Topic: Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon discussion

Now it's official, IMO all the designs and forms introduced in Ultra are lame. Pretty sure none of this will grow on me.

No leaks for me. I want to enjoy the game and not be spoiled.

I like you. This will be the first time i go into one of the games without looking at leaks since Platinum. I miss the fun feeling of being shocked at things.

I like the internet as much as the next person but I am sick of people ruining games for people. it's like fast forwarding to the end of a movie to see how it ends or flipping to the last chapter in a book....I will be taking a break from youtube and any pokemon leak related sites until I get my copy on the 20th. I know it comes out on the 17th but I was only able to preorder two copies and decided to give those to my sons. I can wait three days to play it.

I'm surprised the game has leaked, though the game looks good. (Also, how do you create spoiler tags?)

I'm not surprised, but these games were ambiguous about whether or not it was really typical third version material or something greater. The game sure looked like it was a typical third version but we did see glimmers of hope from things such as new Pokemon, Ultra Space, and Game Freak's comments on the game being a major expansion. Sadly though, this game fell near the lower extreme on the spectrum of possibilities and it turns out Game Freak was flat out lying about the amount of content in this game.

Same, though I'll be waiting longer than you. XD Most of my entertainment money is going towards a new laptop, so for now Ultra Sun is sitting on my Christmas list.

Seems to suggest that Pokemon Gen 8 might not be until 2019.

Went through all of the leaks (holy everything getting defog as a tutor move, stealth rocks will be so easy to manage)

Overall its... eh, a joy ride but once the ride is over its still back to old sun and moon problems.

Also:

@BLP_Software

Okay, listened to the new music tracks.

...I might start abstaining from this thread early, it's starting to become a minefield of spoiler text. XD

@Bolt_Strike they said it was twice the length of sun and moon. and said it was just an alternate story. Nothing about it being on par with B2/W2. why can't people just enjoy these games for what they are, the last mainline game on the 3DS. The Switch game will probably be the one these should have been to most people (not me or my kids).

For those interested, here's all the new models (pokemon) and their animations in-game:

Kommo-o gets Close Combat and Drain Punch now. Much better.

@Pokefanmum82
Actually they said the script was twice as long as the previous games, it doesn't mean the game will be twice as long.

They could make a single NPC repeat the words "This is content" 5000 times in a row and that would also add to the script.

They also said that it would have bigger changes than Emerald and Platinum and it really doesn't. Nothing this game is doing really breaks from the Emerald/Platinum mold.

Also, even if they didn't say it wasn't on par with BW2 that still wouldn't stop this game from being compared to it. The fact of the matter is that every mid gen game is going to be compared to BW2, especially when it was such a dramatic step forward for the series, everything that falls short of it looks lazy and obsolete at this point. This is Game Freak's policy of gameplay inconsistency for the sake of "surprising" people to a ridiculous extreme to the point where they're throwing away things that radically improve on the gameplay and they can't seem to see what kind of impact that has on expectations. This is a technology based product, it's supposed to improve with each successive entry and make the previous game feel obsolete because that's what the hardware it runs on does. So it should surprise no one that if they do something big one game and throw it away the next, people are going to be upset and not buy the game. You'd think this would be common sense.

I don’t why you think that. Pokémon has never made big improvements to the third versions of any of the gens with the exception of B/W. And yet people still bought those third versions. If you keep setting your sights too high when it comes to this series or anything else you are bound to be disappointed. I don’t see anyone giving Call of Duty or any other game with yearly releases as hard of a time as they do Pokémon, when they don’t change their formula in any big way either. They just take those games for what they are, a fun time.

Interestingly, I distinctively remember BW2 being treated like a huge step down from BW and basically the worst games in the series just a year or two ago.