I am a current grad student and I need your help! My dissertation project, for my Masters, is a study on video games and fan cultures. I want to research how fandom activities affect playing habits of gamers (ie is there more fan culture than actual playing ( Read more... )

I plan on purchasing both X and Y, sometime tomorrow and was wanting to know if the blue/red XY 3DS XL is worth the purchase. I managed to snag a Pikachu one a while back but haven't opened it yet. (Hoarder in the making lol). I just don't see myself playing on it. Should I pass and just purchase a regular 3DS XL or get one for XY?

Okay, so my little brother just bought a new Nintendo 3DS Pokemon game, and he's really bummed that the original Pokemon aren't available in the new versions ( Read more... )

I've seen more than the occasional Pokemon based story on creepypasta.com, but the quality there is hit or miss pretty frequently. Does anyone have any good Pokemon creepypastas to recommend? Sorry if this is a little out of the blue, I'm just curious.

This could be a really dumb question. I'm going to ask it anyways because it could turn out to be not that dumb.

My travel buddy Julie who is my turtwig pokedoll has her birthday comming up on July 2nd. (about the day that i bought her in Japan in Epcot.) and i was talking to my friend about how i have no idea how old she would be. We didn't know ( Read more... )

What things do you many focus on about the game? For me, it's the OST(Original Soundtrack), type of trainers, storyline, and level grinding my team. The Pokemon themselves, well yeah I do focus on that but not as much as the OST and storyline. What about you guys?

So we all know Pokémon have natures, but... Do any of you think your Pokémon have personalities?

For example, my Gardevoir is a male Yamato Nadeshiko, my Ampharos is the cheerful, stubborn Team Mum and my Rayquaza is a proud, arrogant warrior.

What about yours?

I have SoulSilver, and when I get the extra money I plan on getting HeartGold. On HG I want to try a team I've always wanted in the Johto region, by breeding Pokemon on SS and sending them over ( Read more... )

Okay, like others, I'm looking forward to the Hoenn remakes(regardless of Hoenn being my 3rd fav region.) And I'm just wondering, what do you guys they'll possibly do in the remakes? If you remember, there were 2 champions, Steven for Ruby and Sapphire, and Wallace for Emerald. What do you think they'll do with that, and other things?

I have been playing this for awhile now,but the order of the pokedex really irks me. Its made to be alphebetical, is there a way to switch it to numerical order?

Would be so much easier to find pokemon this way. >.