I think in order for Pokemon to move forward as a series, Gamefreak needs to consider completely doing away with certain aspects of the series and start from the ground up. Yes, confronting the box legend as part of the story makes for a fun dramatic moment, but that moment is also lost on anyone who has played even a single Pokemon game before ("this is a mythic legend which no man can hope to tame, also lol here ya go, it's not great either so just stick it in your box"). A top-down perspective has been the series standard since day 1, but placing the camera up high really hurts the scope; we're meant to be a child on a grand adventure in this vast world of Pokemon, yet you can see from one end of town to the other on one screen. That "incredibly dangerous monster who can rend this world asunder" is hardly bigger than the player character on the overworld. You're given the freedom to craft your own unique team of Pokemon to help you on your journey, until you hit an obstacle and get railroaded into including an HM slave on your team (or using Sun and Moon's "rental Pokemon", which really kills the immersion and fun of having your own team go on this adventure with you).
We need a good couple-year hiatus for the main series, I think. Just so GF can break the series down to its base elements and reinvent the aspects of the games that don't suit it anymore. Gen 8 could be the best game in the series by a country mile if they only took a second to implement some quality of life improvements.
HMs should be TMs that allow you to use the move in the field just by having a compatible Pokemon in your party, without HAVING to teach them said move (but feel free to teach it!)
And, if they became that, we'd better get a few extra field moves that way. Dig and Teleport (specially if the change they made to it in LG sticks; it has competitive aplications), Sweet Scent, Defog...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDZfV-4Pwro
Ah, I was thinking more kaiju and less "My City-Eating Hulking Monstrosity Can't Possibly Be This Cute"
Remember that Let's Go was developed by their younger team and started development after the Gen 8 game.
Gen 8 will be based on Gen 7 in terms of visual style. No grid based layout, more defined architecture, adult character looks. Sun/Moon apparently featured a rotating camera but it was locked.
So, why the heck is HGSS so expensive and why is it not on the e-shop
With or without the Pokewalker? probably because CIB is kinda rare, despite Pokemon being a big seller for Nintendo. people are probably far more prone to retaining their games compared to other franchises. you could probably see loose copies being sold cheaper but it runs the risk of buying a fake, just seeing the Pokewalker semi-ensures that the person selling the game is real to an extent. and wasn't there 2 seperate releases? a bigbox-variant with the Pokewalker+Game inside its usual case, and another with just the game in its case itself?
Pretty sure the only DS games that hit the eShop were just Advance War: Days of Ruin (in Japan), and (indirectly) Warioware: Touched when you could buy it for 1k platinum coins when My Nintendo started out.
Actually her Delphox didn't die. While at the topic, I really hate how it's used as the bad guy here.
I'm enjoying Lets Go Eevee far more than i was expecting?
From GameStop, which admittedly isn't the best, i prolly could have gotten it cheaper from DiscReplay but that's on the other side of the city, all pre-owned, White $30, Black 2 $35, HG $60.
That's whack my dude. I really don't see why they don't make the effort to digitally sell DS games, the DS library is super weak and they'd make BANK off of it.
HGSS are so expensive because not many carts were printed.
Digitally selling regular DS (ie NTR mode) games for the 3DS isn't nearly as simple as it sounds. Unlike DSiWare stuff, they explicitly expect to be loaded off a cart. Redirecting cart reads to the SD card (internal storage isn't guaranteed to be large enough to store much, depending on what NAND size you have) isn't easy in the slightest, especially in NTR mode. You also get a massive performance hit, all loading screens in DPPtHGSS were like 1 minute long on early nds-bootstrap builds. Even with all the performance improvements over the last 2 years, some games still lag in places where they don't on an original DS.
That isn't even accounting for the security nightmare it would be for them, I can totally see how it wouldn't be worth it.
As a collector, I'd like to live in a world where the games I look for the most can attest to having ~12 million units sold instead of <100K.
It was one of the most successful revamped versions of Pokemon they made, only Yellow and ORAS have sold more, it's just that it's also generally HGSS are praised as the best Pokemon games ever made, so almost every Pokemon fan that didn't get them the first time wants to add them to their collection since it works on the 3DS, too.
You would probably have better luck on Ebay than walking into a brick and mortar store, they nickle and dime the shit out of ""rare"" games because they know what's in demand these days.
Yeah, it's not that they weren't "printed" or what have you, they are just the sort of game you keep instead of selling, as well as being a game in demand.
Both of which increase the price significantly because of that fact.
I don't know how they did it but I very much enjoyed it more than I expected too, despite the fact I still had all the cut features and limitations in the back of my mind.
Honestly, the most surprising 'cut feature' that considerably improved the game experience for me was the limited Pokemon available. I loathed the idea that a pokemon game would release that basically undid the pokedex progress since Gen 1, but the tighter roster of pokemon made battles more interesting for me. More cut and dry, I guess. The NPCs tended to use the full tactics available to them within the battle system as opposed to most games where the vast majority of items and battle tactics are basically absent from the main game.
As someone who only just got back into pokemon a few months ago, I very much appreciated the online battles making sense to me without having to research generations upon generations of pokemon and movesets. There's only one OP legendary to worry about, too.
I guess, to that measure, the main goal of this game - making an accessible pokemon game for nostaglic ex-fans - was successful. I just wonder how much potential the "Let's Go" side series of games have going forward, if theres ever another one. Diehard fans of Let's Go are buzzing about the potential for a Johto sequel and I just don't see this sort of simplification working twice over.
Was jumping onto gen 7 too overwhelming? I can understand Let's Go's appeal to nostalgia and newcomers alike, but I still have lingering feeling that they dialed back a bit too much.
Let's Go is aimed at completely new people and the ones that came into contact with Pokemon for the first time 20 years ago.
That's why it's dialed back so much, with so many features removed and replaced with simple solutions. It's just done to reach these people back (onto the Switch) and then providing a fully featured sequel of the mainline games in 2019.
you need to ap patch HGSS otherwise they crash really early on, wouldn't call that zero problems
eh, patching it is easy tho, so practically zero problems.
Man I really wish I hadn't lost my Pokemon Heart Gold, Because I really want to put my 100 hours of pokemon into Sun.
All of this talk about HG and SS made me go look for my copies. Still have them with my DSi and the boxes are still in a cabinet, PokeWalkers and all. I never thought they'd be worth anything since I just assume they print a bajillion copies of Pokemon games.
I still haven't finished sun
I'm sad because I have too many games to play but I really love pokemon
I bought lets go pikachu and i played for a bit.
It's fun.
Also I didn't know they had a new pokemon after marshadow (Zeraora).
Looks neat.
There are 5 new Pokemon in Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, Zeraora being one of them.
Ah gotcha thanks.
I was pretty confused when i saw giveaways.
Is it available now to catch them?
There was a promotion a few months back to get it, I'm sure codes are still around.
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