>modern day devs cant bother to improve a game when "remastering" it despite having a team of "professionals" and tons of funds
>a couple of literally who's turn shit games into vastly better ones with only a moderate amount of effort and no money
Why are developers so damn lazy and incompetent? It must be embarrassing to get BTFO by a couple of hobbyists when you do it as a job
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>9-5 job you don't even like
vs
>passion project you can share with the world
this plus:
>bunch of investors and managers who don't know or care anything about the product and just want to push stuff for ESG and marketing points as well as lootboxes, dlc, season passes gacha etc, adding a bunch of unproductive junk to the game, forcing developers on tight deadlines that are impossible to deliver when doing a quality project
vs
>people who just do what they would like to be included in the first place plus whatever improvements are on their minds as fans of the game
gee, so hard to wonder why all AAA games are shit.
more like
>diversity hires
vs
>white/japanese males
males
explain why game freak sucks so hard
>9-5 job you don't even like
b***h no one is forcing these idiots into these roles, if they hate it so much they literally wouldn't have to do it.
It's not hard to impress a bunch of autists who will play your ROM hack no matter what, especially when the only thing you're changing is random encounters and level curves.
So did he make Crystal a good game a or not?
It's better than the original Crystal version. Make of that what you will.
He made it 10x better so now it's like a mediocre game. Pretty impressive transformation.
does it have the physical/special split?
The physical special split was one of the wordt things to happen to Pokemon. The types being different was not a bad thing. The special types had the 95/100 moves like ice beam and thunderbolt and lower accuracy/higher power options. Physical had the earthquake as well as several high power moves with negative effects like superpower and double edge. They might not have been equal but that was fine, they don't have to be; at least they had their own identity.
>So did he make Crystal a good game a or not?
He didn't.
There's a thousand romhacks that try to improve Crystal and after watching a couple of his videos I can conclude he does not do anything special at all. The hack will be dead on arrival, no one will care at all about it after its release.
What the hell? People actually fricking hate crystal? I honestly don't believe you homosexuals. Crystal was fricking great and never heard anyone shitting on it until like now, 20 something fricking years later. I refuse to believe people are dense enough to sperg out about fricking crystal, unironically the best pokemon game ever made, only fricking hg ss touch it but they lack the soul of the old style gbc graphics.
He can't keep getting away with it
Crystal is a good game. The hack in the OP is just better.
I would assume the game isn't good if a fan felt the need to make a perfect rom hack of it.
It's ironic that some of the most appreciated parts of Crystal today are the graphics and music, both considered subpar in their time
>both considered subpar in their time
You weren't alive in it's time
LOL go on and tell us all about how that isn't true, gigaboomer
>Gigaboomer
Thanks for confirming you weren't born back then
I was, though, which is why I know that pile of shit was outdated on day 1
>No proof
Ok.
I accept your concession
Anon, Crystal came out AFTER the GBA launched, and the pixel art for G/S were rudimentary ports of R/B to begin with.
I think one of the most appreciated parts of G/S/C altogether are the day/night system, not the graphics. I wouldn't consider G/S/C's music subpar even for its time.
>What the hell? People actually fricking hate crystal?
I'm the fourth reply. I like Crystal, one of my most replayed pokemon games. It's just there's already a ton of Crystal hacks, the youtuber's isn't special. Polished Crystal, Perfect Crystal, Sour Crystal, Crystal Clear, etc. How does this guy's hack stand out?
Don't you understand, anon? A PROFESSIONAL Nuzlocker shat on it, so we all have to hate it now! Get with the times!
they only people i ever see referring to muh e-celeb are nostalgiatards butthurt the johto games have very obvious issues that become apparent when you play the games more than the one time you were six years old. it was my first game so i dont what their fricking excuse is besides being destined for perpetual moronation
Yeah it’s frickin bizarre. It was also always my favourite one. Probably just old contrarians.
everyone remembers the nice graphics and muh national park music but not how much of a slog it is to play. everything is so low level that training a full team is complete aids. if you do the smarter and faster thing and steamroll everything with just your starter, it's mostly fine
Yes, crystal is genuinely one of the best pokemon game out there and it's easily S tier. Boo hoo, you have to think when you face the elite 4 and boo hoo you get good gen 2 pokemon late game... What these complainers don't realize is that the name of the game was to "catch them all" not "catch them when it's convenient for me". If you have crystal on the 3ds you can get a legit Celebi which is pretty cool. People who shit on gen 2 are zoomer youtube babbies who were raised on an ipad
Crystal is based as frick, as you said only HG and SS touch it, it has the most kino aesthetic right down to the glorious teal shiny cartridge.
Pff, why aren't you as tall as that guy!!
>Anon points at the little man who's stood atop the giant
There's a difference between some nerds reworking their favorite game for fun and real game dev. These people need money to keep their projects going, and that means crunch, compromise and concessions.
>There's a difference between some nerds reworking their favorite game for fun and real game dev.
And yet the devs who also have access to these same foundations, and possibly even the source code can't be bothered to do the same thing and shit out basic b***h unchanged ports. It would probably take less than an hour to implement an analog camera in Super Mario 64, especially if Nintendo just copy pasted from the PC port. They're no strangers to "borrowing" from the community as they sold cracked rom files in the past.
watching this video, this seems like a complete sidegrade. the strength of pokemon was always in the world building, not gym leader difficulty or balanced movesets or whatever. also crystal is still a decent game anyway.
reread the post, he is comparing fan made remasters with professional remasters.
polished crystal already exists
polished crystal takes too many liberties to the point where it looks and feels like a completely different game. idk about op's one, but i usually use perfect crystal for a closer-to-vanilla experience.
Play sour crystal instead
This hack was made with +20 years of hindsight to help further enhance the game and a completely different design philosophy when compared to the originals. The primary focus of early pokemon wasn't the battling, it was capturing and collecting. That's why so many pokemon were locked behind the Kanto wall. So that you would have a reason to explore it rather than go "oh, it's the same place as before." It was from a time when you'd bring your gameboy into school, go "hey, look at this cool pokemon I caught!", and people would freak the frick out when it was something they never saw before. That's what old school, pre-mainstream internet was about.
Modern devs have no excuse, but Gen 1 and 2 pokemon are products of their time. That's why they were so popular.
>people would freak the frick out
This didn't happen, every kid either had the guides or knew somebody who did, OR had a Gameshark. Instead it was
>hey guys, look what I found!
>uh... skarmory? who cares it's not even good, look at Ryan's level 100 Celebi, he's gonna trade one to the rest of us
>tfw used to sell lvl100 mons for a dollar each using an action replay with colosseum
>This didn't happen
It happened all the time. There were plenty of kids who didn't have strategy guide and just played a game blind.
Have you like never have friends you played a new game with? This shit still happens today with my modern day friends (albeit to a lesser extent )when we all pick up a game and someone finds something the others don't.
I freaked out when someone showed me that their Pigeot could fly them to any city, because I hadn't made it that far and I was 8 for frick sake lol.
I'm honestly not even sure what you're complaining about anymore. You can't guarantee devs who work on a new remake or remaster are going to be huge fans of the original and be as familiar with it as a fan who made a passion free project with 25 years of hindsight. It also stupid to compare a GBC ROMhack with a modern games in general, they are not nearly the same level of complexity/involvement, passion aside.I get what you are TRYING to say, but it's such a bad comparison it doesn't really make sense.
Like yeah duh, passionate game fans are more passionate than a salary worker for EA. What is your point? People who like the thing they're making make a better thing? Yeah dude no shit.
>Have you like never have friends you played a new game with?
During Red and Blue maybe, but GSC was when kids started getting guides or going online and looking up total bullshit to share on the playground.
My neighborhood friends and I who were playing GSC definitely weren't on the internet all the time at like age 9 or 10 in 1999. We heard about some stuff, especially roaming legendaries, from older siblings who were online more, but we (and I assume most kids our age) definitely weren't on the internet enough to complete reveal every secret from games we were playing. I also don't remember anyone having a strategy guide for a good while, I imagine those took some time to make.
We were much more likely to sit around and play the game together rather than read about it online.
I'm sorry to say this, but you were probably the dumb kid. When I was 8 I already knew how to do clone glitch.
I was a happy kid. I am happy to be smarter and soulless CS grad now, but I enjoyed myself. Kinda happy I was dumb.
>all my friends cheated and had everything unlocked with a game shark, so no one got surprised or experienced the game with their friends as intended.
ok
zoom zoom
You literally had to be there to get it.
Nah we’d collect and show and share
Literally did happen, same with seeing someone with a holo charizard from the tcg. I don’t think a single kid in my school growing up had an action replay/gameshark and no one used the internet in 99-01 like they do today. Everyone had crazy theories about holding a or b or whatever button combination that they swore helped them catch Pokémon better. Most people didn’t even know you could go to full kanto after the elite four. You quite literally do not get it and are making shit up
I had Internet back in the late 90's with windows 95. Everyone at least knew Cheatcode Central back then and would use library computers to print physical Cheatcode out.
Did you live in a rural shit hole?
most kids i knew at the time just breezed through everything with their starter like they did in gen 1. nobody freaked out because you found some gen 2 shitmon because you'd have to spend hours leveling it up. or does /vp/ consider that the "wrong" way to play pokemon nowadays :^)
everything everyone here already said + the hack isnt even good
pokemon coral exists
No it doesn't (yet)
Would be interesting to see Gamefreak do a 2d game again as an experiment. zoomers probably wouldn't buy it though.
>a couple of literally who's turn shit games into vastly better ones with only a moderate amount of effort and no money
except most rom hacks are shit hack jobs, literally. Even Rom hacks that have lots of improvements are nearly as involved as making these games was in the first place.
It's also much easier to "turn a game into a vastly better one" if all that means is minor tweaks and QOL stuff you picked up on by just playing the game for 23 years.
Game boy Rom hacks and "modern day devs" should not be held to the same level like you're doing
I meant to say "*aren't* nearly as involved".
>It's also much easier to "turn a game into a vastly better one" if all that means is minor tweaks and QOL stuff you picked up on by just playing the game for 23 years.
Thats part of my point. It's so easy, but devs cant even be bothered with the most basic of improvements and re-release the exact same game as is.
>Game boy Rom hacks and "modern day devs" should not be held to the same level like you're doing
You're right, they should be held to a higher standard since they have the means to do far more and expect me to pay them money for it.
>Thats part of my point. It's so easy, but devs cant even be bothered with the most basic of improvements and re-release the exact same game as is.
HGSS are still vastly superior to the originals. The only people who whine about level curve are PokemonChallenges and npcs who automatically download whatever opinions he has
HGSS is better but the level curve and pokemon availability is also still fricked.
The level curve is shit and the only people who defend the shit design of Johto as a whole are manchildren who grew up with it.
The only people who complain about level curve are actual room temp iq morons that can't into a literal moron-proof baby game
Who said anything about difficulty, you moron? Are you legit stupid?
its literally the only reason anyone complains about it because they end up underleveled for the E4 and have to grind
Oh okay so you just act like a bot because you're a veteran at defending these shit games. But no, that's not the only reason the level curve is garbage.
>pissing and shitting your pants over a literal baby game
Guess the bot is stuck in an infinite loop now.
>b-bot bot bot!!!!!!
got anything creative for a change?
>no argument
lol
I don't get pokemon fans, you scream and shit your pants when people insult your baby games but then you also demand they argue back? Which one is it?
>can't come up with a proper rebuttal when the (You) isn't just nodding in agreement
>still can't into baby games and has to whine about them on the internet
It's dumb because the 6th gym has a higher level Pokemon than the 7th. Most of the Rocket Grunts you fight are extremely underlevelled. Kanto gym leaders are mostly weaker than Lance. Kanto wild encounters are in the 20s/30s, which makes them impossible to use without grinding them up, so you're not going to add them to your team. Then suddenly you hit Red who is in the 70s/80s when your team is around the 60s.
>Then suddenly you hit Red who is in the 70s/80s when your team is around the 60s.
Red also uses a bunch of shitmons plus a snorlax, it really shouldnt be hard to beat him with a single level 60 let alone an entire team of them.
It's not about how hard Red is, it's just there's no inbetween, you beat the 16th gym leader, who has level 55s-60 and then the next stop is in the 80s.
Yeah, that's what a superboss is, moron. ever played an RPG?
>Superboss
>You have to beat him to finish the game since the credits roll afterwards
The credits already rolled after Lance
>implying red is hard
KEK
I'm not saying he's hard, I'm saying he's not a superboss in the traditional sense. He's required to beat the game fully and usually they at least give you a decent grinding method in other JRPGs for post-game to beat the superbosses. Mount Silver is all you get in gen 2 and it has level 40 wild pokemon.
>he's not a superboss in the traditional sense
how so?
>usually they at least give you a decent grinding method in other JRPGs for post-game to beat the superbosses
What are you even babbling about at this point. Is your only exposure to superbosses Final Fantasy?
>He's required to beat the game fully
Literally nothing changes to acknowledges that you beat him. They just roll credits and send you back home
Yeah the credits roll, the credits roll when you beat the game. The credits also roll when you beat the E4 originally but there is still all of Kanto, so beating Red is required to fully beat the game unless you acknowledge that the main game ends without ever visiting Kanto.
>beating Red is required to fully beat the game
yeah, "fully beating", that's called 100%'ing the game
He's a "hidden" super boss at the very most. 100%ing is catching everything. I would say Red is the end of post game though.
every super boss is hidden and optional, I don't get your point tbqh
You can makes the exact same argument in reverse, there's still more game after the credits roll so they don't automatically mean you beat the game just because they rolled. And again, the game doesn't ever acknowledge the fight in any way so it literally doesn't matter if you beat him or not. There's no Hall of Fame, no extra content only accessible after beating him, you can experience and complete 100% of the game without every interacting with Red.
>It's dumb because the 6th gym has a higher level Pokemon than the 7th
You can do them in any order.
>Most of the Rocket Grunts you fight are extremely underlevelled.
They're the remnants of a dying organization.
>Kanto gym leaders are mostly weaker than Lance.
Yeah gym leaders are weaker than the champion, good worldbuilding.
>Kanto wild encounters are in the 20s/30s
Again good worldbuilding, there's no reason for their levels to burst from the previous game.
>which makes them impossible to use without grinding them up.
First you complain about Kanto having underpowered enemies, but you also complain about your pokemon needing levels to win?
>Then suddenly you hit Red who is in the 70s/80s when your team is around the 60s.
He's the superboss and the badge boosts in the game put you on his level.
>First you complain about Kanto having underpowered enemies,
Regular enemies.
>but you also complain about your pokemon needing levels to win?
For Red.
If the regular enemies were stronger, this wouldn't be a problem.
maybe they should have worldbuild a better game
Oh no how will I ever beat Red's Level 81 Pikachu
pokemon's level system is not worth saving. leveling up new mons takes forever, the exp curves are bad, 100 is too high of a cap. you're not incentivized to use new mons, the best way to play is to only use your starter.
The games have provided multiple grinding tools thoughout the years like the exp share, lucky egg, vs seeker, and exp candies.
yeah and they're all bandaid "fixes" for a garbage system. Your point?
>a garbage system
It's not particularly different from most other RPGs? What makes it garbage? You just don't like grinding.
>It's not particularly different from most other RPGs?
hence why it's garbage
>What makes it garbage?
the fact that its linear growth. Activity-based progression has always been superior
>You just don't like grinding.
yeah, I actually like playing RPGs, what a shocker
It is a monster collection game where you are incentivized to NOT use the new monsters you collect, or even use more than one monster at all, and have to do boring chores to make it worthwhile.
You're incentivized to not be stupid and try building your team at the last possible moment
there's no team-building in pokemon since it's not party-based, moron.
The entire point of a game like this is to continue to catch new monsters and use new monsters. Yes that means making team swaps after you beat the first gym. Why else would the monsters be there?
>The entire point of a game like this is to continue to catch new monsters and use new monsters.
Yes
>Yes that means making team swaps after you beat the first gym.
No
At this point your just blaming the game for your own moronic way of playing.
>"no you see the game TOLD me to ditch the mons I already trained and use new ones after every gym, what else am I supposed to do?"
>>The entire point of a game like this is to continue to catch new monsters and use new monsters.
>Yes
>>Yes that means making team swaps after you beat the first gym.
>No
?????
Do I really need to explain the basics of how to play a video game to you now?
t. no argument
No wonder Pokemon makes you seethe so much. I'm surprised you guys know how to operate a keyboard
I actually don't, the first key I typed was "A" and it was the first and I really liked it, and a master typer told me I wasn't supposed to switch keys after the first press and should just stick with it
While RPGs are generally about sticking to your choices, Pokemon is a terrible example of that.
This is like saying the ideal design for an RPG is to buy a sword and an armor set in the first town and use it for... the entire game, and that having all subsequent armor being inferior is a good thing.
pokemon fans are unironically moronic
Most intelligent Charizard fan
Literally rent free, holy shit. I'm surprised you didn't spell his name in all caps.
do you have autism
Level grinding has been solved for years in Pokemon. The new exp share gives exp to all pokemon in your party and you can feed exp candies which give even more exp than rare candies if that's not enough for you.
No one needs to grind in vanilla gen 2. Or 1 or 3.
Everyone forgets that the badges LITERALLY make your Pokémon stronger. They boost their stats. That's why you can beat RBYs Elite 4 15 levels below, or beat Red in GSC at mid 50s. Your Pokémon are literally stronger and there's nothing you can do about it.
that is not true, you'll need to grind if you want to use any of the new johto shitmons and those you have to catch late into the game and will have no EVs, garbage moves, horrible stats and be 10+ levels below the rest of your team (which is probably already underleveld)
It is absolutely true you coping dimwit. Children beat the game without grinding
yeah bro i beat the game with my level 78 starter and nothing else, see? easy no grinding
look up the definition of grinding before you embarrass yourself, anon 😉
how about you boot up this shit game right now and beat the entire E4 with whatever 4 random johto shitmons you can find in the near areas without leveling them up? go ahead, show me how easy it is
Why are you moving the goalposts?
Additionally, these romhacks were made using tools and hardware created decades after the release of the games. Nowadays it's trivial for anyone to comprehensively edit gba pokemon games. Meanwhile, it takes far, far, FAR more effort to minorly edit the DS games and no one's ever done JACKSHIT other than number changes to the 3ds and switch games.
simple. they actually care about the shit they make
If there's
>phys/spec split
>altered typings on moves
>altered shit like base 100 Bug-type Cut or base 120 Fighting-type Strength
>insane encounters like oh here's Larvitar right outside Cherrygrove
then I think it's kinda pointless. An ideal romhack to 'fix' Crystal should really take into consideration how the devs operated.
For me it's
>Pokemon, moves, and types from 3 generations after the game being rom hacked
If I need to see fricking fairy types one more time I'm going to scream.
there are essentially 3 levels of "change" in romhacks
1. Keep all types, pokemon available, stats the same, only fix issues with the original game like level curve and pokemon availability, etc.
2. Balance everything within the game without bringing in any features from later games. This could mean readjusting base stats, typings of moves, or pokemon typings.
3. Anything goes...fairy type in gen 2, pokemon from later gens, fakemon, etc...
I think both 1 and 2 are good for early gen games. For gen 2 specifically I think adding some later-gen evos for pokemon that look like they should have evos (Yanma for example) is a good approach too. No physical/special split or fairy type though. That shit's gay.
No Phys/Special Split
Yes he did alter some moves. Mainly Cut being a 65 Power Bug move with a high crit ratio
Larvitar is in Dark Cave before the first gym.
Dude also changed some stats around on Pokemon. Increased some BST of what he thought was too weak. And some stuff like Flareon got a pretty massive change by switching its Attack and Special. After playing around in it, I think its over all. It's not great. The main changes were increasing difficulty, but not make it impossible so you wouldn't have to grind. Which he didn't succeed in doing. Especially in the early game where base power of moves mean a lot more than stats. Some encounters can just roll you. Then going out of his way to actively nerf Alakazam and Gengar because them having access to the elemental punches is just too good. Coupled with some questionable gym leader team choices. I just wasn't enjoying it.
What hacks do you recommend?
Drayano's hacks are okay, I prefer them with the vanilla stats and typing patches. I haven't played too many. Although the Pokemon Gale of Darkness rom hack XG, is fantastic.
Right now I'm doing some Pokemon romhacks curation to make a collection to play on my RG35XX. I downloaded some for the Crystal version.
Pokemon Perfect Crystal (2020 Update)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4935/
Pokemon - Crystal Version (Emu Edition)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1420/
Pokemon Crystal - 251
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6088/
Pokemon Patched Crystal
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5104/
Port Crystal Features to Pokemon Gold/Silver
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8032/
Read the readme to see the changes. All the patchs retain the original feel of the game.
Because Nintendo has NEVER fixed the issue with their reliance on gimmicks in regards pokemon, starting with essentially selling you two games that were identical in 95% or so of their content as a "fun unique function to promote trading between the cartridges!".
They were warned for fricking literal decades that it was always going to wear out it's fricking welcome and the reasons behind the reliance on these things, was no longer being considered to be driven by "innovation" or "it's unique identity" or to "bring people together" the illusion. Was fricking gone.
No, it was clearly so a bunch of hideous nippo frickers, could pry open your wallet and the wallets of littly timmy and jam their fat fricking tempura batter-grease soaked fingers right on in there.
So naturally, due to the obviously adversarial aspect of the relationship between Nintendo and the Customers. People found workarounds for their bullshit. Nintengay higher ups didn't like that. No you fricking paypig, you WILL engage with our timesink bullshit mechanics and not just "gen" pokemon to compete in worlds. You will not circumvent our limited time events to get access to parts of the game we deliberately denied access to inside the game. You WILL respect our gimmicky burushitu... You WILL buy and play our other tandem or older titles to get those mons!
The best part of modern pokemon as a topic, is that merely out of a desire to expand on previous titles in fun and unique ways for nothing more than the sake of it. Now you have great fan-games like infinite fusion. A far cry from what Nintendo has created in terms of design and IMHO, a fricking great little pokemon game. Vastly superior to the dismal gen 7-8 onwards dogshit.
What you need to understand though anon, isn't just that the NIntendo execs aren't JUST greedy and stupid, it's that they think YOU and their customers, are fricking moronic. Like window licking and naive beyond comparison, belonging to the shortest of short busses.
>devs having to fight against time restraints to work on a given project among other factors
vs
>modding efforts that can take as long as they like, with far more room for liberties taken
Not hard to figure out.
>Because Nintendo
Game Freak.
We would literally be playing pokemon irl and seeing giant world tournaments using state of the art vr technology like its yugioh...if it wasnt for nintendos greed. YOU VILL BUY ZE PHONE GAMES AND YOU VILL NOT ASK FOR GOOD 3D GAMES!
Embarrassing would be not to turn profit on a shit remake, while literal whos doing a hobby romhack are doing better for free.
The reality is, they are swimming in cash for minimal efforts, and have absolutely no reason to take on risk when it just works.
I'm not trying to be a dick but Pokemon games are really not worth playing at all if you are over like 12 years old. I played gen 1,2 and 3 as a kid and I enjoyed them but by gen 3 I was already losing interest. I don't get why adults play them.
don't try to argue with these manchildren
half of this thread is likely underage so it makes sense
Because Game Freak, like Bethesda, has cornered a very specific genre of the market. Both devs make basic, surface level appealing games that lack substance and depth, but any and all imitators lack the means and the funds to directly challenge them. What you're left with is two groups of fanbases, The committed drones who pledge their life to [BRAND] and will never give anything else a chance, and people who are desperate for a decent monster catching/open world exploration RPG, can maybe find some decent clones, but nothing that completely replaces the stagnated original series.
maybe you dont get why adults play them because you havent played one for twenty years
nah anon, I get it, it's about nostalgia and autism
autism is only liking 3 games in a series of dozens and not understanding why anyone would like more than those 3 which, ironically, you only like because of nostalgia
autism is becoming a slave to gamefreak and playing the same old piss poor baby game over and over again. Sorry anon, I just grew up, hope you'll one day too
grew up so much that you're in a thread about a rom hack 20 years after the last time you enjoyed a pokemon game
what happened to "not trying to be a dick" btw
>I don't get why other people don't have the same tastes as me
Why is it that pokegays are so bitter about games for children being... casual and yet somehow against the idea of trying out other RPGs (specifically ones dedicated to people that seek difficulty)?
I have never seen a single pokegay try out, say, SMT or the games it was inspired by, let alone actually difficult games with similar mechanics like Elminage Gothic, yet they all fellate themselves over poorly made puzzle "RPGs" like the clover hack because apparently this EV IV autism is what makes a game hard (lol)
>I have never seen a single pokegay try out, say, SMT
You don't interact with pokemon fans so how would you know?
I do though.
Modern or contemporary "pokefans"because the modern ones are more pathetic, there's decades of the same continual flawed direction and years of continued behaviour to counteract any naivety they might have been concluded to have had "back in the day"
Infinite fusion. Actually fricking fun fan-mon game. Gives players what they fricking want.
So you think that because the entire pokemon fanbase has not jumped ship to SMT, pokemon fans have never played any SMT games?
moron, there's no reason to "jump ships". Growing up is to realize you just like mon games and then keep on playing those kinds of games instead of autistically refusing to play anything but pokemon
>instead of autistically refusing to play anything but pokemon
You have not proved this yet.
Given how lackluster the mechanical innovations of these pokemon romhacks are, it's fair to assume these people have got hardly any experience in other RPGs.
No, I don't think that. I'm just sick of the stockholm syndrome level of defence that an insufferable amount of the pokemon player/customer base affords nintendo. At this point they should be reconsidering it from it's very core, from Red and Blue. The old excuses do not hold up, it's called performative contradiction. They don't change cos they're not punished for not doing so. They need a kick up the hoop.
One problem is pokemon players can literally SEE in real time and experience for free, what could actually BE if it had been under better management and direction. If the TPC fricking cared about making a great mon game.
I want pokemon players to stand up for themselves as customers and stop accepting the fricking bullshit. But they rarely do in a way that might actually force TPC's hand. Just back to gargling that sack again... tastes like salty hairy disappointment I imagine.
Well said.
Just let go anon. There are plenty of fish in the sea.
>At this point they should be reconsidering it from it's very core
EXACTLY. I despise these nostalgiagays who turn a blind eye to the fundamental problems of these newer games just because they've got nostalgia for it
You're 100% right but don't expect anyone here to recognize that. /vp/gays will just continue to cry
>One problem is pokemon players can literally SEE in real time and experience for free, what could actually BE if it had been under better management and direction.
You'd still have the dexcut because no other monster catcher tries to include every monster their series has ever had. You'd still have the exp share. You'd still the cutscenes. All things pokemon fans complain about. Whatever changes would come about would be purely superficial.
The worst part is that the Pokegay levels of defense finally rubbed off on Switchgays in general after Pokemon SwSh heckin owned the mean Dexers. Hell, Switchgays on Twitter actually got mad recently about Super Mario Wonder having an option to silence its talking flowers.
>Hell, Switchgays on Twitter actually got mad recently about Super Mario Wonder having an option to silence its talking flowers.
Why the frick would thay be mad about that?
That's actually great news. I was hoping they would include that option.
modern megaten is worse than modern pokemon.
yeahhhh that's stretching it
smt v and soul hackers 2 are very very bad but not that bad
smt 5 is one of the worst megaten games but definitely not worse than the modern shit gamefreak has produced
Elaborate
gamefreak shill cope
same
uncharted waters is great but nothing like pokemon lol
One of the worst aspects of pokemon nobody ever brings up is the god-awful dungeon design.
For me it's just the refusal to stop with the fricking gimmicks, even the longstanding "two editions and a later enhanced edition" aspect fricking grinds me up. Back then it was stupidly excused as a novel idea, but it's basically making one game and selling it as two. Genius idea, but eventually the gravy train has to stop. But for Shittendo? Nah paypiggu... the double profit for minimum effort shall continue!
The Limited time event mons... Seriously all it achieved was just promoting hacking and duping. Fricking rarto idea and person behind it should have been fricking shitcanned and their ideas left written on a permanent board in the office, with the title:
"This is a c**ty idea, are we just fricking c**ts? NO!"
I'm surprisingly OK with the dex-cut. At some stage it was going to happen due to bloat. But let's just say it's REALLY convenient, that this worlds in an unprecedented change, previous mons were allowed... which would require the purchase of a separate game or two potentially... fricking c**ty change and I'm a cynic so it was done to be fricking c**ts and milk money out of people as far as I am concerned. this makes me on the FENCE about the dex-cut. I don't trust their motives at all because of their dogshit decisions.
Then there's not being able to breed legendary mon for IV manipulation etc, or to in any way catch more than one without having a subscription service or... two handhelds and the other edition... (I'm sensing a recurring theme here), Which also ends up requiring you to use external devices and timers to "RNG manip" and soft reset even, just to get what you want instead of some dogshit one with the wrong or sub optimal stats.
All of these things, are literally circumvented in some way or another, in the better fangames . It's why they're good compared to the mainline games. The pokemon game players want and the one nintendo wants to make are wildly different in reality. The relationship is adversarial. It's a damn shame.
>not being able to breed legendary mon for IV manipulation
nobody but autists care about that shit lmao
Nintendo has been milking Pokemon for decades, do you just now realize that wtf
No i'm not JUST realising it, the series is 30 years fricking old and I'm playing since Red and Blue for fricks sake. It's that recent events have OTHER people potentially starting to potentially see and re-examine the path that the game has been taken down as a franchise. They're seeing what could have been, via alternatives in fangames that are growing in popularity and that's a potential to possibly get more people to reconsider their sack gargling of TPC. Fangames, have broken the monopolistic stranglehold that the official company and it's mismanagement has had on the game. This is really interesting and poses an opportunity for people to experience "what could have been" and that's a powerful thing.
Pay attention...
Also there's no problem with "milking a franchise" and I see no issue with pumping out a billion sequels to the fricking IP. It's the WAY they're doing it and what they doggedly refuse to change that is the issue. This has been the issue for quite some time.
As I said, unless pokemon players/customers don't take them to task now that there's literal alternatives to the modern dogshit mons, as long as they keep acting like battered fricking housewives defending this shit, there's zero incentive for them to fricking change. I don't see why wanting them to change as a company in their approach into a less adversarial relationship with their customers, is in some way groundbreaking or shocking.
The gameboy RPG Pokemon was inspired by not only released years earlier but was also much more innovative and interesting. Gamefreak never cared about mechanical innovation.
It's time to realize Pokemon won't ever recover from this and ditch mainline
just stop playing pokemon
holy shit
When did you break free, anons? I gave up at the 2nd gym of X/Y because it was that shitty.
soul silver
Best place to stop, honestly.
Never even made it beyond ultra sun and moon. Which I somewhat enjoyed to be fair despite it's flaws. But I had much more patience for the bullshit back then and it was a different landscape in regards gaming overall. I was also emulating it so I guess my disdain for Nintendo was already there to some degree, I just liked the series, I always say potential in it and hoped it would be eventually realised.
Even if it is a shitty baby rpg for autists which of course, it fricking is. Everything is compared to something else. :^)
The problem with that game in particular is it was the beginning of the borrowed/temporary power aspect of game design like Z moves. We see this with WoW in it's azerite armor bullshit and the likes. Whereby you're given a unique mechanic or type of gear/gems etc, which is ONLY supposed to stick around for that entry or season in the series.
I fricking LOATHE that fricking dogshit idea. It's hacky and fricking lazy and it flies directly in the face of iterative design. Something pokemon has always had a very serious issue with. I do not believe the dogshit excuses for why this shit is done in game dev either.
Is your only exposure to RPGs Pokemon and MMOs like WoW?
>your only exposure to RPGs Pokemon and MMOs like WoW?
How did you know?
I just find a WoW reference to be odd when talking about a radically different game like pokemon
To be fair WoW is also an amazing example of how to NOT design a game.
The point I was making, was that we can see a lot of the proto aspects of dogshit money grubbing and lazy exploitative game design, which is now becoming more and more apparent as being the reason. The very causal factors if you will, of literal longstanding unwelcome trends and mainstays in the gaming industry. Aspects of what led to these things which are behind the flagging and failing of literal behemoths in gaming, IP's recognisable by all even outside the hobby such as of course, WoW.
I think, that these things, originate as far back as pokemon itself and all under the "gimmick" prone hands of nintendo no less, who set at least "some" of the irresponsible and bad precedents in the industry, that we can now see were the foot in the door that excused worse trends. The proverbial inch, that turns slowly into a mile.
Even if we say they might have not realised this at first, there's no excuse now. So upon realising this and, rather than them learning from their mistakes and quitting while they were ahead. They arrogantly continued, I think it's because players/customers didn't call them out en masse enough to sway the die hard fans. Too much brand loyalty etc.
As a result, I think other companies, now seem to have started to adapt and mutate that shit and naturally, other industry bullshit for their own ends and naturally it all comes at the expense of the customer.
I think it's important to trace back the origins of this bullshit now, to all of it's precursor elements. Because, it's clearly gotten so out of hand. That it's even to the point, where fricking longstanding doormat/naive video game fans, are finally actually considering telling these companies. Entities that they've dogmatically held in high regard for such a ridiculously long time... to ya know...
Frick off...
And it's been a long time coming to be honest.
you can just ignore all the exploitative garbage though and play good games. What's the problem?
Why would you assume that I am not doing that already? I play lots of different games and even differing genres of games.
What exactly is the problem where, why the issue with me articulating my contention with mainstream franchise titles like pokemon?
Have you an issue with me looking back on the shit they got away with and recognising that they may well have been a precursor for what became part in parcel in regards the generally accepted shitty yet standard practices in the games industry?
I don't understand your issue here? All your attempts at making a point simply amount to:
"Just don't play it lolololol"
Which isn't necessarily wrong or anything. In fact I fully agree with you when it comes to the mainstream mon games. As I said before if you were paying attention, I'm literally not playing mainstream mon games at all...
I'm instead currently playing and REALLY enjoying a mon fan game and doing so, for fricking free. I do however find it really interesting to see what potentially could have been. What might the main series look like, if the bullshit that remained in the series in terms of how things were done, had of been stopped or avoided entirely. If it wasn't mishandled by c**ts.
Basically, I'm experiencing in a sense the alternate reality pokemon, one whereby Nintendo itself, learned something and ultimately copped the frick on.
I think it's bittersweet though, because it's a real damned shame. Shit and limited as it may well be objectively in some ways as an RPG or compared to other games. Pokemon does have a special place in my heart so to speak, even if it just tickles some autistic itch as some put it.
I just think that from what I'm seeing right now, the main game just could clearly be in such a better place as a game series and this is becoming more and more undeniable to people like me who long left the series in disgust. This is all due to alternatives in the form of fan games.
No, obviously not. Is your only contribution in the thread gonna be low key homosexualy snippy b***hing that makes you sound like a bored teenage girl looking for daddy to give you a modecum of attention cos it makes your girly parts all tingly to be told off?
The fact that you've played WoW at all already speaks volumes about you
Imagine getting this agitated over a baby game
>The problem with that game in particular is it was the beginning of the borrowed/temporary power aspect of game design like Z moves. We see this with WoW in it's azerite armor bullshit and the likes. Whereby you're given a unique mechanic or type of gear/gems etc, which is ONLY supposed to stick around for that entry or season in the series.
>I fricking LOATHE that fricking dogshit idea. It's hacky and fricking lazy and it flies directly in the face of iterative design. Something pokemon has always had a very serious issue with. I do not believe the dogshit excuses for why this shit is done in game dev either.
The actual problem is the opposite: the requirement to transfer Pokemon between games, treating it as one continuous adventure, is why the games are so stagnant
I decided I wouldn't get Sword/Shield when the dex cut was announced.
The only Pokemon game I bought since then was a reproduced copy of Platinum.
Switch games. I have a high tolerance for shit, but this was something else. I am just waiting for them to release the obligatory Explorer of Sky remake to cut all ties.
>Explorer of Sky remake
you'll get a demake like rescue team DX and you wirr rike it.
The original Ruby and Sapphire. Did you anons unironically keep playing Pokémon throughout your teenage years? Like for real?
Quit after fr/lg, I know the ds games are well received nowadays but pre teen me couldn’t stand the ds designs and new Pokémon.
I think the last one I invested myself in was black/white. I remember picking up one of the gens a little after that and just putting it down. Had just outgrown it all. I only really played a couple emulated old gens for nostalgia since.
moving on from pokemon was one of the best decisions I've ever made. It's honestly scary to think about how much of I cultist I had turned into
Those homosexuals can't into RPGs. All they care about is mob collection autism and rock-paper-scissors-tier pvp combat. They just pretend to care about game design
this is a modern thing. older players used to try out all kinds of shit from digimon to obscure mon games
pokegay here that played nocturne last month, i definitely wish i came around that series earlier
Try Dragon Quest Monsters while you're at it
i will, thank you. Just throw all the mon games you know at me. I've already put Jade Cocoon in my backlog as well as some digimon games
NTA, but you should try the telefang games if you like pokemon & smt
I really liked DQM (DWM)2 when I was a kid. I've never played any of the newer or 3D ones, are they even any good?
just goes to show what a shit company gamefreak is
As that other anon mentioned, it's literally stockholm syndrome combined with brand loyalty. I remember when all those homosexuals got all excited for temtem just to not play it once it came out. There's no hope for them
literally nobody played Temtem
Temtem unironically is budget pokemon, the most "popular" Temtem is a fakemon, why would someone pick budget pokemon over pokemon?
No one played temtem cuz it kind of sucked
>I have never seen a single pokegay try out, say, SMT
Pokegays can't wait 10 years for a single game.
>Why is it that pokegays are so bitter about games for children being... casual
If it were a casual series it wouldn't be routinely destroying the parts of each game that massively appealed to casuals.
So when it isn't destroying that end of the fandom, it's making even more baffling decisions like pushing a competitive format that is unreasonably tedious to get into since the games themselves treat everything like an MMO grind instead of something you can use/hone your skill in to achieve the resources that finally let you "start" the game.
All this really results in is bunches and bunches of disgruntled autists. Pokemon is supposed to appeal to everyone and yet it appeals to no one but those who only like the idea of the games and not actually playing them; the fact there are so many fans of Sun and Moon or Sword and Shield proves this.
Tell me what it changes then shill
Got unbound/clover/radical red any others i should try?
I really liked Fool's Gold.
Everything in that hack is in a tutorial on github. It doesn't do a single thing that's unique.
A couple of who's can have a cohesive vision of what they want to make. The bigger and more inflated a team gets, the harder that becomes and more watered down the game becomes.
I kinda like what he was going for but the changes he made to the story are all moronic.
>change rocket story so Giovanni shows up in disguise to undermine Team Rocket to "give it a more satisfying payoff" even though it's completely out of character for him
>changes the scene where Lance sics his Dragonite on the guy in the rocket hideout to Giovanni doing it instead
>gives Silver a Larvitar that prematurely evolves in the last fight because 'friendship' even though it makes no sense for Silver's character
>gives the kanto bird trio to Lance, Blue and Blaine and gives Red a Mewtwo for yet more autistic story reasons
>cares about the story in a pokemon game
I care about the story a lot less than the guy that went and overanalyed it to the point of feeling compelled to insert his own autistic fan fiction to "fix" it
Yeah admittedly the guy made some great gameplay changes but when it comes to the story changes he went full moron. He should just stick to gameplay because writing is definitely not his strong suit at fricking all
A hobbyist doesn't have to worry about budget or deadlines or having to work on whatever else the company wants from them at the same time
>Want a gen 3 romhack with special/physical split
>Can't get it without a ton of bloated special snowflake shit tacked on
>>Want a gen 3 romhack with special/physical split
just play ORAS
ORAS spoiled me, it's impossible to go back to the older games
just wait till you find out about non-Pokemon mon games
Any reccomended b/w romhacks?
holy shit pokegays are so autistic
is it really suprising the kinds of people who play the same game for 20+ years are spergs of that extent?
>guy who improves game he likes out of pure passion feels more catered to fans than the code grunt guy who working for a massive corporation on a game he had no creative involvement with and is a making game he might not even care about for a living.
Holy shit dude, you some kinda genius?
>than the code grunt guy who working for a massive corporation on a game he had no creative involvement with and is a making game he might not even care about for a living.
But I was always told Game Freak was a small team of developers please understand?
>Romhacks that introduce fairy types, future moves, change moves and also change BST/abilities/typings on Pokemon
It's all so tiresome, they always try to make some stupid Pokemon that has never seen viability into a monster with near 600 BST and perfect stat distribution like 100+ attack/speed, low special attack.
Polished Crystal is way better than this.
This is just some youtuber that swapped a few things in a Pokémon Romack tool any moron can download and use, then bragged he made the perfect crystal with "250 hours of work".
>Dynamically scaling gym battles to encourage non-linear completion js just easily swapping some stuff in a room editor
okay
everything he's doing has already been done in pokemon romhacking, so yes.
>Why are developers so damn lazy and incompetent?
Because video games aren't about passion and love of the craft. They're about monetary gain and making sure investors are happy.
Why did he hire someone to make a romhack when pic related already exists?
makes too many changes
polished crystal adds entire new fricking routes and areas to the game that are non-canon and adds trannies, adds the developer
too much shit in the end
>polished crystal adds entire new fricking routes and areas to the game that are non-canon and adds trannies, adds the developer
That's Crystal Clear, dumbass
No, it's polished crystal too, only crystal romhack I've played
you probably played the "lite" version of polished crystal that hasn't been updated since like 2018, the real version has exactly what I said it does.
You're probably playing on the ancient 2.2.0 version. (which doesn't even have 60fps overworld)
The game seemed completely normal to me. Post proof.
play the "beta" (not actually beta, been developed for the last 6 years while the version marked "latest" is ancient)
see
>posts nothing
I accept your concession
don't be a moron
>self-snitching
it's a trap then, no "troony" says "I'm really a guy"
You forgot the lesbians at the celadon hotel. Or was is silph co?
>thinly veiled shilltube thread
Buy an ad Black person
He already did, hence the thread
This hack looks like shit
>Change the plot to Giovanni coming back to fight against team rocket, completely missing the point of the original
>Don't want to do special/physical split, so instead have to swap around a frickton of mons stats to make sense with the old system
>Add level scaling to the later gyms only
>TMs are still one time use for "balance" reasons, after you completely rebalanced everything else in the game
Calling this the "perfect" hack is some top tier arrogance.
>There have been a grand total of ONE GAME that features a cool protagonist, who is not a child, who has an actual backstory, who has motives and a clear goal other than "be the best, get them all".
absolutely robbed, there could be so many cool stories told within the world of Pokemon through different people of all walks of life, but instead it's the permutations of the same story every time for almost 30 years.
Colosseum is not perfect by any means and has it's own set of problems (and boy it has some), but it's aesthetic and characters are some of Pokemon's most memorable. I would love another RPG in this style with a lower set list of catchable mons.
Give me a cool protag with some difficulty in an interesting scenario please.
Gamefreak have no incentive to innovate, people eat up whatever they shit out regardless.
and the price to pay is that they always have oc deviantart self-inserts
Same energy.
Gen 2 is the most overrated series of games ever. Even the fricking remakes suck. The regional Pokemon are inexcusably shit and all the best ones are in Kanto. By the time you reach Lance you're completely fricked if you didn't spend hours grinding or don't use the free Gyarados the game gives you
there isn't a single not overrated Gen
It is crazy how gen 2 is so shit it has problems not even gen 1 had.
The Gen 2 remakes don't address the core problems with the games which are the horrible selection of Pokemon and the level curving. I breezed through the game with no problem including the elite 4 then hit a brick wall at Lance because he has 3 fricking Dragonites 15 levels higher than all my Pokemon. Grinding is not viable because battle animations in Gen 4 last a week and I have a life. Trying to get ice beam at the casino doesn't work because the NA version has the worst and least fun minigame ever created. What do I do aside from drop the game? I didn't enjoy normal Gen 2 on the Gameboy, why should I spend hours grinding wild Miltanks in the Safari Zone just for more disappointment?
Does it actually improve the game, or is it just another HARDEST ROMHACK EVER with every catchable mon designed for an audience of smallant?
>implying anything smallant does is impressive
it just apes a few safe and boring mechanics from other RPGs and romhacks. It's not innovative or interesting in the slightest.
Why can't anybody just make crystal but will all the QOL from HGSS?
They always have to add in a bunch of extra bullshit like changing the story or putting fairy types and new mons.
Like, the template is right there, just copy it.
Polished has a ton of options.
what does polished crystal change?
>add in a bunch of extra bullshit like changing the story or putting fairy types and new mons.
If there isn't already an option for that, it's so easy to remove it's not even funny.
>Fairy type, Physical/Special split, Natures, NPCs
>so easy to remove it's not even funny.
If it were so easy for someone like me I'd have made a romhack myself
It is easy. All of that is just in plain text, the hardest thing is setting up the compiler.
>Change all the faries to their old typings, remove fairy moves from learnsets
>If Physica/Special split isn't already a toggle, you can change the damage category on each move to match its type
>Change all natures to be neutral
or I can just play one of the dozens of other crystal romhacks that don't have that shit.
Polished has a lot more than any of that, but do what you want. I'm just telling you that it's not difficult in the slightest to figure out.
>spoils skarmory using jasmine
wow truly brilliant game design
pokegays cant into game design, what's new
they gave jasmine corsola too lmao what the frick were they smoking
She used to be a rock type trainer. It's literally in her original lore. She lives on a beach where Corsola live. It also gives her good synergy with the rest of her team while gjving another jhotomon a spotlight.
That's the one gym leader change that actually makes the most sense from a story perspective and you're nitpicking it.
the fact that you're saying this shit as if it makes sense is why you should never design a game or comment on how to design a game.
Gym leaders specializing in specific types was never good design in the first place, often times their team can be seept with a single pokemon with type advantage
Oh no, they gave the former rock trainer a rock type that is found in the city of her Gym
so crazy
>google it
>has no info except for the youtube video
keep it homosexual
PokeWilds fixed gen 2 completely
There's a reason everyone calls them 'demasters' and 'demakes'
We already have HG/SS, they were the best pokemon games along side W2/B2.
you're not even gonna post link? for shame, bro...
What's in it for you?
I just want you to stop ruining every pokemon thread with your demented seething
I don't get the asspain honestly.
it's autism
Well, in case of pokémon, the franchise has one of the biggest and most commited fanbases ever, so the romhack community has tons of good tools and such, so improving the game isn't that big of a hurdle.
More specifically, Gamefreak was infamously incompetent and terrible at coding, with the classic story if Iwata literally fixing their code in Pokémon G/S by himself and leaving enough space on the cartridge for them to add Kanto as a bonus.
>the classic story if Iwata literally fixing their code in Pokémon G/S by himself and leaving enough space on the cartridge for them to add Kanto as a bonus.
Its funny because before it made Iwata look really cool and talented, but in hindsight its probably more of a indication of GF being terrible developers even back then, such that an actually good dev was able to massively improve their game by himself.
>More specifically, Gamefreak was infamously incompetent and terrible at coding, with the classic story if Iwata literally fixing their code in Pokémon G/S by himself and leaving enough space on the cartridge for them to add Kanto as a bonus.
This was infamously incompetent, it both stapled a half-assed undertuned version of the prior game to the new game and set impossible expectations for the series going forward.
>This was infamously incompetent, it both stapled a half-assed undertuned version of the prior game to the new game and set impossible expectations for the series going forward.
This is just moronic zoomer pokémon "content creators" complaining because everybody that played G/S back in the day constantly asks for that to happen again and Gamefreak was never going to be able to deliver on it, so they have to make it sound "impossible" to add back older regions when it was 100% possible after just after the GBA era, if not in the GBA era itself.
The only reason these standards are "impossible" it's because gamefreak is impossibly incompetent, yes.
Even an actually competent studio couldn't deliver on it. Every generation that's more work for less purpose. They're better off spending as much time as possible making the main game good than adding a fifth version of Kanto and Stantler to every single game.
And yet the main campaigns have only gotten worse each game
https://reddit.com/r/a/comments/hwlylf
The literally who's are probably close friends and know how to deal with each other
Modern "professionals" at big studios are thrown into a hostile environment where HR is breathing down your neck and diversity hires plot to stab you in the back. There is zero room to have unique ideas or do anything that isn't "by the book". As a result, what gets produced by these people is garbage
>game is about exploring cool places and collecting cool critters
>romhackers think the games would be improved if the game was the exact same but the first gym leader had a full team of level 100s with held items
im a poketard but these people are so autistic
dont be disingenuous theyre not level 100 they just have minmaxed ev/ivs and have movesets which provide full coverage and also set up hazards that you have no way of getting rid of so you can only beat them in like two ways which often involves exploiting the ai
they should've just mainlined a reskinned to be less morbid nuzlocke and called it a day
people have already "fixed" crystal.
>took the bait
>spregs out at the fact Lance hyperbeams a criminal and replaces it with his fanfic oc doing it
this kid should have just left it at stat changes and team building.
out at the fact Lance hyperbeams a criminal and replaces it with his fanfic oc doing it
Giovanni isnt an OC, but his wildly incorrect interpretation of the character might as well be one.
>Burno and Lance have "stronger" teams in generation one and Blue calls you a "johto champ"
>this homosexual: "to h-have it make sense they'll be s-super stwong after you g-get tall he Kanto badges"
moron logic lmao
>e4 rematches
>moron logic
Everyone's idea of fixing Pokemon always seems to be "let's give everyone perfect IVs, moves, and a full team of evolved mons, have fun homosexual". The difficulty has to be either GFs Brock who doesn't know any Rock type moves or kaizo Brock who pulls out his rock-hard wiener and rapes your Charmander right in front of you.
I always liked Pokemon for the peaceful 'tism of collecting the monsters and seeing new stuff while using mons I like, not the Smogon tier homosexualry of having to build precise teams and setups for every occasion.
That's my problem with most rom hacks. They aren't actually balanced in any way. It's Pokemon, its stat check the game. At what point do you draw the line for "intended difficulty". And most of the time its either cheating in rare candies, over leveling on wild encounters, or playing around autistic levels for optimal damage rounding while staying at lowish levels to not just over power the game. The hack in the OP I actually ended up under leveled while running 4 mons and splitting exp to keep everything close together. I actually exhausted trainer EXP by the time I versed Jasmine. I had a team of the high twenties capping out at 30, and I had to figure out how to deal with Quick Claw level 38 Steelix.
Skill issue. Do you even use status effects? I bet your team all has moves like Slash, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, Dig
If I made a hack, I wouldn't change the mechanics, I'd just change the story/encounters/trainers/starters.
Like for example, some ideas are a HGSS hack where you play as the previous champion before Blue.
Or just some stuff like having Tyrogue as a starter.
Sour Crystal already exists thoever
what does it do?
Sour Crystal is closer to vanilla, it doesn't add new Pokemon, moves, etc. though base stats, movepools and move properties are updated to gen 8, and ghost and dark are swapped between special and physical. It expands Kanto and adds the Cianwood routes and cliff cave (but nothing else from HGSS). And it has reusable TMs and other QoL like pic related
>That Meganium sprite
I thought something looked different about it. They actually remade the original from scratch and did a really good job. Holy shit.
pokemon is just about catching and sell merch like hello kitty thats all, thats why pokemon GO was and still is the most popular pokemon game nobody gives a shit to batle system or that garbage stories etc..bw tried and failed the loswest selling generation ever
Japan hates hard games and like baby games thats why pokemon is so popular there, they hate changes too, they complained in pokemon platinum because distrtion world was hard for them so in gen 5 the games became more linear
This is juts a japanese children franchise you manchildren should just stop being cringe and play better mature games for you
What is the objectively best crystal rom hack. By this I mean most enjoyment derived from difficulty, and QOL changes ranging from new story and routes?
That's a little difficult to answer, there are a ton of Crystal hacks.
I think the best improvement hack would be Sour Crystal. Just some light QoL and the new sprites are cool. Polished Crystal is also pretty good and it's filled with a lot but I feel it's trying to turn the game into HGSS. HGSS is good don't get me wrong but I want to play Crystal.
As for hacks with original regions I would have to say either Prism or Orange. Prism is one of the most ambitious romhacks ever and it has a frickton of content, There's a whopping 20 gyms, battle facilities, 2 complete regions to explore with some parts of Kanto, Johto, and one called Turnod from Glazed. Prism's problem however is that it has some shitty gimmick maps and honestly there's such a thing as too much content, you really start to feel it with the 18th gym battle. Pokemon Orange is based on the Orange Islands from the Ashnime. It's pretty soulful. It doesn't have as much going on as Prism, but what's there is really solid.
Thanks anon
It's funny I literally watched this video yesterday. Had it on in the background while I was playing Pokemon Crystal Clear. This guy decided to give Lance Zapdos. His reason being that Lance is the master of the air or some shit and Zapdos is the most powerful bird. He also decided to give Blue Articuno simply because his name is Blue and Articuno is blue. His reason being that Red entrusted Lance, Blue and Blaine with the Legendary Birds. He kinda comes off as pretentious with the whole "perfect" thing.
>claims Silver's arc was too subtle or didn't have some big dramatic payoff in the final fight so now he gets a Larvitar early on that evolves to Tyranitar prematurely at the Victory Road battle and rewrites his dialogue to loudly and boldly say he won't be mean to his Pokemon anymore
Yeah I actually legit laughed out loud at the Silver changes. I will admit he did make some nice changes but when he has his head so far up his ass it's hilarious. Game Freak actually concluded Silver's arc perfectly by having him have a Crobat which can only be evolved through happiness. That shows so much without even having a single line of dialogue or exposition. This guy apparently did not think this was powerful enough so he basically had Silver give a long winded shonen anime friendship speech and have Larvitar suddenly evolve. What the actual frick
So what does it actually feature? Can you trade to gen 3 now or what?
I love Crystal Clear to death. What advantages do the mods endorsed in this thread have over it?
For Gen 1, Kanto Expansion Pak is something I'm looking forward to. I love the idea of integrating cut Pokemon of gen 1/2.
lol frick this guy. He’s too stupid to realize the subtlety of Silver’s character arc and what’s to hammer it right in your face by making Silver give a gay ass long speech about how much he changed and he gets a free Tyranitar because he’s sorry
Why would I give a shit about this when Crystal Clear exists?
Black/White 2 is the last Pokemon game with SOUL right?
I just beat E4 first round and I'm now doing Kanto.
Crystal legacy is what Gen 2 should have been tbh
But the perfect Crystal romhack already exists
SHARTSLINGER PRESENTS
Crystal Clear
A ROMHACK MADE BY wienerSLAYER
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>OH NO THE LEVEL CURVE
>BUT MUH GRIND
morons, the game is balanced around using items in battle, if you don't want to use it, don't cry about it.
If you use items you didnt beat the game
Is it a meme now to shit on Crystal? Because Crystal has always been the game that got the most love. What fricking timeline am I in now
Whole timeline got fricked after they executed harambe. If our boy was still around there would be world peace and no moron crystal haters
People who weren't born yet when crystal was released are shitting on it.
homosexual youtubers convinced zoomers that Gen 2 was not good.
So they just parrot the YTers criticisms of Gen 2.
Funnily enough, most of the people whining about gen 2 were maybe 5 years old when Gen 2 released
if I am looking for as close as possible to vanilla crystal but still want to be able to catch all 251 mins and then use an exporter tool like pkhex or pkxdelta to export my mind from gen 2 to 3 what romhack would you recommend?
Crystal Clear for all its changes tries very hard to stick to vanilla, you can even trade between Crystal Clear and normal GSC and RBY. The issue of course is that it doesn't have have GSC's plotline and it takes some poor liberties with the region. Otherwise Crystal Clear is great for catching them all.
that sounds cool, but this would be a first time playthrough for me so I do want to experience it as it is just without the need to do trades
I guess you can try either Perfect Crystal or Sour Crystal.
I hate his voice.
This guy is smug and arrogant. This is not perfect by no means. There has been amazing Crystal romhacks for years. And looking at the comments of this video, is nothing but cum guzzlers storking this homosexual’s ego.
He said that crystal was the first game he ever played and this romhack is his idealized version.
Then call it “My IDEAL Pokemon Crystal Romhack” not “I made the PERFECT Pokemon Crystal Romhack” that’s fricking arrogant and smug
yeah imagine if they just took a game, put in a few more animations, some extra dialogue and let you play as a girl, then charged you beyond full price for it. you'd never see that kind of exploitation back in pokemon crystal's day
riveting stuff
Should have given Ledian +50 to attack
Would still only be based 460 and not good late game kek
I play Pokemon to walk around. Miss me with all these team changes and level curve cancer.
>playing a visually and narratively unimpressive series as a walking sim
lol?
you wouldn't understand. go get excited about numbers going up.
>RPG
>whining about people who care about the numbers aspect of the game
lol
where is this "whining"?
I can smell the snark on you from here
I can smell your axe wound from here.
>mind broken about trannies too
kek
At least you don't deny it.
You remind of this autistic loser I used to know who spent every morning making Poffins to feed his pokemon to make sure they were happy.
You knew people?
The vast majority of negative opinions on widely-loved, classic 15+ year old video games are almost never genuine, but rather just parroting the opinions of influencers and youtubers. It's like when Egoraptor made a video shitting on OoT, suddenly thousands of zoomers hate OoT and give that video's shitty reasons why as their own thoughts.
Gen 2 in general had a terrible level scaling problem and many of the new mons being locked to postgame was really bad, but that doesn't make the games unplayably shit or whatever and certainly not worse than the bug-filled messes that are modern Pokemon games. At least old Pokemon bugs had to be worked toward to do, and some even did beneficial things, nowadays you're lucky to not fall through the floor or freeze because the map loaded too much at once.
>bug-filled messes that are modern Pokemon games
Every Pokemon game has been a bug filled mess
Only new Pokemon games have accidental visual bugs and random crashes. All the bugs in older games came from exploitable code.
BDSP 1.0 were buggier than RBY, which is laughable and unthinkable.
If I wanted Gen 3 Crystal why wouldn't I just play Crystal Dust?
Pokémon Clover was actually kino. Don't (You) me
I will never understand Black folk logic about remasters and remakes towards 7th gen consoles. There is literally no point to that. Why even bother when those games were already widescreen? And if you use emulator with upscaling you basically get your remaster looking version at that point, that includes weird 6.5th gen consoles like PSP. And these will look better than any soulless remake the goyslop producing studio with team of pajeets will shit out like the street they shat on moments ago. All they do is cash in on nostalgia to compensate for lack of original ideas, so why these moron zoomer sheeps keep falling for this scam? I can maybe partially understand wanting remasters for 6th gen consoles as those weren't in widescreen, but why the frick these gullible zoomer Black person morons want everything that's in their way turned into twisted version of soulless manifestation of what original game once was when perfectly serviceable solution in form of emulators exists already and it's free? Explain this brainlet logic to me.
I’m so fricking glad I broke away from the Pokemon cult. Jesus Christ GameFreak rots your brain. You’ll turn into this gay if you don’t break free.
>yeah GF can actually do better and be up to par in modern gaming but I don’t care I’m still going to suck their dicks lol
Disgusting
Sword and Shield was my final game. There are so many fan games there is no need to play new ones. Not to mention all of the RPGs I could play instead.
>GBC romhack
dont care
Why ? What’s the issue
fire red is the lowest im going for romhacks. Im not doing gbc romhacks.
We all love Crystal Clear yes?
lol
You dont ?
I'm so sorry
There is still no gen 3 romhack that mimics the style of gen 2 while overcoming the biggest constraints of the GBC (cart size, sprite limits, transparency, etc).
I can dream.