Katsuya ranks the mountain of his video games (GBC #2 POSTED!)

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Katsuya		#81	[-]
Posts: 4985 (08/23/09 5:11 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	#4: Pokemon Gold There is very little I can put Gold/Silver down on, so Gold is really here to act as my way of saying all the bad things about the 2nd Gen. First of all, Ho-Oh...is not a good legendary. I mean, it's a Fire/Flying type, so you've got weakness to Water AND Electric (in the same gen that they introduced a Water/Electric type, too V_V) and if you have a rock Pokemon, you probably have a good shot at a one-hit KO. Then there's that whole "find Suicune/Entei/Raikou" thing, and really the only one you want is Suicune since it's essentially one of the strongest Pokemon ever created, but it's impossible to find ANY of them, and then you have to catch the bastards. Also, Gold/Silver introduced the Steel type and made Magnemite and Magneton ridiculously strong. Also, I actually thought I lost my copy of Gold fairly shortly after getting it, then found it like, six-seven months later in the boot of my dad's car...and I definitely didn't put it there x_x. On the other hand, I've been on/off playing a game of Gold recently, and just before I head off to get the Medicine for Jasmine, my team is... Lv. 25 - Graveler Lv. 25 - Pidgeotto Lv. 26 - Flaafy Lv. 26 - Bayleef Lv. 21 - Quagsire Lv. 26 - Butterfree Yayzers, though. #3: Pokemon Trading Card Game Oh. My. God. Soooooooo awesome. This is the best spin-off Pokemon game ever created; better than all the GBC, GBA, N64, Wii, Gamecube...every other game fails in comparison with TCG. Now, as we've all seen before in this thread, a lot of people were obsessed with the TCG. But, admittedly, I hardly ever played it with anyone; like, everybody collected it, but hardly anyone ever played it. This, therefore, acted as my way of playing the game - and it was just brilliant. The fact I got it like, six months before everyone else I knew because my dad got it from the USA on a trip <3. I mean...it was like a slightly stripped down normal Pokemon game: same storyline; you get your first deck and start on your journey to be the best card player. Your rival appears to battle you at set points in the game; you have eight gyms to go through, all themed to a particular type. Then, once you've cleared all them, you go to fight the Elite Four, who were an actual massive challenge: each had their decks suited to one of the legendary birds, and these were cards that you couldn't expect because they weren't actually real. I mean, there's very little that I can have a go at this game for. It was just so awesome...the only thing I can think of was the fact that once you'd completed the game once, the replay value wasn't huuuuge (although you could try and collect every card, or go back to any gym for fun). But it was just greatness, and...yeah. The fact they never did another one just makes me sad (I know there was a TCG2, but I think it only added like, half the cards from the Team Rocket decks, so...yeahh...it never got released outside of Japan, too
Dan Down Under		#82	[-]
Posts: 5314 (08/23/09 5:21 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Amphoras(sp?)OWNAGE!
SurvivorFanGP		#83	[-]
Posts: 11132 (08/23/09 9:28 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Ampharos <3 Pokemon GSC <333 so epic ^_^ The TCG is epic! Getting to choose your own starter deck that was based off Bulbasaur/Squirtle/Charmander <3 same here, lots collected the cards but didn't really play them, but the game was so easy to catch on to <3
JSH		#84	[-]
Posts: 153 (08/23/09 12:17 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I love the tradng card game.. My favourite thing about the game is that creepy costume dude who appears at the gyms and when you beat him he gives you 4 times the cards a normal battle would give... I would always go battling him over and over and then go do the tutorial match over and over to get more energy cards...
GoHomeAndEatYoRice		#85	[-]
Posts: 1326 (08/23/09 12:32 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Silver is so amazing, I hope it wins.
troynuncdicit		#86	[-]
Posts: 135 (08/23/09 12:51 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Silver better win. And I never had the TCG game :o I collected all the cards but I never understood the rules to play the game :o I'm really tempted to go to some GameStop and buy it used for whatever it costs (probably <$10) x_x Silver better win. Even though Crystal is my all time favorite Pokemon game <3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
SurvivorFanGP		#87	[-]
Posts: 11163 (08/23/09 6:14 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I never got into Crystal for some reason I preferred the GS storyline to the Suicune/Unown story.
Wuming Shi		#88	[-]
Posts: 6151 (08/23/09 7:06 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	JSH wrote: I love the tradng card game.. My favourite thing about the game is that creepy costume dude who appears at the gyms and when you beat him he gives you 4 times the cards a normal battle would give... I would always go battling him over and over and then go do the tutorial match over and over to get more energy cards... Don't forget his useless card that only confused the Pokemon that used it.
Mooyou		#89	[-]
Posts: 1472 (08/23/09 7:18 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Wuming Shi wrote: JSH wrote: I love the tradng card game.. My favourite thing about the game is that creepy costume dude who appears at the gyms and when you beat him he gives you 4 times the cards a normal battle would give... I would always go battling him over and over and then go do the tutorial match over and over to get more energy cards... Don't forget his useless card that only confused the Pokemon that used it. Imakuni! <3333333 LOL!
oh ehm gee		#90	[-]
Posts: 3700 (08/23/09 11:02 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I was totally glad that Silver didn't have a Rock trainer; I'm re-creating my original team and, with years of hindsight, have realized that they're raped by a Rock type (for the record, it was Typhlosion / Pidgeot / Ampharos / Crobat / Red Gyarados / Espeon) fake eta: You picked Chikorita? With the gym setup the way it was? Brave (and unlike Charmander, who evolved into something overrated worth the wait, Meganium was...meh. Granted, this was the weakest set of starters, but still.)
SurvivorFanGP		#91	[-]
Posts: 11167 (08/23/09 11:12 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Chikorita <33 IMO the grass starters are usually the best, they're diverse and have the healing/status moves.
Thingamajig		#92	[-]
Posts: 6097 (08/24/09 1:08 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	SurvivorFanGP wrote: Chikorita <33 IMO the grass starters are usually the best, they're diverse and have the healing/status moves. So true. Turtwig <3
JSH		#93	[-]
Posts: 155 (08/24/09 5:23 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Chicorita and Bulbasaur are still my favourite starters ever... Imakuni love <3<3<3 I remember back in like 4th grade there was like 3 people in my school that actually knew how to play with the cards and not just collect them.. and everyone pretty much collected them.. Before that the gogo's were the it thing to collect and before gogo's there was marble balls in our school.. Then they banned trading pokeon cards becouse the younger people complained about the older people stealing their cards and stuff..
Katsuya		#94	[-]
Posts: 5017 (08/24/09 2:58 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Meh, I'll update #2 and #1 tomorrow...but in answer to the "you chose Chikorita?"...I always pick the grass starter. Long story, but I got my first park of Pokemon cards before I got Red, and the first card I saw? Shiny Venusaur. So, like, I HAD to choose Bulbasaur in Red, and then from then on I just chose the grass Pokemon. Although that might not have happened had it not have been for something I'll reveal in the Silver write-up, since I technically also started with Cyndaquil once. As it stands, I think that, overall, the Fire starters were the way to go for both the first games. Chances are that if you chose Charmander in Red or Blue, you'd have to nab a Caterpie and level it up to a Butterfree to beat Brock, but once you're past him, you'd be pretty much set for the rest of the game (especially considering, IMO, the fact that Erika is probably one of the toughest 3 boss battles, behind Giovanni and Sabrina). Cyndaquil, meanwhile, just kicks ass all the way through to like, Morty, and then can deal with Jasmine so easily.Totodile is pretty useless against Bugsy; Chikorita can get away with it for the most part, since Falkner is a pussy and you can generally find a Pokemon for the other battles. After that...meh. Torchic -> Blaziken is pretty strong, Treecko has the coolest 1st evo ever (Grovile <3) and Mudkip is useless. Torterra > all, though. It has to be said, although Empoleon's pretty good too. That fire-Primeape wannabe can fuck right off though.
Cuauhtemoc Gilmore		#95	[-]
Posts: 19966 (08/24/09 6:56 PM) OMEDETO, CATHY!! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Too bad fire pokemon get owned badly in 4th generation from the new moves.
Thingamajig		#96	[-]
Posts: 6100 (08/24/09 7:41 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	What annoys me most about the Chimchar line is that at the end of the day, you end up with a Fire/Fighting type... just like in Gen III. I mean, something new might be a little more interesting, but it's pretty much the same thing two generations in a row. Water/Steel is an awesome type combo (as much as I hate that famewhore, Piplup) and Grass/Ground, despite the fact it sounds like a really common combination - is unique to Torterra, too. What about... Fire/Poison, or Fire/Electric? they'd make for some pretty unique starters. You could have some kind of Fire-toad.
oh ehm gee		#97	[-]
Posts: 3708 (08/24/09 10:29 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Katsuya wrote: As it stands, I think that, overall, the Fire starters were the way to go for both the first games. Chances are that if you chose Charmander in Red or Blue, you'd have to nab a Caterpie and level it up to a Butterfree to beat Brock, but once you're past him, you'd be pretty much set for the rest of the game (especially considering, IMO, the fact that Erika is probably one of the toughest 3 boss battles, behind Giovanni and Sabrina). Cyndaquil, meanwhile, just kicks ass all the way through to like, Morty, and then can deal with Jasmine so easily. Totodile is pretty useless against Bugsy; Chikorita can get away with it for the most part, since Falkner is a pussy and you can generally find a Pokemon for the other battles. After that...meh. Torchic -> Blaziken is pretty strong, Treecko has the coolest 1st evo ever (Grovile <3) and Mudkip is useless. Torterra > all, though. It has to be said, although Empoleon's pretty good too. That fire-Primeape wannabe can fuck right off though. Wartortle + Ice Beam found on the rooftop of the Celadon Mall = win. Even better was in Yellow, where you could buy a Vulpix <_<. Two insignificant reasons why GSC is <333: The lack of an early rock gym, thus allowing for an easier time with Cyndaquil, Ampharos, the designated Flying type, Crobat (if you so choose), Gastly (if you so choose), etc and because of the balance of decent pokemon in the early game and the late game (compared to DPPt, where you could have a diverse team for the E4 before fighting Roark).
Thingamajig		#98	[-]
Posts: 6102 (08/25/09 6:06 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	oh ehm gee wrote: (compared to DPPt, where you could have a diverse team for the E4 before fighting Roark). That can be a good thing, too. Still, the fact you can have a Fire, Rock, Flying, Water, Grass and Electric type before Roark makes it harder to build up an endgame team without making an attatchment. I mean, I wanted to have the following Platinum team Infernape (I wanted a change from Torterra, which I did in Diamond) Gliscor Staraptor Weavile Ambipom Garchomp But because there were just so many available early in the game (like Roserade and Luxray) which I caught to fill out my team, I never even got around to capturing a Gabite, and ended up subbing the remaining 7 back and forth. The other problem was that Sneasel was caught so late in the game, I needed something to fill in the space before then.
Mooyou		#99	[-]
Posts: 1475 (08/25/09 6:19 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Thingamajig wrote: ...as much as I hate that famewhore, Piplup... LOL SO MUCH AT THIS... Piplup <333 Turtwig rocks as well... Piplup is the most useless first/basic starter for DP though, But Infernape = TRASH.
oh ehm gee		#100	[-]
Posts: 3712 (08/25/09 8:51 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Thingamajig wrote: oh ehm gee wrote: (compared to DPPt, where you could have a diverse team for the E4 before fighting Roark). That can be a good thing, too. Still, the fact you can have a Fire, Rock, Flying, Water, Grass and Electric type before Roark makes it harder to build up an endgame team without making an attatchment. I mean, I wanted to have the following Platinum team Infernape (I wanted a change from Torterra, which I did in Diamond) Gliscor Staraptor Weavile Ambipom Garchomp But because there were just so many available early in the game (like Roserade and Luxray) which I caught to fill out my team, I never even got around to capturing a Gabite, and ended up subbing the remaining 7 back and forth. The other problem was that Sneasel was caught so late in the game, I needed something to fill in the space before then. That was my point. At one point I wanted to make a mono-Ground team (with Torterra / Gliscor / Mamoswine / Garchomp / Rhyperior / Nidoking), but realized it would take a long ass time to get Swinub (turned Mamoswine), plus the Nidroyals weren't in the original Sinnoh dex. Then I just said fuck it, caught a Starly and Shinx and went from there.

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