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I would say the games are pretty easy to pick up without kicking your teeth in if you a general idea of what you're doing.

I'm personally still on the fence with the new games. If you are in general a fan of anything pokemon then you should probably go ahead and pick them up. There are a slight departure from the standard core series of games such as Gold. If you've played Pokemon GO and enjoyed that experience then you can think of the new games as a segway into that core gameplay standard. We know they are releasing the next core Pokemon games sometime in late 2019.

Honestly I think any game would be a good getway into the series. They all share the same problems of being a bit too hand-holdy in the beginning which means you'll have no problem getting into any of them. Like you, I just picked up pokemon again after leaving it behind as a kid, and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon were really enjoyable experiences for me if you have even only passing knowledge of the series. I can't exactly recommend against Let's Go! because it's actually aimed at an audience similar to you, players who haven't touched the games since they were kids and were drawn back into the series by Pokemon Go! But pokemon players seem to agree that Let's Go is looking like a seriously gimped and simplified version of the overall pokemon experience, which has a surprisingly depth to it hidden under the layers of accessibility. If you're thinking of picking up any of them, I really do recommend Ultra Sun/Moon, simply the newest released titles, due to how refined they are at this point. You're better off playing seven generations of refinement rather that this weird mechanical reboot of the series.

And that's exactly what they're shooting for with LGPE. It's the crowd that either has never played a mainline pokemon game or the people that fell out of it over the years and are interested in coming back. So it's all a matter of preference and desire. I just finished catching up on Gen 4 and 5 myself as I never owned a DS back in the day. So the issue for me is, do I feel the need to play jump on LGPE immediately coming out of several months of pokemon, Or do I step back for a short while and play through all the other games I've been sitting on and pick them up later. I'll probably end up buying just because.

I just want to say, since you spefifically referred to Let's Go! focusing on the adventure aspect, I actually found Ultra Sun to be quite an enjoyable trek across a really unique landscape. I love Kanto, but I can't imagine exploring it for a second, for some third time is going to be as interesting.

5th for some, don't forget G/S/C and HG/SS.

Being honest, as many problems as it had, my time playing Sun is probably the most fun I've had playing a Pokémon game since Gold. It felt different, it took risks, yet it was still comfortable enough to keep me playing for huge stretches, wanting to see what the next story beat would be. It felt like taking a break from routine, and i respect it for that, just like I do with Colosseum. Pokémon Y brought me back into the series after Diamond ground me down to a stump (and I wound up skipping gen 5 as a result), and then Sun impressed the pants off me with its creativity; they've got me fully invested again, and I can't wait to see what gen 8 has in store, even if they go back to gyms and stuff.

I throughly enjoyed playing through X because no 2 places felt the same, and that felt like a good starting point for good worldbuilding (yet, of course, felt unfinished, and I had high hopes for the evidently cancelled Z). Alola... Alola feels small. The reduced Pokedex and lack of National Dex was a bad choice, the maps are small and quite samey, and even USUM has a quite grindy postgame (either go through Rainbow Rocket in what is pretty much an expanded final act of the "Evil Team goes all out" part of the main stories, or play RNG to get legendaries, except those who are for some reason version exclusive). Gimme battle facilities and additional legendary subplots for the postgame (the ultra beasts in SM were nice, all things said and done).

So what will be the big gimmick with next year's gen? I really hope they expand on the whole "Alola form" idea with new forms, but I fear they're going to go the way of Megas.

Yeah I hope they just expand the Alolan form idea with the new region. Add less new Pokemon, redesign more pokemon to fit in with the new region. I'd be okay with that. They should really just lay off the gimmicks and spend a generation fleshing out the megas, z moves and different forms, because it's honestly a brilliant idea to just redesign favourite mons or mons that need some love and attention. I thought the idea was stupid until I realized the variety it added without flooding the dex. The different pokemon forms make a lot of sense for a game based around collecting, too.

I'd like to get to the point where every evolutionary line prior to the debut of the respective mechanic has a regional form or a mega. Both ideas were super cool and I would really like to see each fleshed out, though maybe replace the mega evo stones with a single generic one to give the bag a break. Though considering the track record for the past few years we'll have either another fucking mechanic for gen 8 to bring the games closer and closer to being a mechanical clusterfuck or we'll see them removed entirely to pander to players coming from PGo.

There was a point where I wanted to make a fangame that just had a dex made entirely of alternative forms, but I'm not the best at spritework, so I ended up scrapping it. There were plans for: -Lotad, Shinx, Goomy as starters that end up Grass/Fighting, Fire/Dark and Water/Poison -Lore surrounding the Kanto birds, with Water/Flying Pigeot with Ice Body, Dark/Flying Fearow with Volt Absorb and an ashen, Poison/Flying Swanna with Heatproof -Many forms to be based on megas, such as a tank-like Steel/Ground Blastoise, a crystalline Rock/Fairy Onix with Dry Skin -Dunkleosteus-sized Water/Steel Relicanth that Wishwashi imitate. -Grass/Fighting stegosaur-themed Torterra with ferns for plates that fights with a thorny, long tail -Thematic alterations to make them feel different, such as a staff-wielding, more Anubis-like Ground/Ghost Lucario or a yakuza, pompadour-clad Gumshoos, Durants being different types based on the environment you caught them in, witch/warlock theme Ralts and pure-Flying Infernape that can conjure up clouds to ride on and had an ability that caused electric attacks to create a sea of fire ala Grass Pledge+Fire Pledge. -Evolutions being triggered differently for some, such as Bayleef evolving into Tropius unless given a Sun Stone or trade-evolution mons using more normal evolution methods Plot would have surrounded that it took place in an insular region that was where ancients created the legendary golems, with differently-shaped Regirock being present in a lot of locations and being grossly overpowered, forcing you to have to flee them. In locations they occur, you'd hear the SFX from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and if about to initiate a battle (intentional or otherwise) you'd get the BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM before the encounter theme played.

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I want my Mega Dodrio with six heads

Please, give us the remaining starter megas.

If you have a 3DS, grab an HGSS rom, AP patch it and run it though twilightmenu/srloader/dsimenu++(or whatever it's called this week). If not grab an HGSS rom and run it through an emulator on your PC. There's also an argument to be made for playing USUM first, since they're the newest and are really good for new players.

I wanted Mega Raichu and Mega Marowak, not alternate versions of them that pretty much suplant them. Megas have this deal where they are temporary transformations of old 'mons. That works really well with fan favourites. Alolans end up suffering from same dex number syndrome.

Hot take: most of the gen 4 evos of older pokemon would have made better megas.

I agree that the implementation of some of the Alolan forms were a bit shoddy, but I think region specific forms is definitely the way to go over giving too many pokemon megas or expanding the already mind-boggling pokedex even more.

Rhyperior and Porygon-Z would undeniably have worked better as megas. Electivire and Magmortar as well, Alakazam-tier Pokemon have no business evolving, specially if it is into something that misses the point of the originals. But, let's see, Ambipom, Roserade, Mismagius, Honchkrow, Togekiss, Mamoswine, Magnezone, Probopass, Lickilicky, Tangrowth, Weavile and Gliscor are quite fitting: evolutions of Pokemon with stat totals in the low 400s at best. Fine choices. Dusknoir is a bit of a special case: neither it nor Mega Banette were proper choices. Take a look at Golbat to see how to improve a mon with said stat total. On the other hand, Mega Audino, Mega Mawile and Mega Sableye should had been standard evos. Something like this: https://i.imgur.com/qAuiDug.png

On one hand, I find Kalos quite forgettable. On the other hand, I find myself wanting to replay Pokemon Y to re-remember it all. A little autumn town dedicated towards Fairy types? Oh, hell yes.

Honestly I'd like Alolans to be retconned as split evolutions.

Okay but Electvire's design is great so worth it

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https://i.imgur.com/91gHBIy.png I'd like to see this implemented: this way, every berry would have an use, and Apricorns would also get an utility outside ballmaking, like HGSS did with Pokethlon drinks.

I don't really see what difference that would make aside from them having a seperate dex entry.

You could run both Marowaks, or both Ninetales, in the same team.

Get rid of megas entirely and bring back evolutions darn it.

That's a good point actually, though I feel like a better solution would just be to allow alolan forms to run alongside non-alolan forms so that they are still recognised as regional variants of the same pokemon. Give them dex numbers like #038-A or something so that they're technically distinct, whilst still being recognised as the same species.