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Watched the video and counted 7 buildings. It was a surprise...but sadly the "City" looks smaller than Lacunosa Town to me.
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I like the fact that we start in a city instead of a town! It just comes to show that GameFreak is starting to put an end to some of the boring repeated things in the game that we always have and expect. It's definitely one of the reasons people are liking what they hear so far, so much. Man I'm so excited just to be in this city let alone play the whole game. o3o; |
It's really made no impact on me, honestly. Though, I have thought of the starting trainers as always fitting better if they start in a small town. I see them more of an underdog, someone who wasn't thought of to be great in the world of Pokemon, and even being seen as such, they depart from their small town and go on a year-long journey, or, in our case, a couple of days long, to prove all the doubters wrong and become something more.
Starting off in a city is more like a rich kid leaving and knowing he'll attain greatness because he's rich, lives in a city, etc. From the looks of the female girl, though, that second theory is all but right... |
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Did they say what other buildings are going to be in the city other than the Center and school? |
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I noticed that as well though! It brings out the New York in Unova, especially since it is a city. Cities need to be like that. :P I'm quite pleased with Hiougi City really. It still screams "home", which I like. |
Okay so in my timezone, it's still technically the same day, so it's not over a month, and Jake said in general earlier he doesn't care about the revival rule that strictly and the thread Suicune posted it in can't lead to any discussion because it's for new things, while this thread is for the starter city specifically. :(
...anyway, since we now know Aspertia City (as revealed in a press release) is the name of the starting city, how do you guys feel about it? It's interesting that they actually kept that it's a city in English (and do you prefer the other name, Hiougi City?) AND what does it even mean?! ...I haven't yet checked, lol. :x |
A a fragrant fan made of hinoki cypress tree wood.
^The definition of the city's Jap. name. So Aspertia may be an allusion to some sort of tree? |
So Hiougi City has been localized as Aspertia City.
Interesting name but still doing the pun on clouds I presume? At least this is the first hometown for the player that is actually a city. Can't believe they released the English name this early. |
Aspertia sounds like a cool name to me, and I feel it fits the names of the others.
According to Bulbapedia, it is indeed a continuation of the cloud theme, this time using the undulatus asperatus cloud. On starting in a city, it's hard to tell how much of an impact (if any) it'll have until you start playing the game, I suppose. Though I guess it's nice to have a little bit of a change. |
Im glad the player character is from a city, such a nice change, even if just because of the look of it. It might not be a huge city, but it's a step up from the little starting towns previously.
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I'm not going to lie, I've always loved the fact that the character comes from this tiny town and makes it in the big wide world, not to mention when people are like "Oh, you're from Pallet Town?" it kind of puts it on the map and makes that place more important :)
Having said that I do think being from the city is a refreshing change and I really like the idea :) |
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Aspertia City?
...<3 I keep falling more and more in love with this game, legit. ^See, the whole, "Oh you from Pallet Town...", thing has gotten a little...bland. But now, it's like, "Oh, you're from Aspertia City?!" Like, it's a city. Idk, it just has more of a status, to me. |
I still think American GF will translate it as Town =D
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I like the fact that it's more populated and... well bigger, it's more of a cultural city to be in and from the images it looks great.
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^ The official translation is city. It was on the US website, I believe.
Asper also means rough or uneven. So that could have something to do with a city being rougher than a town? I think the cloud/tree is more likely. I'm happy we get to start from a city, I just hope that there's more of a reason to come back to it. Otherwise, I dunno. It's just a cool gimmick. |
I like the fact of starting in a city. Theres more to do and its a nice fresh change from starting in a quiet town.
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I actually like the idea
Its about time we got a STARTER CITY i hope they have a good feature in this city so i can ACTUALLY revisit it |
Asperita is such a nice name. I like that it's a city, maybe it will actually have a Poke Center now....
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Well, this is a sequel, so they might just change things up a bit because this isn't square one anymore, and it's CONTINUING the story.
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And I pretty much agree with droomph. This isn't some humble little town anymore in a humble little region. Things have happened, people have moved on, this place needs to be juiced up a bit, and what better way to do that than with the characters beginning in a city? |
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