Make it a mango cider and I’ll consider it.
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I don’t know…we’re not through the season pass yet and Sak has a brief message for us and we’re still not through 2020 yet. I hope its a nice message but I’m extremely pessimistic right now. I’m expecting something like ’ I got covid/retiring from smash type stuff’
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Eh. Its Probably just going to be a thanks for everyone’s ongoing support and patience in these uncertain times message. Stating Characters may come out slower than expected but they will be released in time.
As long as I get amiibo announcements I’m happy
Just like every mainline Pokemon game ever. Just because they hide the linearity better in the older games doesn’t make it non-linear. As far as I’m concerned they’re just trimming fat at this point. I had about just as much fun exploring the world in Shield as I did back when I played Blue. shrug
I dunno, that’s a good question. I’ve been asking that since Red and Blue, when I would just roflstomp the whole game with my buffed out Wartortle. You can do this in literally every Pokemon.
Then…don’t? Like I said, if you’re so desperate for a challenge from POKEMON, there’s plenty of ways you can self impose that difficulty. You can still go out and actually kill specific mobs of Pokemon to level your EV’s the old fashioned way.
I mean, either way, it still takes a fair amount of time to train a whole team from scratch. At least 2 hours or so. Which is again cool with me because I still get the feeling that I’m training a team but I don’t have to waste literal days upon days grinding out perfect IV’s and EV’s. It’s a chore. I’m glad Game Freak is starting to realize that.
I’ve bought every single mainline Pokemon game for over 2 decades now. I’m a long time fan. I’d consider the games pretty much just as engaging as they’ve always been. “Dumbing down” kind of just sounds like another word for “streamlining” or “making the grind reasonable”, and I have no problem with Game Freak moving away from archaic grindy bullshit that isn’t engaging or fun like they have been for years now.
Naw. I remember Platinum. I don’t need to try it again. It had its more challenging moments like any other Pokémon but I cannot quantify that game as “hard” by any stretch of the word. Pokémon games are not hard, they are time consuming. They become truly difficult when you face actual human opponents who don’t use mono-teams. shrug
To you. Plenty of other people appreciate the direction Game Freak took Sword and Shield, considering its success.
I mean, it honestly sounds like a lot of the things you guys are getting hung up on were pretty minor aspects of Pokémon from the start, and they’ve only worked to further streamline those aspects. The games were never hard, unless you consider mindless grinding hard. The games never had any kind of mature or clever storytelling outside of a few instances that were the minority. The games have never had huge sprawling open worlds that let you go where you like from the start, they just hid their linearity better and I even agreed with that.
I dunno. Most of the changes this series has endured were welcome in my opinion. Especially stuff that cuts down on pointless grinding like XP Share.
Sounds to me like ya’ll wanna play PokeMMO. It’s free, so.
Naw. I hate MMO’s. I just want the games to feel fun again. And for me the last 2 core generational games and the let’s go titles have been anything but. 🤷🏻
Mystery Dungeon DX brought the heat tho. Pokken DX was great. And I’m excited as fuck for the new Pokemon Snap
It’s really less an MMO and more a really cool romhack.
You have every single region in one game, with all of their respective Pokémon. It has a single player expirience that allows you to totally ignore the multiplayer aspects if you want. Traditional training methods, no XP share, and rebalanced trainers and gyms to make them more challenging. A lot of the stuff from the older games that you’re saying you appreciated was kept intact.
I’m pretty sure you can even play it offline.
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Neat.
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That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be or even be remotely competent.
Opal has a Galarian Weezing with fucking Tackle for crying out loud.
I’m not asking for competitive sets, I’m just asking for something that isn’t an insult to people’s competence. In a separate difficulty mode, mind you.
If we’re going to be honest, if all I want is to play other people, then I can boot Showdown and not give a dime or a fuck to Game Freak.
Why bother with all this shit if it’s all a matter of typing a bunch of numbers for competitive play?
And to make things worse, about that whole “train your mons to battle other people”…
What does this even mean? I said the games weren’t hard, not that they aren’t competent. I find Pokémon plenty competent.
Because showdown is boring. If I wanted to simply battle a bunch of numbers with sprites overlayed on them… Well, I just wouldn’t do that.
Pokémon games have charm, they have music and animations and characters. They have worlds and items and humor. And honestly in my opinion, there’s something almost stress relieving about the training process.
I specifically avoid Showdown because it is devoid of everything that makes Pokémon cool outside of the literal combat itself. The battles are definitely a big reason I continue to play these games for years after they release, but it’s certainly not the only reason.
EDIT: Yeah, the time limit shit is really fucking dumb and one of my big complaints with the game. Thankfully the vast majority of battles don’t last that long, and they certainly don’t last that long in ranked where 3v3 is standard.
The stupidest thing about that time limit is that it applies to friendly battles too. It’s impossibly fucking asinine.
Not anymore AMIRITE
HYUCK HYUCK HYUCK
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I’m aware of the criticisms but, gotta be honest, the animations in S&S look way cooler to me than anything that came before it.
I was clearly kidding. A lot of the nitpicking about how the game looks and animations are lacking mean fuck all to me. The whole “tree gate” shit is absolutely fucking stupid to me.
Pokémon has never been graphically impressive outside of how big they made Red/Blue feel, the jump from Ruby/Sapphire to Diamond/Pearl was and from Black/White to X/Y.
I don’t play them for the graphics or animations. Should a game look nice and/or presentable? Duh. But what that means is up to every single person that sees or plays the games.
For me there are games ive play that look like ET Atari but they play well and has a fun story. So that’s all I give a shit about
I was talking about Gym Leaders and other bosses since I had mentioned Opal’s G-Weezing having Tackle.
A’ight, now I can tell you, with no measured words, Get the fuck outta here.
Every single Returning Pokémon animation is reused from the 3DS.
As in, they’re literally the same ones from XY, ORAS, and SM/USUM.
This is just you drinking a gallon of Kool-Aid.
Hell even some of the human animations are reused. Hop got some of the most ridiculous Hau animations.
And that’s my point with the whole “One step forward, two steps back.”
Let’s be realistic here. The Core Gameplay of pokémon is lightning in a bottle.
Team building is fun. Battling is fun. Just going on a big old road trip with all kinds of mons is fun.
But when the actual in-game portion of the game, all that stuff that isn’t what you can get in Showdown is mired in all kinds of bad design decisions and bone-headed ideas, it sours the overall experience a bit.
I like this franchise. I really do. But when my first instinct whenever I see stuff about a game that just came out is “I wonder if I can fix this?”. Something went off the rails.
Yeah, and I like the animations in the 3DS Pokémon games too. The ones in Sword and Shield just have the added benefit of being on my TV in glorious 1080p.
The core things I like about Pokémon have remained mostly intact since the 90’s. I don’t know what to tell you bro.
Pretty much every long term player of the games I know turn off all the animations anyways. So it’s always came off as a moot point to me when bitching about it.
It’s cool to see how the new moves look but once you see them and/or if you simply don’t care than why do you need them?
I know when I played Shield I only turned the animations on to see signature moves of certain Pokémon. Once I saw them I turned them off cause I didn’t care anymore
And we agree on that.
What we don’t agree is that while you’re willing to overlook the obvious flaws the games got now because of the core gameplay, I’m not.
I want this franchise to actually move forward. Not go back or stagnate at best. That’s how you wind up with jokes like Sonic and Mega Man.
You call them flaws, I do not. shrug
I’m not overlooking them. I just don’t see them as flaws.
I had no idea Duke Nukem 3D World Tour was on the eShop. And it is only $4.99 for the next 13 days. I did play the 2D Dukes but never touched a game after that. Heard a lot of good stuff about this one though. May have to cop it. DOOM Classic and DOOM II did wonders for me on Switch.
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