Why didn't they ever do something like this with any of the other games?
Because they realized that they didn't have to put any effort into their games, so they just pallet swapped the same stats onto random character models added bullshit distraction mechanics.
Besides, Red felt like a final boss, and they don't want you to stop playing. They want you to keep grinding.
>>319605178
>pallet swapped
nice.
also, /thread
>>319604665
Probably something to do with immersion.
are you finally getting why pokemon became shit after gen 2?
>>319604665
They had a really obvious chance to do this with the BW2 memory link. Pretty sure the Hall of Fame records movesets and natures, so they could have just taken the first one from your BW1 and added 30 levels to it.
Emerald.
>>319605713
If it did happen with memory link, Gamefreak would likely just give the BW1 protag a set team like with Red.
At least rom hacks are active enough to give you something closer to your taste.
I don't give a fuck about 800 vomit finger paintings with googly eyes. Just give me gen 1 and 2 without the distracting mechanics and a world that isn't a carbon copy of every previous one.
Professor home town
Small town
Spooky Town
City Town
Forgettable town
Town with weird mode of transportation town
Island town
Safari zone town
Tristram town built over a huge fuck off dungeon.
>>319604665
Because that was never intended in the original G&S games. Only after Iwata cleaned up their coding did they realize they had extra space so they scrambled to fill it with anything they could think of so they threw the Kanto region along with Red in there as a sort of glorified Easter Egg.
>>319606153
damn, forgot about this
Honestly the thing I miss the most from Gen 1 and 2 is the music. I'm a sucker for the bit music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9LH5s4Qw4 I just don't think their current style can ever sound as good as this sort of stuff.
Red is iconic. Literally none of these other trainers are. None of them.
>>319606243
The issue is that every romhack is some buggy huehue ville shit with a somehow worse story and absurd difficulty from the very start that means you have to go heal every single battle and grind a ton.
>>319606153
What happened in Emerald?
>>319606579
You fought Steven from Ruby and Sapphire at the very end of Meteor Falls.
It isn't nearly as memorable as the Red fight though
>>319606470
Fucking love music like this.
Also,
>Pokemon games getting easier with every gen
is what's keeping me away from their games.
Am I the only one who doesn't find the "health is low" music to be annoying? Why was this such a big deal?
Git gud, faggots.
>>319604665
If they did it would have been just one other thing for the retards that whine about rehashing to point at.
>>319604665
Funny you mention this but certain game based one pokeman did this recently, pic related is the red of that game.
>>319606546
Aw bullshit.
If you honestly feel the need to grind, hold Space Bar and hammer out 20 battles in 10 minutes.
At least you're playing something with an ambition to be different. Game Freak has been selling carbon copies since gen 3...arguably gen 2. A non-game breaking glitch or two is easy as hell to ignore...especially since it's easy as hell to keep multiple saves.
>>319606858
>Pokemon games getting easier with every gen
They've been easy every gen, the single player is literally designed so that an 8 year old can beat it without much trouble. Plus if you've been playing Pokemon games regularly it's even easier because when you played R/B assuming you first played it back in the day you had no fucking clue.
>>319606858
Ghetsis probably caught a ton of people off-guard in BW1 though
But man BW2 was even easier, challenge mode E4 first time around though can actually be quite tough
>>319605178
>pallet swapped
>the same stats
Do you actually know anything or are you just trying way too hard to be pessimistic?
>>319607090
It sounded awful and ruined the music. Personally I like Black/White/s critical health music. It really captures that "holy shit, my Pokemon is fading in and out of consciousness I need to do something" feeling. Too bad they haven't used it since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC_L0TNvrZc
Didn't you fight Cynthia as well in the later gens?
am i a big faggot if this gives me a serious case of the feels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZoTzh-tQ8
>>319608019
You were probably happier then
>>319607951
Only in the Gen 5 games.
>>319608019
>this game was initially released 17 years ago
Jesus.
>>319608019
Try this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQlH39vRM4
>>319608056
>go to my friends house almost every day and just play pokemon, golden eye and mario party
>didnt have to worry about work, bills, future.
>all those friends are gone now
boy was i
>>319606470
I know what you mean, Anon.
https://youtu.be/BTUcZEJSS0c
>>319608019
>transported back in time to playing Pokemon Red on my Gameboy Colour
>had to use a light source so I could see the screen when it was bedtime
Simpler times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvB8E8FgMug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLLAHb4mlgEI got teary-eyed at the Floette sceneI cried during the credits
Fuck you, I haven't played Pokemon since Gen 2 and I liked the similarities between it and the older games.
Playing through X ad Y resurfaced snippets of my childhood that I couldnt hold back my tears.
>>319605713
>>319604665
They said in an interview that the BW1 protagonists would appear in the PWT champion tournament in BW2, but they thought hilbert and hilda weren't as popular as Red, so they put Red in the tournament instead of them
>>319604665
Gen 3 was sort of a soft-reboot and then after that they got lazy.
>>319604665
Because they've been creatively bankrupt since gen 2.
The people actually in charge of big video game series out there are masters of missed opportunities and wasted potential.
Pokemon GSC is one of those rare moments where a dev actually does something brilliant with the concepts they established, and went above and beyond the bare minimum.
>>319609164
I didn't cry at the Floette scene but I did cry at the credits. I dunno, I think it was the song. Made me feel good.
>>319606818
>>319607951
Those arent the player characters from the previous generation which is what OP was talking about.
>>319604665
They did, though. You could fight Red again in B2/W2, as well as every Gym Leader and Champion from every generation except Koga.
>>319608019
Sometimes at night I listen to retro tunes in bed and Pallet Town never fails to make me tear up. It opens a floodgate of memories for me.
I'll never forget fiddling around with those stupid worm-lights on the GBC, too. The connectors were so bad they often had to be held in the right position to turn on.
I always had my Gameboy within arms reach as a kid, and Pokemon was my go-to game. Didn't have a care in the world, except for running home in time to catch the Pokemon Intro right after school.
>>319609990
me too anon
good times
>>319609990
>running home in time to catch the Pokemon Intro right after school
>when your mom is late driving you home and you miss the start of one of your shows
>>319611809
posted the spritesheet without looking
>>319611983
>>319612276
>before they finally decided on the current total of 151
But weren't gen 1 and 2 designed as one, which is why we can see Ho-oh in the first anime episode?
Also some sprites here are for gen 2.
Any gen4fags?
https://youtu.be/HWWl-TacGvc
>>319612276
>Golden Clefairy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAHFENoYrYg
>>319612541
I never checked to see if it was true, but I was told years and years ago that Ho-oh only appears in the first episode of the dub, and not the original release.
Also, apparently there was no sexual tension between Misty and Ash.
They kinda did with the PWT in B2/W2, although it scaled everyone's teams down to level 50 so it was more about movesets and stat distributions than actual levels.
Sure wish they did things where you could battle gym leaders, champions and other important characters from all other regions more often though. That was something I wished was in Gen 6.
>>319611513
>that one group of kids on the bus who never behaved, and would sometimes force the bus driver to pull over until they calmed down
>>319612927
There was sexual tension between misty and ash?
>>319613124
In the dub, yes.
>>319611513
>DBZ starts
>they went back to the start of the Saiyan saga again
>>319613104
>Bus driver did it to try and teach a lesson to the loud kids by making everyone hate them
>Everyone ended up just hating the bus driver instead for being a faggot that cant do their job right
>>319605713
Holy shit that would have been fucking cool as hell.
>>319609164
FAGGOT
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AZ's plot and the credits songwith lyrics, what the fuck GFwere shit.
This is the first time ever I say this, but PLEASE KILL YOURSELF
>>319604665
They realizad they don't need to put any effort on the main-Pokemon games. Gen 3 was an experiment on this, and a succesful want.
Kinda satisfaying knowing franchise will be used from now on only to shit out shitty Freemiun games.
>>319604665
Almost every one of the pokemon games have it where you can face past protagonists
>>319606546
Nonsense. Standalone games sure, but romhacks of the mainline games are almost always straight upgrades. (386 Emerald hacks with Physical
Special split, Sacred Gold/Blaze Black)
What do you play Pokemon for, /v/?
Music here. The gameplay is really easy and the stories are honestly a bit shit but the combination of exploration and music makes me happy. Especially in Gen 2 through to 5.Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions was amazing holy shit
There was data in BW2 for a battle like that with the BW1 protag, but they decided against it. According to the writer of the games something terrible happened to them between BW1 and BW2.
>>319613647
>Gen 3, 4, half of 5, and 6 suddenly dont exist
>>319608019
Oh God, it hurts...
>>319609329
why not both?
>>319605178
>They want you to keep grinding.
That's supposed to be a GOOD thing? Especially since when you beat him, it's like
>cool story brah, you want a cookie or some shit?
And then you realize you did all that grinding for nothing.
>>319612927
there are 2 scenes dedicated to it. The first where Ash sees it flying over and tries to scan it with his Pokedex. Later he asks Oak about it and Oak is like, stop being fucking stupid Ash, there are only 3 legendary birds. Doubt it was dub only.
>>319607090
The beeping isn't that annoying, BW games though had that awful actual music change which killed the flow of any battle.
Gen VI is the best where it beeps briefly then stops.
>>319608019
God damn. Video games shouldn't make me feel shit.
>>319613386
>KISEKI
>not the dopest shit
I didn't care much about AZ's plot though. I don't think it was terribly done though. You want terrible, there's the entire fucking Delta Episode shit in ORAS which introduced split timeline fanwankery to the series and focused too hard on a terrible Mary Sue ruining what was otherwise a much better version of the RSE plot.
>>319613874
Yes. a dub is more than just a voice over. That network was also notorious for painting over animation cells for censorship/localization reasons.
>>319606546
Blaze Black 2 would like a word. Man that was great.
>>319614318
a dub is literally a voiceover
the original japanese audio is the japanese dub
>>319604665
Gamefreak doesn't want to set a canon because it makes people feel like they made the wrong choice.
>What, you didn't these specific Pokemon and use this specific gender? You played Pokemon the wrong way.
It's dumb, but I'm betting that's the reason why.
>>319613775
Raising things that I like in design and trying out low-mid tier stuff in battle
>>319604665
Because then it would lose its impact. And most of all it would have felt forced.
It would have been perfectly fine if they did it in BW2 though.
>>319613798
What? I'm pretty sure the BW1 protagonists are just said to be in another region, searching for N after he left Unova.
>>319613775
I haven't found any other games that quite replicate the style of overworld Pokemon has, and most that try just don't end up good. Plus I like the Pokemon themselves.
>>319613775
Music, comfy adventures and team building. For as much shit as ORAS got for the right reasons, at least that still gave me some sort of feeling for an adventure.
>>319615176
They said on their Twitter apparently when they went to look for N, something awful happened to them. I mean, it's pretty clear at the least they never met with N.
Who knows what, though.
>>319604665
They did retard it's called the World Tournament.
