Why Pokemon?
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Kind of ironic that a 'kids' game has some of the deepest and most balanced battle mechanics of just about any RPG series isn't it? XD
There is one. A beta at least, and it is surprising how good it is besides the bugs.Fightgarr said:
i'm commanding an army of cute, and sometimes near hentai type monsters, to fight and die for me just because another person looked at me funny. /thread
Yeah, the games are more or less basic time-wasters now, it was only the first series that had the wow factor.Assassin Xaero said:
For me, it was a matter of acceptance and being too young to see it for what it is at the time. The whole thing is very nonthreatening and seemingly safe, which seems to be the recipe for mainstream popularity. But aside from it being a social thing, it's mostly their biggest marketing scheme. As soon as you collect all the cards, new ones come out. When you catch all the poke'mon in the game, surprise surprise, a new game comes out.
It's mission statement is "Gotta Catch 'Em All" for a reason, because you can never catch 'em all. It's like textbook drug addiction.
Final thought: Am I the only one who finds it weird it's still popular? I mean, you'd think everyone would've wised up to their money schemes by now.
It's mission statement is "Gotta Catch 'Em All" for a reason, because you can never catch 'em all. It's like textbook drug addiction.
Final thought: Am I the only one who finds it weird it's still popular? I mean, you'd think everyone would've wised up to their money schemes by now.
...Actually, I totally agree. I hate it when I over think a topic then someone's said exactly what I was trying to say in less then a sentence, hehe.Piorn said:
Exactly, to this day I still brag to people who know what I'm talking about that I caught all 151 in Blue version!sirbryghtside said:
With the recent Pokemon games though, I start to play it and it starts well but then I get to a point where I can't be arsed anymore. The only ones I've put any serious time into are the first two generations, didn't really care about third and fourth; never even bothered completing them through to the end of the Pokemon League.
The original game is an iconic RPG as it focused on actual gameplay first then worked on the graphics etc afterwards, making Blue and Red the best selling RPG of all time.
In the later generations the games have been more aimed at it's fans, tweaking it slightly to make sure that they stay interested in the franchise, when to be honest they should now be working on improving the overall feel of the games and prehaps work on some "actual" pokemon games for the Wii, prehaps a single player game with MMO enviroments.
In the later generations the games have been more aimed at it's fans, tweaking it slightly to make sure that they stay interested in the franchise, when to be honest they should now be working on improving the overall feel of the games and prehaps work on some "actual" pokemon games for the Wii, prehaps a single player game with MMO enviroments.
I'm going to have to agree with this. But why get the repackaged remakes?? Well...silver and gold for the glitch of pure joy. The latest ones...new areas to explore I suppose. But I haven't been as into it since they released a Pokemon that was "half of a shark". I think they ran out of ideas somewhere between that and a monkey with a flaming rear end.Wizzie said:
Chimchar seems more like an early form of something from the Dresden Files...the opening of "Blood Rites" specifically I think.
I can't say I've ever had this feeling...poptart123 said:
I play it partially because of nostalgia, and partly because they're fun games. Collecting all the Pokemon, beating all the Trainers, defeating every challenge, it's all part of what makes the games so enduring and sheer fun to play.
