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

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30+GameOvers said:
There is barely any new Gen 2 Pokemon because they cut out most of them, lmao
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At the time Gen 2 came out, 40% of all Pokémon were Gen 2, when gen 3 came out 35% were Gen 3. The problem arises in that, with the way the GameBoy Pokémon games were architectured, the most Pokémon GF could make would only total 254 (253 once breeding was developed as a mechanic).
 
McMitch said:
At the time Gen 2 came out, 40% of all Pokémon were Gen 2, when gen 3 came out 35% were Gen 3. The problem arises in that, with the way the GameBoy Pokémon games were architectured, the most Pokémon GF could make would only total 254 (253 once breeding was developed as a mechanic).
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Gen 3 has a perfect amount of Pokemon. Honestly, one of the reasons I like ADV is that there is JUST the right amount of them that every tier has it's own distinctive flavor, very few Pokemon are downright useless in all tiers like you would see with the power creep of later gens. Even as of Gen 4 it became a nightmare since Garchomp and friends just walloped even top tier Pokemon, let alone some of the weaker ones. Meanwhile, Gen 3 was the only time something like Flygon or Claydol was ever relevant.
 
chimpSculpture said:
Does anyone remember the Pokémon Global Link's site had a theme? It wasn't much but it was memorable. Did anyone use that site? It ran like shit hahahahaha.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g-vVWQuAdyg
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Reminds me of the Aero design. Has Pokémon gone through all 4 of these designs?
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Finally finished the Pokemon Special XY manga. It was alright, I much prefer the B2W2 manga, but I don't know it was because I actually got to play the game since I never played XY. But I was actually quite surprised to see some returning characters like Blue, Blaine and Mewtwo, even more since I did read DECADES ago.
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One detail that I loved was this page, the whole story with the fennekin that is lost and gets used by team flare to be a villain and in the end, trevor gets it back and it hates their guts, only for Whitley to come back and bring her to Unova. This really ties with the themes of BW.

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And since the manga takes a lot to make, they already set the seeds to Sun and Moon (they actually did in B2W2), even when the next arc is ORAS.

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I actually did read ORAS manga years ago vy skipping BW/XY, but I will reread it since the whole Megas stuff makes now makes sense for me.
 
In the pocketmons world, Hex Maniac (オカルトマニア, occult mania) could be some "subculture" with a certain look they somehow got a consensus on, sorta like goth or emo IRL.

And for some reason, such a "subculture" would be rather popular in Not Kyūshū Hoenn and Not France Kalos.
 
I_Lurk_Here said:
Reminds me of the Aero design. Has Pokémon gone through all 4 of these designs?
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I think they've done everything but flat design. When I think about it, I feel like the gens correlate pretty linearly, too. G1 is clunky, but charming, and still experimenting with shapes and ideas. The's a lot of pastel in the color palettes of pokemon, probably because of sugimori's watercolors. G2 isn't quite y2K, but some of the designs are: Porygon 2, eapeon, skarmory. G3 is definitely fruiter aero, with the themes of a cleaner, brighter future. The Lati twins, Gardevoir line, milotic, Manectric...
 
ToroidalBoat said:
In the pocketmons world, Hex Maniac (オカルトマニア, occult mania) could be some "subculture" with a certain look they somehow got a consensus on, sorta like goth or emo IRL.

And for some reason, such a "subculture" would be rather popular in Not Kyūshū Hoenn and Not France Kalos.
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I mean, ghosts are real and so are actual psychics. You would expect various different subcultures to arise accordingly.
I think the subculture of Orre fascinates me the most. Judging by the player classes and how rough the region is, it's clear that your average trainer there is a tough dude. You got "Chasers" which are supposed to be bikers, "Hunters" which do not make it clear if they hunt people or Pokemon, you got "Riders" which look like cowboys, and "Bodybuilders" replace Black Belts. Actual trainers are rare and inbetween, so outside of gang members these are the trainers you fight most often. Considering that kidnapping women in a burlap sack in broad daylight is just an everyday occurrence there, I like to think Orre is something of a mix of Mad Max and Final Fantasy 7, when you consider the weird technology and the caliber of bad guys you're dealing with. There is even a bit of Fallout mixed in, perhaps that's unavoidable considering the setting. There is a bunker in the middle of the desert and in Gale of Darkness, powered armored goons hang around it all day. Hard not to think of the Lost Hills bunker from Fallout 1, especially since Orre is based around West Coast as well.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
There is real "magic" such as ESP in that world, and yet Helena (that Hex Maniac in that one mobile game) claims there is some organization trying to cover up supernatural.
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>glowies canonically exist in the Pokémonverse
Wouldn't be a stretch, we've already had (((NGOs))) (Aether Foundation, Team Galactic, Plasma) & (((billionaires))) (Lysandre, Chairman Rose) as villains. "X-Files"–style feds being the evil team for Gen 10 could unironically be kino.
 
Kid Named Rocket said:
>glowies canonically exist in the Pokémonverse
Wouldn't be a stretch, we've already had (((NGOs))) (Aether Foundation, Team Galactic, Plasma) & (((billionaires))) (Lysandre, Chairman Rose) as villains. "X-Files"–style feds being the evil team for Gen 10 could unironically be kino.
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Speaking of Orre, don't forget that we know that Cipher(and likely Team Plasma) infiltrated their local government. If they can do it, this can't just be an isolated incident.
It's a miracle that the world isn't already destroyed from the retarded gay ops these groups run, when you consider that there is literal gods in play and that the only reason those plans are foiled is because a 10 year old is in the right place at the right time.
 
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anliteralidiot said:
I think they've done everything but flat design.
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I have some unfortunate news for you
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I_Lurk_Here said:
Has Pokémon gone through all 4 of these designs?
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Yes, kind of. It's hard to argue that gens 1 and 2 had any kind of visual design given their limitations, but once those were lifted the series quickly took to trends.

Ruby/Sapphire most definitely tried to market themselves on Y2K visuals, DiaPer have that shitty Windows XP Megablox look to them with their prominent buttons and bright pastel palette, Black and White's got that dated, glossy look all over it (no matter how much it tries to look futuristic, just look at that bottom bar!), XY have EVEN MORE gloss, and the aforementioned Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet took any excuse to be lazy and didn't even try to make their UI look distinct.
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I brought up Ruby/Sapphire earlier, but I'll admit it's actually something of an exception to this. It's pretty pastel and easygoing during a time when EVERYTHING IS DARK AND EDGY. Had some of the beta designs gone through less changes I'm sure that wouldn't be the case, but RSE as it is now stands out as a really lighthearted example of early 2000s UI during a time when being dark and gritty was all the rage.

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Similar exceptions can be made for all of Gen 7 (because Gamefreak still cared enough about UI design back then to take an arguably maximalist approach during the absolute peak of bland black and white modernism).
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Lone MacReady II said:
Alright, is this new pocket TCG actually a legit fun little version of it or is it just the usual endless/vacuous gacha wank?
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There's SOME fun to be had, but it runs out of steam pretty quickly.

For me, I'm having more fun building new decks and trying them out than anything else. I got 3 original decks built. One of them is a W.I.P. because I'm missing two important cards but I'm still getting by. The other 2 are complete and good to go. Only one of the decks I've built is using an EX card.

I've been trying to see how far i can get with just plain regular cards, and so far it's do-able, but you still get raped by certain pre-built decks, specifically the Dragonite one and MewTwo one (the latter of which I can't fucking stand because it's EVERYWHERE in vs)
 
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