But it's no different than older pokemon games, that why I don't understand our lack of "engagement".
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Pokémon Sword and Shield |OT2| King of The Pocket Monsters
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I feel like this is a pretty big assumption based on the info provided lol. All we know is that they played ~4 hours.
Is there anything you didn't like about the games that you liked in previous entries?
The games aren't even that engaging to begin with.
The game can be summed up with:
Go to town
Cut scene
Battle Gym
Walk in a mostly straight path to the next gym
Go back to step 1
Repeat for 10 hours
I've been in a similar boat to you in Gen 6 to the point I outright skipped Gen 7 and had zero faith in Gen 8 until I gave it a try and found that I enjoyed it a fair bit. I don't really have an answer, more of a presumption. I presume the formula just gets utterly stale to people like you and I eventually unless we're particularly in the mood for a Pokemon experience. I've sat down and thought about why this is the case recently and figured these were my two takes as to why I've found Pokemon stale until recently:
- The battle system drags with the need to describe everything in text. There should be an option for experienced players to get a more streamlined experience with less text narration
- Exploration hasn't (permanently) changed since Gen I up until they added overworld Pokemon this gen and in some ways, it's regressed. For example, we don't really have 'dungeons' anymore like Mt. Moon or the Seafoam Islands. Then when Game Freak adds interesting exploration gimmicks such as Diving in R/S/E, the Underground in Gen IV, or new HM abilities like Whirlpool, they generally don't last past that generation and poof, they're gone instead of building on them like Diving/the Underground or improving them like HMs. The solution to everything but the most fundamental(surfing and flying) got removed outright instead of being used in some form of creative manner. I'm not necessarily against that, but look at Gen I and look at Gen VI(my personal baggage gen). At the end of the day, what did we gain in all this time in overworld exploration, really? I've got nothing. Game Freak hasn't built up the exploration aspects of Pokemon, they've torn them down until recently. I think that's why I've had such a positive reception to Sword/Shield compared to X/Y
By the way, is it just me or the game seems very empty? Like too many of towns look huge but basically have a Pokemon Center, a haircut place, a clothing place, and maybe one of those cafes with a battle that you can actually go inside (other than the gyms)? Like the houses don't even have hidden stuff inside trash cans anymore lol or even anything to interact with outside of the TV, the occasional pokemon or person in there. Plus I think every town in this game that you see has a gym... which means there are 9 (if you include the starting area)? I like the Pokemon being visible on the world map, and the Wild Area can be interesting, but that's mostly it. I actually did find Dynamaxing interesting, and I guess I found this game a bit harder than previous ones (I made sure my pokemon didn't exceed the level of the gym leaders however and just trained a lot of them).
I think part of it is that Team Yell isn't really evil, and the 7th town literally had nothing outside of the Pokemon center and the gym. Like most of the previous games had a bigger area where you had to fight some antagonists. I guess there was Rose Tower, but it seemed even less fleshed out than before.
I think part of it is that Team Yell isn't really evil, and the 7th town literally had nothing outside of the Pokemon center and the gym. Like most of the previous games had a bigger area where you had to fight some antagonists. I guess there was Rose Tower, but it seemed even less fleshed out than before.
Any tips on catching Shinies from Dens? I'm 0 for 5 so far.
0 for 6. 🥺 Just missed out on Shiny Charizard and Machamp.
Aaaaaaaahhhhh Shiny Cursola Nest Ball get! Wooo!
0 for 6. 🥺 Just missed out on Shiny Charizard and Machamp.
Aaaaaaaahhhhh Shiny Cursola Nest Ball get! Wooo!
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If you're joining other's raids for this the only thing you can do is throw balls with the highest catch rate, which would be Repeat Balls if you have the mon in question registered already.
If you're RNG abusing yourself save after locking into the desired shiny and try until it gets in.
Spam Y button to search stamps for Seeking. Just look for Gold Dens only, Most that have password usually guess.
Wish I could guess the JPN Gold Den passwords cause the silhouette are Mons I've never seen before.
Good question!
After getting mine to level 50 and seeing it was incompatible with all stones I broke and googled... ugh. I immediately went back to the Dex descriptions figuring I'd missed something but I'm not sure I did...
What do you mean desired shiny? Can you for example spawn a gmax charizard and if it is not shiny quit out of the raid and try again? Or is this just if the pokemon is shiny already and you don't catch it?
Right now I am grinding for a shiny gmax charizard and I haven't even gotten one gmax charizard to spawn (and the few times I see them on other people's raids they are either link code locked or already full). So if I can rng abuse it, I'd totally do so if I can change it from a reg. gmax charizard to a shiny one. It's hard enough finding a gmax charizard (I have hatched a shiny charizard already and still not seen one gmax charizard).
It's kinda the opposite. Due to the way the RNG works, if you save in front of a den the properties of the next 3 Pokemon are all locked, but from the 4th one onward the species is not locked but the other properties are. This includes shinyness. So if you are saved in front of a den that will produce a shiny in 4 slots you can reset until you get the right Pokemon to spawn in that slot.
It's a bit complicated for me to explain in full so please refer to this guide for more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shinyraids...an_now_shiny_hunt_non_promotional_gmaxs_with/
Nope, it's cuter than ever. I think it's a genre fatigue? Or the lack of challenge maybe? As someone else written, if we could at least skip or ffwd the text.
I tried this method and I just kept getting the exact same raid over and over again (like I would close the game mid raid and change the date and open it again). Are you sure the developers didn't fix this exploit? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
In order to advance the date so the game recognizes it as a new day so the den advances, you either need to invite people first then while in the lobby change the date while the game is still running or use the Link Battle variant
Oh... hrm. I was hoping I didn't have to do something like that to random people.
All you have to do is participate in a battle, play it normally, and then change the date that way.
That's the best way to not be obtrusive.
Now I'm confused... I thought the game saved after you battle and I thought you don't want to save until either the fourth guy is shiny or one raid after the fourth raid.
For shiny raids, all I've done is subscribe to the shiny raids Reddit and join anyone who is hosting at the moment. That's how I managed to get a shiny GMax Charizard. Took me three tries to get it.
I've tried to get a Colossal, but it wouldn't stay in the ball.
I also haven't even beat the main storyline. I'm still trying to catch a timid Eternatus, with no luck. Been resetting for days and the fact that I have to watch all these cutscenes and battle it isn't helping. 😭
I've tried to get a Colossal, but it wouldn't stay in the ball.
I also haven't even beat the main storyline. I'm still trying to catch a timid Eternatus, with no luck. Been resetting for days and the fact that I have to watch all these cutscenes and battle it isn't helping. 😭
Timid Mints are only 50 BP, though if its the aesthetics of a Timid Eternatus you want then more power to you.
There is different aesthetics for personalities? Yeah... I'm a bit of a pokemon newbie. If you don't count let's go (cause it's really a redo of blue and red), silver and gold were the last pokemon I played (and I didn't play them much, I think I played blue more).
No, other than it saying Timid on the stat screen, which is the aesthetic aspect I was referring to. Mints just change the stat allocation of a nature, but not what it actually says on the stat screen.
(And technically Toxtricity has two different forms that depends on its nature).
It's definitely the aesthetics. I know you can change the nature with mints, but I want it to say Timid on the stats screen.
The invite method works offline. You only need to be in the lobby where people would normally join if it were online
Why are we able to put some non-Galar Pokémon in the game now via Home? Is there a list of new Pokémon from the last patch or something? I was able to drop Necrozma in there.
Edit: Nevermind, did some googling and found the list of 35. That's cool!
Edit: Nevermind, did some googling and found the list of 35. That's cool!
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Have they paused with the codes? Thought I already missed some in the last few days but there wasn't anything new. 😅
So this has happened twice now.
I've joined a random raid with my shiny Pokemon and what has ended up happening is that the fellow raid members are also using shiny Pokemon, and the actual raid Pokemon turned to be a shiny.
Most likely just co-incidence or some person outsourcing the raid ID to as many people as possible before completing it?
I've joined a random raid with my shiny Pokemon and what has ended up happening is that the fellow raid members are also using shiny Pokemon, and the actual raid Pokemon turned to be a shiny.
Most likely just co-incidence or some person outsourcing the raid ID to as many people as possible before completing it?
I just had a fantastic idea today with Pokemon Home.
What if we, regularly, doing community group trades, with a specific topic like, Monday is Legends day where everyone has to join with a Legendary to randomly get an other Legendary, or a day with the topic starter Pokemon, or a day with just Shinies, or a day with just IV 6 Pokemon. The ideas are endless.
Could be pretty fun. (And I like the random, surpriseloot box grab bag factor of it 😙)
Would there be interest in planned group trades?
What if we, regularly, doing community group trades, with a specific topic like, Monday is Legends day where everyone has to join with a Legendary to randomly get an other Legendary, or a day with the topic starter Pokemon, or a day with just Shinies, or a day with just IV 6 Pokemon. The ideas are endless.
Could be pretty fun. (And I like the random, surprise
Would there be interest in planned group trades?
Appletun ended at the beginning of the month. Toxtricity, Grimmsnarl, Hatterene, Orbeetle and Kingler were rotated in. You'll have to find someone to trade with or get lucky with its spawn for now.
Oh, I didn't know they were all rotated in. They only talked about Toxtricity. I'm still missing two from that list then.
You can still get them the hard way on a specific purple beam den https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/maxraidbattles/den79.shtml
I dunno, how do I find out? I'm just running around doing my own raids and joining others when a stamp pops up on the bottom left.
Quick question. A few days ago I received a Scorbunny carrying an obviously hacked Master BalI, forgot to release it and when I found a shiny G-Max Grimmsnarl I used the Master Ball as I was desperate for it. Will I have any trouble using this Pokémon in online battles? Is it considered hacked?
Need help on a decision to rebuy the game or not
Long story short I completed the main story and sold the game right after as I was in between exams
so I haven't touched the post game story/raids/BT/completed the Pokédex whatsoever
I'm looking for a game that will last me until AC drops in late March and was debating between picking this up again to experience all the post game content I mentioned or the entire ace attorney series
is the game worth a rebuy for pretty much all the post game content?
Long story short I completed the main story and sold the game right after as I was in between exams
so I haven't touched the post game story/raids/BT/completed the Pokédex whatsoever
I'm looking for a game that will last me until AC drops in late March and was debating between picking this up again to experience all the post game content I mentioned or the entire ace attorney series
is the game worth a rebuy for pretty much all the post game content?
Post game isn't really all that much, to be honest. Filling the Dex will take a bit of time, but all you really have to do is catch the box legendary, and you have a battle tower.
If you enjoy the game, you could definitely pad it out to March though.
I got into Sword recently and am nearly finished with the post story quest. I'm looking at the next milestone, which would be getting the dex filled out. I guess I just am unsure on how to get rare stuff that I need to trade for, more specifically things like Zacian / Zamazenta? Is it even likely to keep a living dex? Or do most people (that don't buy a copy of each) just fill the dex out and settle on one or the other?
A lot of people here will just use the trading thread to get Dex entries for the box legendaries for example.
I can't really imagine many people giving up their legendary for something random, but you only really need their Dex entry: living Dex is optional.
Thanks. I was hoping that wasn't the case, but assumed it was. There's no real reason for me to actually want to keep a living dex so it's no big deal.
Lmao no, what you're seeing is legit raids being shared through RNG abuse. I think someone mentioned it in the past two pages. Basically, they exploit the daily raid changes and keep checking a den with a wishing star, until they get their desired shiny. Then, they share the raid with friends or other communities through discord, Reddit, or twitch.
I'm currently following a few discord communities to be able to get certain GMax Shinies I want. So far I've gotten Charizard and Hatterene, but that damn Gengar keeps eluding me. I've tried so many times but it won't stay in the damn ball. 😤