Arqus_Zed said:
Okay, that's going a little far. MegaTen is about demons and recruiting spirits and monsters and such. It's also an entirely different atmospere. Pokemon's creator wanted a game that was like catching bugs in a jar when he was a kid. Pokemon are animals, not demons or spirits, and they're not supposed to be equal to humans or "convert-able." You catch them. They're animals. It's like catching a mouse in a cage. That's the whole point. There are fire horses and lightning mice because they're *supposed* to be mundane animals. It's not a ripoff; it's *supposed* to be childish, because the characters are supposed to be children playing with their caught fireflies in the woods.
Anyway, can we also axe Final Fantasy while we're killing Pokemon? Because seriously, Square has some great talent, and it's all going to horrible waste now. I never liked Final Fantasy. I wouldn't even mind it existing if it didn't suck up millions of dollars that could be going to more creative and unique games, or at least *different* ones. Hell, the only reason I bought Nier (and it was amazing, I just didn't realize it would be) was because OMG Squeenix published something that wasn't Final Fantasy, I should reward them like I give a puppy a treat!
I don't like the newer designs of the Pokemon. The legendaries look more like Digimon (let's take a creature framework and make it look mechanical) rather than like animals (Mewtwo, Mew, the birds, etc). And they even have Pokemon God. Seriously?
I do like the storyline changes. I like how they're trying to make a real story here. I also like, *to some extent*, how there are some neat complications like breeding and such. What I don't like is how *over*complicated it's becoming. Pokemon is going the way of Magic The Gathering, putting a huge wall of MUST KNOW ALL THE RULES LAWYERING between "decent" players and "good" players. That's really why I never was that great at Magic, and I don't want my awesome childhood franchise to go all elitist like Magic did in that department. Stop making us memorize all the scads of numbers. I just want to battle.
Also, bullshit about holding Pokemon back so that only people who go to certain stores or events can get them. What is this Zoroark and Zorua crap? Mew wasn't even a real Pokemon; it was a myth at the time, a Shiny Special Extra you could get that wasn't even on the normal numbered list. It was the stuff of legends. 99.N% of people needed a Gameshark to get it, not because it was held back, but because it "wasn't meant to be" but was anyway. Zorua and Zoroark are just holes in the Pokedex that laugh at you.
I think we need the Omni-Game, one giant 500-pokemon game, and then we need to take the series in a drastically new direction or end it. But, sadly, I think Nintendo has formally stated that this Omni-Game will never exist.
Oh well.