You’re gonna have to get out the time machine and call up 8 year old me to explain this again in Swedish.
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A game where you drive cars, and two games where you are a car, respectively
Is that how it is explained in the anime? Cause yeah I’ll buy that
Okay Wobbuffet isn’t so bad. That’s one of the only ones in the anime where it’s funny that all it says is its name. Also it’s kinda funny how Weezing wheezes out its name, even though Weezing sucks.
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Genuinely no idea lol that’s just how I’ve always understood the limitation, even inside the games.
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You’re really on one today @Gaagaagiins (complimentary)
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Speaking of Weezing, this probably fits in this thread:
I think this is hilarious. I genuinely love Sword and Shield.
EDIT: I’m going to expand on this.
There’s an anti-capitalist environmentalism theme to be wrung out of Sword and Shield. The theme is present in the story, like how the town of Spikemuth is an abandoned former industrial town. The rich owner-class both destroyed the nature there and abandoned its people. But the theme is especially on-the-nose in a few of the Galarian designs. Turning Weezing into a late 19th century captain of industry is awesome in how stupid it is. They turned Corsola into a ghost type because, yep you guessed it, human pollution is destroying corral reefs.
Just look at how sad he is!
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Ok to be fair it rules how stupid Galarian Weezing is
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The contrarian is making quite many concessions to please the public…!!
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This is not the public!! These are my cherished peers
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Using the power of funemployment to make Posts is my specialty
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Arbok and Weezing don’t suck. Imagine if your friend came over to show you their new pokemon and that was who they brought out. An enormous cobra and a gigantic floating ball spewing poisonous gas. You would think they were cool
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If I’m forced to answer that question assuming I am 6 years old, I’d probably think they were cool, yeah.
However Ekans and Arbok are two of the worst sinners wrt all localized names of Pokémon sucking. No I am not just resentful that I was probably in my 20s when I was probably told their names are just Snake and Kobra backwards…
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Tell me that your parents didn’t give you that poster everyone had with the original 150 in order without telling me that your parents didn’t give you that poster everyone had with the original 150 in order…
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I honestly think if Game Freak wants Pokémon to last until the 22nd century, first of all, of course they do, second of all, damn them for it, damn them, damn them for their hubris, DAMN them, damn them all, but thirdly, if they truly do, at some point they are just gonna need to just wipe the slate clean and reboot the whole goddamned franchise, and if you want anything other than a non-mechanically relevant bonus for having your best little friends in your Pokémon Bank, shut up, fuck you, grow up, at best we’re gonna grind them up into Poké Slurry and you’re going to get compensated with an appropriate amount of Poké Points per Poké Pound of Poké Goo your Poké Bank account provides, and if you complain any more, everything you can purchase with Poké Points in the new reboot will be purely cosmetics.
Pokémon was less objectionable in the days of relative simplicity and as such mechanical clarity, @Sun_Crypt 's affection for Gens. I-III make sense within the context of only Gens. I-III existing. But I really feel like, maybe even by Mega Evolution, but definitely by Dynamaxing, integrating new stratum of gameplay mechanics without breaking what came before it is an increasingly precariously positioned game of Jenga where the blocks are pieces of a Ship of Theseus, to intentionally mix some metaphors badly, to metaphorize my own metaphor. Instead of every new Pokémon game making changes, it makes additions, while trying to pretend that this can only make the game more engaging. Each new additional mechanic naturally only effects the broader game less than all previous ones, since the less effectual the new mechanics are, the less work it is to integrate it into the already calcified layers of gameplay stratum that cannot be fundamentally changed anymore, lest the whole bedrock is fracked into oblivion.
You’d think the experimental nature of the Legends series and that faux-controversy about not supporting full backwards compatibility of all of the wretched little creatures because it was too resource intensive for a corporation with the world’s most profitable intellectual property (I think? Top 5 for sure) to make all those 3D models to release the game within a specific financial quarter (not even mad about this argument tbh, like, seriously, Weedle sucks, you don’t need to have a Weedle in Pokémon Spain, you don’t really even want to have Weedle in Pokémon Spain, and if you say you do, you are lying), were signs that they were gearing up towards a total gameplay reboot, but I’m not so sure anymore. Legends becoming its own subseries is not an encouraging sign in that respect.
I wonder if there is, like, at least an annual top secret meeting, maybe once every two years but no less frequent than that, and only all the bigwigs at The Pokémon Company or Game Freak are in attendance for it. In these clandestine meetings, the question is posed–is it time for a total mainline series reboot? Can we gamble on what is literally, realistically, like, probably <1%, but still a significant portion of Japan’s GDP, by potentially ruining Pokémon? Someone has some mad fuckin’ spreadsheets stashed away somewhere about what the ramifications of such an act might be. Or, I wonder if it’s funnier if it’s on everyone’s mind all the time but it is almost like the ultimate taboo to suggest it. Meeting after meeting about the new upcoming game being developed and how they are going to pin yet another gameplay mechanic tail on this dead horse, and everyone is always a frustrated sigh or a long enough pause in front of a blank-ish whiteboard from just thinking “we need to just reboot this shit at this point,” but no one has the guts to say it out loud in front of their superiors. How many beers in does a junior developer need to get before they’re barking at their more senior developer friend about this? Does their senior developer friend have to put a hand on their shoulder and tell them they need to watch what they say, because people who say that kind of thing in front of the wrong manager don’t last long at this company?
Personally I don’t see what they’re waiting for at this point. Like, note that I didn’t say they really needed to reboot anything but the gameplay. I think the way to walk the tightrope of making Pokémon be a good game, but also without betraying gamers, perhaps some of the most capricious and vengeful people on Earth who also have the worst taste, would be to just start rebooting the games with the fuckin’ original guys and settings mostly, just with gameplay that is good, now. Even if you only did half of them, bam, that’s a good chunk of the trickiest parts of pre-production all settled for like the next 20 years!
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I’m not in general agreement that Pokémon sucks, as it were, but…Mega Evolutions and everything that followed in their wake have been downgrades for the series. That much I have to agree with
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They should have a Pokémon named Beebis
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There 100% is one in Pokémon Channel that says this exact line when you fiddle with their Nice Card. Can’t for the life of me recall what it looked like, though.
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The world is not ready for Beebis Truth
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I’ll disagree too. Although driving does indeed suck in Cyberpunk.
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