I bet Kanto will be the only complete generation that's safe.
Every new set of games until now (excluding last year's Let's Go titles, which were seemingly exceptions to the rule at the time) have contained data for every previous game's Pokémon. That way, even if a particular Pokémon isn't obtainable in the new game on its own, you could still transfer it forward from the previous games.
Yes, i'm sure insulting people will do a fantastic job of turning the tide on this reaction.
Wait, so then this is legit? We really are never getting all Pokemon in a single game ever again until they change policies?
Game Freak is really thinking that this is a good idea???
EXIT: Oh shoot I didn't see that ArchedThunder posted it already sorry.
Of course they won't cut evolutions for included Pokémon.
A decision like this isn't made lightly so I imagine they're firm on their stance, so they wont
Can we riot outside the HQ now? This is even worse!Wait, so then this is legit? We really are never getting all Pokemon in a single game ever again until they change policies?
Game Freak is really thinking that this is a good idea???
EXIT: Oh shoot I didn't see that ArchedThunder posted it already sorry.
why? again, how is it unreasonable to expect them to keep bringing them forward when everything is future proofed?
And you can tell that Masuda didn't want this.
They could totally cut evolutions, at least special ones such as stone-based... they just don't make the stones available, and voila! No need to include the evolutions.
It makes me wonder what's going on at GF. He should feasibly have the power to ensure this dosen't happen, so why does it?
I'd be more worried about that if there was a serious mechanical change. I think more people would understand their decision if they weren't still using the same models with the same animations.
Nah, even some of them are getting cut. Bye, Jynx.
He might have absolute power over GameFreak, but they're just one cog in the multimillion dollar machine that brings the franchise to life. They probably had a hard deadline from TPCi, and this is the only way to meet it.
The franchise.
That's one of the things data miners will probably be able to tell you if that's on the cards when they get their hands on the game. It doesn't seem like something GF would do, but if it was actually a late decision like Joe speculates there may be some hope for it.
MonHunMons are a lot more complicated too though. If you strip out the minigames etc all you need for a Pokemon is a 3D model, 5-8 animations and some data tables.
Probably not unlikely, execs putting profit above all else.
I think this was the kobayashi maru.
Only because GF is obscenely understaffed, and yet again they had all the models and animations ready.
No need to kill pokémons for that, just disallow some pokémons in competitive setting like they have always done
They don't
It already happens with what you find in the wild, no need to erase species from existance for that. It's not worth it for some nebulous "uniqueness" (that is obtained by being subpar at that)
It was universally praised despite the severely reduced number of monsters available, and it happened because of moving to HD and different mechanics, that in the case of pokémon happened with XY where they already did hi-res models of everyone specifically to have them adequate for future installments.
I always dread what Game Freak comes up with for good reason
Funnily enough it has the same solution
Mawile is one of the hardest hit by the removal of Megas so I don't know whether they will
I have given my fair share of backlash and tbh im not really part of the gamefreak defence force. All I'm trying to say is that i get why they might've done this and it would have happened sooner rather than later anyway. I think they should have started doing this sooner so that way we could get more new Pokemon and probably more stuff to do with existing ones.
Unless they have a time machine or can freeze time except for a local area
Be like Kirk and cheat?
