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6536282 No.6536282 [Reply] [Original]

Do you love Pokémon

>> No.6536283

>>>/vp/

>> No.6536284
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6536284

>Bayleef
>has a bay leaf on its head
BRAVO GAME FREAK

>> No.6536295

Yes, very much.

>> No.6536321

No

>> No.6536325

>>6536283
vp always bitches about the retro games and they got rid of all the cool beta generals

>> No.6536348

>>6536325
>vp always bitches about the retro games
why

>> No.6536353

>>6536348
Cause they are mostly kids, furries and austits that post there... in fact it's kinda like here. Hmmm.

>> No.6536369

>>6536325
Do not reply to the autistic poster who always directs to /vp/, he's an obsessed schizo who was corrected countless times already about gen 1 and 2 being retro, he just made it his goal in life to pos the /vp/ shitpost in every pokemon tangent thread on /vr/. A sad soul.

>> No.6536392

>>6536282
No. As a child, it's great. As an adult, it is rather boring and less personal. Overrated trash. It's fine to play on and off during breaks from bigger games.

>> No.6536396

>>6536353
>>6536369
>>6536392
what's wrong with this world

>> No.6536414

>>6536282
Yes

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>>6536282
Yeah and I think Gen 2 is peak performance

>> No.6536449
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6536449

Probably more than most, but I just can't get past the greedy buisness practices having grown up. It doesn't have to be the same gameboy game with better graphics. I like the pokemon camp they added in the newest entries, but I loathe all the other stuff missing.

>> No.6536789

>>6536282
I like the game and the concept but the problem is that it's a bit too ezpz. I get its aimed at children but even as a retarded kid who only had one or two leveled pokemon with all attacking moves, I could still blast my way through the entire game. now that I understand buff moves and physical/special stats it's a breeze. it makes me wonder why theres so much depth with natures, abilities, held items, x items, etc. when you dont need it to beat the game. I guess theres battling with other people but fuck that, unless it's your friend, the other person has definitely hatched 100s of pokemon for the best nature/ability combo and autistically EV trained it. not worth the effort to compete with that...

>> No.6536812

They're okay. The female trainers are cute though.

>> No.6536818
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>>6536789
>it makes me wonder why theres so much depth with natures, abilities, held items, x items, etc. when you dont need it to beat the game. I guess theres battling with other people but fuck that
It's exactly that. The games are basically a tutorial but if you really care about the battle mechanics it's more centered on multiplayer, it's one of the main points of the whole franchise, to make people play together, either to trade, or to battle.
But if you want a more challenging single player, by all means play the Stadium games.

>> No.6536830

Nah. I'm kind of over Pokemon.

>> No.6536840

Yes, I've completed the pokedex in yellow and caught all legendaries dogs in crystal with no glitches or cheats.

>> No.6536846
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>>6536432
>playing in bed
>late at night
>small pocket light so I can see the screen
>ready to continue my adventure towards 250
I'm ready to go back now

>> No.6536850

>>6536830
wtf I love pokemon now

>> No.6536862

>>6536850
That's great, don't let me stop you. :P

Pokemon is a perfectly cromulent series, I just have some bad memories associated with Pokemon Go.

>> No.6536872

>>6536862
>pokemon go
not retro.
I love pokemon and never played anything past Stadium 2. Don't feel like I need to.

>> No.6536881

>>6536282
The first two gens yeah. The rest is absolute crap.

>> No.6536887

i have fond memories of playing pokemon when i was younger, but i can't play them anymore because get tired of them like 10 minutes in

>> No.6536905

>>6536818
the stadium games are my favourite of all time, maybe that's why. yeah you're right the whole "connect with your friends" is a focus but the games dont even touch on the complex things you can do like EV training or what abilities are good to have (some are even detrimental in every way) or even why using x items is useful. the least they could do is have a hard/experienced difficulty or something to add a bit of challenge for long time fans. just seems like a waste of potential to have a complex system like that and only show the surface in singleplayer but I suppose this is gamefreak we're talking about.

>> No.6536915

>>6536881
I stop at NOT RETRO 3rd gen. Big upgrade and the remakes of gen 1 are great. I love to play the glitchy ass broken ass original gen 1 still but the remakes are a bit better if you don't have nostalgia for it.

>> No.6536979

>>6536887
My problem is that I start a new save get so far in then stop playing because I don't want to progress to a new area for whatever reason. Avoiding the grinding or whatever. Then when I pick it back up it's like I don't remember where I am at or what I was supposed to do and I need to back track a bit to figure it out and it's more appealing just to start over.

>> No.6536982

>>6536846
>small pocket light
>not a worm light

>> No.6536984

>>6536283
Nah that's zoomer city

>> No.6537089

>>6536282
I miss being into something like how I was into pokemon as a child. Played the fuck out of the first 2 gens and the N64 pokemon games. I don't think anything will give me this feeling ever again. Haven't played anything past gen2/n64.

>> No.6537095

>>6536282
yeah. theres nothing quite like it
well theres digimon, but they havent quite figured out a good formula for their games

>> No.6537102

>>6537089
Same here bro. I was like 10 when that shit came out and it was some magical times. Playing with friends at school, having that shitty friend that knew about missing no. and screwed your save, playing the tcg, getting promo cards by going for the theater premier of the mewtwo movies and shit it was good.

>> No.6537104

>>6536369
>he's an obsessed schizo
look whos talking

>> No.6537107

>>6536862
tell us the memories
>HEY EVERYBODY, LOOK AT THIS FAGGOT PLAYING POKEMON

>> No.6537120

I was known at school for having the brother who ripped his shiny charizard card in half.

>> No.6537128

>>6537120
Your brother is based.

>> No.6537131

>>6537104
Hi, anon who always bitches about retro pokemon threads.

>> No.6537132

Not anymore I don't
I wish I could go back to having fun playing Pokemon

>> No.6537268

>>6537107
Oh, it's actually not a very interesting story, just con drama.

>> No.6537274

>>6537268
tell us

>> No.6537376

>>6537274
>>6537274
Okay. It all happened last year at Pax West.

My boyfriend was hosting a panel (I won't say which one, I don't wanna dox myself) with some friends, and we all rented an AirBNB together, and I told one of my boyfriend's friends (let's call him Ryan) that I thought he was really cute and wondered if he felt the same way about me? And he said that, no, he is strictly monogamous with his boyfriend Ethan but that he's flattered and I was like, okay cool, just thought I'd ask. Then we went outside and smoked weed and I started disassociating pretty hard, like, how does a redneck trans girl from Kentucky end up in a backyard smoking weed with some hipsters in Bellevue? Is this real? Is this just a dream? Woah...

So the next day is the day of the panel, and we are filled to capacity, the panel is a smashing success. It goes off without a hitch, like, it's perfect. But one thing that really bothers me is how Ryan and Ethan seem to be avoiding the rest of the crew. They're gone most of the day, they show up to help us with the panel, and then they disappear again. But it's cool because then I get to meet LeftAtLondon (talented musician, but you probably know her as the "ahahaha I do that" girl) and hang out and smoke weed with the OneShot dev team.

(continued in next post)

>> No.6537386

>>6537376
dont go on
you're a fuck up homie

>> No.6537387

>>6537386
>you're a fuck up homie
What? How?

>> No.6537396

>>6537376
>I told one of my boyfriend's friends (let's call him Ryan) that I thought he was really cute and

fucking lol

Ever notice that any time a woman or a fag says that drama is "uninteresting" and not worth talking about, they're almost always the one who caused it?

>> No.6537686

>>6537376
>"here's my Pokemon Go story"
>just rambles about smoking weed at a con as if any of this shit is going to matter at all to the actual Pokemon Go story
>doesn't mention Pokemon Go at all
>"continued in next post"
>never makes the next post
Thanks

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>>6536282
Yes. I'm lucky that all my faves just keep getting better.

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>>6537707
Wait... do you... do you actually think that looks good?

>> No.6537709
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6537709

The best thing about GSC is trading mons back to BRY.

Last time I played Yellow, I had hatched eggs for all of these in GSC, and traded them at the start of Yellow to use them as starters.

It works pretty well with Eve evos in Yellow since they have different movesets compared to BR, thanks to the rival using them too.

You can also trade mons to GSC, teach them move that they can't otherwise know in BR, trade them back to BR with those moves. Teach Earthquake to Aerodactyl, for instance.

>> No.6537713

>>6537709
> I had hatched eggs for all of these in GSC

except for Victreebel and Mew which I caught in Yellow.

>> No.6537717
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And this was my team when I played the Japanese version of Blue (romhack recreation of it).

Spectre was NPC traded and Jynx was caught in the wild in Seafom island.

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>>6537717
Using Haunter against the fight gym was a laugh

>> No.6537720

>>6537708
Baldlet detected.

>> No.6537725

>>6537720
I wouldn't even really mind if I were bald. My bangs grow too fucking fast and it annoys the fuck out of me because I hate getting my hair cut

>> No.6537727

>>6537709
>>6537717
Autism.

>> No.6537729

>>6537727
kek based

>> No.6537732

>>6537725
Well shits a lot different in reality i admit. Mega wouldn't look nearly as fabulous irl.

>> No.6537736

>>6537708
Well I'm still divided on my other favorite. But it's godamn Ludicolo, man.

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>>6537736

>> No.6537745

>>6537732
It already looks like shit so having it be in reality wouldn't be much of a difference

>> No.6537747

>>6537729
Meant to>>6537709>>6537717

>> No.6537750

>>6537747
Autism.

>> No.6537760

>>6537745
you just mad all you're pokémon are basic bitches.

>> No.6538507 [DELETED] 

reported and saged

>> No.6538510 [DELETED] 

Lol fuck the guy bumping threads and deleting his replies

>> No.6538532

His efforts are in vain.

>> No.6538572

>>6537686
Well there was a second half to that story but y'all told me not to continue, so I didn't...

>> No.6538609

Blobbos is the best pokemon. Prove me wrong.

>> No.6538682

Were regionals a mistake? Did they improve on old designs or make them worse?
Farfetch'd is the only good one because it stays faithful to the original and only improves upon it

>> No.6538701

>>6536846
The night color palette in this game was so comfy it's unbelievable that it is possible to achieve such effect with low resolution like that.

>> No.6538750

>>6537709
>>6537717
Get yourself an Amnesia Clefairy on GSC and trade it to RBY and watch as it utterly destroys everything

>> No.6538764

>>6538682
They should have done this from gen 3 on. Adding 100+ new pokemon every gen was a bad call. To me it's not about improving, but adding variety and growing the world of pokemon. We don't need some new derpy bird you find in the first town each time, yet they insist on making one each time. Gen 3 was making cousins of old pokemon as it was. Did we really need a Muk knock off? Well we got Swallot anyway. I think an entirely new variety of Muk is interesting though. Thing is, they started doing it way too late. We have some 1000 pokemon now.

>> No.6538783

>>6536282
No.

>> No.6538826
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>>6536282
Furret is my favorite normal pokemon.
No only is cute but can be very useful if you teach him/her the elemental punches.

>> No.6539060

>>6538764
Yah and then they went lazy and stopped including every pokemon in sw/sh.
>You've made your bed, now sleep in it.

>> No.6539068

>>6538826
it can also learn Surf & Shadow ball

>> No.6539140

While GSC is the objectively superior generation, the first generation offered something that latter generations did not. Namely, it was the fact that going from city to city wasn't just a short walk with a few wild pokemon or trainers here and there, it felt like you had to journey across Kanto. Take for example, Pewter to Cerulean. You had to travel through a massive cave, and once you cross a certain point you cannot return to Pewter unless you used the Mt. Moon Pokecenter and then teleported/escape roped there. In GSC however, there are usually just short caves you have to travel, and the routes are also equally short, it feels like virtual tourism rather than an adventure.

There's also the fact that legendary pokemon just sort of existed in RBY, whereas in later generations they rubbed them in your face and made them plot relevant; some guy tells you about Articuno but you aren't obligated to catch it or any of the others, hell the abandoned power plant was never even mentioned by NPCs. In newer games, they'd include these sort of areas in your journey or everyone would talk about them. Finally, I haven't played many of the newer games but it seems like they abandoned the 'rival is the champion' concept, a shame since Blue always showed up at such inopportune times and was usually one of the stronger trainers, not to mention the artistic brilliance of making the first trainer you fight also the very last one. Contrast to the later games, who the fuck are these assholes, why should I care about them?

>> No.6539195

>>6536282
I liked yellow when I played it for the first time. But couldn't stand the sequels. I also can't replay first gen today, usually get bored at the third city more or less.
However I do like the tgc games on the gbc and would love to play a new one.

>> No.6539403

>>6539140
I thought silver was okay as a rival, it's never elaborated on in retro games but him being giovanni's abandoned son really gives some insight to his goals. And he gets a redemption after lance tells him to be nicer to his pokemon, since the next battle his golbat actually evolves. Wally is my least favorite rival since all you do is repeatedly BTFO him

>> No.6539407

>>6539403
It'd be more interesting if Silver was the champion and not Lance, who was an elite four member. Why the hell did he even become a champion anyway, did someone at gamefreak really like him?

>> No.6539463

>>6539407
Wasn't lance the previous champion before green defeated him minutes before red?
When red became champion he just went on a journey to become even stronger and left the champion spot to lance agsin since green took the viridian gym leader vacant.

>> No.6540012

>>6536282
I like Pokémon. It's not a perfect series of games, but it has its charm.

>>6536789
They really could have used a Hard Mode.

>>6537089
Gen 3 is ok. Try out FireRed/LeafGreen.

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>>6538826
Mine is Misdreavus
>cute ghost daughteru with a trickster personality
>immune to physical attacks
>power gem, perish song, shadow ball, psychic

>> No.6540043

>>6539140
You've got strong points.

>> No.6540140

>>6537376
Wait, ahahaha I do that is a girl? The fuck?

>> No.6540162

>>6536348
Because KANTO BAD!!!

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>>6536282
Pokemon GSC is the perfect sequel to me. Like Sonic 2 or RE2, it builds upon the original but doesn't over-complicate or lose its identity. Masterpiece game.

>> No.6540209

>>6536282
Gens 1-5 are great
Gen 6 forward are bland, never stop holding your hand, and rely on too many throwbacks to Gen 1 for sales.

>> No.6540227

>>6536369
It's probably shitposting, really.

>> No.6540232

>>6536449
After Iwata died they turned the franchise into a cashcow that's gonna get milked until the heat death of the universe.

>"Did you like Sword & Shield? Well now there's more except now, you gotta give us more money for it! XD"

>> No.6540238

>>6540204
>but doesn't over-complicate

Gen2 is probably one of the gens that innovated the most, and those innovations remained influencial for a long while

>> No.6540248

>>6539140
Blue is the champion, but GSC did alright with Lance and Red.
A shame they kinda fucked up Red's storytelling since everyone misinterpretates it as the ultimate edgelord (I don't believe that was the devs intentions at all, it's just, how do you turn a silent protagonist into an ultimate adversary? Anything you do with the character will not be liked since by definition silent protagonists are supposed to be an extension of each different player, so your best option is to do nothing, so Red does nothing).

It terms of "rivals" and "champions" gen3 and 4 kinda sucked

>> No.6540252

>>6540140
Yes.

>> No.6540257

>>6539140
Another thing unique to gen1 was the pokémons.
In gen1 there is a perfect balance of all types of mons, in mean in terms of style; most of which can be put into 3 categories: the weird/funny ones, the cute ones, and the badass ones. More importantly, most of the badasses started out cute.

Then days the mons are all either cute or weird/funny. There is no badass anymore; but at least they're not goddamn TRANSFORMER ROBOTS anymore. The series could not have gone lower than that.

>> No.6540262

>>6538764
>We don't need some new derpy bird you find in the first town each time, yet they insist on making one each time. Gen 3 was making cousins of old pokemon as it was. Did we really need a Muk knock off? Well we got Swallot anyway

Gen 3 was pretty awful with most of the new mons. Most of them are just copies of concepts from 1, except looking much worse, and with more worse movesets as well (gen3 movesets were a shitshow). The best example would be the shitty version of Butterfree.

>> No.6540290

>>6538572
Just fucking tell the story you stupid bitch

>> No.6540309

>>6540204
Day and night cycle was kino. It's a wonder why it wasn't a thing in gen 3

>> No.6540314

>>6540309
They even had RTC but didn't bother with it. Sad because those games look really nice otherwise imo.

>> No.6540326

>>6536282
no, it's probably the worst type of RPG possible. random encounters literally every few blocks of movement, the combat is tedious, and you have to grind to get anywhere. hard pass

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>>6537376
>melodramatic "female" poketripfag
>trans girl
everytime

>> No.6540508

>>6538701
It's more amazing to me that every single sequel to this game containing a night palette is significantly less comfy. The early 3DS games were the worst where you could be playing at midnight and it felt like the sun was still up. I blame the fact that they just change the lighting instead of outright altering the whole palette.

>> No.6540512

>>6540140
It's a tranny, but more importantly it's a tripfag who you shouldn't ever respond to

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>>6539140
Yeah I agree that box legendary wank is awful and needs to fucking end but boy does that entire post just make it seem like you're nostalgic for RBY.

>> No.6540690

>>6537750
Meant to>>6537729

>> No.6540728

>>6540326
The best way to play pokémon is exactly not to grind, and try to beat the game with strategy. I've seen people beat the E4 with a level 30-35 team.

>> No.6540736

>>6540012
>They really could have used a Hard Mode.
There's no such thing as difficulty in a turn based JRPG like this. If you can't beat something you just go back and grind some more until you steamroll it by just using the same attack over and over thousands of times until you beat the game. All you do in a hard mode is increase the amount of grinding required.

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>>6540012
>>6540736
The remake has a hard mode in which grinding is not your key to victory.
It's called Battle Frontier.

>> No.6540823

>>6540314
I always figured it was because of rush on getting ruby/saphire out

But come on emerald would've been even better if they included it

>> No.6541023

>>6538609
No, it's Tentaquil.

>> No.6541027

>>6540290
Maybe later, I'm at a doctors appointment right now.

>> No.6541054

>>6538764
The idea of regionals and mega evolutions were good but all the designs looked like horseshit. And having mega evolutions and variants restricted to being timed was stupid. And by timed I mean, you need to use a mega stone to evolve them momentarily in battle. They don't remain that way. Like, look at pokemon go, as ridiculous as it is. Variants and soon to be added mega evolutions all have their own place in the pokedex, like individual pokemon. A mega evolution is treated just like a chain in the evolutionary line. Why couldn't they have done this?

>> No.6541216

The Crystal rom hack Crystal Clear is the best Pokémon game ever created. It's open world, all items in the game are obtainable from the shop or game corner (except key items obviously), Kanto has been completely restored, every Pokémon in the dex can be caught, and the team/rival side plot has been removed (but they added a ton of optional side quests). Would recommend.

>> No.6541241

>>6541216
Ok, I've only played Liquid Crystal hackrom so far on that gen. Found it interesting and I'm giving it a try. My starter is Smeargle at Kanto. Hope I have some laugh.

>> No.6541254

>>6540262
Yea, Gen 3 locking out old ones to push new ones was bad. Im supposed to care about Walerein over Dewgong? I guess... why not just give us Dewgong, you made something like this already. Why go through all the effort, desining, programming, branding, tradmarking and what not.... It really must be a "is it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality of just copying themselves. But... you can copy yourself in a more organic and palatable way. Kinda sad the anime was putting better ideas into pokemon than the people making the games. "Pokemon in this area look different" Seems so obvious. I think things like Alola forms or Galar forms are great. Thing is the games are so stale. Temtem seems interesting tho

>> No.6541263

>>6536396
People trying too hard

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>>6536284
>pikachu
>takes a peek at you while youre doing a shit cause the little faggot wont go in his pokeball