#119

Diamond! Or Black! Not Moon. I still haven’t finished Moon, I disliked it so much. Should probably try it again.

#121

I have been trying not to find out too much as like you I have no switch to olay it on, so don’t want to get to frustrated by not being able to play it.

What I hated about Moon was jusy the way it led you everywhere and kept prompting you to do stuff before you could explore properly :frowning:

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#122

Yeah Sun and Moon felt like one long bullshit cutscene which you occasionally got to press a button in.

#123

I quite liked Sun and Moon :man_shrugging: maybe not having played a Pokemon game since Red/Blue helped though. plus Rowlet is a great bunch of owl.

#124

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND LOOK AT THIS :grinning:

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#127

A sheep pokemon, a Corgi pokemon, and a gym leader called Nessa… I’m living for this Welsh representation in Sword & Shield

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#128

Evolution for this guy at last??

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#129

It should wear a giant leek like it’s rugby day

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#130

If they do an Alolan style thing with new versions of old Pokemon this should definitely be on the list. Leek in one hand, cheese toastie in the other

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#131

Farfetch’d > Rrairbidd

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#132

Just want to say, I’m all over the way Scorbunny hops around during battles.

#133

No megas or Z-moves, just embiggening. Probably for the best, as all this extra stuff was getting out of hand - just one super move thing at a time pls.

Megas were pretty cool, but never lived up to its potential since loads of cool things didn’t get them (Mega Mamoswine where you at). Embiggening might be available for everything (?)

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#134

Kind of sucks that not every pokemon will be in the game, right? I guess for many it wouldn’t make a difference as lots of pokemon in the national dex can’t be found anyway in the other games (used to drive me mad playing Emerald as a kid and not being able to get Eevee etc.) but a shame for those that wanted to transfer some of their older pokemon over.

Side note; I’m looking forward to the day I have disposable income and can start playing new pokemon games again. The newest one I’ve played is Pokemon White :open_mouth:

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#135

It’s a bit of a pisser for the competitive battling community to not have a full roster to work with. There’s online battle simulators that get a lot of useage, which import the game’s battle mechanics but you just create your own team and can set the rules, better matchmaking etc. If something isn’t in the game it can’t be on the battle sim, bu those people obviously aren’t a concern when they’re not actually playing the real game.

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#136

Oh yeah I never even thought about the competitive scene. I wonder if they’ll implement the rest of the pokedex through updates or something at a later stage

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#137

You’d think they’d have to. I don’t think GameFreak were ready at all for such a big leap to the Switch. It really doesn’t look much better than a 3DS game, and they’ve run out of time for getting all of their Pokémon in there. Imho they should’ve held off for another year or so and worked on it more, but they’ve locked themselves into this pattern where there’s a game every year and obviously seem to want to stick with it, even to their detriment.

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#138

Was it Ruby/Sapphire the last time this happened? You couldn’t transfer RBY/GSC pokes to gen 3 as the system had changed completely underneath (EVs, IVs, abilities etc), so if something wasn’t in the dex, it was out - at least until Emerald brought loads back in iirc.

Would’t be surprised if there’s a third game that brings back the missing mons in the same way - Pokémon Halberd or something

Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee were pretty well-polished, I thought - kind of a dry run at a full gen 8 without some of the complex stuff like EVs, items and abilities. That game beat the pants off the 3DS games graphically, very nice (not jealous)

That said, you’re right about them rushing games out. Sun and Moon were fast-tracked after Pokémon Go took off, which is why they contain some content planned for Pokémon Z (ie the Zygarde stuff). Now, after Let’s Go and Detective Pikachu, they’ve got to strike while the iron’s hot and get the game out by Christmas (for market reasons). Seems like leaving pokes out is the easiest way to reduce the workload - I’d far rather they get the game right with fewer pokes than have them all in a bad title

They can always add pokes in later on as well, they’ve always released legendaries down the line in each gen and ah christ they could release packs of DLC mons, like the Sinnoh starter set or something ah balls that’s it isn’t it

#139

Yeah, this is it really. Better to have half a balanced global Pokedex than a full unbalanced one.

I guess that with the jump to the Switch it’s an entirely new engine, which usually means bringing in pieces slowly over a couple of games - same way FIFA always loses a load of features when it jumps to a new generation of console or something.

The third game could be a way to bring them in, but we might just have to wait for Gen 9 - don’t think GameFreak would do it with DLC in a mainline title tbh - too big a job for too little reward.

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#140

Probably not paid DLC - they’ve never charged money for pokémons before I don’t think. Would be a terrible look to go down the microtransaction route

But they could patch mons into the game as they’re developed for gen 8, that’d be cool - like you turn up to the Safari Zone one day and there’s a Hoothoot or something just flown in. Seasonal pokes or summat (probably won’t happen, but a trainer can dream)

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#141

Would love this.

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