Yeah, we can buy tokens, use them to play the mini-games, get tickets, and redeem the tickets for prizes. You know, kid-friendly, parent-approved gambling!
Here ya go. Even links to a beta board where you can adjust the size.
While they certainly can make new ones, I also thought they could maybe reuse the E-Reader mini-games, Pokemon Mini, WiFi Plaza mini-games, and maybe other of the many spin-off games they've made over the years. Heck, maybe throw in Pokemon versions of GF's other older games like Quinty, Smart Ball, Yoshi's Egg, Drill Dozer, HarmoKnight, etc..
But, it'd be very possible for the whole Battle Zone post-game to be converted into DLC.
We don't have 3rd versions anymore and thanks to SwSh's DLC success, we likely won't go back to that fleecing again.
This is good. It gives the Frontier time to be polished and done properly. Maybe even expanded.
But of course, there's the question of "will people pay for it?"
There are a lot of people who will cling to the whole "B-But the Frontier was in Platinum's base game! On the DS!" Like a bunch of whiny idiots that hardly understand how the world works and want everything free on a silver platter.
But if people really want the Frontier to be a staple and return, prepare for it to be DLC and put your money where your mouth is. Buy the Frontier DLC.
I don't think that people buying it would be a problem as long as they also include the Battle Zone which casual players can explore (and maybe throw in a casual mode in the Battle Facility to help ease new players into it (obviously they won't earn any Symbols/Prints but reward them with BP to start helping them get to that point quicker)). Heck, they could even have a story/stories about it's opening and problems that are occurring around it that the player needs to help resolve before the Facilities can fully be opened to the public. That would probably get GF interested in doing it if they can make a multi-part story side-quest out of it. And of course throw in getting some Legendary Pokemon (new and old) and having wild locations (if not Wild Areas) you can catch Pokemon outside of the regional dex.
AKA do what they did with the DLCs but instead of a dojo and frozen village setting have it be the Battle Frontier.
I think people were just expecting it to look as visually appealing as XY. Like most locations are a 1:1 recreation. However then they showed us what they could do with Mauville City (making it a giant apartment complex) and Sea Mauville (an old ocean drilling rig instead of an abandoned boat) and it just makes many other areas feel like a missed opportunity. Oldale is noted for its colorful flowers, Petalburg is said to be by the shoreline, Verdanterf is said to be windy which protects it from Mt. Chimney's ash, Lavaridge is known for their volcanic hot springs, Fortree is a city built upon & within a forest of trees. These areas could have been remade to better match their map description or expand upon their idea now that we're playing the games in 3D, making them that memorable and a place you want to explore... but instead it still looks like it did in the GBA.
Same goes for routes. Got plenty of similar looking Forest routes. Do I even need to mention the water routes? There are plenty of water biomes or things they could have done to make the Hoenn oceans more interesting both on the surface and below. On the surface they could have one part of the ocean have crystal clear water, maybe throw in them making an artificial islands, include another small Pacifidlog Town hinting that there's a now much more larger Pacifidlog City that can be visited. Below the waters they could have coral reefs, kelp forests, hydrothermal vents, etc..
Eh, I don't think no Z version was a mark against ORAS... it was a mark against XY.
"Smarts" doesn't really have anything to do with it when it was likely caused by poor implementation of the new mechanic (Dynamax) where EVERY Pokemon model was given a giant version thus probably filling out the memory to the point they would have problem putting in all the Pokemon. "Aren't they now releasing a cartridge that includes the DLC?" Either the cart's memory is bigger than the vanilla versions, cleaned up the inside of the game freeing up enough space to include the DLC, and/or learned how (or got better programmers) to compressed things that should have been compressed when not in use (like all the Pokemon models).
It was made from necessity not from want. "But they said they've been thinking of doing it since Sun & Moon" and yet decided against it in Sun & Moon. Why? Because they had the space to include all the Pokemon so probably had a hard time justifying it to themselves to not have non-regional dex Pokemon cut for no reason.
Has there been hints of a Gen 4 remake? As far as I know Pokemon SwSh + Expansion Pass is likely going to be their last Gen VIII game before moving onto Gen IX.
