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Pokémon Sword and Shield announced. Coming Late 2019
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Thanks for the clarification. I actually liked the non-random encounters in Let's Go. It let me focus on only trying to catch the Pokemon I need to finish the 'dex, and honestly, it felt more organic since you actually saw them out and about in the world.
Can you explain what you mean by mechanical depth?
Well, it ruined Zelda for me. I play it for the great designed dungeons and progression, not janky physics and the overworld. I'm fine with people using sales to justify it, but if we're doing this, SM/USUM sold absolutely great so I see no issue with keeping Pokémon as turn based linear RPG. It's not like we have many of these anyway.
Traditional in the sense that it would have regular catching style and the standard battle system
Not a game that clearly looks like game freak haven't even tried to take advantage of the switchs power
You could eat the most succulent steak every day and it would get stale after a while.
you can see the mine entrance in the part of the map Joe posted earlier
I add the btw later: the app is in Portuguese, "mil" means thousand.
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I'm surprised they re-added random battles, as I thought they would have copied that from Let's Go. Otherwise this is about what I was expecting gameplay wise from back when a new Pokemon game was announced during the direct in 2017, followed by the information that the Pokemon Company didn't know if the Switch would be a success or not. They took the gameplay/engine they established with the 3DS and improved upon it graphically and capabilities wise for the Switch, which was more realistic to expect for a release 2 years later vs an Open World RPG built from the ground up in 2 years.
You mean to say 60 seconds of footage doesn't even begin to convey the world structure and new features this game introduces?
I'm not saying it's impossible or that it couldn't end up being better, but the franchise doesn't "need" the reinvent itself when people are happy with the way the games are of course there's always room for improvment but the games aren't bad as people are trying to make it look, also a lot of zelda fans don't think BOTW is the best Zelda.
Funny, I seem to remember the exact same words being written by those who enjoyed Let’s Go. Some people really didn’t like that.
Guess who ranted for months that LG would ruin Pokémon forever and spilled buckets of salt about Let’s Go even existing, and then rejoiced when it sold less than they feared it would.
Good for Game Freak that catering to their vocal conservative audience surely costs them so much less than trying something actually new every once in a while. A long, long while.
omfg this is sun moon level graphics, not even a proper lighting! are you kidding me game freak?
I will also repeat myself again, Pokemon Gyms brought back as a Football League is amazing. A master stroke of genius. I just love it. It was the right amount of curvrball these games needed. Just so happy they went with this.
It's definitely not implying BotW-scale changes, but clearly they are directly commenting on ideas about an open(ish) world.
Its clear by now that Pokemon is gonna stay how it is, so for the people wishing it'll follow in the steps of other games, just play those other games.
This is an excellent point and I hope people pay attention to it.The good thing is that if we compare the map to the screenshots, the areas in the map aren't 1:1 like they have been in recent ones. It means the areas are going to be bigger than many think.
This is especially notable with the cities
Why play Pokemon if you're going to avoid them? isn't the whole purpose is to catch them all and complete the pokedex?
Love how the pokémon center is an inn in this townThe good thing is that if we compare the map to the screenshots, the areas in the map aren't 1:1 like they have been in recent ones. It means the areas are going to be bigger than many think.
This is especially notable with the cities
Can we not do that thing where we pretend that every single person that bought a game liked it, let alone finished it.
well you should probably read the tweet again and hone in on the successfully running the IP for 23 years part. some homework for you would be to chart the game sales for each main entry in the pokemon series compared to each main entry in the zelda series (no stadium no crossbow training, etc). note things like average sales for the series, percentage drops from entry to entry, variance in sales between major entries, lowest selling game from both, highest selling game from both, stuff like that
then think about how you actually brought up skyward sword as a counter to the tweet you quoted
and that's all without even scratching the surface of pokemon as an overall IP, this is just the major video game entries in the series
hopefully that'll set you in the right path. it's a pretty linear path too so don't feel intimidated
I mean yeah after Let's go there was not gonna be a revolutionary breath of the wild change.... jesus christ.
I mean I don’t blame them either. I wouldn’t use exactly that reason as a justification, and frankly don’t think they need any justification at all with such a juggernaut of a franchise. People like these games, and they like them the way they are. But damn... I’ve put in easily over 1,000 hours across generations of Pokémon titles and it’s wearying at this point how so many of them feel like the same game.
I feel like vocal conservative fans are the ones who only want to go back again and again to the same region with the same Pokémon.
This is an actual new game tho. Will criticize it if the post-game is poor or it has meh level design, but for now I like actually having brand fresh Pokémon stuff to look forward instead of more gen 1.
14 million people buy every single Pokemon game, if they don't like it, then you'd think they wouldn't buy it.
Im thinking part electric!
Also since gyms seem to be back, the 8 gyms will be grass, dragon, water, ice, ground, poison, steel and normal? rip dark type gym again?
Everyone saying they shouldn't change anything because it sells millions are exactly the corporate businessmen in EA, Activision, etc.
Doesn't the gamer in you feel the excessive linearity, hand-holding, railroad "exploration" in the past few games have been exhausting?
Doesn't the gamer in you feel the excessive linearity, hand-holding, railroad "exploration" in the past few games have been exhausting?
We don't know anything on the world structure and progression system. To say this game doesn't have any open world qualities because it has some straight paths or vertical world map is a reach. We simply don't know yet.
Nice catch. That's a relief to see.The good thing is that if we compare the map to the screenshots, the areas in the map aren't 1:1 like they have been in recent ones. It means the areas are going to be bigger than many think.
This is especially notable with the cities
Not really. Open games are more exhausting to play through then linear ones are.