Pokémon Scarlet/Violet - 2022

[Darren]

23 minutes ago, robdood said:

And doing up my schoolgirl character in new hats/socks/shoes.  Shame you can't change out of your school uniform. 

I think you need to wait for Pokémon Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

[HarMGM]

This sort of content is why I still adore the series and GF. Technical problems be damned.

 

 

[ryodi]

 

The first of many patches no doubt. I’m not interested in the raid battles so I’m going to wait a few months before I start playing  it properly when hopefully the patches have improved the experience. 

[Alexlotl]

The wording there is interesting. They know they've fucked up! Presumably all the people claiming refunds on their e-shop purchases have made a point.

 

Picked up the physical from Game at the weekend to squirrel away for Christmas. It was a spur of the moment purchase, but apparently a lot of people didn't bother picking up their pre-orders, so we got the fancy bag and starter statue pre-order bonuses for free.

 

There has also been a shift in local poltiics, and my son has now abandoned Quaxly for Fuecoco, meaning I get the duck. Fine by me!

[moosegrinder]

2 hours ago, Alexlotl said:

starter statue pre-order bonuses for free.

 

I think @strawdonkey was looking for the statue if you wanted rid of it?

[Melon_Bread]

2 hours ago, Alexlotl said:

The wording there is interesting. They know they've fucked up! Presumably all the people claiming refunds on their e-shop purchases have made a point.

 

Picked up the physical from Game at the weekend to squirrel away for Christmas. It was a spur of the moment purchase, but apparently a lot of people didn't bother picking up their pre-orders, so we got the fancy bag and starter statue pre-order bonuses for free.

 

There has also been a shift in local poltiics, and my son has now abandoned Quaxly for Fuecoco, meaning I get the duck. Fine by me!

 

It sold 10 million copies in 3 days, doesn't excuse the state of the game but I don't think a couple of people not getting their pre-order from 1 Game is gonna make much of a difference.

[Alexlotl]

33 minutes ago, Melon_Bread said:

 

It sold 10 million copies in 3 days, doesn't excuse the state of the game but I don't think a couple of people not getting their pre-order from 1 Game is gonna make much of a difference.

 

If I'd actually said that, I'd concede the point. The first and second paragraphs of my post aren't really connected - I was just happy to unexpectedly get the statue, currently sitting on my left speaker.

 

What I referred to in the first paragraph was the movement of people to get e-shop refunds for Pokemon Scarlet / Violet based on them being a mess technically, with some success. No idea how many people that represents, but it's certainly generated a lot of news stories, and the refunds being granted is evidence of Nintendo having to admit it's unacceptably poor.

 

Please understand.

[CheekyLee]

The patch is welcome, obviously, and there is no question that something is needed. But, I still feel that the performance issues card is being hugely overplayed here. Not to mention, the patch seems to be more about Season 1 of Ranked Battles than actual fixes, and this was always going to be something added in a patch pretty soon after launch. I don't expect the game to improve much, if at all, tomorrow, or indeed ever.

 

Back off "Tech Geeks" chat and back into "Game Freaks" for a minute? I have 2 things:

 

1. Get yourself a Glimmora!

2. Does anyone have a Quaxly I could pimp out with my Ditto for half an hour? I have the other 2 starters, nothing particularly awesome breeding wise, yet, but can produce them on request at this point. Surprise Trade keeps on letting me down.

 

 

[Melon_Bread]

34 minutes ago, Alexlotl said:

 

If I'd actually said that, I'd concede the point. The first and second paragraphs of my post aren't really connected - I was just happy to unexpectedly get the statue, currently sitting on my left speaker.

 

What I referred to in the first paragraph was the movement of people to get e-shop refunds for Pokemon Scarlet / Violet based on them being a mess technically, with some success. No idea how many people that represents, but it's certainly generated a lot of news stories, and the refunds being granted is evidence of Nintendo having to admit it's unacceptably poor.

 

Please understand.

 

I know, sorry, was feeling argumentative hahah, all good.

[Melon_Bread]

6 minutes ago, CheekyLee said:

The patch is welcome, obviously, and there is no question that something is needed. But, I still feel that the performance issues card is being hugely overplayed here. Not to mention, the patch seems to be more about Season 1 of Ranked Battles than actual fixes, and this was always going to be something added in a patch pretty soon after launch. I don't expect the game to improve much, if at all, tomorrow, or indeed ever.

 

Back off "Tech Geeks" chat and back into "Game Freaks" for a minute? I have 2 things:

 

1. Get yourself a Glimmora!

2. Does anyone have a Quaxly I could pimp out with my Ditto for half an hour? I have the other 2 starters, nothing particularly awesome breeding wise, yet, but can produce them on request at this point. Surprise Trade keeps on letting me down.

 

 

 

Quite partial to Palafin esp when you call him back and he turns into super dolphin. I've been enjoying it a lot, but yeah, like you say apart from sorting out the frame rate a bit I doubt they will do much via patches.

[ryodi]

 

[RubberJohnny]

What sort of level do you need to be to take on the Titans? I tried the desert one at level 25 and got my arse handed to me.

 

Have kind of explored too much, my creatures aren’t obeying because I’m five levels beyond the one badge I have.

[CheekyLee]

9 hours ago, RubberJohnny said:

What sort of level do you need to be to take on the Titans? I tried the desert one at level 25 and got my arse handed to me.

 

Have kind of explored too much, my creatures aren’t obeying because I’m five levels beyond the one badge I have.

If you have type advantages, they are all doable between 30 and 40. However, the False Dragon will take some beating, so you might want to level up a bit. If it helps, I feel the game actually wants/expects you to be 55-60 at the end of that particular section. Also, I think the Stony Cliff Titan is meant to be the first you fight, it is definitely the easiest and also the one the game leads you towards to start with.

[RubberJohnny]

This games most annoying problem for me is the camera doesn't even attempt to frame the critters in the fights so they're both onscreen, the camera will just pan until one is offscreen, or turn invisible as they're too close to the camera, or it'll just slide into the ground, unless you're manually shepherding it about.

 

Combined with the way you can't even see their health bars when attacks are playing out (why?), the actual status of a battle is really unreadable a lot of the time.

[shirubagan]

Use the Right stick

[robdood]

2 hours ago, RubberJohnny said:

This games most annoying problem for me is the camera doesn't even attempt to frame the critters in the fights so they're both onscreen, the camera will just pan until one is offscreen, or turn invisible as they're too close to the camera, or it'll just slide into the ground, unless you're manually shepherding it about.

 

Combined with the way you can't even see their health bars when attacks are playing out (why?), the actual status of a battle is really unreadable a lot of the time.

Yep this sort of stuff is waaaaaay more of a big deal thank janky frame rates or animation timings! 

 

I have to say though, I've found it a complete breeze? It's the first pokemon I've played, perhaps I've just been lucky in how I've explored / caught things but each boss type encounter I've always had a team of appropriately opposed elemental Mon to use. I've not wiped in a single fight. 1 gym and a 1 star team thing left. My quaxly is lvl 51, everyone else is weaker. 

 

I'm still annoyed it doesn't just have a weakness chart in the game. Having it on the ui during fights is useful, but it's daft there's not just a nice graphic in the menu. 

[Arn X Treme]

Well, that was an easy little game to pass some time, some hilarious looking Pokémon this time around. One of my favourite's is the Hanna Barbera looking Mouse Duo. 

 

I won't echo all the technical issues above we are all having, but I totally agree about the cameras. Although I only found out yesterday that you can rotate the camera with the right stick in battle. 

 

I'm now on the after game stuff and trying to fill out my Pokédex, so wondering is anyone with Scarlet looking to do some swaps? I've got Iron Bundle etc more than willing to trade.

 

Not only that, but I've tried the code list, but the only thing that seems to work on it is swapping Foreign Dittos. 

[ryodi]

 

[robdood]

I'm at about 40 hours and am running out of steam, I've got to beat the Elite 4 but I'm not sure I can be bothered trial & erroring a really long boring fight until I've got the teams down, then powered up appropriate pokemon, just to get into the centre of the map!! 

 

Still gutted they didn't let me just glide in there once I'd got the requisite skills for my bikemon. 

 

It's a weird game, I like the collecting them all aspect, and I love the design on loads of the pokemon themselves, but the story / exploration / actual fighting is pretty terrible. 

 

 

Having said all of that, does anyone want to swap me an egg?  My Quaxly for your Fuecoco? 

 

[Arn X Treme]

5 hours ago, robdood said:

I'm at about 40 hours and am running out of steam, I've got to beat the Elite 4 but I'm not sure I can be bothered trial & erroring a really long boring fight until I've got the teams down, then powered up appropriate pokemon, just to get into the centre of the map!! 

 

Still gutted they didn't let me just glide in there once I'd got the requisite skills for my bikemon. 

 

It's a weird game, I like the collecting them all aspect, and I love the design on loads of the pokemon themselves, but the story / exploration / actual fighting is pretty terrible. 

 

 

Having said all of that, does anyone want to swap me an egg?  My Quaxly for your Fuecoco? 

 

 

I can breed you one

[robdood]

Nice - not sure when I'll be online in it next, but I'll send you a PM with friend code and logistics in due time!  Thanks!! 

 

[Tony]

I got all the starters quite quickly through surprise trades. Charmander too since I didn't take part in the raids.

[Arn X Treme]

15 minutes ago, robdood said:

Nice - not sure when I'll be online in it next, but I'll send you a PM with friend code and logistics in due time!  Thanks!! 

 

 

No worries all hatched and ready whenever  

[Pungee]

I hit the credits on this yesterday and, despite the obvious technical issues and infuriatingly slow pace of the battle messages, it totally won me over. I really enjoyed it and didn't expect the plot to go all Metal Gear Solid 2 at the end there. I boxed my starter at the beginning as I wasn't a big fan of any of the final evolution stages and ended up with this squad for the Pokemon League and Area Zero:

 

 

Very much looking forward to getting by hands on the rest of the paradox Pokemon. Slither Wing and Sandy Shocks are going straight into the first team for all of the post-game stuff. I've never finished a Pokedex before but I'm very tempted here given the fast travel/ease of movement and how quickly you can level things up to evolve with a couple of post-sandwich Chansey killing sprees. 

[Arn X Treme]

54 minutes ago, Pungee said:

I hit the credits on this yesterday and, despite the obvious technical issues and infuriatingly slow pace of the battle messages, it totally won me over. I really enjoyed it and didn't expect the plot to go all Metal Gear Solid 2 at the end there. I boxed my starter at the beginning as I wasn't a big fan of any of the final evolution stages and ended up with this squad for the Pokemon League and Area Zero:

 

 

Very much looking forward to getting by hands on the rest of the paradox Pokemon. Slither Wing and Sandy Shocks are going straight into the first team for all of the post-game stuff. I've never finished a Pokedex before but I'm very tempted here given the fast travel/ease of movement and how quickly you can level things up to evolve with a couple of post-sandwich Chansey killing sprees. 

 

Are on you scarlet? I've got spares of a lot of the violet mons if you want to trade. 

[John0]

I'm way behind because of life but I'm a fair few hours into this and, like this thread suggests, it's a chaotic mix of good and bad for me. I think they've done a brilliant job with every new pokemon I've seen so far - and it must be pretty hard to be creative by this point as I guess we're over a 1000 now. But I've really loved seeing and catching new ones and all the designs and models seem fantastic to me.

 

The technical issues are a hot mess, no need to really elaborate there. And I think it is affecting my enjoyment to me honest. I've said this before in other pokemon threads no doubt but (outside of the pokemon themselves) there's this pervasive sense of poor quality and lack of polish that is so opposed to everything everyone associates with Nintendo*. And this makes me struggle to find the motivation to explore and sink my time into it (of course Elden Ring existing doesn't help) - so I'm sort of going through the motions a bit following the recommended path and trying to get to the end so I can maybe build some competitive teams and try the doubles ladder.

 

Arceus started off a bit like this and then I ended up really enjoying it so patiently I'm waiting for it to click a little. But at the moment the whole thing just has that familiar Pokemon sense of some nice light surface level fun sitting on something of a chasm of wasted potential.

 

*yes I know I know it's technically not Nintendo, but it's heavily related/practically synonymous to most of society

[Popo]

1 hour ago, Pungee said:

 

 

Oh my little pretty one, my pretty one,

When you gonna give me some time, ‘carona?

 

Oh you make my motor run, my motor run,

Get it comin’ off of the line ‘carona,

 

V-V-V-VOLCARONA

[Pungee]

45 minutes ago, Arn X Treme said:

 

Are on you scarlet? I've got spares of a lot of the violet mons if you want to trade. 

I'm Scarlet, yeah. Give me a couple of days to round up the rest of the ancient paradox Pokemon and I'd love a swap for a set of the future ones. 

[ryodi]

 

I haven't actually played the game since getting to the first Pokemon center, I'm only logging on to get the so far completely underwhelming mystery gifts. Even though they aren't much it feels harsh to have these Mystery Gifts expire before Christmas Day when I'm sure a lot children will get the game. 

[Arn X Treme]

I've just caught the fourth "Legendary" Pokémon, so I believe that's the lot.

 

Pokédex is sitting at 212 Caught for 333 battled, which I'm happy with now comes all the trading and finishing up the Tournement back at Hogwarts.