All Purpose Pokemon Thread

ClockworkUniverse

Right. I'll do that.

Impression 51:Caught Tympole, named her Serena.

Impression 52:Just because the odds of your Pokemon hurting itself in confusion are 50/50, that doesn't mean it won't do so five times in a row.

Impression 53:Yorick evolved into Herdier! Yay!

Impression 54:Holy fuck, the new evolution screen is epic.

Impression 55:Caught a Timburr. Named him Magog.

Impression 56: Blitzle's defense is so low I can hardly use it. Irritating.

Nova

54: IKR

ClockworkUniverse

Yeah, it kinda makes me want to just make everything evolve, not because of power, but because awesome screen.

Impression 57: Caught a Sawk. Named him Aoni.

Impression 58: Demolished N. That was really, really easy.

Impression 59:Stupid gym leaders and their stupid super potions.

Marioguy128

How's Lenora's Watchog working out for you?  >

ClockworkUniverse

Bastard one or two-shotted more than half my team.

I'm currently grinding against Audino/looking for a Throh.

Impression 60:Hell yeah, Opheo evolved into Servine.

Impression 61:Screw it, I'll find Throh later. Going to challenge the gym again.

Impression 62:Just realized the Pokemon Center nurses are back to saying "We hope to see you again." Fuck you; I hope your Pokemon all get injured too.

Impression 63: Timburr's animation does not work in slow-mo at all.

Impression 64:Heh, Lenora's Herdier KOs itself if you stall.

Impression 65:That grinding really payed off.

Impression 66:Caught a Cottonee. Named her Tara.

Impression 67:I haven't the slightest clue why I'm still calling these "Impressions" when they're basically a twittery liveblog.

Impression 68:Caught a Venipede. Named him Scolo.

Impression 69:Heh, 69.

Impression 70:Chris evolved into Tranquill. Awesome.

Impression 71:Caught a Sewaddle, named her Chloe.

Impression 72:Caught another Cottonee. Didn't name him, as I caught him for trading purposes.

Impression 73:So...the skull was completely useless. Did they just grab it because it looked cool or something?

Impression 74:Skyarrow Bridge...wow. I don't know what sort of crazy mind it took to decide that Pokemon really needed scenery porn, but whoever thought of it is awesome.

Impression 75:So...I know that there's a lot of stuff on Unova that isn't on its counterpart of Manhattan Island, but this first bit on the island corresponds to the real world pretty nicely.

Impression 76:Some guy gave me a water stone. Thanks, some guy!

Impression 77:OH GOD CAMERA SCREW. It was handling 3D so well up until there!

Impression 78:Got the Eviolite. Looks pretty awesome.

Impression 79:I get to the gym, and the leader immediately leaves it. Really?

Impression 80:Team Plasma are being assholes again. Seriously? They were off to such a good start with that first speech (ominous music aside), and now they're basically pickpockets/kidnappers.

Impression 81:"The world that I -- I mean, Team Plasma--desires." So...basically, Cyrus. N had better be more interesting than Ghetsis.

Impression 82:Walking through walls...Unova gyms are weird.

Impression 83:Burgh was pathetically easy.

Impression 84:Caught a Darumaka. Named him Darunia because I'm a Zelda fanboy.

Impression 85:Caught a Sandile. Named him Gustave.

Impression 86:Caught a Scraggy. Named him Agamin.

Impression 87:Caught a Sigiliph. Named him Nazca.

Impression 88:Caught a Dwebble. Named him Pagu.

Impression 89:I just noticed that they finally did away with capitalizing all Pokemon names.

Impression 90:Caught a Maractus. Named her Opa.

Impression 91:Caught a Yamask. Named him Menes.

Impression 92:Just realized I missed the Exp. Share. Backtracking time!

Impression 93:Was expecting to have to battle the fossil guy, so I hit A at an inopportune moment and got the Cover Fossil whether I want it or not. Fortunately, I did want it.

Impression 94:Backtracked; got the Exp. Share. This should be useful.

Impression 95:I has Ultra Balls! Professor Juniper is generous.

Impression 96:"We are taking Pokemon away from people." Such astounding dialogue.

Impression 97:I has a bike!

Impression 98:Battle subway. Battle...subway. How the hell is that supposed to get insurance?

Impression 99:Some guy gave me Strength. And the last boulder I saw was, what, on route 2? Yeah, I don't really wanna backtrack that far.

Impression 100:Did...did N just ask me out?

Impression 101:N has revealed that he's the king of Team Plasma. Um...given that the little opening video outright showed us this, how was that supposed to be a reveal?

Tachikaze

Yeah, N's "reveal"'s kinda...bleh. And yes, he just asked you out.

I don't know what's so implausible about locking 2-4 people in a subway car with animals ranging from small to...bigger than a subway car that are likely to start earthquakes. Seems like getting approval for that would be easy.

And I think if you go east from Nimbasa you can use strength to get payback.

ClockworkUniverse

Ooh, good to know.

Impression 102:Annnd...now he's giving me advice on how to stop his plans for some reason. Is this some kind of teenage rebellion thing he's doing?

Impression 103:Bianca is dragging me to the musical thing. This is either going to be awesome or horrible.

Impression 104:Oh, god. The prop case is pink and has a heart on it. Abort! Abort!

nohaynicklibre

I'm doing great in my Nuzlocke. I'm up to the third member and none of my team mons has even been injured. All that grinding in the Victory Road payed off

ClockworkUniverse

I still haven't tried nuzlocke. I've been meaning to, but I keep doing other stuff instead.

Impression 105:This is awesome...why is this awesome? This has no right to be awesome!

Tachikaze

Nuzlockes can be fun...as long as you don't try them on any "let's leave the wild pokemon levels at 13-15 and boost the gym leader to a team of 6 level 30s" hacks.

...Speaking of, I should probably get back to my Nuzlocke run...or bashing my head against a wall until getting back to that sounds like a good idea.

nohaynicklibre

I'm doing it in one of those hacks,funnily enough,though is not that exaggerated. It's mostñy a 5 levels difference

ClockworkUniverse

Impression 106: Remember, kids, random supermodels give better advice than your parents do!

Tachikaze

@nick: The hack I'm playing does have a patch of grass full of level 25s...but they're all poison and flying types and I need to train a grass type for the gym, so it's a no go.

nohaynicklibre

What hack is it? Mine is Flora Sky

AHR

I have all of dem propses. Totally worth it.

Crimson

Hey INUH, do you want me to trade you that Zorua and Petilil now or later?

ClockworkUniverse

Later. I'm pretty busy at the moment. Have to go do household stuff.

Tachikaze

@nick: I think it's Touhoumon Emerald...or maybe it was Moemon Eternal...or both.

Icalasari

INUH, make sure to spoiler once you get to the city with the big freezer jut south of it. I'm doing a blind Nuzlocke (although I spoiled some stuff before deciding that), and already knowing about the Excadrill is wrecking that a bit

Also, Emolga is a little bastard whom I'll never forgive for critting my Zoroark, letting it survive with one hit point, only to let the hail finish him off

ClockworkUniverse

Will do.

ClockworkUniverse

IJBM: No Pokemon Snap 3DS game has been announced.

Icalasari

IJBM: We only got ONE Pokemon Snap game

Crimson

How well did Pokemon Snap sell anyway? Maybe it wasn't as well regarded as everyone thinks.

ClockworkUniverse

151000 copies in the first 3 days of its US release, and over 86000 hotels licensed it for use on modified N64s in their rooms. I'd say that's a fair success.

Vorpy

151000

lol

ClockworkUniverse

From Wikipedia:

For the month of November, it was featured in the United States' top 10 list of best-selling video games.[14] For the week ending November 27, it ranked as the 10th best-selling video game, while it remained the most-rented video game for the same week.[15] By the end of 1999, Pokémon Snap was the sixth best-selling video game in the United States, having sold in excess of 1.5 million copies

Vorpy

....and yet it still hasn't won Game of the Year why?

ClockworkUniverse

Critics hated it, apparently. They didn't find it replayable, which is odd, considering how many times I played through it.

Crimson

Who knows. I think the developers just plain forgot about it.

And let's face it. If they made a new one, it'll get swamped by the inevitable "It's not the original!" nostalgia-fag crowd.

ClockworkUniverse

Well, they have 3D models for the entirety of Gen V thanks to Pokedex 3D, so...

Time to start up "Operation Camerafall?" :P