Haha, same here. And here I thought I was being creative.
Nelots
joined 7 months ago
I initially chose "ADULT TOYS" and felt bad when the small child mentioned they collect all kinds of official ADULT TOYS.
Even though Black and White were newly out by the time I got into Pokemon, the only one I had growing up was my older brother's Blue. So I've always been a fan of the originals even if they're missing a LOT of polish, though the gen 3 remakes like Leaf Green are much better in about every way. I mostly just did Gen 1 and 2 for the nostalgia and RA achievements.
I just pirated the ROMs and played them on RetroArch. I still own the physical game for Red (Blue is unfortunately long lost), and, personally, I'll never feel bad pirating from Nintendo regardless.
The mudkip vs the world challenge is pretty fun (I got to the 5th gym before deciding to pause it), but from what I saw in the discussions board, a certain post-game(?) section is absolutely brutal to an unfair degree and is like 99% of the challenge's difficulty. I saw people recommending keeping mudkip leveled as low as possible since trainers there scale with you, and to stock up on tons of the PP-restoring berry. So I look forward to whatever the hell is up with that whenever I continue.
So Microslop is censoring its own name? Strange choice, but okay.
I'm currently playing through Emerald with RA enabled as well! I've completed the pokedex in Red and Crystal, but I've never played far into anything past gen 2 (despite mudkip being one of my all-time favorite starters), so I'm looking to work my way up and 100% at least one game in every gen and their pokedex. Eventually. My motivation to catch them all wanes somewhat once I start actually doing it.
I had also temporarily started a mudkip-only (plus castform who's forced on you) run prior to this, but decided to put it on hold so it wasn't my first experience of Emerald lol.
Cassette Beasts is my personal favorite creature collector. I'm excited to try this one out when it eventually comes out.
I really hope at least one of these pokemon stays quadrupedal. Basically every single starter has turned bipedal since, what, Samurott back in gen 5? Ignoring Primarina because no legs.
Also the bird looks reeeeeally dumb, which is disappointing as someone who usually likes the grass types.
Kinda just sounds like you were looking for an excuse to aggressively rant at someone. I don't know how you came away thinking they were an apple fanboy after reading that comment full of ifs and general skepticism.
I see you chose Torchic as well. Gen 3 has such a good selection of starters. Most games there's a clear loser for me that I'm never very interested in picking, but all of Gen 3 are great. I named mine Torchwick based on the character from the show RWBY.