I do seem to recall there were rumors floating around that Game Freak got super early access to 3DS devkits. That might be related.
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Only Pokémon in Galar Pokédex can be transferred to Sword & Shield from Pokémon Home; similar restrictions intended for subsequent titles
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This is something I was just thinking about too, we've been so focused on Game Freak being understaffed for what they do that we haven't brought up Creatures protentially being understaffed as well. Creatures works on the main series and side games and are even smaller than Game Freak. Both companies really need to expand.
Part of me is curious what a main series Pokemon game would be like if it was developed by a massively expanded Creatures instead of Game Freak with assistance from Creatures.
EDIT: Bulbapedia and Wikipedia don't even list Creatures as having worked on any of the Gen 7 games, did they just stop helping Game Freak?
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A lot of people were out of their minds. Mockups are easy too, just like the one that uses a BOTW background with no thought about how gameplay even functions at all.
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I don't even understand what that tweet is supposed to mean. Is that trying to resemble Wind Waker??
So, basically, Masuda is like, "I'm not gonna give you what you asked for. I'm gonna give you what I think you want."That quote is almost as bad as this one:
Pokemon Director Explains Why Series is Becoming Easier
"Rather than any actual feedback from players, it's more accepting the realities of modern life," Junichi Masuda says.www.gamespot.com
And the fans are like, "Uh, no. That's wrong. I'm not paying for this."
I'll just continue to dream about a new game by Morimoto and Unno. I've liked Masuda's games but since XY, I don't like where the series has headed. I think it's shitty to introduce a mechanic like Megas and then two gens later not know what to do with it, so it's just thrown out. Too many mega stones to account for and other such things. Dynamax looks alright but it looks to me like the same XY model with maybe some better rextures, blown up.
The comments from Masuda are ridiculous, too.
The comments from Masuda are ridiculous, too.
I have a feeling none of the starters from other regions will be in the Galar Dex. The champion is just special. He's gonna have a Charizard and you won't.
He'll probably give you a Charmander egg after you beat him or something.
Game Freak could have made their lives easier:
1. Just one Mega Stone for all pokemon.
2. Just one Z-Crystal for alls types and no signature Z-Crystals.
3. Consolidate evolution methods instead of having 16 different stones/magnetic fields etc.
4. Eliminate unnecessary alternate forms like the 2 million Spindas, the different colored butterfly thing, the male/female difference in Hippowdon etc.
There's a lot of stuff they could have condensed before eliminating half the roster...
Do a "Form Changer" item that changes forms of Pokemon that need items to change
Yeah the mysterious orb or whatever. Make compromises where it's not essential goddamnit haha
Cannot see the backlash dying anytime soon. For at least a good size of the hardcore fanbase, this news will overshadow any new information they share about the game. I know it will for me
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I'll forever be salty about the loss of megas. My Mawile, my Blaziken, I actually used Venusaur, RIP. Dynamix is garbage, only big pokemon I ever gave a shit about was that shadowy kaiju Dragonite in the anime.
Shit Mawile and Blaziken might not even be in, Venusaur is safe thanks to gen 1 favoritism.
So far this is looking like another gen I'll skip
Shit Mawile and Blaziken might not even be in, Venusaur is safe thanks to gen 1 favoritism.
So far this is looking like another gen I'll skip
I mean I don't think there's a need to cut any of that really, but let's start with that then cut out entire species...
145 pages, wow.
For something I, as a casual player who just plays through the game and that's it, really do not care about at all that's surprising. I do get the reasoning behind people being mad, I just can't recreate feeling like that for myself. To me, always playing with the same Pokémon is boring.
Alas, as long as criticism is constructive, I am fine with it. There just are too many people out there being way too rude about this. In the end, since it doesn't sound they will listen, there is only one out of two things, you can do:
1) Buy the game and see how you like the new competitive play. If that really was part of the reason they did not include all Pokémon that better be good.
2) Don't buy the game. Your wallet speaks the most clear language.
For something I, as a casual player who just plays through the game and that's it, really do not care about at all that's surprising. I do get the reasoning behind people being mad, I just can't recreate feeling like that for myself. To me, always playing with the same Pokémon is boring.
Alas, as long as criticism is constructive, I am fine with it. There just are too many people out there being way too rude about this. In the end, since it doesn't sound they will listen, there is only one out of two things, you can do:
1) Buy the game and see how you like the new competitive play. If that really was part of the reason they did not include all Pokémon that better be good.
2) Don't buy the game. Your wallet speaks the most clear language.
Yeah, some of their decisions don't make sense. Each game profile would only have one mega stone, and only Pokemon that are able to hold it, can. Solves that issue. Same as you said with Z-Crystals. Then take the time to eliminate one-use items for evolution purposes, and location based evolutions like miss rock and the magnetic area. Forme change location can be done in one room or through a single item that some crazy scientist in the game has made.
Buying this on day 1 given the current information is honestly out of the question. I mean as far as we know this could end up supporting less pokemon than Ruby and Sapphire. Unless it has really glowing impressions or some seriously impressive experiences then it doesn't make sense to buy a whole console for it like I was planning.
It's not even really that necessary when all of those are incredibly simple color swaps. The other stuff I agree with tho.
Also maybe limit Dynamax to just the Galar dex I dunno if that makes too much sense or what
I don't play Pokemon, but I was thinking about this: Wouldn't it have made way more sense for them to swap SS and Let's go around in terms of design? Why not have the big expiremental open world game be the one that has a perfect justification for limiting the number of Pokemon and have the hardcore entry be less ambitious but feature complete? Everything is ass backwards.
the people responsible for some of the best games only worked on 1-2 games except Ohmori. damn, man
my favourite of the lot are Emerald, Platinum, BW2, ORAS.
I believe Lets Go was using a different engine and made largely by a different team. Those games seemed designed to capitalize on how massive Pokemon GO is more than anything.
I thought it was built for a mobile engine originally? correct me if im wrong
Nope. That was people speculating because of how it looks.
I agree with this. 100% not going to be a day 1 buy now. I didn't buy Let's Go because it looked shallow to me (I own a copy of every mainline Pokémon game including importing Green from Japan) and will not buy this game because it is either rushed or lazy, or maybe even both. This was supposed to be their game for the hardcore fan (they've been saying this for two years now) and I have to imagine most of the people swearing off this game after this news are among the most hardcore fans. It's baffling to see how tone deaf Gamefreak are and how little they understand the most dedicated part of their audience
That middleware was just used for various graphical effects
That's fair. Especially if you don't own a Switch yet and there are no other games on the system that you want to play. I wouldn't buy a console only for these games either, truth be told. But I already own a Switch, so that problem doesn't occur for me.
Wow no wonder HG/SS is my favorite Pokémon game after Pokémon Silver they did so much and introduced so many great features
Masuda saying don't get to excited we'll ill just say don't be excepting my money. The man needs to go
Masuda saying don't get to excited we'll ill just say don't be excepting my money. The man needs to go
The same way new Megas, Ultra Beasts, etc. were patched into XY and SM? :P
And hype killing for some people, like me. I'm not even that much of a hardcore fan, but I do have attachments to some of the Pokemon that I've carried since 2005 and some Pokemon that just make me smile like Pumpkaboos.
This was my prediction, before we even knew what let's go was.
I even predicted it being 151 only.
I just completely flubbed on the spinoff being a casual focused game instead of the a core focused one.
Masuda co-directed Gold and Silver.
That's what I am thinking as well and hoping that's what they will do.
In X & Y I bred a perfect Slowbro and Golurk because I'd never used them before. It's always someone's first time using a Pokemon.
Incompatibility hasn't stopped Gamefreak before. They've introduced new forms (and new Pokemon in USM) mid-gen and not patched the the previous games.
Why patch the old games when you can make the new games more appealing to the consumer by marketing it as the way to get your favorites back?
That's totally different than patching in older Pokemon. They've never been in this situation before and I'm just asking myself from a business standpoint how they plan to do this for the rest of time. Eventually they will have all the older Pokemon made again. The question is whether or not they bother to patch them back in to older titles and I would imagine they'd decide to, unless they're going straight to gen 9 after swsh. I just don't see DPPt remakes as a part of gen 8 without more Pokemon being added and the games being made compatible, idk.
I mean, what is a generation anymore now that compatibility is thrown out the window? Since there's no base set of Pokemon that need to be in, we could jump straight into a new region with an entirely different set of creatures two years after it launches.
To be fair to them, 3DS patches weren't exactly intuitive
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