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

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Oops. I should have been mor explicit.

I never considered this even more when I believe that elite 4 should NEVER be based on a single type pokemon. I prefer literally any concept other than type. The gyms already does this part in the game, the Elite 4 should be varied.

I did not mean a literal 'Water Elite 4', much less a replacement of the true and honest Elite 4. Rather, I realised that, if Brawly became a Water-type trainer, then that would lead to three Water specialists. I then realised tha they would form a group that, while no the literal Elite 4, would remind the player of one.

it is the same decision that the world got flooded, this idea that humans should decide if there is more or less land or eater is what caused this. The thematic balance would be weird.

You are taking my commen the wrong way. Instead, put aside Tea Magma's actions and go to their stated intentions. Even if Maxie's idea was havin Groudon reshape the world to Maxie's liking, one stated intention might be 'Since overpopulation is a problem, expanding the landmass would alleviate the population problem.' Keep taking their stated intentions and you have the start of a team that can be taken to a heroic angle. Tying back to the situation you mentioned, they could pull an Old Team Plasma then realise that, even if their justifications were asonable, reshaping th Earth went way beyond arrogance. Therefore, they would take their stated intentions more seriously while aiming towards more harmony with nature. (I now realised that Fortree City is a form of this ideal.)

 

[Slumbie]

A perfect remake would be just a single-screen version of those games, same sprite system, with Fairy type and Megas added.

Can we not just leave these games unmarred by modern Pokemon? We all saw what happened with Diamond and Pearl. Keep the Tranny Type and stupid gimmicks out of older games too, thank you.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

Can we not just leave these games unmarred by modern Pokemon? We all saw what happened with Diamond and Pearl. Keep the Tranny Type and stupid gimmicks out of older games too, thank you.

I'm still mad about this.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I'm still mad about this.
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The beginning of the end for Gamefreak tbh.

 

[McMitch]

Can we not just leave these games unmarred by modern Pokemon? We all saw what happened with Diamond and Pearl. Keep the Tranny Type and stupid gimmicks out of older games too, thank you.

Fairy type is legitimately great, regardless of any unsavory hangers-on, and was implemented to fix issues that had arisen
with Gen V specifically. I also think Megas were a reasonably well developed addition to the series, especially when things were at risk of becoming stale (like they have today). The only reason it could be considered a gimmick rather than an established element of the series is because Game Freak took the wrong lesson from its reception.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

with Gen V specifically. I also think Megas were a reasonably well developed addition to the series, especially when things were at risk of becoming stale (like they have today). The only reason it could be considered a gimmick rather than an established element of the series is because Game Freak took the wrong lesson from its reception.

Megas killed pokemon.

Pokemon never grows and never evolves because it's entirely built around gimmicks now. Keep everything the same but add a new gimmick to sell the new toys. Give a few kanto pokemon the gimmick and the usual popular ones. Then do it again the next game. Megas is what stopped pokemon growing as a game series because it literally set the foundation of Get hyped for the next thing every single release.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Megas killed pokemon.

Megas was DOA for me, personally, due to how shittily-written the Genesect movie was (like it was shit even by Pokémon movie standards). Mewtwo having the ability to Mega Evolve to an ugly new form for some mysterious reason but the name wasn't properly given at the time really soured the experience for me, and not just because I'm a Mewtwo fan who hated that this was a second, female Mewtwo for no reason whatsoever (except it was due to copyright issues with the Shudo estate the company found out about at the last second). Origins showing it off in the last episode tried, I'll give it that, but it was too late for me.

Also the idea was too reminiscent of Digimon that it only made me more resentful towards the gimmick, even though it was (thankfully, if not stupidly) optional to use in the game play of X and Y which I never implemented and so beating up Mega Evolved Pokémon with my normal ones was just hilarious to me. That GameFreak dropped it for the Z-moves gimmick while also never stopping someone from putting into the PokéDex entries the Mega process hurts the Pokémon was the final nail in the coffin of it ever appeasing my skepticism. Also Mew never getting a Mega Evolved forme but has instead an exclusive Z-move was all I needed to know that Mega Evolution was an abomination and a huge mistake.

Also forgoing a Mega Flygon because Sugimori and co couldn't figure out a design is astonishingly inept. Really bit off more than they could chew there.