Was it ever explained why you can't just try catch a Pokemon with the same Pokeball? I mean, do they just leave the Pokeballs that don't catch there? You'd think that'd cause some environmental problems or something.
Yeah there would be shards of shattered pokeball EVERYWHERE.
>>10732>>10733They do explode. Into some sort of fine mist, I guess? It's probably biodegradable at the very least, so they don't ruin the environment they're in.
In the anime, failed pokeballs jump back into the trainers' hand, unbroken. Maybe they get returned to the manufacturer afterwards for maintenance and re-use, like copy machines or milk bottles.As for being one-use... that would require an explanation of how pokeball capturing works in the first place. lol poke-physics.
I assume the Pokemon breaks the hinges or something and the trainer just shoves it back in their backpack for disposal down the line.
I hope those pokeballs are biodegradable!
Speaking of the environment & pokemon -- anyone else think the pokemon world is some kind of ecological paradise? Case in point: the main modes of transportation are bikes, pokemon, and public transit, with hardly any cars except those two trucks. Plus the population is concentrated in dense cities with lots of surrounding green space, rather than sprawl.
>>10767I get the feeling that's supposed to be the point. Characters are always making references to how they live in harmony with pokemon and nature and stuff. It's a very Japanese thing, you know? Kyoto accords, Miyazaki movies, that kind of shit. Nevermind all the horrible pollutants generated in the creation of a Nintendo system but whatever that's not important, right?
>>10767>>10778http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GhibliHills
>>10767So....you mean Oregon?
>>10767It'd be a bit hard to find monsters everywhere without nature to find them in.
Consider Orre, a region of mostly desert and very few easily spotted wild Pokemon. There were plenty of motor vehicles in that region; the main characters of both games had personal hovercraft, plus there were trucks of various sizes, and a cafe made out of an old train engine.
>>10793That is a good point.
>>10806Consider further that Orre is supposedly based on an American locale. Like Isshu is.
>>10793Truly, it was a paradise.One ruined by shitty storylines and "hurr you can only steal Shadow Pokemon durr," but a paradise.
>>10811Bad plot, in a Pokemon game? Get outta town.Not that I'm trying to excuse it. There was so much potential for badass. Wes as the antihero of a desert noir story, Rui as some kind of developing psychic, the potentially incredibly threatening CIPHER organization, everything about Miror B. and his flunkies...
>>10812>Rui>Potential for AnythingNo.The thing with Colosseum was that it was supposed to be the series' foray into a proper RPG, and they just screwed the pooch on that completely. Hell, they made it even worse in XD by replacing Wes, ostensibly the best thing about the game, with YET ANOTHER KID HERO OH BOY.
>>10814But now he's armed with TECHNOLOGY!He don't need to special gift to see aura.