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Frogger on 06 December 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
spemanig said:

Because that's not how Pokemon has ever funtioned. Pokemon has literally never treated pokemon as region specific. Not even legendaries in many cases. There isn't the same diversity of ecology in Pokemon as there are in the real world. When there are millions and billions of unique species of Pokemon, then maybe we can walk about having region specific pokemon. Not every type of Pokemon is found everywhere as is. But every Pokemon introduced is available in more than one region, because Pokemon have never been region specific. They were never treated that way and shouldn't be expected to act that way.

Because the whole point of revisiting is that the region changed so much in 10 years that it's already essentially a new region. When I said to add new towns, I meant like with B2W2 Unova. Adding a new region would just mean setting it there. That's no different from every new Pokemon game. It wouldn't add intruigue to anything - it would literally just be doing the same thing they do every generation.

Let it trample over people's nostalgia. That's the point. Kanto/Johto aren't frozen in time. The 80s was completely different from the 90s. This is a decade of difference. Pokemon isn't a time capsule. Kanto isn't a place where you stay a kid forever. It already changed drastically over the course of 3 years in GSC and people were fine. Cinnabar Island was completely Pompei'd, and people got over it. Pokemon Tower was turned into a radio tower, and people were fine. Red and Blue are canonically 21 now, and people are fine. People understand the basic progression of time. They'll be fine.

Well every single gen there are some Pokemon (the new ones) that are exclusive to a single region And hey, regardless of how they are treated and done in the franchise I can still want them in a way that mirrors real life more. Although at the very least regional forms is currently something like what I`m looking for. The Alolan forms are currently regional specific Pokemon, sure they may be very similar to Pokemon from other regions, but so are many region specific real life animals. As long as Alolan forms stay Alola specific and aren`t made available in future gens (preferably because future regions would have their own regional form Pokemon, as well as some of the standard forms rather than because regional forms never happen again) then that would be something at least.

10 years doesn`t seem that much though. The people and their attitudes may change, sure. But for the most part the same towns, buildings and especially the landscape is going to remain the same with maybe a few alterations here and there. People understand the progression of time, but if they go back to the town/city they grew up in they`re still going to recognise most of the stuff there. There may be times where they think `woah, that`s new`, but for the most part they`re going to know all the places and possibly even people there. If they go back to Kanto it doesn`t need to be exactly the same, but it needs to be mostly the same and still easily recognisable as Kanto. If they`re not taking advantage of people`s nostalgia and fondness of Kanto then what`s the point of even going back there?

They aren't though. You just don't know of the regions they are apart of yet. You can definitely want it to be however you want. I'm just saying that they aren't taking liberties by doing things like that. I would be very surprised if regional Pokemon formes became a thing outside of Alola, even though I like them too. It's being treated like an alolan thing from what I see.

Time is accelerated in Pokemon, though. Again, look at how much changed in Kanto and Unova in just 3 and 2 years. It doesn't need to make perfect sense in terms of time. It never has. Literally, just having the same basic map layout is enough to take advantage of people's nostalgia. It doesn't need to be the same for people to recognize it, and having new pokemon there wouldn't effect that. Having new towns won't either, just like erredicating Cinnabar didn't. All they need are many of the same characters and references to what came before. GF have a lot of creative freedom for something like this.