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.
Yea no, this is cover-up shilling for gamefreak, the rigs are identical to sun/moons and let's go, even so much as the whiskers on gyarados are STILL bugged at the bend joint. That's just flat out a copy - > paste because there's no way a trained animator or modeler could mess that up twice while having a visually exact model and exact animation sequence frame by frame.
The only thing changed are slight texture tweaks and some animation/posture changes, but those are for a couple pokemon, majority of the rest are as copy and pasted as they could've copy and pasted the culled ones into the next game. The simple fact of this is they're being lazy and they're going to use the remaining pokemon as a selling point for the sequel titles. 'CATCH EM ALL IN ULTRA SWSH!'
Literally cant wait for them to release the rest in 2 years and say 'oh suddenly we have the file space'
Something worth mention is a lot of people bought multiple copies of the other handheld games too.
With let's go, there's hardly any reason at all to have more then one as there's little to actually do other then the solo experience, and the version exclusives iirc just boil down to the starters and a few pokemon rather then story elements (don't quote me on that, never was interested to actually play and find out myself).
With the handhelds, a lot of people would buy another cartridge or two due to;
Modding, trading with yourself, Storage, Nuzlocke without ruining the old save file, corrupted data, and losing them (lets face it, this was a time when cartridges tended to be ruined or lost somehow due to mishandling experience but nowadays we're more used to it, and there's less problems with modding and data corrupting compared to using random action replay codes that could be anything.), and competitive reasons (It was more of a big deal for games like ORAS because competitive players had to grind for the inaccessible pokemon, but with lets go there's no incentive to due to lack of proper online or competitive experience.)
I ordered mine off of walmart literally last night.
Got the email that it was shipped.
You can use the same gamecube adapter from the Wii U. It was built for Wii U and PC but it works perfectly fine I've heard as long as its set to Wii U and the switch has pro controller enabled. Buying the switch version of it is just nintendo marketing that its for the switch, so if you can get an old one, then this shouldn't be a problem.
If people literally stopped talking about it, it would fade away like the majority of OCs out there.
No reason to make articles about it, its a meme, a joke. You might as well report every single nintendo character turned fat and given carl brutananadilewski's face.
I guess news shouldn't talk about crime either for "promoting crime".
Its reality dude. If you don't want to see it look away cause believe me most poke-sites and mobile gaming news sites share news like this. Much like any local news station is going to share about the latest shoot out or robber. Do these sites ever say "try it yourself with these easy steps?" no.
And datamining isn't necessarily bootlegging either.
Don't mind it as much now, but I'm probably going to pass either way.
Too simple, no online as far as I know, 60 dollars for 151 pokemon when 700+ plus was available for 40 on the 3ds (yea i know hardware expenses but c'mon, thats a lot of models left out and a lot of reused models and animations for that value..)
Company just couldn't keep up with the trends sadly. Most kids went electronic, but more importantly online stores offered the content they offered at least 10%-30% cheaper IME.
The only thing TrU offered was some exclusive stuff, but that's assuming you wanted that or didn't go to ebay anyway. It was a nostalgic experience as a kid regardless.
I think what people truely have a hard time understanding is what exactly makes a pokemon "a pokemon". This particularly rose some huge debates with hoopa-unbound being more "yu-gi-oh" without any real description of what made it more belonging to yu-gi-oh over pokemon.
I don't get why people hate on poorly designed mons, there's over 800, not all of them will be good designs just like how other monster collection games (be it cards, yokai, whatever) have lame designs. Somebody will like it or like it because its hated and ironic. I can understand people complaining about an underwhelming generation in details or their pokemon, but not hating on GF on specific pokemon.
Regardless, I find GF's methods of designing pokemon great, at least they don't just go on google and make what ever fanmon they see.
If they made it work, that'd be great but just like how skype was never a thing on nintendo consoles I doubt we'd see discord for the switch.
Discord is also more dynamic with its options, bots, servers, etc which would require a massive remake of the app for the switch exclusively (rather than letting you just sign it on the same account you use with your PC or phone.) It'd be great if we got it, but I doubt we'd get "discord" and more like "diet discord" in which case we're better off with something more fleshed out like microsoft's communication system.
I don't think this can even be legally lawsuited. Patreon if I'm not mistaken is just a method of donation rather than contract/business profit. Its why the free use claim for copyrighted content uploaded on youtube gets abused and monetized every day through patreon. I don't believe nintendo could lawsuit the emulator anymore than it can lawsuit patreon as a service.
I'm completely against this, this is in fact abusing a service to get around an illegal act of piracy, without it being piracy in context of law. (free use of a product they purchased)
@MadAdam81 "Even better team" isn't due to hacking more or less just knowing how to build their sets better. Time is irrelevant, some players don't have the time to soft reset for 7 weeks to get a 5 IV heatran.
Any illegal pokemon do not work over online functions so if you lost to a darkrai its cause you lost to a darkrai, not because it was a hacked one. The only issue is the time it took to build the team, well you shouldn't be fighting good teams unfinished with yours to begin with. There's no advantage for the enemy player for building their team in 3 minutes while yours was in an hour.
Not pirating the game by leaking rom hacks which players can optionally download instead of buying the real games, that's a big deal that changes the company (finacially)
Why do I get this sinking suspicion the "preview" will just be the box cover of the NX while the rest of the presentation is gameplay of old Wii U titles.
I'm excited for the games but not as excited as I was for ORAS. There's lots of things I love about sun and moon so far yet at the same time I don't know what else to be excited for, if new megas were announced I'd be even more excited with anticipation on which one of my favorites would potentially get one, but with sun and moon the only anticipation I have would be other mon designs, and what other aloha formes we'll see. I'm excited for a fresh new take on the franchise and something else to spend lots of my time breeding/battling on, but I can't be excited for something gives me nothing to actually be hyped for, being hyped for new pokemon and formes is like being hyped for new skins in MOBAs or DLC, granted those do hype me but only if it's specific to something I really like (example: mega to a fav mon).
I want to be very excited for pokemon like lurantis and tapu koko but idk if i'll have much of a reason to play them, they could do something stupid that makes them worthless and unappreciated like move pools. (Zygarde didn't even get stealth rock, that was a huge factor in why he sucked, if lurantis doesn't get sword's dance or a similar setup move rip.)
@Krisi Cause it's a starter that pathetically needs a mega to be reconized.
Honestly bulba isn't that awful, the vote was probably based around starters to pick from rather than competitive viability. This list seems pretty accurate to me in the fact that if you choose these starters the story modes and gyms will be harder to do without another counter on the team.
@greengecko007 box legendaries are banned in VGC. Idk why we're worried about mega rayquaza in VGC when all box and event legendaries are prohibited as well as soul dew.
Oh boy, "legit" leaks. I guess mega flygon is confirmed finally.
(Can we not go through this again with sun and moon? Not a single damn thing that wasn't in offical corocoro on the exact same dates was legit for oras.)
@Yorumi They could reveal the NX with them as launch titles. I mean the NX has been told to be a 2016 release and this might be the big "this is what it is" reveal.
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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.
Re: Game Freak Isn't Reusing 3DS Models In Pokémon Sword and Shield
Yea no, this is cover-up shilling for gamefreak, the rigs are identical to sun/moons and let's go, even so much as the whiskers on gyarados are STILL bugged at the bend joint. That's just flat out a copy - > paste because there's no way a trained animator or modeler could mess that up twice while having a visually exact model and exact animation sequence frame by frame.
The only thing changed are slight texture tweaks and some animation/posture changes, but those are for a couple pokemon, majority of the rest are as copy and pasted as they could've copy and pasted the culled ones into the next game. The simple fact of this is they're being lazy and they're going to use the remaining pokemon as a selling point for the sequel titles. 'CATCH EM ALL IN ULTRA SWSH!'
Literally cant wait for them to release the rest in 2 years and say 'oh suddenly we have the file space'
Re: Pokémon Sales Slump To All-Time Low In Japan, Despite Strong Worldwide Performance Of Let's Go
Something worth mention is a lot of people bought multiple copies of the other handheld games too.
With let's go, there's hardly any reason at all to have more then one as there's little to actually do other then the solo experience, and the version exclusives iirc just boil down to the starters and a few pokemon rather then story elements (don't quote me on that, never was interested to actually play and find out myself).
With the handhelds, a lot of people would buy another cartridge or two due to;
Modding, trading with yourself, Storage, Nuzlocke without ruining the old save file, corrupted data, and losing them (lets face it, this was a time when cartridges tended to be ruined or lost somehow due to mishandling experience but nowadays we're more used to it, and there's less problems with modding and data corrupting compared to using random action replay codes that could be anything.), and competitive reasons (It was more of a big deal for games like ORAS because competitive players had to grind for the inaccessible pokemon, but with lets go there's no incentive to due to lack of proper online or competitive experience.)
Re: First 4 Figures Teases Its Menacing Metroid Prime Meta Ridley Statue
@nessisonett
Re: Nintendo Switch GameCube Adapter Delayed In The UK Until May 2019
I ordered mine off of walmart literally last night.
Got the email that it was shipped.
You can use the same gamecube adapter from the Wii U. It was built for Wii U and PC but it works perfectly fine I've heard as long as its set to Wii U and the switch has pro controller enabled. Buying the switch version of it is just nintendo marketing that its for the switch, so if you can get an old one, then this shouldn't be a problem.
Re: Bowsette Now Has Her Own Online Petition And A Fan Gathering Taking Place In Japan
@Greator Yes.
Its even funnier how passionate people are getting over this joke. I guess all those google and tidepod cosplayers are serious matters too.
Re: Bowsette Now Has Her Own Online Petition And A Fan Gathering Taking Place In Japan
If people literally stopped talking about it, it would fade away like the majority of OCs out there.
No reason to make articles about it, its a meme, a joke. You might as well report every single nintendo character turned fat and given carl brutananadilewski's face.
Re: Dataminers Unveil The Next Potential Set Of Monsters Coming To Pokémon GO
@Cosats Datamining encouraging piracy and theft?
I guess news shouldn't talk about crime either for "promoting crime".
Its reality dude. If you don't want to see it look away cause believe me most poke-sites and mobile gaming news sites share news like this. Much like any local news station is going to share about the latest shoot out or robber. Do these sites ever say "try it yourself with these easy steps?" no.
And datamining isn't necessarily bootlegging either.
Re: Pokémon Core Series RPG Will Arrive In The Second Half Of 2019
Don't mind it as much now, but I'm probably going to pass either way.
Too simple, no online as far as I know, 60 dollars for 151 pokemon when 700+ plus was available for 40 on the 3ds (yea i know hardware expenses but c'mon, thats a lot of models left out and a lot of reused models and animations for that value..)
Re: Toys R Us Is Preparing To Liquidate Its U.S. Business, Reports Claim
Company just couldn't keep up with the trends sadly. Most kids went electronic, but more importantly online stores offered the content they offered at least 10%-30% cheaper IME.
The only thing TrU offered was some exclusive stuff, but that's assuming you wanted that or didn't go to ebay anyway. It was a nostalgic experience as a kid regardless.
Re: Super Smash Bros. For Switch Is Coming This Year, And It's Got Inklings
I'm glad
but I hope that its smash 5.. and not just a port with inkling DLC.
Re: Hands On: The Future Of Gaming Is Cardboard, Thanks To Nintendo Labo
I prefer my games played with envelope.
Re: Ace Of Seafood Features Fish With Lasers, So Thank Poseidon We're Getting A Switch Version
This game looks so poorly made and so amazing at the same time.
Re: Game Freak Director Discusses Evolution of Pokémon Designs
I think what people truely have a hard time understanding is what exactly makes a pokemon "a pokemon". This particularly rose some huge debates with hoopa-unbound being more "yu-gi-oh" without any real description of what made it more belonging to yu-gi-oh over pokemon.
I don't get why people hate on poorly designed mons, there's over 800, not all of them will be good designs just like how other monster collection games (be it cards, yokai, whatever) have lame designs. Somebody will like it or like it because its hated and ironic. I can understand people complaining about an underwhelming generation in details or their pokemon, but not hating on GF on specific pokemon.
Regardless, I find GF's methods of designing pokemon great, at least they don't just go on google and make what ever fanmon they see.
Re: Discord is Interested in Supporting Nintendo Switch, But Don't Hold Your Breath
If they made it work, that'd be great but just like how skype was never a thing on nintendo consoles I doubt we'd see discord for the switch.
Discord is also more dynamic with its options, bots, servers, etc which would require a massive remake of the app for the switch exclusively (rather than letting you just sign it on the same account you use with your PC or phone.) It'd be great if we got it, but I doubt we'd get "discord" and more like "diet discord" in which case we're better off with something more fleshed out like microsoft's communication system.
Re: Video: Sonic Forces Trailer Showcases Gameplay, Along With Familiar and New Foes
A customizable character?
Where have i seen this before...
Re: Team Behind Wii U Emulator, CEMU, Makes Surprising Progress With Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I don't think this can even be legally lawsuited. Patreon if I'm not mistaken is just a method of donation rather than contract/business profit. Its why the free use claim for copyrighted content uploaded on youtube gets abused and monetized every day through patreon. I don't believe nintendo could lawsuit the emulator anymore than it can lawsuit patreon as a service.
I'm completely against this, this is in fact abusing a service to get around an illegal act of piracy, without it being piracy in context of law. (free use of a product they purchased)
Re: Feature: Looking Back at Nintendo's 2016
@hieveryone
Idk if 2017 will be better than 2016. We're already expecting an emoji movie.
Re: Retro Studios is Hiring and Tweeting, Which is Nice
@PlywoodStick It is canon!
Re: Retro Studios is Hiring and Tweeting, Which is Nice
I feel like they gave up on metroid. Its been a dead franchise for such a long time and it's revival just dug a deeper grave it seemed.
They're working on F-zero for suuuurrrreeeee.
Re: Pokémon Sun and Moon Magearna Distribution and Movie Screening Details are Confirmed
@HyrulianOfHyrule CN isn't dropping pokemon, pokemon is dropping CN for Disney XD (why I have no clue but atleast its not nickelodeon.)
Re: Nintendo Drops The Ban Hammer on Pokémon Sun and Moon Pirates
@MadAdam81 "Even better team" isn't due to hacking more or less just knowing how to build their sets better. Time is irrelevant, some players don't have the time to soft reset for 7 weeks to get a 5 IV heatran.
Any illegal pokemon do not work over online functions so if you lost to a darkrai its cause you lost to a darkrai, not because it was a hacked one. The only issue is the time it took to build the team, well you shouldn't be fighting good teams unfinished with yours to begin with. There's no advantage for the enemy player for building their team in 3 minutes while yours was in an hour.
Not pirating the game by leaking rom hacks which players can optionally download instead of buying the real games, that's a big deal that changes the company (finacially)
Re: Pokémon Sun and Moon Version Exclusives Leaked Online
Apparently there are other exclusives such as ledyba, spinarak, trapinch, and something else.
Re: Say Hello to the Nintendo Switch, a New Concept for Gaming
Re: Preview Trailer of the Nintendo NX Confirmed for 20th October
Why do I get this sinking suspicion the "preview" will just be the box cover of the NX while the rest of the presentation is gameplay of old Wii U titles.
Ah who cares
HYPE!
Re: Livestreamed Mugging Highlights The Dangers Of Playing Pokémon GO Late At Night
@RoboDuck I don't want to feed the obvious troll but I need a meme for this.
That will do.
let's not...
Re: Alolan Rattata and Special Z-Moves Revealed for Pokémon Sun and Moon
And thats how Trump got impeached.
Re: Poll: How Excited Are You About Pokémon Sun and Moon?
I'm excited for the games but not as excited as I was for ORAS. There's lots of things I love about sun and moon so far yet at the same time I don't know what else to be excited for, if new megas were announced I'd be even more excited with anticipation on which one of my favorites would potentially get one, but with sun and moon the only anticipation I have would be other mon designs, and what other aloha formes we'll see. I'm excited for a fresh new take on the franchise and something else to spend lots of my time breeding/battling on, but I can't be excited for something gives me nothing to actually be hyped for, being hyped for new pokemon and formes is like being hyped for new skins in MOBAs or DLC, granted those do hype me but only if it's specific to something I really like (example: mega to a fav mon).
I want to be very excited for pokemon like lurantis and tapu koko but idk if i'll have much of a reason to play them, they could do something stupid that makes them worthless and unappreciated like move pools. (Zygarde didn't even get stealth rock, that was a huge factor in why he sucked, if lurantis doesn't get sword's dance or a similar setup move rip.)
Re: A Pokémon Sun and Moon Manga Series is Coming to CoroCoro Comics
The manga releases before the games do in september.
So.. I guess this means 90% of everything in the game will be offically revealed next month assuming every mon will get a cameo.
Re: Gotta Protectors Looks Like an Amazing and Quirky Throwback to '80s Gaming
Do we really need this in our lives?...
..... YES
Re: Shigeru Miyamoto Provides Assurances on Pikmin 4 Development
Wasnt pikmin 3 susposed to be a wii u launch title, than delayed to a wii u launch window, then delayed again to over a year after the wii us release?
Re: Random: Japanese Gamers Decide Which Starter Pokémon Is The Most "Seriously Useless"
@Krisi Cause it's a starter that pathetically needs a mega to be reconized.
Honestly bulba isn't that awful, the vote was probably based around starters to pick from rather than competitive viability. This list seems pretty accurate to me in the fact that if you choose these starters the story modes and gyms will be harder to do without another counter on the team.
@greengecko007 box legendaries are banned in VGC. Idk why we're worried about mega rayquaza in VGC when all box and event legendaries are prohibited as well as soul dew.
Re: Video: Potential Pokémon Sun & Moon Starter Evolution Types Revealed
files nails
Oh boy, "legit" leaks. I guess mega flygon is confirmed finally.
(Can we not go through this again with sun and moon? Not a single damn thing that wasn't in offical corocoro on the exact same dates was legit for oras.)
Re: Trademarks And Logos For The Next Pokémon Game Surface Online Ahead Of Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct
@Yorumi Thought this was a nintendo direct, hmm. Most likely not then.
Re: Trademarks And Logos For The Next Pokémon Game Surface Online Ahead Of Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct
@Yorumi They could reveal the NX with them as launch titles. I mean the NX has been told to be a 2016 release and this might be the big "this is what it is" reveal.