May 17, 2015, 05:00 PM
(May 17, 2015, 03:57 PM)beastmoose Wrote: I take the story to be a very fun part of the game, and to be taken lightly. I really liked my ORAS playthrough, because I limited myself to only using Pokemon introduced in Gen. 3, as well as they had to be placed in Smogon's NU and PU tier (The dream team of Shedinja, Masquerain, Minun, Tropius, Camerupt, and Walrein). I think that adding this small challenge mad the game infinitely more fun, and I was actually screaming with joy when I beat the Champion :P . I feel like shining the spotlight on the Pokemon that never get any attention was great, plus I got a few new favorites out of it. :D
That sounds quite fantastic. I'm glad you'd gotten so much joy over limiting yourself like that! :D
There are certainly many ways to go about the Pokemon games, other than vanilla. THe path you chose seemed to have worked out well.
(May 17, 2015, 04:01 PM)naitre Wrote: I felt like ORAS was a bit of a step backwards after X/Y, but that might just be because I'm salty about losing character customization. I think it was a combination of just having put down X/Y for it and some other factors in my life that just took interest away from it. I'm not really a huge fan of the storyline, but I don't think anyone really plays Pokemon for its riveting storyline, haha. Pokemon is just competitive for me and nothing else.
As soon as I was able to Wondertrade, I gave away all my prized Wurmples and played the game with the first 6 Pokemon I received on Wondertrade. It was a nice change of pace and brought some challenge to the scripted game, since I couldn't just go counter-team the gym leader to win.
I really dislike when Nintendo makes a new Pokemon game, but they take out past features. Features that were collectively positive. Having character customization in this would have been pretty nice. I miss seeing the first Pokemon in my party, walking with me, too. ;c
But I understand for the most part I think. Sometimes Pokemon games come out too quickly, I feel.
I do wish the story-lines were better, though. I don't think anyone really plays for the story-line, but that might be because Nintendo misses a large demographic.
If I hadn't started to play the way I normally do, I think I would play this way.
When the next Pokemon game comes out I think this will be a route I'm willing to go. Thanks for the new idea. :D
Competitive seems like it really is the main way to go in the games.
(May 17, 2015, 04:11 PM)Eckley Wrote: I played AS normally, just used whatever I caught, beat the game relatively quickly. For whatever reason gen 3 sticks out to me, so I enjoyed playing through the game but I just expected a little more. Maybe it's because they were re makes, I don't know, but when I got around to playing OR I played through using only Swampert and then I started working on the pokedex on AS but as usual I gave up after a day haha
That's unfortunate. I really do feel that the Pokemon games could be expanded on a bit more, and each version of the game could have decent differences.
But, I've spoken to someone about this in the past. They basically say; "If they formula works the way it is, and sells as much as it does, Nintendo doesn't have to care who they sell to. People already buy it up as it is."
(May 17, 2015, 04:28 PM)terrorkid94 Wrote: Grinding and trading for the stuff I can't get on my game and all one type. Psychic was my favorite I my final team was Delphox Slowbro Exeggutor Mr.Mime Medicham and Sigilyph
Very cool. You basically played through the game as if you were a Gym Leader. I like that. Commendable, and sounds difficult to go against your weaknesses.
