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The noobs have heard the call to "beta test" and will be swarming your thread for an early release now. Might want to just post a patch instead of PMing 100 kids individually as they spam up the threa...

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Deokishisu

This advice backfired spectacularly for me. I have to hold out until Thursday to play but it's riiiiiiight theeeeeerrrrreeee. I feel like that Spongebob meme about needing water.

June 24, 2017
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Rangi

Have you tried any of the post-2.2.0 revisions yet?

June 24, 2017
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Deokishisu

I have not touched the game since my playthrough that I posted about. Not because of lack of interest but moreso lack of time. I'm in finals mode right now, so I'm focused fully on college, but damn am I hyped.

I promise that I'll comb through the beta Thursday afternoon when everything is settled an...

June 24, 2017
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Chaos Rush

Use Gameyob DSi CIA version, it's a much better emulator than the VC one. I'm playing JP Crystal right now and it's hella lit

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I am not getting the discussion I had hoped for on reddit, just a ton of silent downvotes from what I presume are mindless superfanboys. But I really want to talk about the direction Pokemon is going ...

I am not getting the discussion I had hoped for on reddit, just a ton of silent downvotes from what I presume are mindless superfanboys. But I really want to talk about the direction Pokemon is going in. I'm going to copy+paste a long ass post I made over on the Pokemon subreddit to here in the hopes of generating some back and forth. Would love if someone could play devil's advocate and argue the other side, too.

"Reducing the problems many of us have the the direction Pokemon has gone in to a "kid throwing a tantrum" is incredibly dismissive and disingenuous to the real issues with the franchise. I don't even care about Pokemon on the Switch. What I care about is getting an enjoyable game, which, in my opinion, we have not gotten.

I can only speak for myself, but I will not be buying US or UM. Game Freak has been pulling away from what I found fun and engaging about the Pokemon games for quite a while now. They've limited exploration and put us on rails. They no longer give us room to discover things about the region or areas on our own. They treat the players like we will put the game down at the slightest sign of getting lost or frustrated, so they never allow us to put ourselves in that situation. The tutorials are suffocating and do not need to be as detailed as they are for even a first time player. The storylines since post Gen-4 have both been much too same-y, even when they specifically try to be different (which I could look past, ordinarily), while also amplifying what I find to be the worst and least enjoyable story tropes Pokemon has to offer. The new things they've introduced to the stories as the Gens progressed they have done in what I feel is the worst possible way. Characters, like areas, are not people we get to discover but roadblocks forced on you with little nuance in their characters that forcibly digest every little bit of story for you so that you don't have to think at all. The singleplayer campaign has no illusion of difficulty (even with the Exp. Share turned off) and is basically forcing yourself through countless mandatory Trainer battles to get to the unrewarding end. There is no postgame to speak of, and Game Freak seems to be the king of creating flyover content that you never need to return to. Postgame is limited to less than 4 hours, or is basically a series of fetch quests with some battles (Looker in XY, Delta Episode, etc.), or a Battle Tower clone that they have literally copy+pasted rosters from the Battle Subway. They seem to have no interest in bringing meaningful, long-lasting content to the playerbase again. Even random NPC dialogue seems to give less background exposition (that is to say, separate from what the story already tells you in mandatory events) than it did in the past, making the region feel more like a theme park that exists solely to push the game's narrative than a place people have lived for ages. Hell, they stopped writing new Pokedex entries for old Pokemon generations ago; now they're only writing entries for those who made it into the Alola Pokedex (which will inevitably be reused again).

Those are but a few of the numerous problems I have with the most recent games. Gen 4 was the start of the slip but was still good, but Gen 5 in my opinion slid very far down in quality and the franchise has never recovered. Lazy writing, lazy worldbuilding, frustrating and limited content, and a painfully on the rails experience is what Pokemon is now. I wish Junichi Masuda would step down and either Satoshi Tajiri come back on as game director, or someone else who more closely aligns with Tajiri's vision. Everytime I read a Masuda interview, I find myself shaking my head at the terrible direction he wants to take the franchise in.

I can't take another game like Sun and Moon, Black and White, or X and Y. And I will certainly not reward Game Freak with my money for a product that I, with a heavy heart, no longer enjoy. My goodwill that they have built up since the beginning has run out.

Gamers need a way to hold game developers accountable to our feedback without tanking the franchises we love by voting with our wallets. I grew up with Pokemon and don't want to see it die out, but Game Freak is clearly not listening to feedback and I have no other recourse but to not buy. It's a sucky position to be in as a consumer who loves the franchise but just can't justify buying garbage anymore."

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Chaos Rush

(Posting all the way down here because I can't directly reply) send me a PM listing in bullet points what you don't like about the newer games and I'll do the same. Idk when I'll actually write the letter though (cause I got other real life priorities right now) but it's definitely something I want ...

June 16, 2017
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Deokishisu

Same. I'm going to be super busy for at least the next two weeks. After that, who knows when life will let up. Will think about it for a bit and shoot you a PM sometime soon.

June 16, 2017
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Chaos Rush

Also I have to guiltily admit that when ORAS first came out I really really reallly loved it. But after a second play through then I noticed its flaws and "Game Freakisms". But what really helped it though was that it featured an "old-style" not-so-linear region and despite their attempts to make it...

June 16, 2017
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Deokishisu

Alola pretty much is a straight line. I was actually upset about the auto-teleporting in ORAS, as well as them handing you a [email protected] I agree with you about ORAS being saved by Hoenn being a well designed region. I don't think that today's team could pull off something that branches and loops back in...

June 16, 2017
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Deokishisu

Love the people online dismissing all the issues people have with Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon, with a variant of "shut up genwunners, spoiled brats, be grateful we're getting games at all!"

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Ray Maverick

I've been complaining since gen 5, nothing feels authentic after Sinnoh

June 13, 2017
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LCCoolJ95

I've grown up with these games, and I agree with you. But Game Freak tends to make...odd choices.

June 13, 2017
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Deokishisu

Game Freak announced Pokemon Ultra Tutorial and Ultra Easy at the tail end of the Direct dedicated to a fighting game no one cares about for a console no one has. Hooray...

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Chaos Rush

I'm pretty sure the Mobile System GB is the sole reason why they excluded it, and as a result they're not releasing Crystal in any region either. It makes sense, because here in Japanese Crystal you have NPC's talking about all these cool features that you'll never get to use, such as a beta GTS and...

June 6, 2017
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Deokishisu

I'd actually be really interested in some of the things these throwaway NPCs say. I know that the PokeCom Center was mentioned in a line about how Unown behave in the Ruins of Alph. I'm intrigued by the possibility of US/International players missing story elements from Crystal because of the Mobile...

June 7, 2017
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Chaos Rush

I've never played JP Crystal, I just know that JP Crystal had a proto-GTS and Battle Spot in the PCC building (according to Bulbapedia's article on JP Crystal's mobile phone service). But I'll try to check some time cause I'm interested in it too

June 7, 2017
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Ray Maverick

Top 10 Anime Betrayals

June 6, 2017
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Deokishisu

Pokemon Direct tomorrow. Hopefully it's not for something stupid like Pokken Tournament Switch port or Ultra Super Duper Mystery Dungeon. I don't know what I'm hoping for. I don't much care for Sinnoh...

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El Diabeetus

Ultra Super Sun/Moon

June 6, 2017
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Nex

pokken tournament switch port happened lmfao

June 7, 2017
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Deokishisu posted a comment on ShinyDragonHunter's song "Pokémon Liquid Crystal - Battle! Vs. Developers LaZ and Zeikku (Redone)

I really like it. The French horn didn't stick out to me, I think it's fine.

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Deokishisu

So I will probably go inactive again sometime this week (for at least two months), but I wanted to make sure that everyone knows about a discussion regarding a change to the ASM Resource Thread that w...

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Rangi

Thank you for tackling that. You were much more diplomatic than I would've been.

Rangi

Compared to /vp/'s current back-and-forth about ROM hacks versus Essentials, that post was a civilized debate. (I'm not participating in that one, just observing until it goes back to showing off map and music progress.)

May 22, 2017
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Deokishisu

Can someone back me up here with this idiot? I want him to know how wrong he is but I'm too tired and frustrated to say it in a way that is not horrible and unnecessarily combative. https://www.pokeco...

ShinyDragonHunter

What's the point they was trying to make? Because surely, if the GBA games can handle multiple regions, then the GBA itself can handle them? If it's GBA games in general, then Mystery Dungeon has multiple languages. It's all done within the games themselves. All the GBA itself really is code that al...

May 26, 2017
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Deokishisu

I mean, the GBA does have its own ROM filled with stuff, like the Gameboy intro sequence, some of the SWI Functions, the multiboot function, etc. There's nothing of that would interfere with a multiregion hack. I'm pretty sure that games rely on the SWI for some of their stuff. Like, I think decompr...

May 26, 2017
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ShinyDragonHunter

I read through everything they said. You could easily fit 3 normal sized regions without resizing the ROM

May 26, 2017
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Deokishisu

Got my 4.0 this semester. Doing a summer Calc I class that starts Monday to get a bit ahead of the game and sync up my math classes with some friends'.
I kiiiiiinda want to hack in the interim, but I'm...

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daniilS

Game jam? Make a mini-hack in 96 hours? Also congrats on the 4.0!

May 17, 2017
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Mystery

AP/normal? Doing CIE A level maths and trying to see how to compares to the US system.

May 22, 2017
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Deokishisu

I'm in college, so normal? Is AP in your university system? What country are you in?

May 22, 2017
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BluRose

i took calc for college credit; AP is basically college-level offered at high school here in united states. if i'm to give one piece of advice it's that everything is far less complicated than it looks

May 24, 2017
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Deokishisu

It sucks that my high school was such garbage. I could've banked so many cheap college credits had they only been offered...

May 24, 2017
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Mystery

My Uni'll be in the UK. CIE A Levels are harder than AP Maths, but there's something that goes beyond that called Further Maths. Good times.

May 25, 2017
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Deokishisu

My degree requires me to be in the hardest level math classes my college has to offer. If I were in a useless major that makes no money, like Art or Basket Weaving or Homelessness, I would be in much easier math courses. So... Yes maybe? I have my textbook in PDF form if you wanna compare the materi...

May 26, 2017
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Deokishisu

Just as an fyi, I am indeed going to take a long and possibly indefinite hiatus from ROMHacking. I've got a ton of things to do to finish out this semester with my A's, am doing extra stuff in the sum...