I played many a video game. Mosts game you play and finish boom its done, forget everything about it because beating the game was the accomplishment. Some games have segments that are incredibly memorable like beating Sephiroth the first time in Kingdom Hearts 1 or landing the stupid plane in Top Gun, beating Mike Tyson in Punchout etc.etc.etc. Been thinking it over for the past 5 minutes and I already know what mine is...
CATCHING EVERY POKEMON AND BREEDING "PERFECT" IV WITHOUT USING CHEATS
I started to replay Pokemon when XY came out, previously I skipped all of them after Pokemon Crystal. It was weird when I found out about pokemon IVs and EV's and nature and base stats and abilities/secret abilites. I was blown away, I had no clue beforehand. although I already knew about the ditto breeding from the original johto game on GBC. Pokemon Bank was annnounced and I was all over it.
Bought a DSlite, bought used pokemon games (which are rare) and got to work. To my surprise most of the gamecarts had the GameStop exclusives event pokemon which I transfered into my XY(although newer events gave them back eventually like deoxys mew etc) it was tough because I knew the pokeball from the mom parent transfered so I had to make sure none of them were ever in a great ball or ultraball and I had to catch a female in the correct ball with the correct nature and the hidden ability. This took the longest because I was very specific with Apricorn Balls. Transferring them was a jiff except for one generation where you had to play a mini game and recatch them in order for them to transfer.
Breeding was made incredibly easy in XY and from there it was smooth sailing but the shiny blue powerful ones seem to take forever, I think I had to hatch 800+ just to get black charmander. The shiny blue ones are the best, vulpix, ponyta etc.
I wrote this little blurb because I was thinking "what if pokemon gen8 completely changed the core game (like gen1+2 to gba) and the pokemon were no longer transferable, would I have to start all over?" I hope not, UNLESS... The pokemon company decides to do a complete reboot of the series and start from no1 in the pokedex and completely change the monster designs for better. Blastoise should not have two shoulder cannons and mega bastoise is stupid, but there are worse progression were the pokemon doesn't progress naturally like a charmander or sandshrew and goes from a little owl to a bowguy or a little chick to a four limb fighting Rito tribemans
CATCHING EVERY POKEMON AND BREEDING "PERFECT" IV WITHOUT USING CHEATS
I started to replay Pokemon when XY came out, previously I skipped all of them after Pokemon Crystal. It was weird when I found out about pokemon IVs and EV's and nature and base stats and abilities/secret abilites. I was blown away, I had no clue beforehand. although I already knew about the ditto breeding from the original johto game on GBC. Pokemon Bank was annnounced and I was all over it.
Bought a DSlite, bought used pokemon games (which are rare) and got to work. To my surprise most of the gamecarts had the GameStop exclusives event pokemon which I transfered into my XY(although newer events gave them back eventually like deoxys mew etc) it was tough because I knew the pokeball from the mom parent transfered so I had to make sure none of them were ever in a great ball or ultraball and I had to catch a female in the correct ball with the correct nature and the hidden ability. This took the longest because I was very specific with Apricorn Balls. Transferring them was a jiff except for one generation where you had to play a mini game and recatch them in order for them to transfer.
Breeding was made incredibly easy in XY and from there it was smooth sailing but the shiny blue powerful ones seem to take forever, I think I had to hatch 800+ just to get black charmander. The shiny blue ones are the best, vulpix, ponyta etc.
I wrote this little blurb because I was thinking "what if pokemon gen8 completely changed the core game (like gen1+2 to gba) and the pokemon were no longer transferable, would I have to start all over?" I hope not, UNLESS... The pokemon company decides to do a complete reboot of the series and start from no1 in the pokedex and completely change the monster designs for better. Blastoise should not have two shoulder cannons and mega bastoise is stupid, but there are worse progression were the pokemon doesn't progress naturally like a charmander or sandshrew and goes from a little owl to a bowguy or a little chick to a four limb fighting Rito tribemans
