not just design, but its story parallels the superweapon: it's powered by other pokemon and fires a flower themed laser
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Pokemon Gen 8 Discussion Thread of Hopes, Speculation, Expectations, Dreams, Rumors, and More
- Thread starter Deleted member 249
- Start date
- Status
I have a feeling it's going to be doomed to purgatory just like Eternal Flower Floette.
at least Eternal Floette was in the game code. was OG Color Magearna even in the game?
Floette will probably be a mystery gift for Gen 8. it'll be so far removed from Gen 6 and without a story (because they don't do that anymore), no one's gonna give a shit
OP
OP
I have no reason to believe they would distribute Floalette. I mean, what was the reason for they to not distribute it in gen 7? My guess is "lets make people forget about this pokemon so we can forget this was even a thing".
Going with past patterns, the inital plan probably was :
2013 : X/Y
2014 : Omega Ruby / Alpha Saphire
2015 : Pokemon Z
2017 : Sun/Moon
The Switch was probably the reason why they scrapped Z. 2017 would have been too late for S/M.
2013 : X/Y
2014 : Omega Ruby / Alpha Saphire
2015 : Pokemon Z
2017 : Sun/Moon
The Switch was probably the reason why they scrapped Z. 2017 would have been too late for S/M.
I think Sun and Moon was always planned for the anniversary.
We haven't had a four year generation since the fourth, and nothing about the run-up to Sun and Moon suggests they cut anything down by a year.
yeah, OG Magearna's in the game too. I really like that color scheme too, bit annoyed that we probably won't be getting it.
That's good can't have gamefreak thinking thats the kinda game people want as the new normal in Pokémon. Japan seems to have a lot of influence on them when it comes to how they make their games.
it's still in the game's code, so they haven't actually abandoned it yet. if they wanted to forget it's a thing, it would have been removed instead of made vestigal
Of course its there. What I said is that they have as much reason to distribute it there as they had distributing in later games since XY.
Eternal Floette and all the Zygarde stuff screams scrapped game to me.
Agreed, but I don't think it was intended for there to be a year's gap between it and Sun and Moon.
The whole Zygarde Anime arc when it was obviously meant to be for the next movie instead suggests that they nipped the bud early enough to not disrupt anything.
Again, this artwork is distinctly Gen 6, not Gen 7. They never had two different aesthetics for the art of the Pokemon, and its clear something else was planned.Really? It screams Kalos for me
I think Z was meant for 2016 not 2015. And 2017 was not too late for Gen 7, 2020 will be the first official season for the Switch, 3 years after the platform launched.
Really? It screams Kalos for me
Magearna would have been reaaaaally in its place there:
(Psst Joe, it's Versailles, not some Hawaiian island.)
I don't think they'll way until 2030 to release Eternal Floette. it'll either be a mystery gift or they'll write it as a post-game story for Gen 8
I don't see why that particular order would happen. Eternal Floette actually has an appearance in the game while Magearna is tied to a movie
Agreed, but that's also why I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. I mean, it was featured in the movie and everything
Eternal Floette absolutely feels more significant, but that's kind of why I can't help but feel they missed the boat on that one. Like, it would have made so much sense in the X and Y or early Sun and Moon days. Now though? I can't help but feel like they'd have to give it a whole new appearance for it to be relevant again.
OG Magearna on the other hand is just a cool alternate color scheme. Not a big deal, but that also means that it could always release without much fuzz, y'know?
Original Colors Magearna and Eternal Floette will show up in Gen 8 during the Kalos Post-Game./s
IWANTTOBELIEVE.JPEG
Really?? Then Botw must also be doing poorly in Japan because let's go has already sold more than botw.
Poorly comparatively speaking. Even USUM sold more than Let's Go in Japan
Are you aware of the meaning of the word "relatively"?
Yes, outside of context Let's Go has sold a lot of copies. For a set of Pokémon games, however, it's tracking well below its peers.
I'm noticing a lot of fans seem to think that the pokemon twitter is counting down towards a reveal by doing those daily tweets about starters.. . .
This reminds me of when people thought there was a countdown happening towards a reveal around pokemon day last year sjkfsjf. It's probably just meant to coincide with the starter plushes releasing soon.
This reminds me of when people thought there was a countdown happening towards a reveal around pokemon day last year sjkfsjf. It's probably just meant to coincide with the starter plushes releasing soon.
I have no idea why it's taken me so long to quote and reply to these posts, lol. Just one distraction after another over the weekend, I guess!
Yep, this is indeed my first time with the game! I did play Black at least but that was all the way back in 2011. I'd considered giving it a replay first before diving into Black 2 but having just come off of Let's Go I was worried I'd be all Poke'd out for a while by the time I wrapped up a new Black playthrough. I've managed to remember a fair bit about that game along the way (and why it's my favorite of the ones I've previously played!) so I think I'm doing alright.
I agree with you on pretty much all counts! I love how many twists and turns and side paths Unova has throughout the journey. After I exited Castelia City the other day I was ahead on my way to Nimbasa but I spent over an hour exploring that sandy detour where Relic Castle still rests. I was aware that -- at least for right now -- I didn't actually need to go out that way. But I was also aware that there'd be new Pokemon, new trainers to battle, more items to find, all that jazz, so I engaged!
Looking forward to Pokemon World Tour. I've heard about it before and it sounds fun as heck. :D
Yeah, I definitely get it now. Heck, I remember feeling kinda disappointed by X two-ish years after playing through Black, even. I wasn't as keen on... a lot of things, really. I kinda enjoyed Pokemon X during the time I spent with it but I'm not sure I'd ever go back to it again.
You've really made me thirsty for all sorts of things to come. I've encountered the Eevee Garden and Relic Castle but that's pretty much it so far!
Yep, this is indeed my first time with the game! I did play Black at least but that was all the way back in 2011. I'd considered giving it a replay first before diving into Black 2 but having just come off of Let's Go I was worried I'd be all Poke'd out for a while by the time I wrapped up a new Black playthrough. I've managed to remember a fair bit about that game along the way (and why it's my favorite of the ones I've previously played!) so I think I'm doing alright.
I agree with you on pretty much all counts! I love how many twists and turns and side paths Unova has throughout the journey. After I exited Castelia City the other day I was ahead on my way to Nimbasa but I spent over an hour exploring that sandy detour where Relic Castle still rests. I was aware that -- at least for right now -- I didn't actually need to go out that way. But I was also aware that there'd be new Pokemon, new trainers to battle, more items to find, all that jazz, so I engaged!
Looking forward to Pokemon World Tour. I've heard about it before and it sounds fun as heck. :D
Yeah, I definitely get it now. Heck, I remember feeling kinda disappointed by X two-ish years after playing through Black, even. I wasn't as keen on... a lot of things, really. I kinda enjoyed Pokemon X during the time I spent with it but I'm not sure I'd ever go back to it again.
You've really made me thirsty for all sorts of things to come. I've encountered the Eevee Garden and Relic Castle but that's pretty much it so far!
Yeah I think playing them back to back would indeed be a little exhausting considering how much there is to each of them. However I will say that the Memory Link (the feature allowing you to transfer information about your BW1 save file into a BW2 one) is absolutely brilliant and it's a shame we haven't seen another sequel-style third version to take advantage of it again. I consider it the definitive way to experience BW2, myself.
In any case, enjoy the rest of your time with it!
No way the first reveal of the pokemon is with the realistic render of the movies. It would be pretty awkward.
A simple title reveal would be pretty pointless considering they already told us about these games not once but twice
Depends really. XY had a full trailer in early January, and they were the first new gen on the system like gen 8
That's true, it did come out a month before Sun and Moon. I am banking on Pokémon being another Nov release though. Mostly based on the big titles we know of for 2019.
I'm disgusted that you didn't mention flying type Eevee or dragon type Eevee.
Gotta save those for second to last. The last is normal type.
Then you start doing dual types.
For me they aren't a necessity at all. Dragon and flying are so meh interms of pure types.
What I would love to see is some Poison type and Ground type. Something like Noxeon and Landeon.
- Status