11-17-2019, 12:55 PM | #401 |
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I know I shouldn't have expected much but good lord the story might be the worst we've seen so far
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11-20-2019, 10:31 AM | #402 |
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It's not just choice items that don't lock you in when Dynamaxing @Dopple. G-Darm's Gorilla Tactics ability no longer restricts you when you're in Dynamax, and I believe you're able to select freely for the first turn after it ends as well. Not sure if Dynamax lifting choice effects is intentional, but, yeah, there is no reason to not run Scarf on this bad boy. A neutral icicle crash is just devastating, and when it's fast to boot at no extra charge? Hoo boy.
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11-20-2019, 11:53 AM | #403 |
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if you use a move before you Dynamax, you're not locked in during the Dynamax but are locked into the same move once it's over
if you Dynamax to start with you're not locked into a move and then once it's over you can pick any move and then that's your locked in one
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11-20-2019, 12:11 PM | #404 |
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You also don't get the Choice item buffs during the Dynamax period.
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11-20-2019, 12:45 PM | #405 |
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Zen Mode might be the best Dynamax abuser if Dynamax doesn't revert the Zen Mode.
-Switch into Stealth Rock (-25%) -Substitute on the switch (-25%) -Zen Mode activates -Dynamax You're now protected by a sub, get the HP buff, dual 130 BP Ice/Fire STAB and Precipice Blades for coverage. Burns go away in Zen Mode. Life Orb still boosts damage output in Dynamax form while only shaving away 5%, so yeah.
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11-20-2019, 03:04 PM | #406 |
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Seems like the games are selling incredibly well. Guess there'll be no incentive to improve quality of future titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouVezpjh6yo
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11-20-2019, 03:18 PM | #407 |
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Maybe, just maybe, the games are actually pretty good for Pokemon games.
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11-20-2019, 04:55 PM | #408 |
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We're only a week in. SM had a spectacular launch but tapered off.
LGPE got a massive boost in the USA from the Detective Pikachu trailer which aired a week before launch. These games are under promoted and have been receiving mixed reviews. I would be shocked if isn't the worst selling mainline game, LGPE excluded.
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11-21-2019, 05:13 AM | #409 | |
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11-21-2019, 09:12 AM | #410 |
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So apparently they tried to make an even rarer form of shinies but they screwed up in programming it
lol
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11-21-2019, 09:33 AM | #411 | |
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It's programmed in. They're actually not that rarer, though.
In the wild, if you hit a shiny, it has 1/16th chance of giving stars, and 15/16th chance of getting squares. But through breeding, if you hit a shiny, you have 1/16th of getting squares, and 15/16th chance of stars. If I'm not mistaken. It's possible to get two of each although...why would you. Quote:
At the very least, I'm expecting this game to do better than LGPE (the lowest bar ever), but not beat the 3DS. We'll see, it's only been...4 days?
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11-21-2019, 09:52 AM | #412 |
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Yeah my point was that I'm fairly certain squares are supposed to be rarer in all cases but they accidentally flipped it for wild encounters. Oops.
And I think it is supposed to be *that* much rarer. Like the intended odds: Normal shiny: 1 in ~4369 "Squares" shiny: 1 in 65536
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11-21-2019, 09:56 AM | #413 |
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Pretty lame that the only cosmetic difference is the type of shine. If the Pokemon had a different colour morph it would be a bit more interesting.
SS is filled with really superficial stuff like that. Like the (female) player customization is so extensive, this might as well be a Barbie game, but it seems to have come at the cost of a decent postgame and any storyline whatsoever.
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11-21-2019, 12:22 PM | #414 |
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Decent postgame and any storyline whatsoever? Well, tbh most of those things have been absent for a while, or in case of the latter have been bad enough to a point where we wish they were absent, so I'm not really complaining. I don't recall any Pokemon game having a decent postgame, or indeed any kind of postgame that wasn't just some form of battle facility and a bunch of arbitrary legendaries to catch, and frankly the latter part of that is why I was glad to see them get wiped.
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11-21-2019, 12:24 PM | #415 |
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BW2 and HGSS want to know your location.
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11-21-2019, 12:36 PM | #416 |
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HGSS Kanto was a heap of steaming shite and BW2 didn't have that good a postgame, it was just a fuckton of arbitrary legends, a few rematches and the shitty corner of the region opening back up to be cleared in the best part of half an hour.
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11-21-2019, 01:22 PM | #417 |
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XY's postgame was better than the story in my opinion
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11-21-2019, 04:47 PM | #418 | |
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but to get back on topic the SS post-game is all sorts of ??? like it almost seems like a parody with how weird/bad the characters are
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11-21-2019, 05:51 PM | #419 |
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01-09-2020, 08:43 PM | #422 |
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So. Now we have DLC.
Thoughts?
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01-09-2020, 09:06 PM | #423 |
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It's a lot more robust looking that I expected. So I'm fairly okay vvith it?
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01-09-2020, 10:13 PM | #425 |
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I don't know that I'd call USUM an "enhanced" version even though it has Ultra in the name. In the entire history of Pokemon, those games are unique, even compared to this DLC.
I guess DLC is less shameless than USUM, but that's not saying much. I still feel like we're approaching cuck territory where a game is intentionally done bad to sell DLC. $30 DLC is almost the full price of a 3DS game, and you (again) have to buy it twice if you want it for both versions. Looking at Home's price, I guess Nintendo still hasn't figured out that subscription-based is where the money is, but maybe their core systems aren't up to spec yet.
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