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    Pikachu315111

    [1461]Nov 21, 2010
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    SPDShadowRanger wrote:


    Judging without knowing. It's based on a Japanese God. It's kind of dumb for you to be complaining when you don't even know what some of them are based on and your complaining about a candle and ice cream cone when the first four generation had some simple designs too.



    Though when I have time I'll go through the new artwork, right now I'll pop in and say the only thing that really annoys me is that for a region based on New York they have a lot of Asain things yet very little American things. It felt like the Pokemon creators weren't told this new region was based on New York or the decision to make the region based on New York came later once a lot of the new Pokemon were created (or a third option they didn't care if it was based on New York, since they were familiar with their own culture, myths, and legends they remained with creating Pokemon based on that). Where is all of America's cryptos made into Pokemon? Big Foot/Sasquatch, Jackalope, Chupacabra, not to mention all the Native American myths you could have used!

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    lostfan111

    [1462]Nov 21, 2010
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    SPDShadowRanger wrote:


    Judging without knowing. It's based on a Japanese God. It's kind of dumb for you to be complaining when you don't even know what some of them are based on and your complaining about a candle and ice cream cone when the first four generation had some simple designs too.



    It's moronic of you to think some people would look at these designs and be like OMG! THZY SO COOLZ AND PRUTTY


    What "God" is that thing supposed to represent?


    And like I mentioned before, I didn't like a few of the previous generations either.

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    Pikachu315111

    [1463]Nov 22, 2010
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    lostfan111 wrote:


    SPDShadowRanger wrote:


    Judging without knowing. It's based on a Japanese God. It's kind of dumb for you to be complaining when you don't even know what some of them are based on and your complaining about a candle and ice cream cone when the first four generation had some simple designs too.



    It's moronic of you to think some people would look at these designs and be like OMG! THZY SO COOLZ AND PRUTTY


    What "God" is that thing supposed to represent?


    And like I mentioned before, I didn't like a few of the previous generations either.



    Just because YOU don't like them doesn't mean EVERYONE won't. There is not one Generation V Pokemon you like?


    And yes, the "Kami Trio" (Tornelos, Voltolos, & Landlos), are based on Japanses Gods. Tornelos is based on Fujin, Voltolos is based on Raijin, and Landlos is based on Inari.

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    SPDShadowRanger

    [1464]Nov 22, 2010
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    lostfan111 wrote:


    SPDShadowRanger wrote:


    Judging without knowing. It's based on a Japanese God. It's kind of dumb for you to be complaining when you don't even know what some of them are based on and your complaining about a candle and ice cream cone when the first four generation had some simple designs too.



    It's moronic of you to think some people would look at these designs and be like OMG! THZY SO COOLZ AND PRUTTY


    What "God" is that thing supposed to represent?


    And like I mentioned before, I didn't like a few of the previous generations either.


    WTF are you even talking about. I never mentioned anything regarding that so that statement came out of nowhere and makes no sense. Why don't you look something up for once instead of ****ing Its the Fertility God, hence Fertility Pokemon. And once again, you fail to even give examples about which ones you think are bad.

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    edmasterchaos

    [1465]Nov 22, 2010
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    lostfan111 wrote:


    SPDShadowRanger wrote:


    Judging without knowing. It's based on a Japanese God. It's kind of dumb for you to be complaining when you don't even know what some of them are based on and your complaining about a candle and ice cream cone when the first four generation had some simple designs too.



    It's moronic of you to think some people would look at these designs and be like OMG! THZY SO COOLZ AND PRUTTY


    What "God" is that thing supposed to represent?


    And like I mentioned before, I didn't like a few of the previous generations either.


    And your opinion on the subjective matter of good looking pokemon means something remotely close to relevant to everyone else's opinion on how good these pokemon look, why?


    the heck is Prutty?

    Edited on 11/22/2010 8:04am
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    lostfan111

    [1466]Nov 22, 2010
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    Pikachu315111 wrote:


    Just because YOU don't like them doesn't mean EVERYONE won't. There is not one Generation V Pokemon you like?


    And yes, the "Kami Trio" (Tornelos, Voltolos, & Landlos), are based on Japanses Gods. Tornelos is based on Fujin, Voltolos is based on Raijin, and Landlos is based on Inari.



    Thanks for the images Pikachu. It makes some of the Pkm images look a little less disgusting.



    Problem is, there's a large amount of people complaining about V5. Some of them aren't bad but there's a mass amount of ones that look horrible. Don't you think the artists rushed with V5?



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    edmasterchaos

    [1467]Nov 22, 2010
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    Here's the thing, what a huge fanbase thinks doesn't matter to me or most other fans, fanbases are horrible things some times, look at Sonic's fanbase, those creepy furries... so, if they complain, good for them.


    As far as Gen V pokemon go, some took time to get used to, some aren't that good, but there's a chunk of them that look really awesome and have the stats to back up their cool looks, so that's really good and overall i like what i see in this generation.


    SPECIALLY THAT GHOST MECHA THING THAT CAN FLY *3* AND THE ICE CREAM. AND THE SPIDER. AND THAT MEGAMAN BOSS LOL. AND THE PURE DRAGON. AND THE DARK DRAGON. AND THE POLAR BEAR. AND THAT ICE FACE. AND THE EAGLE. AND THE NINJA-BUG. AND THE ALIEN. AND many more.

    Edited on 11/22/2010 8:55am
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    lostfan111

    [1468]Nov 22, 2010
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    edmasterchaos wrote:
    Here's the thing, what a huge fanbase thinks doesn't matter to me or most other fans, fanbases are horrible things some times, look at Sonic's fanbase, those creepy furries... so, if they complain, good for them. As far as V5 goes, some took time to get used to, some aren't that good, but there's a chunk of them that look really awesome and have the stats to back up their cool looks, so that's really good.


    But isn't that a problem when a huge fanbase hates some of the concept/design of V5?


    I think your more looking at of it from the competitive stand of view. There's a large amount of people who might just watch the anime and just look at the designs and think, "Oh, what crap is that" without going into detail about stats and such.

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    edmasterchaos

    [1469]Nov 22, 2010
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    lostfan111 wrote:


    edmasterchaos wrote:
    Here's the thing, what a huge fanbase thinks doesn't matter to me or most other fans, fanbases are horrible things some times, look at Sonic's fanbase, those creepy furries... so, if they complain, good for them. As far as V5 goes, some took time to get used to, some aren't that good, but there's a chunk of them that look really awesome and have the stats to back up their cool looks, so that's really good.


    But isn't that a problem when a huge fanbase hates some of the concept/design of V5?


    I think your more looking at of it from the competitive stand of view. There's a large amount of people who might just watch the anime and just look at the designs and think, "Oh, what crap is that" without going into detail about stats and such.


    If they think the anime is the key point of the franchise and decide not to buy games because of that, then, i will need to find a way to care less, which will be very hard given how little i will care.


    Pokemon is a juggernaut franchise, you don't need to worry about it stopping because a fanbase cries that the new games suck, you'll see in march how the games break some records, again.

    Edited on 11/22/2010 9:09am
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    lostfan111

    [1470]Nov 22, 2010
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    edmasterchaos wrote:


    Pokemon is a juggernaut franchise, you don't need to worry about it stopping because a fanbase cries that the new games suck, you'll see in march how the games break some records, again.



    Don't you think they're "disconnecting" their ties to the new verison. The designs/style are just so off that it seems they're trying to rush into ending it. I mean, they didn't even including any pre-evos/evolutions!

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    edmasterchaos

    [1471]Nov 22, 2010
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    *facepalm* the lack of oak, the fact that this takes place very damn far from any other regions and all the other ads of this adventure being like playing pokemon for the first time didn't give away the fact that this is supposed to be different to the others yet familiar?
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    lostfan111

    [1472]Nov 22, 2010
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    edmasterchaos wrote:
    *facepalm* the lack of oak, the fact that this takes place very damn far from any other regions and all the other ads of this adventure being like playing pokemon for the first time didn't give away the fact that this is supposed to be different to the others yet familiar?


    I'm talking about the concept of the games meaning the designs/drawings. Just because it's far away doesn't mean they needed to make an Ice Cream pokemon. Speaking of which, can you eat it?

    Edited on 11/22/2010 9:32am
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    BAC510

    [1473]Nov 22, 2010
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    lostfan111 wrote:


    edmasterchaos wrote:
    *facepalm* the lack of oak, the fact that this takes place very damn far from any other regions and all the other ads of this adventure being like playing pokemon for the first time didn't give away the fact that this is supposed to be different to the others yet familiar?


    I'm talking about the concept of the games meaning the designs/drawings. Just because it's far away doesn't mean they needed to make an Ice Cream pokemon. Speaking of which, can you eat it?



    I am sure you can eat them.... fried Magikarp anyone?

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    edmasterchaos

    [1474]Nov 22, 2010
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    Your only food is lemonades. AND THERE ARE NO BATHROOMS.
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    Shiny_missingno

    [1475]Nov 22, 2010
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    SNIVY


    TEPIG


    OSHAWAT


    ISSHU IS NOW UNOVA


    lame...

    Edited on 11/22/2010 3:11pm
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    lostfan111

    [1476]Nov 22, 2010
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    Shiny_missingno wrote:


    SNIVY


    TEPIG


    OSHAWAT


    ISSHU IS NOW UNOVA


    lame...




    It was from the beginning!!!!! Har...... Har



    But yea. Aside from Snivy, the other names suck.

    Edited on 11/22/2010 3:25pm
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    crzyazn_9399

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    Wow. I must say that I'm shocked at these names. Perhaps I had high expectations... But I can tell Snivy and Oshawott will grow on me (although they are a bit odd). Tepig is just sad. Not too thrilled about the region being named Unova either, but whatever.

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    Pikachu315111

    [1478]Nov 22, 2010
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    Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott? Isshu is now Unova? Zekrom is the Deep Black Pokemon and Reshiram the Vast White Pokemon?


    I'm sorry translation/international team, but this isn't flying with me:


    1. The Starter's names don't sound right, Snivy and Tepig sound (and look) too short and Oshawott sounds like a Japanese name!
    2. This is the first major name change done to a region, all the other region's names have either been a direct translation or a close enough translation, why completely change the names now? That aside, where did they get Unova from? I mean I would have sort understood if the name change was made to it sounded like New York or America, but if they are going to make it sound just as foreign as Isshu, then just keep it as Isshu.
    3. I guess the changing of Zekrom and Reshiram's species is due to Yin and Yang are somewhat a religious symbol (though it's more of a philosophy), though the whole part of the game involving Zekrom and Reshiram is a clear reference to yin and yang.


    All I can say now is that this is a big disappointment, hopefully the evolutions names will be better as well as the other Pokemon's names.

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    edmasterchaos

    [1479]Nov 22, 2010
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    Pignite, Smugleaf and Wotter. Until i play so damn much that the actual U.S. names are imprinted in my mind i will think of those three with the fan names.

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    Pikachu315111

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    edmasterchaos wrote:


    Pignite, Smugleaf and Wotter. Until i play so damn much that the actual U.S. names are imprinted in my mind i will think of those three with the fan names.



    I was actually hoping Pignite would be it, though I thought they could come up with something better then Smugleaf and Wotter.

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