ITT: Franchise peaks
ITT: Franchise peaks
Lucas Cook
Connor Thomas
Jeremiah Collins
>weather wars the meta
Brody Martin
Landon Turner
Gabriel Hughes
Samuel Lewis
OP here, forget to mention I was born in 2006
Adam Wright
day 1 of OSRS was magical and honestly the peak throughout the 20+ years the game has existed
Nathaniel Harris
Juan Baker
Jaxon Jenkins
best game of the franchise, could actually stand on its own without the brand name, cant say the same for all the other pokemon games
Kayden Robinson
Wrong, zoomer.
Alexander Green
Christian Nguyen
youre autistic if you think pokemon games are meant for pvp, just use showdown
Owen Collins
fuck that 3rd case for being glorified filler, killed any desire to continue
Ryder Powell
Bloodborne
Easton Green
Garbage games.
Adam Gomez
>Playing OU in gen5
Gen5 UU was kino
Ryan Jones
Dear diary, today OP was not a fag
Angel Allen
>Fanfic meta
>Any gen
Aaron Parker
Try Polished Crystal if you haven't already.
Extremely good take on Crystal.
Chase Barnes
No, it fucking ruins everything good about the original games.
Why do ROM hackers always have to take everything to the extreme? Just a few simple fixes/QOL and a bit extra postgame content is fine. Why do you have to add random maps everywhere and bloat the game with your garbage fanfic mechanics?
Vanilla Crystal still holds up amazingly well today for a GameBoy Colour game.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
this was the peak
John James
Polished doesn't add any fanfic mechanics, it borrows from the newer gens.
>random maps everywhere
They're all based on Pokewalker locations, or in Cherrygrove's case it gives the region better flow later on. And why not add new areas? Johto is tiny.
Jose Cook
>Metafag
David Wright
Hudson Bailey
Gen 2 is early zoomercore and no amount of seething and denial will ever change that.
Now tell us your pronouns.
Lincoln Collins
I disagree.
The new areas make perfect sense in the world and are all areas that exist in lore. I enjoyed discovering places I've never been to before in a world I know well.
As far as mechanics go, they're all taken from later generations that are in almost every case a solid improvement.
Also, the phys/spec split alone makes playing Vanilla Crystal a slog.
Jack Garcia
fucking filtered. 3rd case was kino
Evan Reed
That's not Pokemon Emerald patched with all 386 Pokemon and Day and Night cycle
Luke Campbell
This is such a zoomer thread...
...Christ
Kevin Collins
Second best
Cameron Murphy
The phys/spec split (and natures and abilities) is why I AVOID Gens 3+. Literally, Legends Arceus is the first decent Pokémon game since Crystal purely because it toned down these stupid mechanics.
Elijah Bailey
no other entries even come close to PLA
Brandon Sullivan
>competitive pokèmon
Sebastian Edwards
Or arguably V
Oliver Wright
You have to be joking, user.
>Many of the new Pokemon are unavailable until after the elite 4, including all of the Dark types except for Umbreon and Sneedsel in Crystal.
>Only 5 gen 2 Pokemon are used by Johto's 8 gym leaders.
>Many Pokemon have very limited options for moves, many even lack STAB attacks.
>No stone evolutions until post elite 4
>Between Morty and the Radio Tower, all NPC trainer and wild Pokemon's levels flatline due to "muh non-linearity" causing the game to become easy and boring.
>Kanto in general lacks anything interesting, and none of the gym leaders and trainers except for Blue pose any challenge as they have Pokemon weaker than the Elite 4.
Gen 2 aged like milk, only carried by it's soundtrack, aesthetics, and nostalgia playing the games is a slog. HGSS at least fixed a good number of it's problems.
Brody Green
Jayden Robinson
>Hating the Physical/Special split
Wyatt Harris
the only reason you prefer these games over HGSS is because of nostalgia
Ryder Thomas
>Snorlax meta
Juan Rogers
>The phys/spec split (and natures and abilities) is why I AVOID Gens 3+
Why?
Abilities especially add so much character to certain pokemon. Like Ditto auto-transforming through his ability.
And Phys/spec split makes many pokemon that were previously handicapped really strong. Notable examples are Feraligatr and Gyarados but the list goes on.
Adrian Roberts
user, Pokémon in general is Zoomercore.
Michael Long
Hello Jan!
Joshua Russell
The single player Pokemon games are always, literally always, just glorified tutorials for the pvp. Even the "hardest" romhacks are piss easy.
Sebastian Hughes
Austin Myers
Gyarados was already good.
Zachary Cox
The only thing that Legends Arceus doesn't have is abilities. It has natures and the phys/spec split.
Kevin Bennett
Yes but not the disgusting Wii version.
Joseph Cooper
>Gen 2 is great because... It just is, okay??
Aiden Collins
Yes. Every pokemon having super powerful stab moves goes against the game design of the first two gens.
Nicholas Torres
Gyarados was "okay". When your strongest move is a non-stab EQ, something's wrong.
Landon Ross
>Gyarados was "okay"
It was OU.
>When your strongest move is a non-stab EQ
HP Flying is stronger.
Jaxon Perez
>Hyper Beam
Christian Baker
Dylan Powell
>Many Pokemon have very limited options for moves, many even lack STAB attacks.
This one really stings, even if you get a Phanpy or a Heracross, those Pokemon get no decent STAB moves ever, so apart from resistances it's like you're just playing with a weaker Normal type. I really don't know why they didn't make it a priority to make sure all Pokemon had access to a generic weak/midgame/strong stab option for each of their types at the very least. Instead half of the early ground type moves are exclusive to the Cubone family for some reason.
Adrian Nguyen
Hyper Beam's recharge skip was a bug. It was even fixed in Stadium.
Dylan Harris
He lost my respect, when he bitched about Clover, but holy fucking based
Ryder Thomas
Tyler Russell
There just weren't a lot of bug, ground, or fighting-type moves back then, and there were only so many moves that could fit into the game.
Hunter Mitchell
Weather wars were kino
Parker Williams
Then the game would already be more of a 1HKO rock-paper-scissors game than it already is
Tyler Rodriguez
Hudson Campbell
Austin Turner
Oh yeah, you have to have all those great moves, like pound or scratch or tackle or headbutt or double slap or fury swipes or egg bomb or barrage.
Elijah Harris
>First game is the best one
Also applies to Viewtiful Joe. Any other series where they got it (mostly) right the first time and then lost the plot?
Cooper Jones
Obamasnow shouldn't even be in the picture.
Dylan Brooks
Serious Sam, if you consider the first two encounters as one game.
Juan Price
What do you mean, half the fun in the games is leveraging the rock paper scissors to your advantage, and as it is the types lacking good STAB moves are types which are weak to begin with. Ground types lack any offensive options until they get access to the best attacking move in the game, it's just a really weird binary.
David Gray
>pound or scratch or tackle
Those actually need to exist though, they're the most basic moves that pokemon need so there's balance
>Headbutt
For trees, also flinching
>Double Slap or Fury Swipes or egg bomb or barrage
These I agree with.