Today marks the 15 year anniversary of Pokemon Black and White releasing in North America. What are your memories of playing Gen 5 for the first time?
I got spoiled on all the Pokemon from the Japanese release. The game was fine but pretty underwhelming compared to gen 4 desu
>they made an Ice Cream Pokemon?>A chandelier pokemon?I ended up putting them on my teamI played a japanese ROM before launch and didn't understand shit
>>59020266I enjoyed pre-release season here, eagerly awaiting the dump of the Japanese rom, and then waiting for translators to do a hack job so people had a rough idea of what was actually going on.
>>59020266>saw the cococoro pages about the new unova pokemon back in 2010 on a webcomic website>remember getting hyped for the game, especially after hgss being so good>bw finally releases in north america, think it's a good game, but not as good as hgss>end up not getting b2w2 until a month after it releases due to this, oh man was i missing out>love b2w2 to bitsEven now B2W2 are in my top 3. BW, probably in my top 10.
>>59020266Relic castle, route 10, and Lacunosa town are the only good memories I have about BW, the only games I didn't feel like playing again until now...
>>59020266I pirated the JP rom as soon as the antipiracy was patched out. I couldn't read moonrunes so I had to guess and check my way through the game. In a weird way it felt a lot like my first playthrough of Gen 1 as a kid.>Pokemon wants to learn a new move!>What does it do?>Oh well, only way to find out is learn it and use it in battle.Status moves and buffs and and debuffs were a mystery (remember, there was no in game way to check your stats raises mid battle until Gen 7).Also because I couldn't read what the NPCs said, I basically just had to walk around and talk to every NPC to find my way through the game. There was a huge sense of exploring the unknown that, again, I hadn't felt since Gen 1. I'm not sure I could enjoy a game like that again in the modern age. In college I had all the free time in the world to bumble my way through a game slowly; my free time is a lot more limited now. Still, it was a fun experience. Gen 5 is probably my favorite Gen overall.
Didn't play on release, didn't touch it until a few months before XY. Never kept up with news so didn't know anything besides the starters and the city based on NYC. So when I finally played I didn't know the mons and didn't know what to expect. Everything was new and I even lost a battle. I fucking loved it. Like playing Pokémon for the first time again.
>>59020266I'm playing it now for the first time, with the Volt White romhack, which makes it a very different game than vanilla, but I'm enjoying the underlying game much more than what I remember of Diamond. I'd dropped Pokemon after Gen 4 since I'd felt it had gotten too stagnant and the designs were getting worse. Gen 5 doesn't change too much, but I like the animated sprites and the seasons mechanic is interesting, I think it could be a staple along with day/night cycles. A lot of the Pokemon designs are ugly and unappealing, but there are plenty that I genuinely like so I can easily make a team using only new mons.
>>59020266>didn't I just do this tutorial>this guy talks a lot>this story is really bad
>>59020266>BW>Thought the visuals were cool, especially castelia and the animated sprites>Liked seeing all these new pokemon>Thought N being the final boss was cool>Enjoyed fucking around with my action replay after beating it, changing seasons and probably using walk-through-walls since I liked exploring the mystery zone in Platinum>In total didn't like it as much as the other games but had fun>BW2>Though it was nice I could get mareep early since ampharos was one of my favorite pokemon at the time (coincidental to the OP)>Proceed to meet Alder for the first time and look around the little town that's there>Just get fucking bored and drop the game there>Only return to it before XY released just to finish it, probably did like half of the gyms before importing my level 100 BW team to get it done already>However I did think Colress was coolI maintain that BW is better than BW2 to this day
>>59020266Played for the first time ever today, saved at nacrene since the faggot army is blocking pinwheel forestShitmon bonanza thus far, not too impressed
>>59020266I also thought a lot of the new pokemon were really ugly
>>59020266BURUNGERU!
>>59020266Dewott
>>59020721it’s so weird how they just randomly made a 2 stage water starter line and then never did it again
Played it on an emulator around when gen 6 started. I liked the pokemon but the 3d2d graphics really bothered me. Plus the region and storyline did not grab me like KINNOH did.
>>59020266I've never played gen 5. I do jack off to Hilda alot though if that counts.
>ugly graphics>gym leaders have 3 mons, no EVs and shitty movesets>story is scared to actually elaborate something, munna kick summerize this>cut features for a dead online flash game>hallway>good music>N is a good character>lots of cool designs>great engine>shit online/c-gear systemHuge downgrade from HGSS, still it introduced my favorite designs
>>59020266>What are your memories of playing Gen 5 for the first time?Bewildered disappointment and exasperated disgust
>>59020266I remember watching Let's Play of a guy who had gotten a Japanese copy of BW and I got spoiled before the game even came out. I forgot the channel's name but I named my Tepig after his Blitzen named Cole, which he let go and reunited with later on Victory Road.
>>59020266i bought a used copy and didn't know i had to delete the old save file to make a new one. got all the way up to nacrene city and lost everything.i caught everything i could and switched out my team constantly, which meant that by the time i got to the elite 4 almost everything was too underleveled to use. i did, however, have an overleveled seismitoad that i cherished dearly. i ended up trading some mons from a nearly-complete game on black 2 to beat the league, before trading that team back to black 2 to beat the league there.good times.
>>59020266>What are your memories of playing Gen 5 for the first time?An odd sense of satisfaction, in a way that made it so I didn't feel the need to play Pokemon games again until Legends. I was genuinely happy with making them my last games until they shook up the formula.
>>59020266Was my introduction to Pokemon. My cousin was playing at a sleepover and he explain the mechanics as best as he could to 8 year old me. I vividly remember finding the idea of Samurott learning a Bug move in X Scissor weird but cool.
>>59020536many such cases
it was almost cool but it made so many baffling fucking decisions that place it firmly in the midtier
I remember being on /vp/ and hordes of newfags all appearing because they had avoided any news relating to the games in 2010 (also /vp/ got posted a lot on FurAffinity or something around 2011 which brought in hordes of furries from what I remember seeing around that time). I posted a "spoiler" that N was in fact a Zoroark (Z = N rotated) and that it was impersonating Ghetsis' dead son the entire game, which some people believed and got pissed off over.On the actual day, I dropped by EB Games to pick up both Black and White and the hardcover collector's guide and then went to the US for the day, played later that day but I remember feeling like this was some watered down runner up version released 6 months after the real version and all the actual hype the year before, a feeling I have never been able to shake when it comes to localizations released a significant time later.
