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korusan posted:I hope that the ORAS remake gives us cinematics that live up to some of the scene art from RSE, which I think were the last games to have this kind of art of things that don't happen in the game: If you want to talk about art that will never get used, let's talk about Pokemon Special and Wally's insane Ozone Suit that will never be in anything else ever:   
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chaos rhames posted:The narrative of black/white 2 is an insane mess of things just happening. XY is a lot more solid. Really? I currently have 5 badges and Team red shirt is running around doing nothing, Lysandre is totally not evil, my "friends" aren't doing anything and I have no idea what's happening beyond me traveling through the region. Also legendary pokemon/machine somewhere. If anything I'm currently of the persuasion that X/Y has the weakest story of the games. As much as I disliked Hugh, the story really revolved around him. If anything, he was Goku with a heart disease and we were Vegeta bailing him out during the climax. At least the evil team has more diversion in their teams. Nessa posted:I would recommend Platinum, HG/SS and Black/White 2.
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May 13, 2014 09:22
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.TakaM posted:I just sheer cold'd 3 times in a row with team Lapras, naturally my opponent disconnected.  How does hone claws' accuracy buff work on fissure anyways? Once I ran into an excadrill that honed claws and then got 2 KO's on me in a row. Can zoom lens + 1 hone claws stack to buff fissure to 50%+ accuracy or was the guy just lucky?
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May 13, 2014 09:30
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OHKO moves are completely unaffected by accuracy and evasion modifiers. Zoom Lens and Hone Claws have no effect.
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For the record it was Ferrothorn, Breloom, and Blissey that got the back to back sheer cold treatment. I'm glad you can't affect the accuracy of OHKOs because it would get exploited to its maximum potential, plus it goes the other way and I don't care how many times your Blissey uses minimize. However, you can get a Lapras to have Sheer Cold, Fissure, and Horn Drill for 3 times the tears edit- no guard  I suppose mind reader would work too if they don't switch out? .TakaM fucked around with this message at 10:03 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 10:00
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Free Pokemon game? Just for Japan obviously.
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.TakaM posted:For the record it was Ferrothorn, Breloom, and Blissey that got the back to back sheer cold treatment. It does.
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Finally finished filling the pokedex. Quite happy about that but it's left me with a dearth of things to do. I was thinking about maybe building up competitive versions of my favourites with good IVs, natures, abilities etc. My 6 favourite pokemon are probably Ferrothorn, Spiritomb, Yanmega, Granbull, Crobat and Krookodile. Anybody have any insight into whether a good team can be made out of these guys? Competitive battling is kind of overwhelming at the moment.
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Darth TNT posted:Why would you say the bolded part? It could've been great, but it was horrible and slow. Without WIFI connection the join avenue is useless. Because a lot of people liked making their Pokemon into movie stars. I didn't even use wifi or street pass stuff very often, and I was able to build up my Join Avenue just fine.
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Speedboat Jones posted:Anyone tried any Swampert builds for X/Y yet? I'm considering having a bulky water to sit next to a Klefki in Battle Maison doubles, and I'm wondering what my options are. I love Swampert, but I've never put any effort into fully training a specific build of one! My current build is this Impish 6IV Swampert w/ Leftovers HP Fully trained Attack and defense split Rest/Sleep Talk/ Earthquake/ Avalanche She's held up pretty drat well and her main fear is Grass (big shock I know )In doubles she teams up with my Togekiss blimp of doom and they just tear the house down.
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Nessa posted:Because a lot of people liked making their Pokemon into movie stars. It's more difficult to build up Join Avenue now that the Dream World has gone away. But it's still possible. You get NPCs visiting every day. I'm not sure what determines how many you get, but I think it increases when you complete the main quest and increases some more for reaching milestones in the various side activities available in the game. For example, I get 10 or so every day, usually including a Gym Leader.
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Dehry posted:
So what does this mean for the pokemon banking services and moving pokemon from older gens to X/Y? Will that change at all?
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May 13, 2014 18:20
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Bank's unaffected since its newer. Local transferring still functions as well (ie, Pal Park and the like).
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Is there anything I should do before the disconnect? I guess there's probably some event pokemon I should spoof?
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May 13, 2014 18:28
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Bank transfers totally in a 3DS application. The Pokemon shutdown is anything DS or Wii related online since Gamespy (yes that one) is shutting down and everything Nintendo Wifi Connection related uses it.Khanstant posted:Is there anything I should do before the disconnect? I guess there's probably some event pokemon I should spoof? As far as I know, the DNS thing should still work, since it's going to an unofficial server. All the events ended ages ago, so there isn't really anything left. It just means no more online battles and whatever is left with the GTS.
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May 13, 2014 18:36
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Pokecheck stuff isn't gonna work anymore on Gen IV and V games because they still use Nintendo's servers for authentication before being pushed off to their own servers.
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May 13, 2014 18:38
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ChaosArgate posted:Pokecheck stuff isn't gonna work anymore on Gen IV and V games because they still use Nintendo's servers for authentication before being pushed off to their own servers. To elaborate, none of the dns spoofs will work (irgts, pokegts) for the exact same reason. Transfers of any kind that are not local over ir or contained within the system (palpark) prior to gen 6 games will not work.
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Dehry posted:Bank transfers totally in a 3DS application. The Pokemon shutdown is anything DS or Wii related online since Gamespy (yes that one) is shutting down and everything Nintendo Wifi Connection related uses it. I went back to the GTS in my Gen 5 games a few weeks ago just to make sure I didn't still have any mons stored on there, and I was reminded of just how much it's improved this gen. It would be painful to have to go back to a gen-5-style GTS at this point.
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Aww, so pokecheck stuff is basically forever ended?  No shinies for me ever again. How long ago did Silver come out? They're supposedly more common than ever but I still don't believe they're real naturally.
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So you've probably seen that image where the Aqua and Magma-emblems contain the Alpha- and Omega-letter respectively, but I recently noticed that Kyogre and Groudon have the symbol on their Mega-forme as well.
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ChaosArgate posted:Pokecheck stuff isn't gonna work anymore on Gen IV and V games because they still use Nintendo's servers for authentication before being pushed off to their own servers. Legit Event Pokémon have already been brought into gen 6. So important stuff was not lost.
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horriblePencilist posted:So you've probably seen that image where the Aqua and Magma-emblems contain the Alpha- and Omega-letter respectively, but I recently noticed that Kyogre and Groudon have the symbol on their Mega-forme as well. So, the new forms could be, say, artificially created Megas? Like, somehow, Teams Aqua and Magma came up with fake mega stones to boost their respective Lendaries like Ghetis did for Kyurem's fused forms?
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Geostomp posted:So, the new forms could be, say, artificially created Megas? Like, somehow, Teams Aqua and Magma came up with fake mega stones to boost their respective Lendaries like Ghetis did for Kyurem's fused forms? Do we know what a "non-fake" mega stone is? I always assumed the stones themselves were artificial, man-made items.
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Geostomp posted:So, the new forms could be, say, artificially created Megas? Like, somehow, Teams Aqua and Magma came up with fake mega stones to boost their respective Lendaries like Ghetis did for Kyurem's fused forms? Why bother with making fake stones when they could retroactively turn the Blue and Red orbs into mega stones? Edit: To clarify, I mean have the teams use the orbs as mega stones even though they're not.
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I just remembered that in the orginal R/S that you got the Red/Blue Orb depending on what version you where playing from Mt. Pyre (think that was its name, the graveyard mountain thing) and you get the Red Orb in Sapphire and vice verse for Ruby. Who is willing to bet that the orbs in the remakes are the mega stones, and for added fun you get Groundon's Mega Stone in AlphaSapphire and vice versa. Edit:FB
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Countblanc posted:Do we know what a "non-fake" mega stone is? I always assumed the stones themselves were artificial, man-made items. I guess we really don't know enough about the stones' backstory to say where they come from. I guess they'd have to be either artificial or at least possible to replicate since Metwo has two and it can't have existed for more than a decade or two in-game. I doubt Gamefreak really bothered to come up with any lore for these stones beyond "Lookit, new things and friendship!!", but it would make for a nice addition to the Gen III storyline. ^^^Edit: That sounds good. It'd also let us use the Orbs for something this time. It'd even be easy to justify since mega stones are useless without one on the trainer to activate them. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 19:21 on May 13, 2014 |
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The Red/Blue Orbs will now obviously be for Trainer Mega-Evolution:
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I think the answer to this is going to be "no", but is there any way to "put to bed" BW1, in the sense that you can save the game having prepared White Forest or Black City in such a way that none of the named NPCs there will leave over time (even if the next time you play is after many months)? I know that you could keep a record of the date you played and reset the DS's clock to just after that date, but I'm not really willing to do that.
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Countblanc posted:Do we know what a "non-fake" mega stone is? I always assumed the stones themselves were artificial, man-made items. In X, when you get the 'find Megastones between 8 and 9 PM' stupid bullshit, Sycamore says that he thinks the Megastones are basically crystallized chunks of the life energy that Arceus radiates everywhere that got made during the cataclysm 3000 years ago.
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Aerodactyl's mega is said to be what Aerodactyl looked like before fossilization, but that's just an in universe rumour.
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Dehry posted:
 Now I'm wary of getting XY, what if they wait 3 years and shut down wi-fi services for that as well?  Maybe I'll just wait for the hoenn remake to come out.
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Sanctum posted:I'm a little miffed about the timing of this whole thing. I bought a DS and B/W2 before going on a long trip as it was the latest pokemon game (since XY had yet to be released.) Now not even a year later they are shutting down the wi-fi services for that game. I'm still playing B/W2 and it's pretty lovely. They'd shut down wifi for XY and AS/OR at the same time, like how they're shutting down wifi for all the DS games at the same time.
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Complexcalibur posted:Speaking of teams, I'm trying to figure out some way, any way, to get Mega Abomasnow on a singles team without it being a Trick Room team. He's one of my favorite Mega Pokemon design-wise I don't understand Mega Abomasnow's design. With most Megas you can tell what they were inspired by or what they're based on (e.g. Mega Lucario is a primeval warrior, Mega Manectric is a living thunderbolt, Mega Alakazam is an Indian swami, Mega Heracross is a Hercules stag beetle, Mega Medicham is a Hindu priest, etc.), but Megaboma I just can't figure out. Do those three ice spikes on its back signify anything for instance, or are they just there to look cool? That's fine too, but I'd like it if they had some kind of function, like Mega Blastoise's huge cannon or Mega Pinsir's outrageous/awesome wing contraption. Does anybody have any ideas regarding Megaboma?
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It's also using Nintendo's own servers rather than Gamespy's. It wasn't Nintendo's choice to shut them down, they are just not choosing to rehost them since it would be too much trouble in the case of some games.
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I haven't even played BW2 yet, stupid Gamespy. Or rather stupid Nintendo, Gamespy?? Really??
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Khanstant posted:I haven't even played BW2 yet, stupid Gamespy. Or rather stupid Nintendo, Gamespy?? Really?? Or stupid you for waiting years and years instead of just playing the game. No offense.
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korusan posted:So this just got dumped. Pumped for RS remade music! How dumb to make an in game song no one will hear outside of youtube 
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