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Funky Valentine posted:I just realized that Galaran Meowth and Perrserker are supposed to be vikings. 
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Critical hits seem to bust straight through gigamax shields btw. They don’t. They just do more damage through the shield. Source: my level 100 Eternatus doing maybe 10% of a mon’s hp through the shield with a cannon crit when that’s a 100 power move that gets STAB and then double dmg vs dynamax targets. If crits ignored shields it’d one shot anything that isn’t a fairy, steel, or ice type. seiferguy posted:Is it possible to do link trades with whoever you want in the world by just using the same 4 digit code? Mercifully yes. Why they didn’t do something similar for raids or just let you invites friends directly? Who knows.
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This is honestly the first Pokémon campaign I've beaten where I've felt "this needs an enhanced edition ASAP", and it has nothing to do with what Pokémon are or are not in the game. It feels like it's missing like 50% of its routes, 30% of its trainer battles, and 70% of its dungeons. And sadly I don't even know how an enhanced edition would fix this - might be best to skip right past it into the next remake or a whole new gen. I had a lot of fun with it but I'm only now seeing a lot of the shortcuts they took now that I've beaten it. I'm starting to wonder how much the inclusion of the wild area actually cost us. While a fun inclusion when taken at face value I wonder if it's not a bigger liability than we think. It's not a suitable replacement for everything that was cut or just didn't get finished.
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Nov 27, 2019 08:04
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Staples Canada has physical copies of the games (among others but many are download only)25$ CAD off with code 65957. Considering how stagnant Nintendo prices tend to be you might actually make money if you decide to sell it after you're done
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Deified Data posted:This is honestly the first Pokémon campaign I've beaten where I've felt "this needs an enhanced edition ASAP", and it has nothing to do with what Pokémon are or are not in the game. Yeah, the Wild Area resulted in the removal or simplification of many standard routes and dungeons. The Wild Area itself is very bland feeling, offers an inconsistent rotating Pokémon selection and has exactly one trainer battle, so that is a problem. The campaign requires you to only go there twice so that's a lot of content and pacing that's purely optional.
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Nov 27, 2019 08:20
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Yeah the thought came to me as I was going through the routes again from the beginning looking for items I missed with the surf bike. I didn't think about how weird it was when the game shepherded you to the train stations between gym challenges, but on second glance it's really surprising how many of these towns are dead ends - all presumably to save dev resources on routes in between towns. Like, they could have just added a narrow corridor or two with a few trainer battles. It wouldn't have been ideal but it would have made a difference.
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Fun Times! posted:Having an issue where Pokemon automatically disconnects my switch from the internet and connects it to local y-comm upon startup, halting game downloads. And when I connect to the internet in-game, it still won't let me download anything while playing because the game is using the internet connection. Is there a way around this? Nope! I was completely unable to download a different game on my switch if Pokemon was running. The second I closed Pokemon it worked again. I never figured out a work around for it.
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I finished catching all Gigantamax pokes thus I consider I finished this game, so here's my opinion on it. I enjoyed the game. Yet wherever I looked the game felt incomplete. Whenever I came across something and thought "oh this is cool" 20 minutes later I'd end up being dissapointed when I found out that was just it. The Wild Area is pretty small, for all the fuss the promotional trailers made about it it's just 3 general areas: start, bridge, end, and aside from the Pokemons it's completely barren. No trainers, no events, nothing. The wild Pokemon don't even interact with each other. Here was an opportunity to grab some of those dex entries and have,for example (since I know they are not in the game), a Zangoose chasing or fighting a Seviper and upon interaction you are tossed into a double battle, or a herd of Tauros running around that throws you into a gen 6's horde battle. Aside from the Wild Area, there were too few routes, dungeons, trainers and locations. Heck there was no spooky forest/ghost house nor volcano. Gigantamax sounded fun as a spiritual succesor to Mega Evolutions. Then it turns out the only Pokemons that can Gigantamax are those that you catch already possesing that ability, tossing away the concept of "raising a pokemon and forming a bond with it" that the franchise hammered your head with. You caught a level 8 Ghastly, trained it till it evolved into Haunter then had a friend trade you back to evolve it into Gengar? Well, too bad, better toss that chump into the box because you're gonna have to catch a brand new Gengar if you want the Gigantamax. Which is in turn another problem, Gigantamax pokemon become available really late in the game (same problem GS and SuMo had of making the cool new thing inaccesible till the game is almost over), have insanely low spawn rates, and if you are not the host you have an insanely low chance of catching them. Heck, you can't even breed the ability down in case you want to move your Pokemon over to Home when it comes out and restart the game with a brand new team. The story feels completely phoned in, as if they were crossing points from a check list of standard Pokemon plot beats, to the point that it almost felt that they realised "woops we forgot about the legendaries!" and interrupted the tournament. Someone on this thread said that the game would have worked a lot better as a tournament story instead of the usual "legendary pokemon about to destroy time/space" crap, and I gotta say I agree with it. Speaking of the "Tournament", call me old fashioned, but I don't like this trend that started with SuMo of refighting the Gym Leaders instead of having a proper Elite Four. It reeks of "4 less NPCs to design" when put alongside all the other cuts and shortcuts this game took. Some QoL improvements were introduced, but then they removed a whole bunch of others. There's no berry farm, no egg hatchery and while cute, the camping feature feels pretty barren when compared to SuMo's grooming or XY/ORAS actually having minigames to play with your Pokemon. The cost of Battle Tower items was reduced, but they removed streaks meaning after you get to Max rank you'll only be getting 2 BP per fight, not to mention the fact that since the opponent won't dynamax (with the exception of Leon) but you can, the Battle Tower ends up being piss easy, even with the rental teams. The Postgame hits a new low in this game after USUMO picked up SuMo's slack with the Rainbow Rocket plot. A lot of padding out repeating the gym cycle and a bare thin plot whose antagonist you only hate for how ridiculous their designs are. On the graphics department, the game looks good when compared to previous Pokemon games, but it's not on level with other Switch games. Still, despite this being the main focus of people's criticism since the reveal trailers, I consider this to be the least of the problems, and in fact I hate that this together with dexit got so much attention cause it distracts from the actual problems this game has. If there's a 3rd version release for these games I'd probably skip them since there's no way to address these problems without a complete overhaul. Overall a real shame since to me this gen has the most amount of cool Pokemon designs, yet there's barely any game to play. lezard_valeth fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 09:07
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Soysaucebeast posted:Nope! I was completely unable to download a different game on my switch if Pokemon was running. The second I closed Pokemon it worked again. I never figured out a work around for it. If I remember correctly, the Switch turns off background downloading while playing games with a multiplayer component, so you don't accidentally become That Player in Splatoon 2. Pokemon SwSh is most likely flagged as multiplayer so it automatically shuts down DLs on the OS level.
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first question - do you only get 32 boxes? I uh, may have already filled all of them second question, which may or may not be related - is... is there a quicker way to release pokémon than doing it one by one?
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Nov 27, 2019 11:05
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Yes. No.
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Your Computer posted:second question, which may or may not be related - is... is there a quicker way to release pokémon than doing it one by one? You have to look each one in the eye before you pull the trigger
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Your Computer posted:first question - do you only get 32 boxes? I uh, may have already filled all of them Just wonder trade them away
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Nov 27, 2019 11:23
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Kurtofan posted:Just wonder trade them away my problem is that I've been breeding and wonder trading and I've got something like 25 boxes of unsorted wonder traded mons now 
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Nov 27, 2019 11:30
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Nov 27, 2019 11:32
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Nov 27, 2019 11:39
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The best story character will always be Gladion, just for telling me to "Get out." when I went into his motel room
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Is there any indication that a Pokemon has it's rare HA instead of the standard one or do I need to consult serebii and the Pokemon summary every time
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Epic High Five posted:Is there any indication that a Pokemon has it's rare HA instead of the standard one or do I need to consult serebii and the Pokemon summary every time I can’t even imagine how many HA dynamax raid poke I’ve probably released because i can’t be bothered to check for this every single time. I hate it.
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Epic High Five posted:Is there any indication that a Pokemon has it's rare HA instead of the standard one or do I need to consult serebii and the Pokemon summary every time just learn them
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Kurtofan posted:just learn them lol if you don't play in front of your computer with dorky glasses on and pokemon.xls open at all times
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Forgot to ask, what TM moves did they get rid of this gen? Only one I know of was Hidden Power which irked a ton of competitive players off since it helped patch a lot of holes in a large swath of teams
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lezard_valeth posted:Speaking of the "Tournament", call me old fashioned, but I don't like this trend that started with SuMo of refighting the Gym Leaders instead of having a proper Elite Four. It reeks of "4 less NPCs to design" when put alongside all the other cuts and shortcuts this game took. I agree with a lot of your points, but I gotta disagree with this one. The gym leader tournament is way more fun than an Elite Four and should be the standard moving forward. It lets you get more out of characters you already know and makes more sense than just four weirdos that the player interacts with exactly once at the end of the game and then never again.
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Scrap Dragon posted:I agree with a lot of your points, but I gotta disagree with this one. The gym leader tournament is way more fun than an Elite Four and should be the standard moving forward. It lets you get more out of characters you already know and makes more sense than just four weirdos that the player interacts with exactly once at the end of the game and then never again. This would be fine in a game where the gym leaders had character or did something in the plot but I'd rather have 4 fun weirdo designs that cover 4.more.type.specialists than seeing someone who had 3 lines previously again.
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Deified Data posted:This is honestly the first Pokémon campaign I've beaten where I've felt "this needs an enhanced edition ASAP", and it has nothing to do with what Pokémon are or are not in the game. The actual game does seem wildly... simpler compared to other pokemon games in terms of what they did with routes, yeah. Also I think the real travesty of this gen was reintroducing non-reusable TMs after they made TMs re-usable and then moving most of the useful ones to the non-reusable ones. What sadist made that decision?!
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Obligatum VII posted:The actual game does seem wildly... simpler compared to other pokemon games in terms of what they did with routes, yeah. Still better than the colored shards they had in 4th Gen. At least TRs are relatively easy to get.
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I'm trying to remember a goon who did pokemon showdown videos and it's driving me insane, I want to show them to the gf as a good introduction to "seriously you don't need to do super super super strat stuff to have fun" but he was the only person who wasn't horribly painful to watch with pokemon showdown and now I'm just sad because I think he might have left.
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Obligatum VII posted:Also I think the real travesty of this gen was reintroducing non-reusable TMs after they made TMs re-usable and then moving most of the useful ones to the non-reusable ones. What sadist made that decision?! Whoever decided Raids were going to be the endgame loop and you need proper rewards aside from a possibly not lovely pokemon.
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I mean poo poo I’ve moved onto selling trs for extra cash because I really don’t need half as many as Im accumulating as I grind out xp candies.
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Man I sat down to see what I needed to do if i wanted to train some of my favorites from my main team for competitive battles and now i’m totally overwhelmed all over again. Every gen i somewhat get a handle on this and then next time around im thrown again. So there’s hyper training and nature mints for pokes that suck from when you caught them, but to get the right HA id have to catch one or breed it correct? What else am I missing here...
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Forer posted:I'm trying to remember a goon who did pokemon showdown videos and it's driving me insane, I want to show them to the gf as a good introduction to "seriously you don't need to do super super super strat stuff to have fun" but he was the only person who wasn't horribly painful to watch with pokemon showdown and now I'm just sad because I think he might have left. Reverend. Most of his videos are from gen 6 but there's some from 7 too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXQLFAyGsc0
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Licarn posted:of all the dumb decisions in these games, gmax events are the dumb icing on the dumb cake Why?
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RatHat posted:Why? Because G-Max Pokemon are already a pain in the rear end to get due to their spawn rates and arguably even worse catch rates. Now we have to try and catch one within a limited time frame.
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