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

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It does look masculine, but it being called Mr. Mime is a localization thing. In Japanese it's called Barrierd. So it's clear GF didn't think of it as an explicitly gendered Pokemon.
They still called this Mr Rime and it's still 50/50 male and female.
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Yes it's different in Japanese but the guy who was localizing the names in 1999 and making as many puns and jokes as he could hasn't worked there in almost 2 decades now.
 
My god those new megas are shit for the most part. Mega Excadrill and Skarmory are the ones that piss me off the most. So many go with "make something bigger" and the results are pathetic.

Just a small reminder, they're also making another game due in 2026, one that actually looks like they're giving a shit about (probably in part that the publisher they're working with actually gave them a proper budget)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m8wzS9Pfa_0Also, Furushima's working on it and there's no Nintendo console release to be found.
It looks like it could be decent and maybe something I could be into even if it's unpolished, but my god am I really tired of "chick with sword" main characters.
 
I really hate the battle system, the combat feels so clunky. Especially because I'll give an attack order, only for my Pokémon to slooowly meander over, even if it's a long-range attack. And half the time, the other Pokémon just casually walks out of the way of the attack, so it doesn't even matter.
 
I will play ZA one day it see how bad it is, but right now I rather replay the alola games (as a part of the greater 3D pokemon replay). Sun and Moon are still good games despite it's problems, the ultra games might be overall mid but definitely still better than ZA.
Y’know, a few years ago - literally whenever PLA released - if you were to tell me this was the newest Pokemon game, I’d legitimately think you were just fucking around in GMod.

The fact that Game Freak can’t make something that looks better than fucking ancient ass Gary’s Mod is just sad.
The image gives me roblox vibes, and it straight up looks like something you'd see in pokemon brick bronze (roblox pokemon game that got shut down)
 
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I'm glad more people are calling out TPC/GameFreak for ZA regardless of sales, and now I'm seeing more people bitch about Pokemon in general. The Rayquaza event in Pokemon Go was apparently a shit show in Japan, and I think Niantic nerfed Kyurem Black's specia; ability that helps you catch raid Pokemon. I lost raid 3 Pokemon with Black's effects on, but when I tried to explain this to my group, they looked at me like I had 9 heads (A lot of people at the event didn't have Pokemon like the dogs and Kyurem).

Really, m YouTube recommendations had quite a few people talk about how they like Digimon Story better than Legends Z-A. Here is one video I saw:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iu-uXZLn7Qc(Warning: AI seething)
Sungrand is the last person I will listen to and acknowledge when it comes to gaming. The guy is a lolcow.
 
Getting to rank K in legends ZA ranked to get the greninjite was very easy for me. It took less than 30 minutes. I did 4-5 battles and got 200 points every battle which was enough to get rank K which awards greninjite. I did use proper competitive pokemon with appropriate natures and EV training/bottled capped. I felt like in the first few ranks nobody really knew what they were doing. I think now is a good time to play the ranked if you want. I thought it was very fun steamrolling people who don't understand pokemon, but it wont last long because once many people get the reward only the competent players will remain. I enjoyed the ranked game mode so far, but I might get tired of it once I'm up against competent players every match and not just stomping novices.
 
Saw this collage on /v/ of Japanese Twitter users complaining about the gorilla-level dark nigger chick with pink hair.
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Kinda curious, for consistancy-sake, were they like this with past characters too (such as Nessa and Ryme) or is this character the last straw that broke the camel's back so to speak? Because it seems like some of them are still cucked but don't want to admit it.... like the ones that claim ZA is "fun" and "good".
 
Kinda curious, for consistancy-sake, were they like this with past characters too (such as Nessa and Ryme) or is this character the last straw that broke the camel's back so to speak? Because it seems like some of them are still cucked but don't want to admit it.... like the ones that claim ZA is "fun" and "good".
I've pretty much only seen people coom over Nessa, I don't think there was any real backlash to her. Ryme there might of been some complaining cause she's kind of uggo, but she's an old rapper so her design makes sense, it's mostly mostly just questionable why you would go with "old black female rapper" as a character concept. Jacinthe just makes no sense as a design. She's like a rich girl in an old-fashioned princess-y dress with pastel pink and purple clothes and hair, but her skin is near pitch black. It looks wrong visually and it doesn't make sense as a character concept.

I found this opinion by some Japanese Twitter poster, which I'll post the machine translation for
Looking at the character models in the new Pokemon games, it's easy to see how difficult it is to represent race in 3DCG models based on specific designs. In the case of Pokemon, due to the target audience and the image of the work that has been built, there is an obligation to continue to include a wide range of races in the work, but unfortunately it's hard to say that it's been done well.

Lime in Pokemon SV is an elderly woman, and is made relatively less deformed than younger characters to emphasize her hair, nose, and lips, and to show her age, even her nasolabial folds, which is a fairly good job, but Yukari in the new game is terrible. Her facial structure is exactly the same as characters of other races, so it looks like a poorly done photoshopped image.

The reason for this is probably due to the fact that the human characters in Pokemon, especially young female characters, are often heavily deformed and their facial structures are abbreviated to make them look cute. The difference in the three-dimensional structure of the nose is particularly obvious, but if you want to make them beautiful girls, you have no choice but to make them the exact same shape regardless of race.
tl;dr making a generically cute anime girl and making her skin black for diversity points looks wrong and stupid because black girls don't look like that.
 
Kinda curious, for consistancy-sake, were they like this with past characters too (such as Nessa and Ryme) or is this character the last straw that broke the camel's back so to speak? Because it seems like some of them are still cucked but don't want to admit it.... like the ones that claim ZA is "fun" and "good".
I think what is contentious about this one is the other characteristics don't fit the brown skin color. They just made a generic cute cartoon girl and brownified the skin tone. Ryme was an old woman so no one gives a damn and Nessa was supposed to be a pacific islander, so the skin tone kind of fit the character
 
Sungrand is the last person I will listen to and acknowledge when it comes to gaming. The guy is a lolcow.
Even the lowest common denominator will be able to distinguish liquid diarrhea from a chocolate bar.
The difference between a completely irredemable subhuman and someone that has a chance for absolution is that the former will be willing to consume the liquid diarrhea and tell you "this is far better than chocolate"
Saw this collage on /v/ of Japanese Twitter users complaining about the gorilla-level dark nigger chick with pink hair.
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In defense of the japanese, that colour scheme does make her look like if a turd was glitterbombed.
 
I'm glad the last Pokemon game I got was Legends Arceus, and even then that was only slightly better than Sword/Shield.

Saw this collage on /v/ of Japanese Twitter users complaining about the gorilla-level dark nigger chick with pink hair.
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Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I think Pokemon human designs overall have been hit or miss since SV (or arguably Sword/Shield.) Too many feel like they put random junk over them, and even in Z-A the reoccurring characters like Emma or AZ look drastically different than any of the new characters.
 
I've pretty much only seen people coom over Nessa, I don't think there was any real backlash to her.
Wasn't there some nontroversy early on with SwSh where some Japanese artist drew her with white skin and got utterly dogpilled on twitter? I think this is something that has been simmering for a while with the Japanese audience.
 
Wasn't there some nontroversy early on with SwSh where some Japanese artist drew her with white skin and got utterly dogpilled on twitter? I think this is something that has been simmering for a while with the Japanese audience.
Yeah. Nessa has some barely visible tan lines, so a lot of people think she actually has naturally lighter skin and is super tanned. IIRC, the same artist who got dogpiled was the one who then pissed people off further by making a sarcastic apology that they drew a more accurate Nessa by drawing her as a realistic chimpanzee.

Kind of related to this, I have noticed an increasing trend in recent years of Japanese Twitter users getting annoyed over foreigners insisting that every remotely dark-skinned anime character is black even in cases where they clearly aren't.
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Yeah. Nessa has some barely visible tan lines, so a lot of people think she actually has naturally lighter skin and is super tanned. IIRC, the same artist who got dogpiled was the one who then pissed people off further by making a sarcastic apology that they drew a more accurate Nessa by drawing her as a realistic chimpanzee.
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Since it's been cool to hate on the new Pokémon game, I've been seeing a lot of videos criticising it, and I'm convinced most of these mother fuckers don't even like Pokémon.

Every other video is claiming that Pokémon needs to shift more towards action roll slop games like Elden Ring, where you play as the Pokémon. The series has had a consistent gameplay that is serviceable and has a large amount of depth to it already, if only looking at combat.

What the Pokémon series really needs is some serious love, care, and polish to perfect what is already a quality base.
 
Since it's been cool to hate on the new Pokémon game, I've been seeing a lot of videos criticising it, and I'm convinced most of these mother fuckers don't even like Pokémon.

Every other video is claiming that Pokémon needs to shift more towards action roll slop games like Elden Ring, where you play as the Pokémon. The series has had a consistent gameplay that is serviceable and has a large amount of depth to it already, if only looking at combat.

What the Pokémon series really needs is some serious love, care, and polish to perfect what is already a quality base.
I've seen a ton of videos saying the only good thing about ZA is the combat and that future pokemon games should get rid of the old battle system entirely. Very midwit opinion. Pokemon actually has a great combat system, it's just that the games never take advantage of it. It definitely does need some serious speeding up though.
 
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