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Pokémon Sword and Shield announced. Coming Late 2019
- Thread starter Xavi
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Well, I kinda agree it would be better, but then it's more unlikely that it happens. If so then Shedinja shouldn't move, or Magcargo would be burning everything as you walk around lol or fish-like Pokémon would have trouble being on the ground.
It all goes back to what I keep saying: they can only get too accurate or "real" in a Pokémon game before it starts getting too complex. If they really wanted a game that mimics real life, it's not just about the elements of the overworld in terms of textures and lighting, but then proportions should be accurate too, physics, and the logic of which Pokémon can be in a given environment or not. In older games it made sense that they just had, for example, a certain sprite or sprites to depict trees or rocks, and it worked because they could just repeat it to fill a gap or trace/shape a route, but if they want to go for a more realistic style now, then it just looks weird to have these dozens of trees perfectly ordered, the same size and shape, and just like 3 or 4 different tones.
If they're just gonna be kinda real, kinda accurate, imo it just ends up looking lame. Because it just highlights the inaccurate things. Of course I would never expect them to create 3000 different trees to fill the region and look realistic, that's why I prefer a more cartoonish, videogame-ish overall style because that way they can create their own universe, with their own rules and logics, and they don't have to justify why a Wailord looks so small in comparison to other Pokémon, or how is Goldeen floating in the air, or why are there bright pink trees with blue dots or something.
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Its just impossible with the type of game it is. Not only is Goldeen floating in the air, it should be suffocating because its not in water if you want it to be "realistic"
A light hearted pet-battle jrpg benefits a lot more from keeping it arcade style than any kind of realism for both gameplay and tone.
It's kind of nice. Not that I followed previous Pokemon release cycles, but that thread complaining about everything being spoiled is a bit telling. Using E3 as a platform for showcasing the goods is fine by me
by the time E3 rolled around, we didn't get that much for SM. the "spoilers" stuff didn't come until after E3
You unfortunately ain't wrong
Such a simple fun and easy thing to carry over 😔. Just a nice fun way to add more style to ya team
I love this feature, but it's one of the few things that makes sense to keep exclusive to a region to make it feel special. But since they already moved to 3D I wouldn't be surprised if they started recycling systems more often without scrapping them now.
I feel like I read this style post for every feature they ditch tho
Surely they can make regions feel unique and interesting without simply cutting features
Ruffle Rowlet and it was either aDrive or HDvee who covered that rumor/fake. I got to give it to you it was good fake.
They're not 'cutting' them. They need to be programmed from scratch every time there is a considerable difference between generations.
good thing with the move to a new dev environment, they can reuse stuff more easily.
So take out the Unown Seals then?
They didn't all have to die just because people could spell rude things with a few of them.
seals weren't about the animations. seals were the effects that happen when the pokeball opens. they're independent of each other
I know what seals are. I'm saying that I don't miss them because what we have now is good enough for me personally.
Anyway what were you guys favorite seals when they were around? I always mixed the confetti with bubbles
The more customization options in these games, the better. So I'm all for bringing seals back.
I love the animations of each pokeball, specially when going for a theme, like a dark or ghost team captured entirely with Dusk Balls, and seals just helps fill the gap.
I love the animations of each pokeball, specially when going for a theme, like a dark or ghost team captured entirely with Dusk Balls, and seals just helps fill the gap.
I need more Pokéballs then. A Pokéball more effective in sunny weather, or for unevolved Pokémon, or for Dragon type Pokémon or something. I just want something new, they've introduced so few in the latest generations.
Yeah they should do an exclusive store for Pokéballs in one of the towns and have all the regular ones + a pair of different ones each week or something like that.
Pokeballs definitely need an update, and thankfully the Apricorn balls were brought back in gen 7, that is a good enough start. There is only so many conditions you can create without making it too complicated however, so if they do make some new ones it has to be dealt with care. If anything, the one new ball we should have seen in the last gens was a quartet of Seasonal Balls, depending on the season and if the Pokemon can be found easier during that season it has a higher catch rate. But nope, for some reason Gamefreak ditched seasons so there would be no point of them.
Interesting that he mentions a Team 1 and a Team 2.
GF has been making more games on other platforms, so them expanding in that area isn't too surprising.
What's weird is that I'm pretty sure Giga Wrecker was mostly outsourced like Pokemon Quest.
Yay. Finally getting an HD core Pokemon game and this is the news we get this year.
I'm sure it'll still be great, but that's really disappointing to hear. Lowers my expectations, which I guess is a good thing.
This is only a good thing in my eyes. By immediately starting on pokemon, it sometimes feel like they can't take in feedback until the next games. Also, this should be able to give pokemon some more dev time so they don't feel like they're rushing
Yeah. They literally say
But nobody's reading beyond the headlines.
That interview sounds good to me, GF need to get as much experience away from handhelds as they can and we knew that Town was being made anyway so it's not exactly surprising that they have another team doing that. To me it sounds like the experience they are getting from other projects will be used to make Pokemon better in the future.
Honestly I don't mind Gamefreak for wanting to take a break from Pokemon, the last two gens felt like they were turning the wheel a bit too much.
He also literally says:
It's not exactly a wild leap to say that Game Freak's more focused on its own (self-published) efforts than it is Pokémon based off this interview. Granted, the interviewee is director of one of those games, so he isn't an unbiased source, but still.
Yeah like I said in the thread about the topic at hand this is great news. R&D functionally means Pokemon will stay with one consistent engine for years to come instead of changing each gen, and priority for new projects translates to them shifting the work force around to help them gain experience in other fields. Basically its all to help enhance Pokemon through sheer experience, trial and error, and actual focus.
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Scope is obviously different but if there is one Wii game Pokemon Sword/Shield art style reminds me is Another Code R (just more bright).Lol, not even close. well let's say a wii game in hd?
When's that out? I wouldn't bet on it but it wouldn't be impossible for it to be a reveal
I still think we're gonna get a larger reveal before E3, so probably not before that reveal
gamefreak or tpc or nintendo, whoever makes pokebank needs to hurry up and tell us if the fans who made living dexes wasted their time.
When they made Bank they explicitly said it was the platform for transferring Pokémon going forward and even mentioned examples like using the same Pokémon you had as a child when you have grandchildren. Don't worry lol