Pokémon General Discussion

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Allows it to transform into another Pokemon... Before even using a move. Send it out? It transforms automatically.

Plus, since it's a Dream World Ability, theoretically you could pass it down to anything else. But, that seemingly doesn't work, according to those who have already hacked one... =/

[Mahri828]

 So Ditto is actually good now?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Basically a Zoroark that actually takes on attacks, and doesn't get knocked out of the transformation. =P

However; whether it's good or not, that's still up for debate. =P

[Mahri828]

 But it's still way better than the originol I take it?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yes, yes it is. =P

[Mahri828]

 I remember trying to fight the elite four with a ditto that was level 100... it was still hard. =P

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, good luck with that. =P

[Mahri828]

 I now use LV 100 Tyranitar, Dragonite, Ho-Oh, Mewtwo, Lugio, and/or LV 100 Jolteon or Pikachu. =P

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Good for you. =P

[Mahri828]

 Of course, the newest Pokemon game I have is Pokemon Crystal, so you could imagine that I've had a bit of time to play it. =P

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yes. =P I imagine you've be lost in Gen 5. Too much new stuff. =P

[Mahri828]

 I would be completely lost. =P

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yep. =P

On the bright side, you can run, so you don't have to take an hour to walk everywhere. =P

I'd recommend HGSS first, though, regardless of Gen 5. Familiarize yourself with HGSS, and then immediately move to Black/White after you beat that.

[Mahri828]

 If I get the chance, I will. =P I hated walking in Pokemon, I forgot about that. =P

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Well, Gen 4/5 isn't too much faster, for some reason(Gen 3 was awesome in that respect. D=); but it's still faster than walking in R/G/B/Y/G/S/C. =P

[Plotkin]

No see, gen 3 was fast. Then diamond/pearl/plat were like, uber slow. HGSS were reasonable. But in black and white, if the text is on fast and you tap "A", it goes at the speed I want. Since by now, the text no longer matters to me

[The Host]

Gen 3 was sooo good. I want to see a remake, but they'd have to make it amazing for it to stand up to RSE.

I played HG again the other day and I actually do not like that game. The only redeeming quality is the pokemon that walk behind you, and an awesome Machamp Sprite (though unanimated). After playing White all of my gen 4 games seem dull. Emerald is still fun to pull out though, simply because I can clone stuff and send Masterballs to Plat and catch legendaries with good natures. Its too bad you can't send items to Black and White. Beating the subways over and over again, only to lose at like 25 battles, trying to get points for items is rediculous.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

GD: Text speed doesn't matter, BW's is near instantaneous. =P I'm talking about walking/running speed. =P

ZLS 1: I like RSE; and I do expect a remake set in the next little while. The Gameboy Advance games are near unplayable now, as Nintendo did everything in their power to lock them out from the DS Lite onward; not to mention finding them... And given that apparently the 3DS VC won't have any link capabilities(Which is fail for games like the Pokemon series); there's no way for them to willingly put up the games, and go 'okay, there, you got your RSE games; you happy now?'; without huge fan uproar. So they more or less have to remake RSE, if not in the next little while, during Generation 6, which is more or less likely to still be on the 3DS, due to how they handled Black and White.

ZLS 2: SoulSilver isn't that bad, but it is noticeably slower, and I likely wouldn't play it now for that reason, unless I reset my games and go for attempted completion again like I did for the GBA games. And given I have two DS systems now, that makes things way easier. =P

[The Host]

As long as you have a DS Lite or the original DS you can use the RSE games, but you have to transfer them to a DPPtHGSS game and then move them to a BW game. But it is quite annoying (just did it a few days ago).
If they do a remake on the 3DS I'll have to buy one... luckily the price is being dropped soon.

I just don't like them that much because the elite four round one has you at level 50 max. And the sprites aren't animated. And the story wasn't great (though it was a remake...) It would have been cooler if you could battle all 16 gyms before the E4, so that you'd be at level 65-75ish when you battle the E4... plus rebattling the gym leaders takes way more effort than in Platinum.

If they make a pokemon grey it better have gym leader rebattles platinum style, a better subway system, a storyline focused around Kyurem (whether or not it gets a new form. If it does it'll be Giratina all over again). It would also be nice to see Keldeo have a side story revolving around catching the three musketeers and then searching for Keldeo. And the Abyssal ruins should be better explained.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Psst, ZLS, the price already dropped. It's been dropped for about a week now. =P

Well, that's the way it was in the originals... And I believe some of the gyms even got a level boost! The Gym Rebattles are annoying, I'll give you that... However, it was the same way in Emerald, more or less.

Platinum-style battles would be interesting; but I don't think it should be restricted to randomly maybe having 4 Leaders... It should have a maximum of something, but a static max. And maybe being able to fight them over and over on the same day, like HGSS allowed.

A better Subway system would be nice; but the only thing that they haven't done for that is add in Frontier features; and that's better off on it's own.

A Kyurem Storyline is all but confirmed for Grey; and that's not even confirmed yet. xD

Keldeo having a Side Story... Only way I see that happening is if there's a ticket that requires you to have all three Musketeers; since it's an event Pokemon... Much as it'd be awesome. =/

Abyssal Ruins should definitely be explained; but... Well, side areas like that haven't been explained much; look at the Regi areas in RSE or the Stone Tower in D/P/P... =/