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Choosing Your Next Game

RMVNZ

RMVNZ

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    With an abundance of romhacks and fangames out there, it may seem overwhelming to choose your next game.
    To prevent analysis paralysis, you may even have "prospective green flags" that will help with this decision.

    For me, I really enjoy going through a unique completed story using an optimized, diversified team.
    So, if I see a game that boasts a well-written original story, that will get me interested.
    If that game forgoes HMs as a means of traversal and allows me to traverse the region via other methods, then that bids well for me.
    (Mandatory moveslot waste to Cut, Strength, Rock Smash, Whirlpool, etc. is a huge Pokémon pet peeve of mine.)
    Further on top of that, if I can minimize soft resets by having the option to modify my Pokémon's nature in-game, then I'm basically sold and downloading the game as we speak.

    For you, how do you decide the next game you'll sink hours to?
     
    I generally picks one that have a nice idea (like a game telling Oak's journey, a game where you are the villain, a minecraft style game) and/or I heard many good things about the game.

    Things that turn me off are (more important first):
    1. Games that force you to have a certain party and/or mandatory level caps
    2. Not know how to evolve some pokémon (or, in some cases, if they are possible to evolve, like Kadabra)
    3. Having a speed up/fast forward/turbo button
    4. Too many HMs (like GSC, RSE and DPP), but this one is hard to figure just by game thread
    5. Ugly sprites (specially fakemon and inconsistent art)
    6. Having only mega as gimmicks and only available to some pokémon. This makes my party unbalanced
     
    For me the green flags are:
    no need for HMs
    modern style exp gain
    has more than just gen 1-3 mons
    phys/spec split

    and my red flags are:
    made in rpgmaker
    too much grinding / sudden level spikes
     
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