Today’s game is Pokemon Emerald. I’ll give Metal Gear Delta just a little bit longer as I’m making really quick progress on this, plus it’s easy to do in bite size pieces. I have a geology exam coming up so being able to just pick up for like 5 minutes is really appreciated.
I’ve been going around exploring trying to find niche stuff to do after getting stuck on the twin’s gym battle. I found this guy who wanted me to teach him something to make his daughter laugh. I made him say Liam, which is a personal reference too in my friend group (one of my friend’s cracked up at something unrelated when one of us said the name, it’s been a joke ever since).
I also met this guy who wanted me to teach him a new phrase. I taught him the phrase “Damp Swallow”. I hope one day to see this phrase take off.
I’ve reorganized my party a little bit too.
Why am I sharing this screenshot cropped? Well. It’s the only one I have that makes reference to Kenneth the Blaziken and I had to fish it from Discord. Kenneth was the named I picked because I had the R.E.M. song stuck in my head.
There’s also Iyu, the Gardevoir I caught at the start. The name was suggested by a friend from a show they were watching.
The final thing I wanted to mention was the humor of older Pokemon games. I feel like a lot of the older games nail implied humor. I seem to have lost the screenshot I was going to use as reference, but there’s a house with a man who mentions thinking you need a bunch of birds to fly instead of the Move. Okay, weird guess but not that weird. You go in his house though and there’s a fuckton of birds all over the place. There’s no line directly stating it. It’s great. It got a laugh out of me I feel like I haven’t felt in a while. Conversely, while I’ve enjoyed my time with all the newer Pokemon, as I think they’re mechanically fine. Their presentation leaves a lot to be desired, including Humor.
Tomorrow I plan to try and beat the E4, and then work on filling out the Dex. Hopefully with the Battle Frontier and an EXP share it should be easy. Then I’ll start prepping my 3DS for the save move.
Hey, is there any chance you can start streaming on Peertube? With OBS’ virtual camera, you can just stream the straight gameplay footage and don’t need to add commentary or anything (unless you want to.)
The custom phrases are great. They’re restraining enough to force you to get creative but also has just enough freedom to do some funny things. Just today I put “I MAKE GARDEVOIR EGGS” in.
Is this just base Emerald or is it some sort of ROM hack? To others interested in their first or newest playthrough, there is one I highly recommend!
My favorite so far is Emerald Seaglass because of the old school look. Nemo did an excellent job adapting these sprites to be what they are. I absolutely love them!
Nemo also made another ROM hack called Pokemon Lazarus that uses these old sprites but in a new story. I also love that one!
It’s just basic emerald. I’ve never actually tried any Rom Hacks except maybe Infinite Fusion (and as far as I know that’s not really a Rom Hack but more so a well put together fan game).
Lazarus sounds familiar. I feel like I’ve heard it somewhere else before so I might look into it
I see you chose Torchic as well. Gen 3 has such a good selection of starters. Most games there’s a clear loser for me that I’m never very interested in picking, but all of Gen 3 are great. I named mine Torchwick based on the character from the show RWBY.
Torchic has always been my go too since my first playthrough. Something about it really made me want to pick it when I was little I guess. I’ve never been one to nickname my Torchic though until Kenneth here
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There’s also Iyu, the Gardevoir I caught at the start. The name was suggested by a friend from a show they were watching.
Hey, is there any chance you can start streaming on Peertube? With OBS’ virtual camera, you can just stream the straight gameplay footage and don’t need to add commentary or anything (unless you want to.)
Funnily enough I recently started that one again to. Praise phone emulators!
Oh nice Robopon
I have a soft spot for gen 3 Pokemon games as the GBA SP was my first handheld. Didn’t find Pokemon all that appealing in subsequent generations.
My first Pokemon game was Emerald emulated on my phone, so I’m definitely in the same boat with a soft spot
For me, the hottest trend has always got to be ADULT TOYS
Haha, same here. And here I thought I was being creative.
Last time I replayed Emerald, me and my friends had a lot of fun playing with the custom phrases.
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The custom phrases are great. They’re restraining enough to force you to get creative but also has just enough freedom to do some funny things. Just today I put “I MAKE GARDEVOIR EGGS” in.
Where can we find these Thick Gardevoire magazines? Asking for a friend.
I initially chose “ADULT TOYS” and felt bad when the small child mentioned they collect all kinds of official ADULT TOYS.
Always a good day to see an Atticus post!
Is this just base Emerald or is it some sort of ROM hack? To others interested in their first or newest playthrough, there is one I highly recommend!
My favorite so far is Emerald Seaglass because of the old school look. Nemo did an excellent job adapting these sprites to be what they are. I absolutely love them!
Nemo also made another ROM hack called Pokemon Lazarus that uses these old sprites but in a new story. I also love that one!
It’s just basic emerald. I’ve never actually tried any Rom Hacks except maybe Infinite Fusion (and as far as I know that’s not really a Rom Hack but more so a well put together fan game).
Lazarus sounds familiar. I feel like I’ve heard it somewhere else before so I might look into it
They are both so worth it, I promise you will like something about them! Thanks for sharing as always! :)
P.S. You don’t have to spend any money to get the ROM hacks from Nemo, it is just the only site they have that I could easily find at the time. :)
I see you chose Torchic as well. Gen 3 has such a good selection of starters. Most games there’s a clear loser for me that I’m never very interested in picking, but all of Gen 3 are great. I named mine Torchwick based on the character from the show RWBY.
Torchic has always been my go too since my first playthrough. Something about it really made me want to pick it when I was little I guess. I’ve never been one to nickname my Torchic though until Kenneth here
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I can see it. Especially with the GBA entries