It’s Journey to X & Y: Generation II week! This time we’ll do a Dae asks. Before you comment, be sure to read this. Anything off-topic posted will be deleted immediately and when you continue to spam when I’m asleep, I will enforce some temporary bans. This also includes asking “What’s your favorite XY Pokémon”, “What types do you think the Gym Leaders will be”, “Who wants to see these mega evolution concepts”,… Those things have been asked a bajillion times already, derail the whole thread and make it harder for people to browse the topic at hand. Use the forums or the chat if you want some speedier conversation.
For this Dae asks we’ll go a bit more general and I want to hear your opinion on the new gameplay mechanics they added to Gold/Silver. This doesn’t mean the stuff they added in Heartgold/Soulsilver, those are technically Gen IV games. Some topics to discuss are:
- Breeding
- Gender
- Babies
- Clock with Day/Night
- Happiness
- Dark/Steel type
- Pokérus
- Held items
- Experience how annoying phones can be with the Pokégear before phones were commonplace
- And finally shinies!
Gold and Silver were quite the shake-up, and I’m curious how you think of them. While generations onwards also provided major changes, I still feel like Gen II introduced stuff that have become so typical for Pokémon, you would even think they were already in Red/Blue.
In other news, I’ve been a bit sick. University has also started again, and I’m busy maintaining my personal relationships. I won’t be very active on the site the coming month, but be sure I’ll try to read the comments as much as I can and I’ll still be active in the staff back-end. We also started pre-production on a prestigious project which we’ll share more information on if we can get it greenlighted in full. It will be something no other major Pokémon site has done and will have lots of involvement from our community. Stay tuned after XY launches, although it has nothing do with those game in particular.
~Daedardus~
Will there be an article up about the new Pokebeach rumors?
Ooooh~♪ New PokéBeach rumors!
Thanks for the heads up. 😀
And the new commercial for X and Y
Bunnelby evolving into Ground/Dark? Wow I don’t know about that…but uh..gen 2 huh? Crazy stuff….
Giving the rival an interesting story was a good addition too. Gary/Blue was just a snot, but Silver was actually one of the first characters to have real development.
I dunno. Silver was still kind of a snot.
Yeah, he kinda was. Being Giovanni’s son would do that.
I’m still like a certain rival who likes to “unleash his rage.”
He’s feisty.
The manga does it a lot better, tbh. In the games he was just whiny all the time. “You’re weak I’m strong wah you beat me I hate the weak” and such. Being linked to Giovanni was a very interesting side story, but I wish they went into more detail in the game.
Right, at least stealing a Pokemon was more interesting than the spoiled grandson of a professor. I feel like I’m attributing HG/SS and manga attributes into Silver though that weren’t present in the game.
On a negative side, I used to think he was a girl because of his hair.
I wasn’t disagreeing, Blue was boring. But I felt like Silver had a lot more potential for character development and they coped out. Looks like for X and Y they are actually going to focus on characters and development, instead of just an angry rival who hates you for always beating him.
I did like his design. Especially his HGSS design. I also liked how you practically guess his name for the cops, since his name is ??? when you meet him and I don’t recall him telling you.
Ha, I knew, I was actually agreeing with you a bit.
I like his design now (HG/SS), but as a 9 y/o boy I could get past their hair. I would have loved to name him ???, but alas, I was too smart and named him Gary.
Ha, I know, I meant that Gary/Blue’s only draw was being a snot. Silver had an interesting story of why he was a snot and did more interesting things than Gary/Blue.
It makes sense since it does dig with its ears, and it apparently lives in caves…plus, evolving Pancham would be a bitch if they didn’t give us a more common dark type early on. If it is really early on, that means Pancham is too.
Bunnelby is kind of…uninteresting so if it really has that grand of a retyping, I’m impressed.
I’m more curious about Togepi (GEN TWO RELATION) being apparently retyped completely. I guess they would drop the normal type. I don’t think that’s been done before?
Nothin’ ta worry about. It’s just Game Freak makin’ history, that’s all.
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True. Though the Quillom Pokemon is kind of strange. Sounds too related to Quilladin…
My thoughts is that Togepi will be Normal/Fairy, but evolves into a Flying/Fairy
I hope such rumors are real, although I wish the description of Froakie’s final evolution was more detailed.
I wish there was some info on the other starters. :
He probably had a Froakie as his starter. But yeah me too.
I’m leaning on believing these rumors. With release being so close, review games would have been sent out by now, so new leakers are very possible. Nintendo can’t really prevent that.
WPM even said “Again, please treat all of this with caution –
even though we’ve been shown evidence to backup some of the information, we could still be falling for an elaborate trick. Time will tell!”
I’m guessing it must be from a recent review of the game.
I would personally love for them to reveal a dragon type eeveelution tomorrow, but I bet it will be Helioptile’s evolution. Given that we got Pyroar revealed.
I am hoping it is either Helioptile or Flabebe.
Steel Eeveelution preferred over those two. If I get that, I will not ask for any more reveals.
My favourite addition in Gen II was the baby Pokémon (although I never played Gen II games). If Elekid or Magby didn’t exist, their evolutionary lines wouldn’t feel complete, I guess. I also think Electabuzz and Magmar are better as 2nd forms.