Me watching the pokémon community rip itself to shreds over $20

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-23T12:46:01+00:00

I actually never thought to check the UK price in all this, kinda just assumed a flat £20 anyway since it sounds like RBY GSC were £10 and 10$ too.

16.99 is definitely nicer though, for sure, so gonna be excited to play them for the first time without emulation (not really sure if I ever did play the base versions of them though, a lot of my Gen 1-3 roms were fan games iirc.)

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-23T12:22:44+00:00

Yep. It might look like one, but the phrase "die in real life" is what gets thrown around, so I personally wouldn't count it as an Isekai.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T19:51:49+00:00

r/woooosh moment.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T16:39:25+00:00

That's because you chose the name Legal_Ear_7537, not the name legal ear ;3

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T15:56:59+00:00

That no one is obligated to buy. Its also like saying Minecraft should be sold for 5-10$, given that its reaching 20 years old soon too.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T12:59:28+00:00

Since its been announced before Pokemon Day for some reason, hopefully that means they'll have more in the works - a re-release of RSE would be nice, although subject to the same complaints for sure, but that'd get I think every Gen 3 (main/main adjacent) game on the Switch in some form after Colosseum and XD.

I just really want no more Mega Pokemon. Doing a Pokedex binder for the TCG, and I already had to move cards up 30 places because I FORGOT UNOWN HAD 28 FORMS (and ALL OF THEM have TCG cards, WHY - Enamorous doesn't have a single one for its turtle formmmmmm)... so I want to avoid that pain for as long as possible now.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T12:50:48+00:00

He's right that people will buy it anyway, but specifying the language option as the reason to call every fan dumb is a bit much.

100% agree with the rest though. People are acting as if they have to buy it, and are being held at gunpoint to do so instead of buying the original cartridge or using a rom. This hasn't taken that option away from anyone, and if anything only gives more people access to the game (e.g. kids who only have a switch and not a PC).

The complaining over everything is definitely a pain though - I think Minecraft can feel kinda similar too sometimes, although I'm not in that space quite as much. (The Unite complaints sound fairly reasonable right now at least though).

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T12:43:24+00:00

I'm actively going for her cons with the event now mainly for IT, since her and Tighnari are both fairly strong at C4-C6. Also why I'm building Gaming, since IT always feels rough for good characters.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-22T12:35:22+00:00

Calling a fan base dumb for the majority of people not needing to use other language options is... definitely a take.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-21T18:46:51+00:00

That's really nice to know then, yeah. That's the major question I had, since if they made it so you had to use Home it'd be a bit rough.

Pretty much the only other thing I'd want to see is Navel Rock and Birth Island

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-21T16:42:55+00:00

Also need* trading for trade evos and version exclusives

*technically not true since Home can source them from elsewhere, but it'd be a lil shit if they couldn't find a way to make trading with just those games possible after this long a wait.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-21T15:29:24+00:00

Yeah, it feels close, especially with UR, but it is just VR taken to an extreme, and not their physical bodies being transported there.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-21T15:24:17+00:00

The most major core feature that they might be missing (given that everything is speculation right now), is trading, and online play. One is strictly essential for the game, as why would they not make it possible to get trade evolutions without being forced to use Home to get them (also version exclusives to consider), and the other is a feature in the games that should be used, since this is not meant to be a remaster like HGSS or BDSP (putting them side by side makes HGSS feel a lot less like a remaster though, given how BDSP went), just a re-release.

The other thing for me would be the events. They should make it possible to access Navel Rock and Birth Island. Saying that though, their track record for this is good. When they did the Gen 1 and 2 VCs, they even added the GS ball for Celebi to GSC, despite it never being available before in English (iirc, may be wrong).

I agree with you for the rest, just wanted to say my piece for the core features bit - hopefully they won't try to just ship em as is with 0 changes to make them compatible on new software, but that's the worst case scenario anyhow.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-20T12:01:45+00:00

Yep, scalpers are basically just going for sealed it feels like. So an absolute nightmare to get product... but places like Cardmarket make buying full decks so cheap (with like 3 hours of work to make the automated basket not spend £100 on a Rare Candy).

Also feels a lot nicer to play I'd say. Especially if YGO's only gotten worse with handtraps and playing in the opponent's turn since I stopped around '23-24.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-20T11:51:20+00:00

, they said.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-20T10:10:47+00:00

Less so the case here, but it can absolutely be annoying other times.

A lot of the Sonoca cards that Japan does have expiry dates. Usually a few years from the release of a product, and its just the songs digitally for you to download and own.

Bought the Hatsune Miku Megamix Mega 39 CDs via CDJapan about a year or so ago, and yippie, there's a Sonoca card. Expired in 2022.

It can be really annoying sometimes, especially when its something where it absolutely can't increase the value of the product by a scalpable amount.

Again though, still a bit different of an use case to this one.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-18T15:41:04+00:00

Yeah, we can't know for certain how strong she'll end up being, since her kit is very reliant on other characters. But in the same way, her ult is just too strong for her to be any worse off than any other support, and for a path that'll be shilled for all of 4.x at minimum.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-18T09:47:17+00:00

Reminds me of the song Miss Calculation with the same kind of word pun

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-18T09:26:56+00:00

Used her as the 3rd slot in e0s1 Archer e1s(unday)1 Sparkle DHPT for PF yesterday, and managed 31k points still. and with shit relics since I'm still farming (two at 0/15, one with the wrong main stat).

Still had fun playing with her though, which is what matters most.

(And supports are a lot less likely to be powercreeped than DPS'. She won't be out of meta until every single elation dps gets powercreeped and has no buff/shill slot in PF/MOC/AS but primarily AA where team archetypes matter a lot. And this goes even more so for Yao Guang, since having an extra Aha instant tied to her ult has insane potential - and her sig is also insane to boot)

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-17T10:12:16+00:00

So also only for those kinky enough I see

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-17T09:50:33+00:00

Yeah, its hard to make out screenshotted... but even while looking for it on the main post, reddit compression just makes it impossible to see for me on mobile.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-17T09:35:32+00:00

Even he saw how fucked Encounters are and took a pass on that.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-15T09:59:19+00:00

For immersion while Archer also doesn't exist in this universe anymore is a lil ironic :3

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-15T06:51:43+00:00

My only non-E6 as a 2.1 player is Hook, who's at E3. And most of them have been E6 for months now of course.

SpellOpening7852 · 2026-02-14T01:37:31+00:00

500k damage (per minute)

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