the worst thing about Mr. Mime is having a gendered term in the name of a species which can be both male and female
Mr. Mime and Seaking aggravate the hell out of me
Mr. Mime and Seaking aggravate the hell out of me
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Pokémon for Nintendo Switch Speculation Thread 2 | What Defines a New Thread?
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They didn't wait 10 years and released FRLG just 8 years after Gen I.
Why wait now?
It doesn't work like that. Even if you add different things to each of the areas in Kanto, the problem still remains, which is that you're still dealing with the map design of Kanto being the same as it was 20+ years ago. Kanto being open world and free wouldn't necessarily change that. People trying to add Alolan Form logic to Kanto are forgetting the fact that Kanto has relatively tame climate and environmental design compared to Alola. If anything, that would make a lot more sense in places like Hoenn or Sinnoh.
Not that I would advocate such a thing, but remember that the climate of Black and White's region completely changed in the sequels for plot reasons and I wouldn't put it past them to do it again
The region's climate didn't really change; there was just the sequence in Opelucid with the Neo Plasma Kyurem-powered ship that froze some places. But otherwise the region just has a few new cities with distinct climates, and there's dynamic weather of varying types based on the place.
Maybe 200-300 in a regional 'dex. If you have more than that, the region can't do enough to distinguish its wildlife from others' (see: Kalos). USUM's 'dex pushes it, but not as far as XY did, and the Legendaries / Ultra Beasts don't factor into your typical random encounters the same way non-Legendaries do. Fewer than 200, and you start to get a lot of repeats (Kanto, BW Unova).
150 with only Pokemon from that region during the mainline. Its why Gen 5 the goat.
I loved BW Unova since it felt like you were always encountering new stuff outside of the "grunt" Pokemon being fairly common a lot of places (Pidove, Lilipup, Purrloin, Roggenrola lines among some others).
But really the Hoenn approach is perfect. 202 total in the regional dex, 66 old Pokemon (~33%) and 136 new ones (~67%). I could even stand to see the number of older Pokemon in this ratio increase a bit, and then there's new regional variants (which I pretty much consider to be new Pokemon).
Really the most important thing to me is a wealth of new monsters. The sub-100 thing isn't really doing anything for me; I really look forward to new Pokemon games for the excitement of encountering and raising new monsters. But one thing Gen 7 did very right was giving all the old Pokemon new dex entries, which was sorely needed. I hope new entries for every Pokemon in the regional dex is a standard going forward. It was the first time I found myself actually trying to catch old Pokemon in a very long time.
But really the Hoenn approach is perfect. 202 total in the regional dex, 66 old Pokemon (~33%) and 136 new ones (~67%). I could even stand to see the number of older Pokemon in this ratio increase a bit, and then there's new regional variants (which I pretty much consider to be new Pokemon).
Really the most important thing to me is a wealth of new monsters. The sub-100 thing isn't really doing anything for me; I really look forward to new Pokemon games for the excitement of encountering and raising new monsters. But one thing Gen 7 did very right was giving all the old Pokemon new dex entries, which was sorely needed. I hope new entries for every Pokemon in the regional dex is a standard going forward. It was the first time I found myself actually trying to catch old Pokemon in a very long time.
Contrary to what people have been spouting, the investor meeting is actually tomorrow. Today is just the financial release.
According to this totally trustworthy Instagram ad I saw, the Pokémon game for 2018 is in fact a remake.
Both?
I mean in America at the moment it's both Wednesday and Thursday, so tomorrow for those in Wednesday.
However it'll be Friday morning for over half the world
I see these way too often. Nintendo gotta get on this.
According to this totally trustworthy Instagram ad I saw, the Pokémon game for 2018 is in fact a remake.
With Pokemon Switch, I hope they take a page out if Monolith Soft's book and add quests to mythical pokemon. With Zeraora coming so late, there's not much point if you dont care about competitive. It's just... there. Having a story along with it flashes out the world so much more. It's a good way to make good on their promise to be more expressive with their stories
We've stopped getting the "quests" (or rather events) for mythical Pokemon since the 4th Generation. For whatever reason GF has always stuck to gifting Mythicals. It'd be nice to get catchable Mythicals again (especially something like Delta Episode Deoxys. For as much as I hate Delta Episode as postgame content, catchable Deoxys was cool).
We should go back to the days of downloading an item to get to a location to catch these mons.
We should go back to the days of downloading an item to get to a location to catch these mons.
Their research found that the younger audience just got the items and seldom went and followed through, as it could be too confusing. That's why the Azure Flute event never happened and why the Eon Ticket in ORAS literally dragged you to each point rather than let you discover it yourself
Which is mind blowing to me. Like, wtf, you just got an item to get a legendary Pokémon, probably with clear instructions on where to go, and you just... don't go? Sure, your loss, but apparently we all had to pay for it. It's like they are always appealing to the lower common denominator in the worst way possible.
EDIT: This is coming from the same company that got popular for the mistery of Mew and that wasn't afraid of putting the most cryptic quest imaginable in Ruby and Sapphire with the Regis. What happened during Gen IV? We even got two of the coolest quests in HGSS with the Celebi one and the Sinjoh Ruins and after that...nothing.
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You mean Game Freak decided to learn the wrong lessons rather than do something sensible
I feel like there's a better solution if GF allowed for an item that functions like a quest log or something of that sort where you can keep track of events taking place. An item like that would allow for the region to open up since you don't have to railroad players from A to B, while at the same time, not being too nonlinear that it becomes overwhelming for the younger fans.
Great first post !
At this point in time I'm just scrolling for images and tweets as it's impossible to actually keep up with you all.
At this point in time I'm just scrolling for images and tweets as it's impossible to actually keep up with you all.
I made a vow to myself , if we dont hear anything from nin meeting tomorrow im done with rumours
I will just wait to E3 cause its getting crazy or im getting crazy i dont even know
I will just wait to E3 cause its getting crazy or im getting crazy i dont even know
That regi quest was amazing. Me and my best friend pieced it together when we were ten. (For whatever reason we didn't even think of looking on the internet) It was so much fun because it felt like we had really discovered something. We randomly stumbled across the underwater cave in that water route and found the braille code. I recognised the braille as I had read the Fire Red manual which had a page showing the braille patterns for each letter and a few symbols. We were so exited at this that we walked the mile from his house to my house at about 9pm while it was dark, found the Fire Red manual in my room and walked back again. We translated the codes into a HM moves which we used until the last room that translated into some thing like "FIRST COME RELICANTH, LAST COME WAILORD". Neither of us had heard of these Pokemon so we were stuck for a while. But I eventually evolved my Wailmer into a Wailord and he found a Rellicanth somehow. I can't remember how we found the three buildings with the regis in but god it so amazing when we did.
There is nothing like that in Pokemon these days and that makes me a bit sad to be honest.
I always wondered why they had stopped doing catchable event Pokémon.
It's a bit of a shame, I always really liked them.
Completely baseless speculation but it seems like "2018 or later" is going to be aiming at around the Q4-Q2 mark. Just recently I was saying that 2018 or 2019 could go either way, and it looks like that'll be the case (compared to Xenoblade 2 where Nintendo was saying 2017 and people expected delays).
NEW NINTENDO PRESIDENT IS POKEMON BOARD MEMBER, POKEMON HAS NOW FULLY INFILTRATED THE UPPER ECHELONS OF NINTENDO MANAGEMENT. POKEMON IS THE FUTURE
This is what it's all about. Loved reading this story. Thanks for sharing. Yeah I wish there was more in the recent games like that. There certainly was a bit of mystery surrounding the early pokemon games. I remember lots of trading of theories at school about secrets and what not.
It's bee said many times before, but it would definitely be nice to have the hand holding in the next game turned down significantly.
I'm guessing it might have to do with spreading out the releases. Looking at their timeline, they're expecting to get Fire Emblem and Smash out in 2018, both of them will likely be towards the holiday season, so where does that leave Pokemon?
Long shot theory: might be related to development not being 100% complete yet. Who knows?
They're still predicting 20 million units this fiscal year. It's coming out by March.
Remember who appointed The Poke.on Company's president (Iwata). They come full circle now
Well let me tell you something, now days you could find everything on the internet ,so stories like your wont happen in 1 of a million chance . People wont waste that much time looking into something for just one pokemon while they just could find the solution on the internet in 5 second , also kids now days are
Deferent than lets say 15 or 18 years ago
It would be just waste of time for devs and people playing the game too.
15 or 18 years ago people used strategy guides. Just because you can solve something using the internet doesn't mean everyone will.
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