TwitchyAssTaillow
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Funny, I was actually searching for possible 6th gen Pokemon a couple weeks ago, and of course... you get those fake pokemon to show up.
Well, Masuda wanted to release a game that we didn't know anything about a-la red and blue, a game that would surprise us completely...and 80% of the fandom (myself included, no stones thrown in this glass house) ignored him and glutted ourselves on spoilers for B/W. And that was before they were even released in Japan.
Well, he's getting the last laugh now. If we want X or Y on release day, as a lot of fans will, we don't get any walkthroughs or people hacking the crap out of the game and reporting back first. We don't get any year in advance to plan our full teams, or kindly people who have the Japanese versions to take pity on us and send us over eggs for pokemon that don't appear until late-game. Nope, we gotta go in completely blindfolded and play it like noobs, making do with whatever leaks we can scrounge or whatever scraps of info they choose to throw at us in the meantime. I must say - well played, Mr Masuda, Well played sir
In all seriousness, though, I'm impressed by this move. It's got to cost extra work and manpower to pull off a worldwide simultaneous release, and they probably aren't getting any more money from it. This is a much-appreciated nod to the loyal fans who live outside of Japan, and I can only hope this is the start or a trend whereby we get everything pokemon-related (at least gamewise) that japan do. After all, are we not paying for the games and consoles just as much as they are?
Well, Masuda wanted to release a game that we didn't know anything about a-la red and blue, a game that would surprise us completely...and 80% of the fandom (myself included, no stones thrown in this glass house) ignored him and glutted ourselves on spoilers for B/W. And that was before they were even released in Japan.
Well, he's getting the last laugh now. If we want X or Y on release day, as a lot of fans will, we don't get any walkthroughs or people hacking the crap out of the game and reporting back first. We don't get any year in advance to plan our full teams, or kindly people who have the Japanese versions to take pity on us and send us over eggs for pokemon that don't appear until late-game. Nope, we gotta go in completely blindfolded and play it like noobs, making do with whatever leaks we can scrounge or whatever scraps of info they choose to throw at us in the meantime. I must say - well played, Mr Masuda, Well played sir
In all seriousness, though, I'm impressed by this move. It's got to cost extra work and manpower to pull off a worldwide simultaneous release, and they probably aren't getting any more money from it. This is a much-appreciated nod to the loyal fans who live outside of Japan, and I can only hope this is the start or a trend whereby we get everything pokemon-related (at least gamewise) that japan do. After all, are we not paying for the games and consoles just as much as they are?
I really hope this means we get the same events as japan, because I'm sick of them getting all the good ones while USA gets screwed.
No, according to my logic it could mean something else that we dont know about, while the strand may look like something it could mean something completely different in the games but your making the assumption that it means something before any confirmation is given... My "speculation" is that it means X-axis because having something with a male and female contrast is too adult for the younger audience of the series. And every example that you gave me was minor and can be easily argued as you dont know that children dont understand IV or EV training as their has never been a survey or research on it so to say they dont know what it is pretty bold. And the little innuendo hints is nothing, European are way more open about sex than America (I know this) but I cannot see a game about a complicated and confusing topic like DNA being the theme of a Pokemon game :/So, according to your logic, they included the DNA strand on the Japanese logo just because they felt like putting a random DNA strand there then?
Also Pokemon has always had things that the younger audience would never understand, such as EV's and IV's (even though they were arguably introduced in Gen III), and the Cloyster + Onix double battle Young Couple sex joke in HG/SS, and the fact that no one under 3rd grade actually reads any of the text in a Pokemon game (have you seen them ever play? They just mash the A button constantly)
Yeah a lot of people will probably just read the news leading up to the games release and then stop there, play the games, then go read on the site. That's what I'm doing, this year will be a suprise!
Edit: I just remembed, it's january, 10 months? Oh no.
Seems a bit weird knowing that now that Japan is getting the games at the same time as everyone else, I wont have to worry too much about reading Serebii's Discoveries because I'll have my own copy of the game to play. Japan getting the games first with everyone else a few months later was a nice way to get a head start on planning my team though.