Pokemon Scarlet/Violet coming end of the year!!

Dragnelus

BLNX

I feel like I've been spoiled by mediocre Pokemon titles: Unite, Pokken, and Arceus.

To go back to the formula without a major change would actually put it off for me. I stopped playing Pokemon for a lot of years because the gameplay loop is just to grindy for me; and then on top of that the story in these games are... not good.

Give us something fresh. I don't want to play another version of FIFA Monster Tamer where we update the roster, the graphics, and a new gimmick and ship it out. At least FIFA doesn't make you pay twice if you want all the players.

Pikachuuu

Cheers! I've been waiting for

Aeander

I've been out of love with Pokemon for a long time (Gen 4 basically killed it for me).

But this? This actually looks like it might be playable. I'll keep an eye on it.

Gormogon

Interesting.   This appears an attempt to blend PL:A's open world with the tried-and-true color formula, which is what a number of fans seem to think is the way forward for the latter.  

Meanwhile, I'll be over here growing old and bitter over them not taking that concept, adding in Sims/Animal Crossing elements, and turning the entire Pokemon world into an MMO.

Truvidienn

I won’t be playing this but my wife has already voiced her opinion on how she cannot wait for me to purchase Scarlet for her. 

BLNX

Gormogon said:

Interesting.   This appears an attempt to blend PL:A's open world with the tried-and-true color formula, which is what a number of fans seem to think is the way forward for the latter.  

Meanwhile, I'll be over here growing old and bitter over them not taking that concept, adding in Sims/Animal Crossing elements, and turning the entire Pokemon world into an MMO.

I think it will be the tried and true, even if they let you sneak up on wild Pokemon now.

What made Arceus good for me was the fast pace and how they handled stat changes. I would have killed for pvp in that game because no longer is someone taking some broken combo I haven't researched a 1000 hours into Pokemon to know how to counter effectively. I know everyone gets sweeped from time to time, but there really is a skill curve with EVs, status counter, watching out for cheap combos like belly drum on Pokemon using copycat, etc.

Arceus for me was awesome. You get to raise your stats one level for a certain amount of turns. Simplified EVs. A lot less redundancy in moves. Level gaps were not as extreme in battles. Speed could let you take an extra turn, giving that stat a whole new meaning. Speedier battles in general.

Was it easy? Yeah kinda, it was a Pokemon game. The AI was still kind of dumb and most times you still outnumbered your enemy. But will they keep that shiny new foundation I mentioned? Probably not, because VGC. Hooray for sneaking up on Pokemon -_-

Wordsworth

Aeander said:

But this? This actually looks like it might be playable. I'll keep an eye on it.

What about the trailer conveys that to you as opposed to the previous ones?

Not criticizing, genuinely curious.  I'm not really a Pokemon guy, but I didn't see anything out of the norm.

Aeander

Wordsworth said:

Aeander said:

But this? This actually looks like it might be playable. I'll keep an eye on it.

What about the trailer conveys that to you as opposed to the previous ones?

Not criticizing, genuinely curious.  I'm not really a Pokemon guy, but I didn't see anything out of the norm.

It was an atmosphere and open world thing. After Arceus, it feels like they're actually stepping up their game a bit.