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Nodoze
Aug 17, 2006

If it's only for a night I can live without you
GSC Surf Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXKpIBgAXWU my favorite surf theme
Plus this remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1DW_ryBMM

Castelia City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxbm_LgJMY

Driftveil City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcA0RkVE-4

Funny B/W is my least favorite gen but it has some nice music

There is pretty much no music I don't like from RBY/GSC/DPPt/HGSS. It's all amazing

Snowpoint City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PgWV8EWJs
VS Cynthia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEvuu73sdhc
Champion Battle from RBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNSuhgBKN8
Team Rocket Battle HGSS (and original too from GSC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7WuLoajK9Y
Battle vs Cyrus in DPPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq742Ip5Tbo

Bonus from the Anime because why not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPvoVAX2XU

I can go on and on with pokemon music, theres some real good remixes out there too

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Ms. Unsmiley
Feb 13, 2012

Ruggington posted:

The choice to move away from B/W's experience formula is still baffling

i hated bw's exp formula. it made grinding such a pain because everything lower leveled than you would give you poo poo for exp

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

sharrrk posted:

i hated bw's exp formula. it made grinding such a pain because everything lower leveled than you would give you poo poo for exp

you could just walk around on any given route and wait for audino to pop up like an experience pinata

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

I hope Gen 7 brings back day-night route music differentiations

Ms. Unsmiley
Feb 13, 2012

Ruggington posted:

you could just walk around on any given route and wait for audino to pop up like an experience pinata

i did exactly this and it still takes way too long, not to mention searching out audino is a pain with how long it can take for grass to start shaking. also you end up with maxed hp evs on all your pokemon during the main story this way instead of something more balanced. xy's exp share is a blessing from the gods

Ms. Unsmiley
Feb 13, 2012

i hope sun and moon give the elite 4 and champion level 90 and up pokemon because thats what mine were at by the time i reached them in xy and oras

Raserys
Aug 22, 2011

IT'S YA BOY
post all the best gen v music

(honorable mention to or/as)

WrightOfWay
Jul 24, 2010


If you are consistently outleveling trainers in B/W than you are grinding too much.

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHItAqaW_EA

:cabot:

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

when is nintendo going to put out a zelda game that just drops a hot remix when you have low hearts

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

The gen with two remixes of the same song, both of them fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diTFv1VEFFs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu6SWY3jjgE

Raserys
Aug 22, 2011

IT'S YA BOY

I actually got tired of this because it overrode the way better battle themes

In a perfect world, there would be a low health version for every song, I would also be willing to accept it only playing in important battles or pinch moments

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
Best BW music that played for 10 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQF7uBZ0zE

jiggerypokery
Feb 1, 2012

...But I could hardly wait six months with a red hot jape like that under me belt.

All this Pokemon go has gotten me vaguely nostaligic for gold/silver. Were the remakes any good/worth picking up a DS for?

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

jiggerypokery posted:

All this Pokemon go has gotten me vaguely nostaligic for gold/silver. Were the remakes any good/worth picking up a DS for?

Yes, they're good remakes.

Fair warning, they recreated most of the flaws. Including the fact that Johto is a terrible region with a screwed up level curve.

Kite Pride Worldwide
Apr 20, 2009



jiggerypokery posted:

All this Pokemon go has gotten me vaguely nostaligic for gold/silver. Were the remakes any good/worth picking up a DS for?

They were pretty good but didn't improve the game's horrendous pacing or level curve at all. At the very least they added a Safari Zone so you can catch some more stuff before Kanto? If you don't mind the game being mechanically awful, go ahead.

Elfgames
Sep 11, 2011

Fun Shoe
my favorite pokemon music is to turn the sound off and listen to a podcast instead.

Tumblr of scotch
Mar 13, 2006

Please, don't be my neighbor.
The best Pokemon music is, and will always be, the Gen 1 bike theme.

mythomanic
Aug 19, 2009

jiggerypokery posted:

All this Pokemon go has gotten me vaguely nostaligic for gold/silver. Were the remakes any good/worth picking up a DS for?

People are right that the level curve is hosed, but it's still one of my favorite games because your Pokémon follow you and that is very, very cute.

jiggerypokery
Feb 1, 2012

...But I could hardly wait six months with a red hot jape like that under me belt.

I don't remember noticing any pacing/leveling issues? I haven't played any pokemon games since though.

Saturnine Aberrance
Sep 6, 2010

Creator.

Please make me flesh.


My favorite route music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGs8UovlTE

Saturnine Aberrance fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Jul 25, 2016

Dunban
Jul 4, 2012

OH MY GOD GLOVER
Well, absolutely everything as already been posted, but I'm just chiming in to say that Battle! Champion from D&P is probably my overall favorite. I really like the remix in Smash too.

Ruggington
Apr 21, 2012

Flagrant Abuse posted:

The best Pokemon music is, and will always be, the Gen 1 bike theme.

nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JJy3SWa53g

less laughter
May 7, 2012

Accelerock & Roll

mythomanic posted:

People are right that the level curve is hosed, but it's still one of my favorite games because your Pokémon follow you and that is very, very cute.

As is the GB Sounds item which lets you play the original GSC soundtrack. It's a shame they didn't keep that for ORAS.

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

i played through hg over the past few weeks and the only times i had to grind were claire/lance/red. although i only used murkrow/heracross/elekid/espeon/dunsparce/feraligator for pretty much the whole run. also i stole kenya and shuckie

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




I just ordered a New 3DS XL, which eliminates my problem with the original 3DS (tiny screen, tiny handheld) so I plan on finishing up my Pokedex in X then maybe grabbing Alpha Sapphire for nostalgia before Sun/Moon come out. It's been a few years since I used the transfer app; can you still only transfer one box at a time or was that a restriction when moving from Black/White? I'd like to just transfer everything to Alpha when I get it then to one of the new games but if everything is a box at a time, screw that. Can I just transfer everything to the app to hang out until I can transfer to Sun/Moon without a chance of losing things? I've got some dudes that I've had since Sapphire sitting on my X cart now.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

All the gen 5 stuff you guys posted was NOT route music. The question was what's the best ROUTE music. For gently caress's sake....

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Admiral Joeslop posted:

I just ordered a New 3DS XL, which eliminates my problem with the original 3DS (tiny screen, tiny handheld) so I plan on finishing up my Pokedex in X then maybe grabbing Alpha Sapphire for nostalgia before Sun/Moon come out. It's been a few years since I used the transfer app; can you still only transfer one box at a time or was that a restriction when moving from Black/White? I'd like to just transfer everything to Alpha when I get it then to one of the new games but if everything is a box at a time, screw that. Can I just transfer everything to the app to hang out until I can transfer to Sun/Moon without a chance of losing things? I've got some dudes that I've had since Sapphire sitting on my X cart now.

Do you mean Pokémon Bank? There's no limit to how many things you can transfer in Bank in a session. Go nuts! We have no idea yet how it will work in Sun and Moon.

Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

jiggerypokery posted:

I don't remember noticing any pacing/leveling issues? I haven't played any pokemon games since though.

Its kind of an issue, but this thread's meme is to blow it up to comic proportions.

Really, the issue is that there are a ton of trainers tucked in optional/hard to reach places (there are a ton scattered through the lower areas of Dark Cave, for instance, that scale in level to where you are in the story when you can absolutely first access them) and most people don't fight them because they're way the gently caress out of the way so they end up underleveled.

If you do fight them it really isn't an issue until you're about to fight Red. And even then, the Elite 4 give decent enough experience to level your dudes to the mid-sixties/low-seventies which will wreck him even with suboptimal pokes.

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




Silver Falcon posted:

Do you mean Pokémon Bank? There's no limit to how many things you can transfer in Bank in a session. Go nuts! We have no idea yet how it will work in Sun and Moon.

When I say one box at a time, I mean do I have to put everything on Box 1, transfer to Bank, then to the other game and repeat, or can I transfer everything on the cart at one time?

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

you can switch between the game's pc boxes and move as much as you'd like back and forth in one session

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




Wonderful! It always feels like they take two steps forward and one back with each generation so I'm glad they made Bank with that in mind.

GET IN THE ROBOT
Nov 28, 2007

JUST GET IN THE FUCKING ROBOT SHINJI
Pokeman go has gotten me in the Pokemon mood, so right now I'm playing Pokemion Black since I have it and White 2 but never really played them. Gen 5 really does have the best music. I was considering getting OR\AS because I never played that gen either, but it's still $40 and Sun\Moon is coming soon.

I'm not a huge Pokemon fan and basically skipped Gens 3-5. I did get Diamond, but never beat it. My friends were getting it, but then they didn't feel like battling, so I was like "what's the point then?"

I was also bad and put a rom w/ genned Pokemon saves on my R4 cart, traded them to my copy of black, then used the Pokemon Bank to put them in Y.

Alfalfa The Roach
Oct 13, 2012

You need to be a badass first.
I don't like Ghetsis' battle theme but other than that Gen 5 has incredible music, up there with Gen 2 as having the best soundtrack in the series

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

hopeandjoy posted:

D O G A R S DOGARS!

I wish they would bring back personalized gym themes...

Agreed.

Raserys posted:

post all the best gen v music

(honorable mention to or/as)

I didn't see this in there which is a huge oversight.

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012
the only songs in the entire history of the franchise i remember is Lavender Town, Gen 1, and the Pokemon Tower

oh and i guess team rocket's hideout is pretty good too

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

i also just finished the black run i started in 2011 and did you know if your trainer name is inappropriate the bank will change the ot to kuro*. presumably shiro* if they're from white

oddium fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jul 25, 2016

Raserys
Aug 22, 2011

IT'S YA BOY
I actually don't like D/P/Pt's music that much, but Mt. Coronet is one of my favorite location themes, even the HG/SS remix which has a nice medley of music from those games.

Raserys fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 25, 2016

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

quote:

Shares of Nintendo, which owns 32 percent of The Pokémon Company, dropped about 18 percent Monday after it clarified in a statement that it does not make or own "Pokémon Go."

That's actually pretty hilarious.

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Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:

Raserys posted:

I actually got tired of this because it overrode the way better battle themes

In a perfect world, there would be a low health version for every song, I would also be willing to accept it only playing in important battles or pinch moments

Agreed, it's the same reason I love the Gym Leader's last pokemon song, it only plays when the Gym Leader's track is playing, and it's basically the cue for your victory lap on whatever unfortunate schlub they put out to get murdered.

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