Do you like the Pokemanz?

[Riesstiu IV]

poll.

[Thoth]

Invalid poll.

[EPW]

POKEMANZ!!!

[Lorizael]

Understand, of course, that I'll be calling the cops on anyone who votes option 2.

[Thoth]

So far, that's half of the poll respondants. Get dialing.

[Riesstiu IV]

My vote doesn't count since you can't get in trouble for threatening yourself.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Played it once and beat it (Pokemon Yellow). Failed to see the appeal of the game, but couldn't give it back because it was a birthday gift from the then-bf. The game had one segment where the difficulty level was unexpectedly, unreasonably high because you faced a load of Rock type Pokemon, and Pikachu was useless against them (as were most of the other Pokemon you could collect). Other than that it was largely mindless XP grinding with so many out-of-nowhere ambush encounters that it made me wish my Game Boy had a damn popup blocker.

JRPGs rarely impress me. Western RPGs are far better in my opinion, although some of those have similar problems. Baldur's Gate I also had an insanely hard early game which did not scale at all to the relative power of your characters, effectively killing the game's explore-at-will pretensions. This game was so frustrating and poorly designed I was surprised they had the balls to make a sequel. (Although the sequel was excellent and I'm glad they did.)

[SlowwHand]

No. I hope the OP dies from cancer.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Cancer from polychlorinated biphenyls?

[SlowwHand]

Is that the worst?

[Riesstiu IV]

I'll be honest, I never played the game. I created this thread as an excuse to say "Pokemanz".

[SlowwHand]

I suspected as much.

[Lorizael]

So far, that's half of the poll respondants. Get dialing.

I'm too lazy for that. I'll probably just edit the poll so that it appears no one voted for option 2.

[Zevico]

JRPGs rarely impress me. Western RPGs are far better in my opinion, although some of those have similar problems. Baldur's Gate I also had an insanely hard early game which did not scale at all to the relative power of your characters, effectively killing the game's explore-at-will pretensions. This game was so frustrating and poorly designed I was surprised they had the balls to make a sequel. (Although the sequel was excellent and I'm glad they did.)

Never played BG I, but I've played BGII and needless to say I think it's pretty good. [Insert rant on all subsequent D&D computer games here]. Trouble with the Pokeseries is that it's all mechanics and no storyline. It's more of an unthinking escape from reality than say, BG II, which least tries to inject a well thought out plot and fleshed out characters into the game (and succeeds more often than most games do).

[Riesstiu IV]

Hey Sloww...
Did you ever know that you're my hero
And everything I'd like to be
I can fly higher than an eagle
But you are the wind beneath my wing