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Just $0.02 from a perpetual lurker…
Following both this thread and the policy review one, it generally feels like many on the pro-ban side are arguing on the case of it being unhealthy while many on the anti-ban side are arguing on the case of it being not broken.
Whenever the two sides of a...
Home integration isn’t delayed each generation because of development time. It’s because they want you to spend your time capturing all the Pokemon in-game instead of transferring them down.
People take the ‘canon’ of Pokemon existing when and where wildly too seriously.
The only ‘canon’ that’s ‘real’ is the latest game. Pokemon has literally introduced the idea of the games taking place in different alternate universes to explain away the discrepancies.
It doesn’t matter. They’ll...
I’m kinda surprised by how many people here and elsewhere are talking about how ‘small’ the map is and how little wild space there is. And I think that’s based in a lot of people assuming that the game will lock us to specific districts with new ones unlocking as we progress.
But we’ve been...
Kokoloko tiering isn’t about countering power creep and this misconception seems way too common.
Kokoloko tiering is about getting a tier to a balanced state as quickly as possible and then reintroducing questionable Pokemon to see if they wildly offset it. It’s intended to maximize the...
I imagine it’ll be the generation when X/Y get the remake treatment.
I agee and think you’re probably exactly right here.
Just to be clear, I don’t have a problem with generational mechanics as a concept. I just think tying specific creatures to them in a creature collection franchise to be a...
Mechanic-based form changes are a huge game design mistake for this franchise in particular if you’re not going to support that mechanic indefinitely. This is a franchise that wants you to obsessively love creatures, makes extra special creatures, and then throws them away. Wild business choice...
In his latest video, aDrive pointed out an old 4chan rumor that has lined up with a lot of the recent Riddler stuff but was posted beforehand. More dropping it for future reference rather than its current believability. Has claims regarding some new Pokemon's types, the 19th Tera type, and...