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Will we ever get starters that AREN'T Grass/Fire/Water?
I would love to see Psychic/Ghost/Steel etc. starters.
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As cool as that would be, it probably will never happen.
There's always been grass/water/fire starters; I think alot of people would feel cheated if they decided to change it. Change is good, but I don't know if I would like them changing that particular part of the game. Like I said, could be cool, however I can see the GF hating starting. |
I highly doubt it. While it would be cool, it would disrupt the flow of the game. The Water/Leaf/Fire is... Pokemon's core. Other then Pokemon Yellow of course... but in that game you can catch all 3 starters. You must think that if a new range of starters is released, they each must have a counterpart to a weakness.
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Does it have to be? Could they not rework the game so that you have different starters? Not every game HAS to have a rival for instance.
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I don't think it'll happen. The Grass/Water/Fire combination is pretty much traditional in the video games.
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They don't need to change the types of the starters.
What they could do in place of that is change the types of some of the pokemon available early in the game to include psychic/ice/steel etc. rather than having the regular bug/normal/flying types that we are used to. |
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Also, the games need more than just an evil organization as the antagonist. They need a singular character that you, the player, actually connects with. Your rival. |
I don't think that something like that would happen. Fire, water and grass types are.. the elementary or the basic types of Pokemon, I guess. I don't completely rule out the possibility of this, though.
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I highly doubt it, grass/fire/water is a staple of the series.
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It's kinda Fire/Water/Ice/Air/Stone/Earth for Pokemon.
The elements I chose are what were used for every Bionicle year to 2008. Then they added Grass, Skrall, and Vorox and knocked off Air, Stone, and Earth. but that shouldn't interest you. |
Tradition is strong in the PokeWorld, and tradition dictates that we have G/F/W starters. |
As of right now, there's no real need for it to ever change, besides, the only other perfect triangle is Flying/Rock/Fighting. Definitely not the most interesting trio of types, -.-;
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Maybe have one of those types as a secondary type for the final evo of each starter. That'd be nice. Otherwise, I do no want to see a change in the starter types.
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Grass/Fire/Water? I think you mean Grass/Fighting/Water.
I doubt it will ever change. |
I've always kind of felt like a game intended for older audiences where the player was a member of a criminal organization who went rogue would be interesting (I know they kinda did this with Coliseum, but... not really). In a game like that, Psychic/Dark/Fighting could work, as others have already mentioned.
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I think that would be a good idea, but I don't think it will happen.
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With Fire/Water/Grass, they make a perfect triangle, with the first 2 commonly being seen in mythologies relating to the classical elements. In practically any story, if the main character/group or someone/-thing of the sort specializes in Fire, you can almost guarantee that a Water person, group, monster, etc. will be present in some way, shape, or form. Grass (or "Wood") is also seen as a represented element in various mythologies, though not nearly as common as Fire/Water conflicts are. Furthermore, red, blue, and green are the primary colors of light, so that's another relation. Lastly, the original Generation I Pokemon games (when you take in account the Japanese Pokemon Green Version as well) were represented by Fire/Water/Grass starters (Red, Blue, and Green Versions), so that theme has virtually manifested as one of Pokemon's core attributes in subsequent games. Pokemon Yellow Version and Pikachu deserve a mention as yellow replaces green in the primary colors of paint. In addition, from my experience, yellow tends to be utilized as a 4th addition when red, blue, green have already been featured in some sort of trio (i.e., at the Battle Tower entrance in RSE, a Pokeball is surrounded by red, blue, green, and yellow tabs) - the same for green being a 4th addition when a red-blue-yellow trio has been established instead. Thus, yellow can be seen relating to the common RBG triangle. And yeah, even though Fighting/Psychic/Dark does not make a perfect triangle, here is an excerpt of a post I wrote earlier on the matter of such a unique starter 'triangle'. Quote:
Anyway, I think it would be cool if at least one generation were able to deviate from the Fire/Water/Grass triangle of tradition, just to serve as a one-time refreshing change of pace from past games. :D |
The thing with Fire/Water/Grass is that all 3 types resist themselves, if I remember correctly. The triangle IS broken by evolutions (Empoleon takes normal damage from Fire and Grass, but is weak to both other starters' secondary types.) Flying/Rock/Fighting could be the same way if the Flying gains the Steel-type, just like Empoleon did.
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most likely that will never happen, because Fire/Water/Grass trio is the thing they have done to starters since Kanto, I seriously doubt that would happen
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Fire/Water/Grass starters are also a good, simple starting point for people who are new to the game.
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Well, I like them but it would be nice too see electric.
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I do not think it will ever happen. Like others have said,Fire,Water,and Grass are the basic pokemon in all pokemon games.
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Changing toe Grass/Fire/Water thing would be thinking too small. What they should do something is to stop recycling the same storyline they have been using for the past five generations now.
You mysteriously always start out in the same town as a professor who is more than willing to give you a Pokemon that can never be caught anywhere else. You are sent across the region with a Pokedex, seeking eight gym badges and the championship. Along the way, you meet a villanous team that you defeat over and over. You finally quell and disband them between your 7th and 8th badge. You fight your way through the league and fight the champion who is usually somebody you've seen before, and then they induct you into the hall of fame. Why change the types of starters when you can get rid of starters altogether? What about a Pokemon game where you have to catch things yourself (like in a safari zone), where things aren't always handed to you? |
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how about "Here son, go outside and catch yourself a Pokémon!" Instead of "OH HAI STRANGER U WANT ONE OF MY RAREST POKES????? OKEY HERE U GO AND ALSO TAKE MY EXPENSIVE POKEDEX" |
Unless Gray/Grimson/Whatever has a diffrent Pokemon for the starter (most likely Zorua), it will continue to be Grass/Fire/Water, and they BETTER not make the Gen 6 Fire starter Fire/Fighting, or I will be really mad at their unoriginality on Fire starters for the last 3 generations.....
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Granted those are some pretty spiffy ideas, they would feel more at home in a spinoff than the main series. ;P |
Actually, the saying doesn't apply here because the repetitiveness is making the games rather broken. It is especially out of place in Generation V, which is widely hailed as a "reset of the series" where most people I know (including myself) just saw "same ****, different Pokemon".
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it would be totally amazing, but to be certain, it would never happen. grass, fire and water are the basic elements for starters. ''>
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Even though it'd be awesome, It most likely won't happen.
Plus, I like these kind of types as starters. |
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Have you play Colosseum and XD? They basically dump the old idea and it really works well. Neither were perfect, but they made things interesting. They need to follow that idea on the 3DS, but without the constant double battles. I also think Nintendo needs to start looking at some of the ideas in these hacks. You get non-standard stories, starters, characters (with personality). |
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