The world of Pokemon is awful.

[gigastrike]

- All children are pretty much expected to wander the earth alone capturing wild animals and getting into fights from the tender age of 12.

They have their Pokemon to protect them, and people are expected to be helpful towards new trainers.

- All the very best and brightest scientists are all dedicated to researching Pokemon, and nothing else it seems.

There is a space shuttle in R/S/E. The scientists are there, you probaby just don't encounter them because they are of no interest to you.

- All crime is related to Pokemon. The two largest crime syndicates on the planet are both dedicated to getting all the pokemon, and somehow making money off of them.

Pokemon are the military. Whoever controls the military controls the world.

- All hospitals are for Pokemon. There are no doctors, only nurses that work at automated healing stations.

1: See claim about scientists. 2: That's science for you (see claim about scientists).

- Everything, and I mean Everything is dedicated to Pokemon, I think the only shop not outright selling Pokemon items is the bike shop, and possibly the "casino".

See claim about scientists.

- Fighting with these things is so ingrained that if you happen to have one on your person, no matter how badly sick and/or injured they or you may be, if another trainer sees you, you have to fight them. And if you lose, they have the right to rob you blind.

Those are the rules. Don't like it? Tough.

Given all these things, it's damn near impossible to write a story set in this world, about a character who isn't obsessed with them. Where are the people who make the cogs turn in the world? The accountants handling all the money that moves from trainer-to-trainer and making sure the [Weird symbol] stays fairly uninflated? Where are the builders and maintainers? Where is the freaking government?.[b/]

1:The workers are all there. You battle them all the time. 2: The government is probably non-existant. I'm guessing the cities handle all of their own problems.

Hell, where are the farmers, the food distributors, the poor bastards who have to stand at a counter every day and bag groceries? Do they just eat pokemon?

1: They're all there. You battle them all the time. 2: Yes.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Team Rocket's work plan

1. Steal Pokemon
2. ???
3. Profit!



Also I actually agree here, I would LOVE it if the world of Pokemon was more real, it'd be much cooler if it were.

My idea of a perfect pokemon game is a bit like a WRPG, a HUGE open world, with proper people and any pokemon you wanna catch you can.

And a better story but that can be worked on in time

Eitherway, I agree and a big THIS to the opening post


also my Captcha was Rvianne and Osnovy, ...and I left it too long and it changed ...Loplegr

these all sound like pokemon....Fatl doesnt though...

 

[Zantos]

Heehee, love it. I think all of these points are summed up at least once in the Zero Punctuation Pokemon white review, Super Effective (http://www.vgcats.com/super) and Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/99). So why not all chill out and read some comics?

 

[2xDouble]

No seriously... play Pokemon Black/White and pay attention to your surroundings. You'd be surprised by the things that are in there.

 

[Dizeazedkiller]

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So...your point? It's still fun. I play it still. Mostly for nostalgic reasons. You can argue as much as you want the merits and flaws of it either which way, in the end most people won't care because they enjoy the game anyways. And in the end I think that's all that matters.

I understand what you mean i know not everyone thinks pokemon should change. Most people play the game, thats why the creators get so much money (im assuming). It's just fun for me to hypothesise, to think about what i thought was lacking and what i'd do with a game. I'm a lazy idea's man. I seem to have all these lightbulb moments and then i'm either too lazy or nt in a position to put it into action.
But your probably right. not many people would have read my convuluted spiel and even less would have cared.

 

[Dizeazedkiller]

You know what, I would LOVE to see a Pokemon game where you have the choice to do what you want in the world.

Do you want to just catch 'em all and teach them to fight like old times? Out do you choose to become a peaceful breeder? Do you commit crime, possibly incurring the wrath of law-abiding citizens, or do you go out of your way to stop those who would?

It could certainly help flesh out the world of Pokemon, give it a bit of depth beyond "go fight everyone forever".

Hell, make it an MMO, similar to second life. There really isn't a plot in pokemon's single player that wouldn't translate well to multiple players. Everybody's working to the same elite 4 goal anyway, and those that aren't won't have to worry, because there's a big huge world to explore without having to worry about anything.

Thinking in a business way, imagine how many of those Pokemon fans outside of the target demo would pay good money for something like this? Nintendo would probably surpass WoW in terms of subscribers.

You're probably right, the MMO idea would sky rocket. Pokemon has one thing that Warcraft doesn't and thats the nostalgic feel of it (warcraft does have a nostalgic feeling, but its much too young to outrank pokemon in that department). If they bumped up the graphics a bit, added more depth (such as the different roles you can play in the world as well as watching other players and NPCs taking on other roles), took a twist on the recycled storylines (While keeping some of the same story sections so the nostalgia kept up)and gave players heaps of different options throughout the game (such as different starting points, different starting stories, customizable looks, more interesting ways to obtain pokemon etc)it could be a great game. I'd have probably done another rant but somehow all my pokemon nostalgia idea spamming brainwaves seem to have fried.

My point is that just like you said, Pokemon has an abundance of potential due to the fact the its such a simple game. I'm sure that if this potential was exploited in such a way that it would reach across nearly the entire world (aka MMO) it would be great.

As a side note, the tension and emotion in that seen in the mewtwo movie at the part where Ash gets blasted between mew and mewtwo... It would be amazing if the feeling could be replicated and enhanced in an MMO setting. the original pokemon series/ game etc felt real and made me actually care (felt the same way every time i re-watched it). All the others seem even more and more fake...more plastic and unreal.

Although i must say the lugia movie was my favourite.