Important topic;

Okay we need to sort something out here.

Pokemon Iron suggests iron age, since it is meant to be an old game.

However, some people are calling it prehistoric.

And some want egyptians, romans, greeks...

Somebody really needs to make a call on this, is it Iron age, age of egyptian kingdoms, Greeks and Romans or prehistoric?!

Discuss it here, come to a conclusion, otherwise the design is gonna be all over the place.

Prehistoric Iron Age with flavorful dashes of Egyptian, Greek, and other ancient culture inspirations.

Shakey wrote:

Okay we need to sort something out here.

Pokemon Iron suggests iron age, since it is meant to be an old game.

However, some people are calling it prehistoric.

And some want egyptians, romans, greeks...

Somebody really needs to make a call on this, is it Iron age, age of egyptian kingdoms, Greeks and Romans or prehistoric?!

Discuss it here, come to a conclusion, otherwise the design is gonna be all over the place.

What I've heard from most people is a mix. So all these civilizations will be included, one town representing one civilization. The logic being that it's Pokemon, so it doesn't really need to be historically accurate. Medieval, however, has been taken out, and so the Roman/Greek civ is the most modern one in the game.
The main character is to be from a Neolithic-type tribe, apparently.

Maybe we could get rid of Rome/Greece and have Egypt as the most advanced civilization?

Arbok wrote:

Maybe we could get rid of Rome/Greece and have Egypt as the most advanced civilization?

I like this, the greeks wouldn't contribute much but with the Egyptians, we could have massive, awe inspiring buildings to pokégods,(?)The game's legendaries(?).

Yea and instead of making the player jizz over awesome pyramids and a tough as shitballs desert path/nile path and then showing them a somehow even more amazing Rome.. We could just do the Egypt part.

But if we don't have Rome or Greece then how are we to include Coliseums?

well it is a game, fantasy. i think it should simply be BASED on ancient civilizations and cultures from our world making it historically accurate would just restrict our creativity and game design. Besides i doubt anyone will care if we mix the cultures of Egyptians with Rome or American Indians etc.

Indians?
Oh hell.

^Correction: OH, HELL YES.

i think a greko-roman civilization would be awesome visually, and it would give us a rich mythology to work with for legendary pokemon design


yea the mixed time periods thing bothered me too at first but i figured what the hell, its pokemon

Seriously?Indians?What the hell happened to the vikings anyway?

vikings are actually younger than the other groups we're considering
they were around in the AD years, the others were much further back into the BC years

Oh guess that's why I only heard them mentioned a few times.
But it would probably be good to include the roman coliseum, if we're hacking emerald and could use rome and greece as a battle frontier.Scott's replacement would be a slave trader.

Guys.
Guys.
Guysguysguysguysguys.

This isn't gonna be nearly as fun if we go around copying random real life monuments.

We get our ideas from them, and add our own creative twists

Hyper Beam wrote:

Guys.
Guys.
Guysguysguysguysguys.

This isn't gonna be nearly as fun if we go around copying random real life monuments.

We get our ideas from them, and add our own creative twists

The voice of reason has spoken.

I've seen many people say that pokemon needs to be tougher, if we had a battle frontier, we could make that happen and a coliseum would be just one of places on the battle frontier.Or maybe the colisem could be battle tower.