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Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu (Switch) announced; coming Nov 16th 2018
- Thread starter Xavi
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Weird. I have all Pokemon up to Gen 6, even going so far as not trading and grinding them out myself over the span of 6 months while waiting for Pokemon X and Y...
...but I am intrigued by this one.
Guess I don't like Pokemon.
I didn't go to Pokémon School for seven years for fun, Jonneh.
This.
It's ok to dislike the idea of these games. That's perfectly fine, don't buy them and there will be another game next year that may interest you more. People saying things like this game is for those that don't like Pokemon is incredibly dumb however.
Be excited all you want, but let people voice their displeasure.
Except that wasn't an unreasonable thing to think. Every remake we've had managed to expand the Dex to include Pokemon in the later Generations. For GF to be that dumb and lock the Dex to just the original 151 is such a stupid idea. So no dark types (or rather a very limited lineup if we are confirmed to get Alolan forms), no later Gen pre evolutions and evolutions to existing lines on the Kanto Dex, working with shitty Pokemon distribution all because they limited themselves to the original 150 (people who think random encounter Zubats were annoying are going to get sobered when they see overworld encounters of nothing but Geodudes and Zubats).
All this served to show is that GF didn't learn from the mistakes of FRLG. Or rather, they took massive steps backwards from HGSS and ORAS.
That's... not how it works. Nintendo and TPCi want to assure fans that these games, which are not intended as anything more than a broad appealing measure meant to appeal to the franchise's larger base, are not the direction of the main line series, so fans don't panic like they already are. That's called brand and expectations management, not "preemptive damage control"
What if Gen 8 is a whole new region with all new Pokémon and no old ones. And GF alternates between the "hardcore" Pokémon and "Lets Go" and the only way to get Pokémon into the new games is to play the Let's Go games which serve just as a way to catch and transfer Pokémon on the modern systems?
They could easily just copy the map of gold/silver like they did here and release hat version of Let's Go in two years.
They could easily just copy the map of gold/silver like they did here and release hat version of Let's Go in two years.
By having people say that this game is for people that don't like Pokemon? Come on now...
My standard is actually liking the premise of the series, battling and catching. When you have people celebrating the lack of wild battles, where both were intertwined, it makes me wonder about things.
For real. This is literally a bonus game to hold us over until the 2019 release. I'm baffled that people are upset by this. The core series was NEVER making 2018.
They for sure knew that their audience would act like children at the news
Oh wait
Talking about the merit of the discourse itself is way too meta, and ultimately detrimental to said discourse because it escalates in layers. For instance, someone could say that the conversation about the conversation isn't worth having, and so on...
oh fuck
oh fuck
"Voicing their displeasure" isn't the same as pulling the "no true scotsman" argument to dismiss everyone who likes this style of game.
"No TRUE pokemon fan would be interested in this, why Game Freak are you making this GARBAGE for dirty GO plebeians"
How constructive is this line of thinking?
I agree. They look so cute and adorable.
I wonder how they'll perform on a technical level. If it's smooth, then I'm even more excited.
What does "catch Pokemon like in Go" mean? I never played that game in lieu of an appropriate smartphone.
Most people haven't had an issue with anyone voicing their displeasure. Those who ARE displeased with the game however have gone out of their way to shit on people who like what they see here. "Toddlers and babies", "paid shills", and "don't care for the franchise" are few of the things that have been said about the people who've expressed interest in the game. It's embarassing.
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic.
As someone who teaches 5 year olds for a living, 3 might have been reaching but I guarantee you these games are no where near difficult enough that kids don't already breeze through them. I also disagree that "grinding" is necessarily difficult - it's just time consuming. Teaching a child the basic concept of rock-paper-scissors is good enough for them to understand Pokemon enough that any "thinking" will be reduced to figuring out what types are strong against what. They might get stuck on a puzzle here or there (or not understand what's happening in the story), but the game itself is not hard for kids to jump into - why do you think it took off in the first place?
On a competitive level the game definitely requires all of those things, but the vast amount of people definitely aren't playing these things at that level.
One person said that, and he's been quoted endlessly at this point.
Joke post? There's still a whole game outside of how you catch pokemon.
Substitute motion with a button. Or a stick flick.
It's false, only the first 151 are available. They specifically write 'Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region' on the official website.
The box art looks great tbh regardless of what you think of the game. Im not sure how having cartoon dragons and zoids was any more mature.
I understand that this isn't for me and actually think that on paper this is a great concept for kids. I still think that it looks awful for what it is and is a really piss poor package for $60, I frankly feel like the people excited for this are getting ripped off or just have extremely low standards/expectations.
How original, people criticizing the game are immediately treated as children.
See the above quoted post. Goes both ways.
It should be done respectfully tho. Some posts in this thread are really aggressive and people can like the games without being "false Pokemon fans" or little babies.
Am I the only one that tinks that the Pokémon screenshot looks better visually than the Zelda, Mario, Kirby and Xenoblade screenshots?THE POWER OF THE NINTENDO SWITCH
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Yes all this.
Don't like the game fine. It's the insults towards the company and the people that do, that overstep the line.
Let Nintendo do their thing to bring more users to the console, let them cater to the players from the 90s and the young children and the general Pokémon fans, the gen 8 fans, you're time to shine will be next year.
No, this rhetoric has been used since the reveal... "It's only for Go players", "It's not for fans of Pokemon", "#notmyPokemon" etc.
So having slept on it and watched the trailer again, it seems the only "casualization" we've seen so far is the revamp of how wild pokemon are found and captured. I can live with that. Hopefully beyond that it remains similar to the previous main games.
I wonder what this means for wild pokemon capture for the 2019 game(s).
I wonder what this means for wild pokemon capture for the 2019 game(s).
Not sure if I'm going to be able to do all the stuffs the trailer showed us with portable mode and that's was the intended way to play Pokemon for me :(.
I wouldn't say it looks better than them but it seems grounded and content with its artstyle
And yet none of those games will sell or have sold nearly as much as this game will. Game Freak knows what its audience is looking for. They're not going to change it all up just because. Even when developing a Pokémon game for a broader audience, ithey're still keeping the series' core features close to heart while bringing new things to the table. You don't fix what isn't broken.
We don't know how much effort they're actually putting into this game, to claim there's a lack of ambition here is absurd. Just adding a coop feature to the game possibly meant a ton of work, since it's the first time they're doing this. We don't know how technically advanced or complex their games actually are.
It's 100% okay to not be excited about this, but this circle-jerk of "Gah, GF isn't on par with other devs" is beyond exhausted. Every game has its priorities.
I disagree, there's an obvious tone coming on in this thread that people can't be disappointed since "it's not made for them" and the people who don't like this are "whining"
It never made sense to me to beat up a Pokemon you try to befriend. It's quite literally animal abuse, even if we're talking about imaginary animals. Sure, there are battles, but those actually serve a purpose. You may disagree with me on the less engaging gameplay front, but that doesn't really mean much when it's an outdated concept that casual people are more willing to let go.
You guys who are getting mad about my post do see that there is no stipulation where it is impossible for you to like these games and the normal games.
I think it's less about how pretty it looks and how narrow the scope of the game's visuals is. It's a juiced up version of the 3DS games. They could have reworked it or reimagined it, but they went with the same tired isometric-ish style they've been pushing for decades.