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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 29, 2019 11:58:30 GMT -5
But actually I'd never thought about it before but now you bring it up I agree that Brendan has the coolest design, I especially liked his style in Emerald. All the others are kinda boring though I do like Ethan's red jacket/hoodie that looks a little different to just the standard jackets they usually have. Don't even get me started on the Alolan region protagonists eurgh. Who is this "Ethan" you speak of? (His name is "Gold," and it will forever be "Gold." Fuck HGSS.)Brendan was the first guy to not be wearing a baseball cap, and his Emerald version was the first to not be wearing any sort of jacket or hoodie. He was also the first to appear as a rival when you didn't play as him, although he was admittedly a fairly weak rival. But, either way, he still left more of an impression on me than Gold did, even though I have far more nostalgia for GSC than RSE. (No matter what, Gold will forever be overshadowed by Red, especially since he was never adapted into the main anime, nor turned into a canonized NPC. To me, Kris ultimately usurped him has Gen 2's star character since she had the specialness of being the franchise's first female protagonist, so she stood out from Red a lot more.) Now, as to the male protagonists from Gens 4 and later... BORING! It honestly feels like the likes of Lucas, Hilbert, and Calem weren't designed to be anything more than new outfits for Ash, hence the reason why they all look like Red and all wear the same blue/red/black color scheme (which happens to be Ash's color scheme). As I said, Calem and Sun are somewhat salvaged by being customizable, but Lucas, Hilbert, and Nate aren't so lucky. Ditch the fire/water/grass starters With all the Pokemon that exist, you'd think some professor by now would have found an interesting alternative to the very standard fire/water/grass starter choices in the games, there are plenty of other type triangles we could have instead, fighting/dark/psychic would be a cool one, or rock/flying/fighting or maybe they could use just one of the original types like ground/poison/grass.
I fully agree. All you have to do is look at the boringness of the Alola starters to see that Grass/Fire/Water has run its course. Personally, I haven't even really liked a starter trio since Hoenn, so they probably should've started changing things up as far back as Sinnoh or Unova.
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Post by adzpower on Feb 2, 2019 18:34:28 GMT -5
Ethan, Gold semantics imo
Yeah they have gotten super lazy with the outfit design, and I know its kind of an anime thing where they seem incapable of not making a girl/female look ridiculous, but I would love a cool, street-smart looking tomboy for the next female character, I think it would do the franchise some good to have a little more diversity with personality styles in regards to the females, because mostly they're all just flowery, what I would call "girly-girls", which is fine if you are like that but its a little samey to see a recycled design pretty much every new generation. Though the same could be said for the male characters as well, we need something fresh for both of them!
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 3, 2019 0:29:32 GMT -5
Yeah they have gotten super lazy with the outfit design, and I know its kind of an anime thing where they seem incapable of not making a girl/female look ridiculous, but I would love a cool, street-smart looking tomboy for the next female character, I think it would do the franchise some good to have a little more diversity with personality styles in regards to the females, because mostly they're all just flowery, what I would call "girly-girls", which is fine if you are like that but its a little samey to see a recycled design pretty much every new generation. Though the same could be said for the male characters as well, we need something fresh for both of them! I fully agree. It seems like they attempted to do a "cool, street-smart looking tomboy" with Hilda, but she still had pink accents and was wearing tiny Daisy Dukes. Why can't we have a girl dressed in purple and wearing jeans? ....... Have you ever filled out a Pokemon Controversy Meme? Here's mine: Can you guess what my least favorite generation is?
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Post by adzpower on Feb 3, 2019 7:01:14 GMT -5
omg the Llama! I just spit out my morning coffee!
I have to try and make one of these now.
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Post by adzpower on Feb 3, 2019 7:26:13 GMT -5
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 3, 2019 14:42:03 GMT -5
Nice picks. Looks like we both agree that Crystal is the best game. Did some character memes as well. First, the favorites: I'm probably the only person in the world who puts Tracey and Brendan ahead of Silver and Red, and I'm damn proud of it! I have no ill will towards Silver and Red, but I have to admit that a lot of the fandom shit that surrounds them (and the way fans love to depict them as troubled, but cute emo loners with glowing red eyes) hurts their rankings. I'm also simply more interested in well-designed characters with missed story potential than characters who already got a fair amount in canon, which is probably why I constantly find myself complaining about my faves getting screwed over in canon. I bring it on myself! (I'm also just not the kind of person who faves villains and anti-heroes, so Jessie, James, and Silver should be lucky they even made my lists, lol.) Then, my non-favorites: Now, you know why I'm glad Green and Hilda were never adapted into the show, lol. The anime just can't write female player characters worth a crap. Since the show can't run the risk of any of them potentially overshadowing Ash, they all get put into the same tired girly/ditzy/"waifu" coordinator role. Serena was the absolute worst of the lot since they also gave her a cringey crush storyline and didn't even bother to pretend she was a "battler" like they did with May and Dawn.
Marina also angers me because of what an awful, insulting portrayal she was of a great and very important female protagonist. However, I still rank her lower than Serena/Dawn/May because she was never made a regular on the show, so we didn't have to suffer through her for long.
And, speaking of Ash, I have zero love for the characters he and Brock became after OS, either. They're exactly why the show needed to clean house and reboot after Johto, IMO.
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Post by adzpower on Feb 9, 2019 10:31:35 GMT -5
I stumbled upon this earlier, average critical reviews for every Pokemon game, which just goes to show that you 100% cannot trust professional reviewers of any kind. Absolutely mind-boggling. I'm actually stunned that Emerald and Black and White are rated lower than Sun and Moon.....what are these people smoking? And Platinum rated lower than Diamond and Pearl? When it basically improves everything that made DP unplayable
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 9, 2019 23:09:20 GMT -5
I stumbled upon this earlier, average critical reviews for every Pokemon game, which just goes to show that you 100% cannot trust professional reviewers of any kind. Absolutely mind-boggling. I'm actually stunned that Emerald and Black and White are rated lower than Sun and Moon.....what are these people smoking? And Platinum rated lower than Diamond and Pearl? When it basically improves everything that made DP unplayable. You can definitely see the franchise's overall popularity affecting the ratings, IMO. Higher ratings during the Pokemania years (with Gen 2 being the peak), noticeable dropoff during the Hoenn/Sinnoh years, and a rebound from HGSS-onwards when the franchise started to become more popular again (though with ORAS doing noticeably worse than the other post-2009 releases). Still, I wonder why Emerald is rated so low? It's a better version of Hoenn than either RS or ORAS, and it's not noticeably better or worse than the other third versions (Yellow, Crystal, Platinum, USUM).
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 27, 2019 9:59:09 GMT -5
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Post by adzpower on Feb 27, 2019 17:43:40 GMT -5
I'm not sure what to think tbh. I like that the region seems to be based off England, the starters look fine, the environments look fine, the characters look....fine? It all just looks okay, but I'm aware that it is way too soon to tell. But yeah the rural areas they showed really reminded me of Kalos, which considering France is very close to England have a similar climate at least in the North, its not so hard to believe they would look a little similar. I just hope that's where the similarities end.
The urban city from the trailer looked very cool actually, kind of steampunk, Victorian themed, reminded me of some other JRPG's like Xenoblade Chronicles in terms of look.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 28, 2019 11:48:32 GMT -5
Everything about this screams XY 2.0, which is not a good sign. It's already concerning that we're going straight back to traditional gyms after the Alola games mixed things up with the trials. I get that trials were probably always going to be Alola-exclusive, but you'd think that GF would've at least considered another gym alternative for Gen 8's region. The fact that they didn't tells me that we're probably getting a Strictly Formula rehash designed to placate people turned off by U/SM's changes, just like how XY was a Strictly Formula rehash designed to placate people turned off by BW/B2W2's changes. Hard to be excited about that. That being said... I'm pleasantly surprised by the male protagonist's design. He's wearing a beanie (!) instead of a baseball cap, and isn't dressed in the same old blue/black color scheme that's plagued every boy since Lucas. Easily the best-looking male PC since Brendan. (Hopefully, this means that Ash will get an original design in the SS anime like he did in AG, since I can't see Ash wearing "Sword's" outfit.) Now, as for the girl... UGH. If "Sword" is Brendan 2.0 (a good thing), then "Shield" is Dawn 3.0 (after Serena was 2.0 -- a bad thing). YET AGAIN, we're stuck with a female PC running around in a cold climate wearing nothing but a tiny little pink skirt, because fanservice. And, I bet you bottom-dollar that, like Serena, she's going to be put in the anime as Ash's latest "waifu," and probably as yet another coordinator/performer, to boot. Yuck. This girl's only saving grace will be if she's customizable, since then, she could at least be put in a more appropriate outfit (like Serena could). Otherwise, this will go down as the first new generation where I like the male PC and hate the female PC.
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Post by adzpower on Mar 1, 2019 7:06:53 GMT -5
I actually do like the male protagonist as well Betty, he certainly has a more refreshing look! And yeah as soon as the female appeared I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes I will say though that since this region is based off Britain (one of the reasons I'm a little hyped because finally my homeland!) Its not really that cold all the time, in the North sure, but the south is pretty mild, but yeah, you never see any girls here wearing mini-skirts, especially not 12 year olds or however old these characters are supposed to be. Sigh.
Personally I'm happy to see the back of the trials, I thought they were horrible, clunky, non-events, and that might mean no gimmicky z-crystals as well. And I can't imagine them leaving out customization after having it for two consecutive generations already.
I think the reason I'm caustiously optimistic is because I was fully expecting them to announce something like Ultra Let's Go Pikachu or something.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Mar 1, 2019 11:12:11 GMT -5
And yeah as soon as the female appeared I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes I will say though that since this region is based off Britain (one of the reasons I'm a little hyped because finally my homeland!) Its not really that cold all the time, in the North sure, but the south is pretty mild, but yeah, you never see any girls here wearing mini-skirts, especially not 12 year olds or however old these characters are supposed to be. Sigh.It's ridiculous, isn't it? I don't know why it's so damn hard to get a female protagonist wearing jeans, or simply just be dressed for an adventure and not like they're ready to go to the mall or hit the club. They did so well with Kris, May, and Green (aka. the one time that a skirt-wearing girl actually looked adventure-ready), and it's been nothing but downhill since then. I don't get it. Personally I'm happy to see the back of the trials, I thought they were horrible, clunky, non-events, and that might mean no gimmicky z-crystals as well. And I can't imagine them leaving out customization after having it for two consecutive generations already. I'm no fan of trials and z-crystals, either, but it's hard not to read SS's sudden reversion back to traditional gyms as GF suddenly reverting back to a more formulaic game after doing some experimentation in U/SM. That's basically what they did with XY after BW/B2W2, and we all know how those games turned out.
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Post by adzpower on Mar 1, 2019 14:25:48 GMT -5
You could be right, personally I hope it means they know they took a wrong turn after BW and are trying to course correct, stranger things have happened, I won't get my hopes up though.
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Post by adzpower on Jun 16, 2019 5:13:27 GMT -5
Well it looks like the worm has finally turned for Game Freak, after announcing that Sword and Shield will not feature all 809 Pokemon, a huge backlash has begun, tens of thousands are boycotting and the sub-reddit as well as twitter have gone on full pitchfork mode, its looking like this will be an absolute disaster. Most people seem to be poining out Masuda's terrible excuses like the "high quality" animations, which have all been disproven by this:
Seems like a lot of people are finally done with GF's shit and are calling for another studio to helm the Pokemon games from now on, this could be the biggest flop in Pokemon history if this keeps gaining momentum. Iwata is rolling in his grave right now, the man who managed to fit two regions in a game in 1999 and now, in 2019 the incompetent Game Freak can't even fit 800 Pokemon into a Switch game. Unacceptable.
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