A complete fresh start?

http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Black_and_White_to_feature_only_Gen_V_Pok%C3%A9mon_pre-National_Dex

Quote :

Game Freak director Junichi Masuda has updated his blog with an unexpected announcement. Pokémon Black and White Versions will only feature Generation V Pokémon up until the player acquires the National Pokédex. In the update, Masuda said that his intention was to give players both new and veteran an equally new experience, akin to Pokémon Red and Green/Blue Versions back in Generation I.

This same line of thought seems to have been used when the decision was made to reset the route numbers back from route one, and placing Isshu in a remote location from the rest of the Pokémon world. It remains to see what, if any, non-standard features from the established Pokémon world will be included in Pokémon Black and White.

1) So does this mean Geodudes and Zubats are no longer "Com-mons"?
2) So does this mean we get no new Eeveelution breeds?

Wow, it sounds like I might actually want this.

Yeah, I saw this the other day. Dento might end up being better than the late Ash in the anime as well.

Zero wrote:

Yeah, I saw this the other day. Dento might end up being better than the late Ash in the anime as well.

"The late Ash"? You mean Ash actually DIES?

XD. I meant the most recent ash. Yeah I should have worded that better.

Ash has eternal youth, he can't die.

But this looks like it could be really good. Hopefully they hold back on the legendaries, there have just been way too many in the last few games.

No geodude and Zubat are a good thing. I really got sick of seeing them. Oh and no magicarp is cool too.

No Tentacool is a plus.

Sure, there won't be zubat caves or tentacool oceans anymore but something else just as annoying and useless will take their place.

But we won't know it at first!

It might evenbe something awesome.

...I want one.

Spoiler:

Pichu meets Gligar?

Flying squirrel. Electric/Flying type; first one since Zapdos. Static ability. Frickin' cute.

I already hate its guts, which is how it should be for me and small Pokemon.

I'm liking this game already.

http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/pokemon.shtml

There's a list of new pokemon so far.

Seems to be a large amount of Psychic types...

Hihidaruma looks like a badass though.

Really? I thought it looked mildly goofy.

BTW, anyone else hoping that Pokabu's final evolution is some badass flaming boar?

Oh yes, goofy, but I can tell he's gonna be a badass.

Yeah, it should be something along those lines, I'm aslo hoping that the water one gets some kind of badass polar bear crossed with a sea otter thing going on.

Maybe it'll be something like this, but all firey and whatnot.



And the water one could be a Platypus Bear!

I'm definitely training a Shimama. An electric unicorn/zebra thing? Hell yeah.

It seems that the following might be the actual evolutions of the new starters.

Each one had far more potential than that...

That can't possibly be the stage 3 water pokemon, it doesn't resemble stage 1 or 2 at all.

At least the stage 2 water type is on the right track to becoming a badass. Unlike the fire one, which looks derpworthy. The grass stage 2 looks like it could become some badass dinosaur. But then you look at its third form and it's gone and regressed.

Looks like those are the actual designs...

I doubt it. Ash is there, wasn't it going to be a different protagonist?