@Snaplocket The graphics slightly improved, and so did the lighting. Pokemon don’t seem to stutter or just stand in place like the first trailer as well.
Anyways, my opinion on this is that the game looks pretty good. It really seems like a pokemon monster hunter type game, rather than what people were expecting it to be, and I really don’t mind it. It makes the game feel more interesting, as well as harder to compare to something like BOTW. Ancient pokemon being a thing actually makes me excited as well, wether it’s just new evolutions, or completely new forms.. it’s still really cool.
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@DarthNocturnal Doubt it for sword and shield, unless they're going to update it more down the line. BDSP seems unlikely, given the pokemon are extinct at the time of Diamond and Pearl's story, but who knows.
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@VoidofLight There's no reason to assume they're extinct, all we know is they just don't live in modern Sinnoh. Or at least, in the DS version of Sinnoh. Platinum already added in a bunch of Pokemon that weren't native in DP and nearly every remake changes up the available Pokemon somehow.
I'd wager it's probably around a 70% chance that the BDSP and Legends will have 100% compatibility (at least after an update) to move your Pokemon between games. It's just smart from a marketing perspective to encourage people to get both.
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@VoidofLight It's not like all of Sinnoh is actually available in DP anyways. You only get to visit the major cities and the routes between them. Pokemon like Stantler might only be found in the deep woods.
@VoidofLight Legends: Arceus is literally only a bit over 100 years before dppt, I don't think they're meant to be ancient. Not that many species go extinct in that sort of timeframe.
This newest gameplay shown is much less choppy than the footage we saw months ago.
The world still seems a bit barren but otherwise looks fine.
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@Magician Yeah, the technique they were using on the pokemon to keep them from randomly popping in seems to have been ironed out. Originally it was too noticeable when you got too close, but now it's not that noticeable at all.
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I'm largely indifferent to the parts of this that play like Pokemon, but I am interested in the "open world stealth game where you survey Pokemon and occasionally try to not die yourself" game.
I'm not sure if anything will convince me to buy a mainline Pokemon game at full price again (even ignoring the problems recent Pokemon games have had), but that part is probably the closest.
Parts of the trailer were bloody terrifying. And my heart would sometimes race when Pokémon would chase me down in Sword/Shield, but this ramps it up to 11, especially now that Pokémon can attack the player which is a game-changer in so many respects! I doubt that we'll be seeing Ursaring mauling the player to death, but I suspect that I will be spending a lot of time getting myself killed for funzies.
It wouldn't surprise me if this gets slapped with an Australian M rating for "Fantasy violence" (akin to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) due to the heightened sense of tension and threat brought on by these new mechanics. And I feel like a broken record pointing this out, but the Aussie M rating is akin to PEGI 12/ESRB T and must not be conflated with the ESRB's M rating (as most ESRB M games will receive an Australian MA15+ certificate, and less often, M or R18+).
It would be very interesting to see any sort of Pokémon content receive such a rating in Australia though as it is unprecedented, but considering that more recent games with far milder content have been receiving PG ratings, it wouldn't surprise me if the considerably more violent Legends: Arceus gets bumped up a category (albeit on the very low end of the M spectrum). The Aussie censors tend to classify violence with elements of threat/action more strictly than those that are incidental and/or non-interactive (for example, all of the human-assessed Phoenix Wright games have been classified PG in Australia). Annoyingly, they can be hard to predict at times. I'm hoping that it will get a PG though, as the Board tends to classify certain content far too strictly nowadays at the risk of undermining the estimation of the higher categories in the eyes of the public.
Definitely excited for this one! Though I'm still cautiously optimistic overall. I liked the new Pokemon and regional variants that were revealed, as well as the new stealth and battle mechanics. It honestly feels like they're experimenting with a new direction in the series...or at least a dedicated alternative to the mainline titles. They've definitely cleaned up a lot of the footage and graphical issues too. I'm glad I held my position that the previous footage wasn't indicative of the final product.
NGL, I haven't gotten around to playing my copy of Shield that I picked up a few months ago. Today's Pokemon Presents has made me want to skip it entirely for now and jump into BDSP and Pokemon Legends: Arceus first.
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