My Alpha Sapphire, both my Pkmn X copies, Smash 4, and Sun are all dying struggling to read at all in both of my 3ds'. My ultra moon last i tried it has been coinflippy too, sometimes it reads immidiately, sometimes it reads on the 5th try. I thought maybe the oil from my hands could've rubbed on them and made them harder to read over time, but hearing other people report this stuff definitely feels less like a me issue.
I just can't see how these cartridges deteriorating could be expected when vinyl records from the 70s are still usable, or the DS titles seem to be doing fine. There are some one-offs, like the original Ruby and Sapphire with the game clock for night/day and berry trees, mainly due to the cartridge itself keeping track of that stuff (even has a little battery in it like a watch), and batteries run out of fuel eventually. 3ds titles though.. something seems off, they must've made them way cheaper than the DS ones.
They’re worried about stuff like the magypsies, which are gender neutral but modeled as drag queens, it’s more of a joke for Japan but western culture would more likely be offended, or only takes 1 social group to get offended.
Making anything about stereotypes is pointing a gun at your foot in cultures that push equality and Nintendo is a very safe company. It’s different if indie companies do it occasionally but Nintendo’s profile really tries to stay clean of controversy and has a broader audience to target them.
EDIT: oh ya, and the whole “pig mask are basically nazis” thing since they made chimeras and basically removed anything they didn’t see good in porky’s eyes, and had labs to experiment on people and animals.
"The Department of Justice noted Team Xecuter at times "cloaked its illegal activity with a purported desire to support gaming enthusiasts who wanted to design their own video games for noncommercial use", but it insisted the overwhelming demand and use for its devices was to play pirated video games."
@BloodNinja Actually they have used something close to that excuse already, their reasoning is preserving old code so newer devs can crack open old games and educate themselves in game development or learn methods of developing through them.
For example, if you were stuck on or couldn't figure out how to code something similar to F.L.U.D.D or the goop from sunshine, you can crack open the game and see how professionals approached it. They said that was their primary purpose and that it isn't their problem if the device that enables educational use get twisted for piracy uses instead, which is lets be real they probably did it for the later.
Wait but those literally have been sold from third party companies for years lol.. Action replay, Gameshark, powersaves, and you can do it yourself pretty easily without those either through homebrew or some other method.
Hacking online for unfair advantages, sure you can ban him for it and I fully support punishing people who ruin other's experiences with their hacks, but you can't sue them for that either.
EDIT: I think i misinterpreted it. So he hacked consoles, and sold the hacked consoles off? I mean, I guess? idk depends cause thats like saying if you sell your used console on ebay with sticker on it that its copyright infringement. I'm far from being a lawyer, but I assumed selling modified material isn't really illegal unless he's rebranding it as his own.
EDIT 2: ah i think I know now. He illegally downloaded a copy of the switch's OS, which is copyrighted code, and ported the same code into other switches which means he's selling copyrighted material. Its part of why its hard for us to emulate PS2 games cause unlike dolphin which has its own code, PS2 emulators need you to dump the bios and that's copyrighted code you cannot duplicate, even if its your own console since you're still duplicating the code of the system.
I doubt reggie used the localization patch on a mother 3 cart, but it wouldn't surprise me if he owned a distributed translated rom. Could be why he never tried it yet for loyalty sake, probably got it passed down since they're more common then the game itself and just held onto it. They're not that hard to come by, and in the US if there is mother 3 carts at thrift stores and such its likely not the real thing.
@Anti-Matter ty 3 is way edgier.. there's melee combat and a combo system in that game.
Ty 1 and Ty 2 are very similar, just the first one is a hub world + multiple worlds collectathon (mario sunshine, spyro, lego star wars, etc) while ty 2 is a more open and mission based collecthon with practically the same gameplay for the most part. Ty 3 is more open and mission based like ty 2, except the combat added melee combos which take up a majority of the combat actually, more vehicle segments, and overall its kinda all over the place.. whether thats good or bad depends on who you ask i guess.
@HugoRadio You'd be surprised how powerful source code can be.
Especially with botting, not sure what in the witcher they might abuse but I know source code leaks for other games often lead to bot scripts to auto grind games and inject hacked items. If the demand for that stuff is up there, you're looking at huge profits over time. I think the value for the witcher might be on the high end though, not really too sure what people would do with scripts in that game.
Idk about anyone else but TF2 has been unplayable for me due to the auto leveling bots since the source leak. Clearly though whoever is using them is making a fortune on the steam market with engineer gaming bot.
@Ultrasmiles The fact people have to do it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again everytime the meta changes or they want a different set. Some people have jobs/school and ain't got time for that, they ain't exactly getting paid to be professional to make up for the time either.
@Eel while these are definitely way easier games to make competitive teams in, it still takes too long to make said perfect team in-mass.
You can level stuff to 100 with the candies; If you have them. For 6 slots you’ll have to grind quite awhile to have all those candies, plus grind for the candies should you test the team and discover one Pokémon needs replaced, and then a week later probably remake the whole team because the meta shifted for the trillionth time.
On top of that you have to EV train, which isn’t nearly as long especially with vitamins, but it’s another thing to consider. What really hurts is PP maxing, that you can’t humanly grind for in time for a tournament without either being incredibly lucky, or grinding BP. PP stalling is a legitimate play style that you will auto lose in if you don’t PP max (pressure users become even scarier).
If modding doesn’t directly alter movesets and BST, then who cares lol, ever since gen 6 there have been auto filters for blocking illegal kits that disable being able to use them online or GTS them, their source of origin is the only thing off about them and at that point it’s just vanity (why would you show off a shiny you didn’t get yourself anyway). Trust me, Hackmons used to be a fun ladder, nothing funnier than 6v6 metronome shedinja but GF disabled being able to do that even privately.
Personally I haven’t bothered with modding in gen 8, I’ve done everything legit and it’s too exhausting to keep up with the battle stadiums constant rule set changes and formats while grinding this stuff. Gen 6 and 7 were way more chill since if I did need to pump out another team or redo a mon it took me a minute with powersaves. This is why most sane players use smogon’s Pokémon showdown simulator for instant team building and laddering, plus it doesn’t cost $60+Nintendo membership. Until GF acknowledges these grinding issues fully, they’re missing out on money and active player bases.
@Joeynator3000 It ain't worth it either thats the sad part lmao.
There's some story progression with the legendary i already forgot the name of (calyrus?), but besides that and hunting for legendaries we've already hunted in emerald/platinum/HGSS/BW2/ORAS/USUM there's nothing really on the side to do. Unless you like grinding dynamax adventures for shinies but even that is tedious considering how difficult certain ones are (zygarde i just gave up I couldn't even kill it once let alone farm it lmao)
I'm kinda surprised for how big of a map they gave you, there's literally no reason to ever revisit the majority of areas of that map post story.
But considering gen 4 is often labeled as the peak of the franchise (before everything got worse), while SWSH is labeled the absolute bottom, remaking gen 4 with SWSH's standards is going to set the world on fire.
ORAS IMO was a pretty good remake of hoenn, some downs with the character redesigns, but overall was a good era. Gen 4 remake would only be good if magically it had better online (no 20 minute timers), removed dynamax, and the story+environments stayed the same meaning they can't possibly ruin it. I just do not have the faith in GF or TPC to achieve that.
@Yas Because the vote is asking different demographics.
Pokemon veterans who supported the franchise and GF for years are incredibly disappointed and just threw in the towel to not be bothered with this series anymore. People who are just getting into pokemon because of gen 8 or genuinely just do not care won't have a negative opinion cause they're not impacted as much. Then there's the demographic that only votes on SWSH not as pokemon games but nintendo games, SWSH stick out as some of nintendo's best games on the switch still, opinions will vary on that one but this is nintendolife so of course everybody will be happy seeing a game on the nintendo switch have huge sale numbers. Being split is not a good sign at all, overwhelmingly negative comments is because people who vote positive just go to the next article without explaining why they liked it, and most of those reasons is why we liked past games without the negatives added.
I remember when we first datamined the game, it somehow was worse than we originally could imagine after the announcement.
The game has so many flaws that make it one of the worst in the series, beyond just dexit and price tag.
Games on the NGC looked better
Very limited gamemode options with removal of triple, rotation, and royale modes.
Cant even do a competitive 6v6 due to 20 minute timer
Dynamax is such a broken gimmick that any community format outright prohibits using it and battle spot is a massive skill-less coinflip.
Important moves like pursuit were removed from the game, and there's no way to teach defog, roost, and toxic to pokemon that need them besides transferring.
removed megas that improved various useless pokemon like mawile, at least beedrill doesn't exist anymore just to suffer.
DLC literally fixed non of those issues but adds a price tag.. the only issue they touched was dexit and we still don't have everything, you don't even need the DLC to have those mons either so its kinda pointless doing dexit in the first place.
Galar has the worse route layout in the mainline franchise, every route is point A and point B, with nothing inbetween to explore. Wild area helps a bit but you could just remove routes and make towns connect with how little there is between them.
We're 2 DLCs in, and they can't even patch the new shiny mechanic thats been bugged since release (1/512 odds to find a shiny if you have the species' number battled at 500 in the pokedex, but its bugged so it only rolls that 1/512 3% of the time.)
I was about to go asleep but then read this, got angry, and now stopping myself before i go on any longer.
Would rather them make a finished game then just go next gen first.
SWSH isn't worth 60 dollars for a quarter of the content of previous games. 30 dollar DLC still doesn't even bring the games on par with Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. We didn't even get more tutors in CT and the legendary raids are not forever content. They still failed to even fix the 20 minute battle timer to give players a reason to even team build, battle spot is just unplayably awful.
But i guess people will buy it anyway and GF will continue to make subpar games.
Will probs try it on PC. Depending on what else is in there. If legends of runeterra taught me anything, bad game design and balancing will carry over from riot's main title.
You ask if they’ve become too common as if they were ever rare lol.
There’s no way to distinguish legit shinies from modded or injected ones so they had no real value anyway, and before anyone pulls out the “hacking is evil”, you pretty much had to back in the day if you wanted a competitive team due to how difficult it was getting IVs, passing them down without destiny knot, the fact some Pokémon had fixed IVs, no XP grinds, no fast EV training methods, no bottle caps, etc.. shines were simply unusable in competitive regardless unless you cloned and modified it. There’s also the fact GBA games had no online so there was no way to really show them off other than posting online to begin with.
In gen 4 there was the cute charm glitch that you theoretically could get every Pokémon shiny with, without ever modding the game, so it’s hard to tell what’s legit, what’s action replayed, and what’s due to GF’s bad coding.
They made it easier to get shinies over time because people simply either didn’t bother due to the rarity, or never even used them due to their bad unusable stats.
question 8 "how many metroid games" i know for a fact is 16.
Because the question says "including full remakes", that means the new play control metroid games as well as trilogy.
Metroid prime trilogy is included in the list, but it fails to acknowledge there was infact a new play control metroid prime, and new play control metroid prime 2 echoes for the Wii, neither of which was released globally but do we not count mother 3 when discussing how many mother series games there are? I think whoever made that question doesn't know metroid as much as they think
@graysoncharles fair, but I would say go had the advantage of being super unique (catching Pokémon on free mobile app everywhere you go). With mobas there’s competition (due to the nature of sinking money in cosmetics, and sinking time into learning macro/champs) so it’s unlikely anyone veteran to mobas would move to this game for more than a couple matches, and if it does introduce younger generations to the moba genre they’re likely to try other mobas and stick to those. There’s also the fact switches aren’t as common as phones and PCs so it implies those that do own a switch spend their time on this over smash/swsh etc, so it’s gotta be really good.
Personally I plan on playing it when it comes out for a short period but I probably won’t stick to it, too much invested in league (not to mention I now make money thanks to that experience due to coaching)
It’s a watered down moba, i play league professional (coach) and I see nothing appealing about this one aside from the brand (Pokémon characters) and there being no chat.
It’s going to have a small cult following, but that’s it, queue timers will eventually kill it as interest is lost. There’s just not enough variety to the game (no CSing, no pinging or play making, no objective monsters to fight like Nash or dragon, only backdooring teamfighting and split pushing.). Game doesn’t strike me as something that will be rountinely patched and updated with new characters and reworks to keep it fresh either.
Tencent and TPC aside, just doesn’t look like a good moba compared to league, aether, Dota, HOTS, or even leagues mobile port wild rift which is also coming to the switch supposedly.
I think hungrybox is just trying to stealth call the smash community toxic without getting shot by them.
Which is 100% true, between the sexual allegations such a large portion of the smash pro scene is getting right now (even zero of all people has some.), and the sheer toxicity the melee community consist of (crowds breaking all the venue rules, breaking furniture, throwing things, jumping up and down on stages with weight limits, throwing actual crabs at pro players when they win, etc). I really do not blame him, he's just trying to find an out from the melee community without just outright calling out the community itself disgusting.
I remember before zero had allegations he would go into detail about how bad people would act or rage at the events, sometimes they would even yell and tell you how to play to beat the other guy or intentionally break your concentration.
The ultimate community seems way more chill but then again there's a bit more support for its pro scene by officials, and evo was cancelled so hard to say how physical events go.
Its probs better to just masuda method one if you really want a shiny wailord.
1/514 odds masuda method vs. the 2% chance of shiny wailord raids, which can break out of the ball + can spawn as other pokemon raids as well, not to mention how slow the process of resetting all your raids are for rerolls and y-comm.
The odds of getting one via the raids is technically better but the process I think is a lot harder when you factor in how much can go wrong, not to mention you'll likely have to bottle cap and nature mint it.
Do we know if these shiny wailord can be HA? cause pressure is pretty bad on wailord, so the chance of getting the shiny with HA is also kinda bad.
Checks Twitch and sees its still mostly hacked raids
gottem?
Now if only they removed that awful 20 minute battle timer for 6v6 singles, then the games would actually be pretty decent. 3v3 is unplayable with how broken the meta is, being about to play 6v6 casuals would save the game.
Apparently the zeraora event comes with armorite ore, but rumor is they messed up and it was different a different type of ore that crashes the game instead. (there's crown tundra item content in the datamines so they might've slipped the wrong ore for the wrong DLC distribution.)
Would make sense for them to disable the servers early on discovery.
It obviously was going to be disliked, the stars didnt aline and every one of those stars was a point against it.
Not a mainline game like people expected (which tbf nobody should've anyway.), so anybody expecting one got disappointed instantly.
MOBA genre in general is so bad... I'm a grandmasters league player who's been scouted for pro teams, and even i'll tell you to stay as far as humanly possible from that game, not only because of how bad the balance/direction has gotten, but because of the company's poor management and literal stupidity. (google riot games face farting, thats who runs that company... btw tencent owns riot games too and this is the company they work with.)
MOBA just does not work for the demographic... trust me even in the top 0.01% of the league player base i'm apart of, you question if there's even any adults on your team let alone pokemon unite which is targetted for actual children (children with less controlled mentals that will DC/AFK/troll way more frequently.). They're crazy if they think it won't burn to the ground even worse than league, which is one of the most toxic communities out there not just for the chat either. Could argue maybe there wont be a ranked system so no try hards, but the hook of a moba is the constant improvement you can make as a player and keep going up, and once your up you can make a lot of money with a pro team or offering coaching/boosting services. There's no incentive to improve so the game will get stale.
Tencent in general
Not even that well design of a moba.. blah blah 'didnt play yet' i can tell just by the way the CSing/siege concept works that it simply doesn't work.. infact league did a mode with similar concepts called dominion that they had to removed because it gave nothing but headaches to fix and the few players even willing to touch it weren't worth running the servers for. Having 2 lanes with control points (without a king of the hill points system) just creates really awkward balancing around who can back door faster... basically you coinflip every single game (either they send 2 for you and lose the game to the 4 man siege, or you base race from the start. with 5 top 5 bot.)
As somebody who hit grandmasters in league of legends.. I'll pass LMAO. Tencent just does not care about the quality of their games and companies running their games, I would be very surprised if more than 2 new pokemon get added per year until the game is neglected, left in a bad balance state, and shutdown like pokemon duel in a few years.
I love how this game is tencent's master plan to introduce kids to the moba genre so that they migrate to league and spend money on skins there. They already banked off TPC paying them to make this game.
The DLC fixed a lot of things the series needed desperately.
mostly them re-adding more pokemon in the patch (players refused to buy until their faves returned.) guess this isn't DLC specific since its just patched in, but that and following pokemon. Following pokemon is a huge request ever since HGSS when it was first introduced. People begged for it for years and having it just added a huge amount of charm to the game. Sadly the limited area you can use it at is lame but hey, even chilling in that area with your pokemon is super cool. Hopefully they bring this back for everywhere next game.
One person posted their "datamine findings" without evidence of them doing the mine, we're allegedly assuming this is accurate because of the 1 datamine (everybody has access to the mobile version, but only 1 person datamined it, really?)
Also doesn't help that moves show their typings and descriptions in home which the dataminer didn't conveniently post in their leak. It can still be real, like 80% its real, but its not 100% confirmed until somebody else datamines it.
Lots of discussion on smogon about the datamine leak not being debunked yet.
Fair about the farfetch'd one, imo tho I still believe a large portion of nintendo gaming communities do emulate or pirate at some point. Perhaps saying most pirate is too much of a claim when i probably meant to say emulate with homebrew or do save edits. Personally i don't emulate on my switch but i do know a couple who homebrew and there's a ton of romhacking communities out there for switch games that have to upload the roms online for others to try their hacks.
As for nintendo games offer possibilities, kinda? I do agree nintendo games are more fun to crack because of their innovative mechanics and often they're filling with more stuff to mess around with (every mario is a mario maker when hacking which is fun, and randomizers never get old.) but when it comes to multiplayer i think smash is the peak while MOBA's and microsoft FPS's often give better incentive to grind for improvement and rewards compare to single player games nintendo is more frequently releasing. Its why somebody is more willing to spend $60 on overwatch than on a nintendo title they can download free, enjoy the ride, then move on back to overwatch grinding cause even the largest nintendo games often have peaks with pokemon, smash, and animal crossing being the main exceptions.
"Also the Xbox and PS see a lot less hacking and homebrewing for some reason."
Its just a collective bunch of reasons that make xbox and PS users less willing to compromise their main accounts. With nintendo mostly everyone doesn't care as much, nintendo game replayability isn't as intriguing or polished as the other consoles, so a lot of replayability comes in the form of modding or making the game easier to play to speed up processes (ex; pokemon gets modded because any replayability in battling just takes too long to build teams for, making it boring instead of fun. if AR, gameshark, and pokegen never existed, i do believe the franchise would've never developed a competitive scene or had the monetary interest to continue supporting one.), but also its more funneled on that one console so its not like hackers have a "solution B" until an emulator on PC gets developed (and even then its harder to track down the roms online for the emulator than it is to just hack the console itself with the games installed.)
Xbox also ports a lot of their games to PC, halo is a pretty big one for microsoft modding, but halo is also on the PC so all the halo mods tend to stay off the console itself since PC modding is the most efficient. Unlike nintendo which funnels its games on 1 console, also funneling in all the hackers there, other companies are smarter to port to multiple consoles so modding isn't as common.. for example why would you ever mod borderlands 2 on xbox and risk your xbox account, when there's a steam version on an easier to crack device that won't affect your steam account?
I'm aware of how large pirating has become on the switch (I'm convinced everybody just does it now), but i never heard of team xecutor.
most of the pirating comes from free software installed on older versions of the console, the software then emulates whatever files they put on the switch.
If nintendo wants to target pirating (they should), they need to properly do something about the installed software (which ironically, the software itself gets pirated so sueing potential sources selling it doesnt do much lmao)
Other games: Implement leave buster systems that put players who disconnect into low priority queue, or short bans that slow down how often they queue up and DC.
Gamefreak: ban players who DC because of an exploit that was never present in past pokemon games, deal colleral damage to the cheaters, and those with poor wifi (and by poor wifi, i mean live on the opposite side of the continent since servers are in japan. I never have lag issues on PC, xbox, or even wii u/3ds for that matter but the switch on smash/pokemon is so bad.)
How does gamefreak and TPC manage to surprise us with how much lower they can get after it seems like they couldn't get any lower than SWSH's release. The obvious solution would be the patch the exploit that shouldn't exist in the first place..
@Jayofmaya Older mystery dungeons were top quality for their time. (red and blue were pretty large RPGs for the GBA, and Time/Darkness + sky were really good follow ups for the DS.)
Modern mystery dungeon games kinda pfft, but they're far from bad games they just can't live nearly to the standards that the old ones set so high. Most of the problems with the modern ones are mainly due to story over gameplay anyway.
2 had the bland open world style, 3 improved the open world very significantly to the point where thats the best thing about the game. Even just driving the vehicle itself is super fun, in comparison to the slow truck of 2.
Keep in mind i said best, because the combat was a huge downgrade due to them reworking it to melee combat. That's where the game fell heavily, the missions themselves were worse than 2's, the combat just wasn't 'ty', and the story was written by gamefreak, not literally but that pretty much describes it. All the characters deviated from their original character plots, the whole 'other worldy cliche' isnt done well, and some of the motives of the characters is just stupid.
I think you misunderstood what topic i was targetting. I wasn't saying "in defense of whats going on rn" I'm saying "in defense of why we needed to hack teams in the first place". Whats going on online with this exploit does need fixed. This isn't fair or realistic gameplay, its just flawed.
Hackmons like wondertomb were a problem in gens 4-5, but there never was a ranked ladder for it to ruin anything and by the time we got ranked ladders that stuff got filtered out from even being used online.
getting legit teams in swsh is super easy yes, but swsh didn't come out before RSE, DPP, BW, XY, where we didnt have bottle caps or nature mints for legendaries when VGC's biggest events are the ones with legendaries. Imagine getting perfect primals with 1/32 IV x 6 x 1/16 nature, doing that for both of them (as in restarting and playing through both versions, and being stuck at a specific point in the game unable to do anything until you get them) and then finally being able to make your team. I agree making competitive teams is easier in swsh, its actually more effort to buy a hacked switch, but previous gens its really silly to look at somebody and say "bring a non-genned/save editted team of legendaries."
Doesn't surprise me people would find a way to negate a loss if they already go so far as to hack in a perfect team.
Its extremely difficult to get a legit perfect team. Especially during later seasons when legendaries are used, and there's no way to breed them for 1/31x6 + 1/16 nature + hidden power type on top of time consuming leveling + EV training + BP/watt grinding for tutor moves.
Thankfully it became easier in swsh with bottle caps and nature mints so that we don't have to cheat as much, but ever since the first vgc players always generated their mons (theres no point not to anyway, back in the old days of gens 3-5 it took months to even get the necessary breeding mons to pass IVs to even begin going for 6 IV pokemon, and there was no destiny knot to guarantee 5 IVs would pass down, no nature mints, and in gen 5 + theres still no way to guarantee hidden abilities if you do hatch something perfect and its not even HA.) There are players that actually didn't even finish their teams in time before the last season of a generation back in gen 4, just because they couldn't find the right stuff to breed with appropriate stats and it took too long to prepare a 6 pokemon team in a meta that changed every week.
If action replays and pokegen didn't exist, there probably wouldn't even be a VGC for gens 4 and 5 to fund for vgc gen 6.
@MoonKnight7 30 dollar additions is reasonable for content normally locked inside a sequel/remake game, but fact of the matter is that SwSh are pretty empty and all the Pokémon should’ve been in by default (even if they’re free without the expansion).
To us, an expansion adding new areas just feels like that should’ve been the full game to begin with.
I get where you’re coming from and completely agree that I would rather buy DLC than play through a full game again just for tutors/frontier/most Pokémon to catch that I should be able to transfer regardless, but right now it still feels like Swsh is half the length and size of the gen 4 games, and the DLC sounds like it’s adding no more than the gen 4 post game areas in terms of new content. Swsh is such a bare bones game for its price tag compared to last Pokémon titles that DLC expansions should’ve came with it free.
I find this article hard to believe, because smogon really doesn't appreciate the dex cut at all..
infact, smogon made their own national OU metagame, with megas+z-moves, and dynamax still isn't banned in it with lando and kartana still being legal while galar-OU has already banned dynamax, quick banned darmanitan, and is generally considered really stale with a very small OU list.
If that claim "game would be problematic with lando and kartana" was true, national OU would've axed dynamax way before galar-OU, and that doesn't change the fact they can still ban pokemon and mechanics.
Also 86% of the voters all voted to ban dynamax. This isn't "fearmongering" anymore than everybody agreeing something is uncompetitive.
You probably would think banning metaknight in brawl is fearmongering if you disbelieve in majority of the bans at smogon. Or maybe you like it when Ditto, of all pokemon, has a 50% usage rate in OU just because its the only way for players to avoid getting 1v6'd by anything that can dynamax (btw, everything can).
If you read the offical statement, linked in the article, which you didn't:
You'd know smogon did this ban because it ruins competitive play and everyone agree so, and the same post even acknowledges that the integrity isn't as important if the game becomes unplayable due to it. The first paragraphs also mention none of you HAVE to play by smogon rules, but if you're playing competitive, on showdown, and want to have serious games with serious players, they have to put restrictions so you can't just bring your geomancy xerneas and hit rank 1.
As someone who doesn't play by smogon rules, its actually very logical to ban dynamax.
I get 90% of NL users don't play competitive pokemon, and the ones that do probably only play VGC or battle spot singles, but there's a lot of problems with the dynamax mechanic that made it impossible to play the game on the showdown ladder.
One of the biggest problems was maxs moves causing secondary effects, so anything with access to max airstream, max knuckle, or both simply 1v6'd unless the opponent brought out a ditto... then the ditto 1v6'd.
For example: Gyarados would setup 1 dragon dance, then he would dynamax and use max geyser for rain, or max airstream for +1 speed.. or both. So he could potentially have +2 speed, +1 attack on his water moves, and due to moxie ability, +3 attack if he got 3 KOs... so there was a +4atk/+3 Speed in rain gyarados once the dynamax wore off, after already chunking half of the opponents team.. oh and don't think you can simply counter it, he got power whip this generation so rotom-wash still dies, and the 100% boost in health lets it live a hit from most pokemon even if they're 4x super effective. Now apply this same threat level to excadrill in sand, hawlucha with unburden and max knuckle, and the fact you can run a power house like dracovish, choice lock it, bring in something to wall the move its locked in, then dynamax and break out of the choice lock to use whatever move you wanted.. It wasn't limited to just 2 pokemon either to single them out;
If it wasn’t for the leaks, I never would’ve bought sword and shield.
Sorry TPC but no, not going to spend 60 dollars to find out if anything new you added I like, nor am I for the first time of the franchise going to spend 60 dollars to find out if anything I like even returned. It was due to the guidebook leaker revealing interesting new mons like centiskorch that gave me a little hype and dex leakers revealing mons like runerigus and frosmoth as well as returning ninjask line that made me preorder.
Good, good, keep damaging your reputation so it’s easier for us long term veterans to leave.
They tried this with black and white, and everybody was critical of the games and it sold worse than the others.
LGPE did this where they flat out restricted the game to kanto, and that didn’t sell as well as the mainlines either.
Simply put all people want is a Pokémon game they can transfer all their hard shiny hunted, bred, and earned in the case of events. Everything else should be an after thought when making these games.
If we know anything about sakurai, he loves to bait and switch to surprise everybody. His 'not going to happen' could easily turn into 'its happening now, gotcha!'. Not like these characters don't have video games out there to bend the rules either (fighter z).
At the end of the day, anything is possible to be in smash. Still hope for shrek.
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Re: PSA: Yes, Your DS And 3DS Cartridges Will Eventually Deteriorate, But Don't Panic
This article seems pretty sugar coaty about this.
My DS cartridges are all fine, perfect even.
My Alpha Sapphire, both my Pkmn X copies, Smash 4, and Sun are all dying struggling to read at all in both of my 3ds'. My ultra moon last i tried it has been coinflippy too, sometimes it reads immidiately, sometimes it reads on the 5th try. I thought maybe the oil from my hands could've rubbed on them and made them harder to read over time, but hearing other people report this stuff definitely feels less like a me issue.
I just can't see how these cartridges deteriorating could be expected when vinyl records from the 70s are still usable, or the DS titles seem to be doing fine. There are some one-offs, like the original Ruby and Sapphire with the game clock for night/day and berry trees, mainly due to the cartridge itself keeping track of that stuff (even has a little battery in it like a watch), and batteries run out of fuel eventually. 3ds titles though.. something seems off, they must've made them way cheaper than the DS ones.
Re: Anniversary: Mother 3 For Game Boy Advance Is Now 15 Years Old
@Ratchet916
They’re worried about stuff like the magypsies, which are gender neutral but modeled as drag queens, it’s more of a joke for Japan but western culture would more likely be offended, or only takes 1 social group to get offended.
Making anything about stereotypes is pointing a gun at your foot in cultures that push equality and Nintendo is a very safe company. It’s different if indie companies do it occasionally but Nintendo’s profile really tries to stay clean of controversy and has a broader audience to target them.
EDIT: oh ya, and the whole “pig mask are basically nazis” thing since they made chimeras and basically removed anything they didn’t see good in porky’s eyes, and had labs to experiment on people and animals.
Re: Nintendo Is Suing A Reported "Leader" Of The Notorious Piracy Group Team Xecuter
@BloodNinja
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-17-nintendo-suing-switch-hacker-gary-bowser
"The Department of Justice noted Team Xecuter at times "cloaked its illegal activity with a purported desire to support gaming enthusiasts who wanted to design their own video games for noncommercial use", but it insisted the overwhelming demand and use for its devices was to play pirated video games."
Re: Nintendo Is Suing A Reported "Leader" Of The Notorious Piracy Group Team Xecuter
@BloodNinja Actually they have used something close to that excuse already, their reasoning is preserving old code so newer devs can crack open old games and educate themselves in game development or learn methods of developing through them.
For example, if you were stuck on or couldn't figure out how to code something similar to F.L.U.D.D or the goop from sunshine, you can crack open the game and see how professionals approached it. They said that was their primary purpose and that it isn't their problem if the device that enables educational use get twisted for piracy uses instead, which is lets be real they probably did it for the later.
Re: Nintendo Is Suing A Reported "Leader" Of The Notorious Piracy Group Team Xecuter
Suing him for selling hacking devices?
Wait but those literally have been sold from third party companies for years lol.. Action replay, Gameshark, powersaves, and you can do it yourself pretty easily without those either through homebrew or some other method.
Hacking online for unfair advantages, sure you can ban him for it and I fully support punishing people who ruin other's experiences with their hacks, but you can't sue them for that either.
EDIT: I think i misinterpreted it. So he hacked consoles, and sold the hacked consoles off? I mean, I guess? idk depends cause thats like saying if you sell your used console on ebay with sticker on it that its copyright infringement. I'm far from being a lawyer, but I assumed selling modified material isn't really illegal unless he's rebranding it as his own.
EDIT 2: ah i think I know now. He illegally downloaded a copy of the switch's OS, which is copyrighted code, and ported the same code into other switches which means he's selling copyrighted material. Its part of why its hard for us to emulate PS2 games cause unlike dolphin which has its own code, PS2 emulators need you to dump the bios and that's copyrighted code you cannot duplicate, even if its your own console since you're still duplicating the code of the system.
Re: Random: Reggie Says He's Got An English Version Of Mother 3, But Still Hasn't Played It
I doubt reggie used the localization patch on a mother 3 cart, but it wouldn't surprise me if he owned a distributed translated rom. Could be why he never tried it yet for loyalty sake, probably got it passed down since they're more common then the game itself and just held onto it. They're not that hard to come by, and in the US if there is mother 3 carts at thrift stores and such its likely not the real thing.
Re: TY The Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue HD Gets A New Switch Launch Trailer
@Anti-Matter ty 3 is way edgier.. there's melee combat and a combo system in that game.
Ty 1 and Ty 2 are very similar, just the first one is a hub world + multiple worlds collectathon (mario sunshine, spyro, lego star wars, etc) while ty 2 is a more open and mission based collecthon with practically the same gameplay for the most part. Ty 3 is more open and mission based like ty 2, except the combat added melee combos which take up a majority of the combat actually, more vehicle segments, and overall its kinda all over the place.. whether thats good or bad depends on who you ask i guess.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 And Witcher 3 Source Code Reportedly Being Auctioned After CD Projekt Hack
@HugoRadio You'd be surprised how powerful source code can be.
Especially with botting, not sure what in the witcher they might abuse but I know source code leaks for other games often lead to bot scripts to auto grind games and inject hacked items. If the demand for that stuff is up there, you're looking at huge profits over time. I think the value for the witcher might be on the high end though, not really too sure what people would do with scripts in that game.
Idk about anyone else but TF2 has been unplayable for me due to the auto leveling bots since the source leak. Clearly though whoever is using them is making a fortune on the steam market with engineer gaming bot.
Re: Japanese Man Arrested For Selling Hacked Pokémon Sword And Shield Monsters
@Ultrasmiles The fact people have to do it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again everytime the meta changes or they want a different set. Some people have jobs/school and ain't got time for that, they ain't exactly getting paid to be professional to make up for the time either.
Re: The Pokémon Company To Crack Down On Sword, Shield And HOME Users Who Modify Save Data In "New Ban Wave"
@Eel while these are definitely way easier games to make competitive teams in, it still takes too long to make said perfect team in-mass.
You can level stuff to 100 with the candies; If you have them. For 6 slots you’ll have to grind quite awhile to have all those candies, plus grind for the candies should you test the team and discover one Pokémon needs replaced, and then a week later probably remake the whole team because the meta shifted for the trillionth time.
On top of that you have to EV train, which isn’t nearly as long especially with vitamins, but it’s another thing to consider. What really hurts is PP maxing, that you can’t humanly grind for in time for a tournament without either being incredibly lucky, or grinding BP. PP stalling is a legitimate play style that you will auto lose in if you don’t PP max (pressure users become even scarier).
If modding doesn’t directly alter movesets and BST, then who cares lol, ever since gen 6 there have been auto filters for blocking illegal kits that disable being able to use them online or GTS them, their source of origin is the only thing off about them and at that point it’s just vanity (why would you show off a shiny you didn’t get yourself anyway). Trust me, Hackmons used to be a fun ladder, nothing funnier than 6v6 metronome shedinja but GF disabled being able to do that even privately.
Personally I haven’t bothered with modding in gen 8, I’ve done everything legit and it’s too exhausting to keep up with the battle stadiums constant rule set changes and formats while grinding this stuff. Gen 6 and 7 were way more chill since if I did need to pump out another team or redo a mon it took me a minute with powersaves. This is why most sane players use smogon’s Pokémon showdown simulator for instant team building and laddering, plus it doesn’t cost $60+Nintendo membership. Until GF acknowledges these grinding issues fully, they’re missing out on money and active player bases.
Re: The Pokémon Company To Crack Down On Sword, Shield And HOME Users Who Modify Save Data In "New Ban Wave"
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield Version 1.3.1 Is Now Live
@Joeynator3000 It ain't worth it either thats the sad part lmao.
There's some story progression with the legendary i already forgot the name of (calyrus?), but besides that and hunting for legendaries we've already hunted in emerald/platinum/HGSS/BW2/ORAS/USUM there's nothing really on the side to do. Unless you like grinding dynamax adventures for shinies but even that is tedious considering how difficult certain ones are (zygarde i just gave up I couldn't even kill it once let alone farm it lmao)
I'm kinda surprised for how big of a map they gave you, there's literally no reason to ever revisit the majority of areas of that map post story.
Re: Feature: What Can We Expect From Pokémon’s 25th Anniversary?
@Not-Geno You're entitled to feel that.
But considering gen 4 is often labeled as the peak of the franchise (before everything got worse), while SWSH is labeled the absolute bottom, remaking gen 4 with SWSH's standards is going to set the world on fire.
ORAS IMO was a pretty good remake of hoenn, some downs with the character redesigns, but overall was a good era. Gen 4 remake would only be good if magically it had better online (no 20 minute timers), removed dynamax, and the story+environments stayed the same meaning they can't possibly ruin it. I just do not have the faith in GF or TPC to achieve that.
Re: Poll: Pokémon Sword And Shield Launched A Year Ago, Has Your Opinion On Them Changed?
@Yas Because the vote is asking different demographics.
Pokemon veterans who supported the franchise and GF for years are incredibly disappointed and just threw in the towel to not be bothered with this series anymore. People who are just getting into pokemon because of gen 8 or genuinely just do not care won't have a negative opinion cause they're not impacted as much. Then there's the demographic that only votes on SWSH not as pokemon games but nintendo games, SWSH stick out as some of nintendo's best games on the switch still, opinions will vary on that one but this is nintendolife so of course everybody will be happy seeing a game on the nintendo switch have huge sale numbers. Being split is not a good sign at all, overwhelmingly negative comments is because people who vote positive just go to the next article without explaining why they liked it, and most of those reasons is why we liked past games without the negatives added.
Re: Poll: Pokémon Sword And Shield Launched A Year Ago, Has Your Opinion On Them Changed?
I remember when we first datamined the game, it somehow was worse than we originally could imagine after the announcement.
The game has so many flaws that make it one of the worst in the series, beyond just dexit and price tag.
Re: Why Pokémon Sword And Shield Got DLC Instead Of A Standalone Follow-Up
Would rather them make a finished game then just go next gen first.
SWSH isn't worth 60 dollars for a quarter of the content of previous games. 30 dollar DLC still doesn't even bring the games on par with Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. We didn't even get more tutors in CT and the legendary raids are not forever content. They still failed to even fix the 20 minute battle timer to give players a reason to even team build, battle spot is just unplayably awful.
But i guess people will buy it anyway and GF will continue to make subpar games.
Re: Ruined King: A League of Legends Story Gives LoL A Turn-Based RPG Twist In Early 2021
Will probs try it on PC. Depending on what else is in there. If legends of runeterra taught me anything, bad game design and balancing will carry over from riot's main title.
Surprised they remembered illaoi exist.
Re: Random: Minecraft Steve's Smash Ultimate Win Screen Is, Erm, Unfortunate
So thats how steve works out..
TBF, if i beat sonic and mario into oblivion, i'd do the same.
Re: Talking Point: Are Shiny Pokémon Too Common These Days?
You ask if they’ve become too common as if they were ever rare lol.
There’s no way to distinguish legit shinies from modded or injected ones so they had no real value anyway, and before anyone pulls out the “hacking is evil”, you pretty much had to back in the day if you wanted a competitive team due to how difficult it was getting IVs, passing them down without destiny knot, the fact some Pokémon had fixed IVs, no XP grinds, no fast EV training methods, no bottle caps, etc.. shines were simply unusable in competitive regardless unless you cloned and modified it. There’s also the fact GBA games had no online so there was no way to really show them off other than posting online to begin with.
In gen 4 there was the cute charm glitch that you theoretically could get every Pokémon shiny with, without ever modding the game, so it’s hard to tell what’s legit, what’s action replayed, and what’s due to GF’s bad coding.
They made it easier to get shinies over time because people simply either didn’t bother due to the rarity, or never even used them due to their bad unusable stats.
Re: How Well Do You Know Metroid?
Some of these i'm not so sure of.
question 8 "how many metroid games" i know for a fact is 16.
Because the question says "including full remakes", that means the new play control metroid games as well as trilogy.
Metroid prime trilogy is included in the list, but it fails to acknowledge there was infact a new play control metroid prime, and new play control metroid prime 2 echoes for the Wii, neither of which was released globally but do we not count mother 3 when discussing how many mother series games there are? I think whoever made that question doesn't know metroid as much as they think
Re: Ninjala Dev Issues Second Ban Warning To Mischievous Players
Maybe design it so it 'queues' players up rather than sits them in lobby for eons.
Re: New Screenshots Of Pokémon Unite Surface Online
@graysoncharles fair, but I would say go had the advantage of being super unique (catching Pokémon on free mobile app everywhere you go). With mobas there’s competition (due to the nature of sinking money in cosmetics, and sinking time into learning macro/champs) so it’s unlikely anyone veteran to mobas would move to this game for more than a couple matches, and if it does introduce younger generations to the moba genre they’re likely to try other mobas and stick to those. There’s also the fact switches aren’t as common as phones and PCs so it implies those that do own a switch spend their time on this over smash/swsh etc, so it’s gotta be really good.
Personally I plan on playing it when it comes out for a short period but I probably won’t stick to it, too much invested in league (not to mention I now make money thanks to that experience due to coaching)
Re: New Screenshots Of Pokémon Unite Surface Online
It’s a watered down moba, i play league professional (coach) and I see nothing appealing about this one aside from the brand (Pokémon characters) and there being no chat.
It’s going to have a small cult following, but that’s it, queue timers will eventually kill it as interest is lost. There’s just not enough variety to the game (no CSing, no pinging or play making, no objective monsters to fight like Nash or dragon, only backdooring teamfighting and split pushing.). Game doesn’t strike me as something that will be rountinely patched and updated with new characters and reworks to keep it fresh either.
Tencent and TPC aside, just doesn’t look like a good moba compared to league, aether, Dota, HOTS, or even leagues mobile port wild rift which is also coming to the switch supposedly.
Re: Top Smash Melee Player Unsure About Future Involvement In Competitive Scene
I think hungrybox is just trying to stealth call the smash community toxic without getting shot by them.
Which is 100% true, between the sexual allegations such a large portion of the smash pro scene is getting right now (even zero of all people has some.), and the sheer toxicity the melee community consist of (crowds breaking all the venue rules, breaking furniture, throwing things, jumping up and down on stages with weight limits, throwing actual crabs at pro players when they win, etc). I really do not blame him, he's just trying to find an out from the melee community without just outright calling out the community itself disgusting.
I remember before zero had allegations he would go into detail about how bad people would act or rage at the events, sometimes they would even yell and tell you how to play to beat the other guy or intentionally break your concentration.
The ultimate community seems way more chill but then again there's a bit more support for its pro scene by officials, and evo was cancelled so hard to say how physical events go.
Re: Gallery: These Terrifying Pokémon Drawings Will Chill You To The Core
@Joeynator3000 Missing things in sword and shield? Thats crazy.
Re: Shiny Wailord Appears In Pokémon Sword And Shield Max Raid Battles For A Limited Time
Its probs better to just masuda method one if you really want a shiny wailord.
1/514 odds masuda method vs. the 2% chance of shiny wailord raids, which can break out of the ball + can spawn as other pokemon raids as well, not to mention how slow the process of resetting all your raids are for rerolls and y-comm.
The odds of getting one via the raids is technically better but the process I think is a lot harder when you factor in how much can go wrong, not to mention you'll likely have to bottle cap and nature mint it.
Do we know if these shiny wailord can be HA? cause pressure is pretty bad on wailord, so the chance of getting the shiny with HA is also kinda bad.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield Version 1.2.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
"we stopped hacked raids"
Checks Twitch and sees its still mostly hacked raids
gottem?
Now if only they removed that awful 20 minute battle timer for 6v6 singles, then the games would actually be pretty decent. 3v3 is unplayable with how broken the meta is, being about to play 6v6 casuals would save the game.
Re: Pokémon HOME Servers Struggle To Keep Up With The Demand For Shiny Zeraora
Not sure if its due to server overload.
Apparently the zeraora event comes with armorite ore, but rumor is they messed up and it was different a different type of ore that crashes the game instead. (there's crown tundra item content in the datamines so they might've slipped the wrong ore for the wrong DLC distribution.)
Would make sense for them to disable the servers early on discovery.
Re: The Pokémon Unite Presentation Has Already Been Disliked 150,000 Times
It obviously was going to be disliked, the stars didnt aline and every one of those stars was a point against it.
Re: Pokémon Unite, An Online Team Battle Game, Revealed For Switch And Mobile
MOBA pokemon...
As somebody who hit grandmasters in league of legends.. I'll pass LMAO. Tencent just does not care about the quality of their games and companies running their games, I would be very surprised if more than 2 new pokemon get added per year until the game is neglected, left in a bad balance state, and shutdown like pokemon duel in a few years.
I love how this game is tencent's master plan to introduce kids to the moba genre so that they migrate to league and spend money on skins there. They already banked off TPC paying them to make this game.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield DLC Causes Notable Spike In Base Game Sales (UK)
The DLC fixed a lot of things the series needed desperately.
mostly them re-adding more pokemon in the patch (players refused to buy until their faves returned.) guess this isn't DLC specific since its just patched in, but that and following pokemon. Following pokemon is a huge request ever since HGSS when it was first introduced. People begged for it for years and having it just added a huge amount of charm to the game. Sadly the limited area you can use it at is lame but hey, even chilling in that area with your pokemon is super cool. Hopefully they bring this back for everywhere next game.
Re: Pokémon HOME Datamine Supposedly Uncovers New Moves Coming To Sword And Shield
This isnt 100% confirmed by the way.
One person posted their "datamine findings" without evidence of them doing the mine, we're allegedly assuming this is accurate because of the 1 datamine (everybody has access to the mobile version, but only 1 person datamined it, really?)
Also doesn't help that moves show their typings and descriptions in home which the dataminer didn't conveniently post in their leak. It can still be real, like 80% its real, but its not 100% confirmed until somebody else datamines it.
Lots of discussion on smogon about the datamine leak not being debunked yet.
Re: Nintendo of America Files Two New Lawsuits Against Switch Hack Resellers
@Kirgo
Fair about the farfetch'd one, imo tho I still believe a large portion of nintendo gaming communities do emulate or pirate at some point. Perhaps saying most pirate is too much of a claim when i probably meant to say emulate with homebrew or do save edits. Personally i don't emulate on my switch but i do know a couple who homebrew and there's a ton of romhacking communities out there for switch games that have to upload the roms online for others to try their hacks.
As for nintendo games offer possibilities, kinda? I do agree nintendo games are more fun to crack because of their innovative mechanics and often they're filling with more stuff to mess around with (every mario is a mario maker when hacking which is fun, and randomizers never get old.) but when it comes to multiplayer i think smash is the peak while MOBA's and microsoft FPS's often give better incentive to grind for improvement and rewards compare to single player games nintendo is more frequently releasing. Its why somebody is more willing to spend $60 on overwatch than on a nintendo title they can download free, enjoy the ride, then move on back to overwatch grinding cause even the largest nintendo games often have peaks with pokemon, smash, and animal crossing being the main exceptions.
Re: Nintendo of America Files Two New Lawsuits Against Switch Hack Resellers
@Bomberman64
"Also the Xbox and PS see a lot less hacking and homebrewing for some reason."
Its just a collective bunch of reasons that make xbox and PS users less willing to compromise their main accounts. With nintendo mostly everyone doesn't care as much, nintendo game replayability isn't as intriguing or polished as the other consoles, so a lot of replayability comes in the form of modding or making the game easier to play to speed up processes (ex; pokemon gets modded because any replayability in battling just takes too long to build teams for, making it boring instead of fun. if AR, gameshark, and pokegen never existed, i do believe the franchise would've never developed a competitive scene or had the monetary interest to continue supporting one.), but also its more funneled on that one console so its not like hackers have a "solution B" until an emulator on PC gets developed (and even then its harder to track down the roms online for the emulator than it is to just hack the console itself with the games installed.)
Xbox also ports a lot of their games to PC, halo is a pretty big one for microsoft modding, but halo is also on the PC so all the halo mods tend to stay off the console itself since PC modding is the most efficient. Unlike nintendo which funnels its games on 1 console, also funneling in all the hackers there, other companies are smarter to port to multiple consoles so modding isn't as common.. for example why would you ever mod borderlands 2 on xbox and risk your xbox account, when there's a steam version on an easier to crack device that won't affect your steam account?
Re: Nintendo of America Files Two New Lawsuits Against Switch Hack Resellers
I'm aware of how large pirating has become on the switch (I'm convinced everybody just does it now), but i never heard of team xecutor.
most of the pirating comes from free software installed on older versions of the console, the software then emulates whatever files they put on the switch.
If nintendo wants to target pirating (they should), they need to properly do something about the installed software (which ironically, the software itself gets pirated so sueing potential sources selling it doesnt do much lmao)
Re: The Pokémon Company Begins To Ban Sword And Shield Players Who Deliberately Disconnect From Online Battles
Other games: Implement leave buster systems that put players who disconnect into low priority queue, or short bans that slow down how often they queue up and DC.
Gamefreak: ban players who DC because of an exploit that was never present in past pokemon games, deal colleral damage to the cheaters, and those with poor wifi (and by poor wifi, i mean live on the opposite side of the continent since servers are in japan. I never have lag issues on PC, xbox, or even wii u/3ds for that matter but the switch on smash/pokemon is so bad.)
How does gamefreak and TPC manage to surprise us with how much lower they can get after it seems like they couldn't get any lower than SWSH's release. The obvious solution would be the patch the exploit that shouldn't exist in the first place..
Re: Nintendo To Shutdown "Limited" Wii U And 3DS eShops In Select Countries
How would this affect stuff like pokebank bychance?
Not exactly sure what "limited" eshop refers to.
Re: The Pokémon Company Apologises For Featuring Dewgong In The Fourth Episode Of Twilight Wings
@Indielink
Name one game you couldn't get dewgong in via transfer, GTS, or in the dex itself.
SwSh.
Re: Random: Rockstar San Diego Founder Reveals What It's Like To Be Rejected By Miyamoto
@Jayofmaya Older mystery dungeons were top quality for their time. (red and blue were pretty large RPGs for the GBA, and Time/Darkness + sky were really good follow ups for the DS.)
Modern mystery dungeon games kinda pfft, but they're far from bad games they just can't live nearly to the standards that the old ones set so high. Most of the problems with the modern ones are mainly due to story over gameplay anyway.
Re: Krome Studios Says It Would Like To Port Ty 2 And 3 To Nintendo Switch
@Bolt_Strike
2 had the bland open world style, 3 improved the open world very significantly to the point where thats the best thing about the game. Even just driving the vehicle itself is super fun, in comparison to the slow truck of 2.
Keep in mind i said best, because the combat was a huge downgrade due to them reworking it to melee combat. That's where the game fell heavily, the missions themselves were worse than 2's, the combat just wasn't 'ty', and the story was written by gamefreak, not literally but that pretty much describes it. All the characters deviated from their original character plots, the whole 'other worldy cliche' isnt done well, and some of the motives of the characters is just stupid.
Re: There's A Newly-Discovered Exploit In Pokémon Sword And Shield Ruining Competitive Play
@Heavyarms55
I think you misunderstood what topic i was targetting. I wasn't saying "in defense of whats going on rn" I'm saying "in defense of why we needed to hack teams in the first place". Whats going on online with this exploit does need fixed. This isn't fair or realistic gameplay, its just flawed.
Hackmons like wondertomb were a problem in gens 4-5, but there never was a ranked ladder for it to ruin anything and by the time we got ranked ladders that stuff got filtered out from even being used online.
getting legit teams in swsh is super easy yes, but swsh didn't come out before RSE, DPP, BW, XY, where we didnt have bottle caps or nature mints for legendaries when VGC's biggest events are the ones with legendaries. Imagine getting perfect primals with 1/32 IV x 6 x 1/16 nature, doing that for both of them (as in restarting and playing through both versions, and being stuck at a specific point in the game unable to do anything until you get them) and then finally being able to make your team. I agree making competitive teams is easier in swsh, its actually more effort to buy a hacked switch, but previous gens its really silly to look at somebody and say "bring a non-genned/save editted team of legendaries."
Re: There's A Newly-Discovered Exploit In Pokémon Sword And Shield Ruining Competitive Play
@Jayvir
Doesn't surprise me people would find a way to negate a loss if they already go so far as to hack in a perfect team.
Its extremely difficult to get a legit perfect team. Especially during later seasons when legendaries are used, and there's no way to breed them for 1/31x6 + 1/16 nature + hidden power type on top of time consuming leveling + EV training + BP/watt grinding for tutor moves.
Thankfully it became easier in swsh with bottle caps and nature mints so that we don't have to cheat as much, but ever since the first vgc players always generated their mons (theres no point not to anyway, back in the old days of gens 3-5 it took months to even get the necessary breeding mons to pass IVs to even begin going for 6 IV pokemon, and there was no destiny knot to guarantee 5 IVs would pass down, no nature mints, and in gen 5 + theres still no way to guarantee hidden abilities if you do hatch something perfect and its not even HA.) There are players that actually didn't even finish their teams in time before the last season of a generation back in gen 4, just because they couldn't find the right stuff to breed with appropriate stats and it took too long to prepare a 6 pokemon team in a meta that changed every week.
If action replays and pokegen didn't exist, there probably wouldn't even be a VGC for gens 4 and 5 to fund for vgc gen 6.
Re: Random: Poor Junichi Masuda Can't Even Enjoy His Birthday Without Someone Moaning About Missing Pokémon
@MoonKnight7 30 dollar additions is reasonable for content normally locked inside a sequel/remake game, but fact of the matter is that SwSh are pretty empty and all the Pokémon should’ve been in by default (even if they’re free without the expansion).
To us, an expansion adding new areas just feels like that should’ve been the full game to begin with.
I get where you’re coming from and completely agree that I would rather buy DLC than play through a full game again just for tutors/frontier/most Pokémon to catch that I should be able to transfer regardless, but right now it still feels like Swsh is half the length and size of the gen 4 games, and the DLC sounds like it’s adding no more than the gen 4 post game areas in terms of new content. Swsh is such a bare bones game for its price tag compared to last Pokémon titles that DLC expansions should’ve came with it free.
Re: Hang On, Competitive Pokémon Fans Are Liking Sword And Shield's National Dex Cut
I find this article hard to believe, because smogon really doesn't appreciate the dex cut at all..
infact, smogon made their own national OU metagame, with megas+z-moves, and dynamax still isn't banned in it with lando and kartana still being legal while galar-OU has already banned dynamax, quick banned darmanitan, and is generally considered really stale with a very small OU list.
If that claim "game would be problematic with lando and kartana" was true, national OU would've axed dynamax way before galar-OU, and that doesn't change the fact they can still ban pokemon and mechanics.
Infact here's a thread on smogon where they mostly ranted about it: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dexit-discussion-thread.3655705/
Re: One Of Pokémon's Largest Fan Communities Bans Dynamaxing In Competitive Matches
@Blizzia They banned both.
Also 86% of the voters all voted to ban dynamax. This isn't "fearmongering" anymore than everybody agreeing something is uncompetitive.
You probably would think banning metaknight in brawl is fearmongering if you disbelieve in majority of the bans at smogon. Or maybe you like it when Ditto, of all pokemon, has a 50% usage rate in OU just because its the only way for players to avoid getting 1v6'd by anything that can dynamax (btw, everything can).
If you read the offical statement, linked in the article, which you didn't:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/dynamax-is-banned-from-ou-explanation-information.3657917/
You'd know smogon did this ban because it ruins competitive play and everyone agree so, and the same post even acknowledges that the integrity isn't as important if the game becomes unplayable due to it. The first paragraphs also mention none of you HAVE to play by smogon rules, but if you're playing competitive, on showdown, and want to have serious games with serious players, they have to put restrictions so you can't just bring your geomancy xerneas and hit rank 1.
Re: One Of Pokémon's Largest Fan Communities Bans Dynamaxing In Competitive Matches
As someone who doesn't play by smogon rules, its actually very logical to ban dynamax.
I get 90% of NL users don't play competitive pokemon, and the ones that do probably only play VGC or battle spot singles, but there's a lot of problems with the dynamax mechanic that made it impossible to play the game on the showdown ladder.
One of the biggest problems was maxs moves causing secondary effects, so anything with access to max airstream, max knuckle, or both simply 1v6'd unless the opponent brought out a ditto... then the ditto 1v6'd.
For example: Gyarados would setup 1 dragon dance, then he would dynamax and use max geyser for rain, or max airstream for +1 speed.. or both. So he could potentially have +2 speed, +1 attack on his water moves, and due to moxie ability, +3 attack if he got 3 KOs... so there was a +4atk/+3 Speed in rain gyarados once the dynamax wore off, after already chunking half of the opponents team.. oh and don't think you can simply counter it, he got power whip this generation so rotom-wash still dies, and the 100% boost in health lets it live a hit from most pokemon even if they're 4x super effective. Now apply this same threat level to excadrill in sand, hawlucha with unburden and max knuckle, and the fact you can run a power house like dracovish, choice lock it, bring in something to wall the move its locked in, then dynamax and break out of the choice lock to use whatever move you wanted.. It wasn't limited to just 2 pokemon either to single them out;
-Gyarados
-Hawlucha
-Corviknight
-Excadrill
-G-darmanitan
-Durant
-Hydreigon
-Togekiss
-Ditto
were all abusers of the mechanic, and we don't even know what else would show up and break the game after half of them are banned.
Glad its gone in galar-ou
Re: The Pokémon Company Is Taking Legal Action Against Sword And Shield Leakers
If it wasn’t for the leaks, I never would’ve bought sword and shield.
Sorry TPC but no, not going to spend 60 dollars to find out if anything new you added I like, nor am I for the first time of the franchise going to spend 60 dollars to find out if anything I like even returned. It was due to the guidebook leaker revealing interesting new mons like centiskorch that gave me a little hype and dex leakers revealing mons like runerigus and frosmoth as well as returning ninjask line that made me preorder.
Good, good, keep damaging your reputation so it’s easier for us long term veterans to leave.
Re: There Are "No Plans" To Bring The Full Pokédex To Pokémon Sword And Shield, And Future Games Will Follow Suit
@SilentHunter382
They tried this with black and white, and everybody was critical of the games and it sold worse than the others.
LGPE did this where they flat out restricted the game to kanto, and that didn’t sell as well as the mainlines either.
Simply put all people want is a Pokémon game they can transfer all their hard shiny hunted, bred, and earned in the case of events. Everything else should be an after thought when making these games.
Re: Poll: Which Starter Pokémon Is The Best? Choose Your Favourite Grass-Type Starter
Went with snivy, love the line too much and as a plus, serperior is pretty good in competitive.
Re: Random: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is About Video Games, So Don't Expect Goku Or Iron Man
He also said ridley was too big.
If we know anything about sakurai, he loves to bait and switch to surprise everybody. His 'not going to happen' could easily turn into 'its happening now, gotcha!'. Not like these characters don't have video games out there to bend the rules either (fighter z).
At the end of the day, anything is possible to be in smash. Still hope for shrek.