Cheesy Lard
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I hoped they would make more improvements for the battles, but the minimap graphics are awesome.
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The Anaconda
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well not exactly 2 Million, but close. well over 1 million. i just say that as the general estimate because that was the titles of a number of headlines in the news that weekKyfogre22 said:
heres some more exact numbers:
http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/pastnews1102.html
It had a total of 2,740,909 copies sold in 2002 in Japan, #1 selling game in Japan in 2002, beating 2nd place by over a million units. It was released near the end of November.
EDIT: further down is another article noting 1 Million pre-orders. im not sure if those sales numbers count the pre-orders or not
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Shiloh Phoenix
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I'm sure they do.
Psycho_Lugia_X
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At least we're sort of getting closer to what I believe to be the best take on portable turn-based combat-style games: Golden Sun. I loved the graphics in that GBA game, and it would be great to see that treatment applied to Pokémon. Imagine spiraling camera moves, dazzling effects, and moving characters. The more you play the more you realize you're just staring at pictures. Golden Sun extended the illusion of reality by having actually engaging fight scenes in the game.
SailorClef
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I wouldn't get so excited about graphics =/
It seems the better they make a game's graphics the crappyer they make the actual game -_-;
...and why do you all say there won't be daytime/nighttime? ._.
It seems the better they make a game's graphics the crappyer they make the actual game -_-;
...and why do you all say there won't be daytime/nighttime? ._.
Psycho_Lugia_X
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Well, I didn't say that they definitely aren't in, but from the looks of it, it looks highly unlikely. You'd think they would make that one of the big announcements right off the bat with screens of day and night.
Since there was no indication of night/day elements, one would come to the conclusion that they are absent.
Dangit, I'll bet they keep weather...I think I'd rather have day/night and actual week schedule stuff like in GS than weather.
Since there was no indication of night/day elements, one would come to the conclusion that they are absent.
Dangit, I'll bet they keep weather...I think I'd rather have day/night and actual week schedule stuff like in GS than weather.
i love the outside graphics, i didn't want some pixelated polygons for D/P, its just what Dragon Warrior/Quest 7 did on the PS1, 2d/3d.
as for the battle menus, to me it looks just like ru/sa to me, hopefully that changes, and is way more animated, but from the looks of it the attack menus will now be on the bottom screen, i do hope to see some change in the 8 gyms elite 4 route, i want them to add something new, maybe more gyms or a quest after elite 4, an actual tournament or something,
for those that want a radically different gameplay that is what mystery dungeon and ranger are for though.
as for the battle menus, to me it looks just like ru/sa to me, hopefully that changes, and is way more animated, but from the looks of it the attack menus will now be on the bottom screen, i do hope to see some change in the 8 gyms elite 4 route, i want them to add something new, maybe more gyms or a quest after elite 4, an actual tournament or something,
for those that want a radically different gameplay that is what mystery dungeon and ranger are for though.
The Anaconda
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i wouldnt count it out until its explicitly stated to not be there. especially since the DS has a built in clock and calendarPsycho_Lugia_X said:
this is GameFreak, they always keep stuff hidden up their sleeve until the last minute
Psycho_Lugia_X
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I so very much hope Anaconda's right and Gamefreak pulls a "But wait--there's more!" on us.
Cheesy Lard
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It would be cool if you could go to hoenn like you could to kanto in GS.
Shiloh Phoenix
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SailorClef said:
cuz we all know FFX and Golden sun sucked.
Shiloh Phoenix said:
Hey, Golden Sun was a VERY good game, and I was hooked on it for Ages :tongue: (congrats if you get the pun) It had very good graphics too, especially since it was released just a few months after the GBA was.
Of course, my opinions, (along with many others') but anyway, I feel like playing it right now... eheh ^_^
Psycho_Lugia_X
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That was sarcasm. He did it to emphasize the rediculous nature of the claim made earlier about better graphics correlating with worse gameplay.
Shiloh Phoenix
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Thank you.
SailorClef
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Psycho_Lugia_X said:
Well, that's going by my own experiance.. =/
(and I didn't think golden sun was all that great, really..)
What I mean is that I find that the games I grew up playing were more fun even though they didn't have pretty graphics (Link's Awakening, etc)
Actually my favorite games are old RPG's for the original gameboy with all their goofy looking graphics glory...
I don't appreciate everyone jumping on me -_-
the graphics in this game are not overly impressive, but then again when was the last time you picked up a hand held Pokemon game and thought "wow!!! awsome graphics!!!!" If you did then you were the only one... Pokemon is more abou tthe game play than the graphics, I hoped for more, but I doubt that the game itself will dissapoint