Well, the other day The Pokemon Company (TCP) opened the beta for their online trading card game. It's very fun, just a little laggy. For the beta, you can participate in battles against CPU's, but I beleive in the full game, you can battle another person live. Also, the deck builder isn't open for the beta. Other that that its very interesting.
P.S. If you're going to use a laptop to play, I recommend keeping it plugged in, because my battery drained pretty fast as I was playing.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Good News and Somewhat Bad News
Somewhat Bad news
If you bought Pokemon Black/White and were just as excited as I was for it, you'll know about the Pokemon Global Link and the fact that it was supposed to be opened on March 30th. However, due to the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan (You did know that Pokemon was based in Japan, right?) the opening of the GL was delayed until who-knows-when.
Good News
Speaking of the earthquake, one GameInformer editor (Meagan Marie) had a red Nintendo DS, which was signed by Shigeru Miyamoto (if you don't know who this is, you don't deserve to play games[no offense]), Koji Kondo (does the musical stuff), Charles Martinet (voice actor for Mario since 1995), Eiji Aonuma (Zelda guy), and Martin Leung (a guy who plays video game music on a piano). Anyway, Meagan sold the DS on eBay for $4,050 and donated all the money to the Red Cross to help in Japan. Seriously, if I had that kind of money, I would've bought it. I mean, hardcore gaming device+signatures from famous people+donation= pure awesomeness!
PopCap (the best PC gaming company EVER) also raised $200,000 for Japan by lowering the prices of all (or most) their iOS and Android games (iOS meaning iPhones, etc) and donating all money to the Red Cross. Way to go PopCap!
So more good news than bad news, which I suppose is also good news.
If you bought Pokemon Black/White and were just as excited as I was for it, you'll know about the Pokemon Global Link and the fact that it was supposed to be opened on March 30th. However, due to the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan (You did know that Pokemon was based in Japan, right?) the opening of the GL was delayed until who-knows-when.
Good News
Speaking of the earthquake, one GameInformer editor (Meagan Marie) had a red Nintendo DS, which was signed by Shigeru Miyamoto (if you don't know who this is, you don't deserve to play games[no offense]), Koji Kondo (does the musical stuff), Charles Martinet (voice actor for Mario since 1995), Eiji Aonuma (Zelda guy), and Martin Leung (a guy who plays video game music on a piano). Anyway, Meagan sold the DS on eBay for $4,050 and donated all the money to the Red Cross to help in Japan. Seriously, if I had that kind of money, I would've bought it. I mean, hardcore gaming device+signatures from famous people+donation= pure awesomeness!
PopCap (the best PC gaming company EVER) also raised $200,000 for Japan by lowering the prices of all (or most) their iOS and Android games (iOS meaning iPhones, etc) and donating all money to the Red Cross. Way to go PopCap!
So more good news than bad news, which I suppose is also good news.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
My thoughts exactly
Pokemon Black & White vs. My Wish List
Basicly, this guy wanted five things from Pokemon Black & White:
1. Different Story
2. "Gang" Battles (i.e. 6-on-6)
3. Evolutions for older Pokemons
4. More GTS stuff
5. Trading between generation IV (Diamond, Pearl, etc.) and V (Black & White)
Well, you got some of it. Black & White have 3-on-3 battles, but somebody wrote in a reveiw (GI, I can't remember who it was though) they aren't a big part of the story. I still haven't had one in the actual game, just rotation battles and a triple battle with my friend. Different story:hmm, well I'm told that there are a few plot twists, but other that that, the story follows the same blueprint that, in TPCi's eyes, never gets old. There are a few slight variations, the evil team is trying to free all pokemon from the "cruel" trainers who "enslave" them, which is entirly ironic and dumb, because if you're trying to free pokemon, why don't you start with your own? Anywho, I have a few ideas because me being weird, still hasn't finished the game (!) AFTER THREE WEEKS (!!). Well, (SPOILER ALERT?) The legend of Unova whatchamacallit is that origionally there was a single Pokeman (name unknown) and two twin brothers who were BFF's. Then one day, the two brothers disagreed on something probably very stupid, as that is what most siblings do, and the pokemon slit into Rishiram and Zekrom, both siding with a different brother. Now back to present day the mysterious N (king of team plasma) has ressurected and successfully captured zekrom and challenges you to ressurect and catch rishiram (other way around in pokemon white) and challenge him. What I think N is trying to do is have both reishiram and zekrom in the same place at once so they can morph back into that ultimate pokemon. Just my idea though. (spoiler alert? End).
The one single general problem was that the game doesn't have a "come play with me" feel. For example, Pokemon SoulSilver was an okay game but it made me want to play it. Kinda like when you say someone has charisma. Pokemon black had no charisma. Maybe it was just me, but I wanted to play Chibi-Robo more than Pokemon. Its other problem was that it felt...disconnected from the other pokemon games. There are no pokemon from older generations until you finish the game and on top of that, Unova whatchamacallit is described as far away from the four regions of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh. Also, the routes start over from 1 again. I don't know about you, but it bothers me.
Basicly, this guy wanted five things from Pokemon Black & White:
1. Different Story
2. "Gang" Battles (i.e. 6-on-6)
3. Evolutions for older Pokemons
4. More GTS stuff
5. Trading between generation IV (Diamond, Pearl, etc.) and V (Black & White)
Well, you got some of it. Black & White have 3-on-3 battles, but somebody wrote in a reveiw (GI, I can't remember who it was though) they aren't a big part of the story. I still haven't had one in the actual game, just rotation battles and a triple battle with my friend. Different story:hmm, well I'm told that there are a few plot twists, but other that that, the story follows the same blueprint that, in TPCi's eyes, never gets old. There are a few slight variations, the evil team is trying to free all pokemon from the "cruel" trainers who "enslave" them, which is entirly ironic and dumb, because if you're trying to free pokemon, why don't you start with your own? Anywho, I have a few ideas because me being weird, still hasn't finished the game (!) AFTER THREE WEEKS (!!). Well, (SPOILER ALERT?) The legend of Unova whatchamacallit is that origionally there was a single Pokeman (name unknown) and two twin brothers who were BFF's. Then one day, the two brothers disagreed on something probably very stupid, as that is what most siblings do, and the pokemon slit into Rishiram and Zekrom, both siding with a different brother. Now back to present day the mysterious N (king of team plasma) has ressurected and successfully captured zekrom and challenges you to ressurect and catch rishiram (other way around in pokemon white) and challenge him. What I think N is trying to do is have both reishiram and zekrom in the same place at once so they can morph back into that ultimate pokemon. Just my idea though. (spoiler alert? End).
The one single general problem was that the game doesn't have a "come play with me" feel. For example, Pokemon SoulSilver was an okay game but it made me want to play it. Kinda like when you say someone has charisma. Pokemon black had no charisma. Maybe it was just me, but I wanted to play Chibi-Robo more than Pokemon. Its other problem was that it felt...disconnected from the other pokemon games. There are no pokemon from older generations until you finish the game and on top of that, Unova whatchamacallit is described as far away from the four regions of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh. Also, the routes start over from 1 again. I don't know about you, but it bothers me.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Well, I finally decided to give you readers an idea of my demented mind.
First off, The video is only about three seconds. Why? Because it only had to be three seconds. If the video makes no sense, click here.
Also, because it is St. Patricks Day, I have painted my hair green. Sorta. I was really just looking for an excuse to have green hair.
Monday, March 14, 2011
As you may know.....
There was an earthquake and tsunami in Japan recently. I have just read that a lot of Japan-based video game companies are doing their part to help. Otherwise, nothing much has been happening. Yep, this is all the news I've got.
Japan's Publishing Community Donates to Earthquake Relief
Japan's Publishing Community Donates to Earthquake Relief
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Sorry Again!
I REALLY REALLY REALLY ment to post some pictures of Pokemon Black and sadly, my computer is being dumb (again!) and I can't post any 'til I get an iPod cord which will be who-knows-when.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Oops
Hello readers! I'm sorry I haven't been posting lately things have been pretty boring/busy on my end, so I'm sorry. Anyway, heres some somewhat exciting newa for you:
Tomorrow Pokemon Black&White come out! I'm sooooo excited! My buddies and I are gonna be playing them ALLLLLLL week (note: Xeon, you had better get the map). I'll write more about that in a few days, if not tomorrow. Oh yes, my neighbor got banned from Call of Duty: Black Ops because he hacked to get something like 15 presteige. Whatever that means. His friend got his whole PS3 acount banned for hacking. He's kind of a jerk anyway, so this gives me somthing I can tease him about (he ALWAYS says "you're jealos of my jailbroken ipod, and its obnoxious).
Well, thats about it. Talk to you peoples soon!
Tomorrow Pokemon Black&White come out! I'm sooooo excited! My buddies and I are gonna be playing them ALLLLLLL week (note: Xeon, you had better get the map). I'll write more about that in a few days, if not tomorrow. Oh yes, my neighbor got banned from Call of Duty: Black Ops because he hacked to get something like 15 presteige. Whatever that means. His friend got his whole PS3 acount banned for hacking. He's kind of a jerk anyway, so this gives me somthing I can tease him about (he ALWAYS says "you're jealos of my jailbroken ipod, and its obnoxious).
Well, thats about it. Talk to you peoples soon!
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