13th April 2004, 1:22 PM
Okay Geno, since you started it I'll go into it. Yes, our blue is Japan's green. Then, Japan released a Blue we WOULD have got as Green, except NOA decided to skip it when Yellow was announced. Japan's blue (commonly called "Green" here just to prevent this very confusion) is basically yet another arrangement of monsters and new images and pokedex descriptions for the creatures. Nothing special beyond that. Essentially, it was made JUST for the purpose of having a game for Blastoise the other starting pokemon since there was already the "Charizard cart" and the "Venosaur cart" (replacing those monster names with the Japanese names for them).
Fire Red and Leaf Green... Considering Japan's original green became our blue, I wonder if Leaf Green will be called Water Blue when it's released here.
Now lazy, THAT'S the sort of GBA link-up that's NOT a total rip-off. Exactly like Animal Crossing, it's what makes link up a great thing.
Regarding Pokémon, yes you are correct. No one needs to buy EVERY version out there, just one and trade, so long as Nintendo just releases versions where the only difference is the monsters. Then, Nintendo released Yellow and Crystal. THOSE are the real problem makers if you ask me. They add whole gameplay features you can't just trade to get. It's not something other companies haven't done, and others have done it more often, but it's still VERY annoying to buy a game only to find that a few months later a better faster and uncut version that "is exactly like the creators originally intended" (as George Lucas would say, the rat bastard (yes, I said this purely to get OB1 to rant)).
ASM, WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!
Fire Red and Leaf Green... Considering Japan's original green became our blue, I wonder if Leaf Green will be called Water Blue when it's released here.
Now lazy, THAT'S the sort of GBA link-up that's NOT a total rip-off. Exactly like Animal Crossing, it's what makes link up a great thing.
Regarding Pokémon, yes you are correct. No one needs to buy EVERY version out there, just one and trade, so long as Nintendo just releases versions where the only difference is the monsters. Then, Nintendo released Yellow and Crystal. THOSE are the real problem makers if you ask me. They add whole gameplay features you can't just trade to get. It's not something other companies haven't done, and others have done it more often, but it's still VERY annoying to buy a game only to find that a few months later a better faster and uncut version that "is exactly like the creators originally intended" (as George Lucas would say, the rat bastard (yes, I said this purely to get OB1 to rant)).
ASM, WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)