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Pokemon Ranger DS first pic
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Golden Darkness
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bobble said:What in the world is Pokemon Ranger? Like Power Rangers with Pokemon? Like Rescue Rangers with Pokemon? I'm confused
ARPG? SOUNDS GOOD!
Ranger in this case means a person who partols nature preserves, forests, places like that, against poachers and such ilk.
WordAssassin
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I can see where she's coming from. I think that Nintendo can milk Pokemon for years to come, but it needs something..new. Since 1998 they've been releasing the same game with new Pokemon and badges. Big fucking deal? (I actually like Pokemon A LOT but I never even got more then half through Saphire.) Nintendo needs to do something with the series next time. I don't know what, but I mean, come on. When the GAMECUBE version of the game uses sounds from the GameBoy releases, it's time to update things.
WordAssassin
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Yay Anihawk! You changed your avatar! 
Jonnyram said:
Snap was great! Hardly any haters for that game aside from people who thought it was too short. Never played that other one though.
It's not a "few" spinoffs. It's:
- Having D/P announed last September and still having next to no info of it. The only info we do know sucks quite frankly. No new types? Of the 5 "new" PKMN revealed 4 are baby versions of old PKMN? It ties in largely to the Ranger crap? Yikes.
- Crappy dungeon games where a human becomes a pokemon? Excuse me while I die. Who knew the furrys had this much push in the industry. Talk about getting off track from the series original concept.
- De-canonizing PKMN Colosseum and XD. That left me with a big ? over my head.
- The lite environmentalist theme going on in R/S/E wasn't bad but what the heck, now they're going and basing the whole "Ranger" project around it? Preachyyyyy. Hopefully the anime remains on the botched Battle Frontier arc forever so we won't have to endure the same thing in all of its mediums.
- The spinoffs suck. Dash/Mysterious Rehash #1954 and probably Ranger are certainly not Snap/Pinball/Puzzle League quality.
The signs are all there. Lack of positvie D/P info, total change in the series theme and dirt poor side games = downhill slide for the series.
Greenpanda
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I second the Pokemon Snap love. Really an underrated game, IMO.
JoshuaJSlone
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Here's purchaser #2 if you're reading, Game Freak.scola said:
poppin fresh
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Lindsay said:
LOLZ
Bartman3010
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<---- Ash is sad =(
evilromero
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The screens look mighty unimpressive. In fact, I'm trying to figure out how they took advantage of the DS' improved graphics abilities. Can't say I'm very excited right now.Lindsay said:
Oh, well good news... I trust HAL way more than Ambrella anyway.Jonnyram said:It says in the little box that the developers are a dream combo of HAL (Pokemon Snap) and Creatures. I guess Ambrella is not doing it anymore
Their last (and only that I'm aware of) ARPG was the nice looking Alchahest that Square published on SFC. Never played it myself actually, is it worth trying out?
Lindsay, Pokemon has been shit for the past few years. Hasn't had any significant advancements since Gold/Silver, and many awful spinoffs like Stadium, Coluseum, Snap, XD, and Hey You Pikachu. You must have some serious fanboy goggles on to think the series is now getting worse with these new upcoming games.
A lot of the "points" you listed are your own personal fanboy nitpicking. Do you think anyone, even most Pokemon fans, give a rat's ass about canon in Pokemon? Its stupid childish storyline? If this new game is based on Rangers or on older stuff? And what's your basis for writing Mysterious Dungeon and Ranger off as crap when you liked all those other awful spinoff games? The new games look closer to a Pokemon RPG than all that other junk. One would THINK a Pokemon fan would like them more than a game where you're on rails snapping pictures of the things.
It's these new games that are giving myself and others hope that all of Pokemon hasn't gone down the toilet. Well, it already has. Just hoping the new games elevate it back to a decent status and bring us something new and refreshing. which the series hasn't had in some five years.
A lot of the "points" you listed are your own personal fanboy nitpicking. Do you think anyone, even most Pokemon fans, give a rat's ass about canon in Pokemon? Its stupid childish storyline? If this new game is based on Rangers or on older stuff? And what's your basis for writing Mysterious Dungeon and Ranger off as crap when you liked all those other awful spinoff games? The new games look closer to a Pokemon RPG than all that other junk. One would THINK a Pokemon fan would like them more than a game where you're on rails snapping pictures of the things.
It's these new games that are giving myself and others hope that all of Pokemon hasn't gone down the toilet. Well, it already has. Just hoping the new games elevate it back to a decent status and bring us something new and refreshing. which the series hasn't had in some five years.
I'm glad to see the Pokemon Snap love, because the game is fantastic. I've beaten it with my friends countless times, and we've finally broken the hour mark for getting every single Pokemon. I think we're down to 45 minutes actually.
About this Pokemon Ranger though, I have to say I'm sort of unimpressed with the screenshots, but very intrigued overall. I'm still looking forward to seeing Diamond and Pearl though...
About this Pokemon Ranger though, I have to say I'm sort of unimpressed with the screenshots, but very intrigued overall. I'm still looking forward to seeing Diamond and Pearl though...
typhonsentra
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I keep reading this as Power Ranger DS!
Jonnyram said:
Pokemon Snap was awesome, btw.
I figure online will be more than enough to breath life into this game. One of the biggest problems with Pokemon (although with how much this game sells, it may seem like a rarity) is finding someone to trade or battle with. Let's say you're a Pokemon gamer of 20 something years old (alot more people out there like that than you probably assume). You're going to look like a complete tool if you're battling with someone half your age. Hell, the police might even get envolved :lol
The Nintendo wifi connection will give you a world of people to play Pokemon against in the privacy of your own home. It's going to be big.
This game looks pretty cool, btw. I always figured a Pokemon ARPG would be pretty cool; That, and a Capcom style 2D Pokemon fighting game.
Count me in the "Pokemon shouldn't go online" camp. The second it does, it's going to be ruined by trolls and cheaters who give themselves perfect stats, and that's literally the last series I want that to happen to.
No, I'd say R/S had the best advancements in the series. It's just that the impact of the features they added was completely diluted for most people since 1) the Hoenn region was by far the worst among the portable games, 2) the same goes for the music, 3) the same goes for the set of new Pokemon (and that's saying a lot since Johto's new Pokemon were by and large not that great either), and 4) for some (not me, but for some) the graphics were disappointing. It's a similar situation to G/S/C, where night/day was cool, but Johto as a region was so lame and easy (the Elite 4 only hitting the 40's in terms of levels) that it ruined the impact.
As for Emerald, the Battle Frontier is another thing. Great addition. Great potential for future multiplayer options if they go that route. (Battle Factory rental multiplayer battles with possible "mulligans" on bad random draws are an absolute must, and co-op Battle Pyramid and competitive endless Battle Pike are pretty high on my list of wants for D/P.)
Only problem is that the entire thing is way too luck-based to be fun since you can get a winning streak of 30-50 going and then lose to some random critical hit or something and have to do it all over again. If only it was more like Mt. Battle in Colosseum/XD and you could restart from the beginning of the round you lost in, then I'd probably still be playing Emerald today. (Then again, maybe not, since the trainer battle music still sucks compared to R/B/Y and G/S/C... I demand a Perfect Dark-style customizable battle soundtrack in D/P, with remixes of all the previous battle themes. Seriously.)
I really don't get all the cries of Pokemon not changing enough. This isn't like Madden, Smackdown, or Mega Man (X, Zero, Battle Network), among others, where you could genuinely say, for better or worse, that almost nothing changes year-to-year. Do people just stop playing the game once they're done with the main single-player quest or something? Because then I could understand to an extent, since more or less all of the strategy in the game is thrown out when you're facing the (non-Battle Tower/Frontier) computer AI, but then you'd be missing out on the entire point of the game to begin with, never mind just the extra features.
Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald are what I'd classify as "missed potential," but the reason for that isn't because they didn't have any significant advancements. Adding abilities was probably the best thing they ever did for the series since it forced you to think about absorption, direct vs. indirect combat attacks, status condition immunities, and other things that never existed in the previous games. And I don't know about you, but I really did find the double battle system to be vastly different from singles--and it would have been less so if not for abilities like Lightningrod, Levitate, and Damp being around to ruin certain important moves.Jado said:
No, I'd say R/S had the best advancements in the series. It's just that the impact of the features they added was completely diluted for most people since 1) the Hoenn region was by far the worst among the portable games, 2) the same goes for the music, 3) the same goes for the set of new Pokemon (and that's saying a lot since Johto's new Pokemon were by and large not that great either), and 4) for some (not me, but for some) the graphics were disappointing. It's a similar situation to G/S/C, where night/day was cool, but Johto as a region was so lame and easy (the Elite 4 only hitting the 40's in terms of levels) that it ruined the impact.
As for Emerald, the Battle Frontier is another thing. Great addition. Great potential for future multiplayer options if they go that route. (Battle Factory rental multiplayer battles with possible "mulligans" on bad random draws are an absolute must, and co-op Battle Pyramid and competitive endless Battle Pike are pretty high on my list of wants for D/P.)
Only problem is that the entire thing is way too luck-based to be fun since you can get a winning streak of 30-50 going and then lose to some random critical hit or something and have to do it all over again. If only it was more like Mt. Battle in Colosseum/XD and you could restart from the beginning of the round you lost in, then I'd probably still be playing Emerald today. (Then again, maybe not, since the trainer battle music still sucks compared to R/B/Y and G/S/C... I demand a Perfect Dark-style customizable battle soundtrack in D/P, with remixes of all the previous battle themes. Seriously.)
I really don't get all the cries of Pokemon not changing enough. This isn't like Madden, Smackdown, or Mega Man (X, Zero, Battle Network), among others, where you could genuinely say, for better or worse, that almost nothing changes year-to-year. Do people just stop playing the game once they're done with the main single-player quest or something? Because then I could understand to an extent, since more or less all of the strategy in the game is thrown out when you're facing the (non-Battle Tower/Frontier) computer AI, but then you'd be missing out on the entire point of the game to begin with, never mind just the extra features.