I just meant that it was the first Pokemon game to do it, not the first RPG ever to do it. I'm sure it was done at least once or twice before, but I never played those games myself. I found that if I wanted to play it during the day, I just did so on weekends. No big deal.
But yeah, Ruby/Sapphire is when the series jumped the shark. R/S actually took OUT the clock/calendar and day/night cycle and replaced it with non-random weather. It also barely added anything to the battle system, and the graphical upgrade was so minor it was insignificant. Laaaaaaame.
Again, we're talking solely about the video game here, not about the rest of the franchise. As I said before, if you look solely at the game as a game, it's not lame. When you throw in the 4 bazillion spinoffs, it's lame.
Eh... Pokeemanz stuff spread out over a larger area isn't quite so bad. It's when it gets concentrated into a small space that this problem arises. This could just as easily be resolved with a Boot to the Head directed at the people collecting them in the first place.
Yeah, but if you set them on fire, they get all charred and you can't give them a Boot to the Head anymore without catching your own foot on fire. That and they won't have a head left to boot after they're just a pile of ashes. That's no fun.
Eh... flamethrower in this case = meh. Once you use it on something, that's it. You can't do anything else to it. I'd only use a flamethrower on stuff I want to go away forever, like telemarketers and ads for things like Viagra.
I just meant that it was the first Pokemon game to do it, not the first RPG ever to do it. I'm sure it was done at least once or twice before, but I never played those games myself. I found that if I wanted to play it during the day, I just did so on weekends. No big deal. 
As I said before, if you look solely at the game as a game, it's not lame. When you throw in the 4 bazillion spinoffs, it's lame. 
