Bloody need to expand, or give Pokemon to another studio. I can't take this, this is hurting me, what's the future to be like.
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Only Pokémon in Galar Pokédex can be transferred to Sword & Shield from Pokémon Home; similar restrictions intended for subsequent titles
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The lack of ambitions from GameFreak's management is honestly appalling. All this stuff, the crappy animations, the lackluster performance (who's looking forward to framerate drops in this already visually underwhelming game that probably runs at a mere 30fps?), the (eventually) underwhelming endgame content, the poor storytelling, and so on and so forth. It remains like that because...they're apparently fine with it? They have all the money in the world and a massive fanbase but, somehow they don't feel like investing much into anything. Boggles my mind that shit like the bad performance, which results in development struggles, too, I imagine, didn't lead them to invest into some damned good new engine and engine programmers (or consider transitioning to e.g. UE4). No, billions at their hand, but they're still happy to deliver games that look at least a tier behind e.g. NIntendo's good dev studios and can't keep up in regards to framerate, either.
I wouldn't mind GameFreak desiring to stay a bit smaller scale if they were actually very competent at what they do already. But, well...
Don't worry, Luxray will be in the Sinnoh remakes next year, and then go another 15 years without being seen again.
It's going to be an absolute fucking mess going forward. Each game will have different lineups of Pokemon. You'll have to look up which Pokemon are compatible with each game. It's going to be a jumbled mess.
I forgot about Town. That pet project may be doa if this continues.
The way Masuda talked made it sound like they'll choose Pokémon on a game-by-game basis. What worries me about that is doing so means you may have to wait years between games before you can use a specific Pokémon again, depending on how they cycle through the roster.
Fifteen years down the line Game Freak will suddenly realize that they haven't included Heatran in a game since Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon.
"Oops."
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These guys were seriously trying to sell Pokemon Home not even a month ago.
"Oops."
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These guys were seriously trying to sell Pokemon Home not even a month ago.
They probably won't even bother having any compatibility between games in the same gen outside of Home transferring. Why bother when the rosters are different and they can squeeze people for more money?
Seeing how Gamefreak is refusing to budge, there's three things I need to know before I even consider these games again:
1. How many Pokemon will be in the Galar dex?
2. How many new Pokemon will there be?
3. Will Pokemon who aren't in Sword and Shield appear in later Gen 8 games? Or will we have to wait until Gen 9 or Gen 10, etc? Will some Pokemon never appear again?
1. How many Pokemon will be in the Galar dex?
2. How many new Pokemon will there be?
3. Will Pokemon who aren't in Sword and Shield appear in later Gen 8 games? Or will we have to wait until Gen 9 or Gen 10, etc? Will some Pokemon never appear again?
Each region will have its own walled-off set of Pokemon. You may have to wait years for certain Pokemon to become playable again.
Hard to believe that there will probably be several Alola Pokemon that don't even make it to Sword and Shield. If Oranguru and Minior don't make it I'm going to cry a little bit...
It's only been a little over a day, it will take time for them to announce they are reversing course on this policy. People just need to keep making noise.
It took what, a few weeks for the MM2 change to be announced? I wouldn't be surprised that if they are going to change this that they make the announcement in like an August or September Direct or something.
As I said, we need to vote with our wallets, cancel pre-orders. Gamefreak is stubborn, Nintendo can likely change their way.
It all just makes me sad. My favourite franchise in the hands of a company that seemingly is not willing to invest to get their games up to MODERN DAY STANDARDS. Holy fuck, that animation clip just infuriated me. Those kind of animations in a fucking 60 dollar 2019 Switch game.
The games have always felt like GameBoy titles and it looks to be like this will be no different. Fucking static bullshit that belongs in the early 2000s.
Over/under on when these games will get voice acting and animated cutscenes? My guess is in the 2030s.
Hum... maybe?
But I hope you're not too attached to the Shitty Unova Monkeys!
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Another thing to consider here is that the pokemon that make the least sense of appearing in a different region, like starters and legendaries, are also some of the most popular pokemon in the franchise.
Are they seriously going to cut out Mewtwo, or even Zapdos?
Are they seriously going to cut out Mewtwo, or even Zapdos?
Yes.
They implied they were talking about bringing Old Pokemon to SwSh, but actually they're only talking about bringing them to Home.
I've had a kinda joking tone but the gaming press does need to seriously grill them about this. Outright not acceptable.
Pokemon Home + SwSh cutting Pokemon + Game Freak saying for years that they care about our connection with our Pokemon + Masuda saying they knew they'd eventually have to stop supporting every Pokemon all comes together to make one of the scummiest situations I've seen in gaming. I see this as on par with any EA controversy.
Minior is my second favorite mon ever. I even breed a shiny to transfer to Sword. I'm going to cry if I have to leave him behind. :(((
I have no faith in Gamefreak anymore...
I'm fully expecting them to not bring my shiny Pokémon. No way they're letting me bring my cool rock
Not that it's ever gonna happen, but at this point I just wish another studio could take a crack at a mainline game.
I'm just done with gamefreak. They've gotten away with a lot of shit over the years - the removal of features, their asinine disregard for post-game, their constant handholding etc.
I'm glad to see them being hauled over the coals for this though. I doubt they'll care though and the games will still sell millions.
I'm just done with gamefreak. They've gotten away with a lot of shit over the years - the removal of features, their asinine disregard for post-game, their constant handholding etc.
I'm glad to see them being hauled over the coals for this though. I doubt they'll care though and the games will still sell millions.
He is in SnSI'm fully expecting them to not bring my shiny Pokémon. No way they're letting me bring my cool rock
Taking into account Charizard is in, I would say the other gen 1 starters are likely.
Nice.
It's still weird that I have to pretend to be happy about a Pokémon "making the cut". lol
Also, it's insane to me because like, Game Freak has clung HARD to carefully keeping near every facet and little detail in the games up until now. I mean, any other developer would have tidied up any number of weird evolution/pre-evolution methods by now that have required an increasing number of specific items and locations to appear in each game, all for the sake of maintaining that precise continuity... and now they're straight cutting Pokemon. Or maybe this is their solution to that, and they care more about maintaining the continuity than the Pokemon?
If you look at their yearly revenues before and after Pokémon Go release, you'll get why they're doing the things they're doing now.
They want the spotlight on the 151, the nostalgia money making machine is too much of a focus for them, they want to streamline things as much as possible to be closer to mobile.
The only thing that make this ok to me is if competitive battling was migrated to Pokemon Home and the new games just became ways to get new Pokemon to import to Home for people interested in battling but, yeah I'm not holding my breath for this I doubt Game Freak wants to split the main games this way even if it would mean forcing people to subscribe to Home to compete in VGC or anything. Just dealing with compartmentalizing my past love for the series with no longer playing new entries and being ok with what I experienced and letting go. I was really looking forward to the VGC format for SwSh but its just not worth it.
I wanted Game Freak to trash their games since I'm a big Trubbish fan, but not like this.
I wanted Game Freak to trash their games since I'm a big Trubbish fan, but not like this.
As a Britney fan lol we already experienced something similar back in April, I feel like having a deja vu. We started tweeting this #FreeBritney hashtag to stop her (still) ongoing conservatorship and tweets started to disappear if they had that hashtag or similars. On Instagram if you try to comment with it it will automatically be removed.
But we gotta keep fighting.
tbh
As a Britney fan lol we already experienced something similar back in April, I feel like having a deja vu. We started tweeting this #FreeBritney hashtag to stop her (still) ongoing conservatorship and tweets started to disappear if they had that hashtag or similars. On Instagram if you try to comment with it it will automatically be removed.
But we gotta keep fighting.
tbh
I love that Britney Spears and Pokémon for some reason always manage to encounter each other. I wonder if SwSh is gonna be delayed and release alongside another Britney album like the other gens lol
Also, why are gifs so tiny?
Whats super fucked up about Pokemon Home is its a one way trip for ALL supported games except SwSh. You transfer your Pokemon from the past games, and the majority of them are stuck there until they release the next game and limit what you can transfer to that game. In no way is this a good idea of acceptable.
This will probably be the highest gen 1 hate will get, and for good reason. Of all 8 generations you can bet your sweet ass Gen 1 will have the biggest share of Pokemon in this game, and with this dumb ass decision that means all the people who favor other generations are kinda getting shit on.
It's just crazy how absolutely unappealing they've suddenly made Pokemon Home.
IDK the first 151 will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm old af tho. I consider myself more of a casual fan. I've only played Red, ORAS, and USUM. I feel like first gen has more appeal to the casual fan and newcomers. Like everyone knows who Pikachu is. It makes sense to over expose them.
I mean, I don't hate Gen 1, but I DO hate the ridiculous degree of push it gets above everything else, because I love all Pokemon. And the fact that we're obviously going to get more of them here than anything else, especially when they JUST pulled Let's Go with those BS Pokemon restrictions, definitely annoys me, when tons of other Pokemon are going to get locked out.
It's honestly not gen 1's fault, Gamefreak is just... A frustrating ass company far too often
Still really a vocal minority in forums like this. Pikachu and Charizard still win a lot of popularity polls.
It's not that it's hated as much as that it's very overrated, and the obsession of the recent games with Kanto at the expense of everyone else is understandably cause of resentment
Agree and I've been done with them for a while. This whole transfer fiasco is so stupid it's almost hard to believe it's happening.
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