Last time they released anything in October was X and Y. Would definitely be nice.
Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Crown Tundra coming on October 22nd, game+DLC bundles to be released on November 6th
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Think people are reading too much into it. The only reason it's slightly different is because of the music video I mentioned
The launch window was Fall, and it's already Fall, so... There's a chance!
Hoping this doesn't shadow drop tomorrow, that being said I am excited to go though and explore. Seems meatier than Isle of Armor, which I enjoyed for what it was.
Wondering if we might get a tease at that 3rd DLC, assuming that datamined information is actually even hinting at 3rd DLC.
Wondering if we might get a tease at that 3rd DLC, assuming that datamined information is actually even hinting at 3rd DLC.
Probably! a teaser to dlc 3 is a possibility considering words they used in pokemon direct 01.2020: "these are two key examples"
They can easily do that, just change the box art and call them definitive editions and they'll sell like hotcakes.
About time for Crown Tundra. I finished Isle of Armor pretty quickly, so hopefully this one is a bit better.
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Competitive Pokémon is a different kind of beast. Really is one of the best PvP experiences on the market.
Based on the datamining I am pretty excited to see what they show off tomorrow. For all of its faults, I did enjoy IoA more than I thought I would. The new wild area had a signficantly better design, I just wish the graphics could match it. I think the slowdown and pop ins were even worse than the normal wild area when I went online. As for Crown Tundra, I am pretty interested in how the world will be designed seeing as how its looking significantly bigger than the IoA. They add in some actual dungeons/shrines/whatever to catch all the new legendaries and I am totally in.
What in the datamine makes you think there will be a 3rd dlc?
If I am remembering correctly a few months ago they datamined some flying locations on the map that were separate from the locations from the first and second DLCs.
Hopefully next month release?
Isle of armour was pretty fun and I'm expecting pretty much the same for this. Not super keen on the 60 million legendaries I never even heard of being re-added.
For the love of god please just add the Geodude line in so I can transfer my Golem. I need that stupid, snake headed, boulder idiot back in my life.
Isle of armour was pretty fun and I'm expecting pretty much the same for this. Not super keen on the 60 million legendaries I never even heard of being re-added.
For the love of god please just add the Geodude line in so I can transfer my Golem. I need that stupid, snake headed, boulder idiot back in my life.
Im kinda hoping if they do a 3rd expansion, it would just be included with the existing expansion pass (wishful thinking I am sure).
We likely won't have another new mainline pokemon RPG till next fall so it makes sense to release another expansion in the spring at least.
It's not like missing a season will hurt them or there haven't been gaps between Pokemon games before. I don't see a big reason to release a 3rd DLC
Sorry to hijack this thread. But I just got the game and got to the wild area. Is there any point in buying the expansion pass yet?
Not really unless you want access to some Pokémon not in the base game and the gigantamax forms of the starter Pokémon. You won't be able to finish the islands main quest until close to the end of the game. As there is a level requirement for one specific Pokémon that won't be easy to attain during the early game.
By that same logic there were skip years between mainline RPGs and they didn't release anything at all so why even bother to do expansions to begin with?
I'm not suggesting it is a sure thing but it makes some sense.
It would allow them to bring over the last of any missing pokemon from previous generations and then finally 'every pokemon' would be in Sword and Shield and financially I am sure it would be more than worth the investment.
Unless the expansion team is needed to work on the mainline game I don't see why they wouldn't squeak another one in there.
That's a shame, I loved the new legends and regional variants of the bird trio :(
I had good fun with the first DLC, with 20+ hours of gameplay. This looks even more promising, so I'm excited. A small concern is that perhaps this is more "catch a bunch legendaries" focused and less "story focused", which in the first DLC was already minimal. But we'll see.
I'm in the same boat and I wasn't even that excited about the first dlc lol. Always been looking forward to this one more
It's finally almost time to actually buy the expansion pass. I've been waiting because $30 is pretty steep for what's currently available.
The first DLC was good in concept but there just wasn't enough meat on its bones. Hopefully DLC2 has more to it, at least have trainers to fight in the open world.
Wait, what in the datamine potentially pointed towards a 3rd DLC?
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I hope it's a lot meatier than the first one. It was fun and I loved the region design but it was painfully easy and over really quick. I have high hopes for the tournament in this one as well as the multiplayer legendary raids.
Honestly I would honestly prefer if it had more interesting gameplay ideas than just selling on story because 90% of the time stories in Pokemon games are complete garbage
The big reason for there to be a 3rd (and maybe even 4th) DLC would be if there's no remakes currently planned this generation (which I honestly would prefer at this point, Sword and Shield are not the best base to build on) and they actually plan on taking their time with Gen 9 and waiting until 2023 to release it. Somewhat wishful thinking, but it could happen.
Though at the very least, if they do randomly decide to fill in something that should have been a gap year again, more DLC would be preferable to another Let's Go.
PT: 2009
HGSS: 2010
BW: 2011
BW2: 2012
XY: 2013
ORAS: 2014
SM: 2016
USUM: 2017
LGPE: 2018
SS: 2019
I seldom use this word, but four years without a mainline Pokemon game legitimately feels impossible to me.
The Sword and Shield DLC is basically taking the typical third version and spreading it out a bit. In this hypothetical, that is the "game" for 2020 and 2021, while 2022 is the only actual gap year.
Pokémon releases are getting more frequent, and Game Freak staff have talked about the need of releasing new games quickly so I doubt that is going to change.
Anyways, they're working on a new game for next year, as far as I know.
Generally the game isn't being talked about much, so I guess somewhat.