Yeah, I found Shuffle to be pretty irritating for the same reason.
In other news, there's a Mew event in Japan based around the Red, Green, Blue & Yellow e-shop releases, so hopefully we'll get the same thing when they come over to us
Yeah, I found Shuffle to be pretty irritating for the same reason.
In other news, there's a Mew event in Japan based around the Red, Green, Blue & Yellow e-shop releases, so hopefully we'll get the same thing when they come over to us
The Mew event is confirmed for February (all month) over here.
In other news.... what the fuck is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9j9RWkPstc
Why it's Detective Pikachu of course! Maybe that should be PI-kachu? Nuzlocke Holmes?
But yeah, hooray for Mew.
I saw the Pikachu thing.
They know how to expand a franchise over there.
Anyone ever played any of the Mystery Dungeon games? My brother has had a few over the years and I've played half an hour here and there but never properly. Tempted by the new one coming out though as it's always seemed somewhat enjoyable, I just wonder if it gets really repetitive the further on you get?
Game are doing a free code every month for the year. This month is Mew.
Okay so if Europe is the same as the American list then the lineup is as follows;
February: Mew
March: Celebi
April: Jirachi
May: Darkrai
June: Manaphy
July: Shaymin
August: Arceus
September: Victini
October: Keldeo
November: Genesect
December: Meloetta
What a lineup.
Sounds rather tasty. I really need to get down & pick myself up a Mew (or multiple, if possible).
They revealed a new Pokemon in Coro Coro a few days ago too - Magiana, a 'man-made' pokemon who looks like a potential steel-fairy/psychic dual type legendary, and is part of the upcoming Volcanion film.
Yea that's pretty cool although I wish I didn't have to go to GAME as it's not easy for me to get to one and the mate I had working at one who used to just send me codes no longer works there. Maybe he can still get me one through people that work there, we'll see. Not sure why they can't just do it online.
There's a Pokemon themed Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 3pm.
How much is Yellow going to be on the 3DS (It's available for download on Friday, right?)?
It's out on Saturday. It's $9.99 in America so around that kind of price I'd guess, don't think they've confirmed a UK price.
Edit- Game are selling download codes for £8.99... so guess we're getting ripped off.
Yep, it is indeed £8.99
Still, I'll be all over those. Which one(s) are people getting?
Red on launch as I'm doing a Nuzlocke challenge with some people I know (because we're cool!) and then probably Yellow at some stage.
A lot of people speculating that Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon are going to be announced this afternoon...
Just as I'm starting a Nuzlocke of Black.
I'd wager it would still be 6th Gen. Considering they are due to sort out Pokémon Z and Sinnoh remakes at some point, my guess would be that they would do Z after this and then save Sinnoh for the jump to 7th Gen.
I'm playing Black at the moment. Good shit.
Logically we'd get Z as part of Gen 6, then Sun/Moon (maybe Stars as a third?) & Pearl/Diamond remakes for Gen 7.
This could just be the announcement that they're working on G7 - at which point they may or may not also reveal whether Z is a thing or not - or it could be a completely different set of games altogether. It's a 5min video at 3pm today though, so I doubt we'll be getting a huge amount of info either way.
And B/W and B2/W2 are the best generation of games for me. Restrictive in terms of the availability of mons, but easily the best storyline, and lots of good post-game content & bits to do on the side.
I concur, they were great. I'm totally unable to get into X or Y a second time but black and white were great. I feel like this will be a new generation. Anything else would be poor for the 20th anniversary.
Here's a good straw poll for the 5 of us still playing, how would you rank all the games? I'd say;
Black/White
Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
Black 2/White 2
X/Y
Platinum
Heart Gold/Soul Silver
Diamond/Pearl
Fire Red/Leaf Green
Ruby/Sapphire
Gold/Silver
Red/Blue
ORAS was god awful. I've not even finished it. Just too easy. When you one shot the double gym with surf on a not over levelled mon you know it's broken. Gold and Silver and their remakes are similarly awful but Ruby and Sapphire are probably my favourites as in what I enjoyed most first time through. Not sure how they'd hold up.
ORAS was easy? I don't know about that, but I go for one run and then play everything after as on Nuzlocke rules, so my opinion may be colored by that. Oh and Ruby was the first Pokémon game I ever got for the GBA, so nostalgia may be playing a part there too.
Confirmed and can trade with red blue and yellow.
Gold/Silver for pure nostalgia was the best. When you beat Johto and being told you can go to Kanto was one of the great gaming moments for me as a kid. Then going to fight Red. It was a purely fantastic game.
Test.
Off the top of my head.... and some of them do kind of merge together a bit...
Black/White- This was the one that had ALL new Pokemon, right? Loved that.
Black 2/White 2- Great sequel and the old Pokemon playing a role made the game different enough to BW. Perfect formula really.
Ruby/Sapphire- Definitely me favorites on the first run through and it took me ages to tire of replaying them.
X/Y- Thought the first one through of them was amazing, but has zero replay value for me, probably because there's periods where nothing happens for fucking ages.
Diamond/Pearl- Good games, and the hype of it being on DS was cool.
Fire Red/Leaf Green- Loved going back to Kanto after so many years.
Red/Blue- The originals are still cool.
HG/SS- Somehow held my attention through one play through, which is more than can be said for ORAS.
ORAS- Piss poor considering how much I loved Ruby and Sapphire, and as I said, much much too easy. Most of the people I know who bought it haven't finished it either because there was no point.
And then Gold/Silver, which as we've discussed before in these threads, is just a totally broken fucking mess of a game.
I've never played Platinum, but I can't imagine much differentiates it from D/P.
ORAS definitely has the potential to move up if I ever give it another chance, but not sure when that will be.
1. Black/White & Black 2/White 2 - as I said before, just the best game in terms of story, postgame content & side quests. Fuck that fucking Emolga in the electric gym though
2. X&Y - probably the second best storyline by pokemon standards, and it also benefited from all the big changes to the formula they introduced.
3. OR/AS - having never properly played the originals all the way through, I actually enjoyed this a fair bit. It benefits from the new additions in X&Y, plus all the extras they added in for these games, but it dies an absolute death once you finish the story unless you want to breed or do Battle Maison forever.
4. FR/LG - can't really remember a lot about them from this point on, but I know I've played all the way through this one, which puts it ahead of Gen 3 & 4, and it's not as shit as HGSS, so #4 it is.
5. Ruby/Sapphire - didn't play it all the way through, but played it more than Diamond & Pearl, so it goes ahead.
6. Diamond/Pearl - I don't hate it like HG/SS.
7. HG/SS - these were just awfully balanced, to the point where you were struggling to beat the Elite 4 then steamrolling the entire second half of the game, before having to grind 50 levels from nowhere in order to be able to fight Red. Bleh.
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I've not included the original versions of the first two generations as I don't really remember them well enough to distinguish between them & their respective remakes. I've probably misremembered half of the list anyway, to be fair.
It's out.
My Nuzlocke should have ended in my very first battle. I caught a Pidgey at Level 3 and then got rid of Squirtle as per the agreed rules. Go up against a Ratatta (also level 3) and he uses Tail Whip and then Tackle which does 7 of my 15HP. I thought my 2nd Gust would kill him but it didn't and then he used Tackle again and got a critical hit.... and I didn't die. In fact I had 2 HP left. What the actual fuck?
I save for the night having got to Varidian Forest (but only ventured in to get my catch) with a Level 6 Pidgey, Level 6 Rattata and a Level 4 Weedle. Fun times. Can't decide if Weedle is even worth it but then he might be the only variety in terms of moves for a while.
The pokemon on the cover of Sun looks a bit tasty
Also looks fake, if you're looking at the pic I found when I googled it.
Don't think there is a cover yet. If there was they'd have shown it yesterday.
Beating Brock with Pidgey and Rattata is really, really fun....
Felt like it took about 3 hours to chip them down. But we made it.
Are there any changes to the re-releases? Types, moves? Or are they just carbon copies of Red, Blue and Yellow released all those years ago?
Seems like carbon copies which is what we would want.
Yeah, if the cover is meant to be the fire/dark looking dogs, that looks fake as fuck. I preferred the Solrock/Lunatone versions I saw
Will be downloading Yellow later today. There goes my trip to the gym...
Misty was a piece of piss for my new Gloom. He's only the 3rd Mon I've been able to obtain as every route has given me Rattata or fucking Weedle. Still, Gloom
In theory Surge should be easy thanks to the guaranteed Diglett but Erica might prove an issue, especially if Pidgeotto still refuses to learn anything worthwhile. Gen 1 Move sets were all shit, weren't they? At least I guess they made up for it with decent TMs being available throughout.
Bought Yellow & just about to start playing.
I'm on Yellow too.
Jesus. I caught my Diglett and trained it on the SS Anne. I then went to the route on the right of Surge's town to try and train him more along with my new Drowzee... but Diglett got hit with a critical hit slash from some cunts Sandshrew and died. The back up plan? Fetch my Dig TM from the PC and give it to Raticate, who then OHKO'ed all of Surge's Pokemon, having done the same to my rival on the boat. Fucking Raticate. Who knew?
Raticate
Fighting Brock with a team that only has normal & electric type moves does not seem like my idea of fun
I had the same prospect, but my Butterfree is shitting on everyone with Confusion.
Brock is much easier in Yellow thanks to the inclusion of Nidoran (which now learns Double Kick early) and Mankey. If you're Nuzlocking and didn't get those... then yea, you'll have fun like I did.
Fuck off. Training my new Drowzee and he uses Confusion on a Geodude and puts it on about 1 health and then Geodude uses Self Destruct and kills him. Cunt.
I am destined to never expand this team.
Yeah, Butterfree is my main hope at the minute.
I have a Pikachu (lv13), Metapod (lv9), Nidoran (lv6) & Rattata (lv3), but I may have to go & seek out a Mankey if all else fails. Gonna try to use a few of the shitter mons a bit further into the game, rather than just rolling with Pikachu plus all three starters, a bird & an HM slave.
Nidoran will get Double Kick shortly and make short work of Brock. This is why I went for Red, other than it being my first game, Yellow is just too easy with all 3 starters plus Pikachu. That said Pikachu isn't really that useful past Misty and never evolving is a pain in the arse.
What a game Red is.
Good luck getting a Kangaskhan from that dreaded Safari Zone.
I'm a twit
Yeah, isn't it literally the next level (7) that it learns Double Kick? Should probably grind it a bit beyond that though, as it's still not too great against pokemon almost twice that level.
Nidoking, Raticarte & Butterfree is a decent trio to put alongside Pikachu, but I'll be keeping an eye out for other interesting additions. Might have to go in on a Machop & an Abra, since I can actually trade evolve them at last \o/
EDIT: Nope, just checked & it learns Double Kick at lv12. Butterfree it is.