the Dao of "games journalism"

Skull Man

yeah I only had to change a few things

The Geebs That Is A Pony

you are never going to convince 10 year old geebs that any pokemon other than red or yellow is worth anything

Jars

gen 2 was the pokemon equivalent of star trek: generations. they were scared to leave the old stuff behind and the result is pretty crappy. there was nothing to do in either region except collect hundreds of ratatas and hoothoots.

Dichotomy

yeah but who wants to talk to 10 year old geebs

The Geebs That Is A Pony

10 year old "dichotomy's mom"

Speed Racer

Jars wrote: »

gen 2 was the pokemon equivalent of star trek: generations. they were scared to leave the old stuff behind and the result is pretty crappy. there was nothing to do in either region except collect hundreds of ratatas and hoothoots.

go to jail

Orikaeshigitae

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

there is a major dearth in coverage of bad facebook games

for fucking real

-Tal

Speed Racer wrote: »

-Tal wrote: »

I am continually baffled as to why Hoenn gets such a bad rep

my only problems with it were 1. too much water 2. TOO MUCH WATER

had a couple design stinkers but what gen doesn't

a big chunk of gen 3 pokemon are lame versions of gen 1 pokemon

like zigzagoon and wurmple

the main reason I don't care much for 2 and 4's designs is the bunch of babies and evolutions, it feels like a roster upgrade rather than a new generation

I prefer 3 and 5 because they're soft reboots, and while that comes with a couple "replacement" pokemon, all but two are brand-new designs

Antimatter

Jars wrote: »

gen 2 was the pokemon equivalent of star trek: generations. they were scared to leave the old stuff behind and the result is pretty crappy. there was nothing to do in either region except collect hundreds of ratatas and hoothoots.

Hahahaha whaaaaat

Bug catching contests, 16 gyms, two sets of elite fours, fighting red, searching for unown, collecting apricorns, challenging team rocket, listening to the radio, engaging in rematches, playing the slots, playing the lottery

-Tal

Fighting Red is the best moment of the series

Langly

Worst pokemon is jinx

Antimatter

-Tal wrote: »

Fighting Red is the best moment of the series

Correct

-Tal

Langly wrote: »

Worst pokemon is jinx

oh how could I forget her

see, no generation is sacred

it's like they intentionally throw a couple shit designs in there

Aneurhythmia

I played a DS (I think?) Pokemon game for about 20 hours one week. That was an exercise in bad control/interface design.

Blankzilla

Ahem

Giant Bomb

also the Avengers Facebook game is pretty dang good

it is just a turn based RPG but with superheroes and you get to be a SHIELD Agent

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I'm going to have to start a public facebook account for this shizz

Skull Man

I fought red at like 5AM at a friend's house and I was totally sleep-deprived

had no idea what was coming

he was a beast

when I woke up I thought shit that must have been like

a dream?

this was confirmed by the fact that he was gone when I turned the game back on

BugBoy

gen two was designed as the end of the series

I think that's pretty interesting

the fight against red was supposed to be the last bit of pokemon ever

Antimatter

BugBoy wrote: »

gen two was designed as the end of the series

I think that's pretty interesting

the fight against red was supposed to be the last bit of pokemon ever

you know what

i couldve lived with that

Jars

by sticking gen 1 back into the game it's pretty obvious they cut everything out of kanto to have enough time for it all and played to nostalgia because they were worried it wouldn't be good enough. the gyms were super watered down, the pokemon variety was non-existent, and routes had what, 2 trainers on them? gen 2 was empty and bland and the game would have been much better if they got rid of all the throwback since it was pretty much "hey fight these guys! you remember them right?" with absolutely nothing else to do, and made a full kanto game.

Antimatter

Jars wrote: »

by sticking gen 1 back into the game it's pretty obvious they cut everything out of kanto to have enough time for it all and played to nostalgia because they were worried it wouldn't be good enough. the gyms were super watered down, the pokemon variety was non-existent, and routes had what, 2 trainers on them? gen 2 was empty and bland and the game would have been much better if they got rid of all the throwback since it was pretty much "hey fight these guys! you remember them right?" with absolutely nothing else to do, and made a full kanto game.

you are insane

BugBoy

there are only three years in between gen 1 and gen 2

I think that's a little soon to be playing to nostalgia

-Tal

Kanto was kind of empty but I didn't care, I just loved biking through it

If I wanted to play Gen 1 I could still pop in Gen 1

T4CT

Basically Pokemon is not actually all that interesting a game and yet Nintendo has created the closest thing to a perpetual energy machine

The Geebs That Is A Pony

what am I even doing

Berk

i finally got back into online gaming I forgot how hilarious it can be. Playing battlefield three i accidentally team killed my squad leader when he walked into my line of fire. He got so FURIOUS. These games are so testerone laden and homophobic so I discarded any pretense of playing the game properly and said i shot him because i was so attracted to his physique and that i was in love with him.

where ever he would go on the map i would follow and watch him, slowly slide into his line of sight and stare at him.


all in all a good time was had, by me at least.

T4CT

Also Pokemon yellow is the best Pokemon game

The Geebs That Is A Pony

the art in avengers alliance is better than the art in the hunger games adventures

okay key problems in the facebook project:

a) I need a program that captures screenshots and puts them in a folder so I can just keep hitting the screenshot button instead of alt tabbing to irfanfiew every three seconds to save images

b) I have no idea what to talk about with these

Antimatter

Berk wrote: »

i finally got back into online gaming I forgot how hilarious it can be. Playing battlefield three i accidentally team killed my squad leader when he walked into my line of fire. He got so FURIOUS. These games are so testerone laden and homophobic so I discarded any pretense of playing the game properly and said i shot him because i was so attracted to his physique and that i was in love with him.

where ever he would go on the map i would follow and watch him, slowly slide into his line of sight and stare at him.


all in all a good time was had, by me at least.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh

Berk

h-eh?

Blankzilla

I am telling you Geebs

Avengers Alliance ain't bad

hell, PM me your name so I can help you out

Langly

I don't really get how bf3, a game with no story at all, is homophobic.

Stilts

Berk

That is hilarious.

Buttlord

i don't think i ever played gen3 of pokemon

ever

i always think about buying one of them but ehhhhh

Stilts

Langly wrote: »

I don't really get how bf3, a game with no story at all, is homophobic.

I think Berk meant a lot of the players are homophobic.

Not BF3 itself.

I think.

Antimatter

Berk wrote: »

h-eh?

just laughing at that

it's pretty great

Blankzilla

Yeah start off with something terrible then reward yourself with Avengers Alliance down the line

AA even has half decent writing

The Geebs That Is A Pony

Blankzilla wrote: »

I am telling you Geebs

Avengers Alliance ain't bad

hell, PM me your name so I can help you out

well that's not a good place to start for this damnable project, then

Berk

yeah i meant online shoot a guy games where people use fag as punctuation

Melding

Berk wrote: »

i finally got back into online gaming I forgot how hilarious it can be. Playing battlefield three i accidentally team killed my squad leader when he walked into my line of fire. He got so FURIOUS. These games are so testerone laden and homophobic so I discarded any pretense of playing the game properly and said i shot him because i was so attracted to his physique and that i was in love with him.

where ever he would go on the map i would follow and watch him, slowly slide into his line of sight and stare at him.


all in all a good time was had, by me at least.

This is a good post.

There should be more like it.