How To Save Money On Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The Hidden Treasure Of Area Zero DLC

I'm more interested in confirmation that these won't brick my Pokémon boxes. Although I suspect it's a rare issue confirmed to modders and tweakers, it's over a hundred hours to progress to risk, without Cloud backups and no Pokémon Home interface.

I have another idea on how to save money on the dlc: don't buy it

@Deltarogue What a wonderful idea; I may emulate that line of thinking!

Edit: that was not meant to be an emulation joke lol

GameFreak couldn't pay me to spend another hour in this game and I'm barely exaggerating. Every minute they spent on making DLC (which is all made at the same time as the game before the studio shifts focus to their next POS, in case you weren't aware, which is why you rarely see any actual fixes) should have gone into making the base game more attractive. But hey, y'all enjoy your olive mazes and face expression matching minigames.

@SpaceboyScreams Yeah because the older games had such amazing first gym puzzles like going straight to Brock, going straight to Falkner, going straight to Roxanne, going straight Roark...

Please wait until they actually show the dlc to buy this. They’ve shown zero actual gameplay and the most weve gotten are like, five new Pokémon. Just hold off

Just got back from trading this heap for credit toward RE4 remake, and good riddance.

@Deltarogue I came here to say that. It's good advice and working well for me!

I'll buy it when the content actually drops.

If Gamefreak can't get the base game to function, what does that say about an expansion we haven't seen any gameplay for?

You can save even MORE money by not buying it. It's a huge game to begin with, I already put triple digit hours into it, beat it, and I don't have the energy to go back to play DLC.

@tseliot @Deltarogue Damn, y'all beat me to it lol

For real, though, no way I'm supporting TPC's cheap, rushed garbage any longer.

I'm hoping they release complete cartridges like they did with Sword/Shield. That's the only way they can get me to buy this.

I'm going wait on trailers and gameplay footage, probably will be a buy but it will depend on what the DLC is.

As mentioned, I'm waiting to see if they pull a physical version with the DLC in it, similar to Sword/Shield.

@HammerGalladeBro They most likely are to replace the version of Ultra Sun/Moon on the calendar.

It's interesting to see people go into guides and articles about a game they don't enjoy or haven't played, just to say that they don't like it. Okay.
Meanwhile, I'm just wondering if British cod3es will work for non-British consoles. I doubt the eShop cards will.

I'm done with Pokemon until they are willing to make a competent game. Its infuriating how much they don't care. If it means they have to go back to 2D then that's fine at least those games were good. The fact that the worst games they have made have cost nearly $100 to get the full experience is laughable.

@JohnnyMind yea, that confuses me too. Just as a comparison, I fell off rival franchise Dragon Quest Monsters in the Joker era. Didn't care for the first one, haven't touched it since. I didn't pop into the new announcement of a new entry and start booing in the comments. I can get if people who played the game have criticism, but all the "I'm not supporting them so I didn't buy it" people are just looking for a place to vent about something they haven't played.

@Kisame83 Best part is that you can even see that many aren't even original complaints, just parroting. Don't get me wrong, as you said it's definitely fair to criticize the game because of it's performance, it's a valid complaint. However, many of these people are just talking about it being the "worst" pokemon game who knows how. Sure, different strokes for different folks... but really, how? Aside from performance the gameplay is finally open world, it actually has some challenge, it has better story than most Pokemon games, the pokemon animations are definitely a step forward from Sword and Shield, the characters are really likeable and the music is great as always.

@HammerGalladeBro @Aurumonado : Me three. I'll buy both versions again if there is a complete-on-cart release (I've also bought the dual pack + individual steelbooks), but I will skip the DLC otherwise, and I've never skipped a main series Pokémon game since I started collecting them.

This seems like Sword and Shield all over again but not as good, think I'll pass this time around. These new pokemon aren't really doing it for me.

@Deltarogue

Haha my Idea, why support badly crafted Games?

@riChchestM
That's another glitch?!
I'd only heard about one that deletes your save data..
Still waiting on that to be patched, but I might risk it to get the Mew.

@Deltarogue Beat me to it

@drewber2635 The Sword & Shield DLC were really good. I enjoyed them thoroughly. Especially the 2nd one was amazing.

The total package Sword/Shield+DLC makes it heaps better than this DS slideshow game.
The DLC runs even worse performance wise than the base game and just stopped playing again within 30 mins. Just cannot deal with the horrible blurry graphics and terrible framerates anymore.
Which is in stark contrast to Sword/Shield, which had good performance and sharp clear graphics quality.

They should never have gone Open World with Scarlet/Violet, as their game engine clearly cannot handle it nor do they have the competence to make it perform properly!

How is it that I buy Scarlet AND Violet and Nintendo bends me over and whispers into my ear "so you'll be happy to buy the dlc 2x as well". What a greedy company.