Kanto, Jotho, Hoenn and Sinnoh, without economic problems ?

[Someone without Imaginati]

IS just me or anyone else thinks that everyone in sinnoh is too kind ? I mean, they give items to random strangers, free hospital to pokemon, 10 year old kids going in a adventure without the risk of being captured and raped by a pedophile, hmmm, Theres something wrong here.

 

[Jnoo]

Don't forget the biggest RPG cliche ever....

Going into a random strangers house and robbing them of all that they have. =P

It's more or less standard RPG law, really. It's a game.

 

[betagold]

I agree. Government in the economic regions should have total economic breakdown. But they don't. Why? Because it is a game, and RPG law states that real-world problems do not affect the game world.

And as for walking into other people's houses, I've seen that touched upon in other games, most memorably KOTOR. Whenever you walked into a house, the person would cringe in fear and scream "Please don't hurt me! Take whatever you want!"

 

[Super Smasher]

Walking into other houses, huh? I remember in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the 'cube. You couldn't go into ANY houses. Not even your own chateau. They wouldn't even let you into an inn! I think it was a true RPG revolutionary moment. Too bad nobody picked up on it.

 

[Nanabobo]

Speaking of the pedophile thing, it bothers me how the main character is always wearing very little that would help him in the environment. You're up to your head in snow with nothing but standard clothes, a cap, and a "style" scarf, not even a regular scarf. Then there's the fact that Marina wore shorts, May wore even shorter shorts, Blue wore a skirt, and now Dawn wears an even shorter skirt...

 

[Someone without Imaginati]

Aaaah, so thats the RPG law ? oh, then Im surprised theres no GTA san andreas-like Crimes

Speaking of the pedophile thing, it bothers me how the main character is always wearing very little that would help him in the environment. You're up to your head in snow with nothing but standard clothes, a cap, and a "style" scarf, not even a regular scarf. Then there's the fact that Marina wore shorts, May wore even shorter shorts, Blue wore a skirt, and now Dawn wears an even shorter skirt...

It bothers me too, boys at least have pants, but the girls have really short skirts, not at least shorts like may, is like if they are tempting artist to do lolicon fanart

Please don't double post. ~Roses Ablaze

 

[Juputoru]

Me and one of my AIM friends joked that although each region was reasonably well-off, Houen was obvously the poorest region - it has no truly big cities, most of the cities and towns had dirt roads, and the evil teams were stuck using caves as bases. Shinou was the richest region - Team Galactic owns its own tall buildings with random spikes on them and antennae nearby(Team Rocket's underground bases have nothing on that!), most of the cities have roads, there are THREE cities that could qualify as big, there are all sorts of random elevators in various buildings(think Hearthome. And the light house. And the ribbon society.), the E4 get its own CASTLE with floating panels and decorative light-making machines that almost have a holographic feel to them, and they even managed to figure out how to build a department store with a first floor that actually has items sold on it.

Amusingly, even though Shinou is rich they can't afford to give their youth clothes appropriate for the cold. Seiously, Dawn should FREEZE when she walks through those snow routes in that short skirt. Maybe they're so rich that their clothes have some fancy thermal technology that makes you warmer than you look?

 

[MangaBottle]

It would be kinda cool (pun not intended) if in furture games you try to walk into a snowy area, but you're forced out because it's too cold, and you have to find an item (a change of clothing that will affect your overworld sprite) before you can get in.

On topic, the Elder Scrolls series is an obvious example of an RPG that breaks the rules of just going into someone's house and taking whatever the damn hell you want, and you certainly don't get free handouts -- on flipside, the games are as hard to play as it is to convince George Bush to forget Iraq and go after North Korea instead

 

[The Outrage]

Sinnoh maybe rich now, but when their mines dry out........

And it should happen pretty soon considering that random 10-year-olds are allowed to come in at any time.

It would be kinda cool (pun not intended) if in furture games you try to walk into a snowy area, but you're forced out because it's too cold, and you have to find an item (a change of clothing that will affect your overworld sprite) before you can get in.

Well they did that in RSE with the sandstorm and Go Goggles....

...Why they thought you needed goggles to walk through a sandy desert, but thought you could walk through a blizzard in a miniskirt, I'll never know.

 

[eX.A.K.R.]

Wasn't there a couple in the restaurant by Lake Valour who says that he has made a lot off the stock markets or something similar?

(not sure, just made it to that area in my game)

 

[Crystal Walrein]

I think the fact is that the attitudes of people in the games are derived from those of the Japanese mass. In many places paedophilia is unheard of, and it's within tradition or religion to give to charity and others. This could simply have reflected off Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh.

If this were the case, though, I expect their economy's not too great. Have you ever taken money into account — P3,000 for Full Restore possibly equating to US$25?

 

[Someone without Imaginati]

hmmm, definitivily Sinnoh is rich, look and Valor Lakefort, Hearthome city, the resort area, and the Pokemon league, are defenitively the proof, but is true, their mines are going to dry out, considering random 10 year olds are permitted to go anytime.

 

[Masterkraft]

If I were living in Sinnoh, I'd be pretty pissed at random kids coming into my house so I could tell them a generic sentence. I'd move into one of those houses in Celadon City without a door. You know the ones.

 

[Yamato-san]

If this were the case, though, I expect their economy's not too great. Have you ever taken money into account — P3,000 for Full Restore possibly equating to US$25?

you seem to have the right idea, but just in case you didn't know, the money is ordinary yen in the Japanese version rather than using a P symbol with a couple slashes. And it's not hard to see how a Full Restore could cost 3000 yen considering they are being marketed towards travelers (in other words, people who are constantly without home or job) who are as young as 10 years old.

Now, if you wanna talk about a shitty economy, I suggest you look at the Oure region from the Game Cube RPGs. It uses Pokedollars (even in the Japanese version, likely because the area was modeled after Arizona), and these dollars apparently have the same value as yen (you can buy things from the Game Boy games at more or less the same price). However, dollars tend to use a cent system (while yen doesn't), so unless Pokedollars happen to be an exception, then Oure's got some seriously low value rates.

 

[Masterkraft]

We're all taking this a bit far. Money's left simple, because I don't want to use my stylus to drag coins into someone's hand if I've just got a 20 pokedollar note. Houses are left enterrable so towns and cities actually have something to do in, other than heal your pokemon and buy more stuff.

 

[barónmon]

Paedophilia isn't any less common in Japan, it's just not as big a media thing really.

They certainly seem to be reasonably affluent, and without sdtrong government involvement.

Perhaps pokémon is set up as an anarcho-syndicalist state?

Those mines are probably run by a workers' group!

 

[Trull]

I think that pokemon have secret microchips, and if you do something bad the fly/ride/swim you to a bottomless pit where you fall. Or maybe because the dummies that do bad things are so stujpid, the get killed by a lvl.1 magikarp

 

[Te-em]

There are places in the real world, where people don't lock their doors. They know others will not steal from them. And in Pokémon there's not much to take from another one's home, compared to FF or Legaia or most other RPG. In Tales of Destiny the maincharacter says he will not steal, whenever you walk up to a cupboard or drawer to examine.

And 10 year olds can travel on their own, since they have Pokémon with them. Have you forgot, they cannot leave before they have a Pokémon to protect them.

 

[Trull]

good point... but uhh... my uh.. post seems more realistic... uhhh. yeh... ^^;

 

[The Outrage]

People not having anything to steal? The games really is not a good representation of what people have in their homes. Hey in the first gen you stole items form the people in SS Anne , and a person had their home wreaked by team rocket in Cerulean. Things would be even worse in the Pokemon world, with people having pokemon, they will be able to carry heavy objects that they may otherwise not be able to take.