Topic: Pokemon Sword & Shield

Maybe it’s me, but I wouldn’t mind the return of the stadium games and that people could transfer their Pokémon there back and forth from Home. Make the game dedicated to battling, and give it a decent online component... although making the models for such a game means they’ll have the models for a mainline game, so it still doesn’t excuse the Pokédex mess.

@Luna_110 A modern Pokemon Stadium is all I've ever wanted since Nintendo went HD...and now that Pokemon is on a console, they could reuse assets...I think you're onto something...

@jump Technically I think they hinted at that through what Home itself might give in term of warning messages if you tried to transfer incompatible Pokemons, with small messages such as "Your pokemon thinks this region would be too cold for them" or somesuch iirc from an interview.

I cannot imagine if DynaMax occurs on every Pokemons, we will see a HUGE giant Charizard, Blastoise, etc will destroy the stadium due to its size and their signature attacks. 😅
I was concerning more about the audiences who sit near of Giant Pokemons and possibly got some attacks from Giant Pokemon fights. 😅

@Anti-Matter As much as I'd love to have a full kaiju Pokemon game where you destroy absolutely everything, I sort of doubt it'll happen. XD But hey, we can dream!

...Somebody do a Max Raid battle with these when the games release and upload the footage to YouTube. PLEASE.

Not me, because I was expecting it to be a Pokemon game and not, you know, something completely different? I feel like that was the right call.

@Snaplocket If you want to play games like Xenoblade or Fire Emblem, I highly recommend checking out other games in those series.

I'm afraid Pokemon won't satiate your Final Fantasy or Gears of War yearnings, either.

Game freak’s laziness will be defended to the end of the earth though.

I mean, criticize them and the game all you want, but it's kinda unrelastic to expect the same reaction from everyone? Not everyone will hate what they see, and not everyone will like the same things.

For example, three houses is not in my radar, like at all, nothing about it makes me want to buy it, meanwhile I don't default to hate and disgust at the sight of any harvest moon game made by natsume... And that's ok.

This game is a massive step up from what I played on 3DS. I’ve got nothing but praise for everything I’ve seen.

I especially like how you can bust out the bicycle at any point and cruise around the world, and I love how it transforms into a pedal bike that can cross any lake. Reminds me of skells in Xenoblade X. The world is really beautiful too, and it’s great to finally have control over the camera. Switch is the best thing to happen to Pokémon to date.

The last trailer certainly made the game look really great... But then the TreeHouse happened and it all went downhill from there. It's saddening.

Oh, and it’s awesome to see Pokémon in the world like Let’s Go, while still retaining some random battles in certain areas. And the giant stadium battles.

So many improved aspects of the game, sometimes I lose track of them.

I bet a Switch that, despite all the backlash, Sword and Shield are still going to sell over a million copies each.

I further expect that, even despite the limited Pokedex it will still prove very popular. It's still the first traditional Pokemon RPG in HD.

It’s Pokémon

I was as confused as Ralizah, I assumed you were expecting a major genre shift. And we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think this looks like just as much of a major step up in as those others you mentioned. I mean, Three Houses looks great, but Fire Emblem is also no stranger to console hardware, and they spent the last couple of games feeling out where they wanted to go. As Pokemon's first foray on consoles, this is looking far better than I anticipated.

I'm doubtful that the National Dex ordeal will have a massive impact on sales. A lot of people are bummed out...but how many are going to stop buying a new game because of some old content that they can't access? Let's Go also receieved some vocal backlash and has done decently well.

Sword and Shield have looked fantastic pretty much every time I've seen them. Proper next gen entries in the series. I'm not going to do this thing where I suddenly act like a game I'm interested in and that looks good is complete trash because of a controversial design choice.

@Snaplocket And that's a valid perspective to have. I just don't understand why you'd make the comparison to completely different series when they're not similar or related at all.

Anyway, while I wouldn't mind a good story in these games (I actually really liked the narrative focus of B/W in this regard), I've more been craving a Pokemon game that lets me alone and allows me to explore and play at my own pace, and these games seem to go a long way in that regard.

What kind of non-prediction is this?

Of course they'll sell over a million. Pretty much every pokemon game since the bronze age has sold over 10 million.

Gamefreak pls bring Gogoat in Gen 8. I spent a week breeding a Grassy Pelt perfect Gogoat with the correct egg moves and everything. I wanna try some funny strategies using Dynamaxing since it can spread Grassy Terrain while also attacking. ;;

@Dezzy Indeed. And I'm afraid that kind of comment (unless responding to someone actually saying the games will bomb) comes off as "You all can complain all you want, but the game is still going to sell great so your opinion doesn't even matter!"

I really hope it isn't meant that way, but I've seen enough snide remarks toward people expressing dissenting opinions in my time that it's not hard to read through them.

@Snaplocket Does it have to go beyond that? I mean, I've always been very vocal about how Sun/Moon removing the National Dex was really bad, and at least in S/M/US/UM you could at least transfer the Pokemon that weren't available in the regional Pokedex over. I should have known this is what GF was leading toward, but silly me... It seems like me, Ms. Pessimist, somehow wasn't pessimistic enough and didn't actually see this coming. LOL

My other complaints are pretty minor, I'll admit.