The random battles were on tall grass and caves/sea. You can repel them by buying an item early on in any game.
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Pokémon Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu (Switch) announced; coming Nov 16th 2018
- Thread starter Xavi
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Just woke up and holy shit at all these Pokemon news.
So I've got all 151 in Go, does that mean I've already finished Let's go?
So I've got all 151 in Go, does that mean I've already finished Let's go?
I saw a lot of things that I liked, but there's also several elements that made me squint. I like that the amount of Pokémon is capped to a more manageable, reasonable number again. That brings back a part of the series that has been lost for a very long time to people like me. Pokémon following me around was always kind of dumb, but in a very cute and endearing way. Really glad they brought it back. What I'm not sure about, is basically anything RPG related. Getting rid of the wild Pokémon battles and turning them into catching minigames sounds weird. There wasn't a whole lot to it in Go, and they tried to balance that by making encounters with wild Pokémon a lot rarer. If Let's Go lets you encounter Pokémon a lot more often, then it'll need to find some ways to spice it up. Also curious to see how levelling and evolving will work. Will it be like Go, where you just need to squish a million Pidgeys into a cube to get one Pidgeotto? That made sense for a game without regular combat, but this one will have trainer battles after all. I've got a lot of questions, but definitely intrigued. If the impressions aren't too negative after launch, I'll probably check it out. I'll just need to find a way to figure out a way to filter out the stubborn negative nancies who are not going to give it a proper shot.
Honestly don't mind the new catching mechanics. I'm just bummed that we're locked to 151 Pokemon.
Or we can just show them on the screen instead of using an item. Why is everyone so upset that you can now choose whether you want to engage with a Pokémon or not?
Damn lol. I caught a decent amount in Go, and I'm wondering if maybe I should just start fresh for this game when it comes out.
Hello my dear Pokemon friends, so how much salt is still left since the announcement and have people come by their senses now ?
I'm happy to lose random encounters for a system where you see the monsters on screen and make contact to actually encounter them (would be cool with that carrying over to the "proper" game coming out next year), but I'm iffy on swapping out actually having to fight them for the Go capture mechanics.
You don't fight them at all. Completely like Pokémon Go, just throw a Poké Ball and aim it and time it right to catch them.
The fact that the mainline game is coming in 2019? Where did I sent that?
This looks like a spin-off.
It's a mainline game in the sense that it will presumably allow you to transfer these Pokemon to Pokebank and it has the traditional battle system and overall game structure. It's not it's own thing in a completely separate bubble like Pokemon Ranger.
That they went out of their way to tell us that a followup generation 8 game to follow Sun/Moon is coming next year, so relax. This is just a way to get Pokemon Go players to migrate to a more traditional experience before hitting them with the full shebang next year.
Suddenly everyone hates random encounters?
It looks okay. Quite a bit of Go implementation, which I'm not a fan off. But I suppose it is optional.
I'll wait to see more, but I'm torn tbh.
It looks okay. Quite a bit of Go implementation, which I'm not a fan off. But I suppose it is optional.
I'll wait to see more, but I'm torn tbh.
Neat, always wanted to have multiple Eeveelutions! Probably going with Let's Go Pikachu, then.
Just gotta make new dumb rules like having to approach the one that spawns closest to the bottom of the screen or w/e.
That's actually amazing news.
No need to fight Pokemon you have no intention of catching.
No need to have a weaker Pokemon on your team so you don't one shot a Pokemon you want to catch.
I'm super into this.
I actually really like the look of this. I've just combed through the trailer, pausing and stuff.
- Pokemon randomly appear but you run into them to battle. In the mount moon section you can clearly see a Zubat popping up in a little smoke loud animation as it spawns in. There seem to be wild Pokemon everywhere - that mount moon part had at least 6 roaming about that I saw and the tall grass looked busy in places too.
- Pokemon have levels and gain them by getting experience. This was seen in the battle section of the trailer: each of your Pokemon has an exp bar under their hp. With no levelling from wild Pokemon I guess this means there will be some kind of vs seeker system in play to help level up.
- Cerulean city trainer bridge looks awesome.
- Pokemon movesets look different. One of the Bulbasaur in the trailer was level 18 yet knew Take Down.
Honestly it looks great. It's a shiny Pokemon Yellow with a new capture mechanic. A capture mechanic where you don't need to bring weak Pokemon to avoid one hitting something you want to catch.
- Pokemon randomly appear but you run into them to battle. In the mount moon section you can clearly see a Zubat popping up in a little smoke loud animation as it spawns in. There seem to be wild Pokemon everywhere - that mount moon part had at least 6 roaming about that I saw and the tall grass looked busy in places too.
- Pokemon have levels and gain them by getting experience. This was seen in the battle section of the trailer: each of your Pokemon has an exp bar under their hp. With no levelling from wild Pokemon I guess this means there will be some kind of vs seeker system in play to help level up.
- Cerulean city trainer bridge looks awesome.
- Pokemon movesets look different. One of the Bulbasaur in the trailer was level 18 yet knew Take Down.
Honestly it looks great. It's a shiny Pokemon Yellow with a new capture mechanic. A capture mechanic where you don't need to bring weak Pokemon to avoid one hitting something you want to catch.
It looks genuinely pretty and I'm excited to dig in. Aso super happy that a more hardcore game is in production, so for now I am super happy that they managed to come out with a game in 2018 that looks good and seems to bring huge enhancements such as no random battles - which I assume will be fully fleshed out for the 2019 game. I love Gen 1, and adore Eevee so this is a must. Also that pokeball controller will be mine.
They said version differences apply(not in story) maybe Eevee is exclusive to Let's Go Eevee?
The fact that GF is telling you explicitly that this is a mainline title and they're the only ones who can decide what is and isn't a mainline title.
Decent looking spin-off but not really this year and gen 8 next year?
I'm game.
I'm also going to go ahead and set myself up for a massive disappointment and hope that the one new Pokemon will be a Missingno. reference.
I'm game.
I'm also going to go ahead and set myself up for a massive disappointment and hope that the one new Pokemon will be a Missingno. reference.
Seems like this is just a spin off series aimed at bringing in lapsed fans who loved Kanto & the original 151 Pokemon, as well as those who loved Pokemon GO.
Good move to confirm the true sequel is in development to stop the moaning. Makes sense it would come later as Sun and Moon have only been out 18 months.
Good move to confirm the true sequel is in development to stop the moaning. Makes sense it would come later as Sun and Moon have only been out 18 months.
This is also another point I haven't understood. If the past twenty years (or anything past gen 1) didn't excite Go players enough to get the games then why would the 2018 title suddenly convince them to get the one in 2019 when it goes back to its traditional play style?
No random battles is interesting.
My first reaction was "what? Not!". But thinking about it, well it might work. Random battles can be very tiresome but they also serve to level your Pokémon's and it's a nice sense of progression. I wonder how they will replace that.
Making it close to Pokémon Go is a bit of a bummer since I'm not a fan of their system, or the whole game really.
Being in Kanto is a nostalgia kick but I've been there enough, I was definetly eager for new stuff. That's the actual disappointment in this. It will be great for first time players that's for sure.
Let's see how this turns out. The art style looks great and no random battles doesn't mean it will be good or bad, curious what they will do with the other facets of the game. Maybe this will be a small reboot for the franchise, that would be interesting.
My first reaction was "what? Not!". But thinking about it, well it might work. Random battles can be very tiresome but they also serve to level your Pokémon's and it's a nice sense of progression. I wonder how they will replace that.
Making it close to Pokémon Go is a bit of a bummer since I'm not a fan of their system, or the whole game really.
Being in Kanto is a nostalgia kick but I've been there enough, I was definetly eager for new stuff. That's the actual disappointment in this. It will be great for first time players that's for sure.
Let's see how this turns out. The art style looks great and no random battles doesn't mean it will be good or bad, curious what they will do with the other facets of the game. Maybe this will be a small reboot for the franchise, that would be interesting.
Maybe I am missing something, but the encounters look nothing like Poke'Mon Go to me. The battles looks like standard Poke'Mon fair, and random encounters are pretty much there (just visible instead of invisible/random encounters). The only Poke'Mon Go mechanic that looks similar is the actual catch.
Presuming a lot of things, but if they go that route any Pokemon transferred from Go into this one will need random IVs set for them. CP will have to equate to levels. Go stats work so fundamentally different than main line Pokemon games which is why it's all guess work right now. I personally wouldn't call this a main line game until we know how the rest of it is going to play out .
Overall there's some cool stuff, but there's also quite some Gamefreak God tier level bullshit in this game. I mean you can't evolve your partner pokemon? Evee, the evolution pokemon can't be evolved lmaooooooooooooo
The ability to play coop is the coolest thing imo.
The ability to play coop is the coolest thing imo.
Not hard, no. On the contrary: weakening wild Pokémon makes it easier to catch them, removing a lot of the luck involved in whether you actually will catch them or not (as much as you're able to anyway). Without that, and if you have to toss regular balls at them without any weakening mechanics, it's just pure luck through and through whether you actually catch anything. In other words, it's presumably just doubling down on the RNG involved in catching Pokémon.
Actually catching Pokémon is my least favorite part of the series these days due to how much luck is involved, especially regarding minimum capture rate Legendaries and stuff like Beldum. Just doubling down on stuff like that and having more limited options to increase capture rate just kinda sucks. =/
That aside, I'm just not really sure why they removed the option to weaken wild Pokémon or even KO them if you like. Because it seems like when you "encounter" a Pokémon on the overworld, it goes into a separate "caputre" mode at that point, complete with a menu and all. Since it transitions into that separate mode anyway and gives you those different options you see, why couldn't one of them have just been to send out your own Pokémon to weaken/defeat it?
Having Pokémon on the overworld is one thing, but I'm not really getting why it necessitated removing that other stuff, since it seems like trying to actually capture something you see transitions the game into a different mode anyway, so why not at that point? Especially if the point is to transition people into the main series since, y'know, weakening Pokémon and stuff is what you do in the main series, so not even having it as an option is kinda weird if that's really the intent. I'm just really not getting the idea here I guess.
I will just say that if next year's main game looks anywhere near as nice as this game does, this is an easy pill to swallow (and I say that as someone who still plays Pokemon Go)
You don't get to decide what is or isn't a mainline title, though. GF does, and they're calling it a mainline title.
I'll probably get the game as long as you can catch all 151 Pokemon without using Go and Pokemon or ingame benefits or outfits wont be locked behind using Go. But who am I kidding, it's Nintendo, there'll definitely be stuff locked behind using Go :(
Not weakening wild pokemons to catch them it's a big change.
But we need more info anyways.
You can catch another one and evolve it.
The fact that you cant evolve the original Eevee tells me that it is story related and it is going to be a unique Eevee with more powerful stats.
Sorry if this is old, but found this in a live tweet collection:
So it seems you can have the pokémon box with you at all times? Sounds very neat, though I don't know if it's an old feature by now.
So it seems you can have the pokémon box with you at all times? Sounds very neat, though I don't know if it's an old feature by now.
Gah, I know random encounters isn't great either, but dotting them around like this looks awful. I mean... there's just a giant rat chilling out on the road. Nothing looks like it actually LIVES in this environment. They exist purely to be caught by the player. This is an atrocious implementation.
You see the pokemon like in PGO.
The overworld is beautiful and the game is clean
next gen is in cooking still but tech-wise I'm actually pleased, Have pretty good expectations for next year's title now.
I played the Dragon Quest 7 remake and the non-random encounters in that are garbage. Crowded dungeons, enemies that chase you down, enemies that spawn right under you, high enemy spawn rate. Strongest argument for random encounters in games I've ever seen.
Wow.
So even on a PS360 grade hardware, Gamefreak cant be bothered to make a game world on par with what we found on... PS2 ?
Top down view again ?
So even on a PS360 grade hardware, Gamefreak cant be bothered to make a game world on par with what we found on... PS2 ?
Top down view again ?
Wait you can't do random battles? How do you grind if you exhaust the trainer battles?
Also what's the point of Eevee if you can't evolve it...? It's literally the whole point of that Pokémon.
The art style is really nice, but jeez that Mewtwo looks straight outta N64.
Colour me skeptical. And disappointed.
Also what's the point of Eevee if you can't evolve it...? It's literally the whole point of that Pokémon.
The art style is really nice, but jeez that Mewtwo looks straight outta N64.
Colour me skeptical. And disappointed.