5th Gen Things in B/W that irritate you - discussion! Page 7

Started by Yoshikko August 24th, 2011 4:27 PM
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Age 28
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Posted November 8th, 2011
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11.6 Years
The abundance of NPCs that offer to heal your team. It's good, yeah, but it just doesn't seem right - I'd rather have to buy Potions whenever I can than just think "lol oh well" whenever one of my team faints while grinding, and go and heal 5 steps away from where I was training.

miltankRancher

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Posted September 7th, 2013
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The weird experience mechanics still kinda irk me, it seems like it takes longer to grind/train now.
Actually it is easier to train now, with the existence of lucky egg, which will double the experience your Pokemon gets.

The abundance of NPCs that offer to heal your team. It's good, yeah, but it just doesn't seem right - I'd rather have to buy Potions whenever I can than just think "lol oh well" whenever one of my team faints while grinding, and go and heal 5 steps away from where I was training.
It is a good thing about this Gen! I love it when I am nearly fainting and its miles away from the next Pokemon Center, and I have no fly. I love it that somebody can heal you in every Route.

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The things that irritate me in B/W:
1. Litwick and Elgyem are the only Pokemon I can find in Celestial Tower
2. Not much Pokemon during fishing and surfing
3. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO EVOLVE LARVESTA!!!!
4. No Vs. Seeker
5. It's Region dosen't have any other Pokemon but it's own(Ex: Abra is not in the Unova Pokedex)

Oryx

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Posted December 27th, 2014
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12.2 Years
I hate how you cant trade in past gen pokes until post E4.

This means no solo running with past gen pokes.
Just throwing it out there, you can if you trade them from another B/W game, or you use the Dream World. You just can't take a Pokemon straight from D/P/Pt/HG/SS to B/W before you've being the E4 for the first time.


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Oryx

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Posted December 27th, 2014
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12.2 Years
You can also use pokecheck to transfer pokemon from gen 4
I really don't think he meant through means that aren't available in-game. That's just gaming the system, which is available in any game ever so it doesn't really count at all.


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Posted June 7th, 2012
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11.5 Years
hate that black/white removed some tms like dark pulse when i need them the most

i couldnt get a special stab move for hydreigon since

they also have a lack of pokemon with Sp A. ev
there were like 20 out of the 150 and i could only find a few of them

wish that black or white was for for 3ds at least
i dont want to buy another ds just to get some pokemon migrated >:l

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Hikamaru

Age 30
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Posted September 4th, 2018
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12.2 Years
Something that also annoyed me was that so many Pokemon I loved could not be obtained without Poke Transfer, meaning so many people needed a 4th Gen game to fill their Pokedex.

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Seen March 29th, 2015
Posted March 27th, 2015
589 posts
11.6 Years
My main issue with B/W is that I can't have level 50/100 6v6 online battles on wi-fi like it did with the entire fourth generation. That means that I'll never be able to have balanced fights with people, & a lot of them can't have IV battles anymore.

Also, the subtle lack of post-game content in this makes this thing go downhill fast after one has beaten Ghetsis & especially the champion.
Age 33
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UK
Seen January 29th, 2013
Posted January 26th, 2013
458 posts
12.9 Years
The slowness of getting through doors
Battle Subway is pretty naff imo

That's the only things in-game really. What actually annoys me is people's attitude towards the game... two main complaints
- I really wish people would hush up about how "rubbish" the Pokémon are. Really. It's boring now. Trade for older Pokémon via WiFi if they annoy you so much.
- Post-game? You want more POST GAME? I.e. ONCE YOU'VE ALREADY FINISHED IT?! Just enjoy the fact you've completed it... but maybe that's just me. I finish a game, I move on.

In that respect this was probably a bad thread for me to come into haha!

I found Black to be much better than Emerald and a MILLION times better than Gen IV (save for the remakes). Better storyline, and I dunno... I just had more fun playing it. Diamond bored me so much.
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Age 30
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England
Seen June 5th, 2016
Posted February 6th, 2014
69 posts
14.6 Years
No re-battling qualities. :( Nintendo made Heart Gold and Silver great with the re-battling so why take it away?! I mean I know there's always the Elite4, Cynthia, the GameFreak guy and your rival.
Plus the jump from winning the league and completing the storyline to level 60 Sunkerns. Like wtf?

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Yoshikko

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Seen April 27th, 2020
Posted February 6th, 2020
3,065 posts
11.8 Years
My main issue with B/W is that I can't have level 50/100 6v6 online battles on wi-fi like it did with the entire fourth generation. That means that I'll never be able to have balanced fights with people, & a lot of them can't have IV battles anymore.

Also, the subtle lack of post-game content in this makes this thing go downhill fast after one has beaten Ghetsis & especially the champion.
Yeah this is actually something that I was really unfortunetaly surprised by :/ My friend and I were like naaahhh that's not right, wait what? Yeah that was strange.

Idk what I also find annoying is that pretty much throughout the whole game, trainers are easy and low level and whatnot, and then post game it's all lvl 60 and stuff.
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Posted May 12th, 2012
101 posts
11.5 Years
-No way to rebattle the gym leaders: I liked battling Lenora, Elesa, and Brycen.
-Lack or replay value, especially after the big replay value in SoulSilver/ HeartGold.
-No way to find N after you beat him.
-lack of stuff to do in the building in Castelina City (that building with all those clerks and their leader was a janitor) I was craving more after beating him.
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California
Seen May 1st, 2016
Posted May 1st, 2016
215 posts
13 Years
One thing and one thing only for me - Its the story.. its bad.

Normally pokemon games are all about just going to the other towns and challenging the gyms with the occasional ruffians along the way that want to use some legendary power to rule the world or something. It's not epic, it's not "grand" .. Black and White tires this, and.. it's very very clumsy plot wise. I mean, the ides is something everyone's joked about.. using pokemon as slave labor of sorts, and it's nice to see them try to put some actual honest thought into a story for once.. but.. my god. Hire some writers or something, Game Freak. Team Plasma, the Sages mostly, spill ALL kinds of vital info like, how many there are, who the sages are, what their master plan is.. probably in the attempt to make them sound mysterious and threatening.. and you don't even fight them for any of it. Every time they talk, they remind me of the brainswarm in Futurama. In that voice no less. Going on about how smart they are and how they can never be thwarted.. and yet they're totally inept. And N is no better.. he literally tells you where and how to catch the legendary pokemon so you can stop him. A more realistic approach would probably have the main character researching it on his own, I dunno.. a Gym Leader or something help him out with it. Its like Team Plasma is afraid of success or something, and literally set themselves up to be defeated. They literally WANT you to crush them mercilessly.. What the hell is this? Explain yourself Gamefreak, explain yourself!

I honestly like the old way better in this case. Sure the interactions were kinda goofy, but you didn't have the bar raised so high.. you can't just start talking about legendary kings and dragons and then totally drop the ball just like that. The initial set up deserves more than that. I just can't help but laugh and roll my eyes at how stupid everyone is in Unova. And coming from a pokemon game that already has a pretty stupid virtually non-existant story, thats saying something. I kinda want a game where there is no badges.. cuz I mean, really.. isn't that the point? Just let me run around and catch and breed and battle.. this plot line nonsense is getting old.
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Seen December 19th, 2011
Posted November 18th, 2011
2 posts
11.6 Years
I just hated about how I was trying to rush through this game and it seems that like after every corner I turned Cheren or Bianca would be there to stop me and battle me. It was just a waste of my time. I also hated how before most every gym battle team plasma was always there delaying me from getting those badges as soon as possible.
I was rushing because I made a bet with a friend that I would buy the game on like tuesday and have a level 100 team ready by friday night.
Oh and I spent like 15 minutes In the second gym with the library lenora's puzzle trumped me until I looked it up on google lol. Legend of Zelda puzzles are easier IMO.

miltankRancher

Mega Ampharos is the one.

Age 28
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Philippines
Seen June 11th, 2014
Posted September 7th, 2013
3,947 posts
13 Years
My main problem was how they removed useful TMs like Dark Pulse and Roost. Also the ridiculously high-leveled wild Pokemon post-game.

Other than that, I really don't have much to complain about.

yes. No Dark Pulse, no Roost, no Stealth Rock, no Drain Punch, no Giga Drain. They replaced all good TM's with suckish ones.

After the game, I was like woah!!!! The trainers and the Pokemon had their levels set ten levels higher. I mean, woah!

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Lanistae Jacet [Lies of a Trainer]
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Brazil
Seen November 27th, 2011
Posted November 26th, 2011
81 posts
11.5 Years
It annoyed me that you get to chose which order you fight the elite 4. It made it easier too cuz the statue even tells you what type each person has so you can prepare. i miss the ridiculously long championship stairs:)
Regardless of this, you still have the same time to use items, and there's 4 of them. And due to the type rectangle it's harder to have a team not weak to everybody ...

What annoyed me was, simply putting it the drama behind the game. Everything you do either Cheren or Bel appear and that become a pointless task you can't skip over. Basically to much "sidequests".