The ILG Pokemon Thread

don't know how it is where you guys live, but there's been crazy pokemon warnings here all summer—kids aren't even allowed outside by themselves

SQUIRTLE CROSSING

kids just need to stay out of caves and the tall grass

These Pokemen are expensive. After this thread's revival I thought I should get Black/White as I haven't played one in a long time, but it's still basically full price. Thought I'd be able to pick it up for a tenner or so by now. :(

you can barely get used game boy advance games for $10 on eBay. Nintendo shit holds its value new and used for a long time.

not sure i'm comfortable with this evil pokemans liberation front storyline in black. it's a little dark knight rises.

x/y y/n?

yes! except I forgot when it was due to come out and only just placed my order for it a few minutes ago :$

as expected it slays

seriously so dumb that it's 2013 and i can't just play this on my iphone as an app. fuck going to my mom's house and busting out my game boy

it does slay

I've been playing for about a week now. The new graphics are nice but I don't think it's a huuuuuuge step up from Black/White.

Random things I like about this game: Hawlucha, Restaurant Le Yeah's triple battles (it made it so easy to get my team levelled up between the 30s/40s without grinding), the storyline giving you a few really decent Pokemon in the first half of the game, new moves, new 'fairy' type, being able to see distribution of EVs, Pikachu's voice acting

Dislikes: only Pikachu gets voice acting, poor camera angling and lack of any on-screen map when in lumiose city, 'horde battles', that some of the ppl who challenge you to battles are a bit freaky/zombie-like in their 2D drawings, too many challengers with fighting types, two dimensional Stunfisk.

you take that back, flat Stunfisk is hilarious

flat stunfisk is so puzzling! I know it's supposed to be flat-ish but surely not two dimensional! I honestly thought my game was glitching the first time I encountered one :/

it's got a little bit of thickness, I thought, but I haven't encountered one since a Battle Maison match a few days ago so I could be mistaken. I think it's supposed to be one of those fish that hides from predators in the sand. I love it

you guuuyyyyss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YMD6xELI_k

I found a Stunfisk in my hometown :3

http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/21/6052553/how-to-catch-every-pokemon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5mRvkAePU

my girlfriend got me pokemon pearl and a DS for our anniversary, after hearing me complain about how much i missed playing pokemon. as someone who last played silver something like 10 years ago, i was happy with how similar the gameplay is relative to the old ones (though i guess pearl is pretty old at this point). not really a huge fan of the double battles, and i'm uninterested in all the berries/pokemon contests and stuff, but the plot is still pretty good. my only real complaint would be the lack of cool pokemon to raise, though i guess i just made some bad choices. i had always gone with the water starters, so i chose piplup, but he doesn't really learn any cool moves. the other 2 i've had for a while are machop and luxio.

finally playing pokemon x!!
why won't it let me name my pidgey 'burrows'?? what am I missing here?

naked lunch i guess?

this merch is pretty damn cute
http://www.pokemoncenter.com/Pokemon-Fennekin-Items-Collections/b/10676406011

Moon and Sun! Moon and Sun! Moon and Sun!

this thread missed like 3 games but scarlet and violet! scarlet and violet!

Sword Shield was underwhelming in a lot of ways but its new pokemon and region specific types were great. I'm not far enough into Scarlet Violet to judge it yet but the changes/updates so far are promising.

Pokemon - which are your fav'rits?

feeling dratini lately

Pokemon games - which is best?

gold and silver in a walk

Did you catch 'em all?

no

arceus was really good, i should go back and finish it. will continue my staunch refusal to play a new mainline one though