Pokémon Black & White were released five years ago today in Japan (September 18, 2010) and served as an almost reboot of the series in a sense. The games only featured newly introduced Pokémon until the player defeated the Elite 4 and also introduced 2D sprites which were constantly in motion during battle.
What were your favorite memories from the games? Anything you think should have been done differently looking back?
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I’ll just say B&W had its pros and cons.
Personally, I disliked them due to the restrictions in Pokemon during the initial run. With so many Pokemon up to that point, it was disappointing that they didn’t mix in as much older ones like in previous generations. It also didn’t help that, personally, I thought the diversity of the new Pokemon of 5th gen wasn’t that great or you had to wait for a while before you found one to your liking.
Besides that, the story, music, features, etc. are great. I think these really shine in B&W2 for me, but the restriction of choice in the initial run left a bitter taste in my mouth.
I would rank it towards the bottom two of my list of the 6 generations.
But… Don’t you have to wait to find the other ones later in the game since they tend to live in different areas of the region anyway?
True. I expanded on my view in my reply to Earthen. I just felt that in R/S/E they mixed some of the older gen Pokemon into the start of the game, along with having a diverse type of Pokemon in the beginning locations, that set you up no matter what you liked.
I got tired of seeing Lillipup and Pidove over and over and over again.
Like I said in my reply to Earthen, this is just my opinion, so take it as you will.
But that’s the whole damned point of a New Region and Pokemon
making you use the new Pokemon was the best decision ever, you don’t play the newer games just to use the same old Scyther or Pikachu
This way you actually have to use new Pokemon the initial run
I never said that I wanted to play the game with the older gen Pokemon. I just said I was disappointed they didn’t mix in some more older gen Pokemon into the mix earlier on in the initial run (like R/S/E). I also was saying how this didn’t help that I found the 5th gen Pokemon to not be very diversified and you were sorta stuck in terms of setting up your team at the beginning, much like in the original games in Kanto.
This is just my opinion though, so take it as you will.
I still feel making the player adapt to the newer Pokemon on force is a good idea
It just doesn’t feel right, I always and I mean always stick to making a team consisting of ONLY the regions native Pokemon
I just thought of something.. What if you’re a non-steel type Pokemon, who gets poisoned, then proceeds to gain the steel typing upon Mega Evolution. Does the poison just disappear? ._.
Well there are no Pokemon like that so its all good, nothing to worry about, haha
I think if it were to happen, the poison would still stay
I guess if a person was poisoned then put on armour, they’d still be poisoned
I guess it would still be poisoned. When steel type is changed via Soak, it can get poisoned. If that Pokemon is drawn back and sent again, it still keeps its poisoned status even if it is Steel type.
And poisoned Pineco evolved into Forretress keeps its poisoned status even if it gains Steel type.
I think if that were to happen the poison would already have run it’s course in the Pokemon’s body so the damage would still effect the Pokemon either way.
Speaking of black and white, today I started a nuzlocke of black and I will continue the nuzlocke with hatched eggs of the surviving Pokemon in black2.
And while I was playing I was wondering: did any one else really, really, love the entralink in BW?
Did anyone catch the series premiere of Scream Queens tonight?
It was literally perfection.
I swear nobody picks Chespin for Super Mystery Dungeon (who records and streams it) everyone is a danged Riolu, I just want to see its walking animation since I won’t be able to play until it hits the US
I don’t think many people like Chespin. I don’t, but I love Chesnaught. I’d like to see what it looks like.
I’d rather have a BW &or BW2 remake in 3DS than a DP one. That’d be so amazing.