Poll: Your views on Pokemon

[Doctor Glocktor]

The games are great, I'm very excited for Black/White.

Also, the new Pokes are as dumb as the old ones. Quit whining.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Everything up to and including Gold/Silver/Crystal is flawless. After that, it started a downhill slide. I actually refuse to acknowledge the existence of any Pokemon after the Johto League.

 

[Miumaru]

I still sort of like the games, but it seems like each time the dev team think of more ways to screw the players over. Making some pokes evolve are getting laughably difficult, HM slaves are still necessary, and their a sometimes 4+ Legendaries to my one master ball. So I'm dreading how frustrating Black and White will be.

Well, I do hate the fact that, despite the goal being to catch them all, its almost impossible. Only Red/Blue can you do it, but even then you have to do a glitch to get Mew. Later games, pokemon like Mew and Celebi require special events from Nintendo...and an e-Reader....and the japanese version.

Back in the day, I was actually able to get a mew and complete the 151 without having to go to an event or glitch it to get it.

I think I was 13 or 14 years old, I don't remember exactly, boy I feel old. At the time I had all three versions out, Blue, Red, and Yellow. Well, my Aunt and Uncle went camping with their camper and I went along with them and my 7 or 8 year old cousin. He came up to me and asked me to help him catch an Articuno in his game. I found out that he was nowhere near the level or the place to catch it, he had maybe two or three badges. I was like, "argggh, I'm not playing your game for you." So since I had all three versions and three Articuno, I decided to be nice and trade him one. I of course knew I wouldn't get anything good out of the trade and I told him that. But then it was like a grand fluke of luck, he blurted out, "I have a Mew, I don't like it and don't want it." I didn't believe him until he showed me. I did a double take. It turned out that one of his little friends got the Mew at an event. I was like, "Yeah, here have one these Articuno which I have three of and don't use."

I love pokemon, but age is the one thing I never really got about the game. I got into the game when I was 13-14, when I understood how RPGs and the game mechanics worked. But the game is obviously aimed at kids much younger. The thing is, every kid that I encountered that was ten or under, had no clue how the game worked and never got more than a few towns in. Heck, I found out a few weeks after I traded that Articuno to my cousin, he had restarted his game. I was like, "What, I gave you an Articuno and you restarted the game, erasing it from existence." He said "well the stupid thing wouldn't listen to me." "Of course it wouldn't listen to you, you didn't actually play the game to get enough badges."
I actually encountered a lot of kids that did that restart thing if they got stuck in the game.

Sorry about that, I like telling stories.

Still required the event though. Just not YOUR presence.

 

[fanozelda9]

The last one I got was Crystal but I think Nintendo is brainwashing me cause now, not only do I want to get Soulsilver, but I'm also looking and black and white.

 

[KingGolem]

Pokemon is one of my favorite video game series of all time, and I wouldn't go without a game from each generation for damn near anything. Having said that, I picked "other," because even though I enjoyed each of the Pokemon generations, that is not to say that there is "nothing wrong with them." They could all do to improve in one way or another, just like any other video game series.

 

[Brody Cooper]

I think Pokemon are a complete slight against god, If and creationist do enjoy the pokemon series then burn your bible coz they are pretty much saying evolution is the only way to progression, eat it bible nazis

 

[PureChaos]

red/blue/yellow, brilliant. new lot for gold/silver, fair enough, no problem but the first ones are still the best. after that, going too far. ~500 Pokemon, you're taking the piss

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Pokemon was ok up until Gold/Silver. Silver was my favorite version, but everything went down after Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, and everything after was just bleh.

 

[rokkolpo]

catching slave-monsters and have them battle each other just never gets old.

i played up to the third generation, not too interested in the fourth, noless the fifth.
deeply in love with the first gen ofcourse. (ninetales, golduck, gengar ahhhh those were the days)

 

[rokkolpo]

I think Pokemon are a complete slight against god, If and creationist do enjoy the pokemon series then burn your bible coz they are pretty much saying evolution is the only way to progression, eat it bible nazis

yes, in a game. it's not real!
and evolution is not the only way of progression in pokemon. you can just level-up.

 

[scw55]

It's a solid game forumlar.
The only problem is that each generation the developers feel the need to inject a gimick.

Gold/Silver with night and day was fine. But the phonecall system can DIAF. It's not fun being spammed by retarded NPCs in game. I get enough on the internet.

Ruby/Sapphire had the Pokemon contests which were interesting but ultimately a distraction and mini-game.

Diamond and Pearl abused the touch screen to fuck with the wi-fi lobby. However the underground thing was quite cool. Shame you had to live near someone you liked who also had the game. As a 21 year old, very unlikely.

Heart Silver and Soul Gold had the Pokeathalon.... sigh

Black and White will have musicals.

JUST SODDING STOP.

It's was fine with just the collect 8 magical badges and killing all Pokemon in your path. You don't need to force shoddy gimicks on us to add depth to a really shallow game inless you no life the whole EV/EP system.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Love the games, hate what it's based on.

 

[TelHybrid]

Red/Blue/Yellow: Pure awesomeness!

Gold/Silver/Crystal: Improved pure awesomeness!

Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald: Worst gen ever!

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum: Meh... not bad.

Heart Gold/Soul Silver: FUCK YES!!

 

[plastic_window]

Pokemon - since Red and Blue - has never fallen out of favour with me. The games are consistantly similar, yes, but the only one I ever bought was Red, and I played the hell out of it.

The Pokedex keeps getting updated with every new game, and it's gotten to the stage where pokemon are beginning to double-up, but I feel that this is necessary.

What I want, in the end, is a Pokemon MMORPG. It could happen, and it could certainly be balanced if the right team worked behind it - with close commentary and feedback from fans.

Honestly, a well-worked-out Pokemon MMO could be amazing. Many of the current Pokemon rules would have to change, but I wouldn't mind so long as the core themes of the games still existed in a multiplayer setting - and I'm pretty certain that a game that accomplishes this could be made.

There's nothing wrong with Pokemon, but they haven't got it 100% right, yet.