Poll: Pokemon's gotten way out of hand..yes?

[oppp7]

Good piont with ledgendaries, where can you really go after controller time, space and assume the ghost dragons

Giratina was supposed to represent dark matter I think.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Remember the good ole days when you played as Pikachu and Charizard?
Those Pokemon were creative, new, and well rounded monsters.
Recently I picked up a copy of Pokemon Diamond version...
Oh my god!
The Pokemon have lost all creativity, they're drawn to look like mutated blobs, and the names, I mean come on!

A pokemon made out of honeycomb and some bee wings, really... is that the best they could come up with?

They're milking the whole Pokemon thing and hot damn the games are getting worse and worse. D:


Well that's what I think.
you?

-Fixed Grammar and pointless sentences that repeated themselves-
I agree wholeheartedly, though I wouldn't mind another Pokemon Ranger. That game was just freaking awesome fun.

Another Pokemon Snap wouldn't go astray either, but I think the training/capture role playing game side of it has had it's day.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Remember the good old days when "catch 'em all" was a realistic goal?

Mew wasn't catchable, so no.

You could get him downloaded onto your gamepak at PokemonCons though.

 

[oppp7]

Remember the good old days when "catch 'em all" was a realistic goal?

Mew wasn't catchable, so no.

You could get him downloaded onto your gamepak at PokemonCons though.

So another game without the same old group of boring pokemon seems more irritating to you than having to go to conventions full of little kids just to get a wad of ones and zeroes?
Also, psychic was really overpowered in generation one, which makes me wonder why everyone says they're so great...

 

[initialdelay]

I voted yes but I may be a bit hypocritical. I loved the TMNT back in the day, and the games, cartoon series, trading cards, and three live action motion pictures were fine by me. I guess it's down to what the kids like at any given point

And I played and liked a pokemon game, the only one I've ever owned or played - the Red version

 

[mechanixis]

They had me up until they started with this Mystery Dungeon nonsense. If you ask me it's about time to take the Pikachu out behind the shed and shoot it.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Remember the good old days when "catch 'em all" was a realistic goal?

Mew wasn't catchable, so no.

You could get him downloaded onto your gamepak at PokemonCons though.

So another game without the same old group of boring pokemon seems more irritating to you than having to go to conventions full of little kids just to get a wad of ones and zeroes?
Also, psychic was really overpowered in generation one, which makes me wonder why everyone says they're so great...

I never said it was the best, i just agree with it being overmilked
I personally found Gold, Silver and Crystal to be the most gratifying and rewarding. Wish I'd never sold them... >.<

 

[S-Unleashed]

No not really.

 

[6PrinceofDarkness6]

They should just make it an MMO and be done with it. They could make it console based on the Wii or something.

I'd pay for that shit.

They are still beta-testing Pokemon global, which is an Internet MMO.

I believe they got out of hand when they decided that they would make more than 150. I find it completely illogical that their have been 150 types and in just a few years that number quadruples. Can you imagine if something like that happened in real life. Imagine new species popping up all over the world every couple of years.

We are actually finding a new species of animal nearly every week- it's just something so commonplace in the biological world nobody gives much of a shit anymore (unless it is something really insane). We have only found 10% of the animals believed to exist in the ocean, and animals keep evolving to adapt.

I believe they could have still done plenty with the original set and still have the series going on today. I mean most of the new pokemon are variations on the old ones. If it weren't for the card game which airs commercials every week with a brand new set of pokemon cards, I might still watch the show but they lost my attention when I couldn't even recognize half the pokemon during the show.

But remember- that show is marketed towards children. Kiddies aren't stupid (I've met many who seemed smarter than their own parents) but companies think they are, and we (as a creature) are still programmed to look for repetition and exist within it.

I could go on like how Ash is supposed to make a living being a Pokemon trainer. Is there some government aid program paying people to be Pokemon trainers or something or is his mom sending his money and what the hell does she do fo a living.

Thats actually an interesting idea, but I could also say that they would then have to somehow explain how he hasn't grown in the past +10 years of airing.

On the subject of the franchise, I feel that it reached a "Breaking point" as of Gold/Silver. The fact is that Nintendo reached a point at which they could only go upwards with the license- they couldn't admit that they might have troubles with doing so. Going up was the only option, and the only way to do that was to continue adding creatures and newer countries/continents. It's sad, but in order for Nintendo to continue to act like a business they had to bleed the rest of the originality out of the series.

Now, what would be interesting is to see how the creatures in question affect the peoples daily lives on an honest scale- that huge Water/Dragon thing, for instance, that supposedly destroyed miles of coast? Why couldn't we see that shit? And why have the three starters only be combo's of fire, water, and grass? Is some originality too much to ask?

 

[Valiance]

Generation 4 has a lot of bad pokemon and bad evolutions (magmortar, magnazone, nosepass/protopass, and many many worse).

I don't think they've ran out of creativity, I think they just realize that it doesn't fucking matter what they make, people will buy it anyway.

"We'll give the kids a giant steel nose, and they'll LOVE IT."
"Brilliant, Tom! Here's a promotion."

 

[Wakefield]

No, this another rose tinted glass senerio, you're all being ridiculous the games have gotten nothing but better and anyone who disagrees needs to take a step back.

I do agree that SOME of the new people are pretty awful but there were awful pokemon in Red Blue too, anyone remember Jinx?

 

[6PrinceofDarkness6]

Generation 4 has a lot of bad pokemon and bad evolutions (magmortar, magnazone, nosepass/protopass, and many many worse).

I don't think they've ran out of creativity, I think they just realize that it doesn't fucking matter what they make, people will buy it anyway.

"We'll give the kids a giant steel nose, and they'll LOVE IT."
"Brilliant, Tom! Here's a promotion."

Ha!

Though, I do have to admit, when I heard of the Regis series, I thought they were a cool idea (except for regice, who looks like a cross between a homosexual figurine skater and an ice cube).

 

[Poopie McGhee]

Aslong as it gives me a long, fun journey, then it has not gotten out of hand for me.

I agree with your statement... Also, It'd be cool for them to release the GBA ones for the DS... (So I can play them on the DSi I'll inevatibly get (When I inevitably (but accidentially) destroy my DS Lite))

 

[Hollock]

I still like it, i recently picked up after not playing it for a few years and next friday I'm going to have a battle royal with my friends. If you don't like it It may be due to the fact that it's not a masterpeice, it really has been the same game for 10 years, and the only thing keeping you liking the original is probably nostalgia

 

[Crimoire]

If you don't like it It may be due to the fact that it's not a masterpeice, it really has been the same game for 10 years, and the only thing keeping you liking the original is probably nostalgia

I couldn't agree more. Despite the increasingly large amount of gimmicky pokemons and repetitive game play, the originals still invoke fond childhood memories of link cable battles behind the swing sets.

 

[Snotnarok]

Remember the good ol' days when you played as pikachu and charizard?
Those pokemon were creative, new, cool, well rounded monsters.
...recently i picked up a copy of pokemon Diamond version.....OH MY GOD, all pokemon have lost all creativity, there drawn to look like mutated blobs, and the NAMES come ON!

A pokemon made out of honey comb and some bee wings..really...is that all they have left...

there milking the whole pokemon thing and hott damn the games are getting worst and worst D:


Well thats what i think.
you?

I agree, I recalled Pokemon Red/Blue being a lot of fun when buying a few classic games off a website, I decided to grab red but saw a remake of red and it was a ton of fun (mostly nostalgia). After watching my friend play Pearl I just shook my head, it was more complicated, had over 400 creatures and just wasn't the same, it didn't have the charm anymore. I think Silver might have been the last one that was enjoyable but I only had that a week before it was stolen when it came out.

 

[jboking]

Yeah, the new pokemon they've come up with are usually pretty crappy. Well any of them after jhoto, and jhoto is pushing it.

I do still like the games though. I really liked the new story for platinum, where your final fight in the elite four isn't your rival. Then the rival shows up in the survival zone and keeps getting stronger as you do. Actually, that entire island was a great addition to me.

 

[Shadowfaze]

As long as they keep making brightly coloured blobs with silly names, people will ineveitably buy it.