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Posted February 20th, 2014
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Hey peeps!

I absolutely adore my Pokémon X and the freedom I have being able to move in more than 4 directions at any one time but there is just one niggle that's been eating away at me from this otherwise perfect game... the roller-skates!!

Don't get me wrong, I love free wheeling around, grinding the rails and breaking road safety rules by not wearing any head protection (okay, maybe not the last one), but by assigning the skates to the stick they've made it the default method of travel meaning you end up moving too fast around town or missing people you want to speak to.

Anyone else find this?
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Posted February 20th, 2014
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9.5 Years
I prefered walking with the Dowsing Machine during the story, because it allowed me to walk using the circle pad and find free items at the same time.
That's exactly what I do, I know it's a big ask, but I wouldn't mind Gamefreak adding in an option to swap the skates to the dpad in a future update.

And I love the bike when breeding, the bicycle song is pretty catchy too!
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I felt the same way at first, but then I forced myself to simply walk and run and was so infuriated with the pace of it that my opinion did a 180.

I like the skates, they make travel easier :P
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I like the skates, they make travel easier :P
Lol, well I can't ban you from pokémon... :P

I get what you mean though, I guess skates are really there for speed players. Still would have liked an option to swap the skates to the dpad though!

EDIT: Love the Final Fantasy Tactics reference BTW, didn't realise until after I'd first posted!
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Posted January 2nd, 2014
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9.5 Years
They should have an option to remove them/turn them off like the Exp. Share.

They are great for travelling around towns quickly, and I do like doing that without having to select the bike, but it gets annoying in grass or if you are trying to talk to people and such.

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Definitely wish there were a way to unequip them, I'd like the option of walking with the Circle Pad instead of the D-Pad. After getting the bike too it's not really fast enough that I'd ever want to use it unless I were forced to.

P.S: OP if you were referring to Streets of Rage in your thread title you are officially awesome!
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I don't have issues with the skates; I like them a lot, actually, though I guess it's partially due to how I dislike those who walk slow (for me) IRL.
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P.S: OP if you were referring to Streets of Rage in your thread title you are officially awesome!
Lol, thanks, really just a sign of my age though!

I don't have issues with the skates; I like them a lot, actually, though I guess it's partially due to how I dislike those who walk slow (for me) IRL.
Oh I get that too, pave-rage, the worst is when people stand in doorways to places you want to exit. Get outta the way!

It doesn't change my thoughts on skates though, you'd just get slow skaters. :/
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I have a hard time getting annoyed with the skates since you can always switch into bike or running shoes at places where skates are inconvenient (like the alleys). I thought it was a bit annoying that you had to use the D-pad to move with running shoes, but once I got the item finder, and registered it, it solved that issue as well.
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I love using the skates, except when I'm in narrow paths and patches of tall grass. Hate 'em or love 'em, they're certainly an upgrade from the running shoes in my opinion. I do think they should have had an on/off switch similar to the Exp. Share though.

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I actually find navigating around Lumiose City with it easier because I can turn to where I want to look instantly - Other than that I don't use it.
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Posted March 17th, 2014
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9.6 Years
As soon as I got the bike, I never used the roller skates unless I had to. lol
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I rarely use skates, as I find them to be very tricky. d: Only time you'll see me using them is when I'm in some sort of a rush, and need to get from one point to another as quick as possible. Wish they allowed us to modify the speed for our roller skates, though. At the moment, they're way too fast.

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I don't have a problem with the speed, it just doesn't turn as well as I'd like it to, especially in mazes and stuff where there's a lot of tight corners. And the grass thing mentioned, it's annoying to be slowed down when you hit a patch of grass. I get that both of these things make it more realistic, I just don't like it. :P

The novelty of having skates in a Pokemon game wore off pretty quickly, and as soon as I got the bike I just registered it and rode that around whenever I could.
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My joystick is slightly broken, so when I use it I found myself going too fast, and sometimes not in the right direction...but it wasn't as annoying as I expected it to be. Would be nice if they shift the two in Z or RS remakes...
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I'm a D-Pad person so it doesn't much matter to me.
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I don't like the skates... Hopefully GameFreak patches it or something so you can turn it on and off like the Exp.Share.
I love the bicycle and I prefer using the running shoes over the skates.
Only thing I liked about the skates, is that you can do tricks. But that is just for show, and doesn't help with anything, so what's the point?

As like the others, I always used the Dowsing Machine to walk normally.
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215 posts
13 Years
I'm a little weird.. I never really used the skates unless I was back tracking someplace I've already been through/had to grind a rail to get an out of reach item.

I didn't even touch the bike until I started doing massive breeding experimentations.

I usually used to directional pad and ran around <_<* .. The skates were pretty easy to ignore, but I do wish you at least had the option to change what the circle pad did.
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I personally enjoyed the Skates, Allowing me to zip from the Day care to the Berry Fields in mere seconds, Though i did hate the fact that there wasn't any Roller-skating competitions or anything, You know, Do flips and 360's :( But i liked it, It was fast!