Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Isn't this the point of the thread? I'm posting an opinion and giving my basis and getting s*at on for it.

Pokemon are tools, not party members. You don't recruit them, you capture them in the wild, trade them or breed them and make them fight for you.

Does this make sports manager games RPGs, just with travel and exploration excised?

Pokémon is a JRPG and to me it's silly that some people try to make it stand out from other JRPGs by insisting it's not one.

@Tounushi Demons are legit just tools which you use to fight for you in Shin Megami Tensei, and yet that's still a JRPG, since they're technically counted as party members, and they still level up. Pokemon are still party members which level up.

@TheJGG What's wrong with it standing as a niche of its own?

@Tounushi There not even in the same realm!

I have no idea someone would actually argue that Pokémon isn’t a jrpg, it boggles my mind, it’s just fact. If you level up a party, add party members, have stuff like healing potions and the like, it’s a jrpg, how in the world does sport manager games count? There sport managers! Unless said sport managers have the basic rpg fundamentals, then no, it isn’t, but I don’t know many or any sport managers.

@Tounushi The thing is though, it's not just an unpopular opinion. It's factually incorrect. Nintendo even lists Pokemon as a "Roleplaying game" on the eshop, which is what JRPGs are pretty much listed under. The official pokemon Scarlet and Violet website even mentions that it's the first open-world pokemon RPG.

@VoidofLight They said first open world Pokémon rpg? Interesting! Does this mean it differs from legends in some way?

Like I've said, my experience with the franchise is Gen I, so I'll have to take their word on those.

Gen I simply didn't feel like an RPG to me. Adventure, definitely, but not an RPG.

@Tounushi Gen 1 was marketed as a RPG back when the series was first made.

@Snatcher Legends wasn't open world. It was more akin to Monster Hunter, where you had big open areas to explore, but none of them were connected. With Scarlet and Violet, the entire world is completely open. Every area aside from one city is connected without a loading screen, at least going off the previews for the game, and you're free to do the gyms in any order you wish apparently.

I've been wrong about this for 26 years so I'm refuse to be unwrong now and fact is this is my opinion and opinions can't be wrong so it's factually right!

This thread is very weird sometimes.

Back then the only marketing about it here was the show, maybe some posters and an occasional TV ad and nobody at school refered to it as an RPG. When they were having the event of dealing out Mew at Tennari I don't remember the media calling it an RPG. In fact this thread is the first time I've even run into the subject of whether or not Pokemon's an RPG.

Well, it's the unpopular opinions thread. You won't see a dude with a mug behind a text-covered table here.

@Tounushi What's a "dude with a mug behind a text-covered table"?

@VoidofLight Ah, I see, that makes sense, I didn’t know that, haven’t followed it that much, that sounds fun!

@Tounushi You do know the difference between an unpopular option and facts right? My opinion is that water is wet!.

@jump I think he is talking about this

Tho to be fair he said tablet not laptop.

@Snatcher I'm sure it's an incredibly witty retort with lots of sick burns but I've got no idea of what the reference or meme is.

@jump @Snatcher No, I was talking about this:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/386/067/ed0.jpg

You're free to it, but you'd be wrong, since water cannot perform the function of making things wet upon itself.

@Tounushi Omg dude you should get a good Mendel for the gymnastics your doing, “water cannot perform the function of making things wet upon itself.” Bro are we really going to do this? How would I be wrong about that? It’s just an unpopular opinion, it’s my opinion therefore it’s not wrong. Is all this Just because you can’t admit that Pokémon is a jrpg? Is it that big of a deal that your wrong? It’s not an opinion, it’s not, for a fact pokemon is a jrpg.

You're the one taking a conniption about my opinion on the issue. Gen I Pokemon simply didn't and still doesn't feel like an RPG to me and in all likelihood never will. It's its own thing in my eyes and I won't be condescending or dismissive enough to call it a baby's first JRPG.
It's simply my unpopular opinion and I haven't been convinced by arguments against it and I don't even see changing people's opinions through argumentation or childish browbeating as the purpose of this thread. In fact you wanting me to "admit" to an imposition would only elicit further entrenchment.

If you wanna argue about later gens being RPGs, I have no informed basis to make an opinion about them beyond a wiki crawl. I place firsthand experience ahead of that.