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Looks like the most generic PokemonTM thing ever, still don't care. Boy, not giving a shit about a franchise you used to love sure is a blessing.
Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States
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Something about this image's composition doesn't scream "box art".
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I remember playing haymaker when I was 10 and going onto pojo after school to see if there were any new lists or cards to try out. Despite what nostalgiatards and genwunners will try to tell you, no one actually played charizard and he was considered to have always been terrible back then. I remember William Hung going back-to-back against those kinds of janky big number decks and being able to chug through and take all 6 prizes or empty bench KO back when you could gust a charmander and knock him out in one hit.
I genuinely miss the early days of the game and none of these collectorfags will ever know the fun of the game prior to black & white.
I genuinely miss the early days of the game and none of these collectorfags will ever know the fun of the game prior to black & white.
There’s a market, but most modern (SV) stuff is manipulated like hell. The only stuff worth serious money are the 20+ year old sets.
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Absolutely, it seems like key art that they rushed into a cover. The fact that it's so much better-looking as proper key art and not box art probably speaks to that. It was very clearly drawn to be in a much wider resolution, to the point where the box art looks noticeably cut-off and cramped, and there's a serious lack of focus that doesn't really draw your eye to anything in particular. The mega evolution is too subdued to catch the eye, so Lumiose's gym catches the eye instead, but that's partly covered by a hand and so bright across such a huge area that it's really hard to find someplace for the eye to rest. It probably doesn't help that the box art is slanted to the right, which it was absolutely not drawn to accommodate for.
I'm not a great artist, so this could obviously all be bullshit, but it's definitely not a good cover. It was too obviously made for a different aspect ratio, without any clear focus, and the colors are so muddy that it doesn't really grab attention. That's my two cents on the matter, anyways.
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It seems to be Looker, his jacket has the same dark buttons and he's the one to help Emma in XY, so it'd make more sense to be him.
Quick edit: I noticed now that the jacket has different details around the sleeve, but given Looker's role in XY's postgame I'd still say it's him.
It's a Mega Steelix
You've said it better than I did. It being a messy cropped section from a wider picture really shows how much they care. They couldn't even be bothered to design a proper box art.
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Honestly, it could go either way. I personally think the color of the coat-arm is way too light for that, matching Sonia's beige near-perfectly but being quite a ways off from Looker's yellower-brown, but you're right that it would make more sense for Looker to be there. Maybe it'll be both of them? Who knows lol.
Fuck, you're right. I guess I didn't pick up on it because it's a design that relies a whole lot on details, which that very muddy silhouette had basically none of. It's a perfect match now that you bring it up, though.It's a Mega Steelix
...why is a mega steelix atop a roof? How is a mega steelix atop a roof?
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If the rumors are to be believed then the brown girl is basically the columbo with the game that helps us research what's going on with all of the crazy rogue megas.
Also, I actually quite like the deviation away from just the box legendary awkwardly looking at you on the box art, because at least it sells the idea of what you're supposed to be doing.
It's very odd that they announced a presents a month in advance though.
We'll see if the alleged 27 mega evolutions begin to pop up because several of the species have been featured in the couple of trailers they posted
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That is a Rotom.
This tower seems to be modeled after a Claydol, but I swear i've seen this exact pattern before. Somewhere in gen 3, I think? My first guess is either a Rangers game (leaning towards Shadows of Almia even if that's gen 4) or one of the Colosseum games.
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It's more original, but it doesn't look very good. Legends Arceus is much better in this regard.
It's quite effective at selling the open world feel, even if the game itself isn't. The protagonists and the Pokemon are looking at the landscape to emphasize the open-world elements, and Mt. Coronet looms over in the distance to really sell how tall it's meant to be.
It's also in layers, you've got Mt. Coronet centered and in the distance, the two protagonists are slightly off-center on each side and closer to our perspective, and the Pokemon are surrounding them in the corners but are also the closest to us. It guides our eyes from the bottom to the top.
I hate this game, but it's got a nice cover.
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Box legendaries are a relic of the era where they couldn’t fit every Pokemon onto a single cartridge. I like the concept of a view of the region much more, especially when the box legendaries are painfully mediocre.
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Actually, looking at the two box arts I would say the switch two cartridges are so fugly.
They are so cram together and there's a gigantic word salad above them telling you that it's SWITCH 2 along with everything elsealong with everything else
They are so cram together and there's a gigantic word salad above them telling you that it's SWITCH 2 along with everything elsealong with everything else
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>My understanding is that the game still gets played but it's mostly kids and early teens
Eh... this is technically false.
Pokémon's official tournaments have 3 age divisions with a competitor being placed in one based around the year they were born. For the 2024-2025 competitive season it goes like this...
- Junior Division: born in or after 2013 (competitors 11/12 years old and under)
- Senior Division born between 2009 and 2012 (competitors between 12/13 and 15/16 years old)
- Masters division: born in or before 2008 (competitors 16/17 years old and older)
- Junior division: 181 players
- Senior division: 247 players
- Masters division: 1657 players
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You always had every single Pokemon in one cart, even as far back as Red/Green. You just didn't find every single Pokemon there to incentivize trading and buying link cables/another Gameboy. If you couldn't, say, catch a Meowth in your version, it still existed, you just needed to trade or cheat for it if it wasn't encountered naturally.
BTW Gamefreak originally wanted a gajillion different versions, not just two. Each one was supposedly tailor made, unique, and had minor changes like differently generated maps or different trainers on certain routes. If this sounds stupid, it is and ultimately, only small encounter changes were possible between versions, which is what they went with. Something like this is ambitious even for today, now imagine that on a Gameboy where you can't even fit more than 6 NPCs on one screen due to technical limitations.
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I’ve been playing Pokemon Coliseum recently and it reminds me of how much potential Pokemon’s battle system used to have. The game focuses on double battles as the default, which means that your team composition and moves matter a lot more than a typical Pokemon game where single battles are the focus. It’s a shame they stopped trying with the format in the games (outside of compfagging).
The other thing that struck me is how much time is wasted on telling rather than showing. You spend a lot of time reading that an attack or effect occurred followed by watching the corresponding animation (if there is one). Pokemon, to this day, has not kicked this habit and it’s frustrating. I already know my Pokemon is poisoned. I already can see that I dropped my opponent’s defense. I just watched the Pokemon fall asleep — you don’t need to dedicate a 3-second text box to tell me this.
The other thing that struck me is how much time is wasted on telling rather than showing. You spend a lot of time reading that an attack or effect occurred followed by watching the corresponding animation (if there is one). Pokemon, to this day, has not kicked this habit and it’s frustrating. I already know my Pokemon is poisoned. I already can see that I dropped my opponent’s defense. I just watched the Pokemon fall asleep — you don’t need to dedicate a 3-second text box to tell me this.
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I recommend Pokemon Grand Colosseum and NeXt Gen(for XD) romhacks, I personally reviewed them some time ago. It felt like playing the games for the first time again with how many changes they bring.
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yeah, the limitations of wild encounters after gen 3 never made sense, especially since the sprites exist and there are NPCs that have some of those Pokemon. I sure wouldn’t be opposed to the idea of reducing everything to just one version from here on, especially since it’s pointless to keep doing that.
Collectorfags love to try to tell people that nobody plays the game at all, which is either because they’re trying to deter potential players or because they’re idiots. I remember playing in both juniors and seniors as a kid and a lot of those kids then play masters now. I like the age bracketing because it keeps kids that may have constraints from getting tabled by some fag like leonhardt, who shows up with a $2k+ max rarity tera charizard deck. The lost box kyogre deck is a great example of this because it won juniors at worlds and was literally the lowest rarity possible for each card because the kid from Singapore built it using his allowance.
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The number of pointless messages you have to spam through during a battle doesn't get talked about enough. It would add a lot of polish if things like stat boosts or weather damage were to just briefly show up on the side of the screen like abilities do, or if some text boxes showed up at the same time:
- We don't need a message for healing, sandstorm damage, or activated abilities, we saw it happen, it's just repeating information we already know.
- Speaking of, have all Pokemon take damage at the same time during sandstorm or hail, we don't need to see each individual mon be buffeted by sandstorm every single turn.
- Have all abilities announce themselves either at the same time or right after each other, we don't need to dedicate 2 seconds to each ability. Using things like Skill Swap or Trace is so damn slow because of this.
- We also don't need to dedicate a message to every single stat raised by Ancient Power and the like.
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I once complained on /vp/ back when Sun/Moon was new about the text box spam slowing things down, and I got a bunch of comments by angry autists saying I was making up a problem and that my proposed solutions to quickly display info like other JRPGs do (using damage numbers, having attack names pop up at the top of the screen while the animation plays, etc.) was just "moving the information" and that it would make things confusing.
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There is a giant enemy crab boss(no really) in SV that has this issue to a ridiculous degree, having stat increases up the ass every turn so it takes about a minute or more before you can start another turn with him