Grass in towns. What's your stance?

[adhdguitar]

I personally find it very tempting to put grass in towns, and I don't mind playing a hack with grass in towns as long as you're not forced to walk through it to get in and out of the town or Pokemon Center.

So, what's your opinion?

 

[Team Rocket's Raichu]

I prefer it only if it is a ghost town or an abandoned house.

 

[Shiny Quagsire]

Yeah, it's fine that way, but I find it annoying that n00bs add grass all over the place, like in front of houses. A ghost town or abandoned house would be fine (I might actually think of doing that actually...)

 

[psychicboy]

I prefer it only if it is a ghost town or an abandoned house.

Excuse me while I steal this idea.

So this isn't spam, grass in towns is perfectly fine as long as it isn't wildy over done :/

 

[Team Rocket's Raichu]

Yeah, it's fine that way, but I find it annoying that n00bs add grass all over the place, like in front of houses. A ghost town or abandoned house would be fine (I might actually think of doing that actually...)

Excuse me while I steal this idea.

So this isn't spam, grass in towns is perfectly fine as long as it isn't wildy over done :/

Yah! I gave a few hackers ideas! With a ghost town or an abandoned house it would be kinda weird to NOT have tall grass. I mean, who would cut it? XD

 

[Surmonter]

I add grass into town, but I make Pokemon in general are very rare to find. It just makes sense that there will be long grass in a town, but with little Pokemon (but still some.)

 

[Alignment]

I don't agree with the idea of adding grass to a town, especially if wild Pokemon inhabit that grass. Unless of course there is a special reason, like some guy growing long grass in his back yard, for some absurdly awesome reason. I would say, no grass.

 

[colcolstyles]

Firmly opposed.

Maybe, maybe you could get away with putting some in an inaccessible area (as a decorative touch) but even then, I still don't like the idea. It's too non-canon for my tastes.

 

[Spherical Ice]

I'm pretty much with colcolstyles on this one. The idea of towns is that it's a place that, after venturing through routes, caves or forests, to be able to rest and just chill out.

So yeah, I'm against the idea, even in unaccesible places.

 

[donavannj]

Firmly opposed.

Maybe, maybe you could get away with putting some in an unaccessible area (as a decorative touch) but even then, I still don't like the idea. It's too non-canon for my tastes.

Pallet Town in RBY had tall grass just inside the town limits, so it's actually plausibly canon, even if it hasn't been done since then.

 

[Orinjmate]

I get burned in the map rating thread if I ever have any grass at all in a town...

 

[Thorns]

Just put the grass in a specific area of thew city. Than the player can choose if they actually want to trek throught it. :P

 

[Kevin]

W-w-wait there... Tall grass or normal grass...? There shouldn't be tall grass at all in a town. But normal grass would be okay as long as it isn't just grass. Add a path, flowers, ect. If it's all just grass then...

 

[Dooonerz]

I personally wouldn't add grass to the towns, it just looks...........................messy.

 

[giradialkia]

Firmly opposed.

Maybe, maybe you could get away with putting some in an unaccessible area (as a decorative touch) but even then, I still don't like the idea. It's too non-canon for my tastes.

I have to agree. Even if they've done it in Black and White (I believe there's wild Pokemon catchable in White Forest, whether there's tall grass or not I'm unsure), it still seems wrong. Generally speaking it's never necessary, and if it's made necessary, it's probably used badly, from what I've seen when people do it.

 

[colcolstyles]

Pallet Town in RBY had tall grass just inside the town limits, so it's actually plausibly canon, even if it hasn't been done since then.

According to this, there isn't. Also, I checked and there is no wild pokémon data (not counting surfing and fishing) for Pallet Town.

 

[astar_01]

I agree that grass which contain Pokémon should be kept out of the towns/cities.
These places are meant to be a safe haven for the Player and not swarming with Zigzagoons and Rattatas.

 

[Alice]

Yeah, there definitely should never ever be grass in towns, for all the previously stated reasons.

Firmly opposed.

Maybe, maybe you could get away with putting some in an unaccessible area (as a decorative touch) but even then, I still don't like the idea. It's too non-canon for my tastes.

Same. People put it around the edges and stuff, and say it's natural, but you should be able to do natural mapping without it. (I'd say I'm a pretty good example of that... and I use the least natural tiles evar. lol)

 

[donavannj]

According to this, there isn't. Also, I checked and there is no wild pokémon data (not counting surfing and fishing) for Pallet Town.

I wasn't talking about FireRed and LeafGreen. I was talking about Gen I.

 

[colcolstyles]

I wasn't talking about FireRed and LeafGreen. I was talking about Gen I.

Ah. Then yes, you would be correct. However, from what I can tell, it doesn't appear that there are any data for wild pokémon in Generation I either (I don't have a red ROM so I'm basing this off of a good 60 seconds of walking in that patch on my real cartridge). Plus, the grass is there because it continues onto Route 1. I think the OP was asking about 1) having completely isolated patches of grass; and 2) having wild pokémon in a town, both of which I have yet to see done in an official Pokémon game.