Recent content by Sixfortyfive

Internet access was already commonplace. RBY really was a special breeding ground for rumors, though. MissingNo's existence and the myriad of abusable glitches made just about any half-baked theory sound plausible.

Back when Plat was current, I inadvertently built a mono-ice team that was tailored for this glitch. Abomasnow sets up weather; Weavile activates the glitch via Pursuit. Activating the glitch off of Snow Warning causes more simultaneous weather conditions to happen than it does when it's...

You're right. So I guess we can add a couple dozen cities to the list, on one specific day each. Kind of surprised I forgot about this in retrospect, as I'm certain that I have a Celebi with a 10ANIV trainer ID sitting in one of my boxes somewhere that I'm pretty sure was cloned from somebody...

Japan only, and it also seems to have required a completed Colosseum save file. US version had Jirachi instead.

If we're talking about the availability specifically for competitions, then the one saving grace of this mess is that Deoxys and other Pokemon of its specific class were never permitted in official tournaments anyway, so they can at least be excluded from any "pay2win" argument. But man. I do...

Rayquaza also had Outrage in 3rd gen, which brings with it a self-confusion risk.

I think your argument is off by about 10 years. The Legend of Zelda on the NES hailed from an era where you weren't even remotely expected to beat the majority of the video games that you owned. Pokemon Red & Blue absolutely did not belong to that same era. I also think it's too reductive to...

I think there are a lot of different ways that you can argue that Kanto is lacking compared to what came after it (it's pretty basic), but this isn't one of them. And the older I get, the more I'm inclined to think that games of this style could use less directional guidance, not more. Pokemon...

Just one of those things where people loved the idea of it and glossed over the execution. I admit I sometimes have a hard time separating criticism of Johto from criticism of GSC.

What even was the point of this, anyway? Just to have some cute stuff to fill up the dex? Whether it's the map or the dex, Johto can only stand on the merit of basically being an expansion to Kanto. It's got such little substance of its own to offer.

Vespiquen also rules. Uncommon queen bee Pokemon with 3 signature moves that were all at least decent? That's dope. The honey trees were also a good thing, actually. Yes, even with the obnoxious required time investment, and even with the terrible encounter rates for stuff like Munchlax...

People also knock gen 4 for "wasting" so much of its regional dex on cross-gen evolutions, and while I'm not going to argue that every one of them was a winner, it's also not gen 4's fault that it had to salvage underwhelming single-stage species from the previous games. Honchcrow and Mismagius...

Mt. Coronet does a ton for Sinnoh's stock. It's a cool centerpiece that's always looming in the background in wild encounters across most of the map. The Spear Pillar is an appropriate story climax. The fact that you have to trek through the foothills back and forth in different places at least...

The Top Champion is just the Champion. The other "champions" are only named as such in order to give the player the impression that beating Nemona is actually supposed to mean something, even though (because?) she's an incredibly poor rival character.

Going back to 3rd gen and seeing all of the "fufufufu" laughs genuinely drives me nuts.