/v/ - Video Games

They would be dumb not to remake distortion world. Especially since there are assets in sun/moon that could be recycled just for that.

That said, fen4 had the worst rng in the entire franchise. And they might not even do a remake.

>>15774629

let’s go is gen 1 with pokémon go mechanics instead of actual wild battles

>I played Let's Go and its a ton of fun

Have you considered not sucking cock?

I'm not playing your garbage cash-in, Nintendo intern

>>15774629

Normal Pokemon is a JRPG. Let's Go is a mobile game based on Pokemon Go.

>>15774389

>But platinum will forever be the pokemon game that had the most emotional impact on me as a kid, and still now as an adult

Same here. The lineup for that game was incredible. Infernape, Luxray, rampardos, garchomp, even fucking bibarrel was a tank. Not to mention its probably the best cover out of all the games imo.

>>15774632

>Go instead of wild battles

How does that work when there are trainer and gym battles and presumably levels? Do you just spam catch pokemon to get experience?

>>15774389

>being young enough that Platinum was the new version when you were a kid

>not being in elementary school when red and blue first got released

I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

>>15775207

Go has battles, though they are even more primitive than in LGPE. Battles in LGPE are similar to normal Pokemon games, but there are no abilities, no held items, and it's missing many moves from earlier games. Pokemon catching is just copied straight from Go.

>>15775291

I mean when I was a little kid I played Yellow on a GBP and Gold on a GBC and neither of them left as big of an impression as Platinum did on the DS. Skipped the GBA games though. I still think they're kinda shit too.

>>15775676

someone who was 13 in 2009 would be finished college by now, gramps

>>15775690

They'd still be forever underage. Also I didn't consider myself a "kid" at 13, I considered myself a teen. You know, thirTEEN.

>>15775736

I was 13 and now I'm 22. Never been to college and I dont think I'm going anywhere in life soon.

>>15775775

The 20's aren't about going places in life, they're about getting laid and partying and realizing how terrible the world is, or if you're smart building up skills that will then let you go places in your mid-late-20's/30's.

>>15775736

>20

lol kid, when its time go back to college, let me tell you, even the most worthless degree is bliss compared to a dead end job, take it from someone that was iin your shoes 15 years ago

>>15774389

god I hope the Switch pokemon game is a new game and not another shit remake

>>15774389

It's alright, if anything I'd argue that it's basically an HD Pokemon Yellow with a weird catching mechanic rather than proper battles. I'd argue it's overpriced by 20 dollars and that the online has been done poorly, but I'd recommend it if wasn't 60 dollars.

>>15776209

Because you don't get a shitty degree in liberal arts you colossal faggot, you get a good degree in mechanical or electrical engineering.

>>15776241

>he doesn't know what ids are

It's time to go back.

>>15774389

Platinum is the worst game purely because it gave us Bullet Punch Scizor.

>>15776523

> 30 years old

> Have a degree and a job

> Make 6 figures

> Can go on chans at work

> Get free snacks at work

> Never have to worry about anything, no debt.

> Forever alone /v/irgin

At least I don't jack off to animated pedophilia / bestiality..

>>15776523

not a fair comparison, women are terrible

>>15776543

But as long as they're only still images like the guy above you posted then its okay right? :^)

>>15776523

>sister works in bars and ice cream parlors

>brother repairs PCs from home and makes six times what she does

Typical pay for a cocktail waitress is $2.13/hr. If you make six times that, it's $12.78/hr. That's $26,582.4 per year before tax, assuming no holidays and steady customers. She's a woman and has an excuse, you're just a deadbeat.

>>15776648

I am the same. I walk to work and it is beautiful =)

>>15776648

>She's also a feminist, so she has no excuses.

Women are always excused from working because their purpose in life is childbearing. See how long she cares about trying to work after she gets pregnant and has a child. The only thing she doesn't have an excuse for is her boyfriend not being her "husband" because the clock is ticking.

>>15776648

How much do business cards cost, Anon?

>>15776720

$10 is basically bare minimum for being able to exist in most US states. That's what I make with 40 hours a week and I just barely manage to get by.

>>15776720

It very much depends on where you live. For most slavic regions, that's damn good. For bongland, that's minimum wage. For America, it depends on the state but I think most liberal states are targeting $15 an hour nowadays, so unless you live in middle America, that's probably close to minimum.

>>15776734

I didn't make official ones, I just whipped up a design in Microsoft Publisher and printed it on thick paper.

>>15775195

The music was easily the best in the series tbh. Pokemon music is usually well composed, but platinum's soundtrack has a melodic complexity that few games manage to have. Harmonically, with the exception of the champion theme, it's pretty average.

>>15776648

>feminist

Why do dumb women always pick biology in university? My sister did the same thing, her husband is also that, the only real job they got is for the government, if you can call being paid from extortion a real job, so they're also massive socialists.

>>15776747

>I didn't make official ones, I just whipped up a design in Microsoft Publisher and printed it on thick paper.

You're pretty resourceful, that a better sign of intelligence than any school grade. I'm constantly telling people to go and learn by themselves but they always reply "but I need classes to learn". You can smell the massive fear of not being held by the hand even though there's no danger in trying.

>>15776940

>Why do dumb women always pick biology in university?

Probably because out of the sciences, it's the most theoretical and the least analytical, if that makes sense. Not as much in terms of math and calculations as in Physics or Chemistry.

>>15776967

>You're pretty resourceful, that a better sign of intelligence than any school grade. I'm constantly telling people to go and learn by themselves but they always reply "but I need classes to learn". You can smell the massive fear of not being held by the hand even though there's no danger in trying.

I was quite lucky. In fifth to eighth grade, I had a cool math teacher who basically told me all about how useless the school system was. I attended an after school advanced math lesson with her. There was a lot of stuff from two to three grades later that she'd explain, like trig and geometry, but there was a lot of Professor Layton-type logic puzzles. It was a lot of fun. Point is, though, hearing from someone in the school system about how useless it is helped me understand that I should work harder to learn on my own.

It's also a cliche to say, but the majority of school subjects are completely useless in practice.

It just comes down to the fact that most people are too stupid to do a Google search or two. I'm not that smart, I don't think, I just know how to look shit up if I don't know something. You start picking up on stuff after a while. It's how I learned programming as well, despite nearly-failing it when it was a class in school.

>>15775944

Meltan and mel metal are from the new switch game that comes out next year.

I will say however that let's go is the harvest moon of pokemon games.

Simple and comfy.

The 151 master battles in the post game are fucking fun though

>>15776523

You ever considered going into a trade like plumbing or an electrician?

they pay really well and you learn lifelong skills

>>15774629

Its just a pokemon game with even more hand holding and any sort of difficulty completely removed so that even a drooling retard can beat the game.

>>15775736

i'm also 20 but i have straight As in college and getting a not-worthless degree

I'm at 6th gym in Let's Go. It kinda works as a proof of concept and it kinda doesn't. You can forget about Nuzlock because your main source of early XP is from catching wild Pokémon. But let's focus on the positives.

Since Pokémon appear on the overworld at least spawning in tall grass you can snipe Pokémon you want. You can also avoid those fucking Zubat in the caves. Random encounters can go fuck themselves. The catching mechanic itself, aside from not teaching you how to throw Pokéballs to the side because motion control sucks, feels good to have skill reward success. Normal trainers seem to be under level but Gym Leaders provide a challenge. The level balance of Gyms is great. I've been slaying trainers for money mostly to keep myself from revisiting the Pokémon center every battle and never really had to grind levels in the wild. Secret Techs replace HMs, which means HMs are TMs now. And since 5th gen TMs are DRM free.

Now for the bad. Battles are turn based classic Pokémon. However no abilities, no held items, and no weather effects really does dumb down the complexity to type match ups. The other vice is you're dealing with Kanto's 151. This means Psychic type is god because all but one Grass type is Poison, Dark type Pokémon don't exist aside from in game trading Alolan, and fairies are worthless because Dragonite is the only dragon type that exists with only one steel type threat, which is Magneton without Levitate, and did I mention almost every Grass Type is a Poison type? There's no option to turn Exp. Share off. And the worst is lack of wild battles to test your strategy. And since wild battles are dumbed down to throwing Pokéballs you lose that tension. You can battle legendary Pokémon but have 5 minutes to KO. Then it's the Go catching game where they can flee any time.

At least since it's Gen 1 there's to mandatory hand holding plot. I will never play Sun and Moon because I don't give a shit about competitive battling. I've also had my fill of Kingdom Hearts tier 3deep5u exposition dump plots in Pokémon that force you to follow cutscenes instead of figuring out what to do on your own. Let's Go is simple plot and simplified mechanics. I'm having more fun managing my healing items than catching Pokémon. But the resource management will end at the championship and it's grind for max CP Pokémon for online battles.

>the future sinnoh remake has really low chances of becoming what people actually want from it

Anon, you ate up Let's Go, a game nobody wanted, don't pretend you actually have standards

>>15779479

Reminder that there are people that unironically believe buying shit games will lead to better games being made in the future.

>>15779416

that's a good one too

taking mundane in-game dialogue and fitting a hentai scenario around it is my fetish

>>15779483

I will never understand this mindset. There is no logic to it. If something you shit sells really well they will keep going in that shitty direction because clearly it rakes in the money. There's no reason why they would abandon it.

>>15774629

Let's Go is what Pokémon Go would have been if niantic wasn't trying to just make a filthy cash grab, with a rehash of the first games tacked on to it.

It is probably the most shameful thing Gamefreak has ever produced.

1st gen was a fantastic concept, 2nd gen was that fantastic concept fully realized. Everything afterwards has been complete unabashed garbage.

>>15784997

Is this the new Hex Maniac?

>>15785018

dunno, does she sell milk?

or maybe hex maniac has sensitivized people to female ghost trainers.

>>15784892

>the girls are cute

Good video games are more important than your boner moron.

>>15785072

>Good video games are more important than your boner moron.

he was just finding a silver lining in this trash.

>>15785081

Fair enough, but I strongly feel like we have plenty of fappable porn and not nearly enough good new games.

>>15785118

>Fair enough, but I strongly feel like we have plenty of fappable porn and not nearly enough good new games.

Clearly we have to take matters into our own hands.

>>15785018

Channelers were the old school Hex Maniac. I'd love to see them together someday.

>>15785072

Having both good game and cute girls is the gold standard. If a game can't have both them into the western triple A SJW propaganda shit heap it goes.

>>15785226

As an /agdg/fag I agree.

>>15785268

I miss the old days when every good game had cute girls.

>>15785333

(checked) I forgot about this.

>>15785333

channelers are older actually

>>15785268

>>15785333

>>15785018

>>15784997

Can we all agree that Ghost Type trainer girls are the best trainer girls?

I beat the game in 32 hours. So I guess I hunt perfect IV Pokémon to take on master trainers?

>>15779483

>>15782944

The mindset is a definite catch 22 that leads to nothing that prior fans, the ones with some amount of standards anyhow, are apt to want. And should it turn out good in its own right for what it is (I haven't played Pokemon since B2W2, so I can't speak on Let's Go from personal experience), chances are it's still not what prior fans would like from it, as they're not exactly the intended audience. Similar thing with genre shifts (the sort without them being clearly intended as spin-off) or the trend towards mobile reboots. And be it fortunate or unfortunate, a flop doesn't necessarily result in trying to return things to how they used to be, when shitcanning can be less of a risk.

>>15787539

Probably knowing they've at least got to have some appeal to keeping prior, older male fans tangentially interested. And for protagonists, I'd hope they're aware that not that many people, regardless of the player's sex, especially wants to play as some ugly/realistic 3DPD when their character could look look idealistically cool or cute. Could also be the factor that enticing people to draw lewds and porn can act as free marketing, if not for the individual game than the series on the whole, with a long shelf life. Even if the western branches would rather they not (considering how they once tried to hit paheal over it; I still find it hilarious all that resulted in was retagging "pokemon" to "porkyman" and redirecting searches instead of removing content)

Okay, one question. Stealth Rock is the only switch trap move that exists. No Spikes or Poison Spikes. And yet there is no Rapid Spin. WHY?

Anyone know where to find Japanese Pokemon roms?

I find yuropoor and clapper versions but never the originals.

>>15793566

Try the share thread?

>>15775795

Anon I just wanted to say thank you.

You made me feel really good about myself, and this was a problem i've been having for 6+ years.

>>15792882

Out of all the changes, the move changes have been the most nonsensical. Delete some moves because they weren't in Gen 1, but don't delete others even though they also weren't in Gen 1. Actually that's pretty much what they've done regarding all features of this game. They can't decide if they want to be 'faithful' or not

>>15794694

>>15793566

Fuck it, I got lucky by searching the cuckchan archives.

Obligatory "found the solution, can close thread kthx" post.

It's on edgeemu.net

>>15795509

I miss that guy. Erika is cute, it only makes sense for him to admire the gym when it's full of girls like her.

Was Green always into BDSM? I keep imagining her in a mistress leather thong now. Had to see it for myself first.

>>15776523

>Straight A's

>Biochem

Yet she's dumb to not apply for a med school scholarship with her great academic record

>>15776523

Just fuck and marry your sister then.

>>15776543

>chans

>>15775944

The Switch game is a new mainline and will be the first game with none of the old guard left now that Matsuda is leaving or whatever. Since it's the XY team, I'm expecting nothing.

>>15813628

Firstly, you don't really know who's on the staff (it's safe to say Ohmori will be directing though). If I had to guess, Sugimori will design a few Pokemon, Nishida will probably show up, Morimoto will almost certainly be on battle programming, Kōji Nishino (AKA Snorlax) will probably show up since he always does (if you've noticed the maps going to shit, it's because he moved from mapping to battle stuff when they made the jump to 3D in Gen 6), and I'm sure there's a couple other Gen 1 staff members returning (even though they're probably outnumbered by newcomers given how small the Gen 1 team was, newcomers are probably from Gen 3 or 5's era given what little I know about Game Freak's recruiting). Secondly, while I don't have great confidence in the team, I have more confidence in them than I do with whatever the fuck Masuda is doing. Masuda had a vision for Gen 3 and 4, but after the normalfags hated Gen 5 he began a downward spiral of casual and Kanto pandering that did not end well. Ohmori on the other hand showed some improvement from ORAS to SM, even if it was only a very small bit. If he keeps it up they'll probably make a decent game in Gen 10, but I would remain cautious of Gen 8 instead of going in with bad expectations.

>>15774629

Remove random battles and replace them with playing the Pokemon GO "flick ball at moving pokemon" minigame, except you have to play it over and over and over to grind XP. Trainer battles are still there and there are some neat new additions to the game, but everything else is objectively worse.

Pokemon Let's go is garbage.

Do not let ANY shill tell you otherwise

It's just Gen I except easier and outsourced to potato models.

>>15814001

I think Game Freak is less lazy and more incompetent. Would a lazy company make really high-poly 3D models that the system they're developing them for can't handle, or walk cycles for every Pokemon that don't get used? There's a lot of things that it's clear they put effort into, it's just that they're incompetent so it doesn't look particularly great. It's polish with some splotches, they tried but they don't really know what they're doing. It's always been this way, it's just usually it's harder to notice. Gen 1 took years to develop and the code is a mess, Gen 2 had to be completely rebuilt (which aside from possibly Z version, no Pokemon game has been outright canceled), RS had fucking awful overworld sprites and FRLG were too restrictive about non-Gen 1 Pokemon, Gen 4 is such a mess of code that it takes forever to do anything, and Gen 5 is the outlier being surprisingly competent and I'm not sure quite how.

>Map

I personally blame the decline of map design on the jump to 3D and away from the tile design for a few reasons. Firstly, Gen 5, despite the linear design of the main game (and to some extent post-game) allowed a few optional places of exploration. Mostly with Surf, but still, that's better than whatever Gen 6 and 7 have to offer since I struggle to think of much that isn't a single room basically. Secondly, did you notice that when they went back to a sort of tiled style for Rainbow Rocket, they actually had something resembling puzzles? It's clear to me Game Freak has a hard time with 3D.

>Music

Honestly, SM had better music than XY if only because I remember more of it. Vast Poni Canyon is particularly good for me. What does XY have, that snow town that sounds kinda shit? You (or me maybe) should really check the staff of the different game, maybe see who's really working on them, because I can guarantee you the music staff is pretty similar since about Gen 4 or 5 (although what really depends is who composed what, as different musicians compose different songs).

>NPC designs

I honestly can't really tell if they've gotten worse or they're just different, I will say they have less edge and cool factor since around Gen 4, but more of them end up kinda on the cute side of the design scale.

>Story

I could go on about why the story in most Pokemon games is shit, but the reason Gen 5 has the best story is because it focuses on things that happen in the actual game and to an extent the whole franchise. Of the other games, the only other ones where the story isn't just a tacked on beat the bad guys plot is maybe Gen 1 and kind of Gen 7 (particularly how the Aether plot effects fucking Hau of all people in USUM). If they want to make another good story, it should once again focus on the relationship between Pokemon and humans, but this time make it a bit more intimate, show people and Pokemon working together. They've got walking animations for every Pokemon, make different quests that are sort of a spotlight episode for a Pokemon. You've got over 800 interesting monsters and almost none of them are relevant to the plot.

>Game Freaks feature retardation

Given that Ohmori brought back trainer customization (and a really shitty version of Join Avenue but we don't talk about that) and was in charge of a game where they added a bunch of walk cycles, it seems he might have a different attitude towards this sort of thing, being more willing to bring back fan favorite elements. Of course we don't actually know this, which is why I'm waiting for Gen 8 before I can really call out a pattern here.

>New employees

Honestly the best possible thing that could happen is that the new employees are competent. Given that Hitoshi Arigara and James Turner have given us some interesting Pokemon designs and that they're pretty new, maybe that's the only real evidence I have for this belief. In the end, it doesn't really matter because as a company no matter how good everything is Game Freak will find a way to fuck something up. I've said this before, but Pokemon needs a Sonic Mania, a new 2D game made by fans with the resources provided by The Pokemon Company. The problem is twofold, however. On one hand TPC hasn't really let anybody do something like that since Genious Sonority and the Game Cube games (and Battle Revolution I guess), possibly because they're really protective of Game Freak (they don't want somebody to do a better job and make them look bad). The other is that Pokemon fans are also incompetent. Off the top of my head only the Pokemon Sage project looked to be pretty alright without a Game Freak-like retarded Achilles heel. I'm sure if you told me a Pokemon fangame you like, somebody will complain about something, a feature, the creators, some SJW shit (possibly related to the former two), or anything really. Maybe Pokemon is an incompetence magnet, who really knows.

>>15815899

Maybe Game Freak can hopefully get new competent staff or contract help from other Nintendo owned resources like Monolith or Mario Odyssey teams. Maybe hire some former Square Enix staff who know how databases work as well. Pokémon puzzles can work in 3D if you approach the formula from another perspective.

The first thing that has to die is the fixed camera. For a Diamond and Pearl remake I'd argue that the best way to explore Sinnoh is to explore it via the trainer's perspective rather than a bird's eye view. Yes you can still have that bird's eye view as an option by clicking the right stick anytime. And with a proper rendering engine this can be easy to do.

Let's Go doesn't seem like an upgrade using Pokémon's established systems. Let's Go seems like an experiment to change the numbers in the battle formula by overhauling the EV system with Go's candies. If this is the case and Let's Go is a main line entry to the core series, not a spin off, then Game Freak doesn't care about making a fully roamable 3D world for next generation because their priority is rewriting all the databases and math again to balance 900+ Pokémon with Base Stats + Flawless IVs + 200.

>>15816145

>Maybe Game Freak can hopefully get new competent staff or contract help from other Nintendo owned resources like Monolith or Mario Odyssey teams. Maybe hire some former Square Enix staff who know how databases work as well. Pokémon puzzles can work in 3D if you approach the formula from another perspective.

HAL handled Pokemon pretty alright, but then again HAL is the opposite in that they're super competent. The only recent game I can think of that wasn't incredibly competent has been Star Allies which was super rushed. Almost any main Nintendo studio would handle Pokemon better though, they're all at least competent.

>The first thing that has to die is the fixed camera. For a Diamond and Pearl remake I'd argue that the best way to explore Sinnoh is to explore it via the trainer's perspective rather than a bird's eye view. Yes you can still have that bird's eye view as an option by clicking the right stick anytime. And with a proper rendering engine this can be easy to do.

I'm not sure that's a good idea, Game Freak is so bad that a non-fixed camera will probably cause them major problems. I've never minded fixed cameras in general, why would you have to adjust your camera to show what you want if the developer could just show you what they need to.

>Let's Go doesn't seem like an upgrade using Pokémon's established systems. Let's Go seems like an experiment to change the numbers in the battle formula by overhauling the EV system with Go's candies. If this is the case and Let's Go is a main line entry to the core series, not a spin off, then Game Freak doesn't care about making a fully roamable 3D world for next generation because their priority is rewriting all the databases and math again to balance 900+ Pokémon with Base Stats + Flawless IVs + 200.

It's pretty clear that Let's Go is not what Gen 8 will be, given what little they've said about Gen 8. I fucking hated the stat EXP system from Gen 1 and 2, and Let's Go pretty much brought it back the absolute madmen. IV's have become so easy to breed for and EV's so easy to gain that anyone complaining about them clearly has no idea what they're fucking talking about, and this is coming from somebody who has no idea what competitive Pokemon battling even is.

>>15816184

The follow camera is for more general freedom with the direction you can go and more freedom with different perspectives on how players approach terrain. It can be automatic and follow you like Zelda with pressing a center camera button. Or it can be manually controlled with right stick. You can also set the camera to a bird's eye view like the classic games and the layer of geometry will render accordingly. However a bird's eye view is far away which can cause players to miss details like hidden items or rare Pokémon hiding.

One thing I felt Let's Go did right was end step-based random encounters. Due to the nature of needing to catch hundreds of Pokémon the Pokémon roaming the world can't have complicated behavior. In a main line game you have breeding and wild battles. Therefore wild Pokémon can have a wider set of behavior archtypes to borrow from when they spawn in the wild. These different perspectives in the camera will make it necessary to track Pokémon. And before you ask, no engaging another Pokémon will not cause the one you're hunting to despawn. There will also be more tools available to bait Pokémon you want to capture. I thought about adding Pokémon food back in stat EXP days. Food as bait would be an example. I digress.

Changing the camera system means changing the formula on how you engage Pokémon encounters. Notice how I don't include how you engage trainers because honestly the system would work against you with trainers sneaking up and surprise buttsexs. This is why I include the option to toggle bird's eye view any time.

One last thing which is absolutely retarded and has no impact on the gameplay that only casusls and kids will care about. Have you wondered what it would be like to ride on your Charizard or Dragonite into the sunset over the ocean without a care in the world? Let's Go lets you ride a dragon but you can't see the sunset over the ocean. This is one of many examples of freedom of perspective.

And pantsu.

kys sissy

>>15776792

>melodic complexity

another anon showed me how some of the pokemon music is based off classical music. so they probably learned a lot from those.

>>15775291

pfft who needed a gameboy when i got my emulator and copy of pokemon on a floppy disc i could take around and play.

>>15818931

>he doesn't know