Topic: Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!

Hah! Gamefreak ain't changing squat. It might as well be a scientific law at this point.

Here we go! Couldnt find the thread.

Seen a bunch of news for this game coming out recently. Preload goes live in October, I think they said?

@JaxonH I think I read somewhere that it's October 22nd?

@Kimyonaakuma
Perfect.

Now, which version to play. Is there any advantage to one over the other? Any advice from a long term Pokemon fan?

@JaxonH Both are mostly the same, but each will have some exclusive Pokémon to encourage trading.

So far Let's Go Pikachu has Oddish, Sandshrew and Growlithe and Let's Go Eevee has Bellsprout, Vulpix and Meowth. The rest of the Pokémon should be available in both versions

...and obviously Pikachu and Eevee will only be available as partner Pokémon in their respective versions

Actually I don't think there's anything stopping people from just catching the exclusive Pokémon in Pokémon Go and transferring them over. I guess it just depends if you prefer Pikachu or Eevee.

The only differences known at the moment are the starters.

If it keeps to the old games you know what the first few gym leaders will be, Brock who uses ground/rock types so Pikachu will be useless but handy against Misty or Eevee who's not that much better than Pika against Brock unless they're given some non-normal attacks early on.

@jump Pikachu and Eevee both learn Double Kick.

Secondly, to even enter Pewter Gym you need a Grass or Water type.

Further @Kimyonaakuma they said you can catch wild Pikachu and Eevee that will evolve. If Eevee was exclusive that would make Pikachu the harder game to complete and also, since your starter wont evolve....ya know...there needs to be others. Sure you could trade like in Yellow to get around the restriction but then youd need 3 copies of Eevee for every Pikachu.

So yeah. Eevee and Pikachu are in the wild.

I have a question for you vets. I will be getting both versions (2 kids, 2 switches, makes sense) my question is to get the "full experience" should they each play both games or will the trading make up for just playing one or the other. Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks

@redd214 The games will be the same.

I'm not actually sure why they do the two versions thing for the newer games. I got it in the GB days but the wild and trading really make it pointless now. Though I'm grateful....it got me around the 1 per customer limits to get two on discount!

Also, Pikachu will always be the best starter </thread>

@DarthNocturnal Right, even if someone could argue that these games might be fun, that $60 per game price is just far too steep. These games are not $60 games. They just aren't. Then that Pokeball accessory hikes the price up even more for those who are paying for that. Yikes, just yikes.

@DarthNocturnal Originally it was the money, but there's really no incentive to actually buy two different versions of the modern games (collectors aside) so it's probably actually costing them more to do it since they have to have two separate production lines of both carts, packaging and managing retail shipments/SKUs. I imagine the dual version thing is more a loss than a profit these days. Only select few are buying both now. I think that really only netted more revenue in the pre-internet gaming days where you had to physically know someone with the other copy.

Edit: in retrospect it's probably about retail. Twice as many listings, twice as much shelf space, twice as much ad space when running sales, etc. etc. It may be for marketing purposes.

@Harmonie I don't know, I mean, yeah Yellow wasn't $60 back in the day, but I'm not sure why an RPG that's an HD remake (remake, not remaster, I.E. FFVII-R, not Zelda TP HD) of an old game wouldn't be $60, really. Wild 'mon battles aside this isn't AC: Amiibo Festival, it's still a fleshed out RPG. Maybe $50 makes sense, but I can't see them doing 3DS pricing for an HD game, and especially one branded Pokemon.

In fairness to Gamefreak this actually seems like more work than they would normally put into a game. They have had to build it from scratch for once especially since it's a HD game (possibly their first?), create gimmick controls and work in GO interface for it.

Less than 5 years ago the games weren't even in 3D, they are really trying to keep up nowadays.

@jump Second HD game from them.

Well, by the time this releases, third HD game.

I don't think the Let's Go games are that bad, Gen 7 had me lost with the series because it didn't have the same special thing that made me love Pokémon. I had no connection to it whatsoever, it was just a decent, and short, RPG.

I'm hoping going back to where they started and combining that with their latest ideas from Go might revitalise the series.

It's also my first proper Kanto game! My only experience with Kanto has been from the original series of the show and HeartGold so I'm looking forward to that.

@NEStalgia I understand, yes, it is a legitimate remake unlike The Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD - which were both overpriced remasters. (I got WWHD for free thanks to that Mario Kart 8 deal, though). But the thing is that it is a very unambitious remake of a Gameboy game. The HD graphics may look all shiny, but the environments, towns, and their scale are very similar to the GB game, which makes it a really small game by today's standards. This game looks and feels like an Indie release.

I understand WHY they're pricing it this way, I just don't think that the product anywhere near justifies the price. And the problem is this is Nintendo. The game will sit on the market for $60 for years with no sales ever.

The game keeps looking better and better imo. Despite a lack of dynamic camera angles and the return to a more rectangular landscape, they've really brought the region to life with the setpieces (look at those gyms) and character models. It'll be like playing something that I could only imagine during my childhood.

I'm really interested to see how the coop works - my main concern is whether there will be any challenges with two players.

Co-op can snap this game in half.

So get this, the trailers show playing with a single Joy-Con, vertically, in your hand.

What's to stop you putting the other Joy-Con in your other hand, holding it like you normally would, giving a shake and then boom, instant two player to snap the game in half?

Also, you realise once you have beaten the Pokemon League this game will likely just...stop, right? No battle facility, no training, no new areas beyond Cerulean Cave and an hour of staring at Mewtwo while you try to throw balls at it because you dont battle wild Pokemon anymore.

This game, especially by even the incredibly limited post-game XY had, is going to be "Beat the story and er….stop".

Sure I could "Catch them all", but why would I do that when I living dex in Pokemon Bank anyway?

@Knuckles-Fajita Quite a few assumptions there, although I'm also a little concerned that there won't be much post-E4 (who knows?)

Also, if you don't want to shorten the game by playing with 2 joy cons...don't play with 2 joy cons?

The inclusion of Jessie and James again is cool. I know thry were in Yellow, but cool they are here too. First thing since announcement that had me excited.

I don't like that the first gym is forcing me to use a water or grass pokémon.
Not keen on your friendly rival either... And if I remember right threehouse at e3 said he is also kinda a coward...

Hope they include Silver in some way too.