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Important new Pokemon announcement coming on Jan 8 [Up: Hyped By NA Twitter]
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Deleted member 17706
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Next Pokémon movie has already been announced and shown off a bit. Considering how much this is getting hyped up by The Pokémon Company and Masuda-san, I think it's safe to assume it's something big.
ColtraineGF
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No chance - if Masuda is on board the international hype train, it's game-related.
They already revealed the movie for 2013 and they revealed a trailer last month. I'm not expecting them to go all out and announce a new game but I think we may get a new Pokemon.
ColtraineGF
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Of that... I don't think we'll see it before spring 2014, if it comes to Japan in September. Unless they've increased their staffing and such that allows them to work on all the versions at the same time (I think I've read that they've switched to doing the euro languages off the Japanese script, rather than the English one), I don't think they can reduce that 6 month turnaround time to less than 2 months that easily. It would be awesome, but maybe not until they become bigger than they are now.
ColtraineGF
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That's true, but most of the work for that game was done already in BW - it's not clear if that can be carried over to the main games.
Now that I think about it the new games aren't going to come out before the movie since its a Best Wishes movie and the new anime is going to start the same time as the games release. This means that we won't be seeing the new games until around September and Gamefreak isn't going to announce the games 8 months early and will instead wait until April like they usually do.
I'm 100% convinced that we are getting something 6th gen related but not the actual games.
I'm 100% convinced that we are getting something 6th gen related but not the actual games.
I have a feeling they'd get called out & painted as extremely lazy if they went with the Pokédex 3D models and called it a day. It may work for spinoffs but new generations are to be treated as major new games! They gotta go with something new & not seen before as opposed to what we've already seen for the past couple years.
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They games have never been actually translated into Dutch, have they?
Nothing I've seen on the 3DS indicates that the system would be able to handle those 3D models at that quality if more than one or two were shown on the screen at any given time. The Pokédex 3D models are of a very high quality.
BuggyDClown
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What, a handheld true pokemon game with new mons and 3D models is certainly some I've never seen before.
What are you talking about? The 3D Pokemon models look great, and have yet to be featured in a main handheld title.
The models in Pokedex 3D Pro are great. Plus, they currently only have one animation each (two animations for Reshiram and Zekrom). Using the models in Gen VI would allow them to add different animations for their different moves. No small feat, and it'd provide plenty of freshness. And then of course there'll be all the new models for the new Pokemon.
Exterminieren
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Black and White were announced (vaguely) in January.
This is game freak we're talking about. Graphically, they haven't caught up to Pokemon Stadium for the N64 yet.
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ScraftyDevil
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JordanN
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Yeah, I don't get it either. The models aren't from any last gen console, they were built around 3DS specs (as evident with pokemon such as Eelektross that clearly sports EMBM bumpmapping). Textures are also very high res too.
I think the textures are fine, but they might have to drop the polycount and self shadows completely for an actual game situation.
StreetsAhead
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Yeah, I've come to grips with the fact that whenever PKMN jumped to the 3DS, sprites probably wouldn't make the jump.
Still, I'll miss them all the same. 2D worked just as well with the PKMN series as it did with the Mother series.
But anyway, I wouldn't mind so much if the rumors came to pass.
I wouldn't assume that the look of the towns and fields will change all that much. After all, the grid-based "steps" are kind of a big deal in these games.
JordanN
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Pretty sure the same models are used in the new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon like that.
They look low res but it's kinda hard to tell because the camera is so zoomed out.
ColtraineGF
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Dex 3D showed off up to 6 Pokemon on screen at the same time (through AR). So they could easily manage triple battles at least.
StreetsAhead
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That's what I mean - I think they are the same models, just at a lower polycount with no self-shadow.
Exterminieren
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That's my main concern. Colosseum's battles were outrageously slow.
MrCookiepants
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The battles are already too slow for my liking. I hope they don't pad them further with pointless animations and camera work.
You could probably turn off animations like you can in the current engine.
Well that would be pretty boring if we got fully polygonal monsters and no cinematic flair whatsoever. If possible I'd rather like to turn that stuff on for key battles like those against your rival or gym leaders.
And keep everything else moving at a steadier clip. Customization is good.
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The vast majority of games aren't translated here and I'm not too sad about that. This gen had some major releases like Uncharted and the AC games translated but I didn't play those versions.
viciouskillersquirrel
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You shouldn't have to. BW at least had the animation and the text scrolling simultaneously.
Waiting for the text to scroll then waiting for the animation to start was a big part of the reason prior gens had slower battles though. That and the "It's raining" and "Pidgey is hurt by poison" repeating messages.
What if it's a reboot?
What about Asia? Asia ≠ Japan.Thats Europe. What about Africa, South America and Australia?
ColtraineGF
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What if, after beating the League, you find out that the games took place in Poke-New Jersey, and after you beat the E4, you take your first steps into Unova
ColtraineGF
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G6 Game titles, box legendaries, vague release date. All on 3DS.
I know that this gen has been all about ignoring patterns, but it seems like it's every other generation that serves as the "reboot". R/S were to an extent, and B/W most definitely were, while G/S and D/P were all about expanding on older Pokemon.
We'll see, though. Anything can happen.
Sigismundo
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Gen 6 announcement with random Pokémon relevant to the next movie.
ColtraineGF
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To guess a solid release date: September 2013 for Japan, May 2014 for US, with dates for other countries close behind.
Exterminieren
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Gen VI announcement, with names, launch window and maybe mascots.
PataHikari
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Nah it's the other way around.
Black and White was a pseudo reboot, starting in a region with no new Pokemon and having a slight "Back to basics" feel.
Ruby and Sapphire was a true reboot. The entire way Pokemon existed in the data changed. A whole lot of stuff was changed and uprooted. Also not all Pokemon were even available when Generation III was first released. Plus there's the whole fact that the three versions of Generation three are Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Gemstones that are.... Red, Blue, and Green.
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