ckmlb said:
These minor changes do not prove that there is more changing in Pokemon than GTA, like I said minor changes and mini games were added between PS2 GTAs too.
There are four generations of Pokemon games- Red/Blue (GB, 1998), Gold/Silver (GBC, 2000), Ruby/Saphire (GBA, 2003) and Diamond/Pearl (DS, 2007). Those and 3 remakes, makes it 7 games.
Platform changes are also key for games changing, so don't say it's fair. Pokemon could not have gone 3D (barely) and online before the DS, could not have been in color before the GBC, so platform changes caused the three actually big changes in the series. Comparing that to 2 games on the same platform is definitely wrong.
So you have pounted out that multiple minor things have changed over 7 games but it still doesn't actually convince that Pokemon actually changes more than GTA. In fact the minor changes in GTA are arguably bigger than those across all Pokemon games ever made, besides the obviously completely different stories in each GTA and the main character... |
3 games of changes. You can't count the first game as changes, and you can't count the remakes (Crystal and Emerald) as major games in the series. So 3 games versus 2, although I concede the point that since each major change is a generation of handheld gaming, more changes are expected. So, I will admit that it is not a fair comparison, but you are the one who started the comparison, not me.
I don't think you, as someone who never played online tournaments in Pokemon (which was possible before DP actually, but not going to go into that), understand the scope of the changes or the effects of the changes on the strategy of the game. There isn't a way for me to convince you about how much things like IVs and EVs and move specific physical and special attacks change the gameplay because your only experience is with the single player, which is so simple a toddler could beat it.
Also, Link does have a personality. He absolutely developed a personality in the 3D iterations. He doesn't have to talk to show emotion. This is getting very off topic though, back to the original subject.
From my perspective, as someone who played both games and played tournaments in Pokemon, Pokemon definitely had larger changes of the two franchise. Pokemon's online metagame strategy was completely turned upside down in DP and all strategies had to be redone. However, I am realizing now that it's unrealistic for me to expect you (or many people at all for that matter) to realize the effects of those changes.
So, what I'm saying is, from your perspective (that of someone who only plays the single player) not much has changed, and it's probably fair to say that from your perspective, GTA has had more major gameplay differences, whereas for someone like me who plays Pokemon online, it's changed a lot.
Is that a reasonable solution ckmlb?
