If You Love Rumors, That’s OK

I’m re-tooling this post a bit. Some people and outlets decried the coverage of the fake starters yesterday for not being reasonably believable or not 100% confirmed. I would argue though that reading about interesting stuff can be fun, especially when you’re covering a game intended for a primarily adolescent audience. Everyone needs a break from the stresses of life, why fuss over gaming news. Let’s just have fun and enjoy it.

As long as rumors or suspect information is clearly marked as such I think we can enjoy it without shame. No worries, we won’t stop covering them.

Have a good weekend everyone!

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  2. February: Zeraora reveal (plenty of movie Pokemon revealed in Feb)

    March: Titles revealed for new game, may be XY style with starters and legends but could just be SuMo style with a title and some concepts (like Pikipek)

    June: E3, which will be our first large infodump post-reveal for the new game (3 months after the reveal)

    -XY was revealed on the 8th of January and we didn’t get any significant info (Sylveon and ‘Awakened Mewtwo’ were revealed in February and April but neither had any significant information) after the initial trailer until 12th~ May (a bit earlier actually, but that was a CoroCoro leak) when CoroCoro revealed Fletchling, Helioptile, Gogoat and Pancham. This was a four month space between reveal and first info dump.

    -SuMo was revealed with very little info on the 26th of February and we saw nothing until the 10th of May (when the starters were revealed, as well as the legends without their type or name). This was a smaller (3 month gap) but SuMo had significantly far less information than XY at reveal, and it took SuMo three months to give us the amount of info XY gave us at release.

    December Launch, nine months after the game is revealed.

    – XY was revealed January, launched October (9 months)
    – SuMo was revealed February, launched November (9 months)

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      • If the game is coming out 2018 revealing it later isn’t going to change that lol

        March is nowhere near as profitable as Autumn. Which is why nearly every Pokemon game has launched in Autumn. Holiday sales.

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          • I don’t think they feel unfinished, I feel like it was just poor design. The reason Ula’ula feels the smallest is because it has the least amount of settlements sans Poni, but because Poni is designed to be the smallest and wildest it actually fits. Whereas we’re told Ula’ula is the biggest but 2/3 settlements are destroyed.

          • Yeah, Ula’ula had a lot of optional areas: the desert, there was a beach (at least in SM, that’s why I forgot Bruxish existed), the cave was incredibly easy to get through, the sanitation center, maybe even the power plant. You didn’t even have to fool around on Mount Hokulani, just hit the observatory and leave.

            I mean, you barely needed to go through half of it.

          • I suppose poorly designed is a better word. It’s a shame because I think th observatory and Malie City are pretty good, but after that it’s just kind of trash

    • Seems like just yesterday that CoroCoro leaked a tiny blurry picture of the Rockruff standing around in Iki Town, and now I have a stuffed Rockruff 6 feet from me. Ah, memories!

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    • I can see this happening. That said I hope they do x and y style with the reveal to an extent at least. I just want to see the starters and cover legends lol

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  3. Cheating on my wonderlocke. Miltank died to some random Gumshoos while I was training up a Gengar (who is destined to die anyway from those frail ass defenses and removal of levitate). Miltank just deserves a better death. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  4. Greetings, my dudes. I have been gone for months bc I got a smartphone and started playing Pokemon GO. I’m on Team Instinct and about level 24! Picked Bulbasaur, of course.

    Also, I just saw that Bayonetta games are coming to Switch so I decided to save up for one since the original one is my all-time fave non-pokemon game! I played

    But that’s going to be hard bc I got a full time job, which I was unceremoniously laid off / possibly lowkey fired from after one month!

    I still haven’t finished Ultra Sun (made it to Ula Ula)!

    And I felt like everything needed an exclamation point!

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    • I have also resubmerged myself back into Pokémon Go. I’m on Team Valor and I’m level 33. Try to see if there are Facebook groups (or other social media) that play GO in your area. I am having much more of a blast tackling raids that I couldn’t do before-the harder Rare raids and the Legendary Raid. I even got a Kyogre. Also I haven’t finished Ultra Moon yet. I am about to take on Hapu.

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    • Most likely. There’s always been a pattern for every new generation of Pokémon on a new console that there will be a remake.
      For example:
      – Gen 3 was the first gen (only one) on the GBA, which had FRLG
      – Gen 4 was the first gen on the DS, which had HGSS
      – Gen 6 was the first gen on the 3DS, which had ORAS

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    • I just want it to be Platinum…I hope Gamefreak knows that’s what we want. Not Diamond and Pearl with a predictably disappointing Giratina post game episode.

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      • I feel like if Gen 8 is one game then they might do. But lets face it they’ll do what ultimately makes them more money which will unfortunately likely be the 2 versions. If they did just remake Platinum then I think it would actually sell more as a remake since it’d likely be better but I’m not a business person.

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  5. This is the reason why Pokéjungle will always hold a special spot in my heart. PJ always remembers that Pokémon is about having fun! Don’t ever change!

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  6. I already got all 16 badges in Crystal…I forgot how easy that is. Now I think I may soft-reset for a shiny Kanto starter before going for shiny Celebi sometime in the distant future. I’ll need to level up considerably in order to beat Red anyway, so that will have to wait.

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    • I bet you they’ll add some kind of Pokeball customization feature in the Gen 8 games. Notice how every major Nintendo game on Switch has some kind of focus on customization.

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    • Looks like an upgraded Lure Ball. That’d be really cool if every Poke Ball variant had an ‘Ultra Ball’ level upgrade (because the common Poke Ball is the basis for all fo them) that you could forge

      And it’d be expensive (in-game) to do but you could go Premier Ball > Cherish Ball > Master Ball

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      • Isn’t the cherish ball like an event Master ball? Maybe in the Sinnoh remakes you have to use this feature to upgrade your Master ball to a Cherish ball so you can catch Arceus

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        • Well it’s subject to change, but if you hack a Cherish Ball in it’s just a normal catch modifier so I think it’d either come before the Master Ball or be separate from it.

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          • Oh, That makes sense. I didn’t quite understand how the Cherish ball works. Maybe there could be gen 2 regional variants and like Oak, Kurt could have a regional form where he upgrades Pokeballs…

  7. Results of that interest form thing I put earlier

    Region that embodies PJN the best
    37.5% – Unova
    37.5% – Johto
    25% – Kanto & Johto (Including the Sevii Islands)

    Favourite Region
    37.5% – Sinnoh
    37.5% – Johto
    25% – Unova

    The ‘Main Character’ of PJN
    3 Votes for Earthen
    2 Votes for Star
    2 Votes for Seraph

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    • Me, ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages ago

      It was actually inbetween SuMo release and USUM announcement so not even a full year but God was that a slow year for the jungle

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        • I was never really ‘on it’, it’s mostly just hypotheticals that get good responses but I never follow up on it.

          If you want to do your own version of a PJN based story, go for it. Just make sure the people involved want to be portrayed

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  8. Parts of me want to make a Trainersona Mono Ground team consisting of only my all time favorites…but narrowing it down isn’t easy

    Rhyperior
    Excadrill
    Hippowdon
    Garchomp
    Donphan
    Sandslash
    Nidoking
    Mamoswine
    Marowak
    Golurk

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