i'm poke-curious

scotch · Sun 27/05/2007 00:15:37

I think most people that criticise the game have played it. I personally think it's better than the average console RPG for a few reasons, but unfortunately each version is pretty near identical to the last. The formula needs a massive overhaul.

Steel Drummer · Sun 27/05/2007 02:31:23

Quote from: scotch on Sun 27/05/2007 00:15:37
but unfortunately each version is pretty near identical to the last. The formula needs a massive overhaul.

But the millions of preteens who buy each new game don't seem to notice that.

If you've played one game, you've played 'em all.

voh · Sun 27/05/2007 05:24:58

Quote from: Nick Dangerous on Sat 26/05/2007 23:53:30
Try it before you blame it!

I played it, disliked it severely and have since retried playing newer versions to see if it had improved at all. The low semi-rpg quality it had at the start (b&w gameboy version) was retained up until the latest GBA version I tried. I have no faith in any other adaptions, because they're just the same game with updated graphics + pokemon.

Repetition is bad if the original product wasn't that good to begin with.

PsychicHeart · Sun 27/05/2007 10:24:24

ooh, lucky i read the actual posts.
After just glancing at the topic title i thought you had some weird sex-fetishes of pokemon or something

Andail · Sun 27/05/2007 16:15:17

Yay another thread re-inforcing the kindergarten aspects of this community

Tuomas · Sun 27/05/2007 20:07:37

Yeah, it's good to be less serious every now and then

SpacePirateCaine · Sun 27/05/2007 20:27:23

About seven years ago, I used to work in a toy shop that specialized in imported goods from Japan, though could only really push little more than a metric assload of pokemon cards. I found myself needing to memorize pokemon and what they do in order to pitch the cards to the (rare to begin with) customers that would come into the store, as the few collectors that came into the shop for the interesting merchandise were few and far between.

While doing this research, I always found pokemon to be an interesting concept insofar as it essentially glorifies slavery and gladiatorial combat, doesn't it? It's like cockfights for children. I mean, think about it - there are legions of children and 'teams' who go out into the wilderness, beat the living hell out of and subsequentially trap and enslave once-wild animals in order to send them into combat against other peoples/teams' creatures in battles for fun and profit.

If a fighter has a ringer of their own, they trade their weaker gladiators to other people in order to profit them a little better. In all of this, the creatures are generally resigned to their fate, and unable to do much of anything aside from wait in their 3x3x3 inch plastic ball until summoned forth to fight - or die while doing enough damage to soften up an enemy before the better fighters finish it off.

When you think of the Pokemon movie, it even makes it a little scarier to think about, as the entire plot revolves around a creature that was bred to be a great fighter, but doesn't want to live only to kill its bretheren for the entertainment of humans. So this revolutionary (Mew 2) revolts and tries to fight against the pocket monsters' tormentors for their freedom. Of course, in the story this character is shown as the bad guy.

Telling this to my students the other day, I was told "You have no dreams, do you?".

Cute little scamps.

LimpingFish · Sun 27/05/2007 20:49:12

Quote from: Andail on Sun 27/05/2007 16:15:17
Yay another thread re-inforcing the kindergarten aspects of this community

I may be mistaken, but isn't arthur.com like...twelve years old?

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Mon 28/05/2007 04:23:50

You're scaring me, Caine.

Obi · Mon 28/05/2007 05:25:36

I can't hear you Ray.

SSH · Mon 28/05/2007 19:45:57

Vive la Revolution

I choose PikaLenin!

I agree with Caine, but have to criticise one aspect of what he says....

You went to see the Pokemon movie.? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I rest my case.

Tuomas · Mon 28/05/2007 19:48:55

Dude, I've seen it ten times on telly already.

SpacePirateCaine · Mon 28/05/2007 20:39:28

Didn't actually see the movie, but I had enough kids come into the store, and also read enough of the cards that I got the idea. I'd be interested in seeing it now, actually, if only to get a feel for how they actually play up the 'revolution against humanity' aspect. I did most of my research through google so far, though.

vict0r · Mon 28/05/2007 22:00:28

What? You didn't see the pokemon movie? :o

Hudders · Tue 29/05/2007 08:52:45

My grandparents gave me the Pokemon movie on VHS for christmas a couple of years ago.

I'm 22.

And I don't own a VCR.

CodeJunkie · Tue 29/05/2007 11:01:53

Been there, seen it, got the promo card for booking a seat. Blissful days they were.

OneDollar · Wed 30/05/2007 21:17:08

My first encounter with Pokemon was some stamps on the Gameboy Camera. I'm pretty sure that was at least a year before they started appearing as games and trading cards; I didn't know what they were anyway. I don't understand why people buy into these franchises when they seem to essentially be the same game, though I'd be quite happy to make millions from one idea then repeat it every year or so...