A question for modern Pokémon players

[rasputin0009]

I started playing ROM hacks on my phone (doesn't count as piracy because "totally" different games and whatnot). They usually combine different game rosters on entirely new continents with dev-made storyline. I'm playing Pokemon Light Platinum right now, and the story is fucking terrible. All the freebie Pokemon and the discovery is cool and stuff, but it's kinda getting boring. It's fun if you like experimenting with teams, I guess. The balancing and trainers are awful, too. Anybody have any better experiences with other rom hacks?

 

[The Inquisitive Mug]

I personally would avoid pokemon altogether. Like most Nintendo products its main audience is child sex abusers.

You know that one new thread about the stupidest things you've ever heard? I think this takes the cake, pie, and quite possibly the ice cream. Wow...

Why? Have you not seen nintendo's products. They seem stuck in a time warp for people seemingly unable to give up being a child. I worry about these people. I certainly won't let my kids around somone's house if Daddy is into Mario.

Yes, I'd much rather let my child around "somone" who plays wholesome games like Grand Theft Auto. How else are they going to learn important life lessons like that you can get your money back if you just kill the hooker after your finished with her. Plus we all know that when Toad tells Mario that Peach is in another castle, Mario reenacts the prison rape scene from American History X. "You wanna act like a Princess? I'mma treat you like a princess!"

ON TOPIC: Pokemon X and Y are fine games. In my opinion, keeping up with all the new pokemon isn't the biggest obstacle to tackle. Until you get into competitive battles, all you really need to know is what type they are so you can wipe them up with a dirty dish rag, and GameFreak has done a fine job across the generations of letting a pokemon's design reflect such traits. See a blue pokemon shaped like a fish with ice around it's mouth? It's probably water/ice. Is it a turtle instead of a fish? Most likely water or water/??? with high defense. See some neutrally colored mammal with no obvious tells as to what the hell it is other than a pokemon version of an animal? Probably normal type. Purple? Poison. Purple and especially mean looking? Poison/Dark. See an evil looking tree called Trevenant? Tree and revenant; Grass and Ghost. Something shaped like a ball? Expect it to blow up.

Of course, out of 700 something odd pokemon, there are exceptions, but the most difficulty you'll have will be trying to keep up with all the new moves and abilities. I've played every generation and I still occasionally catch myself going "He used Flatter? What the hell is Flatter?" But it's still an amazing ride, and I HIGHLY recommend that you pick it up.

Except the people into stuff like sonic and mario tend to be degenerate freaks like furry's. I saw a whole bunch of fetishists online with frankly disturbing BDSM fantasies regarding Pokemon. These people should be prohibited by law from going anywhere near schools.

On face value GTA games seem like the worse option but the real perverts seem to go for the kiddie material.

So "furry's" are degenerate freaks? Wow. What a bigoted, intolerant statement. I don't understand the need to dress up like an animal and fuck, but what people do in the privacy of their own home (or someone else's home. FUR PILE, YO!) is their business. Same goes for BDSM. That you equate BDSM and fur-life (kinda like THUG LIFE, as I don't know what the verb is the for the act of "furring") to child rape is disturbing, though the fact that you equate children's video games to child rape is even more so.

 

[Ieyke]

I personally would avoid pokemon altogether. Like most Nintendo products its main audience is child sex abusers.

You know that one new thread about the stupidest things you've ever heard? I think this takes the cake, pie, and quite possibly the ice cream. Wow...

Why? Have you not seen nintendo's products. They seem stuck in a time warp for people seemingly unable to give up being a child. I worry about these people. I certainly won't let my kids around somone's house if Daddy is into Mario.

Yep. That's stupider than most of the stuff in the stupidest things you've ever heard thread.

 

[DrOswald]

I've been wanting to get into Pokémon again. What's the latest Pokémon game like? Keep in mind, I've only played Red. I know there's a huge bunch of new pokémon; does that mean finishing the game's much much much harder since there's so many pokémon to catch? And what are the latest titles? And is it still possible to get Mew and Celebi?

I was in the same situation as you and I chose to get back into pokemon this generation, and I feel that the entire pokemon experience is much stronger now than back then. There are tons of interesting pokemon, the game is very well designed, and it is genuinely fun. The story is terribad though, as we all expected.

The game is stupidly easy if you use the EXP share, and while the combat is quite deep on the multiplayer level it is still pokemon, so don't expect this to be amazing.

Also, now is a great time to get into pokemon because they just launched the pokebank, which will make it much easier to collect all your pokemon to one location going forward.