ScraftyDevil
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Neat. What are your thoughts on the two Mega Mewtwo revealed thus far?
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Pokémon Community Thread 3: "Soon, All of Hoenn Will Be Under Its Withering Glare "
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Neat. What are your thoughts on the two Mega Mewtwo revealed thus far?
OcarinaOfDoom
Member
Right now, I'm preferring the design of X to the one of Y, however I imagine Y will be the more competitive viable one, with its boost to Mewtwo's already great Special Attack.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
X gets STAB Aura Sphere though, which effectively means that very little will be able to wall it so long as it still has decent Special Attack.
OcarinaOfDoom
Member
True, but I still think that extra Attack on X is going to waste. At least with Y, you probably are getting at least 160-170 special attack, which I imagine will be able to OHKO most things. True, the Aura Sphere boost will be nice for some things, but I imagine the Special Attack boost will be more helpful for some more common Ubers with high Sp. Def, like Kyogre, Lugia, and Ho-Oh
Mewtwo learns quite a few physical attacks, and I'm guessing it will learn some more for X and Y to help Mewtwo X.
Zoroak apparently got kicked so hard, he transformed into Ghost Ri... Nicholas Cage.Giga Impact looks awesome in Gen VI.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Pokemon Pinball for $15?
Dark Orchid
Member
I'm more surprised about the probably-dead Gold cart going for as much as Heart Gold. I haven't seen a pre-gba game go for more than $30 in about a decade.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
I think they should at least have a warning on there about the likely-dead save battery.
Black-Wind
Member
Which is my point. If they can change something that's so fundamental to the game from the time he playtested to when it was revealed then whose to say more things haven't changed in regards to the starters typing?
And given that he was flat out wrong about Mewtwo I'm on the "He either purposely lied about some stuff or somethings are just wrong".
Professor Beef
Banned
It just hit me how blinded by nostalgia I was regarding Pokemon Stadium after looking at that Mewtwo/Zoroark gif.
You can fix a dead cartridge if you buy a new battery.
Still, I don't know why someone would play Gold over Heart Gold.
Dark Orchid
Member
That's why I'm surprised, the replacement cost is going to add another $5 to that or more depending on if you already have the security bit to open a cart.
I'd just get Heart Gold at that point.
Are you serious? This is like saying people shouldn't play Kirby Super Star over Kirby Super Star Ultra. I'd rather play Gold over Heart Gold to be honest. Both games hold up well on their own.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
But I like both.
spyroflame0487
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJhP2QbE-A
Pokemon just uploaded their new XY commercial. In it, a girl is sitting on a Gogoat, and you can see some signs. From what it appears/I can make out:
Shalcur City
Luminose City
Sandalone (maybe Santalone?) City
Vaniville Town
I think we knew a few of them, but I wonder if those are actual locations or not?
Pokemon just uploaded their new XY commercial. In it, a girl is sitting on a Gogoat, and you can see some signs. From what it appears/I can make out:
Shalcur City
Luminose City
Sandalone (maybe Santalone?) City
Vaniville Town
I think we knew a few of them, but I wonder if those are actual locations or not?
SenorArdilla
Member
They're about the same until you reach the post-game.
In Gold, the Kanto gyms and trainers and wild Pokemon are hilariously misleveled, making Kanto a boring and easy slog. Whose brilliant idea was it to make Janine's Pokemon all under level 40 after you've beaten the guy with a level 50 Dragonite? Red was the only trainer with decently leveled Pokemon to provide a challenge, but good luck grinding for him when the only trainers you can rebattle cap at level 50.
I miss the original music, it sounded better. And Kanto never bothered me much, I appreciate the changes though *shrugs*
Original music is good, updated music is good too. This isn't like Firered/Leafgreen where you want to sodomize the band with their own trumpets.
I love the Cerulean one. Hoping that they release one for Fuchsia City.
The new music is fine, I just largely prefer the Game Boy instruments over the DS ones.
Anyways, I don't see the issue with people preferring Gold over Heart Gold. I honestly like HG nearly as much as the original but I sort of like the original more. I also like the original art more (since it's full 2D instead of the weird 2.5D thing the DS games had).
SEEMS LEGIT.
Seriously, can I just take all of them? My original Silver cart will not save anymore, so...
I wish more game developers would do this. What's honestly stopping them?
SenorArdilla
Member
It's probably a real hassle getting a game localized for each different region.
That nasty little mess called bug testing and QA (or as I like to call it, Bethesda's mortal enemy). I fully expect some nasty glitches to slip through at launch.
We really are going back to the glory days of RBY!
Oh yeah, I guess that is true.
Wonder if there are methods to make it less of a hassle.
Who does Pokemon localizations anyway, probably a group inside The Pokemon Company? It would be great if this was the start of Nintendo getting a process going to allow for many more worldwide simultaneous launches in the future.
If one of those glitches is item cloning, I won't complain lol.
SenorArdilla
Member
Loved that Item/Pokémon cloning from GSC. Especially since I didn't know anyone who had a Link Cable.
You are not alone.
I suggest that if anyone finds any glitches that they exploit the hell out of them before they are inevitably patched. (even if said patching might take 6 months.)
EDIT: I was under the impression that they're done by either game freak or the local Nintendo branches. I could have sworn that NOA localization writers did work on the previous games.
I don't even understand this analogy. Is there a reason to play Kirby Super Star instead of Ultra?
Dr. Buni
Member
Nostalgia?
GB player for HG/SS?
I tried going back to Gold a while back. No, just can't do it. I've already adjusted to 3rd gen and beyond.
You don't get that until wayyyy later though.
(And I remember listening to the .mini2sf rips of them and they sounded really off. It could be just the mini2sf rip itself though, but I recall the instruments sounding a bit off. Kind of jarring lol. I'll have to get it in game and judge it properly myself)
I never had a problem with adjusting to things, but eh that's just me...
Bad comparison I guess, but I would argue that some would prefer playing it on TV. And the music quality is somewhat better too. And there's people who don't like the CG stuff they added in the remake (personally I liked them even if the vid quality was so dang low).
What I'm trying to say is that everyone is going to like something in the original over the remake. Maybe it's something important enough that they prefer the original. It's just how some things work.
I actually played through the remake first. (Disclaimer: I have no preference, I like both versions equality but I have not went back to the remake lately)
Giga Impact looks awesome in Gen VI.
Also, I find it funny how not even Eevee likes Flareon:
Ouch!
Zoroark is looking pretty sharp though! Here's hoping for a mega evolution.
Dr. Buni
Member
I prefer some stuff in the original games over the remakes, so I understand why one would want to play them over the improved remakes. But personally, I just can't go back and play Gen I and II anymore. Hell, even Gen III is sort of obsolete to me and things will only get worse once XY are released.
Oh, it's fine! I'm not holding that against you. It's your preference and I accept that! (Actually I love the running shoes too, game changer for me)
Thankfully the GB maps are actually proportionally smaller than the GBA/DS maps, so it wasn't all that bad to me, I got adjusted to it pretty quick. lol
PreyingShark
Member
Used to be Nintendo Treehouse but ever since either HGSS or BW (can't remember which) it's been TPCi.
