Tag: misc

How would you imagine the Pokemon universe’s version of the Discovery Channel would be like?

Well, David Attenborough would be this ridiculously powerful Pokémon master who has a film crew follow him on his adventures and has to protect them from all the wild Pokémon he meets, the Myth Busters would quickly go out of business as they found that all of the ‘myths’ people told about Pokémon are actually 100% true, Shark Week would end in tears when a Sharpedo tore through the camera crew’s boat and their souls were eaten by a fluther of Jellicent (fluther is the collective noun for a group of jellyfish!  See, this blog is educational!), and Alder would be Bear Grylls.

Do you think the Pokemon world will continue forever until we have too many pokemon to name or do you think it will end at a certain number of pokemon, and if you think it will end how do you think it will end?

Hmm.

Tricky.

Y’know, I remember when Ruby and Sapphire were first announced, I read an article in a magazine that speculated “this could be the final year for Pokémon,” and now I sort of wish I could find the writer of that article, walk up to him/her and shout “WRONG!”

So, anyway, will they just keep going forever?  Well, I think the franchise will keep going as long as it keeps making Nintendo money because that’s just good business.  If it ends, it will be because people stopped giving them money, and there will be no fanfare or great finish; it’ll just ‘stop.’  At this point, though, it sort of looks like Pokémon will continue as long as the video game industry does… ten years?  Fifty years?  Who knows?  Will they ever stop creating new Pokémon?  Well, that’s actually a different question, because they could, hypothetically, stop making new Pokémon and keep making new games.  If they do stop, I imagine the moment to do it would be #1000, just because it’s a pretty number.  I don’t think they will, though, simply because releasing 100-odd new Pokémon every few years is their model for keeping the franchise going.  I don’t really believe they’d want to try doing it any other way.

Which game had your favourite soundtrack, and what is your all time favourite piece of music from the games?

Now, as any of my friends will tell you, I’m not really a musical person.  In fact, it’s been suggested more than once that I have somehow managed to completely miss what music actually is on some conceptual level.  This being the case, you should probably take what I have to say about it with a grain of salt.

Having said that, I always felt that Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald had the best music.  In my opinion, the music was one of the two greatest strengths of the third generation, along with the inexplicably superior creative thought that went into writing the Pokédex (it’s just about the only generation, as far as I can tell, where anyone put any significant effort into writing new things about old Pokémon).  I mean, obviously the sound quality has continued to improve since then as the games’ technology has improved, but somehow the music of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald is the only music that’s ever had me just sitting there listening to it.  My favourite track is probably the one that plays on the long forest road between Lilycove City and Fortree City… let’s see if I can find it… yes, here it is; this one.

If you could describe each generation set of games with one word each, what would they be? Remakes are optional depending on how you interpret the question, as well as Black 2 and White 2 for similar reasons.

What an odd question.

Hmm.

Red/Blue/Yellow: Imagination.

Gold/Silver/Crystal: Mystery.

Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald: Discovery.

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum: Ambition.

Black/White: Truth.

I haven’t played Black 2 or White 2 yet, so I’ll have to defer an answer on those two.

I’ll leave you to speculate on why I chose those words. :-p