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Yeah I mean I understand what the situation is, it's just super weird. Aren't they bringing them right back the next game?
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_PandaMaster_ posted...

Eevee has had its evolution melds changed. Leaf and Ice Stone to get the gen 4 evos.

why

why did they not do this for so long if they were going to do it eventually anyway

and why would they do it right before a sinnoh remake, where the feature was introduced

I mean I don't really have a problem one way or another, it's just the constant bizarre choices that game freak makes that unnerves me.
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friend code:

SW-7736-4266-0114
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I'm only friends with gmun lol
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probably because it's easier to kill off adult characters and darker to kill off kid characters
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yeah it's cool that it is almost instantly able to tell what can kill you and then kicks your ass.

Also the music is good.
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Surskit posted...

I had bubble tea on a paper straw the other day and it was perfectly fine.

oh really?

I haven't tried it yet but I suddenly became afraid of change
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Alanna82 posted...

Also Mystery Men was not a bad movie. (and also where the song All Star was originally from)

same could be said about grease two

re-pro-DUCTION!
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mnkboy907 posted...

More early copies are in the wind and at least one person has started streaming it. Hype for the inevitable datamine.

place your bets folks

will all past pokemon be in the game, just inaccessible? Or will they truly be gone
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yeah if you go into the little adventure menu you can see what your difficulty level is

you can also see your friend's, which is how I know @Grimlyn is at 14 so I can flex on him
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whats everyone's difficultly level? I'm amazed it was able to give me the perfect one with just a few questions. I'm at 21
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hey guys I need a new friend

I don't have any friends so I'll always receive and send gifts right away <3

fc: 7774 1074 7447
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Just started it up, as someone who is pretty fit, regularly hikes and spends his entire day working, this game kicked my butt.

Still shaking from my first session. This is like wii fit on steroids
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I'm old enough to remember xbyte so yeah I guess that's old enough.

there are users in this topic that I consider new users despite them being here for a decade or more
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Punnyz posted...

Hey santa, has your dad ever traveled

naw dude, debt collections isn't about traveling or forcing. It's about manipulation and fear. There's almost literally nothing debt collectors can legally do to get money nowadays, so their best bet is to make their victim fell trapped and in danger so they pay any amount just to be free of that.

It's some f'd up s but he makes p good money
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Pleeease give us a beast unit for book 4 IS

I would also take a manakete
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oh no lol I was just making fun of US/UM

I have no idea what extent rotomdex plays a part in this game
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Punnyz posted...

also, what does it cost to sue someone?

the range is about as big as "how much does it cost to be sued"
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BetrayedTangy posted...

I think what I hate the most is we're morethan likely getting the rest of the dex in future Gen 8 games.

They've been getting worse and worse about their first game of the generation being unfinished and then releasing a superior version two years later amd charging full price for it. It's a horrible move that screws over fans who bought the originals. Granted this has been a tactic from the very beginning, but I feel like now it's at a point they're using it to make more $$$

I mean you're very wrong, B/W 2 was a completely different game with a new plot, x/y didn't even have one and Us/um was the exact same game as far as features go (unless you're mad they didn't have mantine surfing in the first one)
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SaveEstelle posted...

Maybe feature is a strong word for it, but its going to tell a story that prior games have not told (obviously) and play differently than postgame episodes in prior games to some extent or another (obviously) that as someone who is chiefly interested in the adventure aspect of Pokmon games it is absolutely worth mentioning.

two hours is the time it takes to get through the tutorial in sun and moon
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SaveEstelle posted...

I dont consider any of those things synonymous enough with clearly different things not to call them new features.

what exactly is different about the camp in regards to amie that you don't consider them exactly the same.

Oh also, this will be the most expensive pokemon game to date, and they will charge you for features that have historically been free like trading. Put that on my "this is a shitty company" list too
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SaveEstelle posted...

Dynamax/Gigantamax; camping/curry; a unique new two-hour postgame episode

Mega/z moves, Pokemon Amie, all the past games had postgame.

you can't replace a feature with something nearly identical and call it a new feature.
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Grimlyn posted...

flying with a flute in ORAS was a fantastic feature tbqh

it was cool

but would it be just as cool if there wasn't any pokemon not from the original RSE in it?
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HashtagSEP posted...

I gotta wait until after the game is released before I can take a Santapinion seriously anyway because you bitched for months about Three Houses before it came out and then didn't you end up liking it

Yeah, but my bitching wasn't on the the general laziness of the game. It was about poor design choices (many of which were fixed between development and release) And three houses turned out to be my second least favorite fire emblem, but I still acknowledge it was a good game with a lot of effort put into it and I'm happy it did so well. It was actually the opposite of this situation, since I was upset that IS was putting a lot of resources into making a game thats not really for me of my favorite series, whereas Game Freak is putting no resources into making a game for anyone. They're jut trying to shave off as much of the game as they can to make more profits, just like EA, Activision/Blizzard killed some great series, game freak is going the same direction.

I acknowledge that I complain about everything when a new game comes out, and even if sword and shield had a feature where gardevoir comes out to the tv and sucked my dick I'd probably still find things to complain about.
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Grimlyn posted...

SantaRPidgey posted...

Well considering they literally never add anything interesting to the remakes BESIDES the extra pokemon and maybe a weird feature where you dress up pikachu, I don't feel like that's a hot take?

this is an extremely hot take

https://i.imgur.com/hhiQg0y.gif

oh lmao I literally mentioned it in my post. I completely forget it was a remake.

I was just thinking of OR/AS
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SaveEstelle posted...

These folks have clearly made their decision and hold firmly to the opinion that the number of Pokemon visible and catchable is not only the primary criteria for a new entrys quality but perhaps the only criteria

Our argument is literally "they didn't add anything else"
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

literally demakes makes it seem like your only criteria for the quality of a Pokmon game is raw number of Pokmon included

Well considering they literally never add anything interesting to the remakes BESIDES the extra pokemon and maybe a weird feature where you dress up pikachu, I don't feel like that's a hot take? I mean if you like 3-d models that's cool and bully for you, but I would literally just take a 1-1 remake of d/p with the extra pokemon patched in over whatever weird thing they're going to give us with an extra added on plot about how a tall guy made a meteor that split the timeline. Man and if they had pokemon walking behind like hg/ss? Hell yeah I would play the shit out of that game.
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HashtagSEP posted...

"Fuck Megas, they make competitive too boring! Fuck Z-moves, they're pointless and make the game too easy!"
*Three hours later*
"wait megas and z-moves are gone how could gamefreak do this you just killed my family *shocked pikachu face*"

I mean first of all acting like these are the same people is stupid, but it's a legit take since megas and z- moves are stupid not by their nature, but by the fact they are around for one gen and never got any refinement.
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People want to shape this as "well they couldn't just keep giving us all pokemon forever"

sure, I think we all agree having 3000 pokemon was unsustainable, but that's not what is actually happening here.

This is the first game on console, where expectations are the highest, where they would be most justified in adding as much as they possibly could. If after this game they said "Listen we've reached the cap on what we can feasibly put in the game and balance it, so we'll have to do something different next gen" I don't think most people would have the problem we have now. I personally would be totally ok with a pokemon reboot.

What happened in the scenario, is we got the typical "cut features, add features no one cares about, business as usual cut some QoL changes, add others"

Then they reduced the total amount of pokemon to GBA games level. This not only means that this game will suck, but that when we get D/P remakes, we literally might get LESS pokemon than the initial game. Literally demakes.

Compare it to a game like pokemon colosseum where you had almost the EXACT same amount of pokemon, and each of those pokemon got size variables show in game, and cool custom animations, it shows that this isn't a move of practicality, it's a move of malice for it's hardcore customers. Casual fans won't be affected, but those of us who spent hundreds upon hundreds of dollars dealing with Game Freak's weird BS to keep pokemon generation after generation are the ones being f'd over.

People want to act like we're being negative, but it's not. I'm not buying the game because I'm actually holding a company accountable for shitty actions.
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ScepterOfLove posted...

My (perhaps too optimistic) prediction is that next year's Sinnoh remakes will bring back 150-200 to the gen

I mean the alternative is putting less pokemon in the Sinnoh remakes than was initially there.

which, if this game sells well enough, I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
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They changed arena, but didn't fix ANY of what makes arena suck

damn
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it just occurred to me that there is a slight chance of farfetched having a duo hero

imagine if we get Anna but she's duo'd behind a different hero lol
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mnkboy907 posted...

- You can finally nickname Pokemon received in trades, provided they don't already have a nickname. But once you give it a nickname, you can't change it again.

oh my goddd FINALLY, I no longer have to hate people who wondertrade without nicknaming (although, still, why would you wondertrade without nicknaming?)

This alone almost makes up for the fact that this game will be on par with the GBA games for pokemon selection.
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I can't believe we got 2 fe8 banners in a row without moulder

But at least there's very few fe8 characters in general, so the next one has to be nothing but bangers! here's looking to 2021 powercrept moulder
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TheCodeisBosco posted...

But when the price is right... that food is still comforting, right? I'm sure I'll still enjoy this once I find it on the cheap.

yeah like I'm still kinda excited and will probably buy it used after a long time, but I can't imagine playing full price to enable the behavior that game freak has been showing
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ok cool but when they decrease the quality next gen and make it even less playable you'll have no one but yourself to blame
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

400

wait it has less pokemon than the DS games???

how is anyone buying this

what is wrong with you people

Pokalicious posted...

Bring on the DPPt remakes!

I can't wait to play diamond and pearl with less pokemon than the original!
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nooo the 3ds fire emblem games were perfect, I would have killed for a remake of any game on it : (
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foolm0r0n posted...

The whole issue is about giving up something that you really like but has immoral implications. If you don't like the thing then, and I know this is hard to admit, the discussion doesn't apply to you and you can offer nothing.

I mean listen, I understand that in concept.

I am just baffled by the fact that this chicken sandwich is what people have chosen to sell their souls for. Like yeah, Ive prioirtized my scruples poorly and I'll see you all in hell but when I sell out all my values, it wont be for a 6 dollar sandwich, which I assume tastes like an orgasm inside a supermodel feels for the people here.
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Abouf the level of response to be expected from someone who cant figure out thay more than one restaurant might sell a good chicken sandwich.
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I mean instead of the potshot that you clearly walked into, maybe I could use this opportunity to ask, what level of atrocity would a restaurant have to commit before you stop buying from them?
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LeonhartFour posted...

good food

SantaRPidgey posted...

unless you were so poor of resources and mind

Not talking about you
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But CFA is such a low pay off that I think it makes the weight of the choice that much worse.

Like Im fine paying thousands of dollars to live a free life in a country I would otherwise be punished or jailed for not paying. Its not great but theres a definite payoff that makes my life better.

Cfa is like a mediocre chicken sandwhich. Even if they didnt fund hate groups why would you even buy from them, unless you were so poor of resources and mind that you have no alternative. I cant fathom being aware of their hate group funding and still going there, because what the hell are they even offering you?
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gosh, remember when we literally ranked each other?
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XIII_rocks posted...

Nanis23 posted...

I am so happy that you guys are so hyped about this game
Honestly, I am

But I just saw this and I can't
I just can't
I'm sorry


I am not watching trailers so I can't confirm if the right side picture is real or not, i'll just assume it is

Here's the problem

Some dude found a screenshot of the (unfinished, just for the record) game and spent presumably a decent amount of time editing it to make it look "polished"

That to me is a way bigger issue than any perceived "lack of polish" in the right pic. How far people are willing to go to stir up further negativity makes me much more sad than a videogame lacking detail

And then to top it off, "I'll just assume it is". Perfect. So it worked wonders and did exactly what it was supposed to, then.

dude the improved one is literally like ps2 tales level of polish. if you dont have any standards, thats cool, but dont take people holding game freak accountable as "negativity"
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Oh I just realized next banner is another forging bonds

which means we'll get 4 heros + demote + GHB so it's quite possible we get 6 farfetched heroes.

but they could also do what they did for CYL and just make a completely random unwanted loser the free unit.
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Vexx and Final Fantasy II legend
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I spent a cool 100 trying to get that stupid witchy wand

nothing but a stupid pegasus olivia.

Oh well you're going to get powercrept anyway you stupid wand
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Free summoned Hector.

It was a hard choice between a merge and DC fodder, but really Hector is just great
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Well I was one letter off, so yeah I'll take this as a win

all hail your legendary prophet

also this banner has like nothing good on it so yay I get to keep my orbs
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