Which countries are too controversial to adapt for a Pokemon region?
>>59024282Israel, Russia, China, Irán, Korea, Saudí Arabia, India, Ukraine, Cuba, Venezuela, and likely every african country with an ongoing conflict.Personally I would love one region based on Korea, China, and a middle east country. Also South Africa, Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico and Peru would be interesting inspirations that, although less controversial, are not very likely. I know we just had Indonesia, but maybe they return to Europe (Scandinavia, Italy and Germany regions would be cool ngl) or move to Oceanía for Next gen.
>>59024425>RussiathisI'm from Russia. And it will never be adapted.You either do a complete bullshit non-russia "russia" that don't exist (just a sterotype with wooden houses and snow but it might be as well any other northern country).Or do russia-inspired stuff with totalitarism and tyrant and police force and opressed people, poverty and coldness.Pokemon in Russia sounds more like an edgy fan-game/romhack than a reality
>>59024425>Egypt, Brazil, Mexicothis could be easily made into pokemon. Stereotypes about these countries are their own safe thing
>>59024282Just look at how they skipped gen 5 and you will get a good example
>>59024282Africa>butAfrica
>>59024514I could see Egypt working.
they should just adapt italy already, the colosseum could be such a cool landmark to fight the elite 4 in
>>59024528>they should just adapt italy already, the colosseum could be such a cool landmark to fight the elite 4 inToo soon.Spain-inspired region of Scarlet-Violet already looked kinda similar to Italy with similar food (here we eat a lot of sandwitches just like in the game).
>>59024523Eygpt's a dictorial hellhole.
>>59024545As a spaniard, you can't imagine the level of cope that we would have to deal with when they show a meditarrean inspired region but it actually has good looking landscapes, and has legendaries and starters actually based on the region its inpired from.
>>59024282Who knows anymore really. We're getting Indonesia, where large regions are still under Sharia law and whip people to death on the regular.
>>59024282North Korea
>>59024497Isn't that what they do with every region? I can't remember any region where they touched on current geo-politics unless you want to count Alola's whole environmentalism shtick.
>>59024759>I can't remember any region where they touched on current geo-politicsUnova and subversive "progressives"
>>59024282It doesn't matter how controversial a country is if it has tourist attractions its viable because these collaborations are ultimately about the mutual benefit between TPC and X countries tourism industry
>>59024425>IsraelAll they need is a small loan of a billion dollars and GF will gladly kiss the wall.
>>59024767>Unova and subversive "progressives"I assume you're refering to Team Plasma, if that's the case then that type of thing is always around, esepically in the U.S. which Univa is based on. If we're counting that, why don't we count Team Rocket as Yakuza rep. By this logic a place like Italy would be too controversia to adapat because of the Mafia.
>>59024779I've heard this claim a few times before. Is there any hard evidence that GameGreak/TPCI's decisions are directly influced by national governments' tourism programs?
>>59024514I always thought it would be funny to make all of Africa one region
>>59024282>Israel>Afghanistan>Africa>Russia
>>59024282IndiaThey got one anime banned because of how they despicted their religion. I'm pretty sure they didn't enjoy how Shiva and other gods were despicted in SMT V either.
>>59024697Larper, please, nobody but burgers use "spaniard", we are spanish, and as spanish we can recognize the lince ibérico, Gaudí's dragon and el carnaval de canarias.
>>59024851You can technically do something like that if you make a region based on Cameroon as it is very diverse in its biomes (has desert at the north grazing the Sahara, has savanna at the center and jungles at the south).However the ideal african region is South Africa. Not only they have also a nice variety of environments, and are slighty richer than its neighbours, but as long as the defaults MCs are black, nobody would find white NPCs and MC variants out of place.
>>59024282>Canada
>>59024936>LarperWe wouldn't have this issue if we had location flags. Anyways, I've seen other spanish use "spaniards" as well. And I didn't said it has no references, only that feel underwhelming in that regard comparing it with previous regions. Like we only had two regional forms.
Every country currently banned in your beloved sports competition Imaginary land of israel would be the biggest gaslight if they made it
>>59024759>I can't remember any region where they touched on current geo-politics unless you want to count Alola's whole environmentalism shtick.Team Aqua & Magma are loosely based on the political disputes over the Isahaya Bay Project.
>>59024961>I only said it felt underwhelming!Actually you said Paldea's starters weren't inspired by Spain, don't move the goalpost, larper, just admit you are an ignorant american who thinks the sombrero is mexican lmao
>>59024829>Israel>All they need is a small loan of a billion dollarsNot so simple. GF may have been incompetent at making games, but they know their market. They are one of the most profitable brans in the world and wouln't risk losing it due to a controversy, they can smell the boycots from a mile away. They likely want to stay as neutral in that regard as they can. >>59024955>CanadaIf you think about the first nation genocide, then basically any of the previous regions wouln't have made the cut. With maybe the exception of Alola (and that only if you see them as native Hawaii and not just a extension of the US), all comited genocides of some kind. Even Indonesia has a story with Timor.Canada in reality is one of the safest options available.
>>59025003I have a hunch that arguing with you will be pointless.
>>59024425>>59024488If you wanted to have a "safe" slavic country to base a region on you can only go with Poland. Czechia and Slovakia are landlocked, former Yugoslav countries are former Yugoslav countries, and the eastern slavs are flinging shit at eachother.>>59024497pic related.>>59024523Only possible if you time travel way back to the Pharaohs.
>>59024282Any arabic country, because they'll just force you censor anything referencing their mud ass religion.
>>59024282>SEA...oh wait
South Korea would make gen X and older millennial Japanese people seethe online.
>>59024282Greenland, but not because of anything they've done
>>59024936I'll call you a Latinx instead, is that any better?
>>59025425>South Korean region>Half of the cast are subgenres of K-pop artists
>>59024282Russia, Middle East, China -> obvious reasons.Africa, India, South Asia in general -> population too brown and ugly.
>>59024834>I assume you're refering to Team Plasma, if that's the case then that type of thing is always around, esepically in the U.S. which Univa is based on. If we're counting that, why don't we count Team Rocket as Yakuza rep. By this logic a place like Italy would be too controversia to adapat because of the Mafia.Team Rocket basically is the Yakuza. And, I wouldn't be surprised if they did a mafia thing in an Italy region because all the mafia movies have made it an okay topic to joke about and reference.But they'd never do that because that require making an actual villain team again, instead of quirk-chungus "we're just misunderstood uwu" faggots.
>>59025469>South Asia in general -> population too brown and ugly.
>>59025513South Asia ≠ SEA. I’ve seen some fair-skinned Indonesian cutes. Can’t really say the same for Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, etc.
>>59024488>Pokemon in Russia sounds more like an edgy fan-game/romhack than a realityI would play it
>>59025603>BangladeshThere's Rola but she's half Japanese and Russian too.
>>59025075Weird for you to think that, considering you didn't even try, but I accept your attempt at larp.
>>59025447You can have a region with the same biome all around (the earliest gens do this with a temperate biome where you can assume most pokemons can live anyways).Canada, Scandinavia, Iceland, Russia, can be shown with green temperate biomes and nothing stops them from slap in random patches of weird biomes like they did in the other regions. Iceland even has a good excuse to slap a lava sub-region.With a Egypt region you can handwave it with the pokemon-Nile having magic properties that creates ecosystem habitable for all kinds of pokemon, or even have deserts and green riverside all around but having special magical dungeons for other type of pokemon.Most places on earth has mountains where you could find ice-type mons.
>>59025746>You CAN'T have a region with the same biome all around I meant the earliest gen were an exception
If the Nazis hate it, it's not allowed. That's why every Pokémon game has been set in countries the Nazis consider Aryan. So pretty much everything outside NATO/East Asia is disallowed.
>>59025966Gen 10 is Indonesia though?
>>59025469>population too brown and ugly.Wasn't half of galars cast brown
>>59025966>the JewS of A>aryan
>>59025975Indonesia isn't confirmed, I expect Game Freak to move Gen 10 to another Aryan region, maybe Okinawa (Japan).
>>59025966>>59026053holy shit bait or actual retardation??
>>59024282>russia >China >the whole mena region
>>59024514Africa isn’t a country
>>59024425>Italy and GermanyStrange that's we got uk and iberia before those
>>59026170still, fuck Africa
>>59024425We will never get a Pokémon region based on Korea. Sorry to say, but the Nips hate them with a passion.
>>59024425I can smell Chile to be a region in Pokemon, they have the northern arid desert zone, middle average zone and the southern cold wilderness zoneFor something too controversial, I think they will avoid any of the most racist states of 'merica
>>59026266Chile is so narrow they would have no choice but to make it the most literally linear region yet.
>>59024425What's the accent in the a for Iran for? How would people evet pronounce that?
Iceland
>>59024497We already have Lucario Toucannon and Maractus, tho.
>>59024282South Korea
You third world niggers all retarded, put yourself in game freak's shoes, would those nips fly all the way to those batshit insane third world countries to gather materials for their games? The only reason a third world region like wkwkland is picked is because it's relatively "safer" for them with direct flights and many of their factories already located there so someone knows someone who can bring them around in their safety bubbles and go full sex tourists without any fear for their safety. Put yourselves in the japanese boomer sex tourists shoes.
>>59026200>but the Nips hate them with a passion.Korean webtoons are literally more successful in japan than actual manga
>>59026402We also had Tauros before Paldea and Vileplume before the gen 10 region
>>59024425Pretty much this. I could also see GF avoiding an another burger region for a while.
>>59027742Florida and California could be good settings
>>59024497Oh yeah Team Narco burning cars all over the region and tearing your face off if you lose a pokemon battle sounds delightful
>>59026371To signify that the emphasis is on the A and not the I. eye-raan and not EYE-rann.
>>59026371>how do you pronounce something accentuating one letterAmeribro...
>>59025993Gen 8 and 9 were still majority white, all the visibly brown characters were solely for diversity quota reasons. Meanwhile, Gamefreak will never adapt a 100% brown region because frankly no one, especially Japanese people, would play the game if all the characters were brown.
>>59024759They touched France's ethnic replacement issue in ZA
>>59024282I'm convinced they're never gonna do another region based on anywhere in the U.S., especially nowhere that's generally right-wing.
>>59028751I could see a legends game set in the old west.
>>59024282autism
>>59028818>the rest of burgerland not under political troubles>brazil as likelylmao
>>59028838Aren't there a lot of japs in Brazil?
>>59025079Well, obviously, Nobody cares about modern egypt, it just happens to be where interesting egypt was.
>>59028796>legends unova>old west>unova - the New York regionare you retarded or just non-american?
>>59028818Gen 11 will be the Congo. Trust the plan.
>>59025014Im sorry but canada has the best relationship with its native peoples than any other group of people in the entirety of the earths existence. What are you talking about?
>>59028751You can easily get an extra region or two out of the U.S. California geographically is perfect for a region and supposedly according to the teraleaks it’s in the running for a possible future region
They should do a game set in precolonial AfricaThat way they could have a lazy region without proper buildings and it would be perfectly justified by the setting
>>59029085It does now, but there was the whole “ripping children away from their parents, putting them in overcrowded boarding schools, and burying them in mass graves when they inevitably died of infections” thing a few centuries ago.
>>59024425>IranLiterally just take Tehran and a few other cities for the big areas and the entire rest of the region can be fantasy styled ancient Persia aesthetics. Easy.
>>59028818>Baltics over SuomiFinngolians deserve better than this
>>59028818Isle of Armor is based on the isle of man, not irelandTechnically Ireland has never been shown in universe
>>59029225Fingolland would just be the postgame area with a flavor slightly distinct from the 'mainland' of the region ala Sinnoh's Fight Area/Sakhalin, whether that mainland be Scandinavia or the Baltics.
>>59028818>The Gambia in light blueThat was my favorite region.Also, the Orre region is based on Arizona.
>>59029362Finns have way more cultural relevance than the Baltics do thougheverbeit.
>>59028985shrunken down region with the east side having developed cities, and the right having gold rush ghost towns and lawless chaos.
>>59028818Florida is actually more likely than many of the yellow states
>>59029236it was definitely ireland
>>59024282A cold region for gen XI based on Scandinavia or Canada would be nice. Just take Northrend from wow as an example of its potential. It would make a good contrast with the tropical and mediterranean regions we just had.
>>59029624Are you perchance a professional retard?
>>59024282Nintendo suing the US government is probably going end any plans for another region based in the US anytime soon.
>>59029690Probably by the time gen XII starts prodction, Trump will no longer be president of US
bold to assume that future US presidents won't also create similar issues
>>59030481The average US president looks moderate in comparison to Trump. I'm not saying that other presidents didn't cause diplomtatic trouble, US always has done that, but Donald is too in the nose about that, and they usually don't target their own allies so openly.
>Mexico>controversialOnly in the sense the current party follows de "hugs not bullets" doctrine and bitched about the us of our flag in games, hence its not in more recent vidya
>>59024829>>59025014I unironically would boycott an Israel based game. Fuck that bullshit
Korea. Both of them.
>>59028818Arizona is already a region
>>59025014>They are one of the most profitable brans in the world and wouln't risk losing it due to a controversy,sure, that's why the mainline switch games dont exi-OH WAITTo be fait hough the new announced game seem to even go back to the previous art style and considering the leaks, maybe they delayed them to do a overhaul on story and possible woke bs
China will get a region eventuallyJust because Japs hate modern China doesn't mean they don't hold some reverence for ancient China and it's culture. It might be some Romance of the Three Kingdom/Journey to the West spin off at the least, but a full region isn't off the table. They hate Korea too much and don't respect their culture at all to ever do it
>>59024488>You either do a complete bullshit non-russia "russia" that don't exist (just a sterotype with wooden houses and snow but it might be as well any other northern country).What's wrong with that? Real life Kanto isn't the five building towns in real life either.
>>59028818If Mexico is purple then Egypt might as well be red
>>59031991>Switch era controversies are as bad as ongoing genocide and geopolitical issues
>>59024282Post 2016 america
>>59025489How come every time gamefreak does the mafia its just straight up yakuza instead of the actual mafia? Both the rust syndicate and team rocket were supposed to be mafia but they're just child friendly yakuza
>>59024497An Egypt Region, it's a perfect blend of Ancient Egypt and optimistic futurism with absolutely no traces or trappings of modern irl egyptIt could be so beautiful
>>59024425China having a very large market offsets their controversies. I think you can also take India off that list because the western world doesn't really give a shit about their sabre rattling with Pakistan, and as far as I'm aware they haven't pulled even half the shit China gets away with. Indonesia itself was somewhat controversial, what with the Papuan independence movement
>>59024936You are espingouin mon ami
>>59029444The starting town in bw is literally new Jersey
>>59024488They already did Russia. Sinnoh goes up the Sakhalin islands which are russian territory and Cynthia is mixed race russo-japanese hafu.
>>59028838Brazil is not a matter of "if", it's when. Tpci is already used to hosting competitions in big brazilian cities. It's just that there are a shitton of other potential picks for regions that are way more attractive to GF in the way first. They'll probably only use brazil when they've ran out of northern hemisphere places to make regions out of.
>>59032413>Brazil is not a matter of "if", it's when
>>59024425>mfw no Israel regionIt was promised to us 6,000 years ago!
>>59027114Me when I'm delusional
>>59032574We got two games and a DLC in Israel's colony tho
>>59024282Iran would be hilarious.
>>59032460Brazil is more likely than any other bumfuck place, in say, the US for example. But there are still a lot of euro tourist spots Game Freak haven't gone to yet, it's unlikely for a brazil region to come before Gen XV at least.
>>59032934>shithole is more likely than shithole, but maybe when they are done with actual nations...
>>59024488I would like to make pokemon romhack with russian culture and maymays
>>59032954Are you mentally well
>>59032413I think it's likelier that they'll do a whole South America region rather than one focused just on Brazil. That would allow them to combine Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon, the Andes, Machu Picchu, and the Galapagos all into a single region.
>>59033040They could, but that'd require a tour of the whole continent (like they did for all regions before) and c'mon we all know that ain't happening
United States, Canada, Mexico, PanamaHaiti, Jamaica, Peru,Republic Dominican, Cuba, CarribeanGreenland, El Salvador too.Puerto Rico, Columbia, VenezuelaHonduras, Guyana, and still,Guatemala, Bolivia, then ArgentinaAnd Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, BermudaBahamas, Tobago, San Juan,Paraguay, Uruguay, SurinamAnd French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and FinlandAnd Germany now one piece,Switzerland, Austria, CzechoslovakiaItaly, Turkey, and Greece.Poland, Romania, Scotland, AlbaniaIreland, Russia, Oman,Bulgaria, Saudi ArabiaHungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, JordanBoth Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and PortugalFrance, England, Denmark, and Spain.India, Pakistan, Burma, AfghanistanThailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)And China, Korea, Japan.Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, IndonesiaThe Philippine Islands, Taiwan,Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New ZealandThen Borneo, and Vietnam.Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, AngolaZimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, GambiaGuinea, Algeria, Ghana.Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, TogoThe Spanish Sahara is gone,Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and LiberiaEgypt, Benin, and Gabon.Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and MaliSierra Leone, and Algiers,Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, LibyaCameroon, Congo, Zaire.Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, MadagascarRwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...Crete, MauritaniaThen Transylvania,Monaco, LiechtensteinMalta, and Palestine,Fiji, Australia, Sudan
>>59033072Realistically it would just be Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. Fudge the location of Rio and you can fit everything I mentioned into a relatively narrow band of latitudes.
>>59032460>>59032954I think Pokemon is unlikely to do Brazil because of its own retarded squeamishness, but you're absolutely new to anime, Japan, and history if you think it's a 0% chance
>>59033697I would like a Brazil region but I prefer if for next gen we go to a temperate, cold, mountanous region
>>59024282every country has been adapted into pokemongo except china, the middle east, and epstein island.
>>59024550So? We already had the Battle Pyramid and a desert in Emerald. Just do more pyramids and sand and you've got Egypt. Have phoenix, snake and sphinx pokemon and whatever else.
>>59034003So farther down south in South America
