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.Don't forget Project Gear, which is said to be Game Freak's focus OVER Pokemon.
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.Don't forget Project Gear, which is said to be Game Freak's focus OVER Pokemon.
Great, the animation excuse again. Be it Pokemon (as Masuda is implying) or even the humans themselves, GF has shown no signs of actual significant improvement in Sword and Shield yet. And what can I say, I doubt they will.
Anyway, no value in continuing discussing this for me, really.
Don't worry, Luxray will be in the Sinnoh remakes next year, and then go another 15 years without being seen again.
Given that this is their policy going forward, what I don't understand is whether the cut pokemon are cut for good, or will reach region have its own selection of the total roster.
It'll be quite bad if they just completely eliminate certain Pokemon for good.
I forgot about Town. That pet project may be doa if this continues.Their priorities are elsewhere and Pokemon is suffering, they have their fingers in 3 pies, mobile games, town and Pokemon series which is split into 2 teams. There wouldn't be a problem if half of the team wasn't involved on other projects lol
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.Given that this is their policy going forward, what I don't understand is whether the cut pokemon are cut for good, or will reach region have its own selection of the total roster.
It'll be quite bad if they just completely eliminate certain Pokemon for good.
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?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 truly doubt they will have starters from other gens.
Given that this is their policy going forward, what I don't understand is whether the cut pokemon are cut for good, or will reach region have its own selection of the total roster.
It'll be quite bad if they just completely eliminate certain Pokemon for good.
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.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?
As I said, we need to vote with our wallets, cancel pre-orders. Gamefreak is stubborn, Nintendo can likely change their way.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.
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...
These guys were seriously trying to sell Pokemon Home not even a month ago.
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.I've had a kinda joking tone but the gaming press does need to seriously grill them about this. Outright not acceptable.
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. :(((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...
I have no faith in Gamefreak anymore...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.
I'm fully expecting them to not bring my shiny Pokémon. No way they're letting me bring my cool rockMinior 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. :(((
He is in SnSI'm fully expecting them to not bring my shiny Pokémon. No way they're letting me bring my cool rock
Nice.
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.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?
They are noticing, hopefully a conference meeting is done between Nintendo, TCP and GameFreak, this could be damaging for the brand the longer the black-lash continues.
Who could have guessed that Pokemon are the fanbase's favorite part of the series?
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
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.I didn't realize how much everyone hated Gen 1 until this thread.
It's just crazy how absolutely unappealing they've suddenly made Pokemon Home.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.
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.I didn't realize how much everyone hated Gen 1 until this thread.
It's honestly not gen 1's fault, Gamefreak is just... A frustrating ass company far too oftenIDK the first 151 will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm old af tho.
I didn't realize how much everyone hated Gen 1 until this thread.
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 resentmentI didn't realize how much everyone hated Gen 1 until this thread.
Pikachu is the mascot of the series.Still really a vocal minority in forums like this. Pikachu and Charizard still win a lot of popularity polls.
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.