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Pokémon Day 2026 - Pokemon Winds and Waves coming 2027!
- Thread starter DHR-107
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I think it would be sick if they released it on pokemon day 2027
It probably won’t be that soon. That’s still a bit close to GTA6’s current release window.
With Lumineon confirmed to be returning, I am once again hoping on hope that it gets Quiver Dance finally.
Part of me would like to think it'll be earlier in the year rather than later since this reveal trailer already had in-engine footage, starters, the player characters, and whatnot.
Z-A had no gameplay footage in its initial reveal and was just a conceptual blueprint, and they had nothing to say about it in its reveal two years ago other than that it exists and that it takes place entirely in Lumiose City. It took a year to see proper in-engine gameplay footage, starters, characters, and whatnot. So there's hope it won't be that wide of a gap.
This means Skitty and Delcatty are now the sole most forgotten Pokemon family. They are the only non-legendary non-mythical Pokemon not to be featured in any new regional dex since XY.
I kinda have a similar feeling. I expected more from this direct? Something huge like announcing a US Pokémon center, an actual trailer and concept art for universal’s Pokémon land, showcasing old games and visions/artwork. Maybe thoughts from older and younger devs on the state of the franchise? Interviews from fans from across the globe, I know this is beating a dead horse but really just consume consume consume product? Really guys? This is the big 3-0, and it just feels like just another direct. You should really pay a new department that is dedicated to just directs because my god it’s awful.
Also greaaat lottery system on the XP and championship. Screw over people who care about the franchise because of the jobless losers who know Pokémon based on card value. Wonderful.
You know? The best thing about WW having good graphics is now people will finally talk about the actual important aspects of any Pokémon game: the gameplay and the characters / story. IMO SV did both alright.
SV sure was a videogame, alright
Even if we have seen too little, I'm feeling really good vibes about WW's gameplay, but we have yet to see if WW tops SV's story!
I think going forward it’s gonna be this mix of humans looking like anime characters, the environment getting better with amazing water and tree textures, but then the Pokémon models look…otherworldly, it’s not that they don’t look part of the world per say it’s just trying to blend the two art styles together, the Pokémon models and the crazy details around them.
Man can you belive someone on Discord tried to tell me the graphical jump wasn't that big?
SV sure was a videogame, alright
I'm not someone who really cares all that much about which real-life countries get represented as Pokemon regions but for a region of the world that has been so disproportionately invisible in pop culture (4th highest population of any nation!!) Indonesia being adapted into this franchise for such a crucial game is kind of awesome and a big deal
I'm just hoping that – if we're sticking to open world with overworld encounters – that they fix wild battles so you don't get frame trapped by nearby mons after battle in cramped spaces.
SV somehow made way for a system that could be worse than random encounters, which is saying a lot. Especially crazy when Pokémon is like the only RPG I can think of that actually handled random encounters well in the first place.
Man, we going from PS2 to late PS3 now.
SV sure was a videogame, alright
But seriously though, I’m glad to see a modern Pokemon title that genuinely does look good.
As much as I want to agree that graphics aren't that important, graphics feel kind of important after seeing a Cetoddle I thought had a lighting glitch. It seemed like the game thought was in the shade even though it wasn't in a shadow, but it turns out it was just Shiny.
Now that we have an actually good-looking game it's time to finally admit all those sentiments were cope lol. I myself participated in them to some lukewarm extent but in the end I have to look at images like the one I just posted and think "How were we ever expected to get immersed in an open world game with textures and geometry in this state". I already abstained from buying SV largely b/c of this but now it's sinking in just how dire things really were
I mean you're comparing a temperate river between an open grassland and mesa to a jungle by a tropical ocean there.
SV sure was a videogame, alright
The Alolan Rattata line says hi.
You say that like it's a joke but, for any franchise not going for photorealism or slathering everything in bloom and blur, graphics in general haven't actually improved in general since that era beyond maybe some better lighting.
Incineroar and Cinderace each have Fighting undertones, but I agree, it is a played-out joke. I would like to see secondary starter types beyond the Fighting -> Dark -> Psychic/Ghost combination Game Freak seams infatuated with these last three generations.
Yeah I enjoyed SV because I think it had great Pokemon designs + a good story but the graphics were really awful. Like even beyond the bigger glitches (which I didn’t really experience) the textures and environments are just so bad. The frame rate for those windmills was embarrassing. I actually showed a bit of it to my boyfriend and he asked if it was some sort of demo lol
WW doesn’t look amazing or anything but it’s a huge step up. Even just the detail in the environments is so much better, and the water in particular looks great.
Not gonna lie, I'm already annoyed at the people saying WiWa is uncanny valley because it's too "realistic" when it's a really standard way to do 3D games with cartoony characters. Just at the top of my head, look at Dragon Quest 11, Visions of Mana, Atelier Ryza, freaking Everybody's Golf!
I still come down on the side of the world design being much more important than the graphics, and that's still pretty uncertain other than the real-world inspiration meaning it's no Xenoblade or Elden Ring. I do have to admit it's got more going on than non-Ultra Space Alola, and might have real potential if there's solid underwater segments and/or that surfboard has a lava mode.
I think water has that effect of making people think that “if the water looks good, then the game overall must be beautiful” my question is how the game’s fps will tank when you bring waves into it lol
I know you’re joking (maybe?) but it’s too early to tell if we will get new cross-gen evolutions at all. Legends: Arceus and SV did introduced new evos back-to-back, but the focus on Megas in Z-A and no entirely new Pokémon in that game makes me doubt we might get traditional cross-gen evos this time around.
Here’s a dumb dare for me; if Ledian of all Pokémon gets a cross-gen evo, I’ll draw a free SFW sketch for the first one who got me noticed on this (if it happens of course). Colors included if that cross-gen evo is 600 BST like Archaludon.
Agreed but I also think base SV kind of sucked in this regard. So much of it is just fields and hills and there’s so few genuinely memorable locations outside of Area Zero.
I hope WW has some good dungeons, they had gotten better at those by the end of the SV DLC.