Any other closet Pokemon players out there?

[toss]

The whole pokemon battling scene is way too hardcore for me. I hear nowadays you have to have no life to be able to just compete.

[Phoenix1010]

Yeh it is kinda ridiculous. You have to breed them a million times until you get the right moves + natural tendencies combos, then train them from birth up to 100 only fighting against certain enemies that give points to the stats that you want to train. It scares me to think that people would devote that much to this game, but the single player is still charming simple fun to poop to.

[vulturesrow]

So whats a good site to get, um, my friend, up to speed on the latest happening in the battling world? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[ehafner]

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So whats a good site to get, um, my friend, up to speed on the latest happening in the battling world? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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www.serebii.net

[2/325Falcon]

VR,

That Wired article was solid. Thanks for the tip.

[dthorne04]

Serebii is good stuff...it's ridiculous how intensive this game really is. At first glance you would neeeeeeeever think that this would be so complicated. :P

I've logged over 200 hours on Pearl since I got it...and now I'm doing the crazy training stuff. The old games were so simple compared to the new ones. Lots of fun though.

[vulturesrow]

dthorne,

There was a ridiculously good website back in the R/G/Y days , I think it was called Crystal Palace or some such nonsense. Anyhow, serebii seems pretty good, still trying to locate some other similar sites. For my friend of course.

Falcon,

NP on the Wired article. Glad you enjoyed it.

I loved it, still played until I was like 16/17 haven't played the new ones though was considering buying a DS just 4 it.

[vin17]

Wow, I used to be very into both the cards and the games (the original Blue and Red, then Yellow versions). In terms of the cards, I battled seldom, opting to go after the 'rare' holographs. Good times...

[2/325Falcon]

The Penny Arcade guys posted about this Pokémadness. It sounds like a trip down the rabbit hole.