Pokémon Black and White announced.

[Dark Scizor]

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/bw/index.html

So yeah. Black and White.

[Mr. Brightside]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Jumps up and down* Black and white!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so freakin excited! Woohoo!

[Master Rudy]

Sorry....had to do it XD
Anyway can someone translate this for us? Also what about a release date? I'm seeing the numbers 4, 15 and 2010 on there. However there's no way in hell that's right.

[Mr. Brightside]

@ Master Rudy: Yeah, this will be the promo song XDD

It is a slightly annoying how some people reacted to this *coughserebiicough* I mean, they are just colours for Pete's sake! It's not all about racism geez...

Maybe the colours refer to the battle of good vs evil.

[shazza]

Seems pretty cool. I really need a DS!

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Siked.

[Charles Legend]

Game Freak

~Charles Legend

[Drago]

Wait, what? I'm confused here.

PS. 3000 lolz

[Austrian ViceMaster Alex]

Any kind of information what kind of games those will be exactly? With just half a year to go till their release (acc. to German PokeWiki) I'm surprised there hasn't been more info on it yet (in case they are the 5th generation games).

[Jeff]

COLORS AGAIN!!!

That is all.

[shazza]

They are shades bro.

[Jeff]

Another thought that came to me. What will the legendaries be like? Are we finally going to get a light type? If so, it's about freakin' time.

[DivineAll]

$5 says that the third bonus version they'll eventually make will be Pokémon Gray.

[Charles Legend]

Wait, what? I'm confused here.

PS. 3000 lolz

Simple I hate Pokémon Black and White. why because the names are lame, I would have much rather they stuck with metals and birthstones then returning to the color names, I mean really it's just plain stupid and so are those two damn foxes for being freaking copycats of Riolu and Lucario!

~Charles Legend

[Jeff]

$5 says that the third bonus version they'll eventually make will be Pokémon Gray.

I say they throw us all off and call the third version Pokémon Sepia.

[Telume]

5 bucks says they'll change the version names when they get to the US

[Jeff]

Pokémon African American and Pokémon Caucasian. I can see it now.

[Phoenixsong]

I don't know, Charles; if the names of recent fangames are anything to go by, the other option is increasingly obscure minerals that no one can pronounce or has even heard of, and that become increasingly less relevant to the pokémon or plot. It reeks of trying too hard. There's something to be said for elegant simplicity.

And anyway, just as with every influx of new Japanese names and what have you, people will (and should) stop caring within a month.

As for a rename... isn't there at least one other game that's actually called Black & White? IIRC it's a game where you're a god raising a creature that rules over a village or something. Point being, they didn't change it and no one seems to have been offended.

[Jeff]

I know that, but I love a good (or even lame) joke.

I for one love the names. Each past generation has tried to one up the previous generation and try to be the ultimate Pokémon games. We had Gold and Silver with not one, but two super-powerful legendaries. Then we had Ruby and Sapphire with three and they controlled the land, sea, and sky. Then came Diamond and Pearl, which had pokemon that controlled time and space as well as one that's pretty much the God of the Pokemon world. It's been stated several times that the legendaries need to go back to basics. Where we were in Generation 2 was ideal, with the legendaries just being based on local legends. With the titles finally going back to colors, we might see just that.

[Phoenixsong]

Wasn't directed at you; actually, I thought that was funny. :p

[Link]

*expects these games to top Dmnd/Prl/Plat*

These better be a break from the traditional pokemon games.

[Drago]

Pokemon Black


Pokemon White

[Charles Legend]

I don't know, Charles; if the names of recent fangames are anything to go by, the other option is increasingly obscure minerals that no one can pronounce or has even heard of, and that become increasingly less relevant to the pokémon or plot. It reeks of trying too hard. There's something to be said for elegant simplicity.

And anyway, just as with every influx of new Japanese names and what have you, people will (and should) stop caring within a month.

As for a rename... isn't there at least one other game that's actually called Black & White? IIRC it's a game where you're a god raising a creature that rules over a village or something. Point being, they didn't change it and no one seems to have been offended.

Oh and do you really think calling them black and white are better then Onyx and Amethyst I hardly think so. Now then depending I'll most likely well end up getting theses when they come out it's just that I fell they have taken things too far by calling them Black and White literally suck when compared to HeartGold and SoulSilver, now then I'm not saying I'm not buying them it's just that Game Freak Frustrates me at times.

BTW here a suggestion Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold / SoulSilver and Black/White should be in a new forum category called DS Generation... just a thought... They are not the Advanced Generation, the are the DS Generation since they can only be played on the DS systems!

~Charles Legend

[Phoenixsong]

But why is simple bad, first of all? And Black and White implies thinking about duality, for one thing. Whether that duality implies light and darkness, good and evil, or something else is yet to be seen, but the names are both not-stupid and can have a lot of potential. Again, I'd rather they pick something simple that is actually relevant than "what mineral/color have we not used yet just because" :B

Of course, without having seen any pokémon other than Zorua and Zoroark, it is entirely possible that something could exist that has an actual relevance to "Amethyst" (nothing will ever be called "Onyx" because onix exists already; it's too similar). But they picked black and white and so I'm sure whatever legendaries or version mascots or whatever else will fit with that and with whatever interpretation of black and white they decide to use. Just wait until you have a chance to see the names in context before passing judgment on them.

[ChobiChibi]

I heard these are being released on the DS, despite the fact that the 3DS will be available by the time of its release. It's kinda odd, since the 3DS is supposed to have all those 3D features that Nintendo aren't exploiting that for a new series of Pokemon... I know I'd consider buying the 3DS just to play new Pokemon...

(Dear Nintendo, I'm not complaining, please don't release Pokemon Black and White on the 3DS, for I am quite content to play it on my normal DS. Thank you very much, your loyal fan, Becki)

[Jeff]

Pokemon Black


Pokemon White

So tempted to put them in the BW theme I'm working on for the site...

[Ultimate Charizard]

End debate

[Telume]

UC made me lol

I don't know, Charles; if the names of recent fangames are anything to go by, the other option is increasingly obscure minerals that no one can pronounce or has even heard of, and that become increasingly less relevant to the pokémon or plot. It reeks of trying too hard. There's something to be said for elegant simplicity.

And anyway, just as with every influx of new Japanese names and what have you, people will (and should) stop caring within a month.

As for a rename... isn't there at least one other game that's actually called Black & White? IIRC it's a game where you're a god raising a creature that rules over a village or something. Point being, they didn't change it and no one seems to have been offended.

You obviously missed the joke I was trying to make.

[Phoenixsong]

Possibly, but I wasn't directly responding to you, either. It was a general statement about the people who are up in arms over the names.

[Telume]

Oh, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding then.

[Master Rudy]

XD Gav won the thread with his pic of Fifty and Slim XD

[Telume]

Forget the thread dude, he won internets

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Did someone say 'translate'?



I'll look up for the smaller text later, but it may be hard to figure it out.

[Master Rudy]

Thank you Mika. I just kept getting transfixed on that 4/15 and saying "no way in hell it's releasing then" XD

[Jeff]

Nice, so we'll be finding out more soon. Also Pokemon Sunday is in about 12 hours, so maybe there will be something then too, and we also have the CoroCoro leak to look forward to. Finally some real news on these games!

Edit: Screenshots!

[Drago]

End debate

Debate ended INDEED. x1,000,000.
So what I don't get is, have we known about these games at all before this point? I'm just not quite fathoming how they've been able to keep this under wraps for so long, considering it's hitting Japan in something like 5 days (??!!)

Not exactly a grand-scale advertising campaign. It's like HG/SS was the big thing, and these are just an after-thought... Meh.

[Jeff]

April 15th is just when they'll have the next announcement, the games aren't coming out until September-November, sometime around then.

[Drago]

Ah, righteous. That's better.

[Starry Might]

I've already seen the "CoroCoro" scans earlier...looks interesting!

I can already tell that it looks like they've nixed the Pokemon-following-you-thing, though...there's probably a good reason for it, but I like that feature in "HeartGold/SoulSilver", and was hoping they'd keep it in these games. Oh well.

BTW, the new female hero kinda reminds me of Dawn (judging from her overworld sprite, at least). Anyone else think that?

It is a slightly annoying how some people reacted to this *coughserebiicough* I mean, they are just colours for Pete's sake! It's not all about racism geez...

Maybe the colours refer to the battle of good vs evil.

Really? Oh boy...

$5 says that the third bonus version they'll eventually make will be Pokémon Gray.

Dang, you beat me to it! (LOL )

I say they throw us all off and call the third version Pokémon Sepia.

Hey, that would actually be cool!

Anyhow, hopefully "Pokemon Sunday" will reveal more soon!

[Charles Legend]

Like I said Pokemon Black and White are so freaking stupid... yeah combining the Pokemon center and PokéMart real smart. also I dislike this new 3Dish tile set, also the overworld sprites look stupid, also I dislike the new battle system. -_-;

Despite that I'm sure ones we know more then two pokemon I'll most likely find some I like and some I hate.

~Charles Legend