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Topic Started: Aug 7 2016, 02:33 AM (15,007 Views)
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Journal entry #3: Rock Hard Revolution!

"In no time soon, we made it through the cave and got ourselves directly into Oreburgh City. Oh the smell of of iron in the air. First things first though, we went east and to our great surprise, a tiny fire horse popped up. She was a lonely little girl who seemed to want a friend. Well we were all happy to allow her in. Plus we needed a fire type. She'd be great along with Espresso to take on the Grass Gym.

But our next state of business was to get our little water buddy Vintage evolved. With, a tiny bit of grinding our boy make a Marshtomp.

It was time to face the gym! The man didn't realize the strength of Vintage as he easily took care of everything in his way, including the dreaded Cranidos. Mudshot ftw! :D

Where shall our journey take us next?"

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You can also see I pick Dawn/Hikari. I've always kind of liked her design out of most of the female main characters.
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music video for Pokemon Go :D
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Journal Entry #4: Galactic Trouble

"After getting our first gym badge, we made our way to the next town. Unfortunately before we even arrive, goons of Team Galactic have started to attack the professor! We soon show them what's what. However it worries us on what diabolical plans they could have. As we quickly arrive to the next town, a glorious thing happens. Espressor evolves into a Staravia! However trouble is brewing at the Windworks. We deal with the grunts and come face to face with Commander Mars. Though the battle is tricky, we managed to defeat the commander. With their defeat, the Windworks is safe and make our journey northward until finally arriving in Eterna Forest where we are joined by a new person."

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Taking a break from Nuzlockes for now.

I recently got my hands on Pokemon Black and I swear to god, I'm going to go through the game and try to beat it but if I start a new game, I'm putting in a cheat and picking my starter. I don't care who it is at this point, the Generation 5 starters are some of the absolute worst to ever come out, both design wise and definitely compatibility. I can't go to a single site that doesn't talk about how bad Generation 5's starters are.

And of course this include the ever lovable Emboar...which to rub salt in the wound, may be considered the best of the bunch in terms of viability.

And I'll be perfectly blunt, beyond a select few, I feel most of the Pokemon in Generation 5 are very lacklustered. I give a lot of flak to Platinum but I honestly enjoyed more of its limited line up of new Pokemon than the apparently 157 brand new Pokemon in Black/White. The fact that you apparently can't get the older Pokemon until post Elite Four doesn't help either.

Even the trade only Pokemon just seem lackluster. Cronkeldurr for example just feels like something that should be a third evolution at level. 36 or something. It's like needing to trade to get Slaking. Except Slaking is kind of a monster with a stat distribution rivaling legendary Pokemon like Groundon and Kyogre.

In Generation 4, we had Magmortar, Electivire and Rhyperion. Not only did they have better stat distribution overall but I felt they were just so much better looking.

I'd honestly even say the same for the Legendary. In terms of design, they just feel lackluster.

So yeah, I'd never though Platinum would be overshadowed but Generation 5 might be might be my least favorite generation yet.

So what about the rest of you? What's your favorite/least favorite generation?



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Gen V is definitely my least favourite generation, by a pretty large margin (although it does have a few Pokes I like, including Braviary who's one of my overall favourites). I just remember disliking the game itself when I first played it, plus like you said, as far as I remember you can only get Gen V Pokemon pre-Elite Four and most of the Gen V designs suck a***.
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It's weak and I'm glad I'm not the only one. Hopefully when I get around to B2 or W2, things will have improved. I've heard a bit more positives about those games. But seriously, as much as I just don't care much about Platinum, I can name at least a few Pokemon that interest me to some degree. All the starters are infinitely better than Unova. I mean, I'll be honest Torterra may be one of the best, if not the best grass starter since I assume Mega Venasaur. Which I don't know jack about Mega Venasaur so I can't say much on that. Though I can't say anything for Generation 6 really. But surely anything from Generation 5 down.

But it was a solid starter, and its later ground typing made it into an even bigger beast. Curse could increase its already great offense and defense and it had a huge plethora of potentially good moves from Razor Leaf, Bite, Earthquake, etc, giving it a lot of good coverage. Plus its dual typing not only helped neutralize its fire weakness, again Earthquake a massively powerful and accurate move was a hard hitter on fire types.

Of course this mean having a 4x weakness to ice but still.

Compare that to Serperior (who I chose because I didn't want the butt ugly pig and otter) it's an entire grass Pokemon with weak offensive abilities. It's mono type doesn't give it any resistance and as I've pointed out in earlier pages, grass types suffer under a huge amount of weaknesses and little advantages. That would be bad enough, but its entire moveset consists entirely of normal, grass and poison abilities (not including TMs) meaning that it basically has nothing to go against its weaknesses.

I've seen statements basically calling it the Chikorita of Pokemon now and that's a pretty big insult.
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If we're going by the games themselves, my favourites are probably Platinum and BW2. Maybe XY.
Least favourites are Red/Blue/Yellow for obvious reasons. Glitchy, broken messes.

In terms of Pokémon, I think Gen 2 might have the best, with gen 4 close. Gen 7 probably has the worst imo. That said, I love 95% of Pokémon, so I wouldn't say any generation was bad for Pokémon. I like the majority of Gen 5's
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I can't really hold anything against Blue/Red/Yellow. While they're certainly dated and flawed, they were ones that got everything started and have a huge nostalgia behind them. They were fun and helped introduce us to the entire world of Pokemon. Plus what did we get afterwards? Silver/Gold, considered one of the best in the franchise.

As for my favorites. I just don't think any of the games I've played, those being Blue/Red/Yellow, Emerald, Platinum and Black hold a candle to Silver and Soul Silver even more so. They're fun and I won't say I don't enjoy playing them but I just don't think they've come to the level of enjoyment I've had with Generation 2 and the fact that Soul Silver adds everything up to Generation 4 makes it even better.

I also have a lot of nostalgia value for something like Blue even if its is by all means a much more inferior game.
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I'm at the elite four and all my Pokemon are around level 50.

Going to go for it eventually but I've been putting it off because I don't wanna lose. (Haven't played since Friday)

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Red was my first game too, but there's just no reason to place it higher than the other games when every other game that came after it did exactly what Red did, just much, much better. I don't think gen 1 actually has a single thing that is unique to it. The routes are plain, the dungeons are plain... there's no theme to anything. Obviously this was due to technological limitations, but then when compared to the rest of the series, I just can't see it as anything more than what it is, which is relatively terrible. They're also the easiest games by far (though the remakes solved that). I mean the champion, the hardest battle in the game, has an Exeggutor with 3 moves, and NONE of them are STAB.

The sprites were ugly (Especially back sprites), the lack of natures, held items and abilities made battles really dull.

Same problems with gen 2 to a lesser extent. I actually used to think Soul Silver was my favourite game until replaying them recently. Routes and stuff still have no real theme to them, making them all generic and unmemorable. At least they had an ice dungeon this time though... But good God, the level curve. Before the 7th Gym you're facing trainers with like level 20 Pokémon (the same level used by the 3rd gym leader). That's just terrible. Gen 2 also probably had the worst story, even worse than Gen 1's which was very bare bones to begin with, since Gen 2 just reuses the same team as the first game. Heck the "boss" of the evil team is basically just the henchmen of the boss from the last game.

I just don't get why they're so loved. I mean I enjoy playing them like any other Pokémon game, but objectively speaking, there's nothing you can do in gen 2 that you can't do in later pokémon games, and much more.

I'd say Pokémon really hit it's stride around gen 4. Obviously there's still improvements after that, but I'd say compared to the jumps between gen 1-2-3-4, the jumps afterwards have been smaller.
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I agree with you. There's literally no reason to pick RBY or GSC other than nostalgia since the remakes are the exact same game, just better. For me, everything before Gen 4 is inferior because of the Physical/Special move split. That opened up a whole load of new possibilities in terms of team building. I would go for Soul Silver/Heart Gold, but again, I agree that the level curve is just stupid. For me it's definitely between Platinum and X/Y.
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See I never had that problem with Soul Silver (I can't recall what my time with the original Silver was like) I never had to spend painstakingly long amounts of time grinding up. That's not to say I didn't have to grind but it was never a huge deal for me like it was in Platinum when I got to the Elite Four.

I agree that things like Generation IV and up are technically better games design wise but at this point, they should be and they should add in so much more. I'm glad they got the physical/special split but that's just one of many things that needed to be added.

But you know why they're loved? Because back then, Generation 1 like Blue and Red were incredibly fun, I'm not sure I should use the word innovated, but very fun none the less. Heck, to have a portal game for the Gameboy was already a huge thing. It was a massive hit, brought people in and it was easy to get over the flaws in the game at the time.

Then Silver/Gold came and pretty much improved all of that, including but not limited to color, design, being able to simply play the previous generation to some degree. It was basically a huge present from Game Freak to the fans just to do all of that in the original Silver. I swear, there isn't a single part in any Pokemon game I've played that holds the same measure of intensity as facing "Red" on Mount Silver.

Sure it's common knowledge now, but back then, it was one of the most shocking things we'd seen in a pokemon game.

In simple point, something like Silver/God set the bar incredibly high and even if other games are by all means better designed, it's facing off against something that set bar way too high. Silver and Gold took huge updates compared to Red and vastly improved on the game. That doesn't meant it wasn't flawed at points as well but it definitely made huge improvements.

And I think a lot of people just don't see the improvements made in the later Generations to match what Silver and Gold did at the time.
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For some reason I can never replay any Pokemon games that are not gen 1 or 2 and it's for that reason soulsilver is my fav.

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So after flip-flopping between which game to play, I decided on one last crack at a Platinum Nuzlocke. I threw out the trainer card lottery and went with Druss the Turtwig in an attempt to champion the glory of Torterra. Championing the glory of underappreciated Pokemon became a theme of my team, starting with my first capture: Wolf the Bidoof. I decided that rather than marking him down as a HM slave or fodder, I'd actually take him seriously and see if he could prove his worth. Apollo the Starly and Leon the Shinx followed and the quartet handled Barry with ease.

I added Miley the Machop to the roster as well as a few others (although the 6th spot was still open because the captures weren't too promising. With a Fighting type and a Grass starter I headed to the gym in search of a what I assumed would be a quick win. Well, the win was quick, but we ended up losing our first Pokemon when I overestimated Miley the Machop's ability to take a Headbut. She died in one hit, but Druss tagged in and took the win for our first badge.

We filled out the rest of our team with Jess the Pachirisu (another underappreciated Pokemon along for the journey) and Tohora the Shellos en route to Eterna City, doing a spot of grinding in the Forest and we now sit on the doorstep of the Eterna Gym ready to claim our second badge.

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Good luck as always on that one Mitas. Unless something stupid happens, you shouldn't have any problem with Eterna Gym. Usually Roarke and Gardenia, not that you should underestimate them by any means, usually aren't much of a threat. I worry more about the Galactic building and Skunktank to be honest. That thing is a monster. It's usually about then where I start using the old "Curse" benefit of Grotle.

Assuming you have "Curse"

And then you get to Fantina and that's usually where I have to really plan things out and can't just run in and attack needlessly. "Curse" has always been a move that's helped me out a lot when using Grotle or Torterra just because having an unstoppable tank is kind of nice. But I'm not sure which path you'll take. Starvia and most definitely Staraptor are pretty darn awesome though.

Also, just going to say. Staravia/Staraptor+Aerial Ace+Double Team=Awesome Sauce.
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