There are more younger kids who play CoD and other generic FPS games than Pokémon.

That's the hilarious part, really.

I, myself, really like it. I really don't understand the hate. It's a sandbox game for casual play.

Then again, I think I answer myself once I mention casual; since "hardcore" gamers are... yea let's not get into that.

But yea, been playing MC since beta and I find it amazing all the possible things you can do with just very few items (there really aren't THAT many, really). And mods make it even more fun with modders adding random new content that's actually GOOD and gives a new sense of "new user" feel since it disperses out about 3-4 times the amount of current items there originally were, creating new things to do.

Since I'm a large fan of the series, I definitely like most of the Touhou Pokémon games. Most of them actually are complete as much as they can be and the ones by Aichiya Sanae work perfectly, especially Another World (which is a whole ROM hack; not just a few changes). Non-touhou wise, I like Emerald 386. Very high sense of difficulty (in hard version of course) and very fun since you can basically utilize every Pokémon to make your team.

epicdodongo :
It's confirmed that he is not releasing a game this year, due to both financial issues and his recent marriage. However, he is releasing another music album for C82 featuring both re-enhanced Touhou themes and original themes.

There's also another issues regarding trademarking that happened recently. A company took hold and trademarked the name "Touhou Project" since ZUN didn't do so himself. As unfortunate as that sounds, it's not all that bad. All he needs to do is change the name of the series. Characters and everything else are all protected since they are "his" creations and are protected by copyright. Exceptions to a majority of the PC-98 characters, of course.

Most video games don't have official couples, but are more or less obvious shipping fodder.

I would choose one from one of my favorite series, Touhou, however due to the fact about 90% of it is fan-shipping, I think I'll just leave that one to myself.

One I would definitely choose is Shirou x Saber from the Fate series. The origin of the Fate series is indeed a VN, which technically is game related. As much as I disliked the anime counterpart, it was still hard not to cringe at the ending of the last episode.

NYYankees88 :
As much as I would love it on 3DS, I still would vote no on it.

Reason being is that the DS is still living and will for a while still. While putting the supposed RS remakes for DS, they would probably be working on brand new engines to work on for generation 6, which would release on the 3DS. Personally, and others would more than likely agree, I would love to see the brand new engine and mechanics to be released on 3DS. Shoving a remake before a next Gen. release feels like spoiling the fun of the next generation because we'll expect what the game will feel like instead of a brand new experience. Sure, BW has that feel, but it wasn't the same as playing DP for the first time on a large memory cartridge. Letting remakes take that makes me feel that it'll only appeal to nostalgics instead of the whole fanbase itself.

I know it's just me ranting, but it's how I feel overall about it.

For some odd reason, Flannery has been, and probably always will be, my favorite.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for fire types and having a female leader (fairly young one at that) that uses them probably sparked it for me.

If there were any, y'know, DARK GYMS, maybe there would be a possible one from that. But seeing how gamefreak obviously overlooks the fact that there are no dark gyms, it seems hoping is out of the question.

The idea definitely sounds great and would be very nice for the community in general.

I just hope it doesn't end up like kaillera did; so many unnecessary coding loops that causes desyncs all over the place.

As much as I liked kaillera, I really hated restarting games every 10 minutes because one player desyncs from the rest. I hope this will be better than it.

Just a general thread for Video Game music, and what you think about them or what you think is one of the best, underrated, overrated or just the one theme you like for the sake of it having that "feel".

I, myself, just love VGMs and love discovering new themes I never heard of before that just sound immaculate. Recently found some themes from the "Ys" series and most of them are ROCKIN' good.

For overall favorite... Don't say I exactly have one, but a recent one I remembered was the Zero Two [0²] theme from Kirby: The Crystal Shards and how amazing it was. Of course, there are a lot of other good themes, but naming them all would be more than a hassle.

So, post away your thoughts =o.

Odd little competition I must say, but different nevertheless.

However, I must say that I'm more in favor of Pokémon, mainly due to personal reasons/opinion. Can't say which is better, because I'd rather not have people tailing me all over it =.

Anyways, the reason I like Pokémon more, myself, is because it was basically my childhood. As much as I loved old Sega sonic games, when I first started Pokémon, I was hooked. Then when Gold/Silver were released, that was it. I finally devoted myself to becoming a full-fledged Pokémon fan. After Ruby and Sapphire came out it wasn't possible to ever turn back. Every new Pokémon game that comes out, I usually enjoy it. Even some of the spin-offs are good, like mystery dungeon (which is how I discovered the merciless Fushigi no Dungeon series). 

At the same time, Sonic games were good, then just went to hall after Sonic '06. Even with generations reviving sonic closer to what he used to be in terms of games, it still wasn't enough. Oh well, I guess it's just not for me, is all.

In my view, the question should be re-arranged as "Who DOESN'T like Dragonball Z".

I mean, come on, how can you dislike such an awesome anime that actually had GOOD English dubbing (not that I really cared to notice years ago). Aside from the craziness every now and then, I'd say it's one of the best anime that almost both genders and/o any age group can watch. It's not too violent to the point where someone spills out gallons of blood nor is there much mutilation (and if there is, there's nothing TOO graphic about it). And even with those in mind, everyone still sees it as a badass fighting cartoon that they will forever enjoy.

Even though I absolutely loved OoT, Goldeneye and Smash Brothers, my vote still goes towards Jet Force Gemini.

Even though its Multiplayer was HORRIBLE, the rest of it was absolutely fun while being annoyingly difficult at times. Very good weapon variety, third-person perspective, three character plots, and much more. It gave me hours of fun that I can still remember. I still think the Tri-Rocket launcher is ridiculously amazing for what it is. It's a one-handed rocket launcher that shoots three missiles all simultaneously, hitting it's target all at the same time. It was fun seeing all that Drone blood splattering everywhere whenever you hit one with it. Plus its hilarious that collecting heads of the Drones actually unlocked multiplayer content.

The thing I still hate about it are those flying enemies. Every single one of them just shooting lasers are you. Even more annoying when those buggers actually close in right at you shooting four times as fast as the others ones do, usually killing me in seconds if I'm not careful.

If I ever do play it, it's only ever casual and usually free-for-all with a bunch of friends. I hate how the people complain about how NOT competitive it is when Sakurai stated, himself, that he didn't want the game to be as such and make it more of a fun party game. To be honest, it works, because I still play occasionally with my friends (offline). We usually just screw around and all choose Captain Falcon because "Falcon Fests" are just the best and creates a lot of hilarity.

About online... No. I don't understand how Nintendo could mess up the online THAT badly when Mario Kart Wii, just months later, was just perfect with its lag. It's not one's Internet that messes up Brawl's online gameplay, it's the fact that their servers, for some reason, just cannot handle it. With 20MB/s download speed and my friend's 30+MB/s download speed, we were still getting ~1 second control delays, so I can confirm it's not anyone's Internet; just to throw that out there for you all.

haitamchouiekh : Eh, I just go with the "I have no right to say what is or isn't a Pokémon." Because, to be honest, the first games (Red, Green, Blue) were the first interpretations of Pokémon. Those sprites are the real origins of what the first 151 Pokémon were supposed to look like. Later on, Yellow released in conjunction with the animated series. The sprites on yellow were changed from Red/Blue/Green because gamefreak wanted the Pokémon in their games to resemble more of that to the animated series and to look more child friendly. I mean look at that first Golbat, I'm sure that'd give kids nightmares.

And no, I wasn't going for its difficulty factor. In fact I think R/S/E was easy for me, even with just soloing with a Blaziken throughout the whole game. When I considered difficulty, I meant that it was in balance (not too hard; not too easy) for beginners while it gave a slight sense of difficulty to veteran players who begin their blind-run of the R/S/E games.

Well, every generation has their Pros and Cons. However, I usually treat them all equal as every game is as good as the next, with newer and better refined features.

I just hate how nostalgia fans always have to ruin the series for everyone else because they believe they can detect what a Pokémon is based on what it looks like. What drives them to think they can say what is a Pokémon, I don't know. They are not gamefreak, so I just ignore those people. That and there have been proven statistics that there have been no significant changes in Pokémon type (animals, in-animated objects etc.). So what if generation V had an ice cream for a Pokémon or a pile of trash. Generation I had a pile of sludge and a magnet. Deal with it; they are the same thing.

Anyways, my favorite generation would have to be III. Main reasons was because it's difficulty was the best (good for beginners and those who are veteran players), all new mechanics such as abilities, a wide variety of Pokémon to form a team with and a whole lot more that just makes it an absolute favorite. 

I'd definitely love to see something like Curse of Darkness. That was the only 3D castlevania that was actually any good. The controls were just amazing for a 3D game and the weapon variety made it that much more fun. Such as swords, spears, axes, fists, large axes, large swords etc. Each weapon itself also had different attack variations when combo'd, which all had different uses, however they were more common when it came to attacking the "current" enemy.

The difficulty wasn't too easy or too hard. Sure, Dracula was hard as hell the first time around, but after a few attempts (or first if you just have the knack), you eventually take him down.

One last thing I'd like to mention about it is the music. I don't know about anyone else, but Michiru Yamane's work was OUTSTANDING in Curse of Darkness. EVERY theme was worth listening to, especially the very first level where it just blares it's melody right into your face with that "Transylvania" feel to it.

Now, all that doesn't mean I dislike the side scrolling ones. IMO, they are definitely the superior versions, especially the "Metroid-vania" ones. The first one of that style that I tried was Curse of Darkness for the GBA. At first it was a bit dull, but then all of a sudden I really go into it and just wanted to play until I beat it. Then try to get 100% on the map. It was only a little bit later that I found out that there were even more modes to play through, such as Magician and Thief. It's the same game, except your stats have different level up aptitudes and/or other things were altered. Like magician mode gave you ALL the cards right at the beginning for you to use.

My favorite one, however, was Order of Ecclesia. It's difficulty was fairly high, but doable, and finally adding in a single female protag. was amazing. Sure portrait of ruin had Charlotte, but it was in conjunction with using Jonathan. While Ecclesia had Shanoa alone.

I was never really a shooter fan, myself. The only ones I've really played have been Goldeneye and a fair bit of Perfect Dark. The reason I'm saying this is because most online games is FPS based (I know there are others, but face it, the majority of online gaming is Shooters and MMOs).

That being said, I personally prefer offline or playing via stream like people are there with me. Gaming with others physically or near physically feels a bit more natural when it comes to gaming as you are playing with your peers. When it comes to stream, it's a bunch of people chatting while you and/or others playing the game, creating a discussion USUALLY relating to the game that is currently being played.

I remember a long time back, playing Smash Bros. 64 with everyone. There were about 10 of us always waiting for the next slow to open for a free for all match. The same thing happened with melee and lastly, the most memorable, brawl. I managed to sneak brawl 2 days before its official release (this was when I had a relative working at a movie store who would give me rentals of games before release... until management said no months later after I snagged brawl). And boy, it was the most fun we had ever had when is came to playing smash. We would take turns playing through the Subspace Emissary, unlocking as much characters as possible doing so. Then hours later, after we beat the SSE, we played for hours on end in free for all, team matches, everything. In that ONE day, we had saved over 100 replays of moments we thought were "epic" or "amazing". Sadly, the SD card they were all on was lost, and every time I play brawl, I always want to somehow magically find it and watch them all, remembering all the reactions we had made when the amazing things happened.

It's times like those that are very memorable and the only way to do it is playing old-school offline, the way it should stay.

I know I rambled on a lot, but that's my view and how I experienced it, and I found it was the most fun I have ever had in terms of gaming.