Recent content by Jeffers

My first starter was Squirtle. I was planning to choose Charmander and my mum bought me Red, but I loved the Squirtle with the sunglasses in the anime so I ended up going for him. My favourite starter is probably Rowlet. For the longest time it was Cindaquil but I fell in love with Rowlet's...

We don't yet know quite what form Champions will actually take, and what official or custom format options will be available... But there will probably be a way for you to play against your friends using FRLG Pokémon only. They might use modern typing and stats, though.

I doubt there will be any in-person events for FRLG, so it this just for completing the story? Or are you intending to compete with friends? Because I wouldn't worry about completing the story too much. Other than needing a HM slave for the non-battle components, so long as you have decent type...

I already own these games and all the hardware necessary to play them, so the only way they could appeal to me would be to offer some amazing new functionality or a new way to play them. $20 for a download-only port of a GBA game is not sufficient. Direct Home compatibility is nice and...

Someone's favourite game is usually going to be subjective, and their favourite game is not necessarily going to be the same as what they judge to be the "best" game, but there are objective standards to which we can hold each game. There is an objectively best game. However the community will...

I think the overrated part is a lot easier to answer than the underrated. Because it's Pokémon, a nigh universally beloved franchise. Even games regarded as the worst in the franchise top sales charts (and bizarrely, some of most maligned are the best selling games within the franchise). Every...

I think you touched on another issue there. I somewhat agree, but I am not convinced that the context can be as obvious to everyone as you might hope. Most of the communication we experience online is text based, or in the case of videos, impersonal and one-sided. It can be easy to misinterpret...

I think it's important to remember that while the loudest or most radical opinions might be the ones that get the most attention, they are not the majority. Most people will have overall positive or negative inclinations towards any new game; a mix things they look forward to or are optimistic...

Because they can. I am sure most VGC players would pay it. Given that this new app more directly competes with Pokémon Showdown, I could see them having more incentive to shut it down. If they charge a subscription fee for it, they could even point to lost revenue more tangibly in a potential...

I wonder if Champions will require a Home subscription, or have its own subscription on top of that. If the small indie company cannot afford the time or resources to put all the Pokémon in the game, this isn't a bad compromise, subscription costs aside. Z-A doesn't look too bad, though if you...

Yep. It me. I used to go by Jeffers for most things online, but when that name was taken I'd usually resort to The Jeffers or some variant, and that was also true for the Pokémon website back during the Black and White era when I made the account. I first became aware of this thread a few...

It feels like there's always some new bug on those forums. And when they finally fix one, another one crops up in its place. Posts held for approval are a consistent source of headaches. Not only does it often fail to update the forum listing and notify users you reply to or quote when a post...

There will be an element of that, but "Switch 2" is much less ambiguous than the Wii U. I think the quality of launch titles and then exclusives going forward will be a bigger determining factor than the hardware itself.

Wait, what are they talking about? I never saw that. Was it just a manji or something?

It seems they will be changing the trade system in response to player feedback. I personally think this was an attempt to get away with a more expensive trade system, only to revert to a slightly more reasonable one if the backlash became too large. We might even thank them for the privilege of...