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Technology has gone too far
Rotom started calling me by a nickname today. I thought it would be fine because "lel memz" but about 5 seconds after I let him do that I started to regret every life decision I've ever made. And he won't. Stop. Giving. Me. "Advice." Yes Rotom, I know you can poison opponents thanks, you told me that three times already in the past 30 seconds. I can't use the map feature any more because he's talking to me about useless stuff every 2 seconds and blocks the map. Yeah okay he has O-powers now but honestly I don't think receiving 200 Encounter Powers makes up for this eternal torment.
I didn't figure out how to drop him into the water during the water trial so my opportunity for that has passed. But surely there must be some power switch I can access to put an end to this misery. I didn't see anything in the Options menu, so it must be located elsewhere. Any help on this matter will be most appreciated. In all seriousness, jeez my enjoyment of this game has dropped when Rotom started becoming "friendly," he's just so invasive. I have to actively ignore the bottom screen at all times now. I think this was way more successful at the start of the game where Rotom only occasionally quipped at you. Is there at least some way to stop him from calling you the nickname? I don't want him calling me "Roto-N" every time I see a wild Pokémon... |
imo a fair bit of an overreaction, but that's because Rotom has kinda grown on me; i think it's a cute traveling companion. ive also learned to kinda tune out the useless stuff it says.
try not to burst a blood vessel by looking at the bottom of the screen is the most i can tell you. /shrug |
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no prob, it's what i do
at most it's disruptive when you actually want to use it for something and it's too busy making conversation, but other than that... not really a big deal |
I loved interacting with mine on Moon, and now UltraMoon have me loving it even more.
I love talking to it though it asked me to bring my Pokemon to the Pokemon Center in the midst of the Elite 4. |
Lol I definitely enjoyed reading your rant. Not reached that stage yet with Rotom, will have to keep my eye out
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I just got to this point and I'd have to agree it's pretty overbearing.
It wouldn't even be so bad if what Rotom said was interesting or cute but it's literally just "Hey player, here's where I give you advice you didn't ask for..." on constant repeat. It's not endearing at all. |
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I'm only on the second island but will still go back and forth as I still have plenty of Pokemon to catch and the fact that I've fallen in love with Mantime surfing. But I love my Rotem. He helped me find locations, he helped me learn more about Pokemon, he even help me find places to take pictures of wild Pokemon.
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Making his quips random doesn't really help anyone; even the most novice player will understand that poison lowers HP and how to equip items after the 15th time he's mentioned it. Worst part is, I think he actually says some helpful things, like he says there's some place that people will upgrade your Photo Club stuff or something, but since I'm trying so hard to tune him out, I don't even get to read that stuff. If they're going to have a tutorial constantly at the player's side, the timing of the advice needs to be more appropriate given what is currently happening in the game. And honestly, with a franchise that has been around as long as Pokémon, I don't think it's the best idea to treat all players like novices. At the very least, Rotom should have asked the player how often they wanted to receive his "advice" throughout their journey so they could opt for little to no "advice" if they chose. Quote:
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man, rotom talks too little (as is the case in SM), people complain
rotom talks too much (apparently in USUM), people complain no use making anyone happy unless there's a toggle in what rotom says and what rotom does |
The Rotom Dex is one of my absolute favorite features. For years we had a static/boring bottom screen and now we have something full of interaction. It feels like we are on this adventure with a companion as opposed to traveling alone. It's fun!
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Honestly, rotom in s/m was the second worst part of that game (and anime tbh)
My bag is my tool. The bottom screen has my wizzbang gadgets and that's been perfect for 6 generations. I don't want my tools talking to me unless it is beneficial to my gameplay experience??? (yes hello zelda botw you could have used a rotom) Like above posters said, if he said useful crap that'd be fab, but he ...doesn't need to tell me to heal my 1 pokemon that took 5hp damage. Basically, like many games do already, there should be an option to turn off "rotom hints and tips" so y'all that enjoy him can keep doing so. tldr. I'm pretty nervous now. C: |
I don't really see how it should bother anyone; compared to the excess of cutscenes and characters that demand your attention every few minutes in this game, Rotom is a completely passive companion. You can easily just not look at the bottom screen when it's talking if for some reason you don't enjoy what it has to say. Personally the cute interactions with Rotom were some of my favorite moments in this game.
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Just because you don't recall doesn't mean the complains don't exist. Quote:
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anyway we can go back and fourth about the nature of the complaints in particular but it'd hardly be productive conversation. the bigger point being is that the essence of the complaints focused on the pointlessness of the rotom-dex due to it not functioning much of anything. while very little has changed functionally in usum with it, people are now upset at the very thing that they claimed they wanted changed: for rotom to actually have a point being there. it's a traveling companion. that's the point, and it's supposed to be making conversation. i suppose offering needless advice more often than not is perhaps grating and not the most ideal way of breaking the ice with the player, but not (imo) a significant issue when there's genuine conversations that it wants to have with you, something that i think is a cute improvement over SM. |
Kinda reminds me of Cappy in mario odyssey, or all those NPCs that want you to look at the action guide xD
This is what we get if we ask for no tutorials I guess... |
Reminds me of Navi from Zelda. . _ .;
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Like stated before I wouldn’t find it too much of a problem if he didn’t give me advice basically whenever I want to look at the map or want to use Roto Loto. Seriously, it’s like “Shokay time to see where my next goal is!” And then Rotom’s like, “LEL NOPE HERE’S SOME ADVICE YOU ALREADY KNOW.”
But I really can’t hate Rotom because Roto Loto saves lives. |
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secondly, the point i was trying to emphasize several times over (that you seemingly ignored?) was that the complaints were about how useless Rotom were because it didnt do much functionality wise, including inciting conversation. Is this clearer now? |
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I received two interesting tips from Rotom yesterday. I didn't previously know that I could access the Pokedex by touching the space between its eyes. And I didn't realise you could assign rides to the D-pad for quick use.
I have also heard 16 times that I can re-take my trainer passport photo whenever I like, which I found less useful hahaha |
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When does Rotom say this exactly? I am on the 4th island and Rotom has done nothing of the sort for me yet.
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