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This whole thread reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

-C.S. Lewis

There is a world of difference between something that is inherently child-like (in this case, Pokemon) and something that is inherently childish. Being childish pertains to behaviors that are juvenile, immature, and unsophisticated. Whereas being child-like can pertain to a sense of new found discovery, innocence, delight, and wonder. I am very much content with that, despite no longer being a child. In becoming an adult, my aim is to remove myself from my previously childish ways, but at the same time to hold on and cherish those important child-like elements.



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KylieDog said:
Play4Fun said:


"The amout of new features pokemon has recieved in the last 15 years is the typical amount of new features games othe games will get in a single sequel, two at most.'

What was it you said then? Seems pretty clear.


Bold.

Dark type

Steel type

Breeding mechanics

Three is a larger number than two.



Wow. Wasn't expecting this many responses! Love the feedback guys. Most of you have good points.



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KylieDog said:
Play4Fun said:


"The amout of new features pokemon has recieved in the last 15 years is the typical amount of new features games othe games will get in a single sequel, two at most.'

What was it you said then? Seems pretty clear.


Bold.

 

That sentence clearly says that other game sequels typically get two new features  and  in the last 15 years, that's the number of new features Pokemon has had added to it.

Don't try to backpedal by acting as if what you really meant to say was that pokemon usually gets two new features every new generation. If that's what you meant then:

1. Why would you be criticising pokemon for not changing anything if you thought it changed the same as sequels of other games usually do?

2. There's nothing wrong with my reading comprehension, you simply didn't phrase what you wanted to say correctly. But I'm more inclined to believe you realized that your super-hyperbolic statement was bull and are now trying to back out of it.



Your back pedaling has already been explained to you tho.

Kanto to Johto saw many additions, more than some franchises in 15 years. That is a single sequal, there were more than two added between Johto and Hoenn.

You are wrong through and through.



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Smeags said:

This whole thread reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

-C.S. Lewis 

There is a world of difference between something that is inherently child-like (in this case, Pokemon) and something that is inherently childish. Being childish pertains to behaviors that are juvenile, immature, and unsophisticated. Whereas being child-like can pertain to a sense of new found discovery, innocence, delight, and wonder. I am very much content with that, despite no longer being a child. In becoming an adult, my aim is to remove myself from my previously childish ways, but at the same time to hold on and cherish those important child-like elements.

I like you.

 

Kylie Dog, as the person who clearly knows the most about pokemon from what I see written here would you like me to inform you on how pokemon has had consistent change over the years and why people are so accepting of it?



Play4Fun said:
KylieDog said:
Play4Fun said:
KylieDog said:
Play4Fun said:
KylieDog said:


The amout of new features pokemon has recieved in the last 15 years is the typical amount of new features games othe games will get in a single sequel, two at most.

See what I meant when I said it's usually the people who don't really know anything about the game that talk about it being the exact same thing?

You are a perfect example of this, as I knew you would be.


You're just spouting words but not actually saying anything.  Care to back up anything?


I'm just spouting words and not saying anything? Funny coming from you who just a while ago said in the last 15 years pokemon has had at most two new features added.

Your posting style is so predictable.


That is not what I said.  Brush up your reading comprehension.


"The amout of new features pokemon has recieved in the last 15 years is the typical amount of new features games othe games will get in a single sequel, two at most.'

What was it you said then? Seems pretty clear.

He's saying the changes pokemon gets is what you'd see in two sequels or one.



KylieDog said:
Play4Fun said:

 

That sentence clearly says that other game sequels typically get two new features  and  in the last 15 years, that's the number of new features Pokemon has had added to it.

Don't try to backpedal by acting as if what you really meant to say was that pokemon usually gets two new features every new generation. If that's what you meant then:

1. Why would you be criticising pokemon for not changing anything if you thought it changed the same as sequels of other games usually do?

2. There's nothing wrong with my reading comprehension, you simply didn't phrase what you wanted to say correctly. But I'm more inclined to believe you realized that your super-hyperbolic statement was bull and are now trying to back out of it.


Oh my god.  Someone explain it to him please.


You're so full of it.

Doing the same thing I've seen you do in many other threads.

Say some bullshit -> Get called out by a bunch of people -> act like those people just don't 'get' it and you're right -> proudly wallow in your filthy ignorance.

Can never admit when you're wrong.



... The irony. Perhaps you should go up and read what I just wrote^



Play4Fun said:


"The amout of new features pokemon has recieved in the last 15 years is the typical amount of new features games othe games will get in a single sequel, two at most.'

What was it you said then? Seems pretty clear.

Please don't answer KyliwDog. nintendo killed his cat or something. Let's stay on-topic.



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