HE IS IN THE GAME LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOI hope they have Pikachu in this game!
HE IS IN THE GAME LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOI hope they have Pikachu in this game!
I think it would be nice to have something to be hyped for. A selling point, if you will, or a reason to look forward to these games in particular.To be fair, color mine as somewhat unpopular opinion but... do we "really" need more informations on the game already?
The best (worst?) example of this I can think of right now is the mascot legendaries. People realized within hour 1 of their reveal that they're intended to transform into a motorcycle and futuristic hover bike respectively, likely for overworld traversal. But what do they look like in these hypothetical vehicle modes? Are these forms usable in battle? What terrains can they travel on? How early or late do you get them? For all intents and purposes, Koraidon and Miraidon as they are presented to us right now are incomplete designs. The presumed defining element of them that would set them apart from 8 previous generations of legendaries (and more than likely the horde of legendary Dragons) is a total question mark.I think it would be nice to have something to be hyped for. A selling point, if you will, or a reason to look forward to these games in particular.
At the moment, we don't know much more about Gen IX than we do about the future Gen X. Yes, it has a trio of starters, a pair of legendaries, and some other 'mons ... but what sets them apart from the games we have already played? What's the big deal here?
The Pokémon games are, if not formulaic, then at least quite fond of repeating certain elements from game to game. And almost all we've heard about Gen IX basically confirms that yes, these elements are retained this time as well. But we still don't know what will be unique this time. In a way, there's nothing to look forward to that we couldn't already surmise the existence of. A region and some new Pokémon, that's basically it, and we kinda knew before the games were even revealed that these elements would be present.
It would be good to have something to sink our teeth into, y'know?
Incidentally, BDSP put out one trailer per month starting from August. My guess is SV will probably repeat that pattern.
- The pattern that's been around since Platinum is broken and there is no July trailer, but there's a trailer the first week of August to hype up preorders opening in Japan.
The difference is that BDSP had minimal new content even for a mid-generation game. SV is a whole new generation debut.Incidentally, BDSP put out one trailer per month starting from August. My guess is SV will probably repeat that pattern.
Incidentally, BDSP put out one trailer per month starting from August. My guess is SV will probably repeat that pattern.
The other thing is that despite BDSP starting new trailers in August, that happened to be five months out from Legends: Arceus, which was coming the following January. Monthly trailers usually start five months before the game releases, and since most are the usual November release, they usually start in June. SV already got its second trailer back in June, so effectively the "monthly trailer releases" period for SV have for all intents and purposes has already started, and it had already begun well over a month ago.The difference is that BDSP had minimal new content even for a mid-generation game. SV is a whole new generation debut.
I think "resetting movesets" is not meant for backwards compatability at all and is a weird leap to make at this juncture. If they reset movesets moving to SV I think it's entirely on the back of "we don't want to keep having people delete different arrays of moves every time we put out another game"I'm a die hard Pokemon fan, so you have to really screw up to get me to not buy a game, *cough*ForcedAffection*cough* but what Pokebank not letting movesets stay the same between SwSh and BDSP is a major red flag to me. What if they reset moves for SV too for the sake of letting Pokemon move back to older gen games? Movesets are part of who a Pokemon is to me, so what makes my Reshiram or Shedinja different than anyone else's Reshiram or Shedinja? (Please don't say EVs and IVs because EVs can change and Bottlecaps make IVs not matter much.) I have hope that this won't happen though because of Gigantamax.
Not being able to evolve Gigantamax Pikachu, Eevee, and Meowth in BDSP and Legends makes sense because it's part of something from the same generation, but what about in SV? You'd need DLC from the previous generation to undo the thing that stops them from evolving. Very annoying in the long run.
I know being able to move Pokemon back generations is unlikely and hasn't happened since Gen 2, but I'm still waiting for the datamines.
We don't "need" it, that is part of my point: TPC's marketing trajectory is going in the direction of "we can just not advertise the games and people will still buy them!" and they might not be wrong.To be fair, color mine as somewhat unpopular opinion but... do we "really" need more informations on the game already?
There's also the fact that differently from other series, Pokemon is a cyclical one, with a fixed schedule, so it's not like people won't know that there isn't a new pokemon game coming in 2024 for example.If they're going to keep doing this they should just do it like Nintendo does with most (not all! but most!) of their games and try not to reveal them more than 6 months ahead of their release
Legends Arceus's world was broken into sections, was barren, and still looked barely better than a GameCube game. I hope we get a true open world game but given Gamefreak's past I doubt it's going to be very impressive.On the topic of new content, I want to see actual gameplay of the open world. My big question is how the open world is going to be designed: Is it more like Xenoblade Chronicles or Breath of the Wild? I'm leaning towards the latter, since something like Breath of the Wild would need more than two years of development and probably additional help from another studio. I'm curious how open the game is: Can you explore the areas in any order you like? Is there a limit to Pokemon you can catch like SwSh ( Hopefully not ) ? How the open world functions is going to be my decision whether or not I buy this game.
Or scale experience to how many badges you have while also scaling trainer Pokémon based on badges. This way if you over-level your growth will plummet while still keeping enemy trainers relevant. Alternatively level caps based on # of badges. Pokémon Crystal Clear is an open world Gen 2 game that simply scales trainers based off your badges. Gyms leaders get stronger Pokémon based on your badges and can be rematched freely. Fight Blue as the first Gym and he has a Pidgey, fight him last and he has a Mewtwo.The leveling issue can easily be circumvented to some degree by using comparable level scaling formula as SwSh for the wild area to be fair.
So many kids angry that they can't win, but so many videos of winning with stuff like freshly caught Route 1 Pokemon. :Psure, being pre-emptively mad about level scaling (or lack thereof) is fun and all, but consider: what if we could just charge into gym 8 at the start like its hyrule castle and get our shit kicked in. that would be fun