Are his criticism of Emerald legit and did his ROM hack (Emerald Legacy) fix them?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y7yRF5C6NM&pp=ygUNRW1lcmFsZCB3b3JzZQ%3D%3D
>>57087828buy an ad
>this shit againEmerald Revelation
Hi /veepee/, introducing Pokemon Haemorrhoid Red and Gatorade Blue!These are new ROMhacks set in the Kanto region of generation 3, and boast the following features:>all 1000 pokemon crammed into a region designed for 150, meaning that every route has encounter tables so diluted that every mon you want is 5% tops>"Quality of life" features like nature mints and free vitamins>harder trainer battles with better AI that require "better strategy">what this actually means is that every individual fight just becomes a smogon calc-fest as you have to build teams for every trainer, and every bit of fun is sapped out of the game!>no actual quality of life changes like early fly or faster surfing, just the above bullshit im passing off as quality of life>literally any original dialogue will just be utter dogshit. like, invariably>one (1), that's right, one (1) new area! and it's just ripped from the hoenn games and slightly reskinned!>steven stone probably shows up to give you yet another battle to smogon over>rare candies are available! grinding is an important part of nuzlockes where you need to play carefully in the early games to avoid losing mons, so we can sidestep this issue for all you pro nuzlockers by removing that risk and turning all your pokemon into soulless assets that spend 90% of the time in the box>don't forget the regular balance patches nerfing shit into the ground whenever i get salty about someone beating my game!if you guys could spread this around, id really be grateful. if we can get Jan or Wolfy's eyes on this, that'd mean the world to me. i dont give a single fuck about creating a game i can be proud of, as is evident from my work, i just want twitch clout, so if you guys could help with that, itd mean the world to me
>>57087828>Are his criticism of Emerald legitNo>and did his ROM hack (Emerald Legacy) fix them?NoDidn't watch the video btw
most of this shit are minor nitpicks that barely fucking matter"ohhhhh but your early game team choices are a bit unbalanced nooooo"AND? literally the exact same for nearly every good game in the seriesI don't give a shit if X/Y and SW/SH and S/V give you 40 options before the first gym with 90BP STABs + coverage equally all of different types if the actual game SUCKS HOT FUCKING DICK
Cope
>>57087828I enjoyed Emerald so mo.
>>57088375Out of all the ~20 year old gens, isn't gen 3 one of the better ones in terms of early mon variety even with Emerald dropping Surskit? Not counting your starter you have a multiple grass and water options (one is even a grass/water) option before the first gym and you get a grass tm in the route before Rustboro. The only gym I feel like you can actually have some issues finding a counter for is Wattson.
>>57088737even then, if you choose mudkip, you have a ground type before himfire takes neutral damage from his attacks, and combusken's fighting attacks are SE against his magnemite. Grass also resists electric iirc, so your starter can genuinely put in work against him
>>57087828I think the thing that disappoints me most is that he's often SO close to making a good point about something, but then his way of changing the game to address that point is fucking asinine.
Early Hoenn is eh, whatever. It has a few good mons like Ralts, Lotad, or Makuhita that are good long term. Then there are weird mons like Whismur, Skitty, Slakoth that no one will use on a playthrough. Or Pokemon who are just bad in Gen 3 specifically, like pre-split Breloom, pre-XY Mawile, and any Bug Types because they all had shallow movepools back then. It's a mixed bag.
>>57088931Breloom isn't that bad, its high attack works really well with Mach Punch and Secret Power. Bug-types vary, Ninjask is kind of mediocre but can work, Shedinja is entirely matchup dependent, and Dustox/Beautifly are useful for dunking on Brawly. A lot of it just getting over your unease at average STAB options and brute-forcing things with Secret Power instead.
>>57087828Hoennfags going through what Johtofags went though
>>57087828>didn’t understand yellow>attempted to fix yellow >failed>didn’t understand Crystal >attempted to fix Crystal>failed>doesn’t understand emeraldanon, what do you think happened next?
>>57089180>Secret PowerFuck, thank god for PSS. Shit was Dire no Claw.
>>57088321This
>>57087828>still no Pokémart in Dewford>still no entrance to jagged pass from Lavaridge townMissed opportunities
I actually really like itJust finished Fortree
>>57087842>"Stop talking about games on the game board. We have bestiality porn to discuss."
>>57088231>all 1000 pokemon crammed into a region designed for 150, meaning that every route has encounter tables so diluted that every mon you want is 5% topsThis is why I can't stand Radical Red.
>>57087828only genuine criticism here is how dogshit the villain team pokemons are but that's just a constant to every pokemon game
>>57092133What's wrong with them?
>>57088931>Slakoth>no one will useretard
>>57088931I've used Exploud and Slaking on separate playthroughs.
>>57092379They all run nothing but zubats and poochyenas
>>57088231>>all 1000 pokemon crammed into a region designed for 150It wasn't well designed for 150. A lot routes don't introduce new Pokémon or use interesting repeats. What's the point of backtracking to get to grass patch in route 9 if they don't have anything you didn't already have access to? They could have added Poliwag or Farfetch'd or something.
>>57089259Elaborate on what he failed to understand about Yellow
>the same attwhore garbage over againkill yourself
>>57087828Emerald is good, but I look forward to Legacy
>>57093669it's already out
>>57093624Filtered by Legacy
>>57094489>>57093669fucking advertising like this should be bannable
>>57088231don't forget>added my OC and my patreon dickriders as a secret super powerful trainers B)
>>57087828HERES MY QOL UBER SUPER CONVENIENT ROM HACK GUYS!!!!>Crams EVERY mon into a single region>shoves the current gens qol not designed for the gba titles into the game>many dialogue and script changes, You NEED to see my self insert! Also trans rights!>makes every single boss battle a grand finals tournament match where the trainer AI is the best it can get, even for the first gym leader>more useless time wasting bloat shoved inI stopped giving a fuck about rom hacks as a whole when I realized they are all the same slop.
>>57088231This hack is like the exact opposite of this though, retard.
>>57095472>when I realized they are all the same slop.Nice they’re taking full inspiration from the source material
>self inserts are bad except when game freak does it>ignore that masuda and tajiri self inserted themselves into crystal's battle tower btw :)
>>57096471Self-inserts are good when they're given little to no fanfare.
>>57092107For me it's having to go full Smogonfag just to beat MistyBrock having a Vulpix is fine as both an anime nod and a way to ensure Bulbasaur isn't easy mode.
>>57096479>Self-inserts are good when it's MorimotoFixed.
>>57095472>>shoves the current gens qol not designed for the gba titles into the game>>many dialogue and script changes, You NEED to see my self insert! Also trans rights!>>makes every single boss battle a grand finals tournament match where the trainer AI is the best it can get, even for the first gym leaderconfirmed for not actually knowing what you're talking about
>>57087828jesus fucking christ stop shilling your shitty hacks here and pretending they're perfect
>>57096849>Doesn't refute the restI accept your concession
>>57096849>doesnt refute>merely statesare you retarded
>>57095472>Crams EVERY mon into a single regionShow the spawn tables then>shoves the current gens qol not designed for the gba titles into the gameLike what?>You NEED to see my self insert! Also trans rights!Where does it say that?>makes every single boss battle a grand finals tournament match where the trainer AI is the best it can get, even for the first gym leaderAnd what's the first gym's team?>more useless time wasting bloat shoved inExamples?
>>57088737>even with Emerald dropping Surskit?Surskit sucks ass, I tried using one as my water mon in ORAS and holy fuck it's bad.
>>57097694It's at least as good as beautifly just from having intimidate
>>57087828>eceleb thread I will never forgive TheSmithPlays for throwing his friend under the bus for some chick that tried to ruin his life. Imagine being friends with someone for over a decade and, even though he knows your side of the story, continues to support the abuser.
>>57098206>>eceleb thread>proceeds to bring up eceleb dramawhatever happened sounds fucked up, but people probably only care about the hack itself
*blocks your path*
>>57095472Every point you made is shit and/or not relevant, and I fon't give 2 shits about this hack
>>57087828No.
>>57096471Yeah it's okay for the literal creators of the games to self insert themselves into the gamesThe guy in the OP is not the creator of Pokémon nor is he the creator of Pokémon Emerald
>>57087828He do it for every of his hack. This is shitty, disingenuous and pretentious way of advertise your hack.>>57088737Crystal had objectively the largest diversity of early game Pokemon till XY dropped but autists like to ignore it because muh numbers and muh day-night cycle.Most of the complains are not real. They are made up for Internet clicks.>>57089259...Platinum Legacy?
>>57088231Absolutely based pasta. Get these fucking shitskins out of the pokemon community
>>57095513Yeah wow they kept type-based move categories so hecking conservative, just ignore the gen 6 trainer, the free repels at the beginning, the fucking type chart changes in yellow legacy, all the mechanics he pulled out of his ass like focus energy leaf blade
>>57096514Yeah, only SquirtleCHADS get to easy mode.
>>57095472You just hate on things for the sake of hating on things
I'll never play any of these hacks, but the guy who made the Crystal one was cool and reached out to a bunch of different gen 2 devs to put them in the battle tower.
>>57095472Just ignore rom hacks that have an official game name in their title. That’s the cheat code
>>57098746This includes all hacks with Pokemon in the title
>>57098742Which Crystal hack?
>>57098797Crystal Legacyhttps://github.com/cRz-Shadows/Pokemon_Crystal_Legacy/blob/main/data/battle_tower/classes.asm
>>57098742The battle tower already had those trainers. Are you retarded?
>>57098865Read the names.
>>57098883Guitarist Masuda and Bug Catcher Tajiri are from the original Crystal.
>>57098889And the rest of them?
>>57098936Literal fucking nobodies
>>57098943Well, yeah. They're rom hack devs.
>>57098947Thought we were talking about actual Gen 2 devs, who gives a shit if he reached out to people doing the same shit as him?
>>57098953I think it's neat.
>>57098766No pokemon game is just named Pokémon so no
>>57098964But all Pokemon games are Pokemon games.
>>57087828Most of these people forget that the games designed, inherently, to be beaten by a 9 yr old with their favorite pokemon. That means a 9 yr old with the worst IVs, typing, and no knowledge of EV's or even natures should be able to beat the game. So I rarely consider their balance criticism legitimate. Especially when they themselves start to mess with the game's balance and make more problems than fixes. Yes, theres not a lot of fire types and blaziken has a terrible learnset like he says, but the game was designed to be beaten with double kick, or even ember so it doesn't matter outside of the difficulty hacks he himself put in.
>>57098989What about his criticism of Wattson being too overtuned if you don't have a ground type?
>>57099001When did he say that? I watched it on my second monitor while playing something else. All I remember about Watson is the Chinchou and Plusle addition. In base game I don't think he was overtuned at all. Combusken can get through most of his team with double kick, especially Mageneton, and Grovyle or grass types makes Wattson's base AI spam sonicboom and supersonic. Even without these, you still have options like Breloom, Loudred, or even your own Manectric to help you through. In terms of going back to the 9 yr old balancing idea though, Wattson would be the first major wall in game just because of the speed, paralysis, and confusion spam his team can do. But I wouldn't consider it overtuned, as the above pokemon could all get through with A button spam eventually.
>>57099506it might have been in a different video, but he specifically mentioned how Wattson in Emerald seemed to be designed around not being an easy sweep if you had Swampert (AKA, a ground type), which in turn made Wattson significantly tougher for anyone who wasn't inherently type advantaged against him.
>>57099001He’s right. Parahax is annoying as fuck.
>>57099559>>57099584Para-confusion is the only real difficulty spike in base pokemon games though. I don't know why he would say that and then give the game a level cap and Wattson a chinchou with grass coverage. It's like it was "Difficult but not MY difficult so I changed it."But then he also looks like he had some kind of tierlist stream about his romhack a few days ago so I wouldn't put it past him to think he's on par with an actual game developer having his own panel.
>>57099671>level capTo be fair that's a difficulty option, one that he didn't apparently think to include until updating his Crystal hack. Once I play it I'll try and judge if he went sweaty mode for the base difficulty.I didn't watch the tier list stream, but I did see the tier list, and I find it pretty sad he put spinda at the bottom. That's convinced me to play with Spinda just to spite him for whatever he has against it.
>>57099700Spinda is a case of him wanting to buff the thing more but the fans complained about it. I had level caps turned on but pretty much never hit them and I went up to Fortree before I stopped playing because I wanted to play a real game.
>>57099700That's true and difficulty options are one of the better additions to any romhack. Mainly because it lets you turn off anything that ruins the game for you.>>57099719What made you get bored with it?
>>57099761I dont think the hack is bad and I had fun trying to beat Flannery when my only decently trained pokemon were Swablu, Lairon and Grovyle since the fight came down to the wire.There were just other games I wanted to prioritize so I put what was essentially a replay on the backburner.
Gen 2 was design for you to play a little each day rather than get everything in one sitting. Crystal Legacy rebalancing the game so it plays more like Gen 1 and 3 onwards is cool. The emerald and yellow hacks are unnecessary. If he wants to make an overhaul hack he should do one for FRLG that adds Johto to the already robust post game or something.
>>57100471>Finish the Sevii Islands and then move on to a full Johto playthroughImagine.
>>57100551Mons reset to level 5, or is Johto going full into the high tier levels, with a level 100 champ?
