I wanted to say bank works with new releases but then I remember they are always delayed
ok then better start consider not renewing my bank
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-10-12-junichi-masuda-on-pokemon-lets-gos-difficulty-meltans-reveal-and-the-future
The only post-game found in LGPE is the Master Trainers, 151 Trainers that have each species of Gen 1 Pokemon. Also Masuda being sad about everyone just using the eugenics simulator, and finally sidestepping the question about the difficulty of the 2019 game.
Oh my god this interview..
So it's been 20 years since the release of Pokémon Red and Blue in the west - 19 here in Europe - so first of all congratulations. Was that anniversary one of the main reasons you chose to set Let's Go in the Kanto region, as a retelling of Pokémon Yellow?
Junichi Masuda: So actually it was more that one of the main targets of these games is kids, who haven't had the opportunity to play Pokémon Go, because you know, they don't have a smartphone, and we thought that amongst all of the previous Pokémon games up until now, the one that's the most relatable to kids like this would be Pokémon Yellow [...] So at the time of course, you had the pixel art, all in black and white and monocolour, but with the new games - so we have the television, which is one of the main ways to play, and you're kind of looking at it from quite close up and seeing the kind of high-quality graphics there, so we want people to experience the difference between the first very simple pixel art and the new high graphics on the big television screen.
Okay, game's aimed at children and FRLG doesn't exist.
So do you see a future where you just don't have HMs at all, and use another system to manage how players progress?
Junichi Masuda: It's not really like a technical issue that we have with these it's just like you know, if you teach a Pokémon Surf, and then you go out to an island, and then you have your Pokémon forget Surf, and then you're stuck on that island. [Laughs] What are you supposed to do with that? It's just every time it's the same type of problem like how can you solve that issue? So if that were the case then the player would just have to be swimming across the ocean themselves carrying their Pokémon - and you're like, well, am I the Pokémon? Or is my Pokémon the Pokémon? It would get confusing.
What the fuck are you talking about, dude.
I also wanted to quickly ask about the Pokémon that are available in the game - like those which are related to Kanto but not in the original 151. Pokémon like Igglybuff, or Magmortar, that tie into first-generation Pokémon. What was the reasoning behind leaving those out?
Junichi Masuda: So, kind of at the basis of it you know is that in the first generation there aren't any Pokémon Eggs, so you know, when we thought about how would these Pokémon be hatched in the first place, it kind of didn't make any sense. But also you know we wanted to spend more time and put more effort into making the Kanto Pokémon, the original 151, as well made as possible, and expressing them as well as we could.
Given that remakes exist this is such a shit excuse.
God I really really hate all of this what basically amounts to "Gen one is best" crap.
Also I really don't quite understand why Pokemon needs to be aimed at kids when it already is, like if myself as a child could get my head around playing it and enjoying it, why do the kids of today need a far more simplified version?
So Let's Go is for kids, who lack Smartphones, and the mainline games lack battle frontiers and the like, because kids play with smartphones.
This guy is incoherent.
This guy is suffering from the exact same shit Sonic Team is suffering, yet his games still sell like hotcakes and aren't panned by the critics. But still reeks of losing touch with the playerbase.
Another interview:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-pokemon-yellow-has-been-updated-for-the-21st-c/1100-6462538/
-Meltan is confirmed from the Game Freak office, laying to rest the thought that Niantic put a hexagon on Ditto's mesh.
-The rivals aren't jerks anymore because modern audiences wouldn't accept it
-Confirmation that none of the Pokemon that were once worked on like Gorochu will probably never appear (maybe some of the Gen 4 Pokemon like Leafeon don't count, I dunno)
Well that rival thing just confirms the fact they think modern audiences are a bunch of retards.
WHAT
The jerky rivals were honestly one of the most endearing aspects of the older Pokemon games. I mean, look, Silver was a bit edgy, but Gary/Blue is singlehandedly one of my favorite video game characters ever and it's mostly because of how well the concept of a rival plays into the Pokemon games. They have so much character because they're both written to be dicks, and the mechanics reflect that by their difficulty.
I actually didn't mind Hau strictly as a character, but as a rival he was pretty damn lame. (When did Rivals start picking a type disadvantage to you instead of the type advantage?) So he didn't really add much to the actual mechanical experience, imo.
I'm devastated to hear we might never get another lovably mean rival again.
Tbf past Gold/Silver I can't really think of any jerk rivals, they were all "let's be friends but still battle"
I think only recently with Gladion did we get a kind of jerky rival.
I'll never know for sure why, but save for Pidgeot's Sky Attack and Blastoise's Blizzard, the final fight against your rival uses the last four moves that are learned by level, which is why Exeggutor only has three attacks and Rhydon's moveset contains both Tail Whip and Leer. I would say that if you were paying attention in any capacity to the typing chart it's really easy to game, even at a young age.
A lot of the beta pokemon concepts have been recycled, repurposed and/or developed further by now, and will probably be in the future, so there's a silver lining to that
From the interview posted by @Steel
The main flow of the story plays out very much like Pokemon Yellow Version. One of the reasons we wanted to do this is that we imagined a lot of fans of the original game were going to be playing through it. There are different parts, but I think they'll recognize the main beats of the story and feel some nostalgia there.
But, no fans of the original game will be playing through this Pokemon Go didn't attract a bunch of old Pokemon fans. It resurrected Pokemon's mainstream popularity for a moment. The type of audience you're aiming for fundamentally aren't the older fans who played through Yellow. Chances are, if they're playing Pokemon games at all, they've already played some of the modern ones.
These interviews are just fuckin' incoherent man, mixed messages left right and center. Honestly, what would have been wrong with just tacking on the Pokemon Go catching mechanic onto a mainline game? Pokemon's mechanics aren't really that complex, there's not too much to simplify, y'know?
The actual complexity of Pokemon is mostly masked to the player in most of the mainline games, so why not do that again? Why get rid of abilities and held items and most of the fuckin' pokedex. They would have had a guaranteed audience if this was just another Pokemon game you could transfer your collection into. But every decision they're making seems to be spurning that exact audience, and then they try and say that they expect older fans to play through this one?
I don't even care if it looks like a children's CGI movie, Kanto looks like it's practically breathing with life in some of these gameplay clips. Kinda sucks that the gameplay is so narrow and misdirected, imo.
Slightly unreleated, Ninantic pushed the update for CP changes to Go, only the HP didn't scale right meaning every Pokemon you have ever caught would need Potions.
https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/1051908000716386304
They scaled it back when that happened, though.
Yeah, new formula and Gen IV are about to drop in Go. After all, Go keeps introducing gens...
Another interview.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/15/pokemon-lets-go-is-a-relaxing-approachable-adventure-by-design
Near the beginning of development of LGPE, Game Freak was considering photo realistic graphics, but Masuda guided them into the direction of what the games are now.
Well, the art style is quite neat, but I hope Gen VIII goes with cartoony rather than chibi humans, specially after 2 gens of cartoony humans (down to the overworld in gen VII)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2KHZtmcrVA
I'm skimming reports, seems Chatot and Carnivine are regional.
Let's Go is an engine test for gen 8
A really heavily marketed engine test, but still pretty clearly an engine test
Since Let's Go runs in 60 FPS with a fixed camera, I really hope that Game Freak pushes for 30 FPS and finally a rotating camera for the 2019 title. Completely pushing the visuals with 30 FPS.
I mean, who cares about the visuals, let's go looks pretty great, I'd be fine with just a model update instead of the chibi looking characters, something like Pokemon Coliseum
They chose those chibi like models because that's the look of the older ones. The 2019 title will be the sequel to Sun and Moon. Both, the adult looks and the non-grid based design will be in it. Sun and Moon also had a rotating camera but it was locked in the official games. While Let's Go looks good, the chance is high that they will aim for 30 FPS since Let's Go has a fixed camera angle. I just hope they push the visuals, given that the 2019 title has been in development longer than Let's Go.
A bit more on GO regionals, Pachirisu is 100% exclusive to all of Canada, and Carnivine is exclusive to the Southeastern part of the United States (???). Riolu is exclusive to 10k eggs, and for whatever fucking reason Shinx is completely unavailable but Luxio can be gotten from 10k eggs as well.
I’m not really a fan of LGPE’s aesthetic. Something about it feels really cheap to me, I much prefer how Sun and Moon looked, so I hope the 2019 game follows suite.
Imagine making a game for this supercomputer of a system in year of our lord 2018 with objectively less content than a game released 15 games prior for the fucking GBA.
I think it's time to grow up the world of the games. Let's get deeper storylines with more complex characters.
...This doesn't mean edge.
So you can have lots of Meltan at once, is the basic answer, but as you know this is the first time that we have had a Pokémon make its debut in a game that's not the main series games, but Pokémon Go, so it's pretty special.
Objectively untrue
Yeah, it's rather peculiar that they'd state that when Lucario, one of the most popular Pokemon ever, did so.
Removing the cel-shader also made things look weird. The games preceding it had a reason for looking that way (shaders like that require relatively-flat textures to work well).
I'm not sure why that was removed, but I heard the method of drawing outlines was badly optimized in the 3DS games, so maybe they took it out for performance
reasons. Plus if they're gonna go for really good-looking textures, the shader won't have any effect anyway.
the shader they used for outlines on the 3ds sucked absolute dick
try the no outlines patch some time, you basically never drop frames
Yeah it's awful. Probably one of the reasons why Game Freak got rid of Triple/Rotation battles in Gen VII (couldn't be arsed to fix it).
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
Pokémon General
