/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1074517
>>Nothing you do during a pokeball catch increases the catching rate.

What about holding Down+B?

>>1074526
It just works 50% of the time. So I'd say it's hardly reliable

>>1074526
Technically, no, I think. I believe the game determines whether the pokemon is caught just after the pokeball is selected but before the text is written to the screen.

>>1074526
>believing that

>Holding L could cause glitches in N64 games, thus the reason it was never used

>>1074517

F-zero needs a bunch of mods.

The Pokemon anime and the games always reinforced how important your starter Pokemon was. Even now when I play Yellow I keep Pikachu around even though his stats aren't that great. I kept Serperior around too even though he was useless by the endgame.

>>1076147
>playing through the storyline picking your Pokémon by how powerful they are
>not just picking your favorites

I used to believe that random encounters in standard JRPGs were triggered by moving too much too quickly, and when I needed to get back to a town without encounters (low hp or whatever) I'd walk a few steps, stop for a while to let the encounter rate "cool down" before I continued. If it still triggered I'd rationalize it was because the random encounter walkameter had become "too hot" and locked-in a random encounter for my next move no matter how long I rested.

This was, by the way, solely based on witnessing the overworld blob monsters spawn rate in Zelda 2 (spawns more often if you move a lot since there is both a time-based and a move-based spawn rate).

>>1076164
I don't know why but I like that you thought that.

>>1076164
The best word I have for that behavior is "cute." Not that I put videos of myself playing online, but I think of all the silly habits I had as a kid and how the internet would tear me apart if they saw me playing.

>>1076151
>Have a friend who was really in to Pokemon
>He's really interested in all the stat stuff and having the Pokemons personalities be right and all of that crap
>I just use Pokemon that I like
>Beat him every time

>>1076240
That's because you have faith, trust, and most importantly friendship with your mons. Friendship is a truely wonderous and ma-.... Yeah, I'm gonna stop that statement there...

TFW i played vidya because i had no friends.

>>1076240
>try to get into competitive gaming around the time of the GSC remakes
>do EV training and everything to get the best stats I can for my Pokeymans
>battle friend
>beats me with his in-game team
>mfw metagaming is bullshit

>>1076249
I played vidya because my grandpa died when I was young, and my grandma always let me play his Game Boy when I was over there.

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening was my very first game. I could never get past the raccoon that was really that one guy, not because I never got the Magic Powder, but because I never thought to use it on him.

So I figured the only thing that I could do was to buy a "boat" from the shop and sail to another part of the island or something. Saved up for the "boat" by grinding for rupees. It took two visits to my grandma, I think. I was pretty irritated when it turned out the "boat" was actually a bow and arrow.

>>1076263
It sounds like you're bad at tactics is all, the meta of pokemon has always been ridiculously broken when applied. Hell you can beat pokemon well over 60 levels above you if you make use of type advantage, stat modifiers and STABS.

>>1076289
>the meta of pokemon has always been ridiculously broken when applied
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI1snykm_NU
Absolutely.

>>1076298
That was fucking awesome to watch.

>>1076274
Did you shoot the raccoon?