posted 04-26-2007 01:36 PM                       

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Originally posted by White Cat:
Some of what Anthrax posted doesn't apply to any Pokemon game, but point taken.

It occurs to me that in terms of new features and innovations, the Generation 4 games have the least new stuff:

GSC: gender, held items, breeding, time of day, shinyness, new types, Pokerus
RSE: natures, abilities, contests, double battles, Battle Tower/Frontier
DP: more times of day, physical/special change

That said, the ability to battle over the Internet (Welcome to the 1990's, Nintendo!) means that I'll probably end up getting it anyway.

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the only things i can think of that might not actually be in any of the games is the "longtime rival and enemy sacrifices himself to save you" and maybe macguffin was the wrong word to use but really everything else is in the games.

i dont really want to go down the list and defend every statement. pokemon is stale as fuck, its still the same ugly bird's-eye-view of superdeformed 2D sprites and ugly buildings, the natural environment is still unnatural looking and full of blocks and right angles, the music is still as tinny as it was on the original gameboy, its still the same tired story formula, your pokemon still aren't smart enough to know how to do more than 4 different things, battles are still the same perspective with the same motionless 2D sprites standing apart from each other while the game insists that your pokemon just tackled that geodude

they have fallen into their formula and they really don't want to change it. the DS gave them an opportunity to let the series evolve beyond its roots. they could have easily made a game that looked more like the gamecube games than the gameboy games. all the features and "innovations" white cat lists are things that would be included in an expansion pack or a patch in most other games(i understand you cannot do these things with a gameboy game). Apart from the two new types and gender and breeding, none of that stuff is really important and either gimmicky or a nonfeature. and in regards to gender and breeding, its not so much a new feature of gsc as it is a correction of a mistake they made in rby.

who really likes to do the contests
held items are gimmicky as fuck
double battles are gimmicky
shiny pokemon are gimmicky (they dont even have the best possible stats so what is their point other than novelty)
its neat that it has a clock and times of day and all but it never seems to make a difference in gameplay
pokerus is a totally forgettable gimmick
abilities and nature seem largely pointless to me personally and its just something else they want you to look for so you grind out more time capturing things
the battle tower/frontier is just some gauntlet of battles against random jabronis, and you win items, big whoop

and i also wish they would drop the "special nintendo event only pokemon" convention. it was a neat idea and it was done well with mew, but who gives a crap about celebi and deoxys and jirachi really and why should i have to go to some special event full of little kids and autistic otakus to unlock something i paid for already

i dont doubt that if hell freezes over and nintendo actually makes a pokemon mmorpg that is part of the proper series (not like snap and ranger and crap), even if they make it 10 years from now, it will be a birds-eye-view with 2D sprites and battles that look as visually appealing as they did in stadium

i mean, let me know if im wrong about d/p because i really would like to be

pokemon is serious business

when i went to best buy to buy it i had to buy a copy for my cousin so i was holding a copy of each and i had got the last pearl the store had and this smogon kid came up and was totally freaking out he was like "WHERES PEARL" and i was like "oh i got the last one" and he's like "YOU DONT NEED TWO COPIES OF THE GAME" and he was pathetic so i just walked away and that made me smile at least

so is the more popular version diamond or pearl, i had just assumed it would be diamond

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