The Pokémon Company has officially announced Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon versions in today’s Pokémon Direct.
The two games will launch in 2016 Holiday for 3DS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzDL1l3Fag
Pokémon Sun & Moon are compatible with Pokémon Bank and Pokémon can be transferred to Sun and Moon from the Virtual Console games. It will also be possible to transfer Pokémon from Pokémon X & Y and ORAS, using Pokémon Bank. The games will be playable worldwide in 9 languages.
The official site has confirmed that Sun and Moon will arrive with “a new world, new Pokémon, and new adventures to discover”. New Pokémon and region/s are confirmed! In addition to this the press release for the UK specifically states that Sun and Moon are a “new generation of Pokémon game”.
For those with a keen eye: the trailer appears to tease a new bird Pokémon with a similar appearance to Fletchling.
What? No trailer? I thought we would be able to see the Legendaries.
I was expecting a bit more from the direct. No footage is a bummer
let’s see in 2 weeks what brings Coro-Coro
Where are my starters????????
Happy we get new games though.
No new footage was a little disappointing but I’m still excited. Can’t wait for people to analyze the behind the scenes and concept shots from the vid.
I think it’s really cool that we can bring over Pokemon from the VC versions of Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. I was hoping for at least a teaser trailer of the new games though.
‘Holiday 2016’ means … Christmas time, right?
Well shiver me Snorunt. >___<
Yep. I predict these games will come out in October or November of this year.
Well, the Japanese announcement says “Winter”, so maybe yes.
I was legit ugly crying during the whole stream. I remember being a child and playing these games and now that I’m 21 and realizing it’s been 20 years of pokemon made me cry in excitement.
It’s a shame there was no footage but the next corocoro should gives us something. I very sure this a 7th generation game definately.
So we know they are real and on 3DS out at the end of the year and will somehow work with Pokemon Bank to allow RBY Pokemon to be transferred…. but that’s all we know… well from what we saw in the development video it seems cool… but really no actual details about the game. Like region or new Pokemon or legendaries or anything?! Ok then… hopefully we get news soon, like seriously. Come on with that.
This is big. This is really, really big. We have one hell of a year ahead of us. SEVENTH GENERATION IS HERE!
This is amazing. We literally deserved this announcement and I’m so glad they gave this hype to us.
It’s not much, but we can assume this game contains old Pokemon unlike BW because you could see a Horsea statue as well as a Wingull flying in an image next to a boat.
Hmmm…
I’m so happy.
I see a lot of hate comments, saying they wanted to see a trailer. We weren’t even supposed to know about Sun and Moon, so HELLO be happy damn.
Screenshots:
Is that a Blastoise in the back of a firetruck!?
Yes it is :), apparently we will get to see some Pokémon work in the city. There is even an ambulance
Why has no one talked about the woodpecker being modeled in the screenshots?
I thought it was Torchic at first lol, it could be a starter possibly.
Possibly, but I don’t really want another bird fire starter.
Me too, and no starter that is part fighting either.
I agree.
What the heck is the second to last picture?? lol
The bird Pokemon likes Cassowary.
Here are all the concept art. Pokemon Center, Trucks, and as Building. I wish we got some gameplay!
For some reason I’m still getting a 6th Gen vibe from it am I the only one?
I was yeah. I think whatever this new region is, will have a close relationship to kalos
Idk I can see some palm trees in the concept art, I don’t know if it will be European at all (Kalos being akin to France).
The Mediterranean Coast would have to disagree with you.
I’m really hoping this serves both as a sequel and a new gen, like a South Kalos region game with Team Flare and Zygarde.
Definitely, hoping for a Johto-Kanto-like relationship, since Kalos was kinda similar to Kanto. THat way, we go back to Kalos, and it explores some of the questions we have no answers to, in a way.
I get that, but you can see they improved the 3D. So there’s a possibility it will be gen 7. I really hope so, because I’d love new Pokemon. And when they will be released, it’s 3 years after the release of XY. I don’t think they will release another big game in 2017, so it has to be gen 7 i guess.
It can still be 7th gen, but go back to Kalos and have a Kalos feel if they are next to each other :3 That POkemon on the computer is a new Pokemon, no doubt, plus someone said that they only showed the releases of each new gen before revealing Sun and Moon, so it makes sense es a new gen
Exactly! As a lot of people here already said, I too would love it to be a gen 2-like game where we can go back to Kalos to finish the Zygarde story there!
It’s probably the same engine, or very similar – they’re using the same hardware, after all.
This coud be a water-type gym.
The Trainer in front of the white building is Red from the original games. I’m positive that he looks like the one we saw from the 20th anniversairy
http://imgur.com/BXiu6ZP
Even if that’s Red, this is concept / development art – no telling what will be in the final product.
What’s with all the automobiles?
announcing a new game without even a trailer is a bit lame
From the concept pictures alone, I can easily say these games look to be twice as big as XY and ORAS was, and it seems they plan them to be the biggest Pokemon game to be. If anything, I’ll take it that this gen will have a lot of big things like Cars, and that Blastoise on the car just made it seem like we have battles on more than one battle arena now lol (simple guess). Also the Pokemon Center looks TOO COOL! Pokemon SUN and MOON HYPE! (Deff getting Sun bc namesake lol).
Ok now I’m finally convinced that we are getting a new generation, but I still think it will have some relation to Kalos in some way. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I had no idea how they had to improve on the 3D, but o my god they did it just looks great and I can’t wait being on this site waiting for all the news and commenting with you guys!!
Bit disappointing. My fault for reading the leak, I guess.
Disappointing? Even with the info being leaked yesterday, isn’t it still great? You didn’t even know whether the names were real or not. At least be happy that they are and that they will be released this year.
SOOOO does anyone thing this could be it?! The game we have been waiting for?! I am so hyped right now CoroCoro will be releasing soon and since the game is released in the Holiday that literally is less than 10 MONTHS AWAY!?!?! Ohhh the feels and the hype are going to get real my friends….
I’m still getting stuck on where the announcer said “It all comes together…”
Is it possible we could get all/multiple regions in one game? I’m not a tech guru so I don’t know if that’s actually possible for the 3DS, but it’s a neat idea.
Im thinking each one could possibly have 3 regions and each game has a new region so that they they can keep the trading alive im guessing you cant get gen 1 ppokes since you can trade your red blue games to bank and then sun and moon
That was actually the first impression I got when they stated that
Good point. Imagine having new region + all the others.
I think it could work like the new Mystery Dungeon game, where we can travel among different continents. That would be awesome!
Much like the DNA strands in the Japanese logos for XY, those diamonds could mean something.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcJj5oqVIAEF7Vl.jpg
Truuueeee <3 Maybe es related to Megas? I dunno
Plumbobs! The Sims-Pokemon interaction is confirmed. Yasss!
Japenese logos are always more beautiful than others !!!…. 🙁
I think these games are about day and night more than about space
Oh, a new article was posted… Glad I got the invite :/
An interesting thought
noticed those Pokeballs on the Logo, they look exactly like Comets
Team Comet
Good eye maybe these games will have a space theme like 4 gen.
Reminder guys: don’t just stay in the comments, the article DOES get updated every so often. 😉
http://orig04.deviantart.net/3fe5/f/2016/057/c/f/7thgenpokemon_by_marix20-d9t5to8.png
So that bird thingy might be either a Woodpecker or a Cardinal
I would love a woodpecker pokemon
I think it’s a woodpecker for sure.
Yeeeees! I was about to say woodpecker! Come on gamefreak we need this!
Definitely 😀 I’m so excited :3
WOODPECKER GRASS/FLYING OR STEEL/FLYING
This trailer made me cry :’). I’m so excited for the new games to come out.
Did someone notice, that the trainer who’s seen in front of this White building in the trailer to sun and moon looks like Red ?
also i keep hearing a ton about a Blastoise in a firetruck where’s that
Here 🙂
So does anyone think that with Pokemon Day tomorrow we will get maybe more information? I’m glad we got confirmation, but I really would’ve liked some actual information.
Technically it’s already Pokemon Day in Japan, so I guess this is it.
Oh yeah, I forgot about time zones.
Unless there’s something more at the end of the day.
That’d be great, but with this huge announcement I really don’t know…
More will come next months or at E3 at the latest
I would love to get new informations, but I think we won’t get news until the next batch of corocoro arrives
Ughhhhhhhhhhh 10.5 months away
Don’t worry, we’ll have hype announcements to feed us in the mean time, no more dry news periods ahead, the hype train has left the station! (and there’s lots of fun to be had in the waiting!
Though if they could like not leak 70% of the pokédex or all the megas beforehand that would be nice… No actually that would be normal, and not being idiots with the marketing. Please think smart gamefreak.
This is the best time of the year. When a pokémon game is announced people start to discuss, spread rumours and even create things.
10.5 XD? You know that Holiday season is always around Thanksgiving, which means that the games might come around November :). but still we have 9 months to go
There is no Thanksgiving like in the USA in Japan, so I don’t think the Japanese would call Thanksgiving “Holiday season”.
Christmas season starts in November. There’s three months with three holidays in a row. I would suspect it comes out in November because of Christmas shopping.
Yeah okay, November makes sense actually because of the Christmas shopping like you said
Yay working at Toys R Us
I forgot to tell you that ORAS for example took less time because it was based of the engine of X/Y. This basicallly means that we get a 3DS game which has a new engine
So did GF run out of colors and letters???
I for one am glad they go a different way, the names sound amazing to me.
nope just they are just trying to keep things varied.
Totally, I am so mad111! Im compianing to gamefreak abuot this
Just so you know, they haven’t done blood types yet. /kappa
More like they’re trying to vary a bit, but this makes these sound like generic fangames IMO.
Ehhh, true, but I kinda like the names 😀
I agree! These titles sounds horrible. Like, AZ would’ve been so much better. I do not support Moon and Sun.
SoO overratde leik forreal
I like them… It makes people wonder about them even more.
I was being sarcastic by the way. Honestly I’m really excited for these games. #TeamMoon
So did GF run out of “colors”, “gems”, “letters” etc. joke’s so old I don’t know why people keep saying it.
Because no matter what name GF gives their games ppl will alway try and find a “way better one” so I just wanted to get out the way so later when more stuff come out ppl won’t complain about the name
It’s annoying, really. In my opinion these names are one of the best choices the could have made.
I don’t mean to be the person shutting everyone down, but we only see two 3D models in the whole trailer? Everyone’s talking about an improvement of the 3D, but the Pokemon Center (while looking like a really cool design) looks to be in the same engine as X and Y. The giant white building we’re seeing is only a painting.
If these are indeed gen VII I honestly doubt we won’t get at least some kind of visual upgrade, it’s always been like that in the past.
I’m not saying we won’t get a visual upgrade. I just can’t agree with everyone stating that the 3D looks so improved upon based off that trailer. A lot of people are claiming visual similarities to Kalos, but most of that probably comes from the game being made on the same animating/programming engine.
However, I will say–based off the unfinished new pokemon model–that it looks like they are improving the Pokemon models themselves. It looks a lot smoother than what we currently have.
My guess is that the main improvement in 3D will come in the form of maintaining frame speed, reducing lag, in battle when the 3D function is turned on.
Yeah fair, I’d definitely agree with that. I just doubt they wouldn’t at least build a new engine, but I guess they could heavily improve the old one like you’re suggesting.
The only reason I would think they aren’t using a new engine is the NX rumors. I’m thinking of sun and moon a lot like Black/White… Those games (and their sequels) were sort of the last effort of the DS. If the NX rumors are true, and it IS a combination of mobile and console gaming; Pokemon would be making a move onto that system. If the NX were to be released this year, there’s a high probability they could be simultaneously developing a whole new engine for that while making one more generation with their current engine to keep the fans satisfied during the weight…
All of this being my speculation and wishful thinking of course. 😉
Hello, old friend?
Oh, my god! I was waiting to see if someone–anyone!–would remember me.
Should I sound really pretentious and be like: Yes, it is I, King Anteros returned from the great, mysterious abyss that was my absence.
Ahaha, I sort of just read your name and didn’t think anything of it. Then I read it again and remembered a conversation I had with PJ about what happened to you. 😉
A conversation about what happened to me?? I’m touched. I was remembered! :’)
Here’s the short story: When I was on here all the time before, I was very sick and basically bedridden. Once I was well enough to go back to school, I sort of just threw myself into it. I’ve been very busy with classes, teaching, and relationships. Now, I’m graduating this Spring, hopefully heading off to Grad school shortly after.
Very conveniently, I don’t have classes on Fridays this semester. So, I woke up early for the direct, and this news was TOO good to note start commenting here again.
Ahaha, he did tell me I believe. This was sometimes in 2012, right?
Glad it’s all been going well though! 🙂
(Also glad of that convenient coincidence haha!)
Yep! I went back to school in Fall ’12. 🙂
I can see your point. I dunno for certain if it is an improvement
Man, #TrainersSoLightSkinned. There were only two black players in the entire video.
Don’t bring racism bullshit here. I will ban you.
Threatening to ban someone over a small criticism is a bit of an overreaction.
Are you joking? If so, that wasn’t funny, and you didn’t make it clear enough that you weren’t serious.
INB4 the rumour mill goes full speed. It always seems to do that when the hype train starts for real.
It wouldn’t be a new Pokemon game without some major rumors :3 It’s what makes this season super fun while we are waiting for the game 😀
I honestly can’t wait.
Serebii seems confident that these are Gen 7 games, but I’m still not sure. I’m still getting a very strong Kalos feel from what little we got.
I believe the promo video is posturing S&M as Gen 7 games. Since it mentioned the years of release of the first games in a gen, up to and including 2013 for X&Y and 2016 for S&M.
But it still could involve Kalos, who knows?
Not only what Malco said, but it can still be connected to Kalos, inspired by it, but still be a new region since it is next to it. :3
Sort of like Kanto and Johto? I guess I could see that.
That’s what I’ve been thinking since XY came out and people thought Kalos was like Kanto. I thought that in the future a Johto-like region would be next that is next to Kalos :3 Could be southern France or any other country this time though 😀
I think Southern France and Germany are the two likely candidates now. Shall we check Masuda’s recent flights?
Heh heh heh.
Totally 😛 Check his Twitter people for clues!
He has been to Germany lately
Would love a region inspired by Germany c:
Imagine if we get the johto starters in the beginning of the games along with their mega stones! Uughhh this is going to be amazing
Exactly
I’m so hyped. I’m sure the trucks have some sort of function, perhaps the taxi service I’ve wanted for years so HM Fly isn’t needed as much?? They wouldn’t have emphasised them that much if they aren’t going to be used in game. Also the models look amazing, people look a lot taller and more real. Can’t wait to see what battles look like. Hopefully Pokemon run up to each other, and there are specific reactions for each Pokemon getting hit with different moves. So much more I want to post lol. Onto another year of waiting for CoroCoro leaks and speculation! Welcome back old Pokejungle 🙂
Well, these trucks don’t look like taxis, they look like an ambulance, a pickup truck (maybe a construction truck?) and a fire truck. But who knows?
And those people models do look amazing 😀
I would hope so, battles would be awesome if it was like that.
It’s great to be back 😀 <3
The ambulance really interests me. I don’t want to be able to call them to heal your Pokemon in routes. That would make the games too easy. Maybe it’s like a side activity, driving round helping Pokemon? lol I have no idea. Anything can happen. I’ve missed this kind of speculation
That would be awesome, like a little mini game to help wild Pokemon or even other Trainers. I would be doing that constantly, if that was the case.
But would that mean the hero is old enough to drive or will they have to be escorted?
Hmm most likely escorted. But having an older protagonist would be cool.
One possibility is that this formalizes the random trainers that heal you in X&Y before/during caves and stuff. So instead of some random ace trainer or ranger healing you up, why not have one of these ambulances parked.
That’s a great idea, and maybe instead of “blacking out”, and ambulance takes you to a Pokemon centre? Idk
Or you still black out, but respawn at the ambulance. Also possible.
Ooooo I love that idea <3 That way you don't spend a good amount of time going back to where you last left off.
That’s a really good idea. Very convenient
I think all these vehicles and stuff is about making the world less simplistic and more realistic, in a pokémon way of course, so with things like using blastoise on fire engines for example. I’m really excited if they’re gonna do more coherent world building, the world in pokémon games always felt like a weird abstraction of reality rather than a truly coherent modern world, especially compared to the anime.
True, this does feel very modern, with the cars and all <3
I agree. Dunno why but I really like the Blastoise fire truck idea lol
Oh and idk if anyone said this already but yet again “Pokemon Rainbow” debunked for the second time.
Actually it is confirmed apparently. Niji A is Sun and Niji B is Moon.
Im just saying the name of the game.
If those were indeed the working titles, we should definitely take “rainbows” into account when speculating.
If anyone has been or lives in Southern France or Germany, maybe they can recognize the “Water Hotel/Gym” as a landmark or something?
Just a shot in the dark here.
I don’t want to be TOO hopeful, but the architecture of that building does look very similar to the architecture found along the French Riviera… Most notably, Nice.
It doesn’t resemble any specific landmarks that I remember, but it does have a similar look to it.
Exactly what I was going to say! Reminded me of Nice too. As for a landmark that looks like this, there is none.
Let’s hope for a game set in Southern France.
http://www.luxriviera.com/specific_files/6/7/4/4/5/accueil_luxriviera_french_riviera05.jpg?update=20131202162601
Thanks for the lead. Here’s a good example. It even has the palm trees!
This is so cool! I’m hoping we get another set of starters and all
Upon rewatching the Direct, I noticed that in the screenshot that shows the building and the Horsea fountain, you can see a tropical tree in the background. And when I thought of the tropics, my first thought was the lackluster battle resort from ORAS. But then I also remembered the Strange Souvenir from XY that resembled a tiki head of sorts. I don’t know if any of these can be tied together, but I’m placing my bets on an island based region. (Probably won’t be the case but oh well)
Palm treee does not mean an island. Florida has palm trees everywhere, but es not an island 😉
I know, I’ve just always wanted a region of islands ever since I saw the Orange Islands. :p
True, maybe one day!
I live in Florida too, I can confirm it is not an island.
Though the strange souvenir being tiki like and tropical trees, that could be something 🙂 maybe that’s the item that let’s the sun and moon legends fuse to become the Eclipse pokemon
South America?
The screenshot of the cars and trucks seems interesting to me. We’ve never had such emphasis on vehicles in the past, beyond a couple basic models, could there be some sort of driving system in the game?
And if it is set in Germany, it could relate to the Autobahn
Vehicles battles.
Reminds me of Fossil FIghters Frontier, since they moved to battles on vehicles.
When will the learn? Shaking up battling TOO much never ends up making a hit. While battles on vehicles sounds pretty awesome, it would just be another gimmick battle destined to begin and end with its introduction region (e.g. triple battles/rotation battles, sky battles…)
Gotta say though, I’m loving how cute that little Blastoise looks riding in the back of a firetruck.
True, it’s what happened to Fossil Fighters Frontier, it felt very gimmicky, although I still love the game
THINK OF THE CHAOS. THINK OF THE CRASHES.
Need for Speed: Pokemon
Fast and furious (gen) 7
POKEMON GAMES ON AUTOMOBILES!
It’s the new card games on motorcycles.
Screw the rules, I have battles on vehicles!
<3 I love YGOTAS :3
Me too, in America!
I would love that <3
Look at the pictures of water type Pokemon on the building (refresh for image). I’m positive this is a water type gym.
It can also be some sort of aquarium
Oh HELL yes, aquariums are like my favorite thing
That’s a likely possibility. With the new graphics I’d like to see what an aquarium would look like inside.
Imagine the Pokemon in the aquarium swimming in 3D. In BW2 it already looked great, imagine how it would look like now…
The aquarium in ACNL really captured the feeling of an aquarium for me, I hope that’s how it is with this assuming it is one
What about both? THe gym is the aquarium, you battle trainers while walking around and at a certain point, the gym leader is there ready to battle you.
Who said anything about walking? Why not swim in the aquarium instead? 😉
Truuueeeee <3 It would be nice. Although, it would be kind of scary if there were Sharpedos in the tank we are swimming in
I would love to swim with Sharpedo(s) and Carvanha(s) 😛
Good luck with that 😛
I don’t need luck 🙂
Let’s hope only Magikarps and Finneons swim there 🙂
Maybe wailord as well 😀
I’d still be scared as hell with that Pokemon swimming next to me.
Es harmless though :3
And Feebas 😀
I’m still banking a spa. The girl has a suitcase. You don’t really bring those to an aquarium or gym
not unless you’re GOING TO KIDNAP A FISH
Fish kidnapper on the loose
She’s team rocket!
:O
Return of Team Rocket!
This time, they’re going after fish Pokemon.
THE HORROR!
you are evil minded my friend
From the angle, it looks more like a hummingbird or woodpecker. I like it 🙂
It was kinda jarring how they spend 1 min talking about new languages instead of a full trailer. It’s very gamefreak to do that sort of thing hahah.
The new poke looks cutish like Torchic met Fletchling.
I need the starters.
What if the bird is a starter? Woodpecker grass/flying final evolution?
I would ask you can I get it in real life. *_* Could be great. I always wanted a grass flying starter. Something pegasuz alike. But woodpecker sounds good as well.
After some years of lurking, I have finally joined the party. The hype will not/cannot be contained, after all. And y’all are just way too much fun around here when things get all out crazy like this.
Here’s to a year full of 7th Gen awesomeness yet to come!
Welcome! As a recent newcomer myself, I can say it adds a lot to the hype this site creates. Taking part in discussions is a lot of fun.
Yeah, it’s a lot more fun to experience the whole thing with others who also love it! So hyped 😀 And thank you!
I know! No problem, enjoy your time!
Welcome! Enjoy your stay and if there’s anything you need… Something.
I’m staff member everybody secretly wishes they were. (Maybe)
Thank you! I love the staff here so kudos to you, mate!
Oh, do explain! Other staff such as who?
You and PJ? The ones I’m familiar with. I’m sorry if I’m missing anyone I should mention lol
Ahaha, there are more. Just some haven’t been active for a while and the active one mainly sticks to translation.
Glad you love us ahah!
I remember seeing others a while ago but I don’t recall the names? I noticed one has showed up again recently btw! But I don’t remember the name now either xD and how not to love you guys?! You spoil us with all the fresh updates and all! I make some Aerodactyl screeching sounds every now and then when PJ shows up on my phone 😀 can’t wait for a whole year of fun stuff! (I haven’t actually played anything after BW2 because I haven’t managed to afford a 3ds or any of the games yet… *sobs* but maaaaaybe in time for Sun and Moon? here’s hoping)
Ahaha, ummm. Of the current team… Uhh. I think it’s Ozymandis, Dicie and… That’s it? I have no idea haha. That was probably Kriffix you saw, he does a lot of translating.
Ahaha, that’s sort of…cute?
Welcome 😀 This place is awesome, just letting you know. 🙂
I’m confirming this statement indeed. Awesomeness galore in here 🙂 thanks!
https://36.media.tumblr.com/90900ea5af9e0d6cba47a299bde681d8/tumblr_o35w6d0hTV1skoy7ho3_500.jpg woodpecker interpretation courtesy of Sylvaur on Tumblr
AWwwwww <3 SO cute 😀
Aw that’s cute
I bet it’s a bluejay. Fighting/flying.
Or perhaps a Cardinal, just Flying type.
Ah the article now says that new Pokemon and a new region are confirmed.
WHICH MEANS GEN 7 I LOVE IT
Also says new gen confirmed 😉
With all the excitement, I forgot with a new gen comes new starters lol. I really want grass/dragon, water/fairy and fire/fighting (jk fire/electric or anything else not done with starters yet).
Grass/Electric
Water/Bug
Fire/Fairy
I like those too. I really don’t mind the types they choose, so long as they haven’t been done yet with other starters.
Or pure types! I don’t like pure types so much 😛 Fire/Electric sounds like a really cool type though. Odd that it hasn’t been done
Pure types are actually likely if they stick with the theme of simplicity they said they were going with.
I just like more type coverage on my teams! >.<
Same here haha
No pure types please. Gen 4 is my favorite gen and one reason it is, are the dual typed starters. I love it, especially Empoleon.
Same! And two of them were new combos, which was sweet. Plus they just look epic
I know! In my opinion the starters got better with every gen (Charizard and gen 6 excluded, because Charizard is great and gen 6 really wasn’t).
Yeah, although I kinda have mixed feelings on the Gen 5 starters. I love Serperior though
Oh no. One of my favorite starters (if not my favorite) is Samurott. Serperior is great too, Emboar isn’t as great as the other two. I’m less of a fan of gen 2 and 3, although Feraligatr and Blaziken are also amazing.
I like Samurott, but I’ve never been too fond of its in-game models. They’re better now that it’s 3D though
I feel the same way. I remember when they were revealed, I actually hated it. Then the sprites came and I thought they looked weird. I became a fan when I saw all the fan artwork on the internet. Then XY came with their 3D models and I was so happy when I saw what they did with Samurott, because it finally looked good in-game.
It’s a pretty cool concept, actually. Wish some of the gen 6 starters had been executed that well..
I know… In my opinion Delphox and Chesnaught should have been completely different, I hate their design. Greninja on the other hand is the better starter in gen 6, but I still don’t feel comfortable with its weird tongue hahaha
They’re all pretty flawed in my opinion. It makes me sad because Fennekin/Braixen were really cool but then they just made Delphox boring and bland.
I couldn’t agree more. I thought Fennekin and Braixen were a huge step in the right direction for a fire starter. When Delphox was revealed, I just knew I wouldn’t be picking the fire starter.
Let’s just hope for better Pokemon this gen. As I already mentioned, I would just love a Grass/Ice, a Fire/Fairy and a Water/Ghost trio (even though I know GF will just use boring type combinations).
I want a Fire/Fairy Red Panda. I refuse to accept that Spinda is based on one
Well, seeing the name is a combination of spin and panda, I am afraid you have no choice but accepting it is.
But it’s so ugly and Red Pandas are so cute ;-;
I’d love Grass/Ice, Fire/Fairy and Water/Ghost or something.
I can’t wait! 😀 <3 I hope they will be revealed soon.
I’m hoping for the fire starter to be a goat. Maybe fire/electric 🙂
Same here! Any quadruped animal really. All the fire starters stand on two legs iirc
Technically yes. Typhlosion is shown down occasionally, but 99% of the time he’s on 2 legs
Grass/Flying; Fire/Ground, Water/Ghost
…and to differentiate them from existing same-type Pokemon, these will all be sweepers.
One of the things that I like speculating about is just the animals that they could be based off of. They usually follow a theme (Chespin is the only one that breaks a pattern). The Fire type follows the Chinese zodiac, grass type are USUALLY (stupid Chespin) reptiles, and the water type is based off an animal associated WITH water but does not exclusively live in water.
As for secondary typing, I don’t think they’ll stray much from types they’ve already done. I know that doesn’t meet fan expectations but they have a tendency to stick with types that are either most helpful (fighting, ground, etc.) or types that are at the same level strength-wise as fire, water, grass. Sadly, I think that means no dragon type ever in a starter, and a lot of other types people are speculating seem unlikely too–apart from electric.
Yeah, grass/dragon was wishful thinking on my part lol.
A grass/dragon is definitely something I want to see, since grass type is my favorite, but most likely not going to be in a starter–except for megas 😉
Looking back at the zodiac, and other people’s comments about wanting a quadrupedal fire type, please oh please give me a badass fire ram/sheep.
I want a Fire Bunny. Fire/Fairy final
A Bipedal Dolphin. Water fighting
A Koala grass type. Grass/Dark
I feel like a Dolphin should be Psychic since they’re so intelligent.
bipedal dolphine? ehhhh, I’ll need some art to see if it will look cool.
Although the Koala and bunny would be nice <3
I don’t think a Dolphin water starter would ever happen. Too many people have envisioned it as a fakemon already… Not only does it seem impractical, with all the fanart already around of one it would just look like fan pandering.
I think if they would find the ideal unique design tgey would do it. But yeah there are a lot of great Dolphin Fakemon. But how wouldn’t there be? Dolphins are great.
I love the idea of the fire/fairy bunny!
As for the other two, I guess they are a bit overdone by the fakemon community, which is a reason to believe GF won’t use those ideas.
I love bunnies and Bunneary was done so well (the evo not so much).
Es been awhile since I changed my profile pic (And awhile since I’ve been here) so I felt new Pokemon game, new pic :3
Wow it is beautiful! I did love your logo though, with the P and the E blended into each other.
Thanks <3 It was to celebrate the news of Mega Lopunny, that's how old it is xD
I think Chico made it, if I remember correctly.
Yeeeeeeeeeee lol
well kudos to you then 😉
May be Raffles Hotel in Singapore?
Could be! No fountain though.
My personal theory is the Lux Riviera (see pic below).
This is definetly going to a tropical region! I’m getting an island vibe
And yes hopefully there is some type of connection with Kali’s, because I don’t feel like they really wrapped up generation 6 the right way. But gen7!!! Let’s do this!! I want an awesome fire starter!
Milotic and Flygon were briefly shown in this direct…just sayin’ >.>
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING IT’S A SIGN
It is!! They had to have heard our cries!
Okay so what if they putting an emphasis on vehicles what if And it’s a big what if you can have the first pokemon in your party follow and they ride in the back of the truck…..dun dun DUN!
That’d be pretty cool 🙂 I’m really hoping they render all pokemon for surfing and flying. That needs to be done
Anyone tried translating any of the text in the video yet? Like on the concept images to see if it reveals the function of the cars in game?
I dunno about the others, butwhen I tried to get a good view of the Japanese, it was kind of far off and hard to read.
Then again, even if I did get a good view, I probably wouldn’t know a good amount of it, since I am still learning Japanese.
I can get that done for you if you’d like?
Yes please, I’d love some more info on these games!
Yes 😀
Slowly… the PokéJungle veterans… shall return.
Hiiii~! Gen 7 hype!!
Howdyyy!
GEN 7 HYPPPEEEEE! 😀
Well this is exciting!! They may have not shown any footage, but there was some interesting concept art shown as well as that new flying type! I feel bad for Zygarde for getting the shaft in the games, but if this is a new gen I’m not complaining hahaha
He could be a post game chapter like Rayquaza!
I suppose, but If this really is a new gen I feel like that would b weird.Either way I’m intrigued by the phrase “It all comes together…”. In what way do these games encompass all the other games? Conceptually? Regionally?
I don’t know but it’s exciting 🙂 I wonder if we’ll get news in the next corocoro. Probably some silhouettes.
It is a new gen. It has already been confirmed 😉
Like straight up confirmed?
gen 2 was a new gen also 🙂
Could be that we go to Kalos and have an arc there, who knows?
I haven’t even seen the mascot legendaries yet but I’m almost certain I will get Pokemon Moon. How about you guys?
Both, but will play Moon first.
I’ll be getting Moon and my brother will probably get Sun.
You’re lucky you have a sibling who plays Pokemon. Trading is so much easier.
Both 😛 But my fav starter will be in Moon, maybe :3 Depends on what legendary I like more.
I’ll get both of them, but I will play moon first.
I will let my decision depend on the mascots.
Thats wise I’m just too damn excited lol.
Not sure if this is inappropriate to post or not, but who’s going to start abbreviating it as Pokemon S&M……..
For the first time I may have to avoid abbreviating the games bc of THAT! hahaha
At least Sun and Moon aren’t terribly inconvenient to say as opposed to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Hey, ORAS es easily to say.
That’s why the abbreviation was necessary there. Here it isn’t, so we can just say sun and moon.
I’ll still do SM, cause wynaut? :3
I do SM too.
Wait what?
This is true hahaha
I have no idea how to solve this problem (if it’s a problem at all; it’s pretty funny). MS is also not possible I guess, because of the disease multiple sclerosis.
I’ll just do Pokemon SM without the and 🙂
… bro you haven’t been on this site in YEARS 0-o
Heeeeeeeeeey.
It’s been 3,000 years ;-;
*descends from the heavens holding a giant flower*
… I feel like I should actually make an account on this commenting system rather than continually posting as guest.
I know, me too. I was in some dimension that didn’t have new Pokémon hype, but I’m back now! ;D
I’ll be sad if secret bases don’t return, even though I highly doubt they will. Blissey bases were so nice ;(
No need for secret basses when you have Personal vehicles!!
Yeah but it was cool having your own little gym :/
Now you have your own little MOBILE gym lol.
If we can drive I hope I can run people over
Nope your vehicle has automated detection and wont let you get that close lol.
Boo.
Here’s the firetruck earthen mentioned.
*cough* pretty sure I mentioned that first *cough*
I never saw
It is okay, I forgive you.
In the picture with the two people in the green truck it has furfrou and Machamp in the back
I can also see a Wobuffet.
yepp i see its smirk face now also haha
I really hope GameFreak put a 6v6 option in battle spot this time around doubt it tho.
SO! New Gen, new starters! If you didn’t know, each Fire-type starter is based on the Chinese zodiac. So far we have Charmander representing the dragon, Cyndaquil representing the rat, Torchick representing the rooster, Chimchar representing the monkey, Tepig representing the pig and Fennekin representing the dog. The zodiac animals left are the sheep, horse, snake, rabbit, tiger and ox.
Which Chinese zodiac animal would you guys like to see as the next Fire-type starter? I’d LOVE for it to be a tiger!
Oh I would really like the Tiger mmmmm yes please or the ox
I’d love an ox, a tiger, a rabbit or a horse. Luckily this means I have a high chance of being satisfied.
Horse may be unlikely though. Rapidash already exists.
My money’s on tiger, too.
A fire fox existed before Fennekin, yet Fennekin happened (which was a disappointing starter).
Ah that makes sense. All bets are off, then!
I still love Fennekin <3 I just don't care for Delphox as much, but I grew to love it, in a way.
No, no. Delphox is awesome. Stahp it!
Especially shiny Delphox!
I will admit shiny Delphox es beautiful <3 I really need to get one
I love the shiny Fennekin evolutionary line as a male, especially Delphox. It’s more of a warlock color for it. I had one named Gintsune which was a combination of gin (Japanese for silver) and kitsune (Japanese for fox). However, I came up with a way better name for it: Silmagus (silver + magus, meaning sorcerer). But, it was too late as it was traded to me. I’ll get a new chance with Pokémon Moon!
Nice <3 Loving the nickname, I'd probably do something similar for mine. (Not stealing from yours of course ^^ )
Delphoxs design is so tamed. They really should’ve have took about 4 steps further. A lot of the fan art really nailed it but gamed real kinda dropped the ball by not going the extra mile with the witch/sourcerer look
Oh, you mean go the Digimon route?
Nah… Its simplicity is lovely.
Feeling tiger, or snake, those would be awesome <3
Imagine a Fire/Poison snake starter…
I like that a lot.
That double ground weaknesses though. It’d be awesome.
I don’t care. It just sounds too awesome.
Levitate!
LOL TRIPLE TYPES FIRE/POISON/FLYING
What if though? Pokemon would be really confusing.
I already hate the idea of triple types. They won’t introduce it, because how would they add new types to old Pokemon? Just doesn’t sound right to me.
It’s also a joke.
A hovering snake? Hahaha
Yeah it’s…er…coming out of a basket and stuff..
<3 Aw yeah <3
Ok NOW we’re talking. That’s an idea I could totally get behind as long as it’s evolution aren’t just really basic snake designs like the final evolution of the grass snake starter.
I didn’t know that. Ox would be sweet.
I brought this up earlier! I would love a sheep/ram. I can imagine it being adorable in its beginning stages and turning into this huge badass tank with huge horns. Fire/steel or Fire/Ground maybe??
That would be amazing, sheep are my favourite animals
I once created a sheep fire starter which was based of a “meteor” and it was Fire/Flying.
That sounds fucking sick. Do you have a picture of it?
You should refresh. I added a pic to my comment 🙂
That fire starter is like the sickest thing ever. I want that to be real so bad.
Thanks a lot! 🙂
Wow! I love all of your starters! They look really cool! You’re great at concept design!
Thanks so much! I have a lot more designs (which are really old, but who cares) on boredx.deviantart.com
OX OX OX OX OX
Snake seems like the easiest to interpret into a fire monster. I worry what they’ll do to its evolutions though.
Tiger also seems like a strong contender if they’re able to nail the design as well as getting its evolutions right.
The rabbit seems likely too, but seeing as we already have so many other rabbit pokes, I’m not to crazy about another one.
Character customization… any chance or inkling of it returning? <3
Game Freak, please!
Hoping it will <3
I would love to pick a traainer type and dress up as that as a kid.
I’d be surprised if it didn’t. It makes the games more inclusive of different races
And if the trucks means now we can have professions, like fireman or anything like this AND we could drive these trucks?
This is so exciting, I screamed when I saw the vehicles, so cool 😀
Hey, long time no see. I remember arguing with you about whether Slurpuff or Aromatisse was better lol.
lol, I don’t remember that but it sounds like something I would do 😛
So hype for this, crazy insane seeing all the old PJN folks here, love y’all.
Man. I hope the formula changes. The same starter types, same 8 badges, the same elite 4. And evil team. It grows tiresome. Here’s to hoping they mix it up a bit. After 20 years…I hope something changes.
I stil love this formula, but side quests couldn’t hurt.
Yea, glad im not the only one.i actually love the formula, iprefer it overpretty much every game
Same <3 If it changes too much, would it even be Pokemon anymore?
It’s still Pokemon. I love it dearly. I just want something different to make it feel different than past games. Don’t get me wrong. I’m buying this at midnight. I would just like something new 🙂
Yeah, I know, some changes would be nice. But I doubt it would drastically change it so much.
Even just different starter types from the basic fire, water, and grass would be great. I don’t see them changing much though. And that’s okay
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It’s a winning formula imo but I agree there should be more included in the games.
I agree. And I am still a sicker for it. But if you do 8 gymss again. They should do it based on stats rather than type. Make it challenging. Like speed gym, cute gym, strength gym, ancient Pokemon gym, heavy gym etc. Keep the formula, but put a spin on it.
That’d be a great way to add variety. They’ll probably do this in future.
I can only hope. Or they can keep the main series games…and take a risk on something new. I would love that.
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR A DECADE! Why do gyms have to be solely based on TYPES ? Why not a heavy gym, or a rare gym, speed, dark type, scary, cute, A TRIPLE BATTLE GYM, a double battle gym. How about a gym where you have to team up with a cpu player and battle two gym leaders in a double battle. Or even a gym filled with weather conditions! I’m just throwing shit at the wall. But you get the point. Some creativity toward one of the most core elements of the game would be extremely delightful
I agree in part. I mean, I also do love the formula. I just think that there has to be post-game stuff. It’s a bit disheartening not to have goals after the elite 4 etc. It’s why I support the idea of it being like Johto and Kanto.
I think that’s why gold and silver are still the best games. Because you could go back. Every other games doesn’t offer as epic of a post game
HGSS are definitely better than original G/S though.
Yes absolutely. But I am the old guy that played the originals and they blew me away.
Anyone else considering wolves as the legendaries to go with the Norse myths of Hati and Skoll?
Someone brought them up last night. Very possible. But I’m leaning towards South and Central America
I’m gonna guess Spain, just cause’
Okay fine be that way
Someone said Middle East the other day. Which would be awesome.
that’d be a great touch!
I’m sorryyyyyy
You mean like Inti and Quilla? You make me hope for dragon legendaries now because of Yu-Gi-Oh…
I still think it’ll be a Wolf and maybe a Hare.
As in sort of chasing each other through the sky?
That’d be really interesting.
Isn’t Garm apart of that myth, too?
Yes! I wonder how to include it tho?
Ha! Tpld you guys this was real…
We all knew it was real from the start.
If it wasn’t real, well…We probably shouldn’t think of that.
Even though it says new region i bet kalos will be apart of it. And cheers for new pokemon!!!
Yeah, I think so too <3 Hey Menacing :3
Hiiii
It’s been awhile 😀
The new Pokemon basically looks like a Celebi with feet.
Things I want:
Dark type gym
Surf models for reach Pokemon
Not needing to have the move surf to cross water. If a Pokemon is big enough and can swim (mostly water types), it should able to swim without the need for surf. Same with all HMs really.
I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR A DARK TYPE GYM FOR SO LOONNNGGGG
I don’t like the third one, but the other two are excellent ideas.
So, this is really exciting. A new generation of Pokemon is upon us! I can’t wait to find out more. The only thing that kind of surprises me is that it is for the 3DS. With the NX speculated to come out this year, and rumored to be a handheld/home console, I would have thought they would save Pokemon for it. Maybe it’ll get a dual release (doubtful). Anywho, what do you guys want to see? AND What do you think we will see?
Personally, I want 80-120 New Pokemon, 15-25 New Mega Evolutions, Trainer Customization return and more options for it, and a return to Kalos to do the Zygarde story.
Alright what about
Grass Lemur
Fire Ox
Water Dolphin
Those sound cool, too! 😀 All these ideas sound wonderful.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3260/8081/original.jpg
This fake leak’s grass starter acutally looks a lot like the new Pokemon O_o
ewwwww i hate the fire one
Yeah its nasty.
The other too are nice though.
Even if this is fake (which it is, most likely), these designs look awesome.
The logo looks nothing like sun/moon’s, it’s fake.
True, but I still love the designs <3 I wouldn't be mad if the starters ended up being similar to these ones.
I especially like the water one.
Same, it’s my fav of the three.
oh my gosh that fire squirrel thing is so cute
repost: So, this is really exciting. A new generation of Pokemon is upon us! I can’t wait to find out more. The only thing that kind of surprises me is that it is for the 3DS. With the NX speculated to come out this year, and rumored to be a handheld/home console, I would have thought they would save Pokemon for it. Maybe it’ll get a dual release (doubtful). Anywho, what do you guys want to see? AND What do you think we will see?
Personally, I want 80-120 New Pokemon, 15-25 New Mega Evolutions, Trainer Customization return and more options for it, and a return to Kalos to do the Zygarde story.
25 new Megas? That’s a lot for a game that will probably be pretty small.
15-25! 15 being the least, and 25 being the most I could see. I also don’t think the game will be “small”.
Battle frontier. I think we are overdue after oras left it out.
Maybe something like D/P’s.
I honestly dont mind as long as it is more than single/double/triple(ugh)/rotation(UGH). I liked being able to strive for certificates in either battle frontier, it was challenging and very rewarding.
Triple battles were kinda weird but I really liked rotation battles. There’s a lot of strategy involved when playing real people in them.
And less random hax.
Battle frontier plz
Since this a odd numbered generation we should be definately getting over 100 Pokemon.
I think since they don’t have to create a 3D model for every Pokemon this time around, that we will get more Pokemon. Atleast 100. I hope so, atleast.
Just to continue with my strong belief in a South and Central America themed region, there are temples in South America dedicated to the sun and moon respectively
Personally I think you may be right about south america, but we shall see
After all this time, I still wish the Kalos starters’ evolutions looked like either of these 🙁
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://gaiashketoji.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/kalos_final_evos_by_zerudez-d6nu4wc.png%253Fw%253D645&imgrefurl=https://gaiashketoji.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/beda-2015-27-pokemon-i-think-should-get-mega-evolutions/&h=290&w=645&tbnid=1gwghqcjby0_hM:&docid=Qmd3sVfvzmytVM&ei=Xo3QVvC1Bsm6Uf76soAN&tbm=isch&client=ms-android-om-lge&ved=0ahUKEwjw3OSI_JXLAhVJXRQKHX69DNAQMwhbKDQwNA
Same <3 These look awesome 😀
They were surprisingly close with Delphox.
http://alvanista.com/uploads/timeline_image/2014/02/18/273514_2545907250.png
These are some of my favorite fake pokemon designs-for mega Johto starters.
I don’t like em
Same here, feraligatr and typlision seem cluttered
I like simple. Not cluttered.
I just realized who you are. Okay
I remember when I guessed where you lived. I was really cringey back then.
Yes. Don’t forget about the restraining order.
…
Feraligatr basically looks the same 😛 I only like that Typhlosion one
These look incredible!!
Eh i feel like these are too cluttered. I appreciate the simple designs they went with in 6th gen. I look at goodra as an example of genius design.
I agree. Except for chestnaught. I think they nailed his design
new Pokemon idea
Lighter Beetle
Gargoyle
Dolphin
Ant
Warthog Mud Wrestler
Mega cofagrifus with Stance Change please!
YES IT WILL REPLACE MEGA SHARPEDO AS MY FAVORITE MEGA
I like mega altaria the best.
It’s cute but not my style
My favorite is Mega Ampharos.
Or maybe Mega Absol.
Ilike that one too. Heck iike most of them, i mean i guess the only ones i dont like are audino and slowbro
Audino has a nice design its just so terrible.
It’s a mistake
My fav is Mega Lopunny <3
I think my favorite mega is either Mega Sharpedo or Mega Altaria. I also like Mega Bedrill and Lopunny.
We must give it a hunky mummy with a big beard, as part of the design
Ooh yes baby. Sharpedo got a goatee sooo
Mega Rhyperior
That and electivire and lickilicky
And Volcarona. And possibly some forgotten Pokemon. Mega Masquerain would be awesome.
It’s coming. Shhhhh. I’m worried about the design since its already so busy though.
http://pokejungle.net/2016/02/25/breaking-pokemon-sun-moon-revealed/#comment-2534750198
Just a day ago people were thinking that this was fake…Pretty insane.
From the minute I saw it, I knew it was most likely real. I mean, trademarks usually end up being real, since es kinda hard to fake a trademark filed by Nintendo. Plus, it had logos and everything, like that also added proof to the ‘Real’ category for me.
Plus, they said ‘big news’ I doubt anything other than a new game announcement would be ‘big news’
“I mean, trademarks usually end up being real, since es kinda hard to fake a trademark filed by Nintendo.”
But remember Pokemon Gray and Delta Emerald? There definitely was reason to think this was fake, at least until the domains were leaked too.
Soo…if they do south east france/germany, they could have a Berlin Wall type situation. Not sure they would want to get into something possiblly political likebthat, but it’s an idea. Both sides have a different idea, evil teM is from other side of th wall or soemthing, different pokemon and ideas?
Hmmm, that’s interesting. I admit, it might be a bit too much, since there’s some dark history there, but it would be pretty awesome.
The history, all things considered probably would be too much, but a split region again would be awesome
It would be. If it was Southern France, it would explain the similarities but also why it wasn’t in XY and why no reference was made to it, in a way.
I’m 95.5555555% sure that whatever “region” this is, it’ll connect to Kalos much in the same way Kanto/Johto did. It just feels right. There’s a whole southern part of Kalos we haven’t seen but heard of. Kalos as a whole wasn’t nearly as explored as any of the previous regions. Not to mention this is a big milestone in Pokemon history, and I’m sure they want to treat their fans with something special and much requested, which is this is.
I know this kind of theory comes up with every generation, but it really feels right this time.
It does, considering Kalos and Kanto had similarities. It made sense from that time and even now to think there might be a Johto-like region connected to Kalos.
Team Mega Milotic please. Mega Hydreigon wouldn’t hurt either….
if it didn’t happen in ORAS why would it happen now
it should happen now because it didn’t happen then like it should? It’s a chance to fix it.
There’s no mistake
This doesn’t need to freaking happen, we have like a gillion Hoenn Megas give the others a damn chance
I don’t see any reason to sound so outraged over an idea. Didn’t you just suggest a lot of stuff you would like to see in it? Chill, mate.
yeah but i rarely get anything i like, and everyone often does
I’m fairly certain you have played XY /ORAS and I haven’t been able to afford/play either of them yet, which probably makes me like the one person here who didn’t. You don’t see me raging because of it? Either way, I hope you get the nice stuff you hope for. Cheers .
Artist block? Thats why mega flygon got the chopping block.
At least that one was planned
Nothing for that overhyped slug
Milotic is beautiful. Its not a slug its an oarfish 😀
it’s a annoyance
Well i would think some people disagree. Some might see rhyperior as an annoyance, but you clearly have a passion for it. I think
Oh Please
That thing gets all the love and praise
Rhyperior is just a shunned idea that gets pushed away and gets preyed upon by virtually anything
Well it is really slow and has two x4 weaknesses to common types..
exactly and they give this thing a fucking Mega AND A FAIRY TYPING
Well I’m sure a mega rhyperior will happen one day, unless they decide to stop doing them
I think thats a piss poor reason to dislike a pokemon. I love arourus even though it has the worst possible typing ever.
I mean I like Rhyperior a lot! I just hate its typing. Aurorus has an unfortunate typing as well, lol. But it looks so cool
Well im sorry. That makes 2 of us. You think rhyperior is shunned, try having purugly as a favorite pokemon. Even TPCi hates purugly. Breakpoint is the frist time we’ve had a purugly card since platinum. It skipped a generation an a half! I leanred to just accept peoples different tastes.
Try having Whiscash as a favorite Pokemon. Most people who I say that too just say “What’s a Wish Cash? I only know pikachu and charzar!
Ugh dont even get me started on those people…
Just curious, what makes it your favorite pokemon?
I bought one of those random pokemon figure packs and for some reason one of them had two Whiscashes. This blew my 6 year old mind and I caught a Whiscash in every game that it was available.
That makes no sense lol. All the more reason for it to happen since it hasn’t yet. The chances increase every game it doesn’t happen…
it makes perfect sense, a shit ton of Hoenn Megas for ORAS
and now that’s done, why give them even more
Ehhh. We had plenty of gen 1 Mega’s given to us in X&Y but that didn’t keep them from doing a few more in ORAS.
Which starters does everyone normally choose? Do you have a pattern? I always use the grass type myself.
Fire, i burn through things with a type that matches my fury
Usually water, sometimes grass. I seldom like the fire designs
Same here. Grass-types for some odd reason. They just always appeal to me, although Fennekin did change that for me cause Psychic-types are my absolute favorites, so it was a must.
I usually go with starters I like, which most of them end up being fire (excluding Piplup and Snivy). Although I end up playing with all of them.
I almost always choose grass myself, at least for my first playthrough. I will eventually use all three through different plays.
I go with the starters I like, but they’re mostly water types. My first non-water starter was Fennekin since I disliked Froakie 😛
Usually fire, occasionally gras. Water in Gen 6.
Whatever catches my soul as a pokemon trainer!
Water, most of the time. Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup, Oshawott and Froakie were all great (but I still prefer Charmander over Squirtle). Oshawott even is my favorite starter (because of Samurott).
There had damn well better be a Dark-type gym! If not, well… why the hell not?!
C’mon, Game Freak!
One day…..one day….
*doesn’t happen ever*
But seriously, yes. This needs to happen.
Dark type Gym Leaders aren’t allowed
Why not? If there are Dark E4, why not Gym Leaders?
Because Gym Leaders are meant to be respected and looked up to
I remeber hearing something how it would promote bad influences
AND BEFORE EVERYONE SHOVES ELITE FOUR THEY ARE RENOWNED FOR BEING THE TOUGHEST OF THE REGION
WHICH HAS NO AFFILIATION TO THE GYM LEADERS
You can say the same about the E4. They the toughest and strongest, people look up to them.
‘Evil’ is meant to be like trickery, cheating in a way.
And yes, they do have an affiliation, since you need to beat the Gym Leaders to get to the E4, es the system they developed.
If you make a Dark Gym Leader like Karen (who said that memorable quote by the way of playing the way you want to play with the Pokemon you like, regardless of its ‘Evil’ type of not)
It could also be a reformed criminal, who learned their ways but likes Dark types, showing that there is redemption for people who want it.
I believe es a good message 🙂
It’s really not an argument that gym leaders can’t be dark because it promotes “evilness”. It’s not like the E4 are morally ambiguous. They’re more powerful than gym leaders and command more respect. There should be a dark gym.
Exactly, but if people think that way, then do something like I said, where it’s someone who used to be ‘evil’ so to say, but learned their ways. I dunno, es just how I feel about people who bring that argument up.
Well they should just remove dark type if that’s the case…
*insert “is it because they’re black?” joke here*
Come on you know they will choose ice over dark….
Looking into the future, November will probably be full of leaks and speculation, which is always fun
Don’t forget the rumors and fakes and the fakes that turn out to be true, some disappointingly true til we get over it.
Ah, good times….they will be fun 😀
HELLOOOOOOOO
DICIEEEEEEEEEEE
HEY MATE!
ookaruss?
yep.
You’re goomyforever, right? I remember the gijinkas you made.
Yeah! I’ve improved so much since then, though! I’ll probably try some gijinkas again sometime
Suuup~♪
It’s me.
I’m putting it at 3 days tops before fake corocoro scans start coming in
Singapore is also a possibility but Sun and Moon doesn’t fit it.
I’m excited about the new gen,but I seriously hope they wrap up the whole Kalos story properly,and that they mix up the formula.
My hopes:
Better Engine (so no framerate drops)
3d models for all elite 4 and gym leaders
Awesome story
Good post game
Difficulty
6v6 Random Battles
I think they will, if they do a Johto-Kanto thing and return to Kalos :3
I really hope it’s more than that.
Visiting Kanto in Gen 2 was awesome,but the region itself was prett empty
True, they can expand it in a way, include some storyline there. Es a hope I have 😀
It’s illogical if they don’t do anything with Kalos.
What are the Zygarde forms and AZ’s Floette for then?
I used to think the Floette was there just for the cutscenes and all, since they need a model to animate in the scene, but when they revealed the move it learned, I kind of dropped that argument.
I want soaring to return but I know it won’t..
I don’t get GF’s logic.
Soaring,Pokemon Following you, DexNav are all features that should become mainstays in the series
Ughh Dex nav </3 please return. So useful
Pokemon following should be OPTIONAL its one of the many reasons i cant stand to play HG SS.
Really, you didn’t like it? 😮
I dont want to say i hated it but it… Kinda got old after while? I dont know its kinda hard to explain. I really am not a fan of Gen 2 to begin with and they didnt put any effort into fixing its problems with the remakes.
I really hope they put 6v6 option in battle spot. Asking passerbyers for battles takes too long.
Yes a hard difficulty would be much appreciated
Based on the descriptions, it looks like we won’t be unraveling the mysteries of the Kalos region, at least not in these titles. How do we feel about the high likelihood of these being Generation 7 games?
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Feels kind of weird to just abandon the whole Zygarde thing, but maybe they’ll address it in the new games.
I feel like that’s what the XY&Z anime is for. It’d just work out better.
Generation 6 was pretty short if these are Gen 7 games, but Generation 5 lasted just as long (3 years, I think).
Gen 6 was basically Gen 1. This is the Gen 2 to Gen 6. It’s going to be amazing.
I just think there’s a lot of stuff in-game that would feel abandoned (see Armageddon16’s post below).
To be honest, I actually don’t want them to. It was a neat gimmick, but it’s nothing that interesting, and I don’t really see any way to pursue it further
It just feels like a lot of stuff left on the cutting room floor. But don’t get me wrong, I have no problem jumping into Gen VII this year.
It doesn’t have to addressed in the games. They could do it in a Pokemon Movie or a anime episode.
I mean… they could, but it feels weird to have Zygarde so obviously meant to tie into something more, and only play that out in the anime. What is Zygarde’s meaning or purpose in the games then?
If they don’t pay that off in the games, I’m going to have the feeling that they dropped some of their Gen VI plans to get VII started ASAP, due to failing 3DS sales.
Really good. If I’m being brutally honest, I don’t really care about Zygarde, Floette, Volcanion or Magearna. Guess i got kinda tired of Kalos. Glad we’re getting something fresh.
I can see that, and having played every generation of Pokemon, I’m going to have to agree with you.
Very likely, but like I said before, I believe we will return to Kalos and maybe explore the mysteries behind there, like a Johto-Kanto thing.
But, now I’m just repeating myself :3
Even if we don’t get two regions, the least they can do is actually have a postgame and take a hint from BW in terms of the storyline. I really need to replay those games, since they were amazingly intricate in storytelling.
True, Gen 5 had the best story, hands down 😀 At least, in my eyes :3
See i really like platinums story because i find rhe psychotic Cyrus to be a story pumping, compelling villain.
Cyrus was awesome to me. I love Team Galactic 😀
I never played D/P and couldn’t bear to finish Platinum. Might need to do that sometime, since we do have Sinnoh remakes coming up in the next four or so years, at least.
I cant stand to play them anymore, everything in them is so slow!
You have to play them. They are the nicest games in my opinion. But the downside to playing them now, is that they can feel very slow.
Yeah, they are. As a kid, and even now, they don’t feel slow to me, I dunno why. Maybe because I was patient, or that con was outweighed by the many pros I saw. I dunno.
I’ll give them a try and let you know how I feel about them 🙂
I’m curious about what you think of them.
As am I, since the last time I played them was around three years ago.
The official Pokemon website says “new region, new Pokemon” = Generation 7
http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-sun-and-pokemon-moon/
I think Magearna might be a Gen 7 legendary Pokémon. I really feel like there will be some type of connection from Gen 6 to Gen 7. Gen 1 and Gen 2 had were connected, although it wasn’t story-wise. Wasn’t there an NPC in some hotel in Kalos saying something about a new region?? Hmm…
Your memory is correct. And I believe it was Shauna who mentioned that she’s going to go to a faraway region next. Maybe our rivals from Kalos will follow us to this new region, and bring us back to their homeland in the postgame (as Percy mentioned).
I would be so disappointed if those boring rivals followed us to this new region…
True, I didn’t care for the rivals (Excluding the main one, Callum or Serena). I kind of just want one rival, really. Having more than one always was meh to me.
It would serve as a reason for us to go back to Kalos in the postgame. Either that or the villainous team goes to Kalos and we need to go after them. Nonetheless, it seems strange that a game’s lore like XY’s is just left hanging.
Lol I agree Silver and Gary still remain the best rivals.
I also liked Barry a lot. Don’t know why, just loved battling him. Giving us a rival where the other gender is your rival is lazy. Hugh was nice too, Bianca and Cheren not so much. Gen 6 was absolutely the worst rival-wise.
I like the rivals who change or learn something through the journey. It makes them more human in a way. Barry realized he couldn’t be silly and ridiculous all the time, that he had to be serious and take things more seriously.
Hugh was awesome too, since he learned to stop treating you like a pawn and like the friend you were supposed to be (At least in my eyes, since some people don’t really see it)
And Silver is the best example. He saw Pokemon as tools, hated people, hated the world, even, but because of you being his rival and Lance, he learned to love Pokemon and tolerate people.
At the part of the trailer where they had snippets of the player running in different games, I really wish they had included a shot of the player in sun and moon, it would have really upped my excitement and it would have been great to get more of a glimpse of what the game looks like
It seemed to me that in one of those images they showed two trainers wearing some different clothing. Oh, and I love the new PC design.
I like these concepts that add more reality of pkmn world and show the cahoots between humans and pkmn I was think so much about that when I was a kid. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1456499454108.png
That’s Machamp on the top, and ??? on its right, what is it?
Furfrou and Wobbuffet.
I really hope we get a Dark type gym. I’m so annoyed by the avoiding it.
It’s like a really old joke at this point that gamefreak just keeps telling..
wut r those1!!!!1!1 ! lmao xDDdDDDdD
Gamefreak: “Lol…lyke wat r dark typez…? Did we mention we hate bug typez?”
At least we got sick bugs in Gen 5.
Yeah we did! They need to make more powerful ones though, too many useless ones
An rude annoying joke!
Strange Souvenier
Project AZOTH
Zinnia,Draconids,Aster
Shauna going to a faraway region
Eternal Flower Floette
The War
AZ himself
Magearna
The separate timeline thing
So many things GF can build on and make an awesome story with,I seriously hope they don’t abandon them
I’m hoping we will get to meet Zinnia in SM, like she went there on her journey and we meet her. I would love that, since she could finally explain who Aster was to her, and how she died.
My thoughts entirely. This is why we need Kalos to tie into the story somehow or make up the postgame. I’m gonna be honest and say that if they reuse Kalos completely and call it a postgame, I’ll be irritated. I want something BW2 Unova style if we go back to Kalos–sufficient alterations but nothing dramatic.
Exactly.
Have some old characters such as shauna,zinnia and AZ make appearences.
Include references to the story of XY and ORAS.
After we finish the main game, have a Z episode where we go back to Kalos and Learn about the Zygarde forms and everything else
I like it. Z Episode sounds perfect.
I firmly believe these games will be what GS were to RBY, and I still believe Zygarde will be involved in some way. I really do believe Kalos will have a close relationship with this new region.
I would really appreciate it if they built a storyline that spanned multiple generations, rather than seemingly scrapping each one after a new gen
That would be an interesting twist on the storytelling.
It’s especially disappointing that they don’t do that, considering that Gen II made all kinds of references to the Gen I plot.
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SM has shiny diamonds
I’m going to one of those Pokemon TCG leagues tomorrow, its my first time, I’m pretty nervous.
Good luck!
Thanks 🙂
So I hope we get a villain team that I am actually scared of just saying must of us played pokemon when we were wee little lads and lassies I would like to see the baddies take my starter from me and I actually have to win him back or they actually do succeed in their plan and flee back to Kalo where I have One more chance to stop them
That would be cool, although, in my opinion, Cyrus was frightening to me. He wanted to change the world, strip humanity of what makes us human, and that felt terrifying to me. I always imagine what it would be like, no emotions, no soul, just plain, boring. It makes me shiver every time.
Yes, Cyrus was the most threatening boss. I wasn’t honestly sure what Ghetsis wanted.
I will admit though, lying about his intentions, making them innocent, such as freeing Pokemon, was interesting.
He was interesting. And he looked pretty cool.
Gen 5 had the best story I hope Gen 7 has one just as interesting. Sorry to say but Gen 6 story was pathetic even for kids.
True, although I did like Lysandre and how gray his intentions were. They were innocent, somewhat justified, just wrong and evil int he way he executed it.
To free Pokemon from humans.
That was his cover, though. IT was what N wanted.
True I forgot about the plot twist I won’t spoil it for you Ultron.
Ghetsis wanted power. He wanted to strip everyone but himself of pokemon. He got off on hurting others and feeling in control, just look at the way he treats N.
^ True, he felt like a real villain that way.
Although, I will admit, I tend to like villains that are more gray, that could be right but are doing things in the wrong way, like Lysandre. It reflects the real world that way. There are no heroes and villains here, it’s all about perspective, who wins and loses.
He wanted to take over the world while pretending to free Pokemon by freezing some cities and catching some legendaries.
It would be cool if the choices you make would have different consequences/outcomes in regards to the evil team.
Late, but for those who asked: the Japanese text that comes up in the Japanese trailer/direct is literally just subtitles for the English narration.
So i saw the japanese logos for sun and moon and they look so much more awesome than english but thats expected. But im still hype as fuck right. I think we might get an actual trailer in the near future. Like within the next few days.
And so it begins…
Was there any mention (before the direct) of where this new region is based off?
Nope :3 If only, right? For now, es only speculation.
But thats the fun of it, and what draws us all together!
Exactly 😀 It’s fun to speculate, and when the game comes out, look back at what you guessed wrong and what you guessed right. It’s very interesting and fun 😀
Funny that you say that, i was looking back at all the fake leaks and speculation from the DPP era… Lol that was something…
I’m kind of hoping it’s based somewhere East of France. Maybe the whole sun theme can represent Egypt down below and the moon for the Northern regions that get less sunlight – who knows, but I’m excited either way!
Same 😀 I’m super excited to go through yet another season of speculation, rumors, and waiting with you guys 😀
No, but based on an image that shows some kind of building and fountain, I presume the region will be somewhat tropical. But that’s just me.
We’ll hopefully find out more soon 😀
I think it’ll be based on Singapore architecture and Central and South American myth and legends.
So assuming the games come out in December, we have about 10 months to go.
That’s 10 CoroCoro leaks, one E3 conference, one Gamescom conference, one new movie, and a whole lotta speculation. The hype train is on its way!
November
Why November?
Technically the time of holiday is from September to december
Let’s hope we get the games as early as possible 🙂
Retail Holiday season.
Ah, that makes sense.
Exactly, have the games out before December holidays to make the most money.
And the next CoroCoro is about 15 days away. Hoping for early leaks. *_*
Definitely! The next CoroCoro better not be a disappointing one. I predict we’ll learn the region, our player characters, the legendaries, and maybe a few new Pokemon.
Maybe the starters?
I think it’s a bit early
Not necessarily, XY starters were released right off the bat, and other gens had their starters released usually right after the announcement of the game, or in the one or two months followed.
yes I know, with xerneas and yveltal, but according to this teaser, they are going to change their communication line up
Still, don’t throw out the idea that they won’t reveal them nowr. They gotta get us hyped for them, and the earlier they reveal them, the more we grow to them by the time the game releases.
Last gen the starters were revealed right away.
Maybe the starters reveal too hopefully.
I really hope it won’t. I’d say starters, PC’s and Mascots. Regino in April with professor.
I would say at least the region name and the starters. Maybe the cover legendaries. I think anything else this soon would be a bit much…. But completely welcome.
What’s that Japanese Pokemon show called again? It’s on every Sunday and sometimes they reveal new information also.
No clue. There is that one where they rarely show anything and there is Oho Suta which I don’t know when airs, which usually shows some neat promos.
It changes names every once in awhile. Last time I remember, they didn’t really reveal anything new, just talked about what was already revealed
I can’t wait to spend it all with you guys <3
I’m really excited for these games <3 It feels nice to be back here 😀
Man I’m so excited man, only because right now we have no clue what this any of this is haha. Excited to find out
It’s totally Alaska the period of dark and the period of daytime boom lol
I have a friend in Alaska
It’s their dark time right now I have an uncle
Who wants to see new types for starters ?
I mean, new dual typings would be nice, I doubt they would change the starting types, but who knows, right?
I do not. I still like this formula.
I don’t know what I want
Psychic, Dark, Fighting mmmm?
Me. I like changes.
So anyone want to talk about the background of sun and moon like the landscape? Could this be a giant land highway down to the next region? Like the bottom of North America to South America?
Hopefully, because the games come out soon technically, not everything will be revealed. These seem to be pretty big games so we’re bound to have very little info each month!
Or maybe loads of info every month 🙂
Please. No. ;~; I will block every pokemon site. I just want starters, legendaries, and region name.
And entire pokedex, all mega evolutions, all new attacks, items, gyms, plots, addresses, and social security numbers!
No, worry. I’ll just ban you if we got too much info, making it easy for you.
I’ve had it done before.
I’m probably the only one who wants to see more Elementary Monkeys. I loved the ones in Gen V, was a bit disappointed that we didn’t get ones in gen VI.
I don’t care for the monkeys but I would like to see more pokemon trios
That would be neat, but not the starter type triangle. Something else.
Fish
I want more Eeveevolutions D:
Flying and Bug is a long wish of my, not to mention fighting. But unlikely. Cause of the amount of fakemons, just like my precious Dolphin starter.
You never know. I’m more partial to Dragon Eevee. I really want a Dolphin pokemon, so bad though <3
A thing I’m wondering if we might get Eeveeloution Megas.
Same, although they might not. But I’ve seen some fake Espeon Megas I would love to have
Have to google that. Maybe just a Mega for Eevee itself?
True, cause a Normal evolution would just be weird, I dunno, es my opinion.
I really want a Psychic/Water dolphin
Same but we get new Eeveelutions in even numbered generations so I doubt we’ll get them in 7th gen but anything is possible 🙂
I want more Rotom forms
Are u kidding ?
I liked the basic designs, not the evolutions. Not really to powerful pokes, but Ienjoyed them.
Ok why not, I think they embody GF lack of inspiration for genV, with genVI I was delighted with new pokemon designs again
There’s a handful of bad designs in every gen, and a handful of good designs in every gen. 🙂
Gen V did lack some inspiration and final touch to almost all pokemon.
Gen VI felt fresher, but still I did like those little monkeys. Found them really cute.
Is there anywhere i can find the japanese logos for SM
Whatever you do, don’t Google Japanese SM.
LOL
Oh GOD
You just made me curious
The Japanese website?
Are they up yet?
I dunno. You tell me.
here they are (updated on jp website)
Thanks!
Scroll down about 50 comments.
Ah, thank you!
Sooooo? What’s the new Professors name? We need trees people!
Professor Palm
Professor Sequoia
Professor Willow
Professor Camphor
Feeling Professor Willow
Redwood.
He’s at least seven foot six lol
I like Sequoia maybe chance it up make the professor a darker toned female
Man I really cannot wait for more info on this game. I feel like there’s gonna be something about this game that’s gonna completely blow us away(just like Mega Evolution did).
The Diamond in the logo might be a clue, like how the DNA strand was in XY logo.
It’s making me so curious to find out.
Diamond?
It’s in the middle, es really tiny, but you can see it
I can’t. But then again you have glasses.
True, I notice it because it takes the place of a mark typically on that katakana that’s above it. :3
Japanese logo
Don’t forget the comets
Maybe they will be related? :3
BTW Game Freak are so cruel! I’m in mid of PILOT SEASON! I can’t follow all the news.
I have to study!!!!!
If i could Time Travel
I would go to New Years 2017 and learn everything i could on the game and send it back for today
“Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are coming out for systems in the Nintendo 3DS family in holiday 2016, with a new world, new Pokémon, and new adventures to discover!”
“Newest Generation of Pokémon Core Series Games coming to Nintendo 3DS Late 2016 ”
So 7th generation for sure. But after a year and a half of nothing they could give us something more then logos. -.-‘
Don’t forget the trucks !
We already knew that, plus we weren’t supposed to find out about them until today, so it’s a little bit ruined by that.
Plus, we got more than just logos, we got peeks into some designs of what will be in the game, and a potential new Pokemon being animated.
Plus, CoroCoro will be here soon, so we don’t have to wait long.
Well, I wouldn’t say that Sun and Moon were ruined by the trademark stuff yesterday. Just because they trademark something doesn’t mean it’s coming. We all know the list of game titles that haven’t been used. Personally, I was excited just from the actual confirmation.
True, I was too, but there are a couple of people disappointed because they didn’t reveal more, so yeah :3
I completely understand. I would’ve loved even a copy and paste of the X and Y reveal trailer. A little walking around, the starters, the cover legendaries. That would’ve been a perfect start to this one too. It would give a lot more to talk about but we can always hope for something in CoroCoro.
Yeah, same 😀 hopefully CoroCoro will come soon 😀
I’m literally shaking from excitement… or just how cold it is.. Either way I can’t wait. I need my reptilian fluff ball (dragon eevee).
I knooowwwww Dragon Eevee pleeasseeeee
I have a shiny eevee just waiting to be a dragon type.
Okay, I just took my exam and I’m still super sleep deprived.
I’m really hoping the new region is tropical, south/central america themed, that’d be really cool because that’s my cultural background.
Mega Milotic will happen. 🙂
King if you read this, I want u to know I missed you, Jandro comes occasionally and I don’t know where Jenny went. ;-;
So… hit me with speculation. Entertain me. Let’s break disqus.
I prefer mountains, snow, pine trees and cold temperate areas, wait and see !
*hits you with the word speculation* :3
Mega Milotic is a joke
New story? Yep. New region? Yep. New Pokémon? Yep.
Generation 7? Not so sure just yet.
Perhaps we’ll have to redefine what a generation is
New Pokémon is the very definition of a generation, so not sure why you would go into denial.
The press release specifically says a new generation of game, though? 😉
I guess new generation starts with new starter trio. If we are going to get new starters, then new generation it is.
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If I remember correctly he was one of the old members that posted very graphic beheading photos from ISIS. Besides. Paul is the only one that can unban.
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who’s Paul?
PokeJungle
Who exactly are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
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Haven’t been on I the last 2 hour or so and don’t have a lot of time to scroll threw the comments that being said idk if someone already made this speculation: I kind of don’t want to be right but I do believe we are in gen 7 and it’s not 6.5 cause of all the past games they name were all next gen from 1996 to 2013 and never mention sequels or remakes.
Yeah, it was already mentioned before 🙂
It can still connect with Kalos and go back to it to explore certain things though, like having this region and Kalos be next to each other
Thoughts so and it blew my mind when I thought about it awhile back but got busy and couldn’t post or get on anything
If I am correct, it is 4 in the morning in Japan right now. I still think we have a chance of getting some more news, or maybe I’m just hoping for too much.
I’d say slightly later morning is more likely
In my opinion we are not going to have new details before march. They use the hype to make us buy Pokemon RED/BLUE/Yellow
just like Zelda TP remake and wolf amiibo connecting with the new zelda, they have presented the “link” between Red/blue/yellow version and moon/sun
Sooooo that can’t be all they got for the DAY OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY you are correct I think we will get more when they start celebrating the anniversary
The new bird Pokemon is the fire type starter Pokemon.
It evolves into a fire/fighting Rooster Pokemon.
it’s a Woodpecker
Woodpecker / Rooster …… Same difference
no…just no
no thinky that way
I can imagine a woodpecker evolving into an ostrich and then into a rooster.
It seems very logical if you ask me.
No…..
Woodpecker Chick
Adolescent Woodpecker
Big-Ass Woodpecker that can probably bore through metal
We don’t break tradition
Flying / Ground Type with Swords Dance and Drill Run.
Yeah…let’s do this.
Ground/Flying
Makes about 0 difference in terms of playability. Purely aesthetic…but yeh totally.
kinda does
how many primary Flying types
only Noibat Noivern and Tornadus
Every other is secondary
Like I said. 0 difference in terms of playability. Has no effect on the Pokemon in the slightest. Purely aesthetic.
not really, Primary type makes a humongous reason in its design
All birds are mammals first
Gliscor is a Sand Scorp
primary type means a lot more and you just can’t grasp the ethnics of creation
IAMTHELEAKER 2.0
I remember that time, it was amazing :3
Yeah, memories.
I’m looking at the picture of that building wondering what the geographical basis for the game will be if it is a new region, and it feels a little tropical. I’m wondering and hoping that if the games tie into the Kalos, maybe we’re either looking at Spain to the south or go over those mountains and we get a Mediterranean inspired region.
Maybe :3
I’m still hoping its a Johto equivalent to Kalos and it goes back there and explores Kalos with some storyline
Agreed! That’s why I was thinking about what’s around France! Id personally like to see Kalos and a new region interested into storyline and post storyline instead of do one, then the other. I liked how long the first chunk of the game took up to the third gym and really hope that they go that route for the whole thing this time!
Yeah, but it doesn’t have to be super close to Kalos, like it can be a train ride away :3
Pokemon centres are now perfectly circular in shape.
The protagonist character will be above the age of 16 so they can legally drive. That’s why they are showing vehicles in the game.
Come on guys….this is obvious information.
It better be a big ass region.
They made this announcement at midnight in JAPAN so I say we will get more no matter what it will be we will get more that’s just the appetizer now we’re waiting for the main course and then the desert mwuahahaha
I think we won’t get anything until CoroCoro, yes it is the 20th anniversary, but I doubt we’ll get more info, I think this just to tie us over until CoroCoro comes out.
They want us to buy Virtual console Blue/Red and yellow versions !
Well, no duh, they are a company after all. That’s why they included RBY in the presentation. That’s not anything ground-breaking.
It still doesn’t mean they’ll release more info.
On a more serious note. I expect them to reveal the box legends either in the next couple of days or in CoroCoro.
I can’t decide which game I will prefer since the names and logos looks amazing. It will all come down to the box legends designs.
I really should pick, but I really want both..
I’m still gonna get both, but which one I will play more and where my fav starter will be will depends on the legendary
Just to spark a discussion what are your wishlists for Pokemon Moon and Sun?
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Johto-like region that connects to Kalos
Dragon Eevee (even if the odds are against me)
Cool characters
A BAMF Evil Team
Dark Type Gym
New Pokemon, of course
A poision eeveelution would be amazing!
I just an eeveevolution for every type D: More to love, more to buy plushies of
Gimme a good story,Good difficulty,good post game and I’m satisfied
A difficulty setting from the get go would be nice
This^ I don’t find Pokemon challeging anymore because I’ve been playing for so long. They need to add a difficulty setting defo.
I agree 100% I hope the Battle Frontier returns or an equivalent.
Mega Solrock and Lunatone
I agree or regular evolutions they both need a buff in stats.
They pretty much have to at this point.
– Day/night cycle and weather cycle impacting findable pokemon (nocturnal pokemon…)
– Improved graphics and environments
Well seeing the screenshots that were shown the improved graphics will be in the game
Location based weather. No more megas, more new Pokémon. Larger, longer routes, hot gym leaders
100% agree
Hot gym leaders lol.
Well I got my mega Metagross so my number one dream has happened. Now I would like a dragon eevee (kind of needs to happen anyway). Aside from that, I’m game for really anything. Well… a ram starter would be amazing. And some badass steel types.
STEEL TYPESSSSS
Metagross and Steel Types.
Are you like my doppelganger ?
I’ve had metagross as my partner since gen 3. Steven was my idol growing up and getting that Beldum almost made me cry when I was a kid. I hatched my shiny and he’s been with me ever since. That mega stone was opportunity to finally tell him thanks for everything. I love my Metagross.
Metagross was the first Pokemon I ever soft reset for to get an Adamant Nature and the first Pokemon I EV trained. Steven Stone has been and will always be my favourite champion and character In all of Pokemon.
Ok, things are getting a litte creepy haha. Though after i really knew what shinies were and natures and all that really were, I set out to make my ideal Metagross. Now I have a shiny, adamant, 6IV Metagross.
An actual Rival. The ones in X/Y were so undeveloped and just plain bad. I also want better world design, X/Y was all over the place. And the story should be deep and interesting.
I agree I want a rival like Gary or Silver.
Silver is a great rival. Starts off as a total jerk and slowly warms up. The X/Y ones were all “I just met you, but we’re automatically friends!”
Gary is a great rival too. He was cocky and arrogant so it felt rewarding when I beat him battle, I always like the fact he was the champion and the end of the game like you and him were competing.
It wasn’t really ‘rewarding’ for me. I felt sorry for him that he was picking on me to make himself feel better. It wasn’t a victory.
And I also felt bad that Oak ignored his own grandson become Champion in favor of when we beat him and became Champion. Es sad.
But that’s just my take on things.
Lol true. But I dunno I really liked Gary as a rival.
That’s fine, I don’t care. I liked Gary to an extent, but I mostly pitied him. He’s better than the XY rivals for sure. And especially Brendan.
Brendan is useless.
I keep getting put off by his comment at the beginning of how he thought we were a guy cause we are a Gym Leader’s kid. It’s trival but still annoying.
Overworld stereoscopic 3D
I watch the direct again and after showing the video, it said underneath (Game will be in 2D, some places are in 3D) so not this game
Yes I have seen this 🙁
My main wish is for some new battling mechanic to spice things up a bit
X/Y introduced megas which made things interesting for a bit. But the battling scene still got stale pretty quick.
My list of demands
Mega Rhyperior
Mega Excadrill
Ground/Fighting type with at least a base 155 Attack WITH Guts
More customization (Hats, vests, gear) maybe body type
Not stupid friends and rivals, give us somebody who hates our guts
No Mega Milotic or any more Fairies
Driving could work but it might go the way of the Gogoat
Diverse Megas, not just shitting out the populars
Move Tutors
a lot of new attacks, at least 3-5 for each typing (yeah even Fairy)
And for the Starters not to suuuck and not to make one grossly overpowered compared to the rest (GRENINJA *cough*)
and maybe the return of the underground as i for am a diggin man
you have exactly 9 months to comply
OK, I know this may open old wounds, but just so I understand, if you don’t mind. What exactly happened between you, milotic, and fairy types? And if I’ve unleashed hell… This will be fun.
Hate both of them
One I am extremely annoyed on how much people think anything remotely feminine of spritish should be a fairy when they’re clearly not
Roseraid, Lake Trio, Cresselia, Rapidash, Milotic and ect, it just angers the blood
And for Milotic i have a feud with it for a long list of reasons
I think inspirations/origins make a fairy. I’m more with tricksters and mischievous pixies being fairies.
Rapidash is based on a unicorn, somewhat. That’s a legend, so I associate it with fairy, in a way.
But in reality it’s a hot blooded fire horse that races and competes everyday
Like the steeds of the mighty Apollo
That is so far from a fairy, and everyone bitches its a unicorn so it should be one
True, but there’s no proof that it’s a war horse really. That’s your view of what it is, just like my view is that it’s a fire unicorn.
Everyone thinks so cause unicorns are in fairy tales and are associated with fairies, so it makes sense.
Either way, I don’t care if it becomes fairy or not. I really don’t if any older mons get Fairy added. I’m just saying it could be possible because of its origins/inspiration.
Not War Horse
Apollo’s Steeds
Which were fire horses that raced to tote the sun
I know of Apollo and his steeds, I love Greek mythology and I pride myself in knowing a good amount of it and other mythologies.
I’m just saying it’s your view of it.
but that’s what it is, nothing else
It’s also a unicorn, because it has a horn and it looks like depictions of unicorns except with fire.
You can’t ignore that.
that may be true, but that’s where i get mad, then people start going off on that one small detail or that idea and think mega evolution will make it happen
Es not a ‘small detail’ It’s a part of its design. A big part, enough to be inspired by it. That is its origin.
And I much prefer an evolution :3 but that’s just me.
And it’s speculation. Harmless speculation. People were excited about Fairy type and wondering what older Pokemon would get it. And even after, there’s some people who wanted it. At the end of the day, if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen.
People get excited, people think about things. It’s what makes us human. People think about a small detail and speculate about it, it isn’t worth getting angry about it. You can disagree and list your reasonings, but it isn’t worth getting so worked up about it. I disagree with Roserade being fairy and I have my reasons for it, but I don’t get too emotionally attached. I discuss my reasons, but if people still think that way, then that’s fine.
http://i.imgur.com/ckxYXv3.png
Once again, it doesn’t matter, it’s just speculation and having fun 🙂
keep in mind not everyone agrees with everyone else and will fight tooth and nail to disprove them
I know not everyone agrees with everyone else, this long debate is proof of it, and I am very well aware of it before this. I like making people think about their views, though, so it’s why I consider them to question it.
But regardless, this long debate over what could or could not be fairy isn’t necessary. Fighting tooth and nail isn’t worth it, it just makes people upset and not happy, the opposite of what speculation is supposed to do.
but then again you’re dealing with somebody who would enjoy seeing the suffering go the other way,
I guess. At the end of the day, it’s who you are and I can’t fault you for that. Thanks for the discussion, it was nice 🙂
Death to Fairies
Yeah, I can see that. It doesn’t really bother me. I’m fine with wishful thinking but with speculation, I rather my fact based conclusions. I still love both, but I would rather keep them separate. Like I want a ram starter, but there’s no hard evidence. A dragon eevee could happen based on past eevee trends and the relation to fairy type. That and I just want my reptilian fluff ball.
One, the rival doesn’t have to hate out guts, I much prefer a rival who changes and progresses, makes them human. Plus, with Nintendo’s focus on friends, I doubt we’ll get that again.
Plus, having no more Fairies will be kinda bad, because having few moves and Pokemon won’t balance it out.
I will agree on diverse Megas and some new attacks.
please i’m sick of happy sappy friendship *bleh*
i want a rival that makes your blood boil and want to maul him or her on sight because he’s such a bastard
True, but I never really relate/identify with them. Silver was the exception because he changed and grew as a person. Like I said, I prefer change since it makes them human, makes them relateable, makes me think ‘I would like to know this person in the real world’
Having a bully for a rival isn’t fun, and they usually don’t learn something or change.
It makes me feel sorry for them, like real bullies.
Fairies…
It being set in South Kalos (as a new region for Gen VII), featuring Team Flare and a Zygarde storyline. Or at least deal with the zygarde stuff postgame. Just do something with Zygarde complete and Ash-Greninja.
A number of pokémon/megas no lower than XY, prefarably higher. If we could have the same amount of design quality and new concepts than XY, that would be awesome.
An actual meaty postgame (ORAS wasn’t bad, but the longer the better).
A dark type gym for once
And here’s the wishful list
-A return of proper evolutions alongside megas.
-Getting to fight Serena/Calem like red back in GSC. Why this didn’t happen in B2W2 I have no idea.
BETTER QUESTION! Will this just be for the “new” 3ds will I have to upgrade my 3dsxl
Probably for the whole 3ds family since there will probably be a price drop. I wouldn’t mind new 3ds exclusive features though
Wait, is that Red? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcJmK03W0AESGXr?format=pjpg&name=large
Yis
Why is Red there? This is getting interesting.
He said they wanted to celebrate 20 years so…
Maybe Sun and Moon are sequels to Gen 1? We might be playing as Red again.
Please no
Just noticed what looks like a purple mega stone in the corner of the pokemon center shot http://i.imgur.com/l0LPa8L.png
just a thumb tack
I’m wondering what the legends and starters are gonna be.
I personally would like a Fire Lion and an Ice/Dark Wolf for the legends
As for the starters.
Since the fire starters, are somewhat based on the chinese zodiac, Tiger or Ox for the fire starter
Water Starters are usually aquatic animal that don’t actually live in water
So Axolotl for the water starter
I can’t think of anything for grass..
Last I knew, mudkip was our axolotl
Isn’t it more of a mudskipper?
No, it is based more on a axolotl :3
The bird pokemon looks like it has a leaf as a tail. Grass starter perhaps? I am making a reach perhaps?
Also I hope the region is Australia cause Wynaut?
Last but not least, Kid Cudi’s Day and NIght should be the theme song of this gen
We do need a flying type as a starter.
Considering we have bird based fire and water starters it makes sense to have a grass one.
Also Australia would be an awesome setting.
Kangaroo, Koala Pokemon incoming.
Yes! No offense to Kangaskhan (whatever it spell) it does not look like a legit kangaroo
I can see a normal/grass koala pokemon
And you made a great point when it comes to the bird starters +10 points to Chaos
Yes just like France is the home of pandas
It isn’t?
My whole life is a lie
Bird poke can also be the regional bird.
I suspect the regional bird will be a fish Pokemon
Yes, no, maybe, I don’t know.
😀
Wait so given that tomorrow is the actual anniversary, is it not unreasonable to expect more info then?
It’s not unreasonable. I just think it’s unlikely. I won’t care either way, really.
No Japan is a day ahead so it is their anniversary but the 27th tomorrow is for us
Ah, true! Still, a midnight trailer seems a bit odd if it’s all the info they’re going to offer
Nah, we’re not gonna get anything new until Corocoro at least. Let’s just all appreciate that we’ve got a new game lol.
That’s stupid and dumb
We demand more info and we’re not afraid to get violent
So we’re going to become violent because we need more info? That’s kinda lame and unnecessary. We’ll get some in a couple weeks at most.
I agree. I don’t understand why people are upset that we didn’t get more footage. Honestly I think it’s enough for now and they just gotta learn to enjoy small things. We should be happy that at least we are getting new games this year.
Entitled fans like you are what makes the community toxic and cancerous. We get nice things like a new game reveal, and people like you still feel entitled to more information,
Why can’t I like this more than once?
Feh even you were upset we didn’t get a lot with the trailer
All i want was a damn box legend or a actual gameplay trailer
I wasn’t upset at all, if you didn’t notice I added an “LMFAO” at the end of my comment. I’m just glad this information was official because I was tired of everyone doubting it. I got Pokemon Moon to look forward to! 🙂
+10
It aired exactly at mindnight in Japan.
https://twitter.com/Mucrush/status/703299991419363328
It’s funny
I’m writing my own dex, and my bird is called Shardinal
It does look adorable.
Brazil? Puerto Rico? South America theme? I’d love it.
Oh my god!!! Puerto Rico! I would LOVE an old San Juan city now that see this bird!
<3 So cute 😀
I wonder how much input, if any, Sun/daytime and Moon/night time will have in the games?
Maybe we can find some Pokemon during a specific part of the day again, like we did in HGSS. I honestly think that feature made Pokemon a little more realistic.
Same 😀
Also maybe some day and night forms, or even type changes. That would maybe be pushing it a bit but hey bug/grass by day, bug/dark by night.
That really reminds me of the (maybe fake) list, with the first two being bug/grass and bug/dark lines. Sure, could be false, but it’s not a bad idea
Lol nailed it 😉
Maybe there could be an owl pokemon that’s ‘sleeping’ during day, and awake during night 😛
Gold and Silver were full of good ideas with day/night cycle ; Diamond and Pearl also have interesting day/night pokemon ideas.
When I understood that Hoot-Hoot was catchable only during night on my Gold version (2001), I was absolutely amazed by such a feature on my gameboy. I want it back !
I predicted Generation 7 for 2016 back when Pokemon GO was announced and I got cited by KPopStarz (whoever they are). I officially predicted it! 😛
http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/239889/20150911/pokemon-gen-7.htm
You’re famous! :O 😀
I stumbled across this article randomly about a month ago when researching Generation 7 and I was very surprised to see my username on there. Feels pretty good to have that on the internet now, in retrospect 😛
Definitely 😀
Wait, is KPopStarz still using comments from this site? Alright, who is it?
Can we start predicting the new Light Type yet
I mean it is Pokemon Sun and Moon after all.
absolutely not
Light type and Shadow type confurmed.
But I think we’re good on types, I mean I will be okay with it in the end, but I don’t think it’s necessary now.
I don’t think there’s gonna be a new type any time soon. They’re not necessary for now.
Also I think Light Type is too predictable 😛 Gamefreak likes to surprise us.
Fairy Type was too
Not really, we only knew about it cause someone predicted it.
but the sun is a huge Fire(ball) and the moon is a Rock
The sun emits light, and moon reflects light.
science is amazing
After the Fairy fiasco and how many people refused to believe it, I can see the same situation playing out this time.
I definitely would be the same as I was back then, in denial until it’s true.
I would prefer if they reduced Grass type weaknesses instead.
I personally do feel that a few of the types could do with a buff and some maybe weakened slightly.
ICE types should be neutral against steel.
Fairy needs one more weakness.
Grass needs at least one weakness removed.
Poison needs to hit maybe a couple more types super effectively.
Poison should do better against Water for example.
Not really sure why Grass is weak against fighting types.
Grass-types are not weak against Fighting-types.
Who lied to you, sir or lady?
I think Spindae meant Ice being weak against fighting but put grass instead, I dunno
Oh that makes sense. I don’t really know why Ice is weak against fighting though. Oh well.
I would think because any amount of force can break it, like people break ice with their hands
Exactly.
Ah, I never thought of that.
Sorry mixed something up. ^_^
Grass is weak against fighting? O.o
Grass is not weak against fighting…
I agree Ice types need to resist water and get a 50%defence increase in hail. I don’t understand why fairy types resist bug types they should remove that, bug types are already the most resist type.
Fairy actually covers light, cosmic,… If there’s a new type it would be something completely different.
No. Fairy fills that hole
Man its so weird seeing disqus blowing up with comments again
Reminds me of mid 2013
I know 😀 <3
Ice type will be buffed this gen
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it’s ice
either you break it or you melt it
what could possibly do to buff it that makes sense
Not everything has to make sense. Just saying.
everything HAS to make sense
you can’t just say “Oh Fire won’t work on it because its too cold” or it resists grass because whatever
Winter, winter has come
Hopefully it will be. It’s really sad that ice Pokemon are not that good, since it’s one of my favourite types.
Tired of them being literal glass cannons
I hope so Bug types need a buff too why does fairy resist it? Ice needs to resist water and get a 50% defence boost in hail.
With a new generation of Pokemon comes a new generation of fairy types ( I was worried what they were going to do for new fairy types since they already did all of the megas that could be fairy). Also another generation of ground Pokemon that is not just the bunnelby line.
MAJOR disappointment with that
All i freaking got was Diggersby and Zygarde which at its current state aren’t seening its new forms for a while thus leaving it with sub-par stats
Not to mention the sheer lackluster Mega Steelix and Camerupt that are infinitely outclassed by everything
Holy shit, I forgot there was a Mega Steelix. :
they also need some more bugs since XY only had one
three
yeah, i meant like one evolution line
They did only have one new Bug line. I didn’t really make a note of it because of all he wonderful bug Pokemon in the 5th generation.
true, very true
I’m hoping for an ice type counterpart to Volcarona :3
An ice type counterpart to one of my favorite Pokemon would be pretty cool.
that would be super cool
*buh dum tss*
Sun Pokemon Special Ability: Solar Flare – opposing Pokemon loses 6% health each turn.
Moon Pokemon Special Ability: Tidal Wave – opposing Pokemon loses 6% health each turn.
Fire and Water types are immune respectively.
that paper mario 64 reference
Please new evolutions to old Pokémon. Mega Evolutions seemingly killed that route but it would be disappointing to have another gen without a link to old Pokémon.
i wrote this
I agree 100% a lot of Pokemon desperately need evolutions.
Gen VI and only a new eeveelution … way too disappointing
Yes I feel the same way! I personally think Mega’s should be only for 3 evolution lines, legendaries and gimmicks like castform or audino
Dragon eevelution would be cool
Honestly I would love that. Mega Evolutions are cool, but they’re getting overused. Evolutions are more exciting in my opinion.
You’re right about that I would rather new evolutions is more exciting.
Agreed but as long as it’s not Gen 4. Half of the ‘dex are new evolutions.
You know, the best part about Gen IV was finding out all the new evolutions. It was like, ‘hey, what diz item do? wow sweet electivire!’. Best spoiler season ever.
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Don’t get me wrong, I like most of those evolutions in Gen 4. But to me a region is heavily defined by it’s natural Pokemon. So the fact that there are a lot of repeat Pokemon for them to get those new evolution takes away from the region. I PERSONALLY like when a new region is introduced with MOSTLY new Pokemon.
I get that, I kinda feel the same 🙂
This is actually sounds like a very racist and nationalist comment when looking at it under a different perspective. 😛
I resent that
+ kangaskhan needs a preevolution
and Mega Kangaskhan has to do less damage on the second attack. I would be fine with 25% or even 33%
Ahh, THANK YOU! I was just about to comment on the very same thought. While I do love Mega Evolution, it’s a bit sad that we can’t expect evolutions from Pokémon who could possibly have had one. I have to admit I was hoping Altaria could have a third stage, for example. That won’t happen anymore. I mean, sure, I love the mega itself but it’s not…quite the same thing? I do hope they bring some new evolutions along with the new generation this time. Like, for instance, imagine a Rapidash evolution that’s Fire/Fairy (with it being an unicorn and all?). Just a silly crazy example but the point is I miss being able to expect new evolutions as a possible thing.
Rapidash NEEDS an evolution. and it better have wings. Fire/Fairy typing sounds great too.
I knew I wasn’t alone at this! haha Thank you! I know it’s not that likely but I keep on hoping they’ll wake up for it at some point. It’d be awesome.
it’s like my biggest Pokemon wish lol. with every new Gen i hope they will finally give Rapidash the evolution it deserves. maybe we should start a petition haha
Let’s gather up for #RapidashEvolution2k16 😀 lol
Yeah some pokes really need actual evolutions. Sadly don’t see it happening .
Before we even get any Pokemon revealed, I’m already imaging shinies and me hunting for them.
Like that bird we saw, I’m wondering what its shiny colors would be.
Shouldn’t you be wondering what its actual colors are first?
:3 Maybe, but what can I say, I’m a shiny hunter 😛
So… What about the Zygarde forms? Was that just a red herring?
I think it is either anime-exclusive or it will be addressed in the game before and when you get to Kalos. Hopefully we’ll find out soon.
They can put Z on the NX next year as a useful (graphical) upgrade and to sell consoles, but I don’t know if Gamefreak has abandoned the concept of making a Z. The last few years they have been having continuity issues and it seems like they will never adress in proper time.
Zygarde could play a role in these next games possibly, we don’t know yet.
For some reason before I went to sleep I used to stare at those eyes on my wall …now I know y.
LOL random.
I don’t believe in random.
Fate is strange.
Destiny is scary.
This… Is just the beginning.
This is terrifying tbh ?
maybe I like terrifying thing maybe I have different view.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/monotype-336362199 woot
I wanna say u use Hippowdon perfectly.
do you mean that or is it a joke
of course I mean it ….I mean u use his ability wisely by switching him multiple time and throw it when the hazard end I like the earthen style.
What if this was not as tied to Kalos as we’re expecting and they were saving “Z” for after Sun/Moon? Would this be too unlikely? It’s not like GF has been linear on their releases.
I mean true, but after SM, why go back to Kalos? Most people probably wouldn’t want to/ even care.
Well, maybe for us to check how it is after some years, a la BW2? With extra post-game and all? Just a thought. I think that if it were to bring enough new things to the table, people would want it. Especially with all that has been left unanswered so far.
True, it could still happen. 🙂
But man I gotta say if this is really the end of Kalos, there are so many questions left unanswered. I really do hope these next games have some relationship with Kalos in some way, whatever this new region is.
Maybe the whole Zygarde thing might be addressed in the Anime or in the new Pokemon movie maybe?
In about 10 years they’ll do Pokemon XZ and YZ as a strategy to draw in old fans again. Just try to stay alive. ^_^
Here is some information about Sun and Moon. This is a new generation of Pokemon, so bring on Generation 7 (could still be 6.5). It’s an entire new region (highly close to Kalos) with new Pokemon. This is unexpected for me, I thought the next region would be on the NX. GameFreak is seriously becoming unpredictable.
Also, that 3DS Game Release List rumor (for first-party titles) is actually legit. Pokemon Sun and Moon are known as “Niji” or Project Rainbow. With this information, I’m expecting the new region to be based on somewhere tropical; maybe Mexico, Brazil, or Spain. I’m going off of this from the tropical trees in that hotel-like area. It also looks like Red finally got down from Mt. Silver… lol. I think that might be Red, a new protagonist, or simply a placeholder. The trucks were carrying Furfrou, Wobbuffet, Machamp, and Blastoise. Maybe, we could see proper cars driving around the region (we did see trucks in B/W & OR/AS and taxis in X/Y). Lastly, we got to see the Pokemon Centers and what I believe to be the starting town. This is all just speculation from the Direct, so nothing new if anyone stated it.
The starting town is new :3 I saw some rooms, but not too clearly.
I post the images again from the HD video. You could see the rooms more clearly. You might have not refreshed, but I edited my comment. I believe this region will be based on Spain and it will be near Kalos (since Kalos is based on France). We might be able to travel to the Kalos Region in this game. I seriously cannot wait for more info on these titles! 😀
It’s what I hope will happen, ever since people started comparing Kanto to Kalos. I’m hoping it will happen 😀
I wonder what the booths/stands in the last picture could be for? The brown stand kinda looks like it could be in a cafe type setting. i’m not too sure about the blue one.
I feel like that’s the inside of the Pokemon Center, made to look like a cafe of sorts, with the blue booth being a Pokemart.
That’s what I was thinking! I just didn’t want to assume that it was a pokemart solely based on it’s coloring
True, it could be something else, but I think so because it’s both are surrounded by Pokemon Center images (at least I think so from what I’ve seen around it) so it makes sense. We’ll hopefully know for sure soon.
It feels like the brown booth could be in a different location. Perhaps it’s in a mall which, assuming that it is actually a cafe would make sense?
That too. I can’t wait to find out 😀
I really these images. So clearrrr! Maybe the region is based on Hawaii.
In Hawaiian mythology, Kāne is considered the highest of the four major Hawaiian deities. He represented the god of procreation and was worshipped as ancestor of chiefs and commoners. Kāne is the creator and gives life associated with dawn, sun and sky.
“Kane took a special magical white clay and formed it into a head. Then the three Gods breathed life into the statue and created the first man. The first man was created in the image of Kane.”(Remember the strange souvenir? doesn’t it look like a tiki statue?)
Also I believe there’s a goddess of the moon as well. I didn’t find this information, I saw this on twitter 😛
I want a city based on Old San Juan. It’s a magical and beautiful city filled coulor and history. It still looks like how it did when it was built(1521), castles made for war, a city fortifed completely, beautiful cobblestone streets and tons of ports for cruise ships. Honestly I want a region based on the caribbean.
Plus it would make for a great SS boat. Like all the cruise ships in that area. And they can make a tribal Loiza (where I’m from)
The thing I just realized is that they will troll us with Mega’s and not reveal as much new pokes as usual.
I know this was probably already asked, but was anyone able to read the Japanese text next to the bird Pokemon on the video? There is a picture of it on Serebii for reference. Is it anything important.
I think it is stuff related to the file or the program. But there could be stuff there.
I wonder if the strange souvenir will finally have a purpose in these games
Hopefully 😀 It makes sense and sorta fits from what we’ve seen of the place.
I’m sure of it
Imagine that bird is one of the starters evolution and is the grass type that would make it grass/flying starter
What kind of animal base Pokemon do y’all want to see, I want a dolphin, koala bear, tall giraffe, and gorilla
Dolphin water/psychic
Dolphin, more wolves, orca, koala, red panda….anything really xD
spinda = red panda kinda
True, but I kinda want something more red panda-ish
Wolf, tiger, pegasus… And dolphin is a must have at some point. Agreed.
I hope GF sees how much a dolphin Pokemon is needed lol
I don’t see why they haven’t gone down that route yet?? We got enough crustaceans already lol A dolphin starter would be the dream.
It would and I’ve thought that too when I first saw froakie on xy I said we have enough frogs why couldn’t they go with a dolphin (at the end greninja did grow on me)
Greninja grew on me even with that tonguescarf of his. I feel ya, mate! lol Let’s keep our fingers crossed! 😀
I am man because I know me and you aren’t the only one who want this
Team Dolphin Starter 2K16 😀
Snake, goat, giraffe, dolphin, koala, lemur, moth, wolf, cat again. Honestly I’m fine with anything we didn’t have before xD
A cheetah or leopard based pokemon that doesn’t look like Liepard would be nice.
I feel you even a black panther
How do you feel about a pokemon based on an African Wild dog/Painted dog?
That’s a good one ears are cool
I would love to see Koala, Dolphin, and Tiger starters. Just something that is completely new!
Tarsiers and/or lemurs
another panda, i know we have paagoro but we could get some grass or maybe psychic or both, also pangoro is ugly
We need a better Polar Bear than Beartic.
I would really like to see something majestic and elegant, that’s the type of Pokémon I adore 🙂
Other than that I wouldn’t mind seeing one of these animals:
peacock, wolf, panther, wolf, dolphin or lionfish
Also, truth be told, what I’m hoping for the most: new dragons. A new region deserves a new pseudo legendary!!! And just, well, any kind of new dragons overall.
I’ll shut up for now because work calls but thank you for making my first day as an actual commenter such a nice one so far 🙂 Y’all are awesome.
The Pseudo Legendary shouldn’t be a dragon.
Sick of all these dragons. Give us a steel type Pseudo Legend like Metagross.
Me too I want something different for types, same with starters
I want the starters to have a different type
Different secondary type starters*
The primary types will be the same…unfortunately.
However they can have some fun with the secondary types I hope
I agree some variety would be nice.
I’m admittedly biased towards dragons but I agree that variety would be cool in this regard as well. A valid point there.
It’s just that the past 4 regions have had a dragon type one.
A bit annoying….some variety and interesting type combos are a nice welcome.
I’m biased towards steel myself…but something interesting is all I ask for.
I agree that an interesting one will suffice, regardless of type. And indeed, I’m all for new type combos to add up to that. Here’s hoping Gen 7 will bring us nice surprises in this regard!
Dragon eeveelution??
Maybe one day! lol
There will be one to match Sylveon I hope
poll needs to be changed to Moon vs Sun
😉
Not only do I want some nice mega evolutions
I hope they add some more actual evolutions(excluding eevee)
Lapras needs a Prevolution and Evolution.
Ledian could do with an evolution
Dusnsparce…obviously.
Skarmory evolution….(,maybe asking too much, eviolite skarmory.. .*shudders*)
Yeah but I’m afraid mega evolutions have kinda replaced that now…
Oh deer… I cannot decide which version of Pokemon VC games to get, Maybe i’ll let you guys decide~
Should I get Red, Blue, or Yellow?
Also, if you do post a response, tell me why i should get that version, as it will help make the choice easier for me, thank you~
And if it’s ok with the mods, I would like to offer a free English copy of the game that i choose to download to the person with the best answer~
If I get Blue, you get Blue, if I get Red, you get Red, if I get Yellow, you get Yellow.
If not, that’s ok too, but it might shake things up and make someone’s day~
Ready?
Go!
You should get Pokemon Yellow
you will have access to all three starters, which would be awesome to get all starters in one game, The game will have Team Rocket in it, they are always fun (even though they aren’t as a big of a role in the anime). The graphics are much better. The sprites actually look like pokemon XD not some fetus ( http://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen1/green/151.png ).
Granted you won’t have access to Weedle line, Raichu, Ekans line, Koffing line, Jynx Magmar or electabuzz, and meowth line. But I think it’s worth it. Yellow is better in every single way pretty much
well honestly i’m a Red Man, but that would deny me the ability to catch Sandshrew or Victreebel
Honestly as long as you got us a community we can always trade
I thought trade was restricted to local in those games… Or am I mistaken?
they let you use wifi
Really?
That’s awesome~
because i’m gonna do something i’ve never done before
Complete the national dex
I did it in Diamond, Black 2, X, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. But after that, i just go shiny hunting, been pretty good at it in OR~
i just want to make other teams ded
Fair enough, I’m more of a collector than a fighter, I am happy if my pokemon make it to level 100.
ohhhhh i forgot how much of a bitch it is to level in Red&Blue
Well thanks to Sun and Moon, i don’t have to, do I?~
I really hope you can choose eevee as a starter! I’d love to do a Sun playthrough with an Espeon <3
As a fellow lover of Espeons, I approve. 😀
Percy 😀
Lando, what’s up? 😀
Life
Same with me xD
What if I transfer No Guard Fissure Machamp to Pokemon Moon from Red or Blue?
You break the game, literally.
Maybe I’ll transfer MissingNo too
I think obviously they’ll have hack checks…
Just buy a copy to destroy it, why don’t you? 😉 xD
Fissure isn’t affected by No guard, sorry
Cascoon pray for Battle Frontier with me pls
Let’s pray it up!
Battle Frontier must come back!
The starters from Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon
Chespin Fennekin and Froakie
i’ll take the fries
So how long do we guess they take radio silence? I imagine we won’t hear much for another month at least. That’s just the way they do things. I remember it took them forever to get into the XY stuff. I imagine we will have to wait for a little while to hear anything new hahaha
If I remember correctly back for XY, it was announced in January, CoroCoro in February just copy pasted the info. Than in March we didn’t get anything and with April’s CoroCoro we got more and more. But that is just a vague memory of mine.
That’s about right. We got Sylveon in February, but not much. I remeber everyone got SUPER angry when march rolled around bc all it had was Pokemon Rumble Wii U hahahaha
I was majorly pissed when March got us hot air.
I really hope we get every month a little bit.
Either a couple of days, or a couple of weeks.
I’d b willing to bet it’s more than a couple of anything hahaha. I feel like if they wanted to show us anything they would have done so here.
Perhaps… Or they wanted to get out a reveal and not show anything so they don’t reveal to much at once, instead spreading it over time. 😉
that could b. With the XY reveal they converged what could have been 3 different announcements into one so I guess they could reveal something sooner rather than later with the extra stuff to go on.
I hope they boost Ice type playability, since they are easily one of the worst types to use, since they all have so many weaknesses, and tend to be super frail. Ice has the same number of weaknesses as grass type(?) Yet grass types can do much more! Let’s get some Ice buffs (I know that’s too much wishing). Maybe being super effective on water types?
there are so many good ice pokemon
And so many bad ones too
thats not on the type though
just the vombinations base stats move pool typing etc
dude i said before
Ice is meant to be frail
I know but grass has the same number of weaknesses and isn’t as useless as ice.
take it up with logic
Grass roots sucks up water, roots into soil and can bore into stone
Ice is brittle and only the cold and resist the cold
Ice freezes water.
I’m not denying it’s frailty, but Im just saying they need some better pokemon
well remember a large body of water cannot be easily frozen
and since Water is a state of Ice it can resist it
And Super hard Ice cant be punched and broken
Tell that to Fire Punch
Tell what you said to Freeze dry
well i wanted Acid Spray to work on Steel Types
Nobody is going against you on that, lol. No need to go against what everyone says
Have u ever punched a block of ice?!?! It can hurt like a bastard. Ice doesn’t need to b frail all the time lol
then you must punch like a bitch…
U’ve gotta b kidding me hahaha
i kid you not
Wow then….U must have fists of steel to feel that way lol
i have a kiddie pool i fill in the winter just to get ice to punch
and smash
U have some strange hobbies lol
i’m a strange fellow
U do u guy hahaha
lol
Ice is a great typing coverage wise. But as a typing on Pokemon, it’s not really good.
Exactly! Ice Beam is pretty much on every team, but ice types themselves are rare to find on a team
http://i.imgur.com/II9ll4M.gif
Yes I agree! 50% defence increase in hail would really help too.
Ice needs to resist water and fairy types. Fairy types are kinda overpowered so ice resisting it could be useful.
Fairy should be weak to fire
A stupid snot nosed fairy tail gurl claimed that Fairy Types are flammable
Why am I thinking of hockey all of a sudden…
HOCKEY FIGHT
Put that stick down, you could take someone’s eye out!
*Wildy attacking random people*
Oh deer…
*just a trail of unconscious people*
I really hope we get more new original pokes than back in Gen VI. 70 was really low last. Overall it can even be 70 but even out the types. We had half a ground type. I want an more even field.
the image next to the pkmn cntre has two big silhouettes. Legends?
also what does the txt say?
sun n moon? mega lunatone n solrock confirmed
http://i.imgur.com/6ZQ0kxy.jpg
Why isn’t this a think
Fairy types are overpowered they could do with a extra weakness. Still don’t get why fairy resists bug types seems unnecessary.
Well given their small stature they would have an experience dealing with insects
Also their supernatural could either shrug off bugs
Just rewatched the trailer. And I saw a face in the logos. 2 identical faces, under the M letter. Looks like Celebi. Zoom it in!
P.S. Sorry if this was already posted.
I think I know why UK says it’s a ‘new generation’ of Pokémon. I think it’s because the region will be based on teh UK. ?
Hey guys…. second in town
What…..?
I’m not going to pre-order the games just yet! Also, why the Powersaves… you cheating m8?!? lol.
With all this new Pokemon talk i got my engine revving
but i wanted to share this doodle on a concept of a Fairy/Fighting type i came up with
http://i.imgur.com/uTQHccY.jpg
I call it Mashmellow and it’s the Overstuffed PKM
it’s over 7ft tall and is incredibly gentle it will defend its trainer with its life, surprisingly strong it can easily snap trees with its massive arms
it draw inspiration from the concept of a security toy that would calm/protect a child and it’s fighting type displays its desire to protect others
… can we eat it tho?
Well it’s a 7ft tall plush monster that would probably take a truck to the face
so sure why not you bastard
Besides it’s just a prototype name i kinda fell in love with
Is it some kind of Speedbag?
Sack’o’plush
it’s basically a trubbish/garbador mixed with dusclops..
So in the image on the top left of this picture there is something on top of the building and for the love of arceus I cannot figure out what it is
Nevermind it is a slakoth lol
it’s a Slaking, maybe a hotel…
sorry I am tired that is what I meant thank you and maybe a Bed’n’Breakfast
Actually, it would be interesting if they add some other facilities other than the Pokémon Center and the Mart
Looks like a motel? But to reply on your most recent comment: there were already hotels in gen 6.
Yeah, but I’d love to see a city more Castelia-like, it looked much more alive than Lumiose, don’t know why though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o4SUKdg7jQ
Thank Arceus
God that was great! The video gave me so much feels. Based on the concept art in the trailer, this region will look really awesome! And the Red Blue and Yellow compatibility with gen 6 is perfect
Is it compatibility with gen 6 or with Sun and Moon bc Sun and Moon are gen 7 lol
It is compatible with gen 7 🙂 Don’t know anything about gen 6 though.
I imagine it has to b right? It’s all on the 3ds so it would only make sense lol
My guess on all this cars especially Pokemon Ambulance car is that the region is huge. And the routes for example might be huge enough to have mobile healing stations like that pokemon ambulance car. Only time will tell.
BOOM! That guy next to the fountain is Red and Sun & Moon are sequels of Red & Blue!
Well, that hotel may be on the Sevii Islands
I hope not. We’ve seen kanto enough times already.
No. That’s a bad idea.
So what could possibly be the potential stories to these two games grrrr.
One team wants permanent darkness and the other wants light?
That’s the only thing I can think of, but it’ll probably be nothing like that.
Its so hard to think of something lol
I’ve always wanted to be able to explore space in a Pokémon game and there would be Pokemon that you could only catch in space. Hopefully that will happen.
If it is connected to kalos, they could want to block out the sun from kalos. Trying to reignite the war
Even if it is connected to Kalos, I hope it’s more independent from it unlike how Johto was with Kanto. Like it should have its own League and stuff.
I imagine it would. Be a little south east, have the mountian separating them
Team Solar Flare? ;P
Ughhh it’s only day one and i need info
I kno rite
The struggle of being fans of a franchise that trolls and loves to see their fans crawl and squirm in pain for news. OH THE AGONY! God you have to love Pokemon!!!!
I drew starters at school today hoping to compare them to the real starters. We didn’t get starters but here they are anyways
http://imgur.com/OxrQR6l
Speculation Time People !!!
My guess is this Region will be based on Singapore or Dubai due to the buildings designs tropical climate and foliage such as the palm trees.
The Graphics seems pretty legit from the screenshots 🙂
Now what starter types do you think we will get ?
I’m honestly thinking this is the first time they might actually stray from the fire water grass trio. They have shook things up so much already its anyone’s guess what’s coming next.
And my main will be Sun and my restart game will be Moon 🙂
I’m thinking a Mediterranean setting
Depending on what has the better Ground types
Sun main game
Moon Ground Mono
Just think of the graphical differences between Gen 4 and Gen 5 on the DS. They were so much more improved, due to Game Freak’s ability to fully grasp the hardware. I’m sure this will be replicated here.
Gen7 will push the 3ds to its limit. Were about to see what it can deliver at maximum output.
I really want the games to be full 3D, instead of the usual top down view. Like with GTA and Assassin’s Creed. Unlikely but still. However if the games will be playable on the NX as speculated, it might be possible.
The games come for 3DS not NX. NX is not even anounced yet.
Yes I know that lol. There are ideas that the NX will be able to connect to the hand held, like being able to beam games over between the two. But this is all speculation. It’ll most likey just be on 3ds or just the New 3ds, which would give more potential.
Regarding the Pokémon Bank Features :
We also must also realise there will be limitations to this feature and certain things will be banned needed altogether. Otherwise in Gen 6 + 7 we could have NO GUARD FISSURE MACHAMP running rampant.
We really should come together and discuss/make a list of what new moves Pokémon can get now that they’ve been transferred from Gen 1.
Body Slam/Submission Mega Kangaskhan is going to be fun.
I literally just posted saying there will definitely be limitations. Otherwise we’d have Pokémon like MACHAMP with no guard and FISSURE.
Yuck. Thinking about that makes me want to vomit. But there’s also the fact that the natures and abilities and IVs will be randomized when transferred to Gen VII, so it might be easier to detect foul play.
Yeah that’s what I’m guessing ahaha. Also how are u O haven’t been on in a while hope all’s well 🙂
Yeah it has been a while! School and life have been exhausting. Tried my first sport this year and it killed me. I miss you guys a bunch and I’ll try to be on as much as possible! I’ve never been on this site as a member at the first announcement of a new generation!
I’m finally back from school and ready to speculate like a madman. We’re going to have lots of new Pokemon reveals to look forward to this year, and hopefully there will be some amazing designs we never saw coming. This is only the beginning of the ride, you better strap in.
You’re one of my fave commenters (from my time lurking) and I knew you’d have a nice one to add to the hype. Gotta love the atmosphere here today. Thank you for contributing! 🙂
Ah man, thank you! I just take Pokemon a little bit more seriously than the average guy. Always have and always will…as far as I can tell. 🙂 Sun and Moon are awesome names too, in my honest opinion! Nothing but good things here!
Pokémon is serious business, always! I could not be happier about us having a whole new region and all of its possibilities to keep us hyped and entertained. If it weren’t for such a great experience watching it here, the suspense before the release would bother me A LOT. Especially now that I’m adding my own voice to the mix, it’s like an extra bonus aside from the new game itself 🙂 And sorry for the wall of text. =~
Hey, if you’ve truly been lurking here you should know that walls of text can get much worse than that 😛 By August this year, you’ll be seeing 3 essays per minute.
I love reading the walls of text, especially when it comes to theories and stuff like that but I was mostly just rambling and anxiety sneaks in =~ haha It’s odd to be actually talking instead of just reading. I don’t want to end up being awkward or something lol I don’t even know.
Eventually it just becomes second nature, if you come back often enough. I started commenting here in 2013 and now I’m stuck here forever. 😛 We just really, really, really like Pokemon, that’s the main thing.
I started following the site back when BW was announced but I was never sure if I should try and add my opinion and then after XY came, it somehow got worse cause I still haven’t played any game on the 3ds (no money) and I always felt a bit out of place commenting on XY and ORAS without any actual experience with the games 🙁 I’ve read a lot about them all tho and I played as many roms as I could with the new Pokémon. Then the rumors started and PJ sprung back to life again and I figured… well, I’d have nothing to lose? And now I’m here. Because yes I do really really love Pokémon.
ppl think this spot a shadow of new pkmn. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1456505801300.jpg
Do you possibly have a version without the outline?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcJ1tcvWIAAtk0j.jpg:large
Yeah, looks like a new Pokemon to me. It has weird curves that don’t suggest it’s another building diagram.
When I saw the trailer today I bursted into tears while in class. It was terrible. But I enjoyed every second of it, even if I was being judged.
Now let’s hop aboard that hype train, on a one way stop to Holiday 2016!
And let’s not forget, Pokèmon Day is still tomorrow!
What an amazing 20th Anniversary this is turning out to be. I haven’t seen any company go this in-depth…well, ever. Capping off a month of retro celebration with a brand new Pokemon generation? None of us would have believed it could actually happen.
At the point we were at with Pokémon this past year I had no idea what to expect. This year is going to be, extravagant.
It’s going to be 2013 all over again. And 2013 was AWESOME.
Agreed! With every game now they’ve hyped them up to the point where millions of people are hyped. It’s wonderful. I have no doubt that these games are going to sell wonderfully.
Don’t know if anyone brought this up yet, but I thought the picture on the far right was a bit weird. Anyone know what it is? (I could just be over analyzing it. It’s just how I am.)
I would like to give away one version of the gen I VC games, anyone that wants it tell me your favorite memories with that version.
Try listing:
*Your Game of Choice. (Red, Blue, or Yellow, English only, Green is not accepted)
*Your favorite Pokemon partner (Starter or any pokemon on your team)
*A Great Achievement you felt proud of in the game. (Like beating a certain gym leader, overcoming a puzzle, going through a difficult challenge.)
*Any connected memories (with other people)
*And if you are a battler, trader, completionist, or collector.
I will determine who gets the game based on how detailed they are, how Unique their response is, and how many bullets they complete.
The game will be purchased via the NA Nintendo website at 12:00 AM midnight (EST) tonight, or ASAP after that. I will only purchase the English versions at this time, you will be sent a code for the game, if you win, i will need some way to contact you, but i will post a response to let you know first.
If i am not allowed to post this contest, my apologies, i just did this for fun.
If you are ready, Post~
My story began when I was a mere child who received Pokemon Red. And I remember trying to beat Brock solely with Charmander since I never learned how to level, catch Pokemon, or type effectiveness
I cannot remember if I ever beat him or not, then i stopped for a year or so never really making it too far until one day I was wandering the supermarket and I saw some kid playing a gameboy with the official strategy guide for Pokemon, then I realized I had the same book and figured I COULD USE IT TOO, so I started Red (or Blue I think I lost the original) and chose Squirtle solely to beat Brock. Then I finally learnt how to catch stuff and level, I was on a role and even managed to catch all three legendary birds, I was just about start the elite four, but…. We were visiting my aunt in Queens…. I found her nice big comfy armchair in the back room to start… I started the game and what I saw mortified me
New Game…
Well, here’s your chance to try again~
I read your story over a few times, and it invoked a feeling of sympathy in me, i lost a ton of pokemon i transferred over to XD from emerald, at that point, i just lost too much, so i restarted emerald and beat in in an hour.
Since you won the code, i will need a place to privately provide it.
You may provide an email or i may give you my skype, but only if you cannot provide an email.
Do you have a chatango?
well if you get on the chat here, we can try that.
My first memory with Generation 1 was with Pokemon Yellow on my cousin’s Gameboy Color. Since I was really little and didn’t get the whole idea of using other Pokemon, I only used mostly Pikachu throught the whole thing.
My proudest moment had to be beating The Elite Four. Using my severely Beefed Pikachu I managed to get all the way to the final fight with Blue and after several attempts, I finally beat him. While Yellow wasn’t my first Pokemon game, it certainly holds a special place in my heart.
I remember battling my uncle because he was the only other person I knew with a gen 1 game. I didn’t win, but I fondly remember the battles I had with him.
I’m more of a completionist. I prefer completing the fez than battling, but I don’t mind fighting another trainer.
Pokemon Yellow: the game that started my Pokémon career.
Since I’m only 15 (3/4), I have very vivid memories of playing the game as a child, but the memories I do have I hold near and dear to my heart.
I had seen the anime around the same time I got Yellow, and I used to think Ash was super cool having Pikachu as a best friend just walking around with him outside of a Pokéball. Yellow was my opportunity to be just like Ash, my childhood hero to say the least. Needless to say that Pikachu quickly became my favorite Pokémon.
I spent countless hours on all of the routes before Viridian Forest training my Pikachu, because as a 5 year-old at the time I got Yellow, I was very frustrated trying to defeat Brock with just a Pikachu. While training in Viridian Forest, I came across a Pidgeotto. I was blown away by how cool it looked, so I tried to catch it immediately. I was in awe of my new friend. Level 8, Gust, cool-looking, exactly what I needed to finally beat Brock.
Unfortunately, young Licks was only smart in certain situations.
I went into the Pewter Gym with a level 23 Pikachu and level 8 Pidgeotto, fresh out of Viridian Forest. Brock was still a force to be reckoned with. After many consecutive turns not realizing that Electric-Type moves had no effect on Onix, I switched into Pidgeotto. Gust after Gust after Gust, I finally beat Brock.
Through my triumph as a young, not quite intellectual Pokémon trainer in Pokémon Yellow, I have played every Pokémon game since and have even developed the name “Gust/GustingWind” as an Internet gamer tag due to this fond memory of mine. With this I have met so many friends through battling, trading, and collecting Pokémon.
Without Pokémon Yellow and the games to come, I’m not sure I would still be in this world today. They have helped me through unimaginably tough times in my life, and they have my eternal love and gratitude. I owe them my life. I wish this series the best as we continue to grow up together.
*Red of course. When these games came out in The Netherlands (which is where I live), my parents got Blue for my brother. I was only 2,5 years old at the time (1999). I didn’t get anything, because of course I didn’t sprak English. But it didn’t matter to me and my brother: he introduced me to the game and we played it together. Some time later my parents got me Red, so I could play by myself. From that moment my brother and I always played together and we always got both games, so we could find differences between them together. I think I wouldn’t be as close to my brother as I am right now without Pokemon bringing us together.
*My favorite Pokemon partner was, of course, my starter: Charizard. I beat every single Pokemon with that one. By the time I reached Victory Road, he was like lvl 55 and the rest of my team was 25-30. I didn’t care about my other Pokemon back then; I was too obsessed with the power of Charizard (also I had no idea how to train Pokemon and what was important in order to complete the game; just wanted to battle with my starter).
*Well, as I said, I only battled with my starter. So I was really proud when I beat my first gym, because oh my god it was so hard using just a charmander.
*I mentioned my personal story in the first paragraph. I also remember a video my parents recorded of me and my brother in the back of the car playing on our purple see-through GameBoys and just being obsessed by it. My parents call our names but we don’t respond at all. I always laugh when we watch old videos and this one comes up.
*I am a battler and a completionist. Last year was the first time I completed a national dex in my X-game. I had never done that before and I did not get why. So I tried it and traded and searched and finally I did it. Since then I will try to do that in every game from now on. I can’t wait to complete the national Dex in Sun or Moon!
I also have a funny story to tell. I remember my brother getting the game (well, he remembers and told me) and he starter to play. He spent a few hours in the player’s house, because he had no idea how to leave it. I had to laugh when he told me that.
I hope you enjoyed reading my stories. Hope I didn’t just ramble, because now that I look at it, it’s a lot of text…
So now there’s the whole “glitch Pokémon” thing to talk about…
Are they going to patch Pokémon Bank to not allow Missing No. and such to be put in it? After all, you are able to find them in the virtual console games.
I’m sure you all remember Ken Sugimori’s interview regarding the theoretical “Generation 7” back in 2013. He said that, IF it were to happen, Game Freak would use simplistic Pokemon designs like those found in the first generation. Seeing how this game appears to be connected to Kanto somehow, I believe it. I can’t wait to see the simple and memorable designs that GF has cooked up. (I’m sure I’ll be bringing up this interview many times, especially before CoroCoro leaks)
Oh my Jesus Christ! The supposedly new bird Pokemon looks adorable and could possibly be a Grass-type considering the leaf as a tail. The Pokemon Center’s new design looks simply amazing, the large white and blue mansion building could be a Water-type gym or a university/school specializing in the Water-type and might be a niche for this generation to have a university representing the core types (Grass, Fire, and Water) or, as I said before, it could just be a gym. The emphasis on vehicles leads me to believe not only will we travel using these vehicles, the red one seems reminiscent to that of a Pokemon center and might be a mobile Pokemon center! So far, the world building, from what we’ve seen looks truly stunning! Cannot wait to get more information! Also, if you look closely, they some of the new Pokemon and more buildings.
Don’t worry, the bird Pokemon is absolutely new. It’s not Fletchling like many people think, a simple comparison confirms that. I’m expecting a Grass/Flying hummingbird Pokemon myself.
A Grass/Flying hummingbird would be a neat idea and absolutely suit the tropical theme!
Just imagine what other new Pokemon we’ll get over the next year. We might get some designs that blow us away. I’ll be hoping that we reach the 850 Pokemon mark!
don’t get your hopes up, it’s probably the regional bird
You think it’s a hummingbird? I think it’s a woodpecker! I bet $1,000,000 Pokedollars on this! 😉
Yeah, you’re probably right. I still think Grass/Flying would work though!
Grass/Flying for a woodpecker would work well. I’m foreseeing either Normal/Flying or Grass/Flying.
A woodpecker that goes from being Normal/Flying to Fighting/Flying would be awesome! I mean, the beak could be its main weapon/defense and certain species of woodpeckers are known for being territorial and aggressive towards other animals AND their own kind.
Oh heck yeah. Staraptor is still my favorite “early bird evolution” Pokemon due to its Close Combat.
Staraptor, Talonflame, and Pidgeot take the cake for being the best regional birds. I’ve yet to completely use a Talonflame (I’ve used a Flechling & Fletchinder but always replaced it with another Flying-Type), so I planned a team with one to see it’s potential.
Anything that puts new types in the starter dex
Grass Flying
Fire Ice
Water fairy/ electric/ rock
There also seems to be cafes and stores… CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION RETURNS! 😀
I’ve a feeling they purposely held back some designs in gen6 so they had some already for gen7 plus tons more obviously. From the direct alone we can see there’s TONS of details in the Games from the architecture to the really small details like proper full 3d vehicles unlike the smaller role in XY. We can even see Pokémon such as blastoise in the back of some ( Fire Truck ) !
It’s about time the Pokemon World heightened their security measures considering how many times 10 year olds have to save the planet… 😀
Sounds a whole lot like Johto to me!
100% Johto treatment
Just the way I like it 😀
My only question right now is, when will they choose to reveal starters, box legendaries, things like that? It seems odd to me that neither of those were included. I personally hope they return to the silhouette system to generate the most hype. I bet CoroCoro will be heavily involved in revealing them over the next couple months, as well. Remember how they officially revealed Xerneas and Yveltal in the January 2013 CoroCoro, right after the games were announced? The same thing will probably happen next month.
They did this for OR/AS. Yet, I’m surprised that they did not show the box legendaries. We’re highly going to get more information in the March CoroCoro and E3. I seriously want to just see the improved graphics of this game.
I’m thinking they want to save everything for E3 and other gaming conventions. Word of mouth will mainly be the driving force for the games until E3 but by then, we’ll have enough momentum from CoroCoro leaks. They could also do a social media campaign… they ARE definitely starting to utilize social media to advocate their brand further.
This E3 is going to be absolutely stellar, and that’s only considering what we know will be there. Pokemon Sun and Moon, Zelda Wii U and the reveal of Nintendo’s next hardware. There will definitely be some revolutionary launch titles shown for the NX as well. That goes without mentioning the other “major 3DS titles” that will release this year. As fans, we deserve this year to be great after the overall mediocre showing in 2015.
Timeline for information revealed by CoroCoro before release of X/Y:
January 2013: Official artwork of Xerneas/Yveltal
February 2013: Sylveon revealed
March 2013: No info for X/Y
April 2013: No info for X/Y
May 2013: Gogoat, Helioptile, Fletchling, Pancham revealed; Kalos region (map & name) and trainer customization also revealed.
June 2013: Litleo, Vivillon line Flabebe, rivals and first gym leader revealed.
July 2013: Pangoro, Malamar line, Honedge, Swirlix, Spritzee, Clauncher, Skrelp, Clemont, Grant, Team Flare, and Professor Sycamore revealed.
August 2013: Mega Evolutions, Korrina, Skiddo, Bunnelby, and Dedenne revealed
September 2013: Starter Evolutions, more Mega Evolutions, Pyroar, Meowstic, Amaura, Tyrunt, Furfrou revealed
October 2013: More Mega Evolutions.
*Note: Aromatisse, Slurpuff, and Doublade were revealed apart from Corocoro.
I remember being in a cramped hotel in England when I saw the June 2013 leaks for the first time. It blew my mind, because I always wanted a lion Pokemon. Soon after that we spent a few days in Paris, and I vowed to collect inspiration from the environment to see what would work well in a Paris-inspired Pokemon region. I ended up with nothing, of course, but it was so cool to be in the area of the world where Game Freak was drawing inspiration from. Oh memories…hopefully Sun and Moon create many new ones.
Yeah I remember getting through Freshman year because of Corocoro leaks 😛
Anyways, the fact that there was (really) nothing revealed in the February Corocoro (released in January) indicates that everything for that month was shown in the initial trailer. With that said, since we only had the titles released, I think it’s safe to say that we’ll get more news in next month’s Corocoro! 🙂
I’m surprised that stores are opening pre-orders so early. I’m going to wait until the version exclusive Pokemon are revealed. People are jumping the gun and pre-ordering both copies. Yet, I don’t blame them, the hype is all there. IMO, I just recommend waiting until November before you pre-order.
One thing I think anyone my age or just 20-25+ in general will agree is that The editing they did and the sheer hype I felt with the trailer building up from the hardest moments with snips of the hardest battles we ever faced like all the champions , the dreaded miltank, to the current o.P mega kangaskhan…
Honestly it felt like they were showing clips of me as a child all the way up to my adulthood now. Jesus I love them for that.
1996->2013 count was epic and the seconds pause of the announcement of 2016 had me in near tears of joy.
Still proud to be an original gen1 player all the way up to 7 now and I can honestly say I’ve loved ever minute of them ??
I started playing Pokemon with Ruby and loved the series ever since. I remember crying over not being able to beat Liza & Tate and Misty. Pokemon has always been a series I could return to and never get bored. I’ve played all of the games since then and I cannot wait to hop into the 7th Generation!
YESSSSS! Liza&Tate made me cry in Emerald so many times XD
There are still people on the Internet who don’t believe that SM are Generation 7 games. Even after an official press release stating it, the promise of “new Pokemon”, and the montage of all 6 previous generations leading up to the 7th, people aren’t convinced. IT’S HAPPENING, PEOPLE! KALOS IS OLD NEWS!
Exactly. Pokemon UK literally said that it’s a new generation. People are clinging to Kalos more than I thought. Don’t get me wrong, X/Y is my fourth most favorite Pokemon game, but they just aren’t seeing the facts.
I think it will be a Johto 2.0
Me too, but Johto is still a new generation through and through, so we can ensure that Gen 7 deniers are completely insane.
I’m happy its gen7 now ! I’m dying for some fresh Pokémon and a new region to explore !! People need to move on but we will definitely see Kalos again someday haha
Overall, I think people (including myself) felt a bit underwhelmed about the Kalos experience as a whole. It always seemed somewhat dull and rushed. In this situation, I feel like Game Freak has mastered the art of 3DS development and will create something incredible. Something about these games just makes me feel hopeful for the whole situation.
Pokemon I want in Sun/Moon:
~ Wolf based off the Iberian Wolf
~ Woodpecker
~ Hummingbird
~ Dolphin
~ Fruit Bat
~ Toucan
~ Glass Frog
~ Poison Dart Frog
~ Cassowary
~ Flamingo
~ Seal based off the Hawaiian monk seal or Mediterranean monk seal
Don’t we have some of these already? Aromatisse-flamingo, pdart frog-croagunk, noivern-fruitbat.
Correct me if I’m wrong please. These were my first thoughts when I saw the list. The others on there would be amazing to have!
You’re right about Noivern and croagunk, but aromatisse is nothing like a flamingo, or if it is, it’s the worst flamingo approximation I’ve ever seen. Flamingo/plague doctor is what aromatisse should have been. Instead we got this awful french cancan/ fairy creature abomination.
I keep on thinking about flowers being the hint we got. I even considered Tolkien and the elven myths of the sun and the moon as fruits of sacred trees, so to speak. I mean, could the main legendaries be flower-like in some way? Maybe a mix of animal/flower? Maybe I’m just overthinking.
I almost forgot about the flowers comment…Yeah. now I’m wondering how it fits in. Will post my theory! If I cone up with one…
I also keep on thinking about wolves because of Hati and Skoll. I think it’d tie nicely with the Norse references but I don’t know if they’d go that far with the same concept? I have way too many thoughts about this =~
I just posted a video by gaijin goombah that has another theory about it
Maybe Sun/Moon will be a deeper look into the ecology of the Pokemon world and being an environmentally focused project? Considering current real-world adversities and how GameFreak has always drawn inspiration from real-world events to in-vigor villainous teams, it would not be surprising.
Given the description of Zygarde as an ecological sort of Rayquaza -as in someone who comes to fix things out of balance with the environment before opposing forces wreck the world – I do think that something along this line will happen but I’m not sure how that could happen? I think a Team Magma/Aqua arrangement could work but would they go down that road again?
Yep! It makes more sense when the Sun/Moon are brought into play and would suggest the overall drive for the villainous team! 🙂
Exactly! It’s why I’m thinking of Hati and Skoll who are represented wanting to eat the Sun and the Moon. I think it’d be very GF-like to show them being Guardians of them instead and the teams wanting to use their powers a la Kyogre/Groudon.
That would be awesome! I certainly hope they don’t just go with an XYZ theme but instead focus on the Norse inspirations.
Here’s hoping! 😀 I still want to be surprised and I’m sure I will but this sounds like something that could work nicely – even if not that innovative.
When the leaks broke out yesterday, I thought of how flowers follow the sun and the moon to stimulate growth during the day/night. It’s probably nothing, but it’s worth thinking about. His cryptic hint may not have meant any more than that.
True, we ought to consider it might really have been just a hint. I can’t help but try to read more out of it tho. Like, maybe the cities will be named after flowers since people are considering a tropical region? Kalos was devastated in the past so maybe they’ll show us a region that’s still blooming and we have to save it before it meets a similar fate?
This probably has nothing to do with it, but flowers bloom based on the length of the night/day. Some plants have flowers that bloom with long nights/short days, others with short nights/long days. I think there’s some exceptions, but that’s generally the case 😀
I have considered this as well! I’m not sure how they could tie it with the game itself tho. I also keep on thinking of the starry background for Moon. Maybe something star-related in some way will happen?
I know this is a small feature, most likely won’t return, but I would LOVE if the medal system came back from B2W2. I love doing after game achievements so much, it feels like there is more to do
I actually also really liked the habitat list system from B2W2 as well (which was reintroduced in the form of the DexNav in ORAS, I suppose)
Omg that too!! I love being able to tell if I found everything or not the DexNav was so awesome
Considering Cynthia’s liking for tropical areas, maybe this region is where she’s from…? I know, I’m just profusely picking the short end of the straw by now… XD
She better not, she needs to keep herself locked in the Champion room, like every other champion
The only champions I ever cared for were Cynthia, Steven, and Alder.
I only have a few more core Pokemon games to own before I “catch them all”. Ruby, Sapphire, Leafgreen, Diamond, Pearl and SoulSilver are all of them. I’m going to make it my new goal, in honor of Pokemon’s 20th anniversary, to complete this collection before Sun and Moon release.
Soul Silver might be pretty hard/expensive to get. Last time I checked, it (along with Heart Gold and Emerald), were comparatively priced pretty high. I guess if it’s used, it’ll be a lot cheaper, though.
Yeah I know :/ I’m going to do it in phases though. Probably one of these games per month for the next 6 months. There’s no way I would get them all at once.
I wonder if you have a Dad in this game…
Remember when Junichi said that Pokémon Sun + Moon would take all of what Pokemon’s offered so far and combinemake use of it into the new games…. Well
Both the Sun + Moon control different things.
Sun – Seasons
Moon – Tides
Then we have Lunar and Solar eclipse’s.
But then we have the Moon affecting Tides and gravity causing lanj and sea conflicts.
The Sun+ Moon affects Seasons So this could mean that Pokémon Sun could have a much heavier focus on the Spring and Summer Seasons . While Pokémon Moon is heavily focused on Autumn and Winter.
I have a BIG FEELING that lunar and Solar eclipses will play a part in the story. Causing the Sun to be blocked out or the Moon being blocked out can be devastating for the ecosystem if done for a prolonged period of time.
I definitely agree with everything you’ve said here. That story sounds pretty awesome, actually. Almost Team Galactic-esque. Lots of people think that Pokemon Eclipse would be the assumed third game, but I don’t think we’re going to get third versions any more.
Thanks. I’m glad 3rd versions are done. Don’t get me wrong I loved them but this new unpredictable style is FAR BETTER IMO 🙂
Would love this and ties in perfectly with Zygarde and Kalos. The reason for the war hundreds of years ago between Kalos and this new region could have been due to an incident where the Sun/Moon were blocked out and people fought for food or whatever.
I hope it was a good first impression haha
LOL! It was. 😀
Good haha
🙂 I don’t remember exactly what we talked about but your verbiage had been really nice and gave off a really kind vibe! I guess that’s why your peers and elders underscore the importance of character and representation over what you say you did and do.
Ahh that’s so nice thanks haha 🙂
That’s true as a science …sometimes myth didn’t agree with science the sumerians think the moon is the responsible for plants growing , raining ,feminine and as u said tides that’s mean it’s a water symbol.
TIDES?! Maybe we’ll finally have a Water Bearer Pokemon! 😀
Interesting, it would also involve Zygarde, since it balances the ecosystem, so there’s the tie-in there.
That’s what I meant. Everything links together 🙂
If the season thing is the case I’m totally sold on Moon version.
Told myself I would catch every Shiny Legendary in Omega Ruby before the new games were released.
Not living up to that right now. And now I have a time limit.
Well crap, now I have to!
Wasn’t Machamp able to learn Fissure in Red/Blue? And since you can transfer pokemon from Red/Blue to Sun/Moon.. No Guard Machamp w/ Fissure new meta?
Yeah, I said that a while ago but there will be limitations to what’s transferable 🙂
Have they officially stated the limitations on what’s transferrable?
Lol as I stated Earlier Fissure has a set accuracy
In Gen I, right? But I’ve read that abilities like No Guard completely ignore OHKO moves’ accuracies, unless they change that in Sun/Moon which they’re free to do since it is possible that it’s a new gen
Well For starters Abilities don’t exist until gen 3
And OHKO moves are always have a set accuracy, trust me, if not Fissure Machamp would already have been popular
Yeah I knew that, but wouldn’t abilities be added onto a Pokemon upon transferring from R/B to S/M? And my guess as to why no one uses Fissure Machamp is that it’s illegal, since it’s only available in Gen I and you are unable to transfer Pokemon from Gen I to the lastest games up until this point
True, but Sorry it has a set accuracy
hold upppppppppp, I think you actually may be correct, I think No guard would work
Yup, read it off Bulbapedia haha but yeah it’s likely they’ll change how No Guard works in Sun and Moon. Unless they forget.. *cough* Steel Wing Elgyem
Yes never mind you are correct My bad, It would in fact work, Im sorry. But my guess the mach amp would have guts ability not No Guard.
Yeah, but since Ability Capsules are now a thing.. No one is safe from ScarfChamp haha
I find it interesting that they didn’t give a release month for these games yet. For both XY and ORAS, they said what month we would see them from the first time they were revealed. Maybe they haven’t quite come to a decision yet.
Which is good, deadlines can be bad
Highly possible that the games are still in the mid-stages of development
Hopefully we don’t have another Johto 2.0 in the literal sense…
All this talk about the environment, the Sun/Moon, and how flowers fit into the equation is compelling and is like a puzzle you know you can solve because of its simplicity but because of the many variables in play, it’s still immensely adversarial to put your fingers on it. HYPE!
Oh yeah! I forgot about the flowers…hmmm…I thought about this before, but I thought, maybe the country the region is based on has a lot of gardens? I looked some nearby European countries that could fit, and the one I thought fi the best was Spain, considering the architecture we see, so HYPEEEE
As for the question, I’ll definitely be buying Pokemon Moon because that sounds so ethereal and captivating! And… I like feminine things! 😀 XD
Wat they mean by holiday 2016 is this suppose to be a certain date or it’s an english issue for me ?
the holiday season, so basically any time between September and the end of December.
Do I know you?
lol uh, i don’t think so. maybe?
haha uh, i don’t know. maybe?
Since tomorrow is the anniversary, think there’ll be a snippet of something? Sorry but my hype level is over 9000 right about now haha
It’s already the anniversary in Japan so highly unlikely but we can hope!
It is almost 11 AM in Japan so there is still time.
I’m literally convulsing as it is… MORE, I WANT MORE!
Like hopes for mega flygon lol
Nice name.
Also I hope so too. I’d think they would bomb us with information on the anniversary.
Thanks!
YES I GOT THE FROSLASS BADGE YES!
Not that likely but considering the Moon/Sun theme, could we possibly get Zodiac based Pokémon? Constellations are visible at night but these twelve are on the sun’s eliptic so it’d sort of fit both? I know we already got a Leo and Taurus, for example, but GF has repeatedly used the same based animals for different Pokémon? Just living the dream while we’re out in the dark. I would LOVE a centaur Pokémon.
I would kind of hate it, but Zodiac Unknowns?
I was never fond of Unknowns so I’d hate it too lol
Ooooo that would be sweet <3 Then again, I know that there is an Unova zodiac, although some don't reflect the signs.
Guys so what if the Team E referenced in XY and ORAS is actually Team Eclipse!!! It makes sense because pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon!! So maybe the Team E will be here. My friend told me this btw XD
Link: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/792673-pokemon-omega-ruby/71677951
And there is a team I apparently. What could that be?
Hey Silver 😀
Percy 😀 Good to see you!
Good to see you too :3 How’s it going?
I really want them to bring back the 2 teams thing with Team Solar and Team Lunar. Dreams.
How do flowers tie into SM???? Please someone think of the flowers.
I made a reply with the flowers thing, but one day I thought about the flowers clue, and I was thinking maybe the country the region is based on has a lot of flowers/lots of gardens. I don’t remember all the ones that had a potential (keep in mind, I searched nearby countires to France), but the one that has a lot of gardens that has a similar architecture/feel is Spain, so maybe it’s something to keep in mind? I dunno.
This…you must watch this, it’s a great idea for a plot
https://youtu.be/dcLi_3mZTyw
It is interesting, but there are a TON of moon and sun gods and goddess in every culture. Maybe they are making it worldwide but taking in details fromn most of them? I dunno.
And I feel it would be a step backward to focus on Japan and not worldwide. There was a tribute in XY at the credits that showed how connected we are. I feel it would go back on that, in a way. I understand focusing on a domestic audience, but I feel they can do that without focusing back on Japan in the new region/mythology.
But that’s my two cents.
Can’t wait to see a food goddess barf fish in SM
I finally had the time to come and watch this and I do like the idea a lot! Even if I’m quite wanting to believe the Hawaii theory. Either way, thank you so much for letting me know about it! I appreciate it.
As part of the implied improved graphics that will come with the 7th generation, I think we should raise our expectations even more. Could we see 3D throughout the entire game, like every other 3DS game is able to manage? I’d say that’s almost a certainty. If they could somehow pull off 60fps at the same time, we’d have some amazing-looking content.
Actually, I looked back at the direct for something, and I saw the disclaimer after the video that said ‘Game is in 2D, certain areas are in 3D’, so yeah
Oh my god. You’re busting my chops, Game Freak.
Maybe they really can’t at this time. I’m just hoping battles with 3D aren’t laggy, and they add more stuff for 3D, I guess.
Isn’t that the same for other 3DS pokemon games?
Yeah, but they wouldn’t say that if it was all 3D
Ah, I misinterpreted.
The 3D is actually the same from X/Y and OR/AS. It’s only in special areas, events, and in battles. I rather there be a lack of 3D in the overworld for better graphics. I do doubt the arrival of 60FPS, the 3DS wouldn’t handle that. I feel like the game would run better on the New 3DS XL.
I’m fired up for the idea of a Red Hot Ox Starter
(My naming skills ain’t what they used to be)
Pyrox Fire
Tempaurus Fire/Ground
Infernox Fire/Ground
They are my kin with a frothing temper, when they get so worked up their body reaches temperature over 200 Degrees, Once angered they run rampant burning everything in their path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtl6MY7UEo
Such glorious music for a typing game.
That reminds me. You guys should really play Pokemon Altair and Sirius. It’s such a good game even though it’s a rom hack. HEre’s the gym leader theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyvKNrR750
Hey all, I’m sorry if this has already been asked elsewhere, but who are the three pokemon in the green truck/ute? The one in the foreground is furfrou, the one behind it is Wobbuffet, but what’s the tall pokemon? It kinda looks like either Hawlucha (possible Hawlucha evo, I’m 99% certain Hawlucha itself is too short) or Machoke/Machamp.
I think it looks like Machamp with it’s arms crossed.
Yeah, after looking closely at it, and comparing it to Hawlucha and Machamp’s official art, it looks more like Machamp. Shame, I’d like to see Hawlucha get an evolved form
I think the GameXplain analysis said it was Machamp, Furfrou and Wobbuffet.
I think wurmple uses action replay powersaves.
That cheat
Oh wow this is real
is your rock comfortable to live in?
I wonder if you will be able to go into space? That would be a cool way to get from place to place.
Got a sketchpad today and sketched one of the most beautiful pokemon, Vivillon, a personal favorite of mine. It turned out pretty good!
Hey everyone! I haven’t been here in such a long time, but I figured – new generation means that I’m coming back to pokejungle. But man, I’m excited for this! And I have a feeling that graphics are gonna be unbelievable for the new games!!
I just heard about the 32 hour twitch and Nintendo stream starting tomorrow at 10 am PT and the first 8 hours will be interviews gameplay from Kanto up until Kalos and then the other 24 hours will be episodes.
Wouldn’t it be nice if they went and talked about Sun and Moon? lol I doubt it’ll happen hahaha
IT says big news will be revealed tomorrow so idk
WAT. That would be crazy if they actually had stuff for sun and moon!
Does it mean tomorrow as in the 27th in Japan or tomorrow as in the 27th in the rest of the world? Because if it means japan then I think the big news would just b the direct. Technically it was the 27th for them when the direct happened so……..lol
no it says for the US the 27th im looking at it on twitch right now. So i mean maybe but im not going to watch it
Hmmmm that’s interesting……I’m not gonna get my hopes up tho. I don’t think they’ll reveal anymore just yet. I wish they would, but I don’t think it’ll happen lol
At this point I don’t know what to expect.
Huh
There’s a twitch stream with nintendo tomorrow at 10 PT that lasts 32 hours and its called the pokemon festival weekend or something like that and the first 8 hurs are gameplay interviews and such from Kanto up until Kalos and possibly more it says
Can u link to the page that says this please? I’m not seeing where it is.
yeah hold on
http://www.dailydot.com/geek/pokemon-nintendo-twitch-livestream-anniversary/?fb=gk
There and twitch has the logo for pokemon 20th anniversary is already to go on twitch
I meant huh as in huh interesting not please restate it. I’m sorry I wasted your time. ;-;
You never waste my time ;D
;o;
Together forever since the x and y days Ill never forget you!!
I love you too ;~;
Please don’t cry I’ll cry too ;o;
{^v^} Okay tweet tweet
Link to this?
its below i have the link on my phone and i just put ti down lol
I don’t see where it says anything about big news.
Reread it
it has all this on twitch also
That would be the ideal stream… I just kinda want more info on the games. Although I’m happy we have something
Happy Pokémon Day, east coast!!
I have a new hot avatar. It’s changed since I saw you last. Care to lick it with me
no bye
http://www.dailydot.com/geek/pokemon-nintendo-twitch-livestream-anniversary/?fb=gk.
Here’s the link
Here’s the most accurate representation of the new bird Pokemon that we have so far. It seems to be a cardinal this time around.
http://i.imgur.com/kqhaAHB.png
I love it I thought I saw a really good pic of it on facebook let me look
I saw this one on Reddit, it looks like it will be very close to the real thing. Imagine what it’s final evolution will look like!
I’m excited maybe for moon they could have a blue Jay and this one can be for sun
In that case, the Sun version would probably be Normal/Flying and the Moon version would be Dark/Flying.
That sounds awesome!
I feel like people always forget about Murkrow/Honchkrow, so a new Dark/Flying would be great.
Yveltal
Oh fug
I could never forget about Honchkrow <3 It was my favorite pokemon until Volcarona came along
I think being part fighting type would fit a bluejay better since they’re pretty aggressive -shrug-
That would make me choose moon in a heartbeat.
The final evolution of the route one flying type is always really cool.
First one – Crisfarias
Second one – Brex5
These two look really pretty. I could imagine it looking like one of these.
Well I bought Red
Hello Grind
Cool I’ll get red also
They’re available now? Right when I turn off my 3DS. I’ll just get them tomorrow, I’m too tired.
I paid off my New 3DS today. I’ll java red and blue but I’m also getting yellow
I’m not getting any version tbh. I don’t have a ton of money to work with.
Has anyone had any trouble getting Fire Emblem Fates? I swear it’s hard to find a physical copy of Birthright!
Maybe in this one there are mini games and we get to work with people like nurse joy or firefighters I would like to make poodles since I’m making Italian Hot chocolate
That’d be fun. I miss puffin making and Pokémon making. The ORIGINAL way.
Pokemon making? Do you mean Pokeblock making? But yes, I agree, the old way was better. Challenging, but just easy enough to keep you from ragequitting
hey breeding can be fun too
Yeah. I hit post before I could fix it
I didn’t get POFFLES right either
I didn’t even catch the puffin part lol
Lol
I’d make POFFLES with you!!
LOL
I really want something like a Dire Wolf for Moon’s legendary.
Can I name it Ghost…?
If you want? (I really hope this isn’t a reference I’m not getting)
I think it is….I don’t get it either
Game of Thrones :O One of the main characters has an Albino Dire Wolf named Ghost.
In that case, how about a Ghost/Dark wolf legendary?
I bet that would look epic as hell.
The other is psychic Fairy?
Not necessarily, maybe it could be Fire/Fairy for the whole sun concept. Then again, I’m trying to guess types of legendaries that don’t exist to the general public. 😛
No name it nymeria
Well I guess it would depend on the color of the wolf xD
I feel like I’m going to wake up in the morning and forget that Sun and Moon really exist. It’s all like a dream to me right now. I didn’t really think we’d escape the clutches of Kalos so soon.
The Sun/Moon names feel totally surreal to me.
I think/hope we’ll head back to Kalos after the E4, although it seems a tad unlikely.
Yeah, surreal describes the whole Gen 7 situation for me. All of this came out of nowhere two days ago. Crazy how quick things can change.
And if we do head back to Kalos we need a Calem/Serena battle like Red from Gold/Silver.
They should’ve done that with Black2/White2.
Alright I cannot deny my love for Pokemon and Retro Gaming
At 00:37
Charmander 10
NidoranM 7
Spearow 6
Calling it a night
Going to play this while taking the train to the city for Pokemon Day
Enjoy your day. I’m going to play the originals with my friend, who I played all of the Pokemon games with from Gen 3 onwards.
This question mark on Serebii is really annoying me. Just commit to Gen VII, it’s obviously here.
I blame the connection between the Sun and Moon colours and Zygarde. I’m sure you’ve seen the pokemon xyz poster, right? Complete Zygarde has five hexagons on its chest.
Dark Blue: Xerneas
Light Blue: Moon legend
White: Possibly Zygarde itself
Orange: Sun legend
Red: Yveltal
Thoughts?
But I do agree, it looks like Gen 7 rather than 6.5
I’ve seen that theory so many times over the past day, and I think it’s all a bunch of nonsense. At least, in terms of the whole “Gen 6.5” situation. Sun and Moon can easily remain Gen 7 games (as that’s what they are) and still incorporate Zygarde. It’s all speculation at this point, but we simply cannot say that Gen 7 is not here. To top it off, look at the similarities of the XY and ORAS logos and how different the SM logos are.
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1456542057485.png
That does seem like reasonable proof. Personally, as I said below, I do agree with you on it being Gen 7, though I still think the two new cover legends will have some connection to Zygarde.
Each of those logos has a symbol of something big in the game, the mega dna, the orbs, what’s the thing for sm?
It could be nothing significant. I feel like these logos hint to a much simpler overall tone and story to these games. They just look much flatter and have less mystery to them.
They said in an interview they wanted to go back to more simpler roots but making in as interesting as possible and keep surprising us!!
Diamonds (I think lol look at it closely)
Actually, it’s called an octahedron :).
Thank you for the correction! Theorw you know!
*more
Maybe white represents edclipse whether there an Eclipse legendary or not. (Notice that the white is between the Sun and Moon colors, so it could simply represent the union of Sun and Moon, an eclipse)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Eclipse_2010_Hao_1.JPG
It’s obvious it is, but it can’t be labeled a new region until we see starters.
When’s the last time we got new Pokémon but didn’t receive new starters? Oh right, never :P.
Never know. When was the last time we didn’t get a third installment to a generation? Oh right. Never. Until Gen 5.
BW, BW2 don’t count? 😛
I get why everyone thinks it’s gen VII, and it very probably is, but we just don’t have 100% confirmation yet. We do have very telling cues, but nothing absolutely concrete telling us this isn’t a special kind of situation. I think putting a question mark is perfectly justifiable.
Thank You
I just woke up and I was so anxious to go to Pokejungle. I thought there was a chance of new reveals. I was disappointed when I got here.
By the way guys, instead of calling it S&M, let’s all agree to call it PSM. There are lots of kids who are excited about them, and we don’t want to ruin anyone’s fun
People shouldn’t make such a big deal of the name. I think it’s okay to just call it SM, I’m not bothered by the abbreviation. In my eyes it just says Sun and Moon.
(I’m wondering if GF looked this through).
PlayStation Magazine?
It’s cancelled so who cares :P.
Pretty sure it’s still going in the UK. 😉
But that one is called OPM :).
Meh.
All the talk about the *diamonds* in the logo…
Guarantee that’s representing the Solar and Lunar Eclipse that will happen in the Games 😉
Also I woke up today to my Instagram post having gone viralwith 1,200 likes haha it was only a picture of the 2ds bundles of Pokémon for the anniversary. Its funny because I don’t use Instagram at all 😛
I’ve got a feeling we’ll get reverse Mascott covers again. Like in Black and White. Where Reshiram was on the Black cover even though the white pokemon.
I wonder what they choose for the mascotts to be. Sooooo hyped! I want to seeeeee them. Hate freaking waiting.
They did that with black and white because of the colours. You wouldn’t have been able to see Zekrom on a black background and the same with Reshiram on a white background.
I think it was because of the concept. There is white in black, black in white, Yin Yang etc.
No, they did it because Reshiram and Zekrom were Yin and Yang.
about the connection of Pokemon RGBY and Bank… how do you think they will resolve the natures, IVs, abilities… ? I was wondering that Sun and Moon will have a mini-game or safari to re-catch them (only for the ones coming from these games), like the DreamWorld Pokemon.
I wouldn’t like the stats to be random, with no option to use syncronize pokemon to get one specific nature… :/
For the pokebank from RGBY the natures and abilities will probably be random. IV’s i thought have been around since gen 1 but i may be wrong. I think its going to be the same as xy and oras. The pokemon is merely deposited in the pc
The IV’s are probably gonna be Gen 1’s DV’s x 2 +1
<3
What if they choose the simplicity and throw away all complex things like those. Nevermind, probably not gonna happen.
They’d probably keep abilities and evs but i could see them throwing away IVs.
I’d love this also.
I got too much into EVs, IVs etc during DPPt, now they irritate me.
Hey guys, since you can transfer from RGBY to SM, do you think transfering Pokémon from G1 games can unlock something there?
(Thanks to CloneWarrior from With the Will to think of this possibility)
Probably, similar to how transferring from Gen 3 to ORAS gave you a special poster.
Thinking about yesterday makes me happy. When I woke up this morning, I thought about it and immediately felt good. It was a lot of fun waiting with you guys for the direct and commenting afterwards. I’m looking forward to more news and more speculation!
Lol what if the is an in game theory that pokemon game from space and inhabited the earth and bred with the animals or adjusted to be like humans, like Gothitelle, Alakazam, Mr. Mime, June, which is why there’s classifications such as mouse and celestial pokemon and stuff and SM focuses on what Gen 1 was wondering. Where the heck did they come from?
An omnipotent deer/goat thing created them.
It has been a while! Happy 20th Anniversary everybody! Really excited about Sun and Moon!
Has anyone else downloaded one (or more) of the Virtual Console games? I am currently playing Blue (with my original Blue cartridge on my bedside cabinet). It was the very first Pokemon game I ever played and i havent looked back since!
I really want to but I should save money right now..plus I also have too many video games that I need to play. I will eventually though.
It’s stretching it out a bit, but let’s not rule out the possibility of Southern Kalos being the region in SM
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1456582511188.jpg
It looks like a conspiracy theorist’s wall… <3
IT’S A FUKKIN MOON
IT’S A FUKKIN SUN
kek kek kek
OMG, how could we forget about sundials and moondials!
Happy Pokemon Day everybody
I can’t wait for the 32-hour Twitch stream! It will be fun playing the games with that in the background.
32 hour twitch stream?
From 10am-6pm PST today, the official Pokemon channel is showing gameplay, doing interviews, things like that. After that, a 24 hour animation marathon begins.
Interviews? I wonder if people are able to squeeze out even a tiny bit of SM info out of them haha
I’m actually kind of interested in what the game play and interviews will b like. I hope they have commentary over the game play so we can have a little insight about the games and how they were made. Also maybe Sun and Moon? I can dream………lol
http://www.dailydot.com/geek/pokemon-nintendo-twitch-livestream-anniversary/?fb=gk here’s the link from last night since it’s picking back up
I’m still not seeing where it says further big news will b talked about……maybe I missed something?
Just started playing red for the first time since I was two. Aready stuck on squirtle’s nick name screen XD
Thinking about naming it water gun because that’s what I named it when I was two years old and had no sense of what a good nickname was
https://youtu.be/j8LvW1aMB78
Italian theory in the last minutes: check it out! Hawaii confirmed!
Whelp I don’t understand Italian so this is nonsense to me hahaha
Look:
The plaques with rainbows are used in Hawaii. But the pokemon truck has the same plaque. And…pokemon rainbow, you know.
Take a look at Hawaiian fire trucks…They are yellow!!
Hawaii has the Rainbow falls where you can see rainbows. Here lives the goddess of the moon, which has a son that has managed to tame the sun!!!
Too many coincidences. Hawaii Region confirmed!!
I subscribe to the theory that Sun and Moon’s region will be based off Hawaii. I think that’s a fantastic idea as well. Hoenn 2.0, here we go!
Plus, the Red-crested Cardinal (what the pokemon shown seems to be) can be found in Hawaii! 😀
Rainbow was just a codename, just as ‘Caviar F’, ‘Torte City’, ‘Cadillac’ are codenames of upcoming Nintendo games. They may have to do with fish or cars, but they are no indication to the games itself.
Cascoon looks like I was right Fissure No Guard works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWjfjIkpA-I
Wow this seems really cheap hahaha
I might try it on showdown
I wonder if there’s a good way to counter it.
I’ll try it and post the link here for you 😀
Nice thanks lol
I think my only problem with Gen 7 coming this year is that it won’t b on the NX or whatever the next handheld is.With this we are basically doomed to use the 3DS for another 3 years unless they do something out of the ordinary. I suppose they could break their patterns and have the next game come out on the next handheld, but still b a gen 7 game. I kind of hoe they do that…..
They will probably do an NX game in 2018, which is a fine time by me. I can see them doing Z/Eclipse on the NX in 2017, seeing as Nintendo can certainly use the boost in hardware sales. But it’s a bit of a tradeoff for install base versus hardware sales, sometimes it’s better to have a large install base to sell many games for, but the only way to reach a large install base is by selling good games. I hope they realise that Splatoon helped boosting sales and a third version Pokémon game could certainly do so too.
I just think they’ve put themselves in a weird spot as far as releasing games go. If we were getting Z or whatever then it would have been fine, but now they have to b able to either extend the 3ds’ lifespan or split a generation between 2 handhelds, which is weird to do. To b honest I’ just ready for a Pokemon game that’s in HD. Is that too much to ask for? hahaha
They won’t extend it any further than Sun and Moon. It will probably be the last major Nintendo published games on the handheld, to close of the handheld. I also believe the 20th anniversary is what made them do another generation so ‘soon’, otherwise I’d have expected from them to throttle back the releases. I think they know the yearly releases what they did with BW/BW2/XY/ORAS was causing franchise fatigue (lukewarm critical reception of ORAS and sales figure already showed this). So them holding out and putting SM on NX in 2017 could be a logical choice, but with splitting it up they could do something surprising/fresh, which has been what they are trying to do now.
I also believe that in their longterm roadmap the fact that the 3DS would be replaced much sooner than the DS wasn’t entirely accounted for, so they had to change up the schedule a couple of years ago.
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But chains and whips excite me
Na na na come on
I like it, like it, come on
S, S, S and M, M, M
Oh my god
Here Omega lmao
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/vgc2016-336737468
Wow I guess that guy couldn’t handle it hahaha. I will say ur battle didn’t go quite as smoothly as the one from that video, but I think that’s partially bc ur opponent was a bit more aggressive. Either way I’m still certain it’s pretty cheap hahaha
Yep lol
Finding a pikachu in viridin forest as your first encounter is so satisfying
I got u beat there guy. I got given a Pikachu without having to do anything. So there! lol
Have fun with Brock lol
I’ve got a plan. Don’t u worry ur little head lol
Did you name your pikachu anything? Gotta come up with a name
Nah I kept it Pikachu. I’m kinda lame when it comes to nicknames lol
I’ll just name it “Lol Watt”
HA!!
I’m catching every pokemon I don’t have and nicknaming all of them so most of my names are puns.
Rattata: Ratrick
Pikachu: Lol Watt
Kakuna: Beeatrice
Nice! lol
Nidorino or Nidorina?
YUP!! hahaha Training a Nidoran male up right now to get dat double kick lol
Who was your starter?
Squirtle! Playing Red version
Water starters are always the best pick even though squirtle’s my least favorite 😛
Congrats! That’s a lucky find 🙂
There’s a theory that the next Gen’s region is inspired by Hawaii! There were CLUES in the direct. Tricky, crafty Game Freak, we will discover your secrets!
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12806208_1280539978628193_9034315437110102615_n.jpg?oh=772d523656579c2a4485ea985412d56c&oe=5757B30D
Dang, I really wanted Italy. I really want a Venice-Esq city
Oh yeah!!! That would be awesome. And maybe like a vineyard maze as a route?
That would be great!
Oh, Italy would have been sweet too. Honestly, any place really would get me hype since the world is so beautiful.
Yeah. Hawaii would be really neat too. As long as we get a blue alien pokemon I can name Stitch
Lol. Stitch.
I’ve been seeing this everywhere, and honestly, I don’t mind. I wish I could see some of the things in this pic, but es really small and I can’t zoom. Sounds promising 😀
My thing though, since Hawaii and France are not close together, I wonder if it will not be a Johto-like region to Kalos, which sucks, cause I was really hoping for that, since it would be awesome.
But oh well.
Even though Hawaii and France aren’t close together, anything’s possible with Game Freak. It’s their Pokémon world, after all. They could very well still be connected, even if you need to use a train, boat or plane to travel between the regions.
True, I could see a boat being used, after all you did get on a boat to go to Kanto in GSC and HGSS, so yeah 😀
Hmm… These logos remind me of something from the past games… color wise.
Anyone else see what I see?
Might be a bit Farfetch’d, but…
Pokémon X is blue while Pokémon Y is red.
Pokémon Sun is gold while Pokémon Moon is silver.
Connection? I think so.
Sooo we think it’s set in Hawaii right? Well Hawaii is know for its leis are made of flowers and Hawaii’s football team is called the Hawaiian Rainbow Warriors soooooooooooo yeah
Replaying through Black 2–how do you get the key to unlock Challenge Mode?
I think it has something to do with the regis?
I’m also replying Platinum because I haven’t played it in a while.
And guess what Dicie?
What 😀
PLATINUM IS SO SLOW ;-;
Yeah I figured that. :/
Still gonna try it out soon though.
Beat the game
Hawaiiiiii!!!!
Someone already posted something similar to this a few posts ago, but it’s still amazing 😀
I’m kinda salty it’s not a Kalos sequel but oh well. I’m still hanging on with a little hope. But to be honest this seems like it’ll happen and it looks nice
The lisence plate almost does it for me to believe this
*NOIVERN SCREECHING SOUNDS* I need this to be confirmed ASAP.
The coloration though reminds me more of a Woodpecker then a red crested cardinal. mostly due to only the upper part of the head being red colored and the lower half being white. it kinda looks like a Pileated woodpecker but… those are native to north america. it could though if its a generalization of woodpeckers from the people at Game freak and nintendo.
I want PJ to post up a Pokémon Sun & Moon theory article sooo bad! A fresh new article for people to jump on and throw some hype coal into the hype engine on this hype train! Hnng..!
😉
;o https://49.media.tumblr.com/cbdd033de1f2a6af5f1c690f6e3929a1/tumblr_nt3lkg632m1tq5mnwo1_400.gif
What do you guys think of the new games being based in Hawaii?
I think it’s very interesting and makes sense from all we’ve seen and been given. 🙂 But, even if it ends up being somewhere else, I’ll enjoy it either way, since any place/country would be amazing in a Pokemon game.
The only reason I wouldn’t like that, is it would be another water heavy region. Hoenn is great, but there’s so much water.
True, but luckily in ORAS it was very manageable and I didn’t get lost in it, unlike the originals.
Maybe they won’t make so much surfing places and maybe use boats to connect the major islands?
Same I kinda don’t like how they’re would be different islands, and there’ll probably be more than Hoenn :/
The Pokemon Twitch stream starts soon! Let’s hope for the tiniest bit of SM information!
link pls
http://www.twitch.tv/pokemon
gracias
I don’t think we get any information at all. But if they will mention something about the games, it won’t be something important.
I have no idea what the heck they’re going to do for 8 hours, though.
They can make a lot of footage from 6 generations of games lol Plus there’s interviews and what not. I’m sure it’ll b very boring for a lot of people hahaha
It’s going to be nice to have in the background while playing Pokemon today! That’s all I’m expecting.
Yeah I’ve actually got some work to do for class so I’ll prolly have it in the background while I work.
8 hours? I have work…
By the way, Pokemon Day in Japan already ended. If they wanted to show info, they already would have done that.
True, it’s why I am not watching it.
Good day fellows it is a good day!!
It would be a good day if we got information 🙁
ITS POKEMONS 20th ANNIVERSARY!!! WOOT WOOT
I really don’t want to burst your bubble, but in Japan it’s already over! 🙁
BUT WERE NOT IN JAPAN NO BUBBLE POPPING HERE I DONT CARE WHAT JAPAN IS DOING, TODAY IS MY DAY TO CELEBRATE!!
THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE WITH YOUR ENTHOUSIASM!
mhmm its like yay it was your birthday yesterday that is cool i hope you enjoyed it, but today is mine!!
Luckily in my country, that birthday is still going on for another 5 hours 🙂
exactly!!
We’ll get it. It will soon be March, and CoroCoro will come around. 😀
I don’t think there will be new info. There are poketubers there.
They could know stuff that guy said something about new stuff
There are going to be interviews with people though. I assumed this meant developers like Masuda and Ishihara.
maybe pre recorded stuff oooo
Anything’s possible, but I don’t want to get my hopes up. Remember when we got a few seconds of footage for ORAS a few days after the games were announced?
mhmmm on that japanese show
Whelp I’m out….I can’t listen to these PokeTubers talk anymore. I don’t mind TheJWittz, but I have no interest in listening to other people reminisce about Pokemon lol
The NY Pokemon day is gangbusters crowed nearly a 4 Block Line
hahahaha
Ass, I’m still 3 blocks away
i believe in you!!!
buy me something
i like it so far
They dont have sun and moon on the timeline for 2016??
Are they really just showing the nintendo direct RBY trailer?
lol
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the beginning, thinking it was some kind of Sun/Moon news lol
Same!
At 5:30 PST they’ll be discussing the “future of Pokémon” on the stream.
Sun and Moon news maybe?
Did the site crash a few hours ago?
I was scrolling down the last couple of pages here. Kind of funny (but yet so understandable) that until Pokémon Direct came out, very few of the discussions passed beyond 100 comments. But this one has reached almost 2000 within a week. 😀