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by no means a fan and its true.
I also have a question for whoever did this, has your life come to a all time low that you have to pick on little boys(and girls) joy toys?
perve, nice on taking it the wrong way but my fault for not wording it differently, sorry.
1 - you dont just gain experience from burning down trees. and if you've ever seen a single episode of the cartoon (dont act as if you haven't, unless you were NEVER cool in 3rd grade), you'd know they don't just haul off and assault every single pokemon they come across. as a matter of fact, with pretty much every pokemon that they capture, they do so by actually becoming it's 'friend' first.
2 - pokemon are clearly competetive by nature. none of them re simply forced into fighting like some kind of japanese cockfight. they're eager and willing. it's like a sport to them.
... I always thought Gary's quest would have been more interesting to watch.
I agree with Bandito, this "article" is stupid.
Have you ever played a damn pokemon game or even watched the show???
Sorry this article isn't at all funny nor is it even accurate to the show and games. And trust me I played nearly all of them to date and still watch the show. All of the pokemon after battle and gets captured in a way accepted being captured cause it lost and fainted, thus now being with its new owner. And all of them loves their owners. Its not slaughtering anyone, they're not even dead for Christ sakes just unconscious.
gg spinning the show and game series in a bad light. Its a rpg for crying outloud. What about all the monsters FF characters defeat in battle, did they kill them too?
Just little touches like maybe a drown move that hurts the foe a little every turn.
Sounds fine to me.
Obviously the article is a joke. But yeah, if Pokemon became real, you'd have animal rights activists working overtime, screaming about how evil it is >_>
But really, this sort of moral/logic examination can apply to just about every game in existence (re: I have huge friggen guns, but I can't open a flimsy door. Or I can cut a huge dragon in twain, but I cannot step over a half a foot wall. Etc.).....
You're going to have to battle it, and beat him and capture him. He makes it sound like its morally wrong or were killing the Pokemon. I have never within my time playing the video games, and movies to this date seen a Pokemon death that actually spurred the use of people making statements that the animal rights people needs to step in.
Its a video game, just like everything else, its not bad or wrong. And like you said games in general can be categorized like this, some worse then a game(like Pokemon) for everyone.
@BlackLabel-Im sure we known that already or some of us that is. But it doesn't make our points any less valid. The article wasn't at all funny or Accurate at all.
The essential point is that
You just seem to have problems thinking outside from what the game offers. Yeah, everyone (except team rocket) in the game/series are training to be a pokemon something (master, breeder, etc), and pokemon battles are the norm. But apply reality's rules, laws, and moral opinion to the game's world. You're using one animal to beat up another animal. It has been glossed over in colourful graphics, and made child-friendly, but that is what it is.
Yes, it is agame. But this article is a HUMOR article, get it? It is pointing out the (if it were real) morlal problem with doing that sort of stuff....
Then, there are Pokemon Centers throughout the WHOLE game.
Take for example, Team Rocket or whatever it is in the newest game: They only care about themselves, not the Pokemon. That is something that the game always brings up, and says how terrible it is.
I don't even think a Pokemon has ever died in the games.
And while pokemon don't die in the battles ('cuz that would scar the poor children's souls), you ARE beating them up. Apply these sort of battle actions to real world animals, for example. Sic a huge elephant on a cat and you tell me that is 'fair' and 'harmless'.
Again, the article is meant for humor, it is just poking fun at the moral issues (imagining it as being real) surrounding the game. You have colourful creatures beating eachother up for your own purposes. As I said before (in a reply to you FinalBlade), it is like dogfighting. Suffice it to say, if pokemon were real, and people battled with them, you'd see dead/seriously injured pokemon before long, and people screaming about animal abuse.
Yes, pokemon are capable of doing things that, for example, your cat can't do, but they ARE animals. You can conveniently ignore the moral issues because it is a game (like GTA, youcan shoot cops and stuff), but if it were real, you can be damned sure it wouldn't be so animal friendly (a-la the aforementioned injuries and deaths of battling pokemon).
In the end, the article is just meant to be funny, don't take it so seriously >_>
THE POINT is that IF IT WERE, it would be pretty damned bad (beating up animals for sport, a-la dogfighting). Same sort of satirical article can apply to any number of games (like GTA). The article was simply pointing out aspects of the gameplay that people might not of thought about much (if you really think about it, it is mostly about beating up other animals for your amusement and power struggle).
If you don't find it funny, that is just fine.