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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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As I said in the locked thread, only thing I can think of is that they did it to balance Dynamax.
I'd guess for some their stats could've been too high for how they implemented it.
I'd guess for some their stats could've been too high for how they implemented it.
This is by design. Their excuse is that in HD Pokémon are so "expressive" and with so many, "battle balance" is hard to maintain. They're not going to change this.
You don't need to innovate when you sell regardless. People would need to stop buying pokemon before anything happens.
hot take prediction: there will unfortunately be very few Sinnoh Pokemon available because they are being saved for the gen four remakes
sucks for me, because the gen four squad are some of my favorites ;__;
sucks for me, because the gen four squad are some of my favorites ;__;
I've already been burned too many times by the post Gen 5 games. Maybe they'll get their act together with SuperSword or whatever but I'm not spending $60 for this.
This would be a stupid reason, they could just change how Dynamaxing works.
Honestly this has just made the wait for the 3rd version much easier. They need to reveal something massive to get me back in.
Ha ha
Game Freak doing DLC for something other than a random event Pokemon? Boy you must be crazy.
Ha
Ha ha
Game Freak doing DLC for something other than a random event Pokemon? Boy you must be crazy.
While i agree it sells, Marginal Sales are a thing, and if the whole BOTW budget only requires 200 million to break even, I'm sure an additional amount equal to BOTW budget would do wonders in increasing sales beyond the natural point.
When 807 Pokemon are available in Sun/Moon, what's the excuse here? They use the same models.
Same boat. im tired of giving them the benefit of doubt. for XY: "oh, first 3d games, first time on the 3ds. they'll get better" then RS remake: "oh, its a remake, there's only so much they can do." SM/US/UM: "man. im really sick of getting interupted from the game play every 30 seconds by shit story and the pokedex"
first time i didn't finish the game. im honestly questioning if i should bother with these games.
At this point, if they truly have no intention of letting you transfer in every Pokemon from here on out, just make an official battle simulator and put it in Home. If you have to catch any particular Pokemon at least once and transfer to register it, fine, but don't set me up to spend hundreds of hours working on competitive Pokemon and hope they happen to get into the next game.
At least gen III had a good excuse because they changed everything in the codes in Hoenn's pokemons...
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Yikes, especially when you consider that Taijiri said that one of the main appeals of Pokemon is that players have the freedom to play the games however they wanted.
cant imagine them going that route. its not something they can sell another copy or two of every year...
If I did I would've stuck to playing Showdown exclusively ages ago.
I'd obviously prefer to do everything in game, but if that's what it came down to, yes. Though this:
Is a very fair argument
I'm not even expecting Pokémon Home looking particularly awesome.
I see many people having high expectations with it, but I was assuming it would be just an upgraded Pokémon Bank with the pixelated menu sprites. I don't think they will even show the 3D models. That would mean they implemented the 809 models there but couldn't include them in SwSh somehow? It just doesn't make sense to me.
But we'll see...
I think that would be a good solution for me (Pokemon PvP is actually a great fit for mobile) but I think it'll cannibalize the main games too much. Can't see them doing that.
this probably will be like generation iii, where sword and shield plus the sinnoh remakes encompass the whole national dex
I bet they charge for Home separate from Bank and then give a notice that Bank will be shutting down in 2020 so even though SwSh won't have all of the Pokemon we'll be forced to buy into Home unless we want our collections to be lost forever.
If Home is where your Pokemon can battle I can still see the main games working off that. Like let's say you can send over your old Pokemon not in SS and in Home they can battle them, but don't have access to new stuff.
Then like for example DP Remakes come out and you can get all the Pokemon not in SS, now with the ability to get them new moves and Abilities.
Maybe a cheap way of getting more bucks but I think it could work.
That's my expectation so far. If not Home I do think we'll get a "global" Gen VII battle simulator.
Then like for example DP Remakes come out and you can get all the Pokemon not in SS, now with the ability to get them new moves and Abilities.
Maybe a cheap way of getting more bucks but I think it could work.
That's my expectation so far. If not Home I do think we'll get a "global" Gen VII battle simulator.
While some of the Sword and Shield footage looked cool, this has me really disappointed. I might just keep all of my Pokémon in the current gen games at this rate.
I would hope that this means they kick out the baby Pokémon for this game to maximize the number of good available Pokémon but I doubt it.
I would hope that this means they kick out the baby Pokémon for this game to maximize the number of good available Pokémon but I doubt it.
They mentioned direct trading from Home when they announced it, but actual battles is definitely a longshot
Boohoo, patches exist. It's their own damn fault for not wanting to add content to Pokemon games post launch. Home doesn't even come out until next year, they don't even need all of the Pokemon to be in the game at launch. If they don't have time to get them all in for launch and chose not to add them in patches then they are completely at fault here.
But honestly, there is zero reason why they shouldn't be able to get them all in at launch, the models, animations and everything else are done. Unless their engine is horrible it would be easy outsource work that they could absolutely afford.
Undertandably, he said it himself in an interview he was trying his hardest for us to not have another Gen 3 situation.
I think delaying SwSh is for the best. DPP managed it, SwSh can too.
The most baffling thing is, hes the one who unveiled Pokémon Home at the Pokémon conference! Hes the one who brought up how weve been taking stuff forward since the GBA. And now weeks later hes got this downer news. Its weird as hell
It means that people who played other games and want to get their old pokemon to the new game won't be able to do so if the pokemon isn't in the dex of the new region. And the dex of a new region is only a fracture of what the total Pokemon count is. So a lot of people are screwed in that regard.
Is this that much of a problem?
I mean, we all know all our favorites* will be in!
*applies only to generation 1, includes all of generation 1.
Yeah shitty move, but at least I haven't completed a dex since gen 2 nd it might force me to use other mons if I cant use my 6IVs Aegislash and Protean Greninja.
I mean, we all know all our favorites* will be in!
*applies only to generation 1, includes all of generation 1.
Yeah shitty move, but at least I haven't completed a dex since gen 2 nd it might force me to use other mons if I cant use my 6IVs Aegislash and Protean Greninja.
Here's a thought...
Do you think Alolan Pokemon and or possible Galar Pokemon in SS means their regular forms also made the cut?
Like we're not gonna have Cubone and Marowak, but locked out of Alolan Marowak? Or if say there's like Galarian Venomoth, regular Venomoth should make the cut?
Do you think Alolan Pokemon and or possible Galar Pokemon in SS means their regular forms also made the cut?
Like we're not gonna have Cubone and Marowak, but locked out of Alolan Marowak? Or if say there's like Galarian Venomoth, regular Venomoth should make the cut?
I kind of got that sense as well, but they described it as a "new direction" for Pokemon games going forward.
Not gonna lie this isn't as devastating to me as I thought it would be. I think it makes the metagame interesting to have a lot of pokemon not make the cut, we are used to the same pokemon dominating every generation since gen 6, about 6 years now, i'm excited to see what will happen now
I also hope they decide to add more pokemon after release, like a hoenn pack or something (should be free unless it comes with other new content)
I also hope they decide to add more pokemon after release, like a hoenn pack or something (should be free unless it comes with other new content)
Part of me honestly expects dataminers to find the missing Pokemon in the files for compatibility and Game Freak only has them disabled to force us to buy future games. This is how jaded Game Freak is making me.
We don't know it won't be updated with patches, to be fair.
And yes there is reason.
I'm completely expecting it. Else, why is it not just Bank on Switch? Why does Home exist, why isn't it just a new version of Bank like everyone was expecting? seems like just an excuse to charge people twice if they want to transfer they're Pokémon from 3DS (needing to pay for Bank & Home). Since like the entire point of Bank in the first place when it was announced was everything they're saying about Home now.
Hope I'm wrong about that, but I'm just really skeptical about all of this and expecting much the same (also despite what they say now, totally expecting the same to eventually happen to Pokémon Home itself and whatever comes after the Switch to have its own new thing as well, just like we're going from Bank to Home now).
What can be even done about this realistically?
Nintendo won't let them delay this. They already lost AC and that would be too big of a hint. No way delays happen now.
That was basically Generation 3.
Granted you couldnt transfer over old Pokemon bit everyone was in from the get-go and couldnt be legit got without buying additional games.
I actually enjoyed that Generation a ton partially for that reason.
Less than a week after revealing a perfect system of storing and transferring pokemon they pull this.
To everyone defending this, no one is saying its easy to upscale textures. The simple fact is they already modeled and animated every pokemon/form years ago in preparation of long term use. There really is no excuse for this.
EDIT: and you know all original 151 will make the cut.
To everyone defending this, no one is saying its easy to upscale textures. The simple fact is they already modeled and animated every pokemon/form years ago in preparation of long term use. There really is no excuse for this.
EDIT: and you know all original 151 will make the cut.
If they were planning on adding them in patches they would have said that to stop the backlash they had to have known would be coming.
And no, don't even try to defend this. There is zero excuse, the majority of the work is done and if they don't personally have the time they can afford to outsource it.
I also don't think they'd delay Sword and Shield because Pokemon is a heavily merchandised series and they likely have lots of merchandise planned for November.
For one they've got the Sword and Shield anime coming and they're not gonna delay the games after setting a date and likely beginning to work on the show.
Any fix to the issue is going to be post-launch.
For one they've got the Sword and Shield anime coming and they're not gonna delay the games after setting a date and likely beginning to work on the show.
Any fix to the issue is going to be post-launch.
Man, I don't even want the games to be delayed. Just start patching them in... It really doesn't have to be this way
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