From the “Hm, That’s Interesting” Department: Electronic Arts was once working on a Pokémon competitor! Nic Watt, the very successful* founder of game development studio Nnooo, was a former developer at EA and shared a few details about the game that was supposed to take on Pokémon and dominate the handheld market:
“EA wanted this game where the idea and it was going to be their Pokémon game. They didn’t have an RPG in the handheld space and they really wanted one. We did a lot of paper-based prototyping for the battle mechanics and even made a whole card game. Then we got the people from Criterion – who worked on Burnout and with the studio – in [to test it]. That’s the good thing when you have a company of 300 people, you can just ask “do you guys want to come in and play our game for the afternoon.” The team did find it hard because the prototyping was so long, and a lot of things got reset from time to time. But by the time I left, it still had not hit full production and I know that was really tough for a lot of people.”
It’s interesting to speculate about what a monster catching game from EA games would have looked like and whether or not it would have given our favorite juggernaut series any serious competition. It appears that this was back before Nnooo was founded in 2006, so it is likely that the game has been indefinitely shelved, but who knows what the Nintendo NX may inspire them to resurrect?
Speaking of Pokémon competitors, did you see the new trailer for Digimon World Next Order?
<3 PJ
Source: finder.com.au | Via: My Nintendo News
FEATURED DISCUSSION: Moves that should change in Sun and Moon?
*During my research for the article I was surprised to discover that Nnooo has primarily produced DSiWare/WiiWare/shovelware titles 🙁 Why, Mr. Watt?! Whyyyyy?!
Make room guys in here from the ChampionShipping that begun. DIANTHA AND STEVEN KISSING IN A TREE K I S S I N G!!!!
no.
YAS!! And I approve, also grant and viola but I did saw Steven trying to cheat diantha with malva but malva said “she my home girl can’t!” ?
Malva and Diantha are 1000X times more likely to Steven and Diantha
just like Cynthia and Tobias
Cynthia and Tobias??? WHAT! I e never heard of such things. Cynthia is always single.
watch the Sinnoh League ending
WWWWWHHHHAAAATTTT!! How, my heart, its broken… lol!
You FOOL
Everyone knows Ramos x Valerie is the best shipping pair
No.
I found a better one!! Lol!
Ash’s neck
Pikachu’s left eye! Ash’S right leg ?????⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️ Someone burry me already
(I actually can give credit to one thing with this art style
I did NOT expect Lille to look adorable)
Lille looks adorable as heck I agree
Seriously, shes a little cinnamon roll
This might be cutest female in the show (Rf)
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9895346846b18fbc4384268e6190ed35442d66b5c73a8cf905d638c61c0c904d.jpg
Exactly! However I did not expect that voice coming out of that mouth
Ok. THIS is lazy.
rf
thought it was funny
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Oh my god…
Darn Nintendo. Some random guy said you were gonna release news! WHY U NO RELEASE NEWS?!?!?
Shhhh new SU is on now!
no spoilerrs >.<
Ok can I tell you the title of the episode?
I already know. I just have to wait a couple hours to see it
Ok
I hope that’s not the end of episodes for a while that would be sad
It is. Hiatus incoming
Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Really. Oh shoot…. That sucks…. 🙁
Hey to everyone who watches the XYZ anime, I haven’t got a chance to ask what u thought of the 2 part special ?
Lord Jesus it had me weak it was so good. Really a Huge sense of intensity from start to finish 1010 🙂
Not watching till its in English so my brother and I can watch it together
Ah nice ! Well it’s something to look forward to I guarantee it 🙂
Best villainous team arc in the Pokemon anime.
Yup Plasma wasn’t to good in show
In regards to the new style of animation for the anime:
I’ve seen some differing opinions that have been somewhat hostile. Some people are going to like it a lot and others aren’t. That’s okay. We’re not all going to like the same things and if there’s a change in art, it’s natural to expect a reaction from the fans. So I just wanted to say that before we have another big argument over something unimportant, because those aren’t fun. I guess I just want to encourage everyone to be more open to the idea of people liking/disliking it.
That being said, as a neutral party to the anime, I don’t really like what I’ve seen so far. The character models feels less detailed and more childish. There’s something off about it to me that doesn’t feel pokemon-ish. -shrug- But we’ll have to see a full episode before we get a real grasp on it, although I’m not going to be watching it anyway. I’m still on Johto.
I don’t watch the anime so I don’t care much, but I don’t think it looks good.
“This is badbadbadbadbadbadbad, bad for Team Plasma, Plasbad for short”
– Random Plasma grunt, 2011
This is a wonderful quote
Question: Has the riddler leaker leaked anything else, and if he did/might, where would I find it? Or any credible leaker for that matter.
Well today has pros and cons
Pros.?
-SU was great!
-Shiny Skitty hunting is going well (no shines yet though)
-Trailer for S&M season
-Can’t find German HW on Edmodo so I can’t do it
-Back to school night so I’m at my -Grandparents even longer! Yay!
-In Go 2km Egg (I jynxed it) hatched Squirtle and I finally got a Wartortal!
Cons.?
-My dog just chewed up and broke my copy of Fossil Fighters: Fronteir (not real bad it kinda sucked in comparison to others)
-Lots of Homework but only English left
-SU episodes end for a while
-No S&M stuff revealed
So yeah today is on an up day with Pros. Normally not that many pros.
Lol, I remember when I lost my copy of Blue Rescue team. I found it behind my dresser like 3 years later and my dog had chewed it up (it still works though).
Yeah but this is pretty bad the little bristles at the bottom most are torn up or ripped off some metal chewed none missing so that’s good for the dog and her teeth almost completely pierced the flat part of the cartridge good thing it’s not missed very much I rated the game 4/10
I never tried Frontier, but I really liked the first one.
Yeah to me
First- Great
Second- Awesome ranks very high on my favorite games list
Third- Aweful not good entire game changed and it was bad
Honestly I feel like half the people here didn’t read the article. xD A lot of people are thinking that EA was going to buy out Pokemon, rather than make a competition.
Hmm I read half of it but it sounds Ok if it was a handheld RPG about sports related creatures I could see it but not much outside that
Ok Question time Top 5 Prettiest characters in Pokemon
1. Hilda
2. Lyra
3. Lillie
4. Jasmine
5. Mallow
1. Hilda
2.Courtney
3. Leaf (Mainly the manga version)
4. Elesa
5. Skyla
6.Zinnia
Oh yeah Zinnia was Pretty and Elesa and Courtney too and Leaf was great in the Manga I discovered an inappropriate moment with her at the end of G/S/C chapter
I gotta read all of the manga. Just read all of it
Gotta read ’em all! Pokemon~
Gold intentionally hits her on the A*s then gets the crap beaten out of him by Silver
Oh yeah, I remember that. Freaking Gold
Most perverted character other than R/B/Y celadon Gym guy who is peeping from outside
I love Silver’s reaction too. Silver is just the best
Lillie is more in the adorable range for me
Mallow was a last second answer change it to Elesa
Wait no Shauntal for 5.
ehhhhh none of them do it for me
maybe Bianca she’s got them perky hips
I’m surprised you don’t like Wicke
she’s got thickness but Bianca’s BW art are bigger
I like Wicke but not in the uhhh….. Other way
I like Wicke in all of the ways
Less I would say many ways but uhhh of what I remember last time something came up this is a site with kids looking on it so bad idea to say it
Kids, put your hands over your ears:
Ok, I’ll say it now.
she sexy
Truth revealed!!
The rumor come out! Does Wicke is sexy?
Wicke is sexy is the most discussed in the media in the few years ago. Even it has happened in 2012, but some of the public still curious about what is exactly happening and to be the reason there is a rumor comes out about her sexy. At that time he became the massive social networking rumor. The public, especially her fans are shocked. She just came out with her bad rumor which is spread massively. This time is not about her pokemon career, but her bad rumor. The rumor is out of standardize of hoax, according the last reported this trainer revealed herself as sexy af. Do you still believe or not, this rumor is really much talked by people even in a person of her fans.
Ew, she’s ratchet. Don’t even mention her hackjob style in B2W2
well its not like i can slap 200-400lbs on these characters
1) Misty
..Everone else
Wow A true Misty fan
I applied you for staying true!!! I enjoy Misty as well
Applaud that’s what I meant
She’s amazing. Cynthia, Elesa, and Lusamine are pretty too.
In no particular order
1. Misty
2. Serena
3. Cynthia
4. Marley
5. elesa
6. Jasmine
Not bad
Oh, I forgot Cynthia! Put her in front of Zinnia
No real order, but:
Cynthia
Jasmine
Dahlia
Courtney (ORAS)
Courtney is bae
In Oras. Gen 3 didn’t do her justice.
Agreed
Um no.
1. Archie
2. Byron
3. Kukui
4. Drayden
5. Lysandre
Lysandre has that weird orange lion beard. Trying to copy Drayden
I like lions lol rawr Lysandre is hot in his own way. Thus why he’s fifth. I think it’s the tight suit
OFF TOPIC
I just noticed a GIANT plot hole in the “Link is dead in Majora’s mask” theory. TP comes after MM, and it has a character called Hero’s shade, who is OOT/MM link’s dead spirit.
It also says that he is an ancestor of TP link. So, if Link died as a child in MM, there would be no hero of twilight.
I mean, it was already a stretch. Heck, Link leaves the forest at the end of the game
Yeah I know, but this completely deconfirms it. There is no way link could’ve had a child before that.
I guess I can complain about the anime art style in general?
Dawn in the games
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/1c/Diamond_Pearl_Dawn.png/150px-Diamond_Pearl_Dawn.png
Dawn in the show
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/b/bf/Dawn_DP_2.png
Like, I know you gotta animate her, but just… uhg. This has always bugged me
Looks fine to me honestly
Looks taller to me
This one doesn’t bother me. Cilan on the other hand, really bugs me.
Cilan is probably THE ugliest pokemon character in the anime
It’s about to be ash tho
R.I.P ash
Ash bout to go down in history just like Harambe..
It’s okay I’ll walk my self out…
1997-2016
Gone but
notforgotten.What if Ash gets killed by Bewear and Moon becomes the main protagonist instead
If only… Listen I only hate ash when he is in his “black and white state.”
And I really hope that isn’t what’s going on here. But it seems like they are forgetting everything from Kalos….
HAU
YES
#WeNeedHauNow
How? Well, Beware hugs Ash so tight that it crushes Ash and brings an end to his life.
THE GRANDSON TO THE KAHUNA.
Kahuna mattata… what a wonderful phrase!
That is sooo tru
Also why do Black and White pokemon evolve so late?
Vullaby/Braviary : 54
Deino : 50
Zwelious : 64
Larvesta : 59
Golurk : 43
Creator of Pokemon- It’s America everything must be Supersized Drinks, Fries, Pokemon Levels!!!
Nitendo guy- Pokemon levels?
Creator- Yes higher Levels!!!!
Wow, this made my day lol.
extremely powerful Pokemon so that you can’t fly through the game
well golurk is fair 43 is not too bad
I want to use Mandibuzz but I wouldn’t be able to evolve it until the very very end
well then it sux to be you
You get a low level one in the sequels tho
What? Explain?
In Black 2, a level 25 Mandibuzz appears as an interactable pokemon on Route 4 on Thursday.
Oh wow. I think I need to catch that then and trade it to my Black team. Since I plan on using Zoroark in B2
It does have its hidden ability weak armor though.
That will be an okay nerf then if it is so powerful
That’s the spirit!
>:D
Too bad they didn’t give us a low level hydreigon or something :/
It takes Larvesta a long time and a lot of energy to evolve into something as powerful as Volcarona. Thank god they gave us a level 35 one though in B2W2
I also found that to be quite annoying especially considering the BW endgame was around lv. 55.
That part was annoying but I’m happy they tried to make the game challenging in at least one department
Gen 5 had a good difficulty medium IMO. Not too easy like XY, but easy enough that it’s accesible to competent people.
because its one of the many problems with gen v that people seem to overlook while praising it above other generations.
So tomorrow we get our first Pokemon Generations episode. That’s pretty hype!
Give me N please
We will get him for sure…..
Oh I can’t wait for that! I find the Pokemon world very interesting. While playing and hearing about the usual main characters is fun, it’s soooooo much more interesting to hear about the other people that live in the world too! lol
Do we have a time? Also I’m calling it here: it’ll be Red and Blue’s champion showdown. It’s kinda dumb we’re getting that again considering it was in Origins.
I was actually just checking. I don’t think we have a time, but it’ll probably be first thing in the morning.
I want to see the confrontation between Diantha and Lysandre in the lumiose café, or just Diantha in general <3
Post an obscure pokemon character
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/5/55/Yancy_Xtransceiver.png
Adorable yancy so cute <3
Getting her to give you pokemon was too much of a hassle
It’s okay though because she is precious
Here’s the legend himself. rf
That face looks like fading disappointment
If Sun and Moon are bad games (or dissapoint me in some way, i.e. difficulty, post game, to name a few) I’m going to spam this at everyone I know.
No doubt gonna be a top 5 character of all time.
Ok. I’ve known this from the beginning, but I’ve never said anything. Why are Elgyem and Beeheeyem not Psychic/ROCK?!
And why the heck is Grumpig not Psychic/Ground?
because not all pigs are wallowing in mud
its conception was from a biblical phrase In the King James version of the Bible the text reads: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast. ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them. under their feet, and turn again and rend you
It’s weird for me, because I only learned not even a month ago that it isn’t a ground type.
Why would he be?
because they’re brains now boulders
But…. I mean…. They look like they’re made of rock tho. I would’ve made em Rock type as well.
well dey ain’t so
It would be been cool tho. They do look rocky. They could be been ancient aliens.
Because they should’ve been Psychic/Steel
Why?
Because they look like steel types. Reminds me of ufos
They should make a UFO pokemon
http://lparchive.org/Earthbound-(by-Leavemywife)/Update%2047/19-55498.png
Nass
Already have, gen 5
Er…Magnezone? 😛
my Mega Beheeyem is Psychic/Electric
their brains quadruple and pylons jut out of its temples and cortex and sparks emit
and a longer coat and arms
Psychic/steel would do nicely for them. It never bothered me until just now because I never thought of their bodies as being hard or rock-like
Pokemon Logic, just as Palkia isn’t Phychic or Solgaleo isn’t steel (yet the last one makes some sense)
But Solgaleo is steel
Oh my bad a typing error :p
Oops, probably a typing error.. My bad
I just wanna say that I’m really enjoying using all this HTML in my
spamcomments, so I hope I’m not bugging anyone by using it. I really feel like I can get my point across easier with more emphasis. Plus it’s super fun. xDHow do you do it? I’ve seen Afarr do it a lot.
Here’s a breakdown of this for all our your HTML enjoyment:
Bold: (Remove the spaces) Sun and moon (Sun and moon)
Italics: (Remove the spaces) Sun and moon (Sun and moon)
Strikethrough:(Remove the spaces)The sun and moon anime looks good(The sun and moon anime looks good)———
It’s tedious but it’s fun to use IMO.
hello?
hello
Haha there you go! 😀
I just had thought. What if the gen 8 region was based on Egypt??? so much cultural inspiration
Here are my ideas for regions:
– Canada
– Australia
– SE Asia (Likely not gen 8 though, as Alola is a tropical region)
Canada is a good gen 8.Not tropical. Snowy. 🙂
I agree, but I feel like that’s unlikely. However, if you think about it, it would continue a pattern.
Gen 5 = soft reboot = gen 1
Gen 6 = reboot gen 2
Gen 7 = reboot gen 3 = tropical, like hoenn
Gen 8 = reboot gen 4 = snowy, like sinnoh
Um no. If Gen six is a soft reboot of Gen 2,XY should be burned. They never finished the story. They never explained the neighboring region. Mega Stone history is still in the air.
I think we’re just talking about regions….
Still Johto should not be compared to the trash that is Kalos.
Agreed, actually. All the building blocks were there but the execution fell miserably flat
I really want a region based on Italy. Imagine getting around a Venice-inspired city on a Lapras!
Venice city sounds gorgeous! I can just imagine it now!
Saaame… Or maybe Spain too. But definitely Italy. That would be awesome!!!
Anywhere but Canada…
Oh god the NPCs will be unbearable
Sorry, but what’s wrong with Canadian NPC’s eh?
My natural urge beat people with tennis rackets is rising
I think it’s a South Park reference? 🙁
Yes Australia please!
Maybe gen 9
i have the perfect pokemon
Sanwurm
poison/Ground
a long thin sand snake that strikes from underneath
Into
Servpent
Poison/Ground
a bigger thicker scaled viper with large glassy eyes and forehead jewels that can hypnotize prey
and finally
Pharobra
Poison/Ground
a massive giant serpent (like roughly an Onix in length) with brick like scales, a pyramid shaped rattler and a massive bejeweled hood simiar to king tuts mask and long fangs, it hides under the sands with its jewel poking out that cast mirages to lure prey in
Better idea: don’t fix the region to one inspiration, mash aspects from various cultures. They’ve got aliens from another dimension now, there’s no reason they shouldn’t put a pyramid next to an eiffel tower and a mosque next to a pagoda.
The problem then becomes, you lose that sense of realism. Sure the Pokemon world is fantastical but it still has its roots in culture and nature. Every gen and every region. Mashing everything together would just seem like they’re throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks
And they’re not doing that already with Ultra Beasts coming from a different dimension?
Something I forgot about until now: The Alolan Backpacker from XY
So a few questions arise.
What is the “facility you wouldn’t believe”?
Could it possibly be the battle dome? The aether paradise? Or mabe a battle frontier? (probably just wishful thinking.
Secondly, he mentions that they have “a champion that is something else”
Uggh, the comments sumbit before I was finished.
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Anyway, I wonder what that champion could be? I mean we don’t have a pokemon league, so what could he mean by “champion”?
It’s exciting to think that we’ve been wondering about this for years and here we are three months away! After I finish the game, I’ll ask myself what those things are, if it isn’t clear enough.
IM CALLING IT LILLIE IS THE CHAMP XD
Well I mean, at least it confirms there is a champion. Or maybe… X and Y takes place after Sun and Moon and the champion is US!!!!
Plot twist it’s Oak because he wants to fufill the GRAMPS prophecy
Out of existing characters, my guesses for the Champion are Caitlin and Alain (tho that’s a big reach of course). I do hope that the Champion is an entirely new character tho.
Maybe he means the final trainer after the captains and kahunas?
I thought he was from Hoenn
Nope. He specifically said the region is “not Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, or Unova.”
Pff we all know he’s from that neighboring region that the games were always alluding to, duh! xP
He also said “far away”, so . . .
But…but…the Kalos train!
Maybe. But that train would have to go a far way.
It’s gonna bother me if we never find out where that train goes though.
It goes back to Kalos from Alola 😉
Couriway Town: “The railway brings people from great distances to see the huge, majestic falls.”
“A town connecting differences.”
What is more different than Kalos and Alola? Kalos and Alola are also surely a great distance apart.
Imagine how cool it would be to step off the train in Sun and Moon, and if you click the same bench, you can still find Sycamore’s note. What an easter egg that’d be.
Haha, well it’s possible and would be cool!
The facility he is referring to is likely the Battle Royal facility. But the Battle Frontier is coming back as well, mark my words.
So as for that anime trailer we got today, after XY and Z, I probably won’t watch Sun/Moon. The reason why is because I just feel very satisfied from XYZ and don’t feel like watching Ash go through another region. If I hear it’s very good, then I come back.
Actually I like how the anime style change ,I think this style of animation can add more to pkmn and break some classic stuff …and I think ash will not gonna be boring in this style same as bright furry Pikachu. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1473979730196.jpg
Omg I cannot handle his noodle adventure time arm.
Yeah it’s not a bad kind of art style. It’s just different and as long as the quality stays up people will be fine with it lol
The pikachu on the right at the top is miscolored. Also what is with Ash’s arm in the second to bottom pic? The new anime style is gross no matter how you look at it to me.
Yessssss that arm is atrocious
I like it too… But that could change if they don’t draw the Pokemon flawlessly.
I Hated how they changed Ben 10, if anyone remembers that
I enjoyed Ben 10 Omniverse’s Animation style tho.
It looks so bad tho. Anime is meant to look like real people-ish.
It looks like Spirited Away and for me it’s a good materiel to make active animation reaction.
lol no spirited away is gorgeous and looks nothing like this. its hand drawn frame by frame by master of his craft Hayao Miyazaki and the team at Studio Ghibli. comparing his art to anything from that garbage anime is an insult and absolutely unacceptable.
Be aware while u talking to me I said the animation reaction ( I mean character feeling and movement)+ the pokemons looks very cool …ppl whining about Ash design but it looks like this for me. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ByXuk9QqQkk/maxresdefault.jpg
the anime them though looks like yokai I mean they intent to be creepy a little, I am trying to give u the feeling but I can’t if u have certin idea in ur mind ….humans need to accept the change …is not a bad thing.
I don’t care if its changing the anime was trash before and after the change. and no, the reactions and emotions of the new pokemon anime look cheaply made and “meh who cares” while miyazaki takes the time and effort to make you feel what they feel, just look at the scene of chihiro crying in the garden, or the look of absolute love between nahoko and jiro in “The Wind Rises”. my all time favorite scene in his movies is when marnie and anna are shouting their feelings to one another at the marsh house in “When Marnie Was There”. you feel what these characters are feeling and its beautiful! I’m not trying to make you angry and im not upset I just feel comparing these is like comparing my 3rd grade art project to DaVinci.
I couldn’t tell at first but seeing these compare and contrast images all I have to say is oh no oh no oh no oh no. This new animation style is so noodley and dumbed down. It hurts my eyes. They can’t be serious. The plot line is going to have to be phenomenal for me to get over this drastic style change
Earthen bored….
But there’s no need to post about it. . .
Up yours
Flying/Ground
If you’re bored, any more Fakemon ideas ya got? They’re fun to listen too.
I need a nick name for mandibuzz!
Carryon
…Like Carrion
Buzzkill
Pebbles (Like Pebbles Flintstone)
Tusken (If you liek Star Wars)
Bonekeeper
Vicky
Scavenger
Saharra
Savannah
I like those first 3 a lot.
Buzzkill – the nicknaming is strong with this one
Wishbone
Bones
Deathwind
Nutsy (From Disney’s animated Robin Hood)
La Muerte
Hollow
Scrawk
That’s all I can think of for now.
Manndybuhz
Bone Momma
That ones…uncomfortable if you think about it a bit more
Why is this so funny (rf)
Fear the Fearow, it can be anywhere…
Whoever did this, is a genius.
ngl this made me laugh but wow lysandre actually looks BETTER without all that hair, holy crap! xD