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Pokémon Switch Rumor Discussion and Speculation Thread
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just grab a female heracross from a three -> problem solved.
If they do that again, I hope they take the opportunity to make the bonus region a lot more open and challenging than the base region.
I love when games approach difficulty that way. Make the base game relatively easy so everyone can see the credits, and then make the post-game more challenging since everyone who keeps playing at that point is likely an enthusiast, while people who aren't interested can skip it satisfied that they saw the whole main campaign.
The fact that you need to engage with the type-system and plan out your team ahead of time is what makes it the perfect type of obstacle for the franchise. It's a roadblock where the solution isn't grinding or story-related but coming up with a clever strategy to beat it
The later games seem to have replaced all difficulty roadblocks with story ones, so your solution to any problem is rarely using your brain and knowledge of the systems, it's finding the right NPC to start the next insipid cutscene.
Shameless plug for this thing I made that lets you find out which trees you should headbutt: http://37.97.147.73/Headbutt Grid.htm
Thanks, I'll keep this bookmarked for my next replay.
no? If you do not apply the type system you can easily get roadblocked in a gym in gen 5 and 7. Gen 5 takes an easy way out of it by giving you a very effective pokemon for the gym in the optative area next to each gym (for instance, the first gym would be much harder if they hadnt given you the monkey of the opposite element before hand as otherwise you would get wrecked and that actually repeats itself all over the game) while in sun/moon the totem encounters being 2v1 with set up of crazy moves will wreck you unless you plan ahead (and sometimes exploit Z-moves). XY was bad because Exp all when the experience is not controlled as in the previous and latter gens make it really easy to become op, as well as having a really nice amount of pokemon types in the start that make it easy to make an ideal team and just run with it.
You only think it is way easier because type coverage has improved dramatically compared to the first gens and much more information is displayed to the player in the fighting part (even more in sun moon where they just straight up show you what moves are effective or not if you had already meet that pokemon) so you are more likely to make good predictions.
Also you can easily grind out Miltank. I did it when i was a child and I only used Quilava. The real issue I had was with gim 8s Kingdra. The lack of dragon types before that fight was pretty stupid, fuck that.
Edit: It is also important to notice that tms becoming infinite uses actually improves the coverage of all pokemon as you are no longer afraid of those really nice powerful moves being wasted in a pokemon you might change later on.
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My bad, I was mostly talking about gen 6 and what I've heard from gen 7. I think gen 5 is quite well balanced. Gen 6 on the other hand was so braindead easy and boring I dropped and haven't gone back to the series yet after feeling so burned by it.
I probably shouldn't have made generalizations including gen 7 in that comment and specified I meant XY specifically, but I'd heard it's about as easy from people talking about it so I assumed the trend continued for all the 3DS games. It's good to hear if I'm wrong though, hopefully gen 8 will continue to be more interesting in that regard.
I never thanked you for this because I was a lurker in the previous forum, but this was super useful during my playthrough of Pokémon Silver on my 3DS last year. It turns out Heracross could spawn in just one single tree that I would have NEVER of using Headbutt on.
Thank you very much, young sir.
That isn't true at all, I've seen kids who were roadblocked on the second gym in XY because the boss is a Rock/Dragon and they had no idea how to deal with that
Sometimes they just used pale colors who aren't those of the official art though. Example:
This needs to be fixed, and some Pokémon should just receive better colors if the old art is too pale, like for example Voltorb who looks pink instead of red:
Yeah, more color wouldn't hurt these models.Sometimes they just used pale colors who aren't those of the official art though. Example:
This needs to be fixed, and some Pokémon should just receive better colors if the old art is too pale, like for example Voltorb who looks pink instead of red:
I could be wrong, but I believe part of the limitations is 3DS-related. Even the lightning seems off.
Yeah, I love the official art's colours and I'm glad they've been going for that look over the anime's (which I find to be garish), but some pokemon look way off.
Another example is Alolan Dugtrio, which is supposed to look way more saturated than his kanto counterpart going by the artwork. The in-game model doesn't reflect this in the slightest.
Another example is Alolan Dugtrio, which is supposed to look way more saturated than his kanto counterpart going by the artwork. The in-game model doesn't reflect this in the slightest.
From the Ubi employee that teased Labo :
In the thread he said that the announcement won't be today or tomorrow but soon. He is going to tease it when it'll be close enough.
In the thread he said that the announcement won't be today or tomorrow but soon. He is going to tease it when it'll be close enough.
Well the colors are pretty exclusive to the 3DS Mainline Games. Pokedex 3D on 3DS had more saturated colors. Every other spinoff has "improved" colors compared to the 3ds mainline games.
that's not a hardware problem. that's an issue with how Game Freak chooses to render the colors
I've been keeping an eye on his Twitter. He's been teasing these past couple of days. Soon can be end of this week or next week.
Oh shit, things just got interesting! Pokemon is just about the only game that I might want more than Spider-Man PS4.
Do you know how difficult it was to capture a Heracross in Gen 2?
Let alone Gamefreak's solution was to place the Dig TM that doesn't work out well with Milktank since it could heal.
We don't know but every time he did a tease something happened.
Probably has friends at Nintendo.
Soon could be like in the next month, which tons of people have predicted. Not exactly a bold prediction
It's not unusual that something like LABO would be told to various 3rd party partners, even if it was only to gauge interest in making it available to them (much like how Amiibo were initial just open to Nintendo properties). But divulging information on a specific title, outside of maybe it's release date window? That seems more unusual
In that case, I'm clearly wrong, wow wtf Game Freak. Doesn't really make sense to use washed out colours when sprites back then were so vibrant.
No we're not. He's an Ubisoft employee and he knew about Labo.
That abomination on the left ... is that supposed to be Blastoise?
hmmmmm so the leak posted on bulbagarden discussed earlier predates the image leak showing no more wild encounters and Kanto region (same as Youtube leak)
all other semi-credible hints have been Gen 1 related like the one above
Is it time to believe?
all other semi-credible hints have been Gen 1 related like the one above
Is it time to believe?
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