What was your initial reaction when you set afoot on Route 216?

Probably 'Hey this place looks awesome'. Then I suffered through the snow and trainers. STill think its awesome. That music.

>>28877394
This is the sad sad thing about Pokémon. You get a small feature that the likes of, say Golden Sun had 5 years prior on the Game Boy Advance and you go
>Wow, snow!! That's so fucking cool and innovative! It feels so immersive to me!

It was a shit route with shit Pokémon distribution in a shit region.

>>28877473
Sinnoh was great senpai

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8cLW0Lckhc

>>28877473
Go play your baby games like Golden Sun

>>28877394
Happiness, I always loved snow.

>>28877394
Even when I was little I thought it was cool how over time you progress northwards in Sinnoh

There was something really cool about coming out of Mt. Coronet in a completely different-looking area from where you went in

>>28877473
Yes but Golden Sun is also a dead franchise.

>woah shit this is neat

this went away 10 seconds later when I saw the snow slowed me down. Just what gen 4 needed, more slowdown

"fuck yeah! finally i got to the snow place!"

>proceeds to get absolutely fucked by all the ace trainers in the area

oh, and fuck that heavy snow. and while we're at it, fuck pastoria and it's swamp lands. there is no excuse for that bullshit. as if the game wasn't slow enough already.

does anyone else remember the spoopy hiker that disappeared? also how fucked was it getting rock climb so randomly in the middle of fucking nowhere?

>>28877473
That's Route 217 you're thinking about.

>>28877394
>Oh wow, this is cool

followed by

>Oh god how long is this fucking route, am I even going the right direction?

>>28877630
>am I even going the right direction?

it's a straight fucking line how could you think this

>>28877630
I liked the feeling of being lost. You'll never get that feeling of open area exploration in the newer games.

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>>28877644
>in the newer games
>newer games
>
The only thing new here is you, Gen 4 is far from being old.

>>28877670
DP came out ten years ago

>What the fuck is all this white shit
>slow
>Where's the water
>Why isn't the surf theme playing
>Slow
>Aren't there any Wingull, Tentacool, and Pelipper on this route
>Why doesn't this music have trumpets
>SLOW
>Ugh there's probably stuff to do here
>SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Checkmate Sinnohfetuses

>>28877670
Diamond and Pearl came out 10 years ago, anon. That's half the series' current lifespan.

>>28877719
>insta text thanks to randomizers
>speed toggle
>walkhax for 2x running speed
>comfy toho bossa nova in the background
Checkmate :^)

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>>28877743
At that point why even bother playing Pokemon?

>>28877670
NewER you retard.

>>28877670
Decade, idiot

>>28877641
If you don't remember, it was a few screens wide. It was entirely possible for it to have had a branching path.

Unless of course you were the kind of person to play with a strategy guide next to you.

>>28877764
>why are you taking the slow out of pokemon and keep the pokemon part
You now just pretending to be retarded because I blowed you the fuck out?

>>28877778
I just went north because the path was blocked to the south

also the town map exists

>>28877394
Delighted !

>>28877394
>neat snow
Which turned into
>jesus christ I just want to get where I'm going everything about this route is fucking boring

>>28877837
I did mostly go north, but younger me was both enthralled and intimidated by the vastness of the route.

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It was a comfy route even if it was slow. It's still my fav route up to this day.

>comfy snow
>chill music
>actually a bit challenging
>wide, open area to explore

I remember playing this for the first time when I was a child, being snuggled down in my warm bed, staying up late in the winter vacations. These were easier times...

>>28877670
DP are older than some of the posters on /vp/

i got really cold when i first went onto this route and then i wrapped a blanket around me and played in the dark

ultimate comfy

>>28878082
We have ten year olds here?

>>28877670
Its been 10 fucking years.
That's half the fucking series
What the hell do you mean its not old?

>>28877473
Why are you even here?

>>28877523
Golden Sun was amazing.

>>28878338
You don't notice?

>>28878437
Please. Camelot are hacks. Golden Sun is an embarrassment considering adults worked on that and it's being sold in stores.

Am I the only one who likes the slower pace of this game?

>>28879532
I like it as well, as a kid it felt like I was trekking through a hard journey. But we're definitely in the minority

>>28877473
>it was a shit route
subjective
>with shit Pokemon distribution
not Platinum
>in a shit region
subjective

>>28877523
>Talk about baby games
>On a board about a console game
lol

>dat music

DELIGHTFUL

>>28877394
Wow..... This is some pretty stuff

Then I proceeded to get quickly frustrated by how slow it was and how I couldn't find a healing place after going on all the side areas after it

I didn't have a reaction because I never played DPPt

>>28877394
6 gens (but alola probably too) and this is the only area were you can walk through snow (kalos was ass and the other games had just caves). but sinnoh - it's like walking through a blizzard. snow left, right and with fx on the whole screen. fuck! the complete north was snowy

i liked it

>>28877394
You just left Mt Coronet and now there is this.
This entire route was an experience in itself. The trainers, who were pretty tough, the snow, just about everything.
I was quite bummed, to say the least.

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>>28877670
>10 years
>a fucking decade
>not old

>>28877394
>My only good Pokemon is Torterra
>Literally nothing but Ice types the whole way up

I started restarted my save out of frustration.

>>28877394
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSUT8Inl14

>>28884944
>who were pretty tough
Are gen 4 kids just casual or something?

>>28878462
>. Golden Sun is an embarrassment considering adults worked on that and it's being sold in stores.
And it's still better than most RPGs to date.

>>28877717
>ten years ago
>old
underage detected

>>28885441
>Not making sure your team has fairly good type coverage synergy in the first place.
>Overleveling one pokemon.

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>>28877394
This music is nice
>music suddenly goes godly 40 seconds later
GOOD GOD

>slowest game in the series
>has areas that slow you down even further

I like the atmosphere, but who thought this was a good idea?

>>28877394
I don't remember. That was decades ago.

>>28885705
GF were probably off their tits at the time

>>28877670
mate...It's like 9 years old.

>>28885705
Still not as bad as route 217, but still not being able to bike kind of sucked.

>>28885939
You know that would make it old relative to you but not to anyone who didn't grow up with them

the over world being slow doesn't bother me

the battle being slow is what gets me
>that HP bar speed

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>>28877394
This is my element. I lived the mountains of Minnesota at the time

>>28885939
Gen 4 is 10 yrs old, so it is old :p

Pissed off because of deep snow

I loved it. It was the most intense and dangerous sense of adventure to date in a Pokémon game.

If you didn't enjoy pushing through that blizzard, and feeling the sigh of relief when you hit the comfy Snowpoint City, then your opinion is meaningless to me.

>>28885655
Bulletproof reasoning there.

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>>28877394
Comfiest road
Comfiest city
Comfiest lake
Comfiest region
Comfiest game

Best route to date, Unova Route 10 is a close second.

>>28880365
OP was asking for our subjective opinions.

>>28886593
I think you're mistaking comfy with boring.