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DrCoeloCephalo

DrCoeloCephalo

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  • DrCoeloCephalo
    I've been getting better at aiming my bombs and switching between my grenade and sticky launcher in Team Fortress 2 and I'm pretty proud of that.
    DrCoeloCephalo



    I like this song.
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    Janx_uwu
    That looks like a fun game!
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    The Early Access has gotten only better with each update from what my friends that play it tell me, it still retains over 1,000 active players which is good for an indie game, the trade market is actually fair and good, stat maxing has gotten more convenient, it's only going to get bigger and better once the game comes to official full PC and console release and they've been hosting tons of tournaments for the Early Access that have been looking so great that apparently even high level Pokemon VGC Doubles players praise it for its depth and skill.

    It looks very fun indeed.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Game Freak devs: "People are just too busy to waste time on games these days."

    Also Game Freak devs: "Yeah, let's make sure to make these cutscenes and dialogue unskippable to pad time. Let's make sure the animations and battle sequences take longer than they have to as well. What's a fast forward button?"
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I find it kinda funny anytime you bring up playing other monster collector games to Pokemon fans, they think you have to "abandon" Pokemon to play something else. As if playing multiple games in a genre is some kind of forbidden, evil tabboo in a cult war where you have to choose sides or something.

    Ya hear that, Sonic fans? You even DARE to play Super Mario, Crash, Spyro, Donkey Country or Wario Land and you are heretic for just "abandoning" us like that. Lol.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Outside of nostalgia that just blinds a person and sales that don't mean squat to game quality, Pokemon doesn't have any merits of its own.

    Plus, nostalgia only goes so far when there are older games in the genre.

    Any merits Pokemon WOULD have are either gone or cut and any that DO remain are handled better by anything else in the genre.

    Still love Pokemon tho.
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    RealPokeFan11
    RealPokeFan11
    I absolutely love Pokémon, and all I want is the Pokémon Company to let Gamefreak take its time and fully develop a finished game without having to make sacrifices such as cutting Pokémon, a bland story, and lackluster visuals in some areas. It made me sad seeing all of the backlash the new games were (understandably) getting. Dynamax was also an awful and unbalanced new mechanic that probably took most of the development time to create and finish. The only good thing I have to say about it is that I can make good use out of it in games of Champ'd Up with a Gigantamax Karen drawing.
    Janx_uwu
    Janx_uwu
    DrCoeloCephalo DrCoeloCephalo Yeah, and if Sonic Team wasn't on their ongoing mission to "Please Everyone", and if Sega let up on their mandates, we'd have a somewhat quality experience by now.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Janx_uwu Janx_uwu Indeed, and if The Pokemon Company and Game Freak had the level of game design quality and larger staff the less profitable companies like Square Enix and Level-5 clearly have or the animation quality and storytelling companies like Genius Sonority clearly have even though they can afford all these things, we wouldn't be having these issues with Pokemon in the first place.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Pushing an opinion AS a fact and forming an opinion AROUND facts are 2 completely different things people seem to confuse.

    Opinions can be wrong. Facts can't.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Metacritic has been proven multiple times to be a broken and unbalanced reviewing system where people completely ignorant of a game and/or haven't bought it or played it can review the games with the metascores being paid reviews

    So, needless to say that there are instances when it makes me laugh when people try to use it as a reliable source on game quality.
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    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I wouldn't know. I don't take that site seriously.
    Janx_uwu
    Janx_uwu
    Yes, basically anyone can go there to submit a user review, same goes for critics and critic reviews.
    I think it's an alright website for knowing the general consensus on a game.
    Also, just now realizing this-Yo-Kai Watch 3 was released on the 3DS in 2019?
    Yeah, no wonder no one's played it. It's like Knuckles' Chaotix or Mega Man X3 in that regard.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Janx_uwu Janx_uwu Yeah, the JP version came out in 2016 but for whatever reason, Level-5 was super slow with localization so the EN version was one of the 3DS' swan songs. A real shame too with how incredible of a game it is.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I love when people have to hide behind likes when they can't prove me wrong.
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    DrCoeloCephalo
    Champion of Hyrule Champion of Hyrule
    Take your own advice then because opinions can be right or wrong and are therefore objective.

    Yes, it is.

    Again, I never said they don't deserve to. Stop putting words in my mouth.

    I'm not. I'm forming my opinion AROUND facts.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Champion of Hyrule Champion of Hyrule
    • "Demonizing people who enjoy those parts of the game"
    • "Liking bad games is not the issue.
      You can LIKE bad games freely."
    You'd think someone so eager to copy and paste what I say word for word would have noticed the other 5 to 10 times I repeatedly said that and said there is nothing wrong with that too but I guess not.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Radio silence and people only proving me right. Good.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    YouTube randomly recommended me tournament videos of TemTem and I've been learning more about the game ever since.

    No random damage rolls. Status effects that are balanced. Buffs and debuffs that actually retain momentum, HP viewable in percentages, switching being even more of a commitment and risk and so many other good things.

    It's nothing but pure, accountable skill.

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    Wouldn't it be simpler to have the HP be in numbers? Percentages seems more complicated when there's a simpler solution.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Pokelego999 Pokelego999 Actually it wouldn't because you have so many different health and defense stats to take into account. Watching your attack do over 50.1% damage lets you know for a fact you will get a 2HKO as opposed to trying to calculate if you did from a big weird number on top of having to calculate the defense stats with the ingame formula. It's just an extra inconvenience that forces you take yourself out of the game to go to a calculator. Why do you think Pokemon Showdown uses percentages instead of numbers in the first place?
    Pokelego999
    Pokelego999
    Alright, I see now.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I never actually thought I would enjoy playing a Metroidvania that much, as I don't even really care for Wario Land 3 compared to 4 but then I played Monster Sactuary and I'm almost burning myself out playing the game. It's just that good, man.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    One of the DUMBEST things I've seen a Pokemon fan say to defend SWSH was just "Yeah, Game Freak lied. So what? Why should I care?"

    Now the reason this is ESPECIALLY stupid is because this very same person had previously said "The lessons I've learned from the Pokemon anime helped me to be a better person."

    Say, anyone remember when Ash Ketchum and friends saved a baby Lugia from Team Rocket? Then Ash and pals beat an artificially rage-induced Houndour and Hitmontop, proving true power comes from trust and honesty between a Trainer and their Pokemon?

    You'd think a Pokemon fan would have taken such lessons to heart to value trust and honesty more than lying, but I guess not.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I always find it kinda funny how people that spout such nonsense as "There's no such thing as a bad or wrong opinions! Let people have fun!!" are always the kind that are most angry with me having fun sharing my own opinions.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    You know how a common complaint modern Pokemon fans have is how Pokemon no longer does Event encounters with interesting stories for rare or Legendary monnsters? Nowadays, it's just codes to have it in a PC assuming you can make the time to make a trip to your local GameStop.

    Yo-Kai Watch has been doing precisely that during the eras Pokemon stopped doing that.

    Just sayin'.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Monster Hunter Stories has a mobile game and it just did a crossover with Dragon Quest.

    That is all.
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    I want to install that but I already have too many games on my phone.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    One thing I'd love to see in New Pokemon Snap is PokeDex-accurate evolutions like in the N64 game.

    Like maybe seeing a Bagon in the distance jump headfirst off a cliff then some seconds later, a Shelgon is there but then wanders off and finally a Salamence approaches the cliff, roars angrily at the cliffs below and flies off.

    Perhaps a quartet of Beldum with each pair joining together to make a Metang and then joining to make a Metagross.

    You know, the kind of consistency actual Pokemon games don't have.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I've made a point recently to be more selective about games I buy that have a Nintendo logo on them.
    • I bought SWSH used for obvious reasons.
    • Too many complaints with Smash Ultimate so I bought it used and a friend bought the DLC stuff for me as a gift.
    • I bought Mystery Dungeon DX firsthand digitally cuz those games are good.
    • I bought Mario 3D All-Stars used also for obvious reasons.
    • I bought Pikmin 3 Deluxe physical firsthand cuz I'm convinced Nintendo would be stupid enough to think lack of Pikmin sales means people don't want Pikmin anymore.
    • Like I said earlier, Mario 3D World and Bowser's Fury is also getting bought used.
    • New Pokemon Snap is something I'm actually buying firsthand because I've waited so long for another and it's being developed by a company that clearly actually cares about visuals and animation
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    I've heard people complaining about Snap for only having around 200 Pokemon.
    The original Snap didn't even have the original 151 entirely in it.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I can live with a small monster roster so long as things like gameplay and overall quality can back it up.

    Snap 1 has great animation and makes the world of Pokemon look big, lively and interesting.

    SWSH doesn't deserve support cuz it does the exact opposite.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    This Pokemon 25th anniversary event or whatever they're doing better be good. It's not that I hate them teaming up with popular musicians like Katy Perry. They did a similar thing with the Pokemon 2000 anime movie but bear in mind that was from a time when they actually cared, the anime didn't stink as much and the games were far less susceptible to criticism of bad game design.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I love how moronic Pokemon fans on Twitter act like 1,000+ regular players on TemTem's early access version is bad and proves the game is "dead".

    Game's not even out yet. Can't be dead if it has yet to be properly released and they're gonna be mad for no reason when that happens.

    I guarantee it.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    You know how so many times in the Pokemon anime, Trainers tell their Pokemon "good job" or "you deserve a rest" and the like to show they care about their monster buddies?

    In Yo-Kai Watch 4, you can give your monster pals a thumbs up mid-battle after getting a big attack off or something. It also has a practical purpose to it since it gives them a small EXP boost.

    Sometimes it's the smaller details that help you appreciate a game more.
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    I miss Gen 7 when you could pet and take care of your Pokemon and they would turn their head in understanding during battle, even performing better cause of it.

    Then in Gen 8 they hop twice and that's it.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    That feature would have been alot better if it were actually balanced instead of being so game breaking. Keeping it and improving it certainly would have helped it to maybe do that but nope.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I always love when a game actually fixes things that were broken or poorly designed in previous games.

    Sonic Generations making Special Stages and grinding actually good are one example.
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    Janx_uwu
    I think "functioning" would be a better way to describe rail grinding.
    Yeah it works, but in comparison to the jump-between-three-lanes design, I'd rather play with the system in Adventure 2, jumping between different paths and off the rails entirely to skip parts of levels and obtain hidden goodies at my own leisure-even if it means I have to roll the dice on whether or not I die every time I jump from rail to rail.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Why not have have the system of Adventure 2 WITH rail grinding that functions? Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive or sacrificed.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Main series Yo-Kai Watch is like main series Shin Megami Tensei where you have humans using technology to summon demonic entities in a Japan full of war, death and division.

    The spinoff Y-Academy is like the Persona spinoff where a bunch of teens go through everyday school life but then evil monsters cause trouble so they have to suit up and use monster powers to secretly save the day.
    Pokelego999
    Pokelego999
    Every anime style game with monsters follows this same motif, which I find hilarious.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Not every one of them. Dragon Quest Monsters does a more fantasy and dark lord thing. Also Nexomon. There's probably others, but this is still a common motif.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    I feel like part of why I'm convinced Pokemon fans don't play any other games was how so many people initially reacted to Sword and Shield and LGEP.

    So many people in awe over those games having overworld encounters on the Switch while I've been seeing that kind of thing for years already on the DS and 3DS.
    Champion of Hyrule
    Champion of Hyrule
    I’m sure most people were in awe not at the idea of overworld encounters, but by the fact that they appear in a series which has traditionally not used them.

    It’s like when people were surprised that Final Fantasy changed its battle system to action RPG. Obviously most fans know what an an action RPG is, so they were surprised at the fact that a traditionally turn based series would adopt them
    DrCoeloCephalo
    DrCoeloCephalo
    Fair enough.
    Pokelego999
    Pokelego999
    Yeah, it was quite surprising to see them after over 20 years of random encounters in grass.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    James would have easily beaten Ash Ketchum at Pokemon battles and as a Trainer if he'd have trained his Weezing to be more than an escape plan, his Victreebel (one of the stronger Pokemon of RBY) to stop trying to eat him and had been more patient with his Magikarp.
    DrCoeloCephalo
    One of the first things I wanna do when I get TemTem on the Switch and play it for the first time is get these dudes on my ingame team for my frontline pair.

    They'll hopefully help fill the "Ekans and Koffing actually winning things together" void in my heart that the Pokemon anime and games insist on leaving hollow.

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