I was surprised the first time someone said Gen 2 was their least favorite.
Then they explained why
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Really like the way she looks at gen2 in that video!
Silver/Gold have been my personal favorite Pokemon games since they came out. I never really replayed them since my childhood. Just seeing footage of it in the video makes me want to revisit gen2, though!
The phone calls and rematches with trainers, the compactness of the overall world, the daily activities. I never really thought about how āoddā gen2 is regarding the course the series took after that.
Given how thereās increasingly more examples of what Pokemon could be either through fan games or things like ugh palworld it makes me hope the pressure eventually leads to the pokemon company realizing the enormous potential for good games they have on their hands, if they just allowed themselves to make them.
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Excited to look at Pokemon as hangout games. Came here in search of GBA-specific hangout games, but not sure what Iām looking for exactly. In search of in-bed-lights-off-hangout while I try to doze off kind of games that I can play on a Miyoo Mini or suchā¦
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I love the hang out portions of Card Fighters Clash sooo much. These are places I would love to be, and everyone is pretty friendly and into their hobbies.
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story time:
iām 13. the last time i played earthbound was probably 5 years ago, borrowing a friendās copy and never making it past twoson before returning it to him. i am enamored. i have watched him beat it. itās my turn. my mom buys me a copy of the game off ebay WITH THE STRATEGY GUIDE!! i didnāt even have to ask! i boot it up. i soak in the intro. daylight breaks as i stroll into nessās hometown. i stand on the sidewalk by the drug store, just listening to the song over and over again until it becomes my own hometown anthem. onett rules to hang out in.
maybe more closely related to the thread though:
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For PokĆ©mon the thing people nowadays donāt understand is that the grind is the hanging out.
Going for 1-5% encounter rates, raising āuselessā PokĆ©mon, playing the slots is all the hangingingoutinest stuff. I am in the middle of a playthrough of Ruby now. Perfect for micro.
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I would gladly play a Pokemon without Pokemon. The little towns and buildings are great hang out zones, and I donāt care about collecting or fighting.
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Well yeah sure. Iām saying hang out in the same patch of tall grass for 7 hours though. Be like Red in mt.silver and camp in these caves instead of being uncomfortable in them. The purpose of the PokĆ©mon, itās been said, is to make these environments feel like living, thriving ecosystems.
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Pokemon games are like marvel movies to me. They all are pretty ok and I donāt know why people so passionately prefer one over the other. I mean donāt get me wrong, Iād play pokemon over watching a GD marvel movie but they inspire no passion in me. I just like how good bad the pokemon art direction is. And I mean, who doesnāt like thousands of little guys?
At the moment I am deeply entrenched in my own personal PokƩmon culture and disgust in 90% of PokƩmon fandom and content on the internet, so right now may not be the best time for me to weigh in as I have very aggressive feelings in regard to generation 1+2 supremacy.
My thesis would basically be that 8/16-bit RPG enjoyers are the ones who would understand PokĆ©mon, if you do not enjoy random encounters then your enjoyment is coming from a different seed than was originally intended by satoshi tajiri. This is my context for enjoyment, I feel no remorse enjoying these games because I have also played so many RPGs from every DQ and FF, to other stuff like Ys and SaGa. I think my experience may culminate into a āmetroidvania chroniclesā-like breakdown similar to Jeremy parishās chronology of the most unspoken relevancies and how this RPGās success as the largest multimedia franchise of all time happened the way it did. This is a huge task though. I think whatās lead to confusion is that all accounts are incomplete and there is a ton of misdiagnoses by the loudest voices and majority demographic who are children born into later cycles of the series or my narrow-visioned piersā PokĆ©mon adults in their 30ās.
Trying not to derail the thread, my intention for the thread was finding hang out locations in places most players do not slow down to hang.
Iām holding back a lot here. For example I think touching the post-tajiri PokĆ©mon games without spending years on his work serves to water down an understanding of the core purpose of the series. Now that my lifestyle has changed I will have more time to write a full insert-credit style thesis on the subject. But I just touched down yesterday give me a minute.
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GBA Micro? Heck yeah - AYANEO Pocket Micro is why I came looking for GBA fare, that nostalgic-enough got me, Iām here to say I got got.
But I never played much of any Pokemon - growing up in smalltown Canada, it was Decided that we were Too Old for Pokemon in my grade, and even one grade younger those brave folks got made fun of. Two years younger, that was the locally-designated Acceptable age for Pokemon enjoyers.
Fast forward to college and I found out that Iād missed out on worlds that others had enjoyed.
Although I never had a GB or GBC, and the GBA was my first. I used to hang out in Joltima on my TI-86.
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Generation 3 (GBA) is also when PokĆ©mon dropped in popularity and generally was when the ātoo old for PokĆ©monā societal judgement began to take full force. Most everyone skipped generation 3, unless you were a nerdy little kid like me.
Iāve reached the stage of Metroid Prime where Iām just hanging out and collecting artifacts. Here are the Zones ranked by hangoutability:
#5 - Magmoor Caverns - Too hard to hang out when you could get knocked into lava at any second. The monitor station is the biggest room but has too many enemies (and annoying turrets) to want to hang out there. The sooner I can leave this zone, the better.
#4 - Phazon Mines - In fairness I just unlocked this zone and spent the smallest collective time here, but the high level enemies jumping at you make it a little more annoying to walk through. The save points are a bit far away from each other too. It is about 1000x better to hang out in once you unlock the Phazon suit, but itās a little late.
#3 - Chozo Ruins - This place is chock full of secrets and missile upgrades. It really feels like thereās stuff in every corner. Coming back when you have all your powers is nice, you can just walk around and think to yourself āhey this tree stump looks unique, what if I hit it with a super missile?ā
#2 - Tallon Overworld - This area has some fun platforming, especially after unlocking the X-Ray specs. Thereās a nice halfpipe thatās easy to get to, so you can do some tricks like youāre Bob Burnquist. Itās also fun to visit your ship, sit under a tree while the raindrops fall, or stop by the Artifact temple to ponder some artifacts. Itās a nice little hub though stray too far into the water parts and itās much less hangoutable.
#1 - Phendrana Drift - So much to discover, big set pieces happen here, lots of stuff to scan and think about, and thereās a banging soundtrack. It also does the fun thing where you come here early on before you can actually explore it, so it sticks in the back of your head, and then you realize how big of a zone it is. Itās just a cool place to come to. Thereās something for everyone here, it will be my lasting memory of this game for sure.
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This is my true jam. I hang out in that game all the time. I donāt smoke out anymore though but Iāve definitely loaded up a save, turned off enemy detection and just chilled around the tomb of giants while on hallucinogens. What a brilliant and oppressive place.
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How do you turn off enemy detection?
Itās going to be different for each game. Some have cheat tables that will have it others have it in the debug menu that you can enable through installing the debug tool