11-20-2022, 05:54 AM | #1 |
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Scarlet/Violet impressions: Paldea is a land of contrasts, musclegirls
Spoiler: show I will kill for you, hot nurse bit character. Anyway, more of us are getting sweaty over the newest Pokemon game that just came out to rave reviews, so stop talking shit about it on Discord and talk shit on a BB forum like God intended. Beat the main three story paths but not what comes after, so we'll see how bad Game Freak cocks it up after I wake up tomorrow. PROS
NEUTRALS (PONS, CROS?)
CONS
And if you're not tired of this hard-hitting critique, please enjoy additional discussion of each story path below: spoilered for obvious reasons, though I don't go too deep into the weeds. Victory Road Spoiler: show Path of Legends Spoiler: show Starfall Street Spoiler: show
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11-21-2022, 09:35 PM | #2 | |
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Spoiler: show Someone had fun and modeled her under-skirt in high-poly detail. A name like "Lip" couldn't be more appropriate. ... Also, Team Star was an afterthought, just even moreso than Team Skull. ScaVi feels like a soft reboot of sorts of SM, and the villain of SM was Lusimine and...Ultra Necrozma?
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11-22-2022, 08:00 AM | #3 |
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I actually enjoyed SV. However part of it was due to my partially imposed bug-only run making the game a bit more challenging. Sword was also mono bug but was laughably easy, whereas this game had a bit more challenge.
My final verdict is that this gen lands firmly in "the middle" of all gens in terms of how good it is. The big pros are the open world/story. I love randomly exploring and being able to do the titan quests to soup up my ride to do more exploring when I wanted was pretty neat. Meanwhile the big cons are performance issues, online everything, and lack of real customization. Also having a way to have that damn minimap stop from spinning like crazy, argh. The online is so bad and aggravating to use. No way to filter by stars or tera type, no gts, no way to refresh the listings, etc. Are you really telling me there's only 8 people hosting raids at any given time? This is so incomprehensibly bad, whereas another game like XY did online so well (despite being an otherwise bad game). The school outfits suck and not being able to wear whatever you want is really lame. At least let us change the damn color. The gameplay bugs are well covered everywhere else so no point touching that any more. Also the fact that the game didn't scale too well if you did things out of order. If this game had another year of polish it would probably rank a bit higher. Some things like no E4/Champ music is inexcusable, and some of the star "fights" were so dumb. But being able to explore and find shit and the auto battle thing was pretty cool. I liked needing to find lunarantis or whatever for some TMs and sneaking into really high level areas for Hawlucha for another TM and stuff. Final Verdict: 65% - Above average Pokemon game that, if without the many glaring issues, would easily become one of the higher ranking Pokemon games (to me) but, while the good was really good, the bad was really bad, making it just above average. |
11-23-2022, 05:20 PM | #4 |
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Stronger story than expected. Worse bugs and performance issues than expected.
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11-23-2022, 10:59 PM | #5 |
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See, maybe I'm used to RBY but I don't care about the bugs of performance issues. The game's ambition is enough for me to consider it great. Gens 2,1 and 7 and 5 were my favourites in that order specifically because they're the most ambitious of the games.
Games like ORAS, LGPE, and SWSH get negative scores from me by being regurgitations/mediocre. Especially Sword and Shield, which breached into offensive waters. @Char The story is good, but it seems like Pokemon has a recent history of copying from itself, at least the games do anyway. But in this case, the story is copied from: Spoiler: show
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11-24-2022, 04:01 PM | #6 |
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I'm only about 4 badges in (2 Victory Road, 2 Path of Legends) but this is definitely one of my favorite Pokemon games ever to be honest. I really do hope the performance issues are fixed, they are kind of immersion breaking but I think having played this, if Gamefreak can polish the games a bit more, it's pretty clear they're improving on the titles.
Also I fucking love Klawf.
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SV is the opposite. All the performance issues and bugs are in your face and unavoidable. I had the game crash multiple times, NPCS are laggy, I saw my trainer fly across various rooms etc, as well as other weird stuff. Even if you don't mind the lag or weird graphical issues, the fact that it just crashes is a big deal. |
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12-07-2022, 04:14 AM | #8 |
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Five new videos
Due to 2 of these videos being about Pokemon Scarlet, im putting this here, whole also wanting to promote the other videos :P
Hi everyone. I made three new videos tonight, first time in a while. 1. The first is my thought on Project Mew, Go, and the future of the anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHFO...BrianFrancisco 2. My review of Pokemon Scarlet (why a duplicate post is in the threads for this game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz5t...BrianFrancisco 3. My review of Journeys as a whole. 84 minutes long! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVo...BrianFrancisco 4. Addendum to Journeys review- brief reviews of the other regions and where Journeys falls into this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gED5...BrianFrancisco 5. Scarlett review addendum, where it stacks up with the other games and my brief thoughts on them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmkZ...BrianFrancisco Good: If you like my videos, enjoy your Christmas gifts. I can promise another before New Years, when Journeys is complete. Bad: I know some random dude talking at a laptop camera with a montone voice is so 2007. Reasons are lack of a powerful desktop, camera, mic, editing software. IRL reasons are lack of time due to health issues, needing to focus on next step or career, issues with friends and loved ones including recent deaths, my own daily health issues that take up half of the day, and also focusing on losing weight, publishing/writing medical memoir, other side-projects. It could financially alone take two years to make better videos, at the very least, several months, with time that I don't have. At the very least the plan is to start 2023 with videos like TheChornick, who shows picture stills with background music. Pardon the appearances. This took up over 2 hours of my time, so I hope everyone enjoys.
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