of the Fall
02.15.23 | 'Best piece of advice is to stick to Feather/Sky/Jet balls.'
nice tip, thanks! I only have heavy balls so far (other than regular balls). I am playing mostly in docked mode and enjoying it more now
I'm currently taking things crazy slow as I'm obsessing over completing Pokedex entries / doing 'requests' before progressing. I'm about to fight the Kricketune. I wonder how feasible it is to just chuck balls at high level Pokes without battling, I'm guessing 'not very' (saw a Snorlax roaming around). |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.15.23 | HOW DARE YOU GO BACK ON TOPIC |
Demon of the Fall
02.15.23 | Arceus is off-topic ;-) |
ToSmokMuzyki
02.15.23 | ITS TOPIC ADJACENT |
nol
02.15.23 | “I wonder how feasible it is to just chuck balls at high level Pokes without battling, I'm guessing 'not very'”
You’d be surprised. If you stick to second tier balls, or are willing to use some third tier balls, it doesn’t usually take more than 5 tries if you just chuck a ball as soon as they pop out of the previous one
Filling out the dex was a lot of fun, there’s more depth to it than just finding one, and the objectives do a good job about teaching you the role the Pokémon plays in the wild or in battle |
Pikazilla
08.08.23 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QiLe4pTHAE
new dlc info, fast forward to 24 mins |
Demon of the Fall
08.08.23 | I’ve done 2 gyms, 2 titans & 1 base… hold your guns it’s only been out a year or something
(seriously tho I doubt I’ll bother with DLC). |
SteakByrnes
08.08.23 | the new raikou looks so dumb but I love him |
Pikazilla
08.08.23 | giraffe raikou |
GreyShadow
08.08.23 | new Raikou is half cool half lol. the 2d art sells him much better |
GreyShadow
08.08.23 | SwSh dlc was substantially better than base SwSh so im hoping this does the same for SV?
It doesn't seem like we have a Dynamax Adventures replacement which makes me sad. |
Pikazilla
08.08.23 | duraludon's evo is hilarious
a pokemon that can turn into a stapler OR a suspension bridge at will |
ToSmokMuzyki
08.08.23 | wait theres new shit zomg |
ToSmokMuzyki
08.08.23 | fuck sake
still only care about the turtle |
Pikazilla
08.08.23 | nah dipplin is legit great
fantastic ability and signature move too |
ToSmokMuzyki
08.08.23 | saw it with its head out im game |
GreyShadow
08.08.23 | dipplin + rock slide partner in doubles sounds nice.
duraludon's evo looks awesome tbh. much better than his gmax/base form. always knew that thing had some potential |
nol
08.08.23 | gotta check but god i can't play this game for more than 5 minutes anymore without wanting to break my switch |
Devastator
08.08.23 | Is Duraludon the first non fully evolved Pokemon to get a special form? He got a G-Max form in SwSh and now has an evolution. |
Pikazilla
08.08.23 | I mean, Pikachu has special forms |
nol
08.08.23 | Looks like shit lol, they keep on padding these presentations when the actual info could’ve been revealed in 5 minutes |
nol
08.08.23 | 0 of the new Pokémon look cool and that’s all I care about at this point |
ToSmokMuzyki
08.08.23 | turtle tho |