• @[email protected]
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    417 months ago
    1. I still have no idea what the game‘s about

    2. It‘s likely cross-gen with the Switch‘s successor and I hope it‘ll be technically more competent than their last Pokemon game - especially since it‘ll have to run on the original Switch again

    • Neato
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      267 months ago

      I hope it‘ll be technically more competent than their last Pokemon game

      We all do but S/V sold like hotcakes so I highly doubt it. They really have no incentive to spend any more time or money that absolutely necessary to churn out games.

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      Legends means it’ll use the open world battling and catching mechanics seen in Legends Arceus.

      Also features city planning, could be post-war reconstruction in the past (3000 years ago).

      Also, the mega symbol at the end implies new Mega Pokemon.

      And since it has a 2025 release date, hopefully it will have enough time to bug fix. Likely, it will use the existing Legends Arceus engine so hopefully that allows them more time to refine.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      37 months ago

      That’s probably the point here. They’re intentionally not showing anything and not saying too much because this is the launch game for the Switch U or whatever it’ll be called.

  • Destide
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    247 months ago

    Wonder how much last minute changes are taking place in the wake of Palworld

    • Neato
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      197 months ago

      Well Palworld is just a bland survival game that has pokemon in it. The major interesting thing Palworld does is a base/farm simulator where your workers have different specialties and can assign jobs. I highly doubt Pokemon will go that route.

      So the only other thing Palworld does is that it doesn’t run like dogshit and is concurrent multiplayer. So if we get either of those from Pokemon I guess that’s a win?

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        27 months ago

        It might be bland, but the fact it’s been marketed as “holy shit, it’s like Pokémon if Game Freak gave a shit” says it all about the Pokémon franchise.

        FWIW, I doubt they’ll change a thing. People will buy anything with a Pokémon cover, and Game Freak know this…

  • RandomStickman
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    Pokemon Z is finally real. Seems like a futuristic setting instead of the past like the last Legends game?

    • phi1997
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      I think it’ll be the recent past, showing how Lumiose came to be what it is in X/Y. A prequel story could do wonders for X/Y, fleshing out Lysandre with an actual backstory could make him interesting.

  • blazera
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    I might consider it if they finally give it more than a year to cook.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      I am guessing this is meant to be the Switch 2 launch title. With that system being delayed (it was supposed to be released this year but now it’s 2025), hopefully they’ll use the extra time to heavily polish the game and make it pretty.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        17 months ago

        Yeah it’ll now come with oodles extra merchandise you can buy. And the game world looks like it’s N64 now but with the framerate of the original Star Fox.

  • @ElderberryLow
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    117 months ago

    This looks cool but will probably watch others play instead of getting it myself. Waiting for a Pokemon game on the next console. I think we’ve maxed out the Switch.

    • @[email protected]
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      267 months ago

      Gamefreak has yet to make a Pokemon game on the switch that doesn’t run like garbage so hopefully they can do a little better this go-around. I won’t be holding my breath though.

      • phi1997
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        Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee actually ran well, with only occasional dips. Not sure how their first Switch outing was also their most polished…

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          You’re right, although I’d hope the reskin of a 20 year old game would run ok.

          • phi1997
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            It was more than a reskin, with a new catching system based on Pokémon Go, but yeah, the area design was pretty much already done

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        I wish they‘d stuck with what USUM did visually but in higher res and obviously with more eye candy. Neither the hardware nor the studio seemed to be ready for full 3D Pokemon.

        • @[email protected]
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          97 months ago

          The hardware is more than ready, there is no way in hell that 3D Pokemon would need more hardware power than Monster Hunter Rise or any Xenoblade game did. Monster Hunter Rise even had a horde mode of all things, using models that are way more complex than any Pokemon.

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      Who cares it says Pokémon on the cover so I will buy 2 copies of it and then complain about quality going down.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Well it’s a legends title so we’ll likely be able to expect something like Legends Arceus gameplay wise, what I’ll be anticipating is if they’ll do a Galar/Kalos/Paldea super region since Britain France and the Iberian Peninsula are all right on top of each other, and also because of the Gaullic Empire memes it could spawn.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Based on the trailer, I am assuming the entire game is self-contained within the city, though I’d expect it to be a lot bigger than the city was in X and Y.

  • @[email protected]
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    87 months ago

    Fuck I hate useless trailers like this.

    2 minutes to basically announce a title and nothing else.

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    7 months ago

    I wonder how much pressure Nintendo will get to change the name given the connotation of the letter Z representing the Russian forces in Ukraine.

    • atocci
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      That seems like a bit of a stretch to me. If they felt the need to change the title, they would have done that before this reveal considering the war has been ongoing for 2 years now.