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That nostalgic feeling...

Ararararagi-san

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Do any of you guys get excited as we see more and more new pokemon for the new generation? I remember when gen. 4 was coming out (before i joined the forums) I would check bulbapedia everyday to see any new pictures and info and i feel like that now. So are you guys excited for the new info?
 
Not yet. Probably because I hate Zoroark (Zorua is ok). I did have this in gen IV though. Also, you should check serebii instead, they have the info sooner, and they also show unconfirmed pokémon.
 
Mijzelffan said:
Not yet. Probably because I hate Zoroark (Zorua is ok). I did have this in gen IV though. Also, you should check serebii instead, they have the info sooner, and they also show unconfirmed pokémon.
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back then i wasn't really into the "fandom" yet and the only place i knew of was here. hopefully you get that feeling back.
 
Mijzelffan said:
Not yet. Probably because I hate Zoroark (Zorua is ok). I did have this in gen IV though. Also, you should check serebii instead, they have the info sooner, and they also show unconfirmed pokémon.
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I wouldn't be too pissed about 1 solitary pokemon, everyone knows how pokemon can be so different.
 
This is reminding me of the hype for HGSS, mostly because we're so early on in the prerelease that two new pokemon feels a lot like Pokemon following behind me and confirmed remakes.
 
No nostalgia yet. mostly because two pokemon, though well designed in my opinion, doesn't really get me excited.
 
I love seeing new Pokemon it really does remind me of times passed. Me and my friends on the playground would go through the pages of the newest Nintendo Power as fast as we could trying to find any glimpse of new Pokemon, reading the articles about them, getting psyched. Haha, I miss the days of gen 1 to gen 2. Gen 2 to gen 3 was less amazing I'm afraid, Only me and 2 friends really got so excited about it. We'ld rush home from school to one friends house (he was the only one who could afford Nintendo power) and we'ld go through good old NP reading the articles and debating over whether or not this game would do this or that, when we saw that you had a reflection in water and you could run in shallow pools we all almost had a group freak out. 3 to 4 wasn't so great. I spent the time online, by myself with a few online friends. As more Pokemon were released we'ld debate this and that. Serebii was a large help. And when we saw all of the Pokemon finally laid out we argued over what looked fine and what didn't, the game play was what got me more than anything. The return of night and day, a clock, new gameplay features. It was nice.

This generation, I keep finding myself hoping for new pokemon and getting excited about them, but more than anything I feel like I might be waiting for gameplay. I want to see what's changed, I want to see if anything I liked was removed. It's like I want to in game screens more than anything else right now. I dunno. I guess I'm just rambling. Anyone else feel this way, though?
 
Learning about the generation 2 Pokemon was such a weird feeling. All of it was in magazines for me, for the most part. Seeing the new Pokemon spread across the bottom of a magazine for a couple of pages with their japanese names was probably the best spoilerific news I had ever gotten.

So when I think of nostalgia, that's what I'm picturing. Everything can be funneled through the Internet (even though we're still getting info via magazines like Coro Coro, hah!) so the time between release and when we read it is considerably less. Maybe it's because I still have yet to play HGSS (a big nostalgia trip in and of itself) that I'm not feeling the vibe yet for the new games. I probably won't feel like that till we have a region name, a map, and maybe some other characters.
 
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Counting down to Gen 2 was the best. I first found out about it through a gaming magazine I had, and after that I remember collecting every gaming magazine that had anything remotely to do with Gold and Silver and going on pokemon.com for the first time then searching for pokemon and discovering sites like TPM and Bulbagarden.

I found out about "Pokemon Advance" through TPM. I went there to find screen shots and info on the new Pokemon, and kept visiting right up until the bitter end when the site went down.

By the time Lucario was unveiled, I was already posting online. I remember speculating on Pokemon Forever about it, thinking it was a new version of Ditto that could combine two different pokemon. Good times. Then as the releases got closer we speculated on the English names on TPM, then found all of them out via the leak on Serebii.

Now here we are. Another generation. The excitement is here again, and I'm ready to have fun with this again. It doesn't exactly make me feel the same way I did in the run-up to Gen 2, probably because the concept of a new generation was new back then and Pokemon was still popular. I'm still exited, just as I am when any new generation is announced nowadays.
 
I never did much pre-release obsessing before Gen. IV. But I remember that when Gold and Silver came out, my parents bought the games for my sister and I, but wouldn't let us have them until Christmas. They did give us the Nintendo Power strategy guide right away, though (it had a very shiny cover, I remember), and we pored over that thingnd knew a ton about the games before we even got to play them. XD

And I remember I was obsessively following the Gen. IV run-up (I think over on Serebii's forums, I'm not sure) to the point where I can still remember most of the Gen. IV Pokémon's Japanese names. I'm kind of feeling a little of the same thing as back then, but now that I know some Japanese, it feels even better - now I can read stuff firsthand if I want. (Plus, I may be doing travel-study in Tokyo in July if I can convince my parents, which is when a lot of information might be released.)
 
The countdown to Gen II was amazing. I remember how excited I was, running around screaming about Pikablu every two minutes, making calendars with fake Pokemon, and spending every penny I had on imported Japanese cards I couldn't understand... those were the days.

The countdown to Gens III and IV weren't that exciting, though, honestly. Not sure why.

But this time, I'm hyped. Extremely hyped.
 
i actually didn't do any prerealease stuff until gen. 4 because I was never really on the internet and i didn't know that there were sites with info. I thought games were just released and then everybody learned stuff.
 
That's kind of how I was with Gen II, but it all changed when I went to Food Lion and obtained a bootleg holo Steelix card from the Mystery Mix machine...
 
I'm actually kinda excited. I wasn't at all excited for Gen IV, and I don't remember much of when the other Gens were coming, but yeah. It looks like a good start for Gen V. Hope it doesn't disappoint.
 
Ah, the big V. These guys might be weird at first, but then we get used to them. Bibarel/Bidoof are obvious exceptions. I am actually more excited than gen. IV.
 
IslandWalker said:
Ah, the big V. These guys might be weird at first, but then we get used to them. Bibarel/Bidoof are obvious exceptions. I am actually more excited than gen. IV.
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I have a special place in my heart for that little annoying beaver because of something that happened in the Gen. IV English release run-up. Back before we knew any English names, a picture surfaced one day of a Nintendo promotional event that featured merchandise bearing the English names of a few of the cuter Gen. IV Pokémon. One of them was Bidoof, but the picture was so blurry that it was hard to make out the text, and some of us went a couple of days thinking Bidoof's English name was "Stubby" until clearer pictures surfaced. :lol:
 
I don't want Generation IV to end yet. but oh well.
i was too young to have the feeling of Generation II. but I'm so psyched.
 
I actually first got nostalgic on like last thursday night. It was at that point that I realized it was more than likely a new gen and not just random games, so I went to Serebii archives and like reread the reveal of everything last gen, reminding me of exactly how it was back then, and got pumped for it.

It's really just the same as other generations, which is kinda funny, with half your people over reacting and half thinking it's crap, and the long waits between new stuff.
 
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