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Pokemon HeartGold: an ode to my sanity...

I purchased, with great enthusiasm, Pokemon HeartGold the very day it was released.  I opened with delight the unusually large box and liberated the game and Pokewalker accessory inside.  I've loved Pokemon ever since it was huge "back in the day".  I was just an elementary school kid back then, but even as the years have passed, I've loved the series with all my heart.  It can do no wrong in my eyes.  

OR CAN IT?!?!?  

Now more than thirty hours into the game, I find myself at a crossroads, or perhaps more accurately a brick wall.  I scaled the ranks with great effort to reach Indigo Plateau and the Elite Four.  I've compiled a crack team of Pokemon, trained to be specialists in what they do, and supplemented with all the Carbos, Iron, Calcium, etc. that I could find (or purchase).  They were slightly underlevelled (all being in their late level 30s or early 40s), but certainly my training prowess would see me through this greatest of challenges, right?  Right??  RIGHT???  

WRONG.  

Now going on about three days, I've been trying in vain to defeat these foes.  I cannot.  I've even ground out a few levels in an attempt to get my team any and all advantage (something that, with the level and selection of Pokemon on Victory Road, takes hours and hours at a time to level a 6 man team) I fail.  It's my fault, I know.  It's my fault for training such a shitty team of miscreants.  It's my fault for not knowing before hand the foes I would face, and it's my fault for not wanting to put the work in. 
 
It is simply infuriating that, at about 10 attempts, I can only reach the 4th of the Elite Four.  Great, right!?  I can push through one more member and get to Kanto!  NOPE.  As any Pokemaster worth their salt knows, you will have to fight a Champion following the four members of the Elite Four.  THEN WHY CALL IT THE ELITE FOUR, POKEMON?!  Call it the Elite Five!  Or don't even put a number!  Better to not be prepared than to be outright decieved!  

I know this is very whiny.  I know I'm ranting, but the point is that I am at my wits end with this game.  I even resolved to start the game over, a fact that I knew would at least give me joy.  If nothing else, the joy of finally making PROGRESS, a joy that I haven't felt in a great long while.  In fact, I actually DID restart the game this very morning.  I played four about half an hour, and despite realizing the daunting task I had of making it back to the Elite Four, I was at the very least looking forward to assembling a brand new team and making a brand new name for myself.  I had a new lease on life.  That is, until I went to save the game.  

I could not.  

Apparently, the game makes you physically delete your old file before adding a new one.  PHYSICALLY DELETE IT!  And you might think that, "Alright, fine.  So if I start a new game, I can just overwrite the old save, right?"  WRONG, sir, WRONG!  You must actually delete your old file from the main menu, and you are actually able to start a new game which you can than NOT SAVE.  You can start a new game... and then not be able to save it... at all... ANY OF IT!  

So, you win Pokemon.  I'll keep playing your sadistic game.  I'll keep grinding out levels for hours and then spend more hours failing to beat your Elite Four.  I cannot deny your awesome power.  

The worst part of all this is, is with this horrible failure and the on-going ups and downs of my Street Fighter IV career, I'm having a very bad gaming bender.  The only solace I can take is that I recently got a surprise Easter care-package in the mail that gives me the power to change this.  I'll likely pick up Wario Ware DIY tomorrow, or just stash the money for Super Street Fighter IV.  Who knows.  

That's it, folks.  If you read all that... God bless you. 
I know I didn't. 
-Rix

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