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"Dreams5" <dreams5@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> > > Another newbie question, which has probably already been answered in
the
> > > list of games listed...
> > >
> > > But, these Pokemon games I thought were kiddie stuff... Are they
really
> > good
> > > action rpg's????
> >
> > They're actually not action RPG's, just the usual turn-based stuff. I
> > wouldn't call them kiddie stuff, as they have very solid gameplay
> underneath
> > the "kiddie" graphics.
> >
> > If you've never played a Pokemon game before, I'd suggest picking up
> either
> > Fire Red or Leaf Green, which come out on the 7th. They're remakes of
the
> > original two American Pokemon games (Red/Blue), with added features to
> make
> > them compatible with Ruby/Sapphire. You may become addicted for a
while;
> it
> > sneaks up on you. The reasons I don't recommend Ruby/Sapphire first are
> > that:
> >
> > (1)
> > I haven't played them, though all the other games combined have taken
> > literally more than 900 hours out of my life (for a long, long time, the
> > Pokemon games were the only good RPGs on Nintendo systems). From
> 1997-2000,
> > I spent about 600 hours catching all the Pokemon and maxing out the
levels
> > of 45 of them in Blue before my game erased itself. It's quite possible
> > that I'm insane, or at least that's what the voices tell me.
>
> 900 hours?????? WoW! I thought I was bad with PSO, playing online with my
> DreamCast... Yikes. I was upset when I lost one of my saves, but I think I
> only had a little over 100 hours in at that time...
This is especially incredible when you consider the fact that 900 hours is
about 38 days...
BTW, I was addicted to PSO for a while too (on GameCube). I ended up
spending 100 hours on it completely offline. It was fun (especially once
you start finding those rare red items), but you can only build your levels
for so long. Hmm...maybe I'll go back to it. For some reason it sounds fun
right now.
The Mechgun (and its later iterations) is by far the best weapon, by the
way. It's long-distance and it deals out more damage than a Brand or
anything like that.
> I will definitely check out the reviews on these... What are the
differences
> between the two? Are they totally different games?
> Thanks!
All of the Pokemon games so far have followed the same pattern: two games,
each with a couple of dozen monsters the other doesn't have (thus
encouraging trading), then a third one that adds some feature the other two
don't have. Other than that, the games in each set are pretty much the
same.
//mike tyndall