Nuzlockes are totally dependent on random encounters. For each route, you can only catch the first Pokemon that you find in the tall grass. The overworld system ruins that since you usually spot multiple Pokemon when you enter a route in Let's Go.
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Pokémon Sword and Shield announced. Coming Late 2019
- Thread starter Xavi
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Having the option would really make everyone happy.
I don't think it is a feature they will provide on launch, but they might bring it through DLC. Even a challenge mode is something I could see them introducing via DLC, or some kind of expansion. I wonder if they are going to try some of these uncharted waters for Pokemon on Switch.
Definitely I agree they will play into it. With gym battles seeming to be on the big stage now makes me think the crowd cheering will be raising your attack or defense or even lowring it depending on how you or the trainer you going up against battle which plays into the names sword and shield plus the cheers in trailer happens way too much.
Side Note: I can see Grookey representing music but also a baseball player banging the stick against the rock reminds me of baseball players at the home plate for some reason and Grookey sounding like Green Rookie to me.
I think snakes are associated more with feminine traits so I think that naturally happened, and I don't think they tried to make Serperior cute by the end. I think it's pretty regal and neutral.
They're focusing more on personality, but I'll have to see something overt like Primarina and Delphox in Gen 8 to say it's actually a pattern.
They probably want to sell the region first, give a vast look of the region so people to excited about Galar.
I'll be upfront and say I prefer random encounters.
With the said, until Game Freak can deliver Pokémon in the overworld (which implies much more then AI) I don't want to see it in a new gen game. Why?
In Let's Go go to Viridian Forest. You will see a Pidgey or Pidgeotto chilling right next to a Weedle or Caterpie. What wrong with this? In the Poké Dex and 1st season of the anime the birds eats the bug. Just knowing that broke my immersion of Let's Go. There are other examples like this.
The World needs to be bigger for it to feel natural. No not open world like Breath of the Wild but maybe something like XBCX2 where it's still linear but have enough space in it where Pokémon can act and behave like Pokémon. Imagine a group of Mankey's Being highly territorial over a tree or a flock of Spearal's flying about looking for lunch.
I couldn't stand the way it was done in Let's Go and wouldn't mind if Game Freak kept it exclusive to that series as I won't support those games again.
Again, it's a opinion. I already had some people get offended by my opinion like it had a chance to be reality in this thread.
It did, but that wasn't a QOL improvement I, personally, cared about. I could go either way honestly but its clearly either the desire for nuzlocks or the desire for an easier progression through routes. I'm just not strong about the decision either way.
I think it was more a ball-related sport like Grookey represents cricket, Scorbunny is clearly football (soccer), then Sobble probably maybe represents water polo.
For me it's more than just bumping up the level of the Pokemon I'm facing, or disabling XP share. That difficulty has to be reflected in the world design as well. I want puzzles to solve. I want to find some optional cave on a route and venture down into it and get lost. I want to arrive at a crossroads and be unsure of which direction to go in.
Sure, but you not caring about it as much as others is different from what you originally said lol
Hope that the gym leaders this time have something more to them. If they aren't incorporated on the main plot then give them something like a schedule in HGSS where you get to meet them on certain places and know more about them. Having only a few being a rematch option or just a partner on the Battle Tower isn't enough.
I just can't imagine why they would produce walking models for every single Pokémon back during the development of USM and then not use them. They used 151 of them in Let's Go but all these assets, which were surely a huge endeavor, already exist. What reason would they have to not use them? I guess performance is the only think I can think of.
Oh sorry, I didnt mean that as a general statement. I meant for myself.
Steel would make the most sense for Galar, which looks like the the region with the most industry.
I've never actually followed the release of a Pokemon game, how often are we going to see reveals up until release? How many Ppokemon are kept a secret?
Yeah, not saying it's a perfect pattern or something, just it may be a good indicator for future evolutions and stuff
It helps a bit with expectatiions as I doubt they will all three look "cool" and strong, one of them is likely to be more in line with Serperior/Delphox/Primarina line of starters.
Serperior isn't cool? I always thought Serperior was the coolest of the Gen 5 final evolutions
Dragon would also make quite a bit of sense for the UK. Ghost is a possibility too, given some of our spookier legends, but I feel like Dragon and Steel have the most chance. If there's only one, it'll surely be Steel given the names of the games alone.
I think Black & White handled it perfectly. You got little bits about each character and they all had an additional occupation. It gave more life to their characters. Seeing them show up during the story's climax was so awesome.
They had walking/running animations for every single pokemon in bw2.
Yeah I agree with this. I don't know how they did it in let's go because I haven't play that but it sounds like it's basically like the tales games where they're just little icons essentially that you run into to activate a battle. That is not at all what I think lots of people would want. They would want to actually find Pokémon interact with them sneak up on them, and a billion of other things that would make them feel alive in the overworld. I do hope that that's what they do eventually and that they don't do it until they can. I was hoping it would be this game but it's obviously not, so.
I can't imagine it either lol, can only hope at this point
I mean, won't be the end of the world if it isn't, but man, what a waste that would be.
All good haha
He absolutely is the coolest one, the others look awful
It says Game Footage not Final on the trailer so my thought was that the footage for the demo was cut early as Pre-Alpha or Alpha stages. Look at how parts of the trailer looks great while other parts like the ground textures look sloppy and unfinished needing more work.
Ofcourse I can't prove this and just a thought I've had.
You could do the same in every Pokemon game since red and blue if you only use your starter
Would be neat to get a Steel evolution that was basically a suit of armor or something.
Surprised the logos were so similar, wonder what that means for the Legendaries
It'd be interesting if there was just a single legendary but each version has an exclusive item that transforms it into an offensive form (Sword) and defensive form (Shield).
One with massive fuck-off claws and teeth (maybe Ice-type?) and one with armour probably.
They most definitely removed NPCs and other things from the trailer. Like I said early, we literally only saw a single NPC (or 2, if you count the black kid in battle) and 1 "overworld" pokemon (the munchlax in the player's house). There's no way the game is completely devoid of those things to this degree
The reason I'm holding out some hope for following Pokemon is because they must have removed NPCs for the trailer, yeah. Mind you I'm not expecting it at this point, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they revealed them when we get another look at the game.
What about the Cerne Giant thing? That sort of looks like it has a wolf's head
I'd say there's definitely still hope for that, for the same reason. I can see the logic for not having Pokémon in the overworld, since they can look kind of cluttered. There's no reason not to include followers, though.
I'm going to go on a limb. No, I would bet money that it ties into the game's new mechanic. There'll only be 1 main legendary, but you can use some sort of "sword" or "shield" mechanic that modifies it. And this mechanic will probably apply to all pokemon as well
If they want to drag on avoiding reaching 1,000 Pokémon like I've seen some people suggest Mega Evolutions and Regional Forms are the best way to add new Pokémon without driving up the Dex number.
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It's missing the telltale snout. I imagine that's either the third legendary (that maybe tamed the wolves at some point), another legendary unrelated to the box ones, or a mythical.
That'd be pretty interesting.
Speaking of armor, it'd be cool if the Legendary was a ghost type, maybe possessing some really powerful/magical armor or something along those lines lol
