Pokemon died when they started locking content behind limited time events
>but Mew
That was one pokemon. Every gen since 3 has like 3-5 event pokemon
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Pokemon died when they started locking content behind limited time events. >but Mew. That was one pokemon.
But, Mew.
shut the frick up
Somehow all of my friends ended up with clones of Mew and Celebi, so it wasn't really exclusive. I finished my Pokedex without attending any events.
The old Pokemon watercolor art had so much fricking soul it's unreal.
>Mad because you missed out
>Posts Darkrai
You snooze you loose. LOL.
more like gaymin
huh?
ya every gen since 3 has like 3-5 event pokemon
just use an action replace
also for events if you missed one, they shoulda hd some bonus mission of getting it if a certain date passed
huh?
Not being able to get both box legendaries in gen 3 did feel like a step too far for me.
Plus the Lati@s stuff the with the E-reader was bullshit for people living in Europe where the hardware didn't even launch.
And while we're at it; Europe never got any official way to obtain Celebi in Gen 3.
Thankfully Gen 4 added global trading which reigned some of this stupid bullshit in.
>Not being able to get both box legendaries in gen 3 did feel like a step too far for me.
Just like version exclusives in gen 1/2?
Just trade homie!
Back then legendaries were actually considered special (when there wasn't 50+ of them) so putting them behind a second version stung a lot more
>Just trade
Good luck finding someone willing to straight up give your their version exclusive legendary. At least the starters can be bred or are pretty easy to reset for if you co-ordinate with a friend.
>>Just trade
>Good luck finding someone willing to straight up give your their version exclusive legendary
Man, you're too young, it was easy as frick to farm legendaries, you just boxed everything on stadium 1/2 and reset the game, you could beat it in a day or less, also there wasn't shortage of bros to trade, I had like 4 bros with the game.
Stadium only lets you send pokemon back with the same matching OT so file resetting didn't work.
That's not true, you could send whatever pokemon you wanted back and fort, they just couldn't be used in battle unless you had gym badges for the level needed.
>Its totally easy to catch 'em all. Just buy a separate console and game to do it bro!
Or have friends anon
...friends?
I can be your friend anon
>It's totally easy to catch' em all. Just pretend to be nice enough for people to tolerate being around you for extended periods of time bro!
Artificial difficulty.
It was a different time, making friends was easy as frick back then
Well, I have bros I know since rby days still playing up to the switch games, all professional workers but we hang out from time to time
If you cared you could just extract the save and import them on switch since you missed the home/bank service.
I remember as a 6/7 year old I met a kid at some house party. He gave me a Kyogre for a Minun, don’t know if it was legitimate but a part of me believes it was.
>Just like version exclusives in gen 1/2
you can get both lugia and ho-oh in both gen 2 gold and silver. I don't remember if they kept this in HGSS, but keeping them exclusive started with ruby and sapphire, while letting you get both in emerald.
Not talking about legendaries but common pokemon, still need to trade to fill a pokedex
why are you playing off?
fangames are all better
>but Mew
Yes, that has always been a thing, and pre-2006 it was great because it was pre-internet (social era), Toys-R-Us’s were everywhere, and you were younger so the sense of wonder was there. Pokemon died because
>event-limited Pokemon
>competitive gays
>welfare shinies
>overpriced
>behind the technological curve
>IV breeding autism
>worse designs from gen 3 onwards
>mechanics locked between gens
>ribbon autism
>pointless remakes
>useless duo game system
>third game syndrome makes previous games obsolete
>pokemon fusion
>mega evolutions
>z crystals
>gigantimax
>terastalization
>online events
But most importantly and what you meant,
>you grew up
Before the games having online how were you actually supposed to get these things? What events did you have to attend?
You were supposed to show up to GameStop or a regional equivalent or get them in gaming magazines.
they were stubborn even well into the wifi era and usually made you go to stores,.or worse, specific nintendo venues (typically in nyc)
the in-person store visit shit incredibly stuck around until the very ass-end of gen 7. not sure if 8 ever did store visit stuff
Pokemon has been shit since its inception. Limited edition content is nothing compared to the fact that the gameplay has always been lackluster. The most interesting aspect of the game, PVP fights, took over a decade to even get real support outside of link cables.
The only reason this dogshit franchise survived is because of merchandising and advertising.
gen 1 and 2 had them.
mystery dungeon should overtake the main series
In my personal experience, "Pokémania" had died out by the time Ruby/Sapphire released so I didn't have anyone who cared enough to trade.
I knew a bunch that still played but by diamond and pearl most had stopped
I have a living dex on X Y. Since I can't transfer them that's where I'm retiring it.
Rip Pokemon
any pokémon for this feel?
Porygon, as an AI thing
>but Mew
>That was one pokemon.
celebi was genuinely never made available in gen 2 in the west. deoxys was only available like once in gen 3, and arceus and darkrai's event were not available in diamond and pearl.
Victini I'm not sure about but I don't think it's ever been available outside of black and white.
I don't think you need mythicals to get a diploma in game
You don't. You also don't need them to get the shiny charms.
So after blue and red?
before that
He said mew didn't count
before
please dont post the burger cover. its revolting.
both are soul, but yeah, jp is better.
I'm biased towards early sgi graphics, so just ignore me.
its ok dqm bro. have a nice day.
you too.
i made that picture
lol, nice. I never doubted it for a second that someone here made that.
cute!!
Its my King Slime
based. I need a slime plush.
All I have is a clock (healslime iirc) and a DQX Keyboard.
I bought it from aliexpress really cheap (13€ shipping incl) and its an original. Highly recommend. Doesnt smell and hes really soft.
going outside and catching bugs in a net?
you already know what i'm going to say
Green and Red
just gen the mons? or download wonder card data off the internet???
>Old Pokemon
>You have to physically go to a store to get the event Pokemon, frick you if you don't live in a major city
>New Pokemon
>Just download the event online
This is one of the few parts where Pokemon has actually improved
You can get both by playing Pokemon Showdown
Every gen has at least one mythical but gen 4 does have like 5 which is the most
Event Pokemon being super limited pissed me off as a kid, but I've come to realise that any Pokemon that can't be used in the Battle Tower/Frontier/whatever might as well not even fricking exist. Event Pokemon are functionally useless.
>be me 3 years ago
>probably played 1,000+ hours of pokemon from back when i was a kid
>take off the whole last 2 weeks of the year, it's going to be just like Christmas vacation from when I was a kid
>decide to relive the joy of pokemon
>buy myself a backlit GBA and all the GBA pokemon games off ebay
>this is going to be epic - going to frick off and play pokemon for 2 weeks
>day 1: get frustrated with grinding levels... decide to take a break
>day 2: still frustrated. I don't remember it taking this long to gain levels... Only being able to level one pokemon at a time? Why?
>day 3: give up, haven't touched a pokemon game since
I don't know how it's possible to be so bad at RPGs that you have to grind in a Pokemon game
I am also bad at pokemon, but not bad at other rpgs
>filtered by Pokemon
>wasn't even nuzlocking
>Pokemon died when
it went fully 3D
pokemon colosseum?
Not really a mainline game now is it
>tfw I somehow convinced my parents to take a road trip to one of those Pokemon Rocks America convention events
>twice
I sadly don’t have my game carts anymore but I’ll never forget the memories. Somebody uploaded a short home video of the event in the city I went to one year and every time I rewatch the video it’s like being a kid again