Jags
Shepherd of Fire
Pokeballs are £1.26!? Oh my. I have never tried to work it out before, I'll be honest, but that has impressed me.
But surely for that £1.26 you could go catch a pokemon to ride.
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Pokeballs are £1.26!? Oh my. I have never tried to work it out before, I'll be honest, but that has impressed me.
But surely for that £1.26 you could go catch a pokemon to ride.
Schwimmwagen
Well-Known Member
This makes me realise that Ultra Balls are in fact p. damn cheap unless you're poorly paid.
Jags
Shepherd of Fire
In fact, when you beat someone in battle they'll quite regularly just give you £10+ for it. That's not bad at all.
BRN
WTB Forum Mod Powers
Huh.
So, like, when you use both Luck Incense and Amulet Coin and also your mystical Prize Money O-power Level 3, do you just... like...
Do you use pheremones or some shit? 'cos I got 68000 yen from this one guy.
Distorted
Active Member
....Not sure if serious....
It's not Heatran that's under the truck. It's a much better pokemon.
SirRob
Well-Known Member
If you wait around long enough in the Chamber of Emptiness, the screen will start getting all weird and a portal will open. It brings you into the Distortion World where you can fight Giratina.
Giratina is a Y exclusive, X gets Darkrai instead. :I
Same technique, but instead of a portal your character falls asleep.
SirRob
Well-Known Member
I think you're mistaken. It's not Darkrai that shows up when you fall asleep. It's Mr. Bonding.
I'm scared of what's inside the pokeball now. ;_;
The profiles records linked battle victories but not losses. This is strange because I think this is the first generation that does it. I know that losing numerous times can wear on a guy's self-esteem but we could have used the "selective forgetting" linked battle records in earlier generations, when we as little children, were not as mature enough to handle failure. I know having a well below .500 record in battles would have stunk as a fifth-grader and the Pokemon Centers kept won-loss records, which might have discouraged young gamers from battling others. Now, as adults we can understand that losing stinks but we can come up with ways to rationalize it and look beyond it. I have 4 linked wins but so many losses I have literally lost count, my record is abysmal and reflects someone who is only trying to see those end credits, battle strategies be damned. I know Nintendo was trying to improve the self-esteem of players by not showing linked-battle losses but we could have used that fifteen years ago, when failure meant so much for us.
Sometimes, I think Nintendo is oblivious to the fact that most Pokemon players are not children picking up the game for the first time, but seasoned veteran adult fans who have played Pokemon since 1998, and would appreciate a tougher challenge, thank you very much. We couldn't have handled disappointment back then but Nintendo kept track of the beatings we endured. Now, they arrive fifteen years too late to the party with the idea of saving only the good memories, at an age when many of us are well-equipped as adults to handle disappointments and learn from them.
Sometimes, I think Nintendo is oblivious to the fact that most Pokemon players are not children picking up the game for the first time, but seasoned veteran adult fans who have played Pokemon since 1998, and would appreciate a tougher challenge, thank you very much. We couldn't have handled disappointment back then but Nintendo kept track of the beatings we endured. Now, they arrive fifteen years too late to the party with the idea of saving only the good memories, at an age when many of us are well-equipped as adults to handle disappointments and learn from them.
You REALLY think this?
Yes, I'd give that about two-thirds of the players have been on board since Day One, back when Pokemon was a bona fide fad that engulfed all of America. Almost all of the X and Y Trainers have met are adults, who presumably came of age in the late-90s with Pikachu and Co. They obviously resent being treated like children concerning their own failures in battling, and so do I.
SirRob
Well-Known Member
If you successfully do all the jobs in Hotel Richissime, you'll be rewarded with a Hoenn pass that you can use at the Lumiose Station.
Will all children be using the wifi? No.
And isn't the main Japanese audience children?
Distorted
Active Member
OBJECTION!!!
You're lying damnit and I can prove it! I've done all those jobs in the Hotel and all I got was some lowsy pay. There wasn't any mention of Hoenn at all.
SirRob
Well-Known Member
Have you done -all- the jobs? They upgrade, you know. I gave up when the maid asked me to find lost items throughout the entire hotel floor.
SirRob
Well-Known Member
Actually, that last bit was the one thing I said that wasn't a lie.
Distorted
Active Member
It's too late for this. It's almost 2 and my brain stopped working hours ago. And now I'm sitting listening to your highly improbable statements.
The horrid strangness of it all. I can't even. I guess you'll tell me that there's a secret passage in the Pokemon League that leads to Arceus too, hunh?
The horrid strangness of it all. I can't even. I guess you'll tell me that there's a secret passage in the Pokemon League that leads to Arceus too, hunh?