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[Zythe]

Blame Nintendo Official Magazine. They post a bunch of crap about the Zelda timeline too, though, so I know I shouldn't trust then. And their Mewtwos in the tourny had exp levels that could only be obtained by rare candies. Hypocrits.

[Sety]

Uh huh........the tournies went down the drain after the RBY time.....back then there were actual rules like no legendaries.

Now...its a free for all and the winner of the Colloseum tournament was a fat kid with a Rayquaza with Hyper Beam......

(For the record Hyper Beam is a horrible move, 150 power for 2 turns = 75 power per turn and Rayquaza dies in one hit from near any Ice attack or 2 hits from a rock attack)

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Anyone remember when legendaries were valued and hard to come by? You, know when there were four of them? Now there's no less than twenty-one. O.o

[Hana-Nezumi]

Have you seen Khuffie's MyMIND lately? It's filled with the names of Pokémon! I think I'll add to it...

[Zythe]

I noticed a few days ago. I added PokeZythe.

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Hey, you're right, toast, that's funny. XD I thought MyMIND would be dead by now.

[Zythe]

Anyone getting Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness in November?

[Sety]

Probably not.......little reason to....unless the single player is really good since I haven't been bothered playing the GBA games at all due to the crappy competition and limited events. I see the home console version always as only a extension of the handheld games.

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Me too, Sety, but appearantly Colusseum was a whole new adventure that didn't really have anything to do with Ruby and Sapphire, and I think Gale of Darkness is the sequel. I may get it, I just hope you don't have to play Colusseum first to understand the plot.

[Skyreus]

The Gamecube games are basically extensions of the handheld ones, they even imply it in Colosseum with how the trainer is already experienced and not just starting out while at the same time not throwing any rules at your or anything (outside of the snagging system).

As single player quests they certainly aren't as developed as the handheld games but I guess they're good to provide some amusement and the ability to catch Pokemon unobtainable in the current GBA games. The colosseum mode is good to really test your skills against a variety of teams and competitions though, which I always found a bit underrated since the Stadium days since they are actually challenging (unless you use legendaries, in which case you'll blaze through them). The colosseum mode is more developed than the Stadium Modes back in the N64 days and don't have as many annoying Cups that most people don't have the right Pokemon for and the addition team battles makes things even more interesting.

They're decent extensions to the GBA games, no more no less. Not really worthy of the $50 to purchase them but for $20-$30 it's not a bad deal if you want some more Pokemon action, but only if you want more Pokemon action. The Gamecube games definitely won't reignite any interest in the series nor make you love the series any more than you already do.

[Sety]

I enjoyed Stadium R2 actually since those guys could put up a massive fight in the lvl 50 and lvl 100 cups and Gym Leader castle was pretty fun....but the baby and other odd cups were stupid. In fact Stadium 2 is still the only game I have uncompleted only because I never finished the R2 baby cup.

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Gah... I just realized last night that I have no idea where my copy of Emerald is.

It's lost. T.T And there's no way I'll be able to convince my parents to get me another one, and I don't have any money right now...

Besides, I don't really want to start over anyways. *searches for game*

[lord-of-shadow]

Isn't Gale of Darkness supposed to be a full-fledged game, rather then some gimmicky sidething like Collosseum? I was planning on buying it with that in mind, but none of you seem interested. Why?

[DarkJuno]

I intend to get XD (I hate that name...), but other then the look, basic story, and info about the first battle, not much is known. It seems that while there are no gyms, you can still catch Pokemon just fine and dandy, but...there's just not a whole lot of real info on it.

[Skyreus]

I enjoyed Stadium R2 actually since those guys could put up a massive fight in the lvl 50 and lvl 100 cups and Gym Leader castle was pretty fun....but the baby and other odd cups were stupid.  In fact Stadium 2 is still the only game I have uncompleted only because I never finished the R2 baby cup.

Then I'm sure you'll enjoy Colosseum's Colosseum mode as it's just like that only without the Baby Cup stuff. There are only Level 50 and Level 100 Battles and each Cup has both a single battle mode and a team battle mode. It's definitely up there to really put a challenge to your team which is why I said it's a good compliment if you really enjoy Pokemon.

Isn't Gale of Darkness supposed to be a full-fledged game, rather then some gimmicky sidething like Collosseum? I was planning on buying it with that in mind, but none of you seem interested. Why?

We'll see how they do with this game but the game will share a few things with Colosseum such as Shadow Pokemon rather than wild ones and transportation between areas is still done via choosing your destination on a map. But those aren't things that can prevent it from being a better overall quest. We'll see how the final outcome is but with an apparent downplaying of any sort of Colosseum Mode I hope they make it up with a really well designed single player quest.
One thing they did do with the Shadow Pokemon this time around is that there are four different Shadow moves rather than just the Shadow Rush like before.

[Sety]

Then I'm sure you'll enjoy Colosseum's Colosseum mode as it's just like that only without the Baby Cup stuff. There are only Level 50 and Level 100 Battles and each Cup has both a single battle mode and a team battle mode. It's definitely up there to really put a challenge to your team which is why I said it's a good compliment if you really enjoy Pokemon.

Well from what I played Colloseum suffers from the changed system in that AI can't keep up. In GSC pokemon were much more powerful so there was room for the AI to screw up. In RSE's game pokemon are generally weaker and specialized and strategies are more specific so Colloseum can barely keep up with its not too bright AI.

Also theres little reason for my to play since Nintendo have done a poor job of promoting GCN lately and also the lack of any tournament gatherings to warrant me getting Colloseum for fine tuning my game.

[Zythe]

I enjoyed Colluseum. It was fun. And that's why I buy games. So I will get XD, because it looks fun.

[Goth Kirby]

hmm colloseum was good but it seemed that, around school everyone had the same pokemon. pokemon is better on gameboy were you can catch whatever you please, thats what makes link ups so great becuase you never know what your going up against

[Zythe]

hmm colloseum was good but it seemed that, around school everyone had the same pokemon.

What did they all have, Lexx?

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Hmm... the Pokemon thread seems to be dying. Better fix that!

Do Emerald and Colusseum connect? I've been worrying about that.

[Zythe]

I think so.

[Hana-Nezumi]

They do. I've done it.

More stuff to keep the thread from dying:

Pokémon PLUSHIES!

I want this for my room:
http://www.lufia.net/e3_5.jpg

I spotted a big Pikachu doll in The Pacifier when I watched it a few days ago. :3

[Goose]

Will their be a pokemon DS game?

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Of course, Goose. The names Pearl and Diamond are already confirmed.

And there will be new Pokemon games as long as there are new Mario and Zelda games. The franchise will live until Nintendo's end. Duh.

I have Charizard and Eevee plushies somewhere...

[Nabooru]

I wuv plushies!!! I have an Eevee plushie too.

[Sety]

I wuv Olha >_>

*admires Nabooru's siggie*

And I believe theres supposed to be something big as Nintendo announced the announcement of Pokemon Pearl and Diamond so they've got something planned.

[Skyreus]

Nintendo has the Pokemon Fiesta scheduled for this month. There's rumors that Pearl & Diamond will be shown at the event but I'd take a guess that the rumor just started because someone believes they'll show it at the big Pokemon event (which makes it less of a rumor and more of a guess).

We'll see what happens but even if Diamond & Pearl is shown there's a chance they may just show the new generation of Pokemon and not the games themselves.

[31-Year-Old-From-Georgia]

Well, Nintendo's shown five Pearl/Diamond Pokemon. What I want to see is the starters. And the Pokemon the games will have on the box art.

[Zythe]

Pkmn Fiesta? Wtf? 13, your last sentence is missing some key words. Should a mod delete the poll?