Vinnie

I know the controversy over dexit and the games in general is wearing out it's welcome, but this went up a few days ago and it's a really, really good watch. I enjoy Lockstin's vids in general, but the way he plays devil's advocate while discussing this issue was really nice. Everyone on either side of the issue cherry picks, but he basically went all out for both sides, and then some.

Yeah, both of them having immediate power like that would be frightening. Honestly though, they both deserve at least a neutral ability at this point. Power creep has gone that far.

Thank you, and yeah, I'm definitely checking out that walkthrough. I've played through a good portion of Rejuv on my own already but I'm not quite as familiar with it as I was with Reborn so the help will be appreciated. I'm making a few changes for the Rejuv playthrough, mainly just taking people's advice here and there. I did try my best to listen to people's suggestions and improve the Reborn walkthrough as much as I could while going through it, but I was also a bit careful not to change a whole lot or make any big changes halfway through. I'm hyped for Rejuvenation though. Really amazing game and hopefully I can do it justice.

I grew up hearing the non-covered version and still love it, but this. This rocks.

And it looks like we're done here. I'm not even sure if this will be continued post E19 since I'll be compiling information in larger, more organized vids to make up for the E19 changes. Thanks for the good times and to everyone who's either helped out or supported this.

Because unfortunately the devs of the official games are always look for a way to make faster cash with less effort and resources. If the games go downhill because of it, then it's not their problem. It's a shame, although it's heartwarming to think about all the effort devs of fan made games have put into their works.

You're quite right, but fan games have many hurdles that they can never overcome. There's the legalities, of course, which need no explanation. And then there's the actual management of the game, the work, effort and time required. All of these are reasons why fan games take so long in development. The team of devs for most fan games is tiny, with some only having one dev at all which also means their work is absolutely amazing considering their small teams but again, that slows down progress. Fan games are fantastic considering what they struggle against and they already beat out the official games when it comes to riveting, engaging stories and content, but lack of support and recognition hurts.

Yeah, it's too little too late for changes towards Sword/Shield. I have this secret hope that they're ashamed and that while they won't acknowledge their mistakes, maybe, just maybe they'll fix them in the next installment of the core series, but I wouldn't count on it. It's a shame the rights to Pokemon are in the hands they're in. We've already seen via reddit that we have many talented artists, graphics designers and animators. The game could be made by much better hands, with more love and dedication.

To be honest, I think he's addicted to nuzlockes. It's not just about the hype for him, but I remember back during the Alpha Sapphire Extreme Randomizer he mentioned that he found it hard to play Pokemon games normally.

I was so upset when this got taken down, but I noticed recently that it got reuploaded. Happy times.

Surprised to see this. It'll be a good watch, but I don't know if I expect him to get far in. His nuzlockes have been sloppy after the first extreme randomizer he released. Reborn's difficulty far surpasses that of Insurgence or Gaia.

Feels like 2006 was almost yesteryear.

Looks like I'll be wrapping everything up in the next part. Also the thumbnail glitched out, hopefully it fixes itself.

Definitely wasn't first try. One of the issues with gauntlets is that a little bad luck can ruin your day. It's not really a big deal normally, since you can just toss revival herbs at your Pokemon if they miss their moves too often or get critted, but I really wanted everything to be clean when recording. Staraptors isn't EV trained, although I checked it's stats screen and it's got 2 31 IVs, one in HP, although only 45 EVs. The mole is pretty strong though, and that was without bringing in a lot of the event Pokemon. Excadrill is an amazing pokemon in general, competitively, and even speed running wise. I haven't had to EV train any of my pokemon yet, even after the recent Solaris battle, although I'd say I'm cutting it close. The Pokedex is also on the to-do list, but it's going to have to wait until after E19. I just read that all the TMs are going to be moved around as of E19, so I'm assuming Pokemon locations will be as well. But that will be it's own video most likely.

There was a lot wrong with the 3DS generation of Pokemon. We lost endgames, and lots of added events were scrapped for mystery gifts that straight up gave us the Pokemon that we should've had events for. But something else has been bothering me a lot with them as well. I watched a video called out of bounds for X&Y. For the most part, the guy in the video is just messing around, but you also started to notice certain details. A lot of the areas in X&Y aren't actually full rendered in 3D. They're only partly rendered so that they look that way from the camera angle that you're forced into viewing them from. This is why there isn't a movable camera in the 3DS Pokemon games I imagine. I can't say if it's pure laziness and cutting corners because I'm sure this could potentially save a lot of space on the 3DS games cartridge but it's been bugging me lately.

Back at you :^ But yeah, I forgot how salty people could get on showdown, even in the higher elos. And it's not like I'm trying to demonize any portion of the Pokemon community. I do think we have one of the best communities out there. It's just that online interactions don't always go as smoothly as game developers would like, or even imagine. Sometimes game devs try to create features for more unique interactions that end up being used by one part of the player base to troll, agitate or grief the other part, and well, that's just how it is. That's part of the role of a game dev, you have to think about these issues before you release your finished product.

Thanks, glad you find it enjoyable and helpful! I do my best.

Well, if you take the GTS for example, and look at all the troll offers there, that doesn't give me a lot of hope. I know it's not exactly the same situation, but the attitudes kinda transfer over.

And there goes the big gauntlet. I'm exhausted.

It's not really that the community is splitting apart, it was never truly whole to begin with. There's always going to be people who don't like new generations and stay behind with the old. It's more like this is a fracture of a fracture. There's already a split between Gen 8 and everything that is not Gen 8, and then within Gen 8 it'd be like having major divides. It's harmful to that branch of the community, and for a competitive scene, it can really slow down queue times if there's too many variants. Aside from rules, restrictions, and tierings, not much else is shaped by Smogon which is the issue here. The meta shapes itself naturally, and it's tiered and monitored slightly accordingly. Creating a separate set of tierings creatures it's own challenge though, especially when you inject Pokemon that were not updated and included in the meta into that tiering, or even items that weren't included. It puts the burden of actually choosing to update, and "balance" Pokemon within that meta game on smogon, where previously, the Smogon tiering was just that, a monitored tiering system. And yeah, Z-moves were a wonderful addition. On reddit most people seem to hate them and only care about megas, but at least on the competitive forums there's a lot of love and concern for both. They work well side by side. I think best case scenario is to add Gen 8 to Showdown as if it was taken naturally from the games, tier that and leave it. It's rough, but trying to do anything else would over complicate the situation.

I giggled. Probably Anticipation, that way I can avoid all surprises.

There's no hurry, take your time. Besides, I already covered the desert, so it's something other people should be able to use with ease.

I haven't really paid attention to a lot of the news. I made my decision on the games in general, and I'll stick to it, at least until the games come out and we get further info. The switch lite looks slick though. When the switch first came out I remember people suggesting how it would replace the 3ds, and one of my biggest complaints was that it was clearly meant to be a console platform. Take your regular switch out of it's docking system, hold it between your hands and play with it for a while. It's not a handheld. It's a bit bulky even for me, and you can't just get comfortable somewhere with it. The switch lite fixes that. Also I haven't really kept up on the news on what's happening with showdown. When the national dex issue was first announced, there was a lot of discussion about not moving showdown forward into Gen 8. From what I hear, now the discussion is more towards hosting multiple formats of Gen 8 battle sets. Basically, there would a format for Gen 8 battles as they are, and then a format for Gen 8 battles including every single Pokemon. Normally I wouldn't worry because we have so many different formats on Showdown already, but this has already brought up the point: "What about a Gen 8 format without dyna/gigamax with Z-moves and Megas instead?" or "How are you going to manage all the Pokemon that are left out. They'll be left behind update wise when it comes to new moves, abilities, and stat updates." To make matters worse, there's the potential of a completely separate tiering on Smogon itself which almost makes it official. It's a bit nerve wracking because you can see the community being split up with this.

Yeah that could work. Sorry, last couple of days have been busy.