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188 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 7th 2012 at 5:49 PM Shelagh Conroy I love the Biggest Loser reference to Bob and Jill! That is brilliant, keep up the good work, David and Justin. It adds another fun layer to this game! How many other references can you find?
16 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 7th 2012 at 6:42 PM Tara Scarlett Would the cemetery behind the store in New Haven count? Or is that technically an internal reference?
886 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 7th 2012 at 6:58 PM David Whittaker (CNE Dev) You really can't get there from here :)
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 7th 2012 at 11:29 PM Last Edited January 7th 2012 at 11:31 PM Nate Dauer The game is crawling with references to Pokemon, but unlike most Pokemon-like games, this one doesn't try to put up a facade to convince us that it's really not based on Pokemon. The game is filled with references saying "yeah, we got the idea from Pokemon, we're not going to lie about it". As opposed to what other games have said: "We're not based on Pokemon, now please choose a starter from these 3, one is a fire type, one is a water type, and one is a grass type." "We're not based on Pokemon, when your monsters reach a certain level they evolve." Evolve is a big one, since the process is, in fact, never evolving, and Pokemon's labeling of the process as evolution was a mistake that they ultimately decided to go with anyways. If these other games truly weren't based on Pokemon, then they wouldn't have made the same mistake. While a rapid physical body change in a creature can go by many terms, depending on the type of creature it is, "metamorphosis" is one of the more common types, as well as that process that dinosaurs were recently discovered to go through (as dinosaurs grow older, their bone structure changes). /nerd rant
188 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 8th 2012 at 9:28 AM Shelagh Conroy I never played Pokemon or knew anything about it so I won't get any of the Pokemon references LOL
21 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 8th 2012 at 10:58 AM Last Edited January 8th 2012 at 10:58 AM Steve Ersek Chrono trigger, House, and I'm not sure if the rival is a pokemon reference or just a generic mocking of any rival in any game. I thought I saw a dr. who reference but I was playing swtor last night and it may have been in there.
49 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 9th 2012 at 3:19 PM Rebecca Miles Chrono Trigger with the waking up, going to the fair, and the teleporter. Loled and my hubby asked why. If there was a Dr. Who reference I'm disappointed I missed it.
21 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 9th 2012 at 3:26 PM Steve Ersek I may be thinking bush whacker.
4 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 11th 2012 at 9:36 AM Adam Reilly I caught the Dr. Hows and laughed a little :)
66 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 11th 2012 at 9:59 AM Geoff Riley Anyone checked out the little plaque on the statue outside the big top at the fairground?
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277 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 21st 2012 at 11:58 PM Bill Beard Pokemon's Team Rocket (Jessie & James) are in the Vale Guardian Center.
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 24th 2012 at 12:22 PM Last Edited January 28th 2012 at 8:14 AM Nate Dauer The boy scout who blocks the path southward of New Haven says "A Challenger Approaches!" This is the line always stated in Super Smash Bros. Brawl whenever you're about to unlock a new character. Edit: (he actually says "A Challenger Appears!", so I guess it's not a reference to Brawl) :[
2 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2012 at 12:40 PM James Thompson New Haven, is the first place you visit in Borderlands, it is also the second largest city in Connecticut ,the home city of Yale University. i'm a huge fan of Borderlands, so i thought it was kinda funny!!!
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 27th 2012 at 3:02 PM Nate Dauer It's actually probably a reference to BW's town - Haven. The Whiny Trainer in the Deep Forest says he was going to Vale to pick up some power converters. "But I was going to go to the Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!" is a line from Star Wars.
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 28th 2012 at 8:09 AM Nate Dauer So there's a trainer named "Unshaven Trainer" near the fortune teller's tent. When I saw him, I immediately thought "he looks an awful lot like George Lucas..." I went up to talk to him and this is what he said: "I've got this great idea for a movie! It's like a space opera, but set in a long, long time ago, in a far away galaxy."
52 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 28th 2012 at 1:30 PM Jean-Luc King this games is like miscrits with the team amount that you can have for battling at once 4
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 28th 2012 at 2:32 PM Nate Dauer If you think that fact is a reference to Miscrits, you're very mistaken. 4 is a very common number for RPG "teams" to have in general. Miscrits is a lot less original than their creators try to claim it is. In the pink house in the NW part of New Haven, a girl tells you about legendary trainers like "Herman Oak". Professor Oak is a very important character in the original Pokemon games. Guardian Master Bob's role in the game serves more or less the same role Professor Oak did.
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 28th 2012 at 3:07 PM Nate Dauer The George Lucas trainer, when you challenge him, exclaims "It's a trap!" a la Admiral Ackbar. When you beat him, he yells "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" a la Darth Vader.
741 Posts	Link to post - Posted January 29th 2012 at 7:35 PM Nate Dauer Heh, the third form of Orkkid looks kind of like a Cthulhu. Note: You cannot actually own one of these yet, but if you own an Orkhan and go to it's entry in the Database, you can view what the third form will look like.

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