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I think that Pokemon will meet a sudden death with Gen V, unless GF goes back to the drawing board and tries to figure out a formula that works. See, GSC had a great formula. It clicked with a lot of us. The legendaries were right at the border between rare but powerful and demi-god. Everything just worked in the Johto games.
Legendaries are silly, and the games are making very small changes, yet people continue to buy and love the games all the same. There's no reason that would hurt the franchise in any significant way.True as that trope may be, I want to hear a decent argument against my statement. You have to admit, the legends got weird.
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Won't end anytime soon and will last for a long time.
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I think Pokemon will last a long time and thinks its imposssible for Generation IV to be the last generaton, but I do see a lack of originality in the near future.
Before you get on my case, I don't think making the God-Creator pokemon will stop GameFreak and Nintendo from making more generations, seeing how they're motivated by money, they could care less if it makes sense.
I'm just saying "THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING IS IN THE MIDDLE DEX, ARCEUS DOESN'T EVEN MATTER, SEEING HOW THIS POKEMON IS MUCH MORE UBERZ AND POWERFUL THAN ARCEUS CUZ IT CREATED IT AND THIS NEW POKEYMANZ IS EVEN MOAR UBERS AND POWERFUL THAN THIS CUZ IT CREATED IT LOL" would get ridiculous not to mention annoying as hell.
An evil counterpart to Arceus would be ideal, but this is mainly aimed at children, and it's a franchise for all ages. Japan might be able to take it, but the rest of the world won't. Arceus is already pushing the buttons, Nintendo doesn't want Soccer moms suing them like they did ten years ago, do they? And making lower-gods of each element would be useless seeing how we already have such. We're likely to see "Creator god of creator god of creator god of creator god of Arceus" than anything. Again, I'm not saying there won't be a 5th generation. I honestly will be surprised if Generation IV is really the end for Pokemon.
Yes, they haven't ever topped Mewtwo in terms of COMPETITIVE BATTLING and STATS, but they have in terms of POSITION AND STATUS. In Gen I, Mewtwo was the result of a scientific experiment that gone wrong snd the Bird trio were just rare elemental birds representing nature. In Gen II, the guardians of the sea and sky aka Lugia and Ho-Oh were made and a little time travler was discovered. In Gen III, three golems representing parts of the Earth were created as well as the creators of land, sky, and sea. In Gen IV, the creators of time and space were created as well as Arceus, who is creator of the universe. Seeing this pattern, Gen V is likely to top Pokejesus in terms of position.
Also, to the person who said Pokemon's dead in America, it isn't dead AT ALL, even in America. As someone said earlier, the hype just isn't as big as it used to be here. America isn't the only place in the world y'know, it's motherfucking huge in Japan, its 100x bigger than it was in the 90s for USA. It has its own AIRLINES, TRAINS, X-RAY MACHINES, AND EVEN HAD ITS OWN AMUSMENT PARK AT ONE POINT. The anime has amazing ratings, the movies always reached top of box office, and the games are cash-cows. IT'LL NEVER DIE, ESPECIALLY IN JAPAN. Okay, not never since it has to die someday. Wait for 20 more years, then it might start losing popularityas long as I live before it ends I'm happy.Yes, it's ridiculous, but it's too popular to end so soon.
You're absolutely right. The Japs do like to innovate, but as far as I'm concerned, that doesn't seem to be the case for video games.
The US does make lots of changes to games outside of storyline and graphics. They may follow the same basis (take Sim City, for example), but plenty of features have been added. Honestly and without bias, I haven't seen very many "new" features in Pokémon
Pokemon needs to die now afte Generation 4. Once they put poke-god in, that pretty much ends it for me and others as well.
I don't really see how overdoing the legendaries means they have any reason to kill off the entire franchise.Pokemon needs to die now afte Generation 4. Once they put poke-god in, that pretty much ends it for me and others as well.