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    Pokémon Black/White

    Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Mar 06, 2011

    Pokémon Black and White are the fifth generation of Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS. Both introduce several new game play innovations to the series including a more complex battle system, fully-animated 3D models and environments, extensive online integration, and a refresh of the entire selection of Pokémon.

    Pokemon's names are in LOWER CASE!

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    Hizang

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    #1  Edited By Hizang

     
    This may seem odd for non Pokemon Fans, but to Pokemon fans I'm sure it is a great relief because before we would have to dea with this... 
     
    You caught GEODUDE! 
    How is your CHARMANDER! doing 
     
    I never quite understood the reasoning for that, but atlast with Pokemon Black/White they come to her senses and start doing things like. 
     
    You got Tehpig! 
     
    Best thing in Pokemon White/Black so far!

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    #2  Edited By Hairy_Fish

    I always forgot that when I nicknamed my Pokemon so its name always looked weird when it was said.

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    #3  Edited By Hizang
    @Hairy_Fish:

    Yeah, thats why I never really nicknamed them in the past as it would look odd
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    #4  Edited By EuanDewar

    Is there really a Pokemon called "Tehpig" or is that just a bad joke?

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    #5  Edited By JoeyRavn
    @EuanDewar said:
    " Is there really a Pokemon called "Tehpig" or is that just a bad joke? "
    No, it's actually "Tepig", but man, it'd be awesome if it was "Tehpig" :P 
     
    Anyway, at fucking last. What I never liked about Pokémon is that it was like my family: always FUCKING SHOUTING EVERYTHING!!
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    #6  Edited By conker
    @EuanDewar said:
    " Is there really a Pokemon called "Tehpig" or is that just a bad joke? "
    Its a bad joke. I think.
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    #7  Edited By craigbo180

    I liked there names in caps. Would you rather catch a zubat or a ZUBAT.
     
    Its nice just for that first catch, I nickname all my pokemon after that anyway.

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    #8  Edited By FluxWaveZ

    Finally.

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    #9  Edited By Hizang

    Oops, I actully thought that was its name, damn, my opinion on Tepig has now lowered...Think I'm going to nickname my Tepig "Tehpig" now

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    #10  Edited By animateria
    @Hizang said:
    "

    Oops, I actully thought that was its name, damn, my opinion on Tepig has now lowered...Think I'm going to nickname my Tepig "Tehpig" now

    "

    The only pokemon I'm naming is Smugleaf. 
     
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    #11  Edited By Fallen189

    This is a big thing!

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    #12  Edited By ToxicAntidote

    So now I've to rename them in uppercase to get it all right again? O.o
     
    Seriously though, it's a great thing that the person who named the Pokémon finally found the Caps Lock key. Only took over twelve years. But hey, this is the year of twelve-years to-make it-right after all.

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    #13  Edited By imsh_pl

    No Caption Provided
    Classic.
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    #15  Edited By jacksukeru

    Thank god, at least I always fixed my main characters name so that it wouldn't look stupid. 
     
    Also, I'm renaming my Tepig into Pignition anyway.

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    #16  Edited By LiquidPrince

    Did Heart Gold and Soul Silver still have the capitalization's?

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    #17  Edited By OllyOxenFree

    Tell me 'bout yo BULBASAUR.

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    #18  Edited By RobotHamster
    @LiquidPrince: I'm pretty sure it did, unless you nicknamed them but by default their names were all caps.
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    #19  Edited By LiquidPrince
    @RobotHamster: I guess I stopped noticing after the original Gold and Silver.
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    #20  Edited By WinterSnowblind

    Diamond & Pearl changed character names, so we no longer had things like "PROF. OAK" but this is the first one to change the actual Pokemon. 
    Not sure why this took so long.  Even if you trade in Pokemon from the old games, they revert to lowercase, so it's not like there's a technical issue.

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    #21  Edited By SpanxMcFranks
    @RockmanBionics said:
    "I'm renaming my Tepig into Pignition anyway. "
    You win Pokemon.
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    #22  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    It's not a huge deal to me but it's good to know they're finally changing it. Having all the Pokemons names in capitals looked kind of sloppy.

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    #23  Edited By iDarktread

    I almost cried *with joy* when I noticed the lower case letters in a game-play the other day. 

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    #24  Edited By unsolvedparadox

    Mixed Case = Must Buy

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    #25  Edited By Enigma777
    @Hizang said:
    " Best thing in Pokemon White/Black so far! "
    It's a pretty sad state of affairs if the greatest innovation in a sequel is the use of a lowercase font. I'd say RIP Pokemon, but that franchise has been dead for years...
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    #26  Edited By TehFlan
    @Enigma777 said:
    " @Hizang said:
    " Best thing in Pokemon White/Black so far! "
    It's a pretty sad state of affairs if the greatest innovation in a sequel is the use of a lowercase font. I'd say RIP Pokemon, but that franchise has been dead for years... "
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
    That's hilarious, dude.
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    #27  Edited By MisterMouse

    groundbreaking! But the thing was often times the pokemon games I played were in Japanese so I never really noticed this.

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    #28  Edited By Enigma777
    @TehFlan: What can I say, I'm a funny guy. 
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    the whole caps lock on the names didnt really bother me.  it actually looked kinda cool when i nicknamed my pokemon cause the names would look different

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    #30  Edited By yinstarrunner

    No Caps-locked names?  NO BUY.
    YOU DONE FUCKED UP, NINTENDO.
    ANOTHER GREAT FRANCHISE RUINED. FUCK!

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    #31  Edited By ajamafalous
    @yinstarrunner said:
    " No Caps-locked names?  NO BUY. YOU DONE FUCKED UP, NINTENDO. ANOTHER GREAT FRANCHISE RUINED. FUCK! "
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    #32  Edited By WEGGLES

    Cancelling my pre-order. Fuck this noise. ALL CAPS FOR LIFE. 

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    #33  Edited By ArbitraryWater

    It's a sad state of things when the most notable change we can talk about in a new Pokemon game is one of capitalization. I'd talk about how them making the exact same game for 12 years now with minor, minor tweaks in each new iteration is bad game design, but it clearly seems to keep on working for Nintendo.

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    #34  Edited By Getz

    HOLY SHIT!

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    #35  Edited By Hizang

    I really don't know what they even did this whole caps lock thing to begin with, I mean WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!

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    #36  Edited By Ursus_Veritas
    @RockmanBionics said:
    " Thank god, at least I always fixed my main characters name so that it wouldn't look stupid.  Also, I'm renaming my Tepig into Pignition anyway. "
    Apparently the 1st evolution of Tepig is called Pignite, so it looks like Gamefreak already had you covered! 
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    #37  Edited By jacksukeru
    @Ursus_Veritas: Well Pignite is no Pignition. Also, I'm not waiting 11 levels for my pokemon to get a decent name, besides, sooner or later it's gonna evolve into Emboar (made me groan) so that's no good. 
     
    Your effort is appreciated though.
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    #38  Edited By Hizang

    You can just nickname them if you dont like there names, Mabey they will go down the routue of having everything in lower case now

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