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I'm probably the most anti-labor force union president that's ever existed

but if admin tried to pull b they'd end up buried under our soccer field

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Also the fact that Scarlett and Ryoma have a type of romance budding between the two of them but they don't even get a support is BS

Yeah Scarlett deserves to be this low

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MegamanX posted...

When Kaze dies in Birthright? I was literally shocked and sat down the DS, he had full supports and they got ballsy enough to just off him.

yeah but the fact he doesn't have his kid right away is a dead giveaway. I was actually shocked to learned he lived.

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Flu shots are the reason we have super flu going around

I can't in good conscience contribute to that.

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Whaaat Izana has more than one entertaining line, which puts him in the top twenty characters for sure. He's funny in pretty much every scene he's in, his conversation with Kana is actually funny to read, which is a crazy feat. He also gives his life without hesitation to avert disaster. Also, hello, winner of best hair several years in a row? Recruiting him has a point because he's the best husband "You put a ring on Izana baby!"

Exactly how high up is Corrin

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I got marth, I'd give it to you if he could since he's completely worthless. I can't even transfer his bow onto anyone cool!

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I've basically only been checking for orbs for the past few weeks, so I guess soon this will just be a topic full of people who like to look at fire emblem heroes announcement trailers

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tagg

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Heroic Bigpun posted...

I'm finally starting to believe Santa RPG

Yeah, listen dude I might be wrong, I have been in the past.

but the most likely scenario is they did this to maybe 200 people and 180 people didn't respond like you did and they're just going to take the money from them instead since it's literally free money backed by the courts for them. You're almost certainly not worth the labor.

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I think you can call a black woman bento box and it's not derogatory. I just checked on twitter.

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Punnyz posted...

I think someone, probably ulti, suggested this was some ol beta bullshit and she was just wanting to string me along because she was weighing her options, but I guess the jurys still out on that one

well Im glad you ignored it and learned a valuable life lesson

"sometimes people mean exactly what they say"

also calling "Bento Box" might be particularly derogatory.

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Maybe it's because I too am old now

but Board 8 def looks better as old men than they ever did as young men

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I got pent and flora in my first circle, which are the only two I wanted from the banner

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did they just play classical gas over that trailer

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oh it just occured to me we could be getting a smash reveal, and an indie game is way overdue for smash.

shovel knight and sans are out, so I guess Shantae is our safest bet?

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Jesus gmun you're legit passing

That make up is on point

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Hbthebattle posted...

When someone posts something like this it immediately tells me their opinions are objectively not worth listening to

I like to mix hyperbole with my strong opinions so people will remember not to take me so seriously when I'm passionate about things like pokemon spin off games

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HashtagSEP posted...

The game is supposed to be for people that go "I want Pokemon GO, but more."

It's good for those people.

I don't think any of my complaints have anything to do with pokemon go. I LIKE pokemon go, and brought it a pokemon go fan to try to play the game with me. Pokemon go isn't perfect, but it has a lot of really good elements to the design that aren't brought into let's go.

Take the catching in both games, in GO a curved ball "excellent" catches nearly everything on the first try, but it's pretty difficult for beginners and for certain pokemon, so sometimes you might go with just a simple "nice" or use a higher level ball. There's options for different levels of skill. Berries are on one side, balls are on the other, and switching between them is completely seamless (provided there's not a network error) Even for high level raid rewards I never felt like not catching a pokemon was out of my control, even if it was.

In Let's go comparatively, the only thing you can do is get an "excellent" and it's fairly easy to do for even for a beginner. So outside of using your best berry and using an ultra ball, there's really nothing else that can be done except keep getting "excellent"s and hope the RNG treats you well. I failed to get several pokemon because I just used all my ultra balls with mostly perfect throws but I wasn't lucky enough to catch them. Berries are in the same menu with balls, they're weirdly mixed in, and you have to confirm every single move you want to make. The clunkier element means it takes much longer to get a lot of throws against a pokemon and the whole experience feels more dull and less tense.

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Nanis23 posted...

What did I post

I was going to respond to your post but couldn't think of the right way to say "design is everything" so I wanted to delete it which is hard to do on mobile

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HashtagSEP posted...

The battles are just extra/fluff.

Which means the battles are pointless

So why even have them? If they offer no reward, why on earth would anyone battle anyone they didnt have to? Theyre not challenging and they take a lot of time.

Also late game, catching doesn't really seem to be as effective as early game. It was more worth my time to farm oddishes since those all got in the ball easily on the first time so I could get more exp quicker with less expensive balls. Late game excellents + berries seemed to pop out far more often.

That was another big problem, the ball jiggles seemed to be seperate from catchability. It seemed no matter what I threw I would always get it to jiggle until the last jiggle and then break out at the last second.

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hey hg/ss had day and night! Hg/ss was really the best kanto remake we ever got. The towns looked better, they all had their own themes and the music was awesome. I have no idea why no one hasnt made a romhack where you start in kanto then go over to johto.

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SaveEstelle posted...

One thing I disagree with is the visuals. I think the graphics are mostly quite pleasant and I didn't experience much slowdown at all

I did find the pokemon models to look better than they ever did, but the towns visually are... Nothing. There's no added element of depth or design in any of the locales, its just the same space as the gameboy games but in 3-D. The one space I was impressed with was the team rocket basement bottom floor, where I was like "woah it actually looks like a basement" but that turned out to be because it was to showcare the feature of pikachu moving on a grate.

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HashtagSEP posted...

Anyhoo, the only point I'm going to reply to is about the battles/EXP.

The game is supposed to attract Pokemon GO players, not so much regular players, and so the whole point is catching Pokemon. You get more EXP from catching them than battling because of this. That's also why the PC is how it is, because the game expects you to catch dozens upon dozens of the same Pokemon to then send to Oak for candy and crap. It's not "broken," it's designed that way. You seem to have gone into this game with a fundamental misunderstanding of what the game is.

Pokemon go is designed that way, and it works more or less. Pokemon are raised with candy because the game is designed to emphasize catching and real world exploration. Let's go takes elements of the mobile game and creates a chimeric system that doesn't function for the system it is put in. You cant put caramel on steak and say "its designed for people who like ice cream"

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TexasZea posted...

rukus

shut up zea

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Emeraldegg posted...

Stuff like the overexplained controls, easy battles, linearity etc.

I mean the "pokemon came out when we were all babies and no one had trouble understanding it" point has been done to death, I don't feel the need to argue that point, it's not productive.

My point here is that the controls aren't clear DESPITE being overexplained. The battles are more difficult (tedious I guess more than difficult) because exp isn't parceled out in a functional way, you waste a lot more time exploring things because you're exploring things in the wrong order that the game wants you to play. No matter what their end was, they failed on every aspect.

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I remember making a big rukus about this game before it came out, obviously it didn't fit my idea of what a Kanto remake could be. I didn't have high expectations for pokemon but I at least expected something akin to a moveable camera and topography, something to make the game feel like we were exploring our old home anew.

Then the game came out, and people claimed to be having fun with it, and I shut up, because look, game freak makes games that are poorly thought out yet fun. I figured I was too hard on it, and decided to get it if I ever had the opportunity to play the two player with someone else. Recently, my girlfriend who likes the early games and pokemon go was staying over for a week so I picked it up. She's also one of those super positive pokemon fans that doesn't really see all the flaws in design like I do.

I don't actually know where to start with this, the game gets so much wrong that I feel entitled to a refund for buying an incomplete game. First of all, the game overexplains the controls to the player sooo much, which yeah it's pokemon, but the game doesn't even adjust the controls to the controller. So while she's playing she has no idea what button to press because the game is telling her to press buttons that aren't even on her joycon, the interface is heavily reliant on pressing different buttons to do different things too so this isn't a minor issue. Second, even when the second player catches a pokemon, inputs are frozen for the second player regarding anything relating to the pokemon. Which means to nickname the pokemon I caught, I have to take her controller away and pause the game and name something and then give it back. Double Battles are equally bad, as the game makes you take turns selecting your move, as opposed to having two sides of the screen that you input at the same time. So this make the already slow battle system even more sluggish. Picking a pokemon to follow behind you is equally a nightmare, it took us a lot of time to even figure out how to organize the team so the pokemon we wanted to fight with were both following us.

I'm glossing over the things I think everyone already knows about two player, like the fact second player can't interact with anything and is shot into space every time there's a cutscene.

She made a comment that the game was too hard to play without falling asleep, which I totally get. There's nothing really that makes Kanto interesting or new, and battles take so long and have so little consequence that you don't really feel like they're worth it.

Which brings me to another point that I didn't see anyone complain about: Experience is busted, and battles aren't worth it. The game rewards barely any exp for trainer battles, and it's weirdly spread out amoung your party so even keeping a pokemon in front doesn't make it gain any extra exp. My Pikachu is constantly the highest leveled pokemon on my team despite never using it. After beating a pokemon twice my level and getting no exp, I did a little test and found out that catching a level 9 oddish nets you considerably more exp than taking down a level 20 opponent.

The box system is also awful, I've heard people talking good things about being able to switch pokemon on the fly without going to the PC. But the interface is really bad, and there's no good way of organization. Sun and Moon's switch when you catch worked much better and served the purpose 90% of the time, and the PC was almost perfect the way it's been the past few years.

There's lots more things to complain about, but I think they've all been covered pre-release. The graphics are bad, I get weird choppy slowdown just walking around towns, catching pokemon can only be done functionally in portable mode, there's pokemon sizes, but those sizes don't transfer into the battle (or at least not in a way that's noticable) so whats the point, there's a rival who tells you what doors to walk through and cheers you on for just being there, Jesse and James are in it but not the Jesse and James from the Anime, just different characters with the same design and face. Any sort of open world aspect from the first game has been replaced with being ushered around from area to area. I was honestly surprised the game let me leave lavender town to go to celadon first, only to have the rocket in celadon tell me I need to go back to lavender town for no reason. The whole thing feels like a fan game designed in the unity engine.

I played it until pokemon go park, because I was interested in the pokemon go transfer and how it worked, obviously that found a way to upset me too. Despite pokemon having OTs and real world locations in the park, that information is deleted as soon as you catch it, the nicknames aren't saved, so pokemon are back to just being your name. It would have been worth the novelty to keep a persian in my livingdex that came from chicago, but it seems this game has managed to remove anything that could be considered remotely fun or interesting.

Anyway TL;DR this game is even worse than you might think, please don't buy it if you haven't already. And if you did buy it and managed to enjoy it, you're objectively wrong, I'm so sorry to tell you that you have no standards for gameplay.

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I mean we still got that saga-like for 3ds I believe. I guess I should say I love SaGa games but the all suffer from massive organization problems in such a way it's hard to know what you're even supposed to do in some of the games. Some games I'm able to power through, and some games I simply can't enjoy.

I guess I'll give this one a shot if it has iiicon endorsement

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How are we at colorless bland people already. How can you not have more vile for more of the cast.

Dear lord how high up on the list is corrin?

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I mean Peri is a terrible character, but as far as usefulness, having a strong paladin that you don't care if she gets killed or not is pretty damn useful. Id give her a solid C+

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MegamanX posted...

It plays like a mobile game ported to consoles

Ok so it's very bad. Damn.

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I don't hate Azama, he's a true nihilist, and basically only gets painted as an asshole because the characters he support with don't understand what "nihilist" means. If anything they could have made him more of an actual asshole to be funny.

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MegamanX posted...

like Romancing Saga 2 and 3, and Saga Frontier 1. scarlet grace has those you can screw yourself over with impossible to come back from choice moments. I've been told by SaGa fans this is on purpose and a theme of the series.

yeah I mean that's all well and good

but like

is it actually fun to play

as in does it play better than a nes-level rpg with modern day slowdown

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ok sooo after spending the literal entire day looking for the sinnoh stone event at every pokestop in mine and neighboring towns, I finally found one

it's at the pokestop closest to my house, a ten minute walk away.

Bully for me, but as you may know, I live in the mountains, far away from all civilization, and there's zero chance anyone in our out of my community knows this stop even exists. It's in such an isolated place, pokemon go doesn't even have location data to make the maps around it, so it's all just colorless green wasteland for miles.

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I spent hours today going around my town trying every single pokestop looking for the sinnoh stone event.

Nothing at all.

And Im dumb enough to try again tomorrow

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StealThisSheen posted...

I mean, yeah, it's not really game breaking, but they are things that can add up to make the game less enjoyable, so it's like... Why deal with them if you don't have to, unless you're just really into the glitches?

Like I mentioned before, no tutorials, faster gameplay, more aesthetically pleasing pokemon sprites.

To be clear its not like I hate fr/lg, its just a huge shame that every kanto remake has been incredibly flawed while not offering any improvments on the original game. Like you can get a gba version of pokemon crystal thats just a fan made romhack, and it offers the same amount of advancement (if not more)that fr/lg have.

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Yeah except theres not a single pokemon in any pokemon game thats not OP, so if youre not playing it competitively theres really no big deal about not knowing what moves do what, since you can beat the game with a weedle's poison sting. None of those problems are actual issues for a single player playthrough.

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HashtagSEP posted...

How is No eggs or non Kanto Pokmon somehow a reason to play RBY over FR/LG?

FR/LG is objectively an improvement. The only reason to play RBY is to take advantage of them being a glitchy mess, but then that requires suffering through Gen 1s shortcomings for the rest of the game.

What shortcomings?

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Could you prehaps elaborate on that thought?

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SantaRPidgey posted...

there's really no reason to play the remake in this day and age unless you're trying to transfer pokemon to a modern cartridge

Oh I just realized, its easier to transfer pokemon from r/b/y than from fr/lg now

So yeah

Almost no reason at all to play the remake in its pure unhacked form

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SaveEstelle posted...

So why do some folks not care for FRLG as much?

Locks out features from current gen, like eggs and non-kanto pokemon until post game, disturbingly tutorial heavy. Sevii islands is basically busywork.

while the originals have things like missingno and mew and better artwork for the pokemon, there's really no reason to play the remake in this day and age unless you're trying to transfer pokemon to a modern cartridge or if you've hacked the new pokemon into it.

fr/lg had the best pokedex layout ever made though. Very typical of game freak to do one thing right once and then never again.

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Yeah its a shame that Kanto really never got a decent remake (unless you count hg/ss)

B/W and B/W 2 are where pokemon peaked as a series so I recommend that, but hg/ss is also great and a little slower so play those first because its hard to go back to them.


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Wait is scarlett grace even remotely playable? I love saga but it looks like their games have a budget of twenty bucks

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Mandarin pop lyrics I guess

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NBIceman posted...

You'll have to forgive the somewhat potato quality, I don't have that many recent pictures of myself.

Tom from myspace?

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So are they giant all the time? Or they the only ones who become giant formed when dynamaxed?

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What is the benefit of catching raid pokemon? Hidden abilities?

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Where do you live where homes are so expensive you can only afford 1/6th of one

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Thats actually not a bad thing because it means she doesnt have a blockage.

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I'd really like to think we're all a little too old for that.

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Finding out the ladyvyxx is an actual lady and not an alt of a past user is the biggest reveal of the decade

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