Timing Between Games??

RNC727

RNC727

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    How many of us think there was not enough time in between the release of pokemon D / P / P and pokemon B / W??
    I think there was not enough time and they should have made it to where you could trade not transfer between the 4th and 5th gens.
    What are all of you PokePlayers ideas about this??
     
    The timing was okay i guess, and you can't really trade between those two generations because Unova Pokemon don't exist in Sinnoh and if they were allowed to trade, a glitch like the one between Gens I and II would probably occur.
     
    I would have preferred trading between gen IV and V really. I mean, trading with gen I and II was possible, of course you couldn't trade items, new Pokemon, and Pokemon with new moves and/or Dark type moves. That would have worked just fine with gens IV and V really.

    The timing though, I think it was fine. For North America, DP was released in 2007 and then BW in 2011. That's 4 years, compared to gen III's RS being released in 2003 in NA and then the last game of the generation being in 2005, that game being Emerald. Add 2006 in there as a gen III year since nothing was going on, and gen III lasted a good 4 years. I think Pokemon has been consistent with the timing, especially with 3rd versions and remakes coming in to fill the gaps between the start and end of generations. And then the spin offs fill in the even tinier cracks. So I think the timing is just right.
     
    Maybe the timing was just me since I bought both B / W from Japan and the US, I have done that since D / P / P I have all of those in both languages. And for the trading, I liked trading with my SP between the games, but I still think that there should have been a way to trade between the 2 gen. games, maybe there should have been another game to link the 2 gens. together?? Just my opinion.
     
    Maybe the timing was just me since I bought both B / W from Japan and the US, I have done that since D / P / P I have all of those in both languages. And for the trading, I liked trading with my SP between the games, but I still think that there should have been a way to trade between the 2 gen. games, maybe there should have been another game to link the 2 gens. together?? Just my opinion.
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    I got Japanese BW and Japanese SoulSilver...still didn't feel too rushed. I liked being ahead of the rest of the country haha. But Gen III had so many more changes to it than Gen II had compared to Gen I. Even if the hardware had been capable to connect Gen III to Gen II, the Pokemon's stats, IVs, etc would be a hot mess. Let's not forget that natures were not present in Gen II.

    But there is a good solid 4 years between each generation it seems. Pre-ordering is what throws you off, I'm sure. It kinda gets me too, but then I remember "oh well BW came out here in March hurr durr."
     
    I loved being ahead of every one also, and every thing we could do before them and not to mention all the events I can get with the Japanese games that all others cannot get!! :)
     
    Black and White may have been rushed but we don't know how long in production it was in so really can't say it had ample time to work with. Four years is definitely at antiquate amount of time between generations. Too me they can only spread out variations of Spin Offs so long during a generation until even then the new games are just drab and it's time for a shoot of newness. I bet a extended generation would also make aspects of the game boring after awhile as well, like traders getting sick of trading cause there is nothing new to trade after years of the same thing or competitive battlers are sick of the same metagame or little to no change in their current metagame.

    Also when you think of prolonged games you got to think of the other aspects of the franchises like the Anime, Manga, TCG. I really can't see an Anime Saga run 4+ then go to a huge filler arc that would be at least or maybe around twice as long as Battle Frontier and Orange Islands. I would personally love it since it would give Characters and pokemon alike more chance for in depth character and battle development as well as a good chance to re-meet past characters. But other fans may want something new out of the series. Manga I don't know how that would fare since it already takes then long enough to produce a single chapter of the manga I doubt they would be affected too much. TCG I haven't played with Pokemon Cards since 98/99 so I honestly can't say how a extra long period between generations would affect it, but I doubt they would want the same or similar cards and card metagame for a long period of time.
     
    Kenshin5 said:
    Black and White may have been rushed but we don't know how long in production it was in so really can't say it had ample time to work with.
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    Well apparently they were started right after DP were finished, so around whenever that was until sometime before the Japanese release is my guess.
     
    No, there was plenty of time between the two games... enough for HG/SS to come out in the interim and run its course.

    I still don't see why we couldn't trade between 4th and 5th gen games utilizing a similar system to 1st and 2nd gen trading in G/S/C. And B/W definitely do feel rushed despite ample time between the games... too many things were left out or made worse, mechanics-wise in those games.
     
    It was bad timing brought on by how the DS lasted much longer than the Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Advance did.

    If we go back early 2010 around when the 3DS was announced, BW has been in development for the DS for years, well before Nintendo publicised their plans to release a new system to anyone. So there's been a lot of time and money invested by Game Freak into making this game, and it's nearly done. They want to get it out of the door within a good time before the 3DS actually comes out - you don't want one of your biggest games of the year to be overshadowed by the release of the next console.

    As to your other point, Game Freak uses each new generation to do some more re-writing to how the game stores Pokémon data. Pokémon that are native to a Gen IV game can't be directly transferred to Black and White without the game doing a bit of conversion to the data which is what occurs while you're setting up the Pokéshifter. Couple this with the fact that they add new moves to old Pokémon, new abilities (this is important) to old Pokémon and do some tweaking to move strength/effects anyway it's just not worth it to get the Gen IV and V games to talk to each other like that when you can transfer Gen IV Pokémon data across a lot easier.
     
    Elite Overlord LeSabre™ said:

    I still don't see why we couldn't trade between 4th and 5th gen games utilizing a similar system to 1st and 2nd gen trading in G/S/C. And B/W definitely do feel rushed despite ample time between the games... too many things were left out or made worse, mechanics-wise in those games.
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    This was really what I wanted to say, if they would have waited for the release of B / W and possibly came out with a game to link the 4th and 5th gens. together, I would have liked that better, I do like trading pokes from one gen. to another and having all of my pokes on one or the other gen. games, but there are traders and battlers out there that are still just on the 4th gen. games, like I have 4th gen. pokes that people want, and they want them for 5th gen. pokes, I can't do that, maybe their might be in discussions in Japan for another game?
     
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