Just a quick question. Do you have to be fully ranked and/or have a complete Pokedex to finish the game, or is that just for the completionists?
You can definitely finish the story and roll credits without any of that, but I don't yet know if anything happens when you complete that stuff. And I don't really want to know, either.
I recently finished the story, and had been avoiding all info until now. Really love this game, despite its numerous issues. For all the problems with how bad things look, framerate, interface issues, control issues, etc... it's just fun. Really fun. I don't expect this style of game to take over the "main" series, but I'd be shocked if they don't continue making side games like this. I certainly hope that they do.
That's good to know. I'm enjoying this (it's the first Pokemon game I've kept playing for more than 3-4 hours), but I don't want to grind too too much.
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Well gave this a try since the roommate had gotten. I have to say, I'm really enjoying the gameplay loop. Didn't get into sword and shield, probably could have if I spent more time on. the new pearl and diamond just didn't click, partly because it was too faithful an adaption of the original, which meant it didn't bring improvements that sword and shield made.
This is looking like it'll be the first pokemon game since gold and silver, that I'll actually complete. One is working for me here is that you actually want to interact with the world beyond just slaughtering pokemon and catching one of each kind of pokemon that has an entry in the pokedex. I'm hoping the crafting and gathering system is brought forward for future games. Before someone mentions something about tech making store items so much better, gold and silver had the old fart that would make you pokeballs from apricorns and that also gave us things like berries. So I'd argue crafting and gathering resources for it could easily have a place. The research tasks are also a nice touch. Can't remember if the older games did much with the concept of quests outside the main storyline. Still all good stuff that helps the world feel more alive and causes you to actually interact with it.
There are some areas that need work. I'd like the option to just be able to toggle on sprint rather than having to hold down a joystick for it. Also have to wonder if it would be feasible to a slightly better setup for throwing stuff. Ended up wasting some items because i meant to throw out a pokemon to gather things and had other times where I forgot to switch to the pokeball and ended up in combat.
Also before I forget, love this game's method of catching pokemon so much more than the traditional setup, that forces you into combat before you can throw a damn ball out to catch a pokemon.
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So wow, while hunting Cherrims for that stupid quest (never found one) I literally found two shinies in a row. I found a shiny Beautifry, looped around the area once and by the time I got back to the same spot it was night and a shiny Dustox has spawned in almost the exact same place. Kind of hilarious they were both wurmple evos.
I didn't hear it the first time but I swear when I spotted Dustox it actually made a shiny chime sound (like what you would hear at the start of a shiny battle).
Never did find a Cherrim but I was able to evolve the lone Cherubi I got and get the dex entry done that way. What a pain in the ass request tho. That pokemon is too damn rare
Well, spent the day tracking down satchels of some random people who had died (?) in the extreme south of the map.
..
And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
So Legends Arceus is like the most distracting game ever....as in: I need to do this thin...OH what is that over there??!?!?
I can't walk two steps before something distracts me and I have to go check it out. It takes me hours to do a story quest lol.
So many times have I gone "ok lets just catch a few of these to max out their pokedex real quick". And next thing I know I've come across 3 new pokes each with reasonable ways to max out their pokedex so I start catching them too and now I'm halfway across the map and none of them are actually maxed out yet haha.
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Well, spent the day tracking down satchels of some random people who had died (?) in the extreme south of the map.
..
And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
If you aren't online it just spawns in satchels for you from NPCs randomly instead of player satchels.
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Does the Favorite Food thing matter at all? I just throw berries and it seems to work every time, so what's the point of throwing the other ones?
I believe so. I've definitely had some that just wanted nothing to do with the food I threw until I tried a different one. But it also seems like most like Oran berries
Does the Favorite Food thing matter at all? I just throw berries and it seems to work every time, so what's the point of throwing the other ones?
I believe so. I've definitely had some that just wanted nothing to do with the food I threw until I tried a different one. But it also seems like most like Oran berries
I have also had some that will eat a food you throw once and then not like it and not eat more of the same. Unless you throw one they do like then they start eating again.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
edited April 15
This was in my twitter timeline today and I am just so confused
Do people really not just pick the cutest/coolest starter? :P (seriously, these games are piss easy.. you could win with a team of bidoofs if you trained them right)
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edited April 15
God, thinking about winning with "a team of bidoofs" is making me want to go back to Shield and finally just do my team of food pokemon that I wanted to do :P (cuz I mean, who doesn't want to fight with an ice cream cone and a blob of whipped cream and an apple pie?)
So Legends Arceus is like the most distracting game ever....as in: I need to do this thin...OH what is that over there??!?!?
I can't walk two steps before something distracts me and I have to go check it out. It takes me hours to do a story quest lol.
So many times have I gone "ok lets just catch a few of these to max out their pokedex real quick". And next thing I know I've come across 3 new pokes each with reasonable ways to max out their pokedex so I start catching them too and now I'm halfway across the map and none of them are actually maxed out yet haha.
A lot of the basic Pokemon can be maxed on catch just by feeding them 5 or so berries
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So Legends Arceus is like the most distracting game ever....as in: I need to do this thin...OH what is that over there??!?!?
I can't walk two steps before something distracts me and I have to go check it out. It takes me hours to do a story quest lol.
So many times have I gone "ok lets just catch a few of these to max out their pokedex real quick". And next thing I know I've come across 3 new pokes each with reasonable ways to max out their pokedex so I start catching them too and now I'm halfway across the map and none of them are actually maxed out yet haha.
A lot of the basic Pokemon can be maxed on catch just by feeding them 5 or so berries
oh yea those are my favs when I see them.
Although sometimes the amount you need to feed them is insane for no reason.
I ran into a lickitung last night and got excited when I saw the feed category.
And then I saw the numbers. It was like 1-10-20-40-60.
Yea I'm not sitting there for that especially not for only 5 ranks!
I don't have Arceus but the starters for it are such a wild ride. Cyndaquil is the coolest of the starters. Dewott is the coolest middle evolution by far. And I like decidueye best for the final evolutions.
Well, spent the day tracking down satchels of some random people who had died (?) in the extreme south of the map.
..
And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
If you aren't online it just spawns in satchels for you from NPCs randomly instead of player satchels.
I think if you're online but don't have a subscription it does this. I also think if you don't have a subscription nobody will ever return your satchels.
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Well, spent the day tracking down satchels of some random people who had died (?) in the extreme south of the map.
..
And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
If you aren't online it just spawns in satchels for you from NPCs randomly instead of player satchels.
I think if you're online but don't have a subscription it does this. I also think if you don't have a subscription nobody will ever return your satchels.
I don't think it lets you go online in the game without a subscription.
I was in the menu the other day and went to switch online from on to off and it went straight to a screen telling me I needed to subscribe for that.
So regardless of being online I think the game is just considered offline unless you have the sub.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
edited April 15
Arceus has become the second best selling Switch game during launch week in Japan (1.43 million according to Famitsu, this doesn't include digital copies). Only beaten by Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Same story in the UK. Will probably be the same Stateside too if I were to hazard a guess.
edit- Even when you combine the sales numbers for both versions of previous Pokemon Switch games it still comes in second.
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Well, spent the day tracking down satchels of some random people who had died (?) in the extreme south of the map.
..
And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
If you aren't online it just spawns in satchels for you from NPCs randomly instead of player satchels.
I think if you're online but don't have a subscription it does this. I also think if you don't have a subscription nobody will ever return your satchels.
Well, when does it reward you with Merit points if you have the sub?
Is it when the other player acknowledges the satchel returned?
Cause my Merit points were immediate.
But yeah, I was thinking mine were bots, because the satchels weren't near alphas.
They were just in random spots.
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edited April 15
Oddly enough I have a Sub and I am connected to the internet in game, but all my satchels have been seemingly Bot names. However when someone picks up my satchel it shows a proper player name. It doesn't make much sense to me, but as long as I still get those Merits I guess it doesn't really matter.
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Well, spent the day tracking down satchels of some random people who had died (?) in the extreme south of the map.
..
And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
If you aren't online it just spawns in satchels for you from NPCs randomly instead of player satchels.
I think if you're online but don't have a subscription it does this. I also think if you don't have a subscription nobody will ever return your satchels.
Well, when does it reward you with Merit points if you have the sub?
Is it when the other player acknowledges the satchel returned?
Cause my Merit points were immediate.
But yeah, I was thinking mine were bots, because the satchels weren't near alphas.
They were just in random spots.
It's immediate regardless. I have online and I still get my points immediately on clicking the bags (or at least, the menu option to get them lights up with a [!] right away :P)
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You can definitely finish the story and roll credits without any of that, but I don't yet know if anything happens when you complete that stuff. And I don't really want to know, either.
I recently finished the story, and had been avoiding all info until now. Really love this game, despite its numerous issues. For all the problems with how bad things look, framerate, interface issues, control issues, etc... it's just fun. Really fun. I don't expect this style of game to take over the "main" series, but I'd be shocked if they don't continue making side games like this. I certainly hope that they do.
Later this week we'll likely find out how things went globally, but I doubt it is any different from what we're seeing in the UK.
a mere 3 hours with nothing to show for it, what a good time!
Which one? There are a bunch of evo items you can buy with merit points, is it one of them?
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Oh is that what that's for? I got one of those randomly and just stuffed it in my box lol
I can't walk two steps before something distracts me and I have to go check it out. It takes me hours to do a story quest lol.
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Meanwhile it took me about that long running around the area they spawn to finally find a Growlithe. At least I caught it first try.
This is looking like it'll be the first pokemon game since gold and silver, that I'll actually complete. One is working for me here is that you actually want to interact with the world beyond just slaughtering pokemon and catching one of each kind of pokemon that has an entry in the pokedex. I'm hoping the crafting and gathering system is brought forward for future games. Before someone mentions something about tech making store items so much better, gold and silver had the old fart that would make you pokeballs from apricorns and that also gave us things like berries. So I'd argue crafting and gathering resources for it could easily have a place. The research tasks are also a nice touch. Can't remember if the older games did much with the concept of quests outside the main storyline. Still all good stuff that helps the world feel more alive and causes you to actually interact with it.
There are some areas that need work. I'd like the option to just be able to toggle on sprint rather than having to hold down a joystick for it. Also have to wonder if it would be feasible to a slightly better setup for throwing stuff. Ended up wasting some items because i meant to throw out a pokemon to gather things and had other times where I forgot to switch to the pokeball and ended up in combat.
Also before I forget, love this game's method of catching pokemon so much more than the traditional setup, that forces you into combat before you can throw a damn ball out to catch a pokemon.
I didn't hear it the first time but I swear when I spotted Dustox it actually made a shiny chime sound (like what you would hear at the start of a shiny battle).
Never did find a Cherrim but I was able to evolve the lone Cherubi I got and get the dex entry done that way. What a pain in the ass request tho. That pokemon is too damn rare
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And then approached the first alpha from behind the mountain because it was the quickest way back to camp, and I was running out of inventory space, as well as nearing the level cap for my starter.
I'm not sure how the Nintendo internet subscription interacts with the satchels.
I don't have the sub.
Wait till you actually want to use it
So many times have I gone "ok lets just catch a few of these to max out their pokedex real quick". And next thing I know I've come across 3 new pokes each with reasonable ways to max out their pokedex so I start catching them too and now I'm halfway across the map and none of them are actually maxed out yet haha.
If you aren't online it just spawns in satchels for you from NPCs randomly instead of player satchels.
I believe so. I've definitely had some that just wanted nothing to do with the food I threw until I tried a different one. But it also seems like most like Oran berries
I have also had some that will eat a food you throw once and then not like it and not eat more of the same. Unless you throw one they do like then they start eating again.
Do people really not just pick the cutest/coolest starter? :P (seriously, these games are piss easy.. you could win with a team of bidoofs if you trained them right)
This is 100% the correct way to play
A lot of the basic Pokemon can be maxed on catch just by feeding them 5 or so berries
There have been a lot of those over the past few years...Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Ghost of Tsushima...
oh yea those are my favs when I see them.
Although sometimes the amount you need to feed them is insane for no reason.
I ran into a lickitung last night and got excited when I saw the feed category.
And then I saw the numbers. It was like 1-10-20-40-60.
Yea I'm not sitting there for that especially not for only 5 ranks!
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I think if you're online but don't have a subscription it does this. I also think if you don't have a subscription nobody will ever return your satchels.
I don't think it lets you go online in the game without a subscription.
I was in the menu the other day and went to switch online from on to off and it went straight to a screen telling me I needed to subscribe for that.
So regardless of being online I think the game is just considered offline unless you have the sub.
edit- Even when you combine the sales numbers for both versions of previous Pokemon Switch games it still comes in second.
Well, when does it reward you with Merit points if you have the sub?
Is it when the other player acknowledges the satchel returned?
Cause my Merit points were immediate.
But yeah, I was thinking mine were bots, because the satchels weren't near alphas.
They were just in random spots.
It's immediate regardless. I have online and I still get my points immediately on clicking the bags (or at least, the menu option to get them lights up with a [!] right away :P)