Official Pokémon Thread

[Dataprime]

The Pokemon Trading Card Game to get re-released on 3DS Virtual Console


It's only confirmed for Euro-land now but I'm sure NA will get it soon enough

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/07/nintendo_download_10th_july_europe

[Stan]

Well here is the mega metargoss that we all wanted:

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Call me a crazy gundam fanatic but it reminds me of the transformed Aegis Gundam from SEED (bear hug plus hyper beam anyone?)

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[r1cepurin]

mega swampert seems like every man's dream bara fish husband :'3

[Monk Ed]

mega swampert seems like every man's dream bara fish husband :'3

*googles*

When I was at a yaoi panel this past Anime Central, they went over bara yaoi, and what I saw at that panel did nothing for me at all and I just figured bara wasn't for me. But if that's considered bara, well, I guess it's not all bad.

Now you've got me thinking about Pokemon in a whole new way. Oh dear.

[TehDonutKing]

*googles*

When I was at a yaoi panel this past Anime Central, they went over bara yaoi, and what I saw at that panel did nothing for me at all and I just figured bara wasn't for me. But if that's considered bara, well, I guess it's not all bad.

Now you've got me thinking about Pokemon in a whole new way. Oh dear.

>>>/vp/.

[Monk Ed]

>>>/vp/.

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Also, angle brackets get stripped out so I didn't see them till I hit Quote. Commence chuckle.

[TehDonutKing]

I totally forgot about the angle brackets.

[Stan]

Some more news, yay:



-New art for the first 5 gym leaders
-New art for the first 2 members of the elite 4
-If you look at Sidney, he has something on his left hand--it may be a mega stone
-The battle intro for the pokemon league seems to remain the same as xy (up close character art with some text)




Flannery is sooo kawaii~


Some more random things to note:

-Diancie seems to have a similar mega evolution to the new legendaries (with the stone appearing and all)
-Secret bases return and you can add people via street pass to battle them at any time
-You can make your own pokemon gym out of your base and distribute it via QR Codes so other people can challenge it
-Professor Birch returns (its also the same game intro with him being attacked and all)
-Mega metagross seems to retain his typing and gets the ability tough claws. He also gets a boost to his Attack, Sp Attack, Speed, Sp Defense and Defense when he mega evolves (cause apparently he wasn't tough enough before)
-Pikachu can dress up
-Contests return
-Pokemon Amie comes back
-And finally there will be new pokemon in this region. I think what they mean is that final evolutions of pokemon will be seen (for example Phoebe has a dusknoir even though it's a gen 4 evolution of a gen 3 pokemon)

[Monk Ed]

[Merged in from Currently Playing 4.]

Pokemon X/Y

What a fantastic reintroduction for the series! I swear, so much of the game seems to call back to the originals that I can't help but wonder if it was designed more so than its recent predecessors to lure back the first generation of Pokemon players who fell off the wagon. Or has every generation since Red/Blue let you catch a Pikachu in the game's first forest? And I've heard that I'll eventually get to select a Gen I starter -- though I haven't encountered this alleged feature yet, and I'm far enough into the game (just beat the first gym leader) to wonder if it was even true.

I bought both versions at that Best Buy two-for-one-on-select-games sale last Sunday. I had intended to buy Pokemon X and Bravely Default but they were all out of the latter as well as my second choice (the Kirby game), and what sealed my decision to pick up Y instead of going with the Yoshi game on offer (the only other game available for the deal) was seeing that the Yoshi game had a low Metacritic score.

I'm playing as a male trainer with a Fennekin (now a Braixen) on X and as a female trainer with a Froakie on Y. I chose such because X's theme color is blue and so is the male's outfit, and Y's theme color is red and so is the female's outfit. I've named the trainers Maxwell and Maybelle respectively. I chose their starters with the intention of eventually satisfying theme color requirements by getting a Squirtle for my X game and a Charmander for my Y game and having those be my "main" Pokemon for them thereafter. These are the kinds of things I put my effort and thought into when playing games.

I was a little disappointed to discover that it is apparently impossible to trade with yourself without a second 3DS, even with the Pokemon Bank service, but luckily I have a friend with a 3DS so I'll just borrow his to make my self-trades whenever he comes over. (He also has Pokemon Y himself so I can trade with him too.)

This is the first generation where I've wondered how the sales of the two versions compare. If I had to guess, I would imagine that Pokemon X would sell better than Pokemon Y because, y'know, it's the letter X, and yet it almost seems like Nintendo must have realized this and tried to make Y cooler by giving it the more attention-getting color and the awesomer-looking legendary on the cover. At the store where I bought these, there were no X versions left on the shelf (a guy had to get one for me from the back) but there were plenty of Y versions; I wonder if that means anything?

[Stan]

I've heard that I'll eventually get to select a Gen I starter -- though I haven't encountered this alleged feature yet, and I'm far enough into the game (just beat the first gym leader) to wonder if it was even true.

You get the 2nd starter once you meet the professor at his lab.

[Monk Ed]

You get the 2nd starter once you meet the professor at his lab.

:( I was purposefully deflating my expectations so that I would be even more thrilled when it happened. (And a friend did confirm that I will get the starter, but I didn't ask when and wanted it to be a surprise.)

[EvangelionFan]

Pokemon X/Y

What a fantastic reintroduction for the series! I swear, so much of the game seems to call back to the originals that I can't help but wonder if it was designed more so than its recent predecessors to lure back the first generation of Pokemon players who fell off the wagon.

Good!
Now let's exchange Friend Codes so that I can see if your Friend Safari has good stuffs in it or junk in it.

I bought both versions at that Best Buy two-for-one-on-select-games sale last Sunday. I had intended to buy Pokemon X and Bravely Default but they were all out of the latter as well as my second choice (the Kirby game), and what sealed my decision to pick up Y instead of going with the Yoshi game on offer (the only other game available for the deal) was seeing that the Yoshi game had a low Metacritic score.

Shame that they didn't have a copy of Bravely Default as I probably would have gotten that over a second Pokemon game as well. Yes, it can be good to have both Pokemon games, but when Pokemon Bank only lets you register one... so yeah, sadly, no trading with yourself.

I'm playing as a male trainer with a Fennekin (now a Braixen) on X and as a female trainer with a Froakie on Y. I chose such because X's theme color is blue and so is the male's outfit, and Y's theme color is red and so is the female's outfit. I've named the trainers Maxwell and Maybelle respectively. I chose their starters with the intention of eventually satisfying theme color requirements by getting a Squirtle for my X game and a Charmander for my Y game and having those be my "main" Pokemon for them thereafter. These are the kinds of things I put my effort and thought into when playing games.

Why no Grass-type!?!?!?!!?


'Color requirements' bluh bluh bluh

Choose Grass-type, get girl
Good End

says person who picked Fennekin because friends chose the other two, and chose Bulbasaur but left it in the box after evolving because wanted to raise goat instead

This is the first generation where I've wondered how the sales of the two versions compare. If I had to guess, I would imagine that Pokemon X would sell better than Pokemon Y because, y'know, it's the letter X, and yet it almost seems like Nintendo must have realized this and tried to make Y cooler by giving it the more attention-getting color and the awesomer-looking legendary on the cover. At the store where I bought these, there were no X versions left on the shelf (a guy had to get one for me from the back) but there were plenty of Y versions; I wonder if that means anything?

Indeed Pokemon X proably sold better in part because of people preferring the letter 'X' over the letter 'Y', though I would wager it is also because the box art for X - and its associated legendary - are more appealing to players than those of Y.

Furthermore, in Australia at least, Pokemon X has been rated 'G' for General / all ages, whereas Pokemon Y is rated 'PG' for parental guidance recommended. You can attribute this to the fact that, if you haven't heard already, the storyline in Y is darker than that of X.

[Monk Ed]

Good!
Shame that they didn't have a copy of Bravely Default as I probably would have gotten that over a second Pokemon game as well. Yes, it can be good to have both Pokemon games, but when Pokemon Bank only lets you register one... so yeah, sadly, no trading with yourself.

Since writing that post I did do at least one trade with myself, using my friend's 3DS. In Y, I spent a long time trying to catch a Pikachu only to never encounter one (bad time of day?), but in X I encountered them so easily I caught two, one male and one female, so I traded the female one over to my Y game.

Speaking of this male/female business, it is so awesome to play this game and learn such things as that male and female Pokemon can have different appearances and that Pokemon can even have unknown genders. It's pleasing to witness the series evolve exactly as it should, steadily adding detail to the world and the Pokemon and throwing old notions for a loop. I even encountered a trainer ("Poké Fan Agnes") with three Pokemon of the exact same breed, all three of which looked very different! A far cry from the days when all Pokemon of the same breed looked exactly the same and didn't even have genders (except for Nidoran, which reminds me to try to look up some time whether Nidorans male and female are still considered separate Pokedex entries).

Why no Grass-type!?!?!?!!?

Grass type gets the honor of the third and most superior game in the generation when it inevitably comes out. I'm doing the same for my run of Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald.

Oh yeah, speaking of which: just yesterday I started Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire as well. The simpler graphics, maps, and mechanics are not only a big nostalgia trip but charming in their own right, and it's a thrill to finally get in on the first generation that I skipped oh so long ago, now with the benefit of a nice big screen (my TV, on which I played my first session), full backlighting, and (most importantly) fast-forwarding, which is going to really speed up my playthrough and minimize the amount of net lifetime I'll have to sacrifice to these games, thereby justifying my delay in playing them.

I'm playing as the female trainer on Ruby (which is going to be my main game of the gen), and the male on Sapphire. Naturally, I named the female May, even though it wasn't one of the default suggestions, and I was pleased to see that when you play as the male the unchosen female's name defaults to that. However, I didn't name my male trainer Brendan even though that's what his name defaults to when you play female; I decided ultimately that he looked a lot more like a Seth, so I went with that, was happy, and never looked back. Besides, when I play as him I don't feel like I'm playing "Brendan" because I don't know "Brendan", but I know May from watching the show so it's cool both to play as her in one game and watch her be her own independent spirit in the other. (It's weird that the characters' entire histories change depending on who you choose to play as though, with May being Birch's daughter in one game and the gym leader's in the other. The same in X and Y for that matter, with my chosen male trainer being the Rhyhorn racer's son in one game and the next-door neighbor in the other.)

Indeed Pokemon X proably sold better in part because of people preferring the letter 'X' over the letter 'Y', though I would wager it is also because the box art for X - and its associated legendary - are more appealing to players than those of Y.

Er... Really? X's legendary is a frickin' deer (albeit reminiscent of the creature from Princess Mononoke to me but that's not a connection I expect the general public to make), Y's legendary looks like a badass flying kaiju.

Furthermore, in Australia at least, Pokemon X has been rated 'G' for General / all ages, whereas Pokemon Y is rated 'PG' for parental guidance recommended. You can attribute this to the fact that, if you haven't heard already, the storyline in Y is darker than that of X.

Ooo! I did not hear about this at all. Innnteresting. That almost makes me regret my choice of trainer -- poor dainty-looking Maybelle is going to experience the darker story than the more adventurous-looking Maxwell. Or maybe that's exactly what will make it more delicious . It's probably not going to be that drastic of a difference anyway; I mean, what the hell does "darker" even mean in such a kid-friendly series? And I tend to disagree with people about how dark a story or setting actually is anyway. S'all in the details.

[Sgt. Griff]

Super Pokémon: Eevee edition.

You know, for a game with a title that could have just as easily come from a three year old's mouth as a seasoned game dev, it's really quite fun. The mixture of an entirely 4th wall breaking story, which is really quite interesting as a purely contextual experience for the 3rd gen of pikemenn, as well as a combat system stripped entirely from FF, makes for quite an interesting experience.

Definitely the deepest pokémon game I've ever played.

[El Squibbonator]

I was honestly disappointed by X. I liked it, but it was no match for the sheer genius that was generation 5.

[Dataprime]

Surfing Pikachu Comes To Pokémon X And Y In Japan

[Stan]

New Mega Evolutions have been revealed for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:

1-Mega Altaria: Dragon/Fairy: Ability Pixilate

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2-Mega Lopunny: Normal/Fighting: Ability Scrappy

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3-Mega Salamence: Dragon/Flying: Ability Aerilate

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In other news, you can mega evolve during contests, you change your clothing for contests, and shiny Beldum with a mega stone will be distributed via an event (I'm guessing upon release of the games reminiscent of the Torchic for x/y). It's also interesting that a mega evolution of a gen 4 pokemon was shown, which no longer limits us to gen 3 pokemon only. Since we won't be getting gen 2 remakes any time soon, I think there is a good chance the gen 2 starters will get mega forms in these games--but thats just speculation.

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[TehDonutKing]

My Pokéwaifu has a mega-evolution now. I'm proud of her.

[Stan]

My Pokéwaifu has a mega-evolution now. I'm proud of her.

They should make Lopunny a female exclusive evolution kinda like Gardevoir

update: here is a pic of the male trainer without a hat, forever denying us any belief that the white stuff was ever hair to begin with.

[El Squibbonator]

I'm starting to worry they won't be making any new evolutions anymore, since they're giving so many Pokemon mega-evolutions.