Anyone else feeling nostalgic for Sword and Shield?
>Memorable towns and cities
>Memorable characters with great designs
>Great music
>A better open world experience (wild area)
>Max raids were better than tera raids
Anyone else feeling nostalgic for Sword and Shield?
>Memorable towns and cities
>Memorable characters with great designs
>Great music
>A better open world experience (wild area)
>Max raids were better than tera raids
No, not really.
>Memorable towns and cities
I wish
Place is mostly set dressing
when i got to wyndon i was hoping i could ride the ferris wheel,,,
No, but it was better than SV simply for the fact it wasn’t a broken buggy laggy shitfest. Even if the graphics weren’t crazy high quality, they were polished about as well as any other Nintendo game.
>it wasn’t a broken buggy laggy shitfest.
It’s literally janky as hell, the wild area would bug out all the time
> Even if the graphics weren’t crazy high quality, they were polished about as well as any other Nintendo game.
No tf it isn’t
Broken Ugly Lagfest describes sword to a T and Sword doesn't even have the excuse of trying to do anything actually intensive.
Even the towns look like shit outside of a select few angles(and most of them are amazingly linear and still manage to frick it), you still get jarring optimization and shit textures. Pokemon models were low quality with goddamn sticker mouths that stuck out at most angles. And the game runs at a horrific resolution like SV as well.
>Broken Ugly Lagfest
No it doesn't, and you are pathetically lying cuz your /vp/ bros told you to be mad at the game.
Don't worry OP, I miss SwSh too, and these old fricks will seeth badly as time comes and more people who are too young to be part of their hivemind pop up here. Watch them EMBARRASINGLY try to shit on SwSh is always funny because every complaint they try to bring up was true in one of their baby boy games anyway.
Sword and Shield are bad games but character designs and music are better than Scarlet and Violet.
>Memorable towns and cities
lol you can't even ride the ferris wheel in wyndon
and the grass gym place has 0 enterable buildings, and the dark one was literally just a hallway
Obviously bait but I’ll bite
>Lol
>Good designs, shit characters
>Every Pokémon game has decent music at least, SwSh is near the bottom
>LMFAO
>I don’t do the gay raids in either
no, dropped this game after first battle.
this must be the slowest combat in the entire pokemon franchise
>memorable towns and cities
yeah how could I ever forget great cities like Spikemuth
>memorable characters with great designs
95% of the cast is one-dimensional as hell and barely count as characters
>great music
Pokémon’s always had good music, and even then I’d argue SwSh was one of the weakest games in that regard
>a better open world experience (wild area)
lol
lmao
>max raids were better than tera raids
that’s not a very high bar to clear
Not in the slightest the game was dog shit
Nope and the only reason I don't think SV is the worst game is because SWSH exists
even though sv just copy and pasted all of swsh's flaws?
dumbass
No, it's painfully slow and linear.
They're my favorite games in the series. Legends Arceus and Scarlet and Violet left zero impression on me.PXASSV
Max raids suck ass compared to Tera
As a single player experience it’s painfully bad. Worse than Unova even.
However, the Pokédex selection and the battle arenas BTFO SV so hard, and those are two of the most important elements for post game battling enjoyment.
So unironically, I would enjoy it if SWSH was still more active, because I’m done with SV, and so are most of my friends.
I actualy still get trades/battles in SwSh near instantly, which is odd considering so many games have come since
Considering how laggy/glitchy/uninspiring the battle stadium and UI are for SV, it makes some sense that the player base would be somewhat active. Graphics-wise, while SV has Galar’s overworld beat, the actual battles are no improvement graphically either.
>Worse than Unova even.
Unova was the best single player experience though?
I meant BW1, not 2. Before SwSh, BW1 was easily one of the worst.
Please don’t come at me with Unova troony arguments off the back of this. I’m not interested.
???
BW1 is considered to be the best singleplayer experience in the franchise
not him but really its not, b2w2 mogs bw1 so hard its impossible for me to go back to, and bw1 just feel so short and rushed plus i feel like its the first game in the series where the amount of stupid online shit in it was detrimental to the game especially since its been discontinued, b2w2 at least has a shit ton of singleplayer content to compensate for this
The story is popular, but Unova's world in BW1 had basically the same complaints that people now have for later games (too linear, not enough content). BW2 added much more.
BW has so many side areas and side quests though that put modern Pokémon to shame. Linear on the surface. Even though the dex number was small at least everything was new so it felt like you were playing a unique game.
>Worse than Unova even
Bro, the fifth gen BW series was the peak of Pokemon, the hell are you talking about.
no
i hacked my switch recently so im play it for the first time now, i really fricking hate it so far sorry anon
>Nostalgic for a 2 year old game
Your pic was definitely a moment I enjoyed in SwSh but it didn't last long.
Some of the environments were quite charming because you can see they spend time on the details since they knew exactly what you'll be seeing because of the fixed camera.
But SV are better games on every aspect except the character design and music, and those are subjective.
>those are subjective
There is a limit to subjective though. SV pretty clearly failed to make it's character designs come across due to the rather bad choices on rendering and texturing. Compare Professor Turo's 3d model to his 2d model and it's clear they fricked up badly, along with other cartoonier details like Larry's eyes and Giocomo's face that just don't fit well with their choices.
>But SV are better games on every aspect
no they aren't you fricking shill
>dexcut wasn't fixed
>move cut wasn't fixed
>exp share wasn't fixed
>same shitty DLC scam model
>same shitty toby fox music
>same shitty graphics
>same shitty animations
>same no transfer exclusive moves bullshit because lamefreak hates fun
>same no post game
>dexcut wasn't fixed
>move cut wasn't fixed
What's there to fix? those aren't issues
this is off topic but i wish they would do an ability cut and remove hidden abilities and make every pokemon have the best ability for it by default
just remove abilities at this point
If you have no choice on them, they might as well be hardcoded instead of being a mechanic
my problem is that theres alot of mons where there is simply one ability that makes sense and the rest are very obviously afterthoughts put there so it has more than 1 ability
Give me some examples because I think you're going schizo. Some mons have two + HA, some have one + HA, and some just have one
So unless you mean "makes sense" in the same way you would say "Wugtrio has no ability that makes sense with what it's trying to accomplish", I still don't see the point.
the first that come to mind are cinccino ditto azumarill and blaziken
Ditto and Blaziken were conceived before they got their broken HA, so they wouldn't just remove the old option for no reason
Though Ditto is unusable without Imposter;
1. that's unrelated to Limber because Limber is definitely a good and fitting ability
2. TWO whole items only work when Ditto is not transformed (though both were cut in Gen 8)
Cincinno has both Technician and Skill Link as usable abilities
In the end only Azumarill qualifies because Thick Fat on a Water-type Pokémon is indeed some epic GF trolling, especially when the alternative is so, so powerful.
still they all have 1 ability that is the best one, also id argue technician sucks for cinccino when skill link is just right there
Sap Sipper is cool because it means no grass weakness and Spore immunity
Sap Sipper was only really useful for the perishtrap set.
if it's good for something then it's good enough to justify it's existance
Marill doesn't even get Whirlpool anymore.
like i said before, the no transfer moves policy is bullshit and it should be undone
>no grass weakness
yes and? azumarill is weak to grass unless it has sap sipper
Unless your opponent is a Kartana, Azu can tank most grass type. Because grass types are that weak
I dont know about that but they definitely should give some older mons some newer abilities. Like sharpness.
i do agree, its a bit more depressing in terms of abilities on the earlier side of the mons
>same no transfer exclusive moves bullshit because lamefreak hates fun
no transfer moves is objectively based
have a nice day
>no transfer moves is objectively based
how? it's just limiting the things you can do with your mons by denying moves that aren't possible to learn in a new game otherwise
have a nice day moronic galartroony.
legit besides opal no, scarlet and violet were better in the overall, and music wasn't great either, eve the story was really bad, also lol wild area sucked.
Are there any Pokemon in the base game that are exclusive to max raid battles, as in you can't catch them or an evolution anywhere else?
only event pokémon like Mewtwo
This game made me hate Pokémon completely to the point where I stopped playing any of the games for 3 years. I sincerely hope everything from this pile of fecal matter gets dexcutted in the future.
I guess I feel slightly nostalgic for a Pokemon game that doesn't crash and clip and freeze up when I try to play it but Sword/Shield was still dogshit
no
>Memorable towns and cities
nope
>Memorable characters with great designs
like in every game not named XY
>Great music
lol??
>A better open world experience (wild area)
>WILD AREA LE GOOD
stopped reading there hahahaha have a nice day
No.
Only decent thing about gen 8 was Ballonlea, a soulful city trapped in a shitty game
*Stow-On-Side
Yes. Scat and Vomit feel like a huge crowded clusterfrick in comparison
Actually to add to this, S/V feels like a huge clusterfrick in general
/vp/ contrarians seething about SwSh just proves it is beloved, tbh
You're saying this like /vp/ isn't full of normalgays. The unova shilling and phonegayging makes it obvious that ~~*discord[trans people of colour]*~~ have invaded me ebic r/greentext site and are running the board by flooding the board with unfunny baitposts, killing quality threads and potential memes.
Tldr: if you're new (<5yrs on the site), lurk moar or you as a collective will kill /VP/
towns and cities
The only memorable town is the mushroom town.
>Memorable characters with great designs
Great designs, but barely existing characters beside Leon and the rivals
>Great music
Same as usual
>A better open world experience (wild area)
>Max raids were better than tera raids
Now you are just baiting
frick you
The absolute low point of the series. Even BDSP was better.
I'm not going to lie, I wish I never played it. It was worse than I thought it was going to be, and I already didn't expect a ton out of it.
>get UK region
>the game is awful
>eyesores everywhere, fun nowhere
>there is no future to look forward to, everything since SS just gets worse and worse
They're really dedicated to the bit, but I think it's enough by now.
>>Max raids were better than tera raids
Frick no, they were so fricking slow.
Frick yes. Cope
I know it's a bait thread but you could at least throw in one true statement in there
This is the shittiest bait I've seen you gotta work on this OP
Nope
>memorable towns and cities
Besides being bri'ish it wasn't that memorable. Though I will say the dark type area was the most accurate representation of British council estates I've ever seen in media.
>great music
>started the gay little choir singing to make the gym theme less generic, still sounds generic but also gay now, also an insult to the football chants it was inspired from because bri'ish
>A better open world experience
Better than S/V but none of the areas have identity
>max raids were better than tera raids
You are correct but they still feel like an unpolished mess
>A better open world experience (wild area)
How? It was basically the prototype for PLA and SV
>Max raids were better than tera raids
If mashing A with Zacian or a dynamaxed mon and never losing is your idea of fun, sure