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[TheMightyP]

Dragon Quest 3's overworld theme is goated.

 

[TMNTSSB4]

Arg. **** that noise. I’m in it for the Jaks and Ratchets and Coopers and Escaping Apes. The Metal that is Twisted and the gods of war. The land Uncharted and the infamous people. The real PlayStation All-Stars.

dissing Peter and Miles in my wholesome timeline?

 

[Knight Dude]

When's the PLOK Mii costume?

 

[PLATINUM7]

You know. A new Killer Instinct and a New PlayStation All-Stars would have made the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 day one buys for me. Same with if Smash had been a launch title for the switch.

That's assuming you could even get one day one.

 

[Arcanir]

It's honestly a shame that Dynamax wasn't the best balanced gameplay-wise. I like most of the designs and honestly I think they were better executed then even Megas in that regard overall, but in terms of gameplay there's no doubting that they're too overpowered in the Singles format and even outside of competitive they're not the most interesting gameplay mechanic to deal with. They definitely could've used some more time in the oven to get the execution better, but what's done is done and more then likely they'll be gone with Gen 9.

I will say that I hope they don't do another battle gimmick with the next generation. After seeing the missteps with the past ones it's clear they need to just take a step back and refine them first before adding more, as their current trend of introducing one and then ditching them almost entirely by the next generation is just leading to half-baked executions of ideas that don't reach their full potential.

 

[Shroob]

It's honestly a shame that Dynamax wasn't the best balanced gameplay-wise. I like most of the designs and honestly I think they were better executed then even Megas in that regard overall, but in terms of gameplay there's no doubting that they're too overpowered in the Singles format and even outside of competitive they're not the most interesting gameplay mechanic to deal with. They definitely could've used some more time in the oven to get the execution better, but what's done is done and more then likely they'll be gone with Gen 9.

I will say that I hope they don't do another battle gimmick with the next generation. After seeing the missteps with the past ones it's clear they need to just take a step back and refine them first before adding more, as their current trend of introducing one and then ditching them almost entirely by the next generation is just leading to half-baked executions of ideas that don't reach their full potential.

They 'should', but they won't lol.

Double battles stuck around, but you can tell they wanted lightning to strike twice in Gen 5 and made Triple and Rotation Battles, both of which... well, let's be honestly, they flopped.

With Megas, IMO, it was their best idea, it gave old Pokemon a second chance at life and gave fan favorites time in the spotlight with cool new stuff to play with.... but a big issue with Megas is that they tended to give them to already popular Pokemon, which ended up being Pokemon already strong, leading to some being just completely overbearing.


Z-Moves, thankfully, were always going to be an Alola-only thing(Unless they shoehorned in NPCs to give you the Z-Crystals postgame in a future game).... and I say thankfully because my god they were just boring in concept. We went from alternate new form for Pokemon to.... nuke move. Like, ignoring how overpowered Z-Moves were, all they really were in the end was "Big damage", nothing really flashy about them. You press them to delete 1 opponent's Pokemon.


They're just gonna keep adding in gimmicks in the hope that one sticks. Megas were popular, Megas are still used in OTHER games, but for some reason not in the ****ing mainline.

 

[Will]

They're just gonna keep adding in gimmicks in the hope that one sticks. Megas were popular, Megas are still used in OTHER games, but for some reason not in the ****ing mainline.

And it sucks because they all take attributes from Mega Evolutions. They should've just kept going with it, ORAS, despite not being that great of a remake, was great at exploring what other ways Pokemon could evolve.

 

[Noipoi]

They 'should', but they won't lol.

Double battles stuck around, but you can tell they wanted lightning to strike twice in Gen 5 and made Triple and Rotation Battles, both of which... well, let's be honestly, they flopped.

With Megas, IMO, it was their best idea, it gave old Pokemon a second chance at life and gave fan favorites time in the spotlight with cool new stuff to play with.... but a big issue with Megas is that they tended to give them to already popular Pokemon, which ended up being Pokemon already strong, leading to some being just completely overbearing.


Z-Moves, thankfully, were always going to be an Alola-only thing(Unless they shoehorned in NPCs to give you the Z-Crystals postgame in a future game).... and I say thankfully because my god they were just boring in concept. We went from alternate new form for Pokemon to.... nuke move. Like, ignoring how overpowered Z-Moves were, all they really were in the end was "Big damage", nothing really flashy about them. You press them to delete 1 opponent's Pokemon.


They're just gonna keep adding in gimmicks in the hope that one sticks. Megas were popular, Megas are still used in OTHER games, but for some reason not in the ****ing mainline.

They clearly have some awareness that megas are still the most popular gimmick, seeing as how they’re still in other media.

If only they’d make some new ones. And for more obscure Pokémon, too. We don’t need mega Dragapult, we need mega Dunsparce.

 

[Guynamednelson]

They clearly have some awareness that megas are still the most popular gimmick, seeing as how they’re still in other media.

If only they’d make some new ones. And for more obscure Pokémon, too. We don’t need mega Dragapult, we need mega Dunsparce.

And while they're at it, if a mega evolution can use one ability from its non-mega version, let it use any of them.

#letmegaaudinouseregenerator

 

[Arcanir]

They 'should', but they won't lol.

Double battles stuck around, but you can tell they wanted lightning to strike twice in Gen 5 and made Triple and Rotation Battles, both of which... well, let's be honestly, they flopped.

With Megas, IMO, it was their best idea, it gave old Pokemon a second chance at life and gave fan favorites time in the spotlight with cool new stuff to play with.... but a big issue with Megas is that they tended to give them to already popular Pokemon, which ended up being Pokemon already strong, leading to some being just completely overbearing.


Z-Moves, thankfully, were always going to be an Alola-only thing(Unless they shoehorned in NPCs to give you the Z-Crystals postgame in a future game).... and I say thankfully because my god they were just boring in concept. We went from alternate new form for Pokemon to.... nuke move. Like, ignoring how overpowered Z-Moves were, all they really were in the end was "Big damage", nothing really flashy about them. You press them to delete 1 opponent's Pokemon.


They're just gonna keep adding in gimmicks in the hope that one sticks. Megas were popular, Megas are still used in OTHER games, but for some reason not in the ****ing mainline.

Triple/Rotation Battles disappoint me since I like the concept of them, but they didn't give a lot of exposure to it. With Doubles it became the main format for competitive, they had recurring battles that you can fight around Hoenn, one of the Gym Leaders uses the mechanic, and the Orre games use it as their main means of battle, so it was very easy to get exposed to it and get attached to it. Triple/Rotations? No Gym battles, didn't get adapted to a competitive setting at all (the Subway and PWC used it in terms of post-game facilities, but neither required it), and had no spin-offs that used it until Masters. You were forced to use it once in the story, but other then that it was either relegated to post-game or very easily skipped over optional battles. For as much as they wanted Triples/Rotations to be a new thing after Doubles they didn't do a good job pushing it, and once programming issues popped up with SM it's no surprise they just cut it out entirely.

As for the rest, yeah I agree. Megas was arguably their best executed, but even that had issues due to how they distributed the Megas as well as just general balancing issues with some of them, so it didn't quite reach the peak it should've and didn't get the refining it needed. The rest follow in its footsteps and outside of allowing any Pokemon to use the gimmick, they doubled down on the problems and made the issue worse. They did the opposite of learning from their mistakes and kept repeating them, and since they don't come back as the focus they don't get the refining they need to get better as a concept. It's hard to get attached to Z-Moves or Dynamax when it feels like they're just going to get dumped for the next new thing instead of getting fixed, and it's probably part of the reason why the gimmicks have been seeing less positive reception the more that are introduced.

 

[Guynamednelson]

but you can tell they wanted lightning to strike twice in Gen 5 and made Triple and Rotation Battles, both of which... well, let's be honestly, they flopped.

Seems more like they cut Triple/Rotation Battles in Gen 7 due to the trainer models being rendered, meaning six character models are already being rendered during a Double Battle, and it was already lagging the 3DS.

 

[Will]

I understand Gen 7 and 8's "upgrade" attempt from Mega Evolutions, trying to make them inexclusive to certain popular 'mons, however, they ****ing suck and it could've easily just been new additions to the Mega archetypes. You could've literally called Z Moves Mega Moves and nothing of value would be lost on top of being able to make new Megas.

 

[Shroob]

Seems more like they cut Triple/Rotation Battles in Gen 7 due to the trainer models being rendered, meaning six character models are already being rendered during a Double Battle, and it was already lagging the 3DS.

I mean, there's that too.


Triple Battles and the 3DS were not friends, and Gamefreak was pretty ass at optimizing the game.


Hell, Hoopa Unbound on its own causes the game to drop frames, and you toss in weather effects? I legit saw someone crash ORAS with 6 Hoopa Unbound and a Sandstorm lol.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Z-Moves were a neat concept in my opinion, but man I like mega Pokémon a lot more. It’s a stronger version of a Pokémon with a cool new design, that’s great. Dynamaxing is sorta the same way, but every Pokémon that doesn’t have a unique form just becomes bigger than an ego and not much else design-wise. At the very least it seems that they’re choosing the right Pokémon to give these unique forms to.

 

[Shroob]

Z-Moves were a neat concept in my opinion, but man I like mega Pokémon a lot more. It’s a stronger version of a Pokémon with a cool new design, that’s great. Dynamaxing is sorta the same way, but every Pokémon that doesn’t have a unique form just becomes bigger than an ego and not much else design-wise. At the very least it seems that they’re choosing the right Pokémon to give these unique forms to.

I mean


All the Gigantimax Pokemon are either:


Gen 1
Gen 8
Or Garbodor

Gens 2-7 got nothing, and **** Melmetal with its ???? number.

 

[PLATINUM7]

Gen 1
Gen 8
Or Garbodor

It's ridiculous Garbodor isn't in Smash.

 

[Shroob]

It's ridiculous Garbodor isn't in Smash.

I unironically love Garbodor so I'd be all for it.

 

[PLATINUM7]

They're trashing our rights not putting Garbodor in.

Hack the planet.

 

[Guynamednelson]

It's ridiculous Garbodor isn't in Smash.

I unironically love Garbodor so I'd be all for it.

Yeah but do you really want more fuel for the "unova is only trash bags and ice cream lol" fire that somehow isn't 100% burnt out?

 

[PLATINUM7]

Yeah but do you really want more fuel for the "unova is only trash bags and ice cream lol" fire that somehow isn't 100% burnt out?

Hoes will be mad no matter who we get.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

I mean


All the Gigantimax Pokemon are either:


Gen 1
Gen 8
Or Garbodor

Gens 2-7 got nothing, and **** Melmetal with its ???? number.

Could’ve sworn there was some Gen 2-7 Gigantamax Pokémon. Well, never mind then, haha.

 

[Shroob]

Yeah but do you really want more fuel for the "unova is only trash bags and ice cream lol" fire that somehow isn't 100% burnt out?

I mean, considering Garbodor is the ONLY non Gen 1 or 8 Mon that got a special form, at this point almost feels like GF themselves want to poke that bear.

 

[PLATINUM7]

I mean, considering Garbodor is the ONLY non Gen 1 or 8 Mon that got a special form, at this point almost feels like GF themselves want to poke that bear.

That bear is Banjo right?

 

[Shroob]

That bear is Banjo right?

You get Beartic or Urs----Oh wait Ursaring ain't in Gen8

 

[PLATINUM7]

You get Beartic or Urs----Oh wait Ursaring ain't in Gen8

I was still on the Garbodor for Smash train.

 

[Arcanir]

I mean


All the Gigantimax Pokemon are either:


Gen 1
Gen 8
Or Garbodor

Gens 2-7 got nothing, and **** Melmetal with its ???? number.

It's strange as Z-Moves are the same way, Gen 1 and 7 are the only ones that got the unique ones while everything else had to make due with just the generic moves. It's even stranger since Megas at least threw a bone to the non-Kanto ones and gave Hoenn a huge amount, though then again Kalos got screwed over almost completely as the only ones that got one was Diancie and Greninja (which only happened thanks to the anime writers) so even that didn't get it completely right.

 

[PLATINUM7]

It's strange as Z-Moves are the same way, as Gen 1 and 7 are the only ones that got the unique ones while everything else had to make due with just the generic moves. It's even stranger since Megas at least threw a bone to the non-Kanto ones and gave Hoenn a huge amount, though then again Kalos got screwed over almost completely as the only ones that got one was Diancie and Greninja, and the latter only happened thanks to the anime writers requesting it.

Ash-Greninja isn't a mega evolution, it is its own thing entirely.

 

[Arcanir]

Ash-Greninja isn't a mega evolution, it is its own thing entirely.

It follows the same concept as Megas in terms of being an in-battle form change that adds almost the exact same stat boost, so at the very least I'd consider it a variant of Megas in a similar vein to the Primals or even Mega Rayquaza (who also ditches the item restriction).

 

[ZephyrZ]

So I just ordered a used copy of this game off Amazon. I have zero expectations for it, aside from reading that it was a poor man's Ratchet and Clank. But it was cheap and morbid curiosity got to me.

I need a life.

Hopefully it's at least better then Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets. Not that game was an absolute snore fest which I still 100 percented anyway just to see all the character dialogue.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

So I just ordered a used copy of this game off Amazon. I have zero expectations for it, aside from reading that it was a poor man's Ratchet and Clank. But it was cheap and morbid curiosity got to me.

I need a life.

Hopefully it's at least better then Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets. Not that game was an absolute snore fest which I still 100 percented anyway just to see all the character dialogue.

Oh hey, I used to own this game. I don’t remember much about it, but “Poor man’s Ratched & Clank” sounds about right.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Taiwan ratings – The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles for PS4, Switch, and PC; Tales from the Borderlands for Switch; more https://t.co/XS6bLme30P pic.twitter.com/zzBSjJjqC3

— Gematsu (@gematsu) February 13, 2021

Oh yeah, it's all coming together

 

[Shroob]

All that ranting about Dynamaxing made me pooped.


Call me ****ing Piers because I hate that mechanic.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

All that ranting about Dynamaxing made me pooped.


Call me ****ing Piers because I hate that mechanic.

Don't worry my dude, you'll outlive it if you wait just a few years

 

[Idon]

Don't worry my dude, you'll outlive it if you wait just a few years

Only because they'll add an even more obnoxious battle mechanic.

Then we'll miss it.

 

[Aurane]

Only because they'll add an even more obnoxious battle mechanic.

Then we'll miss it.

That's the spirit.

 

[Wademan94]

Get ready to be compared to a kiss from a rose on the grey.

Squish boy ➡️ long boy pic.twitter.com/n5m0G6Y51T

— Ida Ꮚ•ꈊ•Ꮚ (@floofyfluff) February 12, 2021

 

[Hat N' Clogs]

Good morning, everyone. Chapter 18 is here of my fanfic.

Dekagon - Chapter 18 - HattyTheWriter - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

 

[Deleted member]

good morning ya'll

pretty bored this morning ngl

 

[Zinith]

Get ready to be compared to a kiss from a rose on the grey.

Squish boy ➡️ long boy pic.twitter.com/n5m0G6Y51T

— Ida Ꮚ•ꈊ•Ꮚ (@floofyfluff) February 12, 2021

I wonder how many people here will get that reference

 

[Deleted member]

If you took a break from Magic: The Gathering, new Challenger Decks can help

www.polygon.com

Why yes, the products that are explicitly marketeded as being a good beginner deck for those getting into standard, are in fact, good for getting into standard, thank you Polygon.