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Bluerang1 December 11th, 2010 7:04 AM

Oh joy. Now I won't have to feel self conscious: "Should I put my name in all caps? Should I put my Pokemon's nickname in all caps? Why is that name in all caps?!"

Sydian December 14th, 2010 11:20 PM

This makes me happy. Took'em five generations, but it's good to see they realized we were sick of sending out CHARIZARD and Lord knows we don't need to see "Wild SEED BBY appeared!" Decapitilization makes me happy.

Flan December 15th, 2010 12:01 AM

I honestly never really cared much about the random capitalization, probably because I got used to it and it is just one of those things in the series. It is a really pleasant change though. I'm sure tons of people are happy about it and it really didn't hurt at all to have regular syntax in the games for once. C:

imevil December 15th, 2010 12:38 PM

i like it now uncapitalized

Mr.Deth December 15th, 2010 1:49 PM

Awesome, now I don't get to feel like someone is screaming at me or trying to over-emphasize something.

fenyx4 December 21st, 2010 10:55 AM

Whoa...didn't expect so many people in this thread to be against the ALLCAPS featured in past games. :cer_laugh:

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragon0fangz (Post 6335397)
caution... The names could be decapitalized just for the demo version. When the game comes out, BOOM ALLCAPS. (even though I love that band)

:cer_laugh: I would ROFL if that happened. It appears that a lot of people would ragequit, assuming that the majority of players share this thread's majority opinion.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluerang1 (Post 6335422)
Oh joy. Now I won't have to feel self conscious: "Should I put my name in all caps? Should I put my Pokemon's nickname in all caps? Why is that name in all caps?!"

Heh-heh; this is probably why I'm more in favor of ALLCAPS rendering of Pokemon names. And I've been playing Pokemon Emerald for who knows how long, so I've gotten very used to it being onscreen. #_# But take for instance, the Pokemon Blaziken who I used to nickname BLAZER, but is now getting renamed TRAILBLAZR (truncating of TrailBlazer). With lowercase, I started wondering: is it TrailBlazr or Trailblazr? Do I capitalize the "B" due to the name being composed of two different words?! However, with ALLCAPS, I don't have to decide, as I can just stick with TRAILBLAZR to make it ambiguous.

But I have to agree, the decapitalization does look very nice in the battle text box on the bottom of the screen. In the HP Bar Box though, it just looks...strange in lowercase. Maybe it's the font...?

An idea that I had that could be optional is that the Pokemon's name in the HP Bar Box is in ALLCAPS regardless of the nickname, yet the name in the Battle Text Box preserves the original intentions of the nickname, rendering it in the original format. Personally, that would help me get more used to the regular casing, as seeing anything but ALLCAPS in the HP Bar Box is just plain weird...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sydian (Post 6342451)
This makes me happy. Took'em five generations, but it's good to see they realized we were sick of sending out CHARIZARD and Lord knows we don't need to see "Wild SEED BBY appeared!" Decapitilization makes me happy.

LOL...it's kind of interesting. This is the first generation where the players have apparently "matured", taking on an older appearance. In the same token, as you grow older, you learn to use proper grammar, capitalization, and syntax in writing (well, most of us do, I assume; can't say the same for some other people on the Internet). So as the player grows older and matures, the game "matures" as well and reflects this growth, thus "correcting" its error from past games, "learning" to use proper grammar in game text (in this case, using regular letter casing instead of ALLCAPS casing).

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Originally Posted by Mr.Deth (Post 6343277)
Awesome, now I don't get to feel like someone is screaming at me or trying to over-emphasize something.

BUT IT MAKES EVERYTHING FEEL IMPORTANT!!!! :D In past games, at least it made sense: children (10-year-olds in this case) tend to emphasize everything in conversation when they're excited. And, IMO, few things are more exciting to a child than getting to go out adventuring on your own and proceeding to kick butt with your powerful elemental monster buddies. :)

machomuu December 21st, 2010 8:18 PM

Decapitalization is a Godsend for me. This is mainly because in the first generation peoples' names were ALL CAPS, so when I only capped the first letter of my rival's and my name, it would be inconsistent with the rest of the games' characters, luckily it was changed in later generations. Basically, I am glad to hear that this is applying to pokemon species names as well.

Ho-Oh December 21st, 2010 9:33 PM

Never actually stated my thoughts here. :D;

I'm fine either way tbh, because yes, random capitals are annoying, but... we've had them for so long so it'll be sort of hard to get used to, unless I just see it as EVERY POKEMON in the games having a nickname!

I'm still thinking they'll change it back to all capitals at last minute to annoy people, but we'll see~

loliwin December 21st, 2010 10:20 PM

It loooks nice, its also nice if they werent decapitalized as well. :)

560cool. December 22nd, 2010 12:54 AM

Oh yeah, I noticed that too. :o I can simply say I'm overjoyed. CAPS REALLY DISTURBS MY EYES.
Oh, wait.

Logan_AT December 23rd, 2010 7:22 AM

Dangit, I've gotten too used to leaving my Pokemon's names capitalized...now I will have to be deliberate about it!

Or cause everyone to question my sanity by aLtErNaTiNg CaPs. :X

Princess Diana December 23rd, 2010 3:35 PM

I prefer it like that. It always gets on my nerves when names are all capitals, or don't start with one.

Trap-Eds December 24th, 2010 2:17 PM

This whole capitalization thing never really bugged me with Pokemon names ('cause you're supposed to yell during battle, right?), just with the people's and item's names. This is going to be an interesting change.

Raichupacabra December 26th, 2010 5:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hiroshi Sotomura (Post 6354695)
They should've done it earlier. Those newly migrated Pokémon aren't going to blend in now, are they?

They should've done this in the fourth generation like they initially planned to.

Exactly what I was thinking

____ sent out Tepig, Oshawott and Snivy.
Go!!! SALAMENCE, LUCARIO and Zoroark.

But yeah they should've started this in the fourth generation.

And then I'll have to rename them all over to realise I forgot a letter. (Lucrio) xD
But this will be an issue with events and traded Pokemon.

Crysta Blade December 26th, 2010 5:56 AM

I couldn't be happier that they finally fixed this. It's been bugging me ever since I picked up the series at age ten. Grammer does not work that way! Why didn't they do this in the first place, I wonder?

Sabrewulf238 December 26th, 2010 9:49 AM

I'd assume that pokemon being brought from 4th gen games to the 5th gen would have their names (if not nicknamed) converted to the correct case.

It wouldn't be difficult to do that.

Rengoku December 26th, 2010 11:34 AM

Yahoo~! I had an OCD for that too; Am so glad they're going to do that~ Made me look forwards to the new game more!

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire December 26th, 2010 11:38 AM

This is good to see, now I won't feel odd about all the capitol letters...also now the only one with a fully Capitalized name is N who has only one letter xD.

Kitrigar December 26th, 2010 11:38 AM

I like the decap. style.
It doesn't make it seem like your trainer is always screaming.
Looks more neat too.

Kanto_Johto December 26th, 2010 11:45 AM

Good. It took me a while to get used to the fact that the game was just emphasising important events and that the residents didn't just have random outbursts.

"Sweet, now that you have all 8 badges you can take on the POKEMON LEEEEAAAAAAAGGGGUUUEEEEEEEE at the INDIGO PLATEAU!!!111!!!1!1!!"

That was quite literally how I used to hear it in my head.

aguinn99 December 26th, 2010 12:11 PM

I never really noticed it, so I don't care very much. but still, it makes it look like your trainer is not screaming.

Meduza December 26th, 2010 5:38 PM

http://i51.*.com/feoqcl.png

Anyone notice all the Pokemn's names are now written with the beginning letter being upper-cased and the rest being lower-cased?

E.g
Generic Name Written Prior To Gen.5: EXAMPLE
Generic Name Written in Gen.5: Example

Could it be possible this change will be happening in black and White or could it be the small flaw in a fake screenshot?

SparklingMistral December 29th, 2010 3:31 PM

Sounds a heck of a lot better. I always wondered why they kept it in all caps anyways.

SharKing319 December 29th, 2010 3:44 PM

As I said on Bulbagarden, this is something I've been waiting a long time for. Of course, I do have to wonder why the names were capitalized in the first place.

solarowl December 29th, 2010 9:45 PM

Yeah it was weird when all pokemon names were capitalized but I grew used to it. Its nice to not have all caps now! :D


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