Given that I'm not a hugely into competitive Pokémon myself, most of my Pokémon playing is just running through the games over again in one way or another. I figure I'm probably not the only one who does some extent of running through the games on different challenge runs and whatnot, or just going back through for fun, but to have a separate thread for each game, or even each generation, would be far too much. (Though if there already exists a specific thread for something, you can still just discuss it in there.)
Thus the birth of this thread. Use it to discuss current runs through games (through whatever method, regular run or challenge run, ROMhack or standard game, etc.), or random opinions on specific generations or games. Just make sure, obviously, to not +1 post count. Don't just post "I'm playing through X game right now."
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What inspired this thread is that I'm actually making an effort to finish a Nuzlocke, finally. I've started two in Sapphire before, the first of which I stopped playing because I was so scared of losing more important Pokémon and then restarted because it had been so long, and then basically the same thing happened with the second one.
Now I've started a new Nuzlocke (with a Buffyverse naming theme) and have gotten up to Victory Road, and I'm grinding like hell before I even attempt to go through Victory Road (sort of just breaking up the E4 preparation). I actually hadn't had any deaths at all, up to Victory Road...until I got a Spheal (evolved into Sealeo) that I was trying to use to replace Gyarados since Gyarados's Special Attack could be better and this is 3rd gen, so Water is all Special. I was training against some random trainer in the Trick House, and a Machoke Revenge (level 26 vs. level 34, figured I'd have a better shot) took it down.
Anyway, I'll be continuing my training, putting Lorne the Gyarados back on my team, I suppose. The better option would be Starmie, of course, but I didn't manage to get one in Lilycove.
Anyone else been playing any games recently?
Thus the birth of this thread. Use it to discuss current runs through games (through whatever method, regular run or challenge run, ROMhack or standard game, etc.), or random opinions on specific generations or games. Just make sure, obviously, to not +1 post count. Don't just post "I'm playing through X game right now."
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What inspired this thread is that I'm actually making an effort to finish a Nuzlocke, finally. I've started two in Sapphire before, the first of which I stopped playing because I was so scared of losing more important Pokémon and then restarted because it had been so long, and then basically the same thing happened with the second one.
Now I've started a new Nuzlocke (with a Buffyverse naming theme) and have gotten up to Victory Road, and I'm grinding like hell before I even attempt to go through Victory Road (sort of just breaking up the E4 preparation). I actually hadn't had any deaths at all, up to Victory Road...until I got a Spheal (evolved into Sealeo) that I was trying to use to replace Gyarados since Gyarados's Special Attack could be better and this is 3rd gen, so Water is all Special. I was training against some random trainer in the Trick House, and a Machoke Revenge (level 26 vs. level 34, figured I'd have a better shot) took it down.
Anyway, I'll be continuing my training, putting Lorne the Gyarados back on my team, I suppose. The better option would be Starmie, of course, but I didn't manage to get one in Lilycove.
Anyone else been playing any games recently?