10-19-2016, 06:06 PM | #26 |
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i mostly ran away from him until i did that "limited pokeball catch" challenge.
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10-19-2016, 06:14 PM | #27 | |
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Is there a reward difference for using all of your balls in battle vs. turning over your leftover balls when you're bored with the challenge? Spoiler: show
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10-21-2016, 02:26 PM | #29 |
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Played the demo too, and completed it way too quickly for my taste. The actual demo part is disappointingly short... all the after play is nice, and fun for a little while, but all in all it's pretty 'meh' if you ask me. At least there's some free stuff to make up for that and, from what I saw on YouTube, some fun little random encounters
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10-22-2016, 06:35 AM | #30 |
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It feels like oras demo had way more to it.
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10-22-2016, 08:13 AM | #31 |
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I agree. But I'm somewhat glad for it. It feels like they're keeping their cards closer to this chest for this one, which makes sense given that ORAS was a remake with only a few changes to the story and nothing else new whereas SM is brand new with never-before-seen Pokémon, cities, gameplay, and more. As someone trying to avoid spoilers, Alola has felt like I've been spoiled on more than I was on Kalos yet, at the same time, feels like there's been a lot less revealed this go around. (That or I just haven't been spoiled on nearly as much as I think I have.) With Kalos, there was the frustration that they had revealed near about every single new line before the games came out, and so even working super hard to avoid spoilers I was still spoiled on the likes of Pancham and Fletchling. This go around, I think I've seen the same number of new Pokémon and yet it feels like they haven't revealed nearly as much as they did for Gen 6.
I dunno. We'll see. Regardless, I'm glad the demo isn't giving away too much. I came to have fun with the starters (and was denied orz). I still want most of my city, music, and of course story discoveries to be made through the game proper.
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11-08-2016, 11:09 AM | #32 |
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Any reason to revisit the demo since we last talked here? Have there been any meaningful changes, any important content that became unlocked?
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11-08-2016, 01:26 PM | #33 |
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The short answer is 'No'
I've logged in (almost every) day for a few minutes, but besides a couple of random encounters there's nothing. Nothing changed, nothing unlocked, nothing important happened. Only 1 timed event left to discover, which I hope has some connection with the release, but otherwise nothing so far.
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The full list of pokemon exists as a leak, but it really just served to make me wonder exactly what the fuck is in this game. And that is, imo, the sign of an ideal leak. Even if you're following spoilers and news, you're still going to be surprised and overwhelmed by this game just because everything is so new and different. It's like when people were following the Sombra leaks for Overwatch. They knew what she looks like, what she does as a backstory, and what she wants, but not how she'll play, what her character is, or even what kind of gun she's going to use. She's a hacker...what does that MEAN in the context of a shooter? The more information was released, the more players felt in the dark about her. żQuién es Sombra? Who even fucking knows?
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C'mon, man. We're so close to release. Five days. Five days away. You can endure five more days of annoyingly having to spoiler tag and spoiler label every third word out of your mouth when discussing Pokémon Sun and Moon.
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11-14-2016, 09:35 AM | #36 |
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Jesus Christ, really? We've been doing this for how many months and you manage to break the only real rule we've been enforcing with only five days to go?
I literally don't even know how to respond to this. IT'S NOT THAT HARD. You don't get to constitute what defines "spoiler" for other people. Last edited by deoxys; 11-14-2016 at 03:30 PM. |
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I have to say the Sun and Moon music was on fire
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11-16-2016, 11:55 PM | #40 | |
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For lack of a better thread to post in ...
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could constitute a spoiler. Now to be fair, when XY came out, no one was putting stuff like this in their sigs until like December (~2 months after the games' release), but like ... the way you currently have your announcement worded, you're making it sound like the following is all a-okay the moment the chimes strike 12:
Given that creatures are in no way, shape, or form going to be up for concession, it seems, I don't much care about anything I just said because it won't be affecting me personally because I'll be disabling sigs and avatars until I beat the game. This is more about shielding you guys. In a classic case of "Be careful what you wish for," you've set awfully lax rules for the genie, I fear, and are going to get burned because of your minimalist terms.
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11-17-2016, 01:07 AM | #41 |
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Fair enough point, I updated the post and clarified in the thread - I mean... I don't think we'd punish anyone who did that, it's not up to me anyway, but I do want people do know that if you do do that, it's a dick move. So, I made that more clear. It's a dick move... don't be a dick!
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Re: Talon, When do endgame spoilers like the sig you linked become acceptable to post?
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Furthermore, I personally reject the argument that "I'm free to spoil you once enough time has passed." While I acquiesce that people can be forgiven for spoiling things the older those stories get (e.g. Planet of the Apes's ending or Les Misérables's ending), fundamentally I reject the notion that "the older a story gets, the more fair game it is to spoil." It doesn't matter to me how old a story is. What matters to me is whether the other person has seen it yet, Y/N, whether it's a huge deal, Y/N, and whether they care about spoilers, Y/N. If something's a huge deal and I can't answer the other two questions, I personally err on the side of caution and spoiler tag it. Examples that would be considered silly by some include the big plot twist at the end of Star Wars Episode V and the big reveal at the end of Citizen Kane. It's okay to say something like "Rooooosebuuuuud" because that's not going to give anything away and is something repeatedly mentioned throughout the movie, but saying what is meant by the word "rosebud" gives away the ending and (in my experience, as someone who had it spoiled for him) ruins an estimated 50% of the movie's punch. Thing is, not everyone agrees that there's such a concept as "no end to spoiler season; you should always be respectful that other people may not have gotten around to such-and-such story yet." A lot of people subscribe to the notion of spoiler deadlines, i.e. that there comes a point where the spoiler has entered pop culture, you can't stop it from doing so, and once it's there too fucking bad I'm going to say it without tagging it. (Easy examples include the two I just gave, Star Wars and Citizen Kane.) And pulling back to the beginning, even if we all sit down at the "spoilers have to come with deadlines, Talon" coffee table, we're still not probably going to all agree on what exactly those deadlines should be. One year? Why not two years, or ten? Why not six months, or one? Why did I decide it should be one year before you can openly give away the ending of Undertale here? Where did this "Christmas rule" come from? At the end of the day, spoilers are the kind of thing that most can agree are bad but few can agree on exactly the right treatment. They're a bitch. tl;dr I personally would think you an asshat to give away SM's ending before New Year's 2017 seeing as we have quite a few ASB kiddos who are probably not going to get to play the games until Christmas because a mid-November release = the perfect Christmas gift for Mommy and Daddy to buy EDIT: Double post, but allow me to put it to you another way, and to explain why I think the idea of "spoilers come with deadlines" is a hot pile of shit ... Spoiler: show Doesn't change the fact that I am willing to work with a community that believes in deadlines on spoilers. (It's called Earth. Deal with it. ) Just means that I, personally, find the argument that spoilers have built-in deadlines unpersuasive.
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that is not what rosebud was Many iconic works of literature simply don't work under the rationale of a "spoiler." For example, it's impossible for me to spoil Paradise Lost for you, or Heart of Darkness, or Their Eyes Were Watching God. The last one has the entire thing laid out in the first few pages, and the story doesn't twist so much as meander. I could tell you HOW Tea Cake died, and that might be a kind of rude spoiler, but a.) you knew Tea Cake was gonna kick the bucket from Page 1 and b.) once you reach that point, the buildup is really really obvious. For interested parties (and honestly this spoiler makes your understanding of the story stronger, rather than ruining your enjoyment; the book is a gem for its prose, and the plot is just a bonus): Quote:
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