Who still plays Pokémon?

I do. I love that stupid game, even if everyone thinks I'm a complete loser. I just got into breeding and EV training and such. I'm such a nerd.

Pokémon is a game of secrets. A child can play it and enjoy it, but it takes full-blown mathematical formulas to figure out how to manipulate it to your best advantage, and you can't just figure them out on your own (unless you're a genius, I guess). I also love how you can spend 100 hours on that game and STILL not have all 150 Pokémans. VALUE FTW!

Don't you mean... what's it, 450, 550 now? Holy Christ.


I only played... like, R/B/Y. A little bit of S/G, but I don't think I went more than like three badges in that.


The gimmicks like berries and stuff are cool, but the Pokemon designs have gotten lamer and lamer since then. I mean... Spoink? Wtf.

nah, blue. later pokemons games actually have cut out the originals so its still conceivable to catch them all. (I asked my niece a while back x3)


I still play blue/leaf green every now and then, but never for long - my blue version has all 150 (+ a gamesharked and traded to me Mew) and, well, everything ever. and leaf green is on emulator, and i really havent bothered with it <<

I know it's a really stupid thing to whine over, but goddamn I miss the old Gust animation.

:lol:


what about SAND ATTACK!? YOU DONT MISS SAND ATTACK!?

I stopped right after Diamond/Pearl, since the game wasn't much different from earlier Pokemon games :\





I know my brother still plays though, as a matter of fact he's totally hardcoring on Platinum.

...They changed sand attack? Wtf do you do to goddamn sand attack?

Yarr, I really loved those old games. I played Blue version--got all 150 + a gamesharked Mew. And I adored my Silver version even more, new Pokemon and all. I only got to 228 with that version, though. The battery to the clock mechanism in GSC eventually wore down or broke. My game remained fine--as far as I know, it's still fine to this day. But both my brothers' Gold versions died, so. So yeah.


A few years later, like 2006, I picked up Pearl 'cause I thought it would be fun. It is fun, lotsa nostalgia, but it also reminds me why I stopped Pokemon in the first place. The creature designs just got lamer and the challenges got *old-timer voice* all new-fangled and complicated.

Also, the music sucks.
And and and (you think you made a big deal about Gust?) when you're riding your bike--to awful music--the game forces you to dismount every time you pass a route/town gate. SO ANNOYING. Way to un-do four generations of Pokemans, thar.[/rant]

I spent 120 hours on Pokemon: Crystal. I nearly had every single one obtainable through conventional means, then my brother wiped my save.

I picked up Pearl a bit later, and I could never force myself to get past l. 60.

I haven't had it in me to pick up another pokemon game ever since e_e

The newer the generation the lazier I got in terms of 'catchin' them all' and all that.

I had all 150 pokemon on my Blue, all 250 pokemon on Crystal (both games had Mew, but Crystal didn't have Celebi; so we could say it's 151 and 251 respectively); mind you, I've obtained all my crap conventionally without gamesharkin' or anything like that.



After that I mucked around with Emerald a bit, never ever touched it after I defeated the Elite 4 and completed the 3rd gen. Pokedex (didn't bother obtaining all of the previous 2 generations, I got lazy).

Then I played Diamond for a bit before I got bored right before the Elite 4. Never finished that one.


My sister is currently hardcoring Platinum atm, not unlike Springs' lil bro.





Also, related.

But I think Riley is arguably hot for a Pokemon character.

I totally fit in with those two then...hahah. Well, I'm not hardcoring Platinum, but I did pick it up...also got it's ridiculously huge guide to go with it...

I'm such a dweeb.

:ysmile:

That's where I'm stuck. I've played like three times since... August 2008. I just can't get the energry to train 'em to beat 'em.

I guess the big difference between the current gen and the first gen is that this feels more like work and less like fun!adventure-Flapjack-style.





Also, NZ gets all the awesome Pokeman events :C

NYC used to have one of the biggest Pokemon centers around, but they demolished it and created a Nintendo World instead.

Hm, really? Don't think I've ever been to one, or even heard about one taking place in Auckland at one point or another.

Wtf is a Nintendo World? I don't get cool stuff like that here. I think.

Imagine it as a mall where all they sell are Nintendo stuff.

Can I possibly shake Mega Man's hand at Nintendo World?

I doubt it.

=(





Also.

Just curious, in Red/Blue, which of the starter Pokemon did you fellas choose?

And if you didn't play any of the 1st gen. games (boooooooo), just say which anyhow. :3

I had all Yellow, Green, Blue and Red, and I basically chose the Pokemon of each game's color.

I played Blue enough times that I'd taken all three at least once. I 'm fairly certain my favorite was Charmander, though. I suck at consistency, apparently, as my loev of turtles seems to not extend to hueg ones with giant deadly water cannons.

Christ, you serious?

I chose Squirtle solely for the awesome that is Blastoise.



Scrap that, they're all awesome. Freakin' dragon, canon turtle and killer plant dino.

It's just... I dunno. There's just something about Blastoise and Venusaur... too stubby, I think? Like, Venusaur was a walking planter - kinda awkward.


On a completely unrelated note, apparently I do have a LAN set up, but it's telling me I need a cable. Can I like switch it over to wireless or something?

I played them all a few times, I think, but my favorite ended up being Squirtle.

Because, like, Blastoise is awesome.
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I chose Charmander! I pretty much choose the fire one on each game, though. :D Like now...I have Chimchar! :D