/jp/ - Otaku Culture

You accidentally posted Blue instead of Yellow. Honest mistake.

>>11097067
Actually, I think Red was better

Yellow was best. Best designs. Best color. Best ability to have pikachu follow you. Best cartoon tie in.

>>11097071

Nidoran is best poke hands down. Pikachu is just eyecandy.

Gen 2 was the best.

>>11097074
As long as it was female, I want mine to grow up to be a beautiful female, not a male brute.

>>11097080
2 > 1 > 5 > 3 > dogshit > 4

>>11097082

Nidoking has a much insaner moveset than Nidoqueen.

>>11097087
Only losers pick pokemon because of their strength. You will never be a pokemon master.

>>11097084
This nigga knows what's up.

Glitchy and unbalanced mess

>>11097093
le missingno face

>>11097088

I chose Nidoking because he is the best poke to speedrun with.

>>11097074
>>11097082
How come nidorans are still two different species when we have genders now?

>>11097104
gender is a social construct

Genwunners pls go

NIDOREY EVOLUCIONA EN....

>>11097107
I wonder if X and Y will give a way to swap one to the other.

>>11097084
>gen V not being having the derppest pokemon in existance.
kill yourself

>>11097114
it's also called Nidoking in spanish, though

>>11097198
speaking spanish in 2013
kill yourself

>>11097200
>Not speaking the language of God
JAJAJA

>>11097200
but i was talking in English?
wow, you sure are dumb

>>11097202
acknowledgement is a step in the right direction

>>11097204
i don't know if you are actually trying to call yourself dumb, so i'll just stop posting because name calling is mean.

>>11097208
we all know what you posted on
>>11097202

>>11097213
yeah i ended with

>wow, you sure are dumb

and you replied with

>acknowledgement is a step in the right direction

from my point of view, it sure looks like you are acknowledging your dumbness. keep this in mind next time you want to insult people,ok?

>>11097217
you started with
>but i was talking in English?

from my point of view, it sure looks like you are acknowledging spanish is dumb. keep this in mind next time you want to insult people,ok?

>>11097223
i never said spanish was dumb. and i was talking in english. there's no reason to assume i was talking in spanish, i don't know what makes you think that.

maybe you really are dumb...

>>11097229
you never said spanish wasn't dumb. and i never mentioned you talking in english. there's good reason to assume you speak spanish, i don't know what makes you think that.

maybe you really are dumb...

shut the fuck up retards

God tier:
Rock

Good tier:
Water, Steel, Grass, Ground

Mid tier:
Normal, Flying, Fight, Bug

Low tier:
Fire, Electr, Ghost, Poison

Crawling my skin tier:
Dark, Dragon, Ice, Psychic

>>11097241
yeah you tell those trolls to fuck off. now let's go back to good old sage shitpost offtopic #YOLOINg

>>11097246
poison is my favorite, why did you rate it low bully

>>11097252
Poison has no moves.

I liked Silver the most. Is that okay?

>>11097256
i like pokemon for who they are not their strength jerk

>>11097259
Gen 2 was objectively the best. See >>11097084.

>>11097246
What about Fairy?

>>11097278
Gay Tier

>>11097285
There's nothing wrong with being gay.

Best Pokemon move?

Worst Pokemon move?

>>11097298
Tri Beam
Hidden power

>>11097298
Stealth Rock

Stealth Rock

I liked Gen 3 the most.

>>11097330
Shhh... just let it happen.

I've played since Gen 1 but I'm still terrible.

Pokemon isn't the best game. It isn't even Game Freak's best game. Their platformers (Pulsman/Drill Dozer) are more fun.

>>11097330
>>11097337

Is something the matter?

lol i thought i was on /v/
guess it's normal since both boards are similar and share the same userbase ;)
which pokemon would u hug?

I like pokemon too

>>11097358
>/v/
Negro, there is a /vp/ board you crusty cum gobbler.

>>11097358
Ghost Waifu

>>11097358

Quagsire

>>11097358
Meganium

>>11097358
no contest

>>11097107
chromosomes are a social construct.

>>11097388
Chromosones have to do with sex, not gender.

this whole thread. you would never be able to deduce it was from /jp/ in a blind test.

that's scary.

>>11097389
If you say gender anywhere that isn't in the context of grammar, it means sex. It's just that people stopped using the term sex when it became synonymous with sexual intercourse.

>>11097084
This is objectively true. Gen 1 was great already and really innovative for its time, but Gen 2 fixed a lot of the shortcomings and added some genuinely interesting features. I still think Pokemon Crystal is the definitive Pokemon experience.

Hell, I'll go get my GBC.

>>11097390
Same with every /jp/ thread. You feel like you're on /sci/ or /v/.

btw, Pokemon is a Japanese game and everything about /jp/'s creation involves video games.

>>11097388
>>11097389
>>11097395
gender or sex... it doesn't matter to me if you are a cute trap

>>11097084
4 is the best behind 2 for fixing pokemon's system.

>>11097389
Two words for the same thing. Only in humans can you find freaks that treat sexuality as something other than a tool for procreation.

>>11097390
Pokémon threads are kind of universal whenever they show up on a given board.

is anyone else unable to enjoy pokemon games playing at 1x speed?

>>11097390
However, this has actual discussion, unlike Touhou threads.

>>11097397
it's not the topic - rather how it's discussed.

>>11097407
same thing.

>>11097414
>rather how it's discussed.
What, with near-0 autism?

>>11097406
Also Bonobos

>>11097410
I did, when I played it when Blue first came out. That was also the only time I enjoyed playing them.

>>11097396
The thing about Gold/Silver/Crystal is that they added things to do beyond your actions. The world in Gen 1 was static and nothing happened unless you did something.

Meanwhile Gen 2 has the morning/day/night system (with events like the radio tower and special Pokemon), trainers that call you back, berries, breeding... All those are examples of "active" game design which makes the world more alive.

>>11097410
I tried playing Touhoumon at normal speed to enjoy the music. It didn't work and i quickly switched to 500% speed.

>>11097410
It's not the speed, it's the amount of text I have a problem with. Also the little song and dance they do when they appear. And now little EXP you get for such long battles.


I wish pokemon was more about trainer fights than wild pokemon fights. Gotta sell those repels somehow I guess.

>>11097439
More active game design isn't necessarily good game design. Most of those additions are annoying at best.

>>11097443
>Gotta sell those repels
Those jews!

pokemon blue/red was like the game of the year all years when i was a kid

the new games are better gameplay wise, but the orignal will always hold a special place for me

http://www.twitch.tv/werster

Have you guys seen pokemon speedruns before? They seem very interesting

>>11097483
Wester is very entertaining to watch.

>>11097450
If you see Pokemon as a descendant of Tamagotchi, those additions were steps in the right direction. The daytime-based events are great because they make the games more involving. The game goes beyond your Game Boy and adds a layer of faux-virtual reality like Tamagotchi did.

>>11097483
>>11097501

Samefag

>>11097507
>I am retarded, take a look at my post. I made this post to prove that I am retarded.

>>11097512

Quod erat demonstrandum.

GG

>>11097483
>>11097501
>>11097512
samefag

>>11097059
>>11097067
>>11097068
>>11097071
>>11097074
>>11097080
>>11097082
>>11097084
>>11097087
>>11097088
>>11097091
>>11097093
>>11097096
>>11097099
>>11097104
>>11097107
>>11097108
>>11097114
>>11097139
>>11097195
>>11097198
>>11097200
>>11097201
>>11097202
>>11097204
>>11097208
>>11097213
>>11097217
>>11097223
>>11097229
>>11097234
>>11097241
>>11097246
>>11097251
>>11097252
>>11097256
>>11097259
>>11097260
>>11097262
>>11097278
>>11097285
>>11097288
>>11097298
>>11097327
>>11097330
>>11097332
>>11097337
>>11097350
>>11097351
>>11097354
>>11097358
>>11097359
>>11097362
>>11097371
>>11097375
>>11097383
>>11097386
>>11097388
>>11097389
>>11097390
>>11097407
>>11097395
>>11097396
>>11097397
>>11097398
>>11097405
>>11097406
>>11097410
>>11097411
>>11097414
>>11097417
>>11097420
>>11097432
>>11097439
>>11097450
>>11097440
>>11097443
>>11097456
>>11097474
>>11097483
>>11097501
>>11097505
>>11097507
>>11097512
>>11097524
>>11097527
Samefriend.

>>11097538
>>11097538

Samefag

>>11097588
Recursive samefag

>>11097589
Freaking melon titties ruined my moment.

>>11097589
Close.

>>11097538

>>11097586
I find this autism unsettling

>>11097586
>>11097602
Someone actually took the time to write that. Probably while thinking he was going to be le epic meme for it.

>>11097613
>Someone actually took the time to write that.
Many people are going to take the time to read it.

>Probably while thinking he was going to be le epic meme for it.
Not everyone is an insufferable attention whoring shit like you are. People do it because it's funny.

>>11097443
>It's not the speed, it's the amount of text I have a problem with. Also the little song and dance they do when they appear.

You can set the text to fast and turn off battle animations.

It's still slow as fuck, though. That's why the first games haven't aged well. Everyone with an emulator holds the speed-up button.

I think they're games you really need to play on an actual Game Boy and take it easy. You can be cooking dinner, watching television, or even playing with your friends while you're also battling monsters.

Also it adds an interesting meta-game element. I'm one of those people who never buys anything from shops in RPGs, but in the first Pokemon games I always buy repels and stuff, and only fight higher level monsters with a weakness I can exploit. It seems to be the most efficient way of levelling.

But fuck that bag limit.

>>11097635
>People do it because they think it's funny.
There you go buddy. You forgot those two vital words.

>>11097613
I hope you mean that specific image, because this has been a meme for years now. I actually think these are pretty funny, but each to their own.

>>11097080
It really was. I still play it again and again.

>>11097660
I can't stand playing it anymore. I know everything about it. Everything. Now if you're talking about the remakes, I don't like those that much. If only they had that proper level scaling in the original games... then they would have been perfect. Otherwise it's a borefest one-shotting everything in Kanto until you can finally battle Blue (okay, Green) and Red. It's a good thing the Kanto music is nice at least.

The problem with Crystal was finding those fucking roaming Pokemon. I hate mechanics like that, because there's not really any strategy, it's just random. Like sure, finding/catching/hitting Pokemon was a random chance, but this was like, meta-random.

I tried for hours once (with the repel trick and wandering back and forth between two areas), then gave up and asked /vp/. Someone said something like Fly to the first town until he was two tiles across, then he'd meet me one tile across. Worked after five minutes, but now I can't seem to do it ever again.

>>11097669
>proper level scaling

For a second there I thought you meant this as in "game area resizing", which really ticked me off.

Basically, for whatever reason, they noticed that some areas in Red/Green/Blue didn't exactly match the game world. For example, the underground paths and that Diglett tunnel weren't long enough. Did they shrug it off as a video game abstraction? Hell no, they made that shit five times as long.

>>11097670
It's more fun that way. Where's the thrill in tracking down those elusive roaming Pokemon with an app within a minute? They are supposed to be difficult to track down. Overdoing it with randomness is the only way to simulate that kind of feeling in a game like Pokemon.

>>11097683
Well, that too.

That Viridian Forest... ridiculous.

Pokemon is fun because of all the technical stuff. Not like stats and IVs or whatever, but how things are stored in memory and manipulated. And some of the bugs are hilarious, like that rounding/shifting error that makes Focus Energy not work (it was supposed to increase the critical hate rate, but it actually did nothing or made it a 0/511 chance).

Randomness in Pokemon is what makes them addictive. It's the same design philosophy that makes slot machines and MTG booster packs addictive. If the Pokemon just visibly walked on the map, none of them would be more valuable than the other.

>>11097687
As a kid I remember laughing at that. Like I went through and thought, "Okay, now where's Viridian Forest?"
Then I realized and it was hilarious.

Were they bothered about the flow of the game, or did they really just run out of space? They already had forest tiles, they couldn't excise an area and just remake the area from R/G/B?

>>11097669
No, I only play the originals. What I often do to have fun at Kanto after beating Johto is to leave all my Pokemon at the Storage system and technically start anew in it with a single lv5 like a Larvitar. It's challenging.

>>11097683
>>11097697
I suppose that's true.

Though they are on the map, it's just tedious when they warp somewhere else.

They probably figured people would use repels and trapping moves and such, but I'm guessing their intention was that you'd just be wandering about and then it's like HOLY SHIT I'D BETTER CATCH THAT MOTHERFUCKER (which is how you encounter them the first time).

>>11097690
Or that glitch where if you boost a stat above 1024, it will take on an incredibly low value. The optimal Marowak in GSC actually has a subpar attack IV because of this

>>11097690
People love reverse engineering the early Pokemon games because they're so low-level. There's no error checking and everything is held together by see-through tape.

Pokemon glitches are a particularly large topic. The level of autism surrounding Bulbapedia glitch articles is immense, it's like they've documented every possible combination of data in the games' memory.

>>11097690
I like those things too. GBA onwards, the games became too sterile. And the darker, uncertain 8-bit atmosphere was gone.

Why you never completed the pokedex, anon?

>>11097721
Because we don't have friends.

>>11097721
No friends to trade pokemon. That's also the reason why I avoid using pokemon that involve trading to evolve.

I don't like the look of the new games. They're too crisp and science fictiony.

The original games felt more "humble" and Japanese, I guess.

Where are modsss

>>11097721
Why bother now that you already showed me the reward?

>>11097721
Because I had no friends as autistic as me, or at least enough to find the whole Pokemon collecting thing extremely cool. I did get all the possible Pokemon in Blue, though.

I like watching speedruns of the first two generation games.

http://youtu.be/qFpJvSsiLEk

This was fun to watch, even though the game screwed him over at the end (but apparently he beat it off-camera shortly afterwards).

Also which one of you nerds was on the couch with the Sanae fumo?

>>11097725
>>11097727
>>11097735
I don't have friends either, but you can use the VBA Link to trade yourself..

>>11097717
They coded gen 1 directly in assembly language, I think. It's a miracle that some form of Missingno isn't lurking behind every corner.

>>11097721
I needed less than ten to complete it in Silver when I was 8. Then the battery died tragically. Never had a GBA until way later. My introduction to the third generation was R/S Pinball. Emulated Ruby shortly thereafter but it didn't suck me in that much. I think I had more fun with the former, actually.

I loved the fourth generation - but the addition of the GTS made the task of completing one's Pokedex really trivial and mechanical. The thrill in doing it during the first and second generations was because it was all local. I'm aware that Japan already had it during the second generation, though. Also around the time D/P came out I found about natures, EVs, and IVs, and that further discouraged me from continuing post-game. Suddenly, all of my Pokemon were imperfect. I miss training everything I caught in Silver like they were the best possible Pokemon. Even if their values were still there. As long as they were hidden.

>>11097746
Then you might as well just use a GameShark. Using VBALink is cheating. Going outside, finding friends, and then trading with them is part of the game. This is like sequence breaking.

Was anyone else actually scared of Missingno. as a child, or was it just me?

>>11097746
I play it mostly on phones and similar, though. First thing I do whenever I get a new phone is find a way to emulate GBC.

>>11097721
I actually completed it in Touhoumon Emerald, though that involved cheats since you can't encounter everything. The game gave you three Touhous you already own as a reward.

>>11097761
I was, and it's an actual thing to be afraid of glitches. They have this discussion on /x/ every now and then. There's something really freaky to me about going beyond what's controlled and intended in games.

>>11097754
I don't believe having other people as friends is required to consider it "not cheating". Using VBA Link with myself is just the same asplaying both games with two real GBA.

>>11097757
This, I miss not knowing about natures and ev and iv. Every abra was the best abra.
Now I can't look at an admant abra without puking

>>11097761
I thought he was cool as fuck

I had this, it came with Nintendo Official Magazine (or it was a special edition of it or something).

It was the best thing ever. It had the full-colour concept of every Pokémon, where to find them, what moves they could learn, etc. It was like Bulbapedia before Bulbapedia.

But my favourite part was that it had the origin of each Pokémon's name ("Ekans" is "snake" backwards, you guys), sometimes with information on the original Japanese name or what the Pokémon was originally going to be called. I loved all that, I think it's why I got into etymology and toponymy when I was older.

For anyone who cares, there's a poster of earlier names here:
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/9/9c/Generation_I_prototype_English_names.jpg
Some of them are hilarious.

>>11097786
Only play 1-2, love awaits you there.

ITT: Pokemon you always forget were in Gen1.

>>11097801
Some of the foreign Pokemon names are great too. Akwakwak and Kraboss are my favorites.