Why Is Pokemon Loved?

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Terminate421

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ShadowsofHope said:
kingcom said:
Simple mechanics and a game designed around achievements and levelling up. That combined with younger audience targetting constantly hitting a new market every release and potentially some of the old market. If metric management has taught us anything, those make a popular game.
This in terms of Pokemon games, essentially.

The show still sucks a big one, however. At least with Digimon, your main character(s) aren't stuck in eternal adolescence forever, regardless of when puberty is supposed to step in. Also, better, more consistent plots that actually build upon one another.
There's a hilarious idea that after ash ditched Brock ad fawn he slammed his head against something and is now imagining black and white because there is no way ash is still 10 around that time. Before that moment he seemed at least either 12 or 13
 

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The show? Even as a kid I stopped watching it actively after the very first season. Dude, I've always been much more invested in the games.

 

kingcom

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ShadowsofHope said:
kingcom said:
Simple mechanics and a game designed around achievements and levelling up. That combined with younger audience targetting constantly hitting a new market every release and potentially some of the old market. If metric management has taught us anything, those make a popular game.
This in terms of Pokemon games, essentially.

The show still sucks a big one, however. At least with Digimon, your main character(s) aren't stuck in eternal adolescence forever, regardless of when puberty is supposed to step in. Also, better, more consistent plots that actually build upon one another.
Yea I never understood why Digimon didn't get the popularity Pokemon did. It had changing characters, actually threats and tension and a fairly strong overarching narrative that actually presents some interesting challenges and surprises (particularly for a kid) to the audience. Pokemon involves a lot of walking around...
 

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Its going to be funny to see how many people immediately see pokemona nd go off to defend the game while this thread is about the show.

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anyway, OT (well, more so): I havent watched pokemon since... well, iw atched some diamond and pearl epsidoes, but the last one I watched with any commitment was the the ruby/sapphire/battle frontier, mostly cause it was (I think) the best one. That and I had love for may.

still most any cartoon show follows that same formula as pokemon does. Family Guy and the Cleveland Show two of the most obvious offenders (oh, emeraldrafael made a crack at FG and TCS that everynes been making sicne the South Park epsidoe, isnt he witty, to which I say like a wizard *****). Flapjack, adventure time, Ed, Edd, n Eddy, Power rangers, Digimon (though they shook up the cast a bit), Yugioh, etc etc etc. Its simple because in the end its designed for a young core audience and Pokemon (though Nintendo likes to deny it [yes Ive ready the fucking news article from this site, its complete and total bullshit that Nintendo is just saying to keep the original fans sated while they continue marketing at kids]) knows it and builds its business model on it. I cant blame them for it, cause they found a model that works and they're going with it, and being a capitalist minded person I can only clap and say well done, just like every other kids show before and after it.
 

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Soviet Heavy said:
So I ask you: what do you see in the show?
No one sees anything in the show. It's made for 9 year old boys. It's the equivalent to a newspaper comic meant to sell toys.

The popularity of pokemon comes from the games.
 

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While I haven't watched the show in a great many years, and thus cannot judge it's current quality, I have to give it props for a few things:

Firstly, the show is what first drew me (and most likely many others) into the game series in the first place. Without it, Pokemon probably would have been just another quirky JRPG, forgotten in a generation.

But beyond that, the show has had a notable influence of the games themselves, instead of just vice-versa. For example, did you know that double battles were first introduced in the anime? The Orange Island arc, to be precise. Then there's the concept of pokemon eggs, due to Togepi.

Also, lest we forget, Ash's relationship with Pikachu led to Pokemon Yellow, the first game in the series to have a "happiness meter", a concept still used to this day.

I think you get the idea.