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Frogger on 07 June 2014
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Soleron said:

I consider X/Y to be the exact same game as B/W, B/W 2, D/P/P, R/S/E, HG/SS, FR/LG and G/S/C.

You have eight gyms, you have an Elite Four, you start in a smaller town with a Pokemon Professor named after a tree, you go along a series of routes battling individual trainers with Pokemon you caught. the story is about a "rival" and a "Team", you beat a Champion and then the credits roll.

And you spend $40 every two years to get this with all the names and half of the sprites swapped out. And you get hyped when it's announced that - WOW - some game element looks SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TO BEFORE.


Oh, then you're wrong. That's not an opinion. That's a fact. There are major core fundemental differences between them all.

What you describe is a template core to the franchise. You start in a town because you have to start somewhere, and most people live in towns. Some live in cities. Pokemon games have started there too. There are gyms and and elite four because that's how the national Pokemon league is run. You don't see sports like Soccer or Baseball change the rules because "it's the same thing every year." That would be stupid.

You battle trainers with Pokemon you caught because no one would buy a Pokemon game where you couldn't battle trainers and you couldn't catch Pokemon. The story is not about a "rival" and a "team." Those are just present elements in the game. You have a rival because you wouldn't not have a rival. There's an evil team because every story boils down to good vs. evil. Getting worked up because Pokemon is calling their evil "team" again misses the point. Each organization has completely different goals than the last, and the only thing they share in common is being called "team." Al Qaeda could be called Team Al Qaeda, and they'd have as much in common as any one Pokemon team has to another.

And that's just me dubunking your "similarities."

So you're objectively wrong, and if you've ever purchased more than one game, movie, or book in any franchise in your entire life, you're also objectively a hypocrite.