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[OPEN SPOILER] Now that the entire Sword/Shield Pokédex leaked, let's mourn the Pokémon that got Thanos-snapped by Game Freak [SEE STAFF POST]
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The responses in the first few pages indicate people underestimated how severe cuts would be and what Dexit really meant. Every Pokemon is someone's favorite. I guess you just assume your fav will make it in. I knew this would happen, as did many others, and people are finally realizing it lol.
Curious if people who wanted to buy won't anymore.
Curious if people who wanted to buy won't anymore.
That wasn't true for last gen. Could be the same again. We won't know for certain until the game gets data mined.
No, it's different this gen. They were very clear about it and there was a huge amount of controversy because of it. Game Freak was very clear that things are different than Sun and Moon.
The search function near as I can tell only goes back ten pages. So I suppose I can't give you what you want.
As a charizard fan, it brings me joy to see people being salty about charizard. Him and pikachu will be in my party, gen 1 pander to me all day babbyyy!!!
I'm not saying everyone's returning. I'm just saying the list could have errors.
They've already made it incredibly clear that, from this generation onwards, if you aren't in the regional Pokédex you aren't in the game full stop.
They said that the data of the cut pokemon isn't in the game, that was the cause of the uproar. If you could import them nobody would be mad.
That's the thing though. This franchise has made an unrealistic amount of money. More than any other media franchise out there, including ones that we consider to be behemoths. Franchises that make up for a majority of the top grossing movies of all time.
Yes, they are facing expectations no one has faced before, but they are making insane amounts of money that has never been made before. At what point do they take a step back, scale up development and spend more time on the games? Clearly the biggest franchise in the world can afford to make bigger, better games. The only things holding them back are time and money spent on development. Hire more team leads, more engineers, more artists. When other companies like google/Apple have demand scale up, they don't go "well this is the best we can do so guess we just won't meet the demand". They scale up and invest in more development, management and assets.
Magic: The Gathering Arena alone (not counting magic online which has around 20,000 cards) has over 2000 cards, and these all have rules interactions that are more complex than Pokémon. They don't have art (that's already made), but the programming involved with their interactions is challenging. Recently, they realized that the way they did data handling doesn't scale well when you add more and more cards (the paper development team add hundreds of new cards a year, each with unique art). So instead of saying "eh this is the best we can do we will just delete some old cards" they decided to refactor their code and hire more people. This is how companies operate.
It's missing Mew and probably at least one more mythical but otherwise that's the list.
This was literally the cause of this entire fandom war though. If a Pokémon isn't in the Galar dex, it isn't in the game period.
You don't think for a second they could have, say, a Mewtwo event. Or a gen 1 starter thing where you download Squirtle/Bulb? There are very strong possibilities of these things happening.
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They cut most of my original 151.
After buying and completing the pokèdex on Let's Go.
They're going to get my...money. I like Pokémon too much.
Crazy they're cutting super famous characters like Squirtle or Jigglypuff though. Never expected it. They are in freaking Smash.
After buying and completing the pokèdex on Let's Go.
They're going to get my...money. I like Pokémon too much.
Crazy they're cutting super famous characters like Squirtle or Jigglypuff though. Never expected it. They are in freaking Smash.
They have very explicitly said that they're not going to be doing this, and I see no reason not to take them at their word.
Sword/Shield was data mined? I thought there were just leakers who had physical copies of the game so far.
Are we still crying that gen I always get the attention when even the literal trash of gen V gets added and many gen I favourites dont?
Did they just create a huge wall of Pokémon pictures and throw darts? Some crazy popular Pokémon being gone is odd
Wait, Meltan and Melmetal aren't in?
Aren't they the first Gen 8 Pokemon revealed? How did they not make it into the Gen 8 game?
Aren't they the first Gen 8 Pokemon revealed? How did they not make it into the Gen 8 game?
After killing nuzlockes gamefreak also want to kill smeargle challenges
Everything to stop people from finding a challenge!
Yeah I still don't know about this. Do we know that they've done everything they could to try to expand the dex? In previous generations you needed to see every Pokémon before you were given the expanded dex. Maybe there's a reward for seeing/catching all the Pokémon? Maybe there are other Pokémon that don't register to the dex like the island scan in Gen 7? There's a lot we don't know
Just share the grief. This sucks for every single kind of Pokemon fan
I honestly don't believe it. They'll be adding Pokemon to the game as we go. I could easily see them giving us a way to obtain Meltan or some other newer mythicals nobody knows about yet.
competitive pokemon is finally getting the shake up it needed with certain pokemon being out! Good by landorus i wont miss u at all in competitive.
This will be my first Crobat-less gen :(
No more repetitive Zubat encounters :)
Some really weird omissions. Loads of missing fan favourites in this game. Like, no old starters except Charmander, Pikachu and Eevee is a bit rubbish. Everyone has at least one starter that's among their faves
No more repetitive Zubat encounters :)
Some really weird omissions. Loads of missing fan favourites in this game. Like, no old starters except Charmander, Pikachu and Eevee is a bit rubbish. Everyone has at least one starter that's among their faves
Mythicals are possible - but only because they might already be in the game, but not shown on the dex (they'll be at the end of the list, and won't be shown at all in the game until someone sees them at an event).
Anything else is impossible.
Pre-release gave off the impression of them giving Gen 1 a lot of preferential treatment. I mean, they're still giving the usual suspects (Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard) a lot of attention while even ignoring the rest of KANTO.