Unpopular opinions

I hate when ROMhacks try to emulate competitive or make the game super hard. Nearly every hack like this i've played turned into a grindfest, for EVs or EXP.
This is a very common pitfall, especially for people just starting out.

Sadly, as I can personally attest, making sure the game is actually balanced, the player has fun options and that bosses aren't too strong compared to the players takes a LOT of time, and this might lead to development hell.

I personally believe that romhacks should strive to reach Platinum levels of difficulty, mainly by giving players fun and strong options while also giving the bosses strategic and strong options.

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Though it'll implement future game items and movepools, comp stuff is post game

There's no need to dissociate comp stuff from the main game. What you should focus on is making sure that major battles aren't overwhelming.

For example, if you give Roxanne an Aerodactyl, things might turn out bad, because players probably won't have enough options to beat that.

Also, one option is not enough, because this restricts team composition and that's very bad for a Pokémon game.
 
Hard mode hack lamentations.
Further hard mode hack lamentations.
Well, my hack is a hard mode hack. While I personally prefer those to the generally very lackluster base games, yeah.... And the more important question is if I avoided some of the problems of other hard mode hacks. To this I say, probably not as a whole? I wanted you to earn things more and sometimes me and Gira said "fuck the player" when making it. I made a support net to make grinding, getting EVs, getting better held items, etc. easier, but it still takes time.
 
This is a very common pitfall, especially for people just starting out.

Sadly, as I can personally attest, making sure the game is actually balanced, the player has fun options and that bosses aren't too strong compared to the players takes a LOT of time, and this might lead to development hell.

I personally believe that romhacks should strive to reach Platinum levels of difficulty, mainly by giving players fun and strong options while also giving the bosses strategic and strong options.

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There's no need to dissociate comp stuff from the main game. What you should focus on is making sure that major battles aren't overwhelming.

For example, if you give Roxanne an Aerodactyl, things might turn out bad, because players probably won't have enough options to beat that.

Also, one option is not enough, because this restricts team composition and that's very bad for a Pokémon game.
The hacks only really a QoL update for Emerald, with the ability to catch all mons on one cart (including self trading). Additions for some Gen 4 cross evos and Gen 2 97 betamons are there as well, along with tweaking mon stats and movesets
Cuz boy does Onix need it
So it'll mostly feel like normal Emerald besides battle upgrades, changed trainer mons and >not finding a Tentacool/Cruel/Wingull every 5 seconds
 
Well, my hack is a hard mode hack. While I personally prefer those to the generally very lackluster base games, yeah.... And the more important question is if I avoided some of the problems of other hard mode hacks. To this I say, probably not as a whole? I wanted you to earn things more and sometimes me and Gira said "fuck the player" when making it. I made a support net to make grinding, getting EVs, getting better held items, etc. easier, but it still takes time.
Oh i wasn't talking about your hack in particular, just some i experienced. I usually play GBA hacks, especially since CFRU started to get used.
I don't mind grinding for some battles, after all i said HGSS was one of my favorite pokemon games despite the ridiculous level curve, it's just when it takes like 50% or more of my playtime on the hack, it starts to get annoying. I'm playing through "The Last Fire Red" and the beginning was HELL, i was 9/10 HOURS IN before beating Misty. After that, it was smooth sailing though. Probably because i just activated the exp share.
A difficulty hack that manages to balance "not too much grinding" with "still a good challenge" sounds good to me.
 
I got sick of it when i was watching Jaiden's pokemon rangers video, and she randomly went on a tangent saying gen 7 and 8 were garbage in the intro. I didn't come here for this. Of course, i understand that people might not like these games, but it's annoying when they try to shove it down your throat.
Tangent? Shoved down throats? Dude, it was like two sentences. And it wasn't even emphasized, just a side comment.
 
Tangent? Shoved down throats? Dude, it was like two sentences. And it wasn't even emphasized, just a side comment.
She fully animated the part where she threw the games in the garbage can and then emphasized it by writing "better than USUM anyways" on the forum bit. There was another little bit of animation in between but i'm too lazy to check.
It doesn't have to be a full video to be the straw that break the camel's back, it was the 100th time i saw this exact same thing (Talking about another pokemon game, generally a spin-off, HEY BY THE WAY DID YOU KNOW MODERN POKEMON GAMES ARE TRASH ????) and it pissed me off. Jaiden isn't my whole point here, it's the repetition.

When i talk about "shoving down people's throat" that wasn't aimed at her either, i guess you misinterpreted it. It's that, since a year, everytime i scroll in my recommended there's a video about how gamefreak is lazy and pokemon has gone downhill, and everytime i go in the comments of a gen 3/4/5 ost video, the top comments are almost everytime "Gen 8 is bad and you should feel bad for liking them" basically.

These people are annoying, and i'm sick of seeing them since SwSh came out. That was my point. Jaiden was the moment when i realised that they were almost everywhere i went that was related to pokemon. You can guess what comments i saw on that video, and what every poketuber stopped on when they did their reaction videos.

Also a quick edit for the tangent part : I guess that's my fault there, as english isn't my first language. What i meant by "tangent" was a side-point : just throwing her opinion real quick when that wasn't the point of the video (And i certainly wasn't expecting it). Sorry to be a dumbass with words here.
 
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"Gen 8 is bad and you should feel bad for liking them"

While I do see most people not liking Gen 7 & 8 (not without reason), what I don't see is people telling other people to feel bad for liking it. Well, at least not the Poketubers, the comment section is another story but everyone knows that that's a minefield. I feel it's alright and in the right of a person to say they don't like Gen 7, 8, or any other generation of Pokemon; though I will say that doesn't mean they're forcing that opinion on you and no one should. There's also a difference between someone saying "I don't like this gen and here are reasons why" and then listening reasonable critique and someone just making fun of it (especially for having tropes that are in all Pokemon games).
 
While I do see most people not liking Gen 7 & 8 (not without reason), what I don't see is people telling other people to feel bad for liking it. Well, at least not the Poketubers, the comment section is another story but everyone knows that that's a minefield. I feel it's alright and in the right of a person to say they don't like Gen 7, 8, or any other generation of Pokemon; though I will say that doesn't mean they're forcing that opinion on you and no one should. There's also a difference between someone saying "I don't like this gen and here are reasons why" and then listening reasonable critique and someone just making fun of it (especially for having tropes that are in all Pokemon games).
I frequently used Reddit and YouTube since the whole dexit situation. Had to unsub from the main sub because it was littered with stuff like i said.
I do agree that has calmed down since the fiasco (nothing like the death threats and the harassment on twitter for example) but it certainly didn't disappear, and like i said, i still see it at times, just enough to annoy me.

Of course, i don't mind people who dislike them for good reasons, i find myself agreeing on some points even ! After all, i think liking gen 8 like i do is a pretty unpopular opinion, and i'm happy to hear criticism of it. I'm not gonna complain about people attacking you for your opinion, and then do the exact same thing haha.

And i guess i was in the most toxic places then, because people "making fun of the games for no good reason" WERE everywhere from my point of view. Even people who didn't play a single pokemon game would just come and say the exact same thing, it was always repeated dozens of time. And i got called names, i can guarantee you that !
 
at least its mostly extreme examples. the fanbase was awful but I think the hell situation of the world calmed them lol

for a very... specific unpopular opinion: I love checking pokemon redesigns, since i do them myself, but I have a major pet peeve (that doesnt really matter but): pls stop turning incineroar into a boring tiger. if you want a quadrupedal incin so bad you can still give him personality >:|
 
I frequently used Reddit and YouTube since the whole dexit situation. Had to unsub from the main sub because it was littered with stuff like i said.
I do agree that has calmed down since the fiasco (nothing like the death threats and the harassment on twitter for example) but it certainly didn't disappear, and like i said, i still see it at times, just enough to annoy me.

Of course, i don't mind people who dislike them for good reasons, i find myself agreeing on some points even ! After all, i think liking gen 8 like i do is a pretty unpopular opinion, and i'm happy to hear criticism of it. I'm not gonna complain about people attacking you for your opinion, and then do the exact same thing haha.

And i guess i was in the most toxic places then, because people "making fun of the games for no good reason" WERE everywhere from my point of view. Even people who didn't play a single pokemon game would just come and say the exact same thing, it was always repeated dozens of time. And i got called names, i can guarantee you that !

Yeah, that's rough.

Frankly, there's plenty of stuff to like about SwSh and even USUM introduced stuff that can be praised.

People kinda go overboard, it's one thing to criticize the games, it just makes no sense to attack people for liking different things.

Even if you're wrong for not recognizing Pokémon Platinum as the undisputed GOAT. :psysly:
 
To get back on topic, i actually really like shinies that are barely noticable : Garchomp, Regice, Regidrago, Gengar (Fun fact : It's G-max has the same colors that it's shiny mega had !). I think even that little subtle change of coloration makes them better looking.

Though i like hunting for shinies, i HATE the masuda method, and i haven't tried breeding competitively (also because of dynamax making cartridge meh in singles) for that reason. Shiny hunting doesn't take a lot of concentration, and it's usually way better when you have a video on the side, but breeding for shinies is so tedious to me.... Put the 2 pokemons, bike around, go to the NPC, mash A, bike around, repeat 4 times, then continue biking around, watch the same 12 seconds animation 5 times, rinse and repeat until you have you have the shiny. I swear after 50 eggs i just beg to arceus for it to be over quickly.

Sorry to hear that happened, that's definitely unacceptable.
It's alright, it's all behind now like Lemingue said.

Even if you're wrong for not recognizing Pokémon Platinum as the undisputed GOAT. :psysly:
I still have a special place in my heart for Platinum, as it was my first ever video game, when i was 6 years old. During a replay about 8 years later, i got emotional when the intro music played. I still prefer HGSS after that replay, but it will always be "the thing that got me into loving video games".
 
pls stop turning incineroar into a boring tiger.
Actually this is an important topic so i used my artistic abilities to illustrate. behold, the two fandom incineroar designs

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Facts
Though personally I find Incineroar's actual design far too kiddy, and too stuck on a single personality. Like others said, I prefer the personality a sub thought than forced on. It makes the mon more adaptable in personality for other media as shown with Oshawott in the anime. Sugimori intended it to be serious, but look what happened
Or that Tyranitar in the Celebi movie, who was shy
 
Though personally I find Incineroar's actual design far too kiddy, and too stuck on a single personality. Like others said, I prefer the personality a sub thought than forced on. It makes the mon more adaptable in personality for other media as shown with Oshawott in the anime. Sugimori intended it to be serious, but look what happened
I don't think its too much of a problem. I see it more as dog breeds. How some dogs are classified as bratty/grumpy/energetic, but individuals themselves don't follow the mold.

hell, natures were done for this purpose first. Not all incineroar have the same personality, because you can get bashful, calm, sassy etc of any pokemon. Sure, it would help more if natures showed a different personality for each pokemon, but i think that is too much to ask for, gamefreak or not tbh
 
Fix'd.


Well I'm not much of an artist but let me try:
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Might as well add my 2 unpopular opinions for the day.

First, I actually don't mind that Incineroar has some personality. With so many mons that doesn't and are a step away from T-Posing on their idle animations, it's nice to have some contrast. And I don't even like Inci's idle animation.

Second, and it's kinda shocking how much I don't see people say this, but BW and Gen 5 as a whole was UGLY.

Stretching sprites should be a crime punishable by being forced to solo games with Luvdisc.

The overworld just turned people into blurry messes every 2 routes, the moving battle sprites were an abomination and an example of how to NOT do looping animations, and overall, that game made my eyes bleed from day 1 and it only got worse with time.
 
Second, and it's kinda shocking how much I don't see people say this, but BW and Gen 5 as a whole was UGLY.

Stretching sprites should be a crime punishable by being forced to solo games with Luvdisc.

The overworld just turned people into blurry messes every 2 routes, the moving battle sprites were an abomination and an example of how to NOT do looping animations, and overall, that game made my eyes bleed from day 1 and it only got worse with time.
THANK YOU
 
Agreed. The sprite anims sucked most of the time. And it was the gen that really kicked off overly Contemporary object mons looks at vanilluxe line and THIS trash human design for BW2
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THOSE EYES! THE DOUBLE PANTS! THAT HAIR!
 
Agreed. The sprite anims sucked most of the time. And it was the gen that really kicked off overly Contemporary object mons looks at vanilluxe line and THIS trash human design for BW2
Black_2_White_2_Nate.png

THOSE EYES! THE DOUBLE PANTS! THAT HAIR!
hey thats my son you're talking about /joke
 
She fully animated the part where she threw the games in the garbage can and then emphasized it by writing "better than USUM anyways" on the forum bit. There was another little bit of animation in between but i'm too lazy to check.
It doesn't have to be a full video to be the straw that break the camel's back, it was the 100th time i saw this exact same thing (Talking about another pokemon game, generally a spin-off, HEY BY THE WAY DID YOU KNOW MODERN POKEMON GAMES ARE TRASH ????) and it pissed me off. Jaiden isn't my whole point here, it's the repetition.

When i talk about "shoving down people's throat" that wasn't aimed at her either, i guess you misinterpreted it. It's that, since a year, everytime i scroll in my recommended there's a video about how gamefreak is lazy and pokemon has gone downhill, and everytime i go in the comments of a gen 3/4/5 ost video, the top comments are almost everytime "Gen 8 is bad and you should feel bad for liking them" basically.

These people are annoying, and i'm sick of seeing them since SwSh came out. That was my point. Jaiden was the moment when i realised that they were almost everywhere i went that was related to pokemon. You can guess what comments i saw on that video, and what every poketuber stopped on when they did their reaction videos.

Also a quick edit for the tangent part : I guess that's my fault there, as english isn't my first language. What i meant by "tangent" was a side-point : just throwing her opinion real quick when that wasn't the point of the video (And i certainly wasn't expecting it). Sorry to be a dumbass with words here.

Not everyone is going to share the things you like but you should not feel bad for what they say. Me and I'm pretty sure plenty of Pokemon fans during the mid 2000s and early 2010s had to listen a lot of "hurr durr Pokemon is dead" "Pokemon is only for kids" "I grew up with only the 150 pokeymans", so seeing a lot of people turning on the new games doesn't bother me too much at this point. While Gen 7 is one of my personal faves, I consider its faults just like every game in the franchise. While I liked SwSh and the controversy surrounding it can get toxic real quick, I understand why people are upset with the product. I am disappointed too with plenty of aspects, mostly storywise and how "Dexit" was handled.

However, I think what bothered me the most was the overhype of Temtem, because I knew that plenty of the support surrounding it was just out of spite of SwSh and "reviews" calling it better than it, and that's not how you promote a game. I remember a channel that did "in a nutshell" animations did a Pokemon vid, except it was just a compilation of the controversy to show "everyone hates this game", and then shows a compilation of "Temtem is loved by everyone and better than SwSh, I'm doing a video of it instead". Yeah, and Temtem also has a notorious share of flaws that these guys either ignore or not know at all, it's popularity is dwindling as of now , hopefully the full release will do it justice but....really? That was supposed to be the "Pokemon killer"? (also Max is a big yikes of a rival imo, I even prefer Marnie and you guys know I'm not a fan of her).

I frequently used Reddit and YouTube since the whole dexit situation.

r/Pokemon was a landmine, I also had to unsub from there and even got downvoted to hell just because I said that harassing Masuda was not okay (for our case, since those acts only reinforced the "toxic haters" argument, people can't read). The situation is now better, I think, I even saw a good number of recent posts overall complimenting the Crown Tundra.

for a very... specific unpopular opinion: I love checking pokemon redesigns, since i do them myself, but I have a major pet peeve (that doesnt really matter but): pls stop turning incineroar into a boring tiger. if you want a quadrupedal incin so bad you can still give him personality >:|

Agreed, Incineroar is my favorite starter so these redesigns or fake leaks don't do Litten any justice. Alola has my fav starter trio, so same goes for the "edgy clown" Popplio evo and...is this thing an owl anymore?!

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and THIS trash human design for BW2
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THOSE EYES! THE DOUBLE PANTS! THAT HAIR!

While I disagree with Gen 5 being ugly I can say that Nate looks kinda unimpressive. And just wait till you see his manga counterpart. Complete edgelord, Marty Stu garbage, easily the worst dexholder. Congratulations ORAS, you are no longer the worst arc of Adventures.

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While I disagree with Gen 5 being ugly I can say that Nate looks kinda unimpressive. And just wait till you see his manga counterpart. Complete edgelord, Marty Stu garbage, easily the worst dexholder. Congratulations ORAS, you are no longer the worst arc of Adventures.

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I never read the Adventure Manga but I know enough about it to facepalm when I heard what they did with Nate. Now the idea behind Nate and Rosa are interesting: Rosa is a former Team Plasma member who was loyal to N, when Plasma fell apart her mother moved them to Aspertia Town to escape the fallout. Nate is an interpol agent doing an undercover investigation searching for Plasma members, while normally serious during his undercover work he acts more juvenile (notably flirtatious on young female suspects to get close to them until he can figure out if they're guilty or not). Okay at first, does make Nate sound a bit like a jerk especially with how he treats woman, but what really annoyed me was two things: (1) Nate couldn't just be a interpol agent, no, they made him a super agent and notably he's of hire rank than LOOKER. Come on, don't pull that BS on me! (2) By making both Nate and Rosa non-native to Aspertia Town, they wrote away the childhood relationship any would have had with Hugh which was one of the driving forces of the narrative.

I like the idea with one of them being a former Team Plasma member trying to form a new life after the collapse of Plasma, so the other I would have just kept as a normal kid who grew up in Aspertia to maintain that friendship angle with Hugh (and just to have a "black & white" them going, make them feel indifferent to Plasma to balance out Hugh's hatred for them).

Of course I've always had issues with the Special Manga, like people considering it the "ideal" Pokemon experience/adaption and some of the choices they made with the characters. I'll turn the other cheek for earlier decisions as the early games didn't really give them much of a story to work off of (though making the Indigo Plateau Elite Four a group of geocidal sociopaths is certainly... a choice...), though some recent stuff feels like they either missed the point (Team Flare are not meant to be a serious threat...) or take characters in bizarre directions (like Selene, Sun & Moon's playable girl character, is apparently this super professor in poisons, why?).
 
I never read the Adventure Manga but I know enough about it to facepalm when I heard what they did with Nate. Now the idea behind Nate and Rosa are interesting: Rosa is a former Team Plasma member who was loyal to N, when Plasma fell apart her mother moved them to Aspertia Town to escape the fallout. Nate is an interpol agent doing an undercover investigation searching for Plasma members, while normally serious during his undercover work he acts more juvenile (notably flirtatious on young female suspects to get close to them until he can figure out if they're guilty or not). Okay at first, does make Nate sound a bit like a jerk especially with how he treats woman, but what really annoyed me was two things: (1) Nate couldn't just be a interpol agent, no, they made him a super agent and notably he's of hire rank than LOOKER. Come on, don't pull that BS on me! (2) By making both Nate and Rosa non-native to Aspertia Town, they wrote away the childhood relationship any would have had with Hugh which was one of the driving forces of the narrative.

I like the idea with one of them being a former Team Plasma member trying to form a new life after the collapse of Plasma, so the other I would have just kept as a normal kid who grew up in Aspertia to maintain that friendship angle with Hugh (and just to have a "black & white" them going, make them feel indifferent to Plasma to balance out Hugh's hatred for them).

Of course I've always had issues with the Special Manga, like people considering it the "ideal" Pokemon experience/adaption and some of the choices they made with the characters. I'll turn the other cheek for earlier decisions as the early games didn't really give them much of a story to work off of (though making the Indigo Plateau Elite Four a group of geocidal sociopaths is certainly... a choice...), though some recent stuff feels like they either missed the point (Team Flare are not meant to be a serious threat...) or take characters in bizarre directions (like Selene, Sun & Moon's playable girl character, is apparently this super professor in poisons, why?).

While I like how Team Flare is handled in the XY arc and the adaptational villainy of some of the elite trainers early on, I agree that the Adventures manga is having a problem lately with its protagonists. Starting with Gen 5 they began to push for unrealistically talented kids and I think only White handled it better: she was the boss of her own agency but she lacked battle experience. After that we got Moon, a talented pharmacist who earned a doctorate AT THE AGE OF SIX! Sun is a proficient battler that defeated Guzma very early in the story, meanwhile Red struggled hard and nearly died in his first encounter with Team Rocket, his growth as a trainer and person feels rewarding. This issue is not getting any better in SwSh arc with Sword being a talented swordsmith which gives him an advantage in battles and defeats the gym leaders with ease (but tbf it represents the difficulty of the games very well lol). Meanwhile, the rivals have been losing relevance and are being treated as secondary cast when Blue, Silver, Pearl, were also rivals and major players in their arc.

These problems definitely show in BW2. Lack Two is a ridiculously super talented interpol agent with insane battle ability from the get go, being able to catch a Genesect and Keldeo early on.
AND A FREAKIN VICTINI OFFSCREEN. Yeah, they pulled another Celebi bs. Screw this arc lmaoooooooooo
Meanwhile, Hugh gets a sidelined from the important events, although he keeps his beef with Team Plasma, which is a pretty interesting angle with Whi Two being an ex grunt. His development shows in the end.

But my biggest issue with Lack Two is how his personality is handled. He has no qualms in manipulating girls' feelings to obtain information, that includes Whi Two, nor at disobeying orders and protocols, because he was raised and trained to be emotionless in order to be the perfect agent. That would be fine if it were a flaw to overcome for his character development....but it doesn't have any. Not a single event in the arc phazes him or makes him think that he's going too far, there are no stakes with this character, he just outsmarts and overcomes any problem just like that. Whi Two just accepts that Lack Two is the way he is because of his backstory and still crushes on him, even the musketeers praise him for his lack of emotion. It's so bad, even disgusting if you really think about it.
 
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