>"Let's play som Sun/Moon" >open 3DS >visit

>Buys a multiplayer-focused game for single-player

What did he mean by this?

If you're playing Pokemon for singleplayer, you are objectively doing it wrong

Yeah, I hate to say it but I haven't touched S/M in months. Whenever I get a fix for playing Pokemon, I either go back to BW2/HgSs, or play ROMS on my phone.

You've posted this exact thread every day this week. Kill yourself

>>32491553
second

>>32491533
>This thread again

Reposting for (You)'s as usually OP? Pathetic

>>32491546

This right here. I spend most of my time battling friends and randoms. Honestly battling has always been the best part of pokemon anyways.

>>32491546

Damn, really, so I've been doing it wrong for 20 years? And here all this time I thought that different people could enjoy different things, and could each have a good time playing the game however they prefer. God, what a fool I've been.

>>32491586

Atleast you're aware of your mistake now.

>>32491533
I think the lack of an ingame national dex plays against the games too.

>>32491598

Yeah, but man, all that time I've wasted over the years having fun the wrong way. So many regrets.

>>32491533
>completes a game
>complains it's over and can't do anything else
You should play Minecraft or something

>>32491662
Yeah poor you.
Maybe you'll get friends now that you know how things work.
Until then, good luck, I guess.

This is some tasty ravioli.

>>32491546
no point in online when I know I'll be beat into submission by tapu,ub,megas and other stuff.

>>32491533
I literally haven't played anything Pokemon related since 2016. What the fuck am I doing here.

>>32491533
then play a different game????
what exactly is the problem here, s/m suck we know
if you don't like it then play something else

>>32492272
No!

>>32491533
Did you bother to get all the stamps in your trainer passport?

>>32492277
Double dubs confirm.

>>32492277
i will fight you

>>32491546
Too bad the multiplayer is shit. Less options than showdown, slower than showdown, more expensive than showdown, and doesn't work on mobile unlike showdown.

Pokemon games were better when they had post-game. This "hurr the multiplayer is the post-game" meme doesn't work.

>>32491546
The way GF handles multiplayer, I don't think it's their main focus.

>>32491533

is the post game really that bad...?

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This is literally nothing new.
Fuck your shitty bait

>>32491533
This is exactly what I do. I can beat some of the best players in PvP but I manage to get fucked over every time I get to 40+ in the Battle Tree. So I don't even have the BP stamps and I don't care to anymore. But I do think they're decent games, not as good as most but decent.

>>32492163

you literally cannot complete pokemon game, because the formula is repetitive, there should be second challenge after credits, optional, harder to beat, with another legendary and second evil team motives, with many new areas and mons, interesting npc's ect. ect. you know, an living world, something like HG SS

>>32492460

post game for the first game in a generation is always bad

>>32492515
>always
Is it?

>>32492620
SM has more to do than DP or BW

>>32492515
here's a novel idea: maybe they should try and make it good the first time instead of jewing people for a second / third version for once

but I guess that's too much for poor old gamefreak

>>32492640
>DP or BW
Than BW sure, but more than DP? Really?

>>32491533

Sounds more like Animal Crossing.

>>32491553
Same. Took me a year to finish X/Y and I still haven't finished Moon. I just don't like it, I can't force myself to play more than 15 minutes once every month or so.

>>32491546
Too bad the multiplayer is shit.

>"Let's play some _____"
>open game
>visit_____ and collect some _____
>talk to some NPCs
>runs into 2 or 3 wild Pokémon and run
>talk to 2 or 3NPCs in _____
>save game
>close system
>go back to browsing /vp/
Yeah, good series.

>>32492423
>Pokemon games
>postgame

>>32492640
kys. Both DP and BW have more areas to explore in the post-game than SM. Half of Poni Island for post-game is nothing. I completed that shit in 2 nights.

>>32492822
Anon are you me?

I was really delighted by XY, even the aspects that everyone whines about like Tierno and co. being annoying, or the lack of content, but they were so fun and enjoyable to play that I even bought the complementary version (I always got just one) so I could play it over again.

SM has something that just doesn't feel like a coherent pokemon game. That, and the endless fucking cutscenes.

>>32492423
Showdown on mobile? How?

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>>32491533
>"Let's play some Yo-Kai Watch 2"
>open 3DS
>gets pic related to follow me around like in HG/SS
>visit Infinite Tunnel, Crank-a-Kai, lottery and gymnasium to train and get good Yo-Kai
>discover some new Yo-kai I didn't know about just by interacting with something at some ungodly in game hour
>beat the post game dungeons
>talk to some NPCs to do a side quest that lets me fight a secret boss in a dungeon I couldn't access in the main story or would've had a reason to explore
>befriend some new Yo-kai
>have chuckle over some of the gooofy monster designs
>Play with one of the five people online
>save game
>close 3DS
>go back to browsing /vp/

>>32491546
>multiplayer-focused
and that's exactly why the games have gone to shit

>>32492515
why do people allow GF to intentionally make a bad game every few years? This should no longer be a defense

Also, GS and BW are good. RS is fine.

>>32492640
SM's region is half as big as the ones in the other games, and has less content than that half

>>32491546
>multiplayer-focused
But the online portion of the game is literally a step down from the last game. We lost entire formats, and the UI is garbage now. And no one wants to play Battle Royal.

>>32491533
Yeah, SM is probably the quickest Pokemon game I've dropped.

>>32491645
It really does. It seems insignificant in the large scope of things, but knowing I won't even be expanding my dex if I do sign up for the bank and transfer Pokemon really kills any desire to bother with it. And that means ignoring the cross compatibility with other games in the series, which used to be a big thing for me.

>>32495175
That sounds pretty good besides
>Play with one of the five people online

My problem Is I never bought 2 once I found out the purchase incentives are for the DIGITAL version of the game, not the physical. How backwards is that?

>>32491546
>Buys a multiplayer-focused game for single-player
Yeah, because the first three generations where sooo good online

>>32495450
I remember having fun waiting for homeroom to start, scanning infrareds for mystery gifts during gen 2. That was probably the most in person multiplayer action I ever got out of Pokemon outside of events and cons.

>>32491533
>decide to replay SM with Pokemon I've never used before
>start a new game and start playing
>wait 15 minutes
>turn off game
I just want to play with the new Pokemon but SM's story is so fucking obtrusive.

>>32495551
Agreed, Regardless of whether you like the story or not, it should be designed with a returning player in mind, and it isn't.

>>32495551
>>32495632
It's like they WANT fans to dwell on the lack of post game, instead letting them play through the game again for a new experience.

>>32495175
I can say the same about SM, i think that even you can do more things in the postgame. Also the duration of the main game in YW does not surpass the 15 hours.

>>32496060
A lot of SM is taken up by forced chatting, cutscenes, and fade-to-black bullshit.

>>32495450
forgetting what link cables were used for

>>32495223
Right, because then there's absolute no need to get the other 500 Pokémon, just the ones you'd want to use.

>>32493102
>GSC
>Emerald
>FRLG
>Platinum
>HGSS
>BW2

>>32495148
Showdown works on phones.

>>32491546
Is this actually the point /vp/ has gotten to in defending Game Freak.

Like holy shit, wow. I really have no words

>>32497223
>second region
ok

>battle tower clone and other 1 hour long at most activities
Wow, amazing postgame.

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And this one is for Anon >>32497367

>>32497703
>>32497712
You're really going to reply to someone who doesn't know what a shill is?

>>32497335
>I-it doesn't c-count

how do I make myself want to battle, /vp/? I have no problem breeding Pokemon and getting achievements from the Frontier/Maison/Tree but after that I don't really enjoy the games anymore. I don't enjoy the pvp I guess. How do I fix? Anyone else been in the same boat as me? How did you overcome?

>>32497765
You don't, its a fucking video game do whatever you want, only autists care about "having fun wrong"

>>32497785
I want to get into it though. Everybody I know who still plays it does it for the multiplayer aspect. I've only ever had like 4 battles in my life with other people. I want to enjoy it

>>32497892
Ironically you have to be autistic to get into competitive pokemon like that.

I've been shiny hunting in Y/OR, I haven't touches Sun quite so much lately because I want to hunt for Politoed the lazy way and that's a pain in the ass.
That being said, Sun and Moon are good games

>>32497357
>>32497367
>>32497972
>>32497986
>>32498018
this is absolutely pathetic.

>>32498094
>>32498059
>>32498054
Can we all just stop replying to him?
He'll go to bed soon enough.

Anyways, the real problem with SM is that nobody wants to go through the trouble of making a team, so none of my friends have anything to battle with.

>>32491546

I personally find the skill gate for Pokémon multiplayer is way too high to enjoy it effectively. The single player doesn't prepare you at all to compete in any way in multiplayer.

>Hurrr git gud faggot lol

>>32498205
I don't it's high so much as it is a hassle. Especially when it comes to SM where training is a chore.

>>32498205
This is actually true. It doesnt even have enoug Double battles, nor does it really teach you about synergy with items and pokemon and shit like that.

If you have friends to battle with it's good practice though

>>32498223

I also just don't "get" multiplayer battling. I personally get most of my enjoyment out of completing the dex and collecting items and TMs.

>>32498198
>you're from /v/
of course

>>32498236
For me it's exploring the regions. All my favourite games just had regions I really liked exploring and checking out the locations and stuff like that. The most I really do for multiplayer is battle friends, I rarely ever do Battle Spot stuff

>>32498251
Stop replying to him you idiot.

>>32497703

Didn't you openly said you had ranged ip last thread? At least stop quoting every /vp/fag who calls your bullshit. You didn't even bothered to make up excuses like last time.

I think it just depends on which game is your favorite. That's the one you can go back and play over and over without ever getting bored. All the others are just meant to play through once, do a little online, and that's it. Depends if you're into competitive battling/breeding I gues.

I'm a filthy genwunner but my favorite games to come back to are crystal and platinum

>>32498256
Oh that's my only one, I know when the autism I'm seeing is too strong. Plus he's pumping them out like crazy. He may really be barneyfag

>>32498266
This is true, the way pokemon games are similar, you will probably be thinking about replaying your favourites more than any of the other games. I havent played Platinum more than once because I never thought of it, and just found an XY save online so I wouldnt have to. Though I may actually take on Platinum again

>>32498191
How's that any different from any past games?

>>32498288
I dont actually know why. It isnt much different for me. But for some reason, this is the first time where everyone has had the game for months but nobody else has many teams and they all say they just havent bothered this time

Maybe it's because a lot of mons are rare? I think it might be that Pokemon Bank kept all their old mons in past games and SM's pokedex isnt big like Kalos' to mitigate that

I just got everything I needed over the GTS

>>32498284
I'm >>32498266


That's a really good point you brought up about the core aspect of the games being the real "nostalgia kicker" towards thinking about what makes your favorites your favorites.

>>32492237
Good way to tell someone hasn't even touched online.

You know there's game modes where those pokemon are banned right?

Haha of course not

>>32498307
Yep. Since the formula is similar, the details are going to determine your favourites. Like Kirby games.

>>32498330
>Kirby games

That's a great comparison. Same goes for 2D Mario.

So yeah regarding platinum I'm gonna make a very bold recommendation and tell you to hack yourself all three starters when playing through the game.
The dual typing all compliment each other really well and there's plenty of other dual type Pokémon to give yourself a really diverse team.

>>32498352
I probably wont, since I already need a Staraptor and dont think I want so many pokemon on my team that quickly. If anything I'll get Piplup and Chimchar though, since Sinnoh and Fire types

2D mario is also a good option. Though I think 2D Mario and Kirby are much, much more consistent than Pokemon.

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>>32497972
>he thought I was Anon >>32497728
Again, stop guessing and choosing random posts, Anon.

>>32492253
S A M E

>>32498372
That's fair.
Catching a starly early on is always a bro combo with whichever starter.

>>32498298

KEK, good times

>>32491533
>>32492272
>>32497260

>the problam with Oras
>""what went wrong""
>no post-game!!
>sonic 06!

Am doing it right too senpai? Can I get a job :^)

>>32498387
Starly is just the best early bird in the series. The second time I played HGSS I traded one over instead of bothering with Hoothoot or Pidgey

>>32498393
Good shit brother.
I was distraught that pidove couldn't recapture the magic since I'm a big fan of BWs overall aesthetics.
However the way they handled pseudo 3D in that game along with the animated sprites being abysmal I can never go back to it all the way through.
Fletching was a good concept regarding the typing but it's too powerful in game and in any competitive scene for my liking.
I can't recall the name but the gen 7 bird is a step back in the right direction.

Going back to pidgey I always liked pidgeotto the best but that line just got too old for me after all these years. Even with pidgeot's mega

>>32498422
I actually love how the 3D overworld was handeled in BW. I legitimately still prefer Unova's overoworld to anything that came after it aesthetically. Though the later ones arent bad either.

And yeah, it's a shame Pidove is shit. Fletchling is fine in game since it's not like you'll get a Hidden Ability one. And Toucannon was also essential to my team, I took it to the league with me.

>>32492423
>doesn't work on mobile like showdown

The games are literally made for handheld gaming devices. What the fuck isn't mobile about them?

>>32498457
There was no mobile showdown app. One was made but I dont remember how far in development it got.

Mobile showdown is only good if you have a big phone or tablet that can easily use desktop sites

>>32498392

You also forgot the genwunner threads and the yokai watch posts that triggered him. OP may be a paid shill, but it's not a good one. No wonder Zach Whiteshit keeps shielding the fuck.

>>32498452
Damn son. I'm gonna have to boot up my old copy of white and maybe fix my memory. I'm pretty confident what I said is true regarding any area where the screen is zoomed out like the city but I do remember certain areas being great. Like I said I really dig the region overall.

Nice talking to you anon

>>32498469
I was sort of just spazing out about how the guy said that the mainline pokemon games aren't mobile

But hey, it's interesting that they were making a showdown app; why was it scraped?

>>32498496
I dont know if it was scrapped, I just forgot to keep up with it after my friends got too usy to battle anymore. t's probably in a great state right now actually.

>>32498437

You think THAT is butthurt? Once OP/orashatefag was shitting on black/white. He got triggered so hard he spent the whole day spamming gay porn threads on the whole board with "black and white" written and bitching about "unovabortions"

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>>32498489
Well, BW's overworld is polarizing and I dont pretend to have the popular opinion in that regard. I dont even mind the zoomed out areas. Helped with a sense of scale. Loved Skyarrow Bridge.

>>32498198
I've been browsing /vp/ since 2011 and have no idea who this Zach you speak of is, or what you mean by a "leak". Maybe I need to lurk moar, but would you mind explaining a few things to me?

Do you mean to say there are paid shills from Sony/Microsoft here badmouthing every nintendo game? Do you have any hard evidence for this?

>>32497728
>>32498112

Remember when you were making those edits on the "problem with gen 1" pic and nobody felt for your shit? You started replying the exact same way you did here, word by word, it's kinda funny how your obvious falseflags didn't changed, but I bet you still fished a few redditboys.

>>32497972

Also notice the time of each of his posts, the whole thread, even when OP tried to feign discussion is all timed, there was one of his posts that wasn't and it fell for the mobile detector trick, so you know how he did it

>>32498673
too bad /vp/ mods are dead, this autism is completely derailing and really cringey.

>>32498531

>this new

Since every fag here is busy shitposting profusely or seems to have left, I'll explain it to you: remember the daily omega ruby threads, where "someone" would post a pic of the cover art and proceed to post pastas all day. member how this went every day for years? In one of those, someone posted a ton of shit proving the posts were coming from an outsourced company and a ton of shady shit. Look it up

>>32498531
>Sony/Microsoft

fyi, while we do have proof that Sony shills in 4chan, we don't know if this one in /vp/ case was them. Those big companies are known to hire small marketing firms in third world countries, it's not like they dirt themselves with it.

It's like the Ghostbusters reboot (also sony ironicallu), one of the companies shilling that movie was australian. They also buy and sell accounts on twitter and big sites that aren't anon like here.

>>32497740
Right back to you, faggot.
>if i don't like it it doesn't count

>>32491546
>multiplayer-focused
Anon... have you ever used the Festival Plaza? There is type of Plaza visitor request where you can compare your records with the visitor's records (such as the total number of Battle Spot battles, number of trades, number of Eggs hatched, number of beans collected and many more). As someone who used to grind Festival Coins daily, I shit you not, 95% of all people I ever talked to had a big fat 0 in every single of those categories.

Reality check - majority of Pokemon players don't give a single crap about anything that isnt the main adventure and GameFreak would be crazy if they actually made the games "multiplayer focused".

>>32491546
Pokémon is not Call of Duty though. It is a single-player monster collecting JRPG first and a competitive game second.

Playing online on cart is a slow, painful experience. Both connecting to an opponent and furthering the battle need to go faster, and there should be more game modes.

>>32499737
CoD is a single player war FPS first and a multiplayer game second though.

>>32499824
Maybe in early 00

>>32499825
Nope. Hell, except the last one, when they're presented at E3, it's always showing single player stuff.

Just because people mainly play it for the multiplayer, it doesn't mean it isn't a single player game first. And this isn't even on the level of "tacked on sp" like Splatoon or Anarchy Reigns.

>"Let's play som ........."
>open gb/gbc/gba/ds/3ds
>visit Battle ...... and fight
>talk to some NPCs
>runs into 2 or 3 wild Pokémon and run
>save game
>close gb/gbc/gba/ds/3ds
>go back to browsing /vp/
Yeah, good games.

>>32499838
>closing your gbc
not a good idea.

>>32499843
ok, turn it off then

>>32492237
regular online battles are usually people just like you taking their shitmon team online for the fuck of it

still boring though, I'm new to the games so I don't really have the nostalgic element keeping things going for me and the animations are fucking terrible

>>32499824
you're deluded if you think pokemon isn't becoming more and more about competitive. it was intended to be a social game to begin with and technology is only helping further that.

you don't even get access to the majority of the pokemon in this """single player""" game you're so defensive of.

>>32499887
meant to reply to >>32499737

>>32499887
If you are trying to pretend to debate, so to /sci/

>>32499824
So are you going to play this retarded plot something about Russians in the main campaign, or shoot your friends in the dick in multiplayer?

>>32499838
Yeah, good post.

help blind original supply catch spatial apart remove boat tobacco metal camp

It's good to know these threads are the new box art shitposting thread

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>Let's play some HGSS
>open game
>visit Radio Tower and collect some points
>talk to some NPCs
>runs into 2 or 3 wild Pokémon and run
>Battle 2 or 3NPCs in muh Frontier
>Saving a lot of Data...
>close system

>>32500594
>not going setting up any rematches
>not going to the Pokeathlon
>not doing the Bug Catching COntest
>not playing any Voltorb FLip
>not going to the Daily Drawing Corner
pleb way to play

>>32491553
This desu, though with Explorers of Sky instead of B2W2.

>>32498392
>>sonic 06!
what?

>>32492640
Step up your bait man come on
At least use a viable example like X and Y or RBY

>>32497335
>Ignoring the sevii islands
>Ignoring the island the battle frontier was on in platinum
>Ignoring contests, pokeathlon, polestar, etc.
>Ignoring there being actual places to find by exploration like the Jigglypuff hidden alcove in Emerald
>Ignoring the creative ways to find legendaries like the Regis

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>>32498223
>99% of the game is single battles
>the official format is doubles, where single battle tactics are fucking useless

>>32503652

I'm surprised he didn't spammed against >>32492467 too. I think at that point he was trying to ignore people calling out his shilling.

Then he got triggered...

>>32503588
>>32503610
>>32503652
>>32503664
you're not even trying to hide it.

>>32503652
>he will just play victim and ask newfags to ignore whoever calls him out

Right as a clockwork, he did what was said like a fiddle, see >>32503683


The little bitch got so triggered she again mass quoted everybody who angered her to save face. AGAIN. It's like predicting an angry animal

>>32500794
>>32491533

Yeah it certainly "for some reasson", not becaus eof what >>32492199 and >>32491567 said.

Nope, you're just a poor user, we all just imagined the 1000000000000 times you shitposted here before and admitted it.