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Just started up Pokemon Quetzal and good lord (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by laziestflagellant@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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You get a choice of like 18 different playable trainer skins and 80+ different starters

Then you learn that you can have all 6 of your party pokemon following you around on the overworld

Then you got the fact that you encounter pokemon via pokemon walking around in the grass, including visibly distinct shinies.

Oh and it has the full 1000+whatever pokedex so every different route has 20 pokemon walking around so as someone trying a Nuzlocke I'm just standing there struggling to decide which one to take

Oh and also since it's a romhack so I'm playing it on my 3DS

GBA era romhackers are something else

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I definitely gotta agree that Pokemon switching to 3d may have been a mistake, especially considering how pretty B&W was.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pokemon switching to 3D would have been fine if GameFreak weren't terrible developers.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It wasn't Stadium, but one of the later (GC era?) 3D games looked fucking fantastic, great animations and VFX that put the actual 3D games to shame

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Coliseum?

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

maybe, there were a few in that era but I know jack shit about any particular one of them

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was it on the Wii? You might be thinking of Battle Revolution. It's great for battles but the issue is that it's incredibly slow and would probably be a drag if it were a full-fledged game that did more than just one-on-one battles geared towards multiplayer.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

when I think about this kind of thing, it's very specifically this gif. so whatever this is from

and I'm really just talking about animation quality here, pokemon games haven't had a good quick pace to them since B/W

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah that's Battle Revolution. I still own that game and it used to be used for local Pokemon tournaments during the Diamond/Pearl era. Made them a lot of fun to watch.

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago

That's the thing, you look at how Mario or zelda went from 2d to 3d in the N64 and you can see how they completely redesigned it to make an amazing game that pushed the platform.

And while not as big of a change you can see how they grew to make the new Mario or botw.

While gamefreak/Pokemon is like "what if you can swivel the camera around a little bit" or "okay maybe in one area you can see the Pokemon walking around". And it still lags like crazy.

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

pokemon walking in grass

the year is 2023 and pokemon games have finally figured out what digimon games figured out more than a decade ago.

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh and it has both toggleable teamwide EXP share AND multiple difficulty settings

And it has a lot of rebalancing so even the most lowly of gimickmons can be somewhat viable. I picked Chikorita as my starter so I'll see how far that goes lol

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some of the fan made games are fucking brutal, I can't remember which one it was but I got stuck on the 3rd gym leader because they would throw a bunch of environmental status effects down and then swap in a mega evolution Beedrill.

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm not built for the Kaizo and Radical Red hacks lol

Hacks where the give gym leaders more than two pokemon and give trainers higher level pokemon is good enough for me

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah it was one of the ones with a difficulty setting and I thought to myself "I'm an adult, how hard can Pokémon AI be?" The real kicker was each badge having a level cap.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Unbound has mega absol at gym 2. it's hellish.

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Update: I got swept at the first gym

damn, Roxanne got hands lol

[–] LiberalScratcher@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I’ve been playing PokeMMO which is also very well done. I’ll check this out

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi I've never successfully emulated a game or done a romhack and I've tried like 30 times could someone as dumb as me play this?

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Download either the installer or the portable directory of mGBA here

Download this .gba file (it is already "patched" and ready to play) here

Run mGBA and do File > Open ROM and open the .gba file with it and you should be good to go

[–] Starlet@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

GBA era romhackers are something else

The entire game has been manually decompiled, so you can add just about anything that the GBA can run

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

GBA Romhackers are amazing. They've done some great stuff too with the Fire Emblem series as well. The Gaiden GBA remake is also a lot of fun if you're into GBA era Fire Emblem.

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

as someone trying a Nuzlocke I'm just standing there struggling to decide which one to take

Don't you have to take the first one you see on a route in a Nuzlocke?

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well yes but the rules usually say you have to take the first pokemon you "encounter" on the route so technically I'm also following the rules berdly-smug

[–] Maaj@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has to come track this post down to say I'm loving this game and thanks for making the post about it

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm glad! Romhacks as a whole are so cool, more people should know about them