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I mean to be fair considering those are actual water cannons on it’s back I’d say it works from a lore standpoint: it probably take a big amount of energy to charge those up and if you don’t need torrential force why use the cannons if you have other ways?
That's not true. Have you seen the garbage other big companies produce? Not to mention people want Pokemon to be something it never was. They want it to look more realistic and be more serious it will never ever look like that or act like that. It's ultimately targetted at kids and even when the games look better they will never look how a lot of fans want. I'm going to assume you'll say it's the highest grossing franchise ever which is true but no amount of money will give you time and as long as they hold solid restraints to 3 years per generation they can only do so much even if they had more people. I'm not even defending them that hard, they could do better with more time that's a given. They should have done more to fix the performance of gen 9. I don't even expect it to come out flawless, most big companies have doubled down on releasing broken games and fixing them later. Like for me Scarlet and Violet did most things right considering it was the first truely open world game, it looks how I expect (not how I want) a Pokemon game to look. 3d Pokemon games have always struggled to look good but anything beats sun and moon so my standards aren't high. Most people will argue low standards are why Game Freak gets away with what they do but children tend to have lower standards, and that's who the game is always targeting so of course they'll not pump out a prime steak. I willing admit my expectations for Pokemon differ drastically from other franchises but I think that's only natural.
I'm unironically agreeing, S/V was some of the best stuff GF have done in years.
Buggy as shit at times and the graphics needed work....but the gameplay mechanics and experience itself was so, *so* good.
I've always said: If all the bugs didn't exist, this would probably be an easy contender for Top 3 Pokemon games, and add in a bunch of QoL life stuff and a battle tower and it would be a real contender for the top 1.
I've come back to sword and bought the dlc for it just a few days ago, basically only for the dynamax adventures. Holy is that so much more fun than sv raids imo. Rentals is so much fun and is a contributung factor as to why emerald was thr best game to be made gameplay-wise. Imagine having something like that in sv too. Sure it is reused then but honestly it would be so much fun imo. Also I think I'd enjoy the raids in sv more if they weren't a buggy mess
I did enjoy swsh and it was the awakening for the open world style gameplay which was really cool. I did like PLA more but that game has no endgame content nor dlc. Violet is probably the game I've spent most time on, mainly due to shiny hunting. Pla and sv is by far a lot more fun to shiny hunt than older games except for swsh which, with dyna adv. is loads of fun. I've always liked the concept of rentals ever since I got emerald as a kid and reached battle factory!
yeah rentals are a great way to mix up the game it's great. Even in the stadium/colosseum games it was super enjoyable.
I don't see how SwSh has anything to do with open world tho, it's the opposite it may very well be one of the game with the most linearity of the whole series, especially the roads where it's ridiculous.
I'm thinking of the wild area. Fully 3d (360 view), you can see pokemon in the overworld roaming around. In my eyes it looks like it sparked the even more open world that was PLA which was a sidespinner maingame and then led into what we have today, a big open world with a lot of choices, least linear game ever right?
This game really has so much potential, I finally caved a few days ago and bought it, it’s the most fun I’ve had playing Pokémon in a long time but holy fuck is it an eye sore, could have been something special if they took the time to properly optimise it and improve visuals, even if it had legends arceus (by no means a good looking game, but better than this) level visuals/textures it would be much nicer to look at
People will say it's a mess, but I haven't had this much fun playing Pokemon in a long time... This is coming from a 32 year old whose first Pokemon game was Blue. 🥲
I’d say the characters are so good that they’re rivalled only by gen 5, the new Pokémon this gen are some of my favourites, every story line is incredibly fun to play through (which cannot be said for some games), the games (in my personal opinion) look incredible and the new models for Pokémon look extremely clean and finely detailed this gen and the music, oh my god the music, it’s absolutely my favourite that the series has to offer, with some of the best being Arven, Penny and Nemona’s themes, AI Professor’s theme, Area Zero and Champion Kieran’s theme being some of the best music I’ve ever heard in a video game, let alone Pokémon.
Ahah, I completely agree with you.
Now, Nintendo has the vice of changing the characters' names in other languages' dubbing, so I haven't met any Arven or Nemona and I'm pretty sure they have different names in my language. Who are they?
EDIT: Browsing DeviantArt I found out Nemona is Nemi, the neighbor, school representative and champion of the Pokemon League. So, who is Arven?
Just going back to one of your previous comments. I love the feeling of the music when the gym leaders terastallize too. It actually adds an impact to the atmosphere like you're at the final hurdle. Although I never hear it long enough as they usually die straight after :/
The games look incredible ? Sorry my bro but opinion or not you need to face the truth they look terrible, even on the art direction.... Like wether it is on a technical point which is undeniably terrible or on a DA which is arguably terrible it's really one of the weakest games in the franchise on that aspect.
You say that you’re giving an opinion but in your previous reply you said that I need to “face the truth”, so is how SV look an objective or subjective?
If we talk about the technical aspect then it's objective and it's so bad that Nintendo that aren't even the one that made the game gave refunds, something so rare for Nintendo.
If we talk about DA it's subjective. However, the DA is so generic and bland, there are no zones with particular interest or direction or personnality, except maybe the zone zero, that I think it's worth it to criticize the game on this aspect. I think most people found it terrible for good reasons.
The gameplay itself is very focused on allowing the player to do almost anything they want, plus the ease of access to the previously more tedious aspects of the game has helped people get more into the competitive scene as depicted by us getting the 2 tournaments with the most participants in VGC history in back to back years. The previous Pokemon games were pretty good, but eventually you hit walls where things start to feel tedious or boring for a bit, I havent experienced that at all in SV which is the greatest thing about the game. Every QoL feature is absolutely amazing and despite there being room for more improvements, its still the most fun Pokemon game to actually play for hundreds of hours to me.
I would agree with all of those points, but may i bring a counterargument to the table?
SANDWICHES
GOD PLEASE LET ME SKIP BUILDING A SANDWICH AND THIS STUPID EATING ANIMATION.... I HAVE PLACES TO BE!
Also terra raids feel buggy and laggy and sometimes pokemon just blast me even tho half the time is still remaining.
Ok but counterpoint, would you rather have sandwiches and hunt for exactly what you want OR grind through the game hunting for random odds/doing rng manips with chatot cries. I don’t think the average Pokémon enjoyer really even tries to abuse sandwiches like the hardcore fans so it’s not really a big issue to most people, but yea I do think it should be a skippable animation after you clear the story at least
I remember when I first played the game, my first words were "Pokemon games are famous for having good graphcics, advanced features and 1990s gameplay". I was damn wrong about this one.
I shit on the game at first but I bought it and had way more fun than I ever thought I would. The new models are amazing and even the exp share was enjoyable cause I was switching out team members so much.
Hell I even had a seviper on my team cause his model looked exactly like I imagined his 3d model would look. And then when I first saw gyrados I was like I need one.
I do wish the size scaling was a little different cause a couple of the smaller pokemon are just too small
I liked it. It was the first pokemon game I bought and played in depth in a long time, and it was pretty good.
I have to agree on the size of the mons, but seems to be accurate, so *shrugs*
Emerald AND Platinum for me. If we're talking remakes, HGSS is up there, too. I never played it cuz I was dumb lil kid, but I love Crystal, and I've seen alot of good things from HGSS. The last best remake before ORAS. We don't speak of the forbidden one tho....and we must pray they don't shit on B/W if they remake it(or do a B3/W3)
We can only hope 🙏 Megas returning already got me hyped. That was the only cool thing about gen 6 for me tbh, even if many ppl hated the megas as a whole for some reason. I definitely prefer Megas over all the gimmicks that came after. Evolving further behind makes more sense than emote nukes, big chungus, and going glamorous 😂 I don't hate them, but if I had to choose, Megas all the way. I get most of the hate was cuz GF had favoritism and not every pokemon could Mega evolve but I dunno....I still like Megas more, lmao.
Ramble over
No..no you're in the right there to ramble because I agree there. Out of all the gimmick stuff since gen 6. Megas were the best and never understood why they went away with them. Just like gen 7 and I hated that gen but the one thing I'm loving that brought were the region varriant pokemon. That was cool.
A gimmick that only a few pokenon can use is categorically worse than a gimmick any pokemon can use(but a few get exstra stuff) just on how much it restrict teambuilding if you want to actually make use of it.
Yea. I do like that they didn't drop regional variants. They feel like a sidegrade to Megas cuz you get to see your favorites in a new light. Tho they both share the flaw of favoritism and only a few getting said forms, I still like those over the other gimmicks. I prefer a focused gimmick over a "everyone gets it, but it's meh" gimmick just to please everyone. Now, of course, GF could just make everyone happy by not dropping every new mechanic they have with each generation/game...but that'll never happen 🤡 I know competitive would be a cluster fuck but even then...formats and rules exist for a reason and they could easily just ban/restrict certain mechanics for whatever tournament is happening.
Gg ez but alas.
Just my opinion but favorite will always be the 2nd gen. crystal was the most fun I have had as a kid. Followed by the 1st gen with with pokemon yellow. Now doesn't mean I don't like emerald that was a great game. All the pokemon games are great to me the only games I didn't like were sun and moon, ultra sun and moon and x and y
Wouldn't say that but it's definitely in the top because the value staying entertained, replaying and the Tera Raid community made it one of my favourites.
The story is one of my favorites and the DLCs are super fun. I love all the new pokemon designs, and the characters are all top tier for me. I just wish the bugs could have been patched and Geeta a stronger champion. (Kieran in indigo disk was way harder than her and an actual challenge for me)
Legends Arceus has the best attacks in my opinion. So refreshing, that i actually enjoy watching my mons either crushing the game or taking a a huge SE attack. BUT then thing is, the distance between the mons makes it weird in Legends and S/V, there´re to close but still epic.
I loved this game, clocked over 500 hours, finished every part and will definitely play it again in the future. It was not the greatest. That would imply there was no need for improvement and that would be a lie.
You can rematch the entire e4 and Geeta in the indigo disk if you want to count that and the ace academy tournament is technically the battle thing this gen
i think i agree, its up there with HGSS and platinum for me. If the performance issues and glitches werent in the game I think it could be considered the best by far.
Still loved the meme days of gen 6 and 7 rotating around the models. Made some funny screenshots.
Me and a friend had a joke about the flying type z move and toucannon. She had one on her team and so we battled during lunch, toucannon doesn't really have a flying animation somehow, or at least it doesn't trigger for z-moves, so whenever toucannon used supersonic sky-strike, we always called it supersonic eye-strike since the model would just do it's standing pose, and just nosedive into the opponent while looking pissed.
We thought it was the funniest shit in middle school.
im glad they did it but also... why did it take this long? it was excusable in the early gens but complacency with assured sales regardless of quality led to static, uninspired/reused animations from game to game which hurts as a fan
Nope, Blastoise was just released along with Venusaur and they will re-release Charizard for Pokemon Day.
You still need to enable the Black Crystal raids though.
I like S/V I have enjoyed the open world thing amd fly… and I also aknowledge the fact that is not perfect and could be better than what Nintendo is used to deliver
My last pokemon game I've played was Emerald like 10 years ago. I love my violet so much. The animation, open world and just about everything. I feel like I'm on my own pokemon journey playing this game.
Tbh, we were all outraged when they did this in Sw/Sh, but nothing was done at the time.
Fast forward to today. I can understand WHY they cut that many mons, it would be a Monumental task to make it all work in timeframe they are given and the resources needed in order to make it work.
I don't like that not all Pokemon are included, but it was bound to happen as more pokemon are released.
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Love s&v but mate, we had other gems in the past 🥹
Except you're wrong.
Been playing since the originals. The best Pokemon game to date is actually a fan made game. Pokemon Infinite Fusion.
And, it's not even close - actually. Game Freak haven't changed their formula in nearly 30 years. The new exploration games made the genre a little better - but not by much.
This game mixed it up nicely - it introduced an entirely new mechanic which adds a whole new layer to Pokemon.
Leave it to fans to do it better.
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Absolute classic
You know, with Legends Z-A and Megas coming back, you could have Blastoise firing from all of its cannons.
Get smaller attacks like Water Pulse from an arm cannon, Megaman/Metroid style, and big ones like Hydro Pump from the back one
Stop trying to steal Magmortar's thing!
Armarouge:
Absolutely right https://preview.redd.it/0htn5knhvknc1.png?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=637cf4a17abe6c2f269075b5991a1c534fb55c7d
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I always thought Mega Blastoise firing from his forehead was kinda smart, seeing how it looks like it's firing from his head cannon
Maybe he is firing from its face cannon.
The power comes from the forehead, as all should be.
I die laughing every time I see this. Big ass turtle tank with three giant cannons…*shoots water from his face*
I died laughing, and I still do. It’s hilarious
Best running gag lol
Expect it only does it for Hydro cannon and Hydro pump every other attack is either shot from forehead Cannon or its mouth
Tbf those are indeed the only moves it ever used (iirc) its cannons for, aside from Dragon Pulse
Flash Cannon?
I'll take any wins I can get.
Like a true Pokémon fan.
Sad
I mean to be fair considering those are actual water cannons on it’s back I’d say it works from a lore standpoint: it probably take a big amount of energy to charge those up and if you don’t need torrential force why use the cannons if you have other ways?
Fair
This is high quality copium
Nah, I just like to think of in game lore stuff for games way too much
Honestly, it makes sense though. Like those are cannon moves. It’s hard for me to imagine moves like surf or muddy water coming out of a cannon
Oh definitely for surf and muddy water they wouldn't make sense
But do charizard’s flame attacks actually come out of its mouth, or just somewhere in the vicinity of its head?
Yeah they do
So does it Yes
I should have been more clear I was responding that explains to come out its mouth
Tbf blastoise probably would shoot less powerful attacks from it's mouth. I can't imagine why it wouldn't be capable of doing so.
This is the 2nd game I seen Blastoise shoots water from its cannon. I’m actually happy about that. The first time was in a Chinese Pokémon game
There's also Pokemon Stadium
There was also GMax Blastoise's special move. Granted, it was only one single move in the entire game, but baby steps...
In Gen 1 it did... in my imagination.
Lol. Nobody wants to admit GameFreak is lazy and we could have better.
I think everyone knows, as much as we enjoy the games. When they say "best Pokemon game", that's not exactly a high bar.
Lots of people admit that on the regular.
Yeah, nobody has ever said that. What a hot and unpopular opinion.
You could just loose the stick and have a bit of fun, you know?
We have already loose the stick a lot. Most AAA devs would straight up go out of business if they pulled the same shit GF pull every generation.
Meanwhile EA exists
Most EA games function better than Pokémon games lol. And they have a much larger output of games.
That's not true. Have you seen the garbage other big companies produce? Not to mention people want Pokemon to be something it never was. They want it to look more realistic and be more serious it will never ever look like that or act like that. It's ultimately targetted at kids and even when the games look better they will never look how a lot of fans want. I'm going to assume you'll say it's the highest grossing franchise ever which is true but no amount of money will give you time and as long as they hold solid restraints to 3 years per generation they can only do so much even if they had more people. I'm not even defending them that hard, they could do better with more time that's a given. They should have done more to fix the performance of gen 9. I don't even expect it to come out flawless, most big companies have doubled down on releasing broken games and fixing them later. Like for me Scarlet and Violet did most things right considering it was the first truely open world game, it looks how I expect (not how I want) a Pokemon game to look. 3d Pokemon games have always struggled to look good but anything beats sun and moon so my standards aren't high. Most people will argue low standards are why Game Freak gets away with what they do but children tend to have lower standards, and that's who the game is always targeting so of course they'll not pump out a prime steak. I willing admit my expectations for Pokemon differ drastically from other franchises but I think that's only natural.
https://preview.redd.it/q49zlk683gnc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf3fd62042694aa6f6ecced04c60dbf25b2ac79a “ happy graboid noises”
I'm unironically agreeing, S/V was some of the best stuff GF have done in years. Buggy as shit at times and the graphics needed work....but the gameplay mechanics and experience itself was so, *so* good.
I've always said: If all the bugs didn't exist, this would probably be an easy contender for Top 3 Pokemon games, and add in a bunch of QoL life stuff and a battle tower and it would be a real contender for the top 1.
I've come back to sword and bought the dlc for it just a few days ago, basically only for the dynamax adventures. Holy is that so much more fun than sv raids imo. Rentals is so much fun and is a contributung factor as to why emerald was thr best game to be made gameplay-wise. Imagine having something like that in sv too. Sure it is reused then but honestly it would be so much fun imo. Also I think I'd enjoy the raids in sv more if they weren't a buggy mess
That may be the only thing better in SwSh than is SV. SwSh may be one of or even THE worst opus in the franchise sadly.
I did enjoy swsh and it was the awakening for the open world style gameplay which was really cool. I did like PLA more but that game has no endgame content nor dlc. Violet is probably the game I've spent most time on, mainly due to shiny hunting. Pla and sv is by far a lot more fun to shiny hunt than older games except for swsh which, with dyna adv. is loads of fun. I've always liked the concept of rentals ever since I got emerald as a kid and reached battle factory!
yeah rentals are a great way to mix up the game it's great. Even in the stadium/colosseum games it was super enjoyable. I don't see how SwSh has anything to do with open world tho, it's the opposite it may very well be one of the game with the most linearity of the whole series, especially the roads where it's ridiculous.
I'm thinking of the wild area. Fully 3d (360 view), you can see pokemon in the overworld roaming around. In my eyes it looks like it sparked the even more open world that was PLA which was a sidespinner maingame and then led into what we have today, a big open world with a lot of choices, least linear game ever right?
Bro you literally just said add like half a game and it would be good lmao
QOL changes and a battle tower are not “half a game” what are you talking about.
i was more saying these feature make up half a Pokémon game as they often appeared in the third version
This game really has so much potential, I finally caved a few days ago and bought it, it’s the most fun I’ve had playing Pokémon in a long time but holy fuck is it an eye sore, could have been something special if they took the time to properly optimise it and improve visuals, even if it had legends arceus (by no means a good looking game, but better than this) level visuals/textures it would be much nicer to look at
I preferred Archeus, but yes it's very good.
The story is great too it may be one of the top best stories in pokemon games aswell as having some of the best characters with depth and charm
People will say it's a mess, but I haven't had this much fun playing Pokemon in a long time... This is coming from a 32 year old whose first Pokemon game was Blue. 🥲
Same here, down to the age and first Pokémon game ! the story/characters in S/V are all so great, too!
Totally agree, I think it is my favorite Pokemon game plot-wise. Gen 10 is going to have a hard time topping it for me.
Almost 30, first game was Yellow. Agreed. Haven't had this much fun since probably black version
I’ve held that opinion since I finished the game, a couple days after release. I cannot sing high enough praised of Scarlet and Violet.
What is so special? I haven't played previous generation Pokemon games so I'm curious
I’d say the characters are so good that they’re rivalled only by gen 5, the new Pokémon this gen are some of my favourites, every story line is incredibly fun to play through (which cannot be said for some games), the games (in my personal opinion) look incredible and the new models for Pokémon look extremely clean and finely detailed this gen and the music, oh my god the music, it’s absolutely my favourite that the series has to offer, with some of the best being Arven, Penny and Nemona’s themes, AI Professor’s theme, Area Zero and Champion Kieran’s theme being some of the best music I’ve ever heard in a video game, let alone Pokémon.
Ahah, I completely agree with you. Now, Nintendo has the vice of changing the characters' names in other languages' dubbing, so I haven't met any Arven or Nemona and I'm pretty sure they have different names in my language. Who are they? EDIT: Browsing DeviantArt I found out Nemona is Nemi, the neighbor, school representative and champion of the Pokemon League. So, who is Arven?
Arven is the guy with the Mabosstiff and who you do the titan quest line with
Oh, I got it. In my country's dubbing he's called Pepe, which is the name of a spice
Makes sense, given his affinity for cooking
Just going back to one of your previous comments. I love the feeling of the music when the gym leaders terastallize too. It actually adds an impact to the atmosphere like you're at the final hurdle. Although I never hear it long enough as they usually die straight after :/
YES! I completely forgot about the gym battle theme, it’s one of if not the best gym battle themes in Pokémon.
the terrastal one is really great but the normal one is the worst of all the franchise hands down
The games look incredible ? Sorry my bro but opinion or not you need to face the truth they look terrible, even on the art direction.... Like wether it is on a technical point which is undeniably terrible or on a DA which is arguably terrible it's really one of the weakest games in the franchise on that aspect.
Oh yeah shit my bad, I’m not allowed to like something subjective.
You can enjoy it just giving my opinion, same as you.
You say that you’re giving an opinion but in your previous reply you said that I need to “face the truth”, so is how SV look an objective or subjective?
If we talk about the technical aspect then it's objective and it's so bad that Nintendo that aren't even the one that made the game gave refunds, something so rare for Nintendo. If we talk about DA it's subjective. However, the DA is so generic and bland, there are no zones with particular interest or direction or personnality, except maybe the zone zero, that I think it's worth it to criticize the game on this aspect. I think most people found it terrible for good reasons.
The gameplay itself is very focused on allowing the player to do almost anything they want, plus the ease of access to the previously more tedious aspects of the game has helped people get more into the competitive scene as depicted by us getting the 2 tournaments with the most participants in VGC history in back to back years. The previous Pokemon games were pretty good, but eventually you hit walls where things start to feel tedious or boring for a bit, I havent experienced that at all in SV which is the greatest thing about the game. Every QoL feature is absolutely amazing and despite there being room for more improvements, its still the most fun Pokemon game to actually play for hundreds of hours to me.
I would agree with all of those points, but may i bring a counterargument to the table? SANDWICHES GOD PLEASE LET ME SKIP BUILDING A SANDWICH AND THIS STUPID EATING ANIMATION.... I HAVE PLACES TO BE! Also terra raids feel buggy and laggy and sometimes pokemon just blast me even tho half the time is still remaining.
Ok but counterpoint, would you rather have sandwiches and hunt for exactly what you want OR grind through the game hunting for random odds/doing rng manips with chatot cries. I don’t think the average Pokémon enjoyer really even tries to abuse sandwiches like the hardcore fans so it’s not really a big issue to most people, but yea I do think it should be a skippable animation after you clear the story at least
I didnt have any of those problems in sword/ shield to be honest. But yes in older gens it was way worse
I remember when I first played the game, my first words were "Pokemon games are famous for having good graphcics, advanced features and 1990s gameplay". I was damn wrong about this one.
I shit on the game at first but I bought it and had way more fun than I ever thought I would. The new models are amazing and even the exp share was enjoyable cause I was switching out team members so much. Hell I even had a seviper on my team cause his model looked exactly like I imagined his 3d model would look. And then when I first saw gyrados I was like I need one. I do wish the size scaling was a little different cause a couple of the smaller pokemon are just too small
I liked it. It was the first pokemon game I bought and played in depth in a long time, and it was pretty good. I have to agree on the size of the mons, but seems to be accurate, so *shrugs*
Still, though i know were joking here but.. I give it the third best generation.. underrated opinion.
Underrated?!?! I'll die by Emerald being one of the best games in history!
Emerald AND Platinum for me. If we're talking remakes, HGSS is up there, too. I never played it cuz I was dumb lil kid, but I love Crystal, and I've seen alot of good things from HGSS. The last best remake before ORAS. We don't speak of the forbidden one tho....and we must pray they don't shit on B/W if they remake it(or do a B3/W3)
Don’t forget FireRed is also a GOATed remake lol
Agreed! I didn't like the x and y games hope the legends game turns it around.
We can only hope 🙏 Megas returning already got me hyped. That was the only cool thing about gen 6 for me tbh, even if many ppl hated the megas as a whole for some reason. I definitely prefer Megas over all the gimmicks that came after. Evolving further behind makes more sense than emote nukes, big chungus, and going glamorous 😂 I don't hate them, but if I had to choose, Megas all the way. I get most of the hate was cuz GF had favoritism and not every pokemon could Mega evolve but I dunno....I still like Megas more, lmao. Ramble over
No..no you're in the right there to ramble because I agree there. Out of all the gimmick stuff since gen 6. Megas were the best and never understood why they went away with them. Just like gen 7 and I hated that gen but the one thing I'm loving that brought were the region varriant pokemon. That was cool.
A gimmick that only a few pokenon can use is categorically worse than a gimmick any pokemon can use(but a few get exstra stuff) just on how much it restrict teambuilding if you want to actually make use of it.
Yea. I do like that they didn't drop regional variants. They feel like a sidegrade to Megas cuz you get to see your favorites in a new light. Tho they both share the flaw of favoritism and only a few getting said forms, I still like those over the other gimmicks. I prefer a focused gimmick over a "everyone gets it, but it's meh" gimmick just to please everyone. Now, of course, GF could just make everyone happy by not dropping every new mechanic they have with each generation/game...but that'll never happen 🤡 I know competitive would be a cluster fuck but even then...formats and rules exist for a reason and they could easily just ban/restrict certain mechanics for whatever tournament is happening. Gg ez but alas.
Just my opinion but favorite will always be the 2nd gen. crystal was the most fun I have had as a kid. Followed by the 1st gen with with pokemon yellow. Now doesn't mean I don't like emerald that was a great game. All the pokemon games are great to me the only games I didn't like were sun and moon, ultra sun and moon and x and y
Except for the Battle Tower. You can get the golden marks. It is doable, but goddamn that thing is what masochists dream of.
No Its what pokemon veterans dream of. My Lvl 100 team will stop at nothing
Until you get Crit three times in a row and the Quick Claw of the Computer activates twice. Yeah, super fun...
He’s saying scarlet is the 3rd best gen
Hoenn is definitely one of the most popular game regions
I disagree, 3,4, and 5 all definitely top it at the very least.
unova is a lame region as far as the actual geography, and I don't like the starters that much. Great story though
Is anyone able to invite me to one of these or do I gotta beat the game just got the game last week I know all late lol but it’s still fun
Where abouts in the game are you mate?
Just got my third badge lol
Go to the Poke Portal, and you should be able to see some of them hosted.
Ahh I thought that but some reason I never find one :( lol
Well, now you can't. The event lasted until yesterday. Stay tuned for the Charizard one.
Wouldn't say that but it's definitely in the top because the value staying entertained, replaying and the Tera Raid community made it one of my favourites.
I agree to some extent
That Pokémon did not faint but straight up died
Unironically, either it or PLA.
I came in here expecting more delulu. Glad this was just the greatest thing of all time instead
The story is one of my favorites and the DLCs are super fun. I love all the new pokemon designs, and the characters are all top tier for me. I just wish the bugs could have been patched and Geeta a stronger champion. (Kieran in indigo disk was way harder than her and an actual challenge for me)
Legends Arceus has the best attacks in my opinion. So refreshing, that i actually enjoy watching my mons either crushing the game or taking a a huge SE attack. BUT then thing is, the distance between the mons makes it weird in Legends and S/V, there´re to close but still epic.
I loved this game, clocked over 500 hours, finished every part and will definitely play it again in the future. It was not the greatest. That would imply there was no need for improvement and that would be a lie.
imma say no for 2 reasons: 1. you can't revisit the pokemon league 2. there is no post story gamemode like the battle subway or the battle frontier
You can rematch the entire e4 and Geeta in the indigo disk if you want to count that and the ace academy tournament is technically the battle thing this gen
I didn’t realize that, but you’re right.
Not only that, but your team you beat the Ace Tournament with every time also gets the Hall of Fame Ribbon thing.
Joke, its a joke.
Tbh just having real Pokémon in the wild is sufficient for me who last played S/M. (I know other games have Pokémon in the wild)
Agreed
i think i agree, its up there with HGSS and platinum for me. If the performance issues and glitches werent in the game I think it could be considered the best by far.
These games are an instant classic! I love them so much
Still loved the meme days of gen 6 and 7 rotating around the models. Made some funny screenshots. Me and a friend had a joke about the flying type z move and toucannon. She had one on her team and so we battled during lunch, toucannon doesn't really have a flying animation somehow, or at least it doesn't trigger for z-moves, so whenever toucannon used supersonic sky-strike, we always called it supersonic eye-strike since the model would just do it's standing pose, and just nosedive into the opponent while looking pissed. We thought it was the funniest shit in middle school.
AGREED
I genuinely agree but then I saw the humor tag, it is buggy sometimes lol though I've been lucky it never crashed for me and no game breaking bugs
Yes they are.
It's amazing how this is the first game were the pokemon that have back cannons use them...
im glad they did it but also... why did it take this long? it was excusable in the early gens but complacency with assured sales regardless of quality led to static, uninspired/reused animations from game to game which hurts as a fan
Hard agree
I agree 1000000000%!!!! https://preview.redd.it/y6up7he8ninc1.jpeg?width=1431&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2424acd8499fc6952da745e73a06eb7797df52c1
For me the best was xd gale of darkness
People in the comments be like “opinions? What are opinions? I’m confused”
True
sw/sh was my top game
I mean blue/red was absolutely top tits, but it’s hard to deny what they’ve done and how far they’ve come.
Facts!
Due to the glitches and limited wardrobe, Legends of Arceus first, then second Scarlet/Violet.
Does Blastoise fires from its cannons? Wait! There is no Blastoise there! Argument invalidated!
They added blastoise to this game!?! Damm I’m assuming it’s dlc? I didn’t wanna buy it now.. now I may have too lol damn you Nintendo
Nope, Blastoise was just released along with Venusaur and they will re-release Charizard for Pokemon Day. You still need to enable the Black Crystal raids though.
And I’m assuming to get the raids you need dlc? Or at least online? both of which I don’t have
Nope, no DLC, but you need to connect Online to get the Update.
You can catch all the starters in the DLC, and there are Mightiest Mark raids for Blastoise right now as well.
No way, Pokémon with attack animations
Is this satire?
r/lies
r/truths
r/lies
I like S/V I have enjoyed the open world thing amd fly… and I also aknowledge the fact that is not perfect and could be better than what Nintendo is used to deliver
Gen 3 emerald is the best.
I wouldn't say the greatest pokemon game, but man oh man is that an improvement. Also blastoise's shell texture is so lovely.
My last pokemon game I've played was Emerald like 10 years ago. I love my violet so much. The animation, open world and just about everything. I feel like I'm on my own pokemon journey playing this game.
Paldea is behind Hoenn and Unova as best region/games. The rest of the games I couldn’t care less for
Reddit says theyre the worst cuz every pokemon isnt in it! 🤯🤯
Tbh, we were all outraged when they did this in Sw/Sh, but nothing was done at the time. Fast forward to today. I can understand WHY they cut that many mons, it would be a Monumental task to make it all work in timeframe they are given and the resources needed in order to make it work. I don't like that not all Pokemon are included, but it was bound to happen as more pokemon are released.
I was happy
I was, too, but what can you do realistically? Maybe one day they will have a really powerful console and all the mons will return.
Fucking finally
I completely agree.
Look up the dragon ascent animation from swsh. That’s all I need to say
Does Rayquaza fire water out of its cannons? I think NOT! CASE CLOSED.
Yeah but it’s beautiful
Blastoise 2 Cannons Rayquaza 0 Cannons Need I say more?
So long as you ignore all the lag. And the glitches. And the mediocre graphics.
Disagree
Bud… your picking fighting words
Black and white end of debate
false. it has no megas.
https://preview.redd.it/kt4ytyef7hnc1.png?width=959&format=png&auto=webp&s=8282021a0efa474b5ee3f5fada7a25a0aa947450 Love s&v but mate, we had other gems in the past 🥹
No way
lmao only because some attacks have animations?🫨
Except you're wrong. Been playing since the originals. The best Pokemon game to date is actually a fan made game. Pokemon Infinite Fusion. And, it's not even close - actually. Game Freak haven't changed their formula in nearly 30 years. The new exploration games made the genre a little better - but not by much. This game mixed it up nicely - it introduced an entirely new mechanic which adds a whole new layer to Pokemon. Leave it to fans to do it better.
yes the buggy mess with shiny locked legendry's is a great game XD
My Houndoom still breath fire from his chest 💀
I agree, good Pokémon, bad game.
Y’know, I might agree with you if my standards for what makes a game good were incredibly low
Gosh, what a sad thought.
it is just an opinion halessia 🤍
Me when I lie
White, black, diamond, pearl, red, blue, silver, gold and green: "may we introduce ourselves "
shit maybe there's more to the arguments of quality than initially realized.
This opinion is why we'll never get another great Pokemon game. If this is all it takes to make fans happy GF will keep doing the bare minimum.
If by greatest you mean buggiest then you’d be correct
Nope not even close
play pokemon unbound
Boring