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Battle Animations

Battle animations?

  • Yes

    Votes: 68 87.2%

  • No

    Votes: 10 12.8%
  • Total voters
    78
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Anyone else turn them off? I always do. Some of the animations were cool and all, but I just don't want a battle to take twice as long as it should.
 
Kinda not the same without the animations. If I wanted them off, then why don't I play Shoddy Battle instead?
 
When I'm training Pokemon, I turn them off to speed up the process, then after I finish the training, I turn them on again. :D
 
If Im trying to train something quickly, like when I was training Sandshrew for a friend, I turned them off. But most of the time I have them on coz they just look awse...mostly.
 
I never bother to turn it off on most games, but I did on my Gold, because I want to make my feat of catching all three dogs with no Masterballs in about 20 hours of game time look special (not that I did have them off when I was huntin'), mostly.

Still, I cleared through HG in 15 hours (with training with haxxed SuperRod Pokemon early in the game), so it's not all that bad to keep them off, I guess.
 
I always have them on... I never actually considered turning them off, even when I'm training. I don't know why. Maybe it'd just feel funny without them. My brother always turns them off... actually, he suggested a total overhaul of the battle system and DUMPING the animations completely from the game, and switching to a bird's eye view of the battlefield, and using your stylus to dodge and attack...

I didn't like that idea 'cause there were plenty of OTHER games that did stuff like that, and I like how the current battle system means you can look away from the screen (if watching TV, etc.) and still play...

But I'm off topic.

Animations YES. Gen 5's look great so far...especially surf in triple battles. :-)
 
The battle animations would seem better if they'd actually had a way to match up the ones that originate from a point, say, Hydropump, would originate from a different point depending on the Pokemon using it.

Its kinda creepy when an enemy pokemon fires Signal Beam from its crotch.
 
I usually turn them off, as they increase the time of a battle.
 
Vraell said:
Kinda not the same without the animations. If I wanted them off, then why don't I play Shoddy Battle instead?
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I can't believe I actually have to answer this, but you can't play through the game on Shoddy. I thought that would be kind of obvious.
 
I have them turned on most of the time. Turn them off when I'm tediously EV training, like 25 Magikarps in a row... Sometime turn them off when I'm grinding for money. Generally though I prefer them on, battle speed isn't an issue now I don't play my Diamond anymore, Platinum and HG/SS seem much quicker.
 
I only turn them off when I'm chaining for shinies, otherwise I keep them on even for training. I *always* keep them on for important battles that have something to do with the story, or in online battles.
 
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