Pokemon

I dropped it almost immediately. Are the new games bad? Do they get better after a while?

not falling for it

Pokemon has always had bad design. The only difference here is you are no longer a child.
They are shitty RPGs for children

The official games are all bad.
Gen 1 was the peak because of the (perceived) freedom of the world. Gen 2 continued this trend and Gen 3 (though a good game in its own right) started to buck this trend, Gen 4 and onwards are just outright bad RPGs though they do fill a niche for certain people.

If you want to play a good Pokemon game, you need to look at fangames where the creator meticulously balances everything to create a sense of difficulty and gameplay progression.
Pokemon Reborn is probably the best Pokemon game in existence but it has its own extremely glaring problems (being figuratively written by all the worst parts of Tumblr makes it nigh-unplayable unless you really make an effort to skip through all the text and ignore all the environments).

Otherwise, playing competitive simulations is probably the best way to go because it rewards being able to master the (admittedly simple) mechanics of the game and encourages being able to build a team that's prepared to handle metagame threats. Some people complain that competitive runs stale because a series with over 900 Pokemon has only 50 or so that are viable in competitive, but competitive is more about playing with and around cores of 2-3 Pokemon that work together instead of the individual Pokemon themselves.

Or you could join Fullderp if you just wanna shit around and laugh at idiots on the internet.

Any other recommendations for modded pokemon games?

Pokemon Adventures: Red (Romhack) if you want a decent storyline and more of an actual RPG feel with quests and the like
Otherwise, I can't really suggest good Pokemon games because they're inherently flawed. Pokemon Reborn is the exception to the rule because it was painstakingly balanced from the ground up.

The problem with fangames is the stories are mostly awful. I had downloaded Light Platinum and the big setup was that you and your father are the only people that can speak this ancient language in the entire world. It was a stupid shoe in, and that's not even the worst example you can get out there.

Pokémon Mega Adventure is completely remade from stuff like RPG Maker, and it's surprisingly well-made and feels exactly like a Pokémon game with the added benefit of being ran from a single executable file rather than emulation. There's a turbo mode which helps with grinding, and harder difficulty options built into the game when starting such as nuzlocke, randomised and randomised nuzlocke alongside normal.

But again, the story gets questionable at times and my run hasn't been bug-free. At one stage I had lost of a lot of progress due to a crash as I had forgot to save. In addition, the game does like to pull out a lot of legendary Pokémon using Mega Evolutions, except you're fighting against them often.

BW2 fixes partially some of the problems, although shitty looking pokemans is very subjective so i'm almost sure you are gonna hate it

HeartGold/SoulSilver and Black 2/White 2 are great. Emerald is great if you like Hoenn and don't mind the cut content from Crystal. FireRed/LeafGreen and Black/White are decent. Platinum is meh. X/Y is shit and Sun/Moon does new stuff, which is cool, but the bad outweighs the good.

I believe every generation has "shitty looking" Pokémon, however each generation passing increases the number of overcomplicated designed ones. Some Mega Evolutions can make Pokémon look cooler, however it can also make some existing cool-looking ones look awful.

Bruh.

People forget that Gen 1 was only so open because Game Freak spent most of their dev time making the game systems, if they had the time to spend on rail-roading the player, they would(See: GBA remakes). And yes, most fan games have terrible writing. Which is kind of horrifying seeing as official games have basic Saturday morning cartoon writing.
I'd like to find some Pokemon fan games that have the same simple quality of writing as the classic games. Semi-unrelated but fuck any team that isn't Team Rocket, especially fuck them if they're trying to capture legendary Pokemon to cause some kind of apocalypse scenario

This only really happened in gen 6. Aqua/magma were trying to expand the viable environments for aquatic/terrestrial pokemon but both were retarded and failed to understand basic concepts like the water cycle, gen 4 was some edgelord saying the world sucks so he'll make his own with blackjack and hookers, gen 5 was telling the goyim to get rid of their guns pokemon and accidentally keeping their own and woops now we have all the power and rule the world. gen 6 was get legendary to fuel giant death cannon and genocide all pokemon because ??? I honestly don't remember because I stopped caring by this point because gen 6 was fucking awful.

I consider Aqua/Magma apocalyptic because the flooding of the world or the expanding of landmass via magma will result in such a huge loss of both Pokemon and human life that I can almost guarantee society would collapse.

I'm not denying the effects it would have had but it was never their intention to do that. There's a pretty big difference in tone between "summon ancient being to end the world" and "i fucked up lol".

I don't remember much about those games anymore, but I'm fairly certain the huge loss of life is pointed out to them and they say something to the effect of "worth it, lol"

I thought about what I would do for a Pokémon game story.

>Pop-idol wants to defeat you to further her fame, though she eventually warms up to you and wants your dick.

TL;DR Story should just be about people living in the Pokémon world and your actions influincing the people and Pokémon around you. No more "main characters who are not you" plot twists. Capturing legendary Pokémon should always be an optional side thing and not the main story even if they get involved at some point. Bad guys are shonen tier evil but just make them criminals, thugs, Jews, or a cult with maybe a genius scientist using resources for a crazy take over the world invention.

Hey Team Skull was okay.

lube up bitch I'm coming for that ass to give you a real railroading experience

Pokemon Emerald 386 AKA ukehack, which is an emerald hack where you can actually catch them all is the only fangame I've ever touched

So it's just Emerald except modded to include every Pokemon from gen 1-3 as Pokemon that can be caught in the wild?

Pokemon Prism.
Touhoumon
There are also multiple hacks for each gen in which you can catch them all.

Essentially, but what more could you ask for (other than it to be set in Johto instead)?

The starters are Squirtle, Cyndaquil, and Treecko, all the routes have pokemon from every gen, trade and special evolutions have been changed to work with stones, etc

Aside from difficulty/all Pokemon hacks, the only hacks that make a new game I can recommend are Vega and Fire Red Adventure.

Oh and Touhoumon

You had some good ideas but then had to ruin it by going Holla Forums


What if there were a Pokémon game that allowed you to tackle gyms in any order, with every gym you tackle increasing your obedience cap but also increasing enemy/wild Pokémon levels and evolution states?

To keep the story focus, this would be done in bursts. You enter a new area, and end up at a crossroads where you can move to tackle one of three gyms in any order you want. Each path takes you to separate towns/villages/cities/routes and holds their own story events attached to these routes.

The only was it could happen is by doing fan-game made in RPG maker XP.
Romhacks have too much limitations to save 8 different battles for 8 gyms.

Pokémon Mega Adventure is done through RPG Maker XP. It shows that it's feasible to make one using it.

You walk through a field and press A.
Sometimes you need to move the cursor to the right or down before pressing A to pick the rock paper scissors move.
Then you go back to walking around and pressing A.

Romhacks != Game made in RPG Maker XP

Looking back at it now, it wasn't a good idea. That said having an evil organization adopting alot of the college jobless to work for them isn't too far fetched. Looks like that's what AntiFa is doing now to my knowledge.

That said I say section off the game into five mini regions. You could be limited to one sub-region per chapter but the gyms in those regions can be done in any order.

For example the first batch of gyms are rock, flying, and bug. Then you get into fire, steel, electric or water, grass, and ground as examples of future batches. Those choices were deliberately made to reflect the production of the region's resources.

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The correct answer is yes. Nintendo ran out of good ideas by the time Pokemon hit the GBA. All that increased power and capacity yet they did pretty much fucking nothing with it. They've never surpassed GSC except in terms of graphics and even that's debatable because it's subjective.

I'm playing Pokemon Prism again. I'm at the cave where you fight the pallette patrol for the first time. My current team is:
any suggestions for who I should use on my team?

What's the latest version of Prism out and where can I find it?

pretty sure we're on 0.94.

Team Skull was pretty great.

Gen 3 introduced a little hand-holding to the series. G 6 never lets your hand go.

Gen 3, Gen 4 and Gen 5 were all about a team of moralfag edgelords capturing some legendary to do some world-changing shit. I've not finished 6 or played 7, so I can't speak for them, but I'm guessing it's the same shit all over again.

What's your opinion on the Mystery Dungeon games? Which one is the best?
I remember playing super mystery dungeon as soon as the 3DS was hacked, and I actually had fun with it. Granted, I haven't finished the game, and I just kind of let go of it. That's what happens to me these days when too many games are out, and I get distracted by something else.

You did this to yourself.
Alternatively you could play ORAS instead if you like gen 3.

Fighting Mewtwo to recruit him is pain.
And he mega-evolves into either X or Y as soon as his health gets low, which heals him back up to 100%.

The 3DS games are actually pretty fun if you get one of the romhacks that fix them.

Isn't Gen1 pretty linear too already? There are lots of airlocks along the way. Even when you can go somewhere out of order, you often have to do specific tasks in order for that place to be of any use to you.

pokemon has been the same rehashed shit for the past 30-ish years. its baby's first JRPG.

Team Galactic aren't edgelords. Cyrus is just an egomaniac with the same wish of every red blooded man; to become a god! He just has to kill off the previous universe to make his own with the power of the Sinnoh legendarys.


I wouldn't even say they ran out of ideas; they just got extremely lazy.

People still love them in spite of their being damned to the worst Pokemon mainline game created.


That's what G5 was, they had N and his devout followers getting people hyped up on PETA bull with the real mind behind Team Plasma getting the real force of Sinnohs gang ready to take over the region once everyone's disarmed before spreading out to the world. It's pretty much Team Rocket using cult level shit to have people do their work for them.

They're also the first gang to successfully capture legendarys and use them for their purposes.


No, Gamefreak having a moron for a head did this to us.

At that point you might as well go emulate Emerald since ORAS stripped a lot of shit out.

Black and White were the last good games. X and Y fucked steel and started down the path of linear unfun worlds.

Sun and moon compounded it and made the legendaries fucking worthless.

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Yeah, pokemon has always been really linear, but the older ones were a bit more subtle. At least you could avoid tips by not talking to certain NPCs, but in Black/White they literally stop you from entering a gym and give you the pokemon you need to win while explaining how to beat them. My first game was yellow when I was 7 and didn't have any issue learning to beat brock with shit I found in the forest and not pikachu. Kids playing them now days are objectively being coddled to an absurd degree.

I don't think kids even play Pokemon anymore (certainly none I know of anyway, they usually stick to Minecraft or Call of Duty in my experience since Pokemon is 'too kiddy').

The problem I have with the pokemon hacks is the lack of difficulty. Most of the difficulty is created by simply giving gym leaders higher level pokemon. I can just go into the grass with the emulator's speed button and get the same level in 10 minutes.
Where is the pokemon game that has limited experience and who you train/catch actually matters?

I mentioned that exact game in my post: Pokemon Reborn.

The series has improved in a few ways technically since the originals, but I feel like the pacing and flow of them has suffered over time, and the focus on multiplayer mechanics means that the actual game hasn't really improved as much as you'd expect over 20 years.

Is this a porn?

Is bulbapedia any good?

Everybody in this thread has a shit opinion, especially for suggesting such a shit romhack like Pokemon Reborn is good.

Like how can so many people on this board be objectively wrong?

Gen 7 is interesting because the villain doesn't want to change the world. She just wants to escape into the jellyfish dimension and be autistic, the side effects of which were basically unintended. You only stop her because her daughter is your waifu and you need to make them be a family again.

Except Lillie is a shit waifu nobody asked for. The entre shit with her felt forced, much like Serena and even May before her. They really need to stop trying so hard with the implied romance stuff or at least their typical heavyhanded anime friendship thing. It's very forced and especially jarring when these interactions happen and your character is just shown with an emotionless blank face which isn't helped by Ohmura's character design.

Would you take your pokemon to a nightclub?

Only after spaying/neutering it you furfag

Someone needs to play the GOAT.

If there's one thing I like about Reborn, it's that it positively throws shinies at you.

I want a railroaded handholding experience with braixen if you know what I mean

Is this a good pokemon to use in Pokemon Prism, or should I try going for espeon or Metagross instead? I want something that can make up for my team's weakness to ground types.

Technically speaking it's what you'll get anywhere else but they chose to side with the SJWs so use anything but.

You can also throw Sableye and Spiritomb into the mix, but know they can still get hurt by his normal move.

Elaborate.

There was a total scumbag team in X and Y, Team Flare, basically just a bunch of rich idiots who want to genocide the entire world so only they exist to rebuild in the name of beauty.

Basically "Kill the Poor"

Doesn't have as much depth as a criminal mafia like Rocket, but hey, it qualified on some level.

they were more self righteous than scummy though.

When is Shedinja gonna be in Pokken?

Team Plasma isn't actually moralfags though. They just use that as a cover story to try to gain support. Hell, they even brag about how it was all an act in the end of Black/White 1. Granted, some actually were well intentioned which is why the team splits in Black/White 2.


They were also really shit overall. Team Flare is just boring. Lysandre thinks the world is irredeemable without being purged. Not sure if you can call that moralfaggotry, but he is trying to change the world for what he thinks will be the better.