MrPopo wrote:
The general formula of the games has not changed since the originals. You progress through the towns, collect the 8 badges, do Victory Road, and fight the Elite Four. There is content after the Elite Four are beaten. Frequently you have to do sidequests in order to progress.
The general formula may be the same, but there have been a lot of other stuff added to the game like growing berries that your pokemon can hold and use, as well as other items that you can give them. There is the pagaents you can enter your pokemon in and compete for ribbons.
Also there is the more complicated systems like time of day affecting what pokemon you get, the pokemon disease pokerus and the whole controlling what stats your pokemon get when they level up. It is weird to look back at the original and see how far the series has actually gone. It may not seem like much, but when you think about it...man a lot has changed.
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Yeah, but half the stuff you listed only comes into play if you want to get into competitive battling. Contests are a thing, but once you got past Ruby & Sapphire they weren't pushed in-game, so many people would try them once and then move on. Berries also ends up being something that people are aware of, but few take the time to do the harvesting at a rigorous level. Hold items is the biggest addition that you notice in-game, as you can use it to pump your Pokémon, or you notice that trainer's mon just cured their status ailment automatically.
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MrPopo wrote:Ash is based on the protagonist of the original generation. From an IP perspective the video games come first, and then the anime comes along as an adaptation. So rather than the new protagonist for each game the anime keeps Ash and the new protagonists become supporting characters.
There are over 500 Pokémon at this point. In every game except Black & White (not sure about their sequels) you get a mixture of the new and old Pokémon as you travel through the particular game world. Black & White only gives you the new 150 they added.
The general formula of the games has not changed since the originals. You progress through the towns, collect the 8 badges, do Victory Road, and fight the Elite Four. There is content after the Elite Four are beaten. Frequently you have to do sidequests in order to progress.
There's 649 pokémon as of Black and White. Apparently there will be over 700 in X and Y. Black and White 2 have 300 pokémon in the wild before you beat the game, all of the ones from Black and White plus around 150 from older games.
The main thing thats changed since gen 1 is the specifics of the battle system to be honest. It's a lot more in depth now, while still being simple enough to grasp for casual play.
Yeah, things like the special attack/defense split, and the more recent physical/special attacks, but for just playing through the story all you need to remember is type weaknesses, and those haven't changed since the first gen (aside from adding steel and dark).
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this managed to hype me up. I really like the designs, and the new 3D look , looks amazing. Going to buy this when I get a 3ds. I'm just wondering how many classics are we going to have access to. Also.....don't compare Red to Ash.....
Just don't
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ZeroAX wrote:this managed to hype me up. I really like the designs, and the new 3D look , looks amazing. Going to buy this when I get a 3ds. I'm just wondering how many classics are we going to have access to. Also.....don't compare Red to Ash.....
Just don't
Fighting Red at the end of Pokemon Gold was an incredibly awesome moment.
Let's hope with them breaking the naming trend we are in for a new experience. 3d graphics is nice and all, but the pokemon franchise has never been about visuals. If that is all they are updating with a few minor tweaks to the B/W formula, then its just business as usual.
