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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**
- Thread starter DHR-107
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Those Sunflora got trained by SSB for 3DS Olimar’s Pikmin and 3DS Moltres.
Jokes aside, those Sunflora look terrible. The game in general looks like it belongs on the GameCube tbh and GameFreak really needs to learn how to optimize performance. We’re on the 5th (4th if you don’t count BDSP being a game outsourced to literally whos) mainline Pokemon game and the games still look like they’re made beginners on a budget.
I just tend to assume the Pokémon world has a prolific synthetic meat industry for anything that can’t be harvested ethically. I mean, the technology level in Pokémon is way past ours. I’m kinda surprised they still haven’t ever tossed in some throwaway explanation to this effect, because it strikes me as a really obvious and simple solution to assuage peoples’ fridge horror?
You mean, finally leaving HOME
I haven't actually counted, but I feel like the number of mentions of Pokemon as food in Dex entries has gone up in the last 2 generations. Mentions of the Pokemon food chain are one thing, but it's really weird when 50% of a Pokemon's Dex entry is about how tasty it is.
I mean, the fact that it exists in the first place kind of implies that humans engaged in what is effectively cannibalism up until relatively recently. It's really a problem that gets much worse the more attention you draw to it (like the implications of the Pokemon food chain, but at least that's based on ecology). I'm just baffled as to why they put meat items in the game in the first place; it seems so much easier to just avoid that issue completely.
Also, the whole sandwich system feels like pointless "crafting system for the sake of having a crafting system" bloat. The whole "freedom" thing that open-world games love to throw out is just so thoroughly poisoned at this point that hearing it in the trailers actively makes my blood pressure go up.
Yes, I'll admit to being a Showdown player who doesn't actually play the games anymore, but I watch trailers for the new critters and I like doing media analysis.
The most critical piece of news about this game just dropped
"It's been 3,000 years..."
I stopped getting notifications for this thread for some reason?
Anyway, the sandwich minigame made me hungry, and apparently there's a Pokémon that looks like a Ceruledge/Amarogue pre-evo in one shot?
Anyway, the sandwich minigame made me hungry, and apparently there's a Pokémon that looks like a Ceruledge/Amarogue pre-evo in one shot?
I have good news for you: this is likely part of "English trailer is on a older branch".10FPS Sunflora (7:43): SWEET ARCEUS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THOSE SUNFLORA?!I see EVERY SINGLE FRAME of their animation! GF, there's only 9 Sunflora and the player on screen, PLEASE don't tell me the game is not able to handle that many models so you have to lower the FPS of Sunflora to a ridiculous amount!
In the jp trailer, the sunfloras are luckily not at 10 fps. (Timestamped at same moment)
Behold, in all it's 10 pixel glory.
It's been inconsistent for me, sometimes I will and sometimes I won't. It's really weird.
Also do we know what the padlock icon next to the gender and language icons is?
"What do you mean you don't grow meat on a farm. You're weird" - Tanemon probably
Tbh crafting systems like this are just there to give some "sense of purpose" to postgame.
I don't "like" them myself, as much as I don't like non-reusable TMs and having to grind BPs for battle items, but as far as game design goes, you kinda need to have some sort of "low effort chores" just for the sake of connecting gameplay to reward.
Games become way less interesting/boring to come back to if the only thing you have to do to play in VGC is put in numbers in a smogon-like simulator.
Of course there's good designed chore systems and bad designed ones, like the Cram O Matic in SwSh was a complete mess that stopped being funny after 3 minutes, while the Arceus craft system is more interesting as it both lets you make stuff on the go and gives a reason to hunt certain pokemon other than just dex entries.
As long as the TMM system doesn't require you to go out of your way to obtain certain 1% droprate materials, I think having a system like this one is fine.
I'm guessing paella is too difficult to cook for kids, I dunno, I only went to the Basque Country once and all I remembered was the hot summer.
Maybe it's more of a "foreign" thing for Japanese, since they don't really eat sandwiches bocadillos.
Paella is only in a region of Spain though.
Paella is only in a region of Spain though.
Me, uncultured swine, did not know about these till now. Now the sandwiches make sense
Considering the Pokemon world has the technology to reconstruct living beings from DNA extracted from fossils that are millions of years old, having a synthetic meat industry is hardly a stretch.
País Vasco, along with the rest of North Spain, is the cold side of the country. Despite being a relatively small country, different regions of Spain are almost like entirely different places of the world. In North Spain, and this includes Basque Country, the temperatures during summer reach about 25 to 28 degrees maximum, which by general standards (central and south spain) is cold. It depends on who you ask, different people from different regions have different tolerances to temperature, since they are extreme depending on where you live.
For example, here in Andalucía, in regions like Jaén, Córdoba or Sevilla, temperatures during summer reach about 42 to 45 degrees every day. From where I am, this is a normal week during July:
Even spanish folks living in the north, like Galicia, Pamplona, León, País Vasco, etc, have to be very careful when traveling to Andalucía because this temperatures are dangerous, even more for people from the UK, France, Germany, etcetera, who are not used to this weather. What I mean by this is if you felt hot in Vasque Country (which is completely normal, since Vasque Country temps could be considered high by other countries standards) at 20 something degrees, imagine at 43 or 45.
Paella is typically from Valencia, and is also consumed a lot in south Spain, but you can eat it everywhere. Like, every person in Spain knows what paella is and you can eat in in Madrid or Ciudad Real, to say something.
Although speaking of Pokémeat, I would like to share thoughts on the situation. I believe that the meat in the Pokémon World is merely Pokématter, just something pokes will give you instead of dying, similar to slowpoke tail, something it can regrow. Also I predicted bocadillos appearing in S/V (close enough bruh bocadillo is literally spanish for sandwich) in June
While reasonable, there is the fact that several Pokemon species are stated to predate each other, consequentially they are indeed edible.
With these premises, there's no real reason for which humans wouldn't be able to eat pokemon as well.
Sure, preferably humans try to feed on... regrowable bits, probably as a consequence of the symbiosis they developed over the ages, but there's no real reason to believe that in ancient times (think Hisui or even earlier) humans didn't feed on Pokemon.
Farfetch'd was eaten by people to the point it became endangered. Doesn't sound like it was a distant past type of deal, either.
(reminder that the japanese trailer has them running much smoother)