Just play this for the first time. It's a fun game. Great music.
What's your opinion on Red/Blue, specifically, Zig Forums?
Pokémon RB
Luke Price
Isaiah Anderson
Good by the standards of the time but FRLG is just objectively better in every way. If you're just getting into the series there's no reason to play gens 1 and 2. Just play their superior remakes.
Nathan Torres
I like the simplicity of it, the fact that you can realistically "catch em all" the original sprites have decent soul to them as well.
Landon Ross
Combine Gen 1 + 2 with Pokémon Stadium 1 + 2 for the maximum kino experience. There is your reason.
You can even emulate all of it.
Nathaniel Perry
OP - don't listen to this guy.
Buy Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 with the transfer packs, and the Gameboy games remain the superior versions of the game.
Elijah Harris
I heard about this, too. I see.
Just what this user said: I played Blue on Gameboy, and I own Pokémon Stadium 1 at the moment, so I'll try it with my team afterwards.
Thanks!
Jack Jones
It was my very first JRPG. Fairly simple gameplay but fun when I was a kid. Playing it around the time Pokemania kicked off in the 90s was an experience I don't regret. Almost every kid at my school had Blue/Red so it was fairly easy to battle and trade with each other as long as someone had a link cable. A lot of friendships were made at that time.
Mason Miller
classic games. really chill. fun to glitch.
William Sanders
Honestly pretty bad, it got popular just due to how genius Pokemon's concept is.
Like, all the Pokemon games sort of are unambitious and aren't that amazing and just get a pass due to the main concept, but Gen 1 especially are really flawed and broken games
Brandon Campbell
The item cloning and mew glitch are neat unintended novelties.
The gen1 learnsets are pretty bad though with some pokemans not even having same type attack moves.
Although, you could clone TMs to your heart's content and deck everyone out with the really good attacks.
Gabriel James
>play FRLG
>hahaha yeah this is great just like the old games but better graphics a—
>hit Sevii islands
>eject cartridge
>fly to experimental fusion reactor in Switzerland
>throw cartridge into active core
Jordan Stewart
Lavender Town's original soundtrack... that's my general consensus on Pokemon Red/Blue. Damn japs tried to brainwash me!
Jaxon Moore
Great game
Leo Peterson
False. FRLG doesn't have the retro feel of Red/Blue and isn't as graphically polished sprite-wise as Platinum/Heartgold/Soulsilver or even Emerald. FRLG is forever the awkward middle child and is aging poorly, lookin' like an RPG-maker fan game, while Red/Blue will always have that kino retro feel. IMO FRLG and the Let's Go games (if yer older than 8) are the remakes to skip, while HGSS and ORAS were both very solid entries.
Blake Parker
if you can, use an emulator that supports the super gameboy snes peripheral, or even better use a real one
playing pokemon blue on a tv screen with full color and a snes controller is something to behold
Asher Gutierrez
>What's your opinion on Red/Blue, specifically, Zig Forums?
I loved how broken psychic was. My butterfree with confusion slaughtered everyone. I love the low-res aesthetic and the bach-inspired music (all dat polyphony)
Owen Green
You can easily emulate both GB and N64 games and transfer the save data from the GB version to the N64 emulator like a breeze, maybe you can't play the GB game on the N64 emulator but you can obviously use a GB emulator.
Oliver Lee
bullshite
the games are ludonarrative kino, and the sense of adventure on gameboy was unparalleled
there is a certain atmosphere that was lost from the games when they rebooted the franchise in ruby/sapphire that hasn't ever come back
Hudson Phillips
>there is a certain atmosphere that was lost from the games when they rebooted the franchise in ruby/sapphire
Yup, it used to be quite dark. Never forget that Lance fucking killed a guy with dragonite in GSC.
Jacob Barnes
It felt more "naturalistic" I think, there was a certain tactility that the polish of gen 3 on lacks. I like all the gens, and Gen 6 is even my favorite gen design wise, but the RBYGSC era is just magical. It felt like you were out in the world discovering new creatures and ecosystems
Adam Sanchez
honestly that entire era of first generation gameboy was thick with it, Link's Awakening, Metroid 2 Return of Samus, not sure if it was starting to dip out with gold/silver though
Angel Cox
Must be played with some form of speedup, even more than other Pokémon games besides the original DP.
Nolan Cox
Gen 3 was just Gamefreak going through the motions to keep the franchise in life support. There was no drive behind it and it shows in each game.
Henry Butler
Yellow was better but I'd be lying if I said getting stonewalled and having to evolve a Metapod into Butterfree to defeat Brock with Confusion wasn't aids.
Easton Morris
I can believe it, in 2020 it feels like they are still putting red & blue on switch in 3D, and it doesn't hit right
Adrian Phillips
>Playing it around the time Pokemania kicked off in the 90s was an experience I don't regret. Almost every kid at my school had Blue/Red so it was fairly easy to battle and trade with each other as long as someone had a link cable. A lot of friendships were made at that time.
the news got round the playground that some kid had found a Pikachu in viridian forest and a group gathered round to watch him catch it
Andrew Nelson
>Hating extra content
Buddy when Bill got me onto that boat I was so fucking excited, I had no idea what was going on but I loved it.
Asher Turner
>there is a certain atmosphere that was lost from the games when they rebooted the franchise in ruby/sapphire that hasn't ever come back
90s aesthetics are generally rougher and edgier than 00s. The music and designs in the first 2 gens actually made battles seem threatening and intense.
Elijah Gray
I miss it, there was a mystery, and a omnipresent threat, it is all lacking now
Grayson Scott
>If you're just getting into the series there's no reason to play gens 1 and 2. Just play their superior remakes.
EXTREMELY low IQ opinion.
RBYGSC + Stadium 1 & 2 is objectively the best Pokemon experience you could ever have, and digitalcucks can NEVER
EVER experience it.
oh damn, another person who isn't an NPC
damn another
nevermind there was no point in my post, Zig Forums is fucking based
Carson Cooper
it really does suck that they didn't keep that whole experience going of going on adventures in your pocket, and then blowing them up onto the big screen
Joseph Evans
Playing it alongside Stadium 1 and 2 is fucking amazing
Camden Robinson
It's good by itself and I appreciate it as an adult, but Pokemon Colosseum was one of the biggest disappointments of my life because it wasn't Stadium 3.
That along with gen VII existing instead of Pokemon Z