5th Gen Reusable TMs: Yes or No?

Started by Ho-Oh February 13th, 2011 3:07 AM
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Ho-Oh

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As some of you may know, in Black and White, you can reuse a TM as many times as you want. However, this comes at a cost. You can only obtain each TM once in the game, which makes certain TMs harder to find.

So, which do you prefer? The new system of getting every TM only once - with no other chance to get the harder to find ones? Or the past, where you could find every TM easily at least once, but once you used them up, you couldn't reuse them?

...I have a feeling my wording is weird, but do you like the idea of reusable TMs?
(After fans have been waiting so long for something like this)

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Well, if you can use the Internet or another sorce to locate the TM, then you've found it and you have it forever really, which I think is great because they normally only had one of some TM'S anyway i.e Thunderbolt or Flamethrower.

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I love the idea but... It'll make the games WAY easier. And I don't really know if that's good or not...

Chiar

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I love the idea but... It'll make the games WAY easier. And I don't really know if that's good or not...
It sounds really easy on paper. The fact is that the TMs are way harder to find, so you don't need to be aware of that. (At least I haven't felt that the game is easier by the reusable TMs.)

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So I've heard its really difficult to find them, why so, cant you just look it up on the internet, i.e their locations?
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I LOVE THIS IDEA. I could now re-teach Shadow Ball over and over again. The matter of finding one is another story, of course.
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Gotta say I love it as much as you guys =)
Even though prizes are high as they can be, but you can have TONS of money in BW (I have like... over 2M) so they can be obtained easily :)
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How are they so hard to obtain, are they overly priced?

Okay, never mind, Just been on Serebii..

70,000 PokéDollars - TM14 Bilzzard and TM15 Hyper Beam - 90,000... Wow, now I get it.

Chiar

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How are they so hard to obtain, are they overly priced?
It just matters where you can find them. They're quite easy to find, but they are given at a later stage of the game than in other games, E.g Ice Beam and Psychic are only obtainable after E4. You also can't trade them.

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Okay, never mind, Just been on Serebii..

70,000 PokéDollars - TM14 Bilzzard and TM15 Hyper Beam - 90,000... Wow, now I get it.

It just matters where you can find them. They're quite easy to find, but they are given at a later stage of the game than in other games, E.g Ice Beam and Psychic are only obtainable after E4. You also can't trade them.
Oh right, makes sence, thanks, I usually like to have them two specific moves Ice Beam & Psychic, FOR the Elite Four.

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I never found Tms one of the challenges of previous games, more like the annoyance. So I love the permanent TM thing. Plus, they've drastically upped the prices for Tms now anyway.
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I have probably taught a bajillion Pokemon Flamethrower and Shadow Ball omg I love reusable TMs, idc about price increase, just reminds me of the economy so hell yes to reusable TMs. They are lovely.
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Lol, I'm probably like the only person that is so-so about this. Of course, being able to reuse TMs over and over again is nice. But for some reason, there's just something about this that really bothers me. I don't know if I'm so used to purchasing/obtaining TMs and actually having to be careful about whom I teach the move to, or if it's just too much of a change for me. I'm sure I'll get used to it quickly, though.

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