The little things.

Polishing the badges in Sinnoh games.

This post reads like a badly-worded blog post.

"Don't sweat the small stuff" means don't let little things bother you. What you're saying makes no sense.

I love the score on the Trainer Card in Gen 4 games.

It's a cool way of showing how much time and effort you put into the game. Time played is too easy to cheat by just leaving the game on when you're doing something else.

I love how the first three towns in ORAS zoom out and pan over them when you read the slogan sign and hate how literally every town after them don't

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>>31850437
This one is great. I loved getting them all shiny.

I have another, in bw2 (and maybe bw1?)
Being able to catch wild kingdra as well as wild stone evolution mons thru the "special spot" feature.

Also in bw2 via dream radar being able to start the game with the genies and lugia/ho-oh at lvl5 before the first badge. (It's interesting in challenge mode.)

>>31850441
I just wanted to learn cool things about the older games that maybe I hadn't noticed. Pls no bully

>getting close to water bodies in HGSS triggers a flowing water sound effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX-MnRXOwf4
some small details in Crystal.

I didn't even realize you could battle Morty that early.
About to replay HGSS so this will be fun.

>toggle run in HGSS
>the pipes all over sinnoh to provide air to the underground
>watching the tv from behind gives "Wrong side" dialogue in kanto games

>>>31850527
beat me to posting it

>>31850539
>The pipes all over sinnoh to provide air to the underground
Fucking awesome. Is there a list of all these kinds of cool details somewhere?

>>31850491
>Being able to catch wild kingdra as well as wild stone evolution mons thru the "special spot" feature.

Now there's something that makes getting Dhelmise seem fucking trivial.

>have to trigger spot
>fish in it
>basculin :)
>accidentally surf on it
>jellicient :)

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>>31850522

>>31850532
What do you mean this early? He's the fourth gym leader always.

>>31850532
>Morty
You mean Pryce?

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>>31850461
>>31850522
>>31850539
These all give me actual goose bumps desu. Great thread. Also johto a g.o.a.t.

The music changing with the seasons was a nice touch in gen 5.

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>>31850532
Here's some proof if there are any h8rs. The dude even runs up to you and says his "you know what you just did?" Thing the path is still blocked by waterfall onto the actual region but it's cool to do. There is also a rare candy u can get.

>>31850522
SM do this too, but yeah it's a nice detail.

>>31850522
>you can actually hear a transition when running from grass to road

>>31850687
>>31850706
Sorry I got confused. Forgot english names.

>>31850472
Sigh... oras wherefore art thou such shyte? I noticed the absence of this as well it would have been great for Moss deep and sootopolis. I still like hoenn though, seagulls and brass be damned!!

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>>31850417
>isshu
kys weeb

>>31850830
Why is this the only one they changed tho?

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>>31850830
>calling someone weeb
>on a Vietnamese bicycle simulator board

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>>31850569
Luckily when I played moon I got a level 1 dhelmise from wonder trade with egg moves forgot which I never bothered to try and catch one.

>>31850437
Playing your badges was the best shit.

>>31850920
>tfw trying to figure out how to play the tune of the route you're on

>>31850901
>dhelmise
>with egg moves

????????????????????????????????????

>>31850830
>go on an imageboard for weebs who are interested in Pokemon
>call someone a weeb

I think you're looking for /r/eddit

>>31851007
Probably just lvl1 move(s) my bad it was a couple months ago now.

>>31850417
>The non linearity of johto in general.
Yes, that was a mistake.

>different footstep sounds in HGSS

>>31852363
>it wasn't fun to have your shit pushed in by the elite 4 because your mons are only high 30s level wise and having to grind a Lil bit.

And yes there where decent places to grind victory road can get any lvl 30ish water or grass type up to mid 40s in less than an hour. There are also lvl 30ish machokes, seakings, golbat, and raticates mount mortar. Also the preE4 route with ponyta, quagsire, arbok/sandslash at lvl 30. Not to mention all the trainer rematches you can have before the league.

I liked how during the delta episode you fought Wallace with his champion team from emerald. That was cool and unexpected.

The ice on the routes around western Unova in winter. Where do all the pokemon go?

>>31852551
Haha, nice try

Pokémon death animations are like a second and yet some of them are incredible

Buzzwole man, holy shit

>>31850417
>morty: i wanna fug that cute girl

Seasons. Why did they have to get rid of it in X and Y? It made the games seem more alive...

>>31854854
Getting rid of them makes getting all four Deerling a pain in the ass too. There was literally no reason they couldn't have implemented at least that in Kalos and Alola (I'm guessing the latter doesn't work either, but idk).

>>31850417
>>31850522
>>31850527
>>31850778
Why is Johto so good?

>>31854883
cause unovabortions dont want you to realize it

>>31854883
Classic pokemon game, arguably better than RBY. Remakes are pretty good too.

Only part I don't like is how kanto is watered down, but that was understandable in the original GSC.

>>31850920
>>31850437

Some more Sinnohvation: Putting stickers on pokeballs.

I loved making Pokéblocks in RSE.

>>31855052
Poffins weren't bad either.

being able to cycle through all my items without their pictures needing to load.

I also really loved the musicians in unova where they would add to the music after talking to them.

I missing the medal stuff in B2W2 games. A good way to keep playing after clear any postgame.

All the gen 4 stuff people are mentioning, but also the footstep sounds in Gen 7.

>>31850417
Kanto's nonlinearity > Johto's

Johto fucked up and made everything flatten out in terms of wild mon and trainer levels, while having the bosses scale up linearly for whatever reason. They could have done better there.

>>31855052
>>31855079
Poffins > Pokéblocks
Making poffins was some cooking mama shit and i loved it

>>31850835
Because muh 'murica

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>literally ALL of this shit is gone in SM

>playing the poketransfer game for gen 4->5
>every pokemon jumps between the bushes
>except diglett and dugtrio

10/10

BW2 gyms having unique gym theme remixes based on their character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acm2xl417wk

>>31856561
P O K E POKEMON

>>31856534
what "shit" are you talking about? all of the game specific things like the badge shining that was only available in Sinnoh? and not in Unova or Kalos? or are you talking about the "shit" like wild pokemon making noises in the background on routes? oh wait....

I sometimes wonder why people literally make shit up in order to justify them not liking a game. shouldnt it be the other way around?

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>>31850417
It was weird doing this because I was used to having elm call you right after pryces gym to tell you about rockets at the radio tower. But getting seven badges total triggers elms call.

How has nobody posted hgss' godlike menu display. It has yet to be surpassed, and using the bag in all gens afterword felt like a step down.

>>31856561
GIMME WHAT I NEEEEED

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Elite four rematches. Any game without them is lackluster. A perfect pkmn game has: maingame, elite four, some post game (level up your team by 10 levels, give or take) then a final elite four rematch with different teams. That should be fucking standard, even frlg did it.

Another thing gym leader rematches. (Not in a battle facility.) Another thing that hgss did best. Sinnoh did this well and emerald had great rematches they were just luck based on when they would be ready.

>>31860536
Gotta disagree with you, I love most of the UI changes but the item menu was awful.
Gen 5 had the best one, it was a much faster version of the Platinum menu and had the free space bag.

I just wish you could store junk in the PC like in Emerald.

>>31856561
I loved roxys cute little voice "POH-kaymawn"

Taking pictures of your team in HGSS and looking back at them at the pc to see how you team grew and changed as you went on your adventure.
I loved following pokemon but pictures where the feature I wish came back more than anything

>>31860630
that's it.
I'm replaying HGSS right now.
Johto is the best

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I miss being able to chose from different text borders. Why did they stop doing this?

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>>31860630
Such a great feature from best game. They really took their time and cared about these games you can feel it.

I took every opportunity to have my teams picture taken when I see that certain out of place bald dude.

>>31862036
this, I loved having memories of my team at various points in the game

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>>31860963
Never a poor choice.

>>31855978
It's possible someone could have done it better, but spreading the xp out over 16 badges and having every path taken be nice, clean and even as far as levelling goes must be challenging. They had ten years to smooth this out and they didn't change much, which tells me the Asian market didn't care or looked past such flaws, rather flaws in some people's eyes. I like the mini panic when you don't think you'll be on par with the e4 and you have to grind a little to feel safe. It's challenge, not much, but some. With pokegrooming, zmoves/megas, and hideously broken exp. Share, (whether you left it on or not, it's brokenness remains.) You can't help but be over leveled and each battle is progressively more yawn inducing as your big shiny glowing thing walks over another lvl 23 linoone. Also why the funk does catching pokemon give you xp now? So either barely catch anything or your money in first position will be over leveled. It's a clusterfuck, and I know we on vp have talked about it ad nauseum so I'll stop here.

>>31860630
>Doing this while nuzlocking
HGSS are hands down the best (non-hacked) games for nuzlocking. Even though it's not the hardest game it feels like a true journey and it has a final boss in red that is quite challenging if you purposefully stay low-leveled.

No gates or the lack of. SM's over use of the black screen were a death sentence

How the walking animation changes depending whether you're walking through glass or climbing a slope in SM

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>>31850417
Sleepind wild pokemon after headbutting a tree in GSC.

>>31864313
That was only for Hoothoot, and since it now has an ability that prevents sleep it doesn't really make sense anymore.

So are most of us in agreement that HGSS were the last games GameFreak really poured their (for lack of better words) Heart and Soul into?
I mean there was so much to do
>Following pokemon
>Group Pictures
>Didn't just do GS over but added things from Crystal
>Added a Safari Zone
>Poke-Athlon
>Every Gym leader rematch
>More things that I can't quite remember right now
Honestly if they just
>Added reusable TMs
>Didn't add the Gen 4 HMs
>Had a PWT
It would have been perfect

>>31864330
You're wrong.
>3:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7BCvff4pWc

>>31850778
You could do this in the original GSC anyways?

Also it's nice, but HGSS kinda ruined it for me with the stupid Kimono girls and Ho-Oh/Lugia being apart of the story. You couldn't go back to Kanto until you finished their stupid story, your Mom kept stopping you in the game.

>>31864381
>So are most of us in agreement that HGSS were the last games GameFreak really poured their (for lack of better words) Heart and Soul into?
Personally I think BW2 were the last games they really tried with, the lack of effort really started with XY.

>>31864426
You're right, thanks for the info.

>>31864381
>PWT
Battle Frontier was way better and you could rematch 16 Gym Leaders anyway.
>Gen 4 HMs
The only thing added was Rock Climb and make you unable to forget Rock Smash. Rock Climb was fine IMO since it allowed new areas to explore after beating the game.

>>31864467
XY were the games when the lack of effort started but I still felt like I played a Pokemon game at the end. SM felt like it took 5 months to make and nothing in it was natural at all.

Every route was unappealing and there were no cave exploration because the game couldn't handle anything worth a damn. Worst game by far.

>>31864381
Non-reusable TMs Is a good thing.

>>31864726
Nah. XY and ORAS are way worse than Sun and Moon.
At least sun and Moon feels like a real world (even if it is a boring one)

>>31864772
I guess you forgot how Team Flare actually felt like a threat at the end and didn't give up mid way through the game. The games also added the best competitive layout in the franchise with the Battle Spot and Mega Evolution while SM only had a story about animal and child abuse and a harder Battle Maison.

The only reason why people prefer SM is because it's something new with good characters design wise.

>>31864916
I don't really want to fight since that's not what this thread is about. But I just felt completely differently about Team Flare as a whole and I felt that the routes in particular in XY felt really slapped together and odd.
I guess to put it simply, XY and ORAS felt fake.

>>31850632
Sauce?

>>31864726
>SM felt like it took 5 months to make and nothing in it was natural at all.

I enjoyed SM, but I do agree. It felt very weird and at times not like a Poke game.

>>31865077
I don't think a Pokemon game should have villains who barely do anything except take Pokemon and travel to an unknown world filled with jellyfish and the routes take like 5 minutes to complete.

It's the exploration, the soundtrack, and the atmosphere that makes the previous games tons better, not the animation and graphics.

bumperollino

>Rapidly walking in circles in S/M has your character spin like a ballerina
>Rapidly pressing B to stop and start running makes your character stumble
Cute little details.

>>31864381
You forgot the Pokewalker.

>>31864381
There's also the little bit where you can know about the personal lives of the gym leaders, like expanding on Erika's narcolepsy or Jasmine's large appetite.

>>31864381
>So are most of us in agreement that HGSS were the last games GameFreak really poured their (for lack of better words) Heart and Soul into?
Weird how the games got better when they stopped caring, huh? HGSS were garbage. Worst remakes, and gen 4 was the worst gen.

>>31864763
Not at all.

PC wallpapers

I genuinely think the lack of special wallpapers was one of the biggest disappointments about sun and moon

>>31850417
Hold up, you can battle Pryce early in HGSS? Google search doesn't show anything.

I liked the special route music in both kanto (24/25) and johto (milk road, 36?)

I liked how Johto was non-linear. It made it feel like more of your own adventure, rather than someone else's adventure.

>>31854894
Johto is a trash region brimming with shitmons. You don't need unovabortions or anyone else like idiots like you to realize that.

>>31854894
Johto is a trash region brimming with shitmons. You don't need unovabortions or anyone else like idiots like you to realize that.

>31869455(You)
>brimming with shitmons
Oh, like every region?

I liked some of the fun stuff with Pikachu in Yellow
>Talking to the Jigglypuff in Pewter City makes Pikachu fall asleep until you leave
>Jump off a ledge but keep Pikachu above it and it starts jumping around
>Falls in love with the Pikachu in the fan club

One of the things I like about gen 5 was the battle theme of gym leaders switching when they were down to their last pokemon.
Too bad Gamefreak obviously didn't take that idea to gen6 or 7.

>>31868375
What shit taste you have

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>>31850830