>17 hours>ONE SEVEN HOURS>Literally the shortest fucking mainline game to dateFuck me, man
>>58428810Pretty sure most Pokemon games are beaten in under 20 hours if you play straight through.
How can anyone take this guy seriously?
>Mass Effect 2So dumbed down and not as good as it's predecessor?
>>58428810Gen 10 will roll the end credits right after you press start and will still sell 25+ million copies easily. Enjoy!
Score is falling fast ZAbros, I'm scared
>>58428829Based alert
>>58428829The ME2 ending was fun to go through, which is what they are saying.
Apparently you don’t go through all 26 ranks? It’s like No More Heroes 2 where it pulls a Charlie Macdonald and has ranks 49-26 in one fight.
>>58428829Yep Kek
>>58428843It was more fun to tell Saren to kill himself and have it work
>>58428810?
What was the other thread deleted for?
>>58428843Its the fact that he's comparing a pokemon game to ME2 in the first place
>>58428857Jannies unironically lick Joe's nuts, this has been known for a while. Watch them delete this post
Reminder that the game has only been out 15 hours
>>58428856>BeardbearDoesnt fill out the pokedex at all. Basically grabs what he can and moves on. Thats NOT beating the game. And before the nat dex was removed, saying that filling the Dex was unnecessary WAS a bannable offense here at one point
>>58428834OOF
>>58428810>I'd maybe even put it up there with Mass Effect 2the bar is on the floor
>>58428810$70 btw
>>58428874>moving goalpostsYawn
>>58428810>Mass Effect 2Serebii clearly doesn't play enough games other than Pokémon and Mario.
>>58428888>Not caring about catching them all anymoreI hate Nu-/VP/
>>58428888Filling the pokedex is one of the criteria for beating the game, yes
>>58428896>catching them allYou mean>transfering & trading them all?Lmao
>>58428810Just beat the game.Shadow Generations had a more epic finale. Actually your average Sonic game does. Sonic Adventure 2 makes this game look lame as fuck. All around, really. Pokemon should copy chão garden.
>>58428914>Why yes. My first game WAS SwSh>How can you tell
>>58428834
>>58428810It took me 30 hours. Either he's lying or he rushed it.
>>58428923>SwShFunny thing you say that cause it was SwSh that was basically first Pokémon game that lets you to actually CATCH every mon in the game, without transfering & trading bs which was literally mandatory for Nat dex in any prior games lol
>>58428810>and then... the tower turned into A MONSTER>zygarde no diffs it>AZ dies offscreen because... fuck you he was never actually immortal lol lmao>the end
>>58428928He plays Pokemon 24/7 so he prob rushed it but very efficiently. I doubt Joe is bad at Pokemon, he’s probably better than you and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.
>>58428947>version exclusivesTry again.
>>58428901it takes more than 17 hours to beat the story AND catch everything though
>>58428834Pffffffthahahaha
>>58428960Nigga what the fuck why would you spoil it
>>58428947What's the idea of the two versions then?
>>58428969I spent a lot of time trying to catch everything I could, but it wouldn't surprise me if Joe plowed through the game with an overleveled starter, powered up by exp candy.
>>58428857A janny was getting btfo
>>58428984>exp candyI always forget these things exist. They’re so fucking OP that even using them to level up a new mon to the standard of the rest of the team feels like cheating. I remember I used an XL one in SwSh and it put me like 10 levels above the next gym. What a price to pay!
>>58428810>mainline gameLegends are mainline now?
>>58429001Yeah, I don't get the point when you already have the exp share to overlevel you.
so if you rush throught it it's 17 hours, alright, I spend 20 hours on first map of PLA fucking around, so I guess it will take me at least 2 weeks to finish ZA
>>58429007Always has been
>>58428947Uhhh platinum has nearly every mon in the game besides starters and some legendaries.
>>58429007All mainline Pokemon games have『ポケットモンスター』シリーズ in the Japanese title; which translates to "Pocket Monster Series"Side games, like Mystery Dungeon, Rangers, etc, do not have that
>>58428843Planning the mission was fun but the final boss is a big, dumb, goofy piece of shit.
>>58428810He beat PLA in 14 hours and Scarlet/Violet in 17 hours. I guess he just speedruns this shit because both of them were at least twice that length for me.
>>58429196>PLA in 14I call giga bullshit, you have to grind out the dex a fair bit to even unlock the later areas
>>58428810>most epic end-game a Pokemon game has had.>up there with Mass Effect 2If you believe this you've got to be the most sodomized and ineffably gullible consumerists to believe this.
>>58428810i'm 20 hours in and just about to go do the tournament after the mega pokemon detouri assume there's still at least 7+ hours left not counting any postgame stuffdo you guys just play pokemon games and never do any side content?
>>58428849yup, 5 hour tutorial segment is ranks Z-V and then you skip straight to F
>>58429256If this anon is any indication, no>>58428856>>58428888>>58428914
>>58429210NTA but Werster PLA playthrough lasted 9h30 while Z-A went for almost 16 hours with Werster trying to rush the main story.
>>58429286I get your point, but I don't think it's fair to weigh a speedrun against the first playthrough of a new game. Like, a casual player will get distracted or explore or goof off and there's a normal amount of time spent that wayAt a minimum, do we really believe Joe Merrick is good enough at PLA to first try it in under 16 hours?
>>58429257I really hate that
>>58428810You know it's bad when it comes from Merrick, cause that nigger doesnt skip cutscenes or dialogue.
>>58429336>At a minimum, do we really believe Joe Merrick is good enough at PLA to first try it in under 16 hours?Yes and I’m not trying to be a dickrider. In fact, it’d be strange if he did take 20+ to beat this game. His entire life revolves around this series, and sure he’s not Werster or anything but if he abused all the power supplements in the game, I believe it.
>>58429359I suppose if Mr. Merricku popped an Addy and chose not to enjoy himself that is a possibility, but I would bet money his playthrough missed a lot
>>58428810A look into the mind of gen 2 haters
>>58429336I mean, Merrick most likely rushed Z-A too since his time isn't far off Werster. It's actually the same as rtardkun which also rushed the game on stream.
>>58429377Oh for sure.
>>58429398Something that I really enjoy about PLA and SV, despite their flaws, is how easy it is to get lost or distracted in the game. I've lost multiple hours in Scarlet to just fucking around on my bikemon and staring at pokemon.It's a really unique feeling to be literally LOST in a pokemon game, and I appreciate them for that.
>>58428810At least post full discusion.>Just to compare since I've seen people question it as being short>I got to credits for Legends: Arceus in just over 14 hours.For Scarlet & Violet it was just over 17.>Just to put it in perspective
>>58429423I have been telling people that and most seem to not care D:
I'm over 20 hours in and rank D and I don't think I'm wasting much time. He sped the fuck through it so he could brag.
>>58429196He wants plausible deniability for when he uploads the entire datamine to his site the minute the game launches.
>>58429469>>58429423Do you guys just not play other RPGs? I enjoy that, but it’s kind of the default thing for almost every non-JRPG ever
>>58428849You go through the remaining 15 ranks in postgame in order to get Eternal Floette. Trust me, you don't want to do those between story segments.
>shortest mainline gameMotherfucker, the original company can also produce spinoffs if it chooses. You don't need a third party for the game NOT to be mainline.
>>58428871Is this nigger serious?
>>58428928of course he rushed it theres no way her spent time exploring rooftops or anything such a short time
lmao, is this the most obvious gamefreak has ever been about their disdain for the people who buy their games?
>>58430621I wonder if Joe ever replays the games just for fun, or if he speedruns every game in a set just to get to the end.
>>58430599>Do you guys just not play other RPGs? I enjoy that, but it’s kind of the default thing for almost every non-JRPG everNo, not much. I've never been big into games overall, my only real RPG experience was recent with Baldur's Gate 3. I am pretty inexperienced with the genre, so it's a fair criticism.
I spend my sweet time and finished it in 24 hours
>>58428810>one seven hours Do third-worlders really?
>>58428810The finale is fine but unearned, literally 16 out of those 17 hours are filler, the plot literally doesn’t matter so the anime fight against a tower feels unearned
>>58428810In what FUCKING UNIVERSE are the mass effect games good games? Millennials have the WORST fucking taste out of any generation.
>>58430731i think this is more of a journo thing than generational
>>58430723That's all of the Pokemon games now. A do-nothing plot until the last 1/8th of the game where you have to fight the world-ending threat.
>>58430643Ah, well that’s pretty much the entire popularity of something like Skyrim. I wouldn’t really recommend Skyrim if you’re looking for more games like that, but that’s why it’s popular.
>>58430709most people read numbers like this mentally instead of going by their given names
>>58428874Serebii's tweet in the OP only mentions reaching the credits.
>>58430797I could never get into skyrim honestly, I was more a fallout 4 guy. Something about the setting of skyrim just didn't click for me.Only reason I like BG3 so much is because that game actually made me suffer the consequences of being a murder hobo in my first playthrough, and I actually really like the TTRPG mechanics in it.
>>58430802no
>>58430802White people don’t.
>>58430825>Something about the setting of skyrim just didn't click for me.Same, meanwhile I’ve put way too many hours into Oblivion and Morrowind. Skyrim came off as very shallow and bland to me.You’d probably like stuff like that 40K top down RPG or Divinity more than most Bethesda slop. Bethesda slop has always been more about exploring and less about the plot and character’s consequences.
>>58428810>Mistah Merriku, arready finisheddo... suspicious... maybe somu buggus in anus wirr ret you taruko abouto how ziz you tokku justu 17h to reacchi endogaimu...
>>58428810The game is THAT easy?
>>58431025All pokemon games are, cupcake
>>58428810Insane that anyone puts this game and Mass Effect 2 in the same fucking comparison. What the fuck is wrong with Poketoddlers?
>>58429423This is one of the big reason I liked palworld. I like games where I can just inefficiently wander around and find stuff.
>Literally the shortest fucking mainline game to date
>>58431270Really insulting to compare any game to the franchise ruining slop that is Mass Effect 2, I agree
>>58431358>Literally the shortest fucking mainline game to datehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyhEKG_g53o
>>58428810Why do you equate quantity with quality? Grow up.
>>58430802most intelligent /vp/ poster
>There are anons who read 11 as one one and 200 as two zero zero
>>58431744I refuse to believe ESL are that retarded.
>>58428810And 16 of those are a glorified visual novel.
>>58428810It's absurd how front loaded the game is but then they bump you from v to f rank. bet these niggers couldn't think of more scenarios to fill those ranks and just gave up
>>58428810yep i am retarded, i am 17 hours in and am still rank X and have no mega evolutions and have done labout 15 of emmas research tasks,who else play like this?: walk around a lot and do fuck all and check stuff out and just have fun in the world and stuff while occasionally actually doing the tasks needed to make good progress through the game,>i also am 80+ hours in in dark souls remastered on switch and am not close to having finished it, having just beat siff & now exploring the location with all the ghosts and stuff, at like level 34 or something>beat hollow knight first time in like 75 hours without having completely 100%ed it,
>>58432260>walk around a lot and do fuck all and check stuff out and just have fun in the world and stuff while occasionally actually doing the tasks needed to make good progress through the game,That was me in SWSH. Will probably be me in Z-A if I can stomach the tutorial enough to actually get to that part.
>>58430709I refuse to believe this anon is serious
>>58428901Can you point me to the part of gen 1 where Professor Oak refused to register my team in the Hall of Fame because I hadn't caught 'em all, thereby denying me my position as the new Pokemon Champion and preventing me from rolling the credits?
>>58428810Nigga you can beat most pokemon games in less than 17 hours, are you retarded?
>>58432260>17 hours and still rank Vwtfi've done literally every side mission possible, caught every pokemon possible so far, fucked around exploring every rooftop i could, and at 20 hours i'm rank Ci don't know how you can possibly get that much more time out of the game
>>58433339He said rank x. It's deranged. Must be joking
>>58428843>they
>>58428810Its not a mainline game, legends is a subseries. Still gay
>>58428810Joe is such a fucking puppet holy shit.
