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chaosapiant posted:Is there a gooncensus on best Pokémon games? I've played Y, AlphaSapphire and now UltraMoon. So far, my favorite I think was Y. Were X Y really good even by Pokémon standards, or am I a weirdo and X Y were really poo poo games. Alpha Sapphire became a bit annoying because I kept getting turned around and heading the wrong direction. So far Ultra Moon is SUPER linear and I haven't found a place to plant berries yet. Yeah, i think Y was my favorite as well.
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I feel like XY has mixed reception. I feel like I've seen a fair share of negativity about them, it's a generation a bunch of people skipped, complaints about the exp-all system wrecking the difficulty. The story was kinda nothing as well. Personally it felt like a bit of a revival generation. I know a lot of people who got it, the pokemon variety felt incredibly great, you had a ton of choice early on, Fairy was a cool addition as well as there being some great new comers. I didn't really care of the lack of a good rival though, the buddy group was kinda lame. The exp-share thing did make the game easier, but it was so much nicer then having to have weak mons go first just for a swap-out, or having to really grind up later additions to the party. I'd say its one of my favourites. If at this moment I had to pick my favourite three gens, not really ordered, I'd say G/S (mostly nostalgia) B/W (for feeling like a fresh start) and X/Y for reasons mentioned. Oxyclean fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Feb 20, 2019 |
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Feb 20, 2019 17:52
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heart gold is the best don’t @ me about the trivial stuff
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Feb 20, 2019 17:55
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Every generation is someone's favorite.
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oddium posted:heart gold is the best don’t @ me about the trivial stuff Excuse me, but don't you mean Soul Silver?
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WrightOfWay posted:Every generation is someone's favorite. Yeah, basically, You'll never get a consensus because most mainline Pokemon games are actually very good and which you like more or less will depend entirely on your own personal preference (helped by Game Freak adding and removing features with no real rhyme or logic, as well as newer games being more willing to change the formula and thus produce rather different settings despite the obvious similarities of being in the same series). Personally my favourites are BW because of the actual attempt at a story, Gym Leaders that matter, rivals that actually change, a genuine attempt at forcing people out of their confort zones...basically everything except the awful early-game Pokemon selection. B2W2 improved on that but also had a far worse and far more sporadic story and some of the new maps were horrible. Still very good. Like, the only mainline games I'd say are genuinely bad are Diamond and Pearl, and even that's unimportant because Platinum is the same but with basically everything bad fixed and several improvements on top of that.
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Feb 20, 2019 18:01
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the paper doll animated sprites of bw are a stain on human history
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So exp-share was first introduced in X/Y? How much of a pain in the rear end is every single Pokémon fight without it? Seems like i'd need to be constantly rotating out my dudes at all times to get them levelled up. Granted, I guess there is a level of satisfaction in that? I will say that X Y had ZERO challenge and I was 30+ levels over all enemies at all times in the game. But I didn't mind that, I wasn't playing for a challeng. I liked exploring the world, growing/farming berries, and just running around catching new poo poo and making them gently caress in daycare. I've barely scratched the surface of breeding, don't maybe 2 multi player matches with my son, and still don't fully understand types and all the stats/IVs/EVs etc. For a "kid's game" it's got a crazy amount of depth to it. Edit: Do people tend to just blitz the story, and then focus more on catching/breeding/fighting or what have you? Or do ya'll do all that stuff along the way of the story? chaosapiant fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Feb 20, 2019 |
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Feb 20, 2019 18:05
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I think a lot of Pokemon players, many of whom don't post on The Forums (or any game website) play the story and that's it. I remember several years ago someone from Game Freak said the attempt at making the games more linear such as in Gen 5 was because they found a lot of people get to Confusing Dark Cave or Endless (Sinnoh) Snow Route and just frustratingly quit. Which I think is great. A linear map that is simple to follow means the story people get to do their story, and the people into post-game shenanigans, whatever that may be, get to get to that point quickly.
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One thing I do really like about Sun/Moon is the interface. I like how I can cure status by rubbing cotton balls and rags on their faces and what not. I like how I don't need to remember to constantly go into a different mode to train and love on them. I like how there's a separate "save" button and how I can view status effects right on the battle screen. Lots of good QoL tweaks.
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oddium posted:the paper doll animated sprites of bw are a stain on human history f*ck you!!!!
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chaosapiant posted:Is there a gooncensus on best Pokémon games? Puzzle League
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chaosapiant posted:So exp-share was first introduced in X/Y? How much of a pain in the rear end is every single Pokémon fight without it? Seems like i'd need to be constantly rotating out my dudes at all times to get them levelled up. Granted, I guess there is a level of satisfaction in that? I will say that X Y had ZERO challenge and I was 30+ levels over all enemies at all times in the game. But I didn't mind that, I wasn't playing for a challeng. I liked exploring the world, growing/farming berries, and just running around catching new poo poo and making them gently caress in daycare. I've barely scratched the surface of breeding, don't maybe 2 multi player matches with my son, and still don't fully understand types and all the stats/IVs/EVs etc. For a "kid's game" it's got a crazy amount of depth to it. Every game has had XP share. In RBY it was a key item that split the XP between the whole party, every game after that until XY made it a hold item that have half the XP to the holder. XY made it a key item again but now every team member gets the full XP. You'll be fine without it. Might want to turn it on every now and then.
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Solumin posted:Every game has had XP share. In RBY it was a key item that split the XP between the whole party, every game after that until XY made it a hold item that have half the XP to the holder. XY made it a key item again but now every team member gets the full XP. Every member of my 6 mon party gets full XP in every fight? I thought with exp-share on, only 'mons who were active in a fight get full exp and the benchwarmers get 1/2 xp. Is that not accurate? Also sorry for all the dumb questions. I'm at work and most of the sites I'd reference are web-filtered. So it's either talk about Pokémon, or actually work.
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chaosapiant posted:Every member of my 6 mon party gets full XP in every fight? I thought with exp-share on, only 'mons who were active in a fight get full exp and the benchwarmers get 1/2 xp. Is that not accurate? You're right about it, the non-fighters get half the EXP. It's a big boost compared to the old EXP Share methods, but you can always turn it off if you find you're getting too overleveled. I myself appreciate the lack of grinding I have to do in the games that have featured it thus far.
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Alxprit posted:You're right about it, the non-fighters get half the EXP. It's a big boost compared to the old EXP Share methods, but you can always turn it off if you find you're getting too overleveled. I myself appreciate the lack of grinding I have to do in the games that have featured it thus far. Same. I like feeling like I don't have to rotate through 6 pokermans every time I fight a caterpie.
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Oh, my mistake. For some reason I thought it was full XP for everybody. Half XP is still more than enough.
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chaosapiant posted:Same. I like feeling like I don't have to rotate through 6 pokermans every time I fight a caterpie. Eh you don't rotate that much. I usually rotate every 2 levels or so which tends to be quite a few fights. Also before Gen VI pokemon split exp in battle instead of getting the full amount. And honestly the only games its really an issue in are Gold/Silver/Crystal and their remakes because they have multiple areas with insane level jumps and very little exp to go aroune.
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On the other hand, you can easily have a team of 12 Pokemon and keep them leveled with the XP share.
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Solumin posted:On the other hand, you can easily have a team of 12 Pokemon and keep them leveled with the XP share. Huh? How 12?
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Switching out Pokemon very often.
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chaosapiant posted:Huh? How 12? Six Kangaskhans
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less laughter posted:Puzzle League Very close tie between the tcg game and this for me, personally
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The TCG game for the Gameboy was goddamn stellar. Anyway I quite liked Y (recently beat it), but good Lord the camera in not-paris is godawful.
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Zedd posted:The TCG game for the Gameboy was goddamn stellar. There was a pretty good fantranslation just released for its Japan-only sequel.
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less laughter posted:Six Kangaskhans Magneton, Vanilluxe, Girafarig, Slowbro, Weezing, and [any other Pokémon] Zedd posted:Anyway I quite liked Y (recently beat it), but good Lord the camera in not-paris is godawful. Ya gotta skate.
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Chill Penguin posted:Magneton, Vanilluxe, Girafarig, Slowbro, Weezing, and [any other Pokémon] How could you forget Dugtrio and Dodrio
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I liked Sun/Moon the best but US/UM had some really fun postgame stuff (and the quick save option which I hope never goes away)
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Blaze Dragon posted:Like, the only mainline games I'd say are genuinely bad are Diamond and Pearl  E: Diamond is also what got me back into Pokemon after stopping in Gen I.
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Nth Doctor posted:
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Nth Doctor posted:
My experience is the exact opposite, Diamond and Pearl nearly made me quit the franchise. Thankfully, they were followed by HG/SS and Platinum, and I say this as someone that isn't even that smitten with Johto (but probably would be if it had a real level curve, because HG and SS are beautiful games).
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DPP introduced my second favorite Pokemon, Shellos
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Hmm let's see. I played Blue (didn't finish), Gold (didn't finish), and then Ruby was the first one I got really into, beat the Elite Four, all that stuff. I sort of missed out on the DS games because I didn't have one for ages, so I have Platium, White and White 2 to play through. I recently got back in with X, finished the story, doing post game stuff. I keep trying to get into Alpha Sapphire and being unable to settle down. Beat the Elite Four in Sun, trundling slowly through Ultra Moon. My main and only goal in these games is to collect as many pokemon as possible. I love to collect my mons.
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Feb 20, 2019 21:06
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Sun was my favourite because of the buff mosquito man
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the best pokemon game is Pokémon Black Version, op
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The Golden Gael posted:XY felt very open ended in a way most Pokemon games don't usually. It's uncommon for an area or function in these games to go completely unused even counting events - I think the last game to do this was Gold and Silver with the Celebi shrine. This isn't counting legacy stuff like items from past games, mind. Generation IV was the last one to have multiple unreleased events. The Member Card to get Darkrai and Oak's Letter to get Shaymin never came out in Diamond and Pearl, then there was the Azure Flute which never became available in all 3 Sinnoh games and by extension prevented a second trip to the Sinjoh ruins in Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
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Vinylshadow posted:How could you forget Dugtrio and Dodrio OK swap Slowbro for Alolan Dugtrio.
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Platinum had the best postgame and Black was the best single player game.
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The biggest Pokémon team is 6 Wishiwashi
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absolutely anything posted:the best pokemon game is Pokémon Black Version, op Hell yeah!! Gen 5 revived my interest after Diamond nearly lost me. I still haven't played platinum.
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