Chit-Chat Watch out for Ghosts... Page 95

Started by Meadow January 19th, 2016 9:57 AM
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The 3DS eShop has been going for years now, though...they've had plenty of time to build up a decent library. It's good, but not as good as it should be, because the 3DS is more than capable of running GBA titles and they really should have put them on that and not the failing Wii U.

I wish we'd gotten the second Pokemon TCG game, though. I remember loving the first back in the day...not gotten around to playing it again on my 3DS yet though. Too much else to do. xD

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As solid as the 3DS shop is they really should have got around to putting the second TCG game on there which I don't think was released outside of Japan.

Also Pokemon Gold and Silver. It is near impossible to find a working copy of either (Or for that matter HGSS) and those who started in Gen 2 would greatly appreciate it.

Incidentally I super luckily found a copy of Heart Gold (Without Pokewalker or box) for the incredibly low price of £2.00. :0
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That is correct, the second TCG game was Japan-only. Shame too, because it had a female protagonist while the original only had the male.
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It feels odd now that it wasn't until Gen 2 that you could play as a girl. This of course led to the famous Oakism 'Are you a Boy or a Girl?'. Thankfully Kukui avoids asking such a question in Sun/Moon.

Incidentally my favourite Protagonist model is BW's Hilda/White.

I think the guy in the second hand shop I got my Heart Gold from didn't realise it's value. Nor did he seem to notice my surprise at hearing the price. With a box it goes for £50 here. Soul Silver even more.

I have an original Sapphire cartridge still with my original Sceptile and Gardevoir on. Easily my oldest Pokemon.
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I think a lot of the reason the females are so different is the hairstyles traditionally available to women are far more varied.

Since Gen 3 the styles have been short (May), long and straight (Leaf), the style Lyra had, ponytail (Hilda), Twin Buns (Rosa), Long and Wavy (Serena) and Bob (Moon). All the guys since Gen 5 especially have looked near identical.

That's without the Pokewalker. With the Pokewalker is even higher as HGSS is very rare here in Europe.
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I didn't realise HGSS was that rare either. I swear my copy wasn't that expensive (but then again, I did get it close to when it came out, so there would have been more of them around then.) Had a look at the price for the full set (HG game with boxes + Pokewalker) on ebay and they're in the realm of £80! If I can find the big box and the Pokewalker perhaps I should sell mine... Must be a HGSS thing as well, as the other Gen 4 games are nowhere near as expensive.

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I just bought a copy of Soul Silver this week (it was hard to find a good deal)
The first time I played Soul Silver when it came out, the hat of the girl was annoying me so much I chose the boy. It was the first time I played a boy since Crystal. But now I chose the girl for my new playthrough, I've gotten around to like her design

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In my second hand game store Soul Silver was going for an eye watering £55 without the Pokewalker whilst Platinum was going for only £22.

I think the Johto remakes came out in limited quantities for some reason (Unlike the Sinnoh games) explaining the high second game price.

On protagonist clothes the females do have more style. My Sun Character Rebecca has a Gothorita t-shirts on. :)
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I just bought a copy of Soul Silver this week (it was hard to find a good deal)
The first time I played Soul Silver when it came out, the hat of the girl was annoying me so much I chose the boy. It was the first time I played a boy since Crystal. But now I chose the girl for my new playthrough, I've gotten around to like her design
agree on that, but i've almost never played as the male protag, not as far as i can remember.
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The annoying thing is there are sooooo many clothing options they could utilise that would give guys some great options. Come to think of it, the whole clothing feature is severely under-utilised, and whilst it thematically fit, I felt like Sun/Moon was a step backwards with no coats etc.

...and we really should have been able to design our own stuff and share them with QR codes. If we could do it in Animal Crossing...

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I just bought a copy of Soul Silver this week (it was hard to find a good deal)
The first time I played Soul Silver when it came out, the hat of the girl was annoying me so much I chose the boy. It was the first time I played a boy since Crystal. But now I chose the girl for my new playthrough, I've gotten around to like her design
I'm surprised copies of HGSS cost so much (I just looked up some prices), as they aren't even incredibly old games. I wonder if they blow up the pricing just because they have such a good rating from the community.

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Both HG and SS were surprisingly cheap for me. I don't remember what they cost but it wasn't anything crazy.
Though it was quite a while since I got them so maybe the price has jumped up.
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I've never posted on this Thread {D:}? Well, never too late to start {:3}.

Its been quite a while since I've played any Pokemon game. Not played any after Gen V.

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No longer have SS or White, but I think Im more obssesed with harder romhack versions of them anyway.

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You've not missed much. In fact, I'd say you stopped at just the right time. xD
Guessing you literally hated everything after?

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The annoying thing is there are sooooo many clothing options they could utilise that would give guys some great options. Come to think of it, the whole clothing feature is severely under-utilised, and whilst it thematically fit, I felt like Sun/Moon was a step backwards with no coats etc.
Not just with the options being limited to clothes that fit a tropical climate, but making certain colours version exclusive as well. While pastel and dark shades of some colours are available in Dye Shops in the Festival Plaza, the normal shades are still truly exclusive.

Game Freak will clearly need to improve the customization again in the next generation if it returns, especially with all the backlash on how it was handled in Alola.
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Guessing you literally hated everything after?
Hmmm...I think "hated" might be too strong a word for some of the games. I found Black 2 an improvement over Black, and XY were just disappointing.

It takes a lot for me to really hate a game in that sense, but I do strongly dislike the bare bones NPC-focused narrative approach the games have been taking since Black/White, to the point that I actually put down Sun in disgust because of it. I feel the characters are undeveloped and insufficient to justify alienating the player from the world. I don't like the "story" of the games, basically. It barely qualifies as a plot and the focus isn't where it should be.

Not just with the options being limited to clothes that fit a tropical climate, but making certain colours version exclusive as well. While pastel and dark shades of some colours are available in Dye Shops in the Festival Plaza, the normal shades are still truly exclusive.

Game Freak will clearly need to improve the customization again in the next generation if it returns, especially with all the backlash on how it was handled in Alola.
I suppose it makes sense to have version exclusive clothing - to a point - but given there is no way to acquire version exclusive clothing through trades or QR codes...it's unnecessary, I think. Festival Plaza was an absolute disaster too, on the subject. It made online unnecessarily convoluted and irritating, and was a far cry from the beautiful simplicity of the sixth gen's online features.

It wouldn't surprise me if they took customisation out again, honestly. You can guarantee it won't appear in DPPt remakes at least...although we might get a redesigned Dawn. That'd be nice.

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I feel DP remakes will likely follow OR/AS with the "no customization because we want to remind you of these characters" thing, but if customization continues being flawed, I'd want Game Freak to get rid of it entirely, especially if the female protagonist continues getting a good design.
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I wish they'd remake third versions. ORAS were inferior to Emerald, and chances are that DP remakes would be inferior to Platinum if they're going to keep pushing this story-driven approach to the games.

...although given that Gen IV is my favourite, I'd welcome a remake no matter its form. xD
Hopefully they'll actually add some Platinum content to it, especially during the Spear Pillar part. And Im sure this has been said 1mill times but also hopefully catching Arceus is ingame.