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Even after all this time I'm amazed that they designed all the pokemon back sprites at a certain resolution, then later in development said "Eh, we want them to be bigger...screw it just double the size even if it looks like crap."

When Gold/Silver came out I wasn't most excited about new pokemon, color graphics, time of day, or any of that. I was most excited about proper resolution back sprites.
 
What drives me mad is that they seem hellbent on killing Fire Pokemon. No more Charmeleon, no more Flareon, if we could just catch a Growlithe we might be okay for fighting Koga, but now I dunno what the hell is happening. There's 4 pokemon in the team and they go and release pokemon?

The first two were an accident but I'm still angry at them for releasing Flareon. It had a good moveset but all this metastory hurted him.
 
Most of us here were born in the 80s or early 90s and played R/b, but imagine all the millennial kids watching this who never experienced Gen I.

There are so many dimensions to this
 
Questions for whats been going on for the past few hours?

What happened in getting the silph scope
Why is digrat now called Apollo Justice (something to do with fighting ghosts I' guessing)
What happened with the name rater
WHY DID WE FILL THE 6TH SLOT
What is Zubat's role in our team. False prophet, bird jesus, keeper, etc.
Who is x bat

re silph scope:
1. ridiculously long time in the maze
2. managed to get the key
3. more long maze time
4. get up to giovanni
5. lose
6. do maze again
7. get up to giovanni
8. dig
9. do maze again
10. get up to givoanni
11. win against givoanni
12. dig
13. do maze again
14. get up to giovanni's room
15. get scope


re apollo:
got to the move trainer, renamed rattata to AAJST(???? (ace attorney justice)

re sixth slot: while levelling up in the cave caught two zubats
re xbat: is the 2nd zubat
 
Questions for whats been going on for the past few hours?

What happened in getting the silph scope
Why is digrat now called Apollo Justice (something to do with fighting ghosts I' guessing)
What happened with the name rater
WHY DID WE FILL THE 6TH SLOT
What is Zubat's role in our team. False prophet, bird jesus, keeper, etc.
Who is x bat

-Beat Giovanni on 2nd time, Digrat use dig before getting the sliph scope... other than that nothing much to say
-Because its nickname is AAJST (???! -> A.J -> Apollo Justice
-Nicknamed bunch of pokemon such as the Digrat -> Apollo Justice
-FALSE PROPHET SCHEME!!
-No idea
-the 2nd Zubat
 
I am pleased with this. All of this.

Nice developments. New team members, new heroes, new hilarious media.

We still training currently?
 
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Seems accurate.
 
The majority of the gym trainers use psychic types except for a few Arboks and some Sandlsashes. Koga uses Koffings and Grimers I believe.

Yeah I went to look it up and I was wrong. Still salty about the murdering Fire Types because they rule. I don't even get the Flareon hate.
 
Even after all this time I'm amazed that they designed all the pokemon back sprites at a certain resolution, then later in development said "Eh, we want them to be bigger...screw it just double the size even if it looks like crap."

When Gold/Silver came out I wasn't most excited about new pokemon, color graphics, time of day, or any of that. I was most excited about proper resolution back sprites.

The funniest part is they made all new sprites for pokemon yellow to reflect the anime/original vision or whatever, but still kept the shitty back sprites. It's incredibly jarring.
 
Yeah I went to look it up and I was wrong. Still salty about the murdering Fire Types because they rule. I don't even get the Flareon hate.

Flareon is the worst Eeveelution unless Sylveon is shit or something (Leafeon and Glaceon arent great either). They really need to give it some more physical coverage. Its attack stat is wasted. Flare Blitz only helped a bit.
 
The funniest part is they made all new sprites for pokemon yellow to reflect the anime/original vision or whatever, but still kept the shitty back sprites. It's incredibly jarring.

Part of this was memory constraint. While larger GB carts were available, pokemon was already using a very large cart and they were expensive (like $20 of the cost of the game was the cart alone). By the time Gold/silver were out, the cost of manufacturering carts was reduced where space was less of an issue.
 
Yeah I went to look it up and I was wrong. Still salty about the murdering Fire Types because they rule. I don't even get the Flareon hate.

The flareon hate happened because jolteon is more useful in combat and vaporeon is more useful for surf (no guarantee that we will get a lapras really), it also just so happened that as soon as the flaeron was born other bad stuff happened.
 
Flareon is the worst Eeveelution unless Sylveon is shit or something (Leafeon and Glaceon arent great either). They really need to give it some more physical coverage. Its attack stat is wasted. Flare Blitz only helped a bit.

Yeah but we're not doing a competitive playthrough here. Flareon should be just fine for a playthrough of this nature.
 
Part of this was memory constraint. While larger GB carts were available, pokemon was already using a very large cart and they were expensive (like $20 of the cost of the game was the cart alone). By the time Gold/silver were out, the cost of manufacturering carts was reduced where space was less of an issue.

It would have looked better to keep the back sprites their original size. It's always been completely jarring, and I'm surprised Nintendo's quality control approved it as is.
 
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