Pokémon Black & White

[kotora]

There was a Pokemon Green?

[ljkkjlcm9]

yes there was a Green, in Japan.... hence LeafGreen and FireRed.

Maybe light pokemon will be a new type? We need something else strong against dark types, it's only fair! And... GASP, maybe light will be weak against NORMAL attacks... that would be interesting.

THE JACKEL

[Momiji]

The Green version in Japan is our Blue version. Their Blue version is entirely different, and we never got that here.

[Tavrobel]

You'd think Nintendo would have come up with Black and White as titles way back in the Yellow/Gold/Silver days.

Black and White are epic tiers above the rest of the colors. Depending on who you ask, white (a physicist) and black (anyone who has played with play-doh) are a combination of all of the others.

Also, racism, which could mean that the third version would be Pokemon Brown.

[black orb]

>>> I have always wondered why pokemon games are so popular..

[Momiji]

Virtual cockfighting. You can raise cutesy monsters to impale, maul, maim, burn, poison, freeze, shock, torment, torture, and pretty much slaughter your opponent's monsters. Easy enough for kids to play, yet deep enough for serious competitive play. It can be as simple as a game of rock-paper-scissors or as complex as you want it to be.

How could you not like them, is my question

[Goldenboko]

NEWLY LEAKED PLOT SPOILERS BELOW: READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

(SPOILER)

• You play as a young boy or girl living with his/her parent/s
• Starting in a small town named on a theme along with the other towns and cities (theme as yet unconfirmed, possibly racial slurs such as 'Coon City' and 'Wetback Port' if initial reports are to be believed)
• The player will get to choose one of three 'starter' Pokemon (rumours abound they will be of the 'fire', 'water', and 'grass' type) from a Pokemon researcher living nearby
• The player will have a friendly rival whom s/he will engage in Pokemon battles throughout the game
• As you progress through the game, you will battle with various 'gym leaders' who possess powerful Pokemon, and will bestow 'badges' upon the player on victory
• Once all gym leaders have been defeated in Pokemon combat, the player travels to the 'Pokemon League' where s/he will battle a series of strong trainers before battling the current champion (whom the player will have met at some point during the game, in disguise). Upon victory, the player is named the new champion and the credits roll. If the player returns to the Pokemon League afterwards however, s/he will discover that being champion was actually a crock of and the previous champion will forever remain there.

Yeah, I won't be getting it. Pokemon is boring as .

Precisely why I won't be purchasing this game.

[Jessweeee♪]

I'm skipping every other generation from now on, so I'm holding out for generation 6 xD

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I'm skipping every other generation from now on, so I'm holding out for generation 6 xD

I think you have a point. Gen II is awesome, Gen IV is awesome but Gen III isn't that appealing (though I am gonna buy Emerald today for the sake of getting a few Pokemon :P).

Gen I was cool too but Gen II was such an improvement!

I wonder what Gen V's area will be called and what part of Japan it will be based on?

[Ouch!]

Given that this is looking to be such a visual departure from the rest of the series, I'd really like to see some innovation in other areas. Don't get me wrong, I love Pokemon just fine as it is, but five generations in, I'd like to see a bit more than ~100 new Pokemon to play with in a new region.

Game Freak has announced that this game will feature radical innovation in the series, so I'm interested to see how well they follow up on that. I wouldn't mind seeing something different from the standard set of six Pokemon with four ability movesets. There's certainly a degree of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," but I'm curious to see how they could switch things up.

[Skyblade]

Gen V is going to be in Orre, after wild Pokemon have returned to the region. It is going to have Shadow Pokemon (though not necessarily CIPHER), and a whole host of new Pokemon who have adapted to Orre's very intense recovering wasteland environment.

...Ok, I made that up, but it would be awesome.

[Ouch!]

They've got night and day already, but I'd like to see more use of weather as conditions for pokemon appearing. I know certain areas have had certain weather imposed on them in the past, and there are the different weather effects which can be induced in battle by use of the correlating moves, but having the different areas change during certain weather would be interesting. Aside from having the effect be permanent in battles, it could have consequences for which pokemon would appear: water types become more frequent during rain, for example.

Edit: Obviously certain areas in certain games have permanent weather effects that are characteristic of specific routes, but I'm talking more about "realistically" cycling through weather patterns which could, potentially, be tracked through a weather forecast radio station.

[Skyblade]

Yeah, I found it really stupid in the Sinnoh games when you got the TV broadcasts saying "Route 224 is having a blizzard!". Really? You think? It's only been that way for the past year. The games badly need cycling weather, and more utility for weather effects.

[Jiro]

I'm actually curious to see how this turns out. I'll do my best not to spend money on it though.

I'm rooting for Pokémon Grey too

[Tavrobel]

I want Pokemon that can change type based on where you catch them. Think about it. Catching a Grass type Pikachu in the Viridian Forest, where it learns Magical Leaf instead of Swift at level 20whatever, even though regular Pikachu are available both in the Forest and everywhere else. Though I am aware that they replaced Swift in the level-moveset in favor of Thunderbolt.

More type combinations. Fire/Ghost. Fighting/Dark. Ice/Steel. How about some Pokemon that are not so obviously outclassed by every other Pokemon, whether it's PvP or PvE?