https://x.com/WolfeyGlick/status/2041773577720955041
also its currently like this
- Fake Out cannot be selected after it’s used once
- Many widely-used items (Choice Specs/Bands, Life Orb, AV) are just missing
- Less than 200 Pokémon currently
- NS2 version is still low-res/30 FPS
- Stalwart Mega Skarmory
Also Mega Hawlucha can give its allies No Guard for 100% accurate 1-hit KO moves lmao
https://x.com/snacks_fruity2/status/2041880586457845879
My First Day in Pokemon Champions WolfeyVGC
Common Nintendo L. I’m wondering how they still exist after all these basic mistakes.
Literally all they had to do was copy Pokemon Showdown. They somehow fucked that up so badly their only response will probably be to send Showdown cease and desists to eliminate the fan made competition.
Pokemon Chanpinons
Genuinely hilarious they let the three elemental monkeys before most other pokemon.
So the game for competitive Pokémon people is completely fucked up and not competitive?
So glad I dropped Nintendo
they are completely incapable of just making pokemon showdown with a lobby, it’s very strange
apparently all future VGC tournaments will be done in champions so, its not looking good
Just streamlining the profit margins by making people buy a second game and then a subscription service to get the data arrays in the right place.
Thankfully champions is free so its just the subscription
Free so far
From what I saw, you need to pay to increase your box size, and for faster refresh on recruitment (which is the only way to get new Pokemon other than bring them across from Pokemon Home)
(which is the only way to get new Pokemon other than bring them across from Pokemon Home)
I thought they cancelled support for Home and you couldn’t put pokemon onto it anymore?
they did that for the pokemon home of the DS (pokemon bank), but there is now a new one for the switch (pokemon home)
Sounds under cooked for sure but won’t they just keep patching and updating it?
Kind of tired of every game coming out and needing an extra year of patches before you can play it without issue
I honestly don’t care if it reduces crunch and death marches. It probably doesn’t, but I know the industry at “peak performance” is a torment nexus.
i hope so
Can’t wait for the Jimquisition video about this shit
When was the last time Pokemon was even good?
The first 5 minutes of Red?
Pokopia’s been pretty well received, but Koei Tecmo made it so that’s why it doesn’t have the usual half-baked cash-grab Gamefreak stink on it.
Slop and Paste Poke-Animal Crossing Builder
It’s also a copy and paste of dragon quest builders 2
More like DQB 3 but with Pokémon instead of DQ characters. But yeah, we are talking about the company that’s slapped a ton of variants/IPs on the musou template.
Thank you! I knew I wasn’t crazy! It looked so much like it to me, but I’m only like one of 3 people who actually played that game so no one knew what I was talking about.
To be fair there’s a lot of changes, but like, so much of it has the same skeleton, it’s uncanny.
The most absurd part to me, is how pokemon battles actually have a lot of depth, that we literally never see explored in any of the games, every game can be beaten if you have a decent mon with a super effective move, no strategy needed. I know they’re children’s games, but they don’t even try to show off a ton of the stuff you can do.
I think gen 5 was the last good generation.
The only good generation in Pokemon will be the generation of gamers who rise up and burn every last game, manga, and piece of merchandise that contains the Pokemon brand.
Gen 5 was peak Pokemon; in the art, story, music, all of it
Too bad it was still the same old Pokemon gameplay that was stale even for the NES.
Mystery Dungeon was pretty good. Never played any of the games past the DS titles though
I loved it. Great plot and gameplay.
Mystery Dungeon
Dungeon Crawler from the creators of the problematic Danganronpa Series. If it wasn’t branded with popular Pokemon it would be boring. No one would care if fucking Dweeble over here got lost inside a cave.
Pokemon showdown randoms only.
But yeah the emulators smoothes out the game by allowing the game to go faster so you dont get the glacial speed of battles.
Pokemon showdown
My goblin is so desperate to defend Pokemon they had to go to a game that wasn’t even made by Pokemon Team.
Legends Arceus.
Idk, I enjoyed Z-A. The dlc is kinda ok, the base game is fun. I might not dare to say it’s good, but it’s fun. Tbf I used alternative means to play if you know what I mean, so my opinion may be a little skewed, since I didn’t pay for the game
Legends Slop
You can’t just call everything slop.
WokePalpatine Slop
The Legend of Slop
I swear
to god there better not be bald Ganon again. People keep sending me this image of bald ganon to psyche me out and it’s working.
Si, me gusta
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NS2 version is still low-res/30 FPS
It’s too hard I’m baby
I don’t know how to program 3D graphics at any resolution higher than a 3DS please buy my upcharged slop
I was with a Gamefreak dev some time ago and we were looking at Pokemon Battle Revolution together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to Make it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it
What? They forgot? Or the people that knew moved on? Wasnt it just like Pokemon stadium? They forgot how to make a game they made for a decade or more? I am just so floored with so many questions.
lol im just quoting a meme, but PBR had better animations than most modern pokemon games
I genuinely believed you dated a gamefreak developer
Anime betrayal
Oh oops lol thats how little faith I have in everything I straight up believed that
Lmao same. I was like yeh it figures that lastaxolotl would know someone from gamefreak
my comrade works for nintendo
This is a meme about lost technology.
I love how people are starting to slowly realize extremely high quality graphics are damaging gaming but still hate on gamefreak for low quality. which is fair, pokemon is the most porfitable franchise on the world and their graphics are not even mid lmao
Look, the graphics are bad but the gameplay is pretty mediocre so it evens out
Many widely-used items (Choice Specs/Bands, Life Orb, AV) are just missing
Less than 200 Pokémon currently
This is intentional and good and I will die on this hill. A lot of older players completely lose perspective for how much information someone has to process who starts playing Pokemon in the 2020s. Me, I started playing in 2005 when there were “only” 386 Pokemon, there was only Choice Band (no specs/scarf), LO and AV didn’t exist either. I could learn about all the following 600+ Pokemon and items etc. gradually as they got introduced over the course of 20 years.
Imagine getting into Pokemon now and being expected to learn all of that at once before you have any chance at all of playing PvP. All of the 1000+ Pokemon, every item, move, ability, every generational gimmick with its intricacies.
Personally I think the lack of 6v6 is indefensible but on the limits on Pokemon and items I will, in fact, defend the billion dollar company.
Having fewer pokemons is fine I guess but bringing over pokemons to newer games was the coolest mechanic the games ever had.
It’s cool yeah but requiring players to buy older games and in some cases older consoles isn’t great
This is similar to a thought I’ve had before, in that Pokemon should probably just stop making new Pokemon. It occurred to me during Dexit. With Dexit, both sides were pretty much right. One hand, much of the brand identity is lost when you cannot ‘catch them all.’ On the other hand, continuing to design, model, animate and code 100~ new mons every year is unfeasible.
And to what end are we adding 100 new mons to the roster every year? Pokemon has wallowed in recreating the same experience for decades now. Three starters, early route rodent, three legendaries, a super duper legendary, some dragons and fish along the way - IMO, ~1,000 mons is a great stopping point. From there they should have just reshuffled mons and leaned on regional variants, and added maybe 2-3 new mons for special occasions.
Had they done that, no dexit, and maintaining a competitive scene in their showdown clone would be a reasonable request.
The biggest failure was waiting too long to do regional variant forms when they were an obviously good option from gen 2 onwards
Gen 5 being mostly half baked references to gen 1 was a terrible move and would’ve been way better received had they been the first batch of regional forms
Having 100 new mon every couple of years is one of many bad decisions made mostly because that’s how they did it once and then it just became tradition that was never questioned internally
because that’s how they did it once and then it just became tradition that was never questioned internally
Pretty sure that’s GameFreak’s motto. “We don’t know what we’re doing or why people like it, so just keep doing the thing that worked once and never question it or change it.”
for a window into this experience might I suggest Path of Exile (1)
they will add them eventually so your defence wont matter
By then, the kids that didn’t want to focus on Pokemon PvP until now (or have not played Pokemon in the first place) will already learn the current meta and be freed up for more. They’ll have to find new ways to ease in new kids in the next years, but for now building an initial casual playerbase is more important.
I’d agree more with this if Champions was some single-player thing.
oh they will add them, but behind DLC paywalls and expansion packs probably. So you will still have to learn the metagame with 1000+ pokemon and all the items, but you will need to continually relearn the metagame as xpacs are released and those who pay to win will have an advantage.
Pokemon Showdown Supremacy continues
also you cant do singles 6v6 lol
Someone in the replies is saying turning off IPv6 fixes it and I just want to say Game Freak I’m a huge fan, no one understands those funny numbers.
also apparently its not by gamefreak, its by the company that made the bad Gen 4 remakes
that explains so much
It’s so stupid how these companies that used to do low-stakes demakes/ports of games are now doing remakes and spin-off titles and fucking up in increasing amounts.
It’s almost like companies handing out work to the lowest bidder results in much lower quality products. I wonder if someone ever wrote something discussing that idea?
I have a conspiracy theory about this. There was a brief period when Nintendo had great third party games coming out of its first party franchises, and then it suddenly stopped and we entered the slop era - I believe it’s because the company made this an official policy to make their first party dev teams look better by comparison by only giving licenses to cut rate developers (and also screw them over with impossible schedules, low budgets, etc). That’s why we will never see titles like F Zero GX (Sega) or Zelda the Minish Cap (Capcom) again.
If the games sell well either way, what’s the incentive to spend more money and time on development?
i believe this and now i will blame Nintendo for the fate of Pokemon Mystery dungeon and Pokemon Ranger
And Pokemon Conquest which was Tecmo Koei
God those were two great games
Corporate money grab not well fleshed out who knew.
One of the best comments on the vid
BUG MONTH
I miss bug month
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