Pokemon

Zephyr · Post by **Zephyr** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:46 am

When everyone in my neighborhood got hooked on the card game, I stayed as far away as possible. Now, they are all regretting spending hundreds of dollars "investing" in cards that today, are toilet paper.

681 · Post by **681** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:23 am

I think the games are pretty good, I think the reason I like it is probably
because of the choices it gives you. You could get a whole bunch of water
pokemon or like a bunch of fire when you like it hot. But there's also a
down side, which is the choices it gives you could literally backfire on you,
forcing you to create a multi-type team of powerful pokemon, while the
gym leaders are all cool and get to have their favorite pokemon. Also I
think the game would have been better if it was less linear and gave you
more freedom, not just having beating the gym leaders as your whole
superobjective.

P.S. I don't like Pikachu. He's/She's too overmarketed, if that's a word.

nps · Post by **nps** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 7:47 am

Wait, I only played Sapphire on and emulator for about 10 minutes before getting scared away from the game by the names of the new Pokemon. What is this about the old Pokemon being left out?

Kjorteo · Post by **Kjorteo** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:26 am

A little less than 200 of the Pokemon from R/B/Y and G/S/C cannot be found in Ruby/Sapphire. The data for them technically exists, but that's just so that if you have Pokemon Colosseum or the upcoming Fire Red/Leaf Green and get them there, you're allowed to trade them back to Ruby/Sapphire. Without those, you're kind of out of luck, since they're nowhere to be found in the Ruby/Sapphire wild. (Unless you Shark, anyway, but that would make you a cheater and cheaters never win.)

For a complete list of the Pokemon that didn't make it, open this FAQ:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvan ... n_rs_c.txt

And do a search for the phrase "What Pokemon aren't in this game?" to skip to the right line. If you're too lazy to do that, I'll just mention a couple of the <strike>ones that every freaking person who ever played this game, ever, always had in their completely standard party</strike> more popular ones: no more Snorlax, Scyther, Onix, Eevee, any of the R/B/Y or G/S/C legendaries, or anything any of them evolve to. (Again, at least until Colosseum/Fire Red/Leaf Green.)

Fortunately my beloved Skarmory is still there and that's the only important thing. The rest of you just suck. :D

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:34 am

Zandor 12 wrote:Pokemon is for five year olds. I'm so glad I moved on to Yugioh.

ahahahahahaha

Terryn · Post by **Terryn** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:11 pm

Way back when Blue and Red were the only ones out, it was okay. Playing games against Ome's collection was nice.

However, I'm planning on dropping the money on Neo*Geo Pocket Colors and copies of SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighters Clash when able. Pure excellence.

Kjorteo · Post by **Kjorteo** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:49 pm

Terryn wrote:However, I'm planning on dropping the money on Neo*Geo Pocket Colors and copies of SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighters Clash when able. Pure excellence.

http://www.vgcats.com/vgc_comics/?strip_id=13

Homz · Post by **Homz** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:26 am

I think Pokemon is dumb. That is all.

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:50 am

HOMZ LAYS THE SMACK DOWN.

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:28 am

Cheaters always win. That's the whole point of cheating. I'm sticking it to The Man by not buying any more of Nintendo's crap than I need to.

snorby schnorrbusch · Post by **snorby schnorrbusch** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:46 pm

Romancing SaGa 3 it isn't, but I enjoyed playing and beating Silver.

Ruby and Sapphire have too many things going against them (The Infamous Clock Bug? 386 Pokecritters? Stats that have no use in battle? 2 on 2 battles? No catchable Clefairy?!) for me to buy 'em.

Post by **zamros** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:07 pm

kjorteo are you fucking serious

really

tell me

are you fucking serious about this shit

Kjorteo · Post by **Kjorteo** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:43 pm

I just got the clock bug fixed for my copy of Ruby. It's not hard, seeing as there are roughly one and a half a billion ways to do it. If you don't want Colosseum or Fire Red/Leaf Green, you can always call any EB or GameStop next to you and see if they're still running the GameCube demo disk with the berry patch (#14 if they need to know.) I just brought my GBA into an EB and hooked it up to their 'Cube and patched yesterday. They even give you a shiny Zigzagoon holding a Liechi berry for your troubles. And if none of the stores act like they know what you're talking about, Nintendo repair centers can do it, as can Nintendo of America if you mail your copy to them.

And yes, I am serious. My Skarmory owns you all.

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:22 pm

nobody over the age of 13 takes pokemon seriously

unless they're RETARDED

OR FURRY

you dumb furry shit, fuck off back to alt.fan.furry

Mooseka · Post by **Mooseka** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:32 pm

insert obligatory Zaphod quote here.