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

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Anonitolia said:
When combining this with the fact that Serebii has been updating his site with Pokopia material for several days longer than he did Z-A, it really just emphasizes how fucking depressing the state of the main series is. A cheaply-made DQB riff has significantly more content to bite into than an "ambitious" (by Pokémon standards) mainline entry.
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Yeah the "ambitious" nature of Z-A was vastly overstated. If anything, the leaked information for Legends Galar seems to actually be something you'd give that title to.
 
Is Pokopia actually better than ZA? The Legends games are being treated like semi-mainline games. So does it feel like Pokopia is a better game because no one was expecting a spin-off to be as good as it is? Or is it just that people who like this genre of game just really like it?
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Kofi Drinka said:
Don't buy TCG packs online unless it's a sealed box. Single boosters will come from a box they've taken the best cards from. They open packs until they find the chase rares then sell the rest on. You will never open an expensive card from those places.
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Thankfully all of the places I've bought from gave me sealed products. That said scaling booster booster packs haven't been a thing in forever due to TPCi making changes to pack weights (although Prismatic Evolutions and Ascended Heroes are scalable to some extent, scaling for god/demigod packs is possible).
 
chimpSculpture said:
Is Pokopia actually better than ZA? The Legends games are being treated like semi-mainline games. So does it feel like Pokopia is a better game because no one was expecting a spin-off to be as good as it is? Or is it just that people who like this genre of game just really like it?
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It sounds like Pokeopia did well because it's not constrained by Game Freak being shit at making games.
 
I'll take the well-earned :optimistic:, but it'd be nice if Pokopia's success encouraged the powers that be to experiment with spinoffs that aren't microtransaction-riddled mobileslop again. We ended up with some real gems of games in the GBA/DS era when they were collaborating everywhere and trying a bit of everything. I'll never stop being salty over Go's legacy to the franchise in that regard.
 
Garbage of Cesspool said:
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This is my biggest fear for gaming in general. I know gachas are finally slowing down just a teeny tiny bit in the west, but there's still a large group of gamers (or "gamers" depending on who you ask) who are willing to suck the dried up teat of mobileslop game companies.

I just want a genuinely good, inventive and fun new pokemon game. It's definitely nostalgia on my part but I just love the pokemon world and the designs of the vast majority of the mons, yes even newer gens. I can't hate Fidough, I just wish it was available in the classic pixel art style that they abandoned in favour of the soulless 3D mons.
 
Grayback said:
Ah.
What you're describing is a horror game.
A weird, dream-like setting where everything is perpetually just out of your reach and understanding.

I really appreciate the explanation, and I'm glad that the game works for you.
But for me, stuff like this usually doesn't evoke "whimsy." It feels uncanny and nightmarish. Like the vibe of the Where The Wild Things Are movie.
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I’d describe the setting as a lot more like Wall-E. Like, for spoilers reasons most of the horror that would come from such a setting is dulled by what you learn about it, and by the idea the world is healing. Namely that there’s relatively few casualties of the whole ordeal.

This mightn’t change your opinion about whether it’s horror or not, but the implication of their being no human remains + the background lore spoilers does a lot to dull the edge.

Put very simply, the cause of the world’s state is a string of natural disasters with no known cause. They were slowly making the world unlivable for everyone, forcing people to take drastic measures.

Some organisations focus on the people, and building rockets to get them out. It’s implied that they evac’d essentially all of humanity into space - even criminals like team rocket get evac’d (albeit, the plan is to split them up - Rocket sans Giovanni is implied to be building their own dedicated rocket to go into space together).

Meanwhile, an unnamed conservation Foundation likely of the Aether variety gets to work. They build what is essentially a giant PC system to store basically all Pokemon they can, in a slumbering state. The plan is that the space fleets will regularly send expedition crews down to earth to survey if it’s habitable and work to fix things up, releasing Pokemon when it’s ready. The Tangela who would become Professor Tangrowth escapes, leading to the actual professor who raised him to join the survey crews so he’d be able to find him one day.

However, one hacker who the foundation recruited has his doubts. If anything goes wrong, it’s likely the survey team won’t be able to return just to survey - and unfortunately, that fear does come to pass. Fortunately, he set up a countermeasure: the PC system will constantly survey the environment, and will release Pokemon as soon as there’s a habitat that will support them.
 
Noble Redditor said:
I'm really glad my kids haven't gotten into Pokemon cards yet and hopefully they never will. I can't find them anywhere. I know when the stores are about to be restocked because there's always obese guys camping out waiting to immediately buy all of them. Most of the packs they buy end up unopened sitting in storage to be resold in 5 years for a pretty substantial profit.

You have a card game designed for and marketed to children, but all of the inventory is being purchased by adults, who don't care about the game or the artwork. They snatch them all up to make sure nobody else has the chance and then put them on a rack in their garage to sell later.

Opening packs of Pokemon cards was such a big part of my childhood. Complaining about scalpers seems like some soy reddit shit but I don't understand what the point of the cards are anymore when the intended audience can't even access them.
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My daughter is still too young to even care, thankfully. Those same people who buy up packs also are the type who were seething over me buying her a morpeko plush she wanted from walmart because for the most part they’re insufferable faggots who don’t even enjoy pokemon.

Like look at this faggot, why use chatGPT when you’d know if you were an actual fan why you like gengar.
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I've been playing the Mariomon Dewoked rom for a few days now, and so far it's a mixed bag. First of all, I don't remember Luigi talking so much, especially in the Paper series, so why they felt like they had to make him a motor-mouth for the good part of the beginning chunk is beyond me. It's not until after World 3 where you're finally rid of him.

The evolutions leave a lot to be desired. The Mario series has a shitload of enemies and villains, and yet the Tattledex only got whittled down to 151? Take the Piranha Plant starter for example... there are like a bajillion varieties of the Piranha Plant where you could design a tree of evolutions to customize the thing to however you want it...
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...and yet with this hack, they only watered it down to Peewee and Petey as being the stage 1 and 2 evolutions respectively. So the Koopa Troopa caches are the only ones that can do a Dry Bones shedinja evolution but we don't get a Big Bone Piranha of our own? Also they use different colored shells as the evolution stones and yet NONE of the Shy Guys get their own color evolution but only the Yoshis do?. This is what I mean, the most obvious features are staring them in the face to where if they were any bigger it would hit them in the head but the dev(s) refused to take them. I'm sure it would require more work, but wouldn't the payoff be worth it in the end? Not only are you giving homage to all these characters, but you're giving people more choices and customizations to do whatever they want however they want it, which is always a good thing... you never want a bunch of people having the same one-note boring experience.

I called it quits at World 5 because they staple Captain Toad to you to get through a "puzzle", but unlike in the regular pokemon games where your partner is just a double-battle helper that heals your team after the battles, they made a mechanic where you separate from each other AND have to use Captain Toad to capture other pokemon for him to make a stupid DK monkey move away from a hole. Fucking why? And ontop of that his team doesn't auto=heal. I don't care about this character at all.

Also this uses the Gen5 leveling system where you get single-digit EXP at high levels against weaker enemies. That's ALWAYS been a pet-peeve of mine with these hacks.
 
I haven't enjoyed or been interested in a Pokémon game since Gen 5. Really the only exception was Legends Arceus. Either I passed up on playing the games or didn't enjoy what I played. My brother told me to get Pokopia, knowing that I'm not really interested in Pokémon games anymore and I'm absolutely addicted. I'm off from work this week and played for 11 hours straight today without knowing it until I realized I hadn't eaten yet today. I enjoyed the Dragon Quest Builders games, so that's probably why I enjoy this one so much, but being able to collect Pokémon and use them for specific functions to build or destroy the environment is something I have wanted ever since I was a young boy.
 
Sorting my bulk from all my Asc hero packs and out of about 60 or so I got 2 pokepads, It's really no shock these are $10, hope all the guys who tried to inflate the price get burnt hard in a week when the next set has them reprinted and handed out like candy.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
I've been playing the Mariomon Dewoked rom for a few days now, and so far it's a mixed bag.
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First Pokémon Lazarus, then Super Mariomon...
I feel almost regret once again, but I also feel upset at how these hyped-up games turned out mid. I wonder how my dewoking affected these.
Then again, this could join TemTem and maybe Digimon Story: Time Stranger in the category of hyped games on YouTube tha turned out mid.
 
Marche said:
Sorting my bulk from all my Asc hero packs and out of about 60 or so I got 2 pokepads, It's really no shock these are $10, hope all the guys who tried to inflate the price get burnt hard in a week when the next set has them reprinted and handed out like candy.
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they've been coping over it, usually with the midwit argument of supply and demand as if this card was desired by collectors and not at all a play staple much like the damp psyduck.

speaking of collectors, why does it seem so many of these people lack any sense of creativity and always have to resort to using ai for everything on top of only knowing about gen one pokemon. zero creativity whatsoever.
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