Pokémon Sword and Shield announced. Coming Late 2019
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There are around 120 out of 151 Gen 1 Pokemon in Gen 6, with the region's legendaries being the 3 Kanto birds again and Mewtwo and the Kanto starters being given to you straight after receiving your Kalos starters
At 457 Pokemon that is nearly a quarter of the pokedex is gen 1 pokemon
Trust me, I really really hope you're right, but the potenial of armored mewtwo and charizard already is a red flag.
Well, there 109 kanto pokemon in the xy dex, and 14 megas....that's kind of a lot.
Not to mention the fact that the post game has mewtwo and the three birds, literal copy paste of viridian forest, team flare's base is basically a copy paste of team rocket, getting the kanto starter, etc.
I voted dragon, but I would like to see all the official versions of these fake ones.
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If you happen to have a hacked 3DS, you can extract the save file and then unlock challenge mode with this computer program. (Not that you should have to go to such extreme measures to enable a difficulty setting. GameFreak's handling of that was BS.)
They are at least trying this time.
All of them are including gym masters now.
How would the King of Galar know about Mega Evolutions if Mega Stones weren't created until after the Ultimate Weapon was used 3,000 years ago? I thought the war ended once the nuke went off.
Some of that fake seems ok and the rest is pure fantasy at best.
Probably be an Enhanced version thing like in USUM
Which is for the best, let the new legends have a chance to stand out first. I always feel Xerneas/Yveltal and certainly Zygarde got short changed because of the advertising focusing on Mewtwo X and Y.
Guys...the solution to gen 1 pandering is not gen 5 pandering...that's like saying "this dictatorship isn't working....the solution must be...we need another dictator! one that i agree with!"
Well if gen 5 pandering leads to post game again and pwt...
At least Xerneas and Yveltal got the last laugh with usefulness
That's a fair point. But I would posit post game and pandering are different issues. What if the pandering WERE the post game? You finish with your new gen region, and oh look you can travel back to whatever
I mean honestly, I don't care. With the amount of gen 1 pandering and the total lack of gen 5 pandering, it can even out.
I would say at this point it's just easiest for gamefreak to take a pokemon ultimate sort of approach and just include the top twenty most popular pokemon from each generation plus whatever new pokemon
That video actually got me even more hyped for these games for some reason. It's pretty interesting too, Gaijin Goomba does great work with this stuff.
Huge oversight to not see that ''tudor rose' as Wembley Stadium.
Also, Southwark pronunciation is funny (11:19).
Stop using the most overrepresented Gen for one of the most underrepresented one. Obviously it wouldn't be right pander forever, but a game or two wouldn't hurt.
The only case of pandering worse then Gen 1 pandering, is Gen 5 pandering. I'd rather have 100 new variants of Mewtwo, Charizard and Pikachu than any variants of the Unova starters. Such a low point in the series, and whenever I look at the Unova Pokedex, it's shocking just how bad it is.
If GameFreak would pander to Gen 2/3/4, hell, even Gen 6, I'd be perfectly fine with that. Gen 5 on the other hand, that would be a very hard pass.
If GameFreak would pander to Gen 2/3/4, hell, even Gen 6, I'd be perfectly fine with that. Gen 5 on the other hand, that would be a very hard pass.
This.
Otherwise, it would mean that all those complaints are based on jealousy.
I haven't really played since Red/Blue when I was 10 or so, and I am very excited for this one. I played a bit of black (2-3 hours?), so this will be my first full game since the originals.
Is it ?
Saying that the Unova starters are some of the weakest in the series don't strike me as controversial ? Especially coming from Gen 4.
Well, I don't agree about the starters at all, but even then...you didn't imply just the starters.
It was not me btw who claimed that. I am just joining the conversation.
Well you seemed to imply that every word he said was wrong, including the starters part.
Regarding the Dex part, and you know what we say about tastes and colors, I think the last two generations were better than Gen 5 (+ good/great overall).
The solution isnt to pander to another gen, lol. Thats the job of the remakes.
Either pander to all gens roughly equally, or, what I would prefer, keep pandering to a minimum altogether.
Either pander to all gens roughly equally, or, what I would prefer, keep pandering to a minimum altogether.
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Well it's all opinion obviously, but gen 5 as a whole has the most pokemon I like. It's obviously also the biggest regional dex, but I think a huge percentage of it is great. I do prefer gen 4 and 7 starters as a whole, but I think the gen 5 ones are still good.
How about not pandering at all and letting Gens stand on their own without a nostalgia gimmick?
Let's Go had amazing pacing, and it added new story bits without dragging you along for 20 minutes. It actually opened up the game so that you can go pretty much anywhere with only 2 badges. It gave you a lot of choice in how to tackle content.
Meanwhile, Alola had literal roadblocks preventing you from proceeding. They couldn't even be bothered to make up Psyducks or Sudowoodos or dehydrated guards to block the road.
Well the actual roadblocks are more realisitc and less immersion breaking.
People complaining about sinnoh is what caused linearity though.
They could definitely make a new arc about obtaining the opposite legendary (especially if the two legends have different homes like GSC or Emerald). As for the third legendary, they could simply make that completely post-game content. Giratina, Rayquaza, and Kyurem were all only obtainable post-game in their original games.
I honestly would rather not. It's one thing where it's sorta a one-time thing that seems like a cheeky homage, like Groudon/Kyogre in HGSS, but ORAS definitely removed all of the spectacle and originality from catching legendaries by just making them come out of wormholes instead of properly giving them homes or integrating them into the plot.
There's a 50-50 chance they take BW's postgame (which is nothing) in that case as well.
I like how it's reached a point where referencing any older generation is seen as pandering.
Two whole Pokemon with the same rumor including other generations. Such a red flag.
Gen 4 had a lot of bs that ending up getting removed so I'm mixed on that.
Yeah, BW had less postgame than every game that has followed it.
Black and White's postgame was the whole eastern side of the map!
And in that eastern side you had Kyurem, Cynthia, and the 7 sages. That's it. Nothing of value came out of the postgame other than like 4 battles total.
BW1 easily had more post game than X/Y, ORAS, and original Sun/Moon. And even with Ultra Sun/Moon thats up for debate.
I mean a lot of subtle and unsubtle stuff is right from gen 1. Besides the obvious things, there is also the fact that you can go on a side route to victory road by the second main city, you find team flare the same way you find team rocket the first time, the main villain wears a suit, and some other stuff.
BW basically just had the forest and city depending on which version you had and routes to complete the circle that is Unova.
We must've played different games.