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Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee Review Thread
- Thread starter Galava
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When we all played Pokemon Yellow or the first generations of Pokemon, we were all kids. Many years later, we are all adults and some even old men/women. We expect a game filled with nostalgia, sprinkled with complex and modern game play.
But we forgot that kid many years ago, where we play games for fun, no matter how simple they seem. This game is for the new generation of kids.
But we forgot that kid many years ago, where we play games for fun, no matter how simple they seem. This game is for the new generation of kids.
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Me too. I value a lot the "you can do this by doing this, now i'll leave you alone, bye". And just start exploring and playing the game, instead of spending 3 hours with uneccessary conversations.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to playing it on Friday! Can't wait.
Looking forward to playing this with my daughter in co-op.
I love that they took out random battles. It'll make it easier for me to catch them all.
I love that they took out random battles. It'll make it easier for me to catch them all.
Thank you.
And the fact that they're charging more for this when it has less features than the 3DS games, or hell, even the GBA remakes, is awful. They could have easily made these games work as a casual experience without stripping out so many features.
So excited for this game. The lack of Pro controller support kills me, but it is what it is. Maybe I'll buy that silly Pokeball controller
Docked is single joy-con or Poke Ball per player only. It's a one-handed game unless you're playing handheld.
Dude, you're giving the pacific ocean a run for its money in terms of salinity
This place is a small echo chamber of people. I don't put much regard into what they think will one a hit or not. The game will sells millions and millions and sell hardware and be a huge hit. Remember the Switch was gonna be a failure if we read those old posts.
There's a game for their biggest fans coming next year.
I am really confused.
Review scores for Pokémon games continue to be the weirdest.
Pokémon Emerald being the worst at 76 MC says all.
Pokémon Emerald being the worst at 76 MC says all.
God forbid thinking that this:
is a little compliated right? Maybe admit that the games became complicated for some people that don't follow the games as closely as you. gatekeeping at it's worst.
Psssst that's just the formulas that tells the game how it should work and psssst let's go has the same math logic implemented just not the same variables.
the amount of salt this game is generating is unprecedented
just ignore it until the main game comes out, would it kill you to have some patience?
just ignore it until the main game comes out, would it kill you to have some patience?
We're just tired of them shitting up every single Pokémon thread. We get it. You're not pleased. We have known what these games are for several months now. At some point you're no longer adding anything worthwhile to the discussion.
Some people really have a lot of trouble with the idea that perhaps they aren't part of the target demographic
EVs have been completely visible for over 5 years now, they're even on the stat screen in gen 7. IVs have been completely visible for 2 years, and the descriptors for the number ranges have been around since gen 5. The games' deeper training mechanics have gotten more and more transparent as time goes on. Let's Go has its own unique IV shenanigans going on with chain capturing that aren't explicitly explained or visualized to the player. Candy bonuses aren't any more explicitly defined than EVs are in gen 7. The only simplification that has occurred is the wholesale removal of breeding, abilities, and hold items, because they'd rather just toss them than provide the player with clearer information.
And I'd certainly argue that a Pokemon game with fewer available Pokemon is worse off than a game with most/all of the roster attainable
I'm mad with the direction my favourite series is taking, yes.
This reviews only tell GF that this is a good road, and that people don't care about losing 80% of team variety.
Reading the reviews it seems this is for the Pokemon Go crowd, which I'm not. I'll skip this one and wait for next years entry
I see that the impressions of the Pokéball Plus are mixed, mostly because of the lack of inputs and the main button being the clickable stick. I'm a little disapointed in that regard.
Hopefully it's not so bad and my son likes it regardless because I'm buying it for him. Can you believe I got the game for 50 CAD but the damn ball is 65 CAD... (meaning I save only 5 bucks from the bundle)
Hopefully it's not so bad and my son likes it regardless because I'm buying it for him. Can you believe I got the game for 50 CAD but the damn ball is 65 CAD... (meaning I save only 5 bucks from the bundle)
Believe me, I had the same issues with USUM as I did with Crystal, in that it was too Deja Vu and boring to be worth redoing. At least Emerald/Platinum's changes make it fun on a replay, but Crystal and USUM didn't really address anything in the main story (and in Crystal's case, nothing at all in the US version save for making Kurt easier to deal with). I don't fully think reviews tend to give spinoffs a fair shake either for what they are (different than the main games) but considering how some like Dash and Pokepark are so, so bad, I can see why reviewers don't have much hope for them
I mean, I'm okay too. I'm just disappointed with how Pokémon reviews focus too much on nostalgia like the franchise ended in the 90's and is coming back now, and how much the main series is losing in quality because of this sentiment.
I legit don't have any hope of gen 8 being any better and this used to be one of my favorite series in gaming. Yet seems like people don't allow others to share their disappointment in the direction this franchise is taking.
Yeah, people called these hardcore players as gatekeeping, but I haven't seen any one of them wish for past pokemon and mechanics to be removed in a main line game. It was genwunners wishing for a reboot to happen to get rid of them. These argurments were real, and people were serious about them.
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Dude, this is just for this game. You will have your traditional pokemon next year.
Is it so hard to understand that?
Any review that doesn't agree with me is worthless. If 100% of reviews don't agree with me then the entire universe of reviewers is worthless. Nice logic you got there.
I watched a couple of reviews but is there a review that's shows how much movement is required in handheld mode to catch Pokémon?
I'm disabled and at times when the pain kicks up my movement is extremely limited.
I'm disabled and at times when the pain kicks up my movement is extremely limited.
I'm criticizing the text (for some of these), not the scores. "It has nostalgia, so the flaws don't matter" isn't something I can agree with.
Sure its bloated, but those formulas are not why. Its mostly because GF starts a new gimmick and drops it next game without removing it (see: mega evolutions were a big focus, but then sidelined for Z moves). Even then, I wouldnt call it complicated.
But its not complicated. These background calculations exist in every game. How does Lets Go know wether you captured a Pokemon or not? 1+1=2? No its a complicated formula, just like the ones you posted, but its not necesarry to know, just like the ones you posted.
But... they announced gen 8 for next year already. It's not like they can redesign next year's game completely to make it seem more like this game, that's not how game development works.
In fact that's like, the last thing they would do. The whole point of having this game, and potentially branch of the series, is to be more accessible than the core games. Then hopefully transition people towards the core games.
They announced gen 8 with this game for a specific reason, and that's to assure longtime fans that they aren't abandoning them. I honestly don't understand how people have missed that.
We have no idea how that game will turn out and if it'll leave out features like the National Dex again, or simply not be content filled to be worth $60. That's why we aren't blindly excited for the next one since we'd like to see something hopeful from it rather than "it plays like the older games" (which isn't LGPE's problem for me, it's the difficulty/content)
I've played and finished X and Moon, I'm just happy to play one without random encounters and one that continues the elimination of HMs started by Sun/Moon
Yeah it's been pretty embarrassing in every Let's Go thread. You apparently aren't allowed be disappointed.
A month or so ago they confirmed you could just throw with a button press in handheld mode. The gyro is not turned off though, so some movement of the console can affect the camera motion I believe.
This was my dream game as a child. Coop, riding you pok, clothes for Pikachu/Eevee...
Maybe having this game for "casuals" will allow Gen VIII to be less hand holding than the 3DS games?
Maybe having this game for "casuals" will allow Gen VIII to be less hand holding than the 3DS games?
On DS
D/P - 85
Pl - 83
HG/SS - 87
B/W - 87
B2/W2 - 80
Platinum and B2/W2 are two of the most liked games, and they are the worst rated.
On 3DS
X/Y - 88
OR/AS - 83
S/M - 87
US/UM - 84
X/Y is universally considered the weakest of the 3DS games (and probably the weakest, period) and it's the best rated.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wild that people are excited for a game that looks like a mobile remake of RBY with less content and are fine with paying more money than they ever have for a Pokemon game simply because they can get their cheap nostalgia tickle.
Couldn't be me.
A lot of people are worried that if this does well they'll either abandon the traditional games after Gen 8 or replace the traditional remakes with Let's Go.