Considering its Nintendo's biggest cash cow, you'd think they'd cut the prices juuuuust a little bit
Yeah, I feel that if the games had actually dropped in price a bit more, it may have been a regular of my gaming habits. Curse my frugal nature!
Oh yeah, they do. The old cartridges also have the problem of the internal batteries running out, and gold and silver used that for saves. And yet they still cost so much. Just goes to show how powerful nostalgia is among Pokemon fans.
Which games I grab will largely come down to finances and availability. Like most mainline Nintendo properties, Pokemon games only seem to go up in value as time goes back. Most of the used entries I found, including the copy of Silver I picked up, are pretty much the same price as the new entries.
That would be AWESOME! I'd be happy to share advanced training tips (EVs and IVs and stuff like that) and we get tournaments on EoFF from time to time! Though we probably won't be able to battle until gen 6, because Nintendo have terminated online services from gen 4 and 5 some time ago, and gen 7 is coming out in November, so who knows if they won't close the Internet for XY and ORAS until then. I know I'll be getting my copy of Pokemon Sun for Christmas and I'm super excited because Ivs been avoiding any information (aside from name of region, professor, and what the three starters look like) like the plague, so I'm hoping to get that same rush from it as I did as a kid Btw, will you be checking out the remakes as well? They're all pretty different from the originals. Fire Red/Leaf Green in gen 3 don't really change too much, they mostly tweak the mechanics and add the option of a female character, but Heart Gold/Soul Silver in gen 4 and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire in gen 6 are noticeably different. Also, Black and white have sequels that have some of the coolest content in the series. For example, there's this tournament where you can battle every single gym leader and champion in the series.
Gotcha. I probably should collect the later titles. My GF is a huge Pokemon nerd (Piplup is her favorite starter) and maybe we could game together more if I took more of a plunge. On the other hand, I'm also pretty competitive...
Hmm... In a way, I guess? It took away some things that made people love gen 2 (day/night cycle, visiting other regions in the post-game, etc.), but the generation was still popular enough, with a whole new generation of people actually starting with this and having a huge nostalgia for it. The fandom in general remembers it fondly. Diamond and Pearl have it way worse because they were kinda too similar to the previous gen while having problems of its own in pacing and the speed of movement. Gen 5 is praised for its story, but many people feel it has the worst Pokemon designs (I happen to love them, but that's a matter of taste). It really wasn't until gen 6 that everyone was finally happy with Pokemon again. So Ruby and Sapphire is more like and end of an era, with a large chunk of the old fandom being cut off, with a bunch of newbies coming in, while gen 4 is the black sheep, while gen 5 is... controversial.
I get the impression Ruby and Sapphire were the weak links.
Yeah, I hope you can get further in this time too The later generations may have some problems (like being increasingly easy to the point that really, no effort is required to beat the gen 6 games), but they're constantly refining the Pokemon formula and there's a lot to love beyond gold/silver/crystal. Shame a lot of people quit Pokemon right around that time.
I have Pikachu, he's just not on my team at the moment. As I said, I'm trying to break out of my usual mold with this game and not use my usual crew. Hence Voltorb and Drowzee instead of Pikachu and Kadabra. Yeah, I know all about Gen 2 letting you battle Red in the post game, which was awesome. I'm looking forward to Silver as I did want to continue with the series, I just got sidetracked with other games at the time.
