The Last Poster Wins! [v16]

[Chakramaster]

If it was 24 I would have won, but oh well. There's still many chances to try again.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon being my absolute favorite series in the Pokemon games (also in my top 3 games ever list with Explorers of Sky) I'm super hyped for PSMD. Just wish they would give out a small soundtrack preview like they did with GTI. They also just announced a PSMD N3DS cover plate with all the starters and important Pokemon on it. Hope they add an XL cover plate to the list. I'd pick that up even if I had to import it.

[Morzone]

The PMD series has always fought for the best Pokemon series against the usual mainstream Pokemon games. Sky is one of the only games where I could finish the main story and the after story, and still be able to pick it up and play it for hours on end. I didn't know they made a PSMD cover plate, though I already have one anyway.

The real challenge is to convince my brothers to get PSMD. They haven't gotten into PMD yet (which is really quite sad) hopefully I can enlighten them with this new game.

[Chakramaster]

The cover plate was actually just revealed today from what I saw on serebii. I doubt we will see it outside of Hapan sadly unless we get lucky and get it on the Pokemon Center website. I'll import if needed, cause it looks pretty cool. With this it kind confirms that there won't be a Pokemon themed N3DS XL at launch like there was with GTI.

I've tried getting my brother back into Pokemon games (even though he gave Y a chance when it was released) by getting him to play one of the Mystery Dungeon games, but he turns it down every time. Yet, I'll listen to some YT remixers Mystery Dungeon tracks occasionally and he likes the songs. Compares many to Kingdom Hearts as well, yet still he doesn't want to give them a chance.

[Morzone]

It was my brothers who actually got me into Pokemon. They were always playing Fire red, or Emerald on their gameboy Advances and as a young child I wanted nothing more than to play it myself. (little did they know I would one day become the Pokemon Master of the house) All of them are into Pokemon, but they only play the Mainstream games. The only exception is when one of my brothers borrowed Pokemon Coliseum, which he beet in about 3 days because he has this ability to be really good at games he's never played before.

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

PMD, especially the Explorer games, were the best. I never enjoyed the GTI games in comparison, they just felt lacking in comparison to the Explorer games (though I will not deny the game wasn't brilliant in terms of story). I was fairly annoyed by the more enclosed POV compared to Explorers (when sight was fairly important), the lack of individual IQ skills, and the lack of loot (unlike Explorer, which I loved to horde). Plus the lack of Pokemon beyond the fifth gen. There were a lot of changes, some I'm OK with, but most I weren't. I hope the next game changes that.

[Morzone]

GTI was definitely not as good as the explorers games. The story line, and especially the after story, were way to short in my opinion. Building up paradise was fun though. The whole concept of the magnagates was amazing, I just feel like they could've done better with it. And then there was the fact you only had 4 choices of pokemon to be and it didn't have the personality test seen in the previous games. That really annoyed me. They brought it back in PSMD though, so hoorah for that.

As for hording treasure, I got to the point where Even my storage was full. You just have to pick up every item on the floor that you find or you're not doing it right.

[Chakramaster]

Yeah it is true that GTI was lacking in story length, post game content, and options to speed up text. I still enjoyed it for the most part though. The visuals and the sound tracks for the most part. Two of the most annoying parts that pull people away was the lack of playable Pokemon to choose to play as and the gender being set as male for both you and your partner. So it's good to see both are being brought back in PSMD. That as well as the personality quiz. Good to see tough even if you don't get what you want after the quiz that you can just choose.

[Morzone]

I forgot about the slow text speed, that always drove me nuts. Personally I still liked the explorers of Sky soundtrack best, but PMD always has a pretty good music selection anyway. GTI also had the problem of being too small of a world. And when you did get extra places to explore, you were generally being pushed through the story too fast to do anything with them. From what the trailer showed, PSMD's world is going to be really large, so good things to come!

[Bulbasaur]

Sheesh you're just as paranoid as Tazz is. They have 48 hours, not 24!

We do need a subject change though. How hyped is everyone for Super Pokemon Mystery Dungeon? Because I'm really hyped.

I know that. But, you are right that I am paranoid.

[Chakramaster]

I liked the Explorers ost the most as well. I really enjoyed the improvements on the sound for GTI though. Hopefully they improve from there on PSMD. From the sound of it some tracks are old tracks improved for the new game. I'm still hoping the theories out there are right about being able to revisit some old places from previous games since the map looks similar in places.