Seeing that the Pokemon series isn't close to dieing...
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I think you've hit the general nail on the head here- they aren't going to just stick to stones and elements.Zeromaeus said:
I mean, they already are playing off the simple phrase, "Heart and soul," and after a silly name like, "leaf green," they are going to be doing some pretty weird stuff. Still, I'm seeing more, "ShimmeringDiamond/PolishedPearl" for the remake of Gen4, personally.
Still, I'd so want to see how they'd pull off "chuthulu version."
Heavy ball: Higher success rate when used on heavier pokemon.
Great Ball: A ball with a higher success rate than a Pokeball.
Lovecraftian Ball: 65% chance that the contents will become a Ghastly and a dessicated corpse upon capture.
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Also, to everyone saying, "Pokemon died after X game," what you're saying is a very old and overused thought, not to mention it derails the thread- something that is below the desired standard of Escapist content. Please refrain from posting for the sake of your post count, or find a thread in which such thought is relevant.[/small]
I think that soon someone will move this to the Forum Games board, as this is slowly turning into a game of "Come up with Pokemon names" 
I stopped playing at gold/silver because I realised they weren't going to improve the game at all and they're just going to keep adding more and more pokemon. It's kind of annoying, I reckon a 3D upgrade would have been cool, like the transition that Ocarina of time had.
Because I am a consumer whore and I will just keep buying more. I CAN'T STOP.keybird said:
Also, what's with all the precious metals? Pokemon Dirt. Or Pokemon Rocks, Pokemon Paper and Pokemon Scissors.
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Hahahahaha. Blastoise is a turtle with back cannons, your argument is invalid.presidentjlh said:
I might try them, I'm currently a fair way through Emerald, but it's not nearly as awesome as I hoped.JaredXE said:
Dear God no... That would doom humanity!lenneth said:
I just got an image of a Pokemon game where you care for some creature like a Tamagotchi or something to that extent.
Please tell they haven't already done it! PLEASE!
Man, I can't play the originals. The games got better as they went. Wish I could say the same about the pokemon designs, though.
But the originals are unplayable for me at this point.
OT: Pokemon Urine and Pokemon Feces
But the originals are unplayable for me at this point.
OT: Pokemon Urine and Pokemon Feces
To me, the Pokemon series gets a lot of unearned ire.
When most of us played it, we weren't out of elementary school.
Fast forward twelve years later and we're in and out of college, slaving in boring jobs we hate, and Pokemon is still marketing itself to the elementary school crowd? Unthinkable!
Gamers like me that enjoyed Red and Blue want our hobby to be taken seriously, meaning killing off all association with kids games that we earnestly loved- regardless of the fact we were kids at the time.
The idea that someone that considers themselves mature and sophisticated could have once enjoyed something as unapologetically kid-friendly and unsophisticated undermines all of our heavy-handed face-saving that gaming is a high art and a mature pastime that the cane-wielding Mennonite public unfairly prejudge.
The rhetoric that Pokemon should just grow up with us, that abandoning its formula is for its own good, and make attacks like Slash and Psybeam should actually sever limbs and explode heads, is the standard fallback of the frustrated ex-Pokemon Master. There simply isn't any acknowledgment given that Pokemon is still just as appealing to kids as it always has been, and that the part of you that could enjoy it on its own terms simply doesn't exist anymore.
It's a very hard thing to swallow when you see that you've grown older and more cynical and the world continues to exist in spite of you. It happens to me, too, of course: I see movies that I cherished as a kid and I just can't believe that the older kids that I looked up to as role models and heroes are now so... child-like.
When you see a new Pokemon generation roll out, and you're tempted to say to yourself, "Oh another Pokemon game? They're still cranking those out? The generation I played first will always be the best one, you know," just grin, bear it quietly, and be happy for all the kids that'll love and cherish the new games.
If you squint really, really hard, you may even see yourself.
When most of us played it, we weren't out of elementary school.
Fast forward twelve years later and we're in and out of college, slaving in boring jobs we hate, and Pokemon is still marketing itself to the elementary school crowd? Unthinkable!
Gamers like me that enjoyed Red and Blue want our hobby to be taken seriously, meaning killing off all association with kids games that we earnestly loved- regardless of the fact we were kids at the time.
The idea that someone that considers themselves mature and sophisticated could have once enjoyed something as unapologetically kid-friendly and unsophisticated undermines all of our heavy-handed face-saving that gaming is a high art and a mature pastime that the cane-wielding Mennonite public unfairly prejudge.
The rhetoric that Pokemon should just grow up with us, that abandoning its formula is for its own good, and make attacks like Slash and Psybeam should actually sever limbs and explode heads, is the standard fallback of the frustrated ex-Pokemon Master. There simply isn't any acknowledgment given that Pokemon is still just as appealing to kids as it always has been, and that the part of you that could enjoy it on its own terms simply doesn't exist anymore.
It's a very hard thing to swallow when you see that you've grown older and more cynical and the world continues to exist in spite of you. It happens to me, too, of course: I see movies that I cherished as a kid and I just can't believe that the older kids that I looked up to as role models and heroes are now so... child-like.
When you see a new Pokemon generation roll out, and you're tempted to say to yourself, "Oh another Pokemon game? They're still cranking those out? The generation I played first will always be the best one, you know," just grin, bear it quietly, and be happy for all the kids that'll love and cherish the new games.
If you squint really, really hard, you may even see yourself.
I see this in the works with my younger brother.TheRocketeer said:
When I was his age, I played Red (maybe Gold, I'll have to check the year (Gold was actually my favorite given I never actually had Red to play...)). I loved it.
I now see my brother, same age as I was, and he's caught catchemallitis just like I did.
Its... eerie.
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I've caught 'em all by the way. Except Arceus. Apparently God doesn't come to my town...