This.

Silver and Gold had character and class, along with that groovy radio and the lovable holler-back Pokephone. I liked Sapphire and Ruby quite a bit too, but they unnecessarily dropped a few of their predecessors' coolest features (phone, radio(?), and especially the RL time clock). Pearl and Diamond had were nice for the multiplayer function, but otherwise further degraded single player game play.

Let them release another series with that Silver n' Gold vibe, add some bloody content (holidays, Harvest Moon-esque friendships), chock it full of innovative Pokegear, and I am in.

Sir.

Uranium, Plutonium.

I call shenanigans.

The game wasn't even vaguely balanced until Ruby/Sapphire. In the first generation, you stacked up four psychic pokemon, one Dragonite, and one tank (probably Chansey) and steamrolled things 10-20 levels above you. In the second generation, you had to swap out the Hypno for a ground pokemon and maybe your second Alakazam for a dark or fighting pokemon, but there was still definitely a "best" team configuration. It took the third generation to actually make a game balanced enough for serious PvP, and it only got better with the fourth.

I got Crystal for Easter the year that it came out. If you had... God, I forget the name now, the 3rd evolution of the starter Fire Pokemon, and you taught him Thunderpunch, you could steamroll through any trainer, any combination in the game. I leveled that guy to 100 from 68 when I first took on the Elite Four, with just that guy alone.

Ruby/Sapphire finally balanced it, plus gave the series some updated graphics, which were really nice to have.

Another Pokemon fan eagerly awaiting HGSS. Edible Slowpoke tails ftw.

FCs!

Pearl: 5112 0369 2982
Platinum 1: 0173 7194 7554
Platinum 2: 1161 6004 6977

Feel free to hit me up for whatever (except maybe battles, unless you want to fight my game team since I haven't put together a competitive one - that's what Netbattle is for!). Trading-wise, Pearl's Pokedex is done so I have randoms and random babies lying around cluttering up my boxes, some egg move breeding lines (e.g. Stealth Rock/Whirlwind/Drill Peck/Roost Skarmory, Wish/Yawn Eevee, and other male babies I haven't bothered to level up and breed), plus shinies and events on my other carts if anyone's into that kind of thing. Yeah.

Still NB, Silf? VERY WELL. Perhaps I shall give this another try.

I haven't actually NB'ed properly since R/S gen. Got hard to keep up with.

As far as combat goes, I never really had anyone to play with and my strategy consisted of a.) leveling your starter-pokemon to 1 billion and one-shot KOing anything that crossed the road in front of you (while searching desperately for more PP-up), and b.) leveling up all the cute ones, with interesting cries ^ ^. But not being the best-best-bestest Poke'-Hero of all time simply by pressing the start button? That's what I call degrading!


Just give me features, a plot, along with a warm blanket of denial and I'm content.

I will say that though the latest games definitely balanced PvP considerably, Gold and Silver were the last games with that distinctly old-school Pokémon feel. Everything now feels modernized and hip, with extravagant contests and things.

Oh yes, my Diamond friend code: 4769 5851 1429

Yes, I very much hate the pokemon contests. And the fact that you are required to participate in one makes me very angery.

I enjoyed them in Ruby and Sapphire. Immensely. I thought the flare and crowd cheering was a nice touch, almost comical, though the moves and prizes it could have done with more variety.

Example - Ok, so it's not as great as I remember.


And in retrospect, these games would have been better if every other word was not capitalized. It makes me imagine the person changing the pitch of their voice, and my head swims...

For me, the capitalizations make me laugh. It's like they are talking along like a normal person and then they SHOUT REALLY LOUD and keep talking like nothing happened.

My sister and I did this one day, when referring to proper nouns, and we collapsed in a fit of giggles.

Dude, NB is apparently dead. Tried Shoddy Battle (the successor) today, destroyed exactly 10 teams in a row with a UU one, and I have officially decided that Pokemon is crap now. Or that I have, in some manner, grown past the Pokemon age. Long live pre-Pearl/Diamond.