>be me, born years after Gold>playing Gold for the first time ever>always love Houndoom but never used one for playthrough in any game>Houndoor is locked behind post-game in GoldWhat the fuck were they thinking?
>>58708389Game freak was salty that Pokémon got popular because it meant they would have to work instead of spending all day looking at naked little girls. They couldn’t handle Masuda pushing them to do their damn job so they spent the whole time gold-bricking and self sabotaging gen2. Iwata had to come to and basically make the game all himself but between the spaghetti code and fundamentally flawed game decision and intentionally lame dex, Iwata couldn’t fix everything.
>>58708389Just have your big sister who already finished the game trade you a Houndour is what we all did
>>58708438Are you ok?
I enver understood this. It's not even a broken Pokemon and IIRC it's like 1% night only and in only 1 patch of random grass.
>>58708389who else would you be
>>58708492I'm doing a POV post. You wouldn't understand.
>>58708438what the fuck
The final version of GS was developed in less than a year, so some Pokemon from early in development (and really late in development) got the Gen 1 Safari Zone treatment where they just jammed it somewhere and forgot about it. It's amazing how good GS came out considering the circumstances, XY is the only other Pokemon game where we know for a fact a ton of shit was cut (SM also had a fucked development but aside from Ohmori admitting they made the island trials during the debugging stage we haven't seen shit) and GS is a way more enjoyable experience overall in spite of the mediocre campaign (that XY also has, to a much greater extent because GS let Whitney slip through the cracks). This isn't even getting in to how bad DP is in intentional and unintentional ways.>>58708438Sad to see Wacky Deli fag is back on his shit despite being BTFO by the various leaks, what a goddamn retard.
>>58708535>GS let Whitney slip through the cracksExplain what you mean.
>>58708389Dark Type is the Evil Type in Japan, and they wanted the sole "Evil" Pokemon you could obtain in Johto to be the one that evolves through the power of friendship, Umbreon, in order to better construct an image that "Evil" in this context is purely performative rather than literal.
>>58708438100% factual
>>58708438Trvke
>>58708607How did you know Black was my first Pokemon?
>>58708549Part of making a good JRPG is balancing the encounters based on the level you're expected to be at. There's two ways to fuck it up; the enemies being too powerful and you have to grind (notable example being Dragon Quest 2), or the enemies being too weak so you just steamroll with no issue. Because Game Freak only had such a small amount of time to design the game, they tended to use older Pokemon that they knew the stats of and on average undershot what the level should be because they'd rather make a game for children too easy than make another DQ2. Whitney is an exception because she was given an okay new Pokemon with a move that has tremendous snowball potential, meaning most people found her hard but anyone that got good RNG and didn't get fucked by Rollout got the intended experience. It's stuff like that that makes a game memorable, and why not a single boss in XY is memorable compared to basically every other Pokemon game having at least one memorable or interesting fight (the Switch titles leaned harder in to presentation to make up for the lack of challenge which is also a solution, even if I think it only really worked in SV).>>58708576It still boggles my mind Snubbull made it into Route 38 when it was a last minute addition in SW97 while Houndour/Houndoom were around longer and used by more notable trainers (Rockets).Brand synergy, Snubbull made it into an anime short.>Who knows if they were waiting for the planned GBA successor before they were forced to make it for the DS?Pretty sure the DS is the GBA's successor, the "third pillar" thing was just marketing speak. You can look into the various Game Freak and Nintendo leaks if you really want to know, it should contain everything relevant. Most of DP's problems come down to GF not really getting 3D development, it's why they had to poach people from Genius Sonority who had experience with 3D.
Truth is that every pokemon game has some fucktarded design decisions in there somewhere, and then if it's not retarded design, it's just lazy design.
>>58708607Literally the only other Pokemon fans that would understand new Pokemon being post-game only would be BW fans, have you seen how late some of the Pokemon evolve and how involved the post-game is in getting you to challenge the new bosses? It's basically the same type of post-game, compared to DP or SM which are more similar to each-other.
>>58708632I'm 20, sorry I'm not 50 years old.
>>58708617>the Switch titles leaned harder in to presentation to make up for the lack of challenge which is also a solution, even if I think it only really worked in SVI disagree. SV's battles gives me the same bad memorability as XY's, but for more reasons given its laughable presentation. The only battle that even came close was Kieran's Champion match.
>>58708686Geeta is dogshit and the entire Elite 4 is a comedy bit down to Larry showing up again, but Nemona has at least something going on, and Area Zero is solid because it's basically the only part of the game that could have any sort of buildup and payoff because it was linear (gee, it's almost like the linear progression of the leveling system needs to be supported by a similar type of progression in the overall game).
>>58708699Legit, what were they thinking when they built her team. It's so fucking bad.
>>58708684At least you're sorry, as you should
>>58708389>>Houndoor is locked behind post-game in GoldAnd? What's stopping you from using it? It's more fun to train new things in Kanto anyways as opposed to just blowing through it with your Hall of Fame team. Pick up a Marowak w/ club too while you're at it.
>>58708699Does everyone hate Geeta?
>>58708535It's really fucking absurd looking back at the franchise now with the context of the leaks because Masuda seriously turned a family of doujin developers into a soulless corporate slop production line that ruined Game Freak's own reputation by shitting out Pokemon games as frequently as possible instead of try to branch out to become stronger developers than what they ended up becoming, which is why we have the games we do now"Golden Age" my ass Masuda's slop was ALWAYS slop and third versions were carrying his fucking ass up until the games went fully 3D. No fucking wonder he was ousted
>>58709649And it's never gonna get better, either. Tajiri was a hack fraud who got lucky and gave up entirely when he realized lightning doesn't strike twice, leaving GameFreak to flounder for itself, Ohmori was clearly just as controversial if he's being definitively cycled out by the time of Gen 11, and the games still print way too much money to warrant anyone at GameFreak slowing their roll to learn how to actually develop some fucking games, which not only hurts Pokemon, but Gear Project titles as well, because even if those Gear Project titles flop and continue to showcase GameFreak's ineptitude as developers, they have Pokemon as a fallback.
>>58708438I believe all of it.
>>58708438
>>58708933>It's more fun to train new things in Kanto anywaysAnd train them where, retard
>>58710455against wild pokemon you dumbfuck
>>58708389They knew Houndoom was too cool to be a Johto mon.
>>58708389>play xy>get charizard>"ummm but how do I get dedenne"This is how 99% of arguments against johto sound lol
>>58710455On the level 2s in route 1
