/v/ - Video Games

They can be fun but I'm not a fan of tying your arm behind your back just to make things fun, go play Pokemon stadium if you want a challenge

>>15220498

>Should I try one of those randomizer or higher difficulty hacks?

I recommend that.

>>15220498

Why not both?

>>15220498

Some people like them. I'd rather just pick pokemon that I'd usually not choose. Like, instead of picking Gyrados, I'll take that faggot pelliper instead. It makes the game more interesting because the pokemon that aren't cool usually suck dick so its kind of a challenge.

Try for yourself.

I found it extremely fun, and there is some weight to every combat that makes it thrilling.

You also develop some heavy bonds with your mons and will be fucking upset when any of your trusted companions bites the dust.

I did one of Sapphire and I had a blast, but at the same time I never finished it so I guess after a certain point the novelty wears off.

I'd recommend it if you feel like playing a handheld Pokemon game and you want the same game but a totally different way of playing it. Pre-Nuzlocke I would just run through the game thoughtlessly, not caring about type differences and movesets, but with Nuzlocke suddenly strategy becomes important.

It's also pretty cool to come across Pokemon you didn't give two shits about before who become bro-tier favorites.

>>15220498

Play a different RPG if you want higher difficulty. Preferably an SRPG.

>>15220643

I'm curious to hear what you consider SRPGs

>>15220575

Pokemon stadium is only hard if you try to use their fucktarded rental pokemon who might as well have been randomly generated And I suspect they were If you train and configure your team by playing the GBC games then its ezpz as long as you aren't retarded.

If you have to gimp yourself to make a game fun that game is bad.

>>15220688

probably something like pokemon conquest

>>15220805

I've never heard of this

Is this fucking Final Fantasy Tactics in the pokemon universe?

holy fuck

Just play a romhack. It made me enjoy hate Alpha Sapphire a little less.

>>15220832

its pokemon X nobunaga's ambition

Pokemon is very easy

nuzlocke is like seasoning that gives it some flavor, but that doesn't mean the game itself will be up to standard. It depends on which generation. For instance generation 6 is trash, while crystal is very good

Use a randomizer that adds the whole pokedex to the wilderness, make it give random types and switch around the pokemon stats, it makes nuzlockes extremely amusing. Like finding a gym leader using an ice type squirtle that spams sheer cold.

>>15220929

The type switching seems a bit overkill for the enjoyment

>>15220498

Here you go OP.

>>15191884

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>>15221009

what the fuck is this shit

>>15220498

I liked it, brought new life and challenges into an old game. Plus you use pokemon you never would have before, and the shitty ones you hate end up being best bros, and the ones you love die horribly on you. I remember the nuzlocke an anon did when we got here. That was fun.

It makes the game better, not by much but naming your pokemon and fainting have real consequences certainly makes you form an attatchment to your team.

I honestly can't play them any other way nowadays.

>play shitty easy baby game with a bunch of retarded self-inflicted handicaps and ignore 90% of the game's mechanics to make it slightly less shitty and easy

>instead of just playing a game that's already challenging

wow you guys must have triple digit IQ's !!! epic

>>15221374

>Bug monotype run

Fug, that actually makes me feel like starting a pokeyman game and I haven't played one since I was like 12

>>15220498

So what do you do if you fail the elite four and have no new areas to catch Pokemon in?

>>15220498

Meme.

Gen 1-3 try a randomizer, Gen 4-7 try a enhanced romhack, shit like blaze white and sinking sapphire and don't forget the mod that makes may's breasts 5x bigger.

Pokemon games are fundamentally broken shit that is basically incapable of being difficult unless you're a youngfag that's also horribly dumb. Competitive battling kind of shows how it could not be this way, but they've never gone in that direction. It's always the same shit where your Pokemon get raised properly and thus utterly demolish the shitty Pokemon given to your opposition that the AI is not programmed to use even remotely correctly.

>>15220498

The main appeal of these to me is the fact that your Pokemon die and never come back. So it sucks when you lose one of your favorite buds. Bonus points if playing a hard romhack.

>>15221835

Might as well play actual good mystery dungeon games if you're gonna bring that shit up

meme, just take on the battle facilities if you want a true challenge

the most fun battle facility was world tournament, I wish they'd bring it back

also disable EXP share on the newer games, doing that makes the difficulty more like the older games (still not hard though)

>>15222450

>blue rescue team

>not good

I won't even look at anything that isn't Blue Rescue Team or Sky.

>>15221835

I mean Mystery Dungeon is alright but once you're done with the story which is piss easy you're just left to do a bunch of grind on the same dungeon just with different tiles.

It gets pretty boring.

>>15222595

>he doesnt know that mystery dungeon isn't from pokemon

what are you retarded

>>15220498

>>15221374

>When a game is so easy you have to do mental gymnastics to justify why you keep playing it and make arbitrary challenges just to pretend it has intrinsic value

>but Melee is a party game

I mean, I understand your fixation but the only fun in pokeymen are the Trading Card Games and even then they only lasted about two generations before they got boring and overpowered.

>>15223668

Imagine being this dead inside

>>15224082

True but irrelevant

>>15221374

I did end up using a mono-ground team in Diamond, but mono-teams aren't too difficult.

You need to pour on more limitations (no revives in battle, no X Items, can't use healing twice in a row, etc).

>>15221824

Competitive isn't easy- just incredibly time consuming unless you hack to make a team, then it boils down to get your stat boosts in ASAP and unleashing as much damage as possible.

The top 12 Pokemon used for competitive rarely change, the top 30 only a little more. They use the same moves nearly every damn time. The only variation is in the training so they have a few more or less points in it's stats so it can gamble on surviving certain attacks while still unloading damage.

It's not easy, but it's a strategically wide and shallow guessing game. 50 different tactics with only 2 viable. Now how much damage while my attack do now I know that last attack did roughly 30% damage, better get my fucking calculator. Gosh this is fun!

I love the franchise, but I fucking cringe when I see the sort of people that go to the competitions

And I'm horrified I'd fit right in.

>>15222463

They tried to solve the issue of abusing stat boosts by having each trainer only have one Pokemon.

But yeah, avoiding using Potions at all cost. Not like an NPC won't fucking heal you every 30 mins anyway or you'll be able to find a Pokemon center on a route.

>>15224097

I wanna play pokemon because I want to play pokemon, I like the game and I think Heart Gold and Soul Silver are absolutely fantastic games.

I wouldn't even consider a nuzlocke if I hadn't already played it like 4 times.

I'm not playing it because I want a challenge.

Also my randomizer keeps fucking crashing

>he still fantasizes about playing a good pokemon video game when he could just be homebrewing for himself in pokemon tabletop like an actual autistic adult

>>15224135

I thought tabletop had issues with the fact you've got up to seven character sheets in front of you per person? Or does the DM look after your Pokemon's character sheets?

All the vids on youtube I've seen about it looked fucking autistic ("lol I did something horrendous in a kid's game setting" and/or amateur acting). The puffinforest stories on it were OK though, but I like some of his work

>>15224167

>he plays this with real people

Imagine the stench in that room

fuck

>>15224167

Oh no I meant how is it not a nightmare to play the game when you have a large party.

I dip into the odd clip or highlight reel and soon regret it.

>>15221374

You've inspired me, I'm gonna do a bug and poison only run of Emerald. I don't know how the fuck I'm going to beat Roxanne.

>>15224188

We've been playing for 2 years, so we just know how to play the game. It's not like you have 5 people each with all of their pokemon on the field at the same time, it's not that hard.

>>15223668

You're retarded.

>>15220498

Play "Nuzlocke light" first. All you do is take the "First pokemon you encounter from each area" rule and apply it to your game, you can still have your pokemon faint and what not. If you like it, you can move on to proper nuzlocke

>>15224187

Smash players are apparently worse.