Things that grind your gears!

[Pokefan_1987]

I am just replaying Pokemon White 2 and man I forgot how ANNOYING the Pokestar Studios was. It was literally forced on you just to progress further. Whoever at game freak came up with this idea needs to be fired. It goes nowhere, it doesn't make any sense why its there, only just make you talk to Captain to help you progress to the next town.

Yup, the dialogue is cringy as well. And most text is SLOW in the older games before Gen 8

Word. And legendaries used to be a real pain to catch. Bombardier is one Pokemon in gen 9 that gave me a hard time. Enough of one, that I named it LowCatchRate.

I had a recent one happen with Chi-Yu and after 30 pokeballs and he was paralyzed and i didn't have anyone with False Swipe....then i finally caught him.
(I originally used the Master Ball on that second Miraidon that waits in the crater after the credits)

 

[WishIhadaManafi5]

Yup, the dialogue is cringy as well. And most text is SLOW in the older games before Gen 8


I had a recent one happen with Chi-Yu and after 30 pokeballs and he was paralyzed and i didn't have anyone with False Swipe....then i finally caught him.
(I originally used the Master Ball on that second Miraidon that waits in the crater after the credits)

Wow. Yea it's frustrating.

 

[Ignition]

The fact that the Spinda mess in BDSP still hasn’t been fixed

 

[Pokefan_1987]

The fact that the Spinda mess in BDSP still hasn’t been fixed

What mess, i never heard of it.

 

[Ignition]

What mess, i never heard of it.

The way its spots are generated is bugged and could cause them to change

 

[Pokefan_1987]

The way its spots are generated is bugged and could cause them to change

Perhaps it's one of those games that they dropped of their radar and don't have any plans to fix anymore after the release.

 

[Ignition]

Perhaps it's one of those games that they dropped of their radar and don't have any plans to fix anymore after the release.

That’s not a good excuse when people spend $60 to play the game in the first place.

 

[Pokefan_1987]

That’s not a good excuse when people spend $60 to play the game in the first place.

True
Honestly it's still a rushjob game, enormous chibi heads (not in battles) and several difficulty spikes it has late in the game. The E4 are one of the WORST offenders i've ever seen. It's all too easy to even lose before you reach Cynthia if you don't research their updated movepools in BDSP. I did overlevel my team before that.

Brilliant Diamond is by far the least touched game in my collection.
You can't get most of decent pokemon hiddden in the grand underground until unlocking the National Dex post E4, imports or trading.

Best upgrades were
shared exp share
always accessible boxes (which Gen 8 created)
increased movement speed (compared to Gen 4 originals)
90% of HM moves are just wild pokemon you can summon instead of mules

 

[RileyXY1]

True
Honestly it's still a rushjob game, enormous chibi heads (not in battles) and several difficulty spikes it has late in the game. The E4 are one of the WORST offenders i've ever seen. It's all too easy to even lose before you reach Cynthia if you don't research their updated movepools in BDSP. I did overlevel my team before that.

Brilliant Diamond is by far the least touched game in my collection.
You can't get most of decent pokemon hiddden in the grand underground until unlocking the National Dex post E4, imports or trading.

Best upgrades were
shared exp share
always accessible boxes (which Gen 8 created)
increased movement speed (compared to Gen 4 originals)
90% of HM moves are just wild pokemon you can summon instead of mules

Not only that, the Elite 4 Pokemon are designed like what you would find on competitive teams. For one, they all have held items. This is a rarity outside of post-game battle facilities. Although I understand they made this choice to add difficulty to the Elite 4 and Champion battles to make up for the Experience Share that you can't turn off.

 

[Pokefan_1987]

Not only that, the Elite 4 Pokemon are designed like what you would find on competitive teams. For one, they all have held items. This is a rarity outside of post-game battle facilities. Although I understand they made this choice to add difficulty to the Elite 4 and Champion battles to make up for the Experience Share that you can't turn off.

Yup even her pre-national dex team is a big buff

Garchomp has poison jab the prevent player to feel safe with bringing Togekiss who would be nearly unaffected by all of his moves. Lucario is a big threat you need to defeat early so she can't use his steel moves. Even Roserade has sludge bomb and dazzling gleam for Infernape.
They really pulled a lot of big moves on her team.
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Even the upgraded gym leaders are dangerous, i've only defeated Rorke once, Gardenia is the only one that is the easiest.

 

[Yveltal91057]

Not having a proper daycare in Scarlet and Violet is a poorly executed decision by the developers and designers. I wonder what they were thinking while developing Scarlet and Violet.

 

[Pokefan_1987]

Not having a proper daycare in Scarlet and Violet is a poorly executed decision by the developers and designers. I wonder what they were thinking while developing Scarlet and Violet.

Yep using special marmalade sandwiches, which you need online guides for help (the game has no clues other than heavy experimentation) and then real-time waiting where you can't leave the picnic area and have to regularly check the basket.
Took me at least 20 minutes in a attempt to get a 5 Rockruff eggs hoping to hatch a Own Tempo (Dusk Form).....since Gardevoir's Trace had failed to find one after 30 wild Rockruffs a few hours earlier.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Yep using special marmalade sandwiches, which you need online guides for help (the game has no clues other than heavy experimentation) and then real-time waiting where you can't leave the picnic area and have to regularly check the basket.
Took me at least 20 minutes in a attempt to get a 5 Rockruff eggs hoping to hatch a Own Tempo (Dusk Form).....since Gardevoir's Trace had failed to find one after 30 wild Rockruffs a few hours earlier.

Really? 20 minutes? I oddly got about four eggs in one picnic in only ten minutes using an Egg Power sandwich.

 

[Auraninja]

All I do is buy the mint ice cream in Los Platos, and then get the two Pokemon I want to breed in the picnic site nearby. It doesn't take me too long.

 

[Luthor]

Frisk being given to regional forms instead of either keeping the same ability as regular forms (like Electrode) or coming up with something new (like Samurott getting sharpness). Frisk isn't that useful and to be honest its not that hard to come up with something that does a bit more.

 

[ebevan91]

Yep using special marmalade sandwiches, which you need online guides for help (the game has no clues other than heavy experimentation) and then real-time waiting where you can't leave the picnic area and have to regularly check the basket.
Took me at least 20 minutes in a attempt to get a 5 Rockruff eggs hoping to hatch a Own Tempo (Dusk Form).....since Gardevoir's Trace had failed to find one after 30 wild Rockruffs a few hours earlier.

The rate at which eggs appear in the basket is all over the place. I'll make a sandwich, get like 2 eggs in 5 minutes. Then put the game down for a couple minutes, come back to 8 eggs. Then get 1 egg after another 2-3 minutes.

 

[vondecayle]

Not having a proper daycare in Scarlet and Violet is a poorly executed decision by the developers and designers. I wonder what they were thinking while developing Scarlet and Violet.

I hate when they change things that are just perfectly fine as they are.

 

[Auraninja]

In retrospect, Hail was just a weird move.
If a Pokemon had Snow Warning, it would summon hail. Hail was also incredibly niche because only Ice types would not be harmed by it.
What makes it baffling to me is that snow is a Winter precipitation, while hail mostly occurs in the Spring.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

In retrospect, Hail was just a weird move.
If a Pokemon had Snow Warning, it would summon hail. Hail was also incredibly niche because only Ice types would not be harmed by it.
What makes it baffling to me is that snow is a Winter precipitation, while hail mostly occurs in the Spring.

I personally think that Hail should have been kept as a weather condition and Snowscape act as a second Ice weather move as both are completely different weather conditions and both do have their usefulness.

 

[Spider-Phoenix]

It's kind of funny that now Sandstorm is the only weather that does damage chip to a pokémon.

Wouldn't be surprised if that changes on Gen 10 too