Holidays

[Mudster]

I'm pretty sure you could run Diamond and Pearl from the date and time settings on your DS, so couldn't it do special events like Birthdays or Christmas where you are given a special item? It would be a bit like Animal Crossing, but I just wondered what your thoughts on this would be.

 

[◘Ins0mnIac◘]

Not a bad idea but
I. The majority of Japan is Shinto(no Christmas)
II. I don't think they wouldn't do this because they are more focused on Pokemon than human-related things.

 

[Pokemon4Ever]

I love your idea, but since the game came from Japan, It probably won't ever happen which is a major bummer.

 

[Mudster]

It could probably be changed though, because there is an exclusively Japanese version, and sometimes things are changed for different regions like Sega's Feel the Magic thing.

 

[Pokemon4Ever]

When it comes to Pokemon games, I don't think it will happen, but I could be wrong because Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 had downloads that let you have Christmas time and stuff. Those games came from Japan as well.

 

[Eszett]

I could easily see birthdays; their celebration is pretty universal.

Christmas is a bit less palatable, not because of Japan's Shinto majority - they still have a very bustling Christmas season - but rather I could see that raising red flags from other religions. Will the Jews want them to include Chanukah? How about the Muslims expecting Ramadan? It's a neat idea but I don't see it happening because of this worrying complication.

National holidays are also not so feasible considering that this game is released internationally: I don't think they'll want to program that barrage of American flags on the fourth of July only for the American version while relegating all the Dutch celebrations on the 30th of April. But more importantly, Shinou is not a part of the United States/the Netherlands/Germany/Japan/etc. There is no reason to include national holidays for real nations...

...however, in lieu of that, they could implement festivities that pertain to the Pokemon world. They would be rather arbitrary and spaced pretty evenly in the year. For example, Shinou's national holiday could be the 10th of August, when the professor in the game defeated the President of the Pokemon League with his team of all-star Pokemon, allowing Shinou a greater degree of autonomy from its corrupt regime. In addition, the day you become a champion could be labelled Ascension Day, and on that day every subsequent year, you would be offered a challenge by the former/current Champion with his best team of Pokemon, all level 100 and EV trained.

Real-life holidays are too far, but it can't hurt to give the Pokemon games a sense of culture by alloting them their own holidays. Though, I would suspect that most would be monthly or something; a year seems a bit too long to wait for a recurring event.

 

[Omega Pirate]

If Animal Crossing is anything to go by then Christmas will be in, aswell as New Years. There are Christmas episodes in the anime so why not in the game? If they're going to appeal to a greater audience, or the majority of people that play Pokemon, then they'll want to add in Christmas. New Years is easy, and I can't see any possible rebellion against it.

 

[Dark_Force]

I expect a few shinou-related holidays to be included.For example, when the Pokemon League extended its services to shinou, allowing shinou to have gyms and their pokemon to be placed on the pokedex, or a day where legendary pokemon are celebrated, and you can find out about the story behind that legendary.

~DF~

 

[Blazichu]

Good idea but The game is from Japan so i'll doubt it would happen amytime

 

[sam_h12]

i can see birthday events, but not christian holidays.

 

[Archangel]

A Hall of Fame anniversery? Where you, your friends and family celebrate the day when you beat the Elite 4...
At least it's Pokemon related!...

 

[Glaghphimous]

I can see birthdays, and seeing as the game came from Japan, I want St.White Day.

 

[Catalyst]

Hopefully it'll have something like the bug catching cotests again, maybe that stadium we saw in the map, could be like an arena or something, and contests, stuff like that, even possibly racing with other pokémon or something.

 

[Cipher 2008]

I think they'll be included to an extent. Birthday, New Year, Christmas...can't see anything else going in.

 

[Omega Pirate]

Good idea but The game is from Japan so i'll doubt it would happen amytime

Why not? Animal Crossing is Japanese.

 

[revenge]

i think not because people who cant celebrate holidays couldnt play. and gamefreak would lose money (oh yeah, nintendo too)

 

[The Ninja-Mage]

But see the reason for Christmas over something like Ramadan or Chanak..gawd I can't spell that even if I had a dictionary, is because Christmas is celbrated practically everywhere, it's turned from a religious holiday to a global celebration during the last 100 years. But there's also the thought of doing made up holidays in the game, bad example but Pikachu Day, where your pikachu costume and you will have better chances of catching one.

Birthdays I could also see as feasable, most every nation/religion celbrates a birthday, and if they don't boohoo switch to another what ever.

New Years - Definetly celebrated, it's more celebrated over the world then Christmas, but on different dates, so one solution is come up w/ a special new years around jan-feb since that's when most people celebrate new years.

anyway i'm done ranting.

 

[◘Ins0mnIac◘]

But see the reason for Christmas over something like Ramadan or Chanak..gawd I can't spell that even if I had a dictionary, is because Christmas is celbrated practically everywhere, it's turned from a religious holiday to a global celebration during the last 100 years.

*raises eyebrow* you know the majority of the world isn't Christian, right?
There's a better chance of Shinto or Muslim hollidays being celebrated since there is a larger percentage of them.

And it's Chanukah or Hanukkah. Being completely honest I would find it upsetting if they included Christian hollidays...being Jewish and all....

 

[The Ninja-Mage]

*raises eyebrow* you know the majority of the world isn't Christian, right?
There's a better chance of Shinto or Muslim hollidays being celebrated since there is a larger percentage of them.

And it's Chanukah or Hanukkah. Being completely honest I would find it upsetting if they included Christian hollidays...being Jewish and all....

Yes I understand a great majority of the world isn't christian but lots of religions celebrate Christmas anyway, heck even atheist's celebrate Christmas. So no offense but I think Christmas would be more likely then Chanukah(god i'll never remember that word's spelling) since even Shintoist celebrate Christmas.

ps - most Japanese are now either Buddhist or a small few are some form of christian, shintoism is sort of a dieing religion from what i've read. And even buddhist celebrate it . It's not really a christian holiday anymore it's more of a global time of the year to celebrate family and joyous times.

 

[[Super_Fjord]]

IMO Nintendo shouldn't do anything with any religious signifigance, at least not today. They could have gotten away with it in the '90s and earlier in 2000 but today there is to much unrest in the world for things like that.

Personally, I would like it if they started to put in holidays from the world we're in. Add some culture to the story, you know...