dude... wokemon is back.... hell yes........
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Pokémon Presents - Pokémon Day 2025 - Pokemon ZA Info & Pokemon Champions Announced
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I can see where they’re coming from too, it’s just that “where they’re coming from” is a paranoid and irrational fear and disdain of any ideas or ways of life that exist outside of their own insular delusions, coupled with a complete and total ignorance as to how the world actually works, so their crash-outs over being confronted with these realities remain that ever-odd mix of amusing and tiresome.
There seems to be a lot to the battle system and different effects for different kinds of moves. In the new preview aqua jet brings Totodile up close to the opponent so it can use bite. In an earlier vid Volt Switch moves Manectric back to the player.
I really wonder what the meta for the online battle will be like or if there will be much advanced play. Speed will probably be important.
I really wonder what the meta for the online battle will be like or if there will be much advanced play. Speed will probably be important.
as a guy with long hair I'm excited that they will finally let me have long hair ingame
I mean, not really? Pokémon doesn't really let either gender have long hair. SV already allowed either gender to use any hairstyle.
there are literally long hairstyle customization options shown in trailers already, granted all the ones they showed are very girly so I'm probably shit out of luck anyway. hopefully they let me have something resembling AZ's hair
Wokemon is back thanks to Smogon banning Sleep, very nice
YES. This is what it should have been all along, but I will take it. A character who can update their gender presentation over the course of a game is now a reasonable possibility.
The thing is, I think those people are actively harming their children by keeping them isolated and controlled, and I care more about their kids having freedom than I do about the parents' regressive ideas.
Ah, yes, I too remember the first time I sent out my Togekiss against Giovanni’s Mega Mewtwo Y and used Air Slash and Dazzling Gleam to deal STAB super effective damage and KO it because my Mismagius’s Ghost-Type moves only did STAB neutral damage.
We now know the Clefable line to be in the game. What's interesting is this is the very first Pokemon we've seen so far that wasn't in the XY dex.
This could mean nothing, LA had a handful of unaltered additions like Spheal, but it's odd here given how massive the og Kalos dex was and how many Fairies it had for obvious reasons. Why would they feel the need to deviate, unless...
They're doing exactly what you're thinking...
Introducing Red Clefairy as a counterpart to Ash Greninja
I can't believe they are taking the Pokemon website down for 4 hours to fix this error. Thank you bdt2002
just so everyone is aware, about a week from now we enter the danger zone of full on leaks and datamines of copies out in the wild.
legends arceus copies leaked 10 days before release
scarlet/violet copies leaked 12 days before release
legends arceus copies leaked 10 days before release
scarlet/violet copies leaked 12 days before release
Every mainline game since Sun & Moon has been spoiled for me because of YouTube video thumbnails and other social media. It’s not just Pokémon, either. The sad part is I don’t know if I care enough to try and stop myself from seeing these leaks anymore. Pokémon was never the greatest series ever when it came to story writing, and I could care less about the new Megas or anything else that may be spoiled for the masses. I also believe Game Freak to have always been horribly ineffective at combating these leaks to the point where I’m convinced they’re either A. using the leaks as free advertising, or B. genuinely do not care if their stuff gets leaked early so long as people spend money on their stuff.
With Sun & Moon I remember thinking that the game didn’t feel like traditional Pokémon and I even remember saying I thought the second Lusamine fight was a fake leak. Safe to say that aged poorly, but to my surprise when I did pick the game up it ended up becoming one of my favorites. Sword & Shield… exists, those games are so bad I still would have gotten bored even without spoilers, and Legends: Arceus and Scarlet & Violet were better but have only gone down in my rankings over the past two years. I don’t expect anything in this game that gets spoiled for me to change my mind on the final product, especially when we already know the game is “unfinished” on account of that DLC announcement (notice the air quotes).
I agree that they are but it probably sucks for the people who are very against spoilers.
most of the leaks are done in ways they can't really stop, like most of the leaked info we know about Legends ZA is from the massive teraleak which was info directly stolen from their servers. don't think it's fair to blame a company for this happening to them, they also aren't the only company to have gone thru something like this recently either. also afaik, this idea that companies leak stuff early to promote it as free advertising is incredibly rare and doesn't really make sense as they can't frame any of the content, they can't sell you on it, completely devoid of proper context.
most of the time things leak is the 2ish weeks before a game releases because some retailer or shipping service is lax and sends people copies before they are supposed to, or someone at a retailer that received the copy early in order to make sure they have stock decides to break the law. there's not much they can really do about this outside of like fully switching over to digital copies and ditching physical ones.
If that’s the case, I say we go all digital. I used to be on the side of preserving physical media, and for some items I still am. You’re never going to see me put even a dollar towards streaming for TV and movies, for instance. This is my one exception. My main priority above all else as a gaming fan is that games are accessible, and I feel like that and “preserved” don’t quite mean what they used to. People think that keeping physical media around will make older games more accessible but the truth of the matter is, these are objects that age over time regardless of if you “own it” or not. The rise of scalper culture and retailer failures is what ultimately changed my opinion on Physical Vs. Digital. It’s not a perfect solution to lock everything behind subscription services by any means, but it’s unfortunately the most realistic of two evils.
There is absolutely no universe where I will care about spoilers 1-2 weeks before release enough that we go to an all digital future.
And even if we did go that route there's still always an avenue for leaks. People who got to play test builds, journalists who dont care about opsec, outright theft...it wont happen to every series but the bigger it is the easier it is and more likely, especially if it's beloved.
I was already very excited for the game, but this preview now makes me fully ecstatic. PLA is my 3rd favorite game in the entire series and this game looks to be shoulder-to-shoulder with it in quality at the minimum. The game looks very fun and engaging with a gameplay loop that's different from Arceus but is satisfying in its own unique way. Using megas actually means something now and the new megas have much more compelling designs than most of the gen 6 megas had. I'm not even particularly concerned about the game's setting-I think a lot of people disappointed by that were expecting a completely different game in the first place. It's expanding on several things that were good about PLA while also very much being its own thing and I think that's really cool and very refreshing.
Speaking of leaks, if I really wanted to I could grab the game early since I know a retailer that will break street date by a couple days. But the game comes out officially on Thursday, I have D&D on Tuesdays, and I cannot justify the drive since it it's a county over and I would run up against rush hour traffic.
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Honestly, I love stuff leaking pre-release, and I find it grating to see people complain about "spoiling the surprise for everybody" or some inane crap like that. If you cared about my feelings about something as inconsequential as a videogame you wouldn't be preaching against something I enjoy.
Diamond and Pearl came out here TEN MONTHS after their Japanese release, but somebody would make a fuss over knowing about Leafeon before Japanese street release due to datamining. Sanctimonious shills I swear.
Diamond and Pearl came out here TEN MONTHS after their Japanese release, but somebody would make a fuss over knowing about Leafeon before Japanese street release due to datamining. Sanctimonious shills I swear.
I mean its understandable for people to want to experience something without getting spoiled on anything that happens, it would be very disrespectful to them if say they randomly get reccomended "SUPER SECRET FINAL BOZZZ!!" With a thumbnail that doesnt even try to hide it, its exactly the reason why people mute any discussion of recent games (good examples being deltatune or silksong) just to give people atleast a month before everyone can discuss it openly.
Its just about being considerate really.
Really my only issue with leaks is when they're unmarked. ALL BOSSES SHOWN OFF and then its like a climactic twist boss right in the thumbanil cool great love that. But "ALL BOSSES SHOWN OFF" and the thumbnail is like, a boss already shown off or stage 1 or whatever, that's fine.
Posting about Mega Pecharunt without a spoiler tag on a forum? Bad
Post about Mega Pecharunt under a spoiler tag? Questionable decision to have it here, and sometimes the context of the conversation still leads you to the conclusion, but you at least had decency.
And then there's the people that read leaks and are not even remotely subtle about it in common discussion. Your winking and nudging is just as bad. SV-era felt like it was full of that.
Also, fun thing? This still becomes a problem even if there were no leaks at all. Even without datamining you're still going to see similar things happening. So you're still not solving the problem you're just kicking it down the road a few days! The solution is for people posting these things to have some self control; incidentally there's this one guy who always posts all the music shortly after it becomes available and he always puts the more spoilery tracks behind obfuscated, marked titles, a generic thumbnail and then edits them after a few weeks when more people have beaten and talked about it. It's appreciated!
Posting about Mega Pecharunt without a spoiler tag on a forum? Bad
Post about Mega Pecharunt under a spoiler tag? Questionable decision to have it here, and sometimes the context of the conversation still leads you to the conclusion, but you at least had decency.
And then there's the people that read leaks and are not even remotely subtle about it in common discussion. Your winking and nudging is just as bad. SV-era felt like it was full of that.
Also, fun thing? This still becomes a problem even if there were no leaks at all. Even without datamining you're still going to see similar things happening. So you're still not solving the problem you're just kicking it down the road a few days! The solution is for people posting these things to have some self control; incidentally there's this one guy who always posts all the music shortly after it becomes available and he always puts the more spoilery tracks behind obfuscated, marked titles, a generic thumbnail and then edits them after a few weeks when more people have beaten and talked about it. It's appreciated!
I may be a filthy dirty leak freak who huffs spoilers like gasoline fumes, but I really don’t think it’s that hard to be considerate of people who aren’t. Unfortunately YouTube is particularly bad for this since spoilers in the thumbnail and title = clicks, and clout-chasers always want to be the first to break the story or seem like they’re in the know.