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Pokémon Community Thread: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
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Chet Rippo
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Who has?
Me.. for hundreds of hours! ;_;
No Levitator changes ability, sadly. Although it's such a great ability, Flygon wouldn't want to lose it and become anymore inferior to Garchomp.
Exterminieren
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tiggerkiddo
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Maybe N will get his revenge in B/W2. Or maybe they'll save that for Gray.
Only time I ever used it was when there was an event that gave you Arceus.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I love how the game crafts Ghetsis as a great orator, even mentioned by the Sages and Shadow Triad...and yet we get in his second appearance...
tiggerkiddo
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I see people complaining about Dream World so what would you do to improve it?
Exterminieren
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Get rid of it wholesale, and get something better in instead.
ThatObviousUser
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A world where you're able to manage your GTS trades and make the site like eBay would be my dream world, if you get my drift.
ThatObviousUser
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Nothing is cheat proof. The 3DS remains uncracked by hackers and homebrewers, as far as I'm aware, but there's always things you can do to the internet communications.
I'm sure a website for a series that has as many OCDers as Pokemon won't remain impenetrable for long.
Chet Rippo
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That's why I don't bother, I have people to do it for me.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Hackers are going to have to start being bad-ass once we get wide-spread, economically-tenable quantum communication services. Calling it right now.
Gen 6 is going to be glorious if people don't find a way to get a Pokesav or something working with the 3DS by then.
Change the minigames to be actual one-on-one battles with the Pokemon you uploaded. Maybe with some gimmick if it hurts GameFreak's heart that much (say, you only have to beat the Pokemon to capture it). And let me choose the area.
That's all it needs. Maybe polish it, and make it faster, but in general just do the above and I could use it pretty consistently.
At the very least they wouldn't be able to pokesav new Pokemon and they wouldn't be able to give the pokesav'd Pokemon new abilities and moves unless they can give them those moves legitimately in the gen 6 game (so they could give them new TM moves but not new egg moves).
As I've said before, even if they just changed the minigames to the ones on the Pokemon website it would dramatically improve Dream World. The majority of the Dream World minigames are just bad and even ones that show promise of being good (like the Pelipper flying one) just get repetitive because the minigame never changes.
Chet Rippo
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What if gen 6 is like gen 3 and doesn't allow old Pokemon from previous gens to be transferred?
Dragoon En Regalia
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There would be civil disobedience flowing throughout the Boston metroplex, I guarantee you Chet.
Dragoon En Regalia
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lol
Big changes to the battle system, in my view, would involve making the battles real-time, set in an enclosing arena battlefield, and introducing more tactical elements to battling, like moving around the battlefield itself. But everyone thought that was too controversial when I introduced the idea last time.
Big changes to the battle system, in my view, would involve making the battles real-time, set in an enclosing arena battlefield, and introducing more tactical elements to battling, like moving around the battlefield itself. But everyone thought that was too controversial when I introduced the idea last time.
no, i don't want that stuff. you're not taking away one of the last turn based rpgs.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Actually: I was coming at a hypothetical fan-game angle for that argument. Changing up the formula to the actual mainline games would be stupid from both a market perspective and a fan-based perspective.
I'd play it, though.
I'd play it, though.
ThatObviousUser
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Ewwwwwwww. There's the Ranger, Mystery Dungeon, Rumble Battle, Pokepark, and anime series for a reason. Pokemon is really the only game of its kind nowadays and it would lose a ton if it ever transitioned to such a battle system for no real reason. The core Pokemon gameplay is still absurdly sound, and still has room for improvement, so improve it, and don't throw out the unique appeal with the bathwater.
see, i'd be ok with spinoffs that change things up like that.
Dragoon En Regalia
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You didn't read my previous post, Andy.
None of the spin-offs capture my vision for such a battle system, btw. They're all dumbed-down and simplistic if you ask me.
tiggerkiddo
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Have you seen how many people want turn based battle systems gone? It seems everywhere you turn, everyone wants them gone...that and random encounters.
Dragoon En Regalia
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I never put Pokemon on my "kill list", nor do I have anything of the sort. But when I watch battle scenes from the anime, I really do wish there could be a Pokemon game that had a similar battle system.
And I don't think you guys read the post where I said I was thinking of a fan-game, not a mainline game.
And I don't think you guys read the post where I said I was thinking of a fan-game, not a mainline game.
Chet Rippo
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It's not like there's anything of value in Boston.
ThatObviousUser
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People who consider themselves the "biggest Pokemon fan ever" even though they identify more with the anime than the games but haven't seen/played either in over 10 years.
Case in point.
Dragoon En Regalia
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I beat Pokemon Black last holiday season, Andrex. Stop falsely-accusing me, please.
Yeah: voice commands would be cool. I was thinking of a hotkey-based substitute, actually.
Chet Rippo
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I want a game (No I don't) that follows the anime rules to a t:
Safeguard is unstoppable. Tackle is a kill move, yelling your move out over and over means the pokemon will do it over and over, dodge it is the second best move (behind again safeguard) and many more.
Safeguard is unstoppable. Tackle is a kill move, yelling your move out over and over means the pokemon will do it over and over, dodge it is the second best move (behind again safeguard) and many more.
That's actually a good game. Wonder if emulators let you use the microphone.
It's all about Bulbasaur stir fry. I haven't played in over a decade I believe.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Not that stupid, though. I liked the music in that game a lot.
There's some value left in Boston, Chet. Trust Adult Swim!
There's some value left in Boston, Chet. Trust Adult Swim!
Neither do I want that. But the actual traversal mechanics and usage of the battlefield itself was really-interesting. Almost everything else was plot armor.
ThatObviousUser
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I obviously didn't mean that part specifically. That was more targeted at the type of friends on Facebook who see Pikachu and nostalgia all over the place for like a week then go on having forgotten the entire franchise until the next reminder.
But the anime people are kind of annoying, and this coming from someone who watches the anime. The anime is such a bland reinterpretation of the games; the games may not have Oscar-worthy storylines but they're still usually many times more complex than the animes'. (Anime BW had promise with that Team Rocket/Plasma crossover that never aired, hopefully Anime BW2 or whatever they call it makes up for it.) So it's annoying when people say they want it to be more like the anime since, in my overall opinion, the anime is a cheap knockoff of the games. And I like the anime. But there's no question in my mind the games and even the manga (Special) are far, far better, more complex products.
An action RPG Pokemon could have the battle system and trappings of Xenoblade and I would still hold it in lower regard than Black and White. The Pokemon series' strongest point is the mainline games' battle system; take that away, and you have another samey game for kids.
That says more about you than Dream World.
as you should, because the xenoblade battle system isn't really that amazing.