So I’m trying to replay some gen 3 pokemon. I played Saphire as a kid and I loved it. Going back now as an adult, I’m really struggling. I’m finding it incredibly grindy, and I die inside a little every time I see a long stretch of tall grass. What have I forgotten? What am I missing now that I got as a kid? Any tips?

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    animations take so long

    This is my biggest annoyance with Pokemon games, personally. Everything. Takes. So. Fucking. Long. To. Get. To. The. Point. I’m pretty sure 50% of ‘gameplay’ is waiting for fucking animations and waiting for the one or two lines of text at a time to get to the actual important information after telling you about friendship and the joy of raising Pokemon for the 100th time first.

    I don’t think that I would ever be able to play these games on the original hardware because being able to fast forward in an emulator is a gift from the gods.

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      On the modern games taking forever to get to the point: I’ve been playing the Paper Mario TTYD remake on Switch. Out of curiosity, I watched a little gameplay from the GameCube original… and glory be, does it look snappy. They definitely padded out the animations and stuff in the remake.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s how I’m feeling about final fantasy 7 remake.

      No, I don’t want to slowly crawl along the wall, just make the space a little bigger.

      No, I don’t want you to force me to slow walk.

      No, I don’t want to sometimes have to hold “y” to interact with something.

      Thank god it lets me skip the cutscenes.

      I just wanted to play through and see the different sections and how it was remade.

      It’s so annoying I’m not even looking for gear anymore since I know I’m near the end of the game and none of the stuff carries over to the second part.

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      That’s why Legends Arceus is my favorite game. Catching Pokémon is a joy instead of a tedious activity to be avoided. I hoped they’d keep the mechanics, maybe next game. I even liked lets go Pikachu more than others because it had a different mechanism at least.