[Update] Your Pokemon Black & White Starters Could Evolve Like This

[theultimateend]

This improved my opinion of these starters (Except the fire one, who looks stupid regardless), but I still think the game will stink. The last good pokemon game IMO was Emerald. The last REALLY good pokemon game was Crystal. I think the series has had its day and is now killing time between now and when Nintendo finally stops caring about it.

Yeah lord knows being the second largest video game franchise in the entire world isn't enough to suggest that you are clutching at a minority opinion there.

I support your opinion in the beginning, but that last thought is pretty much a flop given the reality. I suspect pokemon will be around for much longer than just about any "better" video game series and will make much more in that time.

Probably because the balancing is well done and the species spread makes sense. I don't "get" a lot of the new monsters from time to time but most of the complaints I have are entirely the same as nearly everyone elses complaints, entirely motivated by nostalgia.

That said, I'd love to see changes, but most games have shown me that change rarely means better. It tends to mean stripped functionality, less variation, and less content. The fact that Pokemon hasn't changed dramatically at any one installment likely has to do with them being smarter than their competitors who produce a flop in hopes of "mixing it up."

If you want to mix things up, start a new franchise. That way I can go "well this isn't too bad of a game" instead of "This is terrible compared to the first one."

Just my thoughts, much like yours were just your thoughts .

Gahh...these are terrible, especially the pig, they've already based pokemon on fat guys e.g. Makuhita and Snorlax.
How does the otter change from a slightly bigger otter into some sea unicorn?

First...come on naw...Makuhita is a surfing sumo wrestler. How is that not great?

Secondly...how does X turn into Y?

The same way a small weak fish turns into a big strong dragon.
or a small ugly fish turns into a big pretty dragon.
Or a worm with a clown nose turns into a dragon.
Or the same way 3 of a pokemon sticking to one another makes a new pokemon.
the same way one pokemon can spontaneously go from 2 arms to 4, or from 4 arms to 2.
or sprout a third head.
or change from a fluffy sheep into an electric alien thing
or from a pupa thing into a rock dragon godzilla monster who kicked ass in junior high.
the same way a little fleshy springy thing can convert into a bipedal pig.

Kudos to people who know what all these are without having to look. You are probably at that point where I am where you say "The things I could have spent all that time on."

 

[subtlefuge]

Wow, this game has just jumped up to a launch day purchase for me. I can only hope that the battle mechanics get an overhaul for the loyal competitive (shoddy) community. The Phys/Special and Defensive splits have made the game so much more fun and deep than the original ones.

Nostalgia is the little voice in your head that wrongly tells you that a series was better before it started innovating.

 

[zHellas]

I fear for the universe.

Smugleaf's evolution is even more smug. Warning! Critical smug mass! Universe to collapse in particularly self satisfied black hole!

And yet it looks like a kick-ass Mexican Serpent-Dragon-Thingy.

 

[alik44]

I don't really care about how they look. i always get the grass type in every game and it rarely lets me down.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Is it me, or does the second form of Pokabu looks like a wrestler?
Also: I take back everything bad I ever said about the littl water-otter.
That being said, I'm still getting the grass. I've had a pattern: Venusaur, Typhlosion, Sceptile, Infernape, and now (name of grass one).

 

[Nostalgia]

Starting to believe that these are the real deal.

Pokexperto has been revealing a ton of information the past two days that ended up being comfirmed with the new Corocoro scan leaks that come out this time of month.
If he does say that these starters are indeed real, then I suppose they are.

 

[Beryl77]

Update #3: Serebii has confirmed these as the real deal, with a "slim chance" that it's wrong - the source has been 100% accurate thus far.

Ok, The second evoultions of the starters are confirmed. There is a leak from the CoroCoro magazine. The water and grass starters evolutions were already comfirmed before but this time we can see that the fire evolution looks also the same as in the leaked pictures. So we can assume that the other evolutions are real too.
http://images.serebii.net/corocoro/starters.jpg
And guess what, apparently the fire starter is AGAIN a fire/fighting typ.

 

[Druyn]

Im sorry. I am so completely disappointed at how all 3 of them look. See, I don't pick a starter based off of type, or ability, I just pick off of how it looks, because Im superficial like that. And these are disappointing. A hideous snake thing, I giant fat pig, and some kind of messed up otter horse.

Although the rest of the game looks pretty spectacular, so Ill probably end up getting it. But wow, starters are annoyingly awful. At least I wont have to worry about geodudes and zubats.

 

[JdaS]

I've always been a Fire-type kinda guy myself. Typhlosion is the awesomest starter ever, Charizard is cool and Blaziken is great. Infernape is meh and this new one looks like another Fighting-type combo to me (not buying Dark-type). Going to be a tossup between the other two as it was in Platinum. Maybe it's finally time to go green?

 

[BlazingStar]

It said on Serebii.net the final form of the grass starter is grass, the final form of the fire starter is Fire/Fighting (which really sucks) and the final form of the water starter is just water.

 

[standokan]

The water one is the only cool one, I kinda like the green one but the water one is more awesome.