Old Pokemon General(RIP)

[Stevey Queen]

I think that gen 5 was rushed from the get go. They wanted to churn out a new gen because development for the 3DS game was slated for years away. I bet that they had already started working on gen 6 when they started working on gen 5.

I hope they're working hard. Gen 5 was bad. I normally give Pokemon games slack, but no. Gen 5 was downright bad.

What's wrong with Gen 5?

._.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Using one pokemon as an example doesn't help it's case any. lol

Gen 5 was boring. Most of the pokemon were boring, the adventure was quick, and the region itself was even boring.

The generation in a whole was bad to me. But what gets me is B/W2. The whole time I played it I felt like I was having my hand held. Pretty much every NPC I talked to gave me an item that normally I wouldn't get until later on.

It had some moments where some pokemon and some events that were nice. But overall, could have been much, much better. Hopefully Gen 6 will make up for it.

 

[Juicebox]

*Sigh* I'm once again in the majority who loved gen 5. Although I agree that there were problems that I hope they fixed (pacing issues, higher difficulty), but overall, I enjoyed gen 5 way more than I did gen 4. I enjoyed the more complex Pokemon designs, and I like that for the first time, we had an actual storyline. Along with that, there wasn't a crappy third version (the sequels were pretty average, but still way better than a stupid third version). The region itself left a lot to be desired, I'll give you that. But this also probably had the best music in any generation, and I enjoyed the characters.

Different strokes, I suppose.

That being said, I'd prefer every generation to have its own unique niche, so I try not to compare to past generations. Gen 6 already seems to be pretty different from the other games. I hope they mix it up.

 

[Prof Gallows]

I do give gen 5 it's uniquity, and like I said, there are certain parts and pokemon that I do like a whole lot.

I dunno what it is that I can't stand though. =/

so I'll focus on what I liked about it.
I liked that they are still putting in darker things; the rumors in Lacunosa about a pokemon that comes and eats people and pokemon at night, Chandlure stealing peoples souls to use for fuel. I really miss things like that, that they used to have pretty commonly in the older games.
Bridge Village is one of my favorite places. I really like how they focused on being able to change the background music through interacting with NPCs.
The strange house. I've always loved the ghost houses in the previous games, and this one didn't disappoint.
Sigilyph, the Solosis line, and the Deerling line are possibly the most unique, amazing ideas I think that came out of gen 5 pokemon wise.

 

[Stevey Queen]

I do give gen 5 it's uniquity, and like I said, there are certain parts and pokemon that I do like a whole lot.

I dunno what it is that I can't stand though. =/

so I'll focus on what I liked about it.
I liked that they are still putting in darker things; the rumors in Lacunosa about a pokemon that comes and eats people and pokemon at night, Chandlure stealing peoples souls to use for fuel. I really miss things like that, that they used to have pretty commonly in the older games.
Bridge Village is one of my favorite places. I really like how they focused on being able to change the background music through interacting with NPCs.
The strange house. I've always loved the ghost houses in the previous games, and this one didn't disappoint.
Sigilyph, the Solosis line, and the Deerling line are possibly the most unique, amazing ideas I think that came out of gen 5 pokemon wise.

Oh you like Sigilyph? Forget about my earlier post then .-.

 

[Prof Gallows]

I acknowledged your post by saying one good pokemon doesn't help the case. XD


But yeah, there are good parts. I give it more heat than it deserves.
It's going to be tough waiting for information to come out. Starting to see how some of the AC fans felt when there wasn't any information floating around. lol

 

[Juicebox]

I acknowledged your post by saying one good pokemon doesn't help the case. XD


But yeah, there are good parts. I give it more heat than it deserves.
It's going to be tough waiting for information to come out. Starting to see how some of the AC fans felt when there wasn't any information floating around. lol

I like how Pokemon tends to do pre-release though. CoroCoro is nice because it gives a little info every month, even if it's small. Still, it sucks waiting every month XD. Especially when the people who leak CoroCoro are always such teases. They leak like half of a page a day and just drag out the anticipation.

 

[Sora]

I say we make a pokemon game with only Deerling. That would make me happy! Sorry I know this isnt a question thread, but did B2/W2 have it such that you couldn't use legendaries online? Im just asking because I have always hated the idea of trainers being able to catch legendaries. I feel like it often makes everyone's pokemon team exactly the same.

 

[SockHead]

Gen 5 wasn't bad in my opinion but I understand why you didn't like it. I'll agree it did seem a bit rushed at times, and the story wasn't great.. But when was a Pokemon story ever great? If anything Gen 3 had the best story and to me it still wasn't very memorable.

On the note of Gen 5, if they had just released the sequel would you like Gen 5 any better? I agree with you that B/W1 had some boring moments, but I think they fixed it with the sequel.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

My random thoughts on all 6 gens starter pokemon

Best Fire type: Charmander
Worst Fire type Tepig close between this and Torchic

Best Water type: Totodile/Squirtle (Piplups final evolution is also pretty cool!)
Worst Water type: I'm really not liking Froakie. but for now, Oshawott

Best Grass type: Easy. Treecko
Worst grass type: Chikorita.

Chespin: I'm having high hopes this one!
Fennekin: Not liking it seems way to feminine. That's the problem most first stage pokemon look like a girl yet their final stage is some tranny man beast. EX: Piplup, Torchic, Cyndaquil. The only start that pulled off the "girl look" from stage 1-3 was Bayleaf.
Froakie: Looks good awful. Haven't had a cool looking first stage water starter since gen 2.

 

[Treasu(red)]

My random thoughts on all 6 gens starter pokemon

Best Fire type: Charmander
Worst Fire type Tepig close between this and Torchic

Best Water type: Totodile/Squirtle (Piplups final evolution is also pretty cool!)
Worst Water type: I'm really not liking Froakie. but for now, Oshawott

Best Grass type: Easy. Treecko
Worst grass type: Chikorita.

Chespin: I'm having high hopes this one!
Fennekin: Not liking it seems way to feminine. That's the problem most first stage pokemon look like a girl yet their final stage is some tranny man beast. EX: Piplup, Torchic, Cyndaquil. The only start that pulled off the "girl look" from stage 1-3 was Bayleaf.
Froakie: Looks good awful. Haven't had a cool looking first stage water starter since gen 2.

I understand you want a macho looking well balanced starting poke. You seem to be the type of guy who'd like a poke-pal to reflect your own macho-ness (and that's a good thing! You shouldn't stick manly men with wussy pink pokes).
Stick ME with the feminie equally as well balanced pokes. I'm a lady. I'd like some ladylike pokemon to reflect me, and kick some @#$% in the process too.
Just nod your head, go "mmmmm ohhh" while rubbing your chin. Take into consideration.... well. Players like me.
I'm gonna rock Fennekin so you don't have to.

p.s. I want more cute pokemon that have balanced stats!!!! Blissey and Milotic are two great examples. ShhhH!!! Lord I know I'm going to get so much hate for writing this.

 

[Sora]

My random thoughts on all 6 gens starter pokemon

Best Fire type: Charmander
Worst Fire type Tepig close between this and Torchic

Best Water type: Totodile/Squirtle (Piplups final evolution is also pretty cool!)
Worst Water type: I'm really not liking Froakie. but for now, Oshawott

Best Grass type: Easy. Treecko
Worst grass type: Chikorita.

Chespin: I'm having high hopes this one!
Fennekin: Not liking it seems way to feminine. That's the problem most first stage pokemon look like a girl yet their final stage is some tranny man beast. EX: Piplup, Torchic, Cyndaquil. The only start that pulled off the "girl look" from stage 1-3 was Bayleaf.
Froakie: Looks good awful. Haven't had a cool looking first stage water starter since gen 2.

I have to correct you on best grass, its Turtwig for sure.

 

[Treasu(red)]

My best friend's got a treecko that's really tough to 1-hit-KO with just about any build of any thing unless it's in OU. But I'm partial to turtwig b/c ev trained torterra and equipped with earthquake. Haha. Hold onto yo 'nads boys.
Urgh I had chikorita and haaaaaaated it <:[
It was so cute but so worthless too. Slot 6 in my party always until dumped.

 

[YanoShigun]

I don't HATE Gen. 5, but I just didn't get the same feeling that I get when I play other Pokemon games.

Their goal was to create a fresh, new game with Black and White. However, I was a bit disappointed with what it turned out to be. A lot of the Pokemon are rushed, uninspired, and downright forgettable. The storyline was great conceptually, but wasn't executed correctly. They tried a bunch of new things like indoor 3D, detailed areas like Castelia, animated battles, and different camera angles. Due to the DS's hardware limitations, this ultimately made the game look a bit sloppy to me. I think they should have waited for the 3DS to make a game that was was completely "new" like that, instead of doing it on an aging console that already had five main Pokemon games released for it. The game overall felt too easy, and I got bored a lot. I wish there was a bit more challenge to it. Same goes for B2/W2. Sequels was a pretty bad idea too, B2/W2 are my least favorite games. It's nice that they continued the storyline and all, but I didn't like the story in the first place, so meh. I guess Gen. 5 is okay in terms of music/sound.

HeartGold/SoulSilver is my favorite by the way.

 

[Juicebox]

Sign me up for the cute Pokemon! As much as I admire giant beastly Pokemon, my heart shall always be with the little cuties with average stats. If they can manage to balance the cute with the cool (and throw some weird ones into the mix, because lets face it, everybody needs a weirdo) then this generation will be just fine.

 

[Stevey Queen]

I kinda like all the starters. I never had a problem with any of them. Except for Gen 5, I mean I like them but...Snivy's evolution (Servine?) is just a bigger Snivy, and Tepig evolves into another fire/fight type, which really needs to stop, and Oshawott starts off cute, then cool, and then becomes a monster.

Regardless, they are still kinda cool and I woudn't say they were failures as starter Pokemon.

Chespin, is kinda cool..
Fennekin is cute (is Fire type also, so gets automatic 50 bonus points) but also that red tuft of fur in his ears is kinda gross
and Froakie is really cute but I'm afraid when it evolves it's going to become something like Seismotoad.

 

[Garrett x50 cal]

I have to correct you on best grass, its Turtwig for sure.

I love turtwig! But Treecho is the coolest looking in my opinion.

@Tresu(red) My favorite pokemon has to be Mareep most likely xD It's just I hate when a feminine looking pokemon evolves into a macho looking one. I have no problem with girly pokemon as long as they stay that way. haha

 

[Stevey Queen]

I have a question about B/W 2. Can you rebattle Gym Leaders and does the VS. Seeker return?

 

[oath2order]

Favorite Fire: Cyndaquil
Favorite Grass: Turtwig
Favorite Water: Mudkip. Because I herd u liek them

 

[Prof Gallows]

I have a question about B/W 2. Can you rebattle Gym Leaders and does the VS. Seeker return?

No, you can't rematch them. And no, the VS Seeker didn't return.