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Superjub March 27th, 2011 8:34 AM

Cheren? Bianca? But I wanted to name them Jack and Jill!
 
Yes, lame title is lame. XD

So, with Pokemon Black and Pokemon White we are unable to name our rivals, similar to Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Emerald.
What do you think? Do you think the characters being called Bianca and Cheren suits them and you wouldn't name them anything else, don't mind or would you have liked to have named them, whether after your friends or whatever. XD

Personally, I don't mind. Although I normally like naming my rivals after people who are close to em so they actually feel like "rivals", they have enough character to make them seem like rivals anyway.

JP March 27th, 2011 9:06 AM

I don't mind at all as I usually never know what to name my rivals haha. I tend to just name them by their official names anyways, so didn't bother me one bit.

solarowl March 27th, 2011 9:13 AM

I just name them what there official names are. I don't really mind. Plus, I think those names suit them. Or I've just gotten used to them.

Xyrin March 27th, 2011 9:16 AM

Lol at the title. I want to name them Blondie and nerd. xD

Eurydice March 27th, 2011 9:24 AM

i wish we had the option i love naming my rivals after my friends

Devil Flamingo March 27th, 2011 9:25 AM

Like posters above me, I name them whatever their official name is anyway, so if I had had the option to name I'd have named them "Bel" and "Cheren" anyhow. I generally use the Japanese name instead of the English name b/c it's more suiting (i.e. Jun > Barry) but sometimes I like the English name better (i.e. Brendan, May).

Barn March 27th, 2011 10:06 AM

I don't really mind. In HGSS, I named my rival Silver, soo...

blue March 27th, 2011 10:12 AM

It makes it more unique if you ask me.

Cherrim March 27th, 2011 11:52 AM

I wish I could've named them. :/ I really don't see any reason why we couldn't. It's not like there's voice acting or anything. I guess the names are hard-scripted in instead of just variables that the script grabs from but... would it have been so hard to implement that? :(

.Eevee-Chan March 27th, 2011 4:47 PM

I don't mind, I would have named them their official names anyway.

tente2 March 27th, 2011 4:54 PM

It really bothers me. The name 'Bianca' is so ugly ugly ugly. Now I'm tortured to hear that name forever--I would've named them Jeremy and Aelita.


Cookies to whoever gets the reference.

TheUnown March 27th, 2011 4:55 PM

I understand why people would like to name their own rivals and such but I'm one of those who would use official names anyway so good thing they already did it for me XD.

hackerofdarkness March 27th, 2011 5:11 PM

I'm one of those people that really doesn't mind after all we can't think of any good names cane we?

Yurusumaji March 27th, 2011 5:14 PM

I never rename the characters in my games, so to me it's perfectly fine this way. If I could name them, their names would be quite foul indeed.

Nakuzami March 27th, 2011 5:27 PM

I don't mind, I happen to like their names. Though I liked Belle better than Bianca, but i'll live.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retribution (Post 6538069)
So, with Pokemon Black and Pokemon White we are unable to name our rivals, similar to Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Emerald.

Hmm...more similarities to RSE. More clues, more proof that the remakes are coming soon :P

SeanTheOriginal March 27th, 2011 6:04 PM

You may find that in some games, as with life, you don't always have control over the names of everyone. This may come as a shock to you, but yes, the names of other people can be out of your control. In time, I think you'll be able to accept this as reality and be able to GET OVER IT!

Dark Piplup March 27th, 2011 6:11 PM

I don't really care. Though the names do fit them somehow.

Woobat March 27th, 2011 6:19 PM

I don't mind it at all. It saves me the fifteen minutes of stress in which I would be sitting there trying to think of good names before ending up giving them the default names.

Oryx March 27th, 2011 6:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeanTheOriginal (Post 6539415)
You may find that in some games, as with life, you don't always have control over the names of everyone. This may come as a shock to you, but yes, the names of other people can be out of your control. In time, I think you'll be able to accept this as reality and be able to GET OVER IT!

Yup, in the game where I travel as a teenage girl, control massive, legendary creatures with powers to create and/or destroy worlds and use them to fight other people with similar monsters, while saving the world from an evil team, I want realism.

The Nightmare March 27th, 2011 10:09 PM

I don't mind if they are named anything.

Ho-Oh March 27th, 2011 10:28 PM

I actually like the names of Cheren and Bianca, and at least when we're referring to the rivals we all know who they are instead of just known as "rivals" :(

Ice Car March 27th, 2011 10:31 PM

I don't give either way. In fact I sort of like their names, but I'm usually devoid of ideas so if I even had the choice I would go with their predetermined names.

Most_W4nted March 27th, 2011 10:35 PM

Hmm well personally I would have liked to name Cheren Black and Bianca Grey or something =P But I heard that Cheren means Black in Bulgarian anyway =D

The Noob Hacker March 27th, 2011 10:36 PM

I don't mind that the option isn't there. Sure, I like naming my rivals. but I'm fine with that ability taken away from me. Still, it sort of takes away from the experience when I can't replay the game, name my rival something inappropriate, then laugh for about twenty seconds when it appears that one of the characters in the game is insulting my rival.

Still, not that much of a problem.

MegaSlowBro. March 27th, 2011 10:49 PM

I actually liked not having the option of not being able to name my rivals. I never know what to name them, so it was a relief that I didn't have to skip over it at all. It also made the beginning flow more smoothly without having another long pause at the start.


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