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Waiting on the third AND fourth one

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GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

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Total Members Voted: 51

[Aklyon]

I'd second HeartGold/SoulSilver or Platinum as well. Not so fond of Black/White or B2/W2.

[Kanil]

I can't say I understand the Platinum recommendations (or the advisory against B2/W2) but I totally third HG/SS.

[Furtuka]

Gen V is great. Really great. But the de-rec is probably because as a direct sequel B2/W2 loses a bit of the experience if you haven't played B/W before it. Also the memory link transfer thing

[Kanil]

That makes sense. I never played B/W, but B2/W2 wasn't my first pokemon game, either...

[Shakerag]

New Android/IOS game announced called Pokemon Go. Basically Pokemon AR game.

Edit @ 07:04: The new project is in conjunction with Nintendo. It utilises smartphones and seems to feature capturing and battling of Pokémon
Edit @ 07:07: Project is called Pokémon Go. Will be releaed on iOS and Android in 2016 in collaboration with Niantic, a startup from Google that became independent.
Edit @ 07:18: Go around and use the Augmented Reality to find various Pokémon in various areas. Meet up for various small fests for battling and so forth.
Edit @ 07:20: Junichi Masuda is assisting in creating locations, music and so forth.
Edit @ 07:21: Pokémon Go will link to the main games in some way
Edit @ 07:24: Pokémon Go comes with a device you can attach to your wrist. It's called Pokémon Go Plus which connects via bluetooth and notifies the player of any nearby Pokémon

Summon monsters with your cell phone.  Capture monsters with your cell phone.  It's like some crossover between Pokémon and Shin Megami Tensei. 

[quinnr]

I am posting to watch because that Pokemon Go stuff sounds cool as heck, especially since it's being done by Niantic, probably the best possible company to pick it up.

[Tawa]

I can't say I understand the Platinum recommendations (or the advisory against B2/W2) but I totally third HG/SS.

I recommended Platinum because the Gen IV originals were pretty solid games and Platinum is better than either, being the updated rerelease and all. Might be a little tougher to find than Diamond or Pearl though. The main reason I recommended Gen IV as a starting point for somebody with presumably just a plain old DS was because Gen V has the whole "complete reboot" schtick going on and being pretty divergent from formula; [the ending of BW is less of a twist if you play it before any of the others, since you didn't have expectations as to how it will end yet].

[Cerol Lenslens]

New Android/IOS game announced called Pokemon Go. Basically Pokemon AR game.

Summon monsters with your cell phone.  Capture monsters with your cell phone.  It's like some crossover between Pokémon and Shin Megami Tensei.

Or, y'know, Keitai Denju Telefang... (Also known as the first Pokémon Diamond...  )

[Therolyn]

I'm already had to get myself a smartphone, this just makes it a much sweeter prospect.

[Trapezohedron]

Hey guys which Pokemon game is the most valuable it terms of coming in touch with the specifics of the series? Unfortunately, I can't afford a 3DS with the game for it at the moment and I think it'd be great to find out if I'm going to like Pokemon games before the buying.

If you have an... *ahem* flash cart, go grab Blaze Black 2 and Volt White 2. Being able to capture all the mons and also fight competent enemies throughout changes your entire perspective of pokemon forever.

[Aklyon]

If you have a flashcart you might aswell just get both hg/ss and the romhacks too. Then you get both how the games usualy are, and how people change the trainers in one object.

[umiman]

I think recommending blaze black or volt white to a newbie is a bit overwhelming for them, heh. I know some friends who find even normal Pokemon white to be too difficult. Not surprising as when I played Y after so many years of not playing, I had no clue what was going on most of the time.

[Tawa]

Starting on a "perspective changer" is probably a spectacularly bad idea. It'd be like getting into a film or TV series via tie-in novels, or Lord of the Rings after reading legolas by laura.

[Emma]

But legolas by laura is amazing! Better than the novels in my opinion. More seriously, could probably start with any game in the series I started with Diamond but before that I had played a friend's copy of Sapphire. I'd say either start with Platnium or get Sapphire or Ruby.

[Furtuka]

New Coro Coro Scans are out.

The first images from CoroCoro have leaked and have revealed some further details about Zygarde. Zygarde can take many forms. Normal Zygarde is at 50% and is called Zygarde 50% Forme. The dog like form is when it is at 10% and is called Zygarde 10% Forme. It has sharp teeth and speed. The blob is the cell, or Zygarde Core and becomes the brain of every form. The flat form is called Zygarde Cell. New large form is called Zygarde Perfect Forme and retains its Dragon/Ground-type. It is the Order Pokémon and is 4.5m tall and 610kg and is said to exceed Xerneas and Yveltal in power. The new Anime series called Pokémon XY & Z is to come with Mega Evolution Act 4 starting on October 29th. It also reveals a new look for Greninja, labelling it "Ash Greninja". The magazine mentions that it looks sort of like Ash's clothes