Thoughts on the gamecube Pokemon games?

Thoughts on the gamecube Pokemon games?

Colosseum is pretty good, especially for a not-Gamefreak game, but I prefer XD

XD

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I hate Pyrite Town and the Cipher Lab. Noisy fucking shits.

Never played Gale of Darkness, but Colosseum was really fun what I played of it. I wish I owned them, I only ever rented Colosseum back in the day

Better animations than Pokemon.

*mainline

Fuck off retard

I prefer Pokémon ;3

Colosseum is objectively pretty bad compared to its peers as a JRPG of the era and its peers as a Pokemon game. I say this as someone who played it at the time and loved it and still love it. Repetitive locations with minimal variety, simplistic story compared to JRPGs of the time, very few playable units compared to other games in the series.

It's heavily overrated by people who view it with rose tinted glasses because new Pokemon bad and the battles kind of looked cool (although Battle Revolution had cooler looking battles anyway while being an even worse game for its own reasons).

That said it's still fun to me.

I kinda like how there is only a very small pool of Pokemon you can get and how the game is more like a traditional JRPG. I wish they would make a 3rd game and keep the same idea of having a small pool of random Pokemon. Also having your starters be Umbreon and Espeon was cool in Colosseum.

Colosseum is pretty bad, the only thing I enjoyed was the atmosphere of the game, never played XD

I liked them a lot and believe if they revisited the concept, they can get a very good traditional jrpg going now that it's been analyzed to death with pokemon as the backbone but alas.

oh hey, that pokemon game is going to be on switch 2. is it worth a playthrough?

What's your experience with Pokemon?

If you're used to the main series it's a cool novelty as it uses a different format and presentation to what the series did otherwise at the time. There's several unique mechanics to the two Gamecube games that weren't part of the other RPG style Pokemon games.

BMX XXX on the right there

lmao motherfucker almost got me

Also really hope they find a way to do transfer from Colo and GoD like they did RBY/GSC on 3DS but I doubt it.

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lmao, amazing edit

Colosseum is ass and the only people who say otherwise just watched the intro cutscene. Shiny Shadow Pokemon are cool if you're willing to learn RNG manipulation.
Gale of Darkness is good, probably the second best Gen III game after Emerald.

mediocre and outdated by the time Emerald and Firered and Leafgreen released.

you little shit

I enjoy both, but Gale of Darkness will be infinitely better even if I like Ho-Oh more than Lugia.

Really liked colosseum. I wish the company had a chance of making a mainline game.

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It is just hard to replicate the experience of playing colosseum simultaniously while playing ruby/saphire and swapping pokemon and breeding them. I wonder if the switch version will imolement some kind of transfer system with current gen.

Colosseum is carried hard by its setting and tone.

They're stil better than most """"modern"""" pokemon games.

Can someone explain why you would ever buy this when you can just emulate? Like if you were going to spend money you'd atleast want the physical box but you don't get that here. What's the point.

get Pokemon Colosseum

little brother wants to play too

only one save file so he can't play from the start

father asks me why I don't let him "play the game"

"dad, he can but he can only play my progress"

"you need a memory card so he can play his own save"

dad looks confused, goes to talk to my brother

next day my brother and my dad come with a SECOND copy of Pokemon Colosseum

problem persists because we only have one memory card

Good times.

youtube.com/watch?v=O_9y0oJ9dFE

The delusional might believe GameFreak would approve another game, or maybe officially acknowledge Orre if they let you transfer to/from it instead of calling it "A Distant Land" in the games or whatever. Some people are interested for the ease of access even though GC emulation is fine (some of these people may also be religiously opposed to pirating). Me? I'm only interested in seeing if Tawada will upload another rendition of a song now

someone should have added slowpoke to the game.

Agate Village is such a bizarre location.

It's on top of a mountain, ABOVE THE CLOUDS

It's a retirement home, mainly old people live here (how do they cope with the low oxygen?)

It's built around the dead husk of a great tree

There's a cave that leads to a hidden shrine to Celebi, a mysterious geometric relic

Which is smack-dab in the middle of a fucking forest (???)

It's classic no-logic video game location kino, simple as. It even has catchy music.

I would not describe Agate Village's theme as "catchy". More like "itchy".

Every battle being doubles is genius
However despite looking nice the long animations turn battles into a slog

great animation and graphics. Collosseum's protagonist was a badass edgelord, XD's was soulless

ALL THAT BEING SAID
being nothing but battles is boring as shit

kek, boomers

Love the music and animations along with the setting and some character designs. They really should've brought the dude who made the music in these games on board the main series because damn that is some good shit.

I appreciate Colosseum. I like that the battles are less weighted in the player's favor than they are in the main series. It makes me feel like the game respects me more. However, I tried to play it twice, and it started making me nauseous both times. There's something about the visual presentation that doesn't agree with me at all.

I have never tried XD, but maybe I should.

Best way to play is on dolphin with 2x speed.

typing “XD” in 2025

Bro...