Pokemon Zeta / Omicron

TL;DR Fan-made standalone game featuring most Gen I - Gen VI Pokemon.

http://www.pokemonzetaomicron.com/

-> Standalone Pokemon Fan Game. No need to download any ROMs or hacks, just the game!
-> ~2.5 regions (final game will have 20 badges, ATM there's 18).
-> Gen VI Pokemon, Gen V Mechanics, and Gen III graphics (you can update the sprites to be moving, though).
-> 40+ hours of original Gameplay.
-> http://pokemonzetaomicron.com/

Positives:

+99% of items are purchasable (Dusk Balls, Choice Scarfs, basically everything except Master Ball and PP items >_>)
+You can see your EVs and IVs easily, not to mention IVs are changeable (it is a high price...but still).
+HM items. Never carry a Bidoof again.
+Missingo is catchable. There are a handful of other Fakemon too like Ausitto (Ditto evolution that learns Sketch and Transform).
+You can trade with yourself
+Kanto starters are available in wild and all other starters are easily obtainable in your Secret Base
+Shadow Pokemon
+Delta Pokemon (think trading card game, aka Pokemon with different types).
+Pokemon follow you!
+Plot that's somewhat interesting (at least more than the original games).
+Your rival has so much swag it's not even funny.
+Save files transfer through patches.
+Game is CHALLENGING. You HAVE to use STRATEGY (!!!!). Pokemon three levels under you give hardly any experience. You get 90% of your experience from trainer battles. Towards the end of the first region you find yourself battling trainers +10/20 levels above you.
+Level cap raised to 120 due to the sheer amount of content.

Negatives:

-Lousiest starters ever (Horsea, Magby, and Bellsprout). On the bright side, they're all balanced in stats and receive other goodies (like....Bellsprout gets Spore).
-The multiplayer trading/battling server is intermittently on/off.
-Game is 85% done. Right now it's still over 50 hours of gameplay.
-That being said, animations aren't complete for many moves, and most of the Gen 6 follow sprites aren't done.

oh pineapple you corn, i read the title "Zeta" and thought "no way, pokemon Z?"

horsea a bad starter? get off. brbswiftswimmin' to death

I downloaded it. It looks promising.

I saw someone playing this on Twitch the other day when I went to check up on TPP and thought I'd give it a try myself. Played through it for maybe half an hour and noticed several of the "funny references" you were referring to, but Pokemon games just don't really appeal to me anymore, so I gave up on it.

You can't grind off of wild Pokemon; wild Pokemon 3-4 levels under you grant almost no experience, so you're forced to fight gym leaders with the same level Pokemon all the time.

why is this a good thing? god it's worse than maple

why is this a good thing? god it's worse than maple

Fighting other trainers is where you get all your experience, so yo're constantly forced to use strategy when you're fighting people who have Pokemon at equal if not higher exp than you.

The randomizer mode is hilarious. I started with a level 7 Honchkrow and my first wild fight was against a level 4 Emboar.

Yeah, those starters suck so bad. Bellsprout it is I guess.

So apparently starting the game in nuzlocke mode grants certain benefits such as a specific store to buy items that act as HMs (which you would normally need to search for). Is there a list somewhere of all other such benefits?

These games would be great but they feel so out of place when they aren't on my 3ds

Also how do you save this thing? Like wheres the save file?

I just started checking it out and so far it looks interesting. Hopefully I get more time to play after work

These games would be great but they feel so out of place when they aren't on my 3ds

Also how do you save this thing? Like wheres the save file?

By saving in-game. There isn't save states like emulators such as Desume have. But I believe you can run multiple games at once (there is a Save File option on the start menu, so you can play up to 3 games without deleting data.)
I think the save file is the Game.rxdata file, which is C:\Users\Owner\Saved Games for me.

So apparently starting the game in nuzlocke mode grants certain benefits such as a specific store to buy items that act as HMs (which you would normally need to search for). Is there a list somewhere of all other such benefits?

I find most things on the subreddit (I'm in my phone so I'm lazy to post the link).

I find most things on the subreddit (I'm in my phone so I'm lazy to post the link).

http://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonzetaomicron
there mr.lazy

This looks great, but like KhainiWest said, the fact that it isn't on my 3DS means I can't cuddle up to it and enjoy the game. Plus the installation/customization/etc seem a little too complicated for my taste. I like to just click and go D:

but I'll give it a shot this weekend anyways.

I thought it was less complicated to install than Maplestory :f6:.

I thought it was less complicated to install than Maplestory :f6:.

Well, with maplestory you just download the installer and poof- play me!
I think I'm just being a little nitpicky because I want to have the animations and B/W customization. Since all I have is a Mac, I have to dig around in folders I'm not entirely fond of digging around in.

Do the in game trainers have competitive teams or movesets? If not, Sunny Day Victreebel or Rain Dance Kingdra will be playing on easy mode.

Magby is a really odd choice for the fire starter. It should have been Litwick IMO.

Do the in game trainers have competitive teams or movesets? If not, Sunny Day Victreebel or Rain Dance Kingdra will be playing on easy mode.

Magby is a really odd choice for the fire starter. It should have been Litwick IMO.

Have fun trying to set up when if you get hit by a super-effective move, you're usually dead.

'Course it's still powerful and very strong (...Spore Victreebel is kinda OP) but it's not as easy as in the regular games.

I was enjoying this game until I came across a trainer who had a level 9 of some Pokemon that could one-hit kill every single one of my Pokemon, which were all level 9 ~ 11, with a move that wasn't super effective against any of my Pokemanz.