You now realize you feel nostalgic for gen 4 of Pokemon.
>>339032690
I don't, battle speed will always prevent me from going back to that gen.
>>339032765
jesus christ this
Its so bland.
>>339032690
I skipped it. That gen even have the infinitely superior HGSS so I went with that.
Was it good?
>>339032690
I realized this several years ago. Man, that lake music is just so beautiful.
>>339032765
>gen 4 battle speed
triggered + war flashbacks
But I don't.
>>339032690
You fucking bastard, I was just thinking of getting Platinum rom on my phone
>>339032690
>now realize
I've always been nostalgic for gen 4.
But HGSS was a gorillion times better.
>>339032690
Gen 4 was my first gen owning the games, so it always has a place in my heart. Loved it. What I didn't love was having to wait months and months for a US release. I'm glad it's worldwide release now(sorry Eurobros).
Why would I be nostalgic for worst gen?
>tfw the wifi is gone forever
Never played them
>>339032690
> nostalgic
> for the worst gen
lel
no I am not nostalgic for the shittiest gen
>>339033607
>suddenly remember we get SM a week later than everyone
>fucking straya gets them before us
>>339032690
Why would I feel nostalgia for the gen I didn't play?
>>339033662
>The based platinum wifi center will never be accessed by anyone ever again
>Join avenue is dead and nearly useless now
This is the worst future
>>339032690
No I don't.
The region was bland and felt like a chore to go through, the 4th gen pokedex is by any measure the worst one, full of terrible designs and butchered many fine evolutionary lines, the games were slow and boring, gym leaders, team galaxy and any other character was forgettable as fuck.
I sincerely hope they skip gen 4 remake.
>>339034092
We also got the DSi before you and NSMB Wii before everyone else but I doubt anyone gives a fuck.
>>339032690
A little, yeah.
They're up next for a remake. Wonder how that will play out.
>>339032690
I realized it way before this post
>DPP was released 10 years ago
>>339034407
I sincerely hope you kill yourself, hopefully soon enough
>>339032765
>>339033094
>implying the speed felt slow unitl Gen V came out
>>339032765
I remember loading Platinum up for some quality nostalgia fun and being completely ruined by this.
Has someone made a hack to speed up the battle and walk/run speeds yet? I downloaded Platinum and HeartGold on emulator about a month ago onto my old crappy laptop and for a while I thought the laptop was just too shit to handle DS emulation because everything was going at a sluggish pace.
Then I downloaded some other ROMs to test and I remembered that Gen 4 really is just that slow. A shame too, since Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh are my top 3 for Pokemon regions.
It's slow, but Platinum was actually decent in terms of difficulty. Unlike pretty much anything that came after that.
And I liked the world of that gen too. The little secrets and shit.
/vp/ was created specifically as a /v/ containment board for Pokemon and its role has not changed. Pokemon is off topic on /v/ and all Pokemon threads should be posted on /vp/.
Welcome to 4chan. Next time, lurk before posting to figure out what to do.
>>>/vp/
>>339034552
Fuck off Sinnohfetus, your generation is the worst one, you don't know anything about what makes a pokemon game good.
>>339034626
This
Only Platinum + G/S Remakes
>>339034569
Platinum literally fixes all of the speed issues though
>>339034674
you have the worst taste imaginable, kys
>>339034798
This is only correct if you've never played a Pokemon game since Platinum was released.
>>339034820
>4th gen babby
>Telling anyone they have shit taste
>>339032690
It's what got me back into Pokemon, so yeah. Yeah I am.
>>339034626
The mods have gone on record as saying that Pokemon is allowed on /v/. They only ever delete it if it turns to furryposting or shitposting. YOU lurk more.
>>339034407
>The region was bland and felt like a chore to go through
wew
The pokedex was a damn shame, but it was still better than Gen 2, and maybe Gen 6.
Absolutely not
Worst gen by far.
>>339034626
Moot's gone on record saying the only containment boards are one's that are made for something that doesn't involve anime. Since Pokémon has an anime that makes /v/ more of a containment board than /vp/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfbdDCa4uLQ
>yfw
>>339034845
Just play Diamond/Pearl and Platinum side by side it's clear as day friend.
>Pokedex
1>2>5>6>3>>>4
>Region and characters
1=5>3>2>6>>>4
>>339032765
>battle speed
What does he mean by this?
>>339035252
You gotta be some kind of fucking retard to think Gen 4 had the worst region and that Gen 5 actually had a good one.
What can we agree with here?
GOD TIER:
HGSS, B2W2
GREAT TIER:
EMERALD, PLATINUM, BW
GOOD TIER:
RS, FRLG, BW, XY
MEH TIER:
DP
SHIT TIER:
ORAS
>>339035347
100%
>>339033607
>Gen 4 was my first gen owning the games
This brings up the idea of what it's like not having had Gen 1. Like.. Your first game probably wasn't even Pong.
>>339035171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBaDX33Eew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8cLW0Lckhc&index=2&list=RDuGG6qUdpwJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbnT0x0e5I&list=RDuGG6qUdpwJk&index=9
>>339035343
Stay mad Sinnoh sinner.
Gen 4 killed my interest in Pokemon. Thankfully gen 5 was good.
>>339035408
Being facetious, btw. My first game was probably Mario Teaches Typing or Number/X Munchers. Or maybe Pong. I don't recall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvPzmeEI9CI
>>339035436
Nah Sinnoh has utter trash designs but the region is a lot better than the generic linear shit in Gen 5.
>>339034558
I never even played gen 5 and 4 felt like watching paint dry.
>>339033607
>I'm glad that they released a rushed souless game instead waiting a couple of months to play a good game
>>339032690
>Online play will never go back to Gen 4 perfection
God, I miss it.
>>339035450
Too bad gen 6 and oras kind of fucked it up again.
>>339032765
>>339033094
>>339033484
>>339034407
>>339034569
>>339034798
Bunch of ADD children go play fucking Doom or Stalker if having to battle for longer than a second is so physically taxing.
>>339035347
Literally nothing wrong with this list.
>>339035502
Gen 5's overall region is only second to gen 3's, dude.
>>339035347
Why was ORAS shit
>>339035347
There is not a single mainline Pokemon game that I would call "shit tier," and honestly the only games I would put in a tier less than "good" are Diamond and Pearl. Otherwise, I agree with your list.
>>339032690
Considering I stopped caring after gen 2, no.
>>339035338
This meme is overused and not funny anymore. Please stop. Thanks.
>>339035648
No battle frontier
>>339035594
Odd numbered gens generally end up being the better ones with 4 being the exception in my opinion.
Hopefully this mean S&M will be good. Only time will tell though.
>>339035594
At least rom hacks are really easy to play on retail hardware. Here's hoping for gen 7.
>>339032690
Never played past G/S.
>>339035648
Okay overall but shitty remake.
>>339035252
>gen 2 Pokédex that high
Fuck no it had the blandest Pokémon in the series and before gen 5 had the worst starters.
>5 higher than 6 and 3
No way. Archeops and Golurk are some top class Pokés but most of gen 5's designs were meh.
>>Region and characters
Fuck off 4 had some great characters.
>>339035343
I liked how Unova's caves connected, it was a neat region all around.
>>339035338
Gen 4 is slow as balls. More news at 11.
I hate the games but Generation 4 feels so complete. 493 feels like it'd be a nice number to end the game at.
>>339035648
Literally 0 content, Delta saga was pretty cool but that's about it, also the character designs were complete ass and they removed changeable skin colours/customizable clothes for no apparent reason.
>>339032690
Nope, 'cause anything past gen 2 is shit.
>>339032690
I don't exactly feel nostalgic for the game. I feel nostalgic for the times when I first played Diamond.
>>339033313
Diamond and Pearl are pretty meh, but Platinum is good.
>>339035648
It's incredibly dumbed down and easy, feels blander than before and there are features removed
It's the only Pokemon game I actually got bored playing, I even had more fun with X/Y
>>339035648
Way too easy.
Pokemon games already were casual before, but in ORAS you don't even have to try to win.
>>339035838
>implying your opinion is worth shit
>>339033662
http://pkmnclassic.net/
>>339032690
Diamond/Pearl were shit though.
Platinum was the better one by far.
>>339035347
>included BW twice
Silly me, it should only be in great.
>>339035651
It's moreso in comparison with other Pokémon games rather than as games in general.
>>339035648
I'm sure there's a compilation image somewhere. The main issue is removed features.
>>339035648
They made the battle UI look awful after how sleek XY's was.
I remember Platinum Elite 4 being tough.
>>339036198
>Flint actually has to use a semi-diverse team since fuck fire types
>In Platinum they make him monotype again
Gen 5 would've been best if they merged the story of BW with the gameplay of B/W2.I'm still pretty salty that Grey wasn't made though.
>>339035347
>xy
>good
What the fuck?
>>339036198
After Gen 4 they really stepped back in terms of difficulty for some reason.
>>339032690
Nah
>>339036350
I beat Diamond with Infernrape. Just Infernrape.
I basically skipped that gen, I was already tired of Pokemon after Emerald, then I played these at a friends house and they sucked ass with their slowness
No I don't
Played till I got to the 2nd gym and quit, It's like all the rest with uglier fucking pokemon. Even gen 5/6 were better than this.
>they will still release remakes
I fucking hate the pokemon fanbase sometimes
>>339032690
Nah it was kind of bad and I was playing pokemon since gen 2 so I'm nostalgic for older ones
>>339036350
Well he was supposed to be the fire type guy. He had like two fire types in D/P, it was interesting that they decided to do that though.
>>339032690
I've felt nostalgia for Gen 4 since I played it, god damn those games are comfy. Might pop Platinum in today and restart it if I didn't have 40 other games to beat.
>>339035624
(you)
(you)
(you)
(you)
reminder that Gen 3 was the peak of the series
SS is an exception to the rule
>>339034407
I agree anon because you're correct
>>339035697
>can't hant the bant
It was a legitimate question.
>>339036350
>they make him monotype again
>implying that's a bad thing
>>339036376
>I'm still pretty salty that Grey wasn't made though.
It annoys me how much people thought this would happen. I remember in BW there was a line N said about how the world should be black and white with no shades of grey. At that point it was pretty clear grey was never going to be made.
Besides, third versions just encourage GF's laziness. I do hope Zygarde is part of the plot in Sun and Moon. Even as an aftergame legendary, he deserves something.
>>339035805
Did they remove the text speed option or something? Is it less speedy than Gen 1?
>>339036596
Agreed. Share your favourite trumpet, I mean amazing Gen 3 tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlVV44BA968
>>339036697
The HP bars drained at a crawl.
>>339032690
Fuck no, it's my least favourite of the colour gens
>>339036697
Even at max text speed there's a hang of several seconds before it moves to the next one, and hp bars drain very slowly
>>339034251
*feature
Why waste resources on those fucking terrible and buggy minigames when wi-fi was about to get axed?
>>339032690
I'd rather replay one of the gen 1-3 games for the xth time than play through D/P/Pt again.
>>339034571
Just use No$Zoomer and run it at 400% speed
>>339036793
Confirmed for never using Join Avenue
>>339036579
I'm tired of pokemon games using monotype gym leaders and E4. I wish they'd go with themes so you can't instantly sweep them. What the fuck is the point of a gym leader if he's just as easy to wipe out as Bug Catcher Colton.
>>339036868
At least there are enough type combinations nowadays that even monotype teams can't get swept by a single type.
>>339036935
While this is possible it's not like that's going to happen outside of romhacks
>>339037038
It sorta happened with Elesa's Emolga.
>>339036697
What >>339036750 and >>339036789 said. Plus running is slower than RSE and saving takes forever.
>>339037074
MOLD BREAKERYeah true, I was thinking strong monotype teams in general as opposed to not being able to shit on a gym's entire roster with one move
>>339035834
>Literally 0 content
I constantly see this about ORAS, but I think that's false.
Don't get me wrong, it COULD and SHOULD have been better (namely in terms of Battle Facilities). But to say there is 0 content is a tad too extreme.
Out of my head, there is Secret Bases where you take flags (which are much better then the original), Contests, the MOST legendaries out of any main series Pokemon game, and while the Battle Maison is a uninspired copy-paste from XY, it's still content you can do.
Like I said, it could and should have been better. The loss of the Battle Frontier, as well as the lack of relativity "simple" things like Gym Leader rematches is retarded. But I'm currently playing ORAS's aftergame right now, and It's pretty decent if you ask me. Not the best it could be (like it should have been) but I'm still making my hours with the end not yet in sight.
>>339036596
3 was the gen that put me away from the series
It was a big fucking letdown after 2
Gen 4 is what made me want to get into it again
>>339037189
>the MOST legendaries out of any main series Pokemon game
slapping a bunch of legendaries down is barely content
>>339032690
When did you realize Pokemon was a shitty, overrated, unoriginal, piece of shit game that only kids under 12 years old and Leddit man-children buy?
>>339037178
Mold Breaker doesn't work on flying types.
>>339037189
Online battling was supposed to be the substitute for postgame content in gen6, but mega evos fucked that up.
>>339037276
I guess, but it still keeps you busy for a hour or so. You still spend more time catching legendaries in ORAS then in any other main series Pokemon game..
>>339037385
I know, for some reason I was thinking emolga had levitate instead
>>339035431
Heh, I planned on posting the Lake theme and Mt. Coronet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAH6hNFkHTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6IMEUhI4hA
And the LEGENDARY Song of the OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Fg9xtjFxk
DP's OST was downright incredible.
>>339036814
but i actually like the music, this method requires me to rape the music or mute it and play something over it
>>339037431
Oh yeah, that's also worth noting. I barely even touched online battling yet.
As for your post, that's why I'm worried that Gamefreak now thinks that online battling means that they don't have to bother with content. Which would be retarded as Gen 4 and Gen 5 also had online, but they still managed to have a great amount of (postgame) content.
>>339032690
Fuck was everything slow in these games. Somebody draw the girl trainer riding a zamboni across the water.
>>339037839
>but they still managed to have a great amount of (postgame) content.
A little something to add to this.
With this, I mean Platinum, HGSS and BW2 (maybe DP and maybe BW as well as while they don't have the greatest content either, they still had more content then XY at least).
>>339033387
Snowpointe is probably one of the best in the series.
I especially felt nostalgic for it after the fucking garbage-tier trainwreck that gen V was. What a goddamn blunder.
>>339035347
>HGSS that high
Eh. I'm replaying it right now and it has some really weird issues, some of which existed back in the originals
>Everything outside of gyms is incredibly underleveled
>Johto is pretty small
>A lot of evolutionary stones/items are locked off behind pokeathalon, random trainer encounters, or until Kanto
>things like Houndour, Murkrow, Larvitar, Tyrouge, Sneasel are locked off until the Johto endgame/Kanto for some reason even though they're new
>PokeGear rematch system is inferior to the Pokenav rematch system from RSE
>a lot of the baby Pokemon were pretty worthless additions
I mean, it's still good, but I wouldn't put it up there as the best of the best
The only thing I won't be feeling nostalgic over is the slow as molasses battle speed.
>>339038568
>>things like Houndour, Murkrow, Larvitar, Tyrouge, Sneasel are locked off until the Johto endgame/Kanto for some reason even though they're new
And when you do find them, they're 10-20 levels lower than your team and the enemy trainers in the area.
>>339036868
>themes
>>339038787
rip thread
>>339038817
they won't seriously roll it.
>>339038863
you'd be surprised at the things /v/ rolls
I've been nostalgic for gen 4 since gen 5.
My first game was blue when I was 7, but I had by far the most fun with and have the most enchanting memories of Gen IV. Easily the best gen. It's a shame that this "le speed makes DP bad" meme took off.
>>339032690
I alway's hated this shitty grind of a game.
>>339038307
What did you dislike about 5?
>>339039049
Everything.
Shitty starters, shitty designs, shitty characters, shitty elite 4, shitty map, shitty legendaries, shitty everything.
>>339039049
Shit region mostly. Not fun at all to play through.
>>339038982
I've always liked dp but I'm a kinky guy.
It's fun game and the designs had heart in them and of course It's slow it was first pokemon game on ds gotta work out kinks.
>>339035560
You do know that the Jap version of the game used to come out first and then the US/EU version months later.
>>339039049
>your heart when Biglett and Ziglett
>>339036420
Don't illude yourself, it's not gen 4 but "Platinum". Only difficult game in the series. The rest are all the same.
>>339036868
>I wish they'd go with themes so you can't instantly sweep them.
That's hilarious, dude.
>>339039591
>cotton soft
>heart nose
>>339039049
The region felt way too linear.
And you can't rebattle most trainers.
>saving a lot of data
>>339039830
Is that a rat or a chinchilla? Never seen a Chinchilla before.
>>339040136
>move one pokemon in the box
>saving a lot of data...
>>339040214
I think it's a chinchilla
>>339032690
I don't
What now?
>>339034558
It should if you've ever played Pokemon before. Gen III was lightyears faster.
>>339033983
>>339034050
>Le GENERAtION 2 GUYZZZ XD
>>339040214
Chinchilla.
They're the softest mother fuckers.
>/v/ has a more sensible discussion about the merits of each gen than /vp/ does
why am I not surprised
>>339032690
Gen 1 only desu senpai. I never even played 3,4,5.
>>339033662
Holy shit the internet trading thing blew my mind I abused it for getting trade only evolution but I use to get ridiculous trades too.
I would put up a level 1 snorlax and people would trade me legendaries for it, I got Palkia, Mew, Jirachi and a bunch of rare legendaries for a level 1 snorlax.
>>339040851
Sleep snug Emmers
>>339041189
Nowadays people want legendaries for everything.
Actually the reason I feel nostalgic about gen 4 is less due to the quality of the games themselves and more about the fact that they were the first pokemon games I experienced togetherwith /v/as they were released. All the hype, pokeporn, online trading, plus the great music made for some unforgettable memories that no later gen could quite replicate. Except maybe HG/SS.
>>339034591
What secrets?
>>339037570
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Fg9xtjFxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xLaEdHTJKY
>>339032690
Gen 4 was always the pinnacle of the series.
Gen 1 fags have nostalgia and a shitty broken mess.
Gen 2 was an improvement and had both regions, but also its own slough of still pretty bad pokemon that weren't really too good.
Gen 3 had a lot of nice things but trumpets and water 7.8/10.
Gen 4 had the best fucking music, the best new pokemon, direct improvements of a few from gen 1 and 2 that were actually good and what we should have got with megas, and the split of attack types. Literally perfection.
Then gen 5 comes along with the LITERAL trash mons and shitty moving sprites. Fucking horrendous and downhill from there.
>>339043087
>the LITERAL trash mons and shitty moving sprites
I mean, I never did actually have a problem with any of the Gen 5 Pokemon, I actually think they're pretty well designed for the most part and the garbage/ice cream stuff is mostly cherry-picking, considering how every generation has had at least 10 duds.
With that being said, I agree about the sprites. Jagged pixels, SNES-tier mode-7 ass zooming effects and flash-tier "just wiggle each part around a bit" animations all added together to make an absolutely fucking horrible aesthetic, and yet people have the nerve to call the gen 6 3D models bad because they're "lifeless" (which is fucking hilarious considering we were working with literal still lifeless pictures for 14 years before gen 5)
>>339032690
Fuck no I don't, those games were garbage they give me nostalgia for knowing when the series went to shit if anything.
>>339043572
Yeah, it's really something else.
This is ESPECIALLY after coming from the good shit in Platinum where they moved at the start of battles. It wasn't overdone and the animations were tasteful.
And now we're at slideshow tier battles because GameFreak is either being lazy fucks and futureproofing to use the models for 10 more years with all those polygons, or they're just fucking incompetent (pick 2)
>gen 4 was basically 10 years ago
holy fucking shit i really do feel it
>>339038787
bcam
Pokemon shouldve stopped after the 4th gen.
The 5th was acceptable, but the 6th is pure garbage.
>>339038787
uijnreg
The Region was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYryPNmQzQ
I used to feel nostalgic for gen 4.
Then I replayed Platinum last month.
Sinnohfaggots keep calling "slow speed" a meme, but the speed of the game was literal dogshit.
>lag and screen tearing whenever you move vertically
>HP bars move at zamboni speed
>routes with swamp mud and snow
>saving a lot of data
>inventory scrolling was absolute cancer, no way to store items in PC and no shortcut to get to end of the list
All these things should've been fixed in Platinum, but they waited until HGSS to address most of them. Maybe they'll redeem this region in the remakes by fixing the speed.
Gen 4 was boring and bland though. It's the only game where I don't remember the bits in it.
>>339043727
>futureproofing to use the models for 10 more years with all those polygons
This is almost 100% definitely what they were going for with the high-poly models, but it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Why couldn't they have made those high-poly models for the future, and then generated lower-poly models from those and cleaned them up for the 3DS? Every other dev company worked out rudimentary Level Of Detail stuff fucking years ago.
I actually really like the Gen 6 aesthetic otherwise. If they could just maintain a stable FPS, add some difficulty (only by Pokemon standards, not /real/ difficulty) and provide a post-game worth a damn, Gen 6 would easily skyrocket from the bottom of my generation rankings up to number 2 or 3. It's a shame that they got so much stuff right, but the stuff they got wrong was SO wrong that it's painful to think about.
>>339038568
>>Johto is pretty small
A shame considering the buff Kanto got. At least we got two new routes and a Safari Zone.
>>A lot of evolutionary stones/items are locked off behind pokeathalon, random trainer encounters, or until Kanto
Almost every game has this and I wish they didn't. Gen 1 let you buy them in the department store but most games since require you to play a minigame or something for a chance of getting one.
They're next on the list for a remake too.
I'm pretty okay with that. I never really liked them as much as the others, so I'd be nice to go back to them with a fresh coat of paint.
I don't really care much for the in-game but I'm nostalgic as fuck for the online battling
RIP Shoddybattle
RIP Suicide leads
RIP crazy leads that worked because team preview didn't exist
RIP Flygon
RIP Jolteon
>>339045853
>the original Bravest Bird will never dethrone Smogonbird
>>339041002
Every board is best at discussing everything except what it was made for.
>>339045436
Because Gamefreak is not a good dev team. They're some small fries that got really fucking lucky during the 90s.
>>339046049
I always did find it deliciously ironic that /r9k/ has a literal fucking repost filter and yet somehow is the place with the most rehashed content. That /mu/ is the worst place on the internet to talk about real music, and so on
>>339046225
Yeah, I know they're pretty shit but still. It's frustrating. They get so much right but so much wrong with every installment. It's been 20 years and billions of dollars of revenue, it's about time The Pokemon Company stuck a boot up Game Freak's ass and told them to hire a big chunk of new code/asset monkeys. I know the institution of Pokemon is about as greedy and Jewish as it gets but it'd be chump change for them to supplement Game Freak with some more staff/money, and in the long run it would almost definitely benefit them with more sales.
Sure, Pokemon sells millions without trying. But why settle for "damn good" when you can be "the best"?
>>339035171
The legends in gen 4 were shit tier except Rotom who was shortly changed to not be a legendary, and Reigigas
>>339039108
Shut up, retard.
Diamond killed my love of pokemon and it took until X for it to come back so no I do not.
Only real pokemon I even remember liking at lot was Pachirisu.
I don't.
I will say I replayed vanilla DP recently to see how bad it was and it wasn't even, the only truly awful thing was the Surf speeds. Battles were about as slow as Gen III. The claims of Pt/HGSS being much faster are bullshit too, they're pretty much the same speedwise other than the Surf speeds being much better.
>>339038307
>>339039108
>le everything in Gen. 5 sucks meme
Ebin.
>>339035624
>stalker
>short battles
i can recall 10 minute long skirmishes
>>339046683
They actually did hire a ton of new people for XY, a few hundred. We saw what came of that tech wise.
>>339046683
I have no idea. I was shocked that they removed chibi in Gen 7, since I was expecting them to crawl on that for another two gens
Being a fan of this series really sucked for me in Gen 6 because it feels like they took their laziness a step further.
No I don't.
Only gen three and down.
Going from Ruby/Emerald to Diamond was depressing.
no, anon. diamond and pearl were fucking borefests. never did finish either one.
>>339035347
10/1,perfect
HGSS and BW2 are amazing
>We're entering Gen 7 already
That's a shame, because I thought Kalos could really use one Gen 6 re-release. The starting pace of XY was great, but then it sped up a lot without adjusting anything to make it progressively harder. And of course ORAS fucking teased the Battle Frontier and didn't really get rebalanced around nu-Exp Share, megas, and having Lati@s midway through.
If we're keeping megas Sun/Moon need to be more balanced around having them. Come on, the majority of them are powerhouses leagues better than what NPCs typically have. I don't really have high hopes for it though, going by the release date it'll likely end up feeling rushed.
>>339047853
Nah pokemons powercreep meta is never going to get fixed.
GF's just going to keep stacking shit on shit.
Nintendo really need to find another studio to alternate Pokemon off to.
>>339046715
>Rotom who was shortly changed to not be a legendary
He never was, his stats were too weak and he wasn't banned from online/battle facilities.
Gen 4 meta was best meta.
I miss it.
>>339047282
I have a hard time believing that unless they were literal interns fresh out of college or some shit.
4th gen was the only one I never got into so no I don't
>>339038787
Fuck it Wynaut.
>mfw playing it right now
truly it is the best game
biggest drawback is the insanely long save time
>>339034626
It's vidya you fucking retard, kill yourself.
>>339047996
>Masuda complains that Mega Mom is too strong
>proceeds to make Mega Rayquayquay
>>339048128
>Stealth Rocks, Garchomp, Salamence and Metagross on every team
>>339034558
But it did I didn't notice it with gba and previous games but I could clearly notice it with DP
Playing through Soul Silver so I can finally say I beat every gen of Pokemon. A few things I've noticed.
>You get dick for exp trying to raise a full team of 6.
>Good god the encounter rates
>The bicycle is awkward to use and only makes encounter rates worse.
>Want to grow berries? Here's 4 pots now deal with it
>8 FUCKING HM MOVES
>>339032690
I dont because I am not a kid anymore and prefer games that at least try to present a challange
>>339040629
I'm a gen2 fag when I call every other gen better than 4?
>>339041002
>>339046049
That's both incorrect. /v/ just believes this because it is such an awful board, it's easier to comfrot yourself with the delusion that all boards are shit.
>>339048351
Raising a full team is the closest thing to gitting gud in Pokemon because you have to have a good team to deal with the level difference.
Everything else is fair, berries were best in G3 anyway.
Gen 4 is the worst of them all, fuck you
>>339048294
>tfw my Swampert counters all of that
>>339047853
>The starting pace of XY was great
You mean that giant fucking stretch between the first and second gym where literally nothing happens for several hours?
>>339034798
No it doesn't, it still takes ages for battles to finish due to the 30fps. Each turn showing the weather effects, hp scrolling so slowly, etc.
Platinum only fixes a lot of the overworld speed issues.
>>339048564
And then you get pooped on by Sceptiles 4x counter.
But yeah Swampert would have been GOAT if it wasn't for his only crutch.
And even then he still is GOAT to me.
>>339048526
Oh I have my team figured out and covers just about everything. I just don't like getting to Jasmine and her Steelix has my entire team beat by 10 levels just because I decided to raise 6 pokemon instead of 3.
>>339048351
GSC and HGSS have huge problems with the level scale, everything but bosses are way too low leveled and thus you're underprepared for any bosses and everything else gets curbstomped.
If you really try you should still get by fine, I just beat the champ with levels in the late thirties.
>>339047996
>Nintendo
Tpc its own thing now, nintendo cant handle tcp, tambo the elephant confirms
>>339048225
What the fuck even are canadian pokemon?
>>339048487
a quarter of /a/ is filled with threads that amount to I wonder what her butt smells like, /v/ might be bad, but at least we know it
>>339048732
I was a huge faggot and used him in a SkarmBliss combination.
Everyone on smogon/pokecom was exclaiming SKARMBLISS IS DED. It really wasn't. If anything, Bravebird made it better.
>>339032765
>not emulating all pokemon games at 400% speed
>>339048761
Gamefreak=/=tpc
Nintendo owns a big chunck of the tpc.
>>339032690
I feel nostalgia for no Pokemon game nor will I ever. Digimon on the other hand.
>>339038787
Okay
>tfw you played these games as a late teen/adult
>tfw there's kids old enough to be nostalgic about gen fucking 4
God I feel bad you kids. You grew up in the dark ages.
>>339048734
Like I said, it prepares you for the level difference come E4.
Jasmine is ez though.
>>339032690
Yeah, because I miss Japanese settings. Western settings suck and feel so boring.
I'm also not a Westerner so call me weeb all you want.
Does HG/SS count as Gen 4?
http://youtu.be/jc5YFrh8mVM
>>339048128
Besides SR and Yachechomp, it didn't have any flaws. It was balanced, well paced and fun.
>>339048982
Dark ages mean there is a lack of communication
I was able to shit on fellow 13 year olds in another country in gen 4
>>339048848
>not emulating infinitely better JRPGs
>>339047996
In regards to power creep, change is a constant in any multiplayer meta. You've got so many different critters and you can't really balance all of them in any generation, having more and more tiers in something like Smogon's format is inevitable. Steps could be taken to reduce gaps in Gen 7, but really it's pretty much gone the way of TCGs. Some will find a way to break everything down.
What I'm more upset about is despite Gamefreak having a much more easily controlled environment, the solo game has been far too much in the player's favor since BW2. Pokemon may have never been difficult but it's getting dumb levels of easy. Is Japan really getting more casual or something?
>Nintendo really need to find another studio to alternate Pokemon off to.
Remember that Nintendo only has joint ownership of the IP along with Gamefreak and Creatures. I don't even think they have a majority stake (or at least as much of it) in Gamefreak themselves anymore. So, what we need
>>339048609
Yeah, actually. I liked exploring a bit. After the second gym everything is crammed too close together.
>decided to replay Heartgold
>decide to use Swinub because I have no Ice or dragon moves on anything in my team to use against Clair
>no good places to train him
Well fuck.
>>339032690
>nostalgic for the gen I dropped pokemon
Yeah no. Gen 4 was a steaming pile, and so was everything else that followed.
Interested in Sun and Moon, though, since it has been a while.
>>339032690
And now I don't. Glad that's settled, thanks OP.
>>339032690
I don't, it's still worst gen.
>>339049206
We communicated on the playground. We saw the pain on their faces irl. I'm sorry you missed it, it was beautiful, and it'll never be the same again.
DP were awful, Platinum however was god tier
>>339049217
They have gotten easier, and yes Japan is more casual than us with most things.
Ice Path today would cause so much shit.
But wouldn't Gamefreak welcome the break and want to work on something else?
And it's not like they have anyone else to run off to.
>>339049245
Anywhere there are grass pokemon? Also, teach him a non stab move.
>>339049379
So did I m8, R/S/E secret bases were fun as shit
Didn't get to do much linking with G/S/C though
>>339039049
Romhack with all pokemon replaced with digletts when?
>>339049317
I hate using Fire starters, but Diamond and Pearl was so fucked in terms of type diversity that you were almost forced to go with Infernape. That is, unless you like using a trash mon like Rapidash.
>>339048564
>>339048732
Mah niggas swampert is the fucking best, he was especially great with all the water in hoen.
Even though the gen 3 starters are GOAT I always pick mudkip.
>>339038787
Alright, I like this.
>>339035431 >>339037570
if nothing else the soundtrack was perfect
>>339049317
>Platinum fixed it guys!
>all lower level in Platinum and the monotypes make it easier
>>339049608
Fire is a garbage type though.
WHO HERE IS A DAY 1 FAG
>>339049641
>Ice Beam
>Surf
>Earthquake
>Toxic/Brick Break / Double-Team
wew, all those tears I made in school from Blazikin and legendary parties. And even the occasional lucky KO on Secps.
>>339049836
I've long since lost my copy. The save maxed out the clock though.
>>339049469
>But wouldn't Gamefreak welcome the break and want to work on something else?
They did that Tembo game Sega published. Don't know what it's actually like.
As far as a SP game goes, I hope that Monster Hunter Stories gets released internationally, though it's a spin-off it could probably be a decent 3DS JRPG. We'll see when it gets released in Japan.
And I must say that I'm kind of surprised that nobody has decided to make their own competitor to competitive Pokemon itself. Suppose branding does a lot though.
>>339049836
I deleted my save for a nuzlocke a few years ago, but I'm sure I could dig up my Dialga stylus somewhere.
