I used to catch everything before moving on, but nowadays i catch 5 pokemon plus the legendary while playing the game, then fill it in after i finished.
-
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 Sword and Shield discussion thread (spoiler-free) [see staff post]
- Thread starter TheEchosOfTheCyborg
- Start date
I used to catch everything before moving on, but nowadays i catch 5 pokemon plus the legendary while playing the game, then fill it in after i finished.
Yes, maybe. I thought it was only about playtime and little stuff, not that detailed. Actually makes me want to read the "terms and conditions" to what I'm allowing them to peek, but as I recall, they don't detail it.
I'm a catch as you go type by nature, but forced myself to suppress that urge in the last few games because completely combing through an area tends to overlevel you fast and I'd like to keep some resemblance of a challenge. In Pokemon Shield I plan to only catch all the new pokemon I encounter plus old pokemon I want on my team, then fill in the Dex later. No hanging around until I'm the champ of all Galar otherwise.
Only for the Pokémon currently on your team, yes. So you can store the ones you don't want to get Exp on your PC at any moment.
The six pokemon in your party will get experience. Anything in your box will not. Games during the DS era had an exp share, but it only worked for one pokemon. It was a held item.
The only thing a Pokémon can learn are its moves. You learn them progressively as they level up (you get one roughly every 3-4 levels), and you can have four moves at the same time. You'll have to delete one to learn a new move, but you'll be able to learn them back at the Pokémon center if you regret your choice.
Each pokemon can have 4 moves at one time. They learn new moves at certain levels, depending on the pokemon. When you hit that level, you can choose to replace one of your four moves, or not learn the new move.
Lol my worst nightmare confirmed. I was told "surely the game balance will be adjusted accordingly"
Nope. Turns out just fucking play Menu the Game the entire time to avoid being overleveled.
These games need new perspectives in the direction department based on insane sentiments like this.
I like the day/night cycle being tied to real time to be honest, as long as there's no consequences for time-changing, it should be fine, right?
For skills, I'm assuming you mean moves. A Pokemon can have 4 moves at a time and can learn them a number of ways. The most obvious is leveling up gets you access to new moves, but you can also get them through TMs (items that teach moves), tutors (npcs that teach moves), and breeding (a parent of a different species can sometimes pass down moves they learn through another means). Once a Pokemon forgets a move, it's gone unless you talk to a Move Reminder. Luckily, SwSh added a new QoL feature where there's one in every Pokemon center instead of hidden away in a town at some point in the game. Occasionally, a Move Reminder can teach some Pokemon moves they didn't learn yet. An example would be Gardevoir learns Moonblast usually around Level 50, but a Move Reminder could help you access it earlier if you went to them before that.
For abilities, Pokemon can only have one ability at a time, but most have at least two possibilities. There are regular abilities that any Pokemon in the wild will have, but there are also Hidden Abilities that can be obtained through special means like Raids or chaining Pokemon until one glows gold. Hidden Abilities aren't necessarily better than the regular ones, though.
don't worry too much about details. every pokemon game is easy to get into (to a fault)
I remember reading here on Era that the moment when you get your Pokemon is really close to the beginning or that you can easily save and reset just before you pick the Pokemon, can someone confirm that? I want spend a couple of hours trying to get a shiny Sobble, if I don't have to sit through 10 minutes of cutscenes for every reset at least.
That quote doesn't say that the game won't be balanced accordingly, which is still the likely assumption. I highly doubt that the game will be balanced around Exp Share not existing.
It's very early in the game and no long cut scenes this time. And cut scenes can also be skipped. Only thing I can't confirm is if you can soft reset. I believe you couldn't in Let's Go.
You mean you could not save right before picking the pokemon?
On the reseting thing, should be pretty fast to save before the starter, then close the game and reopen it for "reseting" right ?
I definitively want a female sobble, but now im considering resetting for a shiny.
I definitively want a female sobble, but now im considering resetting for a shiny.
It's been confirmed that you can save before choosing, also you can see if the pokémon is shiny or not. Should be fun for shiny hunters.
No, you can save before. I mean I think you have to close the game and open it again to reset and not do a soft reset with the button combination to force the game to restart.
Oh yeah, that's what I meant by resetting. Closing the game on switch is quite fast, it shouldn't be too boring.
I think you don't see if it's shiny in the overworld though, just on the nickname selection screen.
The quick start to getting your starter in this game is so fuckin appreciated after S/M. It took insanely long after picking your starter to have control again.
My only worry now is how long it'll take before you can check your starter's nature. I kind of hope Hop will give you an option to immediately battle or not so you can check and reset if it's what you don't want.
Though I don't think the amount of dialogue after the first battle will be that long, since previewers stated that you're able to go off through Route 1 pretty quickly afterwards.
I hate how excited I am for this game only because of how much GameFreak seems to have streamlined the start of the story after S/M.
My only worry now is how long it'll take before you can check your starter's nature. I kind of hope Hop will give you an option to immediately battle or not so you can check and reset if it's what you don't want.
Though I don't think the amount of dialogue after the first battle will be that long, since previewers stated that you're able to go off through Route 1 pretty quickly afterwards.
I hate how excited I am for this game only because of how much GameFreak seems to have streamlined the start of the story after S/M.
Well, if someone can only play late, it sucks to see the whole game only at nighttime. I don't have that problem personally, but some of my friends do.
Wait, I'm confused. Eevee and Pikachu can't be shiny in Let's Go
Oh sorry, I misread. I thought you were talking abou the Pokémon in general and not only about the starters.
Think they're referring to roaming Pokemon and not the starter Eevee and Pikachu.
It sucks, I generally only play games late at night and to go through the entire game in the dark while all the footage has shown that the colours really pop during daytime is really disheartening.
How common are the nature mints? If they're easy to get I no longer have to soft reset my starter or spend too long in routes to catch certain natures. I would not even need synchronizers. Or are they rare?
I'll put this behind spoiler tags just in case someone doesn't want to know.
You have to farm BP at the Battle Tower in the endgame, so you'll still have to reset unless you don't care until that late. And they're not cheap. I think like 50BP for just one.
We don't know (or at least I don't) but I'm willing to bet they are mid/endgame rare items.
No idea about rarity, but here's another consideration: Reportedly mints don't change the nature of a pokemon, only its effect on stats. Similar to how bottle caps max an IV but that 31 won't be passed down to offspring. So if you plan to breed your starter, you may still want to try for a good nature.
For something like that, they can easily solve it by moving their system times back a few hours, that way the game will play at daytime. It's not like you need your switch to actually know what time it is, right?
I think a better option might be to be able to manually change the set time in the Pokemon world and whenever you exit the game, it'll just reset to the system default time. That way you could have an actual 24 hour day while also making sure people don't miss timed events.
I swear to god this is like a fucking infinite loop paradox
You have to get your team good to get the mints to get your team good to get the mints to get your team good. GameFreak don't lock the fucking TEAMBUILDING ITEMS behind a currency that requires you to have BUILT A TEAM
Thanks, that's a bit more difficult than I hoped. Still be softresetting then!
Really? A good reason to still soft reset. Anyone knows what nature will be best for Sobble? Physical, special, mixed, glass canon, bulky? Would appreciate a PM about it if someone knows the stats, abillity and move pool aleady.
FWIW I'd be shocked if we don't get at least a few mints, but probably nowhere near enough to cover even half the natures, throughout the game from NPCs or as hidden items.
The philosophy for them seems to be the same GF had with caps: meant to fix shinies or legendaries or other pokemon you grew fond of, but not there to wholly replace breeding.
The philosophy for them seems to be the same GF had with caps: meant to fix shinies or legendaries or other pokemon you grew fond of, but not there to wholly replace breeding.
I'm afraid if it's sarcastic but cautiously optimistic with you smiling.
Edit: I really feel bad for Gamefreak. People have a right to be disappointed but some are just taking it too far and are forgetting that real people are behind these games and they put their hearts and souls into it and have feelings that can be hurt.
Making them and Bottle Caps raid rewards would be preferable tbh
Is it mostly sincere or sarcastic, though?