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wow that was fast

 

[playingwithfire]

Is that the big boss of Nintendo? And he spoke the entire time in English, despite the fact that he's not very fluent -- I wonder how many presidents of multi-billion dollar companies would do that for a project like this.

He also seemed very humble and gracious/down to earth, which seems to typically be the opposite of people in such a position (In western countries atleast.)

Hi Iwata.

 

[ffdgh]

Why wouldn't I be using it.

I mean, seriously now.

Oh I'm glad he's serving you well.

 

[injurai]

Fennekin final form is just a Chespin fusion

 

[Jac_Solar]

GIF of the year.



My shiny Scrafty is my pride and joy. He carried me through most of the PWT by himself

I wish you the best of luck in catching your query. Trust me; it'll be worth it in the end.



You have excellent taste.

What are you talking about here? A console/PC/Portable game, or a card game?

 

[ScraftyDevil]

What are you talking about here? A console/PC/Portable game, or a card game?

I'm talking about the Pokémon World Tournament (PWT) in Black and White 2. It's a bonus attraction that lets you fight souped-up, harder versions of every Gym Leader and Champion in the series.

 

[DrForester]

More evidence for team awesome-fox.

 

[Skyfireblaze]

More evidence for team awesome-fox.

Holy... that is terrifying and so awesome Fennekin forever!

 

[ColtraineGF]

Anyways, I wonder how many Pokemons there'll be in this game. How many Pokemons are there in total? Somewhere around 700, or is that number outdated? Modelling them all in 3D, along with adapting them all for all the gameplay systems/their own unique systems makes me think that there will certainly be far, far fewer than 700. Or?

I read somewhere that you had to capture like 500-900+ Pokemons in Pokepark to get a unique Pokemon or something -- is that totally wrong, or does that include several models with 50-100 different color variations each or something?

Well, there are 649 Pokemon as of Black 2/White 2, not counting variations/fusions. This game will add... I'm guessing at least 100 new species. I'm not sure about PokePark, but in the main games, there are only a few categories of variations/'formes' for a single Pokemon:

1. Gender variations
(male)

(female)

2. Location variations
(east)

(west)

3. Seasonal variations
(spring)

(summer)

(fall)

(winter)

4. Formes
(Rotom)

(Wash Rotom)

(Frost Rotom)

5. Other variations
(Red-striped Basculin)

(Blue-striped Basculin)

(Wormadam, Sandy Cloak)

(Wormadam, Trash Cloak)

(Castform, Normal)

(Castform during sun)

6. Shiny
(Charizard)

(Shiny Charizard)

And there are other variations - shiny Pokemon are really the only category where you'll have to rely on luck (or special tricks depending on the game...)

 

[StreetsAhead]

More evidence for team awesome-fox.

Shooting fire from your orafices is a sign that you need urgent medical attention, not that you are awesome.

 

[ffdgh]

How does ear fire work?

 

[Ezalc]

More evidence for team awesome-fox.

Nice fire fart it's got going on there. Fire out the ears too? Pfft.

 

[MrCookiepants]

I wanta fighting type kangaroo

omg, yes. They could name it Kungroo.

 

[ScraftyDevil]

How does ear fire work?

He probably just ate something spicy and cartoon physics kicked in.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Maybe it has a stove in its brain

 

[Skyfireblaze]

Shooting fire from your orafices is a sign that you need urgent medical attention, not that you are awesome.

Well to be fair the same can be said about needles that grow out of your head!

How does ear fire work?

And well umm maybe Fennekin are really... hotheaded?

 

[EatChildren]

Iwata said "some" of the old Pokemon will return, so it's definitely not going to be the entire library.

 

[Currygan]

sorry to interrupt this awesome stream of fanart and gifs, I just wanted to say that the music in the trailer is fucking epic. Is that a new arrangement for the Theme?

That ouverture...

 

[Symphonic]

So we're not going to be able to post sprites of our favorite Pokemon from this gen on the internet

 

[IntelliHeath]

Iwata said "some" of the old Pokemon will return, so it's definitely not going to be the entire library.

Yeah, he did. I hope that I can transfer all pokemon from black and white to X/Y.

 

[Skyfireblaze]

So we're not going to be able to post sprites of our favorite Pokemon from this gen on the internet

Well we can always just post 3D models instead! But yeah I will miss all the nice sprites too, they are Pokémon history :/

 

[ScraftyDevil]

Yeah, he did. I hope that I can transfer all pokemon from black and white to X/Y.

I'm pretty sure that his comment just means that the regional Dex won't contain every single Pokémon. GameFreak would have to be stunned to not include backwards compatibility this late in the series.

 

[MrCookiepants]

So I'm pretty much done with BW2 now. I haven't played HG/SS or Platinum yet. Which is better?

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Iwata said "some" of the old Pokemon will return, so it's definitely not going to be the entire library.

Has there been a Pokémon game yet where you couldn't bring over your old Pokémon at some point in the game?

 

[Moaradin]

So we're not going to be able to post sprites of our favorite Pokemon from this gen on the internet

I hope they keep the sprites in some form, like the pokedex or something. Seems like a lot of work though.

 

[UltimateIke]

Has there been a Pokémon game yet where you couldn't bring over your old Pokémon at some point in the game?

There was a split from Gen II to Gen III where everything started over.

 

[Mr. Robot]

Hm... give Water and Fighting weaknesses to Poison. Grass is done though, that's a lost cause .

Now that you mention it, now is a good time to balance the types, and giving water a weakness to poison sounds logical, actually i always try to have a poison type in my team, until i realize that poison sucks...

 

[Aaron Strife]

Less than 48 hours the game was announced.

LESS THAN 48 HOURS

I found this


http://spacevoyager.deviantart.com/art/Fennekin-Pokemon-XY-Fire-Starter-347519799

"Submitted:1d 1m ago"

So this was released in LESS THAN 24 HOURS

That's custom made

 

[injurai]

I'm pretty sure that his comment just means that the regional Dex won't contain every single Pokémon. GameFreak would have to be stunned to not include backwards compatibility this late in the series.

yup

 

[flippedb]

Game Freak already re-did every Pokemon in 3D with the 3D Pokedex, of course they will all be present this time around.

This is the same guy who WILLINGLY cut his salary in half because he felt that the 3DS' initial failure was his fault.

I'm not surprised at all.

Wow, he did sudoku right there. Respect for that man.

 

[Macka]

So we're not going to be able to post sprites of our favorite Pokemon from this gen on the internet

I'm sure someone will make sprites for all the new Pokemon anyway, don't worry about that

 

[Currygan]

So I'm pretty much done with BW2 now. I haven't played HG/SS or Platinum yet. Which is better?

HG/SS have both 16 gyms. Double the pleasure for any Pokefan

 

[ohlawd]

Iwata said "some" of the old Pokemon will return, so it's definitely not going to be the entire library.

wish that "some" was "none". At least for the pokedex before postgame like in Black/White 1.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Now that you mention it, now is a good time to balance the types, and giving water a weakness to poison sounds logical, actually i always try to have a poison type in my team, until i realize that poison sucks...

Water should be weak to poison, yeah.

Not sure about fighters though. Fighting itself isn't supereffective to poison. IMO bug should resist poison.

 

[DaBoss]

This is my first post and it gets to be in the Pokemon Gen VI announcement thread, awesome! I`m so hyped for this game, need to get 3DS XL soon.

So I'm pretty much done with BW2 now. I haven't played HG/SS or Platinum yet. Which is better?

I liked SS better due to nostalgia and it having lots of content. Though both may feel a bit dated due to BW2 so good.

 

[EatChildren]

Has there been a Pokémon game yet where you couldn't bring over your old Pokémon at some point in the game?

Yeah, that's true. I'm really not up to scratch with how the Pokemon series has evolved, and wasn't sure if you could have literally every single Pokemon in the latest games some how. But there you go.

There's already 649 Pokemon. Assuming X and Y at least bring the total count to 700, that's an insane amount of animated 3D assets. Maybe they'll DLC some assets to the SD card.

 

[ScraftyDevil]

This is my first post and it gets to be in the Pokemon Gen VI announcement thread, awesome! I`m so hyped for this game, need to get 3DS XL soon.


I liked SS better due to nostalgia and it having lots of content. Though both may feel a bit dated due to BW2 so good.

Welcome. I hope you enjoy your stay at out personal slice of madness

 

[Macka]

So I'm pretty much done with BW2 now. I haven't played HG/SS or Platinum yet. Which is better?

They are both amazing. Platinum fixed pretty mich everything that was wrong with Diamond/Pearl, and its probably the best 'directors cut' version ever.

HG/SS has 16 gyms though...and I love those two regions, so I'd rank it a bit higher.

 

[ohlawd]

Wow, he did sudoku right there. Respect for that man.

Committing "sudoku" is my all time favorite intentional typo.

 

[StreetsAhead]

Yeah, that's true. I'm really not up to scratch with how the Pokemon series has evolved, and wasn't sure if you could have literally every single Pokemon in the latest games some how. But there you go.

There's already 649 Pokemon. Assuming X and Y at least bring the total count to 700, that's an insane amount of animated 3D assets. Maybe they'll DLC some assets to the SD card.

I expect all event Pokemon to be DLC'd. No more hacking for them 2+ years in advance.

 

[ColtraineGF]

Yeah, that's true. I'm really not up to scratch with how the Pokemon series has evolved, and wasn't sure if you could have literally every single Pokemon in the latest games some how. But there you go.

There's already 649 Pokemon. Assuming X and Y at least bring the total count to 700, that's an insane amount of animated 3D assets. Maybe they'll DLC some assets to the SD card.

Well, they pretty much redid 'em all (in Pokedex 3D), so it's real unlikely they'll leave the data out for DLC - would make it hard for two games, one lacking model data vs. another, to battle each other.

 

[Sigismundo]

I'm sure someone will make sprites for all the new Pokemon anyway, don't worry about that

Well, simulators like Pokémon Showdown will need sprites done, so there's that already.

 

[ffdgh]

Hmm 3ds games can hold up to 8gb so I don't thihk space will ever an issue.

 

[ColtraineGF]

Well, simulators like Pokémon Showdown will need sprites done, so there's that already.

Mm, I think with the rate of people that made sprites within an hour of the announcement, they'll be lacking in people willing to make sprites.

The bigger problem for sims will be move data, base stats, and other mechanics changes - if there isn't any progress made on "that" front, there'll be tons of manual work ahead.

 

[Xux]

Now that you mention it, now is a good time to balance the types, and giving water a weakness to poison sounds logical, actually i always try to have a poison type in my team, until i realize that poison sucks...

They should make the Toxic poison status exclusive to Poison-type Pokemon.

 

[Avixph]

Hmm 3ds games can hold up to 8gb so I don't thihk space will ever an issue.

I don't think Nintendo has used 8gb cards yet.

 

[backlot]

They should make the Toxic poison status exclusive to Poison-type Pokemon.

I think that would probably just make defensive Pokemon harder to kill rather than make Poison Pokemon any better to use.

 

[Xux]

I don't think Nintendo has used 8gb cards yet.

Seems like a good time start.

I think that would probably just make defensive Pokemon harder to kill rather than make Poison Pokemon any better to use.

Jeeze, is there any change you don't have a rebuttal for?

 

[SovanJedi]

Yeah, that's true. I'm really not up to scratch with how the Pokemon series has evolved, and wasn't sure if you could have literally every single Pokemon in the latest games some how. But there you go.

There's already 649 Pokemon. Assuming X and Y at least bring the total count to 700, that's an insane amount of animated 3D assets. Maybe they'll DLC some assets to the SD card.

I think they're scaling back some of the animations. The battle anims for most of the Pokemon models themselves seem much more simplified, with the flashy special effects compensating for it. They'll probably save room cutting all that data out of it.

 

[Korosenai]

I'm talking about the Pokémon World Tournament (PWT) in Black and White 2. It's a bonus attraction that lets you fight souped-up, harder versions of every Gym Leader and Champion in the series.

I have still yet to beat the champion tournaments. Cynthia with her focus sash garchomp makes me die on the inside.