Topic: Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!

Most of the things that have been dropped down the years have been dropped because they were only ever half baked or hardly anyone actually spent much time playing them.

Like contests - a fantastic idea - maybe I want to be the best at sending my Pokemon into contests as an alternative to fighting. Cool. It also gave a real use to movesets and Pokemon that were useless in battle.

Great, except you had to commit to the battling to progress. You couldn’t level up via contests or learn new moves or get past even the most simple roadblocks in the game. Because of that (& the sheer length of contests) it was always going to be a peripheral mode.

Other things were only ever meant as tools or challenges for ultra hardcore players.

I'd like that! Just kidding of course, but I do appreciate the limited movesets and the difficulty it brings. GSC/RSE are better examples because the rest of the battle mechanics are more refined.

I need some real Pokemon news. Last night I had a dream that the cover pokemon for Lets Go weren't pikachu and eevee, but Zeraora and a disembodied arm flexing. Please help me.

@NapalmPsalm The Pokémon game we need, but not the one we deserve

@Octane Hmm still no announcement. Maybe when Masuda posted that picture he meant an announcement/reveal sometime between 5/22 and 5/29, instead of on those days?

Can we just bloody stop already.

The game will come when it comes. Christ. This is January all over again.

@shadow-wolf Hah no! That was tinfoil mode

I don't actually expect something to happen on the 22nd or 29th. But I do think that we could get an announcement later this week or the week after.

I cant wait for a majority of leaks to be wrong so we can finally kill this culture of jobs being put at risk for the sake of anonymous fame and a scoop on a site.

@Octane Yeah that makes sense. I’m predicting an announcement this week or next as well. We’ll see what happens.

@YummyHappyPills Yeah I hear what you mean. At this point I’ve stopped worrying too much about the rumors, the game will likely be unveiled officially in a few weeks so no point in getting worked up over some rumors.

@YummyHappyPills Dude, this the Pokemon RPG for Switch forum during peek leak season. We're going to discuss leaks whether they are true or not. These leaks also pull up great discussions, as well as hopes a dreams for the series. If you don't want to see this then wait for official news that will make it to the front page of this website, so you don't have to be getting on here to see this (though people like me will @ you which causes you to come back here and start the whole cycle all over again, haha). All in all we are having fun discussing the potential future for the series. If something triggers you so bad it is best to avoid it.

@NapalmPsalm Im talking industry leaks in general bro. Its fun to read but after several months it gets a bit....ridiculous that people latch on to everything.

What's always funny is when a rumor gets popular and people get mad when the rumor turns out to be untrue.

They're fun to discuss, though.

@YummyHappyPills Yeah, it is pretty ridiculous how people will latch on to anything. But I'm not really going to judge. These "leakers" sometimes are having what they see as fun and are using creativity to come up with these things. Then there are other people who like to investigate these "leaks" to prove or , most of the time, disprove them. You or I might not believe it, others might keep an eye on it with salt, and others will be sheep. We can only control what we believe.

The only reason it has gone on for several months is because they confirmed it so early, which builds up hype. Once it is officially shown some people are going to be a disappointed, but they will be in the minority and GameFreak and Nintendo will make a load of money off of new fans, old fans, and loyal fans.

EDIT: Also I like to play devil's advocate in discussions, so keep that in mind.

COUGH "Stars" COUGH

@Snagrio Honestly if Eurogamer is the first to break a rumour, ignore it. They backpeddled on Stars being "Just a tech demo", and again with Prime 4 stuff.

I was not mad when Stars turned out to be untrue. In fact, I was very happy (Alola and Generation VII need to go away). It would be really nice if this one turned out to be untrue, too.

Stars is probably the only reason we know a Switch game is officially coming. If the Stars rumour didn't exist, there would've been a much smaller backlash at Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon being for 3DS and hence the Pokemon segment of the E3 2017 Spotlight event probably wouldn't have existed or at least reduced to only a Pokken DX trailer.

Welp, 22nd is almost done. So one tin foil hat theory doesn't look to be happening. I kinda want to sleep until e3

I still think the Wednesday announce-Friday reveal is what we're looking at here.

There's a rumour (one of many) on 4chan about new Pokemon in the games. The idea is based on Missingno. And you're going around finding Pokemon that were ''erased from existence'', possibly based on scrapped designs. Aside from the fact that the rumour itself is fake, that's a fun little idea, but it's obviously playing into the book that's releasing soon with the beta Pokemon artwork.