Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

The game is rather entertaining the first couple playthroughs, even if the show is shallow and boring.

Yeah, the game's pretty interesting at a meta level now, because of the PVP stuff.

But it's not going to really start getting interesting until:

1. You hit the really high level PVE stuff.
2. You can no longer just outlevel content, as in battling other trainers at cap.

That's when you're going to start to care about things like cycling weather effects, stacking buffs/debuffs, etc.

They have a game mode now that automatically levels your pokemon to 100 for purposes of that fight. So now you only need to hit your sufficient EV levels, which isn't much at all.

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The REAL time-grind is getting the pokemon you want to actually use, not getting them leveled enough to have all the skills you want them to have.

Edited, Sep 29th 2013 6:50pm by idiggory

i decided to start watching breaking bad tonight.

It was all about Digimon.

I think they've kind of lost their original connection to animals which is what Fishy is complaining about anyway.




Also, Lapsang Souchong is tasty.

Nostalgia and being very familiar with the old pokemon makes them less weird.


Also, I'm cooking up some mushrooms tonight that I picked myself.

I'm not planning to.

Jup, this thread is going places...

So much freaky pokemon sex to get Earthquake passed through 2 different breeding groups just to round out one little fuzzball. Back and forth went my bike while they did their thing over and over again. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...

On the bright side though my captive breeding program managed to release dozens of female sandshrews into the wild.

lol, I'm sure the population of sandshrew will be much better off, and the local ecosystem not at all affected.

Worth noting that they're introducing some kind of super training system that will make EV training even easier. Apparently, it's a series of minigames targeting specific stats, and you can train them at any time. So that should be a nice way to get new pokemon appropriately trained really quickly once you clear the breeding phase.

Other features they're adding:
8 dimensional movement (no more up, left, up, up, up, left).
-Plus, Pokemon mounts (Rhyhorn and one of the new ones confirmed as mount pokemon).
--Apparently, mounts will allow you to use some HM-esque moves while on them. Whether or not the mount needs to know the HM, I don't know.

Sky battles (battles where you can only use flying pokemon or pokemon with the levitate trait).

I'm curious how they'll handle sea battles with non-water pokemon, now that the game terrain is based on the environment.



I rather enjoy both. At it's peak, Digimon has been pretty great. But Pokemon has been more consistently enjoyable.

From an anime perspective, Tamers was really awesome. But I'm not sure I've ever cried as much as the petrification scene in the first pokemon movie...

Game-wise, I have to say I've found the pokemon games more consistently enjoyable. But so few of the digimon games get localized that it's hard to tell.

Digimon games were always trying to be vastly different from the previous game, for better or worse. Usually worse. For such a potentially awesome franchise the games just never seem to take off. Pokemon on the other hand has been essentially the same game for, what, twenty years? The same game but with one, one and a half things added per edition and a little refinement in between.

As far as anime, Digimon trumps Pokemon ten times out of eight.