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[Pokemon] Sword and Shield: Out now. Mark your spoilers!

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    PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Can you still go into the tower without the Silph Scope? What's it like?

    You can, but you can't catch any Ghosts nor reach the top level.

    What do they look like?

    They're pretty faithful 3d renditions of the original sprites, in my opinion.

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Rad that's one of my favorite sprites

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    PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Looking at them side-by-side, the new ones lack the ghostly smoke effect, but otherwise I like them.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Kizmitt wrote: »
    It is nice not having to worry about levitate preventing me from quaking everything to death but I would prefer having abilities back.
    Also please add an ability that stops pokemon from biting ghosts.

    Biting ghosts is a long and storied tradition for ghostbusting activities in the Pokemon universe, and I will not have you besmirch its good name!

    Does make Shedinja functionally unusable tho..

    There are many, many things that make Shedinja unusable that are more relevant than Crunch and Fire Fang.

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Kizmitt wrote: »
    It is nice not having to worry about levitate preventing me from quaking everything to death but I would prefer having abilities back.
    Also please add an ability that stops pokemon from biting ghosts.

    Biting ghosts is a long and storied tradition for ghostbusting activities in the Pokemon universe, and I will not have you besmirch its good name!

    Does make Shedinja functionally unusable tho..

    There are many, many things that make Shedinja unusable that are more relevant than Crunch and Fire Fang.

    Like... Bite? The Dark type move practically every Pokemon has.

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    The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Kizmitt wrote: »
    It is nice not having to worry about levitate preventing me from quaking everything to death but I would prefer having abilities back.
    Also please add an ability that stops pokemon from biting ghosts.

    Biting ghosts is a long and storied tradition for ghostbusting activities in the Pokemon universe, and I will not have you besmirch its good name!

    Does make Shedinja functionally unusable tho..

    There are many, many things that make Shedinja unusable that are more relevant than Crunch and Fire Fang.

    Like... Bite? The Dark type move practically every Pokemon has.

    I got hit by rock moves a lot more than dark moves when I used Shedinja in Emerald, iunno.

    Also any zone where there's perma hail or sandstorm.

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    Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    FYI if you're interested in trading or battling a random someone, use the code Pikachu x3. It's been made the defacto "random trade/battle" code.

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I have bought Let's Go Eevee
    I don't have Switch Online right now but I may pick up a month so I can trade with some of you folks

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    PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    I now have an Electrode rolling behind me

    GAME OF THE YEAR

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    Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
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    EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
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    SunrizeSunrize Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    How many different games/saves/users can you run at the same time? Can I play through on my own stuff after my daughter goes to bed,or am I stuck catching Pidgeys with her until she's ready to advance?

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    vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Sunrize wrote: »
    How many different games/saves/users can you run at the same time? Can I play through on my own stuff after my daughter goes to bed,or am I stuck catching Pidgeys with her until she's ready to advance?

    It's one save file per user on the Switch. So as long as you and your daughter play on different accounts you can each have your independent save files.

    // Steam: VWinds // PSN: vagrant_winds //
    // Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
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    SunrizeSunrize Registered User regular
    Just to make sure I understand that right,we need different Nintendo accounts (which are free?) and there is a menu where we change back and forth? I'm buying a Switch specifically for this so I'm not familiar with the interface.Thanks!

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    Sunrize wrote: »
    Just to make sure I understand that right,we need different Nintendo accounts (which are free?) and there is a menu where we change back and forth? I'm buying a Switch specifically for this so I'm not familiar with the interface.Thanks!

    Yep. By default, the Switch always asks which account you want to use when booting up a game.

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    Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    And for trading (which is done through the internet only, no LAN trading option that I'm aware of), you have to have the Ninteno Online account, but they offer a family plan at a decent rate.

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    YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    There's a local wireless trading option between two different systems.

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    I feel bad for parents with Pokemon-loving kids who want multiple Switches so they don't have to share this holiday season.

    Your wallets have our condolences.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    probably shoulda done a better job raising your kids not to be so greedy tho

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    On the one hand, you can buy two 2DSs and two copies of Ultra SuMo for the price of a single switch and copy of Let's Go so I get that it's a huge price jump.

    But when I was growing up, the idea that me and my sister would even both get brand new Game Boy games, for Christmas, much less our own Game Boys would have been laughable.

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    Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    Man, I consider playing a single player game with multiple siblings a part of growing up.

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    SunrizeSunrize Registered User regular
    Yeah for me its more about avoiding frustrations. I don't mind the sharing, that's what I'm most excited about!

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I'm genuinely kind of surprised (positively) that they're allowing multiple saves per game at all. I half-expected them to circumvent standard practice and have the save embedded on the cartridge like usual.

    I guess there's still a non-zero chance they do that with the next one, this being more a "casual" game.

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited November 2018
    being able to play multiple saves of a pokemon game with one system and one copy of the game makes me feel like the guy eating continental breakfast in Key & Peele

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    There goes my flimsy pretense for buying the other version a year later...

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    There goes my flimsy pretense for buying the other version a year later...

    Buy an entire other Switch and version of the game so you can trade Pokemon with yourself.

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    There goes my flimsy pretense for buying the other version a year later...

    Buy an entire other Switch and version of the game so you can trade Pokemon with yourself.

    No, I'm not a kid anymore.


    If I buy an entire other Switch and version of the game it would be so I can trade Pokemon with my boyfriend

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Fuck
    What's my rival's name

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Fuck
    What's my rival's name
    Dark Souls

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Fuck
    What's my rival's name

    If Professor Oak doesn't know I dunno why you expect us to

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Fuck
    What's my rival's name

    If Professor Oak doesn't know I dunno why you expect us to

    L... E... X... I...

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    Oh fuck, got an Alolan Vulpix in my second Gift Egg in Go, so now I can get a proper Alolan Ninetails in Let's Go instead of using the traded one.

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    PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Fuck
    What's my rival's name

    I named him "some jerk" and it made some dialogue funny.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    my rival's name, since the days of red and blue, has been and will always be "smellvis"

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    fuck that's good

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    edited November 2018


    Veevee Volley is chef kiss

    Also RIP Lickitung

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    PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    While it can't compete with that, I just wanted to say that the animation for Waterfall is freakin' rad.

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I hate the increasing focus the games have on "instant win button" attacks

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    PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    The post-game seems to have a huge level jump over the Pokémon league. Mewtwo is level 70 and the Eevee master trainer is level 75. My highest level Pokémon is 57.

    I don't really feel like having to catch a hundred pokémon to grind levels.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I'm playing Pokemon Go again since the lady has picked it up to work with Lets Go and that game still has issues but it succeeds more than any other Pokemon game in one regard: actually pulling off the Pokemon Trainer fantasy

    You can have something similar in the other titles by implementing your own rules and thats fine but the fact that with Go you don't get a super powerful free starter, you don't get free legendaries and you have to make due with what you can find and catch at any given moment is something none of the other games have really done

    My most powerful Pokemon is an Exeggutor! That's weird as hell! It rules!

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    The basic idea of Let's Go is good. Running around and catching Pokemon is cool. The actual execution of that where you gotta seek out specific and often inconvenient locations regularly in order to get the stuff that lets you actually do that isn't good and they also completely fail at giving you anything interesting to do with the Pokemon. But the core there is neat, yeah.

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