Old Pokemon General(RIP)

[Prof Gallows]

I completely neglected to mention the TCG!

I probably mention it way too much, but I do enjoy gloating. I've been playing the TCG ever since I was a kid as well, and I've got a ridiculous collection of cards. Now a days, I don't get around to playing much. The only time I ever get to play is with Andy on the TCGO beta.
A few years ago I entered the Professor Program and was accepted, and that's the reason I changed my username to Prof Gallows.

Though I'm part of other communities completely dedicated to Pokemon, it makes me really happy to see even more people from other communities that enjoy the games and have a past with them.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Making a separate post so everyone will know.

More fake information is being concocted at the moment, and it won't surprise me if it gets spread through the internet before tomorrow.
Just a heads up in case you see some backwater "Pokemon News" site posting it.

 

[SockHead]

My first game was Yellow when I got it for Christmas with the limited edition Pokemon gameboy color.

Spoiler: pic

4 months later I got both Red and Blue for my birthday! My school also had a restriction on bringing gameboys to school, but I did it anyway. I stayed a couple hours after school ended because my parents worked late and that's when a bunch of the kids played their gameboys anyway, so you can say I had a pretty awesome childhood.

 

[Prof Gallows]

I thought that was where I got my GB Color from.

Did you get that one as well Sock?

edit: You edited your post you butt. Now I look like a doofus.

 

[Juicebox]

Pokemon is hands down my favorite series. No game has given me more joy and excitement than any of the Pokemon games, and I'm glad I got to grow up with it from the beginning. I'm sure I'll be playing Pokemon in my retirement home, to gen. 60 and beyond.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Can't even imagine what Pokemon will be like in 20+ years.

We're getting 3D in the new games coming out this year. Maybe sometime in the future there will be some sort of virtual reality type thing. Creative thinking. lol

 

[Sora]

I don't consider the Ranger games canon, and I really think nobody else should. =p

But... they are amazing. I have always enjoyed their stories much more than some of the main games. Anyways, when I said having different Gens at the start, I meant more than 2 or 3 pokemon avalible on the first route, rather more like 5 or 6 to add diversity. In Gen 4 I noticed that in the "haunted" forest there were only like 4 pokemon, what forest has 5 different animals in it? I get that they want to make sure you would find the pkm but I wish they would make it a bit more challenging to find them. The whole rare, unusual, common thing works but I wish they added more common, a few more unusual, and only a tiny amount more of rare to the set base. <- Frantic typing so if it doesn't make sense just ask me.

 

[Prof Gallows]

The Pokemon world works a lot differently than the real world.
Animals are Pokemon. So you're only going to find a few different types in certain areas. This could also apply to the real world, I suppose. Where I live, the forests around me only have around five or so different species not including birds in them.

I'm pretty sure that gen 6 will still have what you're asking for though. I would imagine starting the game and going out to the first route to catch pokemon will yield the new ones and all previous gens typical route 1 pokemon. I get that they won't all be new, but it's still more than usual.

I like how they've done things up to this point. There could be some more diversity in some areas, but again, if you're getting down right into it, there are real world areas like that. And sometimes, like haunted houses, you don't have a lot of pokemon to choose from that you can place there.
So.. say there was a haunted mansion building in gen 6. You wouldn't find a Yamask there because that isn't where Yamask are found. They're ghost types, so it would fit the theme, but the pokemon is unique in the fact that it's only found in the desert.
Just like you wouldn't find a Snowver in the cold storage in B/W. It's an ice pokemon and fits the theme, but there isn't any reason for it to be there.

 

[Sora]

I like how they've done things up to this point. There could be some more diversity in some areas, but again, if you're getting down right into it, there are real world areas like that. And sometimes, like haunted houses, you don't have a lot of pokemon to choose from that you can place there.
So.. say there was a haunted mansion building in gen 6. You wouldn't find a Yamask there because that isn't where Yamask are found. They're ghost types, so it would fit the theme, but the pokemon is unique in the fact that it's only found in the desert.
Just like you wouldn't find a Snowver in the cold storage in B/W. It's an ice pokemon and fits the theme, but there isn't any reason for it to be there.

I also like how they've done that. I hope that with pokemon X and pokemon Y that they make the stories to find them a bit different. I think X should be found in a forest ie: where it was shown, and that Y should be found on a mountain or in the desert. Unlike Gen 4 or 5, these two are NOTHING like each other which I love so much. For the first time, the legendaries may not have a super obvious connection! Palkia and Dialga... super crazy metal dragon beasts that travel between time and space. Garitina, a crazy interloper between time and space. Zekrom and Reshiram... two ulimate dragons used by people of the past. (They're back stories are sort of out of place regarding other Gens) I forgot that new grey dragon b/c I did not play B2/W2.

 

[Prof Gallows]

The dragons were getting a bit old, honestly. They were cool in gen 4, but there really wasn't any need for them to carry over to gen 5 and make even more dragon type legendary pokemon.

I'm not sure what the connection to them could be. Obviously there will be one, but maybe it'll be subtle. They'll play an important role in the region like all other legendary pokemon do, but I really cannot figure in what that could be. I'm also hoping that the legendary pokemon that come along with the two main ones are just as creative.

As far as the story goes, and what role they would play, I'm stumped.

 

[Juicebox]

I'm hoping CoroCoro either leaks the character artwork, or a sneak peak at the evil team. I'd rather have the evil team, but it's still pretty early for them to reveal them. I'm pretty sure they'll show a couple new Pokemon as well, and maybe the legendaries types, but it still might be too early.

 

[Juicebox]

Can't even imagine what Pokemon will be like in 20+ years.

We're getting 3D in the new games coming out this year. Maybe sometime in the future there will be some sort of virtual reality type thing. Creative thinking. lol

Hopefully they bring back the Virtual Boy. That would totally be a big hit.

Just in case you're wondering, I was kidding about the Virtual Boy. Unless it's extremely refined, they should not bring that back for a long while.

 

[Prof Gallows]

Full immersion virtual reality with simulated senses. 8D

 

[Prof Gallows]

Flying/Dark and Steel/Psychic

Calling it now.

 

[Juicebox]

^ I could see it. I would be kind of bummed that they're doing another psychic type legendary, but it's better than dragon I suppose. Besides, dark/flying would be awesome.

 

[Stevey Queen]

Pokemon Yellow was my first game too but I didn't get a pretty Pikachu gameboy, I got a bluish greenish one. I got it on my 6th birthday along with Oracle of Ages. I didn't even know what Pokemon was at the time but it was super fun. I even got to stay home from school and play with my new gameboy color. Eventually I got red and blue from my uncle but I didn't like them as much because it was sort of a downgrade for me and the Pokemon looked weird and different from how they appeared in yellow. Especially Ekans.

 

[oath2order]

^ I could see it. I would be kind of bummed that they're doing another psychic type legendary, but it's better than dragon I suppose. Besides, dark/flying would be awesome.

So tired of dragon, like seriously.

 

[SockHead]

I see them trying stuff like with the AR card in the future. Only instead of only seeing it on the screen you'll actually see a hologram. That'd be so cool. Gamefreak take my idea.

 

[oath2order]

I'm surprised we haven't had some sort of development into holographic games. I mean, they had holographic Tupac, you would think that developing holographic video games would be next.

 

[Hamusuta]

Man. I can't believe it's been fifteen years since I've been playing Pokemon.
So guys. Do you remember when you first played Pokemon, and what game it was?
Mine was wayyyy back in October of 1998. My parents bought me Pokemon Red because I didn't have very many games for my gameboy, and it was new at the time. I completely fell in love with it. I was six at the time, so I didn't really pick up on it completely, but then I got my friend to get it and we found out about link cables. It was great.

Well i'm 13 so unfortunately Pokemon is older than me lmao, but the first game i played was Sapphire and loved it ^_^