I also found Ultra Sun surprisingly difficult. I struggled with almost all Totem battles and various other encounters here and there. It was a nice way of forcing the player to use strategy (like in the Ultra Necrozma fight) instead of just spamming the strongest moves.
Pokémon in the overworld could be just as much of a surprise as random encounters if they were programmed well with AI and intractable in world/hiding in tall grass, etc. Sure, I wouldn't trust Gamefreak to do this and instead they'd just reuse let's go's way of handling it, but... I do think it's the future and it's what a lot of people want. Just a matter of when.
Lol, I said this a few pages back and pretty much in every thread about Pokemon for a while
Grookey not having a form that's a reference to Ringo Starr is going to be a missed opportunity.Might have been posted already, but we've probably seen Grookey's final form before:
Kinda surprised to see how many people are already jumping to conclusions. The trailer was made to show off the region and starters so like you said I'm not sure why some people are assuming gameplay is just the same old thing. They specifically said they're challenging themselves to try new things with this game.
So? XY didn't feature changing your appearance/clothes OR Mega evolutions in its first appearance. In fact this trailer, like the XY one, seemed primarily just to show the graphics and region, not to show features.
But having a hard mode in the game would ruin the Pokemon experience
I don't even remember ever changing my first Pokémon. I'm probably exaggerating a bit and obviously use super effective moves whenever possible but for the most part it all felt very automated to me.
I don't know, I think it's one of the strongest starter trios we've gotten. For the first time I love all 3 of them to the point I can't choose one. Also GF has created some far more interesting Pokémon than what was in gen 1 and gen 2 over the years so I'm excited to see what comes next.
That's what I meant, it could be not showing them off here or it could be because they aren't in, we don't really now. No point in wondering until a proper rerelease news cycle starts, as that is when they will start showing off a more populated world and features.
could they? sure
BW and SuMo were the only games in the series (other than RGB ofc) that graphically did more than just slightly iterate graphically. GS was just a color RGB, with RS being color-er, DP was RS with slightly more 3D, and XY just brought the BW design to full 3D. BW actually added 3D level design into Pokémon and SuMo finally removed the grid system.
Well yeah, that would explain it. I don't usually fight every random encounter so I never get overlevelled. Ultra Necrozma was untouchable for me because none of my Pokémon could outspeed it nor survive a single hit at their level
Spot on. Some people don't understand how overworld Pokemon spoil the experience for lots of players. I would be okay with it as long as it was optional (too much work as pointed out) or there were some massive overhaul on the game formula.
That sounds plausible. They're going to play into the whole stadium thing, without a doubt, both as a venue for sports and for music/entertainment. Hell, the starters themselves look like they're playing into that - Grookey representing music and Scorbunny sports.
After playing through Black 2 (probably my fave Pokémon game) after Lets Go, I really missed overworld Pokémon. They really brought the world alive.
I'm sure I understood your point fair and square. But you have nothing to back up such affirmations. If you really believe this then either you haven't really played another pokemon game in years (maybe decades) or you know very little about gaming design.
Said this a few times before, but yeah, it's likely that. Would say the archetype is more CUTE/BEAUTIFUL than "feminine" tho. We'll get a cool fire football (soccer) player, a water kaiju and a beautiful monkey.
At the very least, the first time through, and they could tie it to the story and have you face your rival in the end. But alas Gamefreak
That doesn't really reflect anything regarding the difficulty design at all though. If you just hold right and don't jump of course you're going to fall on the lava in a Mario level. There are still hard and easy Mario levels though. How likely is it that someone will have an all grass team? Are there only grass Pokémon available before the fire gym?
Ummmm....
Last generation they took out gyms and tried something different. This time it'd be awesome if they reworked the Pokémon League. A tournament against characters you come across throughout the game would be really cool. I also would like for the Elite 4 to be more than glorified gym leaders.
For the first time I could enjoy exploring caves and water environments without using repels in Let's Go.
Serperior - Cute/Beautiful
As someone who enjoys Nuzlocke runs, the overworld system ruined Nuzlockes for me. An option to choose between overworld and random encounters would be nice, but Gamefreak laughs at the notion of options.
Besides two specific cases (Munchlax and the the trainer) the trailer seemed oddly sparse. I definitely think there's more they're not showing for some reason.
I don't know anything really about Nuzlocke runs as I'm more of a fairweather Pokemon fan but they sound cool. I'll have to try it out as the games are crazy easy.
