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

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Selling the same game with added content isn’t just a Pokémon thing either. The Persona game do it, there’s plenty of “Game of the Year” Edition, Skyrim in general….
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Selling the same game with added content isn’t just a Pokémon thing either. The Persona game do it, there’s plenty of “Game of the Year” Edition, Skyrim in general….
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It's low hanging fruit, I know, but the FIFA games are basically indistinguishable from each other.

Personally I think the new starters look fine. Weed kitty is adorable, Josuke duck is a bit plain but otherwise dapper, and I like the concept of a ghost pepper crocodile. Personally I'm pretty hopeful about their evolutions. There's a lot of speculation that Sprigatito's line is going to be based on either an Iberian lynx or saber-tooth tiger. One for the region's location + face tufts, the other because it has anime fangs and the whole "prehistoric grass-type starter" thing. If they absolutely MUST go with a bipedal design, here's hoping they at least give it a "puss in boots" theme.
 
Just a heads up, the Arceus that you can get in BDSP is NOT shiny locked. I repeat, NOT locked. This is the first time someone in the US can legitimately obtain a shiny God.
 
Well, I've officially reached the halfway point to finishing my third box of Shinies in PLA with a Shiny Hisuian Zorua.

But the pain of having no access to PLA-to-Home transfers makes it a bitch to keep your storage intact.
 
Woke Capitalism said:
Just a heads up, the Arceus that you can get in BDSP is NOT shiny locked. I repeat, NOT locked. This is the first time someone in the US can legitimately obtain a shiny God.
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The only obtainable Pokemon in the entirety of BDSP that are Shiny-locked are The Manaphy Egg, the in-game trade Pokemon, and the gift Mew and Jirachi.

In the case of the Manaphy Egg, there was originally a very tedious and time-consuming method in Gen IV where you could potentially get a Shiny one from the Egg(involves 2 DS systems with gen IV games, a shit-ton of trading/soft-resetting, and starting new save files on one or both of the games), but this method no longer works in the remakes.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
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.
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The fact that the wild Pokémon in Victory Road have a pitifully exp yield is almost insulting. On the flip side, they added the VS seeker to facilitate grinding, but you straight up can’t use it indoors and nearly all the late game trainers are located in either the Pokémon Mansion or Victory Road. Rematch teams have a set level cap too.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Forget Game Freak, Joe wants to pretend his site that he clearly hates but can't nuke from orbit was never a buggy, unfinished mess once in its entire existence.
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That site is still dogshit on mobile and there is no excuse for that.
 
Waited for years to get a Pokemon combining my two favorite types

What i expected

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What we got

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Disgusting
 
Woke Capitalism said:
Just a heads up, the Arceus that you can get in BDSP is NOT shiny locked. I repeat, NOT locked. This is the first time someone in the US can legitimately obtain a shiny God.
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I want to hunt Arceus but that requires me to hunt Dialga first and I don't have 2 legendary shiny hunts in me right now.
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
Shouldn't have gotten your hopes up. The only time you'd get a pokemon whose design is on par with blue eyes white dragon is if it was legendary and even then, we've had Dialga for years.
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Lol i know its too far fetched to expect something like that, but come on... Duraludon looks like a fridge with stumpy little legs! Something a la Skarmory or Corviknight but beefier wouldve worked for me
 
God, my autism is so strong that the Super Beard Bros randomized Nuzlocke hurts me physically due to all the mistakes they're making during it. So why do I keep watching? Why is this so entertaining? Am I that much of a masochist when it comes to Pokémon?

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I just beat the Elite Four in SoulSilver for the first time and something's bugging me. I missed out on gen II when I was a kid so everything about this generation is relatively new to me.

Why does the game push you so hard to fight/catch the box legendary? In the first gen the legendaries were just chilling at the end of a dungeon, and it was up to the player to decide whether to get involved. In the later gens there was some sort of global catastrophe that the legendary was either perpetuating or could help stop (though I haven't played either gen IV/V in a decade, so I could be remembering wrong). In gen II, on the other hand, Team Rocket has already been defeated, and there's no impending disaster. So why is the game so urgent with the kimono girls performing their ceremony and the game refusing to let me progress? Why do we need to make Ho-oh/Lugia appear? It's just odd.

Also, am I the only person who genuinely thought the kimono girls were the same woman following me around?
 
Friendly Primarina said:
Why does the game push you so hard to fight/catch the box legendary?
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Original Gold and Silver didn't do that, but in Crystal, they hyped up Suicune a lot that they kinda had to make it a big deal, although they disguised that in the "plot" to further expand the lore of Johto so nobody cared the pacing was off-kilter for it--meanwhile the Unown still got fucked. (Interestingly, Mewtwo and Articuno had actual build up in-game and there's a reason Mewtwo's considered the final boss of RBGY. You still weren't made to go catch any of them, though, that's correct.) HGSS pretty much is Crystal with an upgrade, so that included Legendary plot-lore. I love HGSS to death, but it was honestly a little annoying to be interrupted with random Kimono Girls throughout the game from as early as Violet City (wtf). They luckily made up for it with pretty cool cut-scenes and entrances for Ho-Oh and Lugia and I think the battles had a bit more oomph.

EDIT: Lugia and Ho-Oh had build up as well with the lore in Ecruteak, but they were optional bosses anyway.

Friendly Primarina said:
Also, am I the only person who genuinely thought the kimono girls were the same woman following me around?
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Yes.
 
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