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

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I played so much Unbound today... Jesus fucking christ this mining minigame is so much fun, even more when you get access to more places to fight ultra beasts and legendaries by unlocking caves using light clay.

Also you can farm iron balls to make ultra beast balls and other items.

This game may be the first one that I try to capture all the dex, now that the main story is told, the world is my oyster and I can explore and do the mini missions as I want.

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30+GameOvers said:
Well, problem with that is that it was not made by GameFreak, and they will always be eternally asshurt that a random studio with absolutely no experience with the franchise could outdo them in their first outtake, twice in a row. Their punishment? Eternal stay at the mobile mines, RIP. Even if Battle Revolution was mediocre, they didn't deserve this.

This was always part of the franchise, tho. It's typical stuff you see in child friendly media. Affection should have just been merged with the outdated Friendship mechanic and be done with it.
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That's the thing. The Blueberry Academy segment in the DLC is literally that, and all the NPCs use VGC-level teams, which means they can do it, but they more often than not use singles in the main game for whatever reason.

Also, man I really wanna talk about the alleged ZA stuff because the Final boss sounds crazy
 
Registration said:
I played so much Unbound today... Jesus fucking christ this mining minigame is so much fun, even more when you get access to more places to fight ultra beasts and legendaries by unlocking caves using light clay.

Also you can farm iron balls to make ultra beast balls and other items.

This game may be the first one that I try to capture all the dex, now that the main story is told, the world is my oyster and I can explore and do the mini missions as I want.

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Holy shit. I was leaving the mines to heal.my pokemon and suddenly a Articuno appeared in an event, I saved and initiated a fight with him, as I killed it twice, I reseted and a Shiny Articuno appeared. I never found a shiny legendary in my whole life (most being zubats).

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I am not doing any method and in Unbound, the shiny rate is 1/4000.

What a fucking shock
 
I'm taking a break from MKW and decided to fire up Scarlet to see how the free Switch 2 update changed things.

Holy fuck it's runs so much better compared to the Switch you’d almost think you’re playing a different game. The game runs at a stable 60 FPS even in areas that have become infamous for being laggy as shit like Cassaroya Lake, menus are snappy with no slowdown, and the amount of Pokémon that spawn in and the distance they can spawn from the player have noticeably increased

That’s not to say that the game isn’t without its issues even with the update, the environmental textures are still crappy and I think there’s an issue involving loading a low-poly model of the Academy when it should load the high-poly one.
 
Archeops said:
I'm taking a break from MKW and decided to fire up Scarlet to see how the free Switch 2 update changed things.

Holy fuck it's runs so much better compared to the Switch you’d almost think you’re playing a different game. The game runs at a stable 60 FPS even in areas that have become infamous for being laggy as shit like Cassaroya Lake, menus are snappy with no slowdown, and the amount of Pokémon that spawn in and the distance they can spawn from the player have noticeably increased

That’s not to say that the game isn’t without its issues even with the update, the environmental textures are still crappy and I think there’s an issue involving loading a low-poly model of the Academy when it should load the high-poly one.
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Did anyone test if the classroom cutscene at the start of the game still runs at Stop-Motion FPS on the Switch 2?
 
Archeops said:
I'm taking a break from MKW and decided to fire up Scarlet to see how the free Switch 2 update changed things.

Holy fuck it's runs so much better compared to the Switch you’d almost think you’re playing a different game. The game runs at a stable 60 FPS even in areas that have become infamous for being laggy as shit like Cassaroya Lake, menus are snappy with no slowdown, and the amount of Pokémon that spawn in and the distance they can spawn from the player have noticeably increased

That’s not to say that the game isn’t without its issues even with the update, the environmental textures are still crappy and I think there’s an issue involving loading a low-poly model of the Academy when it should load the high-poly one.
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So the switch 2 turned a shit game that runs like shit into a shit game that runs like butter.
 
Preorders for Black Bolt/White Flare dropped on Target's online store last night and they surprisingly stayed up for a lot longer than I anticipated, that might hint at the theory of TPCi cutting out LGSs from the loop to curb scalping and slap distributors a bit.
Thiletonomics said:
Did anyone test if the classroom cutscene at the start of the game still runs at Stop-Motion FPS on the Switch 2?
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Not that I know of, I'm just seeing people running it in various areas that would make the Switch 1 beg for mercy on its soul.
Computer God Autism said:
So the switch 2 turned a shit game that runs like shit into a shit game that runs like butter.
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Kind of, it's at least convinced me to pick up the Switch 2 Edition of Legends Z-A
 
Has anyone tried trading pokemon from a modded Switch 1 on custom firmware to a Switch 2 running scarlet/violet or any of the switch pokemon games for that matter? I traded pokemon from my modded switch on EmuNand to my fully legit non modded switch and it works (fully offline in local). I was never banned on either console. Pokemon scarlet/violet specifically is a game where it's known that nintendo checks for modified saves (my main saves have never been modified). I was just wondering if trading pokemon to a Switch 2 from a hacked switch 1 would still work and not lead to a ban. I dont want to transfer my pokemon saves to switch 2 and no longer be able to trade pokemon to my modded switch for editing in pkhex.
 
Gen 9 has the best designs since gen 2 in my opinion. Gen 1's designs are so iconic and memorable because they feel like they were just someone screwing around and not taking it all that seriously, and Gens 3 through 8 were trying too hard to make Pokemon cool and edgy. (Though a lot of this comes down to the OG mons being constrained by what designs would look good on a Gameboy, and what was cheap to draw in the anime. I think those constraints forced the designs to be simple and intelligible.)

Before I'm accused of being a boomer: I played gen 3 and 4 as a kid, and came to these opinions as an adult. (Though an honorable exemption goes out to Alolan Exeggutor, which has the right spirit.)
 
Polyarmory said:
Gen 9 has the best designs since gen 2 in my opinion. Gen 1's designs are so iconic and memorable because they feel like they were just someone screwing around and not taking it all that seriously, and Gens 3 through 8 were trying too hard to make Pokemon cool and edgy. (Though a lot of this comes down to the OG mons being constrained by what designs would look good on a Gameboy, and what was cheap to draw in the anime. I think those constraints forced the designs to be simple and intelligible.)

Before I'm accused of being a boomer: I played gen 3 and 4 as a kid, and came to these opinions as an adult. (Though an honorable exemption goes out to Alolan Exeggutor, which has the right spirit.)
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I love it when outside users come to this thread and post the most outrageously bonkers takes on this franchise. Gen 9? Better than gen 3? What are you smoking and where can I get some?
 
GlupShitto said:
Is there any word on whether Pokemon Coliseum on Switch 2 will work with Pokemon Home? I'm not feeling the switch after the wokeness announcement, but I have nostalgia for those games and have been putting off replaying them because I'd have to re buy a GBA, a link cable and like six other games and systems to bring my Pokemon to the modern games
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-or you could just emulate all the games on one device and not ever consider giving nintendo a red coin ever again.

Computer God Autism said:
So the switch 2 turned a shit game that runs like shit into a shit game that runs like butter.
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I dont get the appeal of S/V. It doesn't feel like a pokemon game. I don't need back to back to back to back cutscenes to explain that a pokemon crashing from the sky into a random cave was probably hurt and needed help.

All I needed was "here's your starter, go get the first gym badge". Not lectures on how super special the box art legendaries are who aren't usable in battle. Why even have them in the game at all then? Could just have any other pokemon for a mount to ride around like ORAS did with Latias/Latios. You could also use mega latias/latios in battle too. What makes these cyborg lizards so special they're exempt from battling? Not even Arceus got that kind of special treatment.
 
Imperial Commandos said:
All I needed was "here's your starter, go get the first gym badge". Not lectures on how super special the box art legendaries are who aren't usable in battle. Why even have them in the game at all then? Could just have any other pokemon for a mount to ride around like ORAS did with Latias/Latios. You could also use mega latias/latios in battle too. What makes these cyborg lizards so special they're exempt from battling? Not even Arceus got that kind of special treatment.
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And thats the problem. As a rather extreme example, anyone old enough to be a kid in the 80s think back to how much more exciting toys were when they had backstory and character to them. The basic pokemon plot like in gen 1 and 2 aint gonna cut it, and modern game freak doesnt even have the chops to use limited storytelling techniques to sell you on the world and get you invested.
 
Anonitolia said:
I think Game Freak might actually be sabotaging Pokémon at this point
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m8wzS9Pfa_0if this is what they can do for fucking soulslike slop, there is even less reason to excuse the absolute state of their mainline games
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This average-looking Unreal particle effect simulator curbstomps the shit out of the balcony jpegs in ZA. If they can make this soulslop look like modern games, what the fuck is happening at the Pokemon aisle?

Rhetorical question, of course, it's pretty clear that Game Freak's burnt out on Pokemon. It's understandable, they've spent 30 years developing the same game over and over again, and when they try to do something different it doesn't sell, either because it sucks ass or because it just isn't Pokemon and doesn't pull the same numbers as Pokemon. I sometimes wonder if the OGs like Ken Sugimori and Satoshi Tajiri resent what their passion project has become.
 
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