Cute and Fuzzy Cockfighting Seizure Monsters
Well, my birthday wishes were fulfilled, and between ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evildennis, richman1, and hidaman, I got hooked up with Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Sapphire. The Pokebug has been biting, and it's gotten me good, to the point where I've been hitting up GameFAQs and Bulbapedia (yes, they have one of those) to figure out how best to optimize the early game in Diamond. Keep in mind that I haven't played a Pokemon game since Red/Blue came out for the original Game Boy back in 1998, so while the basics are the same, there's a lot more things of which you have to be aware, like the Pokemon's gender and its food preference and its happiness and what it's holding.
It's even more like Tamagochi than before, but with more breeding and less shitting.
I look at screenshots of the original, and I look at Diamond on the DS, and I realize how far the game has come, both in graphics and usability. Once upon a time, it was all black-and-white sprites, and now it's got vibrant color and 3-D rendered zones. Gone are the days of the Game Boy Link cable, and here are the days of Nintendo Wi-Fi and trading/competing over the internet. 150 Pokemon compared to almost 500 Pokemon, all with variant color schemes and different gender graphics and abilities that aren't horribly abbreviated to save cartridge memory. And yet, at its core it is completely unchanged. It's still about obsessively trapping wild animals and forcing them to burn, shock, crush, and rend each other into unconsciousness. I know, doesn't it sound so cheery?
evildennis, richman1, and hidaman, I got hooked up with Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Sapphire. The Pokebug has been biting, and it's gotten me good, to the point where I've been hitting up GameFAQs and Bulbapedia (yes, they have one of those) to figure out how best to optimize the early game in Diamond. Keep in mind that I haven't played a Pokemon game since Red/Blue came out for the original Game Boy back in 1998, so while the basics are the same, there's a lot more things of which you have to be aware, like the Pokemon's gender and its food preference and its happiness and what it's holding.It's even more like Tamagochi than before, but with more breeding and less shitting.
I look at screenshots of the original, and I look at Diamond on the DS, and I realize how far the game has come, both in graphics and usability. Once upon a time, it was all black-and-white sprites, and now it's got vibrant color and 3-D rendered zones. Gone are the days of the Game Boy Link cable, and here are the days of Nintendo Wi-Fi and trading/competing over the internet. 150 Pokemon compared to almost 500 Pokemon, all with variant color schemes and different gender graphics and abilities that aren't horribly abbreviated to save cartridge memory. And yet, at its core it is completely unchanged. It's still about obsessively trapping wild animals and forcing them to burn, shock, crush, and rend each other into unconsciousness. I know, doesn't it sound so cheery?