I mean I would hope for it to have more content than gen 7 and 6 games or to be the best Kanto game (Soul Silver!!!) but it is not looking that way.
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Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu (Switch) announced; coming Nov 16th 2018
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I mean there is a pretty high chance this is going to have less content than the gen 1 remakes in gen 3. Thinking this has a chance of having more content than the gen 6 and 7 games is a little silly.
By it's very nature limiting the roster already is a content cut.
The gen 1 games are very barebones. Gym challenge / silphco invasion / rocket headquarters / seafoam islands / tiny power plant / victory road / elite 4 /mewtwo cave. This is fine as it's the first game in the series they were just starting out. But I highly doubt it's going to come close to the scope of anything in the later games. The biggest upgarde that will probably happen is a post game story to get mewtwo unlike before where you just waltz in and got him
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Think logically.
If Gen VII never had more content than Gen VI, what makes you think GF will suddenly change their tune and add more content to a Generation with the least amount of post-game in the series? Not to mention, it could potentially be worse than FRLG if the Sevi Islands are not acknowledged.
Honestly my biggest concern is game length, red blue yellow are already super short games and with how pokemon capturing works now that's even less time spent playing
I wonder if they considered disable people with limited motion.
I sold off my dock and only play my Switch in handheld mode. Whenever my back is acting up the last thing I want to do is squirm/move to catch a Pokémon.
We'll see though. May not be as bad as I'm thinking.
Soul Silver Kanto was 5-10 hours.
Guys this game is inspired by Yellow. It is not a 1:1 Yellow remake. we have seen some differences already with Mewtwo being integrated into the Story and there being a new orignal Pokemon.
Sevii Islands and Johto can be not in, but that doean't rule out the possibility that they could be fleshing out the world itself and/or adding new areas to explore.
Kanto was only 5 hours because you already had all the hms and you could "speed run" it. It is the most feature complete Kanto. Yeah, Kanto is THAT small.
I'll get this for my gf, as she caught shittons of mons on the regular Go version, and I'll just be content with Quest until the new gen starts.
Pokemon Quest is damn good fun
Pokemon Quest is damn good fun
You have to do a lot of backtracking and go through caves that are not optimim due to the central city being locked in OG Kanto. As well as random encounters being underpowered and you can rush through them so no levelling really required.
I wonder if Pikachu's cosplay outfits are an option in this game. What other outfits are you folks hoping for?
I need these hats.
A Team Rocket outfit would be cool too.
that's been their MO since XY, so I 152% expect it to happen
Except it's already confirmed to be a core / mainline game.
Only ORAS and Sun & Moon had demos distributed to the public via eShop.
I have a feeling they'll just eventually do sequels to Let's Go that are gen 2
the game is playable on the show floor. it's impossible that we don't see the game at Treehouse
Except it's pretty clearly not?
They can say whatever they want, but it's very clearly more directly tied to Go than the other games. Their messaging has been all over the place since that very conference, but it's still a bit disingenuous to call it a mainline game when they explicitly announced one with everything we expect (namely, a region of new Pokemon) at the same time.
It's officially a mainline game. It doesn't matter how you consider it, the only thing that matters its the official word: mainline.
Also when they announced the 2019 game it was mentioned as "another core game", referring to Let's Go as the first one.
Alternatively Gamefreak also stated that Let's Go is a "core game for everybody" while 2019's game is just a "core game", so it's more likely they haven't quite decided if they want to make Let's Go it's own distinct thing. It really doesn't matter either way, the game doesn't magically became great just because it's a mainline title.
That's called a new gen not just a mainline game. This is a mainline game as it's a remake of Yellow and it might be the direction they take the remake line of games in the future depending on how well this one does.
It isn't a remake of Yellow it's just heavily inspired by it.
Which is just marketing. It has no known compatibility with other titles, missing about 80% of all Pokemon and is lacking in almost every other feature that one would expect from what we've traditionally referred to as a 'core' or 'mainline' title.
Let's Go, as we currently know it is very much its own thing, regardless of how they try to sell that to the fanbase. Unless the 2019 games are also lacking in these features, this is a clear departure from the games as we know them and should be treated as its own thing.
And I'm not even saying this as someone who's against Let's Go, I'm genuinely interested and curious in how these play out.
So just like BW.
Which features? Battling is there. Gyms are there. Story progression, cities, routes are there. The only difference is wild battling.
GTS/ranked battles are not defining features of the core series. Or are you saying that every game prior to DP isn't considered mainline?
I'm pretty sure they are going to reveal the new Pokemon sometime before then. It would be kinda silly to mention there's a new Pokemon and then not discuss it again for 6 months.
Black and White still had every Pokemon available thanks to backwards compatibility, and npc trainers were free to use them. That's significant alone, even without factoring the gigantic change to wild battles.
GTS and ranked battles have been features now longer than they haven't. You're being intentionally disingenuous if you're saying that's not significant, when the last two remakes had every single communication feature.
let's not be obtuse about this. He's talking about being limiting.
Who's being obtuse? You literally get access to a number of other Pokemon as soon as the credits are finished, plus cross-gen transfers from Gen 4.
Versus Let's Go, for which both of those ideas are a big ????? right now (and I would be flabbergasted if the former happened at all).
Shouldn't we wait a couple more days to see more about the game in the E3 presentation. I'm pretty sure we haven't seen everything.
Yea until the game is finished. His point still stand about the game overall being limiting when it comes to gen variety. (Nothing wrong with that either) Why do you think it was a big buzz when B&W2 announced they were bringing back non gen 5 Pokemon to mix it up?
They're arguably the most important additions the series ever made. You're full of shit if you think otherwise. Of course the older games didn't have those features cause the technology wasn't there to accomplish that. It's a huge regression.
The point doesn't stand until we know literally anything about whether or not non-Gen 1 Pokemon will be in the game in any form, transfer or otherwise.
These games will still have a much smaller variety of Pokemon to catch than every other mainline entry in the series (besides the first ones). Even B/W -.-
Not to mention B1W1 had 150+ new Pokemon, not 151 old Pokemons. The two situations aren't remotely comparable.
You could also catch a ton of non-Gen 5 Pokemon as well, lol. Then at the time of it's release Gamefreak was doing the Dream World stuff as well.
Distinctions between "mainline" and "spinoff" are largely pretty arbitrary to begin with. If you asked a bunch of people to list what they consider to be mainline Mario games, you'd get a bunch of different answers.
That said, from what we've seen Let's Go has a very similar gameplay structure to the unambiguous mainline games, with the only major distinction that we know of being how catching wild Pokemon works. They're more similar to the mainline games than Colosseum/XD, which I think are the next closest things that we can compare them to. And I'll bet you anything that when Pokemon Bank releases on the Switch, probably around Gen 8's launch, you'll be able to transfer Pokemon you caught in Let's Go through it.
That said, from what we've seen Let's Go has a very similar gameplay structure to the unambiguous mainline games, with the only major distinction that we know of being how catching wild Pokemon works. They're more similar to the mainline games than Colosseum/XD, which I think are the next closest things that we can compare them to. And I'll bet you anything that when Pokemon Bank releases on the Switch, probably around Gen 8's launch, you'll be able to transfer Pokemon you caught in Let's Go through it.
I don't think anyone is really going to debate that. I do think they'll have shorter shelf life than Gen 8 though despite people here thinking these games are going to be the bestselling Pokemon games of all time. Mainly cause Gen 8 has GTS and will get all of the event Pokemon and whatnot that Let's Go won't have.
