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Ohhh, that's the original. Well, I hope you have fun with it nonetheless...the Go Rock Squad is pretty colourful. Like a prototype Team Skull, you might say.

I wonder if the events would still work? I remember you could get a Manaphy Egg from the first two Ranger games, and I think a Deoxys was locked behind a multiplayer mission on the third.

 

Ah well, I'll see when I get time to play it!

(btw @Dawn do you wanna share your Switch friend code? :3 asking here since i can't message you or access your profile)

 

Let us know how you get on
I've not played a Pokémon game in ages, actually...I DO have Eevee on preorder, but I will probably cancel it because I despise motion controls with every fibre of my being and don't appreciate being forced to use them.

(I was gonna post in the Switch FC thread at some stage xD)

 

I'll be sure to do so!

I'll play it I think but I'm a lot more hyped by the 2019 one. Tho how simplified Let's Go is does kinda suck, but at least we know it's for a good reason.

 

I don't mind simplified gameplay honestly, what puts me off is that there is literally no reason for the games to be motion controlled only other than "because the developer said so" which is basically "we couldn't be bothered, too bad!". I mean, I'm pretty sure the devs of Mario Odyssey wanted you to use the motion controls in that, but they didn't force you to use them if you wanted to play the game...they just reminded you of them every time you booted it up or acquired a new ability with infuriating pop-ups and prompts. But that's better than making them the only option.

These things just do not work as well as proper button controls and are not fun. It's depressing to say the least...I just hope they either leave them out of the 2019 title entirely or make them purely optional. Player choice should not be sacrificed on a developer's whim.

 

Yeah I don't really like motion controls for something else than a gyroscopic camera. Like how the heck are you gonna catch Pokémon in places where you can't just take your joycon off and move it.

 

I *think* in handheld mode all you need to do is move the Switch around to aim and then press a button, but...ugh, gyroscopic controls. Those are the worst kind of motion controls for how horrendously sensitive and/or inaccurate they are. It just...doesn't work. It's also extremely insensitive to people with mobility issues who want to play these games - they're quite literally inaccesible to them.

I'm still hoping something will be patched in between now and release, though. There HAS to have been some backlash to this.

 

In the past two days I've ran into 3 random shiny Pokémon in USUM: a Passimian, a Wingull, and a Roggenrola. The Shiny Charm rolls are real rn X_X

 

I've had some luck but a not whole lot since SS

 

The only shiny I've seen in over a decade is an Alola Rattata...I've never had very good luck with these things, and zero patience to hunt when it's pure RNG as to whether you find anything or not.

 

I've seen a shiny zigzagoon in gen 3 and a shiny pidove in gen 5, but in the end, I didn't keep either one of them X3

 

My first shiny was a Whismur in Gen 3! I lost it when my copy of X corrupted and cost me everything I had ;w;

I had/have a vague dream of making a shiny living dex, but god it'd take far too long. RNG in Pokémon is...awful.

 

Ooo, our random shiny encounters? Mine was a Growlithe in White 2. I was in the Virbank City outskirts (whatever that place was) and all of a sudden I saw a golden Growlithe. I lost my shit at that moment because it was my first natural shiny encounter.

 

Here's the story of mine!

 

I can't find the video anymore but there's a guy who explains that his shiny actually makes a lot of sense. If the magma actually were as hot as the Pokédex says it is, the magma would actually be purple. So I guess in that sense it's pretty cool.

 

True, none of the early shinies were done on purpose. In that case it was just a happy coincidence, but still, it's kind of cool that real-life science matches up like that. Don't see that too often in Pokémon