Ok, learned something today^_^.
That's really NoA's style, include as many puns as possible in a name, both obvious as not obvous. So that you can always be surprised by the names.
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Ok, learned something today^_^.
That's really NoA's style, include as many puns as possible in a name, both obvious as not obvous. So that you can always be surprised by the names.
matt0044
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Live Caster's a cool name too, through.
Yeah true, but it actually sounds so...well...simple. Cross receiver actually sounds a bit more awesome. And it also says what it does, the X is probably from that maximum 4 people can talk with it's others, or something similair to that.
Padfootismine
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It would be pronounced Hi-dry-gon because drei is German for three, and is pronouced Dry.
I guess from the Con part?
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I think it's ponounced as Cough-a-gri-gus.
Yeah, it's nice to know all names already, there is ofcourse the posibility that some names could change ,the same happened in gen 1, then like a month before the releas Ny changed to Koffing and La changed towards Weezing. But I don't really see the names changing upon coming toward the release, most sound actuelly nice.
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SasakiThePikachu
like pepsi cola
It would be pronounced Hi-dry-gon because drei is German for three, and is pronouced Dry.
I guess from the Con part?
It's two pre-evolved forms include the joke too
german language ftw!Yeah, I'm finding this gen's set particuarly hard to pronounce...it isn't just looking at the names and not being sure how to pronounce them...it's also when you know how to pronounce them, and they just sound akward in your mouth >__> I mean, the two syllables of 'Desukan' changed to 'cough-a-gree-gus?' Thanks for simplifying that for us, Ninty.
Rikudo Sennin
Sage of the 6 Paths
I have to admit my first reaction to these was that they were definitely fake since at first glance most of them seemed so...awkward - not to mention Pignite was there, what a coincidence.
Now that I took the time to go through them all I have to admit they all do seem very well though-out for them to be fakes; a lot of them fit the pokemon well and are adequate translations, preserving both the original japanese meaning in an english way.
Now there's some really awesome names here like:
Mijumaru's and Monozu's lineup in general
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Axew ->Haxorus (I love this one)
But I also have to say a few of them are somewhat disappointing.
Throh and sawk?
Pidove's evolutions?
Swoobat? (no shame there)
These will take some warming up, as expected, but overall i think they are fine.
Could have been much worse xDD
Now that I took the time to go through them all I have to admit they all do seem very well though-out for them to be fakes; a lot of them fit the pokemon well and are adequate translations, preserving both the original japanese meaning in an english way.
Now there's some really awesome names here like:
Mijumaru's and Monozu's lineup in general
CHANDELURE
Axew ->Haxorus (I love this one)
But I also have to say a few of them are somewhat disappointing.
Throh and sawk?
Pidove's evolutions?
Swoobat? (no shame there)
These will take some warming up, as expected, but overall i think they are fine.
Could have been much worse xDD
ryodragonite
Aura Fist
Are they really allowed to do that?
The only name I really dislike is Axew. Kibago fit more because it pretty much meant fang. And plus since its one of the main pokemon it would keep its name like Pika did.
R_N
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Yes? Why wouldn't they? Like they presumably wouldn't change already announced names. But the localization process is probably still going on, draft checkings, seeing what may or may not work etc.
ryodragonite
Aura Fist
But in two months I dont think they have enough time time to change it. With all of the other translations and stuff going on.
It just doesnt seem like a big enough deal.
R_N
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It's a line of text
Not even a line of text
And it's a whole team of people going at this. And who knows how old/recent the leaked list is
Don't forget the Icicle badge, either
Basically, I'm saying that it's possible (and 2 months would probably be enough time to make a minor change with ease), even if it isn't exactly likely.
Well, they did it in the first gen so why shouldn't they do it now, I'm not saying hey should, but they have the option.
Rikudo Sennin
Sage of the 6 Paths
People these things aren't decided a month before the game starts to be mass developed, this is something that is decided early on. You have to keep in mind it's not just "a line of text", the pokemon names encompass everything from Trading cards, promotional toys and most importantly the anime dub itself, which the dubbing company is most definitely working on already.
These all take a lot of time to produce, and aren't subject to some whim of the people to change, if the game is coming out in less than 2 months than you bet there is a lot of merchandise already in the works.
I doubt a multimillion dollar company like NoA is going to release names to "testdrive" them with the fans, and then change them due to public demand, it just doesn't happen.
if I had to guess these names - if they are indeed the official list - have been done several months prior to the announce of the first batch.
These wouldn't be just minor changes, it affects the whole franchise in general.
These all take a lot of time to produce, and aren't subject to some whim of the people to change, if the game is coming out in less than 2 months than you bet there is a lot of merchandise already in the works.
I doubt a multimillion dollar company like NoA is going to release names to "testdrive" them with the fans, and then change them due to public demand, it just doesn't happen.
if I had to guess these names - if they are indeed the official list - have been done several months prior to the announce of the first batch.
These wouldn't be just minor changes, it affects the whole franchise in general.
ryodragonite
Aura Fist
Ok first I was going to say that it didnt say that they changed in in a few months, then I read on. It said that they made a change right before the game was released in Japan so now I guess I agree that they can be changed but Im not saying they will unless people go on a rampage.
Really? What did they do with the Icicle badge?
I wonder what their going to name zuruggu?
Slowemperor
Villain in training
I was thinking if this list turns out to be real, in the next gen, every time a fake list of english names before release is "leaked" (it will happen) there will be someone saying "Remember that list back with Black and White in 2011?". This is might even become a pro-unconfirmed-leak argument for other things. But this woulds not be the first time such thing happens would it (looks at the starters evos who were "proved" to be fake, and I actually thought they were).
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