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[miauw62]

Nintendo shares have skyrocketed since Pokemon Go's release and instant transformation into global cultural phenomenon, but they fell dramatically today after investors realized that Nintendo doesn't actually make the game.

lolololol

Ha, I was wondering why Nintendo was getting business out of a popular app they didn't even develop.

Well, they own the IP. I was under the impression that Niantec or however it's called was making the game for Nintendo.

[Rolan7]

Feeling sentimental and looking for tabletop rp material, wiki'd 9 Princes In Amber.

As of July 19, 2016, a TV adaptation is being produced by the creators of the Walking Dead tv series. [3]

This is almost as exciting as a Marathon show would have been!

Also played some Zangband.  "9 Princes in Amber"-flavored Angband that introduced a randomly generated surface world with multiple towns to explore.  Kinda silly and ridiculously dangerous...  My level 5 beastman chaos-warrior of Nurgle was fine in the dungeon, then stepped outside the city walls and lost half his health to some spellcaster he couldn't see.  Later got mauled by a bear.

[pisskop]

My mod for cdda is 1 meg  !!

[RedWarrior0]

Nintendo shares have skyrocketed since Pokemon Go's release and instant transformation into global cultural phenomenon, but they fell dramatically today after investors realized that Nintendo doesn't actually make the game.

lolololol

Ha, I was wondering why Nintendo was getting business out of a popular app they didn't even develop.

Well, they own the IP. I was under the impression that Niantec or however it's called was making the game for Nintendo.

Also, it shows that the Pokemon IP remains incredibly popular, even outside the main target demographic.

[Putnam]

why does pokemon have to be the same every time the battle system is the only thing that matters everything on top is more excuses to battle why does it always have to be the same excuse

inb4 gen 7 comes out and actually has a format that isn't fight-8-gyms-then-elite-four-then-champion for once

[KingofstarrySkies]

WW2 pokemon setting when. Not even kidding.

[Amperzand]

Didn't some theory or other say the background was a huge war? There could legitimately be a WW2-Pokemon edition.

Edit-Forgot my actual happy, I'm done with the last of my GED tests, and I think it went better than expected!

[Shook]

"DONNER RATTE, ICH WÄHLE DICH"
- Private Franz, Dreitte Pikachu Regiment

...

this has the potential to both be disturbing and deeply hilarious at the same time

[Tawa]

WW2 pokemon setting when. Not even kidding.

After the heat death of the universe.

It’s the type of place, the Pokémon world, where problems we face on Earth just wouldn’t happen. There wouldn’t be global warming, water shortages, or anything like that. It’s a world where the people in it really want to work together with each other. Their value system is such where they would prefer to work together and eliminate these problems rather than feud.

Long ago, there may have been wars. Actually, if you look at one of the movies featuring the character Lucario, there are maybe some hints about the past of the Pokémon world.^[1]

Seeing as aforementioned film implies said possible war happened in the Middle Ages equivalent, there is a 0% chance of WWII Pokémon. That's not even getting into things like how it would border on utterly impossible to get such a game released. Particularly in Japan.

Didn't some theory or other say the background was a huge war? There could legitimately be a WW2-Pokemon edition.

XY had a war in its backstory. Several thousand years in the past. [A major character in the game is the king of one of the warring countries, made immortal by the power of his superweapon. He's shown to be utterly broken by the lengths he went to to win the war, which included losing the Pokémon dearest to him to power said superweapon.]

(Lt. Surge seems to be a remnant of the series not quite hitting its thematic stride in the first games, seeing as he is the only person in the entire series, save for people talking about him, to mention a contemporary war.)

If you're looking for a Pokémon game about war, there's Pokémon Conquest, which is Pokémon meets Nobunaga's Ambition.

the battle system is the only thing that matters

fite me

[Amperzand]

Super duper prequel edition: Pokemon Great War?

[miauw62]

game theory "theories" are usually basically the definition of reading too much into it, with a generous helping of old lore.

all it really means is that ww2 pokemon is theoretically somewhat compatible with the lore.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Iunno, I'd just like Pokemon in a setting that ISN'T all sunshine and rainbows besides some craycray teams being craycray.

[Akura]

There's some hints at various wars. Gyrados' Pokedex entries have stated that it was so heavily used as a weapon that not only entire cities wiped out, but Gyraodos was driven so closely to extinction that the entire species forced itself to devolve into Magikarp, whose uselessness made it unsuitable as a weapon as it require patience to become strong, and Magikarp's implied rapid reproduction rate allowed the species to recover despite being easy prey.

One of the early episodes of the anime involved the ghost of a woman whose lover went off to war and never came back though the uniforms shown in the flashback suggest Warring States period.


Overall, it seems that the NRA belief of "arm everyone" actually works in the Pokemon universe. After all, how can you tell if that 10-year-old with a yellow mouse on his shoulder isn't carrying a war god to destroy you with(hell, the mouse might be the war god).

[Flying Dice]

Of course, it helps that the weapons are also thinking beings capable of refusing to murder people 4noraisin.

[Tawa]

game theory "theories" are usually basically the definition of reading too much into it, with a generous helping of old lore.

all it really means is that ww2 pokemon is theoretically somewhat compatible with the lore.

Where are you getting "game theory" from

One of the developers indirectly said "no that's not happening"

I quoted him :v