Official Pokémon Discussion Thread

[Jordan]

Pokémon got a Super Bowl commercial.



How does this make you feel?

Violated.

[The Shoemaker]

Pokémon got a Super Bowl commercial.



How does this make you feel?

Violated.

It feels like a commercial for Pokemon Go, but it's not really, so it's kind of weird. Would have been cool if the title was out and there was a Pokemon superbowl event to go along with.

[Kiwi the Tortoise]

[Kong Wen]

Someone mentioned that Nick Offerman should voice Sherlochu if this game is released in the west.

[The Shoemaker]

Gotta love how Pikachu is given grumpy old man facial expressions.

Do we have any idea what the gameplay is like? Game comes out in Japan next week.

[SkyPikachu]

How come superbowl commercials are leaked already?

[The Shoemaker]

How come superbowl commercials are leaked already?

I figured they were just posed, not leaked.

[Claytone]

Sun and Moon confirmed in today's Direct. Very little info, but glad to have an official confirmation of the next games in the series!

There was an interesting line. "They all come together in this game" or something to that effect after the Gen I-VI retrospective. That could just be meant to imply that this will be the best pokemon yet, but it *could* be referring to the rumored Pokémon game that contains all the regions to date. I'm pretty doubtful that that's the case, but it would definitely be cool. Should be interesting to see what that amounts to.

Also neat that the eShop versions of R/B/Y will be Bank compatible. I'm not sure I'll be buying any of those, but it's still a nice feature.

[Kong Wen]

Also neat that the eShop versions of R/B/Y will be Bank compatible. I'm not sure I'll be buying any of those, but it's still a nice feature.

I am halfway tempted to buy one just to see what all the fuss is about, although I'm 90% certain than 90% of the fuss is a "you had to be there at the time" kind of thing.

[Claytone]

Also neat that the eShop versions of R/B/Y will be Bank compatible. I'm not sure I'll be buying any of those, but it's still a nice feature.

I am halfway tempted to buy one just to see what all the fuss is about, although I'm 90% certain than 90% of the fuss is a "you had to be there at the time" kind of thing.

Have you never played any Pokémon game? If you want to start playing Pokémon, there's very little reason to start with RBY. It's significantly worse than its successors in most ways. Still a fine game, but not great. I'm tempted to buy Pokémon Blue, since it was the first video game I ever owned (and I have since lost it), but its value beyond nostalgia is minimal. If you want a good entry point to the series, I'd say Black or White is not a bad place to start. Or even the new ones. There's no need to know much about the preceding games to jump into any of the new ones.

On the other hand, I suppose if you've never played a Pokémon game, it would be better to play RBY first since they only get better and playing any of the others would make it hard to go back to.

And really, at just ten bucks, it's not breaking the bank to give a, if nothing else, significant game series and honest try.