With who Nintendo's new President is that might change, we could see a bit more integration.
We just got new Pokemon a few months ago.
Yeah, there is that, it would be fitting to announce it at E3 since we learned of its existence there last year.
Can you find that? Because if that's true that's kind of a big detail that has been left out in the discussion of this game.
I doubt they'd skip the chance to have the Gen 1 starters be the starters. That being said having the Johto starters as secondary ones that you get a little ways in like the Kanto ones in XY would be neat.
You think they pull HD assets out of their ass? Unless you're expecting XY in HD, blueprints based on a grid based game made for a system that could barely do 3D isnt gonna cut it for a Switch game unless this was some Kemco joint
Perhaps, I even brought the topic up when Furukawa was first announced as the Nintendo's next president. But I'm not expecting such changes to go down anytime soon.
So is concepting a new region, which usually happens right at the tail end of the previous generation. Regardless of Pokemon Switch being Gen 8 or Gen 1, the concepting phase was already done
They are easier to make and faster to develop though.
Not when going from GBA/DS to Switch level hardware. Not even the assets made for the 3DS can be completely reused. Game freak put out a "vita/Wii u" modeler ad for a reason
And doing concepts for something totally new takes more time, so again, going with Kanto would take less time.
Still easier and quicker than developing something brand new.
No.
Well what if we have new Pokemon and new mechanics in the Kanto game?
USUM had new Pokemon and new mechanics but it isn't Gen 8.
I dunno, I'd consider 60+ new Pokemon in a region in the same physical location with significant changes in appearance to be a new gen.
I see no reason to believe him either to be honest. Don't believe leaks until solid evidence is presented.
Pokemon isn't meant to be completely balanced though. The game is designed so that some Pokemon aren't meant to be useful competitively. Stuff like early game pokemon are meant to be moved on from, even their final forms
This is literally never going to be avoided as long as there are this many Pokemon. People will always seek to min max in this type of game. And while some balancing needs to be done on the scale of certain types (like Ice needs to be buffed), this isn't the same as balancing on an individual level which is never really going to happen perfectly with such a large amount of Pokemon
It's impossible because among other issues, attempts to balance can easily lead to new balance issues popping up. And given that you're pitting a small team of balancers against hundreds of players trying to find ways to break the system, it'll never work, especially without doing constant balance updates. Not creating new Pokemon isn't an option for the franchise, since new pokemon and new forms are what drives merchandise which is what fuels the franchise more than anything else. And a fundemental aspect of Pokemon design is that certain Pokemon are MEANT to be more powerful than others. No matter how many small things you tweak, it's impossible to rid the fundemental advantage things like legendaries and Pseudolegendaries get in terms of BST. Even if we ignore stuff like mythicals, cover legends, gimmick pokemon meant to be weak, and not fully evolved Pokemon you've still got hundreds lefts, and you're never going to find a perfect balance where all the remaining Pokemon are usable competitively. Balancing everyone equally at top level play has never really been done for games with much smaller casts and much less variables in terms of customizing characters than Pokemon, and the amount of options Pokemon has will always make it even harder
The single player is a huge part of why the game is unbalanced though. They want you to ditch the early Pokemon for stronger Pokemon as part of the progression system. They want certain Pokemon to feel really powerful. And regardless, Pokemon single player is piss easy so unless your favorite Pokemon is a one note gimmick like Unown, you should be able to beat it with any sort of team
Evolution is always going to matter in Pokemon because the competitive PvP is intrinsically tied to the single player. Short of giving every Pokemon completely revamped stats for PvP, there's no real way to reconcile this. At best you could introduce more items in the vein of eviolite, but it's worth noting that in most cases where the existing eviolite has been worth using (which is rare regardless) the pokemon tends to completely outclass the evolved form (like Eviolite Chansey vs Blissey) so the same issue ultimately remains
Again, the only real solution to what you're proposing is a completely different stat list for competitive and story play. As long as the Pokemon you're using for competitive are also capable of being used for single player, this is really unavoidable. You can talk about the narrative themes, but ultimately what prevents every Pokemon from being useful in a competitive setting is the nature of competitive settings themselves. Literally every competitive game on the planet with multiple characters and options will end up using a tier list with higher tiers being more common in high level play, and pretty much always dominating top level play, because when people want to be the best, even a small advantage can be huge.
Transmog's only work if you make sure it's obvious what's going on in a competitive setting. A huge part of competitive Pokemon relies on knowledge of the scene and reading you're opponent's intentions, and a Transmog like system could be used to make that impossible. Especially with certain pokemon where eviolite makes two forms viable. There's a difference in how I'd approach fighting an Aegislash and an Eviolite Doublade for example.
