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You're kidding right? Gen 5 at least had some innovation too it and an actual attempt at a story (and actual decent post game). 6 is incredibly poor for the series on the whole and the only thing that salvages 4 is Platinum. Diamond and Pearl were just slogs from start to finish.
Inquisitor Gideon wrote: You're kidding right? Gen 5 at least had some innovation too it and an actual attempt at a story (and actual decent post game). 6 is incredibly poor for the series on the whole and the only thing that salvages 4 is Platinum. Diamond and Pearl were just slogs from start to finish.
I play Pokémon for the mon and to me G5 just wasn’t that strong. There aren’t many Inlike. My tendency to play comp mon though probably colors it cause G5 was a really boring Meta. All weather hyper offense teams for like a solid year almost.
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Inquisitor Gideon wrote: You're kidding right? Gen 5 at least had some innovation too it and an actual attempt at a story (and actual decent post game). 6 is incredibly poor for the series on the whole and the only thing that salvages 4 is Platinum. Diamond and Pearl were just slogs from start to finish.
I play Pokémon for the mon and to me G5 just wasn’t that strong. There aren’t many Inlike. My tendency to play comp mon though probably colors it cause G5 was a really boring Meta. All weather hyper offense teams for like a solid year almost.
I think that's the primary difference. The core appeal for me has always been battles and the Pokemon itself and Gen 5 is kind of when I hit a wall there. It's definitely interesting in terms of the game proper from what I understand, but I'd run the badge/evil team/champion stuff so many times at this point I wasn't really that excited for an improved version of it with creatures I wasn't interested in. Where I really burned out was the Silver remake, in part because it was all the same again and also because that's just where I finally had had it with the balance of the game and Smogon's attempts to control it.
I did play Gen 6. A combination of fun new Pokemon and mechanics kept my attention, though I didn't get anywhere near as into it as I did in the past. Gen 7 was also fun, but it was about here that I realized I'm kind of over the core RPG and just like catching Pokemon via Go to get my fix.
All the regions (your choice of where to start and what pokemon to start with), story lines about Pokemon and the people sharing the world with them, an actual Pokemon league with prizes and special events to catch legendary mon or one offs like Surfing Pikachu. Add Trainer skills to better diversify the game with things like "Water Specialty" or "Breeder" and stuff like that. Don't even bother with any overarching storyline. The Pokemon storyline is pretty done out at this point. Maybe just go like Eve Online. Let players build their own leagues, their own gyms, with their own rules.
I'd play the hell out of that game.
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Pokemon Go pretty well accomplishes what I'd like out of an MMO. The games don't really have the teamwork required for the real thing and to some degree, I've realized that I like the more passive aspect of collecting Pokemon.
I still like the battle system, but honestly I don't know if it will ever be my thing again unless it gets broken off into a more tightly controlled experience. Limit the proliferation of certain high pow moves (Earthquake, I'm looking at you) redesign each Pokemon with purpose, streamline raising IVs/EVs etc. As is, the game is pretty oppressively unbalanced, sometimes against entire types and is just horribly at odds with the core appeals and themes of the franchise.
It’s been ages since I’ve kept up with Pokémon (started with gen 1 way back in the old 1990s) and the newest thing with it I’ve done is Pokémon Go (which was fun for a good while). I do remember seeing the whole super evolution thing or whatever and that was pretty cool. Would love to see more roided out old school Pokémon.
LunarSol wrote: Pokemon Go pretty well accomplishes what I'd like out of an MMO. The games don't really have the teamwork required for the real thing and to some degree, I've realized that I like the more passive aspect of collecting Pokemon.
I still like the battle system, but honestly I don't know if it will ever be my thing again unless it gets broken off into a more tightly controlled experience. Limit the proliferation of certain high pow moves (Earthquake, I'm looking at you) redesign each Pokemon with purpose, streamline raising IVs/EVs etc. As is, the game is pretty oppressively unbalanced, sometimes against entire types and is just horribly at odds with the core appeals and themes of the franchise.
Uh, it's no worse than 40k
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I got three shinies. One to leave as Beldum, one for the first Evolution, and one for the Metagross. Also got a high stat non-shiny evolved to Metagross to be an actual strong Steel Attacker. Don’t think I’ve enough candy left to level him clear to forty though.
Had to travel during the event, but managed to snag and evolve a weather boosted one and a solid shiny. Pretty happy overall, though I'm sad I caught another one I would have liked to be able to get Meteor Mash for.
Still haven’t evolved anything from the new gen, but I think the blue bird starter is the only catchable thing I don’t have enough candy for to fully evolve, because I stopped seeing those when the holloween even began.
I'm really mixed on Detective Pikachu. On the one hand the premise baffles the hell out of me. Who the hell decided that the world's first live action Pokemon movie needed to be a police procedural? On the other hand, parts of it actually look legitimately good. the Mr. Mime interrogation is a funny idea. I appreciate the boldness that comes with taking a risk, but I find the particular risk they decided to take a little confusing...
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I make a point of driving a particular extra route to/from work so I can hit ~20 pokestops a day, have yet to find a Nincada. Hell, the Caterpe one is rather uncommon as well. Bunch of Spindas though.
I want to hug that Pikachu so bad. It’s Just So Fluffy!
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