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[TheMightyP]

Coliseum would like to have a word with you.

I prefer good games, thank you.

 

[Noipoi]

I prefer good games, thank you.

Aw ****, you pissed off the GameCube kids.

 

[Shroob]

I prefer good games, thank you.

Okay that's it

We're throwing fists now



Unrelated but pseudo related but

Damn

 

[Schnee117]

All Pokémon needs from the GameCube is Miror B

 

[TheMightyP]

TIL people play Pokemon for the story.

Which is weird because only 4 games have one.

 

[Shroob]

TIL people play Pokemon for the story.

Which is weird because only 4 games have one.

Sun, Moon, Ulta Sun, Ultra Moon?

 

[Noipoi]

TIL people play Pokemon for the story.

Which is weird because only 4 games have one.

Whenever Pokémon has a good or interesting story I’m pleasantly surprised. Because I expect nothing from Pokémon plots lol

“Oh dang, I was just leveling up Tiger Mask and now we’re talking about child abuse. And aliens. Sweet.”

 

[Shroob]

It still boggles my mind that of all the creatures you try to make "pretty"


You do it with a cockroach


Pheromosa is all sorts of weird.

 

[cashregister9]

It still boggles my mind that of all the creatures you try to make "pretty"


You do it with a cockroach


Pheromosa is all sorts of weird.

Read Cockroach without the roach and you can see the thought process behind pheromosa

 

[Shroob]

Read Cockroach without the roach and you can see the thought process

How do I even respond to this

 

[PLATINUM7]

It still boggles my mind that of all the creatures you try to make "pretty"


You do it with a cockroach


Pheromosa is all sorts of weird.

But its normal in the dimension it came from.

 

[Noipoi]

It still boggles my mind that of all the creatures you try to make "pretty"


You do it with a cockroach


Pheromosa is all sorts of weird.

I think that’s the point. Ultra Beasts are supposed to be otherworldly. So they made a flimsy mosquito jacked, and a freaky cockroach beautiful.

Opposites yo.

 

[TheMightyP]

Sun, Moon, Ulta Sun, Ultra Moon?

Close, but the answer is (joke ruining time) Plat, B&W, S&M, PLA

Whenever Pokémon has a good or interesting story I’m pleasantly surprised. Because I expect nothing from Pokémon plots lol

“Oh dang, I was just leveling up Tiger Mask and now we’re talking about child abuse. And aliens. Sweet.”

Majority of the franchise is just here's your magical pet **** off and be the champion.

And then SuMo goes look at your quirky friends and then bam gaslighting and dead Pokemon and child abuse, and she was gonna kill Lillie too. All while the protagonist goes .

Oh and Ghetsis and Volo too, they also tried to kill you.


Why do the grown ass villians struggle at killing a teenager?

 

[Shroob]

But its normal in the dimension it came from.

So what you're saying is

Is that we're the weird ones

 

[PLATINUM7]

So what you're saying is

Is that we're the weird ones

Yeah, like that Twilight Zone episode.

 

[Noipoi]

Close, but the answer is (joke ruining time) Plat, B&W, S&M, PLA

Majority of the franchise is just here's your magical pet **** off and be the champion.

And then SuMo goes look at your quirky friends and then bam gaslighting and dead Pokemon and child abuse, and she was gonna kill Lillie too. All while the protagonist goes .

Oh and Ghetsis and Volo too, they also tried to kill you.


Why do the grown ass villians struggle at killing a teenager?

Didn’t Ghetsis slap the **** out of Lillie in USUM?

 

[Shroob]

Yeah, like that Twilight Zone episode.

"Hi, how are ya?"

 

[Capybara Gaming]

Decided to change up the old image a bit. Whatcha'll think?

 

[Shroob]

Close, but the answer is (joke ruining time) Plat, B&W, S&M, PLA

Majority of the franchise is just here's your magical pet **** off and be the champion.

And then SuMo goes look at your quirky friends and then bam gaslighting and dead Pokemon and child abuse, and she was gonna kill Lillie too. All while the protagonist goes .

Oh and Ghetsis and Volo too, they also tried to kill you.


Why do the grown ass villians struggle at killing a teenager?

Be Ghetsis

Be the leader of countless willing followers

Have created basically a ****ing religion out of Pokemon Jesus Christ

Have an elite task op that may or may not be able to teleport

Have a clearly hacked Hydreigon

Still challenges the MC to a Pokemon battle and gives up when defeated despite Pokemon using attacks on people being known since Gen 2.

 

[TheMightyP]

Didn’t Ghetsis slap the **** out of Lillie in USUM?

Yeah, he did.

He really hates freaks without a human heart children, huh

 

[cashregister9]

I still can't get over Rainbow Rocket that was such a cool idea.

How do I even respond to this

There is no proper response, I have sinned.

Decided to change up the old image a bit. Whatcha'll think?

Carrot One Piece

Aggressively Based

 

[TheMightyP]

Be Ghetsis

Be the leader of countless willing followers

Have created basically a ****ing religion out of Pokemon Jesus Christ

Have an elite task op that may or may not be able to teleport

Have a clearly hacked Hydreigon

Still challenges the MC to a Pokemon battle and gives up when defeated despite Pokemon using attacks on people being known since Gen 2.

Be Ghetsis
Have the Power of Kyruem
Nearly kill the protagonist with Kyruem
Somehow still ****ing fail at doing that

 

[Shroob]

Never forget

Because they haven't

 

[Noipoi]

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Never forget

Because they haven't

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It’s funny cuz he’s canonically traumatized.

 

[TheMightyP]

It’s funny cuz he’s canonically traumatized.

His fault for not bringing an ice type.

 

[Shroob]

It’s funny cuz he’s canonically traumatized.

And the other dude's just laughing at him.

"You're laughing? A man just took a Hyper Beam from a Dragonite and you're laughing?"

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I dunno man, a decent story can enhance an open world game. If it’s non-intrusive, and the game let’s you do what you want until you personally feel like returning to the plot, then I have no problem with it.

And while the story in Legends is kinda basic, I don’t feel like it takes anything away from the game. The characters are pretty charming, for the most part. And there’s some interesting lore. The game would be lesser without it, imo.

Still fun, as the gameplay is radical. But I don’t know if I’d like being dumped in the wild with no one to talk to, and no objectives.

That’s… interesting. I certainly can’t speak to the quality of something I don’t like but… idk. It feels like you can’t tell a good story in a truly open world. Not without one aspect causing the other to suffer. Maybe I’m too traditional or whatever. And I guess I’ll never know in this specific case. I respect your opinion on it though, even if I have trouble understanding it. And I mean that literally. I put the data your giving me into my brain and I get the spinning beach ball of death. It’s like the core logic I’ve designed the entire system on it being directly challenged and contradicted leading to a total system collapse. (God I hate how the only way I can describe how my brain works is using computer metaphors. Makes me feel like/worry that I’m a robot or something.

I’m just really bummed out about all of this. Like, I just got into Pokémon beyond just appreciating the designs of the Pokémon. And after one game that I actually enjoyed enough to go full Dex Completionist on it’s going entirely in a direction that just doesn’t gel with me, and now I’m back to just appreciating the character designs again. Tell me that wouldn’t get you?

It’s just not an aspect of video games I give any ****s about, and so many games going all in on exploring with almost nothing else. It’s just… can’t we just stop. Take a breather from emphasizing exploration above all. Take a break from treating “linear” like a dirty word in game reviews and general discourse.

I also think I finally figured out why I like Banjo Kazooie so much. Sure, it’s open ended and a bit explorey. But it’s not just “look around until you find the thing”. You get to an area and have to complete a puzzle. Or challenge. I’m almost every case. Very few jiggies are just lying around. The traveling to the objective is superfluous (imo). I’d get just as much enjoyment if you were plonked into a jiggy challenge from a selection menue. Probably more because you cut out all the fluff and have more resources to make more puzzles and challenges. But either way, that’s still how I see it. Just pouring my thoughts onto the page rn

 

[Zinith]

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Never forget

Because they haven't

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This reminds me, we need a 5-season drama about the Storm Trooper who received brain damage from the malfunctioning door

 

[TheMightyP]

That’s… interesting. I certainly can’t speak to the quality of something I don’t like but… idk. It feels like you can’t tell a good story in a truly open world. Not without one aspect causing the other to suffer. Maybe I’m too traditional or whatever. And I guess I’ll never know in this specific case. I respect your opinion on it though, even if I have trouble understanding it. And I mean that literally. I put the data your giving me into my brain and I get the spinning beach ball of death. It’s like the core logic I’ve designed the entire system on it being directly challenged and contradicted leading to a total system collapse. (God I hate how the only way I can describe how my brain works is using computer metaphors. Makes me feel like/worry that I’m a robot or something.

I’m just really bummed out about all of this. Like, I just got into Pokémon beyond just appreciating the designs of the Pokémon. And after one game that I actually enjoyed enough to go full Dex Completionist on it’s going entirely in a direction that just doesn’t gel with me, and now I’m back to just appreciating the character designs again. Tell me that wouldn’t get you?

It’s just not an aspect of video games I give any ****s about, and so many games going all in on exploring with almost nothing else. It’s just… can’t we just stop. Take a breather from emphasizing exploration above all. Take a break from treating “linear” like a dirty word in game reviews and general discourse.

I also think I finally figured out why I like Banjo Kazooie so much. Sure, it’s open ended and a bit explorey. But it’s not just “look around until you find the thing”. You get to an area and have to complete a puzzle. Or challenge. I’m almost every case. Very few jiggies are just lying around. The traveling to the objective is superfluous (imo). I’d get just as much enjoyment if you were plonked into a jiggy challenge from a selection menue. Probably more because you cut out all the fluff and have more resources to make more puzzles and challenges. But either way, that’s still how I see it. Just pouring my thoughts onto the page rn

Out of curiousity, do you like Monster Hunter?

 

[Noipoi]

That’s… interesting. I certainly can’t speak to the quality of something I don’t like but… idk. It feels like you can’t tell a good story in a truly open world. Not without one aspect causing the other to suffer. Maybe I’m too traditional or whatever. And I guess I’ll never know in this specific case. I respect your opinion on it though, even if I have trouble understanding it. And I mean that literally. I put the data your giving me into my brain and I get the spinning beach ball of death. It’s like the core logic I’ve designed the entire system on it being directly challenged and contradicted leading to a total system collapse. (God I hate how the only way I can describe how my brain works is using computer metaphors. Makes me feel like/worry that I’m a robot or something.

I’m just really bummed out about all of this. Like, I just got into Pokémon beyond just appreciating the designs of the Pokémon. And after one game that I actually enjoyed enough to go full Dex Completionist on it’s going entirely in a direction that just doesn’t gel with me, and now I’m back to just appreciating the character designs again. Tell me that wouldn’t get you?

It’s just not an aspect of video games I give any ****s about, and so many games going all in on exploring with almost nothing else. It’s just… can’t we just stop. Take a breather from emphasizing exploration above all. Take a break from treating “linear” like a dirty word in game reviews and general discourse.

I also think I finally figured out why I like Banjo Kazooie so much. Sure, it’s open ended and a bit explorey. But it’s not just “look around until you find the thing”. You get to an area and have to complete a puzzle. Or challenge. I’m almost every case. Very few jiggies are just lying around. The traveling to the objective is superfluous (imo). I’d get just as much enjoyment if you were plonked into a jiggy challenge from a selection menue. Probably more because you cut out all the fluff and have more resources to make more puzzles and challenges. But either way, that’s still how I see it. Just pouring my thoughts onto the page rn

Goddamnit, this post is well thought out. I can't just reply with a smug reaction image.

Nah, I get it. If I really hated shooters, and I always admired the Zelda series from afar, and after years I finally get into Zelda, only for every Zelda game for the foreseeable future to be a shooter...I wouldn't be too happy either.

I can understand your frustration even if you voice it in obnoxious ways sometimes.

But in my case, Pokemon is finally becoming what I and many people always wanted it to be. And we're just so super happy about that, y'know?

But I guess you can't please everyone

 

[Capybara Gaming]

I still can't get over Rainbow Rocket that was such a cool idea.



There is no proper response, I have sinned.





Aggressively Based

She needs to join the Straw Hats, yesterday.

 

[Noipoi]

I still can't get over Rainbow Rocket that was such a cool idea.

Imo it should’ve been in base Sun & Moon. Would’ve been perfect for the 20th anniversary.

Aw well. Shoulda woulda coulda.

 

[TheMightyP]

Unfortunately Rainbow Rocket used the RSE designs for Maxie and Archie so it sucks actually

jk I get why they did

 

[PLATINUM7]

Chocobo GP's story is a highspeed mish mash of adult jokes and 4th wall breaks.

 

[TheMightyP]

Goddamnit, this post is well thought out. I can't just reply with a smug reaction image.

Nah, I get it. If I really hated shooters, and I always admired the Zelda series from afar, and after years I finally get into Zelda, only for every Zelda game for the foreseeable future to be a shooter...I wouldn't be too happy either.

I can understand your frustration even if you voice it in obnoxious ways sometimes.

But in my case, Pokemon is finally becoming what I and many people always wanted it to be. And we're just so super happy about that, y'know?

But I guess you can't please everyone

So what do we argue about now?

 

[Noipoi]

So what do we argue about now?

Sprigatito will be furry bait.

 

[cashregister9]

So what do we argue about now?

What about that newfangled Sonic Frontiers?

 

[TheMightyP]

Sprigatito will be furry bait.

Incineroar really broke this fanbase, huh?

What about that newfangled Sonic Frontiers?

3D Sonic so it's going to be 1000% ass

 

[osby]

I got a raccoon plushie. What should I name him?

That’s… interesting. I certainly can’t speak to the quality of something I don’t like but… idk. It feels like you can’t tell a good story in a truly open world. Not without one aspect causing the other to suffer. Maybe I’m too traditional or whatever.

You know, I actually kinda agree with this.

Open worlds and traditional, linear storytelling don't mesh well. Sure, you can still have lore and environmental storytelling but it's not the same as having a narrative that moves forward at a reasonable pace.

That's why I have a hard time getting into those types of games. It's not that they are bad, it's just I like to see the game giving me more motivation to play with plot threads.

 

[Zinith]

Sprigatito will be furry bait.

Oddly enough, 90% of the discussion I've seen around that is the "two legs" issue