Pokémon General Thread

Shuckle has had Sitcky Web since Gen VI. People probably just remembered it existed and starting using it more.

Edited by Karxrida on Jun 3rd 2020 at 11:16:30 AM

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

Wow. Respect.

Also, good job. Way to destroy your message.

Edited by ElementX on Jun 3rd 2020 at 6:15:01 AM

Bad links.

First link is TPCi announcing 2 $100,000 donations in support of BLM causes. The second link is a Dexiter trying to claim the moral high ground. Rather pathetic if you ask me.

Such links should really be made more clear that they refer to different sources.

SoundCloud

And here is Serebii pulling no punches with that self-absorbed twat.

Good move by TP Ci, but here is hoping we see some change.

People are still pissed about Dexit almost a whole year later? Geez.

Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.

i mean, dexit still sucks but this was clearly neither the time nor the place

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae

Where did that person get $110 from? It's $90, plus whatever taxes you paid for the base game and that's only if you buy the DLC which you don't have to do because SWSH are complete games as is.

That said, I'd much rather pay $30 for DLC than $60 for a third version so complaining about there being DLC really doesn't make any sense.

I'd argue that it's now $90 for a complete game when previously it was $40 if you were willing to wait a bit. But, yes, the $110 figue is odd. I guess if you add a year's worth of NSO, but then you should probably add Home as well...

Yeah, geez. I'm still mad about Dexit, but in terms of importance, it doesn't even register on the same scale.

The only thing the Dexiteer did, presumably unintentionally, was suggest Pokemon could afford to donate more. And reveal himself as an idiot.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jun 4th 2020 at 12:01:00 PM

The sad, REAL American dichotomy

Do you think GameFreak would’ve had gotten as much flak if they said that the whole not being able to bring in Pokemon outside the Galar Pokedex was only for at launch and that the rest would be added through DLC or updates?

To be honest the best thing about the whole Dexit controversy is that I guess that maybe more people will have higher standards for Pokemon games.

Hopefully GameFreak doesn’t do something stupid and include a Take That, Audience! towards the people who want the series to be more difficult or at the dexiters.

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Mainline Pokemon games are unaffected by controversy. The Dexit and graphics problems are well known way before SWSH launch.

Edited by RAlexa21th on Jun 4th 2020 at 10:22:20 AM

Where there's life, there's hope.

> Hopefully Game Freak doesn’t do something stupid and include a Take That, Audience! towards the people who want the series to be more difficult or at the dexiters.

This is so unlikely it borders on wishful thinking

New theme music also a box

might be a localisation team joke though

Secret Signature

That implies that there's a need to hold Pokemon to higher standards when the games are perfectly fine as they are. Complaints about SWSH only started showing up after the Dexit reveal so, frankly, the only reason people are upset is because they want something to hate. Yes, people have complaining about things like difficulty, graphics, and "too many cutscenes" for years but given the cautious hype for SWSH prior to the Dexit reveal none of those things weren't bad enough to turn people off from buying future games. Pokemon games were good, if flawed, in the past and they're still good, if flawed, now. While the games could be better, they're not "people need higher standards" level bad.

...I'm gonna head out for a couple days now.

Where there's life, there's hope.

SWSH have substantially less content, even excluding dexit, than games prior despite having, at minimum, a 50% higher cost.

that's not my opinion, it isn't even an opinion, it's a fact.

that's all i'm gonna say on the matter.

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae

I'm just gonna say that I haven't had any incentive to play the game since I beat it about three months ago.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.

That's not new though? Unless you play competitively (And this includes Battle facilities like the Battle Tower.) or are the type to look for shinies/roaming legendaries none of the games have any incentive to continue playing once you beat the game and any postgame sidestory content. At most you might want to replay the game if you're not into that stuff but Pokemon games as barely ever worth replaying without some sort of self imposed challenge.

And I say this as someone who has bought systems (3DS and Switch) specifically for Pokemon. I love the games but the SWSH DLC is the first time in years that I've felt any incentive to continue playing after beating the postgame sidestory content.

Edited by Chariot on Jun 4th 2020 at 3:45:14 PM

I mean look at Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Sword and Shield are on the same system as those games and we were very much expecting Sword and Shield to be made with console standards in mind. Plus part of the reason for the removal of pokemon was to provide better animations and graphics which for the latter, we have that tree that made it seem like Masuda was lying.

Edited by MisterZygarde64 on Jun 4th 2020 at 9:54:31 AM

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Yea, that's what I was referring to lol.

I generally dip into competitive after the game and I've had no incentive to do so.

But Sw Sh, while I don't think are bad, aren't really that amazing either. I struggle to call them better than what came before in terms of content.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.

Eh, raising stuff is always my incentive of choice, and the raid events have done wonders for replayability for me; the anniversary one with the challengering Mewtwo was a top notch one.

Golden Age style cartoon short starring Scraggy and Mimikyu (yes, it's official)

Edited by Zoroark69 on Jun 4th 2020 at 7:23:30 AM

Well that was wild.