Post Pokémon Direct - Opinion Time!
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The pokemon roaming in the overworld looks comfy as fuck but the Dynamax gimmick seems unnecessary and a waste of development time that could have been put towards making the overworld even more comfy instead.
Why does the negative option have the most thought put behind it? Poll feels rigged from the start.
Was poking fun at the comments on Yea Forums. I consider it a joke opinion and "I hate it" the worst.
Pleasantly surprised at the open areas, it's more or less what I wanted. Apathetic towards the kaijus, I think it would've been better if they made them a subset of mega evolution, because it's becoming a bit of a clusterfuck. New pokemen are ok, but I'm not too fussy with that. Only gen 4 really had ones I really didn't like.
I'm still only cautiously optimistic, they've been burning me a lot these past few gens.
Z moves were already pushing it, we really don't need any more shitty fucking gimmicks, especially something as poorly thought out as this.
Very happy with the way this game is going sans the gimmicks and the graphical fidelity artstyle is more important anyway
They really need to fuck off with these weird gimmicks like mega evolution, z moves, and dynamax shit. Mega Evolution was at least kinda cool and they should have just focused on that. I haven't played since X and Y though. Only things I like are
>Pokemon in overworlrd, even if it's not pokemon following you like in SS/HG
>Edge Ravenknight poke
>Sword wolf poke because "MUH DARK SOULS"
I'll keep paying attention and wait for the game to come out, and then I'll see if I'll buy
I just feel pure indifference at this point. I fail to see how this will play any different than XY or SM. At least past titles were only $40.
>dude let's screenshot every frame of the trailer and make a thread with each image saying "OHNONONO JUST POKEMON IS FINISHED"
I'm so tired. What's the point of this board?
The sheep is kind of a problem IMO. Seriously, it's just an anime sheep. Nothing about it says "monster". Sure it's cute, but it's so boring.
It's got braids tho.
wow
The 38% complaining are still going to buy it.
tfw I can't even advocate for pokemon in the overworld because the one time I saw it demonstrated was in a webm of some basedboy handflapping over a shiny and I'll forever associate overworld roaming pokemon with that
Dynamax seems pretty dumb to me. Hopefully it’s not absurdly strong.
>The pokemon roaming in the overworld looks comfy as fuck
I agree, and I think they could actually do interesting shit with it.
>The ferret is kind of a problem IMO. Seriously, it's just an anime ferret. Nothing about it says "monster". Sure it's cute, but it's so boring.
Let's just get rid of normal types then?
Dynamaxing really rubbed me the wrong way. It’s another Z move/Mega evolution gimmick, but in the most low effort way possible. I mean, really, increase the pokemon’s size, give it angry eyes, give it a red aura, increase the move set as well and call it day. The legendary is the same wolf except they differ on having a sword or a shield, that’s it.
Everything else looked ok, but Ohmori, the director of the only Pokemon games I dropped midway through, is directing it, so I’m extremely cautious of these games.
According to the leak, there's going to be another giant transformation that also changes how they look, and the legendary wolf is the same pokemon with two different forms.
game looked really really fucking good in the trailer tbqh
And then dynamaxing happened and kind of soured it. After seeing how it works it just looks like another shitty gimmick. Really hope it doesn't come into play much in the game outside of the story.
It’s going to be like the alola forms. Just not enough pokemon will have those giganto forms, and it’ll only be the token pokemon that get the form.
>Weird striped snake-like body and thick tail
>Weird horn-like ears
>face-tattoo whiskers
I always did think furret was on the boring-looking side, but still mch more of a weird monster than Wooloo
Seems like every gym leader will have one. I'm guessing you won't be forced to use one though, like previous gimmicks.
Please share this webm.
everything looks great so far expect the dynamax shit
wtf were they thinking?
The city looks pretty beautiful and fun to explore
>normal
Furret is much more stylistic. He's basically a striped sausage. That's not what irl ferrets look like
Posting stuff you see on Twitter/Reddit/Retardera for maximum (You)'s.
It's the gimmick. It's how Pokemon is marketed.
They don't sell these games with "we have a beautiful new region filled with Easter eggs" or "we've drastically changed the flow of the game!". You sell it with a gimmick that you will never use again.
Pleasantly surprised with Wild Areas and the new Pokemon designs. BigPokemon seem silly but i'll suffer through it.
Sheep naturally has braided hair, rolls around like a tumbleweed
How about Rattata, the purple rat, or pidgey, the slightly annoyed bird?
I like you
>4 player co-op
>Only one person can capture the pokemon
It's going to be a shitshow.
c..cute feet
Website says if you can't get other people, NPCs will take their place.
>Only one person can capture the pokemon
That's not what they said.
>Sheep naturally has braided hair
Woah, braided hair
>Tumbleweed
I'm talking about its design
>Ratatta, Pidgey
All boring designs, but at least ratatta has the baloon-tail and skin-whiskers. That's a weird monster. Pidgey is Wooloo-tier. You people will seriously defend anything
Yeah that's kind of what I figure and I don't mind that.
What I do mind is if I want to battle someone I'm already accounting for what mega they have, and now I have this other dynamax gimmick on top of that its just convoluting the whole team building aspect with this checkbox shit.
The little flower/leaf thing looks absolutely adorable, I want to catch one and never evolve it. It will be my Pikachu.
And that taxi bird looks fucking amazing.
Only design I genuinely liked. Flower and snapping turtle are okay, rest is boring
>the majority is actually satisfied
Pokémon fans have no high quality standards confirmed.
I’m very disappointed with the graphics, they had a chance to really put some effort into the game with a completely new console that is much more powerful than a 3ds and the shit looks like it could have been run on a 3ds. Also the dynamax shit looks gimmicky as fuck and they took out your Pokémon following you around which was cool. I watched the video and they literally had steelix just floating around not even touching the ground, it looked fucking terrible. It looks like a small indie dev with no money made it in a year. The fact that this will be a full priced game is ridiculous and this whole situation is fucking gay. I wish people would actually not purchase it and force gamefreak to take a step back and realize people aren’t going to buy their minimal effort Pokémon games anymore but I know people will just buy it anyways because OMG POKÉMON!!!!!!!!!
I fucking love Pokémon I got fed up around gen 6. I was holding out hope but this is the final nail in the coffin. I’m done. I will say though that the new Pokémon designs are actually an improvement over the last couple of generations.
I'll give you balloon tail, but skin whiskers? What the fuck? That's its fur. Pretty much all pure normal pokemon are just a cartoony animal with one extra trait to them.
>baloon-tail
What? It's just curled.
I'm pretty sure two entirely separate groups of people are responsible for the overworld and the battle mechanics.
>That's its fur
Well, both him and Meowth got more boring for me.
>the one time I saw it demonstrated was in a webm of some basedboy handflapping over a shiny
That was a recreation of an old youtube video dumb zoomer
It was a great direct, what didn't you like about it?
I know, but Wooloo just takes the cake for me. I really don't like it. Mareep and Flaffy are much better sheep
Is the Pokemon roaming mechanic throughout the entire game or is it in specific zones only? Beginning of the direct showed you finding a question mark in a patch of grass that looks like it could have random encounters in it.
he still went full retard, it doesn't matter if he was being facetious, you never go full retard
/vp/ is raiding us again
>Majority it's great!
How low your standards and criteria are, Yea Forums? I mean, just look at ANY AAA JRPG in the last decade: gameplay, graphics, story, hell, just compare it with Xenoblade X, for example.
Pokemon doesn't put even an iota of effort, but you still think it's great? What the fuck.
i love how the posters are negative as fuck but lurkers are chill bros who get hyped for games
Pokémon only roam in a designated wild area, it's not clear if it's just a single portion of the game world but judging from the map that may be the case.
did newfags actually post that that video not realizing it was ironic?
>don't get the joke and keep thinking it's serious
lmao ok lil zoom
I know, I was humoring him a little
That's the normal type for you, it is largely made to be boring.
Everyone has that straw that breaks the camerupt's back I suppose
>"Just eat everything they shit out you ungrateful pricks"
Isn't that basically the same thing as the Pickle Rick guy
>Pokemon MMO finally exists
You all should be happy
if i'm going to be honest the legendaries look stupid and silly
>/vp/
>us
/vp/ does know that Sword and Shield looks garbage because they spent incredible amounts of time with the series unlike you, casual shithead.
/vp/ is also Yea Forums related and I will defend them because they at least know what makes a game good.
its fucking pathetic how true this statement is
game is unbelievably out of touch with their fans
everybody who liked it already discussed and posted about it at this point, leaving the vocal minority to circlejerk about how much they hate new pokemon for the 5th cycle in a row.
>Everyone has that straw that breaks the camerupt's back I suppose
>That breaks the camerupt's back
user...I'm sorry but don't say things like this again, please
That's most legendaries across every gen desu
I'm just relieved it looks so much better than gen 6 and 7.
AND BIG BUNNY BUTTS
Holy shit you cannot be serious
>lets introduce new battle gimmick despite the fact that we introduced one in gen 6 that has a lot of room for content/development
And I don’t mean to complain that no new megas were introduced in this preview, but that the Kaiju shit is really unnecessary and looks low effort compared to megas/Z moves
>inspite of not liking one or 2 new features its still in a sequel people like, but im mad they wont hate it like me.
I don't know user these take the cake
the legendaries look silly and stupid because they decided for some fuck-all reason to make wolves in S/M despite having no relevance to Hawaii period. Oh wait because furfags. That's the only reason. Now that there is a good reason to have wolves, that window has already been closed.
Yiff in Hell Masuda
99% of /vp/ is shitposting, very few people actually play the game on cart there. I know because I'm friends with the small minority who play VGC.
The sword one isn't bad. The main problem here is that they look too similar. If the shield one was an armadillo or something it wouldn't be so bad
it's a 3 turn power boost for any mon as opposed to the permanent one for a specific mon that is mega evolving. I like this conceptually better than mega evos.
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF /VP/
I figure they're two different forms of the same legendary.
They're the same pokemon with a different form.
Pretty Gucci. I want that sheep and Bird on my team. The turtle and the Puff plant are cool but not sure if I want on team.
Shield>Sword unless they show off the exclusives that make me change my mind.
>sheep didn't gen one already have one?
They have completely different names
What?
>Shield>Sword
how can you like that massive abortion of a legendary
I got your gogoat though, didnt i?
It looks very huggable.
Giant pokemon is the stupidest shit GF has ever come up with. I didn't think they could ever top mega evolutions or z moves, but they really outdid themselves here.
>dude... big pokemon lol
>I was humoring him a little
Stop pretending to be me, nigger
>macro is now canon
I feel like they are pandering to fetishes at this point
You first, twinkle toes
The dynamax stuff looks incredibly dumb, but it seems to be really good for competitive
yiffe
Sword wolf looks like a Reclining Chair and is unoriginal. Shield isn't overdesigned for what it does. Shield will probably end up being shittier though since Lugia and Giratina already exist for bulky legends
>No muscle girl pokémon
Where are MY fetishes Gamefreak?
>at this point
Take it the second option is the less troll/cringe version of the last option.
If I had expectations I would've been surprised. Yet I know better.
What I expected since I was introduced red/blue/yellow.
>Open world.
You can literally choose what town to go to and gym to fight at your leisure after choosing your starter. Sadly it's never happened since these games house a linear progression.
>partner pokemon like yellow's Pikachu
At least that 1 pokemon will talk like the anime counter part and travel with you. Still hasn't happened at all because fuck you.
>difficulty settings like B&W2
Challenge Mode increases some opponents artificial intelligence and the level of their Pokémon, starting from 1 level and reaching 5 levels by the end of the game. Gym Leaders and Elite Four members will also have an extra Pokémon on their team, as well as different movesets and held items. Their IVs are also increased to 30.
Why this hasn't been introduced as the norm now is beyond me. Still at least make it part of a replay value version such as "after years". Were you just wake up after taking a vacation in your hometown and then challenge everything again.
As far as Mega-evolution and Z moves they fucked it up by not setting a standard. Such mega evolution being exclusive to 3rd evo types where 1 of the evo's focuses on returning them to a single type while the 2nd focuses on the dual type.
Also because Z-moves aren't universal because they gave certain pokemon their unique Z move that means every pokemon regardless of evolution can use a Z-Move because evee+pilachu got access to them.
Mega Evolution and Z moves became a mess with no solution because of their poor planning and foresight.
Since what was even totem pokemon? Never even bothered with that shit in Sun and Moon and I still don't care.
So following that I don't expect much from this giant gimmick because they will fuck it up by default.
Seriously, tho, what the fuck.
did you know /vp/ has unironic Pokemon Go generals?
/vp/ will immediately defend a Pokemon game the moment it reveals fuckable Pokemon or girls
Is anyone else afraid that the wild area is just gonna be a theme park of all the different biomes in the center of the map with all of the towns bordering it? From what they show it seems the grasslands area is going to be the largest and the more unique biomes like desert & snow are going to be smaller zones that probably act as soft lockouts to the towns.
The only thing I disliked was the Dynamaxing. I won't use it for my Pokemon, but the fact it's just in the game is fucking lame.
All the new Pokemon looked good, even if the Sheep was just a literal fucking sheep.
Really my only complaint.
honestly worried it's going to be the new safari zone, and the standard routes are still in, still short, and still full of trainers with only 2 pokemon
Are we just going to ignore how bad this box art is
>Pokémon fans have no high quality standards confirmed.
That's been established for decades now and Gamefreak panders to them.
I guess this is the death of having actual trainer encounters now that routes are ruined. I mean, can't really say I didn't see this coming since XY downgraded routes so hard
Why is it bad?
>Swordfags will defend this
it is literally Keldeo. Even the same colour scheme and gimmick
>it's great
>187 votes
this is why pokemon games are fucking shit
what a dumb fanbase
My opinion is
>game is ugly as shit
>dynamaxing is a stupid gimmick that will be here and then gone forever
>no follower Pokemon is complete fucking bullshit
>wild areas look dope as hell, definitely a step in the right direction for the series as a whole
>Raids might be fun, depends heavily on the specifics on how they work.
And I kind of liked the Song.
>upcoming gen legends are giant dogs with a giantass sword or a giantass shield and different colors
>remember encountering suicune in crystal first time as kid now
>remember kyogre and groudon in emerald having their own unique designs
>gamefreak decayed this much
I honestly expected okay, but I hoped for more to win.
Thw wild area just seems like a half assed attempt at open worldliness, the game will most likely be as linear as the previous entries. No sign of any changes in regards to difficulty is disheartening too.
It looks so bad.
I am both concerned and anticipating the kind of shit Dynamaxing will put in people's heads.
Also legit wonder if it will be used in normal online battles. Could make some more pokemon usable, or break some already broken ones.
Also I think making a giant muk is actually a crime on the safety of the environment.
You're not seeing Mega or Z moves again. Probably not anything like Alolan Pokemon either.
Fpbp. Get Pokemon out of the hands of Game Freak and give the franchise to more competent developers. Nobody fucking cares about their gimmicks they insist on shoving into every generation since Gen 6.
Gamefreak is too powerful, Nintendo either has to stick with them or buy them for an extraordinary sum of money and then fire everybody there.
And then build and hire new people to take their place.
or
what they're doing prints money, so why the fuck would nintendo get rid of them
It wasn't ironic
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someone post the turtle thing
>Why does the negative option have the most thought put behind it? Poll feels rigged from the start.
And yet the most positive option is winning.
GIANT
WAILORD
Pokemon must make some sweet profit, Let's go sold more than Sekiro, DMC V and Nier Automata together.
And probably cost much less than any of them to actually make.
>jump into wifi double battle
>they dynamax two lopunnies
the streamer is a faggot, but he's doing it because shiny ponyta is an ancient meme
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The raven is cool, the sheep is cute.
That's about the extent of good things I can say about gen 8. Everything else looks like sub-par dumb gimmicks, steps back from previous gens, embarrassing showing in terms of both art style, art direction and graphics compared to literally every other moderately-high budget RPGs, even just on the Switch, there's just no defending Game Freak's lazyness and overall lack of talent and vision anymore. Sword and Shield could easily just be 3DS games.
Dynamax is a stupid idea. The frame rate is questionable. What else was bad about it?
Did they explain which catching mechanic this game is using? The animations look like Go and Lets Go. If thats in the game and I cant play on my tv, im skipping
>H-HE'S DOING IT BECAUSE OF THE MEME
>doesn't quote a single line from the "original" alleged meme
Are you kidding me? The art style is fucking trash. Semi-realistic rock and water textures for no fucking reasons garishly juxtaposed to cartoony characters, it literally looks like an Unity asset flip or those shitty NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN videos where they ported Pokémon models in an Unreal Engine demo, except this time on low textures
Baba is Woo
>People complain that newer mons are overdesigned
>Make something simple
>What the fuck Game Freak?
How would you handle that style world though? Level scaling wild pokemon and giving leaders 6 teams of pokemon depending on when you fight them?
Well what did they say?
Only one person can Dynamax.
>everyone is the same person
>everything is black and white
Part 2:
Baba is Ewe
Sure thing user
Dynamax, beside just being stupid conceptually, is going to have the exact same fucking problem as Z-moves. If everyone can use them, there's no reason to use anything than the best shit, as Z-moves just made them even better. At the very least, Megas made perennial shitmons like Mawile and Kangaskhan good for once.
>everything is black and white
God I wish, gen 5 was the last good gen.
>make a unique and innovative pokemon
>"yikes its so overdesigned it just looks bad what the fuck were they thinking they should just keep it simple"
>make a cute and simple pokemon
>"omg its so boring wtf is the point its not even a monster they could have at least tried to be creative"
what fucking line is there to quote? it's incoherent screaming. it's so fucking easy to get shinies in lgpe you think he just randomly chose to overreact to the ponyta?
See:
Why not just make an unique, innovative pokémon with a simple and cute design?
I had this thought as well. Dear God.
As someone who actually used to watch this guy when he did Luigi's Mansion speedruns, I can tell you with certainty that he doesn't have the self awareness or wit to make an overreaction a reference to anything.
If that guy is acting nominate him for an academy award.
That was genuine excitement and hype if I've ever seen it, even if it was paying homage to some old ass video.
>The sheep is kind of a problem IMO. Seriously, it's just an anime sheep. Nothing about it says "monster". Sure it's cute, but it's so boring.
lol?
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NINTENDO WON
As a size-fag I thought it was the best thing to ever happen to Pokemon
You can't possibly be implying that mareep is on the same tier as Wooloo. You just fucking can't.
What kind of shee is blue? What sheep has bee butts on its head? What sheep has a long, thick, mace-like tail? Mareep is a weird sheep monster
It's an improvement from gen 7. I'm not saying it'll be great or anything but I don't immediately hate it.