Is it the best OG 'mon game?
yeah
>>12450527yeah
>>12450527If you want a post-game that's more than a gauntlet of battles then GSC and FRLG are better
>>12450543what post game does GSC even have? mt. silver and battle tower?
>>12450647A whole fucking region
>>12450685too bad every gym leader is 20 levels lower than what they should be.
>>12450527It was good, but gen 1/2 were better.
>>12450527how can it be OG if its not original, come up with your own plot if you want to compete for the title of best game
>>12450685Of battles with trainers 10-30 levels below you. What a blast!
>>12450647stadium 2
>>12450527Do you mean old gen? Emerald is Advanced Gen.
>>12451373Is that the one that skews probability against you such that you’ll miss Thunder eight times in a row but the AI always hits with Zap Cannon?
>>12451404no, you are just bad at RPGs
how is a GBA game an OG game? there were eight games before this one.
>>12450528>>12450530>>12450534>>12450541
>emerald>remake of the third game in the series>ogpokemon fans are such a fucking blight
Ruby and Sapphire are better
>>12451498terrible bait
>>12451404Stadium 2 cheats in different ways, the AI knows if the RNG seed will let it Crit or get an added effect so it'll sometimes go out of its way to do weird shit like a Not very effective... Ice Beam because it knew it would Freeze. Round 2 adds some additional cheating by doubling the chance of enemy Held Items activating if they have something like Brightpowder or Focus Band.
>>12451518>not constantly interrupted by a fat fuck>don’t have to do two entire dungeons of Golbats and Mightyenas back to back>not given a free level 70 legendary before the 8th gym>but that’s all okay because randomly generated trainers!!Emerald is the beginning of the shittification of Pokemon.
>>12451715Trying too hard.
Yeah.>most interesting region with plenty of logical diversity in terrain>kino trumpets>actually somewhat difficult, engaging main story battles, and a lot of them (it's also like the only main series game that actually uses double battles more than once or twice outside of comp)>great dex, very consistently good designs, with the best set of legendaries in the series equal to Johto>contests are fun>secret base mechanics are really fun with friends (you have those, right?)>the Battle Frontier is the best endgame singleplayer battle content we ever got and encourages properly training your Pokemon while not devolving into pure SmogonfaggotryBasically all I can hold against Emerald is not having enough rematches for important trainers like your rival, Archie/Maxie and Steven, not having Deoxys formes selectable, the Team Aqua/Magma team variety being kind of poo and no visual day/night (but that's a knock against Gen 3 as a whole and considering it launched on a console with shit screen visibility even in broad daylight, I get why they left it out)>>12450543>>12450685GSC's Kanto is way too underdeveloped and while Sevii Islands in FR/LG are fun, once you do the story content there's not much left on them other than Trainer Tower which was gimped in international releases and E4 rematches>>12451498>>12451715very poor bait, anon, but here's your (you)sFug is only 'free' if you pick up the Master Ball which is in an optional path in one of the endgame bases and have the knowledge to go back to the Sky Pillar, do the puzzle and face it there, which most kids didn't. Otherwise it was just a nice surprise
>>12452827bro that image is bussin. is that a rom hack?
>>12452827>very poor baitSometimes I wish this board wasn't completely retarded. Not every opinion that runs counter to yours is 'bait'.>Fug is only 'free' if *bunch of shit that literally every kid did*Yeah so it's free. What Pokemon games prior or since let you get a free level 70 legendary before even getting all the badges?
>>12450527I still fantasize about the remakes of Ruby & Sapphire being delayed one generation and bringing back the OG Battle Frontier, with gen 7's artstyle, and every feature from the past games, so we could have double battles, triple battles, rotation battles, Mega Evolutions, Z-moves, and maybe the ocassional inverse battle all on the Battle Frontier.Emerald's battle Frontier still hasn't been topped.>an arena where you can't rely on your custom-made team, but pre-made Pokemon>classic tournament arena>an arena that's a test of luck>an arena where you can't simply win but be graded on how well you battled>an arena where you don't do any commands at all and let your Pokemon fight on their own>the pyramid with random dungeon layouts and you have to survive on what you find>and even the old classic Battle Tower if you want something simple, now with co-opIt felt pretty imaginative. Shame we never saw any of that again. I'd love to have played it with the physical/special split at least. But I'd still like it done with all the other stuff I listed just to maximize the gameplay.
>>12452860Emerald is literally just R/S with more shit to do, animated sprites, better abilities and a more complete campaign. Yeah, it's bait.>Yeah so it's freeAnon, most kids missed the Master Ball. I had to tell several friends where it was. Most kids didn't know how to do the bike puzzle. Most kids didn't even think about revisiting Sky Pillar afterwards; the game makes no mention of it.Yes, Rayquaza trivialises the end of the game. But so does literally every other box legendary in existence. That's their point. To be the easy way out for clearing the E4/champion if you really struggle that much because you're illiterate or something.
>>12452905>Emerald is literally just R/SBut with significantly worse pacing and a free level 70 legendary before you even hit the E4. That’ll be $40 again!Also>kids could solve the braille puzzles no problem>but there’s no way they picked up an item in a mandatory dungeon, no way they revisited an area that they know holds a legendary
Rate my emerald team, I'm right before Norman.
>>12450527With the Revelation hack, I'd say it's neck-and-neck with Platinum.
>>12452921>kids could solve the braille puzzles no problemAnon didn't say that.Also, using legendaries is gay in of itself.
>>12452985Nuzlocke or favorites?Also>LuvidiscLol
>>12452985are you going out of your way to use the shittiest shitmons available?
>>12452985where's the starter?
>>12452985you and me play the vanilla games very similarly. boxing your starter and just using cute shitmon is a good way to enjoy the game without nuzloke tismI also like mono type teams
>>12453259Yeah, it's fun. >>12453310I swapped Mudkip for Luvdisc>>12453507I also randomize TMs and use the learnsets and pokedex entry to figure out if a move should be learnable or not. So for example if Beautifly learns Psychic as a TM, so if get Confusion or Extrasensory I can teach it.It makes more interesting, if weaker movesets. You can't rely on boltbeam combos during mid or late game. I got Mud-Slap as a TM before Wattson which is how I made it through that fight.
>>12452921Anon, even with the braille booklet the non-murican copies of the game had most kids didn't actually solve the braille puzzle. So yeah, it is perfectly possible to miss Fug.If you're talking about repeat playthroughs now then yeah, it's perfectly easy to just master ball Fug and trivialise the end of the game. but it IS out of the way and it means you have to deal with catching Lati@s normally instead, which is way more annoying. So either way it's a tradeoff.Also the pacing of Emerald is much better, what? You actually get a chance to use your team and swap stuff around if you find something cooler. R/S has like 3-4 battles max on most routes and the gyms are a literal walk in the park.
>>12454660>Also the pacing of Emerald is much better, what?Most don't like any pointless NPC delays in their Pokemon games and just want a straight, uninterrupted battle simulator from start to finish.
>>12454686If that's what they wanted then Emerald is much better due to having much more battles in the story. Yes, you're fighting both teams and Scott appears for like... 5 minutes total, but there's much more meat between the bread. And again, the battles are more difficult than any other game in the series up to that point. Not to say they're HARD, but they do require some thought involved (unless you just overlevel a Swampert of course jej)
>>12450543that's exactly what the gsc postgame is tardo
>>12450527Soulless and boring. Gen III is when Pokemon became a product.
>>12454660Aqua and Magma Hideouts had no business being in the same game, it’s just fucking boring fighting Mightyenas and Golbats for like an hour.
>>12454761sybau zoomie
>>12454761This, No Tajiri no SOUL
>>12454697>Scott appears for like... 5 minutes totalCompared to a modern Pokemon game where a single NPC appears for five minutes at a time and keeps appearing through the whole game.
I denounce the existence of Obstagoon
>>12451458Microphone Check 1 2 1 2
>>12452834No, it's fanart.
>>12457953Well done
>>12454761/thread
>>12454761Gen 2 is when they babyfied and simplified the Pokemon to bend the knee to animators and merch makers. GS is when Pokemon became a product.
>>12454732You have a whole region to explore in hsc postgame, you literally don't get shit in rse
>>12450717>>12451363>>12452827The point is to start over again with kanto starters/pokemon you fucking spergs, nobody wants to play through a whole fucking region and only level up their pokemon 5 times because they chose to only have level 80s fight each other.Also come on, is it really realistic that the 12 year olds that you fought a couple years before in red and blue now suddenly all have level 70 pokemon?
>>12464761>Also come on, is it really realistic that the 12 year olds that you fought a couple years before in red and blue now suddenly all have level 70 pokemon?It was in Black 2/White 2. The post-game has you going backwards towards the original starting town from the first B/W and all the same Trainers are now packing Lv60+ Pokemon, even the littlest kids.
>>12464761>the point is [RETARDED FANFIC]>just use kantomons it's not like they were 90% of the johto encounters!!!every time
>>12464761>Also come on, is it really realistic that the 12 year olds that you fought a couple years before in red and blue now suddenly all have level 70 pokemon?I mean this just proves the whole idea of going to Kanto was terrible in the first place. You either make the levels and teams stronger and the world makes less sense, or you make them level 10 and nobody wants to explore the half-sized half-assed region.
>>12464761I think somone larped a little too much as Ash when they were 14.
>>12462409The cute gen 2 mons are merely frontloaded, perhaps because little girls are less likely to finish the game compared to boys, but there's plenty of cool and ugly gen 2 pokemon after goldenrod with their gen 1 fangs, claws, fur and toriyama eyes intact.
>>12462409I remember some of the gen 2 Pokemon were heavily marketed in the late 90s on cereal and shit. Always a bad sign when the advertising is that in your face.
>>12465005Really? From my experience, the ugly/badass ones are almost all locked behind Kanto, trade evolutions, or garbage mechanics like headbutting trees.
>>12465118swarms were the gayest shitjust wait for phone calls or hunt a 1% encounter for fucking marill and yanma bro lmao
