Mnementh said:
prayformojo said:
Mnementh said:
| prayformojo said:
Being 34 years old, I was too old when the first game came out to even play it so for me, NONE of them are any good and I have never understood why people think otherwise lol
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I'm 38 years old and started recently playing Pokemon. And I'm happy and I think that are great games. Because they really are old-school-RPGs: you have a party, you can choose between classes (more than 700 currently), you can have differing character-builds (different Pokemon of the same sort can have different stats at higher levels and different attacks) and it is turn-based. To get good at it you have to do a lot of exploring, a lot of thinking and a lot of trying - just in the good old classic RPGs. So I really can't understand your position.
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When Pokemon first came out, both of us were in or freshly out of highschool. I don't know how it is these days in the US, but back in the 90's, teenagers weren't sitting around with GBCs and playing Pokemon which was a "kids" thing back then. I was busy hanging out with my friends, drinking and chasing girls.
I think the vast majority of Pokemon fans these days are 20 somethings that were kids back then and actual children now. I would bet money that people our age are under 1% of the fanbase. It's just not OUR generation.
Having said that, I don't think any of those reasons should exlcude someone from trying it, and possibly liking it. But for ME, personally, it's just outside of my relm. I could get past the little kid image (after all, I love Pikmin), but the gameplay (or what little I know of it) just doesn't seem like my cup of tea. I've play Pokemon Rumble on the Wii, and I thought that was decent, but that game is a side story type of deal and doesn't play like the main games.
Also, I don't prefer handhelds.
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I played PC back then. And as I said, your reasoning is OK why we not started it back then, but as I explained I just got into the series and it is fun.
Hmm, there is reason to like and reason to hate to play on handhelds. I do play handhelds and home console. But this gen - the 3DS simply has the best games of all five, and I mean really great games. There is no question, especially if you like RPGs (and I do), there is no way to avoid the 3DS:
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I have owned every handheld Nintendo has released apart from the GBC because my GBA handled those games and plus, like I said, not much gaming in highschool. But I don't play them that often compare to my consoles. I just got a Wii-U MK8 bundle a couple weeks ago and I've logged in so many hours between Pikmin and MK8, it's ridiculous.
The 3DS is a great little device but I like the immersion that a big screen provids a little more. If there was a 3DS player on the market that would allow me the ability to play 3DS games on my TV, I'd be at the store hoarding every good 3DS title I could get my hands on but there is no such device.
