Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee

The game runs parallel to Gold and Silver and in the post-game when you get to Mt. Silver you have to face Gold who just defeated Red.

whats a Sinnoh?

It cant be another region dont be silly!

Oh yeah thats interesting: this isnt the first pokemon console game without random wild encounters. Colosseum had no wild pokemon period, everything was double battles with trainers through and through. I havent heard outright dislike for the game, what are your guy's thoughts?

Eh... Colosseum had a great plot (it did Darker and Edgier pretty well), but it's worth noting that XD was more fun to actually play.

That said, since we're getting encounters on the world map, it's probably going to mostly feel like when you use Repels and the radar to try and chain for good IVs/shinies. Eh, not that different.

At least with this game, you won't have to worry about always encountering Zubat randomly every time in the caves. You can now avoid them thanks to the new system.

Colosseum was really ambitious and had a lot of unique ideas we'd never see again in the games. They're some of the only difficult Pokemon games since your options are really limited and they actually make really good use of the double battle system.

But they were also really ugly, slow, and had a lot of requisite jank every Pokemon game has that everyone excuses because it's Pokemon for whatever reason.

My main issue with this game so far (well, among others, but judging it on it's own merit as a Remake/Sequelesque game to Yellow made to win the younger and casual crowd Go appeals to) is that it looks like a Handheld game that's being sold for Home console prices.

Not helped by the removal of key franchise features in order to simplify and streamline the gameplay.

(I've heard through the grapevine that these were initially in development for the 3DS using the SM engine and that development was moved early on to the Switch. And going by what I see so far, it kinda... shows)

edited 30th May '18 4:33:12 PM by PippingFool

So far I'm leaning towards getting Let's Go Pikachu, but I'm waiting to see what the differences between each version are.

If I had a Switch or a will to get one of these games, I'd probably also go for Pikachu because an Electric type is much more useful than a Normal type in terms of being a starter.

As optimistic as I am about Let's Go, I'm gonna hold back on definitively saying I'll buy either of them at all until we have more information. most importantly, will the starters themselves hold up in-game by the time we hit the elite four? or will it be like those times i tried using a delcatty on my team?

Part of my annoyance with these games is that I was kinda interested in seeing Kanto again... if it was set a bit after S&M. Partially because I want to see Lillie's story to completion, but also because the games were pushing the idea that time had passed and things had changed and I just wanted to see what might have happened. So getting RGBY v.3 is rather disappointing

edited 30th May '18 10:50:20 PM by Hylarn

I could see Rainbow Rocket showing up.

Unlikely considering these games are 151~ locked.

There are people saying that even the Alolan Forms are out. Is it true?

Well "Rainbow Rocket" as in the Giovanni we saw in Ultra Su Mo.

We've already seen the standard Rockets. I guess they could be an outside context villain invading the pristine gen 1 setting, but I don't see what that would accomplish aside from being some left field shocking swerve.

And given what USUM's new villains panned out to be, I wouldn't put that past them. If nothing else, Mewtwo appears to be where it always was in Gen 1, so hopefully it's not involved with the plot any.

Let me ride on ride on my Growlithe you cowarfs

...Felt sorry for the people, or the smaller Pokemon?

I hope Rainbow Rocket are the villains of Gen 8. Gen 8 has got to have every region plus one. The Switch is capable, the time has never been better, and Rainbow Rocket would be the perfect team to serve as the antagonists. Have every region be about dismantling part of Rainbow Rocket's plan, but you always step in too late to stop the admins entirely, and then once you've beaten all of the regions and beaten all of Rainbow Rocket's smaller plans, they unveil their big master plan in the new region and that's when you go in and stop them.

From a gameplay standpoint, though, nothing should stop players from being able to start in that new region if they wanted, though the could maybe tweak the plot to account for that.

The games will have online battling and trading, but won't require Nintendo Online.

More info on the game, plus some other stuff about direction.

I also recall somewhere saying that you gain experience by catching Pokémon and battling trainers.

Color me intrigued.

Huuuuuuuuh. This seems like bad news for Sinnoh remakes

That seems like bad news in general. I don't know how big Game Freak is, but it seems like the two options here are to spread themselves thin making them both so they can come out close to each other or focus on one at a time and having even longer waits between casual and hardcore games.

edited 31st May '18 6:10:58 PM by LordVatek

Urgh, please no. The Gen 1 wank has gone on long enough. I don't need to see Team fucking Rocket - Tru Antagonists again I most certainly don't need to Gen 1 pandering once again cannibalising a new region, as fun as Rainbow Rocket was in USUM

(Why yes, I am still bitter about XY, can't you tell?)

As for this new approach. I'm of two minds about it - On the one hand, having kiddy/casual/pandering games that appeal to the younger crowd is a good compromise if it's stops the main games from being a muddled confusion of the two (poor XY). On the other, though, one has to worry about spreading the teams and resources thin.

As for Gen 4makes, I'm not sure you'd have to worry too much about those because they're definitely "Hardcore Fan" appeal products. They mainly appeal to the fans who probably bought them as their or second first games a decade or more so ago and thus have the strongest nostalgia for them (8 years was the period between when FRLG was released compared to it's Japanese release as the shortest wait length between original and remake. There was a decade between GS and HGSS and 12 years between RS and ORAS. And if the 2020 rumour for 4makes is true, 14 years between DP and 4makes).

edited 31st May '18 9:52:59 PM by PippingFool