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Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu (Switch) announced; coming Nov 16th 2018
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I can see it comming from GF.
Pkm gen 8 on 3DS and fuck the Switch.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/al...le-in-development-for-switch-late-2019.45650/
See the second update in the OP
Can someone explain what the differences are between the 2 versions besides one being Pika and one Eevee? Is the story going to be different?
Also, i guess that Pikachu animation was real
Also, i guess that Pikachu animation was real
Gen 2 has you go back to kanto
Gen 3 has kanto remakes
Gen 4 has kanto a-fucking-gain and has a bunch of kanto evolutions as wel
Gen 6 has Megas which focused on kanto pokemon, and have you a gen 1 starter. Hell the first Pokémon you encounter in the wild is a pidgey. It's scripted.
Gen 7 has alolan forms for (you guessed it) only kanto pokemon.
You said it, there's over 800 Pokémon, so why do they continue to focus on only 150 of them.
So, I see Fosko is indeed finding loopholes. Disappointing. I was hoping he would own up to it after all this time. Oh well.
This is the core game that they talked about last year. Pokemon is done on 3DS.
So its basically a simplified version of iv's. So a Lv5 Pikachu with a higher CP is stronger than another which is Lv5 but has a lower CP?
Well this certainly is interesting
This feels more like what I wanted pokemon go on mobile to be
Ill give it a shot! Dropping random battles is weird.. Its going go drastically lower the focus on combat for sure and make leveling up tricky (i suppose youll refight trainers now)
Could be a positive change as well since it makes exploration less tedious but they could have just gone the route that bravely default did and let you toggle random encounters.
Either way im not opposed. Looks pretty and bring thinks back to 151 could hopefully lead to more well diverse and ecological designs going forward
This feels more like what I wanted pokemon go on mobile to be
Ill give it a shot! Dropping random battles is weird.. Its going go drastically lower the focus on combat for sure and make leveling up tricky (i suppose youll refight trainers now)
Could be a positive change as well since it makes exploration less tedious but they could have just gone the route that bravely default did and let you toggle random encounters.
Either way im not opposed. Looks pretty and bring thinks back to 151 could hopefully lead to more well diverse and ecological designs going forward
This wasn't what I was expecting, and it sure doesn't look like it's for me. Hard, hard pass on this.
I guess I'll pick up Ultra Sun or Moon and wait until next year.
I guess I'll pick up Ultra Sun or Moon and wait until next year.
Commercially speaking, I think the Let's Go games are brilliant. You have 800 million potential consumers to work on, and if Pokemon Go has proven us anything, is that a casual phenomenon can turn mobile user into mainline buyers.
The Let's Go games will function more as advertising games, and they should be seen as so. And I don't think they will be the last ones.
For the hardcore fans, you all have 2019 ahead. You guys should face LGP/LGE as financials endeavors to secure TPC's future and growth
The Let's Go games will function more as advertising games, and they should be seen as so. And I don't think they will be the last ones.
For the hardcore fans, you all have 2019 ahead. You guys should face LGP/LGE as financials endeavors to secure TPC's future and growth
The 2019 game is already pretty far into development, they're not going to make drastic changes like that based off the sales of Let's Go so late into development.
Not a fan of the details so far. I guess I'll be waiting for the 2019 release, as this feels more like a stop gap game of anything.
Ok you're on of these immature people. Good to know. Have a nice day ^^.
I'll discuss with people who do the same.
Yeah, probably. I don't recall Eevee ever being particularly popular until, for some reason, TPC started really heavily marketing it recently.
Agreed. I am more than happy to see gamers who are not like me at all getting games that appeal to them. Good.
It's for Nintendo Switch. They explicitly said so in the conference, Nintendo's press release says the games they announced at E3 2017 are referring to the 2019 games, and Game Freak already said they're done with 3DS as of Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon.
The lack of breeding, not being able to evolve your starter, and being limited to only the original 151, Alolan forms, and the one new Pokemon are all pretty big issues IMO.
It could be for both, switch and 3ds, would sell gang busters
This is what I'm leaning towards. It's why it is there for P2 even though P2 doesn't get their own items and aren't in control (they can't run but P1 can). It's a Help prompt, that will explain how to catch things in case you've forgotten/don't understand/are a new player.
EDIT: on closer look it seems that it says item for P2 not help. The pic I was looking at was bad plus my eyes are bad. Saw a better picture and it is Item not Help on P2. I'm an idiot.
Still think "help" is a tutorial thing not a "call for help from pokemon to fight" thing because the wild Pokemon don;t have HP.
Let's not forget that Pokemon Go is a free mobile game. Are a lot of these potential consumers going to want to spend $360 for another Pokemon game?
Honestly, I feel like people hoping for the 2019 game to be "real" Pokémon games are going to be disappointed.
What purpose there is to make two full rpg games with different mechanics? The 2019 game will probably take place in a new region with all Pkmn available, but it will probably Carry Let's Go gameplay.
I see Pikachu/Eevee as a gateway game for new people into the series. With just 151 to not overwhelm them. I can see them slowly patching the rest later.
What purpose there is to make two full rpg games with different mechanics? The 2019 game will probably take place in a new region with all Pkmn available, but it will probably Carry Let's Go gameplay.
I see Pikachu/Eevee as a gateway game for new people into the series. With just 151 to not overwhelm them. I can see them slowly patching the rest later.
Another issue could be micro transactions. Has it been addressed yet how you buy Pokeballs? Do you ONLY buy them with the money you win in game? Or will you need to top up your bank account to afford more balls because you run out of in game credits?
In mainline games you really don't need that many balls. To catch 90% of wild pokemon in a game takes 1 ball in GO it takes fucking hundreds half the time. And looking at the videos I see pokemon dodging your balls just like GO forcing you to waste balls. I wonder if they have increased the monetary rewards you earn from trainer battles in order to afford hundreds of balls it's going to take to catch everything.
I also don't like the fact that anyone who has GO will already have a complete DEX by transferring everything right on over to the games. What would the purpose of the game be in that case? What is stopping me from just walking through the entire game start to finish never encountering a Pokemon because I don't need to now you don't gain EXP from battles?
Maybe they could port it to the GB, it would sell even more.
It shows their stats as a whole. As in (completely made up numbers) a Dragonite with 152 HP, 122 attack, 97 defence, 118 sp. atk, 92 sp. def, 104 speed, would show a CP of 2498.
So yeah if you saw two wild Pikachu at the same level, one could be 372 CP and one could be 375, which would be caused by a difference in IVs (or natures if they're in this, as different stats have different CP weightings in GO).
Anybody else think this looks super unimpressive? It's like a 3DS game with AA. Everything looks so simple and flat. Granted, it's probably due to this being Gamefreak's first console level game and considering they've done nothing but handheld titles, they don't have much experience in the graphics department, but still.
Watch this game get bad reviews and bomb. Of course it will sell, but not as much as the core games.
How many active users does pokemon go have? How many of them will buy this?
Yeah of course that _could_ happen but I trust Nintendo to be aware of "core" fans not wanting a diluted experience, it would most likely end up with the Let's Go! series and the normal series running side-by-side from now on, they won't have given it a specific subname just for the heck of it. Actually that's the best of both worlds, Nintendo will have their "casual" sales with Let's Go! and actually has little reason to dumb-down the main-games further. Nintendo has proven to be very attentive to what their customers want in games since the Switch so for now I give them the benefit of doubt until I start hearing negative things about the 2019 games.
This is the "get gud" of Pokemon fans...
You're being myopic if you can't see the really purpose of this game.
I legit do not know why people are getting so upset by this. Like, I know it's the internet and people are gamers therefore GETTING FURIOUSLY ANGRY and making wild assumptions is the norm but seriously guys?
Gen 8 was NEVER going to be a thing in 2018. Timescale is too short. So there were 2 options: get literally nothing this year, or get something this year and a proper gen 8 next year. Clearly, the latter is way better than the former. This will let people on Switch build up a collection of Pokemon on the system (more on that in a sec) and will bring in people who've only ever played GO.
They have literally said that the big announcement of a "core RPG" made at E3 last year relating to the 2019 game. Masuda said about it today that it is "in the style of X&Y or Sun and Moon". That's about as big a clue as you can get - it's going to be a proper, traditional, gen 8 game with a new world and new Pokemon. Perhaps the original 151 won't be obtainable in that game at all. Which would mean Switch only users who don't own a 3DS (they exist, believe it or not) would need a way of obtaining them / transferring them to the game. Oh look, how convenient, a game which lets them get all those classic 151 Pokemon and transfer them to the new game! It's called Let's Go Pikachu / Let's Go Evee!
If you loathe the idea of LPLGE and think that anyone who plays it is a pathetic "genwunner" moron and hate anybody who plays Pokemon GO and everything that it stands for then fine. You've got Smash, Fire Emblem and god knows what else to play till November 2019, when a proper Gen 8 mainline, core, ultra hardcore extreme super MLG VGC game will be released.
If you just enjoy Pokemon and want to play a shiny remake of Yellow on Switch with a different capture mechanic then great - you're covered this November. People who are desperate for a new gen should be excited - LGPLGE is not the future of the series as far as we know. Just be patient - if the 2019 game is gen 8 then marketing and hype will start for it early next year. Not long to wait.
Gen 8 was NEVER going to be a thing in 2018. Timescale is too short. So there were 2 options: get literally nothing this year, or get something this year and a proper gen 8 next year. Clearly, the latter is way better than the former. This will let people on Switch build up a collection of Pokemon on the system (more on that in a sec) and will bring in people who've only ever played GO.
They have literally said that the big announcement of a "core RPG" made at E3 last year relating to the 2019 game. Masuda said about it today that it is "in the style of X&Y or Sun and Moon". That's about as big a clue as you can get - it's going to be a proper, traditional, gen 8 game with a new world and new Pokemon. Perhaps the original 151 won't be obtainable in that game at all. Which would mean Switch only users who don't own a 3DS (they exist, believe it or not) would need a way of obtaining them / transferring them to the game. Oh look, how convenient, a game which lets them get all those classic 151 Pokemon and transfer them to the new game! It's called Let's Go Pikachu / Let's Go Evee!
If you loathe the idea of LPLGE and think that anyone who plays it is a pathetic "genwunner" moron and hate anybody who plays Pokemon GO and everything that it stands for then fine. You've got Smash, Fire Emblem and god knows what else to play till November 2019, when a proper Gen 8 mainline, core, ultra hardcore extreme super MLG VGC game will be released.
If you just enjoy Pokemon and want to play a shiny remake of Yellow on Switch with a different capture mechanic then great - you're covered this November. People who are desperate for a new gen should be excited - LGPLGE is not the future of the series as far as we know. Just be patient - if the 2019 game is gen 8 then marketing and hype will start for it early next year. Not long to wait.
There is a chance for the throw to fail. Go's catching system has some skill involved: you have to get the timing of the circle in front of the Pokémon and avoid their short "movement" animations. Better timing and accuracy lead to increased captured chance.
Wait do people dislike Kanto? Or the 151? (I'm sure you'll say both so you don't have to answer, but those are different things.) Those games where you go back still have all the other Pokémon in them.
The Alolan forms is a fair point. But I'm sure gen 8 will expand that by a good amount.
From a business perspective, obviously nothing will ever be as popular or recognizable as some of those original 151, so them being favored isn't surprising. But there are still new Pokémon coming out at an alarming rate (for someone like me who gave up trying to keep up with all of them years ago).
It's funny how much every generation hasn't changed yet this is the game that sets everyone off because it uses and aspect from GO which many "hardcore Pokémon fans" hate.
To the fan base I say enjoy it for what it is and if you don't like it then hey don't play it, Pokemon yellow was my first ever game so going back to play it in a new way is exciting to me and if I wanted to play a game like the older games I can just pick up my DS and play them or just wait another year.
It's going to be mini-games like Super Training in Gen 6, isn't it?
Even if the reviews are terrible I doubt the game will bomb.
They wouldn't have to make a distinction between the two games if that were the case. They specifically said it will be "in they vein of XY" to differentiate it from this game.
In fact, if that were the case, they wouldn't waste resources on a different game that has been in development for a while.
Basically yes it's a mix of pokemon level + Iv's and the max CP you can encounter a pokemon in the wild is capped by your trainer level with some modifiers depending on the weather.
It's also used as a stamina unit in gyms which determines how many losses your mon can take before getting kicked and it decays over time the longer it is in a gym.
I still have no idea how I should feel about the removal of random encounters.
On one hand, it's been a staple since the original game, without it there's a sense that there's an element missing to the core game play loop.
On the other hand... I fucking hate random encounters.
And I can't say I feel as sure about it as I was with BOTW upending its own roots when the things it replaced it's series traditions with were brand new systems that facilitated a wholly unique new game play loop. With Let's Go, I feel like I don't know enough about it yet to know if removing them will have been for the best.
We'll see.
On one hand, it's been a staple since the original game, without it there's a sense that there's an element missing to the core game play loop.
On the other hand... I fucking hate random encounters.
And I can't say I feel as sure about it as I was with BOTW upending its own roots when the things it replaced it's series traditions with were brand new systems that facilitated a wholly unique new game play loop. With Let's Go, I feel like I don't know enough about it yet to know if removing them will have been for the best.
We'll see.
Stuff like this is always funny to come back to once a game is released.
Yup. Same here. My nephew's favourite pokemon are Dragonite and Eevee. He's four going on five and he discovered Pokemon through Pokemon Go (which he still enjoys playing).
This game has levels as well. Quoting myself from before:
Thats the only way I can understand this with both levels and CP existing here.