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Which starter is the best?

Fennekin (Fire starter) 186 60.39%
 
Chespin (Grass Starter) 61 19.81%
 
Forakie (Water Starter) 57 18.51%
 
Total:304
zarx said:
MDMAlliance said:


I don't quite get what you're saying with your criticism.

Also, judging by the video, it seems like encounters with 1st gen pokemon will happen.  Including the Pikachu.

I'm saying that Cheespin is a fucking lazy design even for Pokemon standards and looks kinda stupid. It's like they saw Alvin and the Chipmunks and thought hey we should make one of them into a pokemon, that and the fact that they already have a pokemon that is pretty much a chipmunk so they are repeating themselves. Talking of repeating themselves do we really need another fire type Fox/Dog Pokemon?

Do we really need a fire Chihuahua as well? Are dogs always assosiated with fire in Japan or somethnig? At least it looks decent in terms of actual design.

And visually I have all kinds of problems with what is shown, the high contrast art style makes the aliasing look real bad the shimmering on the overworld is already giving me a headache. The battles look pretty poor, the 3D pokemon are passable (tho I would prefer nice sprites myself) but ellements like the grass looks awful especially when zoomed in like they do, why do they even have those circles of ground if they are doing 3D battles anyway? It looks like they have added far to much animation priority for my liking as well, hopefully they will at least have a fast mode for battles tho I fear that the overworld is a lost cause. And what is the point of havinging a super narow path with a rope swing in the middle? All that does is slow me down. From what is shown the camera also looks more annoying than the one in Black & White, I'm sorry I don't come to pokemon for a cinamatic experiance and trying to shoehorn one in just detracts from the experiance. It looks like they will have more of the awful sequences like the bridge from Black & White as well, which is just a pointless time waster. 

Also I never liked Pikachu always dumped him in the PC in Yellow. Tho I guess it's nice that they have realised that a good mix of old and new pokemon encounters from the start is a good thing. It's nice to see familiar pokemon mixed with the new surprises. 

I really love Pokemon but the series has really started straying in a direction I just don't want from the series.


Well, we all have our opinions on this and mine is that it looks pretty nice.  Also during the trailer, it said that the graphics shown are not finalized.



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zarx said:
BasilZero said:

As long as it doesnt end up becoming a fire/fighting....I will be fine with whatever design it is *_*


I just added an edit to my post to clarify I don't actually have a problem with the actual visual design of the fire starter. In fact it's the best of the three IMO. I just don't see the point of so many retreads on the same theme. 

There's only so many animals out there. You can rule out any which are associated with water, as can anything in the jungle. And if Okami has taught me anything, it's that the Sun and Fire and closely linked to Dogs/Wolves/Foxes in Japanese tradition. So I guess it makes sense. 

But it'll be the other 150-odd Pokemon that will make or break this game, not the opening three.



 

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zarx said:
Aielyn said:
zarx said:
Do we really need a fire Chihuahua as well? 

It's not a Chihuahua, it's a Fennec Fox. Hence the name.

Oh god that's even worse, so they actually do have 3 fire type foxes....

3rd times a charm!



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Chandler said:
Lafiel said:

and I thought Sony guys would throw in a jab at the competition one too many times, but this easily tops them

at topic: so many games, so little progress - I wonder if they'll ever release a pokémon game that features a battle system like the anime instead of such a static one

This is just a little part of the payback, the encore will come when PS4 releases. Nice PS3 game collection btw.

and then it's payback of the payback and then payback of the payback of the payback and the cycle of stupidity may endlessly continue

The cleverer give in.

Acevil said:

Both are really bad regardless of statements are or are not true..

The show animation would be too costly, so I don't think so. 

I'm just saying that the anime in my opinion showed how they should progress with their battle system with dynamic battles according to the terrain and terrain deformation and such, yet there has been no progress I can see since I played Pokémon Blue (well, actual attack animations, yay, I wonder how long they had those).They probably pumped up the complexity of the stats behind it.. that just doesn't cut it for me.

and "too costly" for a franchise like this? please



Lafiel said:
Chandler said:
Lafiel said:

and I thought Sony guys would throw in a jab at the competition one too many times, but this easily tops them

at topic: so many games, so little progress - I wonder if they'll ever release a pokémon game that features a battle system like the anime instead of such a static one

This is just a little part of the payback, the encore will come when PS4 releases. Nice PS3 game collection btw.

and then it's payback of the payback and then payback of the payback of the payback and the cycle of stupidity may endlessly continue

The cleverer give in.

Acevil said:

Both are really bad regardless of statements are or are not true..

The show animation would be too costly, so I don't think so. 

I'm just saying that the anime in my opinion showed how they should progress with their battle system with dynamic battles according to the terrain and terrain deformation and such, yet there has been no progress I can see since I played Pokémon Blue (well, actual attack animations, yay, I wonder how long they had those).

and "too costly" for a franchise like this? please

I'm not sure if we've seen enough to suggest there won't be. There was...20 seconds of battle footage, if that. And it's not finalised, there's 10 months until launch. A lot can happen.



 

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Japanese logos look good:

I wonder what that DNA sign means?



Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:

I wonder what that DNA sign means?


Maybe chromosomes.  Haha I dunno.



Conegamer said:
zarx said:
BasilZero said:

As long as it doesnt end up becoming a fire/fighting....I will be fine with whatever design it is *_*


I just added an edit to my post to clarify I don't actually have a problem with the actual visual design of the fire starter. In fact it's the best of the three IMO. I just don't see the point of so many retreads on the same theme. 

There's only so many animals out there. You can rule out any which are associated with water, as can anything in the jungle. And if Okami has taught me anything, it's that the Sun and Fire and closely linked to Dogs/Wolves/Foxes in Japanese tradition. So I guess it makes sense. 

But it'll be the other 150-odd Pokemon that will make or break this game, not the opening three.

Let alone the evolutions of the starters. There have been several times where the minor evolution does not resemble the highest evolved.



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Conegamer said:

I'm not sure if we've seen enough to suggest there won't be. There was...20 seconds of battle footage, if that. And it's not finalised, there's 10 months until launch. A lot can happen.

There will be no dramatic changes to the gameplay at this point. The pokémon stand on a tiny plattform and the only terrain effect probably is from the surface you can see on those plattforms .. that's a stats effect and not the dynamics I was talking about.



MDMAlliance said:
Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:

I wonder what that DNA sign means?


Maybe chromosomes.  Haha I dunno.


That would make sense. Think about it, every Pokémon in Y is male and every Pokémon in X is female!!!!



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