nah
My theoretical timeline takes place at 1996/7, which is way before the Pokemon Company even existed, at least in its current form: It was formed in 1998 to handle the Pokemon Center stores before expanding in 2000 (no doubt due to NoA of course, with its unforseen, often short-sided consequences if their reaction to Jynx was anything)
That was an absolute dumpster fire.
Don't forget no Pokemon Bank connectivity.
Called it, not that it was that hard a prediction.
That was such a crappy ad. I feel like a dedicated animation featuring Pikachu and/or Eevee just being Pokemon would have been more effective., but I don't understand how Joe Normy thinks.
I am calling it too, it will 100% be like this because fuck bringing pokemon over, we only ever do that nowadays so compfags will be forced to buy the last gen games with all of the DLC.
Not just a Super Bowl commercial, a full minute long Super Bowl Commercial. For just a minute of advertising space, that’s ~$20M, and that’s before actually making the damn ad.
Not only that, but you also need a chart/cheat-sheet regarding what moves your pokemon are allowed to have or not since a lot of moves got nixed as well. So you're basically limited to specific sets on pokemon that used to have multiple offensive/defensive options.
I'd like to see a Pokémon based on a blue dragon sea slug.
People say Kyogre is based on a whale and Leviathan but I always felt it just looked like one of those.
Wendigo with Ghost/Ice typing.
A stoat with an ability or signature move centered around fighting larger pokemon than itself. There are moves that use weight to decide damage so why not size now that it has been a thing for a few games?
Quite a few false equivalences in here. Game Boy NSO is already on Switch 1, and it already has both local and online multiplayer. I mean, I guess they could do something overwhelmingly Jewish like make the Game Boy games separate downloads so they can throw on another price tag like how they made them ten dollars each on 3DS, but even then there’s no way they would just not put that on a console with a 150 million user install base that’s still riding the high(?) of Legends Z-A.
Finally, a hard counter to the Treevenant/Gourgheist meta.
If you think TPC would churn out something remotely similar to what WotC did, then I’m not sure what you’re expecting. The worst that’s been put on the table is the concept of another celebrations set where there’s people worrying about them reprinting gold stars and shining Pokemon as well as iconic cards from the history of the game. The only people that were mad about celebrations were the retards who bitched about how they thought the stamped Kanto starter stage 2 evolutions were going to plummet.
No other company would do what WotC casually does to the playerbase for their games.
Yes it trivializes the experience, but the experience of playing through the core game is already so mind-bendingly easy, and being made easier with every passing generation, that it doesn’t matter. You can catch a wild Pokemon in S/V and have it be IV+EV perfect with a good nature and bespoke move set inside half an hour if you’ve been raiding diligently. You could probably finish S/V without ever fighting a wild pokemon. It is essentially a treadmill for raising competitive teams, and the challenge of the base game suffers for it. So, EXP Share does make the core game even easier, purposefully, and unfortunately for challenge-likers.
The only time I use EXP Share is when the mechanics have Gen5's leveling up system where you gain less EXP the higher your level if you're battling a lower level pokemon. Probably the worst thing to come from those games. The Clover hack has that EXP system and if it wasn't for EXP Share, I'd still be stuck at the first Gym while grinding in the Vitly Woods against Birdhouses that stop giving big EXPs around lv10+.
