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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

I like Pokemon.

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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Pocket Monsters, as it's called in Japan.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Unguided posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ex24YXlj64

Pokemon was pretty good back in the day but for the past few iterations I've felt like I've already put my time in and don't want to level a team of pokemon again just to do the same thing I've done before.

I can understand this, especially if you don't care for either doing more serious battles outside of the main story, or if you don't like going through the game with different Pokemon. I'm excited for the 3rd gen remakes because there will be a lot of content that isn't standard breeding and battling (contests and secret bases)

You can always just do challenge modes like Nuzlockes or whatever, but if you don't like playing the game itself then there's not much that can fix that.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Real hurthling! posted:

yeah they should do a materia system with tms that level up and just have the pokemon add synergies and special properties without gaining experience directly.

That way you can swap pokemon whenever you want and still use good moves.

idk. most of my ideas are poo poo.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) something like this will never happen because then they probably wouldn't be able to do backwards compatibility with the old games so you couldn't hang on to your old pokemon. Also that idea makes no sense and is retarded.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

The Sharmat posted:

I haven't played a Pokemon game since silver

how many of the fuckers are they up to now?

Off the top of my head, somewhere around 700.

Edit: 721.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

in theory, pokemon battles are like chess but where some pieces do twice as much damage to other pieces, and sometimes pieces will randomly be able to kill your bishop or whatever that they had no business killing. an epic battle of the minds, and chance...

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

The Sharmat posted:

quote this if you still have the cartoon's original theme song memorized for some loving reason

Yo

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Axel Serenity posted:

pokemon's still good but man they need better matchmaking

Why yes I will take my team that just beat the elite four for the first time and fight some tricked out lvl99+ dude from japan.

The in-cart random online matches loving suck because their either not 6v6 singles, or allow just random stuff like mewtwo

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

qnqnx posted:

Lets not talk about the unholy abomination that is the anime, please

I still think Team Rocket is funny.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

I like mega Pokemon. I want there to be a Mega Electrode who automatically explodes when he gets hit, like a bob-omb

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Someone at my work plays Pokemon black on her phone but she just hacks in master balls and encounters and its just flat out cheating. Shameful. Phone gamers are the worst.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Terror Sweat posted:

mystery dungeon is cool

I really like the 4th gen ones. The new one for the 3DS kinda blows because they only have like a fourth of all Pokemon available. There's a ton of quality of life improvements but at the same time there's a lot of lame changes as well.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

playing pokemon battles with other people would be cool, if there weren't the dumb hidden stats and also the dumb legalities with moves you can only learn in old games.

which is why i hope pokemon contests in the new game becomes the new standard of competition between pocket monsters.

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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

qnqnx posted:

you're a goddamn monster

Contests take just as much thought as battles do. In fact there's less random elements so even more so its a better test of skill.

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