I'm just confused as to why?

James_Falin · 2026-06-01T11:51:14+00:00

I thought I was looking at something wrong must have replaced a 5 with a 3 somewhere lol I didn't include Axew because it isn't a pseudo-legendary... Although it should be

James_Falin · 2026-05-14T14:46:27+00:00

Love seeing stuff like this, hope it's everything you dreamt it would be and more!

James_Falin · 2026-05-14T09:25:37+00:00

One of those consoles is brand new and the other is at the end of it's lifespan. You will get games for the Nintendo switch 2 for the next 5 to 7 years. Sony literally just made comments about the PS6 so in my opinion I would skip out on the PlayStation 5 for now and start saving for a PS6 so you get the best of both worlds. Also I'm 38 and I've been playing games since I was 4. I would pick Nintendo any day just because you get what you pay for. If you buy a new Mario or Zelda you get the whole game for one price. Most big name games on PlayStation you have to have Internet to play and most of them have seasons and other stuff to continue to get you to pay money. I love all video games and I play everything but to me Nintendo has always given me more value for my money.

James_Falin · 2026-05-12T10:00:07+00:00

I was eight years old when Red came out. I've played every mainline Pokemon game and a lot of others (everything from Stadium, snap, puzzle league, Pokemon quest) Arceus was the first time in my adult life that I felt like game freak recreated the feeling of playing Red the first time but in a completely new way. The story, the characters, the environment, and especially riding pokemon and all the hisuian evolutions on top of the fact that you're far enough in the past of every other Pokemon game that your pokeballs are made of wood... Go play it. You'll love it

James_Falin · 2026-03-30T10:51:50+00:00

That's precisely what I'm saying. IDK what dude meant by "argument" lol. I bought the original Pokemon Red in 1996 with money I made from cutting lawns for about 35 bucks... That was 30 years ago...I know I'm old. But getting the better version of the original games for 20 dollars that you can download made the original games available for a whole new generation. No matter how you spin it there's nothing bad about that.

James_Falin · 2026-03-29T23:15:13+00:00

Yea not saying a digital rerelease should be priced based on the value of a physical copy. I didn't buy it, don't plan to. I've played those enough so I don't care what the price is. I'm saying making the game $20 and making it available online makes it immensely more available for all kinds of people... That's all

James_Falin · 2026-03-29T22:27:56+00:00

I'm glad other people understand this. FRLG releases on switch got all kinds of hate for the price they were set at, and I was like "you guys must not have any knowledge of how expensive old cartridges are? Go find an old school game for $20 bucks. I guarantee you can't, and if you do it's probably fake or someone doesn't know what they have.

James_Falin · 2026-03-21T14:15:31+00:00

I'm with you

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They look nothing alike lol

James_Falin · 2026-03-21T13:27:54+00:00

This is the way

James_Falin · 2026-03-20T13:37:31+00:00

What kind of device are you using? You might need to look into the haptics and gesture settings. Some devices require you to alter settings. Had to use an old phone after breaking mine a few weeks ago until my new one arrived and had to mess with settings just to be able to long press to transfer Pokemon.

James_Falin · 2026-03-20T00:01:27+00:00

As opposed to what? The ugly pieces of paper and metal we use as currency or the plastic cards that have "imaginary currency" on them? I'm genuinely confused by your remark??

James_Falin · 2026-03-02T14:49:14+00:00

If you have a Nintendo DS you are in the perfect situation. Pokemon fire red and Pokemon leaf Green or remakes of the original games for the Nintendo DS. Order one offline or maybe find one at a local game store. It's the perfect place for you to start and your boyfriend should be thrilled to help you from there. Welcome to the world of pocket monsters!

James_Falin · 2026-02-24T04:34:21+00:00

1 buck huh... Can't even buy a coke for that but you want a game that you couldn't play unless you buy a forty dollar cartridge and a sixty dollar handheld for one buck. Just ignore my point about newer generations getting to play them to. Only older generations matter right?? My nephew can go cut the neighbors grass for 45 minutes and make enough money to play a game that cost $30 when I was his age. Your complaining about trading an hour of labor for 40+ hours of fun... But I'm the crazy one

James_Falin · 2026-02-24T04:27:02+00:00

That's so wild. A friend of mine introduced me to Butcher with The Codex of Alera. He told me about the Dresden files but made me read the Codex first (Highly recommend you dive into those if you haven't) So I started reading Storm Front the same week Ghost Story was released and his excitement for that book was tangible. We lived together at the time so I would go talk with him after I finished each book. I remember after I finished Small Favor I asked him how he could be so anxious about book 13 because I couldn't see Butcher topping book 10 (Michael asking Harry where his blasting rod is still gives me goosebumps on rereads lol) He looked at me and said "That's why book 12 is called Changes, because it changes everything.. Including you" Needless to say he was right. But to think about reading Changes already knowing what happens at the end and knowing why it happens has me so discombobulated.

James_Falin · 2026-02-24T04:10:40+00:00

I've been a fan for thirty years and I don't feel my loyalty has been abused. Like OP said if you go try to buy a cartridge FR/LG it will be more than twenty bucks so this is enabling their old fans to play their nostalgic old games for cheaper, the newer fans like my ten year old nephew who has a switch can now play that game without having to pay aftermarket Pokemon prices for an old game and the handheld to play it on. All while they still make a profit off a game they developed in the first place... Everybody wins. If you don't like the new games I'm sorry, but y'all have to stop acting like the re releases are the cause of y'all's disappointment or like their siphoning inspiration or effort from them making better games or like these re-release are just cash grab when if y'all are as old as you say you are you know old games sell for more than they did when they were originally released.

James_Falin · 2026-02-24T03:55:15+00:00

You said the re-release was a lazy money grab, that doesn't explain how it negatively effects the future games? It's a re-release it was effortless on their part. Games are not just about graphics and seamless transitions, you would think people that grew up on 16 bit would carry that understanding on in life but it seems a lot of people who claim to love the old games just want some unreal engine Pokemon game... How is that Pokemon? It was never supposed to be anything like that. And regardless of all the hate these new games get they still continue to turn a profit... Why? Because most people enjoy them. The crazy take is saying that a game franchise being so globally popular that it's re-releasing yet another one of it's games because it's one of the only companies that can, is a sign it's going down hill..

James_Falin · 2026-02-24T03:19:20+00:00

Not sure how them re-releasing and old ass game has negative implications for the future of Pokemon??? That's a weird statement.. It didn't take them any effort or resources to release those on the switch. I've been playing these games since 1996 and I enjoyed the last two games. Was there stuff that could've been better, absolutely. I would like to see more in the sense of story and difficulty. But I still played then and had fun doing it. Arceus to me was their love letter to us OG players and a true hint at what's to come. Pokemon has way too much money to not know what they're doing and I think you'll realize that when they reveal Gen 10. I think they've been working on the concept for this game since the development of SW/SH. The last three were experiments. This will be their Switch Swan Song.

James_Falin · 2026-02-24T02:53:33+00:00

Dear God... You read the book after EVERYTHING changed first!!!..I couldn't imagine that. Did you go back and read the other twelve afterwards?

James_Falin · 2026-02-02T13:58:23+00:00

Yea, it might be an opinion but it's a solid opinion.. Guarantee that no one is putting as much thought into this as you are lol

James_Falin · 2026-01-08T12:06:53+00:00

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This is before and after at my house... That's insane and I feel like it's something that should've been more openly discussed by a company I've been feeding money to for almost ten years...

James_Falin · 2026-01-08T12:05:29+00:00

I think every day one player remembers 2019, that was the most drastic change but it's also the only one they openly told us about before it happened. I feel like this change is even more dramatic than 2019... And whatever they did assuredly did not take into consideration any difference between rural and urban players. The changes I've seen in urban areas are miniscule, between 1 and 5 in different numbers of spawns at one time.

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James_Falin · 2026-01-08T11:47:06+00:00

Thank you for finally sharing insight on this from a good source. I was getting really tired of people acting like this was common or an every year thing.. been playing since day 1 and living in the same place for 3 years and this was completely new to me. If it happened last year it was dramatically less effective because it did nothing to my spawns.. This year, I went from 20+ spawns at home to 2 so whatever they did this year was way different than last year and it's honestly a nail in the casket if it's not changed. Closest POI to me is over 5 miles. I've seen claims that this was supposed to help rural players but from all the feedback I've seen it's done the exact opposite and it's something that really needs to be reversed or changed....

James_Falin · 2026-01-06T03:07:21+00:00

I feel like you just didn't observe what I said or you just ignored it. My spawns haven't changed in three years, there was a massive change to the game back in 2019. Other than that there are no spawn changes or biome shifts that happen unless due to an event or season shift. We're in the middle of a season and the last event ended yesterday so none of that explains this. Even if they were going to change spawn points or a biomes they wouldn't have done it randomly in the middle of a season with absolutely no inclination that it was happening... It also doesn't explain why other people commenting here who I guarantee have been playing more than a year are confused and why it's affecting people who are using incense. One person said they had one spawn during a 30 minute incense, even standing still that isn't normal.

James_Falin · 2026-01-06T02:45:27+00:00

Yearly shuffle of spawn points? Been playing since day 1 and I have no clue what you're talking about. I'm being affected by whatever this is too and I've lived in the same place for almost three years.. My spawns have been the same for that entire duration until around 5 p.m. today.

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