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

negativlad · May 9, 2022

Considering all the moves they changed drastically from the base games for Arceus (like Flamethrower being nerfed again down to 80 with 10pp and Stealth Rock simply being.. stealth rocks), I'm not really surprised. Probably better for the movesets to be replaced than to have the transfer rejected outright.

whatever I feel like · May 9, 2022

Playing through Legends Arceus right now and the game has some blatant N64 trees. Why did they put them in again after the uproar last time?

Flavius Anthemius · May 9, 2022

whatever I feel like said:
Playing through Legends Arceus right now and the game has some blatant N64 trees. Why did they put them in again after the uproar last time?

Cus Pokémon fans have stockholm syndrome and since the franchise is a multimedia juggernaut no matter the uproar it's too big of a brand to falter?

Executive Petrel · May 9, 2022

negativlad said:
Was he ever a big pokemon guy?

ToroidalBoat said:
There's also the pocketmons websites he made all the way back in 1999.

Chris would also dress up as Ash Ketchum and go to TCG tournaments at a bookstore when he was in high school.

There's also this hilarious clip where he got himself a pokeball pro controller for LGP/LGE
I always asked myself what kind of person would pay 50 Bucks for a useless Controller just because it has a "Wem" inside it, this video answered my question.

whatever I feel like said:
Playing through Legends Arceus right now and the game has some blatant N64 trees. Why did they put them in again after the uproar last time?

Pokemon is a money printing machine no matter if the games are good or shit.

whatever I feel like · May 10, 2022

Fuck yeah, caught a shiny Geodude.

ToroidalBoat · May 10, 2022

Executive Petrel said:
"Wem"

"Wem" shows that Chris still thinks spelling names backwards is always brilliant.

whatever I feel like said:
Fuck yeah, caught a shiny Geodude.

Must've been really lucky there.

The only shiny I ever saw in over 20 years - that wasn't the red Gyarados - was a green Zubat.

Scarlett Johansson · May 10, 2022

Pokemon Scarlet huh....hopefully I'll be able to do a commercial for them. Colin won't mind.

Xerxes IX · May 10, 2022

Executive Petrel said:
Pokemon is a money printing machine no matter if the games are good or shit.

Case in point: BDSP are the best selling Pokemon remakes.

ToroidalBoat · May 11, 2022

hey @RomanesEuntDomus

I forget where, but Pokemon seems to be liked among the "Kurzgesagt" staff.

(They are the people who make those science-related animations with birbs.)

BlazikenLover said:
they want more control over movesets

So no "mind reader + sheer cold" Articuno?

Kari Kamiya · May 11, 2022

Obligatory "We've hit 666 pages" reference here.

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It's linked to the vid if you want to reminisce about the lulz.

Sundae · May 11, 2022

Kari Kamiya said:
Obligatory "We've hit 666 pages" reference here.
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It's linked to the vid if you want to reminisce about the lulz.

Since this is page 666:

Twatette · May 12, 2022

In celebration of 666 pages...

Why is Vivillon so goddamn cute?

Bunny Tracks · May 12, 2022

I know it's Japan, and they don't see the number 666 as Westerners do, but I'm still mad that the 666th Pokemon wasn't some kind of scary Dark-type, or something.

Kuchipatchi · May 12, 2022

Twatette said:
In celebration of 666 pages...

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Why is Vivillon so goddamn cute?

I like Vivillon. Mine is a Garden pattern but I've been collecting as many forms as possible before resorting to cheating to get the rare ones and the Pokeball one. I got the Fancy one legit when it came out.
Or the other way around. I don't remember.

whatever I feel like · May 12, 2022

whatever I feel like said:
Fuck yeah, caught a shiny Geodude.

And I just now got a shiney Buneary. Shame that line is so shit, there's no way he's making my big six.

Nauseated Courgi · May 12, 2022

whatever I feel like said:
And I just now got a shiney Buneary. Shame that line is so shit, there's no way he's making my big six.

In terms of design or combat ability?

whatever I feel like · May 12, 2022

Nauseated Courgi said:
In terms of design or combat ability?

Design, I have no clue about combat ability but they're just normal type, right?

negativlad · May 12, 2022

whatever I feel like said:
Design, I have no clue about combat ability but they're just normal type, right?

There's not much of an established meta for Arceus because there's no PvP and you can just power through every fight in the game pretty easily with any super effective one-two Agile Style-Strong Style punch. In the other games, Mega-Lopunny is great. Lopunny is absolute trash.