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Pokémon Community Thread 4: "Your Portal to What's Hip and Happening in Sinnoh!"
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All Pokémon threads eventually devolve into gen wars. This is law.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Oak's Law, no wait that's for using vehicles
Ah, Charizard's Law
Ah, Charizard's Law
GiantBreadbug
Member
This wasn't my discussion but I find it pretty ridiculous that there are Gen II Pokémon you can't catch before the E4 in HGSS (Houndour whyyyyyyyy)
I'm not always checking out this thread. I've seen some of the complaints about Gen II here and there and agree that most of them are real issues(I don't know if I've ever seen one of your posts), but they are ultimately rather minor issues to the experience to me.
There's a big difference between "unplayable" and "why should I go back to an inferior version". There are clunky aspects to the earlier games that I don't miss, but the aspects I love of those games are still there. My opinion of the music, new Pokemon, and region layout don't change just because it's from a time without running shoes, but I can play a version with a ton of quality of life improvements that still has those things I enjoyed as the core of the game. So no, I'm not seeing a contradiction, Gen II was wonderful and then they improved it with the remakes, I would much rather play the remakes but what I enjoy the most about Gen II are still there in the originals.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Anyone have a spare Stantler and/or Cresselia they would be up to trade? I cannot get the random mirage island to appear for these two in ORAS 
Anyone have a spare Stantler and/or Cresselia they would be up to trade? I cannot get the random mirage island to appear for these two in ORAS
I can get you a Stantler easily, Cresselia not so much lol.
Drampa and Turtonator both having no pre-evos is a little weird, especially for something with grandpa in it's name. When's the last time we had a Pokémon over 5' that was single stage only? Druddigon? I can only hope their hiding something.
Also, not confirmed, but Turtonator might be Sun exclusive, while Drampa is Moon only.
Also, not confirmed, but Turtonator might be Sun exclusive, while Drampa is Moon only.
We've only ever encountered female Kangaskhan, they have no pre-evo and they hatch with an infant already in their pouch. Drampa isn't that weird.
Apologies if a repost, but this is a damn cool print:
https://www.pokemoncenter-online.com/?p_cd=4521329205410
Seems to be based on this piece of art.
https://www.pokemoncenter-online.com/?p_cd=4521329205410
Limited quantity, handmade, and costs about $460.
Seems to be based on this piece of art.
You guys had a gen war fight...without me. ;_;
Anyway when I first played Pokémon Silver I really enjoyed it and got a kick out of Johto historical region and how the legendary Pokémon are tied to it.
I chuckled when Farfetch'd bumped into a tree in Ilex forest, when the rocket goon bumped into a table and when Clair said that dragon breath had nothing to do with her breath.
Plus the music is amazing and Game Freak built on gen 1 with the new feature that became the staple of the series.
But Gen 2 is not without flaws like;
-The terrible level curve
-Pokémon placement is baffling
-Not many of the new Pokémon where amazing and wouldn't till they got new evo in gen 4.
-Johto felt very compressed and had shorter routes compares to other regions.
-Kanto was barren and devoid of anything interesting to do location wise or story wise.
-Gen 2 felt more of an expansion of gen 1 and struggled to stand out from its shadow.
and these flaws became more and more obvious as later generation didn't suffer from this problem.
As for the jump between gen 2 to 3, I was excited to play Pokémon Ruby and was really hyped as I saw pictures of the game graphic and was blown away by them.
I also saw images of the new Hoenn Pokémon and was spending hours planing on what Pokémon I wanted to use.
But when I got the game I was meh towards it as it felt like a regression from gen 2 in some department and I remember that I enjoyed exploring west side of Hoenn more than the East and would dread surfing across route 118.
But as time pass on I began to look back on it fondly and when I went back to replay it I was enjoying myself and began to see the good side of Hoenn, it also helped that gen 6 took its spot of being my least favorite generation.
Anyway when I first played Pokémon Silver I really enjoyed it and got a kick out of Johto historical region and how the legendary Pokémon are tied to it.
I chuckled when Farfetch'd bumped into a tree in Ilex forest, when the rocket goon bumped into a table and when Clair said that dragon breath had nothing to do with her breath.
Plus the music is amazing and Game Freak built on gen 1 with the new feature that became the staple of the series.
But Gen 2 is not without flaws like;
-The terrible level curve
-Pokémon placement is baffling
-Not many of the new Pokémon where amazing and wouldn't till they got new evo in gen 4.
-Johto felt very compressed and had shorter routes compares to other regions.
-Kanto was barren and devoid of anything interesting to do location wise or story wise.
-Gen 2 felt more of an expansion of gen 1 and struggled to stand out from its shadow.
and these flaws became more and more obvious as later generation didn't suffer from this problem.
As for the jump between gen 2 to 3, I was excited to play Pokémon Ruby and was really hyped as I saw pictures of the game graphic and was blown away by them.
I also saw images of the new Hoenn Pokémon and was spending hours planing on what Pokémon I wanted to use.
But when I got the game I was meh towards it as it felt like a regression from gen 2 in some department and I remember that I enjoyed exploring west side of Hoenn more than the East and would dread surfing across route 118.
But as time pass on I began to look back on it fondly and when I went back to replay it I was enjoying myself and began to see the good side of Hoenn, it also helped that gen 6 took its spot of being my least favorite generation.
I certainly agree that Gen II is more of an expansion than the kind of new game every other gen is, however I think it's the opposite, that Gen I was made irrelevant once Gen II was made. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I end up enjoying Kanto more when it's a shorter trip where I can challenge seven of its Gyms in whatever order I want, Kanto is just too plain on its own to me now.
I was never denying that Gen II has some issues, but those issues are not a big enough deal to me in comparison to what I think Gen II did right. Honestly, I don't think there is a single generation that could be called bad, I might not care for Gen III but it's easy to see its strong points that could make someone else love it. All that ultimately matters are what aspects we value the most in the game.
New anime preview in good Quality
Kiawe uses the fire Z-Move at 1:31 ish https://twitter.com/hadenshi/status/787438713693319168
Or see it here
https://my.mixtape.moe/rhroya.mp4
Kiawe uses the fire Z-Move at 1:31 ish https://twitter.com/hadenshi/status/787438713693319168
Or see it here
https://my.mixtape.moe/rhroya.mp4
Munch Poke
Member
I agree about you liking Kanto more once it's opened up. When I recently replayed Red I used the pokedoll glitch to bypass Marowaks ghost and get the pokeflute early. It really opens the second half of the game up and makes it so much more enjoyable.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
isn't it too early for one or am I missing something
Whole game is probably gonna leak Tuesday
We don't know if GF will make the same mistake twice.
GiantBreadbug
Member
Yeeeee that's where I'll be congregating. I'm pretty positive none of the leaks so far have come close to getting the full picture of Gen VII's content yet so I'm eager to hop off the spoiler train while I still can haha.
PreyingShark
Member
Monster-catching game demos pretty much always leave the monster database intact. It's just much easier that way; trying to edit things out can lead to strange bugs and shit. But they usually do take things like the models out because A) it saves space and B) that usually doesn't cause weird bugs and shit.
It's possible they'll still go through the effort of course. At worst we should still get some base stats and possibly movepools, though.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Do you think a Rock trainer could ever be hard or is the type just too slow with too many weaknesses to ever be a threat?
Possibly? With the right setups I guess. Lycanroc looks fast at least.
Ditto.
Professor Beef
Banned
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/2k16ts/mono_rock_team_can_hold_their_own_in_ou/
Granted, this is a year ago, but it's still good.
It always pains me to see the community thread not on the first page, especially during such exciting times. I think it's dumb how much we all don't get along because of what we disagree on. The Pokemon community on GAF could be so vibrant if we got together over the things we love about the franchise
It will be too late at that point lol
It's going to be bad enough that odds are SOMEONE is going to post a thread like "Sun/Moon datamined, Kalos confirmed (spoilers)". Not taking that chance.
Yeahhhh I don't have much faith in that idea working.
It will be too late at that point lol
It's going to be bad enough that odds are SOMEONE is going to post a thread like "Sun/Moon datamined, Kalos confirmed (spoilers)". Not taking that chance.
Yeahhhh I don't have much faith in that idea working.
Professor Beef
Banned
i'm more shocked that someone isn't using thread subscriptions in 2016
First reply to the thread is pretty funny when it comes this.
So there is potential of seeing NPC ash in this demo. If it happens I hope he looks goofy, would make that my avatar.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
err what, despite the agreements going on we tend to get along
...we get along by shitting on the gaming threads anyway lol
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Hmm, Maybe.
That looks okay.
I just remembered Pokemon Go today. I almost forgot it. Do people still play it? I haven't been seeing it in the news lately and Gaf stopped making threads about it.
PreyingShark
Member
Shitting on the gaming threads?
I prefer to shit in the gaming threads by making posts that are absurd, probably offensive to many, and go against all standards of decency. :3 (EDIT: Though now's probably a good time to state that for the most part, no, those posts are not actually serious)
I don't know why people think they're not going to scrub it.
It'd be so easy to scrub things, not delete them. Just put all base stat values to 1 except the ones being used. Blank out the text, blank out the sprites, all without glitching things.
It would take all of 10 minutes
Exterminieren
Banned
Because they didn't last time out?
Then why didn't they do that with ORAS?
They did. They actually scrubbed a lot, but left out some things. I imagine they'll be a lot more thorough this time
PreyingShark
Member
True.
TBH I'm personally just expecting base stats for some of the new mons, partial movepools, and possible an estimate of the # of new mons. And I don't think expecting major spoilers is realistic unless GF *REALLY* fucks up.
well in an attempt to avoid that risk, when the time comes, for those interested, I created a thread for spoiler-free discussion : http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1295137
If datamining ends up revealing some new Pokemon, I'll probably see what they are. I did the media blackout thing for XY and it was kind of fun, but I still looked up many things in my playthrough. I enjoy teambuilding more than finding a Pokemon I haven't seen before I guess.
Good luck to everyone that wants to avoid them though.
Good luck to everyone that wants to avoid them though.
And for EU
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I think we'll probably see a list, but not the actual models
Dark Orchid
Member
Even if they do a perfect scrubbing of the whole game and every spoilery thing is replaced with a .bmp of Masuda staring into your soul, we'll at least be able to calculate the base stats of every Pokemon in the demo (which does include quite a few Alola natives judging by the information released).
PadWarrior
Member
Curious to see what the base stats for ash grennnja are and if there is data on the evos for pikapek and salandit.
Oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten. The suffering never ends, does it.
The Shadow Knight
Member
If you have a custom firmware set-up(or a spare 3ds) you could set a separate emunand/3ds to the Australia region. Both regions are PAL so there's full compatibility and Australia gets the game on the 18th.
Downloading from the eShop will probably take a while though...