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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
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Didn't Ohmori also direct ORAS first before taking over for Gen 7?
The legendary bird trio all look like they replaced flying type with dark. Yes, two of them still have wings and fly, but whatever.
You're kinda contradicting yourself. If you can acknowledge that the game was "rushed and under delivered" then it's not too much of a stretch to see why people would feel like the game is unfinished no? The latter half of the game feels like a straight line and some of the towns don't even feel like towns. I wouldn't blame anyone for saying some of the towns in the game were unfinished so I can see why they'd say the game itself is unfinished.
If I paid for a game I felt was bare bones popped out with new DLC in the works a couple months later my initial grievances don't just disappear lol.
30 dollars for the Sword expansion pack and 30 dollars for the Shied Expansion pack. Both include the new expansions
More than one developer will tell you that developing for the 3DSand developing for the Switch are wildly different things.
They were obviously dodging the question because announcing the expansions before release would've been a PR nightmare. It's not the first time a developer says they don't have plans for a specific thing because they can't talk about it yet.
I hope they improve visibility in the wild area as well.
Sky beams to guide you wear to go don't really work when either.
A. Hammerlocke is blocking the view of a good portion of the Wild Area.
B. A Sandstorm, Hail or even just Fog makes them very hard to see.
Alright that's more reasonable. Still gonna wait for both expansions to drop first though
Right, but consider the following as well: developing those DLC ideas can very well be (in part) working out an idea that was at one point conceived but quickly left out of the production scope. Then, the DLC provides a good possibility to revisit that idea and work it out. As such, traces that refer to the DLC idea can surface without it indicating the work has already been done. Software development is a continuous process of considering which features are possible, which are necessary, and which are going to be shipped and which abandoned (at different stages of completion). The idea of the Ireland (I think?) featuring as the Isle of Armor in the Galar region could definitely have existed, but have been taken out of the scope early in the development process.
I better see Arle in Smash next week! I'm holding you onto this!
30 dollars gets you the isle of armor and the crown tundra DLC, for either Sword or Shield. If you want it for both games, you must buy the expansion pass twice (THAT is where the 'each' comes from).
Edit: Heh, I guess you know by now!
I'd then ask those same developers if they think developing for the PS2 is gonna be the same for the PS5. I'm just bored of all the excuses made for GF at this point, if it's not one thing it's another. People would blame the weather if they could.
I mean they probably just valued Morimoto more as a battle planner tbh.
Do you have a source or are trying to stay mad for no reason?
Wrong. In Pokemon X & Y (the last gen with a National Dex), there were over 700 Pokemon that were obtainable. And I have a living Pokedex in both games to prove it.
Unfortunately, Game Freak is not Nintendo.
Nintendo is Pokémon's producer, Game Freak is Pokémon's developer, both of them have a stake in The Pokémon Company, but they have different goals and different management teams.
Game Freak even makes games on non-Nintendo consoles.
So Game Freak getting money from Nintendo's Online subscription or offering free services for the subscription as if they were part of the company is unlikely.
They straight up said in the direct that all of the DLC regions will have the third person rotatable camera and generally be like the Wild Area, in fact.
Holy shit this has got to be a parody post or something lol, no way you're being serious, right?
This basically reads as "Hey guys it's ok if companies lie to us in our faces because they're covering their business strategies and will surprise us, so let them lie".
Ultimately the stuff GF revealed today is good news, but please let's not turn into brainless robots for no reason.
Right Right, I wasn't saying it confirms it, just stating that the ONLY piece of evidence I can see at all is about them trying to think of it when the game was still in production.
I wasn't trying to say it 100% points to it being factual but just how someone COULD deduce based on knowing the data beforehand. All in all though to me I still have more issues with what the game was released as versus arguing over "schemes" or "plots" to rip off people.
I have a lot of issues with SwSh but can still enjoy a lot of it too, but I feel too often the issues are handwaved and/or treated as asking too much when the game has a lot of problems. I just think arguing about game mechanics and design is more beneficial than going "THEY PLAYED US LIKE A FIDDLE!"
Isn't he still the Battle Director (arguable the best thing in the franchise)? Or am I mixing up my names ...
Could it be that all of this is playing a part in what happened?
That developing for the Switch requires much more of their time and resources and, therefore, they can't work on a big number of Pokémon like they previously could?
And that they have a strictly planned release pattern and therefore it's not so simple to just delay things?
No one is making up excuses here, people are saying how things usually go with Pokémon. Could it be different? Yes. Will it ever? It's anyone's guess. My original point still stands. No one was wrong for saying that working on all Pokemon was unsustainable, because the way Pokemon as an IP works makes it so, regardless of Game Freak adding another 200 more via patches.
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They said catchable. There are 595 obtainable Pokemon in XY.
Sure but then we get to why the accusations of the expansion pass selling back held back content being ridiculous.
What we're getting is two new areas with their own mini campaigns and objectives. The DLC isn't making Spikemuth into a city, or making Rose Tower into a dungeon, or adding scenes to flesh out the villains and putting them behind a paywall. At most you could say that these would've been nice for post game but I doubt whatever these would be would've been fleshed out as much if they weren't DLC.
It's not okay. But it happens everywhere all the time. Just how it is. And for something as trivial as pokemon (relative to the grand scheme of things) I'm okay with this.
Same reason why I have to come in in time but my bosses can slide in later. It's not okay. It's not fair. But you can go to HR if you want to if that's a hill you want to die on.
I really hope you're right. if they focus on creating an entire experience around the wild area, I might actually enjoy this dlc more than the main game.
I'm not hyped for this yet, but I could see myself getting it, which is more than I could have said about 24 hours ago. A new region to play around in is literally all I wanted with BotW DLC, and they didn't remotely deliver there. After that I had kinda similar but slightly lower expectations for whatever this might be, and I'm happy to be proven wrong here - Looks meaty.
I looking forward to watching the post-Direct discussion later today. Keep up the good work.
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I'm just happy to have my baby Gible/Garchomp back so I can use him instead of having to buckle and use Excadrill. I'm...just so tired of Excadrill.
To be honest, your original point stands as much as mine does.
This gen's design team needs to hold the spot down for a while
My derpy bird boys got a MAKEOVER
I love those designs a ton! Zapdos is the worst one, though.
I love those designs a ton! Zapdos is the worst one, though.
Definitely better imo.
regidragon will become an arm cannon and and regilectric will become wiiiings
zapdos looks great tho :(My derpy bird boys got a MAKEOVER
I love those designs a ton! Zapdos is the worst one, though.
Definitely better imo.
what's that black and white one in the moltres pic? possible shiny form?