pbood2

I have appeared to say congratulations to you, the Amazon Nation for a week well fought and battles well fought. I look forward to seeing your future progress in PokeNations

Honestly I would say cool because it's something new to FE and I would be excited to see what they come up storywise with to match the cyber vampire protag. I wasn't implying getting rid of the formula, I was just asking for suggestions on how you might be able to change it so it's not the usual formula storywise. Your first sentence makes sense though to me.

Thanks for your comment with picking option 3. So I'm guessing you like pokemon's formula per say correct and you haven't gotten bored of it? Does that mean no matter how many fangames come out with a similar formula of get pokemon, beat leaders, beat evil team and be champ, you won't get bored and stop playing? I do agree gameplay and music help make a game playable in the first place though. What you said makes sense about formulas so thanks. Follow-up question then: people are saying don't change the formula of Pokemon by adjusting stats, types etc so then how can you build on top of the formula if people are afraid of the change to the formula? For example, Commander told me don't make luxray electric/dark even though he looks dark type at least. Lugruf: It depends on what am I playing for. If I'm playing for abnegation, just to kill time, I don't care if it's the same. I actually want it to be the same, because I'm not interested in having to learn new things or master new mechanics, I just want something entertaining to kill time. I play League of Legends for example (which, in case you don't know, has a single map and all the games follow a similar structure), because it fulfills this function to me. However, I also like playing more actively sometimes. In this case, I want a game that will tell me something new. It's like when I read a book. I don't want to read the same book once and again (or read the same book but change the names of the characters and places so that it looks like another book), I want to read new things. I want to live different stories. And this is in my opinion the main problem of storytelling in pokemon games. They all stick to the same formula invented in Pokemon Red and Blue. The evil team. Pokemon games have been telling the same story once and again by just adding new pokemon and changing the name to the characters! I think it's good to try to push the bonds and look for new stories to tell. And notice I am talking about storytelling, not about game mechanics. I have nothing against pokemon's mechanics, I like them. It's having to live the same story once and again what pisses me off. The first paragraph makes sense to me so good points. I get what you are saying with the second paragraph and agree fully with you but then how can people doing the pokemon formula make it different in the story than just using an evil team? Do you have any ideas or suggestions because I was thinking of using 2 evil teams but if people are bored of that formula and thus won't play the game, I'm willing to modify and try to come up with something that is different and enjoyable for people story wise. I thought the two world concept would do that but it is just an extension of the evil team storyline though it adds a different type of gameplay. Hmmm I really have a tough time thinking of something else other than an evil team to use for purposes of story or plot. Does storyline pathways count as a different story in your opinion?

Yeah I don't think I put the right question but asking if people like franchise games isn't what I'm trying to find out either. Hmmm. My main focus was to find out if you don't have an evil team as the main purpose for moving the story forward, what else can writers or game makers use as tools to do so. I mentioned the free roam kind of concept in the opening post. And if there's isn't much else to move the story forward, then can people really be allowed to get bored of similar to the franchise games like fangames because there's not much the creator could do other than put the evil team to forward the story. This concept confuses me like I mentioned in the main post.

Hello everyone. I was talking with a fellow member earlier over PM and it has come to my attention that people get tired of the same formula for Pokemon games being the player gets a pokemon, fights leaders and battles to defeat the evil team like the official pokemon games do. I'm now curious if my game Pokemon Darkness even though it is incorporating two worlds is still mostly following the same familiar formula and I have seen people saying Blitzkrieg is a different type of concept which I do agree with which is awesome. I guess I'm just having trouble trying to understand that if you don't have an evil team as an example to push the game forward, what other strategies could you use then to make the game go forward unless it's a free roaming type of game. But going from leader to leader with little to no plot seems kind of boring unless you love battling only. I personally am someone who loves plot and interesting concepts in a game so the free roam kind of thing wouldn't be fun for me. I would appreciate feedback and comments on this because I'm quite confused on this. I would love to be able to make Pokemon Darkness not just another entry in a familiar formula if possible but other than the evil teams route, I don't know how to. Thanks for reading this and have a great day/night. P.S. I apologize for the poll being public because I didn't know what public meant and thought it was the setting like any other poll. My bad.

In a thread opposite to Ame's positivity and what you like about yourself thread, I'm doing a what do you hate/despise about yourself. This is not meant to be a self-esteem breaker type of thing but instead a find and identify your flaws and problem areas so you can work on them if you want to. Also because I am in a bad and depressing mood because of the first thing that I hate about myself. I had a dream just now of a teacher I knew for 5 years in the below mentioned middle and high school who loved me as a student and person and I promised I would try to stay in touch with her a long time ago but never did and so I am sad because of this. I hate that whenever I get close to someone always in my life then distance appears between us, I nor the other person barely make an effort to stay in touch with each other. I had friends from my private middle and high school for pete sakes and over time, I just didn't bother to keep in touch over time even though I spent 5 years with them. Another instance is where I had a health studies (my degree) friend who I have known for 5 years now and just last year, we just drifted apart. We used to text and talk about the Bachelor/Bachelorette or about our daily lives but I texted her a while ago and have gotten no response. I just really hate this about myself. I feel like because my parents like to be distant and not have too many friends, it has made me follow the same kind of thing BUT I DON'T WANT to drift apart and I love socializing and meeting with people and I DO WANT TO HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS so HOW DO I CHANGE THIS? sigh... I realized this flaw and problem a long time ago and so recently I have tried to cling too much to people who might want their space (like the Revolution team I knew months ago) and thus cause them to get annoyed at me even though I know if I leave any distance, I just won't be motivated to care enough to stay in contact and I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. I also hate that I procrastinate and lull on the important things. It took me almost a month (to current date) after I finished my last university term to finally get going on some job searches because I was scared of a one page piece of paper called the cover letter and that I couldn't do it well so why bother kind of thing. Oh another thing I hate about myself is my lack of confidence and how it has affected everything I do. Sorry Mods if this thread has already been made. I went searching through pages up to 3 months old on this subforum and didn't find any similar to this. Sorry to the community if this threads get depressing over time but maybe we can help each other figure out solutions together. At least that's a hope I have about this thread. Thanks for reading this post and hope you post something yourself. Have a great day/night.

For the matchups and tiers designated to each matchup, are we to only use that tier in brackets for our teams or can we use below tiers too such as NU and RU and PU for UU or OU matchups? My nation is currently unsure about this so a confirmation of what's legal would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'll be a sub if you want since I battled week 1 and got us a win. Good luck to all picked people for week 2 battles and make the Gaia Nation proud.

Honestly I was expecting something more badass between the two pokemon. Maybe Ash-Greninja would be cooler? The water and fire towards the middle as they meet just looks off but the fire and water on each side looks good so great job with that. Typhlosion does look badass though. Sorry if you end up having to constantly redo the signature for me because I'm indecisive but I'll try to appreciate all the work and effort you are putting in. Thanks and have a great day/night.

What original picture but yeah tartar those look so amazing.

Ground AND Normal is not a fair or special deal/trade for just Ice sorry no deal. If I'm being honest, Normal is a lot better than I thought so you should be asking for Normal for Ice tbh. You're a funny man if you think that's a win-win and that we would be fools not to take your offer lol. ;P

Looking awesome but I would paste the image in Paint or GIMP and resize the white space so it's just the image and no or little white space left and then resize the image how you want. I think that would make it look much cooler.

Don't worry. I'm sure a lot of his predictions have been wrong including me vs mikzal where he predicted mik would win but I did.

OK jericho and rose for explaining and clarifying the above. I appreciate it and hope for a successful Pokenations Season 2.

Question: when do we have to submit the paste bin of the team to our committee member? because there are some people who might be redoing and changing their team after practicing throughout the week like I did this week.

Yeah I did and with PYROAR but I still feel bad about doing that to him and then people were blaming him for throwing the match as you see in the matchups thread and I defended both of us swiftly. I would correct you for calling me Pblood but I got first blood this week so calling me that is fine with me. M-Diancie is a good pick and you need something for Mega Beedrill if you think he's a possibility meaning to outspeed it such as my choice scarf pyroar. I wish the rest of you success in your battles though.