Is pokemon still cool? + What's your favourite Pokemon?

[GammaChris]

Well... I wouldn't call the games cool, but they do kick ass. I bought Diamond on release date and I still play it often enough. Its a deep, with over 400 characters that you can use in battle. Give me another RPG with over 100 characters even, and then we'll talk. The atmosphere around the games is pride-destroying, with the kiddy shows and TCGs, but if you ignore that fact and play the games for the games, then its probably the best portable RPG you can get, short of a Golden Sun sequel.

Also, Jolteon is my favorite!

 

[Ace of Spades]

I liked Metagross. Gigantic metal spider-like thing. What's not to like?

 

[ZacQuickSilver]

The problem with Pokemon is Nintendo's Modus Operandi: Find something that works, remake it until it dies, Then cast Animate Dead on it and use it as a zombie.

Mario
Zelda
Metroid
CastleVania
Pokemon

It's all the same. All these games should have been dead a long time ago: name anything that's improved on Mario other than the graphics. It's still the same game I played on my game boy.

And Pokemon has joined the lot. I loved Red, Blue, and (to a lesser extent) Yellow (RBY). Gold, Silver, and Crystal (GSC) were pretty cool, but the whole "Chase down Raikou, Entai, and Suisune" was annoying as anything. But they were still pretty cool.

But while I played Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald (RE), and later FireRed and LeafGreen (FL), by that time it had gotten ridiculous, and without any innovative content.

RBY introduced something that I hadn't seen before in a RPG: a team that you can switch around freely for the best effect, and that had a core mechanic, rather than story, to explain how your team grew.

GSC introduced more of that: Berries and other holdable items, specialized PokeBalls, baby Pokemon, a day and week cycle, and (IIRC), Pokemon powers, and Dark Pokemon (The best thing, IMO), and in crystal, the Battle Tower. The extra 100 Pokemon weren't all that bad: especially given that they needed to with 2 new types.

But RSE was downhill. Team Rocket disappeared, all of a sudden, you couldn't get all the Pokemon with just a Game Boy (you needed Colosseum, and several other games requiring a non-portable game), and the world as we knew it disappeared. Oh, and the Day/night cycle is gone, you have to plant berries, there's more berries that you can hope to keep track of, all for a (Mostly) useless side quest. And what do we get in return: another 135 pokemon, and the ability to fight 2 on 2. Wow. There weren't even any really cool pokemon in the new set: I can name a few (The Weather-effected one, Shedinja, and maybe a few more)

And as such, I refuse to buy a DS just to play Diamond and Pearl. Maybe is someone can get me an emulator for PC, I might play, but I'm not even sure I'll do it then. Too much has been lost, and it's lost the sense of innovation that brought be to it in the first place.


And it's not just the video games. The CCG died when they started making new cards that were way better than the old ones: the original Haunter had 2 attacks, one that put the opponent to sleep and did 0 damage, and another that did 50 damage if they were asleep; a newer one is just the same except it's attacks to 20 and 60 damage (instead of 0 and 50). Other cards run in the same vein.


And honestly? I would go back in a minute if someone could demonstrate that Pokemon was doing something innovative and new, rather than beating the zombie horse again. But somehow, I doubt it.


Edit: I forgot. My favorite:

Houndour/Houndoom. Something about killing a RBY Alakazam lvl 100 with a lvl 5 Pokemon endeared me to this Fire/Dark dog. And gave me another reason to hate RSE: you couldn't get it.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Pokemon, in its classic sense (Kanto and Johto) is still a wildly memorable and somewhat popular premise. But they started mucking things up in Hoenn when they started introducing legendaires by the truckload, not to mention the beauty pageant-style contests and the battle tower, and it was all downhill from there.

As for my favorite pokemon, they're Ninetails, Arcanine, Espeon, Umbreon, Pidgeot, and Pikachu. Just so happens that's also my party in every single game.

 

[PureChaos]

i lost interest in pokemon after the second generation. i can see why poeple still like it but, for me, it's gone too far. my favorite pokemon is either Ninetails or Hypno. i still have blue which i play occasionally (going through it bit by bit at the mo to see if the glitch to get a legit mew is true) and i always get a Ninetails and a Hypno

 

[rbnttn]

My favourite game was gold/silver and my favourite Pokemon are Porygon and Driftloom. I supose I like them as they are so unique and since they are so rare/stupidly difficut to find not many people have one.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Driftloom wasn't rare you just had to know how to get him. He appeared in the field next to the power stations on Friday and you could catch it easy, it would just be standing right there. And then it evolves into Driftblim which was OP.

Oh, god, I've said too much.

 

[MorsePacific]

151 was a manageable number. You could get the jist, at least, of all the Pokemon. Now we've got, what, over 350 or something stupid?

491 actually. I still play the games, but only because I enjoy seeing the new Pokemon they put out every season. The games themselves really lost any appeal they originally had. As for my favorite Pokemon, it's Chimchar. It has a flaming back-side, you can't beat that.

 

[Littaly]

It's still cool if you're in that age, if you're not it's not cool, but it can still be charming or fun or filled with nostalgia.

Oh and it's Bulbasaur Followed by Magmar and Omanyte/Omastar

 

[LewsTherin]

'Nuff said.

 

[Jandau]

Pokemon are not cool. Except Bulbasaur. But that's it.

 

[Graustein]

What do you mean he's not awesome?

 

[MURPHYCHACHO]

I still love Pokemon. I played it constantly when it first came out. I'm nineteen now, and I just bought pearl. The love is still there, though I no longer collect those dumbass cards or watch the stupid show. (I was a dumb kid.)

I prefer the first 151 far over the newer ones (I actually managed to get all of them too!), so I've also picked up the Fire Red version and taken a step back into my childhood. Fun times.

 

[neoxdonut]

Mudkip!

 

[PirateKing]

Poke'mon is not cool anymore. Of course not! I like the games though. My favorite poke'mon is Typhlosion, the fully evolved form of Cyndaquil. I also really like Primeape and Scyther. I'm being nostalgic by the way!

 

[CookiesFly]

I still think Pokemon is cool, but only the old school Pokemon. The new Pokemon are quite stupid, well that's my personal opinion.

 

[nekolux]

My favorite pokemon's bulbasaur ( i always start with him ) partly because of how easy it is to get brock with him. And partly because i was a kid geek and it's like my virtual dog =P

I tried the crystal version and i didn't like it quite as much as the original 151. It's still playable though, and not quite as bad as some people say it is. Anything after that though is just bull crap trying to feed on the franchise

Re the original post. It depends on what you mean. It's still cool as long as you're playing the 1st and 2nd gen ones. But if you're talking about whether the pokemon nowadays are still cool then no they arent. You can easily tell. The people born in the 90s and 80s were all over pokemon. ( older ones even ) but kids born in 2000s and the later 90s dont even play it anymore. Kids can tell good from bad games you know =P

 

[AwesomeHat]

Pokémon was never really cool.. but dammit, it's just so fun. Started playing the day Red came out in the UK, and I still am

My favourite, and the one I always get as soon as possible when starting a new game.. Kadabra. I never evolve it

 

[squeekenator]

Pikachu is my favourite, followed by Jigglypuff, but I only like any Pokemon because of Super Smash Bros. Pikachu is a damn awesome character.

Also, the 3rd and 4th generations of Pokemon are full of way too much concentrated BLOODY STUPID and not nearly enough awesome. The new Pokemon are just ridiculous.