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adjl posted...

The only reason anyone expects all of their favourites to be accessible in every new Pokemon game is because that's how they've done it so far

"The only reason why they expect it is because that's how the games were made!"

What do you think about a pokemon game is so enticing to adults? The challengeless gameplay? The ridiculous and uninteresting plots? The shitty gimmicks that disappear every generation?

Getting your pokemon that you like and socialising with your friends on your unique pokemon preferences is its appeal. It's a social game, and if you remove the part that makes the pokemon transcend the individual game's ecosystem, you remove any reason to feel invested in your pokemon. They're stuck in whatever fucked edition you found it on where it will disappear from memory when that edition isn't relevant any more socially.

You can get another but its stats are different, its nature is different, its training is different, it is functionally different. Even some moves can only be gained by the pokemon learning it in another generation. The individual pokemon are unique and now a big block of them have been made completely redundant.
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Doctor Foxx posted...
The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas.