Recent content by Izarinoi:Akira

So it's basically an issue of path dependence where the 'network effect' advantages of staying with the common platform outweigh the benefits of the newer platforms?

Physical copy here of X and Alpha Sapphire, that way I can load it on any device compatible with 3DS game cards. I do prefer digital copies for small things like arcade games but for things like complete Pokémon games, a physical copy is indispensible.

The 4th gen was released in 2006-07 and still so little progress in eight years? That is crazy! I have thought about a remake of Pokémon Vega (hack of Japanese FireRed) based on Black/White 2, modified to include things like the Fairy type and other changes in the 6th generation and yet, I still...

I haven't drawn anything for a long time, but I may start someday.. I haven't skipped an entire generation since the release of Diamond and Pearl but I don't want to return to the graphics and game mechanics of old generations! I wonder if Diamond/Pearl/Platinum remakes may be released before a...

Eliminate the option to "Shift" in battles against computer-controlled opponents. This option is biased toward the player, allowing a free switch when an opponent's Pokémon faints and after the opponent announces the next Pokémon, but the opponent cannot do this after one of the player's Pokémon...

What's keeping Pokémon ROM hacks in the third generation on the GBA platform? I don't see many DS hacks of Diamond/Pearl/Platinum or HeartGold/SoulSilver or Black (2) and White (2); what's difficult about DS hacking?

-Dragon- You can call me Akira ; I put Izarinoi in front so that it's sorted in the 'I' list. Regarding the Steel-types, being "steeled inside and out" seems to me more like Magnezone and Bronzong as they're completely inorganic, as opposed to Scizor and Durant which are basically insects in a...

Gabite and Garchomp: Ground and Fighting seem better suited to them than Ground and Dragon .. *gasp* Elekid, Electabuzz, Electivire: Electric and Fighting, I mean, really? Masquerain: Keep the Bug and Water of Surskit, please? Gyarados: Shouldn't be Flying type, it doesn't fly, why not keep it a...

The presence of the Normal and Dragon types and the absence of a Wind type is quite unsettling to me; the Normal type seems almost totally pointless and things like Fighting type moves hitting Normal type Pokémon more strongly than a plain Water type, for example, seem crazy to me! And the...

Greetings, Pokémon fans and trainers! For a while since I knew of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire I planned to set it aside because I honestly did not show much interest in playing through a region and story which I had already known for a long time.... ... but I changed my mind after watching...