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BreakABone

04-09-2010, 01:40 AM

Looks like Nintendo has finally run out of colors and minerals.

http://thenintendonation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pokemonblackwhite.jpg

Not much is known, but more information is expected to be revealed this weekend. I would assume 3DS title.

magus113

04-09-2010, 07:25 AM

Oh for the love of-

:<

magus113

04-09-2010, 07:32 AM

What little we do know is that these two will be the first fifth-generation Pokémon games, and the first all-new titles in quite some time. They'll be released sometime this Fall (at least in Japan), for the Nintendo DS. Yes, DS. Not 3DS.

Well that answers that question.

Fox 6

04-09-2010, 10:54 AM

Yeah DS, boo 3DS

I want my poking mans to be 2d!

magus113

04-09-2010, 11:17 AM

I would imagine that the reason it's probably going to be ready so soon is because they're been working on it pre/during HG/SS development I would imagine. It seems a little too soon.

To be quite honest I think there are just way too many Pokemon. This game is gonna bring the list up 500+

That's ridiculous.

TheSlyMoogle

04-09-2010, 12:17 PM

To be quite honest I think there are just way too many Pokemon. This game is gonna bring the list up 500+

That's ridiculous.

Gotta Catch em all.

Vampyr

04-09-2010, 02:23 PM

Pokemon, you own my soul.

<3

KillerGremlin

04-09-2010, 02:55 PM

Can't wait to go catch Pokemon in the ghetto.

Teuthida

04-09-2010, 03:45 PM

There are 151 Pokemon. No more.

Typhoid

04-09-2010, 04:43 PM

There are 151 Pokemon. No more.

In a perfect world.

magus113

04-09-2010, 06:31 PM

There are 151 Pokemon. No more.

This is the reason that part of me secretly hates Fire Red and Leaf Green. It has all the other Pokemon from the previous games before it in it.

No.

TheSlyMoogle

04-09-2010, 07:21 PM

Teuthida

04-09-2010, 08:01 PM

http://pokebeach.com/news/0210/corocoro-zorua-zoroark-2.jpg

First revealed Pokemon in the new game featured in the 13th Pokemon movie.

Because I was shocked that there are that many movies decided to check out how many eps of the show there are. 643. That's excluding 36 specials. Insane.

magus113

04-09-2010, 08:32 PM

TheSlyMoogle

04-09-2010, 08:44 PM

Dude I know. And I actually want to watch all of it. I must be stupid.

*tear* I see that as a manly ambition.

I honestly would watch them all if it wasn't for the fact that after Ash epically fails at being a man, the show got really lame and started focusing more on the pageants and stuff. Lame.

Teuthida

04-09-2010, 08:58 PM

Dude I know. And I actually want to watch all of it. I must be stupid.

It would be a little over 10 straight days if you ever have the time.

I never enjoyed the show past the first three episodes. :(

Look how great it starts off.

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Would have liked if the show followed a brand new trainer with each new game. Actually get to watch them improve rather than Ash constantly make stupid mistakes he should know.

Fox 6

04-09-2010, 09:50 PM

magus113

04-10-2010, 09:48 AM

I was watching the show constantly until probably the beginning of the Pokemon Johto league. It's a fun show to watch but I wonder how many times I could watch Ash turn his hat backwards before he goes to beat someone's ass before my head explodes.

Teuthida

04-10-2010, 04:53 PM

First screenshots: http://www.neoseeker.com/news/13577-first-pok-mon-black-and-pok-mon-white-screens-leaked/

http://img.neoseeker.com/n/7/cc1.jpg

http://i.neoseeker.com/n/7/800pxbwcorocoro4.jpg

http://i.neoseeker.com/n/7/bwcorocoro5.jpg http://i.neoseeker.com/n/7/bwcorocoro6.jpg

http://i.neoseeker.com/n/7/cc3_45.jpg

magus113

04-10-2010, 08:46 PM

Holy shit, the towns actually look...interesting

Typhoid

04-10-2010, 09:47 PM

I'll probably get it. *cough*

I'm actually contemplating re-starting Pearl (or the other one, I forget what I have) because I never actually finished the game. I got stuck and gave up.

magus113

04-10-2010, 10:08 PM

I did too, but the thing is...I dunno, is it just me or are the games getting more difficult? I meant mind you there's no strategy in pretty much just going through the first half of the game with just your starter pwning face but it gets tough, man.

I'm stuck getting my 7th badge in HG/SS from the Ice trainer because he's a bastard and uses water Pokemon with ice moves.

What a douchebag.

Vampyr

04-10-2010, 11:19 PM

Neat screen shots - looks to be a bit different if nothing else.

I wish they would revamp the sounds in this one.

Angrist

04-12-2010, 07:11 AM

First revealed Pokemon in the new game featured in the 13th Pokemon movie.

Because I was shocked that there are that many movies decided to check out how many eps of the show there are. 643. That's excluding 36 specials. Insane.
Gotta watch 'em all!

I think I'm at 1/3. I usually watch an episode during diner or lunch. Not much happens, so I don't have to pay much attention. :)

Angrist

04-14-2010, 04:50 AM

I might get a DSL sometime soon. I have a few games waiting for me, 1 is PKMN Pearl.

Does anyone know of a good American DS exporting site? I want a black/red one, which they don't sell in Europe.

BreakABone

04-15-2010, 10:47 AM

http://i40.tinypic.com/50s9ro.png

http://i44.tinypic.com/fp32o0.png

http://i40.tinypic.com/210eo45.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/6opdep.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2h3whw1.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/2yzjygw.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/10r4jra.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/2w3ruxs.jpg

Just direct-feed of the screens from above. Really looks improved. Even a new battle screen.

Bube

04-15-2010, 05:06 PM

That 3rd screenshot, with the buildings and that different camera angle just won me over. I want this. Seriously.

magus113

04-15-2010, 05:20 PM

I'm liking what I'm seeing. I don't know what it is that's been keeping them from doing a visual overhaul of the series.

DS carts hold at most 256 MB of data. You'd be surprised how much shit you can pull off.

The only game I think that's used the most of the DS's data is Suikoden Tiekreis and that's because there's a metric fuckton of voice clips and the anime videos they compressed for it too.

BreakABone

04-17-2010, 11:55 PM

http://www.filb.de/1294

"First footage" it pretty much just confirms the game is 3D, and shows the character walking.

BreakABone

05-12-2010, 12:52 PM

The starters have been leaked

http://pokebeach.com/news/0510/corocoro-pokemon-black-white-starters-1.jpg

Dylflon

05-12-2010, 01:26 PM

Dumbest looking set of starters.

Typhoid

05-12-2010, 02:23 PM

Dumbest looking set of starters.

What's wrong with a suave dino-gator, excited bandit-pig and a concerned otter-cat?

Default

05-12-2010, 05:30 PM

I wish they'd go with a little-less safe with the starters. Every generation, they're basically an animal that's been pokemon'd. It's too bad because they've been doing some great, weird stuff with their monster designs these last few games, I'd love to see some of that with the starters.

(Though asshole-hipster gator is pretty great, I'll admit)

TheSlyMoogle

05-12-2010, 08:09 PM

To start with fire pig or water cat... Tough choice. Water cat kinda looks like a moogle.

Angrist

05-14-2010, 07:56 AM

Boooooooooooooooooooooring!

Vampyr

05-14-2010, 03:48 PM

Pretty lame looking, but we haven't seen their next two evolutions yet.

At the moment I'm thinking I'll take fire pig. They are after all very clean animals.

Vampyr

05-15-2010, 08:36 PM

Clip of a battle. I like the constant movement:

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Also a battle with the starters, and close up images as the playable characters:

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Default

05-17-2010, 02:56 PM

Bwahaha I can't believe something like Pokemon Sunday exists, but I'm so glad that it does

Angrist

05-19-2010, 08:28 AM

The more I see the starters, the more I dislike them.

The grass one looks too much like Treecko. Water one like Piplup and that beaver pkmn. The fire starter (pun intended?) is just... boring.

Vampyr

05-19-2010, 08:51 AM

The more I see the starters, the more I dislike them.

The grass one looks too much like Treecko. Water one like Piplup and that beaver pkmn. The fire starter (pun intended?) is just... boring.

The starters are sort of lame, but I'm growing fond of fire pig. I want to nickname him 'Ganon'.

BreakABone

05-28-2010, 01:24 PM

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/iamnotevilness/lgndry.jpg

incredibledave

05-29-2010, 04:07 PM

The pokemon anime kinda works if you read as a self aware character who knows hes in a children's cartoon and is tormenting the characters around him with his 'studipity'. Kinda like Deadpool if your a comic fan.

Personally I look forward to seeing how future Pokemon games are named.

red/blue
silver/gold
diamond/sapphire
diamond/pearl
black/white
stealth/strength?
good/evil?
Apollonian/Dionysian?
communism/fascism?
coke/pepsi?
team-jacob/team-edward?

BreakABone

05-29-2010, 04:47 PM

Teuthida

05-29-2010, 04:48 PM

Angrist

05-31-2010, 10:58 AM

Pretty awesome PKMN, are those real? I like the black one most.
But why do they have jet engines as tails?

incredibledave

06-07-2010, 12:11 PM

doesnt look any worse than generations 2 - 3.

BreakABone

06-28-2010, 11:12 AM

TheSlyMoogle

06-28-2010, 10:56 PM

Looks like from the video that the japanese release date is sept 18th.

Probably makes US release around December. Just in time for the holiday season in the US of course.

Vampyr

06-29-2010, 08:37 AM

I can't believe this is coming out so soon. I really need to start SoulSilver back up and catch'em all!

Probably the game I'm most excited about this year...love me Pokemons.

BreakABone

08-04-2010, 11:21 AM

- only encounter new Pokemon until you clear the game
- the dev team wanted new and old players to share the experience of finding new Pokemon for the first time
- the dev team had people inside and outside the company test the game, and they made the following comments

"It's like playing something completely new, similar to when I played Red & Green"
"You don't even know the type of the Pokemon, so you're surprised at the skills"
"There are only Pokemon that you've never seen, so it's fresh and new"

- the devs admit that designing the new Pokemon is still tough

Professor Araragi leaves you, Cheren (the black-haired boy), and Belle (the blond girl) each a present and tells you to share it with them (they are your childhood friends). This is when you pick your starter. Sometimes you’ll battle your friends during your adventure. Belle is spontaneous and one of your two rivals. She also has a strong side to her that shows sometimes, such as when she goes out on her adventure against her father’s wishes. During your adventure she will have times where she will be unreliable as well, but she will grow as the story progresses. Cheren is very intelligent. He’s extremely trustworthy and will give you advice throughout your journey. His goal is to be a champion.

When you pick your starter, the other two go to your two rivals Cheren and Belle. All three of you start your journey together at the same time, just like Ash, Gary, and the other Pallet Town Pokemon Trainers in the show and the three Gold and Silver trainers in the Legend of Raikou special.

The game starts from Route 1, indicating that this region is much farther away than Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh.

N will keep challenging you in order to confirm his ideas of justice. He calls Pokemon his “friends,” but one of the screenshots shows him saying that he wants to split humans and Pokemon and divide them so that the world is black and white. He has the unique idea to set Pokemon free from people. He’s looking for the power to grant these ideals.

In 3-on-3 battles, if your Pokemon is, for example, on the far left, it won’t be able to hit a Pokemon on the far right. There is a button on the bottom left hand corner of the battle screen which is called “Move” and allows you to swap your Pokemon’s positions. Thus, a Pokemon on the far right can hit the opponent’s Pokemon that are on the far right as well as the middle. The magazine also says that if the Pokemon in the middle uses an attack that hits all Pokemon, then it will be very powerful.

A new ability called Telepathy prevents Pokemon from receiving damage from teammates. For example, if a Pokemon has Telepathy in a two-on-two or three-on-three battle and one of your Pokemon uses Surf, the Pokemon with Telepathy will not be damaged.

Rankurusu (the green cell) and Gochiruzeru (the black humanshaped Pokemon) are both version-exclusives, but it doesn’t say which is in which version.

Pokemon White will exclusively feature White Forest while Pokemon Black will exclusively feature Black City.

You can see Black City in the top left of the scan and White Forest right next to it. You can also see game screenshots of the two locations below their artwork.

There will be cities that look different based on the version even though they are the same city. In the bottom two screenshots on the left page, you can see one city that looks different in both versions of the game.

There is a new, unnamed attack which for one turn will cause all of your team members to avoid attacks that hit all team members.

Musharna (ムシャーナ) is the Trance Pokemon and is a Psychic-type like its pre-evolution Munna. The dreams of Pokemon are inside its smoke; both Munna and Musharna give off this Dream Smoke. It has the abilities Forewarn and Synchronize, stands 1.1m tall, and weighs 60.5kg.

If you obtain “Dream Smoke,” you can use a “Game Sync” to enable the uploading of your Black and White file to the Internet. Basically, it seems like “Dream Smoke” unlocks your ability to upload your game file.

The player will receive the C Gear from Makomo, Professor Araragi’s friend, after they do something she asks. The C Gear has features for Wi-Fi, local wireless, and infrared.

The High Link is a building at the center of Isshu through which you can connect to other players’ games. Using the High Link, you can travel to another player’s world and adventure with them together.

With the DS’s infrared signal, you can have speedy battles with up to four players and speedy trades directly from your party or PC box. You can also automatically exchange friend codes over infrared now.

A new feature called Passing By will allow your DS to connect automatically with other players that are nearby. As you advance in Black and White, you will be able to help others on their journey. It is part of the C Gear.

The games have a Live Caster feature (not for the old DS or DS Lite), which allows you to use the DSi’s camera to talk to friends through video feed. Locally, you can talk to up to four people, while over Wi-Fi you can only talk to two. The Live Caster will have a pen and stamp tool so you can play with the pictures while using the video chat.

Characters in the game will use the Live Caster feature to talk to you as well. o.o’ N is seen using this in the trailer that showed on Oha Suta a few weeks ago.

As has been rumored for months, the two games will now support Kanji for Japanese players. Apparently, the game’s script will change a bit as well, perhaps since those who would change to Kanji are older players (will it be a little more detailed with more advanced vocabulary?). This feature won’t be in the English games because it’s a Japanese language thing.

There is a new feature called Feeling Check that checks the compatibility of players. One of the things it shows is a game where two people have to keep the same rhythm.

The Pokemon Global Link, which is the service that allows you to upload your Black and White save file to a special website, has two different modes: one where you have your Pokemon play in a dream and another where you can battle online. You can unlock the Global Link feature once you obtain Musharna, the evolution of Munna, meaning it is one of those “gimmick” Pokemon like Plusle and Minun were for 2-on-2 battles.

If you are registered through the Pokemon Global Link, you can play online battles using a “Rating Mode” or “Random Match” mode at to the Global Terminal inside the Pokemon Center. It will send your battle results to a server and you can compare your results to other players to see who is a strong Trainer.

In the World of Dreams, your Pokemon have their own rooms that they can play in and they can play mini-games with other Pokemon. Pokemon that your Pokemon becomes friends with in the dream world can be taken back to the real world, being your game; you can capture Pokemon not available in the Isshu PokeDex and transfer them to your games in this fashion. To transfer Pokemon to the computer and thus to the World of Dreams, there will be a new Game Sync option available through the C Gear, which allows you to choose one Pokemon to send to your computer.

BreakABone

09-16-2010, 07:31 PM

Angrist

09-17-2010, 02:40 AM

Lol @ the broccoli monkey. 40/40 from Famitsu btw...

jayv

09-17-2010, 09:08 AM

i haven't played pokemon since gold/silver. and i got pokemon ranger on the DS which was kind of fun but ultimately didn't keep my attention.

but i haven't been excited for a pokemon game since silver until this one. i may just get back into pokemon playing. i can't wait for it. 3-on-3 battles?? i missed the 2-on-2 battles from the previous one. i would have been excited for that, but NOW I'M EXCITED FOR 3-ON-3!

YEAH!

ok i'm done.

TheSlyMoogle

09-22-2010, 09:53 PM

Some of those pokemon. Just wow?

They looked retarded.

TheSlyMoogle

03-06-2011, 10:35 PM

Game is out today. Just to let you know, tepig is da coolest MFer alive. Also Broccoli monkey is the shit. That's all.

PanSear
PanPour
PanSage

Monkey love.

Vampyr

03-07-2011, 09:01 AM

Game is out today. Just to let you know, tepig is da coolest MFer alive. Also Broccoli monkey is the shit. That's all.

PanSear
PanPour
PanSage

Monkey love.

I'm assuming you restarted until you got a female starter, too?

If so, want to breed me a tepig at some point and trade for an oshawott?

TheSlyMoogle

03-07-2011, 12:53 PM

I'm assuming you restarted until you got a female starter, too?

If so, want to breed me a tepig at some point and trade for an oshawott?

yeah that's cool. Tepig nation.

TheSlyMoogle

03-07-2011, 07:13 PM

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1205826250_xMbNa-L.jpg

Ahh yes.

Vampyr

03-07-2011, 09:32 PM

This is the best part of that comic:

http://penny-arcade.smugmug.com/photos/1208871678_Hcg7r-O.jpg

TheSlyMoogle

03-07-2011, 10:37 PM

Finally got my DS Lite working with my wireless router. So just got my liberty pass. Hmm why aren't we doing a journal for this game?

Typhoid

04-15-2011, 01:23 AM

..So I was talking to my young nephew today, and he doesn't know about Pokemon. I'm not sure why. Culture thing maybe. Maybe age. Maybe I'm holding on to my youth. So anyways, he said to me:

"Uncle Sean, I don't understand. You jam animals into balls? Doesn't that hurt them? Isn't it bad for the animals?"

To which I retorted:

"It's okay bud, because I use technology to digitize and shrink them down super small into the little balls, and I put those balls into a backpack, and that removes all of the animal cruelty from the situation. "

He took that as a credible answer. I hope children aren't impressionable.

But anyways, it's a pretty cool game. I like the fact all the shit is new, yo. Respect.