I can't think of many other games besides Pokemon that do it (probably because I don't play that many RPGs), but what do you think of games that use caps lock when referring to any in-game name of an NPC, item, monster, or whatever?
I don't even know why they do it. I'd guess it's from old gaming tech when there was no ability to emphasize certain text with color or whatever so they gave special names all-caps text, or perhaps a limitation with the text processing exclusive to English games. With more modern displays and hardware, I don't think there'd be any remaining reason not to just use regular letter case in the English versions.
Tradition, I guess? I assume it's a running joke at the Pokemon company or something, because you are right, there's no reason to keep the all-caps names.
PROFESSOR OAK sent out PIKACHU!
It annoyed me too. I make my name with some lowercase, but then it looked funny compared to all the other names :-[
guys remember oldsider
CUSTOMROBO13
Quote from: Customrobo13 on August 10, 2009, 03:56:10 PM
guys remember oldsider
CUSTOMROBO13
I actually forgot :-X
LOTOS
Quote from: Lotos on August 10, 2009, 04:20:33 PM
I think I remember you :O
I was on the Smash Boards like 98% of the time. I also showed up to the DK boards (lol dead), and Metroid sometimes.
I didn't mind it in games.
Quote from: Echo on August 10, 2009, 04:39:35 PM
I was on the Smash Boards like 98% of the time. I also showed up to the DK boards (lol dead), and Metroid sometimes.
That would do it.
lulz.....I kinda liked that board despite its average of 1 post every two days.
RawkHawk2010 had like 90% of the topics
Quote from: Echo on August 10, 2009, 04:47:48 PM
lulz.....I kinda liked that board despite its average of 1 post every two days.
RawkHawk2010 had like 90% of the topics
It had to be more than that; I frequently checked that board.
HECTOR_THE_AXE
lol.
Anyway, haven't played Pokemon in a while, but the all caps helps me distinguish important stuff. >_>
Quote from: HTA on August 10, 2009, 05:48:34 PM
the all caps helps me distinguish important stuff. >_>
That's what our modern text effects like bold, underline, highlight, and color are for.
Quote from: Bluaki on August 10, 2009, 06:39:18 PM
That's what our modern text effects like bold, underline, highlight, and color are for.
All those are gay.
CANNOTCOMPUTE0
oh god memories
GAMEFREAK19911991
BLAZIKENPRINCE
...whee.
Pokemaster944794
C-C-Chain Breaker!
Quote from: JNFS2014 on August 10, 2009, 07:47:08 PM
Pokemaster944794
C-C-Chain Breaker!
Get out.
Anyway, all captials annoys me; however I do like the font styles that use small uppercase letters for actual lowercase letter, it looks really nice to me.
Yeah I always wondered that too, with the Pok?mon I don't mind, but the people kinda weirded me out. I don't mind the Pok?mon names being all caps 'cause then I can nickname my team the same names, but lowercase (EX: PIKACHU's nickname = Pikachu [if it's on my team])
All capitals iS bEtTeR tHaN ThIs ThInG tHaT people do now.