BPM said:
I remember people saying this when the Johto Pokémon were first introduced... then again for the Hoenn Pokémon, and then again for the Sinnoh Pokémon. Never change, people, never change.
Does that make it less true? I wasn't one who was so hard on Johto's Pokemon. I also didn't mind Diamond and Pearl's that much. The only one's I don't like are Ruby and Sapphire. I won't judge all the Pokemon of Black and White by those two. My comment only applies to them. The rest I have to wait and see.
BPM said:
GAME FREAK is a pretty small company (
70 employees currently). I kinda doubt they'd have the resources to do multiple projects at once... but, hey, I could be wrong.
Most certainly. 70 is an average size for a gaming company. Big companies like Square/Enix, Activision/Blizzard, and Bethesda Softworks have lots of employees. But these aren't solely developers, they are also publishers, so not all their games are necessarily developed exclusively by in-house employees. Companies also contract out work to people who are temporary employees or hired for a specific job. If Infinity Ward, who also has 70 employees, has two development teams, and ArenaNet, who has even less than that has two, then it is not a stretch to assume GAME FREAK also can at least conceivably have more than one team. Whether or not they do, I don't know.
BPM said:
Technically, wouldn't all the people in the Pokémon World be Japanese (except for Lt. Surge or Fantina)? Given how their world is, for the most part, loosely based on Japan?
And, eh, character creation has never been a big deal to me. Just means more work I gotta do before actually playing the game. :V
Even in Japan their are non-Japanese minorities, like the Ainu, Okinawans, Koreans, Chinese, etc. Sure, they might not be represented different in-game, but there are also Western minorites.
Actually, I'm wrong. There is probably at least one minority in every game. I forgot about Juan, who is obviously sponsed to be Hispanic or Latino. I guess I'm hoping to see a Black person in the game.
As for customization, you can always just pick a default person. In a RPG, I want to roleplay as much as possible. Although, it doesn't really matter when you guy or gal is only a few pixels big.