or they could just keep pace and launch it later as an update...……….not hard either.
It's obvious with gamefreak doing more than 1 project now in the HD era they are not going to just stop cater to a small base of very vocal folks who care
Social media is absolutely trashing Pokémon and Masuda for not including all Pokémon in Sword and Shield
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or they could just keep pace and launch it later as an update...……….not hard either.
It's obvious with gamefreak doing more than 1 project now in the HD era they are not going to just stop cater to a small base of very vocal folks who care
Relatable. Backward decision. Hope it's just because they ran out of time and are adding them in as soon as possible after launch. That's the only path to redemption, since I doubt they will be able to just turn around and add them anyway.
No Megas and Z-moves is also a weird decision. I don't want them abandoning battle mechanics from game to game
I just don't get why they can't do what X and Y did, only pokemon on that game until the pokemon bank (or in this case Pokemon Home) launched. Maybe it's some weird attempt at curbing pokemon hacking but that's not going to work at all.
None of the overworld animations are new. They were already made in Sun and Moon for the first seven gen pokemon. The attack animations are also the same as the 3DS era.
They just announced changes to Mario Maker 2's lack of the ability to play with friends so valid criticism can totally bring about change. Make some noise (but don't be a sociopath about it).
This should be the most reasonable approach, with over 900 of them, it should be enough. Sadly, the fans have been spoiled for decades that each new gen means at least new hundred creatures so TPC screwed themselves on this one, people will be pissed if they ever decide to go with a new Pokemon with no new creatures.
Honestly they should consider not doing yearly releases for now. I knew there was no way we would have all Pokemon in the game
Yep, they have so many of the models already done. I'm sure the work could be automated even. Just screams of taking advantage of consumers for the 2020 Pokemon title to have it as a "feature".
Honestly good. They did all that work making high-quality 3D models of each Pokemon and they can't be bothered to put them to use in the game. Absolutely wild.
I agree with this. I would rather the game delayed than this shit show.
Every other AAA game doesn't have models and animation for 800 playable characters, outsourced or not.
The thing is the next game will probably have all of the available.
If they want to keep good will they would at least make more pokemon available in the game as time goes on.
If they want to keep good will they would at least make more pokemon available in the game as time goes on.
Because models don't have a concept of SD or HD. They can be made high poly and have their quality lowered. In fact, the performance issues in the 3DS games were because the models were a bit too high quality for the system to handle
Not making new Pokemon would be the worst thing they could ever do.
For how much money this game (and its inevitable 2nd edition) is going to print? Yes.
I'm 100% fine with this if they patch them in later but that did not seem to be the case at all in the interview.
People didn't expect to be able to catch them all, but they did expect that they would be able to transfer them into the game via systems like Pokemon Home.
Still pretty vague, so I don't know if they've earned any benefit of the doubt yet
That or make Pokemon Home free until all of them can be transferred into the Switch games
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What made this completely insane is that they announced HOME first.
You can sent your Pokémon from S/M to Bank, from Bank to HOME and then it's stuck there 'cause it's in the SwSh game's files. Why do I have to pay for it in the first place?
What does "enough" even mean?
There are still many unused type combos and real world influences for Pokemon to use.
This. Not to mention the fact that BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT BRAND that brings in billlions delivers a subnative flat looking game and completely disregards "Catch 'em All"? That's a pretty big reason to be upset imo
Good. Aren't the models outsourced, anyway? A good chunk of the work is already done for Gamefreak.
And rightfully so, it's the major hook of the mainline games.
We don't expect them to all be catchable within the game itself. But in the previous entries, previous gen Pokemon have always been transferable to the newest gen. Until now.
Z Moves im ok with dropping but losing Megas stings just a little since some of my favorites get much needed upgrades
Hopefully they will look into updating and rebalancing the few pokemon that got megas or just give them permanent evolutions
I think there probably is a degree of genuine technical incompetence and inexperience that led to this happening, but you can bet that this will not be fixed in a game update to Sword and Shield, but promoted as a feature of Shining Sword and Shining Shield, coming 2020 priced at $60.
The models were already in HD quality all the way back in XY. There is no need to upgrade anything with them, other than changing the lighting system.
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Pretty much. No national dex, wtf.
Maybe, just maybe, GF needed to think better what game they wanted to deliver. This is not the 3ds era to release half assed games, with clear limitations.
Still waiting for the BOTW pokemon game.
Forwards compatibility for every Pokemon was a thing since Gen 3. Its not unreasonable at all
With the selection nearing a thousand little shits it had to eventually happen... it's just Let's Go was not the correct moment to start pulling it due to how anaemic does a 151 (+2 and megas) pokédex feel. It also makes things difficult to balance for competitive multi and you can still get a full living dex in Pokémon Home which will connect to all games. Still, it's reasonable to think that a good chunk will be patched in when the DPPt remakes happen.
Time to cancel my preorder and wait for the eventual upgraded version.
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