Like Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, the first Generation II games will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS’ Virtual Console! Pokémon Gold and Silver will be available to (re-)purchase on September 22nd! They will feature wireless trading and battling as well as Pokémon Bank support so that you can transfer Pokémon to the latest games!
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Oh who gives a shit
About what? How good it looks in this official artwork? Because I do.
It’s got them weird chicken legs
It’s meant to? It is a bird, what legs would you like it to have?
They just look awkward
at least 4 to 9025 people
I looks so good
It does, I hope it has its shiny form in the game.
Still won’t buy this tbh
Did you buy the WiiU one?
No. Idk, it didn’t grab me. From what I’ve heard it’s a so-so game
Maybe they improved more than just the character roster? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
At least Decidueye is getting some limelight finally!
Never been a fan of pokken’s eerie realistic textures but there’s literally no pokémon I wanted more in the game so I’m absolutely sold. Would rather have been able to get the fighters as Wii U DLC but oh well, I completely understand why they’re doing all these enhanced ports (just thinking of the switch v Wii U install base and the amount of people that will get to discover these awesome games), and this enhanced port actually has new content worth a purchase, unlike Mario Kart.
I think it works really well on Decidueye. I didn’t even really look at what Mario Kart has tbh, because I don’t have money for it anyway.
Tbf it has what looks to be the best battle mode any mk game has ever had (with all the different modes from previous games and a new one) to replace the joke that was Mario Kart 8’s, but apart from that all it has is a few new characters (basically glorified skins) and a few tweaks. No new cups just killed it for me. Call me a sucker but I don’t mind buying switch ports if they actually have exciting new content (read gameplay possibilities). More visual options and a new multiplayer mode are not enough for a full price purchase. Hopefully someday it’s reduced, then I’ll pick it up. That or them releasing new DLC (FFS Ninty the MK8 DLC was phenomenal, not continuing to milk that cow is just bone-headedly stupid-I’M READY TO BUY YOUR PORT TO GET NEW DLC FOR HEAVENS SAKE). Ahem.
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That Donkey Kong tho! XD
This day is just not getting better
I got a call from the bank saying that somebody HAS been using my card, now I gotta get a whole new one and go through the hassle of putting the information into my renewals
FAN FUCKING TASTIC
So, Gen 1 was on VC, then S/M came out and Bank could send Pokemon to it.
Also Gen 1 Pokemon got alolan forms.
So, Gen 2 probably will be able to send pokemon to US/UM.
So it’s possible Gen 2 pokemon can get alolan forms.
Same rules though, ones without evolutions past gen 2, ones without megas, and none of the legends/mythicals. Though theres not many gen 2 in the Alolan dex, so maybe an expansion too.
The Star happiness cycle
Chill > Gets mad/upset about something > Turns into depression > Realizes she’s just unhappy > Sad > Youtube > Chill > repeat
Angry
Angry
Blistering fury
Angry
Pissed
Pissed
Emotional turmoil
Sulking depression
Really hyped> disappointed real quick> thinks heavily> gets really hyped again>forgets about it for awhile> gets disappointed when experiencing it first hand> gets hype again
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After I’ve had some time to think it over, I’m actually pretty hyped for USUM. SM were great games as they were, and given the opportunity to polish and build onto that, I’m sure they’ll be great. That being said, they way that it was presented in the direct was incredibly messy. I understand that GF values the element of suprise, but that doesn’t mean they should’ve been ambiguous on nearly every point, including what the game actually is. Even though E3 is only a week away and we’ll likely hear something about the games then, the way they presented these games created a seemingly negative reaction from a large chunk of the community, and that’s not what they should be aiming for in terms of first impressions.
Overall, I think we really just need to wait and see what these games actually entail before jumping to any major conclusions, but the direct didn’t present the games well at all, and I fear that will hurt them in the long run.
It really was poor the way it was executed. Really doesn’t inspire much and negative reaction is kind of understandable, at least to me.
It felt like an afterthought. It took me a minute to realize they were even talking about a new game
Exactly. The problem is it was tagged on to like 2 minutes of Pokken stuff, then didn’t really tease much.
I’m one of the people defending it by saying it’s just a teaser but even I think the transition should’ve been smoother :/
I think teasing it separately in another video would’ve stood out more.
ARRGGHHHHH THE LOSING STREAK
Do you think it’s a reach to think Zygarde might actually get a role in the story this time around? The rainbow diamonds on these new forms reminds me of Zygarde Complete’s rainbow zigzag.
Also @spectralseraph:disqus my phone could hardly load the comments earlier when we were talking, but I hope they give Team Skull a more integral role in the plot this time around. They didn’t really do anything related to Ultra Space and the Beasts, which the plot should focus on from the get go
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Welcome back!!
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Heyyy Haxford! More fun articles coming!!
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Hey 😀 I returned today too, but I might be more on/off than the last two times I was here
WHY DOES EVERY THING FUCKING BLOW UP IN MY FACE
LOST FIVE MATCHES RUINING MY STREAK AND EVERYTHING IS GETTING WORSE
I really don’t know what to think of Necrunala and Necroleo. The arms on both of these forms just look off. The helmet of Necroleo also looks so weird… I hope I’ll get used to them soon. Definitely will buy this game though! Depends on other factors which one, since Necroleo is making me doubt choosing Sun again. What’s your opinion?
Designs are weird as hell, can’t even argue with that. Not sure if I’ll be buying these until I see some more gameplay, but when has Gamefreak ever disappointed?
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Don’t answer that.
Well they have to fuck up a lot to ruin this generation. I have faith in them that these games will be great, but I doubt they will be exceeding SM.
SM had this feeling to it, not quite perfection, but something that really stuck out from the other games. It reminded me of how in awe I was when I played through Black and White way back when. Maybe it’s the storyline or the atmosphere, but it was just a pleasure to play through. Whatever changes may be made this time around, hopefully that spirit of Alola still shines through it all and makes me want to put 70-80 more hours in.
i want to tho
I feel the exact same, the arms just throw it all off. If they just added the black shields it would be fine, but the arms are just so random. Def dont like either at ll.
I know right… I sometimes wish other people would work at their designing team. I mean I get how hard something like that could be, but how can you just randomly add Necrozma’s arms on the other designs? How high were they?
Maybe when we see them in 3d things will add up. I mean when I first saw Xerneas for example I wasn’t happy, now it’s in my top 3 legendaries.
Tbh Necrozma wings on Solgaleo seem to be trying to invoke a griffin appeal
But tbh the hands are what out me off Lunala a bit :/
I can see that. It’s just that I think the angular design of Necrozma is really ugly and that I feel like they ruined the beautiful designs of Solgaleo and Lunala. They should have added black ‘armor’ and have it incorporated in the body. Just copy-pasting body parts of Necrozma on the designs is just not pretty.
Ehh tbh I think they did the best they could do with the whole ‘Necrozma splits apart to make armor’ gimmick, but I do agree that even some minor edits to it rather than straight pull Necrozma apart + paste could of made them even better
Ok…..I’m home and I’ve watched the USUM trailer in full now that I’m not at work. My thoughts are conflicted…….While there really isn’t any Pokemon game I don’t like (minus many parts of DP lol) I have to say at first glance I’m a little disappointed…….I wish we knew more about the games……while on one hand to some degree it seems different than a regular 3rd game it also has all the hallmarks of one and to me that’s a little sad. When GF stated that they didn’t want to do 3rd version anymore because they were predictable I was really happy. I’d rather not have a game that is basically a better version of one that I played less than a year earlier come out………At that point they should have put more in the original games…….Maybe I’m just jumping to conclusions and USUM will be more interesting than I think they will be. I’m a Pokemon whore so I’ll prolly buy US, but I want myself to WANT to buy it……..lol
I really don’t mean to be negative……hahaha
I understand you. I’m not particularly excited for these just yet. It’s disappointing they would give us an update rather than answer the questions we have with a sequel. But, alas, these are the cards we’ve been dealt and I’ll take something over nothing. I just hope they fix the post game and story.
You’re disappointed, and it’s fine. Your being civil about it and there nothing wrong with that.
Anyone want a battle? We need one more for a Royal
Me
Yep you Seraph we need one more it can be anyone
FUCK I PASSED OUT IM SO SORRY
Its ok we still need one more
I see
I think we all wanted to see Sun and Moon in higher quality graphics and with some of the framerate issues polished up. Emulators have shown that the 3DS quality is compromised in order for the games to actually run, but I think that’s where the root of most people’s problems came from. For me, Battle Royal is practically unplayable and I couldn’t help but feel disappointed when a climactic Totem battle was slowed down tremendously. By bringing these games to Switch, we could’ve seen some of these concepts in a new light… but I guess we’ll have to wait. Unless US/UM are optimized in some way for the New 3DS / New 2DS? I don’t think they have the capability of running the games any better, though.
Tbh I think that GameFreak could always brush up their code to try and get it running a bit smoother, or even choose to represent the Totems at least (seeing as they’re required for story) with a simpler graphic than their elaborate Aura. Like a smaller Aura or something.
Yeah, that would just make for a smoother overall experience. Hopefully USUM aren’t carbon copies in that regard, but we’ll have to see.
Hopefully they’ll be optimised a bit, Platinum was iirc (probs remembering wrong) and a lot of people complained about DPPt’s loading and stuff
Tbh even if they enhance it for N2/3DS, the people who invested in stronger consoles should at least get a bit of a smoother experience :/
Absolutely right. Hopefully these technical changes are addressed prior to launch, because it’s a pressing concern for sure.
To be honest if it makes the switch and Pokémon then either moves onto consoles or hybrids I think the technical issues wouldn’t be too bad, but you’d be sacrificing portable convenience.
Hopefully they’ll keep it on hybrids and handhelds though, but in that case graphics and other technical issues become more worrisome… Hopefully it’s just because the main series crew is still relatively new to full 3D and they grow out of it :/
How would you guys perfect Sun and Moon?
-Battle Frontier
-More Islands for post game
-Less cutscenes in the beginning
-Better maps for the trial areas
-Rework the plot entirely. It was poorly paced.
-Give Team Skull some plot relevance because they pretty much did absolutely nothing.
-We hardly got to know the AF as well…
-Po town revamp in the post game.
Literally, I loved every aspect of the game except:
Team skull relevance
POST GAME
POST GAME
POST GAME
POST GAME
Pretty much. The Ultra Beast capture thing wasn’t all that interesting..
and that was literally it. Besides the Battle Tree…. Which was literally fun for 4 minutes
The main problem with the battle tree is that they hyped it to be this awesome new feature, when it’s just a reskinned battle tower
Which may be fixed
Definitely Battle Frontier, more Team Skull, reworked protagonist animations (dude smiled throughout the whole game and that was annoying), and new Pokemon (evos/pre-evos). I don’t care much about more Z-Moves or Alola Forms, and I think that asking for more islands might be a stretch. It’s still not clear what these games are, though, whether they’re sequels and will revamp the world like BW2 or remakes with few changes like Emerald/Platinum.
I’m really inclined to say they’re sequels because there are two versions…but who knows at the current moment
It would seem unusual to have a PAIR of remakes, so I hope you’re right! I’d love to see Alola in a different light, however that may be. The region definitely felt small to me… new locations might not happen, but a Gym system would be wonderful. Just to add more depth to the actual battling part of the games. The fact that these games are practically driven by the Ultra Beasts, or at least Necrozma, leaves me little hope that Hawaii’s actual culture will be explored, but I can live without that.
Yeah, but at least they seem to be expanding upon the UB’s, which is what I really wanted SM to do
I think there’s tow versions simply because SM has the time difference to deal with. If it was a single game then they’d need to figure out the time difference and that would be messy
Ugh..you’re right. Unless they had an option at the beginning asking if you wanted to start during the day or night. The Day/night feature actually hardly played a part in the story. During the pre-release they made it seem like it’d alter the story, but it really didn’t
Yeah………yeah…..*sigh*……lol
what? Just make it normal time
Yeah, but then for people that played Moon that would make their game’s time irrelevant
There’s always the time flipping feature in the post game at least
Maybe…….I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see what these games are like before coming to any major conclusions.
Tbh the time flipping was so convenient
I think expansion is a better guess tbh but I’m praying sequels XD
– BF
– Better Battle Tree
– Better story (SM story wasn’t that good)
– More Pokemons
– Night route themes
– More post game
– Longer Main quest
– Zygarde with more relevance
Yes, gimme a story with Zygarde! Such a cool pokemon deserves a cool story
Something more than just a plain fetch quest tbh
A cutscene with it fighting something *o*
Zygarde vs. Necrozma
I’d pay to watch that
Ultra-Zygarde 😮
It’s probably fit it more than the Alola legends tbh considering it already has a multicoloured area and black parts
Burn the region to the ground
Dance on its ashes
Forcefully breed the conception of the perfect Ground/Fighting type
Murder everyone and everything
Murder anybody who gets in my way or bests me
If that is what you wish
Just once in my fucking miserable existence I would like hints to go remotely my way
I’d like to choose between Pokeride and route music, since that got old fast.
Yessss
Only thing that I would do is Team Skull. As much as I liked Aether being dark, I wish that it was just only Team Skull and Lusamine uses them to fulfill her goals without Aether knowing.
Tbf, most Aether employees are completely innocent. Most of the ones you fight (or maybe closer to around a half) just seem to be doing their jobs by keeping trainers out when asked to, and there’s plenty of Aether employees around Alola who talk to you perfectly normal, show remorse, had no idea, etc.
Heck, some people called it in game a ‘darkness within Aether’ meaning it wasn’t Aether as a whole
I do get where you’re coming from though. A pure ‘good’ team would be a nice change for once.
I don’t mind it and it makes sense, as well as a great message about how a group can have good and bad people. However, I just felt like it wasn’t done right, you know? Other than Faba, but even with his slightly suspicious moments, still felt off.
a ‘good team’ would be dope, tbh
I just want to know more about both
Kinda just expand these except Team Skull tbh
I liked how they were working for the Aether Foundation, and they did have a role in the plot: they capture Lillie and Nebby, getting them to Lusamine so she could fulfill her plans. But I also liked how for once we didn’t get an evil team centred around a legendary, because I kinda missed that from earlier games.
That’s true, but anyone could have kidnapped Lillie, it seemed rather easy. Maybe just explain their relationship to the AF better?
Build on the relationship between Guzma and Lusamine and I think that’d immediately make it better
Yeah, I would like that a lot. Maybe Guzma help ruin her marriage xD
Pretty sure she thinks Mohn is dead so shes single
I want Mohn to have more story
I’ll Mohn at GameFreak until they give him a story
He just needed a better name than Mohn
I mean have you tried naminf guys after flowers? Nightmare.
That too! I think all we had to establish their relationship was Plumeria saying “See, Guzma… he really likes the president. She’s the only adult who ever seemed to see how strong he was.” and Lillie responding that she only lavishes her love to those who are worthy/useful to her. I kind of wish we saw more, especially between them themselves.
I hope in USUM Team Skull has overruled the Aether Foundation and they ended their bond. They have a new leader who has risen to the top. Alola is a big mess and the Aether Foundation, now run by Gladion, is trying to stop TS from ruining all the touristic hotspots of Alola. Your parents (the heroes from SM) work for the Aether Foundation, but won’t let you help so you decide to destroy TS on your own.
This will never happen…
That would actually make the AF way cooler than what we got!
See, this is where I stand conflicted on what these games actually are. Do they pick up after the events of SM or does it take place in an alternate timeline of sorts? One where Team Skull takes over or Lusamine is nice, etc.
Maybe…just maybe…these games take place in the Alola region but from the other side of Ultra Space. So it’s the Alola of the original RSE timeline.
That’d mean no Megas tho :/
That’s true. This IS complicated
when did pokemon become so complicated jeez
Since they started doing all this alternate dimension crap
Tbh I think it’s a cute nod to why all these remakes, third versions, pairs can exist etc
And I mean it’s not like it’s been super shoved in your face by the games
I hope they pick up where we left, seems more logical to me
IS all of thr above an option?
Battle Frontier Definitely. ned I say my reason?
On that last point, better yet, how about a quest to rebuild Po town? Possibily of your own design?
That’s what I was saying! People seem to like the glum atmosphere though, but I would’ve liked to turn it into a training ground for grunts to take on the trials. I thought that would’ve been nice
On the bright side, we don’t have to wait 9 months for the games to come out! Consider it as already being halfway there 😉
That’s true…….*sniff* lol
23 long fucking weeks
If I don’t die from a heart attack
you got this
Tell that to my skyrocketing blood pressure
So…….when do you think we’ll get our first actual info dump of the games………I wonder what their release schedule will look like. SM’s was pretty packed in the later half of the year
I doubt we’ll get much at E3. They waited rather long to announce these
True. I’d say the next batch of info we get will be next month when the movie comes out.
CoroCoro might reveal the mascots again, but we can expect that to be it. E3 undoubtedly won’t have anything, so around the next movie seems like a good time. Maybe we’ll get another demo dump…
Idk…..this CoroCoro is supposed to focus on Marshadow. I doubt they’ll focus too much on both of them at once
Also, I think it’s kinda neat that GF always seems to defy everyone’s expectations. We think there’s a third game in gen 5? NOPE SEQUELS! Sequels or a third game in gen 6? NOPE! SUN AND MOON INSTEAD. Stars or DP remakes at this direct? THINK AGAIN! We can speculate all we want, but we’re seldom right!
Well…..These technically are Stars. “Stars” was the code name supposedly and while Eurogamer got the Switch part wrong they were right about them being a 3rd version like Yellow
I wouldn’t say that stars was code for USUM. Nothing but it being another addition to gen 7 is correct so far. The major thing about stars was that it was for the switch.
It’s true they didn’t get the whole story correct, but they definitely said in their article that the game they talked about wasn’t actually called “Stars” and that it was in fact it’s production code name. Like how Niji (rainbow) was SM’s code name prior to it’s announcement. Either way I suppose it’s a moot point lol
What article?
The Eurogamer article they released that started the “Stars” rumor. It originally came from them. It was then stated by a few other people. (at least to some degree)
Guys food for thought
What is Zygarde? The order Pokemon that controls an imbalance of the world
Whats wrong in the Pokemon World atm? Necrozma and the Ultra Beasts
So what if Zygarde this time will be relevant due to UB’s becoming worse in the world like Necrozma making Necroleo and Necrala to take over and Zygarde will step in and fight Alongside the Guardians of Alola?!
And then we travel to Kalos 😀
Gen 10:
GUYS WHAT IF ZYGARDE APPEARS TO [insert plot thing from gen 10]
To be fair, this is only a Gen after it was introduced, it’s not that ridiculous
i know but im just kidding. they arent going to do anything with Zygarde though
Ehh I have a slight sliver of hope ;-;
Tapus get Zygarde armour and become all hexagony.
That’s not true
Zygarde monitors and protects the ecosystem
Yet when trouble emerges it will fight the problem to regain the balance
‘The ecosystem’ can include the whole world tho because the world is an ecosystem
I’m not getting my hopes up because so far they’ve treated zygarde with very little care as a shoehorned survivor of cancelled Gen VI plans and GF are just never that clever or concerned with coherent worldbuilding, but this line of thought does have me intrigued. Nah though, I’ll eat my hat if GF don’t just do their usual crazy stuff and leave us to pull at the threads carelessly left hanging.
Oh my god I just remembered maybe we’re getting new Alola forms.
I guess they have to be Kanto Pokemon that can’t be found in SM.
Arbok (Water or Ground)
Vileplume (Grass/Ghost or Grass/Dark)
Dewgong (Water/Grass)
Weezing (Fire)
New actual Pokemon > New Alola forms
Kinda have to agree because the trailer kinda teased us with that XD
Agreed. I didn’t like the Alola forms we got too much
I really doubt we’re getting new Pokemon
The Direct said that we were getting “Pokemon that didn’t appear in Sun and Moon,” but that could be exclusive to the mascots like BW2, it could refer to Alola forms, or new ones altogether.
Could just mean we get something like Glameow, Cherubi, Krabby, etc and not anything actually new.
That’s true :/
I would love to have new stuff though. But it may just go the way of BW2, which worked well there because BW had only new Pokemon, so mixing past gen Pokemon in in the sequels actually felt like some form of progression for the region.
We don’t need any more Grass/Ghosts for now imo.
Water Arcanine lol
They’d probably come from Johto considering that when SM came out, RB were released for the VC and now that USUM are revealed at the same time GS are revealed for the VC, it may be hinting at having Johto Alolan forms instead
Bug Water Butterfree.
Maybe they can include some from other regions.
And actually Hawaii is known for not having any snakes, and they are fairly strict on it and make sure people dont bring them
I don’t think Pokémon already in the Dex will get Aloforms tbh, they could tho if it’s a separate time line tho 😮
Oh Yea I forgot Butterfree is in there. My bad lol
Hey mods, is there anyway to check why its lagging so bad.On my phone and Laptop Disqus barely loads and if it does it goes super slow
@starstorm295:disqus can I call you SM critical
not yet. wait until we get a real trainer then we’ll see
trailer*
Just don’t end up like the actual SU critical lol :p
Which one?
Actual criticism
Or excuses to hate a family show
The ones where Sugar can breath and they’re on it
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Solgaleo and Lunala look like they killed Necrozma and decided to wear it’s skin lol
Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
I think I might go with Sun version. Regular Lunaala is just a lot more pleasant to look at. If they are sequels though I guess I’ll stick with Moon
Tbf if you actually cross your sequels then you have the advantage of getting some Sun exclusive Pokémon you might of otherwise not gotten
If we get new Pokémon or Alo forms that could be a problem tho
yeah but then the story will be screwed up. I got White 2 after getting Black version and it bugged me because Opolucid was totally different, N has MY Reshiram and a bunch of other things
That’s why I got White and then White 2 even though I prefer Zekrom.
Except for Ultra Beasts and Sol/Lun I found everything really easy to trade for. By this I also mean because I could breed them after so they’d have my OT.
Tru