Although I’ve been getting messages from friends in Japan wishing me a great New Year, I’m still a few hours away here in America. My last few hours to reflect on the year and what it has meant to trainers across the world.
This year has brought with it a slew of F2P (free-to-pay) games for the series; Pokémon Shuffle, Rumble World and Picross have been nickel-and-diming fans across the 3DS, Android and iOS. It’s a new pricing strategy and one that leaves fans who value both their time and money out in the cold. Next year hopefully brings fairer prices or alternatives.
We’ve also all speculated endlessly on where the series is headed in its next main series release. Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire are behind us and everyone awaits Z (or whatever it will be called). After the disappointment that was the Volcanion reveal, it is more than high time to see some real news. Luckily we do have Pokémon GO to look forward to which is unlike anything we’ve seen before.
What are your favorite memories from the past year AND what do you hope to see in 2016?!
As always, love you all lots and look forward to another productive year.
<3 PJ
ps- Here are TOP 5 COMMENTERS from 2015! Thank you all!
- EarthenWarrior
- MenacingCascoon
- Defensive
- ShinyXatu
- TheOmegaMonster6893
Happy New Year! I still have 3 hours to go though.
OMG I actually made the cut!!!! That’s a surprise! I’m looking forward to this year and hoping I don’t feel super tired for work tomorrow…….Had a few drinks tonight, but luckily only have to work at 11 to 3 tomorrow. Anyway I hope everyone has or had a great New Years!!! 2016 is gonna b awesome!!!
I’ve been wearing my party hat (Grunkle Stan’s fez) for the past 6 hours. It’s 12:52, gonna take it off
Happy New Year!
“Top Commenters” is a bit misleading, as it’s only taking into account the number of comments by users, as evidenced as Ian being on top (lol). Should be “Most Frequent Commenters” instead, and “Top Commenters” being those that have the highest Upvote/Comment ratio, although that gets too complicated and time consuming.
But anyways, happy new year!
You’re just jelly that you didn’t even make the board
No not really, I’m glad I’m not recognized as a living spambot lol.
I truly hate you Chico
<3
I’m #3 and I don’t understand how. You’re on here more than I am.
Oh look ive made the top 5 commenters
I knew spamming would work
Anyway 2015 was a year for us pokemon fans to chill and relax. And i am actually glad they didnt release a new game. It allowed me to focus on school more. My favorite moment from 2015… Hmm i cant really think of one ?. This year i am looking forward to what Pokemon is doing for 20th anniversary. Expect nothing, Hope for the best!
I knew I’d make it on a list someday 😛 IT’S 2016! It’s a brand new year full of VR, NX and other futuristic tech. We can get an announcement of the next Pokemon game any time now. Congratulations to all of you for making it through that nasty gap year!
VR is trash until something good is actually done with it.
why can’t we get a Dungeons and Dragons VR game that actually works
I have to agree. VR sucks honestly. I don’t see any practicality in gaming with it except in simulations.
What a terrible year for pokemon 2015 was :I
Here’s hoping for a new main game this year to go with our porting of pokken and r/g/b/y! (which better come with a new event or so help me arceus)
Terrible Year? We’re getting Pokken on the Wii U, New Mystery Dungeon, and R/G/B/Y 3DS ports. I’m kind of glad they skipped 2015, Pokemon’s anniversary is literally this year. They’re highly saving something for it. Plus, if they released a new game this year; people would think the series would become a yearly occurrence!
Technically they’re releasing a lot of new games this year.
Yes, it was a bland year. Only one of those games actually released in 2015 and I couldn’t care less about Mystery Dungeon. The series is generally a yearly occurrence. They have only taken a yearly break 4 times in the past 17 or so years, and it’s almost always between generations (except with Platinum, which for whatever reason took them a longer while to slightly update the game; not that I’m complaining, I loved Platinum)
Terrible Year?
Super Mystery Dungeon was released(best pokemon spni off since gen 4 ranger games imo)
Pokken tournament was announced for WiiU
Pokemon GO was announced
The new zygarde forms revealed
XY&Z started
3 eshop F2P games.
In my opinion, it was an amazing year for pokemon.
Yeah we didn’t get a maingame, but that’s not all pokemon has to offer.
And with the 20th anniversary this year,I’m sure this year will be even better.
I pretty much only care about the main games. Hate mystery dungeon. Pokken looks fun but I could do without honestly. I’m excited for the ports but, again, aren’t necessary. The only but of info that’s been interesting is zygarde and its forms but those are still a mystery and have kind of faded from excitement.
Happy New Year mates! This is going to be an amazing year for gaming, technology, and just life in general! The NX is on the horizon and awesome games like Star Fox Zero, Final Fantasy 15, and Zelda Wii U will be releasing soon. Junichi Masuda had something to say about this New Year:
“Happy New Year! On February 27, 2016, Pokemon will celebrate its 20th anniversary. On this day, Virtual Console versions of Pokemon Red, Green, Blue & Yellow will be released, so if we can hype it up with everyone while feeling nostalgic with the past, I’ll be glad! And this year I think we’ll give a feel of the future with Pokemon Go! We’re challenging [ourselves] so that the 20th anniversary will be fun for everyone in the world, so please keep up your continuing support. The ring of Pokemon is still getting bigger! I look forward to working with you all this year!”
I don’t think were getting FR/LG remakes because of the Virtual Console games. Japan is getting physical copies of the games and color-coded 2DS bundles (lucky… :/). Still, it seems like were getting another game for Pokemon’s 20th Anniversary! 😀
Don’t forget Yooka-Laylee
This may be off topic, but has anyone seen Star Wars The Force Awakens and if you have, what did you think? I thought it was pretty great, mostly because of the much, much, much better animation (and Finn)
I liked it
It had a episode four vibe
Yeah, some parts are like 4. There were more lightsaber duels in 7 tho.
Rey looks too much like Padme, I can’t handle it. And I hate Finn, I want him to die.
Is it bad to say I’m literally not surprised at all by that top commenters list?
And happy new year everyone!