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

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Squawking Macaw said:
What a massive nothingburger. We had to trudge through so much mobileslop to be given a shitty little trailer. they even wasted time showing off trainer customization like it isn't an expected feature that the last three generations had. At least the stopmotion shows have a nice artstyle, I suppose.

The leaks included the Megas going out of control, the blue-haired Team Flare woman being a major character and Mega Dragonite having Dragonair wings, it's safe to assume the other leaks are real. It's pretty damn lame, literally just a retread of the Dynamax storyline from Gen 8.
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Sword/Shield didn't even have a story, it was unfinished and what we got were hap-hazardly stitched together bits that came out of nowhere and make no sense. Treating the narrative of that game as a "storyline" is being kind to it, it was half-assed like everything in that game. That said, "Pokemon going out of control" isn't an interesting enough topic to bring it up again. I should point out that Orre games on the Gamecube 20 years ago did this better with Shadow Pokemon and an actually intimidating bad guy faction in Cipher, but then again they also had better graphics, animation, double battles, better characters ect. so this isn't unexpected.

Speaking of villains, the ones in AZ look like a tired old retread of Team Flare but with even worse looking suits. It's hilarious that Gamefreak's villains peaked with Team Plasma, and arguably with the "fakeout" that Team Skull weren't the true bad guys. This is as good as their writing ever got. I am not kidding my self here we will get anything groundbreaking in AZ.
Grayback said:
Scarlet & Violet's clothing customization was so terrible that it might as well have not been in the game.
It was such a big step back that the fact that they're bring back and seemingly expanding customizatiom honestly is news.
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Reminder that there were only 4 clothes in the base game of SV. If you played a female character, I'm sorry "Body Type B" character you didn't even get a dress, just the same generic outfits that the male character got. Best part is that I know they did it not just for DEI purposes but also so they could shill clothes players actually wanted to wear in DLC. Maybe this is the reason why they focused so much on it in the AZ trailer, lmfao.
 
Dude, Dragonite looks terrible. I like the ball on its tail and that its tail is longer. Slimming Dragonite up for an improved battle form is fine, but they didn't take it far enough.

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But why would you put wings on its head!? THIS SO DUMB!

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Squawking Macaw said:
It's pretty damn lame, literally just a retread of the Dynamax storyline from Gen 8.
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Which was already retreaded in Legends: Arceus with the Wardens, and Scarlet and Violet with the Titans. You could argue that the Dynamax storyline, too, was just a retread of the Alolan Totems with slightly more malice involved.

I'm so tired man.
 
Well, since the leaks are real, I'm gonna put other artists' depictions of the remaining Megas as a reminder of the shit we're in for:
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This site (tried 3 different archives and none worked) has some of them, their descriptions, and more artists' renditions. The goofier looking ones like Starmie and Victreebel are meant to be rampaging Dynamax Megas without trainers.

There's also some leaked story bits like Zygarde having a psychic connection with an older Lysandre and Quasartico hiding a new Ultimate Weapon inside Prism Tower (spoilered for anyone that cares).

Anonitolia said:
Master Sex Carmine and Sinistcha
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Uh @Anonitolia you might want to fix that.
 
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Squawking Macaw said:
Well, since the leaks are real, I'm gonna put other artists' depictions of the remaining Megas as a reminder of the shit we're in for:
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>X but it has longer wings
>X but it looks scarier
>X but it has LOOOOOONG legs
>X but it has a different color now
>X but with more stuff on it
>X but it looks retarded now
>Let's bring back Battle Bond Greninja but pretend he's a Mega now
Froslass and the other two XY starters are alright, everything else is shit
Are there people genuinely excited for this?

Squawking Macaw said:
There's also some leaked story bits like Zygarde having a psychic connection with an older Lysandre and Quasartico hiding a new Ultimate Weapon inside Prism Tower (spoilered for anyone that cares).
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We finally get Zygarde lore outside of comics and anime, and this is what it's wasted on? So the game will just be memberberries for XY zoomies and a retreat of that same plotline.
 
Anonitolia said:
That was intentional. If it helps, I'm not a lesbian. I'm just stealing a /vp/ joke because I have nothing better to do lol.
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Oh ok, well played lol.

30+GameOvers said:
>X but it has longer wings
>X but it looks scarier
>X but it has LOOOOOONG legs
>X but it has a different color now
>X but with more stuff on it
>X but it looks retarded now
>Let's bring back Battle Bond Greninja but pretend he's a Mega now
Froslass and the other two XY starters are alright, everything else is shit
Are there people genuinely excited for this?
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They brought Mega Evolution back but made the new Megas look like Gigantamax.
 
Anonitolia said:
Just wait until you realize that it doesn't even use those wings. It still flies with the tiny ones on its back.
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The wings were flapping in the part of the trailer I skipped to, are you saying its idle battle animation they're entirely motionless?
 
Catgirl Tyranid said:
The wings were flapping in the part of the trailer I skipped to, are you saying its idle battle animation they're entirely motionless?
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Yes. The head-wings aren't flapping, and they seem to act more like extra arms than anything else. Spreading out or smacking air. It only flies with its back wings. Look at its animations here:
The battle idle leaves them completely motionless. The head-wings only move when attacking or initially mega-evolving. Otherwise, they're completely motionless and it's just the tiny ones on the back keeping it afloat.
 
Squawking Macaw said:
They brought Mega Evolution back but made the new Megas look like Gigantamax.
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Knowing Gamefreak, they did start out life as Gigantomax Pokemon, but then somebody slapped these retards around and told them they need Mega Pokemon since the game takes place in Kalos. Now they are Mega Pokemon, nothing about their design is actually changed aside from making them smaller.
 
Anonitolia said:
Yes, kind of. The head-wings aren't flapping, they're just moving like extra arms (except they're not hitting anything). Spreading out or smacking things. It only flies with its back wings. Look at its animations here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fWDx1omjIwM:74https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eo7PmXkP0LA:204Only flapping with the back ones.
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I don't think there's enough footage to make that determination. Being bigger wings I wouldn't be surprised if in its idle animation the big wings flap just less often.
 
holy shit lol did anyone notice that you need to pay currency to change moves, abilities, and natures in Champions? You also can't edit IVs, like at all, only redistribute EVs with some weird and clunky EV-like system that only works on a scale from 1-32.
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EDIT: It's not a premium currency, apparently.
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Adding a few more details from the official site here...

UNITE-like license screen here:
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Here's how the licenses work:
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TL;DR: once a day, you can use any one species for free. Once. If you want to use it any longer, or (likely) bring over any HOME companions you have, you've got to pay points.

You cannot change anything about your Pokémon until it has been permanently purchased. Seems like you just get stuck with some shitty default kit.
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Only Singles and Doubles are being featured in the game (to nobody's surprise). Lol, lmao, etc.
Also, there are three modes: ranked, casual, and private.
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Here's a HOME connectivity graph that's been conveniently excluded from the English site.
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You still can't bring anything not in Champions into Champions from HOME, but you also can't bring anything you got from Champions into HOME itself.

Champions is not getting a Switch 2 version. It's only for smartphones and the Switch 1. It's also being developed by ILCA under the name The Pokémon Works.
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Anonitolia said:
holy shit lol did anyone notice that you need to pay currency to change moves, abilities, and natures in Champions? You also can't edit IVs, like at all, only redistribute EVs with some weird and clunky EV-like system that only works on a scale from 1-32.
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EDIT: It's not a premium currency, apparently.
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Adding a few more details from the official site here...

UNITE-like license screen here:
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The site makes no mention of it, but you have to pay currency to "permanently acquire licenses" for various different Pokémon that are included in the game.
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Like I said, it's just an inferior Stadium clone with mobile game monetization and modern online play rot. Either way, inferior to just firing up Showdown.
I bet you 100% they will add premium currency down the line, they just need to boil this frog a bit first.
 
The fine folks in the comments section aren't taking these news any better than we are:
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There is no hype surrounding ZA. Nobody is talking about it, and after one of the longest news droughts of any game, the only thing Game Freak cares to reveal is a Dragonite with wings on its head. They aren't even trying to market this game.
I know that at the end of the day this is a Pokemon game, but if things keep going this way I honestly believe it will bomb.
 
Anon designs a better Mega for Dragonite in 5 minutes
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@Catgirl Tyranid Not only am I seeing the same comparisons between Digimon and Pokemon on /vp/ right now, but there is general asshurt that "digimon is too edgy" lmfao
Also, that niggers in france is normal, even tho people complained about them in XY as well. Imagine starting Pokemon with XY and just accepting that making half the NPCs in the game brown for no reason is normal. sinnoh baby cope.webp
"No black NPCs in BDSP"
Who wants to tell him?
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The other remakes didn't do this BTW, Sinnoh babies coping as always.
 
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I don't understand why Nintendo is so protective of their other IPs but let the Pokemon company shovel out the biggest piles of dogshit slop imaginable.
 
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