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

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What is the justification for not being able to change pokeballs? Because it seems like bullshit.
 
I got my copy of Shining Pearl last night. Being a 1:1 remake of D/P, it's worse in the sense that there's no postgame content, a weaker story and a lack of options in routes.

The Grand Underground, speed, removal of HMs and easier grinding fixes most of the problems with the Sinnoh games. But the fact that there's none of the improvements Platinum added is very disappointing.

I'm still having more fun than I did with Shield or Let's Go, so that's something.
The lack of post game is what makes locking all your other Pokemon options behind the national dex so frustrating. By the time people can play with more team flexibility or play with their favorites, the game is over and there's no point. I guess gym rematches but honestly, how many people really do that?

Even the best part of the Grand Underground, hidden Pokemon biomes, is locked behind the national dex. It makes no sense.

Despite all that I am enjoying it so far. Granted I haven't gotten very far.
 
Please just tell me you can box Pokémon with Seals on their Poké Balls.
You can. Sadly, the letter seals are gone.

The lack of post game is what makes locking all your other Pokemon options behind the national dex so frustrating. By the time people can play with more team flexibility or play with their favorites, the game is over and there's no point. I guess gym rematches but honestly, how many people really do that?

Even the best part of the Grand Underground, hidden Pokemon biomes, is locked behind the national dex. It makes no sense.

Despite all that I am enjoying it so far. Granted I haven't gotten very far.
They had no excuse to remove decorations, traps and flags, too. What's the point in having the Underground be multiplayer if there's less options to dick around?

I just miss the minigames and sidequests. It seems like all there is to do now is "lol catch 400+ Pokemon but get fucked if you don't have a trading partner". :sigh:
 
Are the fans able to edit the switch games like they are able to do with NDS and previous platforms or it is still too early?
 
I picked up Diamond and I have to say, I am enjoying it except for one thing.

Fuck the friendship mechanic and whoever decided we can't opt out. It was the worst thing new mechanic in Gen 6 and it is now even worse. I don't care that my Murkrow is looking at me or smelling me. Stop making me deal with extra dialogue boxes for a mechanic I hate.

At least in SWSH I could stop the fuckers following me in the Wild Area/DLC maps and thus stop them wasting my time.
 
Are the fans able to edit the switch games like they are able to do with NDS and previous platforms or it is still too early?
They can, there have been difficulty hacks for Sword and Shield for a while now.
I picked up Diamond and I have to say, I am enjoying it except for one thing.

Fuck the friendship mechanic and whoever decided we can't opt out. It was the worst thing new mechanic in Gen 6 and it is now even worse. I don't care that my Murkrow is looking at me or smelling me. Stop making me deal with extra dialogue boxes for a mechanic I hate.

At least in SWSH I could stop the fuckers following me in the Wild Area/DLC maps and thus stop them wasting my time.
Go to the herb shop in Eterna City and buy a fuckton of the herbal medicine. Honestly, with shit like the forced affection system, forced Exp. Share, and 4 GB worth of patches (more to come), one could make an argument that BDSP is worse than the original Diamond and Pearl.
 
You can. Sadly, the letter seals are gone.


They had no excuse to remove decorations, traps and flags, too. What's the point in having the Underground be multiplayer if there's less options to dick around?

I just miss the minigames and sidequests. It seems like all there is to do now is "lol catch 400+ Pokemon but get fucked if you don't have a trading partner". *sigh*
If you need a trading partner, let me know. I'm probably going to want to complete the Pokedex for this game for some post game shiny hunts. It seems like the shiny charm only effects eggs this game.
 
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Glitches are making the round on japnese twitter lol
softlock due to diagonal movement
Honestly, with shit like the forced affection system, forced Exp. Share, and 4 GB worth of patches (more to come), one could make an argument that BDSP is worse than the original Diamond and Pearl.
Unironically just play following platinum and you would have an already better game than BDSP, now if only we could hack in the soundtrack somehow because that is some good shit in BDSP
 
Oh fuck. I'm not going to let my game get patched if we can jesus-bike to Shaymin. That's a shiny hunt I've always wanted to do!
The best part of these recent years in Pokémon is how much ways there are to get shaymin now, he's my favorite and I recently was able to
>Get him in platinum after missing the event from losing my cart via action replay
>experience it probably whenever the event is released for BDSP
>Now arceus is also getting an event for shaymin if you own SWoSHie
is gamefreak/ILCA/TPC returning to eventmon kino rather than just giving them away at pokemon centers

:thinking:

one can only hope
 
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Soooo, I learned via Serebii that the distortion world technically exists in BDSP, but it’s like, an optional postgame thing inside where the Pal Park was back in the OG games, as opposed to like, making it part of the main story.

I’m better off just ignoring all the FOMO and playing Platinum again aren't I?
 
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Soooo, I learned via Serebii that the distortion world technically exists in BDSP, but it’s like, an optional postgame thing inside where the Pal Park was back in the OG games, as opposed to like, making it part of the main story.
It's the distortion hallway basiclly

I’m better off just ignoring all the FOMO and playing Platinum aren't i?
yeah, if you want to play it wait down the line and buy them used or sail the high seas, games aren't worth 60, don't really get why people always feel like they need pokemon games right there and then when the games get put on used price drops pretty frequently after release
 
Gonna be honest, I didn’t like the original Distortion World all that much aside from the music. It just felt like a waste of time and the “wacky” shit happening wasn’t all that interesting to me.
 
Gonna be honest, I didn’t like the original Distortion World all that much aside from the music. It just felt like a waste of time and the “wacky” shit happening wasn’t all that interesting to me.
It was a showcase of the DS' 3d capabilities and a test run for the camera angles in the gen 5 games, helped show how giratina comes from a complete other world with separate logic from the rest of sinnoh/the world as well but again mostly a showcase for DS' graphics and probably a response to gen 4 not really pushing the ds to it's limits before hand
 
Gamefreak need to sell off pokemon before they kill it with all this low quality shit, they fundimentally don't understand how the game works or how to design pokemon anymore, let me explain with one example.

Regieleki and Regidraco.

Now you may be asking yourself why these two forgettable legendaries? Well they display the most clear the most fundimental misunderstanding of what made the old designs good, the old regi's were all golems all of them made of materials you'd make a statue out of and animated as such. Rock, Ice, Steel. All things you'd want to create a protector golem to defend you out of, even regigigas works as it was this strange mystic thing but made by human hands so normal worked.

So if they wanted to add two new ones why not make them Grass and Ground type make them made of mud and wood not fucking electric and dragon, hell even if they did want to go electric (dragon has no excuse) they had the perfect design already in use with Xurcitree a strange creature made of cables and wires.

TL;DR: The new regis are the prefect example of everything wrong with the new pokemon games.
 
Gamefreak need to sell off pokemon before they kill it with all this low quality shit, they fundimentally don't understand how the game works or how to design pokemon anymore, let me explain with one example.

Regieleki and Regidraco.

Now you may be asking yourself why these two forgettable legendaries? Well they display the most clear the most fundimental misunderstanding of what made the old designs good, the old regi's were all golems all of them made of materials you'd make a statue out of and animated as such. Rock, Ice, Steel. All things you'd want to create a protector golem to defend you out of, even regigigas works as it was this strange mystic thing but made by human hands so normal worked.

So if they wanted to add two new ones why not make them Grass and Ground type make them made of mud and wood not fucking electric and dragon, hell even if they did want to go electric (dragon has no excuse) they had the perfect design already in use with Xurcitree a strange creature made of cables and wires.

TL;DR: The new regis are the prefect example of everything wrong with the new pokemon games.
I still want to know what the fuck "dragon energy" is. Like, aren't the Regis made of real-life materials (ice, rock, steel) that happen to all be solids? They're basically making shit up just to justify Regidraco's existence.
 
I still want to know what the fuck "dragon energy" is.
Shit they could have made it or a fairy type one and implied it was created by magic out of the various tales we told each other back then as sort of a protector made out of bits of all the others we had.

But no, weird dragon jaw thing.

how do maek gam gud? me forgurt.
 
Shit they could have made it or a fairy type one and implied it was created by magic out of the various tales we told each other back then as sort of a protector made out of bits of all the others we had.

But no, weird dragon jaw thing.

how do maek gam gud? me forgurt.
And not just a weird dragon jaw thing, a weird dragon jaw thing who happens to be shaped after Charizard, who isn't even a dragon type! Though it looks like a dragon, so I guess they just up and forgot and nobody corrected the designer.
 
Gamefreak need to sell off pokemon before they kill it with all this low quality shit, they fundimentally don't understand how the game works or how to design pokemon anymore, let me explain with one example.

Regieleki and Regidraco.

Now you may be asking yourself why these two forgettable legendaries? Well they display the most clear the most fundimental misunderstanding of what made the old designs good, the old regi's were all golems all of them made of materials you'd make a statue out of and animated as such. Rock, Ice, Steel. All things you'd want to create a protector golem to defend you out of, even regigigas works as it was this strange mystic thing but made by human hands so normal worked.

So if they wanted to add two new ones why not make them Grass and Ground type make them made of mud and wood not fucking electric and dragon, hell even if they did want to go electric (dragon has no excuse) they had the perfect design already in use with Xurcitree a strange creature made of cables and wires.

TL;DR: The new regis are the prefect example of everything wrong with the new pokemon games.
I don't get all the hate for Regieleki and Drago (I understand the critique however).

Sure, they could have gone in a different direction for those two.

Sure, they could have not made the two other regional legends be Regis.

But two silly looking Regis does not represent anything wrong with the new pokemon games and quite frankly something as subjective as pokemon designs shouldn't be something you point to if you want to talk about what's wrong with modern pokemon.
I still want to know what the fuck "dragon energy" is. Like, aren't the Regis made of real-life materials (ice, rock, steel) that happen to all be solids? They're basically making shit up just to justify Regidraco's existence.
How can dragon type pokemon summon meteors or use a move called "dragon pulse"? It implies that dragon-types have this kind of energy to them that hasn't been fully explored with Regidrago being a physical manifestation of it.
 
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