Ooops, wrong generation!

[Sydian]

Ever have those moments when you're playing an old game, but you keep thinking about the features new generations have brought us? Or maybe the opposite, and you're playing a newer generation game and you're so used to older ones, that you forget about things?

Every time I play gen I or II games, if I see a Nidoran, I always think it has Poison Point, but then I remember there are no abilities. But even still, just out of habit, I won't attack with a physical attack. And this also happens with the physical/special split. I always forget about it in old games, especially the elemental punches. They run off special attack stats in gen II, not physical like in gen IV and on. Silly me~

How about y'all?

 

[Captain Fabio]

I agree, it happens to me a lot.

The main thing that I forget is the Pokemon abilities like we said on MSN! XD​

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[mikey]

Haha this has happened to me before also.

Like what you said with abilities mostly.

 

[Haberdasher]

I keep forgetting about the Physical/Special split in the newer generations, and various things in the old ones. Lack of Dark/Steel type in 1st gen, the different berries in 2nd gen and the Apricorns in HGSS, and the different sprites in the older games are big ones.

 

[Daydream]

The menu button. I was playing LeafGreen on my DS the other day and jabbed angrily at the X Button for quite a while before realising that it was Start. And then when I've been playing older generation for a while, I'll forget it's the X button and attack the Start button. It's silly really. xD

 

[PlatinumDude]

This happens to me on occasion when I play my Gen III games. I forget that the physical/special split wasn't implemented in those games.

 

[Gero50]

This has not really happened to me sense I try to go to extra measure to ensure I know the games mechanics before I get to far with it.

 

[vaporeon7]

It sometimes happens to me in Gen I and II with Koffing, Weezing, Gastly, Haunter and Gengar. I sometimes thing they have Levitate and don't use Ground attacks. And the the type differences in Gen I.

 

[The Noob Hacker]

In the early days of D/P I always forgot that start was X. Then I went back to playing FR on my DS and was like "Why doesn't the X button work?" I also forget about the phisical/special split.

 

[Zelda]

In the early days of D/P I always forgot that start was X. Then I went back to playing FR on my DS and was like "Why doesn't the X button work?" I also forget about the phisical/special split.

This happens to me a lot as well, haha. After getting so used to the X button with DPPt, when going back to Emerald one day, I kept pressing the X and when the start menu wouldn't open I was confused at first. n_n

In the games itself, it would be me forgetting that you can't switch bike speed with the B button, and I would have to go back and get the Acro or Mac bike in Emerald and Sapphire.

 

[Lord_Storm]

I have had it a lot lately, due to having played through my SoulSilver and then going on Gen3 games for the first time in ages, I have always have trouble with my Alakazam and Gengar seeming weak because i forget Shadow Ball is physical, and I always wonder why I'm moving so slow and then remembering that I have to hold down 'b'.

 

[Kirbychu]

Like many others, the physical and special split sometimes screws me up whenever I play a 3rd generation game.

 

[Morgnarok]

Yes,i was once playing pokemon emerald,right after getting pokemon diamond and i keep trying to catch a pokemon that was only able to get in gen 4 XD

 

[Amore]

Well, occasionally I get confused with the physical/special split. Particularly when using Wobbuffet in Emerald. But then again, I only found out how that split worked last summer.

And I often think Machop and its' family have got No Guard. But then it turns out they don't. That happens in Gen III and Diamond (They only gave trainers' Machop/ke/amp(s) No Guard in Platinum), and then if I play those too much, I forget about it when going to play Platinum.

 

[GlitchCity]

That has happened to me on my playthrough in Emerald recently. Actually this happened quite a bit in Emerald. At first I thought I had a vs. seeker for some strange reason (ugh from platinum) and I thought Fly had 90 attack power but it really has 70 in gen III.

 

[Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog]

That used to happen to me a lot back when I only had Pokemon Red and Gold, because after playing Gold so much with the bicycle selected so I could use it by just pressing select, whenever I wanted to use the bicycle in Red I'd press the select button about 20 times before realizing I had to actually go in the bag and pick it. xD

 

[wobbadude1]

Despite switching between generations nearly everyday- I strangely have never had this problem.

 

[Bibliophibian]

The only thing I usually have trouble with is trying to press X instead of the Start button.

I also forgot how terrible Wing Attack is in Gen I compared to later games. 35 BP instead of 60. ;-;

 

[Aquacorde]

I do the X vs Start thing a lot when I switch between Platinum and Emerald like I so often do. And I always forget about the Physical/Special split. just like everyone else here, apparently

 

[mondays suck]

I don't really forget things when switching generations, but when I'm playing the earlier games, I'm always like
"it's nice not having to bother with catching 20 of one species if I want one for the team, just because it sometimes takes that long not to get a terrible nature"
or
"Thank god that damned Pikachu won't have Static"