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Pokémon Black Version 2/White Version 2 |OT| Zero Shades of Grey
- Thread starter ColtraineGF
- Start date
Box of Bunnies
Banned
This is not Pokemon. Got bored halfway through White.
This is Pokemon:
Oh well.
Wouldn't be a Pokemon thread without nostalgists popping in to lament that things have gone on without them. Thanks for stopping by.
I'm pretty sure it says Pokemon on the box. It's Pokemon.
ColtraineGF
Member
The expanded list is here (SPOILERS)
well that didn't take longThis is not Pokemon. Got bored halfway through White.
This is Pokemon:
Oh well.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Digimon x Medarot
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Thanks
EndcatOmega
Unconfirmed Member
Oh, wasn't trying to criticise you! Thanks, though!
ColtraineGF
Member
Nah, was bound to miss some things - wanted to keep stuff brief. Nevertheless, questions are important, yeah.
This is not Pokemon. Got bored halfway through White.
This is Pokemon:
Oh well.
Alright we have a "Pokemon has changed too much" post. Now we just need some "Pokemon hasn't changed enough" posts and this thread will officially be off the ground.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Thequietone
Member
You start over if your referring to the item that increases difficulty.
Dr.Palutena
Member
Pokemon is defined by what I like and nothing else!
WrenchNinja
Member
I'll buy a copy of the game for my brother but I'm probably going to sit this game out. First time I've ever done that with the main series but I'm pretty burned out with DS Pokemon games and Unova.
Bring on sixth gen!
Bring on sixth gen!
Little Green Yoda
Member
So is Black the version to get? I have no idea which of the exclusive 5th gen Pokemon are worth it but apparently the status bars on the battle screen are different too? The black status bar looks much better IMO.
MasterSheen
Member
Getting hard-mode version for my BD in a few weeks 
dakkumauji
Member
This does remind me I haven't preordered this from Amazon yet.
Guess I gotta get a new avatar in celebration.
Guess I gotta get a new avatar in celebration.
It's still her. She just had a slight redesign.
UltimateIke
Member
Yay! I'm super excited for this. Great work on the OP ColtraineGF!
Chet's banner is great, as always.
Chet's banner is great, as always.
shes wearing mareep fur now for some reason lol.
Schadenfreude
Member
That's not a knife.
Anywho, already got the game preordered on Amazon. Now I just have to play the waiting game.
Mr. Matthew
Neo Member
Ah man, can't wait to get an Arcanine! Couple more days!
Btw, who's gonna catch every single Pokemon?
Btw, who's gonna catch every single Pokemon?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
There are 21 Pokemon available in it (26 with a Generation IV cart inserted). I kinda expected more to be honest.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Only game that will have me scaling back my TTT2 training just a bit. So excited.
ColtraineGF
Member
From Serebii:
Serebii said:
Choose whoever has the coolest legendary on the box, in your opinion. That's all that matters.
IrishNinja
Member
great OP!
okay so since gravijah's not up at this hour:
if i finally wanna break into pokemons, does this look like the one? will i be missing out on stuff from black or white 1? i literally don't know shit since the cartoon, and was debating holding out for the first actual 3DS one, but i dunno. that Pokedex app thing looks cool too.
okay so since gravijah's not up at this hour:
if i finally wanna break into pokemons, does this look like the one? will i be missing out on stuff from black or white 1? i literally don't know shit since the cartoon, and was debating holding out for the first actual 3DS one, but i dunno. that Pokedex app thing looks cool too.
My favorite gen is ____! [1/2/3/4/5]
I ____ [like/dislke] the new Pokemon designs. They sure do look ____[overdesigned/artisically varied]
Gen 3 sure was ____ [terrible/great]! It completely [ruined Pokemon forever/made Pokemon what it is today].
Fill in your blanks and save for every future Pokemon thread ever.
I ____ [like/dislke] the new Pokemon designs. They sure do look ____[overdesigned/artisically varied]
Gen 3 sure was ____ [terrible/great]! It completely [ruined Pokemon forever/made Pokemon what it is today].
Fill in your blanks and save for every future Pokemon thread ever.
UltimateIke
Member
Arcanine? He's okay, I guess. If you like that sort of thing...
Several of us have already caught everything! (Minus Meloetta and Genesect, of course.) It's just going to take a lot of time/Patrats to trade it all over.
IrishNinja
Member
while im asking rhetorical questions: what was so bad/such a divide with gen 3? aren't you still basically capturing animals and having them fight?
Femmeworth
Banned
Yep, that's definitely the artwork of Chet Rippo.
Tis a fun ocean adventure...to put it lightly I guess.....and I suppose steven being replaced with wallace.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Means more epic tales from MikeMyers.
Electivirus
Member
Awwwwwwwwww sheet! It's so close! It feels so weird, having a new Pokemon title show up in the Fall, but WHO CARES 1 WEEK WOOOOOOOOOO
Black 2 -> send Challenge Mode to White 2 -> White 2.
Black 2 -> send Challenge Mode to White 2 -> White 2.
ColtraineGF
Member
It's a combination of several things:
- No compatibility between GSC and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, for technical reasons (no GBC/GBA link capability, and the data format for Pokemon was completely changed, making forward trading impossible)
- Because of the aforementioned change, there was no way to get a majority of Kanto/Johto Pokémon until FireRed/LeafGreen were released, quite a while after RS.
- New system blues and nostalgia, probably.
- Something about lots of water and trumpets, I hear.
- edit: VV Ah right, this was also riding off the extreme Pokémon hype wave, so there was bound to be fallout.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Black/White 2 should be fine to jump in on. Seems stand-alone enough and the originals were a kind of streamlined "new start" for the series so this should be a good one to get in on, being in the same mold.
I really think it was the timing as much as anything. It came out at the point where a lot of people that started with the series would be "growing out of it", so it kinda got the focus of that, and things as big as Pokemon can only be sustained for so long before experiencing some kind of lull. In terms of the games themselves, there was a lot of water in the region and it introduced more HMs which people already have a problem with.
I liked Gen 3, and it did a lot for the games under the hood, but it certainly marked a point where the amount my friends and I were playing trailed off for a while before a resurgance a couple years later.
I think it was just the point where some people needed a bit of downtime.
ThatObviousUser
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Can't believe this is out soon. Feels like it was just announced.
IrishNinja
Member
good answers, thanks guys. again i literally just played a bit of red, so that's all i got here.
OP says playing 1 isn't a perquisite, will i miss out on plot stuff? sounds like a few bits are unlocked from a save file, and it says the game's largely stand-alone, just wondering if there's gonna be a catch-up or something.
id also have to decide which version to go with...how do the rest of you guys do this?
OP says playing 1 isn't a perquisite, will i miss out on plot stuff? sounds like a few bits are unlocked from a save file, and it says the game's largely stand-alone, just wondering if there's gonna be a catch-up or something.
id also have to decide which version to go with...how do the rest of you guys do this?
Went with White for the first time, and now it's time to play its sequel - White 2.