new pokemon game announced

[magus]

direct sequel
for DS not for 3DS

http://andriasang.com/con03p/pokemon_bw2/

[Himu]

And I was interested in getting B/W.

Fuck

[Tasty]

GOD TIER

I was hyped for one, but now they are two... and they're full sequels, not an expanded third version. GAME FREAK

Most likely hitting America THIS YEAR POKEMON FOR THE HOLIDAYS

[demi]

And I was interested in getting B/W.

Fuck

Hm? Wouldnt you want to get it still, since this is a sequel in the vein of FF13-2, etc

I'm actually glad this is a sequel, since I didnt play B/W in waiting for a "grey"

[Himu]

Oh, okay.

[Tasty]

This gives them soooo much room to do so much cool stuff. Now they don't have to worry about introducing a new region, pack of critters, characters, team, etc.

Everything is free game now. Old characters, old regions. They can actually continue plot threads, which is why I still feel GS/HGSS were the pinnacle of the series single-player wise. SO EXCITED

Just based on names alone, I'm so much more hyped for this than "Gray." With Gray we would sort of know what we were getting. This? Unlimited potential.

[Vizzys]

im holding out for pokemon rainbow

[Positive Touch]

good job

i heard b/w was good but disappointing in length compared to the old ones

[Timber]

It's time to involuntarily euthanise Andrex.

[Huff]

I hope they actually do more with this and are not just putting out two games for the extra sales.

[Tasty]

good job

i heard b/w was good but disappointing in length compared to the old ones

I don't know if I've ever seen them compared that way but they're fine length-wise, they weren't deficient but it feels like they move quicker since you're never grinding or backtracking, it's always off to the next thing and since everything is new you have to take it all in. Maybe those people were referencing how only half the region is available until post-game? But that makes less sense since that extends the game even further than previous titles.

[Van Cruncheon]

pokeymon games have plot? coulda fooled me

well, "gotta catch 'em all" is SOMETHING like a motive

[Mr. Gundam]

Please explain the plot to me in full detail.

[Van Cruncheon]

ash ketchum wants to get his dick wet, and they only talent he has, as a complete and utter special fellow, is catching 151 monsters. misty agrees to let him bust one in her if he puts his ocd to good use and travels the land to collect all 151. "what a figgurt," she laffs, forgetting that THERE IS NO CREATURE MORE DEDICATED TO WASTING ITS TIME IN TRIVIAL PURSUITS THAN A VIRGINAL special fellow. ash catches them all, beats a bunch of other spergs, comes back, and nuts her up. "fuck this" she says and takes up mommy blogging.

[Mr. Gundam]

I can't believe you bothered to type that up.

Andrex, I still want you to explain the awesome plot of these games. In detail. kthx.

[EmCeeGrammar]

The plot never changed from the first game.  Go catch em all, I'm a scientist!  Find yakuza clones.  Yakuza rambles about their motivations.  Rivals bug you along the way.  Defeat all the masters of pokemon and get a pat on the back.  Andrex will try to correct but B/W was the same ol' tripe. Oh except the yakuza crashes the final elite 4 battle.  ZZZZ  The game itself is fun though.

I don't like this news.  I wanted a pokemon game with spotpass/streetpass integration, online with the 3ds' more refined friend lists and uh something thats not a pain to play with the circle pad.  This also means the next game with updated 'mons and battle mechanics is YEARS out.
...
I still might bite if theres substantial post game content this time and a wider selection of 'mons.

[Vizzys]

gary oak is way cooler than ash

[Himu]

i have only played pokemon blue.

in that game, you go to like, an animal cemetary building, where there's like animal gravestones and shit. and you fights ghosts.

I played the shit out of that game though. Played 50 hours and beat it in a month. Got about every Pokemon without cheating, just trading and playing the game. Honestly the game was perfect for the 13 year old me and my friends.

[Vizzys]

lawl blue

spoiler (click to show/hide)

anyway the best pokemon game ever was


undeniable fact

[close]

[Himu]

I had Pokemon Trading Cards. The game was surprisingly deep and awesome.

No one else played so all I could do was look at my shiny gold Charizard card and cry.

[Himu]

lawl blue

spoiler (click to show/hide)

anyway the best pokemon game ever was


undeniable fact

[close]

Not really because only homos bought Game Boy Color

[Great Rumbler]

Pokemon Snap

[Himu]

whew

nintendo saved their audience from homosexuality.

[Himu]

DW3 gbc is pretty good. It's ALMOOOOOOOOOST like the SNES version.

[Phoenix Dark]

I bought the first DS Pokemon out of nostalgic impulse and the prospect of online play. It was for for a few weeks then I moved on. Same shit, different color.

I'd be all over a MMO-esque Pokemon. 20-50 people "servers," you can challenge anyone to a duel, you can become a gym trainer, etc...hnnnnngggg

[Tasty]

I can't believe you bothered to type that up.

Andrex, I still want you to explain the awesome plot of these games. In detail. kthx.

So like there's this kid who has a douchebag friend and his grampa give you both these devices that already know everything about these Pokemon you're supposed to capture and train yet you're still expected to capture all of them for some reason. So your mom kicks you out and you have to go become the strongest ever by beating eight losers and then five other stronger losers. However you're constantly getting sidetracked by the Pokemon mafia but you thwart them over and over like it ain't no thing but then it's revealed the boss of the mafia is actually the last of those eight losers OMG. So you kick his ass and he goes emo not to be seen again except for when you travel back in time from three years from now to three years to the past which is actually the present, where it is ALSO revealed that the mafia boss had a douchebag son who's an even BIGGER douchebag than your childhood friend but is also a total tsundere, so uguu and all that. Anyways, you go and beat four of those stronger losers when OMG it's revealed your douchebag friend already beat the strongest one so now HE'S the strongest, but you end up beating him anyways and then his grampa shows up and is all "SON, I AM DISAPPOINT" before leading you to the hall of champions of whatever. Douchebag guy goes and cries in the mafia boss's house before going "hey wait, I can be the eight loser since he's gone now!" Meanwhile you go train on a mountain cause you're a pimp.

At the same time all this is happening, two idiot jackoffs with way too much time on their hand are trying to FLOOD DA WORLD or MAKE VOLCANOS EXPLODE or something idiotic. But they're thwarted or something, I dunno, I never finished Sapphire.

THREE YEARS GO BY and now you're this new kid who's like the same age as the kid you were from three years ago and you're also given this device to try and insentivize you to collect all the Pokemans but there are like 100 new ones now so you're like WTF was Oak smoking when he missed all these ones the first time around? Anyways this other professor who likes to watch Pokemon fuck and make eggs tries to give you your start Pokemon but then that tsundere douchebag I was talking about earlier shows up and is all like "FUCK THE POLICE" before stealing one, and the prof and you shit their pants since an actual CRIME has been committed in Pokeland and there are no police well maybe one or two roaming around but there's no actual police stations or anything so you can't call no one. Anyways you beat these eight new losers, while the remains of the poke-mafia are all like "Come back to us mafia boss man we miss you!! T_T" But you bitchslap some sense in them and they're like "oh yeah lol, guess this was useless." Then the tsundere stays true to his character and has a change of heart and tries to give back his Pokemon but the prof's like "I don't want that tainted shit, damaged goods gtfo." So he keeps it and skips off happily into the sunset a changed man. Then you beat the five strongest losers who are remarkably similar to the five strongest losers from three years ago and then OMG the entire continent from three years ago opens up so you the character is like, "cool new losers to fight" so you fight them and beat their washed up asses, even the douchebag friend from three years ago. After beating the five losers AGAIN for some reason, you get to go onto this mountain where OMG the you from three years ago is there and he's like super strong and he wrecks most of your team but then you beat him and he's all like "..." and disappears, probably to go have tea with the mafia boss or something.

At the same time all that is happening, this other kid who is also you is going through the same rigamoroll but instead of the mafia you have to fight this new age cult who's trying to destroy the universe. And you're all "this is pretty hardcore dude" and the boss of the cult is like "I know, crazy ain't it?" Then you get sucked into this MC Escher world and the dude is like "YOU ARE MY SOULMATE CRAZY DEMON GHOST BUG THING!" so you leave him there before getting to the fifth strong loser of the land, this crazy hot chick. The ending is inconclusive but pretty sure you hit that. Oh and all throughout the game is this ineffectual detective guy who's actually pretty cool but kinda useless.





MAN MOONS LATER in a region FAR FAR AWAY, another new kid gets his Pokiginity cherry popped by this bangin' new female professor and he's all like "Imma smang it girl" but then she kicks him out so he's like fuck it, I'll beat this region's eight losers to prove my manliness. As he's doing it this guy with green hair shows up and the Killers start playing this song and he's like POKEMON BATTLES ARE BAD then proceeds to have a Pokemon battle with you several times. Meanwhile your two childhood friends are meeting up with you now and then, being totally self involved and clueless. WHAT AM I IF I'M NOT THE STRONGEST? dude and I'M DUMB AND USELESS BUT I WANT TO BE ON MY OWN girl. Then you meet this guy who looks like a lion and he's like "My Pokemon wife died T_T" and you're like "OK whatever." Then the green haired dude awaken's this super strong Pokemon and is going to force people not to capture Pokemon by like burning them to death or something (or shocking them to death if you chose the wrong version.) Anyways the green haired dude's dad is all like "MWAHAHA my evil plan of turning my son into a total sperger worked!" and green haired dude is like "Metal Gear launches nukes? It can't be....!" So you kick the dad's ass with your own super strong Pokemon and he's arrested or something and his son is like "I'm going to go learn not to be such a sperger" and flies off with the super strong Pokemon to some faraway land. Then the detective dude from a while ago shows up and says the green haired dude has been spotted somewhere or something.

THE END until BW2 which will continue the story of GREEN HAIRED DUDE

[recursivelyenumerable]

Have they like run out of name pairs or something? They could move on to more abstract concepts, I'll give them some

Pokemon Yin and Pokemon Yang
Pokemon Gemeinschaft and Pokemon Gesellschaft
Pokemon Conjunction and Pokemon Disjunction
Pokemon Data and Pokemon Control

tho wait ... does there have to be a third edition later I guess these aren't going to work 

[Van Cruncheon]

Pokemon Gemeinschaft and Pokemon Gesellschaft

would buy, and day one

however, nearly as good would be pokemon feminin/pokemon masculin

[Himu]

Andrex, what game is better for someone who hasn't dabbled in Pokemon since Blue?

Black/White or Soul Silver/Heart Gold?

Can you give a detailed reason as to why you support this suggestion?

[Tasty]

Andrex, what game is better for someone who hasn't dabbled in Pokemon since Blue?

Black/White or Soul Silver/Heart Gold?

Can you give a detailed reason as to why you support this suggestion?

Can't really go wrong with either... I'd probably say BW since they're getting a sequel, but it might be neat for you to see all the characters and region from Blue again in HGSS. BW has a slightly faster battle system but HGSS aren't unplayable, and HGSS do have a bit more content I'd say.

[Vizzys]

i never wanna read the word pokeginity ever again andrex

[Great Rumbler]

Pokemon Taco Bell and Pokemon Pizza Hut

[Himu]

Andrex, what game is better for someone who hasn't dabbled in Pokemon since Blue?

Black/White or Soul Silver/Heart Gold?

Can you give a detailed reason as to why you support this suggestion?

Can't really go wrong with either... I'd probably say BW since they're getting a sequel, but it might be neat for you to see all the characters and region from Blue again in HGSS. BW has a slightly faster battle system but HGSS aren't unplayable, and HGSS do have a bit more content I'd say.

I dont' remember anything from Blue except it fucking rocked.

[Himu]

also pokemon blue was the second rpg i ever bought after ff7

[Tasty]

Andrex, what game is better for someone who hasn't dabbled in Pokemon since Blue?

Black/White or Soul Silver/Heart Gold?

Can you give a detailed reason as to why you support this suggestion?

Can't really go wrong with either... I'd probably say BW since they're getting a sequel, but it might be neat for you to see all the characters and region from Blue again in HGSS. BW has a slightly faster battle system but HGSS aren't unplayable, and HGSS do have a bit more content I'd say.

I dont' remember anything from Blue except it fucking rocked.

Oh then BW would be a great re-introduction.

[Himu]

Does BW use the day/night thing like GS? I always thought that sounded cool.

[Mr. Gundam]

Holy shit my brain hurts. I got through like three sentences of that plot synopsis before getting a migraine.

[Bebpo]

there are two kinds of people who play pokemon

kids

and people trying to have sex with kids

 

[recursivelyenumerable]

I remember trying Pokemon Gold for like half an hour and discovering it had PS1 RPG length load times/intro animations for battles, despite being a Game Boy cartridge - wtf? Are the newer ones any more fast and fluid?

[Tasty]

Holy shit my brain hurts. I got through like three sentences of that plot synopsis before getting a migraine.

You're welcome.

Does BW use the day/night thing like GS? I always thought that sounded cool.

Gen 3 axed it but Gen 4 brought it back and expanded on it (there's like 5 phases of the day) and then BW expanded even further (there are seasons now, you go through one every month.) Like if you played it right now it'd be Summer but if you played in four days it'd be Autumn (since it'd be March.)

I remember trying Pokemon Gold for like half an hour and discovering it had PS1 RPG length load times/intro animations for battles, despite being a Game Boy cartridge - wtf? Are the newer ones any more fast and fluid?

Dunno what you're talking about with Gold but yes, BW feel a lot more fluid, things happen at the same time instead of sequentially and the camera transitions and animations make it feel really fast.

[MCD]

They still make POKEMAN games? And goddamn, what fugly designs these are.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Example of what I'm talking about with Gold:


Battle starts at 0:10. You don't actually get to enter commands until 0:24. That's a 14 second transition, which is on par with the slowest loading PS1 RPGs like FF9, where the animations and stuff were there to hide loading data from CD. But this is a solid-state cartridge, so I wonder what it's doing in the background to necessitate such a long transition - decompressing data, or what? Or maybe they actually wanted to have a long animation, which is even more insane.

[Himu]

That's just slow text. That has nothing to do with loading dude.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Things like that are often done to hide load times, and in any case in the end it has the same effect on the player's experience.

[Phoenix Dark]

I can't believe you bothered to type that up.

Andrex, I still want you to explain the awesome plot of these games. In detail. kthx.

So like there's this kid who has a douchebag friend and his grampa give you both these devices that already know everything about these Pokemon you're supposed to capture and train yet you're still expected to capture all of them for some reason. So your mom kicks you out and you have to go become the strongest ever by beating eight losers and then five other stronger losers. However you're constantly getting sidetracked by the Pokemon mafia but you thwart them over and over like it ain't no thing but then it's revealed the boss of the mafia is actually the last of those eight losers OMG. So you kick his ass and he goes emo not to be seen again except for when you travel back in time from three years from now to three years to the past which is actually the present, where it is ALSO revealed that the mafia boss had a douchebag son who's an even BIGGER douchebag than your childhood friend but is also a total tsundere, so uguu and all that. Anyways, you go and beat four of those stronger losers when OMG it's revealed your douchebag friend already beat the strongest one so now HE'S the strongest, but you end up beating him anyways and then his grampa shows up and is all "SON, I AM DISAPPOINT" before leading you to the hall of champions of whatever. Douchebag guy goes and cries in the mafia boss's house before going "hey wait, I can be the eight loser since he's gone now!" Meanwhile you go train on a mountain cause you're a pimp.

At the same time all this is happening, two idiot jackoffs with way too much time on their hand are trying to FLOOD DA WORLD or MAKE VOLCANOS EXPLODE or something idiotic. But they're thwarted or something, I dunno, I never finished Sapphire.

THREE YEARS GO BY and now you're this new kid who's like the same age as the kid you were from three years ago and you're also given this device to try and insentivize you to collect all the Pokemans but there are like 100 new ones now so you're like WTF was Oak smoking when he missed all these ones the first time around? Anyways this other professor who likes to watch Pokemon fuck and make eggs tries to give you your start Pokemon but then that tsundere douchebag I was talking about earlier shows up and is all like "FUCK THE POLICE" before stealing one, and the prof and you shit their pants since an actual CRIME has been committed in Pokeland and there are no police well maybe one or two roaming around but there's no actual police stations or anything so you can't call no one. Anyways you beat these eight new losers, while the remains of the poke-mafia are all like "Come back to us mafia boss man we miss you!! T_T" But you bitchslap some sense in them and they're like "oh yeah lol, guess this was useless." Then the tsundere stays true to his character and has a change of heart and tries to give back his Pokemon but the prof's like "I don't want that tainted shit, damaged goods gtfo." So he keeps it and skips off happily into the sunset a changed man. Then you beat the five strongest losers who are remarkably similar to the five strongest losers from three years ago and then OMG the entire continent from three years ago opens up so you the character is like, "cool new losers to fight" so you fight them and beat their washed up asses, even the douchebag friend from three years ago. After beating the five losers AGAIN for some reason, you get to go onto this mountain where OMG the you from three years ago is there and he's like super strong and he wrecks most of your team but then you beat him and he's all like "..." and disappears, probably to go have tea with the mafia boss or something.

At the same time all that is happening, this other kid who is also you is going through the same rigamoroll but instead of the mafia you have to fight this new age cult who's trying to destroy the universe. And you're all "this is pretty hardcore dude" and the boss of the cult is like "I know, crazy ain't it?" Then you get sucked into this MC Escher world and the dude is like "YOU ARE MY SOULMATE CRAZY DEMON GHOST BUG THING!" so you leave him there before getting to the fifth strong loser of the land, this crazy hot chick. The ending is inconclusive but pretty sure you hit that. Oh and all throughout the game is this ineffectual detective guy who's actually pretty cool but kinda useless.





MAN MOONS LATER in a region FAR FAR AWAY, another new kid gets his Pokiginity cherry popped by this bangin' new female professor and he's all like "Imma smang it girl" but then she kicks him out so he's like fuck it, I'll beat this region's eight losers to prove my manliness. As he's doing it this guy with green hair shows up and the Killers start playing this song and he's like POKEMON BATTLES ARE BAD then proceeds to have a Pokemon battle with you several times. Meanwhile your two childhood friends are meeting up with you now and then, being totally self involved and clueless. WHAT AM I IF I'M NOT THE STRONGEST? dude and I'M DUMB AND USELESS BUT I WANT TO BE ON MY OWN girl. Then you meet this guy who looks like a lion and he's like "My Pokemon wife died T_T" and you're like "OK whatever." Then the green haired dude awaken's this super strong Pokemon and is going to force people not to capture Pokemon by like burning them to death or something (or shocking them to death if you chose the wrong version.) Anyways the green haired dude's dad is all like "MWAHAHA my evil plan of turning my son into a total sperger worked!" and green haired dude is like "Metal Gear launches nukes? It can't be....!" So you kick the dad's ass with your own super strong Pokemon and he's arrested or something and his son is like "I'm going to go learn not to be such a sperger" and flies off with the super strong Pokemon to some faraway land. Then the detective dude from a while ago shows up and says the green haired dude has been spotted somewhere or something.

THE END until BW2 which will continue the story of GREEN HAIRED DUDE

TL DR

[cool breeze]

Example of what I'm talking about with Gold:
[/youtube

Battle starts at 0:10. You don't actually get to enter commands until 0:24. That's a 14 second transition, which is on par with the slowest loading PS1 RPGs like FF9, where the animations and stuff were there to hide loading data from CD. But this is a solid-state cartridge, so I wonder what it's doing in the background to necessitate such a long transition - decompressing data, or what? Or maybe they actually wanted to have a long animation, which is even more insane.

I think that's it.  I remember reading some complaints about the slow battles, text, and other parts of the GBA game (or another one).

It's a game meant for children.  Slowing down that stuff makes it easier to process, or something.  I dunno.  It doesn't look nearly as bad as how Zelda Skyward Sword stupidifies everything.

[recursivelyenumerable]

watched a couple black/white videos, and it kinda makes me want to play it (not that I'd ever have the time) - the graphics give it a lot more character than the Gameboy ones, make it feel more like a classic JRPG, and the music is pretty cool. unfortunately it still has the same drawn out battle intros, so it gets REJECTED.

[Vizzys]

pokemon tcg has best ost of a pokemon game

spoiler (click to show/hide)

(this is from the first game)

[close]

dunno why this guy has only composed for like 4 games

[Tasty]

They still make POKEMAN games? And goddamn, what fugly designs these are.

Kind of fugly on purpose. Kyurem was never meant to be a looker.

[Tasty]

Example of what I'm talking about with Gold:


Battle starts at 0:10. You don't actually get to enter commands until 0:24. That's a 14 second transition, which is on par with the slowest loading PS1 RPGs like FF9, where the animations and stuff were there to hide loading data from CD. But this is a solid-state cartridge, so I wonder what it's doing in the background to necessitate such a long transition - decompressing data, or what? Or maybe they actually wanted to have a long animation, which is even more insane.

Finding some footage on YouTube of battles without either obnoxious intros/commentary or official footage where the text speed is left at the default and the player takes 20 hours to press A has proven impossible. However I will say BW are much better than that if you set the text speed to Fast.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Yeah, it's actually sort of hard in general to find footage for a game of someone just fighting normal battles or going through a dungeon or town. Everyone only wants to show off some super boss fight or weird trick or something, which is understandable I guess, but not always the most useful thing if I'm trying to decide whether I'm interested in a game.

[magus]

Things like that are often done to hide load times, and in any case in the end it has the same effect on the player's experience.

with the GBA one they have introduced climatic effect which the game reminds you every turn which slows things to a crawl even more,one of them deals damage to both pokemons so the game goes like...

THE SANDSTORM CONTINUES
*OPPONENT POKEMON BLINKS*
*HEALTH BAR MOVES SLOWLY DOWN A FEW INCHES*
*YOUR POKEMON BLINKS*
*OTHER HEALTH BAR MOVES SLOWLY DOWN A FEW INCHES*

i'm seriously not sure how anyone other than ntards and kids can have the patience to bother with it AND
catching them all for the 6th time AND
playing a game where the music sound mostly like a parrot choked to death

[Diunx]

They are not even trying with the designs anymore

[Himu]

GO GO, LAMPASAUR. I CHOOSE YOU!

[Tasty]

Things like that are often done to hide load times, and in any case in the end it has the same effect on the player's experience.

with the GBA one they have introduced climatic effect which the game reminds you every turn which slows things to a crawl even more,one of them deals damage to both pokemons so the game goes like...

THE SANDSTORM CONTINUES
*OPPONENT POKEMON BLINKS*
*HEALTH BAR MOVES SLOWLY DOWN A FEW INCHES*
*YOUR POKEMON BLINKS*
*OTHER HEALTH BAR MOVES SLOWLY DOWN A FEW INCHES*

i'm seriously not sure how anyone other than ntards and kids can have the patience to bother with it AND
catching them all for the 6th time AND
playing a game where the music sound mostly like a parrot choked to death

Fixed in B/W, there's now a status indicator on the bottom screen.

Also you have no idea what you're talking about, music has always been a strong point of each new Pokemon release.

[Great Rumbler]

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

Original Pokemon is Best Pokemon:

[Himu]

why the fuck is that video 10 hours long

[Tasty]

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

Original Pokemon is Best Pokemon:

My point was that the series is well known for having great music, really.

Also GSC bike is the better bike theme:

[Great Rumbler]

why the fuck is that video 10 hours long

Why not?

[Momo]

why the fuck is that video 10 hours long

Why not?