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You're saying creative?

In terms of creativity, the English names are mostly better than the Jap ones. Whereas some jap names often use English partly or entirely (eg. Shanderaa is just chandelier...), English names use puns in English and rarely other languages (sometimes though, like Deino's line). The Jap names have gotten better over time though (eg. Shanderaa is practically the only full-CP'ed English name in BW, whereas the rest are mostly English puns... in Jap names).
 
The puns are terrible, though, and the Japanese died down with the English names quite a bit since first gen. I'll give you the fact that Flareon/Vaporeon/Jolteon is greater than Booster/Showers/Thunders and Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres is better than Freezer/Thunder/Fire.

But at the same time, though, the English names the Japanese have come up with now are a lot more creative and a lot better than the terrible puns the US came up with. Heck, I don't see why they had to change Chillarmy and Wargle (though this one I understand more since it could be interpreted as calling the US "war-happy" or whatever).
 
Wargle comes out horrible. It's like you're choking on something halfway through talking about a Pokémon, whilst Chillarmy is what happened when the Germans tried to invade Russia in World War II.
 
Pokemon names are pretty horrible regardless of their region. It's just more apparent now that there's a new region with new horrible names to poke fun at.
 
And here's where the veterans come in and say "In my day, where we wouldn't of known about the Japanese Pokemon names because the internet was still young, we wouldn't complain about the names."

Ah, at least they don't all have a name obviously referring to what they are and ending with "-mon". I do love Digimon, but eh.
 
I honestly don't care what they are called, I'm going to buy, play, and enjoy the games either way. I may not memorize this generation's names like I have the others, though, since they are rather retarded sounding, so meh.
 
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Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres is better than Freezer/Thunder/Fire.
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They're particularly clever if you focus on the Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, as another 1, 2, 3 reference.

I totally dodged the 5th gen in Japanese. I want a totally unknown game to play through, so I can hopefully regain some of the experience that the old games had. I know that's not going to happen. Both RBY and GSC had some undefinable quality in the story/mapping that I can't see coming back.
 
I don't. RBY is really dull and lame to me.

I must've missed something. Was it the glitches? The beepyboopy nostalgia music? Or the all-round terrible-but-i-loved-it-anywayness?
 
/makes post belonging in the Name Thread xD

The names in RBY really weren't better than later generations.

Mankey? Well that's clever ._. And Paras? Way to cut off a word and tadaa a name.
Ponyta? what's the "yta"?
Golem? eh. That's a word. It's as boring as the japanese "Thunder" and those.

And there were some name I really laughed at, I can't remember which atm.

In 5th gen, we have Braviary (good one), Samurott (has the right feeling for the pokémon), Boldore, Gigalith, Hydreigon, Servine and many other good names.

Though some 5th gen names are so weird... simply misspellings of real words, seemingly. I mean, Timburr? And the final evo's name sounds more like Hurr-durr to me.

But then, we did have Drowzee in the 1st gen ^^ only, that one have grown on us. Maybe Girdurr and Hurrdurr (I'll forever be calling him that) will too.
 
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And here's where the veterans come in and say "In my day, where we wouldn't of known about the Japanese Pokemon names because the internet was still young, we wouldn't complain about the names."

Ah, at least they don't all have a name obviously referring to what they are and ending with "-mon". I do love Digimon, but eh.
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It's not just the "veterans" who recognize the futility of complaining about English Pokémon names.

By the way, not all Digimon had obvious names.
 
...Damn you Nintendo. Damn you to hell for making Pokemon Black and White and the 3DS come out in the same month, I don't have $300 to be wasting!

Oh well, I'll figure it out...

Digimon names are questionable.
 
You would have thought they would have made Black & White for the 3DS as well, as in a 3D version. That would have been a nice push on wanting to buy the console then.​
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I'm not shilling $250 for a DS with a horrible battery life just for some 3D effects that I'd turn off anyway. So sorry, Nintendo. Not even Professor Layton will convince me to buy the 3DS until that price point comes down.

(on a side note, I've decided to hang out on this forum more often)
 
I think the 3Ds price will not go down thou intill christmas of this year or later.As for playing pokemon black and white aren't they only for the Ds and then theres a Dsi enhanced version.I think they would have to come out with a 3DS enhanced version.
 
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