Pokemon
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Someone hasn't played Black/Whitesnekadid said:I understood the pokemon craze.... WHEN I WAS 14 AND RED AND BLUE HAD JUST COME OUT! I was a serious pokemaniac then, I could recite the poke-rap and all that, but when they added 100 more I called it quits because I already had all 151, I won pokemon and they can't take that from me if I don't play their new shit
It was a fun RPG but they kept taking it kiddier and kiddier, that may sound weird considering its a kids series, but the originals had a lot of violence and angry pokemon. There was also alot of "mature content"(no, not sex you perv), I remember the original description for parasec having to do with the fungus eating into its hosts brain and hijacking its body.... that's pretty creepy for a kids game.
At one point child abuse is a plot point.
Don't see anyone else doing it so I will..The_Echo said:
*Ahem*
I don't like pokemon and never have, but this person brings up a very good point I think we can all agree on.
Not to mention EVERY pokemon generation has a few stand out creepy pokedex entries such as that parasect one he mentioned. Most of them are much creepier than that parasect one, in fact.werewolfsfury said:I find it silly that you say pokemon has been getting kiddier and kiddier even though it's pretty obvious you don't keep up with the series.snekadid said:I understood the pokemon craze.... WHEN I WAS 14 AND RED AND BLUE HAD JUST COME OUT! I was a serious pokemaniac then, I could recite the poke-rap and all that, but when they added 100 more I called it quits because I already had all 151, I won pokemon and they can't take that from me if I don't play their new shit
It was a fun RPG but they kept taking it kiddier and kiddier, that may sound weird considering its a kids series, but the originals had a lot of violence and angry pokemon. There was also alot of "mature content"(no, not sex you perv), I remember the original description for parasect having to do with the fungus eating into its hosts brain and hijacking its body.... that's pretty creepy for a kids game.
The newer games feature subjects that are most defiantly considered mature.
spoilers and all that
This generation, we have possessed ghost-trees born from the souls of children who died lost in the forest.
They're pretty inconsitent about that. It might not catch humans, but I recall Ash once catching a riceball (sorry, a "doughnut") in one of those things. Maybe they're designed specifically not to work on humans.VanQ said:
OT: That always did seem somewhat odd to me, but I just always chalked it up to the law of conservation of detail. Are they're any bathrooms in that game either? That's a common problem for video game characters.
I just talked to an NPC who stated that "Beauty and the Beast is an old fairy tale about a prince who was turned into a Pokemon"(how is that even a bad thing?).
They really have given up on making this world similar to ours. Heck we barely have confirmation whaeter America actually exists or not and the only time actual animals show up is in concept art and the early years of pokemon when they didn't know what to do with it. It's kind of boring really, it would have been interesting to show how they would have interacted with pokemon.
They really have given up on making this world similar to ours. Heck we barely have confirmation whaeter America actually exists or not and the only time actual animals show up is in concept art and the early years of pokemon when they didn't know what to do with it. It's kind of boring really, it would have been interesting to show how they would have interacted with pokemon.
All of the generations had creepy stuff.snekadid said:I understood the pokemon craze.... WHEN I WAS 14 AND RED AND BLUE HAD JUST COME OUT! I was a serious pokemaniac then, I could recite the poke-rap and all that, but when they added 100 more I called it quits because I already had all 151, I won pokemon and they can't take that from me if I don't play their new shit
It was a fun RPG but they kept taking it kiddier and kiddier, that may sound weird considering its a kids series, but the originals had a lot of violence and angry pokemon. There was also alot of "mature content"(no, not sex you perv), I remember the original description for parasec having to do with the fungus eating into its hosts brain and hijacking its body.... that's pretty creepy for a kids game.
This guy has made several videos out of it.
(I think my favourite is Yamask's dex entry;
These Pokémon arose from the spirits of people interred in graves in past ages. Each retains memories of its former life.
Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry.
X and Y kinda went back to their creepy roots in the story-department as well (Also Black/White 2 where you could encounter a dead girl who was killed by Pokemon...). The plot of X and Y... Well I don't want to spoil anything, but... coffin. Tiny tiny coffin.
It's not a complex story-line, and I'm not sure I'd call it 'mature' but it has darkness to it.
Maybe he was Muk?werewolfsfury said:
EDIT:
They are both based on real-life zombie fungi:Darth_Payn said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Yes it was a joke and by "he" I meant the character in the comic, not Grey. Although... ;ÞImp Emissary said:
EDIT: It's probably like Yahtzee speculated. They're probably all burned at the stake.
Oh don't worry. I didn't think you were talking about Grey........ <.< But now I do....canadamus_prime said:
Yes. We'll have to take him back to our facility for some behavioural "readjustment."Imp Emissary said:
He can't escape. Our agents are everywhere.Imp Emissary said:D:canadamus_prime said:
Run Grey! They're going to get you!
Hurry!
This is probably the canon explanation, but I've always liked that "childhood ruined" pic that talks about how there's a lot of evidence in Gen I that points to Pokemon being recent additions to the world, and claims that the war that Lt. Surge fought in was World War III, the weapons of which mutated the animals into pokemon, and had the player be in the first generation to have grown up completely after the war. It even goes into the ages of the adult males we see, and the way so many of the kids seem to have mothers but not fathers (Professor Oak was too old to go to war. Ash's and Gary's dads weren't, and they didn't come home).The_Echo said:
Besides, how many stories do we have that /don't/ revolve around animals, how many don't prominently feature them, and how many don't include them at all? I'd imagine there's about as many that don't mention any non-human animals[footnote]By which I mean mentioning so much as a cockroach skittering across the floor disqualifies it[/footnote] in the real world as there are books that involve talking ones. In the pokemon world the tiny percentage seems to be books that have humans in them in a capacity outside of training, breeding, and studying pokemon.
Fun fact, in several instances in the newer games, it's heavily implied that Pokemon and humans were, at one point, the same thing.JediMB said:
Sooo... yeah, I guess. And that's not even getting into the topic of ghost Pokemon who were born from the souls of humans...
Basically everything we use heavy machinery for. Transportation, construction, mining, forestry (both cutting down and planting), manufacturing, agriculture... you name it, and they've probably got a pokemon for it.Darth_Payn said:
In 5th gen if you read the description of yamask it is stated that it is the ghost of a person who once lived and the golden mask it holds in it's hand not only looks exactly like the human in it's past life. Not only that they remember everything about being alive.snekadid said:I understood the pokemon craze.... WHEN I WAS 14 AND RED AND BLUE HAD JUST COME OUT! I was a serious pokemaniac then, I could recite the poke-rap and all that, but when they added 100 more I called it quits because I already had all 151, I won pokemon and they can't take that from me if I don't play their new shit
It was a fun RPG but they kept taking it kiddier and kiddier, that may sound weird considering its a kids series, but the originals had a lot of violence and angry pokemon. There was also alot of "mature content"(no, not sex you perv), I remember the original description for parasec having to do with the fungus eating into its hosts brain and hijacking its body.... that's pretty creepy for a kids game.
You also had Glalie in 3rd gen that is said to freeze it's foes while they are still alive and slowly but surely devour them small bite by small bite.