Where’s my Gen 6 Mystery Dungeon?
…Anybody else over here in this corner of the fandom?
I still didn’t play the last one… 
. I don’t know if I’ll get to it at this point.
Gates was okay. It was a step forward in gameplay on some fronts but definitely huge steps backward in writing on all fronts.
I’d say it was worth playing if the number of recruitable pokemon wasn’t a staggeringly low 144, with the literal majority being Gen 5 pokemon (with a couple being paid DLC only).
EDIT: Oh, and the number of starting pokemon going from 21 to 5(!!!) was definitely not cool either.
I liked Gates overall, it just felt so…limited compared to past ones. Not just with what @Hawk mentioned but also the post-game was severely lacking; you get one mission and then it’s building Paradise for the rest of the game, which is…kinda dull, especially since you can only go on one mission at a time. Unlike previous games where you could go on several at once as long as they were all in the same dungeon.
Still enjoyed it but I do hope the next installment fixes some of these things. Explorers of Time is still my favorite (didn’t try Explorers of Sky, thought it was the “Yellow” version but for the Mystery Dungeon games), I only have one (very minor) gripe with it; your character. Namely, the backstory. It made for a great story overall and I really liked it, but one thing I really liked about Blue Rescue Team was that it felt like it was YOU that was having the adventure. You could better connect with your character because it was meant to BE you. Explorers of Time, on the other hand, I personally felt more disconnected because the backstory meant that it wasn’t truly me in the game, it was someone else.
I dunno, I still had that feeling pretty significantly with Explorers (Explorers of Sky is my favorite game, I love it so much more than the main pokemon games…I’ll fight anybody over this.)
Spoiler
I just figured I/my character was flung into different timelines simultaneously or something, or a trainer with a Grovyle in a world that hit apocalypse or something. They never explain how the human shows up in any of these games and pretty much every PMD heavily implies it’s the player, but PMD2 kinda weirded out with the time travel thing. You could’ve gotten the same spiel when you showed up to the future like when you show up in every other game, who knows.
But yeah, every PMD game makes it a point to go “Main character = you, have fun”.
PMD3 pissed me off due to the serious lack of any character development, especially compared to the first one, and the fact that the last boss is [details=Spoiler]fucking literally defeated with the power of friendship. What the fuuuuuuuuuuu[/details]
I don’t mind DLC, but the way PMD3 did it (it was released really fast after launch) makes it feel like it was stuff that was probably already done during the game’s development and was withheld for money. If there’s a PMD4, I’d like to see /every god damn pokemon/ like the previous games did (save Arceus in PMD2 for some reason) and a long term content update plan.
And give us back the freaking personality quiz! I want to see if I get Chikorita for the fifth or sixth time in a row.
EDIT: Oh, the only thing I didn’t like in PMD1 was how post credits your partner’s soul gets sapped and they turn into a generic whatever pokemon they are, with absolutely no more personal responses and just giving whatever their species’ standard response is every time you talk to them. That legitimately made me depressed.
They gave Mega Gallade A FUCKING CAPE and you couldn’t give it an ability worth a shit?
Nintendo said that’s what you get for saying Rocket’s Mewtwo sucks. 
Ok how the fucki’am i ever suppose to build something decent in this game if the grinding is so ass 
damn tcgo
Mega Gallade has a cape. A CAPE!!
Not a scarf.
Not a scarf that’s actually his tongue.
Not baggy pants
Not a Mohawk.
A cape. An awesome looking cape. A majestic cape.
Fuck you game freak. Seriously.
This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:
I’m so hurt right now. ;( ;( ;(
Between all the anger here and abroad on places like /vp/, Serebii, Bulbagarden, and Marriland, I seriously underestimated how many Gallade fans there were despite the fact that I have seen all of ONE Gallade since I started battling in 6th Gen…
I’m sorry I somehow missed this huge fandom that carries Gallade on all their teams and is legitimately disappointed in Mega Gallade’s (still unknown) Stat Spread and Ability…
I was the first guy who started rocking AV Gallade on Showdown. My like for teh poke is real.
Gallade sucks… Thats right i said it.
Nice of Po to miss me running the Brother/Sister combination for a while now. Only reason I don’t run it in Wifi is because it’s ridiculously hard to get a Ralts with everything I need on it and I still might want to switch it up. So it’s better to wait for ORAS on that anyway.
Po hating yet what was the first pokemon you picked for League?
I don’t care about Sharpedo or Loltaria. Give me my Zygarde formes (not Megas please) with the new moves and we cool
You can like something but acknowledge that it just won’t cut the mustard when push comes to shove.
I mean I’ve got a few theme teams which I’ll use amongst friends or players who aren’t too great, but where its randoms or against better players you better believe they are hitting the bench for a while to let the better mons do their business, I assume its the same with Gallade fans who were hoping for a reason to finally give him a slot on their srs business teams.
Well that and inner focus is a really fucking boring ability, I get it’s use but its hardly the most exiting thing in the world.
Trace woulda been sick
Nearly ANYTHING would’ve been better than Inner Focus.
Now it pretty much needs the reverse of his sister’s stats to be relevant. And Drain Punch wouldn’t hurt for normal Gallade.
EDIT: Wait, Gallade already has Drain Punch…I should know since I use it. What am I thinking of that doesn’t have it?
It learns drain punch through move tutor.
This has been THE INVINCIBLE SWORDSMAN saying:
It learns a lot of shit through move tutor.
Drain punch
Elemental punches
Knock off
Focus punch
Trick
Snatch
Wonder room
Pain split
Dual chop
And some other shit nobody cares about.
Edit* as I think about it, I’m 99% positive it’s stats will be identical to megadress except instead of 165 Spa and 85 atk, it’ll be 165 atk and 85 spa. This should also mean it’s sdf jumps to 135 and (most importantly) its speed goes to 100.
Shit, I be rocking vested gallade with sticky web support and whup ass online!
I’m hyped as fuck for the mega evo, the ability is so useful for doubles. Too bad I’ll simply rock regular gallade in singles. It could have used like a psychic type -ate ability so it would throw out base 140 slashes and base 160 strengths.