Official Pokemon Discussion Thread

Veserius said:
Why the fuck is every NPC asking for my number.

I beat Bugsy, as usual it was a painful match that I won with the help of a few flukes (like my Mareep not dying in one hit so I could actually get Thunder Wave on that damn Scyther)
Just now I went into Ilex Forest with my Pikachu-Coloured-Pichu and got my very own Spiky-Eared-Pichu
Quite a cute scene.

So myself, my brother and a couple of friends went down to Plymouth today to get the Movie Arceus. Definitely worth it There were tons of Pokémon fans in GAME, and although I was too shy to speak with any of them I mixed records with someone (loads of people in the Union Room) and got myself an Arceus figurine too.

I just did the Arceus event on HeartGold aswell. It was pretty awesome I chose a Giratina, because Giratina >>>>>>>> Dialkia.
Current Team:
Lv 38 Gardevoir
Lv 36 Ampharos (Artery)
Lv 34 Quilava
Lv 28 Lapras (LEPPER)
Lv 28 Pidgeotto (SNIDGE)
Lv 21 Larvitar (DEODUDE)

Hardly made any progress, been mostly backtracking since I got Surf.

Bump.

Currently in the Goldenrod Radio Tower fighting off the Rockets, updated my current team.
After fighting Pryce and discussing the (ridiculously easy) difficulty it dawned on me...

Playing HG/SS reminds me how ridiculous the pacing was in 2nd gen. Grinding to fight stronger enemies was a joke because the Wild Pokémon were so weak and rematches are awkward, and 3 or more Gym Leaders had Pokémon levelled between 20 and 30.

And then there's a huge difficulty jump after you get to Kanto. I'd have thought they'd have fixed the levelling problems for the remakes

I mean come on! There are Pokémon in the 7th Gym that are under level 30!

EDIT: LOL! Silver just said "Why so serious?" xD

( Edited 24.03.2010 19:03 by SuperLink )

I'm quickly trying to complete Platinum before SoulSilver is released. I've just reached Victory Road (God I HATE caves.)

My current team:

Lv 47 Empoleon
Lv 50 Leafeon (BLADE)
Lv 49 Magmortar (MAGMIA)
Lv 51 Electivire (DEREK)
Lv 48 Honchkrow (FARAH)
Lv 46 Steelix (STEELA)

Leafeon and Empoleon started at Level 5 but all the others I got from eggs I traded from Diamond so all started from Level 1.

I'm still trying to think of what I want my 6 main to be on SoulSilver. I'm gonna do what I did on Platinum and start by getting 4 of my main 6 straight away through trading eggs. The only ones I'll get from SoulSilver will be Cyndaquil and HootHoot.

I'm gonna choose 4 pokemon I've never trained before. One will be Eevee which will become either a Glacion, Flareon or Jolteon.

My copy of HeartGold came.

Marzy said:
My copy of HeartGold came.

Where did you order it from. I will have to wait until Monday for my copy, because I ordered it from Amazon.

Super Sonic said:

Marzy said:
My copy of HeartGold came.

Where did you order it from. I will have to wait until Monday for my copy, because I ordered it from Amazon.

I got mine from Cool Shop UK (the cheapest price I could find).

Sorry to hear that.

Marzy said:

Sorry to hear that.

Hopefully I don't have the same problem as I did with Sonic Classic Collection where it is out of stock because of too many pre-orders. I still got my free Arceus and Arceus figure though

So far, I gots mah Totodile, a Bellsprout, and a Gastly. Yeah, I haven't been playing all that much. ._.

PK, The Mongonator said:
So far, I gots mah Totodile, a Bellsprout, and a Gastly. Yeah, I haven't been playing all that much. ._.

Anywhoo, before I stroll up Route 27 I'm going to finish off my questing in Johto, which means battle any trainers who want a rematch, and fully explore that fucking Mt. Mortar. I also have to try and get a Water Stone to unlock that last Alph Chamber, which could mean playing a lot of *groan* Pokélthon.

Current Team:

Lv 40 Gardevoir
Lv 39 Ampharos (Artery)
Lv 36 Lapras (LEPPER)
Lv 36 Typhlosion
Lv 31 Pidgeotto (SNIDGE)
Lv 30 Pupitar (DEODUDE)

PS. Ho-Oh looks awesome when following.
PPS. I nicknamed it HEODUDE.

And heeeeere's the review!

http://www.cubed3.com/news/13875

I'll probably be in here more often now that's out of the way!

( Edited 26.03.2010 08:44 by Mason )

I'm up to around 4 hours in and I'm just about to head into Slowpoke Well. I've been taking my time, trying to level some Pokémon up in my party (which seems to take forever, compared to Diamond).

So far my party isn't anything amazing:

Lv. 16 Quilava
Lv. 15 Wooper (So cute when he looks at you, at the beginning of a battle)
Lv. 12 Sentret
Lv. 8 Togepi
Lv. 4 Pidgey
Lv. 3 Caterpie

I like all the nice little improvements, like slight visual upgrades and also the same with the sound. I think it's great that you can have any Pokémon follow you, as well. It just feels like a really refined game, in my opinion.

I gave the Pokéwalker a little try last night and stuck a Metapod on it. I just started shaking it up and down for about a minute or two, but after I stopped it wouldn't count any more. Hopefully I haven't broken it.

My Pal Pad Code: 3352 6408 2708

I've added Superlink.

( Edited 26.03.2010 13:38 by Marzy )

I'm about to fight the first gym and think the game is great. I even remembered Youngster Joey's name before I fought him and I haven't played the original gold since back in the day.

My party so far:
Quilava lvl. 17 (CHARMANDER)
Geodude lvl. 12 (CHARMELEON)
and the rest are a bunch of lvl. 4-6 losers

Got my copy of SS a bit late... stupid ass crap slow slip-in-the-snow-and-fall-on-his-ass mailman... Ah well, happily enjoying the game now!
Although, I couldn't stand the female trainer so I went BOY TRAINER, LAWL.

Just finished Slowpoke Well.

Party is:

lvl 16 Totodile
lvl 11 Onyx
lvl 8 Kangaskhan
lvl 17 Bayleef
lvl 14 Quilava
lvl 10 Togepi

Shame the UI is, frankly, a mess. Not good use of the touch screen at all. I can't believe what a piece of shit the deposity/withdraw system is.

Also, you get a LOT of Watts from very little walking. I walk for about an hour a day to and from work and got something like 9000 steps which was like 400-500 watts. Took me ages to use half of them up

( Edited 27.03.2010 00:07 by knighty )

The deposit/withdraw system has always been shit, and frankly it should be binned off at this point. However, use the PC's 'move' function solely with the touch screen and it feels much better. I pretty much refused to use the touch screen fully until about 12 hours in, but now I use it much more.

Yeah but the Move system is still retardedly designed. Why do you have to click a pokemon and select move before you can do anything. Why is it not just always like the screen you click after you get that? There's so much UI stuff which is just a lot of hoops to jump through for small things. And silly things like when you have a list of items, and you click one and you have to click a cancel button to select something else even though you can see them perfectly well? Blargh. Just tried the online plaza, pretty natty

My code is 4727 0321 6605

( Edited 27.03.2010 00:57 by knighty )

I sortof agree and disagree on the UI. There are a lot of niggles with it, but once I was used to it I didn't mind it so much - not the greatest of praise, I know. The touch screen control, though, when ignoring the ridiculous withdraw/deposit options, I really like. Nice simple drag and drop interface, the only thing I'm not a fan of within that is the way that you have to click a button to be able to drop them into different boxes (is that what you meant in your last post?). It makes me want more though - I wish you could draw around a group of Pokémon and select a bunch at a time to move them, at least be able to tag them and do something similar.

Since we're posting teams...this is mine at the moment, after badge 7 (and about 28 hours play, taking it quite slowly). Aside Quilava and Nidorino, using things I've never used before. Not used those two since their original titles 9+ years ago, Gold and Red respectively.

Nidorino, level 28.
Quilava, level 30.
Carvanha, level 29.
Kangaskhan, level 32.
Togekiss, level 29.
Trapinch, level 30.

I traded Trapinch and Carvanha over at level 1 from my copy of Diamond to add a bit of spice to the start of the game; literally went through my Diamond lot to see if I could find anything I thought was sortof cool-looking that I'd never used before and was just lurking in the PC, bred them and sent them over. Togekiss is surprisingly awesome and Kangaskhan is an absolute beast, at least at this stage of the game.


( Edited 27.03.2010 01:25 by Mason )

PSA: Don't give freakin' Youngster Joey your number.

I can't count the number of times that kid has called me spouting useless crap. If there is a way to remove or block a person, please tell me. I don't want to have to open up my bag every time he calls me!

I FOUND A RATTATA. BUT I COULDN'T CATCH IT BECAUSE I'M A USELESS SACK OF SHIT. BYE!!!

There is no way to remove a phone number. I want to put it on silent at least...

EDIT: http://twitter.com/RATTATApwns

( Edited 27.03.2010 17:42 by Mason )

Just went down from talking to da guurrl and her sick pokemanzz in the light house, and still my team stays rather small.

Feraligatr lv.30 (Graham, as on my original Silver)
Onix lv.27 (Rocky, zee traded uno)
Arbok lv. 25 (Leeroy, C: )
Scyther lv.24 (Katana, how original)

Can't decide on which ones to get and I won't train too many that I know I'll switch later on. Picky kitt is picky. Allthough, I'm waiting for a larvitar and eevee.
But... I LOVE IT, the game! I barely walk like... 5 steps before I turn around to check on my pokemon following me. And even then, every time, I giggle.

EDGIT: I should get a medal for smiley fails.

Edit: ...and typos in general. Edgit? Wut?

( Edited 28.03.2010 21:07 by Sheena )

I've been mostly spending my time levelling up my Pokemon.

Yesterday, I spent a while levelling up my Drowzee and got it to evolve into Hypno last night (Now Lv.30). I also got my Flaaffy to evolve today, into Ampharos (Now Lv.31).

Just beat the 4th gym earlier and now I'm heading to Olivine City.

Back. Man you guys are going nuts for this Good to see everyone enjoying it.

On my game, Joey hardly calls me anymore and is the proud owner of a level 35 Raticate. It's probably even stronger now too.

The box system on this is lovely I think, after putting up with a horrible takingforever box system on Gens 1 and 2, and the lack of touch screen on even Platinum, it's really great to be able to sort it like this. The item menus, all the touch screen stuff is very handy, and I can only hope that it'll be expanded upon by GenV at the end of the year.

Right, where to begin? I've now beaten 7 of the Kanto Gym Leaders and I'm working my way to obliterating all the routes and caves before I tackle Blue. My brother on the other hand has already caught half of the game's legies and beaten the powered up E4, he'll prolly head for Mt Silver soon.

My team's come quite a ways since last time I posted.

Lv 55 Gardevoir
Lv 55 Tyranitar (DEODUDE)
Lv 53 Ampharos (Artery)
Lv 45 Lapras (LEPPER)
Lv 43 Typhlosion
Lv 40 Pidgeot (SNIDGE)

Yeah, DEODUDE has really come a long way quite quickly ^^

Okaaaaaay. This game is insultingly easy for a Pokémon game, atleast until you get to post game stuff. The balance of wild/trainers can be awful at times, with wild Pokémon very rarely breaking 30 no matter how far in the game you are. When you get to Kanto you're thrown head first into trainers that have 50+ teams, meaning you'll be going to and from the Pokémon Center perhaps a bit too often.

Yes I know Gen 2 was always like this, but man it really puts the other gens into perspective. I thought maybe they would sort things out a little for this, but nah, gotta keep most teams exactly as they were 10 years ago. How am I supposed to train for fighting Red or the powered up Gym Leaders if there's such a huge level jump and there are no Wild Pokémon over level 50 ever?
I do however like that Kanto trainers have new Pokémon with them sometimes. Makes it feel like a real remake. There are many mentions of Hoenn and Sinnoh too, whereas in FR/LG Hoenn was an evil satan devil word that was never allowed to be uttered.

tl;dr Awesome game, but not the perfect Pokémon game everyone always remembers. The erratic but never "just right" difficulty has definitely shown its age.

If it weren't for the touch screen features, the lovely graphics, and the fact that there are tons of extra bits of plot (Gym Leaders, Silver, Unown, you name it) I would probably still prefer Platinum because it's a more solid experience overall.
As of right now I don't know which one I like more ^-^;

PS. The slight pessimism is to make people appreciate what games since have done for the series. Nostalgia seems to have very little effect on me, Platinum is awesome so if you like HG/SS and haven't tried Gen4 yet I suggest you do

( Edited 28.03.2010 23:06 by SuperLink )

How do you get the spiky eared Pichu?

Marzy said:
How do you get the spiky eared Pichu?

I beat Blue last night, and now I'm working on finishing off all the routes, training and gathering phone numbers. Then I'll get some legies I guess...

My Johto journey lasted about 70-80 hours with me exploring and catching absolutely everything, but Kanto has barely lasted me 10 so far...

( Edited 29.03.2010 13:13 by SuperLink )