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wizard2 posted:yeah, I dont doubt it. the user experience of Scarlet/Violet is alllll over the place for sure. Yea, clocked violet in at 22, Sword at 36? It's probably not happening but I'd like if the next game had routes and dungeons and trainers that are obstacles rather than collectibles again.
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Grundulum posted:I recognize that this may not be the best thread for unbiased opinions, but anyway. When Scarlet/Violet came out, they were lambasted for being riddled with bugs and suffering from performance issues on the Switch. I can see that there have been three updates since last November. Does version 1.3 make the games more playable than they were at launch, or do the original issues still persist? readdressing this: yeah, theres less of it now but theres still a good % of the same bullcrap from release. also, everybody seems to just take away something different from the experience so your mileage may, can and will vary. the next big patch, which will let you use your old bros from previous games, is coming in two weeks? soon? eventually? when it feels like? and the DLCs will wind down sometime in Q1 or Q2 of next year. maybe. still, theres a loooot of fun to be had if it clicks for you. thats the best i got
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HopperUK posted:Hahaha I think I was at that time around the third gym or so. I play Pokemon games at a glacial pace. Same. I don't think I play super slowly, but I just enjoy the game and am usually focused on completing more goals in the story before anything else. I don't really get too sidetracked with dex completion or anything until the postgame.
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I tell myself every time I start that I'm not going to get all intense about catching one of everything, I can complete the dex later. And then I catch everything I see anyway.
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Apr 30, 2023 15:45
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im playing legends arceus because even though i don't like it much i can't resist it when you get a mythical for playing it
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I don't even know what a Quaker Oats can looks like. time to do some research e:  personally Idon't see the resemblance but maybe yall remember an older version or something indigi fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Apr 30, 2023 15:54
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Yeah idgi either, I just assumed Quaker Oats had very different branding in the US or something After a few months I have decided PLA is for me the better game than SV - but both are good, in quite different ways
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Apr 30, 2023 16:07
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vaguely rectangular with a light border around it is close enough at a glance, I guess
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Apr 30, 2023 16:09
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an older version of the can has a white halo/circle around the quaker dude
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Apr 30, 2023 16:13
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Behold, the old Quaker Oats can: Hmm, what happens when we shrink it down to avatar size and draw some green around it, and then squint at it:  Fine, let me squint for you:  Now I'm not saying that Big Oats has infiltrated our beloved thread in an attempt to get us to eat more wholesome oats while playing our cute monster capture game, but is it just a coincidence? Or are there cosmic forces at play far beyond our comprehension? 
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Apr 30, 2023 16:39
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I've been discovered. the Friends aren't going to be happy about this
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Avalerion posted:Yea, clocked violet in at 22, Sword at 36? It's probably not happening but I'd like if the next game had routes and dungeons and trainers that are obstacles rather than collectibles again. were you just beelining straight from badge to badge?
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Apr 30, 2023 16:43
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it rules that you can have the iconography of a deranged religious sect just casually hanging out in the breakfast aisle
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wizard2 posted:it rules that you can have the iconography of a deranged religious sect just casually hanging out in the breakfast aisle That is not a very nice way to talk about Quakers! Unless you mean Tony the Tiger. I don't trust that guy.
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I do think, from both a gameplay and thematic perspective, segregating the three stories into their own tidy slots took away a bit from the feeling of a spiraling adventure where you're an unsuspecting agent of fate vs. the game's "eh do whatever whenever, nbd" vibe the three stories and their characters are very very good - at worst second best in the franchise, imo - so it wasn't as detrimental (or even as noticeable) as it would have been with weaker plots. but at least for me there was never a feeling of getting swept along by a mounting wave of historical import that the other games have, where you set out to get the next badge and suddenly you're on top of a tower fighting a meteor with a dragon
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indigi posted:I do think, from both a gameplay and thematic perspective, segregating the three stories into their own tidy slots took away a bit from the feeling of a spiraling adventure where you're an unsuspecting agent of fate vs. the game's "eh do whatever whenever, nbd" vibe Hmm I think you're right there, and the reason it didn't trouble me is that I just don't mind that, never was really into it. I'd much rather be doing things that feel sort of - proportionate to my character. Though I did enjoy Fixing The Sky in PLA, so in all honesty the truth might be that I'm just very easy to please when it comes to videogame stories. Like I thought the story in SwoShi was really bad but it didn't really ruin anything for me. I was just like 'lmao' and forgot about it. Wouldn't play through again though.
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they did so much right that any complaints I have about the story are marginal. I'd rather another story of this quality vs them trying to artificially recapture the cosmic import of gens 4 or 7. just let the people who wrote scavio do their thing again
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HopperUK posted:That is not a very nice way to talk about Quakers! apologies! I forgot thats its not Meltdown May yet in the US!
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Avalerion posted:I like the story and characters and the new monsters but the world is just extremely empty and bland. Ironically I think going open world ruined any sense of exploration and adventure the series has had. the open world was a huge whiff
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I think they made a huge mistake with SV by having one giant continuous world map and not splitting it off into several big maps like Legends Arceus did. Having everything on one giant map makes me very conscious of how empty it feels, now that you can plainly see that the region is a giant expanse of low-detail ocean, fields, and mountains with some tiny rest stops scattered around and roads running through it. Paldea is supposedly a well-established region that's been settled by humans for over a millennia, but it sure doesn't feel like it.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:18
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I could see the mountain town from the desert town and I thought that was cool. Then you have the ex-snowboarding guy who's the gym leader of a ski stop or something?
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yeah Paldea definitely could have used more cities/towns without gyms that had their own little quest lines to feel more complete. they could even incorporate some evolution mechanics into it, like you can evolve Finizen if you go to PokeAndorra and team up with the mayor to fuckin, idk, help clear the local mine's Zubat infestation
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i really liked the scarvio map even if i wish the towns were more involved. i would go bonkers for my dream game which is now a SuMo remake of Alola in this engine that doesn't run like rear end
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in ten years the sumo remake will be a launch title for the Switch 2
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indigi posted:yeah Paldea definitely could have used more cities/towns without gyms that had their own little quest lines to feel more complete. they could even incorporate some evolution mechanics into it, like you can evolve Finizen if you go to PokeAndorra and team up with the mayor to fuckin, idk, help clear the local mine's Zubat infestation I really loved getting one hub town with a lot of quests in Legends Arceus, some with progressing stories and changes to the town. I wasn't expecting a similar experience in SV, but I was struck by how weirdly empty and pointless its cities felt. I think its cities are one of the worst-affected parts of its short development cycle.
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idk maybe i havent gotten to the Good Part yet but PL:A feels far emptier than scarvio. im gonna go nuts if i see one more drifloon
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drifloon are common across the starter map and the seaside map. they don't appear on the swamp, mountain or ice maps
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That poster is absolutely hanging up on someone's wall in Paldea; one who climbed up the Area Zero crater wall and saw one flying around
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i really liked the scarvio map even if i wish the towns were more involved. i would go bonkers for my dream game which is now a SuMo remake of Alola in this engine that doesn't run like rear end this but B3W3 with more New Jersey and Long Island 😈
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:with more New Jersey and Long Island the first time these words were ever combined in this order
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Feels Villeneuve posted:idk maybe i havent gotten to the Good Part yet but PL:A feels far emptier than scarvio. im gonna go nuts if i see one more drifloon It is emptier in terms of questing and NPCs and such but the real draw for PL:A was the pokemon and the non-battle capturing.
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the arceus maps are good and it's v chill
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Looper posted:were you just beelining straight from badge to badge? And bases, and titans but pretty much yea? That's what I mean about there being nothing to the world beyond like "track down these 4 under leveled trainers per area to get a potion".
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HopperUK posted:It is emptier in terms of questing and NPCs and such but the real draw for PL:A was the pokemon and the non-battle capturing. its weird because i am theoretically the #1 target for a pokedex/capturing-focused game but i want to capture all the pokemon, i dont want to capture the same pokemon 500 times
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Feels Villeneuve posted:its weird because i am theoretically the #1 target for a pokedex/capturing-focused game but i want to capture all the pokemon, i dont want to capture the same pokemon 500 times I mean you don't have to do that stuff:) I haven't completed a single pokemon's dex I don't think
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oddium posted:the arceus maps are good and it's v chill The Arceus maps from best to worst: - Mountain (feels by far the most varied, fun terrain) - Swamp (quite varied) - Grassland (quite varied, if a little bit "basic" by design) - Ice (a large area is just a big ice plain, which is dull) - Seaside (a lot of it is taken up by big expanses of water which are a bit boring)
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HopperUK posted:I mean you don't have to do that stuff:) I haven't completed a single pokemon's dex I don't think You have to at some point to raise your rank to advance things. And that's not even getting into the post game poo poo lol. The game is a series of incredibly boring check marked lists. BUt hey you can catch pokemon by just running around and spamming the ball button so sufficient keys have been jingled.
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:You have to at some point to raise your rank to advance things. And that's not even getting into the post game poo poo lol. I never did any grinding to push my rank up, it just happened naturally as I played. But if you want to feel superior because someone else had fun with a game, knock yourself out I guess.
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