Behold, the last good Pokemon game.
>>738466398Nah, I played it over the winter. WAY to much surf. I also felt it penalized creativity. I didnt have a gairdvaire or electric and paid for it. Left a bad taste in my mouth that white 2 cleaned right out.Im pissed I started with 2, it was so good I should have started with 1.Silver>Red>White2>Emerald
>>738466398Emerald is the best Pokemon game but HGSS was the last good one>>738466687>gen 5 zoomerGen 5 was utter fucking dogshit
>>738466398>no physical / special splitunplayable uncslop>>738466912>HGSSlevel curve, dogshit dex, blah blah blah you know the drill
>>738466398That's not gen 2
>>738466398fug
>English name: ZarudeSo they just gave up on localizing?
>>738466398Nah, Platinum and BW2 were both great>>738466912HGSS sucks dick and is only shilled by retarded nostalgia faggots who pretend shitty touch screen minigames makes the rest of Johturd not suck. Worst gameplay in the franchise
Emerald Rogue is a fun romhack.
>>738466687>White2>Emeraldgot too greedy with your bait
>>738468194YawnieGOD
Why do fire and flying's effectiveness overlap so much?
>>738468194>See its not all surf, we also have swim! Anything but more Tentacruel!Of course its more Tentacruel!
indeed
It's actually Black 2/White 2Pokemon vidya peaked in Gen 2
>>738466398It's always funny when people post Pokemon threads to the minor leagues of /v/ hoping for soft balls instead of /vp/ where everything gets torn to shreds.
whats a good pokemon fan game? I finally finished reborn's boss rush shit was hard as fuck to do without items no swap.
>>738466398thats not platinum
HGSS were fantastic. Never played gen 5
>>738467479Almost every mythical has its original name, retard.
>>738473581Clover unironically
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>>738466398Fug
>>738473581Pokémon BW2 Genesis
Pokemon was good for the first 5 gens and only went to shit when they went 3D. Even then you can tell they were still trying with Sun and Moon but just gave up after that one. I don't think they're good games but there was clearly some sort of effort that was attempted with them.
>>738475760>and only went to shit when they went 3DSo it went to shit with gen 4. Which is correct.
>>738466398how did they do it?
Battle Frontier is garbageSorry, I said it
>>738476172I think you should explain your opinion tho
>>7384759696*>>738476052Too much water
>>738476052Just now realized that this part of the map kinda resembles a chameleon's head eating a peble
>>738466398It's the best but the last one is Legends Arceus
>>738469107Tentacruel is awesome. He's fairly strong and you can catch him at high levels so I usually do that for a quick efficient water type. He's especially good in Genwun when I'm not using Blastoise.>>738466398As another anon has said, Platinum was good and so was B2W2. HGSS I am mixed on, not because I dislike Johto (I enjoy it a lot) but because GBC graphics were soulful and there's no Kris in the remake. It's a better remake than FRLG, but with all the Johto evolutions they did in Sinnoh, HGSS should've let you use more of them in the main game, I really only recall using Mamoswine and Ambipom.
>>738476273NTA but its fun until you get the silver symbols. After that the facilities just become an obnoxious RNG gauntlet.
>>738466398I don't know about "last" but definitely the best mainline.Physical special split was a downgrade.
>>738478353Physical Special split was a good idea, but it was horribly executed due to being incorporated in the powercreep generation. Dark types and ghost types were effectively gimped until that because GF insisted on making Ghost physical and Dark special, for instance.
>>738478353>Physical special split was a downgrade.(Yov)
>>738478353Having physical Hidden Power as an option is great, but physical Shadow Ball and special Crunch is retarded.Iron Defense and Amnesia effectively removing some of your weaknesses was interesting too, but overall the split was worth it imo.
>>738466398DS games were good though. Not a huge fan of Dp or Bw1, but plat , hg/ss, and bw2 I do replay
>>738478049Gold Symbol haver here, I can kinda agree. To get the Silver Symbol you need to figure out each facility's gimmick, but getting the Gold ones requires you to endure all of the inevitable RNG bullshit.
>>738478353the split should've happened back in gen 1, if only to lessen any growing pains
>genuinely GOATEDEmerald, BW2>very underrated/overhatedBW1>overrated but still pretty goodHGSS>overrated and actually kind of badPlatinum
>>738478353Everyone praises the BF but dread playing it because you have to make competitive mons and breeding in this era was fucking tedious and cryptic.
>>738481834It was probably planned since gen 1, but gen 1 being barely functional as it is probably means that GF failed at implementing it. I blame gen 2 for reinforcing the physical special split and making the physical and special type problem worse because of its KANTOOOOOO obsession.
>>738481868Also FRLG go in the "pretty decent, don't really see it being praised or hated on too much" category. Meets expectations but those expectations weren't really high.
>>738466398Gen IV was good. Those were the last ones.
I really liked SWSH. Easily my second favourite in the franchise next to Emerald.
>>738476273>can’t change your leads, just hope the game doesn’t counter yours>if you lose once you have your start the entire thing over>to take advantage of this, enemies use garbage meme sets and moves like attract horn drill double team etc>alt modes are mostly just battle tower but annoying Just play pvp, people who swear BF was da best thang evar didn’t engage with it behind Battle Factory and only want it in modern games to avenge their 6 year old self
>>738476172I curse your entire bloodline Masuda
>>738482592>just hope the game doesn’t counter yoursIf your team isn't shit you wouldn't lose because of this.
>>738482703>If your team isn't shit you wouldn't lose because of this.You're implying there's a single super specific team combination that absolutely bypasses the Rock Paper Scissors mechanics of type advantages and rapes everything making the idea of "counter" non existant.
>>738482769No, I'm implying you don't know how to play the game.I played the factory the other day, I made the greedy decision of leading a Baton Pass/Agility/Swords Dance Scizor and out of the 7 battles of the round 5 of them had a lead with that knew either flamethrower or overheat. I still won despite the obvious punishment. But I know I'm bad at the game and recognize it's not just RNG, decisions really matter. The whole point of the facilities is having a challenge, of course you have to start over when you lose.
>>738482703I was playing BDSP to do the 100 battle tower streak a while ago and was doing a shell smash baton pass smeargle team for fun, ran into an enemy Pokemon set that hard countered mine like 70 battles in, sighed, and did it in doubles instead because singles a shit.
>>738483238The game literally countered your idea.And if you tried a different idea the game will counter it as well. It's not really your fault.
>>738483320Game countering you is an inevitability the longer you go. The game is not sentient though, no matter how much it is mentioned that the facilities "counter" your team so you lose. It is just an inevitability the longer you go that at some point you'll fight against a team that does very well against yours. People good at it have managed to reach streaks of 1000+ in the tower for example. I could not have the willpower to run the same team for so long, I think it'd get boring by that point.
I feel like FRLG should've released after Emerald and reflected some changes.Something as simple as ev reduction wasn't a thing.And the overworld abilities like magma armor for faster egg hatching would've been great. Or compoundeyes for easier lucky egg farming.
>>738485527>muh EVsNo one cares about compniggers
>>738485527No need for any of that when you can just use ACE now>>738485657I askedI care
>>738466398Pokemon games are just bad JRPGs with funny animals.
>>738486386They really are. Its wild what the developers can get away with. Last one was a shitty mobile game they charged $70 for... and sold 30 million.Im jot even judging as the IP is so good Im still debating buying it.
>>738466398idk, I replayed the games up to gen 5 earlier this year and gen 3 is by far my least favorite of the 5
>>738486935Thank you. I had the exact same thoughts >>738466687
>>738487356I agree with your ranking as well, I feel like in gen3 they didn't know whether to keep the open world casual side stuff from gen 2 or not so all of it is just pointless and thrown in with no purpose, you're not rewarded or even incentivized at all for engaging with anything that's not the critical path, like 60% of the routes are also just copy pasted and have the same mons which is so boring
