Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Predictions/Speculation/Discussion Thread

[MrMeowPuss]

I got it

 

[Articfoxgamez]

I wish I could have the physical copy but my local stores always sell out on new games too fast and amazon had a 10$ fee if I wanted it on release day

 

[Yuunagi]

That is clearly saying something. Seems like not everyone cares about the tech issues (assuming that they are more the "have to go out of your way to trigger" type issues/glitches and not the "constantly in your face" type ones). I don't recall ever having an issue with Legends: Arceus tech/glitch wise.

I think what it says is just that these are Pokémon games (and they’re following the most popular generation since the first). The alleged technical and performance issues weren’t being widely discussed even in the fandom until today, so the 99.9% of buyers who don’t engage with the fandom and don’t read reviews wouldn’t know and I’m sure you’re right that most of them also wouldn’t care.

 

[Emmy]

Given how everyone and their mother has said that they're getting the Violet version, I am quite surprised to see that it was Scarlet instead that was listed as the "#1 Top Seller in PC & Video Games" on Amazon (at least in my country anyways).

 

[JFrombaugh]

Let's see...

Spoiler

-Shy nerdy girl who has (almost) no friends at the school but is very good at tech
-Gets very noticeably uncomfortable whenever she's cuddled by Koraidon/Miradon
-Has an obsession with Eevee & Eeveelutions
-Often shows annoyance with Nemona's & Arven's energy & antics in the final story

...yeah, Penny is totally on the autism spectrum.

 

[Greninjaman]

Let's see...

Spoiler

-Shy nerdy girl who has (almost) no friends at the school but is very good at tech
-Gets very noticeably uncomfortable whenever she's cuddled by Koraidon/Miradon
-Has a soft spot for Eevee & its evolutions
-Often shows annoyance with Nemona's & Arven's energy & antics in the final story

...yeah, Penny is totally on the autism spectrum.

To be fair, would YOU want to be cuddled by Koraidon/Miraidon (a Pokémon that you don't know about and could possibly be dangerous)?

 

[hanecco]

Negative thoughts - please don't read if it will kill your excitement.

The initial reviews have talked about awful graphical issues and an empty open world (which doesn't include common sense features such as level scaling...) I know that GF's focus on the human characters has grown tremendously since BW and it's nice to hear that SV's characters are lovable; it doesn't make up for the performance issues though.

Game Freak is really lacking in vision - they're struggling to move to open world, they throw random gimmicks at the gameplay to create hype instead of assessing past games to see what works, they don't push themselves to go past that and make something truly great. I remember reading about the making of B2W2 and someone from Nintendo (Iwata?) encouraged GF to make a sequel, when they were originally going to make a standard 3rd version. I wish that kind of thing still happened.

At this point I'm just holding out for a Gen V remake. It's probably going to be simple like BDSP was, but it's going to be better than this.

 

[MrMeowPuss]

I’ve played a few hours of it now and I’m personally enjoying it. The performance stuff is definitely noticeable but everything else has been so good that it sort of makes up for it, for me at least.

I’m really liking all the new Pokémon I’ve seen so far too.

 

[MrMeowPuss]

So this isn’t really a major spoiler and I wouldn’t even considering it minor but I’ll hide it just in case, but one thing I’m REALLY happy they kept from Legends is how wild Pokémon have personalities and will come up to you and follow you around still.

 

[Greninjaman]

Why are there reviewers comparing Pokémon to games that use Unreal Engine? Not every game has to use it. I think Pokémon would look weird in Unreal Engine.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

I managed to get the game a day early. I've begun searching for team members and I'm trying to see if there's Sneasel that can be found at a lower level that 30's.

 

[Juliyet]

AND YA GAL'S IN!

 

[MrMeowPuss]

After 7 hours of playing Violet I’m really enjoying it BUT it does feel like a step backwards in many ways compared to Legends Arceus.

 

[UxieLover1994]

I've got the game, and will be playing it tonight after Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I'm just annoyed that all reviews I keep reading do nothing but bash the game because of the graphic and performance issues. The worst ones don't even bother to mention the good and improved aspects of the game, and some still use Dexit as an excuse for negative reviews.

 

[Juliyet]

Really enjoying my time thus far.

Definitely seeing the technical hiccups l, but it hasn't been a detriment for me juuuust yet

 

[Juliko]

My copy of both games are on their way. Question for anyone who has the games: Does the Name Rater let you nickname Pokemon you received in trades that don't already have nicknames? Sword/Shield had that and I really liked it, so I'm wondering if SV brought it back.

 

[Emmy]

Having seen the Starters final forms now...

Spoiler

I do wonder what shall become of the Fire-Zodiac fan theory now that Fuecoco's final form is quite blatantly still a crocodile and not either a snake or Quetzcoatl like creature that can be argued to fit.

 

[Nodqfan]

I've got the game, and will be playing it tonight after Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I'm just annoyed that all reviews I keep reading do nothing but bash the game because of the graphic and performance issues. The worst ones don't even bother to mention the good and improved aspects of the game, and some still use Dexit as an excuse for negative reviews.

The Pokemon subreddit is doing this as well. There are a ton of threads right now just bashing the game and TPCI. I don't have the game at the moment so I can't comment on it but seesh you'd think that TPCI was some criminal organization with some of their comments.

 

[Adelon]

To be fair, would YOU want to be cuddled by Koraidon/Miraidon (a Pokémon that you don't know about and could possibly be dangerous)?

I think it is more of a personal space issue for Penny, she doesn't seem like the type to frequently give out hugs.

Let's see...

Spoiler

-Shy nerdy girl who has (almost) no friends at the school but is very good at tech
-Gets very noticeably uncomfortable whenever she's cuddled by Koraidon/Miradon
-Has an obsession with Eevee & Eeveelutions
-Often shows annoyance with Nemona's & Arven's energy & antics in the final story

...yeah, Penny is totally on the autism spectrum.

You forgot the anime. She's very fond of binge-watching anime.

 

[MrMeowPuss]

The Pokemon subreddit is doing this as well. There are a ton of threads right now just bashing the game and TPCI. I don't have the game at the moment so I can't comment on it but seesh you'd think that TPCI was some criminal organization with some of their comments.

Reddit is bad for that and often a lot of people who are making these criticism/comments are basing it off gameplay footage and not actually playing the games themselves (which TLOU2 is a game that comes to mind that this happened to).