Explain why people love Pokemon games to me please!

[lestatdark]

SecondWar said:

lestatdark said:

SecondWar said:

Funtime said:

Seriously. I need to know what these games are all about. I know nothing about Pokemon. I never watched the cartoon. I have never played any of the games. I don't even know what genre they would fall under. However I am kind of inerested in grabbing a couple of the games if they really are that good. Anything that massively popular can't be all that bad....except Twilight...

So ya, what's he deal with Pokemon? Why are these games such a big deal? I always thought they were just for kids because I was already past the age where I watched caroons before Pokemon started airing in North America. It seems people of all ages enjoy the games, though...

Fill me in!

Unless you're 12 or under, don't watch the cartoon. Out of the entire franchise that is the only thing that is definetely for kids.

I don't get that. I'm 25 myself and I still watch the cartoon. Heck, me, my GF and a couple of my friends had a marathon watching the very first season last summer because of nostalgia and we still loved it. Yeah it may be a heavily kid focused cartoon, but that doesn't mean anyone else can't enjoy it.

I'd say its impossible to start watching the cartoon unless you're under 12 as you won't have the nostalgia feeling. The first series maybe, but after the Orange Islands and definetely once it reaches Hoenn it comes undone. I was over about 15/16 when Is topped watching it, mostly because the main characters had me facepalming for the entir 30 minutes.

I don't think the characters in the pokemon series are any more facepalm worthy than any of the popular cartoon/manga series such as Naruto or Dragonball. Yeah they're mostly idiotic in the grand majority of the episodes, but that's part of their charm. Having said that, I mostly watch the series for the battles, I always loved how different they make the anime rules from the game rules .

The Hoenn series was probably the worst of the bunch and Diamond/Pearl wasn't much better, but thankfully Best Wishes (the B/W one) has been as good as the first ones.