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https://x.com/WolfeyGlick/status/2041773577720955041

also its currently like this

  • Fake Out cannot be selected after it’s used once
  • Many widely-used items (Choice Specs/Bands, Life Orb, AV) are just missing
  • Less than 200 Pokémon currently
  • NS2 version is still low-res/30 FPS
  • Stalwart Mega Skarmory

Also Mega Hawlucha can give its allies No Guard for 100% accurate 1-hit KO moves lmao

https://x.com/snacks_fruity2/status/2041880586457845879

My First Day in Pokemon Champions WolfeyVGC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWRN-cB2DU

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[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 19 hours ago

Common Nintendo L. I'm wondering how they still exist after all these basic mistakes.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 4 points 16 hours ago

Pokemon Chanpinons


[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 8 points 19 hours ago

Genuinely hilarious they let the three elemental monkeys before most other pokemon.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 20 points 22 hours ago

Literally all they had to do was copy Pokemon Showdown. They somehow fucked that up so badly their only response will probably be to send Showdown cease and desists to eliminate the fan made competition.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So the game for competitive Pokémon people is completely fucked up and not competitive?

So glad I dropped Nintendo

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

apparently all future VGC tournaments will be done in champions so, its not looking good

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Just streamlining the profit margins by making people buy a second game and then a subscription service to get the data arrays in the right place.

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they are completely incapable of just making pokemon showdown with a lobby, it's very strange

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

Can't wait for the Jimquisition video about this shit

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

When was the last time Pokemon was even good?

The first 5 minutes of Red?

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think gen 5 was the last good generation.

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago

The only good generation in Pokemon will be the generation of gamers who rise up and burn every last game, manga, and piece of merchandise that contains the Pokemon brand.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Pokopia’s been pretty well received, but Koei Tecmo made it so that’s why it doesn’t have the usual half-baked cash-grab Gamefreak stink on it.

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago

Slop and Paste Poke-Animal Crossing Builder

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It's also a copy and paste of dragon quest builders 2

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago

More like DQB 3 but with Pokémon instead of DQ characters. But yeah, we are talking about the company that’s slapped a ton of variants/IPs on the musou template.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Thank you! I knew I wasn't crazy! It looked so much like it to me, but I'm only like one of 3 people who actually played that game so no one knew what I was talking about.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Gen 5 was peak Pokemon; in the art, story, music, all of it

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago

Too bad it was still the same old Pokemon gameplay that was stale even for the NES.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Pokemon showdown randoms only.

But yeah the emulators smoothes out the game by allowing the game to go faster so you dont get the glacial speed of battles.

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Pokemon showdown

My goblin is so desperate to defend Pokemon they had to go to a game that wasn't even made by Pokemon Team.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Mystery Dungeon was pretty good. Never played any of the games past the DS titles though

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 46 minutes ago

I loved it. Great plot and gameplay.

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Mystery Dungeon

Dungeon Crawler from the creators of the problematic Danganronpa Series. If it wasn't branded with popular Pokemon it would be boring. No one would care if fucking Dweeble over here got lost inside a cave.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 5 points 21 hours ago (10 children)
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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

NS2 version is still low-res/30 FPS

It's too hard I'm baby innocence I don't know how to program 3D graphics at any resolution higher than a 3DS please buy my upcharged slop boohoo pika-cousin-suffering

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I was with a Gamefreak dev some time ago and we were looking at Pokemon Battle Revolution together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to Make it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Many widely-used items (Choice Specs/Bands, Life Orb, AV) are just missing

Less than 200 Pokémon currently

This is intentional and good and I will die on this hill. A lot of older players completely lose perspective for how much information someone has to process who starts playing Pokemon in the 2020s. Me, I started playing in 2005 when there were "only" 386 Pokemon, there was only Choice Band (no specs/scarf), LO and AV didn't exist either. I could learn about all the following 600+ Pokemon and items etc. gradually as they got introduced over the course of 20 years.

Imagine getting into Pokemon now and being expected to learn all of that at once before you have any chance at all of playing PvP. All of the 1000+ Pokemon, every item, move, ability, every generational gimmick with its intricacies.

Personally I think the lack of 6v6 is indefensible but on the limits on Pokemon and items I will, in fact, defend the billion dollar company.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Having fewer pokemons is fine I guess but bringing over pokemons to newer games was the coolest mechanic the games ever had.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago

It's cool yeah but requiring players to buy older games and in some cases older consoles isn't great

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

This is similar to a thought I've had before, in that Pokemon should probably just stop making new Pokemon. It occurred to me during Dexit. With Dexit, both sides were pretty much right. One hand, much of the brand identity is lost when you cannot 'catch them all.' On the other hand, continuing to design, model, animate and code 100~ new mons every year is unfeasible.

And to what end are we adding 100 new mons to the roster every year? Pokemon has wallowed in recreating the same experience for decades now. Three starters, early route rodent, three legendaries, a super duper legendary, some dragons and fish along the way - IMO, ~1,000 mons is a great stopping point. From there they should have just reshuffled mons and leaned on regional variants, and added maybe 2-3 new mons for special occasions.

Had they done that, no dexit, and maintaining a competitive scene in their showdown clone would be a reasonable request.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The biggest failure was waiting too long to do regional variant forms when they were an obviously good option from gen 2 onwards

Gen 5 being mostly half baked references to gen 1 was a terrible move and would've been way better received had they been the first batch of regional forms

Having 100 new mon every couple of years is one of many bad decisions made mostly because that's how they did it once and then it just became tradition that was never questioned internally

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 1 points 10 hours ago

because that's how they did it once and then it just became tradition that was never questioned internally

Pretty sure that's GameFreak's motto. "We don't know what we're doing or why people like it, so just keep doing the thing that worked once and never question it or change it."

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

for a window into this experience may I suggest Path of Exile (1)

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