Pokémon General Thread

Trying to figure out how to use emulators.

I'm not even against it, I'm just incredibly inexperienced with them.

Edited by AmethystLeslie on May 21st 2019 at 2:23:32 PM

New Pokemon, changing/adding types.

The sole reason I havent played Pokemon Prism is because they decided to change some pokemon types and added a few of their own.

This post was thumped by the Merciless Hammer of Doom

I don’t play romhacks, though I have nothing against them, but if I did, I’d draw the line at any of them that seem to think a ton of Forced Level-Grinding counts as difficulty.

I used to dislike new Pokemon at first, but I figured as long as they weren't that numerous like in Brown and Prism I wouldn't mind it. My number one issue by far though, is terrible ideas for difficulty. My go to example for everything you shouldn't do to make your ronhack challenging is Pokémon Dark Rising. The gold standard for proper challenge on the otherhand, without a doubt goes to Drayano 60.

changing evolutionary lines is one. That game where they made maractus a cacnea evolution comes to mind.

I wouldn't be a fan of that either.

The whole thing as a concept is on my 'meaning to get round to' list but hypothetically I guess;

Possibly adding types? Mostly because the official games are fairly reluctant to do so. New pokemon is very much dependent on how much effort was put into them. Changing evolution lines is probably out unless it's one of those very heavy randomisers.

Extremely steep level curves for Artificial Difficulty probably.

Oh yeah, shifting evolutions. I guess the tl;dr version is if the romhank has intense fanwank it's a massive turnoff.

In an interview with Video Game Chronicle, GameFreak's Masayuki Onoue says the company is prioritizing its original creations over Pokemon, has a new structure.

Here are some quotes:

Edited by tclittle on May 22nd 2019 at 12:20:34 PM

The success of pokemon means they can try new projects,good luck to them

TL;DW: It has some great ideas, but they never go any where and the game itself is exhausting, and he hopes Gale of Darkness is better.

And considering his timing since Hey You! Pikachu and this review, alongside the fact he's currently at Momocon and with E3 coming up, I don't expect the Gale of Darkness review up until after E3.

The original winner of the Uniqluo contest has been disqualified and their design will be pulled from SwSh.

Edited by tclittle on May 23rd 2019 at 4:31:53 AM

What a weird thing to tell people while your hotly anticipated multi-million selling upcoming game the public knows nothing about is in the wings.

Even if it's true, you'd think their PR would maybe tell them not to say they're prioritizing other games besides Pokemon?

But than Masuda kept putting his foot in his mouth during the lead up to Let's Go and that sold 9 million copies for free, so I guess it doesn't matter.

Just need a question:

Will we have a way to get our Pokémon to transfer from the 3DS to the Switch or will we have to start over like with Gen 3?

Pokemon Bank. There'll likely be an announcement sometime before launch with the app being downloadable sometime around the end of the year after launch.

How will the two systems be able to link to each other, though?

They don't have to. Load up the 3DS Bank app and drop Pokemon into it, then load up the Switch Bank app and withdraw them.

Yeah, that's most likely how they'll do it. No reason not to. If that's the case, I assume existing subscriptions on the 3DS version would cover the Switch version as well?

Probably. If we're really lucky a Bank subscription will be bundled with Switch Online.

Hopefully, you won't need a Switch online subscription to use Bank.

since it's related to their online services and given how the pokemon game is on switch,you probably do

With GF announcing that Pokemon's been put on the B-Team, I get the feeling that the company has been "We really want to create other games but the demand for this one franchise is so great that we can't risk not making annual/bi-annual games for it" and it kinda explains why the 3DS-era output has been so scattershot, to say the least.

I wonder if GF should just do like EA did with Maxis and The Sims franchise and form a specific studio dedicated to just handling the Pokemon franchise using a mix of employees from GF, Nintendo EAD and maybe another in-house studio like Monolithsoft that they rotate outside of a handful of key employees to prevent the series from being as tired as GF seems to be of having to make them at this point in time.

Or at the very least, have games come out at maybe a more gradual pace than one instalment every one or sometimes two years so you can focus on other projects inbetween the big Pokemon titles. Zelda and Mario only get one or maybe two really big instalments per console. I don't think Pokemon would hurt from having a slower release schedule.

Edited by PippingFool on May 23rd 2019 at 11:20:21 PM

I got poipole and necrozma, both somehow got impish nature. How annoying.

You're killin me game. Well off to the E4! Team is salamence, tyrantrum, goodra, kommo-o, exeggutor and turtonator. A bit slow but I think we stand a good chance, though hau admittedly has me worried. Fairies have been an issue all game and unlike with previous ones primarina kinda cockblocks turtonator's offense.

Edited by Vertigo_High on May 23rd 2019 at 6:38:34 AM