Lucas just seems to be one of those characters where the writers just go fuck him specifically.
There's nothing about him to warrant it. It's just that no one cares, and continue to not care.
One Strip! One Strip!
Besides Lucas, are there any other characters that you feel that Game Freak is actively trying to not pay attention to? Personally I feel that some of the Elite Four members of past generations (except Gen I) tend to get less focus than Gym Leaders due to being encountered very late into the game and nowhere else.
Edited by clemont107 on Dec 2nd 2021 at 1:42:05 PM
"Great, now this gal named Dawn is stalking me and complaining about no Sinnoh Megas! It's getting on my nerves!" - TaunieI can't name any off the top of my head myself.
I'm sure the anime has a lot of characters they've never bothered to adapt (or gotten out of the way as quickly as possible so they can continue their own plots), but there may be others on this thread who can better explain that.
One Strip! One Strip!
He does at least get spotlight in some manga adaptations and even in the anime, that's more than Lucas can beg for
He also got to sorta be the Big Bad of the later parts of Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."In fairness, it’s not like Charon did a whole lot in Platinum. He mostly just shows up a couple times to say evil scientist stuff, then tries to steal the Magma Stone in the post game, whereupon he gets arrested without even battling you. You’d kind of expect him to be a bigger deal, since they went through all the trouble of creating a new character - at least Looker got to make more of an impression and was used a lot more afterwards.
Colress did the villain team scientist thing much better.
Oh God! Natural light!The difference is Colress. Shows up alot. We get to know him more and his affable personality.
We get to see his interesting development and he's got Evil Is Cool style.
Charon doesn't really have that.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."If hypothetically, GameFreak and ILCA decided to have BDSP go for a Holiday 2022 release (And possibly spend time adding onto it since they have a whole year to do so) and they had some other studio remaster a game from the 3DS, what game would you choose?
I’d personally go with ORAS. Could see a remaster add Pokemon outside the Hoenn Pokedex like any of the Pokemon from Sinnoh who appeared in the anime before Diamond and Pearl were released like Lucario, Electrivire, Weavile, Pokemon from Gen 7-8 like Mimikyu and Dragapult, and maybe have some Pokemon in the DexNav as Pokemon that could be added to the Hoenn Dex.
Also Battle Frontier.
Edited by MisterZygarde64 on Dec 2nd 2021 at 1:18:51 AM
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Edited by lbssb on Dec 2nd 2021 at 5:03:54 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonIt was not fun, it was a tedious grind that has no respect for the player’s time. Its popular among this board’s passionate minority, and clearly unimportant to the bulk of Pokemon’s audience.
I like talking to friends about stories over food.Yeah the big problem with the Frontier was the inability (or at least impractically) to obtain good Pokémon to take on the facilities without being handicapped. Plus I bet many people were just too young to understand how to play the game somewhat optimally to appreciate the difficulty and rule changes.
So it's really dumb that GF took it out the Frontier after Gen VI made getting perfect IVs actually feasible without cheating.
Edited by Karxrida on Dec 2nd 2021 at 7:25:14 AM
Emerald Frontier had the anime advertising it. I had the strategy guide that gave tips on how to beat them but yeah I was too young to really know what to do. I still tried though. And got some silver symbols. By the time of Gen IV action replay, Smogon, Marriland, Serebii's Pokemon of the Week, Pokesav/gen, RNG manipulation, wifi, and internet exposure in general were all exploding in exposure and thus I was able to complete the Gen IV Battle Frontier first with action replay and then without. I also managed to fight and beat the final Mysterial sets in Pokemon Battle Revolution which I consider harder than the BF.
Gen IV Battle Frontier had Caitlin which became a prominent part of Gen V and eventually Emerald's Anabel returned in SM as well so they're canon and the least they could do is have them at least appear in the remakes and maybe even be battleable. Their intros being stuck in GBA and DS games is just extremely disappointing.
Edited by Shad0wSmoke on Dec 2nd 2021 at 8:57:24 AM
I like the Battle Frontier. It's kinda bullshit at times, but then so is just the plain ol' Battle Tower and its reskins, so...
Anyway, the big gripe with ORAS isn't that they didn't bring back a bullshit mode in all its bullshittiness. It's that they couldn't even expend the effort to improve it, or at least replace it with something more inspired than just a cut-and-paste of XY's Battle Maison. And then gave an extremely shitty, cynical, anti-consumer excuse for why they didn't.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Dec 3rd 2021 at 3:29:42 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Watching King K's Black and White video, he talked how locking most of the previous gen's Pokemon behind post-game and having us use the Pokemon introduced in Unova was genius with how it freshens up the formula, I do think if they try it again, it could be received well if they did let in Pokemon from older generations as long as they either:
- Are a regional variant
- Have gotten an evolution whether it be for the normal form or as an evolution for its regional variant
- Got a pre-evolution
That way, you're still providing some familiarity to previous players while having them try out new things. Regional variants are different spins on pre-existing Pokemon and with them getting evolutions to themselves like Sirfetch'd and Mr. Rime they could be used to set up new Pokemon. Evolutions could give attention to Pokemon such as Magcargo, Quagsire, Kricketune, Galvantula, and Chatot to name a few. Pre-evolutions could be used as a way for the likes of Hawlucha, Scyther, Heracross, Pinsir, Carbink, access without making the early game too easy.
Imagine if you will, you are playing the newest Pokemon game, you have a huge roster to choose from, you go in thinking that you could just use your favorites since they showed old Pokemon in the trailers so they might have the usuals like Magikarp, Zubat, Gastly and many others, then you find yourself encountering a similar fish pokemon that evolves at level 10 and evolves again after holding a Dragon Scale and having high friendship, finding pre-evolutions to Heracross and Carbink who on their own, aren't encountered until later in the game meaning you have to level-up those babies if you want access to those two without waiting the rest of the game, when you get to an area with ghost types you find a variant of the Gastly line that's Normal/Ghost, then you see that Scyther can now evolve into a Bug/Dragon pokemon if it levels up holding a Dragon Scale, etc.
With evolutions of old pokemon, pre-evolutions, and regional variants, the Pokemon who get those can both ease in veterans while still ensuring that they still have to go with a new team rather than fall back on old ones in most of the games.
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It’s just that Lucas doesn’t even have a fraction of that. He never appeared in Generations when every other male protagonist at the time did. He’s not in Pokémon Masters for the past two years, but Dawn and Barry are (and Dawn has a special costume to boot). Lucas is that unlucky.