Topic: Pokemon Sword & Shield

@Dezzy I lived in Cockermouth. Now I dont live in the Lake District at all!

@Monkeido Maybe! If you south of the wetlands, there's a little station building, so I assumed it was just a straight passage through the mountain. Maybe it links up with the railway on the left, maybe it doesn't..!

I think that the image you posted is indeed the green stadium in the middle of the farmlands in the north. Notice the rock with the runes on the right? The hill carvings are also next to that city, so there's probably a theme with old ruins, hill carvings and the like; lots of very old stuff.

And trains can't go uphill, at least, not on a big incline. So it seems you have to walk the rest of the journey to the north

@Octane Could indeed be the case as well. It would make sense for the post-game content to be in the "hidden" south part.

Maybe it's just me, but isn't it strange how the biggest city doesn't have a direct connection to it by train? ^^' I'm pretty sure they could've made a less steep, curved railway there.

I have things and changes I want for Pokemon Sword and Shield:
1: Liza and Charla return keep the pink bow as Charizard’s new female gender.
2: Teenage formes for Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur, much like Alolan formes.
3: custom costumes for Pokemon
4: PC app.
5: Mewtwo’s fire and fairy counterparts like Latios and Latias
6: Rubot (orb) and Saphbot (cube) with stands and arms
7: new teen Blonde panthers would stand like nidoqueen and nidoking
8: red small dragon that looks like charizard with yellow lines on its head.
9: new teen gray wolf Pokemon who can stand like a human.
10: Super Evolutions, much like Mega evolutions, for Charizard (glows gold like a super Saiyan), mewtwo (glows yellow), and Lucario (Glows gold and it’s ears will go upright while glowing yellow)
11: Type gems return with a capsule that access Super Evolution.
12: Mega evolutions return with new ones.
13: Z-Moves return
14: 3 new eeveelutions
15: Paralell evolutions.
16: A teen yellow cat Pokemon who can stand like a human.

Well non-linear progress is in the franchises DNA, but I’m totally down for Poke-Xenoblade

It would be cool if Kalos was a post game region. I also hope that Sobble's final evolution is Water/Dragon even if it means it would lose the grass weakness.

I can understand why a lot of people don't like SS going back to wild encounters, but to me it makes more sense.
In LGPE, most people playing the game already know all the pokemon. So, seeing the old region with you favorite pokemon was really a great feeling. However, in a new game, a lot of people try to keep from being spoiled with new pokemon. When the silhouette of a new pokemon pops up and is revealed with a cry you never heard can be "exhilarating".
Even though I let myself get spoiled I don't try to find out where those pokemon are, so when I run into them in the wild it is a really fun moment. I just gotta know the region exclusives so I can choose which game I want.

I much prefer random encounters for new generations so the surprise of seeing new Pokemon for the first time is there. Remakes with Pokemon in the overworld make sense since it's the same Pokemon we've already seen.

@Skid another point to add is that the development for Sword and Shield probably started at different times from LGPE. If we are assume that the team making SS is the same from Ultra Sun and Moon, then it's likely that the development of SS started after Ultra Sun and Moon were finished so around late 2017. Since the average development cycle for games is 2~3 years and LGPE was released is 2018, then the start of development for that game was some time in 2016. So at the time, the team of Sword and Shield didn't really consider having the idea of Pokemon being seen in the wild as LGPE was still in development. Plus since this is the first traditional Pokemon game on an HD console, the team probably wanted to play things safe in order to understand the Switch's hardware more

As there's been suggestions here that postgame could be Kalos, maybe this is where we get the real Pokemon Z.

Just because it's in the same continent, it doesn't really mean they'll go out of their way to add Kalos.

I'll never expect a post-game region. It'd be awesome if they add it, but chances are that they won't. Why drastically increase the amount of work when you can just recreate the region in a remake at some point in the future?

Plus, Johto was pretty lackluster as a region to make way for Kanto, and the entire game had terrible level scaling. I don't want post-game regions because of the ramifications of adding one.

And watch them adding Kalos as post game.

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But it’s just the Battle Maison.

@Delibheel I couldn’t imagine anything worse. Maybe if they remade Gen 3 but got rid of the Battle Frontier, but GameFreak are better then that.

Okay...
So Nintendo Switch will have these Pokemon games :
2018 = Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee (Remake of Pokemon Yellow)
2019 = Sword / Shield (Gen 8)
2020 = Remake of Diamond / Pearl / Platinum (Gen 4),
2021 = Spin Off Pokemon games or Remake of Black 2 / White 2 (Gen 5), Pokemon's 25th Anniversary
2022 = Pokemon Gen 9
2023 = Remake of Pokemon X / Y (Gen 6) ???

I think the future will depend on when the Switch is getting replaced, if Nintendo chooses to do the usual move on after 4-5 years then I think we'll see something like:
2020 - Remake of Crystal in the style of Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee (Switch)
2021 - Ultra Sword/Ultra Shield (Switch)
2022 - Remake of Emerald in the style of Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee (Switch)
2023 - Gen 9 debuting on Switch replacement

But if Nintendo chooses to use the 3DS approach for Switch (try to keep it alive for like 8 years, have a more powerful model released around 2020/2021 that doesn't render the original model completely useless) then I could see Gen 9 being all on Switch and start in 2022.

To follow on from others, I feel it’s gonna be Let’s Go/Main Series every year from here on out. Authentic Sinnoh remakes aren’t happening and that’s a reality we have to live with. I don’t think we’ll get another enhanced generation until the next console generation, where they need an extra year for the new console so they set the new kids on a filler game, like USUM

@Anti-Matter base off from what Gen 6-7 started. (although i could be wrong.)
2019: Pokemon Sword and Shield (Switch)
2020: a Remake of Gen 4 (Switch)
2022: Leading to Gen 9 (Switch)
2023: Gen 9 Ultra Version (Switch)
2024: Pokemon Let's Go 2 (for the next gen Nintendo Console)
2025: Leading to Gen 10 (for the next gen Nintendo console.)

Gen 6/7
2013: Pokemon X and Y (3DS) [Gen 6]
2014: Pokemon OR and AS (3DS) [Remake of Gen 3]
2016: Pokemon Sun and Moon (3DS) [Gen 7]
2017: Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (3DS)
2018: Pokemon Let's Go (Switch)
2019: Leading to Gen 8 (Switch)

This.

When you beat the league and all your Pokemon are level 50, doing another region simply isn't as fun as the first one.