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Post by King Silva on Oct 19, 2020 2:51:35 GMT -5
Agreed about XY being some of the best games in the entire series. For sure the best games in a while.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 19, 2020 3:00:38 GMT -5
Agreed about XY being some of the best games in the entire series. For sure the best games in a while. I think the only bad thing about XY, minus the length, was that you had to fight either Shauna, Tierno, Trevor, or Serena/Callum EVERY. IN. ROUTE. I love a good rival fight, and XY isn't even the worst of the batch, that goes to Hop, then Bianca/Cheren/Hugh. At least there was some diversity in the XY teams though. Main rival was well rounded, Shauna was always a push over, Tierno could really ruin your day (and nuzlocke) if you let him set up Belly Drum, and Trevor was more a war of attrition than a battle, team wasn't anything to write home about but somehow you just never had counters to his batch. Shauna in the anime was my spirit animal though. I strive to be as careless as she. But gimme Miette's bitchy attitude. XD
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Post by Scott! on Oct 19, 2020 3:01:00 GMT -5
I agree with X and Y being one of the best games for sure. That first dive into 3D really put Pokemon Games over the top for me. Story was short and a terrible postgame story with everyone’s favourite detective sucked! I’ve seen the full series, I stopped watching at Sun and Moon (although the 3 series are on our Netflix in the UK). XY is up there with Hoenn for me as best series by far. I loved the Zygarde story late Series 2 and all of 3, very well done. I still have Black and White as my favourite and I don’t really know why other than it’s the region that started me playing again. Yep. The Looker BS was...well...BS. And I'd be om if we didn't hear from him for a few generations after his shoehorning into Sun and Moon. The anime was top notch production. XYZ was infinitely better than XY, but as a whole, I really thought the series was FINALLY evolving with its audience. But instead they pressed B. ...but Ash won, and Goh is pretty awesome so eh? And the reason Gen V is the favorite of most, in particular the first set of games AGAINST N, it was like playing Red for the first time. New region, New Pokémon, similar formula yet better storytelling and no nasty up glitches like Missingno and crap like gen one misses and the lack of diversity regarding the special attribute. It was essentially a soft reboot of the series, with the the right formula to get kids who've never played before into it, while teens and young adults who grew up with the series being able to have that same thrilling, be all end all choice with the starters again that has only been replicated one more time for the franchise since then, Mystic/Instinct/Valor. Gen five also made for a great last hoorah for many fans who weren't all too tempted to drop a hundred plus on the upcoming 3DS, since MOST Pokémon fans don't even use their Nintendo handheld devices for much more than Pokémon. That is, until the Switch. And Sword/Shield had MASSIVE potential twice. Once, on drop day last year when the immediate fans were going to clamor for it. And a second wave of interest coming in March when the world went on lockdown so people who'd either never understood the hype around Pokémon, or had jumped off the wagon when the OG DS came out, suddenly had a tunna time on their hands and they fumbled horribly. The game is phenomenal, and there's for sure a solid outlook for the future. But for non stalwarts, well, I can see why they're either loved or hated. Granted, it's not like GameFreak had any clue the world was going to shut down for a whole year and everyone would stay inside and play video games. But they could have remarketed SnS similar to how New Horizons changed directions when it came out that "Oh...umm...this is serious, even America and North Korea are...somewhat...acknowledging a problem here." But nope. All we got was some fancy Pikachu in hats like we get every gen, and a DLC that didn't live up to the hype, did NOT warrant the price tag, and that's part of the issue with SnS as a whole. I love it. I really do. But for their first step into the world of 60+ dollar games when the MAX they've ever charged before was half that? The story shouldn't be able to be beaten in four hours. Less if you had the ability to skip cutscenes. It was too fast paced from the moment you beat Milo. I like the energy, but don't go balls to the wall if you're just going to make two and a half hours of the main story (with no real post game) be cinematics and have this vast open wild area just...be there. Nothing special to it, aside from the funny GIFs of being chased by a Machamp or whoever the first feller to discover the Runegrigis evo. That's it. Raids are fun, but they're repetitive and boring after you've caught all of the GMax ones and rebred them for comp. I'm gonna be completely honest, I love all Pokemon games, but.. Sword & Shield didn't do it for me in the extreme sense that I only bought the Switch for Pokemon and Lets Go was boring after one playthrough and having to sit and watch streamers and Youtubers try and wangle content out of it was ing boring. I'm a shiny hunter and I love watching streamers that Shiny hunt, but to watch them stand in one spot for hours was soul destroying to the point that I wouldn't do it myself after 5 minutes. It was easily the worst shiny hunting experience out of all the games. Hell, give me random encounters over that crap. And that's a stretch. My problem with Sword and Shield is pretty similar. No one does random encounter hunts with the 500 KO method, they/streamers all Masuda method. If there's anything more boring than doing a hatching hunt yourself, try watching someone else do it. uh uh. Apart from raids, there really wasn't much added to the usual Pokemon dynamic. It looked pretty on the switch, but it was £50 for a 16 hour game and it didn't differ much from a 3DS game. I know, it's Pokemon and the formula is pretty much the same but I was expecting so much more. The story sucked, Team Yell added nothing for me and Rose was terrible. One thing about a game as a Shiny hunter was it has to have playtime after the games done. With them screwing up the coding of the KO hunting, literally all you had was Masuda method and I don't mind doing a few of them per game for starters and 'mons you can't hunt any other way, but for every shiny? Nah, not me man.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 19, 2020 4:18:22 GMT -5
Yep. The Looker BS was...well...BS. And I'd be om if we didn't hear from him for a few generations after his shoehorning into Sun and Moon. The anime was top notch production. XYZ was infinitely better than XY, but as a whole, I really thought the series was FINALLY evolving with its audience. But instead they pressed B. ...but Ash won, and Goh is pretty awesome so eh? And the reason Gen V is the favorite of most, in particular the first set of games AGAINST N, it was like playing Red for the first time. New region, New Pokémon, similar formula yet better storytelling and no nasty up glitches like Missingno and crap like gen one misses and the lack of diversity regarding the special attribute. It was essentially a soft reboot of the series, with the the right formula to get kids who've never played before into it, while teens and young adults who grew up with the series being able to have that same thrilling, be all end all choice with the starters again that has only been replicated one more time for the franchise since then, Mystic/Instinct/Valor. Gen five also made for a great last hoorah for many fans who weren't all too tempted to drop a hundred plus on the upcoming 3DS, since MOST Pokémon fans don't even use their Nintendo handheld devices for much more than Pokémon. That is, until the Switch. And Sword/Shield had MASSIVE potential twice. Once, on drop day last year when the immediate fans were going to clamor for it. And a second wave of interest coming in March when the world went on lockdown so people who'd either never understood the hype around Pokémon, or had jumped off the wagon when the OG DS came out, suddenly had a tunna time on their hands and they fumbled horribly. The game is phenomenal, and there's for sure a solid outlook for the future. But for non stalwarts, well, I can see why they're either loved or hated. Granted, it's not like GameFreak had any clue the world was going to shut down for a whole year and everyone would stay inside and play video games. But they could have remarketed SnS similar to how New Horizons changed directions when it came out that "Oh...umm...this is serious, even America and North Korea are...somewhat...acknowledging a problem here." But nope. All we got was some fancy Pikachu in hats like we get every gen, and a DLC that didn't live up to the hype, did NOT warrant the price tag, and that's part of the issue with SnS as a whole. I love it. I really do. But for their first step into the world of 60+ dollar games when the MAX they've ever charged before was half that? The story shouldn't be able to be beaten in four hours. Less if you had the ability to skip cutscenes. It was too fast paced from the moment you beat Milo. I like the energy, but don't go balls to the wall if you're just going to make two and a half hours of the main story (with no real post game) be cinematics and have this vast open wild area just...be there. Nothing special to it, aside from the funny GIFs of being chased by a Machamp or whoever the first feller to discover the Runegrigis evo. That's it. Raids are fun, but they're repetitive and boring after you've caught all of the GMax ones and rebred them for comp. I'm gonna be completely honest, I love all Pokemon games, but.. Sword & Shield didn't do it for me in the extreme sense that I only bought the Switch for Pokemon and Lets Go was boring after one playthrough and having to sit and watch streamers and Youtubers try and wangle content out of it was ing boring. I'm a shiny hunter and I love watching streamers that Shiny hunt, but to watch them stand in one spot for hours was soul destroying to the point that I wouldn't do it myself after 5 minutes. It was easily the worst shiny hunting experience out of all the games. Hell, give me random encounters over that crap. And that's a stretch. My problem with Sword and Shield is pretty similar. No one does random encounter hunts with the 500 KO method, they/streamers all Masuda method. If there's anything more boring than doing a hatching hunt yourself, try watching someone else do it. uh uh. Apart from raids, there really wasn't much added to the usual Pokemon dynamic. It looked pretty on the switch, but it was £50 for a 16 hour game and it didn't differ much from a 3DS game. I know, it's Pokemon and the formula is pretty much the same but I was expecting so much more. The story sucked, Team Yell added nothing for me and Rose was terrible. One thing about a game as a Shiny hunter was it has to have playtime after the games done. With them screwing up the coding of the KO hunting, literally all you had was Masuda method and I don't mind doing a few of them per game for starters and 'mons you can't hunt any other way, but for every shiny? Nah, not me man. I can respect that. I've NEVER been DEEP post-game Pokémon until XY. I'd complete the dex every Gen (until 5 when I couldn't afford a new DS and my spare broke so I couldn't trade with myself anymore like the pathetic weeaboo I am), but I didn't have ANY friends into Pokémon that I could readily talk to and PLAY WITH until XY. Part of my love for XY was the revamped online, making it so EVERYONE could battle and trade now. And with FB really having boomed, and thanks to WF meeting people like Ben - #6 Munchie and Ace Bennett I finally had the chance to deep dive post-game. I'm really big into competitive battling, but I don't go by the standard meta set by either Smogon, or VGC. I play the story totally casually even to this day, I refuse to plan out a team ahead of time. I may have the starter lined up, but beyond that my goal is to catch crapand figure out a comp later. But as I'm playing I'll keep my team, but be on the lookout for some unique new mons I wouldn't necessarily have on an endgame team, but that I see serious potential in. Like, my staple for gen 6 was Goodra. You knew of you were battling me, Goodra would be there. Gen 7 was Togedimaru, because that boi be thicc. Gen 8, it's a bit of a toss up between Coalossal and Orbeetle. Of those four, only Goodra was on an end game team and that's because even before I knew how versitile his move pool would be, I saw a production pic of Goomy and was like "This is it...this is my child" and it only got better, after going through that crappy teenage Sliggoo phase. But I have every new Gen 8 mon noe (at least, the final formes) with some sort of comp build. So I can build around any one mon and have a solid team. And when I think of fun gimmicks, like bait and switching my Obstogoon out from an incoming bug move to Pyukumuku and getting an Innards Out kill? I'll go and build a weaker special Pyukumuku and rebuild Obstogoon as a retaliatory killer. That has been my favorite pass time since XY. I never got into shiny hunting. I mean, I've done it, I thoroughly enjoyed Horde Hunting. But I don't go out of my way for them. If I come across one while EV training or by Masuda, then awesome. But I couldn't hunt regularly. Like, there are some shiny bois I really like, Cofagrigus and Umbreon for example, but I already have them, multiples with different builds. If I hunted for anything this gen it'd likely be Mime Jr. solely because Mr. Rime was a merciless serial killer most of my playthrough since I got him from a surprise trade I did randomly with a second Nickit I'd caught.
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Post by Scott! on Oct 19, 2020 10:20:36 GMT -5
I'm gonna be completely honest, I love all Pokemon games, but.. Sword & Shield didn't do it for me in the extreme sense that I only bought the Switch for Pokemon and Lets Go was boring after one playthrough and having to sit and watch streamers and Youtubers try and wangle content out of it was ing boring. I'm a shiny hunter and I love watching streamers that Shiny hunt, but to watch them stand in one spot for hours was soul destroying to the point that I wouldn't do it myself after 5 minutes. It was easily the worst shiny hunting experience out of all the games. Hell, give me random encounters over that crap. And that's a stretch. My problem with Sword and Shield is pretty similar. No one does random encounter hunts with the 500 KO method, they/streamers all Masuda method. If there's anything more boring than doing a hatching hunt yourself, try watching someone else do it. uh uh. Apart from raids, there really wasn't much added to the usual Pokemon dynamic. It looked pretty on the switch, but it was £50 for a 16 hour game and it didn't differ much from a 3DS game. I know, it's Pokemon and the formula is pretty much the same but I was expecting so much more. The story sucked, Team Yell added nothing for me and Rose was terrible. One thing about a game as a Shiny hunter was it has to have playtime after the games done. With them screwing up the coding of the KO hunting, literally all you had was Masuda method and I don't mind doing a few of them per game for starters and 'mons you can't hunt any other way, but for every shiny? Nah, not me man. I can respect that. I've NEVER been DEEP post-game Pokémon until XY. I'd complete the dex every Gen (until 5 when I couldn't afford a new DS and my spare broke so I couldn't trade with myself anymore like the pathetic weeaboo I am), but I didn't have ANY friends into Pokémon that I could readily talk to and PLAY WITH until XY. Part of my love for XY was the revamped online, making it so EVERYONE could battle and trade now. And with FB really having boomed, and thanks to WF meeting people like Ben - #6 Munchie and Ace Bennett I finally had the chance to deep dive post-game. I'm really big into competitive battling, but I don't go by the standard meta set by either Smogon, or VGC. I play the story totally casually even to this day, I refuse to plan out a team ahead of time. I may have the starter lined up, but beyond that my goal is to catch crap and figure out a comp later. But as I'm playing I'll keep my team, but be on the lookout for some unique new mons I wouldn't necessarily have on an endgame team, but that I see serious potential in. Like, my staple for gen 6 was Goodra. You knew of you were battling me, Goodra would be there. Gen 7 was Togedimaru, because that boi be thicc. Gen 8, it's a bit of a toss up between Coalossal and Orbeetle. Of those four, only Goodra was on an end game team and that's because even before I knew how versitile his move pool would be, I saw a production pic of Goomy and was like "This is it...this is my child" and it only got better, after going through that crappy teenage Sliggoo phase. But I have every new Gen 8 mon noe (at least, the final formes) with some sort of comp build. So I can build around any one mon and have a solid team. And when I think of fun gimmicks, like bait and switching my Obstogoon out from an incoming bug move to Pyukumuku and getting an Innards Out kill? I'll go and build a weaker special Pyukumuku and rebuild Obstogoon as a retaliatory killer. That has been my favorite pass time since XY. I never got into shiny hunting. I mean, I've done it, I thoroughly enjoyed Horde Hunting. But I don't go out of my way for them. If I come across one while EV training or by Masuda, then awesome. But I couldn't hunt regularly. Like, there are some shiny bois I really like, Cofagrigus and Umbreon for example, but I already have them, multiples with different builds. If I hunted for anything this gen it'd likely be Mime Jr. solely because Mr. Rime was a merciless serial killer most of my playthrough since I got him from a surprise trade I did randomly with a second Nickit I'd caught. Shiny hunting is an acquired taste I think. You really are into it or you’re not. There’s no in between for me. It’s always something I’ve done, because I’m going for a Shiny Living Dex. I’ve been at it 4 years and so far I have over 400 ticked off. I go off and on sometimes too though, like I love playing through games for fun with different teams so I go through spells where I just want to replay and then spells when I grind the shiny dex. It’s good to go back and forth and it breaks the monotony that sometimes comes with shiny hunting. I find it quite relaxing, like I loved Sun and Moon and Ultra games because it was such an easy way to hunt with the Harvest/Skill Swap method of SOS’ing. You knew you just seen it through till the shiny appeared and that was it. There was nothing to really think about. Same with hordes and chain fishing. Probably the three easiest methods. I go off and on with Dexnav but don’t dare ask me to Pokeradar as I’m never gonna do it!
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 19, 2020 11:27:58 GMT -5
I can respect that. I've NEVER been DEEP post-game Pokémon until XY. I'd complete the dex every Gen (until 5 when I couldn't afford a new DS and my spare broke so I couldn't trade with myself anymore like the pathetic weeaboo I am), but I didn't have ANY friends into Pokémon that I could readily talk to and PLAY WITH until XY. Part of my love for XY was the revamped online, making it so EVERYONE could battle and trade now. And with FB really having boomed, and thanks to WF meeting people like Ben - #6 Munchie and Ace Bennett I finally had the chance to deep dive post-game. I'm really big into competitive battling, but I don't go by the standard meta set by either Smogon, or VGC. I play the story totally casually even to this day, I refuse to plan out a team ahead of time. I may have the starter lined up, but beyond that my goal is to catch crap and figure out a comp later. But as I'm playing I'll keep my team, but be on the lookout for some unique new mons I wouldn't necessarily have on an endgame team, but that I see serious potential in. Like, my staple for gen 6 was Goodra. You knew of you were battling me, Goodra would be there. Gen 7 was Togedimaru, because that boi be thicc. Gen 8, it's a bit of a toss up between Coalossal and Orbeetle. Of those four, only Goodra was on an end game team and that's because even before I knew how versitile his move pool would be, I saw a production pic of Goomy and was like "This is it...this is my child" and it only got better, after going through that crappy teenage Sliggoo phase. But I have every new Gen 8 mon noe (at least, the final formes) with some sort of comp build. So I can build around any one mon and have a solid team. And when I think of fun gimmicks, like bait and switching my Obstogoon out from an incoming bug move to Pyukumuku and getting an Innards Out kill? I'll go and build a weaker special Pyukumuku and rebuild Obstogoon as a retaliatory killer. That has been my favorite pass time since XY. I never got into shiny hunting. I mean, I've done it, I thoroughly enjoyed Horde Hunting. But I don't go out of my way for them. If I come across one while EV training or by Masuda, then awesome. But I couldn't hunt regularly. Like, there are some shiny bois I really like, Cofagrigus and Umbreon for example, but I already have them, multiples with different builds. If I hunted for anything this gen it'd likely be Mime Jr. solely because Mr. Rime was a merciless serial killer most of my playthrough since I got him from a surprise trade I did randomly with a second Nickit I'd caught. Shiny hunting is an acquired taste I think. You really are into it or you’re not. There’s no in between for me. It’s always something I’ve done, because I’m going for a Shiny Living Dex. I’ve been at it 4 years and so far I have over 400 ticked off. I go off and on sometimes too though, like I love playing through games for fun with different teams so I go through spells where I just want to replay and then spells when I grind the shiny dex. It’s good to go back and forth and it breaks the monotony that sometimes comes with shiny hunting. I find it quite relaxing, like I loved Sun and Moon and Ultra games because it was such an easy way to hunt with the Harvest/Skill Swap method of SOS’ing. You knew you just seen it through till the shiny appeared and that was it. There was nothing to really think about. Same with hordes and chain fishing. Probably the three easiest methods. I go off and on with Dexnav but don’t dare ask me to Pokeradar as I’m never gonna do it! Now I really want to see if I can make it through a game with a team of non-attackers. Pyukumuku, Wobbuffet, then stuff using screens/bounce back moves only like Lapras, Meowstic, Liepard, Sudowoodo etc. I know, I'm a madman.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 19, 2020 23:49:40 GMT -5
Got two shinies today in the span of like 30 minutes.
My 3rd shiny Vulpix on the way to Marie Callender's (banana cream pie ftw) and my 2nd shiny Houndour on the way home.
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Post by Scott! on Oct 22, 2020 22:21:36 GMT -5
4 in the morning here, but I’m currently watching Gameboy Luke on YouTube playing the Crown Tundra. No spoilers, it looks fantastic. I hope you guys that play it have a great time!
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Post by King Silva on Oct 23, 2020 0:15:45 GMT -5
One day I'll get to the DLC. Dropped that game a while ago lol. Never finished but was close.
I got a shiny Gastly from a field research task. Random and not entirely needed since I have a lot but better than nothing.
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Post by Ben - #6 Munchie on Oct 24, 2020 14:17:41 GMT -5
Caught a shiny Duskull and Alolan Rattata this morning which was nice. Opened 4 packs of Champion's Path and managed to pack the rarest card in the set: Worth about £450-550 raw, but gonna get it graded. A PSA 10 is ~$2200, so here's hoping lol.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 24, 2020 14:57:39 GMT -5
^ Nice card and congrats on the shinies.
I also caught a shiny this morning: my second shiny Misdreavus.
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 24, 2020 15:52:24 GMT -5
Caught a shiny Duskull and Alolan Rattata this morning which was nice. Opened 4 packs of Champion's Path and managed to pack the rarest card in the set: Worth about £450-550 raw, but gonna get it graded. A PSA 10 is ~$2200, so here's hoping lol. Benjamin...Imma change yo last name to Dickson.
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Post by Scott! on Oct 24, 2020 17:20:08 GMT -5
Caught a shiny Duskull and Alolan Rattata this morning which was nice. Opened 4 packs of Champion's Path and managed to pack the rarest card in the set: Worth about £450-550 raw, but gonna get it graded. A PSA 10 is ~$2200, so here's hoping lol. Definitely worth taking the chance on a PSA grade, this card will skyrocket in price when graded once this sets out of print. What is going on right now though? Everyone I watch on Youtube that plays Pokemon is getting into the TCG now. I think Logan Pauls box break of the base set has put the popularity through the roof.
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Post by Ben - #6 Munchie on Oct 24, 2020 18:13:02 GMT -5
Caught a shiny Duskull and Alolan Rattata this morning which was nice. Opened 4 packs of Champion's Path and managed to pack the rarest card in the set: Worth about £450-550 raw, but gonna get it graded. A PSA 10 is ~$2200, so here's hoping lol. Definitely worth taking the chance on a PSA grade, this card will skyrocket in price when graded once this sets out of print. What is going on right now though? Everyone I watch on Youtube that plays Pokemon is getting into the TCG now. I think Logan Pauls box break of the base set has put the popularity through the roof. Oh 100% getting it graded! Gonna do it through GradedGem, £45 for their express+ service which is the quickest turnaround time of around 1 month from me sending to them, them sending to PSA, PSA to them and them to me. Yeah Logan Paul definitely had a massive affect on the TCG world. A lot of PokeTubers that I watch, Randolph Pokemon being the most frequently watched, are saying the same. I think it's partly a nostalgia thing, but also something to do while the world goes to crap lol.
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Post by LK3 on Oct 25, 2020 2:56:31 GMT -5
Trying to keep up with the new stuff this week. Completed both sets of research for Mega Gengar energy and Galarian Yamask. Got a couple Galarian Ponyta in raids, evolved a couple Sirfetch’d. Got the costume Gengar and Sableye. I guess there’s some other costumed mons in raids? I saw a picture of a costume Squirtle. And finally for shinies got a Bellsprout and a 2nd Wurmple this week.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 25, 2020 5:04:04 GMT -5
^ Nice.
I'm still on the hunt for shiny Bellsprout.
I'm almost done with the research tasks as well.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 26, 2020 3:47:09 GMT -5
I sadly didn't complete all of the Drifloon special research (got like 6/10 if that) but I did manage to find a shiny Drifloon in my house so that is awesome.
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Post by LK3 on Oct 26, 2020 3:51:58 GMT -5
I finished the research but no shiny sightings from that or anything at all since the Halloween spawns began on Friday.
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Post by King Silva on Oct 26, 2020 19:44:59 GMT -5
^ That sucks. You'll get one soon. Shinies are actually pretty common if you play enough. I mean I get like 1-2 a week it seems. I don't want to jinx it but lately that is my reality.
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Post by Scott! on Oct 27, 2020 11:48:24 GMT -5
Finally caught Raikou in Pokemon Gold after an absurd amount of time hunting for it. Master ball for the win!
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