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

[Thiletonomics]

Part of me wants to say they didn't want to be accused of Kanto favoritism (of note, Masuda's personal favorite, Psyduck, was axed) but that clearly happened anyway to the point where Charizard has become the most hated Pokemon in the series' history. The more likely explanation is, say it with me now, Home. Notice how many specifically choice popular mons were cut. All the starters, all the legendaries, Scizor, Garchomp, Salamence, Volcarona, Crobat, Skarmory, Metagross, ones that will be sorely missed by a greater number of people than the more unpopular ones.

They didn't dump all of them of course, darlings like Tyranitar and Mimikyu are still around so SWSH doesn't become Unova 2.0 and drive fans away, but still more than enough to make Home that much more enticing for future games when they do allow those missing favorites back.

Not to mention that some of the roster that didn't get culled, i.e. Mawile, Sableye, Manectric; also got directly nerfed because their Mega Evolutions won't be available in SW/SH, and same with Mimikyu being unable to use it's exclusive Z-Move because those won't be available either. Also, their decision to cull both Ditto and Smeargle, both which are very crucial when it comes to breeding, is also a big WTF decision from GF.

 

[Etrian Autistry]

Some dude called LiftingNerdy posted Pokemon Sword and Shield cartridges on his Instagram, and went to /vp/ to attention whore. Instead of going straight to one of the big reputable game-rippers to leak the game, he posted his instagram handle and immediately got maimed by Nintendo's ninja lawyers. What a fucking idiot, I hope he gets sued into the dirt and his shitty Mom n Pop store goes down with him. Imagine fucking your real life and online businesses up as well as making yourself unhirable because you wanted to advertise your shitty little Instagram.

Edit: Streamable with sound that he posted to prove it was real before he got shanked. Who wants to go to Yogurt Land? :^)

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[Local Coyote]

Some dude called LiftingNerdy posted Pokemon Sword and Shield cartridges on his Instagram, and went to /vp/ to attention whore. Instead of going straight to one of the big reputable game-rippers to leak the game, he posted his instagram handle and immediately got maimed by Nintendo's ninja lawyers. What a fucking idiot, I hope he gets sued into the dirt but I hope the Mom and Pop game store he works for doesn't get slapped. Imagine your family business getting murdered because of some soyboy underling trying to attentionwhore on an imageboard.

Edit: Streamable with sound that he posted to prove it was real before he got shanked. Who wants to go to Yogurt Land? :^)

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What a dingus. Asked for that one. Game companies are brutal about enforcing street dates.

Just gotta wait until Friday morning. I am a physical copy purist when I can so I am dragging my ass to Target early.

 

[Etrian Autistry]

Gigantomax Lapras, dynamax raid rewards screens, new moves, stat changes.

Spoiler: Giganto Lapras

Spoiler: Raid rewards

Spoiler: Body Press: Shuckle's Reckoning

Spoiler: Toxtricity new move

Spoiler: Hatterene new move Magic Powder

Spoiler: Drednaw move: Jaw Lock

Spoiler: Aegislash Defenses Nerfed from 150-140

Based leaker said thats just about it for him in terms of leaks unless he finds something really cool. Now to waot for that cartridge leak; we've already had several people get the physicals games, and any day now there will be one who'll leak it without doxxing themselves or attention whoring.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Spoiler: Body Press: Shuckle's Reckoning

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And given how Shuckle's HA is Contrary, and Shell Smash would raise Defense in this case, I wonder how hard that move can hit.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Not to mention that some of the roster that didn't get culled, i.e. Mawile, Sableye, Manectric; also got directly nerfed because their Mega Evolutions won't be available in SW/SH, and same with Mimikyu being unable to use it's exclusive Z-Move because those won't be available either. Also, their decision to cull both Ditto and Smeargle, both which are very crucial when it comes to breeding, is also a big WTF decision from GF.

Ditto is in thankfully.

Raids give TR rewards and exp candies, which should reduce the grind a lot.
I guess Gamefreak is trying to make raids the big postgame event, hopefully they turn out well.

Spoiler: Gym Location View

the artstyle on this game is pretty nice imo

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Ditto is in thankfully.

Of course Ditto's in. Aside from it's battling ability. It's the go to mon for breeding. There would be even more outrage if the breeding mon was kicked out of the game.

 

[Rotollo]

Haha I was thinking the exact same thing, what a bizarre reaction to that question. I think that's the look of pure guilt. What do you guys think?

THE NATIONAL DEX CRISIS IS WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT (Pokemon Sword and Shield Controversy)

New information about Pokemon Sword and Shield has revealed the final number of Pokemon in the Galar Dex - and the number is EXTREMELY underwhelming by ANYON...

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It's more like he knows what he's caused the discussion of the game to become, that in a way he ruined how his co worker's efforts will be seen by many by telling people about the cut and the reasoning he said being different depending on who he's talking to. Personally I don't think Masuda is a bad guy, bad at pr and should stick to making music rather then game design yes but he's not bobby kotek. that or he knows how crazy 5ch can get when pissed and is thinking "Oh god the Gaijin better not let Japan know or I swear to god I will kill myself". either or.
it's sorta a look like this

It's extra suspicious when just last year Masuda remarked how they wanted to avoid another situation like the jump from Gameboy to Advance where the "original Dexit" happened, and how he assured that fans of Let's Go will be able to transfer their beloved mons to future generations, only for over half of Kanto's roster to end up among the fallen.

Something serious happened between then and now. My guess is TPC pulled some puppet strings and forced GF to make Dexit happen, and I guarantee you it's because of the theory that Home will be one big scheme to hold old mons hostage and force people to pay up to keep them alive. Not to excuse their own general incompetence but considering the utter lack of a realistic excuse as to why so many mons were cut and how they keep dodging the questions with new excuses and "Just use Home!", I think it's apparent something more sinister is going on, and it ain't entirely of GF's doing.

Yeah that will just make things worse, especially if Home has 3d models and Gen 8 doesn't

Oh lookie here. That Dutch interview that gave more BS answers as to why EXP Share is permanent? There's also this exert (again, a Western article and nothing about this in Japan):

The missing National Dex is of course also discussed, of which we mainly want to know whether it will return in the future. Will there be an update or a third game? According to Masuda, Game Freak wants to continue the approach for Sword and Shield:

“We now have no plans to make the pokémon that are missing in the Galar pokédex in-game available. That is an approach that we want to continue with Pokémon games in the future. Of course, up to now it has not been possible to encounter every pokémon in every game, so people had to transfer it from old games via Pokémon Bank to the new game, for example. ”

On the one hand, that is understandable, because Masuda previously indicated that Game Freak does not have the manpower to animate all pokémon if it also wants to introduce new game play features. On the other hand, Pokémon is pretty much the largest franchise in the world and it is not unreasonable to expect a complete Pokédex from the new parts. As a compromise, however, Junichi Masuda claims that the Pokémon Home app, which will be released in 2020, will be the place to collect pokémon from all games

"Currently, the Pokémon Home app is under development, where players can collect their different pokémon, and only pokémon in the Galar-Pokédex can be transferred from there to Sword and Shield," he says. "But the way of playing is actually not very different from before with Pokémon Bank: until now you have always been able to meet only the pokémon of a certain region."

He continues: “We encourage people to use Pokémon Home to collect their pokémon from old games there. From there, they MIGHT be able to take it to other games in the future. So take good care of your old pokémon, because you MIGHT be able to go out with them again in the future."

It's not for animations, it's not for balance, it's not for regional setting, it's all for a goddamn forced subscription that doesn't even guarantee it'll allow your mons a place to go in the future. Fucking knew it.

This is an old interview that just got translated right? if so IDK if it reflects their current attitude or not, either way BASED DUTCH for making game freak be honest about their producers tier scam with home.

Spoiler: couldn't not make a pun

Guess we all had to have a little bit of faith that the truth would come out

 

[Hideous K]

I mean as you said the game will be obsolete in a year so he can just jump onto ultra sword and shield whenever that comes out. He'll just repeat the same song and dance with those.
I really think the only good videos to come out of this whole thing was Monroe's stuff but that might be due to how his video on Gen 6 and 7 really did help me place a finger on what I feel about the series nowadays, his gen 8 vid doubly so.
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Joe probably paid for a hastag to trend to try to damage control
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Japan made their own hashtag to counter it #fuckyougamefreak

 

[Rotollo]

Japan made their own hashtag to counter it #fuckyougamefreak
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Apart from that, I like the female characters

Yeah its weird how they seemingly refined the human looks more then the pokemon, guess the dev team was really horny or something also someone is streaming the game right now, its so far cutscene city but if you guys are interested here you guys go

Unsurprisingly Nintendo ninjas nuked it, though from what I saw it has the same cutscene philosophy as SUMO, 4 directional NPC movement and a character stops you every 3 seconds to talk about inane bullshit
it takes 30 minuites to get to the catching pokemon tutorial, jesus
Heres the stream archive

https://a.cockfile.com/YZcRjq.mp4

 

[Love Machine]

Ive been hanging out in a pokemon discord, just looking and shitposting. Pokemon fans seem to be delusional.

 

[Rotollo]

Ive been hanging out in a pokemon discord, just looking and shitposting. Pokemon fans seem to be delusional.
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you know when someone is a pretentious asshole when even discord has to cut off your name with ellipses

 

[Love Machine]

you know when someone is a pretentious asshole when even discord has to cut off your name with ellipses

Do NOT bully the company. I posted the #fuckyougamefreak and they sperged and immediately deleted it.

Guys... im giving up. I have to play an actually good game, I have to coom.

 

[Hideous K]

Yeah its weird how they seemingly refined the human looks more then the pokemon, guess the dev team was really horny or something also someone is streaming the game right now, its so far cutscene city but if you guys are interested here you guys go
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lfGbLUI-iKgUnsurprisingly Nintendo ninjas nuked it, though from what I saw it has the same cutscene philosophy as SUMO, 4 directional NPC movement and a character stops you every 3 seconds to talk about inane bullshit
it takes 30 minuites to get to the catching pokemon tutorial, jesus

I was on that stream, Charizard Pose? who wrote that I swear.

 

[Perspicacity]

Do NOT bully the company. I posted the #fuckyougamefreak and they sperged and immediately deleted it.

Game Freak basically came clean now about cutting the roster for Pokemon Home subscriptions. Japanese have gone batshit, we have hit trashfire levels here. In response to #thankyougamefreak Japanese fans started created #fuckyougamefreak and it seems to have really taken off. The Great Pokemon Autism War has begun!

 

[Rotollo]

Game Freak basically came clean now about cutting the roster for Pokemon Home subscriptions. Japanese have gone batshit, we have hit trashfire levels here. In response to #thankyougamefreak Japanese fans started created #fuckyougamefreak and it seems to have really taken off. The Great Pokemon Autism War has begun!

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IDK if taking off is the right word but it seems like things are escalating, I saw anons are trying to get turner fired now for liking some tweets shitting on reddit or whatever. the hastag could be doing better in japan but they are certainly going after the streamer somehow, guy should just dump the game so we can get this over with.

 

[OddEyes]

The Great Pokemon Autism War has begun!

Where have you been? It begun the moment E3 started.

Also, I know that it's buried deep in this thread, but the Japanese already knew of the dex cut, and it spread far and wide. I'm getting tired of people thinking that the Japanese fans are in the dark, especially when there are people on reddit who are speaking and sharing posts of the Japanese months ago showing their displeasure, I think there are even some articles talking about it too.

 

[Hideous K]

https://www.smashcast.tv/ak2007
new steam everyone!

 

[Rotollo]

https://www.smashcast.tv/ak2007
new steam everyone!

jesus they really didn't balance the exp share, level difference is already pilling up early on
also this sound track is the most Meh since X and Y, a lot of the music sounds like stock music on Imovie or something
camping gives you exp oh god why
like why is bede level 13 when your starter gets to level 19

speaking of bede, his track sounds like musical assault holy fuck

 

[Perspicacity]

https://www.smashcast.tv/ak2007
new steam everyone!

I think I've seen enough, this is literally a port of Sun & Moon. Even the sound engine is clearly the same.

Where have you been? It begun the moment E3 started.

Also, I know that it's buried deep in this thread, but the Japanese already knew of the dex cut, and it spread far and wide. I'm getting tired of people thinking that the Japanese fans are in the dark, especially when there are people on reddit who are speaking and sharing posts of the Japanese months ago showing their displeasure, I think there are even some articles talking about it too.

Eh I've had my fill of cringe for today, it's reached another level when GF starts to cancelled live events and the like. There was never an announcement in Japan about the dex cuts, I mean we've been over this already. A lot of people were actually shocked about the numbers, even people who knew about Dexit.