>>3540 Cool, thank you!

Hey, Bumping this, and giving anyone who comes over here from the half chan /vp/ welcome and enjoy your stay, since I imagine some people might come over here for any reasons. if you have any problem or question, feel free to ask here.

>>17431 What happun to her?

>>17432 I just haven't been chatting with her through this AI model I used in a while. Just something feels off with me and I'm not sure what.

This is in Osaki Station. It's a bit ironic that Nintendo put this outside the station that leads to the Sega Grand Harbour offices.

It's likely due to incompetence, Gamefreak is not skill enough nor filled with people who actually want to see cool concepts like this. A lot of the artists there these days are the Japanese equivalent of tumblr fags and they care very little for Pokemon, Sugimori himself had a massive spat with the fags making the anime as it was revealed in the last Teraleak because they didn't give a single fuck about Pokemon and were putting too much focus on their boring OC characters. I already liked Zamazenta a lot, I'm over the moon with how cool the background details for it are. It truly is the perfect bittersweet mix in terms of writing. >MC's father It sucks because it was really charming when they did it in Hoenn, it seems some of this was recycled and added to Arven's plot, I honestly really like his arc and how fucked the stuff with the professors are, but having the main character have a connection to the story and a personal stake in it would have been so much better, it's a shame we didn't get to see this realized. >Paldeia It still had 8 gyms, but only 4 were obligatory. What's even sadder is that Gamefreak absolutely wanted to do level scaling for the gyms so you could face them in any order, but they decided to be lazy and just said fuck that. >better than Flamigo Absolutely, what's even sadder is that this is very likely also a beta design for Aromatisse, I don't hate the pink fat bird that much, but it's completely mogged by this. >>21907 Yeaaaaah.........

>>21906 Meant to tag this on my first reply.

>>21807 Someone told me that the source code of a Pokopia demo leaked, revealing that Gamefreak started to develop the game before it shifting to Koei Tecmo. I assume my friend's source is one of those twitter "leakers" since I don't use that site and I hadn't heard of it. But is it true? Are there any torrents for the source or some juicy info about that game?

>>22103 I did

>>22103 even then this place was more intended for a backup for anyone that still want to kept contact before we came back properly to halfchan.

>>22103 Some of us have been busy. I really should finish up the snippet I had been working on, dess

>>6 Well, anons, today is the day. Depending on where you are in the world, you may already be playing Legends Z-A or you may be waiting for it to arrive at your doorstep. There's no doubt that the release of a new Pokemon game might not feel quite as thrilling as it did years ago given all that has transpired and all that we have seen GF do (or fail to do). But hopefully there will be at least a little bit of fun to be had with this game.

>>21908 Alright, so I got my copy and I've been playing the game pretty much every day since release day, racking up about 15 hours so far. I picked Tepig as my starter. So far, the experience can be summed up as mediocre, which is what was expected from the start. Legends Z-A is a lot like one of those essays that you rush to get done for one of your classes at school a few days before it is due. Sure, it can be read from start to finish. It might look okay too, with proper formatting and a nice looking font and cover page. But when you actually dig into it, you see little more than the bare minimum when it comes to style, substance, and content. You see potential for more, but no effort to get there. The game keeps you on a tight leash for 3 hours, and when you finally are free to explore the entirety of Lumiose City, you aren't given any notification or fanfare for making it through this extra extended tutorial. You start walking down streets without getting interrupted by a character on your Rotom phone who wants to chastise you for not going towards the main objective, and that's when you know you are finally (mostly) free. The game handholds you a lot, but gives a lack of support when it comes to explaining things that could use some extra tutorials or text boxes. No main supporting character explains that all the ranged moves have varying ranges, that longer ranged attacks take longer to charge up, that faster pokemon have faster cooldowns, etc. No one explains how to position your trainer so that your pokemon can follow you properly, or that where your pokemon moves to before using a ranged attack depends on where you are. Throwing the player into a game and having them learn by trying things is fine, but any decent game has some sort of tutorial on how to fight besides just putting you into a simple battle and then letting you go on your merry way. A lot of these details are explained by random NPCs or on loading screens, though. Catching pokemon is also frustrating with how low the catch rates are, even when the pokemon is about to faint and the catch rate is supposedly boosted to a high degree. If I fight an Alpha pokemon that is under level 30 and get it to 1HP, it should be captured in an Ultra Ball that is so rare that I can't even buy it yet. Some of the wild zones are irritating too because of the guaranteed Alphas that spawn. For at least 2 of these zones so far, defeating the Alpha is almost necessary if I want to pay attention to any of the other pokemon because the Alpha will hunt you down like you are a walking poffin and it hasn't eaten in 4 days. I am thankful that any pokeballs that miss your target completely, or are thrown by accident, get collected by an NPC and can be returned to you for free if you talk to him. Sadly, it seems like catch rates are likely lower at first because you can purchase key items to raise your catch rate. So if it was at the usual rate, it would eventually become too easy to catch pokemon. It's one of those games that is most fun when you are slightly over leveled and bulldoze through most battles, watching as HP bars go down fast and number go up with flashing lights and sounds. The girls are also cute, which is nice. Now of course, the shallow end of a swimming pool has more depth than any of their personalities. Taunie is the usual happy, generous rival who just does things for you and gives you things just because. And of course, her quirk is that she cooks strange combinations of food. What an innovation when it comes to character writing :^) It almost works for her though, since it feels like there is more to her story, and she may be hiding frustrations and pains of her own, but this really isn't alluded to in the game at all yet, it's just a guess. The story overall is one of the most ridiculous yet. You don't do anything to earn the opportunities you receive, you truly just show up and it all happens. So many people ask you for help with their projects and you have no reason to say yes besides being nice, and of course your only option is to say yes. They have already tried to pull a "you were brought here for a reason/you were just meant to be here" but in this game it is clearly a cop-out.

>>21964 Excuse the double post, but I wanted to clarify just one thing. >They have already tried to pull a "you were brought here for a reason/you were just meant to be here" but in this game it is clearly a cop-out. For anyone that has ever read a few books or played at least one or two vidya, it is clear that there likely really is some force that brought the player to the city. In this case, it must be Zygarde, who's role is to keep balance in the region, and is confirmed to play a major role in the game. Some kind of chaos is brewing, and that is clear given the first cutscene where Prism Tower is glowing ominously. But even so, any story that does this also gives the main character another reason to show up, to make things feel more complete and more believable. Unless the character receives some kind of vision or hears some divine voice, he shouldn't just come to an entirely new place with no explanation. Even something small and simple would have worked.

>locked behind dlc and an online subscription Thanks Game Freak. Also imagine announcing a $30 dlc before the shotty game is even out. Remember when Legends Arceus was just a $60 game with no overpriced DLC or forced online?

>>19560 Given how Pokemon is a media titan, it's not surprising how frustration about Mega Pokemon being locked behind paid online and a paid DLC seems to be somewhat suppressed online, unless I'm not looking in the right places. It's a very reasonable thing to feel negative about. The Mega forms are finished, complete, and won't take any extra work beyond the release date for the team, which means they have not earned any extra pay beyond the $70 Switch2 price tag. Gamefreak doesn't even specify when the stones will be available to those who do play online. It says Greninja's stone is available starting October 16th, which is launch day. But it doesn't say how long each season lasts. Will it take a month to be able to use Mega Delphox? Then another month to use Mega Chesnaut? There's no way that a season will only last one or two weeks. This is simply a way to make sure player numbers stay high for several months after release, which makes Nintendo look good to investors. They'll lure players bored or finished with Z-A back to get that mega stone. The player might not even be guaranteed to get the stone, even. https://archive.ph/bo9cI >"Mega Stones for Mega Chesnaught, Mega Delphox, and Mega Greninja can only be obtained as rewards for being promoted up the ranks." This implies you have to move up ranks to get these items. >"Greninjite, Delphoxite, and Chesnaughtite stones cannot normally be obtained during regular gameplay." >"Mega Stones obtainable as promotion rewards are planned to be redistributed in future seasons." >in future seasons. So even in the future, it seems like the mega stones wont be released freely to players as, say, a mystery gift. They will be rewards again for future seasons of the Battle Club. It would be scummy but they could decide to release the stones to all players for Christmas or in January 2026 or something, but this doesn't seem to be the plan. >announcing a $30 dlc before the shotty game is even out The fact that they have something to announce means the DLC is probably complete or almost complete. Again, which means it should just be in the game in the first place. They even include Mega Raichu as the poster child, a form that makes it look like Pikachu and is thus even more potentially tempting for the average player. If all of this happened 10 or so years ago there would have been outrage.

>>6813 Mega Miltank is stll missing

>The battery grub Pokemon gets Sand Force as it's ability ?????????

of all the games why is empire one of the few that guarantees good starter ivs? it's bonkers >>22380 gg. I can't help it sometimes

>Opened up Rejuvenation's plebbit to check for a sprite I saw posted there a while back >The top post of the sub is a fat ugly chink tranny dressed like Crescent >>22383 A broken clock is right twice a day as they say. Thanks bro, entirely fair, I can't help but wonder and question these things as well and it drives me mad.

Charizard is my favorite because it was my first pokemon, simple as that. She also happened to be female, by random chance. No resetting or anything. Didn't even know how to do that back then anyways.

>>20290 >Their shinies are so good. They are, most legendaries have pretty good shinies, but theirs really are nice. The colors are different enough to make it clear that they are special, but not odd and unfitting. The black and red on Koraidon are great, and the light silver matches well with the light purple and blue on Miraidon.

>>20261 The Shiny Miradon/Koraidon codes are now being distributed! (Or depending on where you are, they have been available for almost 24hrs). Make sure to get out there and get one if you can! Has anyone else faced any difficulty getting these codes? It seems like if you aren't one of the first customers of the day, you just don't have much of a chance of getting one, due to seemingly very limited numbers being given to stores. Of course this can all depend on store and location, but some stores were all out of cards by the end of the morning.

>>20261 For anons in Italy, it seems like there will be a distribution of Shiny Miraidon and Koraidon for you all as well! From now until October 15th, if you go to any Gamelife store, you can pick up a code to use in your game. It seems like there is an extra step, though. You must bring in a copy of Scarlet or Violet as well as your Switch system to prove that you own the game. This should have been done in all the other locations, too. Personally, I was unable to get a code even though I stopped by my local stores on the first day they were available. According to employees, codes were gone shortly after opening, and there were lines outside before the stores even opened. Were there that many pokemon fans waiting? Did they just give codes to every customer without asking if they really owned the game? It doesn't help that it seems like some stores were given a very small number of code cards. For many people, the codes were given out starting on a weekday morning. Kids are at school, most adults are at work. Were adults without jobs/adults who took the day off the only ones to get codes? Seems like the days of kids getting cool legendary pokemon through cards are mostly over if this is the trend.

>>20675 >>20678 gg. I can bake

GG on all the stuff I missed. Wind knocked out my internet antenna and I spend nearly a whole day without much to do. Got a bit frustrated with trying to catch Motherfuck in Clover and decided to try PALF's old beta, holy shit it was wild. >Instead of Silver talking to you at the start, it's a hot ace trainer OC that looked like she would have plot relevance later >Weirdly enough she sorta acts like Melody except less bitchy, she even has some of the mannerisms down like chewing bubblegum all the time >You can pick 1 of 4 roommates >ONE OF WHICH IS CHEREN AND HE'S NOT A COMPLETE ASSHOLE AND IT EVEN COMPLIMENTS YOU FOR HELPING HIM, THIS FEELS SO FUCKING WEIRD >Shauna is one of your friends, albeit it might just be if you dorm with Calem, which I did >She's fucking adorable, she's hyper like Bianca, except unlike with Bianca, she has no off button, can't believe I'm saying this considering she's literally la creatura, but assuming she made it into PALF's current version with the exact same personality (and a better sprite, holy fuck her current one is really bad), I'd very likely focus on dating her >Bianca is a ditz and a bit of a dumbass, with Cheren often having to correct her mistakes >Mfw Tierno and the Kalosian friend group are not only extremely based but they outright call how fishy the Janine battle was, with her opponent playing like an idiot >They don't run away when Lance scolds you, and Tierno even comforts you by saying who gives a shit what Lance thinks >Lance is not as old as I assume he is the current version, his relationship with Janine isn't elaborated upon and he's a fucking manlett, literally Bejita >RED STANDS UP TO LANCE AND TELLS HIM TO EAT SHIT >SKYLA WAS IN PSYCHIC CLASSES TOO, WHY MUST THE WORLD BE SO CRUEL?! >PALF's old plot sounded a lot like gen 9's weirdly enough with Team Star, it was also heavily hinted the school's old board was led by Giovanni >Sabrina is still around but almost never talks >Red doesn't have Frienergy, but is a Pokemon whisperer instead, as in he talks to Pokemon and understands them, it's also kinda subtly hinted he might have psychic powers

new thread >>20681 it's here >>20681 new thread >>20681

>>8233 >What was your first shiny pokemon? Shiny Glimmora. I had been playing pokemon for numerous years before Scarlet and Violet, but hadn't run into any shiny pokemon at all until I played Scarlet. It was by complete chance; I'm not sure if I even had the shiny charm yet. >What is your most recent shiny pokemon? Shiny Axew. I wanted to finally have a Shiny Haxorus, so I caught an Axew during that event where there were Axew outbreaks with increased shiny odds.

Just in case any anons are unaware: The shiny forms of the Treasures of Ruin quartet are available now through Mystery Gift on Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. They are all available until September 30th, so be sure to grab them while you can. As of today, there are only 10 days left to do so. Who knows if these guys will ever be available again in an official capacity, so it's worth dusting off the ol' cartridge to get them. Each one of them had to be defeated in at least 1 million raids worldwide for these shiny forms to be available as a gift, and thankfully you don't have to be a participant to reap the reward. There isn't any dedicated SV thread, nor is there a thread for official events or anything, so I thought to post this here instead.

>>20188 Thanks for the heads up. Just got them. Maybe someone should make a thread for Mystery Gift events.

>>475 That's only because you have stockholm syndrome...

4chan is back online you know

>>2685 proof?