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plassfag isn't gonna like this
>gamefreak are the sole arbiters of whats correct about pokemoncool, cant wait to boot up Pokémon™ Scarlet™ Edition™ and hunt for a Shining™ First Partner™ Pokémon™! Once I get it, I'll train up its Base Stats™ so it can be a good user of the Terastal Phenomenon™!
>>58964346Gee, I wonder why he posted that
>>58964361English translation terms have nothing to do with Gamefreak
>all package collection?????
>>58964346Does anyone have a higher quality photo of that image he posted? I like seeing all the coverarts and release years like that.
>>58964346
>>58964346Legends games were always mainline and LGTB is a Yellow demake so also mainline
>>58964346Well duh why wouldn’t they be mainline?
>>58964346>Its muh "mainline">Legends and Lets Go are included there along with other sidegame remakes like FRLG, HGSS, ORAS and BDSPRetardus maximus
>>58964471so those games are what? spinoffs?
>>58964346bdsm and let's go peepee&poopoo are are not mainlinedemakes dont deserve to be called anything but poop
>>58964361>why don't people respect my favorite poketuber!!!
>>58964346Let’s Go was literally announced as the next entry in the core series which is a synonym for mainline
>>58964445based
>>58964500It wasn't actually. They called it mainline, but at the same reveal event, they ALSO stated the next core game of the series, in the vein of SM, XY and the other past new Gen pairs, would be released in 2019.I'm not denying it's main series, but I remember how they described it on reveal and how they teased SS later that event.
>>58964445yawnfag isn't gonna like this
>>58964445>muh childhoods gud>muh adultyhoods baddumsWhy are you even here then? No seriously, why not set up a discord dedicated to when you were the core focus of pokémon, instead of shitting up places where people aren't hilariously fixated manchildren?
>>58964433Could have just gone to twatter like.
>>58964590I don't use any social media and navigating that site without an account is aids. Thank you for spoonfeeding me though, anon.
>>58964445truth nvke
Just like with kingdom hearts I need to explain to pokemon fans that a casual person still sees them as spin-offs and putting them in a chart is never gonna change that. Like multiple times since z-a was announced I've seen people on social media talk about what mechanics they might carry over to the "mainline".No normal person will see pokemon red/blue or gold/silver next to something called legends arceus and believe they're the exact same thing. The subtitle is the main thing.
>>58964617>The subtitle is the main thing.this. the titles of the legends and lets go games read as>"Pokemon: [subseries title]: [entry title]"its the same formatting as "Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky" or "Pokemon: Ranger: Shadows of Almia"whatever the intent, they look as though theyre separate series
IT'S KEYCHAINS! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
>>58964346I will never accept those spin-off tier games as the real deal
>>58964617>>58964644You lost retards. Just because you cunts are desperate to distincticfy them into separate groups to "protect" your childhood slop from them, normalfags don't. That's why they sell equal to other copy/paste mid-gen games and not equivalent to the ACTUAL fucking spin off trash you cunts want them to be part of.Normies are retards granted. But they're not as fucking simple as to see a Game Freak game and automatically assume it's a spin off, because it's not a copy/paste of their youth like you dickheads do.
>>58964702KWAB
>>58964346They're not mainline by definition. Neither are remakes.
>>58964702
>>58964445incredibly based and true
>>58964702inb4 those cost $25 each
>>58964702J____ j___ c______
>>58964361Game freak does in fact decide what is and isn't a spin off game for the series, yes. You sound insane if you refute this
>>58964617Just like with Kingdom Hearts or for any other franchise I need to remind you that whether or not something is classified as a certain type of entry in the series ultimately has no bearing on the fact that>it happened>it has the potential to happen again due to demand>your series could end up changing slightly due to how it looks at future development and lessons learnedand that these sorts of classifications alongside canon/non-canon entry arguments are such a fucking no-life discussion.
>>58964445fpbp
>>58964702Honestly I'd get a BW keychain.
>>58964702JAPAN MUST CONSOOM
Arguing over what's considered a "main series" game seems extremely meaningless if the Legends games are included. Like, how can you explain those being "main series" games and Colosseum/XD being spinoffs without being entirely arbitrary?
>>58965217Colosseum/XD are retarded fanfics not made by Game Freak. Hope this helps.
>>58965236>Retarded fanficsUSUM>not made by Game FreakBDSP
>>58965280USUM isn’t a retarded fanfic, and it introduced new Pokemon that are still used in the dex to this day unlike garbage fanfic shit like Shadow Lugia, and BDSP is a remake of a game already made by Game Freak. Hope this helps.
>>58965217Define "arbitrary". Because everything that separates Colo and Gale from Game Freak's stuff applies to why it's considered a spin off.>region not recognised officially by Game Freak>stealing trainer's pokémon (regardless of justification, no Game Freak game allowed you to steal the evil team members' pokémon)>game origin codes not resolving to a recognised region, but a generic "long way away" type locationI'm sure there's other details that do not adhere to Game Freak tropes that similarly highlight the discrepancies between the two, but I never played that bullshit so can't give you chapter and verse as to how exactly they differ, but they're the main ones that jump out at me.
>>58964582No they called it core series. I watched the conference before making this post.
>>58965362But not LGPE, they called that mainline. I watched it too, I remember the distinction specifically, as I wondered what the fuck they'd meant. Turns out they meant no distinction, it was different words used for the same thing essentially. But SS (or what was becoming SS) was called core, LGPE mainline.
>>58964346>International RB are now not main series gamesuh oh
>>58965386The word Ishiraha uses (not the translation) is core series. The term mainline is Western.
>>58964590I am fascinated by how Arceus and Zaza use the international Pokemon logos
>>58965167>>58965153>>58964702>grey cartridge for RGBY>black for GSJapan TRASH
>it plays nothing like main series and doesn't feature any of the mainstays of the main series but they're totally main series and not spinoffs, see, they advertized them! That means they're main series!
>>58964592xcancel (just putting "cancel" after the x in the URL) makes it more tolerable, for future reference.
>>58965064>It's x<Actually it's y for these reasons>Why do you care that's not important it'll always be x anywaydisingenuous faggot
>>58965479The video livestream I watched on the night called LGPE mainline however. I'm not interested in your justification for what I saw (that's where the whole "LGPE is a spin off" came from, Because it WASN'T explicitly called "Core" on the night).>>58965482I'd guess it's no more than they wanted a way to differentiate it from explicit "Pocket Monsters Series", in as much while it IS pocket monsters, it's not the kiddy focused, casual babyshit they usually put out. They also may not have wanted to risk Pocket Monsters Series' brand name, just in case it didn't exactly take with the fanbase (the DS was called so because Nintendo were worried GBA had harmed the "Game Boy" brand name and didn't want to risk further harm by re-using it further).
>>58965587>mindbreaking autistic little shitheads purely by not being a dedicated babyshit game with pogeymans but a different flavour of pokémon game that actually uses Pocket Monsters Series tropes and ideas as opposed to spin offs teaching kids to steal pokémon and become furries
>>58964445>2D good>3D badboomer opinion
>>58965616>they're not spinoffs cus they're different than the main series and that's good or whatever
>>58965651It’s more like “childhood good, not childhood bad”. If sagefag was actually consistent about hating 3D, he would be shitting on gen 4 and 5 too.
>>58965671They're not spin offs because Game Freak decided they didn't warrant getting labelled along with the rest t he shit from TPC. Sorry Game Freak don't give a fuck what you think, but that's because Tajiri created this shit, not some spergy fucker afterbirth seething her childhood obsession decided to shit out something different than a copy/paste like they had done all her autistic life.
>>58964361>the fucking drones refuting this postgod i hope theyre paid shills
>>58965699>NOOOO YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE DESIGNING THE GAME YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO ME AND MY FANFICS INSTEAD
>>58965687>because Game Freak>>58965587
>>58965710imagine thinking every little marketing bit was decided by game freaki bet you think ash-greninja is canon too
>>58965962>>58965710Cry harder spacker.
>>58964445Add ORAS, original SM, and PLA to the top category. Then it's accurate.
>>58965967>false equivalenceWe know the marketing was NEVER handled by Game Freak though kid. Nintendo and TPC handled that, but you ignore since TPC took over, they have a Game Freak rep making sure shit adheres to Game Freak canon.This is entirely separate and distinct from the production of Game Freak's Pokémon games, which since Tajiri's initial pitch to Nintendo and awarding of seed money to begin production has seen them as the SOLE rightsholders for production of games in their series. And since TPC has nothing to do with the production of them (didn't even fucking exist until 2000), they similarly have no say in how they're presented to the world. Sorry Game Freak decided to call more than copy/pastes part of their series, but it's your own monkey fault for thinking they were actually the same as the slop TPC shat out for your childhood.
>>58965217It’s honestly retarded yeah. I don’t care if Gamefreak calls it mainline, I’m not going to clarify every time I talk about the effects of sleep status effect “except in Legends Arceus and Legends Zygarde”
>>58966319Legends ZA and Arceus don’t have sleep, schizo
>>58966306>Add ORASORAS was shit and you're retarded.
>>58965022Jewish Jew Conspiracies
>>58964346Companies being retarded doesn't mean that a spinoff is main series. If something like LGPE is main series, then something like Colosseum must also be main series. Otherwise the terms have no meaning.
>>58964445BASADO
>>58964445Why isn't this just /vpr/ Pokemon Retro? You guys fucking hate everything for a decade now. Why bother talking about new shit. Just discuss the boomer games over and over. Why bother even talking about the direct, you will hate whatever you see.
>>58966449Just because you're a retarded bitch doesn't mean Game Freak are.
>>58964445Very true, pla is the exception though
>>58967159Nah PLA is shit too. Maybe if it had come out 20 years earlier on the GameCube, but for a 2022 Switch game it's unacceptable.
>>58964471Are you saying that FRLG, HGSS; ORAS and BDSP are sidegames?
>>58967243How does it feel to be a contrarian on 2026?
>>58964445damn it really is true
>>58967263I'm not being contrarian, I just have functioning eyes. And having played it myself I can say it was a fucking disappointment. Not at all up to the standards you should be able to expect from the highest grossing series in history.
>>58965533Japan got the better crystal at least.
>>58964582>>58964644The issue is really just that it tok 20 years for burger marketers to pick up on the fact that what Japan calls the "Pocket Monsters series" isn't just Pokemon games in general, which is why they had to come up with this weird "mainline" term to translate references to it and why westfag fans get so argumentative about what is and isn't "mainline".It's the "mythical" vs "event legendary" shit all over again.
>>58967269>I just have functioning eyesGraphics don't matter
>>58964361>gamefreak are the sole arbiters of whats correct about pokemonYes.
>>58967309They do when the game is so fucking ugly that it negatively impacts the experience
>>58966887Anti-fans are allowed to post and ragebait
>>58967307>It's the "mythical" vs "event legendary" shit all over again.Not really. Regardless the title, Game Freak games were Pokémon to the world (most people didn't give a shit for spin offs outside Pokémania and still don't, unless it's GO which is less spin off and more streamlined Game Freak game). Spastics bowing up all of a sudden because GOshit in LGPE (ignoring it was Masuda making it and based off fucking Yellow) or because L: A and Z-A weren't copy/paste template games like their childhood (for good fucking reason, they were made distinctly to NOT be aimed at the children and casualtards the babyshit difficulty games are), DESPITE them being HEAVILY tied to the other games featured in the same region/location in the physical world that got its name changed as a result of events in the area (because there will be a smart arse trying it) to the point they're revealing more lore regarding it, or following up on the core issues of the previous entry. It's retards squealing, because they spent the last FOUR fucking years ignoring Game Freak had listed L: A as part of their series, grew up with retarded americans hamfistedly localising the IP because their overriding aim was "dumb it the fuck down for our stupid populace of children" and sperging out when reality kicked them in the balls, by the franchise officially listing the Game Freak games (and one non-GF made remake) as part of "their" pokémon series. No sympathy for fucktards, only endless ridicule and constant laughter. Because they CHOSE to ignore reality up to getting kicked in the nuts by it.
>>58965236But enough about Pokespe
LGPE and Legends games can have their Pokemon transferred to Home and other games, that's good enough for them to be considered mainline.
>>58967492Guess GO is mainline too then
>>58967318you're a zoomer
>>58967568And you're cattle with abysmal standards
>>58964445Basado
>>58964346They can call all their spin off games main series all they want. It won't make them main series in the eyes of average players.
>>58964445This.
https://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/This isn't anything new. If you go in the official Japanese website it lists the same things.
>>58967575Pot or the kettle homie you play pokemon
>>58968102Difference is that I play the good pokemon games like Stadium, instead of buying every new release
>>58966306I agree with SM but ORAS sucks shit
Not sure why I should care if Legpiss is cannon in the Mega Timeline, or why I should care about the Mega Timeline in the first place.
>>58964445Alphoomers can't handle this trvke
>>58965533>regular gameboy games came in a grey cartridge>super gameboy games came in a black cartridge>neither of them are actual GBC titleshence why only Crystal is a GBC game
>>58967492Following that logic ColXD should be considered mainline as well.It makes zero sense to say LGPE, LA and ZA are mainline, but ColXD are not.All of these games should be in the same category, regardless of this category being mainline, side-series or spin-off.
>>58968373>good games>>stadium JP, 1, 2choose one
>>58965031while they do in fact decide what is and what is not a spin-off, it does not necessarily mean that their choices make sense.Logically speaking LGPE, LA and ZA should be in the same category as ColXD, but somehow they aren't.
>>58968488It does. What doesn't make sense is incel retards online squealing they can't wrap their peon minds around the concept of Game Freak not making spin offs and any game they DO decide to make as part of their world and series being considered core to their series and not some esoteric multiple choice scenario with multiple "correct answers like "What was the first pokémon?" (mew first trademarked, Rhydon first created, Arceus first in lore, Bulbasaur first in the National 'Dex, all technically the "first" pokémon, despending on your point of view). There's only one answer and it's not the one /vp/'s been in a shitfit snit over and trying to explain whey the creators of the series are wrong and it's ACTUALLY the sperg fuckers who hate the fact the series doesn't need them to succeed any longer who know what's core or not.
>>58964346> holding a grudge since I made that shitpost tweet to him back in 2018What a fucking vindictive pity pussy ass bitchI truly feel bad for his future kids if this is his attitude
>>58964346they only people who don't believe this are people who don't want to believe it. they've always been billed as main series.
>>58969245To you it was "just a shitpost", to him it's yet another faceless fuckhead internet hardman bowing up at him. I'm guessing you're whingeing you're still blocked by him, in which case all I can say is "Have a bit of cop the fuck on" you stupid little fucker, if I was in his position, I'd be blocking every smart arse cunt trying to be a meme too and never scrubbing the banlist.
>>58965031Main line pokemon games is a fanmade term just like starter pokemon and eeveelution.Game Freak nor Joe Merrick gets to decide what they mean. You sound insane if you refute this.>but that's what is agreed upon by the majority!If that was the case, Joe Merrick wouldn't feel the need to post that.
>>58964702>black and gray cartridgesdamn johtoddies got fucked in the assmaybe gf really does hate johturdthe ruby keychain would be based to have
>>58966887Outrage addiction. People like to get angry over things they hate. Look at /v/
>>58964346they main series, not mainline
>>58969448All one and the same. Sorry you lost, want some prep H for your megasorearse?
>>58964445PLA is better than everything at the top.
>>58969471On opposite day
