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Pokémon's RPG Game - Enough's Enough, Let's Have Some Innovation

November 29, 2010 in Blog comments 5

Game Podunk blogger, DanCurtis writes on Pokemon the RPG game, and points out how the series has lacked innovation for a long time. When is it that we say enough is enough?

It's now 2010, gaming has progressed a lot, and Pokémon for me has not advanced hardly at all and is just still the same old Pokémon Red that I experienced all those years ago with a few graphical improvements and new Pokemon thrown into the mix. The core gameplay has not changed in the slightest since Pokémon Red and while I've tolerated it up until now, it's about time the world of Pokémon gaming was shaken up and we had some new innovative things inside the games. I've decided therefore to make this blog and list some improvements I'd like to see to the core formula of Pokémon as I'd hate to see one of my favourite franchises of my gaming lifestyle become a stagnant thing stuck in the same old mud-hole forever and ever.
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    Aussie Legend Nov 29, 10
    Yes yes and double yes.

    I laugh when people complain like Halo Reach being the same game as Halo 3 (which is complete BS), when every single Pokemon game since 1996 has basically been a character and location swap (with improvements most of the time too).

    Not dissing pokemon, I think the handheld games are probably the franchise I've put the most time into out of any game series ever, but its in dire need of a shake up!
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    Dragoon* Nov 30, 10
    I think the only change that hasn't been made in Black and White was the first one he suggested and the whole HM thing. We have more active sprites now in B/W and this guy clearly has done no research into the new games at all. Mainly due to the fact that he "hopes is changes in black and white" :/

    Although the article is generally poor, I do agree that the story line does have to change and I would love to see a darker and move innovative story line and characters. Although it is primarily aimed at kids, in Black and White the characters are older now than they have been in any other game. A step forward? Perhaps.
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    Ech0ez Nov 30, 10
    Pretty much all of these complaints were addressed in B/W to some extent. The only exception been them adding new Pokemon, whoch they're going to do regardless of how much people complain since that's essentially the whole point of the franchise.
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    Tf916 Nov 30, 10
    Dragoon said it best but that guy should have done his research before posting that blog.
  • 0
    Hideo1 Dec 4, 10
    Nintendo.

    Innovation.

    Pick one.

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