Me lol.
Sold the game early somehow for the price I bought it at, but kept the steelbook.
Glad to see a reasonable response to this.
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Pokémon Sword and Shield Expansion Passes announced. 'Isle of Armor' coming June 2020 and 'The Crown Tundra' Fall 2020 (New 'mons, new areas) - US$30
- Thread starter Xavi
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Sold the game early somehow for the price I bought it at, but kept the steelbook.
I have about 15 bucks of Gold Points, guess I'll give myself and my kids some nice treat today. Still hoping that the update makes G-Max Pokemon easier to catch, i don't have time for such a timesink ...
Alright, keeping an eye out. Thank. ^^
Alright, keeping an eye out. Thank. ^^
true but I rather get the dlc and explorer the new place and Catch them myself and trade to those who don't have them
I thought for trailers that were almost entirely concept art they were pretty good trailers. They managed to really grab my interest. Not enough to go and slap $30 down right away but I thought what little they showed looked quite promising.
We can't have all good things, just be glad it wasn't only negative news in the first place
...thought this was just supposed to be a teaser about the upcoming DLC contents. Guess they showed off everything already - bummer.
Shit looks great!
Pros:
- New Regions! That's what I want from expansions.
- the mythical GALAR forms look awesome!
- Free camera all the way through! (?)
- I like the the art direction for these expansions
Cons:
- Are the returning old Pokémon going to be available in the Wild Area for the non-DLC buyers? Otherwise it foes indeed feel like they are selling old Pokémon as part of the DLC, which doesn't feel right.
Overall, I have a very positive impression of all of this. Unfortunately I missed watching the whole of the livestream (and without sound to boot), so I'm waiting for the Direct to be uploaded so I can rewatch it.
Pros:
- New Regions! That's what I want from expansions.
- the mythical GALAR forms look awesome!
- Free camera all the way through! (?)
- I like the the art direction for these expansions
Cons:
- Are the returning old Pokémon going to be available in the Wild Area for the non-DLC buyers? Otherwise it foes indeed feel like they are selling old Pokémon as part of the DLC, which doesn't feel right.
Overall, I have a very positive impression of all of this. Unfortunately I missed watching the whole of the livestream (and without sound to boot), so I'm waiting for the Direct to be uploaded so I can rewatch it.
Usually Directs for a single game or franchise have a lot more content than that, especially when most of it was concept art or vague descriptions. Could have been in a regular direct, or they should have waited longer.
That's my issue. I'm not saying that was shown wasn't good.
About the con, i think non-pass-owners can't catch them, but can get them by trade or Home.
Looks like both areas and the other content are in the Expansion Pass, but either version of Sword and Shield have their own. So if you own both games, you need to buy both passes, but the Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra are both in the Expansion Pass.
The old Pokemon can be obtained via trades or Home for people without the DLC.
For people saying "30 to get the old Pokemon back"
Just transfer them in via Home or Trading. You can still get them, but you just can't find them in the wild.
Just transfer them in via Home or Trading. You can still get them, but you just can't find them in the wild.
Sounds really cool, my wife will be excited.
"It should've been in the base game" complaints about DLC are still baffling after almost 15 years.
"It should've been in the base game" complaints about DLC are still baffling after almost 15 years.
Well, nothing says it would have been better either with USUM being the last time they tried (which I actually kinda like anyway but still a far cry from the likes of Emerald and Platinum).
That was the entire point of your snarky comparison mate. What are you on.
The expansions look super rad, but I hope they don't kill off the third versions. They were awesome
Yeah. I like 3rd versions because they tend to tighten up the campaign with them. Sucks that we'll never see those issues resolved but oh well at least we're getting cool post game stuff
It looks like some of them will
You could also just transfer them from Pokemon Home or whatever or even get them from trades
I think they handled this relatively well for those who want their pokemon back but dont want to buy the expansion
Uh oh. Another person who didnt bother to watch the video
Will more pokemon being shown retroactively get rid of all the blatant Gen 1 favoritism?
Because I don't think that's how it works.
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Well done Gamefreak, I'm impressed that you went through this route. Best of luck to the development team, I hope they give us an entertaining expansion pack.
There's a different director for these expansion passes, neither would have made it into the base game.
I'm all for that if it means that these expansion passes deliver on quality.
Well done Gamefreak, I'm impressed that you went through this route. Best of luck to the development team, I hope they give us an entertaining expansion pack.
There's a different director for these expansion passes, neither would have made it into the base game.
I'm all for that if it means that these expansion passes deliver on quality.
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For your Con, they won't be avialable but you can trade them using HOME. You don't need to buy the pass to get the 200 pokemon
If they are allowing the 200 new pokenon to be brough for free i cant criticize GF for that.
And you will be able to trade with those who have the pokemon. For people whose main concern was dexit this seems like a big step.
And you will be able to trade with those who have the pokemon. For people whose main concern was dexit this seems like a big step.
Definitely a better way to go at it with a third version. Excited, and really hope the exploration focus in Crown Tundra turns out well.
Curious what the level curve is gonna look like for the two new areas. With the wild area mons getting to level 60 in the post-game that seems like it'll have to be the bottom for Isle of Armor? Meanwhile I got a team at lvl 100 for hypertraining and all that. 😆
Yeah I think Gamefreak will feel less pressure to try to cram as much as they can into the base game knowing that they have the DLC option
And that definitely seems to have happened here, though I'm okay with the SwSh base game this time
While it does suck that all the new forms (other than the Galarian starter G-Maxes) are Kanto I don't think that means that's all we'll get, we'll probably get reveals for more in the coming months.