Dae asks: GenIIus additions

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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.

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396 thoughts on “Dae asks: GenIIus additions”

  1. My first baby Pokemon was a Pichu. I bred my Raichu – all the way from yellow version! – and my Typhlosion. I was so amazed at this production of adorable critters that I just kept on lettin em breed until I had about 15 Pichu. Ah, those were the days. Pointless but fun.

    My first ever shiny was a Tangela on Crystal outside Mt Silver. Due to lack of internet I had no idea what shinies were so I almost crapped myself when it came across the screen and sparkled. I was so worried it was some kind of game-wrecking glitch that I almost didn’t catch it…good thing curiosity won out in the end!

    Also – Dragon’s Den music. That is all.

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  3. When y’all think the full X & Y Pokédex will be revealed? The Black & White Pokédex (the english one) was revealed a month before the actual release. It’s September 23rd, how much time do we have to wait?!

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  5. Breeding- I didnt fully understand how to utulize it at the time, so all i used the breeders for were to see my pokemon on the field(even if most of them had the same sprites.

    Gender- Technically existed in gen 1, but i do remember trying to catch pokemon in the gender that i think suited them most.(also didn’t play crystal, so i thought may was the first female playable character, until i found a copy of crystal a few years after R/S came out)

    Babies-again, didnt fully understand the breeding mechanic, so i never got the baby pokemon.

    Day/Night- Probably my favourite addition, sad they got rid of it in gen3(even though the time feature was still in it)(glad they brought it back in gen 4), + umbreon is my favourite eeveelution.

    Happiness- didnt know it existed until gen 3

    Dark/Steel- who doesnt love new types, especially because with them added, more pokemon possibilities came about.

    Pokerus- didnt know it existed

    held items- Another great add, though in my childhood naivity i kept making my team hold potions(i cringe at my childhood thought process)

    phonecalls- i liked them(dont hate me)

    shinies- all i know is the gyarados is the only one that i ever got in my own games before B2/W2, and that in gen 2 they had higher stats(somehow a friend of mine got 6 in gold)

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  6. I don’t mean to be off topic, but there was another trailer for X and Y’s anime. It’s right here:
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulApNcy6GI

    My comments about it:
    – That opening with the characters scrambling into positions was quite funny.
    – Does Serena have a Fletchling, or is that just one in the lab.
    – Team Rocket was controlling Garchomp! Does that mean that they’re a threat again. Despite this, Wobbuffett being back seems to hint at more humor again.
    – Denenne is adorable, much more than I thought before.
    – Beedrill swarms are back!

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  8. Sorry for going off topic, but some fellow Pokejunglers said that there would be a special announcement about Pokemon X and Y on Monday, which is today. Does anyone (Dae, this applies to you too, if you would like to answer) know anything regarding that, or if it is true or not?

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  9. Slightly off topic, but I will be RNG breeding for shinies (for free) for those who need it to prep for X and Y release. Legitimate shinies with your Hidden Power/IVs of choice, you can either email me [email protected] your request, or you can reply with a comment of your request and I will begin seeding.

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  11. Hi everybody, this is my first post here. I’ve been following the site since the reveal of X and Y, but I never got around to making an account…

    Anyway, I love shinies, but I’ve only ever gotten the Red Gyrados (Heartgold, Gold, and Crystal) and a shiny rattata (Heartgold).

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  17. One thing I would like is for the daycare to be a bit more then it already is.

    Up until Gen V it’s always been run by two people in a small building, I think that it should be a bigger service for example, a decent sized building where more then 2 Pokemon can be looked after. Maybe multiple incubation rooms that function like they do in Spectrobes (If anyone’s played that game.)

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  18. I appreciate this is off-topic, my apologies, but just thought I’d say in case anyone hasn’t seen that the pokemon facebook page has said that a new evolved pokemon will be revealed on wednesday 🙂

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  24. Breeding was an interesting addition to game mechanics, with breeding moves and all, but what annoyed was that none of the Game characters knew “where the eggs came from.” Oh, hey we just found an egg with your two breed-able Pokemon and we don know how it got there.
    Day and night and happiness gave the game a more realistic feel (and Eeveelutions!)
    Dark and steel types were by far the best new mechanic (Steelix!!)
    Held items added more strategies and a competitive feel when facing the same poke
    Didn’t care much about the shinies…
    Note: gold was the first game ever owned, and crystal gave me the best gen II experience

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