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Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu (Switch) announced; coming Nov 16th 2018
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When a gamer says something is easy to develop, it never is.
I mean, regardless of anything else, this is a mainline game. It's not a new generation.
It's bonkers. I'm French and that website did by the past pushed their boundaries for fake news just for clicks. If it's not confirmed officially by TPC, it's not true.
This, not an easy fix at all. Also not even a needed 'fix' or something that Game Freak would ever do, as that is simply not the direction this game is taking. Wait for 2019 for your 'classic' wild battles and let them experiment with this for now.
I admit that is the one feature that got me excited when watching the trailer. Watch them remove it for the Gen VIII game.
You have a world? Will you get a boat and search pokémon into the seas? If u do this, i'm really impressive.
Someone to play with u.
They show just a bit of how the game is, the catch and found system. The battles still in a classic way, with classic moves and bla bla.
We still doesn't know about gyms, story, connection with other versions, poké bank. They way of leveling up (I found something in the comments about simplify, but we don't know exactly how it works).
Well, a lot of things need to be shown until we attack.
Do you rememeber the Secret of Mana remake.
Well this is the same shit but selling a lot.
Again, don't expect good reviews.
Well this is the same shit but selling a lot.
Again, don't expect good reviews.
They are kind of spreading their wings wider than i thought here
So many pokemon games including hardcore traditional title set for 2019
Kind of crazy!
So many pokemon games including hardcore traditional title set for 2019
Kind of crazy!
Some of y'all are crazy. Gen is 8 next year, no way it was coming this year when the anime has to first finish the sun and moon plot anwayways. Just get over it and be happy Pokemon is coming to switch and a Guaranteed one next year
This.
And people already saying this game isn't worth the $60 are making me laugh.
I don't think ditching EVs and IVs is ultimately a good move. Casual players could ignore them and still get through the extremely easy main game, while it increases the variety of sets you can use online, such as using odd speed investments to outspeed specific threats, investing just enough in defence to survive a particular attack from a common counter to your Pokemon etc.
more recent games in the series had the right idea in making it easier than ever to see and understand EVs and IVs, as well as making it easier to get the stats you want through stuff like the destiny knot, bottle caps, super training, hordes etc
more recent games in the series had the right idea in making it easier than ever to see and understand EVs and IVs, as well as making it easier to get the stats you want through stuff like the destiny knot, bottle caps, super training, hordes etc
If we can use anecdotal evidence, I'm seeing tons of people on my twitter timeline and irl who've not bought a pokemon game in years planning to buy a switch to play this. If they have a switch then planning to buy their first pokemon game in a decade plus.
Ok, so first of all, let's not overreact and let's analyse this news with common sense.
- I think it's a great move to use some features of the very successful pokemon go and enable some sort of switch connectivity. I makes a lot of sense and it's great - from a bussiness point of view.
- I think it's a great move to make a game that's a little less "complicated" than the mainline games. From the trailer, it looks like its core concept is easier to understand to me at least (I'm not a pokemon fan btw). Children or people who are new to pokemon will probably appreciate this change. Especially the addition of on-screen multiplayer is a good thing. Motion catching is also a cool feature that adds to the immversion.
- Obviously there will be an oldskool mainline (gen 8 or whatever you call it) pokemon game as well sometime in the future without a doubt.
So there is this new "let's go" game and gen 8 in the future. I don't see any problem here.
- I think it's a great move to use some features of the very successful pokemon go and enable some sort of switch connectivity. I makes a lot of sense and it's great - from a bussiness point of view.
- I think it's a great move to make a game that's a little less "complicated" than the mainline games. From the trailer, it looks like its core concept is easier to understand to me at least (I'm not a pokemon fan btw). Children or people who are new to pokemon will probably appreciate this change. Especially the addition of on-screen multiplayer is a good thing. Motion catching is also a cool feature that adds to the immversion.
- Obviously there will be an oldskool mainline (gen 8 or whatever you call it) pokemon game as well sometime in the future without a doubt.
So there is this new "let's go" game and gen 8 in the future. I don't see any problem here.
If you think critics care as much about the wild Pokemon catching mechanics as the hardcore you are going to be in for a surprise.
Other than that is a HD Remake of a beloved RPG title with co-op. It will review very well.
Nah, I doubt they would change the main series. Maybe if this games outsells the last entries but I doubt it has this impact.
Funny enough, when I played my Nuzlocke run of Fire Red, the first Pokemon I encountered in the Safari Zone was a Chansey.
In the end, the anon from 4chan was right. BEFORE everyone, without vague hints, he did not rode the coattails from others, but in the end, some people here will only acknowledge one person being ''''responsible'''' for the leaks... rollseyes.gif
Well, saying that, this game is not for me. I am not mad, but I play Pokémon only for breeding, trainning and battling. I would love an option to skip the campaign and start in the postgame. And I do not care about the levels either, I would bring my team from Pokébank.
Well, that is for 2019 so...
Well, saying that, this game is not for me. I am not mad, but I play Pokémon only for breeding, trainning and battling. I would love an option to skip the campaign and start in the postgame. And I do not care about the levels either, I would bring my team from Pokébank.
Well, that is for 2019 so...
I'll be honest I am by far not a Pokemon fan. I've only played 2 games in the series being Emerald and Platinum. I've never really gotten a lot of fun out of it. But I guess thats just me.
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No it's the "Let's go" line, not the mainline, which is "Pokemon"!
I mean, I'm not a hater on the games in general (like some here), but I don't find it controversial to say that Nintendo has a history of overpricing their games (and not lowering their price as time progresses).
But it IS mainline, geeze. Also, what you are saying about branches? It is something completely made up by Centro Pokémon. They just straight us said that it is mainline, it's just that is a more experimental title than others. But I guess you accepting you were wrong about the leakers is the most I can expect so I'll take it.
All previous Pokemon remake (eg Omega Ruby) or reimagine (eg Ultra Sun) were full price and were worth it. I don't know why some of you think this is not. I can't wait to play it.
The wild Pokemon encounter in previous mainline games were not fun anyway, I am happy they change it to Pokemon Go style. Hope they update and improve it and implement it in future mainline games.
I think these games are super smart, it already generated a ton of buzz everywhere. Popularity of Switch and Go will sure make it explode. Even the Pikachu vs Eevee battle generate a lot of conversation among fans.
The wild Pokemon encounter in previous mainline games were not fun anyway, I am happy they change it to Pokemon Go style. Hope they update and improve it and implement it in future mainline games.
I think these games are super smart, it already generated a ton of buzz everywhere. Popularity of Switch and Go will sure make it explode. Even the Pikachu vs Eevee battle generate a lot of conversation among fans.
The official Pokemon twitter says that an "all-new core series Pokémon RPG" is coming in 2019, implying Let's Go isn't a core series. I'm sure it will sell well, and graphically this is what I want the new games to be, but... yeah this just isn't what I want from a Pokemon game. Prob gonna pass on this.
That is not exactly correct. GameFreak says this is part of the mainline core series.
This means we get a core Pokémon game and the go series now alternating every other year?
Ooooooooooo
This could be cool to have, especially if Go is starting from the beginning meaning the next go iteration will be johto. Oh damn this has me excited if the core stuff is fun enough
Ooooooooooo
This could be cool to have, especially if Go is starting from the beginning meaning the next go iteration will be johto. Oh damn this has me excited if the core stuff is fun enough
That'd be more compelling to me if there weren't people like that for every new game. Like, I literally remember people going "I haven't played a Pokemon game since RBY, but XY is what's going to bring me back in!" If anything it feels like there are less of them this time which is what caught my attention. But again, this is just anecdotal. I didn't mean for my personal misgivings to sound like an actual prediction on Let's Go's performance.
So people that are saying they are doing this to attract to the mainline pokemon all those new go players (and is something that gamefreak is confirming so they are right)...
The are simplifying A TON the game (of a game that was already simple as fuck), doing the most terrible graphics possible for some shitty "we wanted to feel like the old games" excuse and then they intend this people to jump to the core one?
Wasnt Go already that step needed with nothing else?
Like I 100% completely understand going back to kanto with the first 151 pokemon (and i dont mind that aspect at all) to attract that audience, but simplifying the game?
The only thing im seeing here is them wanting to separate the two audiences completely, with both series coexisting selling well at first, until one of them sells worse with each entry and dissapears.
They would have gotten exactly the same audience (and the core that dont want to buy this spin off at the same time, becuase let be reasonable here, if the scenarios of the game looked like something out of xenoblade, even the people crying about gen1 repeat where going to buy it on day zero) if they would have made a real pokemon game that actually looks like it was made this last 5 years on a home console and is a real remake of kanto that looked like if it came from the anime backgrounds with the 151 pokemon. Theres no need to simplify mechanics, nobody, not even pokemon go only players, were clamoring for catching throwing a pokeball without a fight, or shitty DS graphics, nor a simplified battle system. The only really attractive thing here is the 151 pokemon following you.
The pokemon go audience if you give them this lets go series instead of jumping directly to a good real remake, are going to find confussing if they try to jump to the core one that releases next year, not ease them into it. And why would they need to buy a new pokemon game just after a year they will ask, and why its the name of a colour now instead of lets go whatever, and why cant I throw pokeballs anymore and i have to fight them now, and why doesnt the pokemon follow me (becuase im betting that last one is not going to transfer, even if its the only good idea this game has)...
And then you have people (like some of my friends) that still play pokemon go and like it a lot, and they already told me this game looks like crap and they are going to wait for the 2019 one.
IMO they are only separating more and more both audiences with this "stepping stone series" instead of attracting them all to the same main series, and im afraid that at the end of the day the one that feels more expensive (lol at pokemon games feeling expensive) and takes more hard work to make and sells less in comparison of the cost, is the one thats going to get the axe in the future sadly. Hope im wrong with this (and both can coexist or the one that gets the axe is lets go becuase after some games starts to sell la lot less as they were right for it to be an steeping stone and makes the core games have a bigger audience at the end), but thats how i feel about this game existing, even if the 2019 game looks absolutely amazing.
The are simplifying A TON the game (of a game that was already simple as fuck), doing the most terrible graphics possible for some shitty "we wanted to feel like the old games" excuse and then they intend this people to jump to the core one?
Wasnt Go already that step needed with nothing else?
Like I 100% completely understand going back to kanto with the first 151 pokemon (and i dont mind that aspect at all) to attract that audience, but simplifying the game?
The only thing im seeing here is them wanting to separate the two audiences completely, with both series coexisting selling well at first, until one of them sells worse with each entry and dissapears.
They would have gotten exactly the same audience (and the core that dont want to buy this spin off at the same time, becuase let be reasonable here, if the scenarios of the game looked like something out of xenoblade, even the people crying about gen1 repeat where going to buy it on day zero) if they would have made a real pokemon game that actually looks like it was made this last 5 years on a home console and is a real remake of kanto that looked like if it came from the anime backgrounds with the 151 pokemon. Theres no need to simplify mechanics, nobody, not even pokemon go only players, were clamoring for catching throwing a pokeball without a fight, or shitty DS graphics, nor a simplified battle system. The only really attractive thing here is the 151 pokemon following you.
The pokemon go audience if you give them this lets go series instead of jumping directly to a good real remake, are going to find confussing if they try to jump to the core one that releases next year, not ease them into it. And why would they need to buy a new pokemon game just after a year they will ask, and why its the name of a colour now instead of lets go whatever, and why cant I throw pokeballs anymore and i have to fight them now, and why doesnt the pokemon follow me (becuase im betting that last one is not going to transfer, even if its the only good idea this game has)...
And then you have people (like some of my friends) that still play pokemon go and like it a lot, and they already told me this game looks like crap and they are going to wait for the 2019 one.
IMO they are only separating more and more both audiences with this "stepping stone series" instead of attracting them all to the same main series, and im afraid that at the end of the day the one that feels more expensive (lol at pokemon games feeling expensive) and takes more hard work to make and sells less in comparison of the cost, is the one thats going to get the axe in the future sadly. Hope im wrong with this (and both can coexist or the one that gets the axe is lets go becuase after some games starts to sell la lot less as they were right for it to be an steeping stone and makes the core games have a bigger audience at the end), but thats how i feel about this game existing, even if the 2019 game looks absolutely amazing.
Are we getting to the phase where you're all predicting sales failure ? Can't wait for it to break records when it launches this fall then.
As someone who has played about half of the generations. I still can't wrsp my head around it. All the IV, HV, HM crap. The shiny Pokémon. The breeding or whatever.
I have no idea how to do any of that.
Well, either way, one of you will be eating crow.
EVs and IVs are basically only for the competitive crowd, and have zero to do with anything for the casual audience. The games don't even reference them because of that.
HMs were wiped out last generation in favor of Ride Pokemon. Shiny Pokemon will still be included in this.
That just leaves Pokemon breeding, which may or may not be included in this. Like, is breeding alone, something completely optional to begin with, too much for you as a player?
Nah dude. Quit your nonsense and stop shifting the goalposts. You were so adamant that the Let's Go games were fake, and that we'd all be feasting on crow for believing the rumours (and these are mainline games, whether we like them or not).
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Looks like the crows have come home to roost. I'm not personally going to give you further grief over it, but please just stop with the whole "guess I was actually-secretly-kinda right after all" shtick. It makes you come across as rather desperate and reaching.
It's a new branch within the main series that does some things differently but will presumably allow you to transfer your Pokémon to the Gen 8 game unlike previous spinoffs.
If previous predictions of failures are anything to go by, it won't be me.
It has online.