[QUOTE USER="slowflake" TIME="1244632955"]This just in! Kyogre in Heart Gold, Groudon in Soul Silver, and if you get both together you unlock Rayquaza!
Well that definitely tips the scale towards Heart Gold...[/QUOTE]
And some kind of event involving Cynthia and Arceus too. Seems awesome.
A special Jirachi will start to be distributed on June 19th. It's at Level 5 and it's said to have special attacks, plus unlocks a new area when traded over to HGSS.
Special attacks... are we talking TMs and tutors, or brand new moves? Not that it matters, Jirachi doesn't need anything, and odds are any new moves would just be useless.
Aaaand it's Draco Meteor. It's a great move, yeah, but no STAB really hurts its usefulness. I suppose it can be a solid backup move like with Rotom's Overheat and Leaf Storm depending on how much it needs it, though.
Is Jirachi even a Dragon? No. Great choice, Game Freak. :/
Also, some details were just added to Serebii. Every Pokemon can follow the character around, that's a nice extra. The Touch Screen is fully implemented into the game: every menu is used on it. I was expecting that would've occured.
The biggest news is: yes, apparently, you can go to Kanto. Can anyone say FFFFFFFUSK YEAR? There is a new area just west of the National Park (for those who don't know, it's above Goldenrod City, where that Bug Catch Contest took place). I'm more interested in this.
The biggest news? Yeah, as if anyone was expecting Kanto not to come back. What would REALLY be big news is Kanto being revamped to at least be decent.
[QUOTE USER="crossdragon" TIME="1244951706"]I will become an active and mature member to this site when HG/SS comes out and the metagame fucks itself over. Again. Until then, I'll be lurking. [/QUOTE]
Guess I won't appear on IRC for a long time, then.
For some reason, I'm not expecting many move tutors TBH. Maybe some more level-up updates (remember Metal Claw Charmander in FRLG?), but nothing more. Unless they really do put a universal Curse tutor in there.
Random thought: what if the new area near the National Park had to do with Pokémon transfer from generation 3 games?
[QUOTE USER="ominousdoom" TIME="1244983706"][QUOTE USER="crossdragon" TIME="1244951706"]I will become an active and mature member to this site when HG/SS comes out and the metagame fucks itself over. Again. Until then, I'll be lurking. [/QUOTE]
Guess I won't appear on IRC for a long time, then.
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You make it sound like we actually care if your on IRC or not.
Anywho, I think the HG/SS Palpark will use the GBA slot to allow transfer from R/S/E and FR/LG. Also, seeing how there was about 3 different Move Tutors in Platinum, I'll assume that in HG/SS they'll have at least 3 assuming that they don't do a Crystal remake. Or they could go the FR/LG way and have a certain move tutor that teaches the move only once. IIRC.
[QUOTE USER="slowflake" TIME="1244986629"]For some reason, I'm not expecting many move tutors TBH. Maybe some more level-up updates (remember Metal Claw Charmander in FRLG?), but nothing more. Unless they really do put a universal Curse tutor in there.
Random thought: what if the new area near the National Park had to do with Pokémon transfer from generation 3 games?[/QUOTE]
Somehow, I doubt this. The DSi has been on the market for a few weeks now, if I recall correctly. The GBA-DS bonus days are pretty much over, which is one of the reasons I dislike the DSi. There are more, of course. The 'upgrade' was really more of a downgrade, in my opinion.
I think that if there are any move tutors, they'll be for moves that were TMs in GSC, not necessarily RBY. I've been over this before, and the only interesting ones would be Curse, Zap Cannon and Dynamicpunch. Skimming over the RBY TMs that never made it back as TMs or tutors, there's not too much that could benefit from them. Clefable and Blissey might (read: MIGHT) enjoy Tri Attack, along with a few others if they decide to give it to them (hi2u Lickilicky) and maybe a Selfdestruct tutor might bring detonation bliss for stuff that doesn't have Explosion, but other than that... Whirlwind maybe?
Well, I consider Pokémon 462-478 to be nothing more than fanservice for the competitive crowd. Heck, even the other evolutions to older Pokés that WERE in the original Sinnoh Dex might be... nothing forced them to evolve those guys, but they did nonetheless.
With that being said, I agree with you that otherwise, they are very erratic in their track record, enough to say that what they do, they don't always do to really strengthen those who need it.
BTW, you seem to think Sky Attack is NOT in the same category as Helping Hand and Mud-Slap. I'm curious as to why... I have never, ever seen anyone who qualifies even as average using the move.