Pokémon Master Sword and Hylian Shield - Which box legendary is best? (LEAK-FREE ZONE FROM PAGE 7 ONWARDS)

Be like Drunka said you'll have Let's Go Pokémon Gen 1 in this as guess you can use same asset's, some of the other gens and new Pokémon.

Then next with Let's Go Gen 2 you'll get all of those Pokémon and so on

Catching them all is good, but there are gonna be around 900 once this game comes out. Lets Go felt nice because it had a very achievable number of monsters. I am going to aim for a full dex, in Home for now I guess, and I want to get them into a proper game's pokedex eventually, but I reckon I'll be in a serious minority on that one.

It sucks that there is no National dex but at the same time it's not the end of the world. Well so long as it has a decent number not like catch 150 and that's it

Drunkalilly wrote:

Catching them all is good, but there are gonna be around 900 once this game comes out. Lets Go felt nice because it had a very achievable number of monsters. I am going to aim for a full dex, in Home for now I guess, and I want to get them into a proper game's pokedex eventually, but I reckon I'll be in a serious minority on that one.

I'm very much in agreement with this. Catching them all gets ridiculous once 'them all' is close to a thousand.

Now no Megas or Z Moves either.

Also good. Like the Pokédex, the mechanics were getting cluttered and needed stripping back.

I'm happy to hear the extra mechanics are being stripped back, even I'm not sold on Dynamaxing yet. Having too many mechanics would be silly.

I'm still a bit sad about the National Dex not being in the game - I understand why and all, but the only positive I can see from that change is an incentive to visit older games in the series. Older games in the series have always done a fine job of having a manageable number of 'Mon for the core adventure and then opening that out to the full bunch in the post-game. That's an incentive to keep playing.

Part of me just wonders, if they hadn't made a big announcement about this, how many people would even notice? Getting to the end of the main story and unlocking the national dex is already something that only happens to a pretty small percentage of players, and how many of them would have specifically then been desperate to move a monster which has now been cut? We don't even know how many that is, yet- Galar's pokedex could be huge for all we know.

I guarantee you 99% of these idiots calling for boycotts and petitions and shite would never have touched the pokemon who are missing. They should all come and do a stint working in a Japanese company - and not on the cushty hours they give to foreign workers so they won't leave - and see if they still complain about Game Freak not trying to overwork their staff.

Cool I can come work in Japan, nah kidding I'm not moaning about lack of dex as the cynic in me just thinks they'll just remake Gen 2, Gen 3 etc and add those Pokémon then.

Truth be told as I know Eevee is in the games which means I should be able to get Glaceon I'm set.

Mimikyu is up in the air but if it is great, if not, so be it.

I've seen some people complain about how there's a high chance that their favorite Pokemon won't be in the game, which is fair enough if you like one of the "forgettable" Pokemon, but there's no need to start whining on every Pokemon related post that you can't play with Heatmore (for example).

Also saw a story about how people want Blastoise to actually use its cannons to shoot water

@shanks wrote:

Also saw a story about how people want Blastoise to actually use its cannons to shoot water

If they can pull that off, it's totally worth Thannossing a few hundred monsters.

Yeah it would be fantastic it using it's cannons instead of Hydro cannon coming out of it's forehead or somewhere else head based

I assume they just assign a point on the pokemon where all attacks come from, and they generally just click on the head. I'm sure it would be entirely possible to make it come from a cannon, but it would still look weird seeing water always come from just one of them, and they'd have to create a whole extra set of animations for attacks coming from two distinct points.

True, the animation would have worked for Mega Blastoise as they could use the bigger cannon as the focal point

@shanks wrote:

True, the animation would have worked for Mega Blastoise as they could use the bigger cannon as the focal point

There's no excuse there. The Pokemon company are cowards and fools.

They are, the same could be said for the voices.. All the Pokemon have been in the Anime and have their own voice and yet in the games they do not bar Eevee and Pikachu.

https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/galarpokedex.shtml

Here's a list of so far confirmed Pokémon and it's pretty big and there's obviously gonna be plenty more still. A bit of a shame sure but I can live with it being a limited number. It's certainly not worth some of the pathetic comments I've seen about it, people calling them lazy and saying they'd rather not have as much animation to make room for then.

The main thing that bugs me now about the whole National 'Dex clamour thing is what Drunka and Shanks have been discussing above: to do this properly, like you might hope for what is essentially the first 'proper' home console Pokémon game and like they'll still fall short of (e.g. cries), would take a huge amount of work for all bajillion Pokémon. I can sort of see why people might object to not being able to carry their fave 'Mon over from previous games (even if that's Heatmor, although - let the past die for crying out loud); but if you consider the 'not overworking people ridiculously to make a great game' angle and still clamour for the National 'Dex, you need a slap around the face. It's not like it would be simple to patch in after launch either: it could probably be done, but how much work would it take, because some muppet in Arizona didn't get their Parasect? Better to move onto the next game and revolve the selection of available monsters, like I think somebody suggested earlier in the thread.

And that's the thing.. This generation of gamers are the most self entitled bunch of cheap assholes ever, if something doesn't happen it's quite literally the end of the world for them and in the end makes the other (guess you could say) normal gamers look bad as one person can go on a one man (or woman) tirade kicking up the biggest stink and carrying on to make the rest look bad.

I mean yeah they just can't accept the changes that come along with new games. Hell they even complain about remakes of gen 1 but still go out and buy it

Hopefully it'll lead to a bit of continued incentive to keep coming back to the game - I'd love if they dedicated some post-launch support time to releasing little handfuls of new 'Mon into the Wild Area from time to time.

I'm sure that'll happen, like in Pokémon Go. At the same time, as tipsy Balla ranted:

@Balladeer wrote:

It's not like it would be simple to patch in after launch either: it could probably be done, but how much work would it take, because some muppet in Arizona didn't get their Parasect?  Better to move onto the next game and revolve the selection of available monsters, like I think somebody suggested earlier in the thread.

Look, so long as Oddish and Umbreon are in there, I'll be a satisfied lad.

The vast majority of gen. 5's monsters can go to be honest. That's fair enough: they needed 150 new monsters, and not all of them can be outright winners. But that also means there's an awful lot of gubbins left behind afterwards. We'll get there...

If there's no Dragonite I riot.