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I think the tournament spectacle was still at least 5 times as interesting as literally any Pokemon plot involving legendaries has ever been. I seriously do not care about your stupid looking dog, and I never will.
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Nov 22, 2019 08:35
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Clarste posted:I think the tournament spectacle was still at least 5 times as interesting as literally any Pokemon plot involving legendaries has ever been. I mean it was better than any of the legendaries doing Big Satan Plots (S/M gets around that by having the legendary just be poisoning Sad Mom so the real monster is man) but it's still just an boring affair. It's a tournament arc, the whole deal is you get to see the characters' development and strengths and ideals clash one after another as some capstone to their arcs but like...no one has anything going on so it's just you dunking on some losers over and over.
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Nov 22, 2019 08:38
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Yeah, I wish they'd just commit to telling an actual tournament arc story instead of having a bland tournament papered over some legend nonsense that they don't even do anything interesting with. I want to see an actual sport story Pokemon game. That said I do think the music and spectacle of the gym battles was consistently pretty hype in this game.
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Nov 22, 2019 08:41
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I love how smoothly it transitions from the entrance into the stadium to the start of the battle itself. And the unique animations the different leaders have for Dynamaxing, with the little personal touches; Habu getting that little flash of fire in his eyes, for example.
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Nov 22, 2019 09:01
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Everyone here has to agree these are the best gyms the series has had yet.
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Nov 22, 2019 09:31
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The atmosphere is definitely a lot better. Even if it's still likely for some people to utterly steamroll them. Though gameplay wise, they basically fizzle out as the game goes along.
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Nov 22, 2019 09:32
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I enjoyed the gym challenge itself. I don't like how the championship is just them again though. I already beat them what exactly am I proving here by beating them again.
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  fun fact that I learned when fighting gothorita: competitive raises SpA by 2 stages every time a stat drops. The shield breaking counts as two stat drops. Combine that with one of the idiot NPCs using a move that does gently caress all damage but lowers a stat in the process, it went to +6 SpA in a single turn! Kirios posted:Everyone here has to agree these are the best gyms the series has had yet.
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Nov 22, 2019 09:44
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Are Raid pokemons sure catch once they're defeated? Wanna know if I should waste my hyper balls on them or what.
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Nov 22, 2019 09:46
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Kurtofan posted:Are Raid pokemons sure catch once they're defeated? Wanna know if I should waste my hyper balls on them or what.
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Nov 22, 2019 09:48
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Blaziken386 posted:they are not, but I've also heard that the pokeball used doesn't matter so do they just leave if it misses or what
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Nov 22, 2019 10:20
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Kurtofan posted:so do they just leave if it misses or what They can break out. And yea you only get one shot per raid, sucks but that's rng. If it's your own raid and you saved before there's nothing stopping you from retrying it though!
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Nov 22, 2019 10:22
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Since they blew the soccer gimmick on the UK region what are they going to do for the other billion countries where it's the sport of choice?
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Blockhouse posted:Since they blew the soccer gimmick on the UK region what are they going to do for the other billion countries where it's the sport of choice? Probably only reference it in one trainer group. Japan and usa love baseball, but gens 1-5 dont feature it heavily. Or just focus on other sports. PokeAustralia's rugby, PokeMexico's lucha libre, PokeCanada's hokey, etc
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i definitely have beef with the ShSw plot, but i'm not feeling too let down, just because i went in with low expectations (and this is certainly not a defense). even tho i was looking forward to the game more than many folks going into launch, like. see, sun/moon's plot knocked it out of the park for me on a level the other games couldn't touch. i loved just about every character, and the main plot uh. hit close to home in a powerful way. so i reigned myself in going 'yea even if they DID try to go more plot heavy again, there's no way they're touching that sort of thing again right away, best to just not expect much plot wise'. and, well. i was a little more right than i'd like? i guess??? marnie was fuckin robbed. i'm playing a lot more of the actual game and looking forward to multiplayer, though, in a way i haven't since gsc. which was... oh dear god 20 fuckin years ago. Avalerion posted:I enjoyed the gym challenge itself. I don't like how the championship is just them again though. I already beat them what exactly am I proving here by beating them again. see i sort of dug that, myself. like if everything is Big Competitive Sports Time, then being a gym leader means you're already proven as someone great. so you get a secured spot at each championship, where you actually use a (closer to) real team and try to scramble to the top of the pile and beat the champion yourself. ...that or i'm just projecting and filling in blanks the game flubbed. v  v(rad remix tune at least tho)
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Blockhouse posted:Since they blew the soccer gimmick on the UK region what are they going to do for the other billion countries where it's the sport of choice? What part of this is gen's gimmick specifically soccer instead of just professional sports in general? Skyelan posted:see i sort of dug that, myself. like if everything is Big Competitive Sports Time, then being a gym leader means you're already proven as someone great. so you get a secured spot at each championship, where you actually use a (closer to) real team and try to scramble to the top of the pile and beat the champion yourself. If only anyone beside the PC and Leon figured out the top secret winning strat of "bring 6 pokemon". Avalerion fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Nov 22, 2019 |
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Nov 22, 2019 10:37
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Blockhouse posted:Since they blew the soccer gimmick on the UK region what are they going to do for the other billion countries where it's the sport of choice?
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:PokeMexico's lucha libre PokeJapan's strong style, PokeUK's catch as catch can, PokeWWE's cuckolding storyline angles, PokeIndies' killing the business spot fest,
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Skyelan posted:see i sort of dug that, myself. like if everything is Big Competitive Sports Time, then being a gym leader means you're already proven as someone great. so you get a secured spot at each championship, where you actually use a (closer to) real team and try to scramble to the top of the pile and beat the champion yourself. The game said exactly that. That the Gym Leaders weren't using their main teams in the original fights, those were only meant as a test for challengers.
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My opponent threw so incredibly hard: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1014467374 Also I need to go back to the drawing board because this AV Hatterene doesn't really do anything and this team was built around running setup Toxtricity which turns out to not feel all that good. I have nothing that can really answer a Scarf Darmanitan right now either, though all things considered there's not too much that actually does answer Darm.
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:You haven't seen nothin yet buddy Wow. You could just tell they basically just gave up on the presentation by gym 8. I basically felt the time crunch rear its ugly head there. Gameplay wise it was a lot more engaging than gym 7 though. And I appreciated that it was more than just the dragon gym.
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I enjoy the battle tower in most Pokémon games but I hate the busywork of breeding for natures/abilities/IVs etc It turns out the rentals you get by talking to green shirt guy are more than good enough to go all the way and easily farm BP, I've been using skill team with Gyarados Falinks and Grimmsnarl and the only thing I have trouble with is a strong fairy type that encores setup (Togekiss)
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Blockhouse posted:Since they blew the soccer gimmick on the UK region what are they going to do for the other billion countries where it's the sport of choice? Why does Pokémon suddenly require a sports gimmick in every game?
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Blockhouse posted:Since they blew the soccer gimmick on the UK region what are they going to do for the other billion countries where it's the sport of choice? I said it once and I'll say it again. PokeMexico with Lucha Gyms.
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Genovera posted:Yes, Drizzile and Chewtle are compatible. You can check in-game if two pokemon will produce eggs or not by talking to the daycare person. If the person says something like "they prefer to play with other pokemon", then they will not breed. If it's something like "they don't get along very well", you'll still get eggs, they'll just appear slowly. The baby's species is determined by the mother. Thank you so much for this. Took me like an hour to figure it out online, then I panicked when I saw they don’t get alongside well. Thanks again!
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Nov 22, 2019 12:36
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This league card thing is fun times but I wish I could have my buddies in the picture too.
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Beasteh posted:I enjoy the battle tower in most Pokémon games but I hate the busywork of breeding for natures/abilities/IVs etc Worth pointing out you can Dynamax yourself out of a choice item/Encore/similar move-locking effect.
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The post-game characters' hair is so god drat stupid. I kind of love it.
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After beating the game, and being into the competitive scene, I feel like one of the driving forces for designing SwSh is that they wanted to bridge the gap between casual players and competitive pvp. A lot like how LGPE helped bridged the gap between casual Go players and mainline games. This is further supported by the fact that the Battle Tower is pretty blatantly described as a training ground for PVP, and even uses a similar ranking style. Also the fact that actual PVP matches give you BP and items for use in game now. Add onto that the ease that you can get already strong mons through raids and the extra incentives to fight a bunch of the same mons for EVs, and even the most casual players can make a decent team with some effort. And they even let you rent solid teams that you can use in Battle Tower or PVP! So while I agree that a lot of the game needed some extra polish, they definitely wanted to focus on PVP this time around. I kind of enjoyed the light and low key story though, it was a breath of fresh air.
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What story? My biggest gripe was the last 3 gyms you go from doing an actual gym challenge/puzzle with obstacles and scenery to 'have an audition on a stage where you get asked a bunch of deceiving questions', 'run to the right a few times' (i get that it was a homage to streets of rage but still dumb and bad) and 'beat 3 doubles trainers in a single room without having to move around at all' They must have been crunching super hard Beasteh fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Nov 22, 2019 |
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The core of the story is basically about the relationship between kids and their adult role models. This is seen by the separate arcs Hop, Marnie and Bede take over the course of their career, and especially how each of them interact with their mentor/role model figures. E.g. how Hop stops being so fixated on becoming the new Leon but instead decides to follow Sonia instead, how Bede gets away from his toxic relationship with the Chairman, and the whole dynamic of Marnie and Piers/Team Yell.
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Just found out Perrserker's Japanese name is Nyaiking I appreciate it's an equally dumb pun in both languages
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Blockhouse posted:Just found out Perrserker's Japanese name is Nyaiking I am in love with the lovely, lovely pun that is Polteageist's Japanese name. Pottodesu. Desu is the Japanese way of pronouncing the English word "death", so "Pot death". But "Potto desu" is also Japanese for "It is a teapot".
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Nov 22, 2019 14:54
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Remember that optional dungeon in RSE where you had to translate tablets from braille to get in? That was wild.
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Bleck posted:on the difficulty; I basically swept through the entire game, felt pretty confident about my team's level and power in every encounter, and then Leon walked up and showed me why he's called The Unbeatable Champion There's no way lol I'm not doubting, I'm legit excited for this. I can't comprehend of a difficult AI fight in Pokemon that doesn't have RNG tipped in its favor like Battle Tower.
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Riatsala posted:Remember that optional dungeon in RSE where you had to translate tablets from braille to get in? That was wild. last comes wailord I had that memorized and then in ORAS they didn't change it (they flipped the positions of the two in Emerald) so I felt like a super genius.
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