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

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Yeah I feel in terms of graphics Game Freak is at it’s best when they’re designing smaller areas. The difference in detail and quality between major towns and the Wild Area is jarring.

I also like the gym leader theme. I see people hate on the cheering part but it fits perfectly with the way gyms are themed in SwSh as major sporting events.
 
Honestly after playing and enjoying the Legends changes so much I dont know if I could go back to the core series with Scarlet and Violet. I wonder what (if any) changes from Legends they might fold into the core series?
 
Jean Lafitte 1812 said:
or were too good as coverage moves like Signal Beam. Trimming moves was for the better balance wise.
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Signal Beam is, in my opinion, the only unjustifiable removal in Sword and Shield. Bug is an awful typing offensively, with more resists than any other type, but for many Pokemon it was one of the few decently-powered coverage options they have, most frequently it was Electric types that lacked any other options, though many Ice and Psychic types with bad movepools also used it. When it comes to electric types in particular, losing both Hidden Power AND Signal Beam made many of them unusable in an offensive capacity(like Jolteon)
 
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Dunsparce said:
Signal Beam is, in my opinion, the only unjustifiable removal in Sword and Shield. Bug is an awful typing offensively, with more resists than any other type, but for many Pokemon it was one of the few decently-powered coverage options they have, most frequently it was Electric types that lacked any other options, though many Ice and Psychic types with bad movepools also used it. When it comes to electric types in particular, losing both Hidden Power AND Signal Beam made many of them unusable in an offensive capacity(like Jolteon)
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It's always been weird to me that Electric has always been a defensively superior typing but they like to it on fast, weakling mons with limited movepools. The only Electric success stories I can think of in the last 10 years have been Tapu Koko, Zeraora, and Regieleki and all of them are shut down by a single Ground type.
 
negativlad said:
It's always been weird to me that Electric has always been a defensively superior typing but they like to it on fast, weakling mons with limited movepools. The only Electric success stories I can think of in the last 10 years have been Tapu Koko, Zeraora, and Regieleki and all of them are shut down by a single Ground type.
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It's a bit like only giving Quick Attack and ExtremeSpeed to pokemon that are already fast. It makes sense thematically, but what's the point?

As an aside, I just beat the E4 in FireRed and I hate how grindy it gets at the end. I get they wanted the player to be the underdog in the final battle, but when there's a roughly fifteen level gap between the final gym leader and Blue/Green it's a bit much. Throw in the fact that Victory Road only has a handful of trainers and all the wild Pokemon are in unevolved forms despite their high level - purely to screw the player out of XP - and I feel the developers didn't respect the player's time.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
least favorite types: fighting and fire
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I'd be more inclined to like the Fighting type if it had more than 2 viable Special Moves and there were more Special focused Fighting types. Focus Blast is really the only widely distributed Special fighting move, and it's both bad and almost purely to give coverage options. Heck, even just a widely distributed Fighting type equivalent of Psystrike that's based off Physical attack but hits Special Defense would be an improvement.
 
I was watching vids related to Legends of Arceus particularly because Vinny livestreams the game and I really had to share this argument, the chad OP said something that a few bunch of kiddies didn't like so now he's gotten into an endless debate, the comment is currently standing near 400 replies.
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I would probably screenshot the whole thread with Firefox, but the size of the resulting screenshot would probably excess the limit imposed by Kiwi Farms.

Also can't archive it all because archive.today and archive.org are not very good at archiving a single comment thread, so I guess take your time and enjoy reading it all until eventually it gets taken down, my guess is that youtube will make the move.
 
Kiwi & Cow said:
I was watching vids related to Legends of Arceus particularly because Vinny livestreams the game and I really had to share this argument, the chad OP said something that a few bunch of kiddies didn't like so now he's gotten into an endless debate, the comment is currently standing near 400 replies.
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>Video all about critiquing PLA's graphics
>From a channel dedicated about game graphics
>Comment argues OP is wrong
>Muh DexCut out of nowhere

This isn't so much a brave man taking a stand against an unruly mob but rather an eager idiot punching a hornet's nest. I mean people like him are inevitable when the title of your video is pure clickbait. No such thing as a bad comment I guess.
 
Massively Strong Greed said:
Joe’s back at it again.
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While the game was complete and was in a 6 year development hell(the opposite of being rushed), Red and Green were buggy as hell, and make the international Red and Blue versions(which use the improved Japanese Blue as the base) look like they are well-coded games. To give you an idea all you needed to do break the game in half was get more than one item in your pack, which allowed many many glitches involving switching items with the select button, the more items in your pack the more wacky things you could do.
 
Wingnut said:
I'm not fully on the Game Freak hate train myself, but this is a blatantly false statement and the games are starting to feel rushed. Arceus absolutely has a decent amount of bugs in it, and SwSh still has a bunch of easily patchable exploits like raid den manipulation.
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It’s a dumb statement in general, even taking out the Pokémon part. Every game has some kind of bugs or glitches in it, and plenty run out of time to include or fine tune everything they wanted to.
 
Were there any other dumbass kids who legit believed the S.S. Anne would come back within a year?

Kinda sucks Game Freak never made that a reality once time was implemented into the series.
 
TurkishOreo said:
That doesn´t explain the fucking Crystal, Emerald, Platinum and USUM editions.

Why resell the same game but with extra content?
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Look at it from GF/Nintendo’s viewpoint - if you lucked into somehow cultivating an audience that will GLADLY buy two nearly identical versions of a game on release, and then buy ANOTHER version with more content a year later, why the fuck WOULD you stop the grift?
 
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