It do be like that.
>trade stones from another gamegg ez
>>59202200Why did they reverse course on making the stones purchasable?
>>59202217so you have to trade with a gen 1 friend to evolve them for you
I have too many of the fucking things from playing pokeathlon
>play HGSS insteadno it don't.
Just add one NPC to your phone at a time until you have enough stones, removing them once you have a few of each. It's slow but it works.
>>59202217>purchasable in RBY>only obtainable via dailies bullshit and treasure hunting until fucking gen 7 (Black had npcs selling it but the npcs showing up was random and not permanent)>skipped gen 8, purchasable again in gen 9it seems even they don't know what they want to do
>>59202200Believe it or not in early pokemon the devs wanted you to interact with people and trade. Shocking concept.
>>59202200Johto is poorly designed.
>>59202200Evolution is optional and not needed.
>>59202512Do you want 30-something 4channers interacting with your kids?
>>59202540They can interact with their friends
>>59202200Just use mystery gift then?
>>59202529All pokemon games are poorly designed in some way or another.For every good feature going foward they take a triple backflip backwards with something else.I don't undertand why the fuck Game Freak is so allergic at making the perfect pokemon game, it's not like they ideas aren't there.
>>59202581That's how you make addicts. You give them just enough to keep wanting to come back to see if they "improved" because the games are intentionally held back with dogshit mechanics for the sake of irritating people. That's Masuda's design methodology. He never improves, only remixes and adds slight QoL to keep you investedOhmori is trying to make fuller experience Pokemon games, but he's too lazy to see it through and we end up with genuinely mediocre stuff instead of intentionally bad stuff for later Game Freak devs to make "third versions" to fix Masuda's crap. But even they were mandated to include/exclude random mechanics so there's never a definitive game
>>59202603So basically, Masuda’s a greedy asshole and Ohmori’s a retard
>>59202200Vikavolt and Crabominable is worse, they had 20 years of experience and billions of more dollars at that point
>>59202326i feel like i only got one stone from phone calls
>>59202345In gen 8 they shit them out for free in lake of outrage, but I do admit the flip-flop on "this is a shop thing, now it's not" is weird
You can get stones from certain trainers
>>59202200Bill's time capsule was available as early as Ecruteak. Not one of those stone evos couldn't be traded backward to RBY for an easy stone evolution, and traded back.
