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Why are these two rated as the downfall of the series? Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)01:07:47 No.734098837 [Reply]▶
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What did they start?
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>>734098837
for me its just the game to make me realize they're not doing anything more with the series. the stagnation point was hit and I just felt there wasn't any real point to buying new pokemon games any more.
pokemon: too much water edition looks like they're at least trying a bit harder but unless they show they've done something novel for once I still really don't give a shit
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>>734098837
>virtually no postgame
>exp share made it super easy
>even without it, the game was still easy
Though it was received very positively at the time. It was only in the months after that people started to reflect and notice the flaws. It was assumed we'd get a sequel that would fix things like the inaccessible power plants and southern Kalos but instead Sun and Moon left gen VI feeling incomplete.
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>>734099604
speak of the devil
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>>734098837
Most of the trends people hate about gens 6 onward started much earlier, but gen 6 is just where most people draw the line because 1-5 have certain qualities people like enough to consider the games good.
>gen 5 started pokemon having an NPC at the beginning and end of every single route telling you where to go and what to do
>pokemon designs have been getting worse since gens 3 and 4
>gen 5 was ultra linear and had tons of dialogue (people didn't seem to mind as much because the story was mildly interesting, which is not the case for gen 6)
>the games were always made on the cheap with strict deadlines and were technically poorly made, but it's more noticeable in gen 6 onward due to 3d graphics
>xy repeats gen 3's formula for the third time, much more overbearing than gen3&4, and much worse than gen 5
This was also where they started pandering to DBZ fags with dogshit mechanics like mega evolution and also "muh heckin childhooood kantooooooooo" in a far more annoying way than GSC or HGSS actually including the region
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>>734099814
Megas were interesting.
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>>734098837
Refer to the guide
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>>734098837
it was sword and shield and it's not even close, anyone saying otherwise is a genwunner poser
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>>734099889
>enter the dynamax battle
>put with braindead AI that have pokemon like oddish and magikarp
>literally impossible...unless you invite some friends
>which requires a subscription you have to pay for
thanks nintendo
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>>734099671
It is too easy, even compared to the rest of the series. There's not even one remotely challenging battle.
The story is bad, even by Pokémon standards, especially when it's clear they tried in the last two gens.
The 3D is bland. Most animations are boring and unrealistic based on the species. Sure most attack animations are cool, but the static animations are too plain. Plus tbe games had frequent lag drops in any battle with more than two Pokémon out at once.
There are dungeons but all except for Terminus Cave were mediocre. All were really simple with very few split paths.
You can complete the Looker story in like two hours. The Battle Maison is so easy that I managed to beat the whole thing (beating all Chatelaines and getting all possible rewards) in about 10 hours. There's plenty of other side activities but most are really simple and bare bones. The game only has about 80-90 hours of content and more than half of that is beating the main story.
Yes I'm fine with the games following a similar formula. That is not pandering. Pandering is when they show love to one thing at the expense of another. The Kanto starter you get from Sycamore overshadows the Kalos starter due to the fact that it can Mega Evolve.
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>>734099749
There's also the 'getting stopped by NPCs every five steps' complaint. Getting stopped was a thing since Gen 1. It's not like you could just keep walking when your rival shows up. Of course Gen 6 is where it started getting over the top, though you could argue Gen 5 but I just replayed it and it wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered.
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>>734100289
>It is too easy, even compared to the rest of the series
no it isn't
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>downfall of the series
nvm these games sold better than the series had done in years up to that point, all the corner-cutting devs care about is the one detail that is never acknowledged in these pissant shit-flinging contests.
Pokémon is a garbage series that keeps selling you garbage that you keep buying higher quantities of.
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>>734099782
XY had too many imo. It started a trend of regional dexes being too big and bloated. Iirc it had like 400+ mons which led to very few repeats later on and every route having completely different stuff than the previous, which sounds great at first but ends up feeling overwhelming.
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>>734100761
>XY had too many imo. It started a trend of regional dexes being too big and bloated
This. Give me more kino gameplay like this please! I hate it when random encounters are actually fun and the routes have replayability!
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>>734100550
look at this pseud typing so much shit to just say "it's always been shit" very original post retard
>>734100243
most esl post I've seen all day
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>easy as fuck
>first game with an overcentralizing gimmick that further trivialized the difficulty (mega evolutions)
>first game with a gaggle of irrelevant rivals following you who weren't your rival or the professor's apprentice
>short
>only had the "battle maison", which was a pathetic replacement for gen 3 / 4's full-fledged battle frontiers or BW2's Pokemon world tournament (which was extreme fanservice)
>pokemon just kind of sucked
BW was the beginning of the end, despite being the last gasp of Masuda's enthusiasm for Pokemon. BW2 was an anomaly. XY was the true decline of Pokemon into mediocrity. the mediocrity trifecta of
>OP gimmick
>annoying companion characters who are not allowed to be antagonistic toward the player (and if they are, they have a change of heart)*
>missing features
has basically been a series mainstay since
* - one of the reasons why klara is popular is because she goes against this
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>>734100775
>This thing is good and here are facts, logical points and information to back that up
>Huh huh, Not reading that, words hurt brain
TikTok brained dumb asses
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>>734100942
>typing so much shit to just say "it's always been shit"
not what I was saying, moron.
difference being they've been they've been testing the waters for decades to see what they could get away with; with relative success.
it is so obvious that Scarlet and Violet being an undercooked joke along with Palworld scaring the fuck out of them has caused some course-correction after seeing that trailer.
Remember when they changed the entire animation style of the Sun/Moon animé just because Yokai Watch was causing such a stir? these gook fucks only worry about competition. and know they always have their built-in fanbase to fall back on.
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>>734101189
>I-IT'S EASY!!!
that's every pokemon game
>I-IT'S EASY!!!
that's every pokemon game
>first game with a gaggle of irrelevant rivals following you who weren't your rival or the professor's apprentice
and yet somehow they interrupt you less than the retards in gen 5
>short
It's literally one of the longest games in the series content wise
>only had the "battle maison", which was a pathetic replacement for gen 3 / 4's full-fledged battle frontiers
RS and DP didn't have battle frontiers and the PWT in BW2 is complete dogshit because it has no difficulty
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>>734101289
You clearly clicked A more than 3 times.
Also that's not what I mean.
In XY every single battle WITHOUT EXCEPTION is just clicking A. In most other games, there's at least one where you're almost guaranteed to need to change moves or switch out.
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>>734101374
>In XY every single battle WITHOUT EXCEPTION is just clicking A
Oh....so exactly like gen 5 then
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>>734101368
>that's every pokemon game x2
And they're all different levels of easy.
>and yet somehow they interrupt you less than the retards in gen 5
In terms of individual times, maybe. But overall time, no.
>It's literally one of the longest games in the series content wise
Not really. I can complete EVERYTHING in like 80 hours. I don't know why HLTB says 200+ I honestly have no idea what took them so long. Shame HLTB doesn't require proof.
>RS and DP didn't have battle frontiers and the PWT in BW2 is complete dogshit because it has no difficulty
No but they had a third version that had one. If the PWT has no difficulty then the Maison has negative difficulty.
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>>734101368
>>I-IT'S EASY!!!
>that's every pokemon game
>>I-IT'S EASY!!!
>that's every pokemon game
see, that's not how it works. if every pokemon game is easy, then making it easier is the opposite of justified, and yet you're here defending it, implying you actually felt the previous games were too hard.
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>>734098837
They were games designed to eventually receive a third version that never existed. It introduced a lot of babying mechanics that persisted into later games: free boosts with O-powers, affection bonuses, full-party exp share, and broken battle gimmicks.
Plus all of the blatant Kanto pandering.
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Nope. Also how come every single image like this is always like the same few fights? Never any of the ones that are often referred to as difficult except random out of context screenshots of a level 35 Darmanitan which can't be obtained at that point without grinding fighting Elesa (can't catch the static ones until much later).
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>>734101570
>And they're all different levels of easy.
not really
>In terms of individual times, maybe. But overall time, no.
no, they objectively interrupt you less
>I can complete EVERYTHING in like 80 hours
no, you can't. The game has tons of content. If XY takes 80 hours to finish hen BW2 probably takes like 60 hours to finish.
>No but they had a third version that had one
The third versions that didn't have a new region and new Pokemon like XY did? So the games were still shittier than XY anyway? Good to know
>If the PWT has no difficulty then the Maison has negative difficulty
Nah the PWT has streaks so there's actual punishment to losing.
>>734101578
>see, that's not how it works
If I play BW I click A three times against the gym leader to win
If I play XY I click A three times against the gym leader to win
Seems that's exactly how it works. There is no "easier", it's exactly the fucking same
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>Never any of the ones that are often referred to as difficult
Which ones are considered difficult? I didn't realize difficult fights existed in Gen 5.
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>>734101618
>full-party exp share
people complain a lot about this but i just want to remind everyone, it's not actually the "Exp sharing" part that everyone has a problem with. its the +250% bonus XP and complete lack of game balance adjustments to accommodate it.
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It's time to finally admit that there's a direct correlation between Pokemon as a franchise going to shit and the existence of the fairy type.
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>>734101740
>Black and White 2 had brought the game to as high as a level as 2D pokemon sprites could go,
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okay i retract my request, the fact that >>734101754 is replying to 3 different posters at once and had this file prepared to post is all the proof i need
lmao
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>>734101754
>If I play BW I click A three times against the gym leader to win
except you don't, unless you spent a long fucking time grinding levels
>If I play XY I click A three times against the gym leader to win
this one actually happens
>Seems that's exactly how it works. There is no "easier", it's exactly the fucking same
it's not the same, you'd know that if you actually played the games you were online arguing about. You are literally here defending game freak for making easy games even easier.
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>>734101869
>except you don't, unless you spent a long fucking time grinding levels
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>>734101810
Now show the spite in motion.
You won't because in battle it looks better than any other game.
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>>734101929
>The game will never be balanced to accommodate it,
gen 7 already was
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It was basically the first time Pokemon felt like a fully streamlined slop product and the first time it felt like game freak stopped trying. They redeemed themselves a bit with sun/moon but then kept doubling down on what they started in x/y for next 2 gens.
Gens 3-5 might have been milking the cash cow but the games were high quality productions regardless of everyone's personal opinions of them
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>>734098837
>Exp share became a key item
>Game is not balanced around it so you are over levels by like 10-20 levels if you use it
>Battle Maison replacing battle frontier and then was copy and pasted to ORAS
>Kanto slop with Kanto starters, Kanto legendaries and santalune forest being a copy and paste viridian forest
>Smallest new dex in the entire series
>Leaks show they had plans for southern Kalos but they gave up on it and never happened.
>Zygarde was cucked of having a third game and became a side quest in Sun and Moon
It's shit
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>>734101990
>Now show the spite in motion.
ok
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>>734101990
You're replying to a guy who's been arguing with the voices 24/7 for years about gen 5. There's no need to respond to him, if nobody bites he'll just samefag arguments at himself in an excuse to dump his seethe folder again.
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>>734098837
It changed the series to full 3D instead of 2.5D sprites (Gen V were criticized for still using sprites in the 2010s and people wanted 3D Pokemon)
It went big on pandering to Gen 1 with lots of inexplicable references to the Gen 1 games and Kanto Pokémon being given special attention (Gen V was criticized for having an entirely new roster of Pokemon and not being able to catch old Pokemon until the postgame)
It had the fewest new Pokemon after Gen V had the most (Gen V was criticized for having a lot of new Pokemon that were "knockoffs" of Kanto Pokemon)
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>>734098837
Game was really lacking in content. Online was probably fine but the single player was just so bland. Pretty much all this>>734102048
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>that tail snapping back into place
>that random wiggling nose
>all those distorted pixels
holy fuck this looks like dogshit
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>>734101754
>no, you can't. The game has tons of content. If XY takes 80 hours to finish hen BW2 probably takes like 60 hours to finish.
Nta but it took me about 90 but that's because I kept getting distracted and leaving the game running. BW2 took me about 120. I think you're an outlier here.
>The third versions that didn't have a new region and new Pokemon like XY did? So the games were still shittier than XY anyway? Good to know
Third versions aren't supposed to
>Nah the PWT has streaks so there's actual punishment to losing.
It doesn't have streaks. No punishment does not mean no difficulty.
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>Game was really lacking in content
not really
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>I think you're an outlier here.
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>>734101754
>If I play BW I click A three times against the gym leader to win
If I play XY I click A three times against the gym leader to win
Seems that's exactly how it works. There is no "easier", it's exactly the fucking same
Weird. When I play BW they almost always tank a hit, then hit me back for a solid chunk of my health. Only a couple fights were hitting A a few times. In XY EVERY BATTLE was just mashing A.
>Which ones are considered difficult? I didn't realize difficult fights existed in Gen 5.
When you ask the average player, you'll usually hear stuff like Lenora, Elesa and Ghetsis. I personally used to struggle with the final Cheren fight but I genuinely have no idea why. I've never seen any mentions of this in XY
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>When I play BW they almost always tank a hit,
I'm sorry about your terminal retardation. I can play like a retard to pretend XY is challenging too.
>When you ask the average player, you'll usually hear stuff like Lenora, Elesa and Ghetsis.
Elesa? Ok here you go
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>>734098837
I think people didn't appreciate how more casualized the main story was considering that Pokemon is already a very easy game. They didn't balance the level curve around the EXP share at all and the pacing goes to shit after the 2nd gym. This gen was also the start of Kanto pandering being incredibly in your face and I think a lot of people didn't like the idea of Megas being in a Pokemon game. XY however had a great online competitive scene for both singles and VGC that were a lot of fun and it made raising competitive Pokemon easier than it had been in the past, so I appreciate them for that.
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>um actually I grew up with lucario so it's fine
every fucking time lmao
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Charizard received two megas. The starters from gen 6 itself don't have megas but the Kanto starters do.
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>>734102669
And yet weirdly I never see zoomers bitch about Garchomp and Lucario getting two megas. Strange, huh? It's almost like Kanto pandering isn't actually a problem and it's just underaged faggots getting jealous over games they missed out on...
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>>734100529
I like and appreciate XY more than most people but let's not fuck around here
XY gives you a free Mega Lucario with near-perfect IVs and Power-Up Punch before the third gym. There's like two or three battles against a team of six Pokémon that uses Mega Evolution in the entire game and Lucario has a type advantage over all of them. There is not even a pretext of any challenge in this game.
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>>734101797
Well yeah, they realized they peaked the franchise with mega-mawile and just gave up ever trying to make something better since they knew they'd fail.
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>>734102207
This, Kantowank will never be bad
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>XY gives you a free Mega Lucario with near-perfect IVs and Power-Up Punch before the third gym
Yeah, true. Instead of clicking A against the gym three times with my starter I now I click A against the gym three times with my Lucario.
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>>734098837
>What did they start?
The most important points would be:
>Blatant handholding
All Pokémon games before were pretty easy and obviously meant for kids, but these games are the ones that really pushed it by 1000 and treated like the players weren't just kids, they were retarded toddlers that needed endless forced tutorial cutscenes for every little system introduced and give one million different advantages over the enemy trainers that already have limited and weak teams.
>Gen 1 pandering
The first gen that really does it very shamelessly and obnoxiously
>Rushed production and limited content
This is the first one you can really feel they didn't have enough time to polish the game and add extra content, things like the rivals and even random Team Flares admin have intro animations but the CHAMPION battle only gets a moving JPEG like the normal trainers, and most importantly, the fact that there's literally no post game, you just capture legendaries and collect mega stones basically. Yes, generally the first game of a generation has the weakest post-game content, but they usually have something at all.
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It was just an underwhelming entey given what came before it and the expectations that came with it being the first fully 3D game. In some areas they delivered but it was more in side features like Amie and the PSS than the main meat of the game which was rough in areas. Lumiose City is pure ass to navigate with its tank camera controls
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>>734101797
Fairy was needed to balance Dragon after they decided Dragon should no longer be rare and instead there should be a dozen Dragon Pokemon. Ergo, we can conclude the problem started with whatever generation start the Dragon spam, ie Gen 3.
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>This is the first one you can really feel they didn't have enough time to polish the game and add extra content,
why does it have more content than gen 5 then
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All of that can be completed in 10 hours tops.
>>734102280
HLTB doesn't require people to prove themselves, so you can bullshit. I could say it took me 500 hours to 100% Mario 64
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>>734102860
>it's not unfair when the thing -I- grew up with gets pandered to!
Thanks for proving my point.
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>HLTB doesn't require people to prove themselves, so you can bullshit
You mean like you are?
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>>734101954 already proves no grinding took place because you can see the exp gains from each trainer with no sudden jumps and he ended up at basically the same level
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>>734102881
The problem with Dragon wasn't there being a lot of them, it was giving them ridiculously strong moves like Draco Meteor and the buffed Outrage. If all they had was Dragon Pulse and Claw, they wouldn't be that big of a deal.
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After doing this for years you'd think the Gen 6 autist would find better tactics besides shaming people for calling a spade a spade.
Yes XY is easy you can't shame me for thinking that.
Yes Kanto got some weird privileges you won't call me a Sinnohfag and shame me about it.
Get better tactics or fuck off. I bet I can defend XY even better than you can.
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>>734103409
He is annoying but right , XY was a huge leap forward for the series with 6+ animations per Pokemon and all of them fully modeled, the game is too easy but all Pokemon games are easy if you're not engaging in self-delusional larping about what Pokemon are good
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lol he posted both images
he's a shitposter from /vp/ that plays through the older pokemon games while overleving one pokemon. he also has an platinum run at cynthia with an infernape thats like level 70. he does it to say pokemon was always easy blah blah blah xy good
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Most of gen 8 gigantamaxes are Kanto Pokemon by the way. The irony is that sword and shield is just as shitty as XY. It's a good thing that ZA exists to fix the fucking starters of Kalos not receiving a mega(locked to fucking online pvp) but of course the game is one city because we can't have good things.
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>>734098837
BW1 was the patient zero and XY is mediocre. BW2 fucks however but if you really want a bad pokemon game either it'll be gen 7 for being more cutscenes/dialogues than gameplay or SW/SH and SV for being offensively bad
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I have a hard time determining if most of my issues of Gen 6 come from the game itself or it just so happened to line up with me outgrowing pokemon at that time.
I know that a lot of flaws in XY show up in previous games but they all come smashiing together in XY and in higher proportions. I know that gen 6 also at the very least did do some things right, namely EV/IV ease of use, but almost everything else I remember about them is firmly in the bad memory territory. And the more I remember the more I dislike it. I hate ORAS even more than XY and it's the first pokemon game I didn't finish all of the extra post game stuff for.
Also the fanbase started getting unbearable too. I cannot believe how hard people tried to push SuMo instead of SM.
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there's no need to "disprove his gifs" because his argument is retarded and the gifs don't actually strengthen it. if "it's easy to solo the game so that you can beat it by just using one pokemon and grinding it to max level", then "the game letting you do that while also raising 5 other team members to max level at the same time" is empirically proven to be easier.
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Gloria is so adorable
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>>734104062
That's the point. You're meant to be under leveled. In most games using a full team makes you around 5-10 levels below. That's why Gen 5 gives you the lucky egg, has Audino and an exp formula that gifts more exp to weaker mons.
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>>734104102
clicking A three times against the gym with one overleveled Pokemon is exactly as easy as clicking A three times against the gym with one thousand overleveled Pokemon.
Gen 5 was already rock bottom, there is no “easier”.
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>>734104062
I always call pokemon a "sandbox rpg", in that you always decided your own difficulty. Very western sensibilities in that regard. I know it was popular but it deserved a lot of it on its own merit. If you wanted to play a normal jrpg with 4 niggas who walk in a straight line and level up equally there's literally any other game you could play. Pokemons new designers don't even understand what their franchise is about
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>>734102003
I know this is the Youtube comment section, but I'm still going to say that totem Kommo-o wasn't that bad. I played a difficulty rom hack specifically made to power up enemies. That part was not a problem.
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>>734104000
Gen 7 was compelling for the first playthrough, but those cracks really start to show any time you try and go back to it. A similar thing can be said about gen 6, the online and general sense of community from having a worldwide release on an unhackable console made it unique. You can't replicate that anymore, so you're simply stuck with a mediocre story mode.
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okay now imagine this exact thread every day for seven years. that's /vp/.
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>>734104894
Rom hackers are usually either 12 and/or autistic, neither of whom understand the tact that vanilla games have. A convincing game freak tier rom hack takes way more effort than slapping a team of 6 L100 mewtwos on the first gym leader
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>>734105591
they could start forcing the friendship shit in battle like bdsp does lol
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>>734105613
That's funny because it feels like the discourse regarding "if I were in charge" is about how to fix the vanilla games, not how to best make the games harder. I honestly think it comes down to the additional time and effort required to balance everything out and have it make sense, not necessarily preference.
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>>734105820
With the nature of how Pokemon are encountered and captured, I feel you have a lot of leeway when it comes to balancing out encounters. It's really as simple as just not giving the player the best Pokemon on route 1, and the "best" Pokemon can usually be found out simply through game theory and without needing much practical testing.
The failings of many rom hacks come from an obsession with "QOL" and trying to force hundreds of Pokemon to be on equal footing.
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XY was the first time the series was good again, after the slew of games following Gen 2. You will find superfans of the series to be less than rational and sane.
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>>734106135
If you're putting it that simply then yes it does sound easy but the details can complicate things. For example, when designing a gym leader, you should ask what kind of pokemon that trainer would use based on how they look, where they live, their personality etc, instead of just cramming anything from that type in. And then based on that, the order of their appearance, the surrounding areas, and how it fits into the flow of the whole adventure. That's something somebody might not consider or think is important but if you play the vanilla games (not sure about the newer ones) you will notice that this is taken into account and informs the overall feel of the games. Why would an autistic rom hacker ever care about this stuff? It's an easier task than most re:balancing and they don't even bother with that so there you go
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Sun and Moon is after the downfall of XY. Gen 6 is such a massive disappointment that really is impressive how people at the time didn't kill themselves of how bad it was, people were so delusional at the time that they thought Z was going to happen to fix Kalos or that the battle frontier was going to be DLC. The end of the National Dex is just a corpse starting to smell bad but it died the gen before.
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>Why are these two rated as the downfall of the series?
The introduction of Fairy Types
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At least I met my wife there
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>>734098837
Pokemon's downfall began when it moved to Switch. Don't @ me.
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>>734107125
Pokemon wouldn't be what it without the worldbuilding, and it's not just expressed in literal terms but also embedded into the gameplay. Any given Pokemons learnset by level tells a story, as well as the tm moves they can learn for example
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>>734100529
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>>734099031
DP was better than RS which pissed off many. It took FRLG and Emerald to fix RS's fuck up. As Mid as DP was it was much more positively recived than RS, and Platinum was well liked and HGSS is considered the pinnacle of Pokemon by many.
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>IT’S EASY!!
>THE GAME PANDERS TO KANTO!!!
oh…so that explains why I like XY so much. I’m not functionally retarded so I never played pokemon games for difficulty, and I’m not a zoomer so I actually like kanto pokemon
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>>734098837
>top tier pokegirls
>refreshing return to 3D after the Coliseum drought
>soundtrack was a banger
>multiplayer elements were fun, could challenge random people around the world whenever you wanted
Am I a dumb enough to call it the best Pokemon game? No, but it was still good.
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>>734098837
XY is an easy mark due to the transition to 3D for mainline Pokemon. The games themselves aren’t especially bad but the sheer level of nostalgiafaggong and KANTOOOOO pandering was off the charts, it had no postgame of note and every 3D game that followed it has ranged from mediocre to downright bad.
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>>734108647
The reaction to RS was a proto woke culture moment combined with the death of a fad, nothing to do with the quality of the game. DP coasted off being the first game on the DS and people getting over Pokemon being uncool while the base version is absolutely inferior to RS if for nothing but the game speed (but there were definitely other things to bitch about)
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>>734102775
Chrizard sucks so much I didn't even realize this as a kid, but this fat fuck isn't able to fly, look at those wings. Also another hot take: Mega Charizard Y is better than X. I will always prefer Bulba and Squirtle, especially when I have the option to have Arcanine on my team!!!
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>>734109410
RBY - 46 million
GSC - 30 million
RSE - 23 million
DPP - 25 million
BW/BW2 - 23 million
XY - 16 million
SM/USUM - 25 million
SwSh - 26 million
SV - 24 million
Gen 6 sold the least.
>but it didn't have a second game
Didn't stop the switch games from doing comparable numbers.
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>>734098837
I guess people resent those games because the 4th and 5th generations were the most "dark" and "mature" games until then (and probably so far), and then comes the 6th generation which is the most infantile Disney kids game in the whole franchise. The contrast was way too hard, it didn't help that core pokemon fans were getting even older up to that point
The games themselves are good just really very infantile
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>>734098837
They were the downfall because they started everything that's wrong with the series to this day.
>Ugly visuals and bad framerate
>Over reliance on a story that isn't good and has too many interruptions that all last too long killing the pace
>The beginning of Pokemon designs being truly bad
>Difficulty is now nonexistent in a franchise of games that already weren't very hard thanks to party wide EXP shares getting forced onto you from the start(At least you can turn it off in X and Y, they stopped letting you in the Switch games)
>The music is bad and never recovered
>The world design is bland, feels unfinished and progressively gets worse from here on out
That's about it really. You can trace everything that people complain about with Pokemon today back to these games. At least they had the full roster of Pokemon, that's a newer problem.
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>Ugly visuals and bad framerate
gen 5 has worse visuals and gen 4 has worse framerate
>Over reliance on a story that isn't good and has too many interruptions that all last too long killing the pace
gen 5 started this and has a far more intrusive story than gen 6
>The beginning of Pokemon designs being truly bad
gen 4 started this, and gen 5 has worse designs than gen 6
>Difficulty is now nonexistent
gen 1 started this
>The music is bad
gen 5 started this
>The world design is bland, feels unfinished
gen 5 started this and has worse world design than gen 6
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>>734098837
I think this was the last Pokemon I fully completed. This had roller blades and full non 4 directional movement? I can't remember a single thing about the game or its OST though which isn't good for a Pokemon game.
I played Sun and gave up on the game shortly after beating Acerola. I bought a Pokemon on Switch with the open world area where you could walk up to Pokemon and I quit when I couldn't even catch the Pokemon I wanted because I didn't have enough badges. I completely gave up on Pokemon after that. I still hear and memorize the OST's of Pokemon up to Gen 3, very strong sound tracks. I never beat Diamond either, I used an Action Replay to walk through walls and skip a bunch of stuff.
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>>734109931
>most dark and mature
That is pokemon red and blue in regards to what kind of world that was. Making Pokemon overly wholesome started in gsc already and in rse it was already "clean" if you were to ascribe broadcasting standards to it. I guess bw did an okay job injecting N and his ideals, but the rest of the world was already disneyfied. Only that it still respected the person playing the game whereas with XY it spat on you
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>>734110576
>Interacting with my Pokemon?
Yup. Pokemon Amie is one of the best features ever. I love high fiving my Pokemon.
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>>734109937
I gind it amusing that Lets Go is by far one of the better switch games. Sure it was underwhelming at first, but you can't deny it's the one that shits the bed the least compared to SwSh and it's 64 trees, SV and it's s06 tier release, or legends and it's whack ass world.
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I think the most annoying part of XY was the long trek between Gyms 1 and 2, thinking it was going to be an epic adventure, and then it just kinda bumrushes your ass with back to back to back gyms.
2nd most annoying part was only Serena(?) and Diantha using the signature gimmick, but that's more on Gamefreak going full Kantooooooooo and refusing to give any Kalos pokemon megas.
>yfw the Kalos starters didn't get megas until last fucking year
>But charizard and mewtwo got 2 each
Like fuck I get it the og 151 are the most important but damn
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>>734098837
X and Y will forever be special to me as the last Pokemon games I played with IRL friends. That is how these games were always meant to be played. GSC (elementary school) and XY (college) were the two best generations for me because of friends.
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>>734110768
>20th remake of the same fucking game
Bravo game freak but what happened with the new original games you tried to make though you guys really dropped the ball unlike KANTOOoOOoOOoO (again) (that'll be $19.99 per month financed plus tax plus tip plus treat)
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>>734098837
XY as a single player game is pretty meh, it has plenty of issues like the lack of identity and feeling pretty uninspired and a step back in terms of scope despite the revamped graphics.
But as a multiplayer game, it probably had the best online game of them all. Hell, were pokemon a different franchise, i could perfectly see this one becoming a cult classic that people don't move on from for the online battles.
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Why does this guy ignore B2W2 when making his fallacious comparisons?
Yea dude most people think BW1 were mediocre on launch but their reputation got repaired in post after people played the sequels and had retrospective on the foundation it was laying.
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>>734111207
It was definitely the best PVP experience for a while if you weren't into Showdown. The EV minigames were a massive quality of life improvement for people who wanted to quickly train new mons for competitive play.
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>>734099031
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>>734098837
>What did they start?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hekerFgs9GI
Half-assing
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ORAS were the last good pokemon games.
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>>734111569
Kanto, obviously
>first encounter set to always be Pidgey
>identical forest layout
>second starters
>Snorlax waking flute
that's what I've seen in my own revisit so far (right before gym 3 before getting sidetracked by college)
I'm expecting it to get worse
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>>734098837
When people say XY had no postgame, it's collectively true; most people want post games like platinum or b2w2. They want high level dungeons and npcs to battle, a mini campaign to embark on once their name is stamped onto the hall of fame, maybe a battle facility too. They want a victory lap of sorts. It's why the pwt is so popular despite being kinda meh mechanically. It's a big celebration of the pokemon franchise to that point, the Ultimate victory lap. No one give a fuck about retarded pokemon amie mini games and fucking horde battles lol
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Actually, i think you'll find I personally had fun with them. Thus, anyone who disagrees is wrong and also a prancing lala homo man. My theory is that they're all braindamaged from oxygen deprivation, given they spend so much time choking on dicks.
L retards.
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>>734111890
its sales should be counted towards the DP sales as well as B/W2 towards the B/W sales as a lot of people knew that GF had the tradition of releasing three games at the time and would wait for the third and "definitive" version's release
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>>734112796
XY's "postgame" is collecting all the megastones for the pokemon that should've gotten their megastones as you played through the game so you aren't locked into either Lucario or you Kanto starter. shit like Mawilite being postgame only was so fucking retarded.
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>>734111207
Literally after gen 6 game freak raped the online features because they realized they gave us an functional online and we can't have that. Then they removed GTS... I wouldn't be surprised if in gen 10 they finally remove the surprise/wonder trade so you have to use pokemon home for good.
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>>734114215
honestly giving kalos starters megas in X/Y would've been retarded so i agree with the decision not to. you need people to get used to and decide if they like the default designs before you make a "dramatic alteration" like megas are supposed to be. but not giving them megas in ORAS was just game freak being assholes.
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>>734101797
Gave me my girl, so I'm conflicted.
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>>734114325
Just needed 5 more attack... like her signature attack already couldn't be used in succession.
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>>734114368
i mean, Tinkaton could have like 50 more attack and not be broken.
Fun Fact: Tinkaton's pokedex entry talks about killing Corviknights. this is another bullshit exaggeration like Magcargo having an 18,000 degree body. Because Tinkaton actually beating a Corviknight is just as impossible as Magcargo being hotter than the sun.
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>>734099176
That depends entirely on whether you use the EXP share or not, if you turn it off then the game has a bunch of insane difficulty spikes.
Sun and Moon was a little better balanced around the EXP share, and it has been no issue since it became mandatory in Sword and Shield.
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>>734099889
Honestly, now that we have almost 100 different Megas I wish they'd just go full balls to the wall Megas return in Winds and Waves, let's have another 100 Megas, I don't even care if there's nothing new in the Pokedex but the starters and the legendaries, just give me more Megas.
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>>734111207
Gen 6 was definitely when GF started focusing on multiplayer more at the the expense of the single player campaign. So many of Gen 6s new mechanical features were catered more towards multiplayer than anything else which is either good or bad depending on what you play these games for in the end
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>>734098837
It was when Game Freak and the Pokémon Company learned that trying to make the games good is not worth it, people will buy it anyway.
It was the first step into fully 3D games, and they tripped. They cut a lot of stuff, a lot of the aspects of the game were poor, they rushed the game out and begun the start of the Kanto pandering, what happened? It sold more than gen 5, people liked it more. Now they try less and less and make more and more sales, because why make the games good if bad games are what people want?
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>>734098837
Y and X had their issues but they were the last grace the series had. After them the game have been going downhill hard and anyone who denies this is retarded.
They were the last bastion of charm the franchise had left and the last one with a decent chunk of actual good designs. Absolutely love my dino.
Also loved the little safari garden you got for each link-something person and friend you had.
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>>734098837
Pokemon went 3D, that's simply it. Every subsequent game would be rushed because they would try to crank out the 3D games at the same pace as the 2D ones and it just doesn't work. ORAS didn't get the battle frontier because they couldn't build it in time, double battles in gen 7 were a laggy mess, games no longer have every Pokemon, and SV actively shortened the lifespan of the Switch. They at least seem to be finally getting their shit together because WiWa are actually getting a proper development cycle, but the track record is just not great.
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They were the first Pokemon games I saw the covers for and went "You know what? I don't think I need to buy these at launch." and then never did, only returning to the series sporadically.
That is to say, they coincide with the time most of the people who would grow out of the series grew out of it. Most games since have actually had good sides to them but none apart from HGSS ever gripped me again.
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they was the big start of the gen 1 sucking off
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>>734098837
Gen VI has the last games that still feel like classic Pokemon. All the mons, except the mythical ones, being available between the 4 games feels like a last hurrah of the series.
At the time, Game Freak freaked out that all of their eggs were in the Pokemon basket which is why there's no Z version.
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>>734100685
parroting is an admission of defeat
>>734112440
The city with the 6th gym has a teleport puzzle in said gym, and the place which makes Poke Balls for the region is in said city as well.
Am I talking about Saffron? Or Laverre?
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Do people actually play the battle tower/maison whatevers when they beat the game?
I only tried one, the battle subway in black and white 2 and it was awful, it felt like the AI was just outright cheating. I had an EV trained team and everything
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Sounds strange that people consider the postgame in 6 to be bad if the battle facilities prior to 6 were too clunky to be fun
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>>734103964
I already know he's wrong so why would I need to disprove him? The hardest part is making the gif also I don't really care. I'm playing through the gens right now and I'm at emerald and I think it fucking SUCKS, compared to gen 1 that is. I took a break to play leafgreen.
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The dark ages of Pokemon begin with XY and ended with SV imo.
XY were decent games but a downgrade in comparison to the previous gen.
SM were shit games but were a step up tech-wise from XY.
SwSh were a step up gameplay wise from SM but looked like shit.
SV were just a step up from SwSh in every way.
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Good taste, my main gripe with Serena is how she (mainly her fan art) is the most tainted by the shitty anime.
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>>734099889
megas would have been cool if it was excuslively for pokemon that needed it like sunflora (give it desolate lands no balls) or ledian or stantler or any other ones that have been either never good or powercrept to hell
the fucking pseudo legendaries never needed one
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>>734101797
making a dedicated faggot type was a terrible idea
>light type
>still weak to steel because of reflection
>still good aganist dragon and dark because good vs evil
>buff poision by making it good aganist another type like water or flying for pollution
>you can still give it to a few of the older mons like garde, clefable, wigglytuff, and mr mime but now ampharos and milotic can get it
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>>734127983
When they added a brand new type that's good against Dragon and Dark, it was obvious they just wanted to weaken whatever people were using at the time. That's already lazy. They could just make everything else stronger, but they decided to make that weaker instead. You were required to use Fairy moves. On top of that, making them weak to Steel just made an already good type better. Everyone who wanted a Dark Dragon would now switch to Steel because they felt they didn't have a choice.
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>make it arbitrarily resist Bug, already the weakest type in the game, just because fuck bug
>also take away Ice's one niche of being the dragon slayer type while not giving a single buff as compensation
Fairy was so badly designed. The only positive thing I can say about it is that it gave Poison a use besides Toxic spam.
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wait fairy resists bug? i thought it was the other way around because of the meme of fairys getting stuck in spider webs
also i agree with ice it should resist fairy (because they are small and small animals have a harder time in the cold) and grass/flying
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>>734129104
>already the weakest type in the game
I would say Rock is the weakest. It's easily the one that failed the most and is totally overshadowed by another (Steel). It's a defensive type whose counter includes insanely broad coverage like water and fighting.
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>>734098837
XY were the first 3D games and so it was easy to see the difference. Honestly, the series was tending downward at that point, it's just easy to make a 2D-vs-3D comparison and point to the first 3D game as the fault. This is also where they dumbed down the games, made everything so much easier, and shoved the game full of tutorials.
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>>734098837
BW2, the best pokemon games ever made, and an inspired project for the devs, sold like dogshit. This demoralized those working for John Gamefreak. The decline of the 3DS era reflects indifference, and by the Switch era they are completely phoning it in. Can't blame them when their magnum opus does terribly and swshit sells like hotcakes. The meddling of the higher ups (dexcut, limited dev time and budget, demand for gimmicks), the rise of mobileslop, and little circulation or addition of talent also played their part.
XY has some merits and, while being the start of decline, was not the main cause. BW2 failing was the catalyst.
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Are these games actually good?
Why would you play them over the originals?
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this nigger just dodged 2 gunk shots, ignored a confusion from petal dance, and won me the fight aganist norman
play Blaze Black/Volt White 2 redux right now
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>>734132230
They're good, but they don't completely replace the original games. There's lots of reasons someone might want to play them over the originals, like transferring Kanto mons to RSE games, for the extra content not in the originals, preferring the newer look and gameplay. Same with HG/SS, though those are better games than FRLG iirc.
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>>734132230
They're better than the originals if we only look at the physical, official releases.
If you're willing to download and apply a fan patch that fixes RGB's glitches, it's better. Natures and the expanded move and type pool don't actually add that much to Gen 1, sadly. There's a few annoying bits added in and the visuals are mostly an upgrade but aren't great, either. They're not like HGSS where the changes improve the base game. The big reason FRLG was definitive for so long was the bug fixes + interconnectivity going forward.
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>>734127637
I didn't play x&y when they released. I went back to them after gen 7. I dropped Y about halfway in but got through sun just fine. That was also the last pokemon game I played. Although that had more to do with swsh looking like it was going to be shit.
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I found SV to be simply better than SwSh in every way when I played throught it, and it didn't have the same problem SM did where I was interrupted constantly. It was also somewhat challenging at times which I hadn't experienced from a normal Pokemon playthrough in several gens.
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Yeah when I first bought Moon at release it was the first and only mainline Pokemon game I dropped before finishing it.
I played through it again months before SV were released. finished it, and wanted to blow my brains out over how railroaded it was.
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>5:24 PM
>first post by XY schizo
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>last obvious post by XY schizo
This dude really spent 5 hours straight defending the most mediocre Pokemon game's honor on 4chan. Crazy.
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>>734126216
Gens 6-8 had no variety. You had the Battle Tower, and that's it. The Battle Frontier in gens 3 and 4 went to waste because making competitive Pokemon sucked ass. The instant you were able to breed efficiently, any side features were cut.
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>>734130721
last gap of the pokemon franchise
BW2 is better than BW. ironically, i didn't play it when i was younger because i assumed it would be a rip-off. i ended up skipping it and playing XY instead, which was the death knell for pokemon.
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>>Got rid of fantastic sprites for low quality 3D
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>they don't do a single thing that isn't already done better in gen 4 or gen 6
better, more intertesting routes
better, more interesting story
better, more memorable music(tossup between this and gen 4 but its close)
better, more interesting pokedex than Gen 6
better, more interesting elite 4 and champion
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Do people actually play Pokemon for the difficulty level? I understand not wanting to be treated like a 5 year old iPad kid but these are literally babby's first JRPG with a RPS battle system. I could understand the collecting, trading, breeding aspects being appealing but the actual battles are just kind of there.
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>>734109719
Meh sales don’t matter
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>better, more intertesting routes
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>better, more interesting story
*kicks munna*
>better, more memorable music
*gets interrupted by retarded low HP music*
>better, more interesting pokedex than Gen 6
gen 6 has literally all the pokemon gen 5 has
>better, more interesting elite 4 and champion
the e4 use only 4 pokemon while in gen 4 they use 5
>better, more interesting gyms
the gyms only use 3 pokemon while in gen 4 they use 4
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>>734135169
Renegade Platinum
Of if you want something more vanilla, Platinumqol https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/platinumqol-now-compatible-with- following-platinum.465574/
>>734135336
They might not do any remakes for a while, we know from the teraleak that BDSP wasn't planned.
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>>734135220
? But I'm not defending gen 5
>>734135242
>Do people actually play Pokemon for the difficulty level?
Apparently so, turns out gen 5 fans are legitimately fucking retarded and think the games are difficult
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>>734133607
oh no, you awoken yawnie
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>>734135402
>BDSP wasn't planned
True, but BDSP outsold both Legends Arceus AND Legends ZA despite being zero effort remakes and the Legends games being full ground-up reimaginings, so what financial reason would there be to not keep doing faithful remakes? I could easily see Project Seed having been quietly scrapped for being too ambitious + GF not knowing how to do a proper MMO and replacing its slot in the schedule with BW remakes…. that is, if Gen 10 getting delayed by 1 year doesn’t mean that Gen 10 DLC is now 2028 and Legends Galar is now 2029 and nothing replaces Seed if it’s been scrapped
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>>734135456
Pretty much exactly this. I know that a chimp being fed peanuts to incentivize it to keep playing could 100% without a doubt beat pokemon xy. I'm still just waiting for someone with the resources to make a video about it.
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>>734133672
>Gens 8 and 9 both have raids that demand min maxed Pokemon (they are gay and boring in Gen 8 but so is battle facility bullshit)
>Gen 8 had Dynamax adventures and single type sparring
>ZA has the above level 100 DLC
>these don’t count as post game content to use your bred Pokemon because it’s not called “Battle Frontier”
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>>734135456
gen 5 caters to the latter
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>>734135402
Cheers, grabbed renegade.
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>>734135803
Raids are boring as shit and there's no reason to do them anymore. You don't even breed in gen 9 because anything can be captured and maxed out in minutes.
ZA doesn't have breeding at all, you just use donuts to make up for the level difference.
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>>734134667
Great post. The second example is treating left
>Daycare, grass and water, secrets you have to come back to later, and an entire bonus dungeon.
as inferior to the right
>A straight line with two visual set pieces and no content that you will never visit again.
because the example on the right is physically larger.
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>>734135884
https://pokehacking.com/fangames/following-renegade/ here's a version of renegade that adds following pokemon from hgss
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>>734134667
Great post. The third example is treating the right
>multiple floors, optional hidden areas, valuable mega stones you come back for
as inferior to the left
>a single room with a piss easy ice sliding puzzle
because the left is abysmal dogshit
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>>734135374
>*kicks munna*
This was based.
>*gets interrupted by retarded low HP music*
And? still mogs the shit out of everything in Gen 6
>gen 6 has literally all the pokemon gen 5 has
And yet its universally condered a weaker, less interesting and more forgettable regional dex. Say what you will about Gen 5's pokemon, at least people remember them and love/hate them. People don't even remember the non-starter kalos pokemon.
>the e4 use only 4 pokemon while in gen 4 they use 5
Quality > Quantity
>the gyms only use 3 pokemon while in gen 4 they use 4
See above
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>>734136289
I just think it's funny. He'll never argue the actual point because even the craziest schizo could never make a coherent, logical argument on how an optional hedge maze is richer content than an optional cave and lake + a daycare.
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>>734136254
>This was based.
Yeah abysmal dogshit writing is heckin based
>And? still mogs the shit out of everything in Gen 6
No it doesn’t.
>And yet its universally condered a weaker, less interesting and more forgettable regional dex
Considering how frequently you and other zoomers seethe over Gen 6, it sure doesn’t seem that way.
>Quality > Quantity
Gen 5 has neither, sadly.
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>>734135889
Good breeding is fucking gay, bottle caps for engaging in post game content is a much better system than eugenics bicycle sim autism. And that’s not really the main point; there IS post game content that demands optimized mons, people just pretend there isn’t for various reasons, the main one of which is people want an emulation of pvp so they can say they’re good at Pokemon without actually being good
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>>734136427
>No it doesn’t.
Ask 100 pokemon fans to name an iconic Unova song and an iconic kalos song and you'll get 100 different answers for unova and about 3-4 anwsers for kalos. no one cares about kalos, simple as.
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Pros
>Best online feature PSS
>Pokemon amie was the best in gen 6
>Super training
>battle facilities along gen5 triple and rotation battles
>First instance of trainer customization
>Roller skates
>Drasna
Cons
>Game was too easy and got even easier in ORAS
>Battle mansion
>too many friend rivals that barely contributed to the story
>Megas given to pkm that were already too strong
>Zygarde shaft due to the anniversary
Honestly, it's hard for me to hate on XY since it's a forgiving pass for their first 3D game from GF. I just discovered that using air cutter affects trees in the background, and they drop berries after battle
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>>734136473
>No this zigzag along the linear sequence where I can pick up items is better than a zigzag along the linear sequence where I find items AND new Pokemon because I can find even more stuff later in the game and that's bad.
I'm sure this makes sense to some retard somewhere.
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>>734134667
Hey Kojo. If you don't want people to find you, don't use your bait on other websites.
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>>734136972
>make models too high poly to run well on 3DS because "future proofing"
>claim models need to be adjusted anyway on the literal next generation of hardware
>barely adjust any polygons, only adjust textures
Yes. The models started lazy trends.
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>>734133119
If you look at the map and keep the choke points/cutscenes triggers in mind, it becomes obvious that you could very easily make Gen 7 just as freeform as Gen 4 by just changing the event flags. It's maddening.
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>>734136606
>iconic Unova song
Trainer Battle (Masuda)
Accumula Town (Kageyama)
Skyarrow Bridge (Kageyama)
Castelia City (Kageyama)
Route 4 (Masuda)
An Unwavering Heart (Kageyama)
Driftveil City (Sato)
Route 6 (Kageyama)
Icirrus City (Kageyama)
Route 10 (Kageyama)
>iconic Kalos song
Trainer Battle (Masuda)
Route 4 (Kageyama)
Lumiose City (Kageyama)
Kalos Power Plant (Kageyama)
Route 15 (Kageyama)
Boutique (Kageyama)
…..Even though I think Kageyama made XY sound very generic, most of the best tracks from both BW and XY are still him, surprisingly (to me)
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>>734130721
>Berry farming locked to an online dead flash game
>Only generation that had NO ribbons even to beat the E4
>USA region
It was the beginning of the humiliation ritual we just didn't know how bad it was going to be in the future.
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>>734135482
As someone who was there at the time, FRLG not being broken made way more of the roster usable and generally just made for a smoother game. I don't like some of the art changes and the Sevii Island filler sucks, but without a patch that's still less annoying than the original.
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>>734137505
>the developers didn't say it so it isn't true!
The models being higher fidelity and polycount than the 3DS can actually display is well documented. What reason other than future proofing is there for that?
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>>734137669
>The models being higher fidelity and polycount than the 3DS can actually display is well documented
No, it actually isn't. It's just something you keep insisting is true with no proof.
>What reason other than future proofing
Who said they're future proofed?
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>>734137658
I know for a fact your faggot ass has seen the dumb meme image going over all the glitches in RGB. It wasn't enough to make them bad games, but Gen 1 had an extremely limited move pool. Several attacks for niche mons were glitched to the point the monster lost its flavor. It flattened out the dynamics in a bad way. The combat mechanics being fixed is a massive part of why Gen 2 gets jerked off so hard. The Sevii Islands are a reasonable compromise in exchange for fighting and poisob types having any use at all for a player and status moves doing what they're supposed to.
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>>734137947
Move pools were limited in gen 3, as well.
>Several attacks for niche mons were glitched to the point the monster lost its flavor
Like?
Gen 3 is still close enough to gen 1 that it doesn't make that big of a difference. Abilities were largely mediocre for Kanto mons, movepools were still very TM-reliant, lots of good TMs were removed or given way later, and a bunch of Pokemon lost offensive power with the special stat split.
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>>734138036
It runs like shit because the 3DS is a weak console and the vast majority of 3DS games have incredibly shitty low poly looking models.
Would you have preferred if they made every Pokemon look like N64 models? Just for more frames? In a fucking turn based RPG?
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>If you use the gay ass pokemon petting zoo mini game (that actively makes the game worse), then the pokemon have more animations
what sort of argument is this? I want them to have animations and personality in battle, not just when they click an attack.
>>734138237
Holy shit yes, Colleseum and PBR had so much soul because the low poly models needed to be animated well to have personality. Shit like Honchkrow tipping its hat when it gets ko'd shit like that
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>>734138237
If KIU is supposed to look markedly worse than Pokemon then I'm not seeing it. That model on the left is not at all N64-like. And even then? Yeah I'd prefer 20% less polygons for 60FPS in my turn based game.
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>>734138352
>>If you use the gay ass pokemon petting zoo mini game (that actively makes the game worse), then the pokemon have more animations
They have more animations in battles too, dumbfuck.
>because the low poly models needed to be animated well to have personality
But they weren't animated well. They were animated like shit and it completely destroyed the gameplay as a result.
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>>734138386
>If KIU is supposed to look markedly worse than Pokemon then I'm not seeing it.
I'm sorry about your terminal retardation and blindness.
>>734138419
>The 3DS doesn't even have enough resolution to make up for those extremely high poly counts
Yes it does.
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>>734138352
>I want them to have animations and personality in battle,
they do
I'm sorry you stared at shitty pokemon showdown gifs instead of actually playing the game
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>>734136436
>Good breeding is fucking gay
I like breeding. You can make it faster and more determined and focused. It's only bad when you need to breed 2000 eggs to even have a chance at a halfway decent competitive Pokemon.
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>>734138514
>why don't you turn off your brain and start seething at the sight of a visible polygon?! Don't you know fidelity is king?!
No. Using your hardware correctly is king. The 3DS isn't "too weak" any more than the DS, GBA, or Game Boy was.
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>>734138619
>Using your hardware correctly is king
They did use their hardware correctly. They prioritized the Pokemon looking good in a POKEMON GAME over making all the Pokemon look like complete shit just for more frames in a game where framerate barely actually matters.
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>>734138149
>Gen 1 has barely any moves, so niche and weird gimmick moves not working properly massively reduces player options, making your mons less unique.
>"But Gen 3 didn't add meaningful moves or abilities!"
Ok? I agree with that. I literally pointed this out already.
>Natures and the expanded move and type pool don't actually add that much to Gen 1, sadly.
FRLG wasn't better for adding anything. It was better because it fixed existing content. Applying those fixes to the original game makes FRLG redundant unless you're dead set on full color, because FRLG introduced more problems than boons outside of bug fixes. Again, you're right: Special split DOES suck for Gen 1. It doesn't benefit the game! But Alakazam losing his ability to tank special attacks is small potatoes compared to stall moves not functioning correctly, tick moves applying incorrectly, crit buffs not working, SPAMMABLE HYPER BEAM, etc.
>Spoon-feed me!
Here's the spoon you fucking baby.
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>The 3DS isn't "too weak"
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>>734099031
>NO NO NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! YOU CANT SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUUT THOSE GAMES I PLAYED THOSE WHENI WAS 10 AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>734138725
>if they cut 10% of the polygons to let the game run at 60FPS it would make the Pokemon look like COMPLETE SHIT!
>frames don't matter anyway! Performance is a spook!
Game Freak shills are something else.
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>>734138728
Most players wouldn't encounter bugs in a typical playthrough. The rest of those are just intricacies of the original games, it's just how they were.
Unless you go out of your way to activate.
Alakazam can't take hits as well, and Charizard hits harder, but it comes at the cost of mons like Gyarados losing its main STAB option.
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>>734138976
>My son,,, his au-AIEEEEEEEEEEE STOP DRILL PECKING ME!!!!!!
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>>734139004
>>removing polygons lets a game run better
That's not what you said. You said removing 10% of the polygons would let the game run at 60FPS. Give a source, Unovatard.
>>734139069
Less polygons look bad because it looks less like the thing it's supposed to look like and more like a shitty jagged statue, yes.
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>>734139120
>the part of the battle you're actually watching
vs
>you clicking through menus not paying that much attention to the top screen
It's amazing how things are contextualized differently when you actually PLAY THE GAME instead of staring at showdown gifs like a retard, huh?
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>>734139131
You said that framerate is irrelevant to turn-based games and that everything on the 3DS except fucking Pokemon looks bad. Why am I supposed to take your opinion seriously?
>but it looks like le shitty jagged statue!
I don't see it.
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>>734139019
>Most players wouldn't encounter bugs in a typical playthrough.
You would have to be obscenely lucky to play the whole game and never encounter the Focus Energy bug, let alone the rest. You're forced to fight trainers who use it. Don't lie for no reason.
>But special split
Gyarados is still OP as fuck there. If all you care about is DA STRONKEST monsters I guess FRLG was a downgrade, sure. But at the time it meant you could ACTUALLY USE mons like Hitmonlee and Venemoth in a non meme capacity. They weren't great, but they weren't just worse stat sticks anymore.
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>>734139248
>You said that framerate is irrelevant to turn-based games
Correct, you don't need perfect frame rate in turn based games.
>and that everything on the 3DS except fucking Pokemon looks bad
Correct, every other 3DS game has shittier looking models unless it's something like Ace Attorney, which ALSO has frame issues, because the devs weren't fucking retarded and realized you don't need perfect frames in a fucking visual novel puzzle game
>I don't see it.
I'm sorry about your blindness
>>734139265
Good thing it does look cool then, huh?
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>>734139019
>The rest of those are just intricacies of the original games, it's just how they were.
Yeah man, that's why they started fixing some of them in fucking Pokemon Stadium, let alone Gen 2. It was a very intentional move and not shit being broken.
Dishonest faggot.
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>>734139408
You wouldn't even know about the Focus Energy bug without being told about it.
>Gyarados is still OP as fuck there.
Not nearly as much.
>you could ACTUALLY USE mons like Hitmonlee and Venemoth in a non meme capacity
I guess Hitmonlee can take a hit better, but it doesn't have any new moves to play with.
What did Venomoth even get? Shield Dust?
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>>734139538
>I don't care about frames or performance, polygon count is an objective requirement and if you don't have it then your game looks like SHIT!
Thanks for confirming that the character models (which allow for your vaunted trainer customization) are actually shit nobody needs or cares about!
>no no no, THOSE are important and look good!
But they run in 60FPS on the 3DS and have way lower polycount than the Pokemon models. By your own standards that means they look objectively bad and I shouldn't get value out of cosmetic modification of something that looks objectively bad, now should I?
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>>734139550
>pokedex webm where they cycle the animation
We both played the game, we both know these pokemon don't flap nearly that often in game.
>M-Pigeot, Skarm, tropius and Salamence sharing the same pose instead of soemthing unique
fucking grim
3d was a mistake
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>>734139549
Blizzard being 90 accuracy is arguably a balancing mistake, it's not a bug. It's just how the game is. Like Electric Terrain providing a 1.5x boost in gens 6 & 7 before getting nerfed to 1.3x in gen 8, or Future Sight dealing typeless damage prior to gen 5. It's just how the games were back then. They're not bugs.
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>>734139739
>>I don't care about frames or performance,
In a turn based game? Correct. The fidelity of the Pokemon is more important.
>But they run in 60FPS on the 3DS and have way lower polycount than the Pokemon models
They don't need to have a higher poly count because your player model in the overworld is tiny as fuck compared to the rest of the screen, dumbfuck.
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>>734139654
>You wouldn't even know about the Focus Energy bug without being told about it.
I know those goalposts you moved -- from "never encounter" to "who cares" -- are really fucking heavy, but did you need to lie to my face like I'm a retard? If it didn't matter, why have the move? Placebo? Fuck off. I know you weren't born yet, but people were aware shit was broken in Gen 1.
>What new moves?
Now I know you're being a dishonest faggot because I've already said this is about fixing old moves. You know. Like Focus Energy? For Hitmonlee, the monster with a signature move that's already a gamble? Or fuck, Snorlax's signature move FAILING TO REMOVE DEBUFFS is a pretty big deal!
You're being disingenuous. Piss off.
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>>734139785
>550 replies
>no one has debunked yawnchad
grim
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>>734139830
There's a huge difference between pointing a handful of intentional choices in that list and brushing the majority of it off as intentional. Integer overflow on buffs isn't a design decision, be real.
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>>734140194
>>framerate doesn't matter if it isn't an action game
Framerate doesn't matter if it's a turn based game, correct.
>>polycount doesn't matter unless it's going to have a close up
That's how models work, correct. You see more details the closer it is. Therefore a lower poly model won't be noticeably low poly if it's a further distance away.
>>uses enemies you never see in close up as an argument
There are instances in the game where you see the Pokemon right in front of the fucking screen. Are you retarded?
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>>734140302
>framerate doesn't matter
>ever
Lmao
>a low poly model doesn't look low poly if you never see it close up
And the enemy you used to show how "bad" low poly looks >>734138237 is not shown in close up ever. Camera angle isn't part of the argument.
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>>734140302
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>>734140425
>>framerate doesn't matter
In a turn based game? Correct, you don't need perfect frames.
>>734140425
>is not shown in close up ever
Exactly. Plus it's an action game. Therefore they could justify low poly models. I'm glad you're learning different types of games need to be optimized in different ways.
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>>734140489
>That footage isn't captured on real hardware
It's a multiplayer battle. And 3DS emulators run like shit. It's definitely real hardware.
>No Gen 6 footage is because it drops frames constantly anytime it might look okay
No, it doesn't. Play the game instead of lying like a bitch.
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>>734140543
>Framerate doesn't matter
Wrong! Framerate never doesn't matter.
>Therefore they could justify low poly models.
They could justify "low poly" (actually appropriate for the hardware) models by knowing how many enemies were going to be on screen at once and budgeting their polygons based on that. Game Freak knows how many Pokemon can be on screen at once too and just doesn't care.
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>>734140489
>I-IT'S NOT REAL HARDWARE
gif that's just a camera recording of a 3DS screen
still looks fine
stop seething over XY being good
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Why are Unova-haters shocked that 99% of pokemon players' will think higher of a game that has an excellent campaign but is feature lacking over a game that has a weak campaign but is bloated with features when most people want to just
>pick a starter
>beat gyms 1-8, the evil team and the champion
>listen to some banging tracks
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>>734140709
>I got btfo on every single point by him but h-h-h-he's the one getting raped not me!!
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>>734140716
>unova
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>>734140664
>Wrong! Framerate never doesn't matter.
In a turn based game? No, you don't need perfect frames.
>>734140664
>They could justify "low poly" (actually appropriate for the hardware) models by knowing how many enemies were going to be on screen at once
It doesn't matter how many are on the screen at once. You see Pokemon close up, therefore they need to be high poly.
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>>734140716
>will think higher of a game that has an excellent campaign
gen 5 doesn't do that well either
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>>734140716
>unova
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>>734141170
This. It isn't a true Pokemon game unless there are NPCs telling me where to go.
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>>734141107
Pokemon is peak when its linear.
That's why unova is so good.
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>>734141048
>"you never played it, which is why you have different opinions on OG vs fanhacks like Shin and are talking about movesets nobody in the fandom brings up"
You really can't handle being wrong about something, huh?
A lot of Gen 1 monsters suck. These bugs are small individually, but build up into making a lot of weirdo choices worse than they should be. That's more valuable than "OHHHH NOOOOO ALAKAZAM IS SLIGHTLY WORSE AAAA"
You shouldn't play FRLG anymore, but it was the superior form of the game until fans fixed the OG. Bother someone else if you're not willing to have an actual discussion.
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>>734141270
>Wrong.
Not wrong.
>DOG FUCKING SHIT OPINION
Not really.
>>734141305
>Pokemon is peak when there's no gameplay
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