Pokemon General [SFW, No NSFW]

@09MurphyM  
If you’re using Magikarp for battling, than you need to reevaluate what you’re doing. Especially with the EXP. Share being as powerful as it is now.

@Meanlucario  
Let me put it this way. Now, Magikarp has more of a chance to survive with TMs then it would if you relied only on the moves gained through leveling it up.

@09MurphyM  
Again, exp share makes it a breeze, especially SnS’s. And switch training has been a thing for years.

@Meanlucario
 
Eh, Sword and Shield’s experience sharing isn’t too bad in and of itself. Now, the EXP Candies of various sizes, on the other hand… THOSE are extremely broken, which is why I only used them for when I wanted to get a new team member to quickly catch up to the rest of them or evolve Pokemon quickly for Pokedex completion purposes.

@Jarkes  
Still, my point stand, and the share being always on is what makes it more significant than other games, to the point of giving Magikarp TMs pointless.

I’m surprised that Avery is a guy. That would explain why he has less fanart than the toxic woman.

@Meanlucario  

 
Apparently, Gladion wasnt related to Team Skull in the anime. In fact, he once battle them in one episode.

@[Ω]  
So he’s just dress in black and rebellious because “video games?”

@Meanlucario
 
True. And the EXP Candies being broken makes giving Magikarp TMs even more pointless since you can now level it up to evolve much faster.

@Meanlucario  
Yep.  
He was a totally different character in the anime… much like the entire cast anyway.

@[Ω]  
Not a fan of when that happens, honestly. Made worst when they try to make them like the source at the same time like they tried with Lusamine merging with the Nihilego.

@Meanlucario  
They needed to redone everything so the “Ash in school” setting could fit, also to make the series last longer.

Remember how gen 1 let you choose the order of the 3-7 gyms? That was open world.

@Meanlucario
 
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but the Kanto portion of Gen II and its remake definitely qualify since apart from the Viridian Gym you can basically do them in any order (though Pewter and Cinnabar can’t be reached until you’ve resolved the Power Planet situation).

@Jarkes  
I wasn’t. I said this since to me, being open-word means having choice of what to do whether than just having an open area. And I wasn’t counting post-game.

@Meanlucario
 
That still doesn’t really count as “Open world” letting the player choose what they do first second and third counts as “non-linear” not “open world”

@Littlecabbit  
In that case, a giant world with nothing to do is “open world.”

@Meanlucario
 
Yes, it’s often something game programmers have to deal with, filling their giant open spaces with things for the player to do, and that sometimes leaves the world feeling empty and lifeless when the developers fail to fill their world properly

I also worked on my US team a bit. I hate how they still have Lusamine treating Gladion like a object to show off as a child when she’s suppose to not be evil.
 
@Littlecabbit  
Again, my point is to me, open-world is about freedom and choice, not physical space. And empty world is a failure of a open-world game.

@Meanlucario
 
Ah. Yeah, that makes sense. And of course the Johto portion of Gen II also technically qualifies as non-linear since you could do Mahogany Town before Olivine and Cianwood.

@Meanlucario
 
Yeah, there’s a lot of odd fuck-ups with some of that. I guess you could argue that in this case she’s simply trying to remind herself of Mohn, whom she still feels responsible for losing, but even then it doesn’t really work.

@Meanlucario  

 
That is literally the appeal of an open world game, that’s where most of the meat and potatoes of the game usually lies.
 
One time a few years back, I saw this guy bitching that he had poured 200 hours into skyrim, and had never once encountered a single dragon, the guy never got far enough in the main quest for dragons to start spawning in and he had still put two hundred hours into the game.
 
That is literally the goal for open world games, that’s one of the reasons people love the elder scrolls games.
 
That is still different from a non-linear game however, non-linear games still don’t have giant worlds to explore but more confined routes dungeons and towns, you just more choice in what you do

@Jarkes  
True, though that’s three gyms instead of five.
 
@Jarkes  
Which is why I question why try to change her if they were unable to remove the dialogue and scenes of her being a shitty person?

@Meanlucario
 
Poor scheduling not giving them enough time to make proper, sensible changes I guess.

I feel like the ability to access later areas like the daycare in SnS is an oversight rather than intended design.
 
@Jarkes  
Could also be them being too ambitious for their own good. We can’t know, and likely never will.