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Best team for TMless runs? I think it changes the dynamic quite a bit. For example Nidoking goes from top tier to kinda trash
dunno about whole teams but it would probably be many psychic types and strong STAB abusers.
starmie, zapdos, maybe golem. victreebel probably.
SEX WITH MISTY
SEX WITH MISTY
SEX WITH MISTY
She's 10
She's 6
she's 21, dumbass
?
did you never watch the anime growing up anon?
The anime isn't canon
That was just a doll, you dingbat.
isn't it her good half or something? Like piccolo and kami.
no
I read that on some wiki. Not exactly the most reliable source but y'know.
stfu gay
no?
Kami is a completely different person from Piccolo, his consciousness just got absorbed into him
Yeah I meant kami and king piccolo who were the same.
King piccolo was expelled from kami as his evil half originally, lorelet.
Did they end up re-fusing or something at some point? I forget.
The episode cell deputed in
You didn't "forget" you are just new
I was like 10 homosexual, it was a good 23 years ago eat shit.
>he doesn't remember dragon ball's character arcs
That's Kula Diamond.
she predates kula.
out of 10
All the Kanto girls are pure sex Even Agatha
who's janine? i don't remember her
koga's daughter, takes over for him at the gym in gen 2
oh yeah that's right, thanks. i was thinking only gen 1
SEX WITH SABRINA
SEX WITH SABRINA
SEX WITH SABRINA
>that giantess sabrina doujin
muh dick
>>>/vp/
Thought it was highly overrated and piss easy but the monster collecting gimmick was novel, so it was fun enough at the time. I probably would've loved it if I was under the age of 10 when it came out.
Anon, I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "gimmick". It's literally a core mechanic of the game. How is it a "gimmick"? The whole premise of the game (and Pokémon series overall) is to collect the pokémons. It's even in the slogan of the game. If anything, the pokebattles are more of a gimmick
I swear most people on Ganker are absolure morons. Especially on Ganker
reminds me of the time i saw somebody on /tg/ refer to world history as "lore"
you annoying people actually using the fricking accent in the word pokemon just so you can stand out on an anonymous website like you have an account
anon, when you see something like that, it's most likely just a phoneposter
have a nice day phoneposter
alt 130 was one of the first altcodes i ever learned you moronic homosexual
>The whole premise of the game (and Pokémon series overall) is to collect the pokémons. If anything, the pokebattles are more of a gimmick
I understand where you're coming from, anon, since I also love the collecting aspect, but you have to understand. Pokemon's appeal is so broad and varied that there are tons of people out there who like the series as much as anyone else but who would argue and fight you for what you just typed, because they like completely different things about it and don't care about monster collecting, as silly as it sounds.
...If anything, Game Freak is validating that particular crowd of fans lately. They decided it was a better idea to not have all monster species compatible with and transferable to the new games than to consider options like paring down presentation and keeping things 2D.
this is the third most moronic post i've seen today
If Game Freak isn't pandering to people who just want to catch monsters, then who the frick else ARE they pandering to? They've cut down the campaign to be, like, ten hours if you don't take massive detours, and the entire story is delivered via disconnected events that can occur in any fricking order until the very end. The world is flatter and less detailed than ever. Every gameplay element that isn't catching, raising, or battling Pokemon is somehow downgrading with each entry. WHO ELSE IS GAME FREAK TRYING TO APPEAL TO?
>capslocking your last sentence
Dope gen 1 pic, but 1/2 of his team is asking to get their shit pushed in by Jolteon.
charizard is not a flying type in gen one.
moron, charizard has always been fire flying. The one Gen I pokemon that had their types changes was Magnemite/Magneton (electric to electric/steel in Gen II), Clefairy/Clefable (normal to fairy in Gen 6) Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff (normal to normal/fairy in Gen 6) and Mr Mine (psychic to psychic/fairy in gen 6, everyone always forgets this one
you absolutely right my dear autist. must have confused him with someone else.
Megaevolution thats make him fire/dragon, can think of any pokemon that was fire one gen and something next, IIRC the only time pokemon types have changed was gen II, specifically only Magnemite and Magneton becoming steel, and Gen 6, where aside from the ones I mentioned, Marill, Ralts and the Cottonee lines got fairy added
Cant*
Weird to see him called Blue in Japan.
>I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "gimmick"
And I think you're a pedantic loser who's butthurt because some rando on the internet failed to heap praise on one of your childhood favorites.
>I swear most people on Ganker are absolure morons
Yourself for one.
>Anon, I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "gimmick"
I don't think you do. "Gimmick: An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance"
"Gimmick" specifically implies that it's meant to get attention that the thing with the gimmick otherwise would not deserve.
Pokemon is good even aside from its quote-unquote "gimmick".
Look at you policing strangers vocabulary on a gaming board and then doubling down even when they clarify the meaning they intended to convey. You are a childish, pretentious midwit who needs to learn when to let sleeping dogs lie.
>I-I was just clarifying what I intended to convey!
That you find it somehow "dishonest" for Pokemon to be about catching Pokemon. Yes, you were very clear about that.
Your words not mine. You're too stupid to hold your own in an honest argument so you just make things up as you go along, putting words into people mouths as it suits you. What a sad piece of shit you are.
uokbro
autism
>It's literally a core mechanic of the game. How is it a "gimmick"? The whole premise of the game (and Pokémon series overall) is to collect the pokémons. It's even in the slogan of the game. If anything, the pokebattles are more of a gimmick
eh, I dunno. Marketing says one thing, yeah, but when you're actually in the game you can get through by barely engaging with the catching-mechanic at all. All that's really required are one or two HM-goons to reach new areas every once in a while.
The abttles can't be the fricking gimmick, since you actually need them to progress the game, you don't have to do that in Red/Blue. Maybe Yellow, but in the first two games, you could easily solo the game with your starter, making catching pokemon a gimmick. Deal with it. Pokemon was always about battles.
>pokémons
moron
KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SEX WITH LORELEI
SEX WITH LORELEI
SEX WITH LORELEI
She's 28.
OUT OF 10 THOUSAND
Most balanced monster roster, best progression, second best soundtrack.
Mid
I'm sure there were other similar rpgs with maps like that on gameboy but I never really played them so the novelty of a large feeling world you could explore mostly at your own pace was really cool as a kid
the series peaked in gen 2 but the first games were still pretty cool
only one ive played, loved it to death when i was a kid. looking back on it now it was very charming.
Its fun
I scammed two of my schoolmates by trading a shitty pokemon in exchange of their starters
the game world was dead and it has no replayability.
Honestly the best way to play through Kanto. FRLG is soulless and boring while LPGE has strange gameplay compared to the other games.
I wish I could go back in time with my current knowledge and absolutely destroy all other kids using a Tauros.
completely outclassed by the remakes in gen 3. No reason to play them outside of nostalgia/historical interest
>No reason to play them outside of [reasons to play them].
Bravo.
>shit music
>shit art
>shit mechanics
>pace ruining filler islands
lol
>better than gen 1
>better than gen 1
>better than gen 1
>just say no lol
>deaf
>blind
>moronic
>No reason to play them outside of nostalgia
You just described the entire franchise.
the remakes are absolutely, unironically soulless in the literal sense.
The art is just so sterile and completely misses the atmosphere gen1 is supposed to evoke.
The in-game shots of every environment to establish mood were nice, though.
>Gen 1
An urban sprawl that has claimed most of nature with only plains and sparce forests littered around, the massive caves being the only aspects man cannot fully take for itself.
>Remakes
FOREST TOWNS FOREST CITIES FOREST FOREST FOREST FOREST FOREST CAVE FOREST FOREST FOREST FOREST CAVE FOREST FOREST FOREST
RGBY looks better than FRLG.
More diverse environments even, compared to lol, everything is a forest.
I grew up with gen 1 and this is absolute fricking delusional
Gen 3 is sort of fugly itself, but the amount of jank shit both in terms of bugs and poor balance/mechanics, and the visual assets in RBY, makes FRLG seem glorious in comparsion.
Even the jump from gen 1 to gen 2 is insane, if anything gen 3 is a bit of a step back from that.
>gen 3 is a bit of a step back from that.
Not being able to catch them all anymore made things a bit gayer
See
You are nostalgic for objectively repulsive games.
Except Gen 3 adds the utter moronation that was Natures and EVs. And it doesn't even add the physical/special split yet. So no, gen 1 versions are still superior.
gen1 already has something like EVs its hardly better in that regard.
natures are great tbh.
Natures trigger my autism, I can ignore EV's but it's ruined me
>Catch a Machop
>Oh it's modest, well I should catch another
>Bold isn't ideal either, I'll just catch another
>Relaxed isn't a detriment but it's not bringing bonuses either
>Nah brave has lower def I'll get another
>Catch about 20 until I get an adamant
I've been playing Pokemon since day one and i have not, not once looked at a pokemons nature or ev's. I pick the move with the elemental advantage and 99 times out of 100 it one shots the opponent and the one other time they used safeguard or some bullshit to delay me one turn before i do it again.
I just collect the cool Ghost, Steel and Fairy pokemon. Simple as, happy days.
Natures just waste your time because only one or two are viable per pokemon. It makes the catching progress tedious as hell, or it forces breeding which is even more tedious.
>gen1 already has something like EVs its hardly better in that regard
Just exposed yourself as zoomer. Gen 1 and 2 had Stat EXP, which was much better than EVs. EVs make it so you can't even freely use your pokemon against any opponent since it might give you a stat you don't want and you have a limited number of total points. With Stat EXP each stat had a set limit so you didn't need to worry about that nonsense and could actually enjoy using your Kadabra against a Machoke rather than having to avoid doing so because it would take up your limited points with a physical attack boost that you don't need. Frick EVs, they're just stupid busywork, as is modern pokemon in general. Gen 1 and 2 literally all you had to worry about was IVs. Now there's IVs, EVs and Natures, and it turns the whole thing into a chore.
you have degenerate minmax brain for a game with negative difficulty.
You have a point, but the thought that I'm raising a pokemon in a very suboptimal way bothers me, what can I say. But also I play romhacks with actual difficulty and challenge, which is another reason I prefer gen 1 & 2 since raising good pokemon is way less of a chore there.
Yeah i just stick to nuzlockes. Stats mean shit all when it takes one critical to nuke that hard work.
Fun as a kid
Could use a few balance updated and qol patches as an adult
Still a good game
fun for the glitches
TAKE ME DOWN TO THE GLITCH CITY
WHERE GRASS IS SEA AND ELITE 4'S DEFEATED
best generation, not a fan of monsters designs from later gens
>Soul > Soulful > Soulless > Max Soulless
>remember being yelled at by grandpa because I had forgotten my backpack for school but remembered the gameboy again
For me it's Erika
She's 2
For me, it's any of them as long as they're 100 feet tall.
We would have very interesting convos together.
join f-list.net
I don't really enjoy rping.
>100 feet tall
too small
Not as good as romhacks
>soul dialogue
based
Where? All I see are buzzwords.
What rom hack?
/vp/'s very own Clover
AWOOGA
OS was a different time… a better time
>This happened
>Ash ended up fricking pikachu in a bathtub
Literally the gayest kid on Earth, it's clear his mother must of raped him into being gay.
The only girl he ever showed any clear interest in was pic related which was before they neutered his personality
>the Gym Leader of Kumquat Island
>uses an Alakazam's Psychic first, followed by a Marowak's Bonemerang
>after being defeated she gives Ash her Jade Star
Bros... Ash lost his virginity all the way back then
Has there ever been a dominant shota as chad as Gary Oak?
>All those same face b***hes
Artistic laziness is okay when JAPAN does it.
Sameface is fine if it's aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Season 1 had beautiful backgrounds and detailed environmental scenes so that made up for it.
Besides characters were unique enough to discern. Not everyone needs to look like a mutant muttoid from a globohomosexual dystopia.
Its called anime moron
And you motherfrickers slurp it up and tout it as mankind's greatest art form.
It's called asians
I never knew that many asians that all had eyes closer to their ears than their fricking noses.
>Gary
>shota
Motherfricker was full blown chad.
comfy af. they don't make 'em like they used to
Exceptionally strong mood/atmosphere to the point that even the other good generations don't come close.
Absolute mastery of limited detail.
Solid gameplay with a nice length.
Overall great games. Solid RPGs that happen to include some nice multiplayer features to flesh it out even further.
I ought to play this just for the soundtrack someday.
Its not worth it. As a no life poke-autist who has every fricking generation and completed a living dex let me tell you these are some of the worst games in the franchise including the spinoffs. I find Pokemon Channel more interesting to replay than this shit. God I fricking hate Let's Go.
I fricking hate Let's Go, unfrick the battle system and it would have been a perfectly servicable remake. The music is good, the art isn't terrible, following/ridable Pokemon were neat. It's just all wasted on godawful Pokemon GO mechanics.
Forgot this. Fricking christ, it's all wasted on this game.
It's a terrible game, don't bother. Even if you have nostalgia for it, it sucks absolute ass.
It was the only pokemon game I ever played and finished, I got it when I was about 8 or 9 and I must have played through it about a million times, here's some stupid things I did because it was the only game I had for a while until I spoke to people at school for tips and read some magazines and guides
>Went through the caves without using flash, in doing so I could navigate every cave by step count
>Got stuck in viridian forest for a week coz I thought the black bit was a dead end instead of a screen transition since there was no door
>only used pokeballs so was never able to catch better pokemon at a certain point
>never used tms or potions only pokemon centres
>Used to walk everywhere and never used escape ropes and stuff like that so soft locked my game at various points and started over again many times
>Only levelled up my starter Pokemon
In saying all this, as a dumb kid once you learn about all the other stuff you can and should do the game becomes much more fun and I ended up replaying the game almost weekly, every time I'd beat the elite four and catch Mewtwo id start a new game
>Used to walk everywhere and never used escape ropes and stuff like that so soft locked my game at various points
What? At which point did it softlock your game?
It was a very long time ago about 20 years but if I remember I think it was in seafoam islands somewhere, I pushed the boulders wrong or something an I didn't have a way to get out because I released my pokemon that had surf or dig or something so I could catch the bird?
good enough to create a successful franchise
shame about the current state
sex with actual pokemon
>Blue tilesets
Not original enough
Huh, didn't know they changed the basic tilesets too.
You mean Gen 1 games overall? Or do you mean just the Pokemon designs? Be specific OP.
should have ended right here with red and green
no blue and yellow and nothing else
just end the franchise right here because it never got better than this
NEVER SHOULD HAVE MADE MORE THAN 151 POKEMON
Why not?
It captured that feeling of being like 11 and going out to walk to the next town over or take the bus into the city for the first time without your parents well and the soundtrack was excellent in a way the modern music isn't.
But its also a buggy, unbalanced mess.
It was a simpler time
I LIKE WEARING SHORTS
THEY'RE COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR
EEK
DID YOU TOUCH ME
Definition of forced soul
>Gameplay was hot ass, you either do what the game expects you to do via how the devs want you to do, otherwise the game literally bricks itself
>The anime was the only reason it got big, without it and Iwata to fix their already broken trash product it wouldn't even make it past Gen 1.
>Other JRPGs existed in the east but only this one made it mainstream in the west, again, thanks to the anime, despite those other JPRGs being vastly better coded products
Prove me wrong. Without the things I mentioned this IP would have (and should have) died out 25 years ago.
was hot ass, you either do what the game expects you to do via how the devs want you to do, otherwise the game literally bricks itself
What does that even mean? I don't think you've ever played a gen 1 game zoomer.
I did homosexual, Blue version, 98. I loved it but Gen 2 was even bother
Without Iwata it would have been unplayable trash. By itself it's already shit as a JRPG, when you're a child with shit standards with zero perspective of course you didn't know what was so trash about Gen 1.
>You speak as if Pokemon only got big during gen 2.
It was the maximum opus of the entire IP's history, just like with Sonic. The devs themselves stated it was dying before Gen 3, and really was during Gen 3 so they started the "remakes" line of games to keep people hooked up until Gen 6.
Hell no Black person the biggest pokemon ever got was when they released Pokemon stadium, after that normal people moved on
>shudo
he had some interesting ideas that unfortunately never made it because of the higher-ups
but the shit he wrote when fully unchecked (the novel) was really weird
gym leaders get fired if they lose 3 times in a row and basically have to fix the matches? really?
>gym leaders get fired if they lose 3 times in a row and basically have to fix the matches? really?
Yeah, you forgot the world must work under certain rules. How did you expect shit would turn out. In other news; you can be really popular if you defeat some chicks in a pokemon battle, they will give your their phone number for you pkwhatever device that also works as a phone.
Now go to the streets, look some girls in the eyes and win sum pokemon battles, homosexual.
>look some girls in the eyes
the funny shit is that in game you'd get thrown into fights whenever the npcs see you, even if you're sideways to them (or even fricking turned your back to them)
do humans in pokemon world have 360 degree vision?
also it was always funny when I missed a Trainer and then when trying to fill up Pokedex some random timmy with his lv. 10 whatever gets fricked by my lv. 50 something starter
>laundering the anime like that
>By itself it's already shit as a JRPG
It's one of only a handful of JRPGs that are actually really good instead of being cutscene simulators or just pure dungeon crawl.
>The anime was the only reason it got big, without it and Iwata to fix their already broken trash product it wouldn't even make it past Gen 1.
You speak as if Pokemon only got big during gen 2. It was huge before it even left Japan, mate. The anime started airing over a year after the games' release and it was well on its way to becoming a nationwide craze over there by that point.
Very true anon I recall as a kid only watching stuff like street sharks, biker mice from mars etc. Shows that would sell you action figures and guns and cars and shit like that then I saw pokemon one morning and was so confused about seeing some weird Chinese shit on the TV but it was interesting, the only other weird show I remember was sailor moon but that was for girls
Then there was trading cards and all sorts of shit, but it faded pretty quickly too and people moved on to dbz and yugioh then they died out quickly too, honestly if you are still obsessed with any of that shit you need to grow up
>Prove me wrong.
Prove yourself right first, homosexual.
Lightning in a bottle
It's a legitimately fun game despite how broken it is, and it's a testament to the people working on it that they were able to make such a fleshed-out idea right out of the gate. It's only crime was being too successful, such that the series never evolved (heh) as much or as quickly as it should have
I was the prime age for Pokemania and I think it was my first video game. Absolutely loved it.
Looking back I still think it's a fun game and quite well put designed but for different reasons than back in the day. What I enjoy the most is the elements of 'classic' or oldschool dungeon crawlers into the game. A lot of newer JRPGs have dungeons as a series of straight corridors. Pokemon R/B/Y actually did have some maze like dungeons that were pretty difficult for children to navigate.
Also the music is 11/10. Extremely memorable tracks that I still get stuck in my head from time to time. Vermillion City theme most recently.
Did you know thats because pokemon was originally a isekai dungeon crawler called Capsule Monster?
I did not.
The original design treatment from 33 years ago came out in the retro enthusiast and gamedev history circles a while back. You played a guy in a Monster Rancher style world using monster obtained from gachapon to dungeon dive seeking "o-parts" to find one to get you back to earth.
The original idea would inspire some guys that left to work at Enix to make Dragon Warrior Monsters.
Capsule beasts were bought and even traded for gold. The higher you levelled one the most gold a Capsule beast was worth to other Beast Tamers.
>Dragon Warrior
Cuck
Thats what the original was called here zoomkinde.
The appeal of Pokemon is that of the monster raising sim rpg sub genre of role playing games. You are not playing the hero fighting but a trainer recruiting a none fixed party of your choosing to raise and change over time. Rather than a fixed party where you change their equipment.
Combined with a tone meant to emulate the feeling of being a kid on their first long adventure out across the countryside it created a original and for the time in the west very unique tone with a massive wealth of content for the 8bit handheld where people were used to massively inferior versions of NES games at that point, especially outside Nintendos core first party IP's.
It just got too popular and now a parent company makes more on merch which the games serve as advertisements for so the games are rushed out the door with no polish to meet the streetdates of plushies and trading cards.
Its fricking sad but back in the day? there was nothing like it. Even Digimon was more an expansion of the digital pet keychain fad started with Tamagochi.
>I literally just learned what isekai meant 3 months ago!
Yeah we can tell
>took a walk to my old neighborhood an hour ago
>sat down on a bench and watched the lightning bugs flicker around in the fresh dusk
>smelled the cool summer air
>for a brief moment I was teleported to the past where me and my friends used to play yugioh and pokemon gen 2-3 sadly around those same benches
>get home and immediately see this thread
I miss the past, man. I miss the carefree days. I miss innocence. I miss when Pokemon wasn't fricking dogshit.
Kino
Pokemon not only singlehandedIy dramaticaIIy reduced the attention span and the difficulty and concentration needed for videogames, it also paved the way for the shallowness of the social networking age, and paved the way for dumbness at large -- perhaps less dumb than the teen pop music of the time, still, it was a far cry even from the humblest Commodore64 games coded by teenagers in garages and no advertisement whatsoever apart from word of mouth.
schizophrenia
It removed the forbidden violent and sexuality that was left in teenage imagery:, as required by parents associations and moral lobbies (that is why Jynx turned from black to violet, Sabrina lost her whip, teams no longer stole or killed Pokemon or crippled them), and that is why everything became water-diluted as required by the counter-reform of innocent consumer everyday kids.
Pokemon blankwashed the very few that was left from the youth culture and reduced it to a permanent lobotomy.
Pokemon removed the big issues discussed by pioneering videogames of the time, from psychology and mass numbness as in Metal Gear Solid to sexuality as in Final Fantasy (eg: the 7th), resized violence in terms of abstract wienerfights and personal commodity, and became consumerism in cartridge ownership of its own (oftentimes doubled) without really adding anything worth thinking (or playing).
It is the ultimate chase-the-dragon game, the handheld equivalent of oxycontin.
Pokemon transformed a fairly unknown niche videogame genre into a shameless act of consumerism.
meds
Good post
what the frick did i even just read
bruh
bump
I'm still not watching your shitty YouTube video
Ok, how did Pokemon do that though? Blaming a children's toy for all those random ass things you said sounds very, very try-hard, anon.
Pokemon gained momentum due to Nintendo's expIoitation of greed and the way they capitalized on the strengths (and even design) of the first 3 Final Fantasy for the NES who almost nobody had a way of playing due to the (not coincidential) Big N policy of imposing regional barriers in distribution and adaptation.
Most players in places like Europe were not aware that the true RPG battling masterpieces (say, Final Fantasy 6) were other titles.
Most were not even aware of the existence of videogames at all. It simply happened that the GameBoy became the equivalent of the VolksWagen van and the rubik cube for the 1990s..
Consumerism succeeds in that an entire "continent" of half a billion consumers is unaware of what is truly going on in the underground and only picks what advertising handpicked for him.
gained momentum due to Nintendo's expIoitation of greed
That's a nice way of saying nothing at all. Pokemon became popular because the first game was simple yet entertaining enough for kids and the fact that it had 151 marketable creatures for everyone to gush over.
> the (not coincidential) Big N policy of imposing regional barriers in distribution and adaptation.
You are trying too hard, like I said. You do have potential though, your rants are random enough.
Comfy game. I look back on it fondly.
Amazing game. Anyone who wasn't there will never understand.
Amazing RPG for the original GameBoy. Great graphics, music, and had the ability to save ANYWHERE? This game has earned it's money.
All you red gays need to fricking hang. Blue gang here. It's still inside my brick Gameboy that's missing it's battery back plate.
Blue team reporting in.
>hat's missing it's battery back plate.
What was the deal with those things? Why were they so easy to lose?
The only thing holding it in was a thin plastic clip, plastic becomes brittle and snaps over time rather than bending like it used to.
So much for nintendium!
I genuinely believe that if you have not played the first 5 Dragon Quest games you do not understand Pokemon.
Would've been a great game in 1989
>came out in 1996
Alakazam was and is the greatest pokemon ever conceived.
Alright Klaus settle down.
Simple, effective and iconic.
there's an air of mystery and also comfort that only exists in red blue yellow, and diamond pearl platinum
the most kino fricking video game.
I feel so happy to have been an OG pokemon player.
Peaked at platinum
Trash games I only played because I was a kid desperate for Pokemon and no really studio was allowed to use the license.
I love the extreme simplicity of gen1.
You don't have to bother with 42 different mechanics to complete the game, just explore a bit and play.
Haven't played it since probably 2001 but loved it at the time, a nice little escape from life
I like doing a whole playthrough in 2 hours on 4 times speed.
90's kids love this shit
WHOA IS THERE AN UGLY SECRET ABOMINATION UNDER THIS UNREACHABLE TRUCK??? MY IMAGINATION IS FIRING ON ALL CYLLINDERS WOAW!
Zoomies like you have nothing like that and you'll forever be jealous.
But they will keep using our gen's reaction images.
Ha, it's always hoennigers hurt about not having people to play their abortions with.
Talking about MY generation in general, I didn't really like the Hoenn games and I think they were the first major slump in the series.
Ye, because kids who grew up glued to a smartphone have 0 creativity or imagination. They would find something they're incapable of doing pretty boring
I wouldn't conflate stupidity with creativity and imagination.
better than ff16 but then again everything is
It was a fun game, that felt amazing seeing this cool big world and going to place on your quest.
It had the worst transition to 3d though.
Shit like palette town having 3 houses was just a stand in for how limited the tech was.
They'd remake the game in 3d and keep in 3 houses and call it a town. They need to make the world bigger than it is, add in obstacles and shit to make it seem like a real world.
The even more immediate issue is that the devs are incompetant and just suck now
Pokemon is one of the biggest examples of how the Uncanny Valley effect has relatives in just about every form of appeal. The old games create an impression of a larger scale existing than what you see, the new ones have the same visible scale for the most part but now feel enormously empty and stiff thanks to it.
>Shit like palette town having 3 houses was just a stand in for how limited the tech was.
>They'd remake the game in 3d and keep in 3 houses and call it a town
This. If you go back and look at concept art you'll see that these places where intended to feel bigger than they were. And yet gamefreak just can't make these ideas come to life, they are stucky to a misunderstanding of what people liked about first gen and think we want the same thing but 3D
One of the best parts of the original games is the way they perfectly convey the idea that you are in a larger world without the games being able to show that world. The anime was pretty much exactly what everyone imagined that larger world to be, too. It made the whole deal sort of magical.
Too bad it was made for infants.
The first season or two is unironically kind of funny. If only because of how dumb most of the characters are. There are some really fantastic gags in the first couple seasons. The fights are animated with the budget of a large sandwich, though.
>If only because of how dumb most of the characters are.
I will give you that
The game was nothing special. Pokemon took off primarily because of the cards and secondarily because of the TV show. Literally every kid alive at the time collected the cards.
Misty was my first true cartoon crush and it stayed that way for YEARS.. Began my lifelong obsession with redheads.
Waifu for Laifu.
HGSS and anime Misty are my favorites. LGPE Misty is also great
It's always been anime Misty for me.
Still her best look
Anim Mist is ONLY Mist.
You and me both anon
My wife is a redhead
It's fun collecting monster and the music was good, but you can beat the whole game just spamming your starter strongest attack and the pacing kinda sucks, also needing Pokemon stadium and a second copy of the game to collect them all was fricking bullshit, it was okay for a Gameboy RPG, the real issue is that we are 9 pokemon game in and nothing new has been done since other than introducing some moronic gimmick like making your pokemon giant or those crystal pokemon, it's a series literally running on moronic brand loyalty
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>pikachu was into it
This spurred the bathtub scene.
>Hours and hours of searching for Mew behind that fricking truck
>Come up on a guide one day in the pits of the internet
>Glitch tells me to use a Drowsey and flying glitch
>Fricking works
>Got Mew
>Dropped the game
you never figured it out?
It was great for it's time but it's also one of the few instances where the remakes make the original obsolete.
>It was great for it's time
It really wasn't, it's a gameboy game so graphically/musically it's 10 years out of date.
Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger are older games than Pokemon
And yet there was nothing else on a handheld like it. Even the GBC that came out around the time was a pretty minor upgrade. Being able to play such a huge game on the go in which you can even save was huge.
It's also not like everyone had an SNES. In fact I knew no one who did at the time. My parents only had an NES and I knew people with N64s.
pedo thread
i usually go for something on the gba/ds when i get the itch to play pokemon, but the simplicity and jank of the originals have a certain charm to them that i can appreciate
Supposedly it was worked on by Earthbound staff which is something I can kind of see in the general offbeat vibe and I don't know the phrase for it..."Urban Fantasy"? It's a shame what Pokemania did to the series identity though, especially once it started leaning hard into fantasy and literal magic.
Red was better than any of the other games I tried with the possible exception of Uranium
I understand why zoomers can't into Gen 1 but if you were around when these games were new, man. You had to see the Pokemania of the 90's to believe it. The only thing even remotely comparable was the hype around Pokemon GO and even that died out pretty fast comparatively.
>make pokemon thread
>warned and get told it goes to /vp/
>see million other pokemon threads.
>try to make pokemon thread
>it goes to /trash/
I didn't even post lewd
Love it with all my heart and soul.
The game was revolutionary yet had a lot of flaws. Psychic types were way too overpowered, ghost types were useless, the rock-paper-scissors aspect really wasn't refined at the higher levels so you could just blast your way through any roster with any type of pokemon at level 100 with enough stat buffs.
Pokemon reached its apex here.
>ghost types were useless
God, bug was useless, ghost was useless, fighting was useless, poison was meh
>posion wasn't goodish until gen 5
>Ice still cucked
I loved ice types so much...
My fave was the "haha let's give ghost and bug ONE attacking move"
>My fave was the "haha let's give ghost and bug ONE attacking move"
it gets better
>dragon weak to dragon and ice
>only dragon type damaging attack does a set 40 damage
>ice moves banned because only freeze cure is getting hit with a fire attack
that was sorta the case back then
>>>ice moves banned because only freeze cure is getting hit with a fire attack
And all that shit jus tto include a single dragon line and call it quits for that gen
Pryce was such a jobber
I know, Pryce.
If you weren't there you wouldn't understand
Name a more iconic glitch in all of gaming. You literally cannot do this.
World -1
Literally WHO?
I was thinking of playing it again, has anyone made ROM hacks that are more vanilla? If so, which ones are the best?
i still wanna legit complete a pokedex without mew ofcourse without using pokemon yellow
can you legit complete a pokedex with only gold and silver in gen 2?
You'd need Red or Blue to get the starters, the birds and Mewtwo. Mew can be obtained by the glitch if you really want that but Celebi is impossible iirc.
There's also a Celebi glitch, but it's a little trickier. Maybe even more.
I loved even back then how broken the game was.
Ultra kino, still have my link cable and og gameboy and blue cart.
It was boring, honestly.
I just remember getting to the first gym, doing that exploit that puts a pokemon at level 100 and did it on my starter then I quit after 10 minutes.
>find exploit and abuse it to make the game easy mode with no challenge left
>"yeah it was boring"
Used the exploit because I was already bored.
Not that great on its own merits alone. I think more fondly when thinking of Gen 1 when also thinking of Gen 2 since they were a package deal.
Is it me or is there something...eerie about that picture?
Games that were so good I still am willing to give new entries in the series the benefit of doubt, like a stockholm sufferer. Same for Mario and Zelda, although the matter has really got its shit together (and TBF Legends Arceus seems like a step in the right direction)
its one of those "you would hade to be there moments" i had pokemon red on gameboy cooler and everyone (who wasn't poor) had it in school. still remember when one of my classmates showed me the MissingNo glitch and how you got 99 rare candies. then there was that one kid who had both the games, a link cable and was pretty much the king of the playground.
as for the game itself, it was buggy as shit but we didint care about that beacuse, it was god damn pokemon. the game is very outdated and bare bones compered to the others in its gen but it will still be loved for being the first and the start of a phenomenon.
God, I remember sitting with my friends on the sports oval under the tree, talking shit with each other, trading and battling. We would also play the trading card game, and I had a pokedex book that had all original 151 pokemon, we would reference the shit out of it for movesets, where to find specific mons, shit like that. When gen 2 came out it blew our fricking minds.
The most soulful
playing yellow version on phone
r8 my team
>Victreebell
Neat. 4/4
It's a game that's impossible for me to divorce from my nostalgia. When Pokemania first hit it hit my school hard. Every single kid was playing it, I had older kids and even my bullies who had made fun of me for playing games come up to me and asking to trade. I can't see Gen 1 Pokemon without also associating everything else that came with it.
Is fire red leaf better then Red and Blue ?
Yes and no. On the one hand there's something to do after the Elite Four. Other than catching Mewtwo. The game moves generally faster and the running shoes is a nice addition. That said there are some things that are very irritating. The most famous one is Golbat. You're locked out of the national dex until you beat the Elite Four. So if you attempt to acquire a Pokemon not native to Kanto, like say Crobat by raising Golbat's happiness, then every single level you'll get an attempted Evolution that just suddenly stops for no reason. Also the glitches aren't there
Pokrmon cards > anime > video games
>just respawns again to do the same thing as before
ah, such a great metaphor for the inability of w*men to deal with issues permanently
The mom is the hottest
boomer here. adored that shit back in the day.
>tfw you will never be 6 years old and play OG pokemon again
Why does pokemon breed psychos? It’s just a game
Game was so good, they remade it like 20 times
>0: Red/Green
>1: Red/Blue
>2: Yellow
>3: Firered/Leaf Green
>4: Lets Go Eevee/Pikachu
Um, am I missing 16 games, or are you just really shit at counting
Black and White is KANTOOOO without Unovabortions realizing it's a soft reboot. So that would make 5, like 2 posts below.
>completely different game is actually the same because it has lots of similarities
moron. And I bet X and Y is a remake cause the first forest has a similar layout to Viridian Forest and you can get KANTO started and legendary birds. Is Pokemon Go also a remake cause it makes you pick one of the Kanto starters?
>And I bet X and Y is a remake cause the first forest has a similar layout to Viridian Forest and you can get KANTO started and legendary birds.
That'd be a stretch. X/Y is Johto equivalent.
You are missing how EVERY GAME IS THE FRICKING SAME UGH
Replace "game" and "remade" with "region" and "released.
>Red
>Green
>Blue
>Yellow
>Gold
>Silver
>Crystal
>Fire Red
>Leaf Green
>Heart Gold
>Soul Silver
>VC Red
>VC Green
>VC Blue
>VC Yellow
>LGP
>LGE
The Kanto region has been sold 17 times now.
moronic?
(Heavy voice) No!
>Pokemon Unknown version makes it 18 times
anon's not wrong; the games are different everytime by gf's mandate back then.
You forgot VC GSC
That I did.
Which means Kanto has been sold twenty (20) times.
Oh! Are you one of those guys? You know, the ones that pretend like pokemon games aren't the exact same thing repackaged over and over?
>heh ackshually they aren't LITERALLY the sa-
Kys.
>the ones that pretend like pokemon games aren't the exact same thing repackaged over and over?
moronic? It's only about Kanto games of old, not every release.
My post wasn't about kanto games of old
Then you missed the context.
Every single mainline pokemon game might as well be a remaster. Be mad about it. That was the only point.
>ice moves got officially banned from tournaments because there's no cure for the freeze status in the game
How do you let something like this get trough development?
small indie company handling a big time seller, prease understand
I genuinely do not understand the appeal of pokemon's core gameplay loop and believe whole heartedly that this entire franchise is carried primarily by nostalgia and the fact that it's so large people default to it despite its lack of quality, much like world of warcraft has done to the MMO.
have you tried any of the games out
I've only played a few, they do nothing for me. Oddly enough growing up I played the card game and stadium on the 64, watched the show and everything, but the actual mainline pokemon games didn't do anything for me.
At least you made an attempt
>Get starter pokemon
>Use his damage attack on everything
>Level him up
>Repeat until elite 4
Wow so engaging people totally aren't overthinking a bug catching simulator
I really started getting into the games as a kid when I had actual friends and relatives to trade and battle with.
You have to put the shit into context. Pokemon, in the 90s, did a lot of things right. Collecting things were in. The Gameboy was hot shit. Pokemon had both. A full adventure where your party members were completely customizable. It's not like FF7 where you had X amount of party members that you chose 3 of. You could have any combination of 6 out of 151 possible party members. Even duplicates. So your team was yours. Maybe I'll want to use Charizard and no one else then again maybe I'll want to use whatever I find in a new area. And that's maintained to this day, primarily in Nuzlockes or animations or just general conversation. Other games do it better. But pokemon codified it for general audiences.
Granted there's A LOT pokemon does wrong. But I do believe that's the general appeal that keeps pokemon around and breaking records every single release.
Up to gen 2 the monsters looked cool so you had a reason to raise them. Gen 1 also has a lot of replayability due to its structure in the mid game plus the glitches. And like I said before, if you're a zoomer and had no one to play with, you never experienced Pokemon.
I genuinely think that both World of Warcraft and Pokemon are great and were successful for a reason when they hit the scene and you're a giant delusional homosexual
Nah, WoW is just trash and you're addicts.
You are most likely talking to someone who hasnt played WoW in ages, like most people.
WoW seethers like you are still thinking about the game every day though. Its kinda pathetic.
Hard not to when you know it killed videogames.
yeah man videogames are just over and nothing was released after WoW hit the scene.
take your meds.
Wooo, worthless fricking numbers on everything, who needs mechanical depth, everyone's too moronic.
meds
Are you grinding for a level up so you don't have to elaborate a retort?
WoW only killed PC gayming before Steam putting the final nail.
Shut the frick up
u mad bro?
Not a heron, so I will be fine, newbie.
Why do people keep trying to treat the anime as canon to the games? I don't understand...
Some even say the anime was good
I don't think the anime was good. But I do think that the anime had potential at least early on. Ash being a dumbass who had potential and could think creatively if he would just pay attention makes for a fine main character. Misty being a gym leader who sticks around because she sees the potential in Ash but is perpetually frustrated because of his stubbornness is fine. Brock also being a gym leader but having an ambition of being a Pokemon breeder to show that there are other paths to be successful in a Pokemon world is fine. All of it is fine but the problem is that they don't go anywhere with it. Ash stayed stuck in that same loop for 25 real life years. That shit got old after year 3.
They really liked the movies.
I do like the idea of the tournament though, makes more sense than the Elite Four ever did.
thoughts?
Objectively one of the most godawful and broken games ever made. That said, something about the art style has chuuni sovl.
>Objectively one of the most godawful and broken games ever made
You've never touched the game in your zoomer life.
I've played gens 1-6 and they almost all sucked. Especially gen 6, that was such a terrible generation.
You need to make your LARP less obvious, Unovagay.
The speed was shit, but Hey you Pikachu and the anime instilled my need to play the series. Scarlet and Violet was the game I wanted on 64
the last time pokemon on handheld was good, it was all downhill after this
Good map, horrible everything else. Gen 3 remakes are much better
Never got a Mew & regret it
Gen 1 is the easiest gen to get a Mew in if you know how to do the trainer fly glitch
Game could be storaged in a floppy disc and play in dual screen on PC so i can have the 3 starters since minute one. Incredibly kino soul childhood momments.
using all three starters at once is soulless though.
I was a kid and just wanted the 3 guys, shut up
Deeply flawed as a first outing, but historically speaking, clearly one of the greatest games of all time.
Forced Satanism
Greatest Pokemon of all time in the best region. Charmander is the starter to pick
Red is still the only Pokemon game I've finished. I still have my original copy too. Shame the battery's probably dead and my save gone. I don't have a Game Boy any more to try it.
You should play Heart Gold/Soul Silver they are extremely comfy. Taking Red and Blues vibe of late 1980's urban japan and switching it up to a out in the sticks japan where the ancient history is more respected and preserved but the march of modernity and progress is creeping in.
If Pokemon red and blue was meant to capture the feeling of Japan in the late 80's Gold and Silver feels like Japan in the late 70's.