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Darth TNT posted:Thanks to COVID I've been following along with the Sun and Moon anime series on Netflix with my son. And that show is surprisingly good. I was set to kinda just be entertained enough while nothing really changes from episode to episode. But there's some good themes and constant development going on. And has there ever been a season with this high of a dead people/mons count? And most of it is handled in a very sweet manner. Nice, Sun and Moon was a fantastic series and definitely my favourite to date
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Finally caught up to the last month of Journeys. Pretty great episodes all around, but the best bit by a mile is seeing Dracovish swimming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpI45YdA3sE
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MorningMoon posted:Finally caught up to the last month of Journeys. Pretty great episodes all around, but the best bit by a mile is seeing Dracovish swimming "Swimming" might be a bit of a strong word but it does look happy
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I’m a fair way through New Snap and seeing Cradily eat an apple, excuse me, flufffruit, is quite weird. Enjoying the game a lot.
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May 11, 2021 11:08
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MorningMoon posted:oh man, get ready for the peak of animation That fog episode was super sweet. I actually love the way Ash's Pokemon keep learning new moves unlike in the olden days where they'd just get a move. I also like how it's usually from mentor pokemon. Dead stachedog coming back to teach a move and be proud of Toracat was super  Especially since his passing isn't really touched on from what I saw. Mallow and her mom with a good talk which then leads to Shaymin the gratitude pokemon showing up is some sweet symbolism without being heavy handed. I'm more surprised that everyone is non-plussed at Mallow just walking around with a friggin' Shaymin. That's a mythical pokemon people! Then later on the time travel episode with the giant Trevenant which ends with shots which is clearly a dead Trevenant being just a tree. Vinylshadow posted:Tsarina getting floored by a single bubble and never once actually landing a hit on Primarina was some of the funniest stuff in that series Kiawe shouldn't have gone easy on Sophocless or however you spell his name. And yeah, that Guzma fight against the mega Kangaskahn was really good. Actually, all Guzma's fights were really good. I laughed hard when Golisopod used emergency exit leaving scisor to tank a giant fireball. Kuikui's Venusaur using it's plant to eat Rowlet was also a hilarious twist. Speaking of Rowlet is probably my new favorite Ash Pokemon. Such a sweet bird with it's silly cloak. I'll probably see the next part of Kuikui tomorrow with my son. We're on Lucario now.
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May 11, 2021 16:00
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Is this also the PGO thread? Anyone know what the deal with Pancham is?
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HootTheOwl posted:Is this also the PGO thread? Anyone know what the deal with Pancham is? That's over here in the mobile games sub-sub forum https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3950143&perpage=40&pagenumber=35#pti1 I think the deal is that it's only in raids? I really don't know and i'm pretty sure we'll just see it next week anyway
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I beat Pokémon shield when it came out and got frustrated with the max raid battle mechanics. I liked the wild area when it worked but had connection issues or lovely battles far more often than not. Have they fixed that, or have they added anything or made any changes apart from the paid DLC?
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May 12, 2021 01:16
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the dlc is better and has a much more reliable raid system. they did not make any effort to make that functional multiplayer matchmaking work in the wild areas for god knows what reason, nintendo gamefreak
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Darth TNT posted:Speaking of Rowlet is probably my new favorite Ash Pokemon. Such a sweet bird with it's silly cloak. I love my sweet round boi
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:I beat Pokémon shield when it came out and got frustrated with the max raid battle mechanics. I liked the wild area when it worked but had connection issues or lovely battles far more often than not. Have they fixed that, or have they added anything or made any changes apart from the paid DLC? In the new raid system for the second DLC, you can only use rental pokemon and have to clear multiple dynamax battles in a row. If that sounds fun, you'll love the only new piece of content.
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Super No Vacancy posted:the dlc is better and has a much more reliable raid system. they did not make any effort to make that functional multiplayer matchmaking work in the wild areas for god knows what reason, nintendo gamefreak Game Freak (the Pokemon Company in general, really) is about a decade behind the times on just about all fronts They've just now reached the point of paid DLC while the vast majority of the rest of the gaming world has gone over to free DLC, or at least charging us a fair price for a lot of new and interesting content as opposed to mimicking EA's "pay us through the nose for what should've been there since day one" model
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Playing Alpha Sapphire because I got a nostalgia bug and the Mass Effect Collection doesn't come out till the end of this week. Good lord Swampert is just so wildly overpowered in this game. Any ideas on how to make the game slightly harder without going full nuzlocke?
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:I beat Pokémon shield when it came out and got frustrated with the max raid battle mechanics. I liked the wild area when it worked but had connection issues or lovely battles far more often than not. Have they fixed that, or have they added anything or made any changes apart from the paid DLC? The best part of SW/SH was the wild area and the paid DLC are big wild area expansions. I liked them better than the main game but overall SW/SH remains a bit of a disappointment. I'll be suckered into Legends: arcerus anyways.
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MorningMoon posted:That's over here in the mobile games sub-sub forum ty
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LionYeti posted:Playing Alpha Sapphire because I got a nostalgia bug and the Mass Effect Collection doesn't come out till the end of this week. Good lord Swampert is just so wildly overpowered in this game. Any ideas on how to make the game slightly harder without going full nuzlocke? No exp share, no Amie, use pokemon you haven't used in a while or are unfamiliar with, rotate your team regularly Limit the amount of healing you're allowed to do in battles (I sometimes go with no revives and only allowed to heal your pokemon once)
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MorningMoon posted:oh man, get ready for the peak of animation You were not kidding. They really threw all their budget at that Tapu Koko fight. That was hot. Vinylshadow posted:Game Freak (the Pokemon Company in general, really) is about a decade behind the times on just about all fronts Also pretty sure Gamefreak does just the most minimum amount of effort because it prints money regardless.
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Darth TNT posted:You were not kidding. They really threw all their budget at that Tapu Koko fight. That was hot. Yeah, they went absolute ham on that. Brought some amazing freelancers from across the industry for the last sequence. Sakugablog has a really good writeup about the animation of Sun and Moon https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2019/11/21/pokemon-sun-moon-production-retrospect-animation-as-character-and-tone/
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Hey if you wanna make yourself sad about things we'll never have: check out this neat concept someone made for a hypothetical Sinnoh Remake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIlopKnC6JU
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I have no idea how the hell to max out the second Illumina spot. I'm about 5,000 points shy and I've already got 1-4* pics of the Illumina Pokemon, at least 1-2* pics of every other Pokemon on the course, and the only one I know of that has a 3* is Serperior and I've already got that.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I have no idea how the hell to max out the second Illumina spot. I'm about 5,000 points shy and I've already got 1-4* pics of the Illumina Pokemon, at least 1-2* pics of every other Pokemon on the course, and the only one I know of that has a 3* is Serperior and I've already got that. You can get Espeon at 3* iirc, and you might be missing an entire pokemon, Ninetales, which is fairly well hidden
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I feel like I'm really close to figuring out how to get Minior's 4 star photo, but I'm not quite there yet and really don't want to just look up the answer. I've figured out that throwing a glowy orb into the spot where they crash makes them come out of the ground, and a few of them travel a little further down the stage. I also know that there's a place where they gather near the end, but I'm definitely missing something because they're all really far away Could someone give me a criptic hint without outright giving away the answer? Xander B Coolridge fucked around with this message at 04:18 on May 13, 2021 |
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Xander B Coolridge posted:I feel like I'm really close to figuring out how to get Minior's 4 star photo, but I'm not quite there yet and really don't want to just look up the answer. there's always more to orb
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cheetah7071 posted:You can get Espeon at 3* iirc, and you might be missing an entire pokemon, Ninetales, which is fairly well hidden Nah I wasn't missing any since I had the crown on the research map.  But I was missing the photo you mentioned, and even that wasn't enough, I had to retake a 3* photo of the Illumina Pokemon for a couple hundred to just barely squeak out the max level. That one is rough with the point requirements.I still have only found one other Pokemon, Monferno at the beginning of the third Illumina spot so I'm definitely missing something since my map doesn't have a crown, and again, there's no way that I could get enough points with just those two. I did completely stumble into the 4* photo of the Illumina Pokemon there at least, no idea how to get the 3* though. quote:4* Minior talk I'll put this in a spoiler for other people who have already gotten it since this maybe counts as giving the answer outright. I apparently got it without trying, I just took a picture of it rising into the sky at the end of the course when you take a right at the fork. It didn't seem like I had to do anything special, at least. I did light the three blooms at the beginning to lure the Meteor Form one out, maybe that's what triggers it, but other than that I just turned around and went "Oh that's a color I haven't gotten yet," took a picture of the one color, and bam, 4*. e: Also what the gently caress is Silicobra this poo poo looks like a knockoff Pokemon. Twelve by Pies fucked around with this message at 04:42 on May 13, 2021 |
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Sleeping Sigma posted:Hey if you wanna make yourself sad about things we'll never have: check out this neat concept someone made for a hypothetical Sinnoh Remake. I look at these and I'm like "We're getting a more exciting title right after why even bother putting *that* much effort into a remake?" Ideally, you'd want to put more "effort" into a new exciting idea then waste it on an old rear end game from 15 years ago.
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Zuzie posted:I look at these and I'm like "We're getting a more exciting title right after why even bother putting *that* much effort into a remake?"  BUH SEE THIS PROVES GAMEFREAK ARE LAZY HACKS THAT DONT CARE ABOUT THE REAL FANS
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The new idea game will probably be half baked and lazy in many ways as well. And given many of the new ideas on SwSh will be actively lovely in many ways that could be easily avoidable. It will probably have equally lovely online functionality.
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They're going to use the time period the game is set in to make the online worse.
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Zuzie posted:I look at these and I'm like "We're getting a more exciting title right after why even bother putting *that* much effort into a remake?" Though, skimming it, some of the stuff is definitely "get real" level of fantasizing. Violet_Sky posted:
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Oxyclean posted:they could put effort into both since they're separate dev teams and presumably both full priced products. I get the feeling that since the remake is being handled by ILCA (a different company) with Masuda in a supervising director role, there isn't much that is unique they legally could do with a DP remake to make it like ORAS, where so many little things had been changed from the original. ILCA may be developing the remake, but they don't really own the IP so they can't take the creative liberties. Its similar to how the Paper Mario series can't really have unique characters anymore since they're developed by Intelligent Systems rather then by an in-house Nintendo development studio.
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Zuzie posted:I look at these and I'm like "We're getting a more exciting title right after why even bother putting *that* much effort into a remake?" You mean the "more exciting title" that had tremendously obvious framerate issues on the trailer? Like sure, I'm not going to say the fans don't ask for too much at times, but let's not even pretend Game Freak doesn't deserve the scorn. DP Remake look absolutely awful and Legends doesn't exactly look like great itself (beyond the fact that the trailer was incredibly unclear on how it actually plays which should be the first thing you'd want focus on in a brand new spinoff...). Both of which looked even worse in comparison to New Snap, which rocks.
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Anybody defending gamefreak and the pokemon company after ultra sun and moon, let's go, and swsh is totally blinded by their love of the franchise. The games are obviously getting worse, cutting features and mons from previous gens, and have features and graphics totally out of step with the times. That might be okay if it was a smaller or an indie developer but this is the developers of the most popular and monetizable franchise of all time. We can and should be expecting better from them.
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Violet_Sky posted:Does anyone else feel kinda bad for Gamefreak? They were probably making GBS threads bricks when the Switch sold like gangbusters. The screeching of fans to PUT POKEMON STARS ON THE SWITCH NOW probably did not help. Now we are here and welp. GF kinda went in over their heads it seems. Sorry I knew you had made a similar post earlier and this level of simpering affection towards a profit seeking entity is not healthy
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It's probably too  but I don't think of GameFreak as Lazy or even "incompetent devs"That said, their output is just not what I want anymore. There's a million factors and minutia of why things ended up that way, but the bottom line is that Sword and Shield don't appeal to me and the past 8 years have had way more misses than hits. Their upcoming output looks to follow that trend. If the past years of pokemon have been barely hitting the mark with unambitious games, why should I expect their most ambitious game ever to stick the landing?
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Little Town Hero was supposedly also an 'ambitious' game from them and did not get any hype, and it merely faded away on release day.
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Zuzie posted:Its similar to how the Paper Mario series can't really have unique characters anymore since they're developed by Intelligent Systems rather then by an in-house Nintendo development studio. Paper Mario was IntSys from the beginning and IntSys is first party anyways
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qnqnx posted:Little Town Hero was supposedly also an 'ambitious' game from them and did not get any hype, and it merely faded away on release day. From what I've heard of it that's probably a blessing for all involved.
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Blaze Dragon posted:You mean the "more exciting title" that had tremendously obvious framerate issues on the trailer? By more exciting title, its more the premises then the execution. With remakes, you know exactly how the story is supposed to go and there's barely any new surprises in store. Legends is essentially a new game and it doesn't appear to follow the same formula as other titles. At the same time, its sort of easy to see why Game Freak had gotten in a rut in the first place. Their games are going to make the same amount of money regardless of how much of that "effort" that people are harping on about. I guess they have no reason to improve when they're already achieved a state which most other series dream of being. They've cemented themselves so much in pop culture that they can afford to disappoint the hardcore fanbase and still expect their loyalty. Calls for boycotting the games due to their quality are practically meaningless. Zuzie fucked around with this message at 18:58 on May 13, 2021 |
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