Pokémon Black/White Landing Stateside Spring 2011

I want a professor named after a bush, just to shake things up. Fingers crossed for professor Mulberry. 

FluxWaveZ:

" @MajorToms said:

" @FluxWaveZ:  Emerald I believe counts as a Green? But if it doesn't does Fire Red/Leaf Green count? "

No, as an emerald is a precious stone, following the conventional nomenclature of the games following Generation I.  FireRed and LeafGreen are called that as they are literal remakes of the first games, which were named after colors.  They're naming the Gen. V games 'Black' and 'White' as they should be considered a renewing of the series; ditching all of the precious stone and metal names (Diamond, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby...) and going back to colors (black and white). "

" But Black and White aren't colors. Hence they're not 'going back' to anything - they're going forward to nothing.It just has this ominous finality.  They've gone through colors, minerals...what's next? What's beyond this? Solid and Liquid? Physical and Metaphysica

" @DonutFever said:

" This is gonna be on 3DS, not 2DS, right. "

2DS. "

" I will definitely get it but damn....those legendaries look bad.  "

" This is gonna be on 3DS, not 2DS, right. "

I love pokemon, its one of my favorite franchises of all time, but these yearly releases are killin me, I dont know if Im gonna end up gettin this one on day one, I still havent completely finished SoulSilver yet.

What are you talking about? There are no Pokemon after the 2nd generation. 

The black one, what kind of question is that?

It's a whole new place, with a brand new attitude, but you still got to catch them all. 
God, I love Pokémon.

I'm gonna wait a year and get pokemon grey.

Zerkom is a pretty dumb name.  Just sayin'.

I'm getting the Black Version that white dragon thing looks so cool.

" Zerkom is a pretty dumb name.  Just sayin'. "

I love how all these arguments are getting so technical. 
IT'S POKEMON MAN.

" Er.., what system is this for?  It says all at the top. "

Them pokemons are starting to look like digimons.

" @MajorToms: But Emerald is primarily a precious stone.  In your mind, you immediately associate it to green, but emeralds come in various other colors as well.  There's no other way to interpret "Red" in any way else than it being the color red.  But, for an emerald, there are blue ones, red ones, yellow ones... I don't know why you solely associate the stone with green.  And for black/white; look at the comments in this thread.  A number of people have said "color" when talking about these two games.  So even if they're not technically or scientifically colors, they are still associated as such by the majority of people.  Black and white are still seen as "colors". "

"It's also not confirmed that these are their English names. "

 Reshiram looks beast im going white but I bet they will call these games Light/dark day/night or yin/yang so Jessey James wont have a heart attack lol just kidding.

" @FluxWaveZ said:

"It's also not confirmed that these are their English names. "

Aside from the fact the names came from the official US website?
It may be the first time a US source has ever revealed a new Pokemon, but they wouldn't have given us the Japanese names. "

hahaha.. they both look like digimon...the white one looks cool, but the black one looks like a cross between a jet engine and a MegaMan Zero boss.

I want the Pokemon White one, he looks awweesome. It would be interesting if the names stay, they are quite... i guess foreign sounding more than fantasy sounding. Zerkom sounds eastern european or russian and Rashiram sounds egyptian or middle-eastern.

Dude... just no. Raving on about pokemon ... instead of red dead redemption... WTF are you?
U had red in 98, and your still loving it.. reading your article makes me feel dirty, or perhaps your just trying too hard to be liked here at GB

I just hope they do something to refresh the standard Pokemon gameplay. It's getting a bit stale. 

I hope they do some new things. I just can't justify spending more money for the same stuff that I've already played several times already. Plus, I think a Pokemon game with a bunch of new systems and refined gameplay kinda sounds awesome. So, I dunno. We'll see.

" Dude... just no. Raving on about pokemon ... instead of red dead redemption... WTF are you? U had red in 98, and your still loving it.. reading your article makes me feel dirty, or perhaps your just trying too hard to be liked here at GB "

Does it really matter anymore. Honestly?

I am still fine with my copy of Pokemon Red.

Reshiram looks cooler, and bad guys wearing white are always more scheming than those in black. 
 
The new pokemon don't seem too terrible, but I really hope they don't add too many more. I'd love it if the only actual new pokemon were just the starters and the legendaries.

Partial to the black one myself cause he looks pretty sleak. More interested in what other graphical additions, but also if they updated the actual gameplay. Kinda been stuck since red/blue.

Pokemon started looking like Digimon a motherfucking LONG time ago.

" @Astras said:

" Dude... just no. Raving on about pokemon ... instead of red dead redemption... WTF are you? U had red in 98, and your still loving it.. reading your article makes me feel dirty, or perhaps your just trying too hard to be liked here at GB "

So instead of given us news about games, you want them to continue talking about an already extremely overrated game?
Aslo, are you aware that Red Dead Redemption is a sequel? "

" Btw, the black one is in white and the white one is in black... because they like to fuck with us :D "

" anyone who picks white over black is racist "

" Reshiram looks cooler, and bad guys wearing white are always more scheming than those in black. "

I'm not sold on the designs, but the art used is a whole lot better than the simplistic "generic anime factory" coloring.

The two Pokemon look way too similar to each other.

I just recently 100%ed my Pearl Pokedex Legit, so yea I'm stoked :D

FFS hurry up and make a console RPG! Handhelds are for chumps!

F*** yeah! I hate that there's another one to buy but I cant wait.

" FFS hurry up and make a console RPG! Handhelds are for chumps! "