Gaming Pokémon Strumfest

You don't even have to go to the places on the map to catch them though. Just have to trawl over the map and then tap on them and tap again to throw a ball at them and catch them.
 
TheSwagginator said:
You don't even have to go to the places on the map to catch them though. Just have to trawl over the map and then tap on them and tap again to throw a ball at them and catch them.
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I can't believe some people thought you had to go to the places lol
 
I thought that would have been cool. Kinda pointless to just sit at home and flick across a map of the world whilst tapping on pokemon you see.
 
Yeh, rather crap if your just scrolling about on a map and collecting them that way. Would have been a whole lot better if you actually had to be in the place to catch them. Though would have needed a more random way of making them appear in the world
 
Pokemon is actually a shit game, played around 5 hours of it on an emulator for thing for the iPhone, pokemon red, and it's just moronic in every way.

Other trainers pokemon - low levels, but have high level moves. Their moves also seem to do insane damage compared to what mine would do.

Also, things like paralyze... wtf is up with that shit? I am paralyzed for 3 turns straight away, whereas I use it and they say they're paralyzed but attack anyway? Makes no sense.
Same type of shit with sand attack and stuff, I am blinded forever, I am lucky if they're blinded one turn.
Confusion, yeah I'm confused, kill myself, they're confused, manage to use a high damage move on me.

So, my first hit with whatever move takes over half life off (without a crit), use it again, and they're still alive.. (no buffs used)... Bull. shit.

They also always use their moves perfectly.

Stupid game.
 
Isn't a lot of that stuff almost like dice-roll type shit that you don't see on screen? It's luck of the draw, like a dice roll or coin toss right?
 
One Night Only said:
Pokemon is actually a shit game, played around 5 hours of it on an emulator for thing for the iPhone, pokemon red, and it's just moronic in every way.

Other trainers pokemon - low levels, but have high level moves. Their moves also seem to do insane damage compared to what mine would do.
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I don't think this is the case - in R/B, I think all opposing Pokémon have a moveset that would be equivalent to if you had caught them in the wild at that level. So you end up with rubbish like
Blue's Exeggutor having a moveset of Hypnosis, Barrage and Stomp (yes, just 3 moves).
In Yellow, they changed that, thankfully.

One Night Only said:
They also always use their moves perfectly.
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Actually, you can consider there to be two AIs in the game: One rubbish, and one good. The good AI kicks in when you hear the gym leader music (so gym leaders or the final Elite Four member) or your rival's theme - everything else is largely at random. Yes, most of the trainers in the game pick their moves at random.

In fact, even the good AI is rubbish. For example, Agility is a Psychic move, so if you have a Gym Leader with a Pokémon who only knows Agility as a Psychic move, you can send out a low-level Poison type and beat it (as long as it has enough PP, of course) as it will only use Agility. Twitch Plays Pokémon exploited this in Pokémon Red.

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Everything else - paralysis, confusion and missing - it happens. One of the worst things that can happen is if you use Rage and miss in RBY. I ran into that with Blue in Lavender Town. I thought the game was bugged. I didn't realise how badly bugged it was until my 20s.
 
Bross said:
ONO sounds like a stereotypical modern gamer. The shitty COD generation who give up at the slightest challenge. Pokemon R/B is a game that 10 year olds can easily beat.
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You may be right, but I bet he doesn't tip based on attractiveness.

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How on earth can anyone find Pokémon difficult? I've played every game as far as Soul Silver (never bothered with Black & White or Black & White 2, and don't have a 3DS for X & Y), and you never struggle. The closest it gets to actually being difficult are Claire in Gold & Silver (and thus HGSS) and Whitney's feckin' Miltank.
 
To be honest Pokemon X is the easiest freakin' game I've ever played at the moment. The new XP system is a great idea and I love it, but it makes your team so strong so quickly. Just flying through battles one or two hitting things - it was never this easy back in the day, was it?!
 
Waldner said:
To be honest Pokemon X is the easiest freakin' game I've ever played at the moment. The new XP system is a great idea and I love it, but it makes your team so strong so quickly. Just flying through battles one or two hitting things - it was never this easy back in the day, was it?!
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No, each gen has gotten noticeably easier than the one before it. While as fantastic as ever, they really hold your hand throughout.
 
I was actually on the verge of ordering a 3DS just to play X & Y, but the "mega evolution" thing just pissed me off.
 
The game's harder when you try and balance your leveling up between all of the party. I've found I can breeze the game if I only use a couple of pokemon because they end up ridiculously over-leveled, but trying to make sure everyone's around the same level takes fecking ages, so I often get bored and attempt something (like the Elite 4) with an under-leveled party.
 
Alex99 said:
The game's harder when you try and balance your leveling up between all of the party. I've found I can breeze the game if I only use a couple of pokemon because they end up ridiculously over-leveled, but trying to make sure everyone's around the same level takes fecking ages, so I often get bored and attempt something (like the Elite 4) with an under-leveled party.
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This. I always make sure every Pokémon is the same level - when one goes up a level it goes to the bottom of the party until all the others have caught up. There's never more than one level between them unless I've just done something like a Gym Leader, in which case one might have gone up a couple of levels due to doing most of the battling in that fight.

And I think I suffer for it. The game is much, much easier if you just pick two or three powerful Pokémon and battle exclusively with those. They end up, as you say, just over-levelling and breezing through everything.
 
I didn't find that. As soon as I got the Exp Share, all of the pokemon pretty much levelled up together as I'd kept my team pretty consistent from early on. There are a couple of Pokemon (the Ralts -> Gardevoir line especially) that get very powerful towards the end game with the story arc as it is, so trying not to use these would make it more of a challenge. Reckon trying the Nuzlocke challenge might be pretty difficult if you didn't get a fair amount of luck.
 
Count Orduck said:
This. I always make sure every Pokémon is the same level - when one goes up a level it goes to the bottom of the party until all the others have caught up. There's never more than one level between them unless I've just done something like a Gym Leader, in which case one might have gone up a couple of levels due to doing most of the battling in that fight.

And I think I suffer for it. The game is much, much easier if you just pick two or three powerful Pokémon and battle exclusively with those. They end up, as you say, just over-levelling and breezing through everything.
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When I played White I had a team that I was trying to keep at the same level (I do it in 5 level blocks), but I ended up beating the final gym with most of them still lvl. 45, which wasn't too good for the Elite 4. I got bored by the time I'd taken them all to 50 so I went for it, meaning the battle after the Elite 4 was ridiculously hard.
 
The new ones were so easy, especially with that speed boosted Torchic you got when it was released. I got through the game and didn't white out once.
 
I don't know if it's difficult, it's more annoying. Kids will beat it because to them it wont feel like "grinding" when levelling pokemon up. Add in the caves and stuff, it just doesn't feel like a good game to me anymore, I thought it would have lasted well, but for me it hasn't.
 
Whitney's Miltank can feck off.
 
I always nab a Geodude and whack her with Magnitude.
 
ONO is the first person I've ever heard of that's shit at Pokemon.
 
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