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author=Euphorian link=topic=1452.msg23055#msg23055 date=1215446063
Starters are never in the wild, Demon.

who in their right mind wants to gather 500+

*sheepishly*
....I'm on 393/493.... I'll get the others yet.

Gods speed man....

Pokemon as a whole has been a bit of an up and down roller coaster. I own Blue Red Yellow Gold&Silver Pearl FireRed in that order. Totally skipped over emerald and such, those games looked to complicated and didn't have the money at the time. Anyway, i personally think that the Pokemon looks started going downhill after blue ect. Gold&Silver did have some good Pokemon while others looked wack. Then the following series they got weirder and weirder, wich lead me to believe a rumor i had heard long long ago.(The rumor being that 2 men originaly worked on the pokemon idea together, then called pocket monsters but 1 of them stole the idea and left the other out, rumors with it like Pikachu was originally suppose to be green. Which would explain why they look less and less like the originals.)

However not to say Gold&Silver wern't good games, they were a lot of fun, till the save ability died.
However My all time favorite has to be blue, the first one I managed to get. My first 3 Pokemon were Squirtle, Pidgey and Mew(thats right LEGIT, at that time it started at lvl 5 if i remember right, got pound transform, mega kick i think it was first) i got my game at a Pokemon event in my area and stood in the line about 3 times to get more then 1 mew as well.(Long ass wait....) Later on I got red as well and simpled restarted it a few times so i had all 3 starters on both games(take that yellow :-P) Back in those days it was simply 150(or in my case 151) and a possible but hard goal, then they added more and more, still you figured hey i might be able to pull this off, come diamond and pearl if you no life the game you just might pull it off, but give them time and they'll add more...

Now I'm all for variety, but I'll be honest if it keeps going I'm gonna lose interest real quick, who in their right mind wants to gather 500+ Pokemon when you can only use 6?... They need to stop adding creatures and start adding content in my opinion. Great example is the show, gray had something like 10 badges i think when he got to Viridian. I gotta agree with the more gyms thing, and adding ground or fighting isn't enough to change the fire,water,grass thing (thou i do like the penguin and turtle Pokemon :-D) They've been remaking the game over and over, and firered/leafgreen's outright so.

The limited skill thing is also annoying 4 only, however the ability thing they added since red blue has altered that a bit almost like a 5th skill. They should either allow more abilities or change HMs a bit, as said before surf is one of the few HMs thats actually good(thou fly can be just as good if used right) Personally I don't see 'surf' as something a Pokemon would need to know, if you got a Lapras your the one that needs to know how to hang on to it. Its a water type it knows how to swim... More like your trainer should be taught how to ride Pokemon as you beat gym trainers, greater riding ability would be swimming, flying, hell ride a Rapadash instead of a bike even. A Scyther would know how to slice branches just change it so a badge would make the Pokemon obey such an absurd order. Charazard knock down that tree! They're easy way to fix this but they just keep using the same method. I'd think they're main reason is to keep it simple for the younger generation. If you started complicating it too much the young ones would probably start complaining that its too hard.

However Diamond and Pearl have improved some things, faster and slower bikes, non-Pokemon related obstacles(ramps), the wifi trading(wich is far from perfected but a massive step in the right direction. The ability to reteach forgotten moves(fairly certain on this with the heartscale thing) multi speed bike shoes ect(while I'm sure that the shoes are from prior games still a good improvement.) Faster egg hatching, easier raising methods(exp share, lucky egg) Even the ability to EV train your Pokemon faster with times. Also the ability to simply transfer Pokemon from other games directly to Diamond and Pearl and re-catch them. Their are some flaws and downs theirs also a lot of ups. I just hope they get rid of more HMs, possibly add more ability options, 2 more slots would make a massive difference, and taking out the 1hit KO that many of you have mentioned would give it a better feel, its rare that you get a slug fest between your Pokemon and another and its usually against another player.

Granted, you loose the jet lag and gain a rattlesnake bite to the leg, enjoy.

I wish that I could fly without anything extra to help me, aka no tech ect, like a super power.

Poor and happy, oh wait I'm already there -.-..

Mentally deranged or being shot at by a mad man?

^ Probably right.

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