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Namco Bandai's Making a Pokemon Fighting Game

Pokken Tournament's headed to Japanese arcades next year. Will it come to Wii U? No idea.

Aug. 26 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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Pokkén Tournament

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The textures on the Pokemon themselves looks weird to me.

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I don't see how it will be released for arcades and not on Nintendo's home console, that's almost as unthinkable as a Mario or Zelda coming to the Xbone or PS4.

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@rowr said:

@supersambo said:

@rowr said:

Umm so they can collaborate with the property to make a shitty arcade fighting game but they can't make a fucking pokemon mmo or something exciting for the freaking Nintendo console?

As soon as I saw a pokemon I didn't recognise from the orginial 150 I lost any interest I might have had anyway. The pokemon in the subsequent games are so goddam stupid.

All the pokemon are stupid, you just grew up with the 150.

Well sure all stupid to a degree, but i've recently replayed some pokemon and played some of the newer ones on my Nvidia Shield, and the newer games and pokemon are infinitely stupider.

1. You try thinking of over 700 unique designs for creatures - see how quickly the well runs dry.

2. Yes, some of them are infinitely stupider, but you're comparing 150 to over 500 others. Obviously there will be more duds in a sample of 500 than in a sample of 150 (which already has its share of lazy design).

3. A Pokemon MMO sounds abysmal, and I'm not sure in what universe it would be a good idea. At least a fighting game sounds like it has some *literal* excitement to it.

1. Putting things in a numbered format doesn't make your points seem any more valid.

2. Everyone has been asking for a Pokemon MMO since forever.Any adventure related pokemon theme game has to be better than an arcade fighter for this genre.

3. I wasn't counting the duds as a whole from a larger pool, i don't think I indicated that i was? The pokemon in general across the board are retarded in the later games.

4. I honestly don't care enough that i'll pursue this conversation any further.

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so since it's a Tekken game, which pokemon is getting thrown in a volcano?

Magmar, and it already happened in the cartoon, so technically this will be this game's opening cutscene:

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Oh man, too bad this is from the tekken dudes. I can't stand 3d fighting games.

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I don't want it, but it's a good idea. People still fuckin' love Pokemon according to the sales figures, and most of them are kids, who are more likely to have siblings/nearby friends to play local multiplayer with.

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@rowr said:

@supersambo said:

@rowr said:

Umm so they can collaborate with the property to make a shitty arcade fighting game but they can't make a fucking pokemon mmo or something exciting for the freaking Nintendo console?

As soon as I saw a pokemon I didn't recognise from the orginial 150 I lost any interest I might have had anyway. The pokemon in the subsequent games are so goddam stupid.

All the pokemon are stupid, you just grew up with the 150.

Well sure all stupid to a degree, but i've recently replayed some pokemon and played some of the newer ones on my Nvidia Shield, and the newer games and pokemon are infinitely stupider.

1. You try thinking of over 700 unique designs for creatures - see how quickly the well runs dry.

2. Yes, some of them are infinitely stupider, but you're comparing 150 to over 500 others. Obviously there will be more duds in a sample of 500 than in a sample of 150 (which already has its share of lazy design).

3. A Pokemon MMO sounds abysmal, and I'm not sure in what universe it would be a good idea. At least a fighting game sounds like it has some *literal* excitement to it.

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The shitty part of this game will be that you only have four special moves.

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The moment I saw the Street Fighter esque way the game pauses a moment after every hit, I was out.

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@rowr said:

Umm so they can collaborate with the property to make a shitty arcade fighting game but they can't make a fucking pokemon mmo or something exciting for the freaking Nintendo console?

As soon as I saw a pokemon I didn't recognise from the orginial 150 I lost any interest I might have had anyway. The pokemon in the subsequent games are so goddam stupid.

All the pokemon are stupid, you just grew up with the 150.

Well sure all stupid to a degree, but i've recently replayed some pokemon and played some of the newer ones on my Nvidia Shield, and the newer games and pokemon are infinitely stupider.

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@rowr said:

Umm so they can collaborate with the property to make a shitty arcade fighting game but they can't make a fucking pokemon mmo or something exciting for the freaking Nintendo console?

As soon as I saw a pokemon I didn't recognise from the orginial 150 I lost any interest I might have had anyway. The pokemon in the subsequent games are so goddam stupid.

All the pokemon are stupid, you just grew up with the 150.

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Umm so they can collaborate with the property to make a shitty arcade fighting game but they can't make a fucking pokemon mmo or something exciting for the freaking Nintendo console?

As soon as I saw a pokemon I didn't recognise from the orginial 150 I lost any interest I might have had anyway. The pokemon in the subsequent games are so goddam stupid.

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so since it's a Tekken game, which pokemon is getting thrown in a volcano?

It is my sincerest hope that every single character's 'Win Cutscene' at the end of Arcade/Story modes is your Pokemon tossing either Kazuya or Heihachi into a Volcano!

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i remember really liking that fan made pokemon type wild which was basically street fighter pokemon. I think that format was a bit more fitting to what pokemon does but I suppose this could be neat.

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Finally a proper Pokemon game.

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This is so random.

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I'd totally play this. You know, if it's competent.

And I'd be shocked if it didn't end up getting ported to Wii U. There's too much hot Poké-money to be made there.

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NO, NO THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

They are making a full console RPG, this is whats happening .... THE DREAM!!!

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I'm not going to lie, this trend of Nintendo letting 3rd parties make games in their series' is troubling.

Now hear me out!

Obviously, these are going to be great games, and I already have Hyrule Warriors on preorder. However, it's worrying that 3rd parties have so little faith in the system that they won't even look at it unless they have access to Nintendo mascots. It plays into the narrative that people who game on Nintendo systems aren't interested in anything else, and in the end, it's going to limit what can be brought onto the system. Yeah, you can make a Zelda Musou and Pokemon Tekken, maybe even a Mario Tomb Raider or something, but you can't exactly do Nintendofied versions of certain games without it coming off as cheap or watered down.

Then there's the issue of variety. It's pretty clear that Nintendo isn't willing to make games outside of their established mascots anymore. What hope for new IP on the Wii U is left when no one else wants to make games without Nintendo's established mascots?

This isn't going to change anyone's mind on the Wii U, and Nintendo's going to have a problem when/if interest in these mascot franchises erodes.

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so since it's a Tekken game, which pokemon is getting thrown in a volcano?

HEIHACHI-CHU, I CHOOSE YOU!

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This needs to be 3v3 tag style.

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Over the years I've thought to myself now and then, that a traditional fighting game starring various pokemon could be really cool. Turns out my vague idea is coming to life. Weird.

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@blessmystars said:

@bumpton: Jellicent is a giant jellyfish WITH A PRINGLES GUY MOUSTACHE. That ice cream pokemon is one scoop and then IT EVOLVES AND THERE ARE TWO SCOOPS. New pokemon are awesome. Fuck everyone.

Man, everyone always focuses on the stupid and lame Pokemon to "prove" that the new Pokemon suck and they never acknowledge the cool ones. Well I don't care what anyone says, Trubbish is great! It's literally trash! Best Pokemon!

Some new designs are great (don't really care about competitive play for Pokemon), perhaps the best ever, plenty of old ones are garbage. That said, a lot of newer designs, even the good ones, suffer from a "more is better" aesthetic. Yeah, slapping a few details on a real animal is boring and lazy, but I prefer something recognizable as a thing (squirrel or dragon) to busy designs intended to obscure.

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EVO HYPE?

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I wonder if they'll have any non-blue colored Pokemon too.

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@bumpton: Jellicent is a giant jellyfish WITH A PRINGLES GUY MOUSTACHE. That ice cream pokemon is one scoop and then IT EVOLVES AND THERE ARE TWO SCOOPS. New pokemon are awesome. Fuck everyone.

Man, everyone always focuses on the stupid and lame Pokemon to "prove" that the new Pokemon suck and they never acknowledge the cool ones. Well I don't care what anyone says, Trubbish is great! It's literally trash! Best Pokemon!

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I am skeptical, but will keep an eye on this...

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This looks awful.

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The use of Lucario in marketing is still really weird to me.

I hope they get properly creative with this. Wouldn't want the game to be dominated by fighting-types when you can cover more fighting game archetypes with different Pokemon.

Tekken x Street Fighter will never happen now.

I don't feel too bad about it because we need a notable piece of vapourware in this post-DNF world.

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Tekken x Street Fighter will never happen now.

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@bumpton: Jellicent is a giant jellyfish WITH A PRINGLES GUY MOUSTACHE. That ice cream pokemon is one scoop and then IT EVOLVES AND THERE ARE TWO SCOOPS. New pokemon are awesome. Fuck everyone.

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I'm all for this!

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Oh wow, I guess this thing was actually real.

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Color me disappointed. Doubly so if this is the first retail Pokemon product that hits the WiiU, as Rumble U doesn't count. Its probably just as well. Not sure that company has another Snap in them anyway.

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You want to blow my mind Namco? Build evolution into the Pokemon you fight as.

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Yes.

Want.

Don't Care!

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This has gotta be a Tag game right? I'd like MvC style teams, but at last Tag?

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Incredible.

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"Originally referred to in the West as Namco Bandai Games, the company was internationally renamed as Bandai Namco Games in January 2014."

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so since it's a Tekken game, which pokemon is getting thrown in a volcano?

Magcargo

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so since it's a Tekken game, which pokemon is getting thrown in a volcano?

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@elwoodan: That'd be incredible though. The idea of trading my rare Gon for a shiny Paul Phoenix made me giggle.

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Sure, why not?

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This was teased and hinted at for some time so it's nice to see it finally rolling out. Now, the only other thing left is the Pikachu detective game where they mocapped animation for Pikachu's face.

I expect that Pokken will make its way to the Wii U. Harada has mentioned that the game is not running on the Tekken engine (either the old one or the new UE4 one) which might mean that the game is running on something equivalent to the Wii U. Also, there is no equivalent game coming to the Wii U as was the case with the Mario Kart Arcade games.

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Hey..wanna know how to get the Wii U to sell like crazy, Open World fully 3D pokemon game MAKE IT AND THEY WILL COME.

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@bumpton: You're the worst, and I respect you for that.

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HELL YEAH!!

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It's like someone got really drunk during an all-night Smash Bros meeting and woke up with a prototype.

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It's obvious it's coming. Namco fighters (and Japanese fighters in general) always go to arcades first.

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@theht said:

@elwoodan said:

The 10 year old me that was super disappointed in Pokemon Stadium is cheering right now.

Yup!

Oh man this so much. My friends kept telling me how awesome Pokemon Stadium was and it turned out to be a 3D renderer for the turn based battles.