Recent content by Chamomile13

How would you have fixed this? Only add a dozen or so new Pokemon in each generation, so that Professor Oak's initial estimate is never significantly wrong? Just paint Professor Oak, the guy we'd all gotten to know, love, and respect as the Pokemon authority generation I as a total moron from...

I'm not the first one to say this, but this whole thread is hinged on gym leaders using Pokemon that are abundant in the areas near their city. Why would this be so?

This isn't really related to anything, but why is it that Pokemon rumors seem much more exciting than rumors about other things, even when I like them as much as Pokemon, or sometimes even more? It's curious. You don't actually have to have future Pokemon planned to do things like this. You...

B/W takes place in New York. Don't see how you could add that to a map of Japan. I'm curious as to what you mean by the other islands, though. As in, the Sevii Islands, or...?

With the second generation, they just wanted to keep the regions connected, since that was still doable at the time, and they wanted to have a "where are they now" moment for the Kanto region. In the third and fourth generations, they were remaking games that already had Kanto in them. Unless...

Pokemon was definitely in rapid decline when Generation 2 hit America, but that was mostly because of peer pressure (lots of people still liked Pokemon, but didn't want to admit it anymore, including me and almost everyone I knew) and because Pokemon started as such a massive mega-hit. Anyone...

My friends and I thought up steel types (or metal types, at least) during playground games long before the second generation hit the US, probably before it was even made, if memory serves. We also made up lava types (of which there were exactly two, whose names I've forgotten and whose...

First off, I assume the Pokemon in this story will be characters in their own right, in which case I think you might be biting off more than you can chew by giving three or four Pokemon to each character, and six to the lead. It's worth noting that pretty much every main character in the...

I do like MartionOddity's explanation. But really, there's plenty of things that don't make sense with the Pokemon games and anime. Starting with "why doesn't Team Insert-Noun-Here just shoot the protagonist?" I mean, sure, killing kids is crossing a pretty big line and all, but this is a kid...

Link for convenience. Not really a different version, since it covers very nearly exactly the same ground as mine does, but doesn't speculate as to where the Ranger regions or Holon would fit in, or what would fill in the gaps in between existing regions. There was also this one, which I liked...

I don't think you can say that someone is definitively "the best" at doing something like studying Pokemon. As an example, Issac Newton discovered gravity, Albert Einstein discovered relativity. Which one wins at physics? There's not really any way to tell for sure. It does make sense that...

If Pokeball technology worked the way it's implied to in the games/anime, it wouldn't be any worse than keeping a dog in a kennel. A lot better, actually. So Pokeballs would probably be good. Pokemon battles, probably less so, but considering the Pokemon really don't seem to mind and rarely...

I said it didn't have much of a plot, I didn't say it had no plot at all. Pokemon is a very good story for this sort of thing, because it has a very basic, but very solid plot, individual pieces of which can be dramatically altered or expanded on a whim without significantly changing the rest...

Hoenn. Not sure where exactly, but I'd just prefer someplace tropical by such a wide margin that the other places just don't even compete. Even though I'd probably prefer Saffron City's metropolitan culture more than anyplace in Hoenn, the weather really does make a huge difference.

Having a bunch ~20 year olds playing Pokemon isn't surprising. These were people who started playing when they were ten and never stopped, because hey, Pokemon is awesome. It's kind of odd to see people first pick the game up from the age of around 14 and up, but so what? Why shouldn't you...