• 23Apr 07

  pokemon diamond update! SPOILERS!

  ok, ive had more time with pokemon diamond and heres the rundown of things that ive done and observations ive noted.

  made it to oreburgh city and found rourk and sent him back to his gym.

  with a friends help, got a chimcharr sent to my game.

  caught an abra and machop.

  sent rourk back to the mines with my piplup and chimcharr (both of which have evolved at this point)

  went to flouroma and saved the valley windworks by kicking the team galactic commanders kester.

  found berries and received watering can.

  moved on battling continously eventually evolving my abra to kadabra.

  found myself in eterna city, got the exp share and the explorer kit and fullfilled all the missions except capturing the flag of an opponet. (will do that tonight)

  moved on fighting along the way.......

  ended up in..... some town... the name escapes me at the moment......

  beat the gym leader which enabled me to use cut.

  used cut to enter galactic building and saved several kidnapped pokemon.

  recieved a bike from the owner of the bike shop. 

  went down cycling road.

  met up with proffesor rowans assistant who gave me two poketch apps. (dowsing machine, vs seeker)

  went to hearthome city, received poffin case and made a few poffins.

  thats all.

  its a brief summary but it gives you an idea of all thats available to do. this is truly the best pokemon title yet and well worth looking into.

  my current team

  pen-pen (prinplup) lvl 25

  chuck n. (machop) lvl 25

  ifrit (monferno) lvl 25

  psycho (kadabra) lvl 25

  note that this is my battling team... not including my hm slaves.

  other notes:

  played online with another friend. it was pretty easy and painless to do, swapped friend codes, logged on and we battled a free battle.using the ds headse, the voice chat was very clear and easy to us. there was little to no breakup and while using the mic its easier to understand what people are saying a good deal easier than with the ds internal mic. the ds headset tends to pickup ambient noise like tvs and such so its a good idea to play in a quiet or quieter environ. even if you do play in a noisy environment, your voice is usually easily understandable no matter whats in the background.

   

  and thats all for this update.

  keep on playin!

  slasher 

  • Posted Apr 23, 2007 10:28 am GMT
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• 21Apr 07

  pokemon diamond! first play!

  after getting really really lucky and finding a store nearby that borke street date... ive finally gotten my hands on pokemon diamond!

  ill detail a few changes and noticeables that i could see from the new game.....

  !!!!WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!!!

   

  1) graphics. 

  the world has taken a psuedo 3d look now but its still pretty close to the other pokemon games.

  2.) interface

  the touch screen controls are only used in battles, manipulating the poketch and some of the other minor features as far as i can see. ive kept my stylus holstered so far unless actively called for. the battle controls are done pretty well this time. its easy to select whatever you want at a moments notice, however, unlike other pokemon games the screen in battle doesnt describe what your moves do and i find that a little unnerving......       menus are pretty easy to use and luckily they put the menu button on x so yo dont have to reach down and push start or select. 

   3.) pokemon!

  i started with piplup because i love penguins and the first gym is rock so he pwned easily, as far as the pokemon... i saw the standard "crappy pokemon youll never catch" along the way. mostly a bird named starly and a....... something..... called a bidoof which looked and sounded pretty dumb but seems to have high defense. i caught a shinx because i need a good electric pokemon but its physical attack seems low and he doesnt know any electric attacks yet..... if i run across a pikachu ill prolly grab one instead.  

   4.) music

  the music seems to have been upgraded and it shows, with some more melodic beats and just overall better tone... but there is a few too many recycled songs and sounds.

  5.) overall

  the game is alot like its older ancestors but the formula worked there, the formula works here, and im enjoying my time with it so far. if youre  a pokemon fan.... buy this one without hesitation.

  • Posted Apr 21, 2007 4:02 pm GMT
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• 16Apr 07

  bubsy - a chronicle of crap.

  The year: 1993.

  The goal: copy the success of sonic and mario.

  The game industry had been utterly and completely ruled by nintendo with mario being their main man, so when a newcomer named sonic appeared on the scene and stole mario's clout, companies took notice. Why was sonic so successfull? Sega was able to portray mario as the slow old guy while sonic was the fast guy with attitude. Seeing the previously unstoppable nintendo falter in the face of sonic brought hope to other companies who thought to themselves"if we make a character who has attitude and appeals to younger kids, then maybe we can get rich too!" This line of thinking made several characters from the good, like sparkster and earthworm jim, to the bad, like puggsy and aero the acrobat. It also gave us the character in this feature story........ bubsy.

  For those of you who missed bubsy.... consider yourself lucky. Basically, he was a bobcat with a white shirt that had an exclamation point on it for no good reason whatsoever. Bubsy was "filled with tude!" according to the developers, but I mean they made him, they cant be trusted with the actual amount of whatever tude is in bubsy, if you made a video game i'm sure you'd be a little biased in your opinion of your game and im not quite sure they realize tude is one letter away from turd. Bubsy was voiced by a "comedian", I say that in quotes because the voice technology was so bad you might as well had been listening to vacuum cleaner sucking up an angry cat, tail first and also because the guy who did voice bubsy played tier four characters in cartoons and such. Later in the other games the voice technology was fixed but the phrases which were spewed at you a dozen a minute would still be grounds for ripping your eardrum with an ice pick. mario was an exploring plumber, sonic had speed, heck sparkster was a possum... with a jetpack.... with a sword..... THAT SHOOTS ENERGY...... so what did bubsy have to make him different from the pack? he could glide ..... fantastic......... a bobcat that can glide. thats right.... it seems bobcats can glide.... well at least accolade thinks so... look for their next game mascot featuring turtles that shoot laser beams and lobsters that can spit fire! ok, so bubsy is a "tude filled" bobcat who wears a white sweater with an exclamation point on it for no real reason and can also glide while spewing hip catchphrases at you in an increasing amount depending on what you do. So now that you have an idea of how annoying bubsy is, i'd say you're pretty primed to learn more about bubsy. next time we'll dissect his games and see what makes this fourth rate mascot soooo craptastic.

  • Posted Apr 16, 2007 2:44 pm GMT
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