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[Christian]

New Pokemon Black/White trailer!!

There's seasons in this game! :O

[Koh]

Sweet, we saw some new Pokémon, new improvements, and cemented some info! But admidst all that, it also clarified that WE don't animate like Rivals and Gym Leaders ...but I'm still siked !

[Fabbrizio]

Woah, cool, seasons. It only took them FIVE GENERATIONS to do it, what with Zelda doing the same thing as early as the Gameboy Color.

Edited by PowerGauntlets, 30 July 2010 - 09:06 AM.

[Moonbread]

Yeah, but these are seasons based on the internal clock, not you having a magical staff to change them at will. >_>

[Chakaa]

What about a Legendary that could change seasons?

It would be really annoying to not be able to catch something because the season just past.

[Fabbrizio]

What about a Legendary that could change seasons?

It would be really annoying to not be able to catch something because the season just past.

You know what else is annoying? Running around trying to catch a legendary and not being able to catch it for no valid reason (glares at all the nomadic legendaries in the history of Pokemon.)

[Dawnlight]

I'm curious with how the battles go graphically. They say it's all moving sprites? So I'm guessing similar to Pokemon Stadium/Coliseum/Battle Revolution?

[Chakaa]

You know what else is annoying? Running around trying to catch a legendary and not being able to catch it for no valid reason (glares at all the nomadic legendaries in the history of Pokemon.)

I hate all nomadic legendaries.... not the Pokemon themselves, but trying to catch them.

[Koh]

I'm curious with how the battles go graphically. They say it's all moving sprites? So I'm guessing similar to Pokemon Stadium/Coliseum/Battle Revolution?

What they meant was that the Pokémon continue to animate after they're released from their Pokéballs. The attacks work the same as in D/P/Pt/HG/SS.

[Lemon]

Nomadic legendaries are almost as annoyingly dumb**** stupid as wifi event pokemon are.

Take something really powerful, a treasure if you will, a obtainable goal, and instead of creating an epic side quest to get it (like having to make certain choices, talking to mysterious people along the way to unlock secrets) or having a spectacular dungeon, no. Scratch all that. These guys just roam around. Maybe you'll run into them. Maybe not.

The first game was perfect! The birds had secret hiding spots (Zapdos in particular!) and wonderful little side dungeons in which the player could explore to find them AND other special Pokemans. Mewtwo, the best of all, wasn't available til the very end of the game. Oh! You could see the cave from the moment you walked into Cerulean... but alas you couldn't enter until you'd proven yourself! Rewarded with an epic dungeon with weird selections (a Wild Raichu appeared!) and the most powerful pokemon of all, it was entirely satisfying to capture him.

Fast forward to Diamond and Pearl where you have that... fire thing at the end of the volcano. Besides you being told it's a volcano, there's no build up to it, there's nothing really special about it beyond the fact that you get a team mate, and the legendary doesn't look special at all. Maybe a the second stage of a three stage Pokemon. Certainly not threatening or worthwhile

Is it any wonder why all legendaries after the Gold & Silver are worthless? I don't mean to say they have no playability, but having them doesn't bring prestige to your name; it's nothing you had to fight for. Just something you had to waste stupid hours on.

****.

Also, forcing the player to catch legendarys is also stupid. The game is fine as just: boy/girl wants to become Pokemon master.

The saving the world side plots are getting old and silly. Beating Team Rocket was believable. Fighting and beating a Pokemon that controls time and has an attack that causes a Spacial Rend? No. Never. Bleh.

[Zenith]

Just noticed something. The Team Plasma members' uniforms make them look a little like knights. Anyone else notice this?

[Koh]

The Templars of the Round Pokéball ?

...well anyway, that, and Reshiram and Zekrom were eighting in what appears to be a throne room.

[Christian]

What they meant was that the Pokémon continue to animate after they're released from their Pokéballs. The attacks work the same as in D/P/Pt/HG/SS.

No they are not, Battles are much more realistic now and takes advantage of the DS's 3D capabilities.

Edited by Christian, 31 July 2010 - 12:44 AM.

[Koh]

Well, yes, with the camera smoothly zooming in and out and stuff. When I mentioned the attacks, I was referring to the base battle system of assign a command, and the speedy goes first. Not real time like Stadium.

[Chakaa]

Nomadic legendaries are almost as annoyingly dumb**** stupid as wifi event pokemon are.

Take something really powerful, a treasure if you will, a obtainable goal, and instead of creating an epic side quest to get it (like having to make certain choices, talking to mysterious people along the way to unlock secrets) or having a spectacular dungeon, no. Scratch all that. These guys just roam around. Maybe you'll run into them. Maybe not.

The first game was perfect! The birds had secret hiding spots (Zapdos in particular!) and wonderful little side dungeons in which the player could explore to find them AND other special Pokemans. Mewtwo, the best of all, wasn't available til the very end of the game. Oh! You could see the cave from the moment you walked into Cerulean... but alas you couldn't enter until you'd proven yourself! Rewarded with an epic dungeon with weird selections (a Wild Raichu appeared!) and the most powerful pokemon of all, it was entirely satisfying to capture him.

Fast forward to Diamond and Pearl where you have that... fire thing at the end of the volcano. Besides you being told it's a volcano, there's no build up to it, there's nothing really special about it beyond the fact that you get a team mate, and the legendary doesn't look special at all. Maybe a the second stage of a three stage Pokemon. Certainly not threatening or worthwhile

Is it any wonder why all legendaries after the Gold & Silver are worthless? I don't mean to say they have no playability, but having them doesn't bring prestige to your name; it's nothing you had to fight for. Just something you had to waste stupid hours on.

****.

Also, forcing the player to catch legendarys is also stupid. The game is fine as just: boy/girl wants to become Pokemon master.

The saving the world side plots are getting old and silly. Beating Team Rocket was believable. Fighting and beating a Pokemon that controls time and has an attack that causes a Spacial Rend? No. Never. Bleh.

I couldn't have said it any better