4cdc56 No.15698671
I figure I’ll probably get it. Sounds like the post game content isn’t to bad. I’d say the biggest thing that irks me is the GO style catching mechanic but everything else looks serviceable at the very least.
I’ll get it used though. Considering how Nintendo fucked over emulation and continues to give into NPC pressure they won’t be getting my money any more.
8eb8d4 No.15698681
What an awful looking Sabrina
4cdc56 No.15698698
>>15698681
She looks pretty normal to me
8eb8d4 No.15698704
>>15698698
I think it's mostly the eyes, failing to convey what they're supposed to.
d37ae3 No.15698715
>>15698676
Classic Red's design's slowly been updated over the years.
right half of pic 4's from ~2004, around the time FRLG came out
d37ae3 No.15698726
I think pic 5's the most recent rendition, prior to these games.
4cdc56 No.15698741
>>15698715
It's a real shame they didn't take the style back and do an art direction closer to the original style and pictures. I mean, I personally don't hate the new style, but it also looks a bit sterile and boring compared to what it could have been.
5b7e17 No.15698763
Is it still mobage shit that you have to play outside or did it finally morph into an actual pokemon game?
>they acknowledged blue
4cdc56 No.15698784
>>15698763
hybrid. In a lot of ways it's a gutted version of the originals where they completely removed wild encounters for a GO style catching mechanic. Supposedly the post game content will be more geared towards competitive players as well as the online though. Also, I don't believe the game has breeding either.
6ff601 No.15698906
5c673c No.15698929
>>15698667
>>15698668
Looks fine aside from the dumbed down catching mechanics. If this is the "Go" game what does the mainline game look like? Will they re-use assets from this for the mainline game or is the mainline game entirely separate development?
f4f02d No.15698941
>>15698741
I think most people prefer the "rough" 90's aesthetic the series had prior to the "clean" look everything had beginning with gen 3. Actually, what games still convey that feeling (Not necessarily Pokemon)?
6a3e0a No.15698948
>>15698668
>defeat team rocket
>ywn be team rocket
1fb83f No.15698990
>>15698929
Why does that Pikachu have a lesbian kissing stick
212d99 No.15699048
>>15698990
Probably because it wants to make out with chu.
64dace No.15699138
>caring about pokemon when a new Dragon Quest Monsters was just confirmed
>caring about pokemon after the shitshows gen 6 and 7 were
07f8e4 No.15699161
i want to fuck gary in his twinky boy ass until he becomes a cheerleader for my dick
a7afa6 No.15699334
>>15699074
Ni no Kuni wasn't even remotely good.
ccfe19 No.15699357
>>15699161
get GIRTH'D fgt
35de2d No.15699415
>>15699138
>new dragon quest monsters
Nigger where? I havent heard shit, honestly better than pokemon if its just like the gameboy one's.
560008 No.15699447
>>15698741
>store owners keep pokemon in small cakes
>fighters use whips to make the pokemon fight harder
While it would be rad, it would go against the family oriented pokemon series that Nintendo has tried to maintain.
e5f5f7 No.15699450
>there's so little story in genwun that game freak had to pull from the manga just so the player has more characters to worship his presence
f4f02d No.15699491
>>15699447
>go against the family oriented pokemon series
<A book in the Gen 4 games states the Pokemon used to be considered equal to humans, even to the point of marriage
07f8e4 No.15699496
>>15699491
>implying a gardevoir would make a could mate
156fb2 No.15699519
new pokemanes yeah yeah, but more importantly where DEM POKEGIRLS and are they hot
cb5327 No.15699524
>>15699510
>pic 2
<Favorite bug:Scizor
I prefer Volcarona.
>pic 3
Literally who?
>pic 4
You did that on purpose, didn't you?
9d8cdf No.15699532
>>15698668
I keep hearing that Let's Go it's a dumbed down R/G/B/Y, and it seems to be true. Doesn't look so bad though, and it makes me think how can you dumb down Pokemon more than it already is? So that makes me wonder, how will the combat be? In everything I've seen they don't show combat.
What makes me even more worried is that they are trying to appeal to Pokemon Go audience A long dead one. I never played nor I plan on playing Pokemon Go, but how was the combat in there?
d37ae3 No.15699534
>>15699450
The girl character was originally from the games. She got cut because for whatever reason, they couldn't program in a gender selection.
f4f02d No.15699538
>>15699524
>You did that on purpose, didn't you?
Whatever do you mean?
060a48 No.15699539
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>>15699519
you wouldn't fuck a little pokemon trainer, would you?
ebb356 No.15699543
Pokemon is dead. The only thing it's good for now is the porn.
cb5327 No.15699563
>>15699532
>Doesn't look so bad though, and it makes me think how can you dumb down Pokemon more than it already is?
They don't allow you to fight Brock, if you don't have Grass-type in your party.
It was case for other gym leaders too, if I remember it right.
>>15699538
>Whatever do you mean?
Posting Digimon furbait in Pokemon thread.
838ce0 No.15699569
>>15699532
>how can you dumb down Pokemon more than it already is?
You literally can't fight a gym unless your party has a pokémon with a type advantage, for one.
017286 No.15699582
>going to play Pokemon Let's GO Pikachu with my son
>going to relive my most nostalgic Pokemon generation with my son
>already watching the first season anime with him
>already bought him Pokemon cards
9d8cdf No.15699585
>>15699582
>Not just playing the originals
I mean, you already showed him the first season.
f4f02d No.15699587
>>15699563
>Missing the flag
d7a08e No.15699594
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced this is effectively the Pokemon equivalent of Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest.
>Spinoff-lite of pre-existing popular RPG franchise
>Game is designed to be more casual-friendly, even if it means significantly dumbing down core mechanics
>In addition to the above, the game appears to be significantly more forgiving of mistakes and generally handholdy
>It's looking like it will be a game more about comfy than actual challenge
If the comparison holds, it won't be a very good actual game, but still will be passable for mindless relaxation.
017286 No.15699609
>>15699585
My GBA:SP shit the bed, the battery refuses to charge anymore. But I did recently pick up a classic GBA (with a light mod). Just kinda awkward to play together hunched over one tiny ass screen, but later on when he learns to read on his own my copy of blue is 100% available to him. Both of my boys already kick ass on the NES. Subs not dubs, too. I mean, fuck, what do you think I am, a plebeian?
>>15699594
Not Final Fantasy Adventure?
>Spinoff-lite of pre-existing popular RPG franchise
>Game is designed to be more casual-friendly, even if it means significantly dumbing down core mechanics
>In addition to the above, the game appears to be significantly more forgiving of mistakes and generally handholdy
>It's looking like it will be a game more about comfy than actual challenge
d7a08e No.15699617
>>15699609
I haven't played Adventure. All that's really missing from Go is explicitly stating that it's a game catered to beginners in its marketing.
dd545c No.15699621
>>15699609
Do you not know how emulators work? You can get around the small screen bit. The point is you don’t have to fork over your money for a shit version of what is already available.
cb5327 No.15699634
>>15699609
>I mean, fuck, what do you think I am, a plebeian?
You always could just emulate pokemon games on PC. They are stupidly easy to find even after all these DMCA requests.
b0cf26 No.15699669
>>15698704
>>15698698
Yeah the downside of 3d models is that its easy to make them come across as soulless
a8ed55 No.15699701
>>15698667
I wanna rape gary.
017286 No.15699704
>>15699634
Blargh, emulation is serviceable at best. I'm old school, and that means I like the old school hardware as well. plus 8ch hates my NESPi
Speaking of hardware, I'm buying him the version with the IRL Pokeball because that's fucking sweet. Hate all you want, idgaf. We're going to be having a blast in Kanto while 8ch continues to mire in its collective depression.
>>15699621
I'm not sure this is a shit version, though, especially for my son's first Pokemon game. I don't mind spending money on him.
807f6b No.15699713
807f6b No.15699767
>>15699701
You want to rape everything.
cb5327 No.15699786
>>15699704
>Hate all you want, idgaf.
K.
>We're going to be having a blast in Kanto while 8ch continues to mire in its collective depression.
Blackpilled faggots are banned on sight now though.
5ff2f1 No.15699869
>>15698667
Whats the version difference? I kinda want the game.
95fbed No.15699965
>>15699543
And new Pokebros, fuck you.
4c0691 No.15699971
>>15699869
One lets you main a mouse and the other lets you main a fox
ebb356 No.15700223
>>15699965
None of those are fuckable
5b7e17 No.15700323
>>15698698
They kept the tsurime eyes, thank fuck.
>>15699539
I would. She looks like a younger version of the default GO trainer, i wonder if they did that on purpose.
1a4fe1 No.15700425
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ARTSTYLE!? WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO HER!? WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO EVERYONE!?
Most of all;
WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO THE GAMEPLAY!?
792b9a No.15700439
>>15698726
This was TCG artwork used in a 20th Anniversary Promo
655f19 No.15700440
>>15699539
I would not
>>15700425
I hate the mobile audience as much as anyone else, but did we really need another thread about this travesty? It feel like a cuckchan thread too, not sure why, just have that feeling.
7eab74 No.15700561
>>15699539
I would, everyday.
e5f5f7 No.15700629
>>15700582
Why don't you go back if you love the site so much?
ff8052 No.15700770
>>15700582
t. assblasted cuck
d37ae3 No.15700774
>>15700425
>WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ARTSTYLE!?
Left: Ken Sugimori, c. 2002~2005
Right: Ken Sugimori, c. 2010~today
His general artstyle's long moved away from that Toriyama-esque style he started off with.
>WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO HER!?
>WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO EVERYONE!?
They shrunk everyone's proportions to look more "cutesy", and also to allude to how they had to compress the original sprites' proportions to fit in a limited space.
>WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO THE GAMEPLAY!?
"We want the smartphone audience."
-Junichi Masuda, since ~2012
>>15700439
>copyright 2018
Yep, that's gotta be the most recent.
d37ae3 No.15700880
>>15700425
Here's a better example of what I mean in regards to the proportions, e.g. Red in pic 1 v. pic 2.
838ce0 No.15701859
>>15700774
>Right: Ken Sugimori, c. 2010~today
Sugimori hasn't done main art duties on Pokémon since like, gen 5. A lot of what people complain as being Sugimori's new art is actually just different artists altogether.
ccc969 No.15701918
>>15701859
>since gen 5
Oh so that's why the art direction took a nose dive in gen 6 and beyond
838ce0 No.15701951
>>15701918
Nowadays he's almost just an advisor that also does some official artwork for them to use. Pokémon designs were always made by multiple artists with final art by him, but I'm not sure that's still the case; and we specifically know that while before he did most of the humans, nowadays he at most helps others do the human designs.
His art has changed, mind- you just have to check his own art on his Twitter to see that, I'm posting a few of those drawings here- but a lot of the officially released Pokémon art still gets treated as if it's all done by him when it rarely is, nowadays. The chibified artwork for Let's Go, for an example, seems more likely to me to be… well, I was going to say Ohmura, but seems he's left the company. Still, you get my point.
838ce0 No.15701958
I honestly think in terms of recent Sugimori art there's more Sega stuff than Pokémon
838ce0 No.15701981
I'm still waiting for him to stop messing around and just partner up with Sega for a new Pulseman already
838ce0 No.15701991
This is probably the best comparison point of how he evolved- how he drew Quinty back when her game came out, how he drew Quinty towards the end of the 90s, and how he drew her a few years ago for his artbook.
4bc3d1 No.15702030
>>15699532
>Pokemon Go Combat
Combat only exists in 2 forms: Attacking a gym or raiding (which also occur in a gym).
There are no npc controlled gyms. Each gym is controlled by one of three teams (red, yellow, or blue) that you join once you reach level 5. There are no perks associated with picking a particular team, but ideally you should pick the same team as whoever you are playing with (if you are lucky), because you can build friendship points that increase gym/raid dmg. Controlling teams can place up to 6 non-identical pokemon (1 per player) into a gym. Each pokemon have 1 quick attack and 1 charge attack. When you attack, you tap the screen repeatedly to do quick attack and builds up the charge meter. Once the meter is filled you can do a charge attack. You can swipe left or right to get your pokemon to evade charge attacks; successful evasion can significantly reduce the attack done to you.
If you are below level 30 and live in a city area with high traffic, there's no point in trying to attack a gym because the people who control gyms are usually the hardcore max level players with near perfect pokemon. Believe it or not there is a meta, and you will always see the same 10 pokemon in every single goddamn gym (Blissey, Chancey, Slaking, Snorlax, Dragonite, Tyranitar, Milotic, Gardevoir, Salamence, Metagross)
Raiding is similar to attacking a gym, except with up to 20 ppl involved. There are 5 tiers to raids, with one to two star raids usually soloable, and five star raids usually needing at least 10 people. Once you defeat the boss you get a certain number of balls to try to catch the Pokemon you just defeated. Legendary pokemon such as Mewtwo or Kyogre are typically 5 star raids. They rotate the raid bosses on a monthly basis. Legendary pokemon cannot be put into gyms to defend.
Catching pokemon out in the wild involves just chucking a ball at the pokemon and hoping they don't break out of it. Its pretty much just safari zone from gen1, but you get to toss some special berries at them to improve catch rate. There is no actual combat involved.
What else…. oh yea Pokemon have four attributes; 1 external: combat power and 3 internal; attack, defense, stamina. The internal attributes CANNOT be changed or leveled, so you have to keep catching Dratinis (if they spawn, and they don't), and hope you eventually get a perfect or close to perfect. Combat power is leveled by using stardust (attained by catching any pokemon) and pokemon candies (attained by catching particular pokemon). There is a cap for every pokemon, so you can't just level a pidgey forever and have it oneshot Mewtwo.
Let me know if you want to know anything else.
53fa49 No.15702081
>>15698698
I'm so glad we'll finally be free of the HGSS/BW2 Sabrina with the shitty short hair.
Only thing I really hate here is the bare arms and lack of gloves. What the fuck? It looks so off.
9589ec No.15702188
d43cd9 No.15702618
>>15700223
do you ever get tired of being wrong?
c749af No.15702629
Why is it that everything with "let's" and "go" in the title are often really shitty?
d43cd9 No.15702637
>>15702629
because it's often a mobile cash grab.
84726f No.15702723
>>15699582
Doing good work man.
73a534 No.15702729
>>15698929
I imagine main game will use the same engine and that this game is sort of a test-run since game freak waits to release important games until the console has been out for a while so they maximize sales.
cc757c No.15702744
73a534 No.15702749
6b3a29 No.15702862
>>15702729
>I imagine main game will use the same engine and that this game is sort of a test-run since game freak waits
It's still doesn't explain gimped catching wild pokemon mechanic and all this handholding.
821796 No.15702886
>>15702862
Game Freak said they intend for this to be a game that will bridge players coming from Pokemon Go into the main series, so they're including features from both. The catching mechanic works like Go and it has extra handholding, but the trainer battles work like they used to. Makes sense if you look at it that way. And we get yet another RBY remake nostalgia cash-grab in the bargain. Hooray.
9d8cdf No.15702900
>>15702886
Smells like apologist. There's nothing salvageable from Go and trying to bridge players it's a waste of time seeing how no one plays Go! anymore and the few that do doesn't even own consoles.
(((Mobile players))) will never buy consoles.
821796 No.15702918
>>15702900
Go made $70 million dollars last month alone, and pre-orders for Let's Go are high. In a week you'll be complaining that normalfags, instead of not buying this shit because they don't have consoles, are instead eating this shit up.
I wasn't being a shill or apologising, I was explaining their own reasons for why Let's Go is the way it is.
9d8cdf No.15702945
>>15702918
It's just what you say, pokemon will always sell. Also, didn't Go! sales went to hell anyway?
f4f02d No.15702950
>>15702900
My sister plays Pokemon Go!, and it renewed her interest in the games. However, it should be mentioned that she does have the original Blue, Crystal, and Pearl games so she won't really be playing the new game on the Switch.
821796 No.15702961
>>15702945
Go! revenue dropped a lot, but it's still pulling in $50+ million a month, minimum.
411dd1 No.15702962
>>15702945
>Also, didn't Go! sales went to hell anyway?
I thought Go was free with MTXs? What did they even make money from, besides selling people's personal data?
c47fc9 No.15702967
>>15698929
If I remember correctly it was stated that the mainline games won't be using any of the assets from this.
f4f02d No.15702976
>>15702950
I disabled this flag, why is it still up.
1a0df1 No.15703002
>>15700425
<lolis are bad!
>make everyone superdeformed tho
058eb7 No.15703233
Is this the main installment or just a side game again?
6b3a29 No.15703351
>>15703233
It's side game.
Thankfully.
d37ae3 No.15703954
>>15703351
I think they called it the last main game in Gen 7.
Guess it technically fulfills their promise to allow some form of connectivity with Gen 7.
5b9a10 No.15709025
>>15698906
Just pirate it.
06daae No.15710323
>>15698715
Badge on his head seems to change from a leaf symbol to an lightning bolt.
655f19 No.15710381
>>15710323
Some art shows him with a water symbol while the rival has a fire one. Usually the rival has a symbol sort of resembling the Rainbow Badge. In fact I wonder if that was the original intention of the weird circle thing. It's pretty prominent in both of their original Red and Green sprites if you want to look that up.
c47fc9 No.15710512
>>15709025
Is piracy on switch really an easy thing to do yet?
4162c1 No.15710706
Anyone know how the dressup for this game is? Can I customize (to a certain extent) the female avatar and then buy new cute clothes in-game afterwards to dress her in? That was the greatest singular addition to the Pokemon formula that I've seen in quite a while.
5aa1e5 No.15710710
>>15698667
Gary? More like GAY-ry.
>>15698698
BEST GIRL OF THE GENERATION. SECOND BEST IN THE SERIES.
697c4c No.15710790
>>15702749
>having a cuck fetish
d87092 No.15711083
>>15710512
>Is piracy on switch really an easy thing to do yet?
it involves having a sufficiently old switch and a paperclip
9589ec No.15711736
>>15699496
>implying you wouldnt marry gardevoir in the blink of an eye
33e433 No.15711776
>>15698698
>tfw you'll never be Sabrina's Haunter.
d542f3 No.15711792
>>15698668
This looks like an iphone game. After decades how is it that gamefreak is making a console Pokemon game and it still looks like shit?
07ba23 No.15711942
>>15698668
>Game Footage In This Video Is Not Final
>Releases November 16, 2018
What?
5aa1e5 No.15711949
>>15711942
>being this underage
95fbed No.15712017
>>15700223
Fuck off and kill yourself.
53fa49 No.15712255
>>15703351
>believing them
if Let's Go sells more then the usual series (Doubtful but it is a Console Pokemon game) then you can bet it will keep going to the point where it may eclipse the actual mainline games.
589adb No.15712297
>>15712017
hitmonchan isnt either
d38d36 No.15712325
>>15700425
tbh that pantyhose and those higher heels are a huge improvement
713ec5 No.15712329
>>15698668
Anyone have any quality misty r34?
d38d36 No.15712340
>>15712329
yep i got loads of it
713ec5 No.15712345
6ff601 No.15712354
>>15712255
It'll happen regardless because it takes less effort to make.
bebdc4 No.15712517
As weird as it sounds I do hope that Pokémon spawning in overworld replaces random encounters and the Pokéball throwing mechanic stays for main games. I still want to battle wild Pokémon to test my Pokémon's move set.
bebdc4 No.15712771
>>15712555
I'd like that but we're talking about Gamefreak. I think realistically we will have "spawn zones", areas where Pokémon spawn naturally like in tall grass, wading water, etc. Now I do like the idea of Pokémon having behavior in the overworld based on their species. Like Ratata or Pidgey running away if you spook them. Or Mankey will chase you until you fight or run out of the grass. Another feature I thought of is engaging multiple Pokémon at one. Kinda like what they tried to do with herds in X and Y, but with more variety of Pokémon in battle royale style fight. Some Pokémon will prey on other species or fight each other. You can also team up with trainers, players NPCs, and go on Pokémon round ups herding huge groups of Pokémon at once. The battle system will be updated accordingly with an expert or fast mode to show more info at once with presentation rather than waiting for HP lag and messages (no critical hit, it's supper effective/not very effective messages) between turns rather than turn battle animations off completely. And this can be used with animations on or off for faster runs if you know what you're doing.
d37ae3 No.15714863
>>15710381
Pokémon Stadium's probably got the best explanation for those: frames for the badges.
The supposed reason some characters are depicted wearing badges in their art (and sometimes sprites) is because at some point, they were intended to function similarly to HMs, e.g. Boulder Badge = Strength, Cascade Badge = Surf, etc.
What's interesting about Red in particular is that he always wears the Earth Badge on the front of his cap, and the Cascade Badge on the back, if he's wearing them at all.
If anyone's having trouble reading the text on the frames, they say "Pocket Monster League/Nintendo Official".
655f19 No.15714884
>>15714863
Interesting. In the same speculative artwork that eventually spawned Tyranitar, it also featured similar badges. Also, if you're forgetting, badges used to also give stat boosts, so it could have been that too. The only reason I bring that up is because in Capsule Monsters it seems the idea was that some monsters were just there for transport and weren't supposed to be good in battle (ironically HM slaves simulate this idea with shocking accuracy). Who really knows, though.
On the topic of Let's Go, does this options menu seem to have more options than usual or is it just me? Can anybody here actually read Japanese?
ff29f0 No.15715099
this game looks like it was last minute ported to the switch from the 3ds
they couldn't make an actual open world game? they had to do the same shit they've been doing for the past 20+ years?
nintendo weak
e9e733 No.15715108
I know it's going to be shit and I know i've got better games to play, but i'm probably going to get it on release anyway because i'm a massive Pokémon autist.
Someone please help me i'm in my mid twenties and I own several Pokémon merch including multiple plushies, figures and art. I feel as bad as someone living in their parents basement even though I live away from my parents and have a full time job.
655f19 No.15715115
>>15715108
At least pirate it. That's what I do. Although, Let's Go isn't even worth a pirate for me personally. It's got no connection to anything I like about Pokemon.
0a0467 No.15715117
>>15715108
>Someone please help me i'm in my mid twenties and I own several Pokémon merch including multiple plushies, figures and art.
<First part of this video
c47fc9 No.15715138
>>15715099
It's just a spinoff game, it very well could've been meant for the 3DS. Save that shit for if/when nintendo fails to innovate for the actual mainline series title.
655f19 No.15715154
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15715117
As somebody who's watched Transformer the Movie more times than they can count, I disagree with a lot of the points in his video. Notably, his focus on the soundtrack reminds me that only three of the lyrical themes in the movie are any good. Both of Stan Bush's songs fit fairly well with the usual score by Vince DiCola (Did you know he does video game music now? Because he does. Maybe not as impressive as scoring Rocky 4, but I don't know anything.), and Dare to Be Stupid by Weird Al is not only an actually good song that fits the absolutely mad Junkions, but Vince DiCola went out of his way to include that as a part of the actual score. I've put way too much thought into the score of Transformers the Movie because the entire time I was playing Xenoblade X I wished this game had Vince DiCola on the soundtrack instead.
>>15715138
I have a feeling this is Game Freak getting practice working in HD doing something really fucking simple. Honestly the best thing to come out of Let's Go will probably be the fact that Gen 8 won't run like complete shit. Looking at you Gen 6. I can't explain what's wrong with Gen 4, but I hope they avoid what the fuck happened there too.
c47fc9 No.15715213
>>15715154
>I can't explain what's wrong with Gen 4, but I hope they avoid what the fuck happened there too
Same. I can't really explain why but I absolutely hated gen 4 when it came out, and while some of the pokemon from that gen have grown on me over the years I still can't stand the games. I'm honestly still looking for a game that can make me feel the way Pokemon Emerald did all those years ago.
655f19 No.15715248
>>15715213
My big problem with DP (and to a lesser extent Platinum) is how fucking slow almost everything is. At least by HGSS the only really slow thing was the HP draining (and wireless battles but I understand that it's probably related to compatibility and not being used to wireless communication, but I still hate it). For me, the peak of the series was HGSS to B2W2, they're all well rounded games honestly. Emerald is definitely really good aside from the fact that it had to inherit RS's pretty bad looking overworld art. Thankfully FRLG fixed that and gave us years of a pretty good style. I don't know whether you consider it good or not, but Gen 6 once again gave us a shitty overworld, while at least the 3D models don't look completely awful, even if the 3DS has a fucking seizure any time more than one of them is on screen. They still need some actually decent animations though. Even the Pokemon touching minigames have them act kinda stiff, where you think they'd really try to make them emote. Unfortunately, we'll probably be waiting a while for any good animations, that seems lower priority than actually having animations. They didn't even bother making walking animations for them until Gen 7, probably because they gave up on the chibi overworld models.
655f19 No.15715739
So, here's something really interesting. The last Pokemon in USUM is numbered 807. The new Pokemon in Let's Go are numbered 891 and 892. Unless there are more Mythical Pokemon (there probably are) that means we have a total of 85 Pokemon in Gen 8 so far, if my math is correct. So yeah, 83 more Pokemon to be revealed before the game comes out, and probably a few more after we get it and datamine.
c96c8d No.15715775
>>15715154
>I can't explain what's wrong with Gen 4, but I hope they avoid what the fuck happened there too.
<Their code for games in that game was complete mess(It made Ruby look good in comparison.) - It was so bad that HGSS patched roms sometimes break in emulators to very this day.(It could be also caused by use of anti-pirate in these games.)
<Saving takes more time in Gen 4 than in Gen 5
>>15715739
>They made even more pokemon
This is just retarded. At that rate Gen 9 will exceed 1000.
43f254 No.15715795
>>15698741
In a fair and just world, we'd get a console Pokemon game that would go to great lengths to capture the feel and atmosphere of the original concept art. Something full of mystery and adventure and danger and exploration. Toss the fucking formula that's been bastardized to death out the window. No more of this 4 moves shit, or HMs, or Rental pokemon. Give me a cool adventure in an awesome world with strange monsters.
f4f02d No.15715815
>>15715795
<I think this may be the closest we'll ever get.
655f19 No.15715834
>>15715775
Good to know Game Freak being unable to fucking program is consistent, at least. As for the number of Pokemon, they've actually been releasing less of them lately. Reminder that in Gen 5 there were 649 Pokemon, and by Gen 8 we'll probably have less than 900 of them. In three generations there's only 243 new Pokemon added. Gen 1 and 5 added well over half that many Pokemon. Game Freak clearly doesn't want to hit 1000 Pokemon any time soon, maybe the first Pokemon of Gen 10 or last of Gen 9 will be Pokemon 1000. They're saving up for something big and I don't care. I just want more Pokemon. Yeah you get some duds but you also get some good stuff and weird shit you never asked for, which is sometimes my favorite.
>>15715795
Ironically, despite the art, mechanically Capsule Monsters wouldn't have accurately re-created the concept art. Here's a sample stat screen, and the map from the same book as all this art. In addition, the 4th picture in >>15698741 clearly shows a Rhyhorn carrying shit, which I think was an implication of Pokemon not always being the best for battle, and ties it in with HM's. Lapras being so early in the index numbers implies something similar. The unfortunate truth is that Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori (the only people working on the game at the time) seemed to have a very different idea of the game than what most people see when they see the art. In my opinion, a Pokemon game that would be more faithful to the original art would be more about using your Pokemon for non-combat things, like transporting goods, travel, basically making them more than just things you battle with. Game Freak seems to want to do this, but they really just try to make them your pets instead which isn't a bad idea in general, but not all Pokemon are like that. Some are for battles, some are for doing work, some are for giving headpats. A unilateral approach to Pokemon isn't the best, but Game Freak is either too incompetent or doesn't understand that.
c7f25d No.15715852
>sky attack and solar beam were buffed to 200 power
>Absorb to 40 and Mega Drain to 75
>friendship buffs all stats except HP(up-to 10%)
>EVs are now based off of feeding candy and have a 200 limit to them, but are 1 stat per point instead of per 4
Well these are just strange changes.
https://twitter.com/Kaphotics
c96c8d No.15715890
>>15715834
>I just want more Pokemon. Yeah you get some duds but you also get some good stuff and weird shit you never asked for, which is sometimes my favorite.
It still seems retarded to me. Majority of these will be shitmons anyway.
d2d72d No.15718295
>>15699582
Digimon is better.
655f19 No.15718342
On one hand, thank fucking god they added a skip cutscene option, hopefully Gen 8 has it. On the other hand, I'm worried about the phrasing "movie" because if this doesn't include in-game cutscenes where all the pointless dialogue happens I'm going to go fucking insane.
f2e68f No.15718529
>>15698906
This. The Pokemon GO shit is pure fucking cancer.
f2e68f No.15718560
>>15699594
>>15699609
Thats the same fucking game. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest is the European name, Final Fantasy Adventure the North American name and the Japanese name is Final Fantasy: Seiken Densetsu Gaiden.
c47fc9 No.15721253
>>15715248
Yeah I guess that's a good way to put it. Diamond and Pearl feel really tame compared to gen 3. The soundtrack isn't as memorable, it very much cemented the trend of putting fluff and spikes on everything that's led to a lot of really shit pokemon designs since then, and while it had some cool hidden shit and special events, it didn't have the mystery and rumors circulating that Emerald did.
d37ae3 No.15728477
>>15698667
PLG Pikachu should pop up here within the hour:
https://volafile.org/r/f8vk0tec
d37ae3 No.15728573
655f19 No.15728608
>>15728573
>>15728477
Genuine question, why would any of us want it? It's already been datamined to hell and it's not even like it has any of the somewhat worthwhile gameplay elements that even the worst modern Pokemon games have.
d37ae3 No.15728644
>>15728608
I just want model and map rips, and can't figure out where all the datamining's happening.
655f19 No.15728672
>>15728644
>Models
Aren't they the "standard Pokemon models" game freak has been using lately with nuts? Or do you mean the new human models?
>Maps
I dunno, high-res 3D Kanto doesn't interest me but as somebody who appreciates maps in general I can understand why you'd want them
>Where the datamining is happening
I know one guy was doing it on Twitter, but it was mostly basic info. More complex stuff will probably come out in a few weeks. I'm sure GBATemp will be into that shit, maybe some Pokemon site, not sure which one. I guess look where the Gen 7 info came from and hang out there.
55373a No.15728680
Game Freak doesn't know how to make a game that appeals to both absolute fucking retard cattle, and the people that have been playing since day one. They will lose millions in stocks, and then something something.
655f19 No.15728705
>>15728680
The fact is that there's a lot more braindead people who will buy this than there are people who have some semblance of taste. That having been said I have a feeling this will under perform and have a more negative reception than even Black and White did back on their release. It'll probably make a profit because I'm going to be frank and say this is not Game Freak's best effort and it probably was not expensive to develop, but it will also not hit any projection they'd want it to. It'll still probably get a sequel unless Go implodes or Masuda loses whatever influence he has to cause these sorts of disasters. I'd rather have nothing and have more staff on the actual games because at least they'd be polished.
d37ae3 No.15728713
>>15728672
Of course I mean the character models.
Or at least, the ones for Red, Green, and Blue.
Besides, Game Freak's gonna milk those pokémon models for all they're worth. Those're boring as fuck.
655f19 No.15728726
>>15728713
I've always said the models themselves are fine. Unfortunately the animations are not terribly inspired and I'm personally okay with most of the textures but I understand why people would want something else. At the very least we don't have a Stadium 2 to Battle Revolution era Crobat model problem, god that's a fucking abomination and I'm surprised Genius Sonority didn't fix it in the three games they had. Hell, I'm surprised HAL did such a bad job on it in the first place. I guess what I'm saying is at some point I expect the Pokemon models to be better because animations are easier than making a 3D model look not like complete shit.
730d0d No.15728833
>>15711736
>marry gardevoir in the blink of an eye
Would say I Do in a heartbeat
58f158 No.15728866
This thread has just made me realize how much I hate the art design of modern pokemon.
Like why is everything so perfectly smoothed and rounded out? Seriously just dawning on me, literally everything is being rounded at the edge, the models are all smoothed and flat textured. Even the 2D art somehow seems devoid of any sharp angles with all the rounded outlines.
Plus why do all the characters have that stupid baby head going on, I can't be the only one upset at how their heads are as wide as their bodies and 90% eye.
Then all the colors seem just kinda off, like flat and too simple. Theres clearly some actual color different on objects but somehow they're so flat it looks like everything is a single color. Did the Stadium games have this problem or am I misremembering shit?
5f5d27 No.15728922
>>15698667
>>15698668
>Red, Blue, and Green are back
That's cool, I'm still not going to pick this game up since it looks like a watered down pokemon experience. I'm just going to wait to see if gen 8 is any good.
>>15712329
>>15712345
I've got ya covered.
730d0d No.15728926
>>15728922
I want to fuck Misty.
107eba No.15728936
>>15699534
>they couldn't program in a gender selection
Classic Game Freak.
5f5d27 No.15728945
>>15728866
>Like why is everything so perfectly smoothed and rounded out?
>Plus why do all the characters have that stupid baby head going on, I can't be the only one upset at how their heads are as wide as their bodies and 90% eye.
Kids nowadays like uninspired calarts blandness because it's easy to digest and the chibi heads are probably supposed to make them look cute or something. I'm not entirely sure about the Stadium games since I've only played the first one, but here's some screenshots from Colosseum.
5fc839 No.15728955
>>15718560
I believe the first guy was talking about this. Unrelated to Seiken Densetsu and an intentional "baby's first JRPG."
92f5a3 No.15728956
>>15728922
>>15728926
FUUUCK. God I love 2D.
19c9a5 No.15728993
>>15718560
actually the european title for Seiken Densetsu 1 was simply Mystic Quest
and you have your series names backwards on the japanese title–it's Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden and it has the raddest logo
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest is an SNES entry level RPG that many dismiss as being for babbies (despite that being entry level was a focal point of the advertising). It had some rather clever design choices such as your weapons having utility use in the environment. The music is pretty badass too, even going as far as using speed metal for combat.
19c9a5 No.15729046
>>15699534
in short: deadlines
female trainer was cut for being low priority and because they'd have had to program in gender flags in the dialogue scripts. That shit adds up in space.
Keep in mind that the first game, especially Green, is a mess organization-wise
631d7c No.15729087
>>15728833 (checked)
Those numbers prove this is the best choice.
d7a08e No.15729687
>>15728955
Yeah, the Burger Mystic Quest is what I was talking about.
>>15728993
Also, enemy health being visually represented by the state of their sprite was a nifty design choice that's criminally underused.
3ba0d0 No.15730991
>>15715834
Man, a pokemon that incorporated some harvest moon or other lifesim elements would be pretty fucking rad. Imagine using water pokemon to spray your fields, ground-types for plowing, fighting for harvesting and construction.
It used to seem like contests were their way of branching into non-combat progression but that shit never went anywhere.
47ae98 No.15731109
>>15730991
There's been a lot of gimmicks that never went anywhere, really. Nobody remembers musicals or those shitty video things from Gen 6. I feel like Contests, since they used the base gameplay, are pretty memorable. Similarly PokeStar Studios is interesting because it's actually quite similar to Battle Sims from Gale of Darkness. If there's any sort of thing I want to see it would be more "Mission Mode" stuff, puzzle battles, themed battles, battles against important trainers, hell, do the Japanse Pokemon Stadium or PWT DLC thing and let you fight the best of the VGC. I feel like if Pokemon wants to do anything outside of combat, they'd need to stick with the other part of RPG's progression, talking to people and doing sidequests. USUM had some very nice sidequests, probably the most content added to the game are extra little scenarios that add interesting things to the world. Finding the owner of a lost Pokeball, getting old people to meet up, seeing the fact that a Pokemon can be a movie star, learning first hand what certain Pokemon can do instead of just reading it in the dex entry. As a matter of fact, I think that last one can be integrated better. Instead of just seeing a natural wonder, you have to bring the Pokemon to solve that sort of problem. Integrate that sort of thing into an overhauled PokeRide system and you'll be able to use your own Pokemon to overcome all sorts of problems. Well, mostly your own transport and some sidequests. But it would feel better because that's harmonious with the concept of Pokemon and people working together that they try to hammer home but hardly do because there's rarely any Pokemon in the overworld.
244e5c No.15731631
Too many of the mechanics are tied to pokemon go. The problem with that is that it won't appeal to long time pokemon fans who want a traditional experience, it won't appeal to those wanting a console pokemon game for a long time since it needs mobile shit, and it won't appeal to pokemon go players since they probably are not invested enough to get the game.
9fe040 No.15732372
>>15698667
Can't wait for all the Pokemon x Trainer porn this will bring.
4899f8 No.15732399
I'm madly in love with Sabrina and I cannot help it
ffdb6e No.15733870
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>>15731109
To be honest I never cared for stuff like musicals or Pokestar studios or much of that kind of thing. I did do contests a few times in the original 3rd gen games when I was bored but otherwise I didn't care much.
I think what would make me happiest is every game having some kind of Battle Frontier or at least the PWT, which I guess goes along with themed battles and ones against important trainers. I had a ton of fun playing those but just including something as vanilla as the battle tower or as bullshit as the battle tree in every game instead is shitty and lazy.
5ff2f1 No.15735079
Whats the full list of compatibility with Pokémon go? Is that info out yet?
c939fe No.15735242
>>15735079
In terms of species? Probably exactly what you'd expect; the original 151, their Alolan forms, their Mega evolutions, and then Meltan + Melmetal.
b41f82 No.15735274
>>15735242
Why is liquid unown in fucking kanto?
47ae98 No.15735278
>>15735274
Shilling mostly. Why is Bonsly and Munchlax in Orre?
6a0c31 No.15735292
>>15715815
Never post anything about this game ever again.
b41f82 No.15735295
>>15735278
They were never as heavily advertised as dullmetal was though, they're jerking their cocks so hard over something that looks like a rejected gen 5 pokemon.
47ae98 No.15735305
>>15735295
I like it, better than Lucario shilling at least. Then again I kinda like literal garbage that's also alive, so maybe I just have odd taste. We've got too many animal mons, I think. They were running out of ideas in Gen 7, they had a wolf Pokemon for fuck's sake. When you see a dolphin Pokemon you know they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. If the dolphin Pokemon isn't a dark type and an asshole I'll be upset, dolphins are evil.
b41f82 No.15735317
>>15735305
Oh no, it's not the fact that it's not an animal. It just feels like a melted magnemite strapped to a registeel. They could have done something more autistic like pokemon fusions and gotten more praise for being "innovative", while doing the exact same shit, just giving the illusion of being less lazy, couldn't possibly be worse than megas anyways.
341a36 No.15735320
>>15735317
There are fusions already.
b41f82 No.15735325
>>15735320
Smartass, I know that. I'm talking about more pokemon being fused, and making it a prioritized mechanic.
c939fe No.15735347
>>15735325
So basically, a pokémon version of this shit?
b41f82 No.15735353
>>15735347
If only they met the halway mark and didn't majestically fuck it up somehow. nuGamefreak would find a way to fuck its shit up, do less than the bare minimum and neuter is as much as possible.
f32bde No.15735373
Personally, I hope this makes millions. Every first gen remake keeps Misty relevant, meaning new lewds from artists will continue to be made.
cae823 No.15735380
>>15699582
>passing sheer brand loyalty on to the next generation
The spirit of the boomer is strong in this one.
656040 No.15735403
>>15698741
I miss when everybody looked like they were a brick shithouse.
656040 No.15735460
>>15715834
>In my opinion, a Pokemon game that would be more faithful to the original art would be more about using your Pokemon for non-combat things, like transporting goods, travel, basically making them more than just things you battle with.
Oh, you mean like a tabletop game, then.
cae823 No.15735670
>>15735460
>Pokemon tabletop RPG
656040 No.15735852
>>15735670
Does that sound autistic to you?
It is.
352fd9 No.15736145
>>15728945
Man I loved colosseum as a kid. I remember the first time I reached the end of the game and got the master ball. I used it on metagross because I thought he was the final boss. Instead the fucking spoiler if you haven’t played it mayor comes out out throws out a tyranitar. And that was the first time I rage quit. Was still a lot of fun.
48d1b9 No.15736156
>>15736145
Both have the same catch rate.
47ae98 No.15736165
>>15736145
I remember abusing the fuck out of the infinite Pokeball glitch as soon as I got a Master Ball in that game. The thing is I can't remember how I learned it. Probably the internet. And that's why you can't catch Pokemon in double battles usually, I think. Just to be safe, because Game Freak doesn't know what the hell they're doing.
5fc839 No.15736178
>>15736145
>I remember the first time I reached the end of the game and got the master ball. I used it on metagross because I thought he was the final boss.
>Not knowing the item swap glitch to effectively allow infinite of hard to acquire consumable items.
I suppose if you got it at launch there's at least the excuse that it takes time for people to find stuff. If you've still got interest in Orre, consider giving Gale of Darkness a go. Not quite as dark as its predecessor, but improved on the gameplay-end, and has the same composer for more great OST.
>>15736156
Which is a fucking abysmal 3, at least in the main series games from what I recall. Though, I wouldn't surprised if Colosseum and Gale of Darkness tweaked it, especially the latter given how trainers can have more than one shadow Pokemon (resulting in the end boss having six+one, four of which being legendary).
47ae98 No.15736218
>>15736178
Did you know: James Turner, designer of such fan favorites as Golurk, Buzzwole, and Vanilluxe designed Shadow Lugia too?
http://archive.is/DuSES
I'm angry about the Denpa Men series. It's a microcosm of how video games evolved from simple beginnings, to great sequels, to mobile freemium shit.
cae823 No.15736486
>>15735852
No, it sounds appealing to me.
ffce9e No.15736508
>>15715154
You've got the touch
ffce9e No.15736513
>>15735852
>>15736486
>pen and paper pokemon adventures
sounds pretty gud
b4f7e4 No.15736535
>>15735347
>>15735325
honestly it wouldn't be too weird if that were to happen now that mega evolution is a thing, I remember back when mega evolution was first announced it seemed like Pokémon went super saiyan
e7ce58 No.15736959
>>15735317
>They could have done something more autistic like pokemon fusions
The manga has human/pokemon fusions as a canon thing.
5e3232 No.15737149
>>15735242
I meant more in terms of connectivity and benefits.
I've barely played Pokémon go and I have shit Mons and I'm playing the game more because it gets me out of the house and getting much needed exercise but it's pretty fucking hard to get a foot in when every mother fuck has perfect IV shiny legendarys and I still haven't even been able to get any Pokémon to it's 3rd evolution let alone be able to try my hand at a legendary raid. Hell I've resorted to joining a normalfag discord just for my area so I can try to get some good Mons. If let's go can let me catch, grind, and send Mons to Pokémon go or items to help me out I may get it.
fe5950 No.15737209
>>15698929
How the fuck are the catching mechanics "dumbed down" when all you did in the other games is select the best ball for the situation and hit the button after spamming that attack that leaves the wild Pokemon at 1 Hp. Wild Pokemon battles are fucking dumb and I am glad they are gone. Bunch of pointless autistic grinding.
c939fe No.15737247
>>15737149
Turns out it's a one-way trade, almost the same as sending your trash to Professor Willow.
After transferring something from the phone to the Switch, you get one candy per 'mon, and unlock / recharge the box that spawns wild Meltan near you. That's literally all you can do with it.
Additionally:
>Transferred pokémon don't retain their stats
< Let's Go makes you re-capture everything like a normal wild encounter, so 're-rolls' are possible
>Mewtwo and Mew can't be transferred
>'Cosplay' pokémon (from the Pikachu and Squirtle evo lines) are apparently off-limits too
Basically, the Switch game ain't gonna help you get anywhere in the phone game.
c8e553 No.15737695
>>15736959
I'd fuse with a pokemon if you know what i'm saying.
d7a08e No.15737803
>Pretty much all of the later gym leaders have better teams than they did in Gen 1
>It doesn't matter since the game gives out levels like candy
I'm really not surprised by either of these things.
656040 No.15740436
>>15736486
>>15736513
I've been playing in one of the systems for a little over 2 years now and it's caused me to never be able to play a pokemon game ever again.
ad62a7 No.15740485
dudeguys I hate to say the obvious thing but this game is clearly neither for Adults nor for Males. The game is cute as all HECK and that seems to be the entire selling point, just like games targeted at men have a sex appeal angle instead.
You're not the target audience so get over it.
78d8ca No.15740518
>>15740485
it can be cute and also not be shit
y'know
like the other games in the series
b6ae72 No.15742667
Who's your favorite pokegirl?
9ed4c6 No.15742680
4a18fa No.15742686
>>15742667
> Who's your favorite pokegirl?
Lorelei, Team Rocket Grunt, basically any redhead with tits (so Misty doesn't count).
533f5c No.15742750
>>15742667
Aroma Ladies. I don't even like perfume, I just think they're cute.
634bad No.15742809
>>15742667
I have literal vanilla taste and do not apologize.
f4f02d No.15742844
>>15742809
Honestly, vanilla is a good taste to want to get back to sometimes.
e7ce58 No.15742857
>>15742667
A tie between Cynthia and Lusamine.
634bad No.15742865
>>15742857
Choose one like the rest of us, faggot.
9e34dd No.15742878
Is the battle system in this game similar to the old one?
c8e553 No.15742879
>>15742857
How about a lillie and lusamine incest sandwich on your dick
4a18fa No.15742932
>>15742878
Yep, though you don't battle wild pokemon you just throw balls and berries at them.
There are no abilities or held items though, so that extra element of strategy is gone, but the pokemon you catch still have natures and the like, and it doesn't have the annoying bugs that RBY had, so Ghost actually works against Psychic types now, although Jolteon is sadly no longer a crit master.
Fuck I loved my Gen1 Jolteon.
It also has dual battles and you can have a friend play at the same time with some basic co-op. And it has online battles and trading too.
9e34dd No.15742949
>>15742932
Neat.
Used to play Pokemon a lot when I was little, but I stopped buying Nintendo products after Wii.
d38d36 No.15742972
>>15742959
That seems odd. It's a Gen 1 remake without wild battles (meaning no danger at all in caves and other dungeons) and stupid gym requirements, but it's otherwise a better FR/LG.
8e8599 No.15742986
>yuzu ingame day one
>buying consoles in current year +2
9e34dd No.15742992
>>15742959
I've no idea about this game honestly.
80c73a No.15743365
>>15742986
Nice to know. Will pirate it later.
b6ae72 No.15744832
>>15742972
>without wild battles
With gen 5 they started actively removing game features every release, although in gen 5 they did add some things while removing others.
If they have successfully removed wild battles from pokemon, what's next? Are they going to remove combat on the pokemon games for the switch 2?
47ae98 No.15744903
>>15744832
Gen 3 removed the day/night cycle's visuals (FRLG completely lacked it for whatever reason, even though you get Eevee in that game what's wrong with you Masuda) as well as several items (probably for balance reasons, Berserk Gene is pretty nutty). Gen 4 fucked with some stuff too if I recall, contests and secret bases were barely recognizable in addition. I could go on with lists of things that some games have or lack compared to others, as a matter of fact somebody from Game Freak has said that nothing they add is necessarily permanent because it gives each game a unique thing about it. This is clearly retarded because everyone but the most hardcore Pokemon autists, such as myself, think the games are all the same shit.
d38d36 No.15744935
>>15744832
Probably. They're dumbing the game down and making it as cutesy as possible to appeal to the main demographic: chicks.
060a48 No.15744957
>>15742667
the mysterious sisters
47ae98 No.15744974
>>15744935
Actually, that reminds me of how partway through development, Game Freak brought in Atsuko Nishida to design more cute monsters. Around the time she was brought in evolution became a major mechanic instead of a minor one. There's a neat article on how this all played out, if you want to check it.
https://helixchamber.com/2018/09/11/internallist/
8c71e8 No.15745082
>>15742667
I'm a gen III fag through and through. Nu-May can fuck off, though.
53fa49 No.15745526
>>15742667
Gen 1:
>Sabrina
>Lorelei
(Honorable Mention Erika)
Gen 2:
>Clair (both GSC and HGSS ver)
(Honorable Mention Whitney)
Gen 3:
>Flannery (both RSE and ORAS ver)
(Honorable Mention Phoebe)
Gen 4:
>Cheryl
>Cynthia (BEST GIRL)
>Misty (HGSS ver)
(Honorable Mention Dahlia)
Gen 5: Way too many top tier girls to list here here, I love them all.
>Touko/Hilda (best protagonist)
>Professor Juniper
>Elesa
>Skyla
>Caitlin (BW ver)
>Shauntal
(Iris get's an honorable mention for being one of the best lolis in the franchise, and Bianca get's an honorable mention for those hips)
Gen 6:
>Grace/XY Mother (best mother in the franchise, maybe even better the BW's mom).
>Dracaena (adorable GILF).
>Battle Chatelaine Morgan
>Team Magma Courtney and Team Aqua Shelly (I honestly prefer their redesigns over the original
(Honorable Mention for the sisters Pansy and Viola. Honorable mention for Roxanne having a great redesign in ORAS)
Gen 7:
>Lillie
>Mallow
>Olivia
>Acerola (most adorable loli that may rival and overthrow Iris.)
>Lusamine
>Wicke
(Honorable Mention for Sina (xy) getting a cute redesign in SM. Honorable mention for Anabel (rse) having a great redesign in SM)
This is just for the main characters. I might have to do another list entirely for the NPCs but I'm too lazy to search and rate them all.
e5f5f7 No.15745568
>>15742959
>not even the genwunners were impressed
afb29d No.15745577
e9d8de No.15745579
>>15745082
Its a shame what they did to her over the years she was in the show.
8c71e8 No.15745893
>>15745579
Doesn't matter. The damage was done, and now everyone considers her to be a titty monster of pokemon girls.
47ae98 No.15745922
>>15745893
I think we're all thankful for that
94c89b No.15746127
>>15728866
>Like why is everything so perfectly smoothed and rounded out?
Babies often hurt themselves around sharp objects.
e83752 No.15748562
>>15742986
How good a cpu do you need?
4a18fa No.15748851
>>15745893
>and now everyone considers her to be a titty monster of pokemon girls.
Fine with me!
I love the recent kvetching by the (((usual suspects))) when the producers of the anime said they put cute girls in as "eye candy" to keep young boys watching. Of course they fucking did, and I'm thankful they did! And the recent complaints about Brock's treatment of women is also hilarious and the "in hindsight it wasn't very good" virtue signalling.
Anime titties are proof God loves us.
390107 No.15748892
>>15736959
Imagine if you had a Platinum or Megaman style game where swapping your weapons was various transformations.
9b92d9 No.15749391
>>15745526
>Sabrina
My caucasian.
53fa49 No.15749698
>>15748851
>I love the recent kvetching by the (((usual suspects))) when the producers of the anime said they put cute girls in as "eye candy" to keep young boys watching.
I remember this interview. Any evidence of kvetching? I wasn't aware this statement was controversial and would like to see some salt.
>>15749391
While I love all forms of Sabrina, even the controversial HGSS version (which I previously shat on in this thread for it's short hair, but it's still Sabrina at the end of the day), I'm glad with LGPE they went back to her roots. Though the lack of gloves and weird blue in the back is still a bit off-putting.
97df06 No.15750028
>>15742667
Gen 1: Lorelei and Erika
Gen 2: Clair
Gen 3: Flannery
Gen 4: Cynthia
Gen 5: If I had to choose, Skyla
Gen 6: Female Pokemon Ranger and Korrina
Gen 7: Again if I had to choose, Wicke
53fa49 No.15754190
>>15750028
good picks. Also the Female Pokemon Ranger from XY is one of the best NPCs.
4a18fa No.15754496
>>15749698
A search brought up the usual reddit white-knight bullshit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/5ppl1r/poke_girls_never_comes_back/
There was also a recent YouTube video about Brock from a channel called Fact Fiend, which it turns out is written by a former writer from Cracked. He complained about the treatment of women from Brock and mocked the "eye candy" comment.
I've seen other complaints too about the sexualisation of children because "muh waifus" which, strangely, comes from the same place that wants to decriminalise pedophilia, which just proves they don't want to protect children, they just hate things that are prettier than them that makes them feel threatened or inadequate.
Also Lorelei reminds me of Takashiro from Bible Black.
5fc839 No.15754521
>>15736218
>Vanilluxe
>fan favorite
Golurk was cool though.
10d574 No.15754788
>>15754190
>Also the Female Pokemon Ranger from XY is one of the best NPCs
Completely agree. Sucks that we'll never see her again and that ORAS didn't go with her (though I can understand since it's a remake and they wanted to use the original RSE version, yet at the same time, they replaced the original Hex maniac with the one from XY as well as adding the fairy girl).
5fc839 No.15754802
>>15745082
>"Nu-May can fuck off, though."
>He says while posting a nu-May.
I'm not especially fond of the redesign for her, even if there's far worse ones for other games or series out there. There's a good way and a bad way to redesign characters, but then there's the sort of middle ground of neither where you wonder just what was deemed wrong with the previous look to warrant it.
bebdc4 No.15754859
My mom is black. Am I adopted?
8e4b8d No.15754911
>>15749698
that second Sabrina pic used to have a dick how did you get that
4a18fa No.15757704
Anybody got a Scyther to trade? I can catch an Eevee ver. Pinsir for you to trade if you like. Or I've got some Dratini if you want one of those.
6f7e88 No.15757775
>tfw there will never be another pokemon game with hand drawn sprites and crisp pastel colors in the overworld
Gen 2 really was the peak of the series in terms of forward progress
0ba5a4 No.15757787
>>15754859
Sunlight & tanning are a thing
bee85b No.15757810
>runs dark souls remastered, skyrim, and breath of the wild while maintaining a steady framerate and visual fidelity
>clearly the switch can handle at least passable quality games
>for the pokemon game they just reuse a bunch of resolution bumped assets from the last game
>use an anime style
>no cell shading
>the worldspace looks like the wonderful 101 took a shit
>integrate all that phoneshit into the game
>no doubt will have microtransactions
I'd really like a mainline pokemon game that has some fucking effort put into it instead of recycling decades of shit over and over. The last time a pokemon game actually did something with the IP was XD.
4a18fa No.15757898
Where the hell do I catch a goldeen and a horsea?
I've been skimming Routes 19 and 20 for an hour and captured several (supposedly rare) Gyarados but not a single common goldeen or horsea.
bebdc4 No.15758110
>>15757787
>>15757827
If it's adoption then it can't be incest right?
730d0d No.15758629
>>15742667
I got too many but i'll put my top 5.
e83752 No.15758640
88a827 No.15758652
>>15757810
Every single pokemon game has used an anime style, what are you on about?
730d0d No.15758679
>>15758669
Already posted >>15728833
Check those double dubs
53fa49 No.15759141
>>15754496
>that reddit
>calling it deplorable
>everyone bending over backwards arguing the ages of fictional characters even though for most Pokemon characters it's never concrete and only assumed by wikis
wew. it's like these people aren't aware that characters like Misty were the pioneer of early rule 34.
>former writer from Cracked
Makes sense, they were completely cucked even back then
>>15754911
twitter.com/shoushin03/status/1063815259675287552
The artist posted a version without the dick on their twatter for some reason. They usually don't do it but for some reason with this one they did.
33e433 No.15759389
>>15742667
RBY/GSC/FRLG
>Sabrina
RSE
>Roxanne
DPPt
>Candice
HGSS
>Jasmine
BW
>Hilda
XY
>Serena
SM
>Lillie
Colosseum
>Rui
XD
>Lovrina
Spin-offs
>Solana
Anime
>Melody
Trainer class
>Lass
8c71e8 No.15759437
>>15754802
>He says while posting a nu-May.
The shorts were worth it.
e7ce58 No.15760364
>>15754496
The anime's cast was always shit primarily Ash the most incompetent useless trainer in existence, they should have done what the manga did and introduce new protagonists for each generation.
d37ae3 No.15764096
>>15736959
>ReBurst
>canon
It's a self-contained spinoff, fam.
47ae98 No.15764150
>>15764096
If Re-Burst isn't canon, what officially licensed Pokemon material is? The other mangas? The animes? The spin-offs? The main games? And if so, which main games? When you start asking those questions, it's better to put everything in it's own universe. That's the way The Pokemon Company probably treats it. Every story self contained, every universe separate.
d37ae3 No.15764194
>>15764150
The main games, give or take a couple spinoff games (Colosseum games, Ranger trilogy) that directly interact with them.
47ae98 No.15764299
>>15764194
I've refuted this a few times, but let's get into the nitty-gritty with the biggest problem caused by this. USUM. Let's start with Anabel, you could say it's implied that it's Emerald Anabel, that's fair. But she's in both regular SM and USUM. These are clearly different universes, and given what's revealed in Gen 7 might very well be happening simultaneously. Now, differing plotlines are not uncommon with Pokemon, but we have an Anabel in both of them. I guess you could say that one Anabel is from whatever timeline the Rainbow Rocket versions of Archie and Maxie are from, but then that adds more universes we haven't seen to the mix. We've also got minor issues with version differences and the influence on the plot, certain elements that don't seem to match up (wasn't there another anime series supposed to be set in the game's universe, ostensibly?), and the fact that by excluding everything else we miss certain other elements like the various Anime references throughout the series since Yellow. I don't know if we've had this conversation before, but here's an incredibly old list of Transformers universes. This list has proven to be fucking retarded and unhelpful, so the Transformers autists have straight up developed a categorization system that groups different parts of the franchise into continuity families. There are some issues with this. It's sometimes not entirely clear where characters or plotlines begin or end, if you're trying to make it all fit. But with Pokemon, it's clear to me that they don't actually care that much about that sort of thing when the PWT trainers look the same as they did back in Gen 4 even though it took years, and Wally is still the littlest cancer patient in Gen 7. It's my conclusion as an expert on meta-universe manifolds and marketing that Pokemon would benefit most from grouping different parts of the franchise into continuity families, and just accepting that every mainline game exists in a universe where the gist of every other game happened, but the details don't match up to either the other games or any other player's playthrough.
d37ae3 No.15764398
>>15764299
I'll admit my timeline's a little barebones.
I think I'm gonna have to add a bit more detail to it, since I tried taking several factors into account when putting this together, and I didn't include them all here.
Not sure how long it'll take me, but I'll put my thread ID here on it so you'll know it's from me.
It'll pop up in whatever's the current pokémon thread, seeing as this one's only got a few posts left before the bumplock.
47ae98 No.15766287
>>15764398
Ironically I'll probably make my own thread, in which I'll probably propose my multiveral theory and try to get a classification system. Transformers has an in-universe one that's pretty good, I should probably use that as a baseline. At the very least I could go into some autistic detail about some mechanical and story ideas I've got, see what everybody thinks.
d37ae3 No.15767761
>>15766287
I think I've got an idea that outta resolve some of the points you brought up; just need some time to iron it all out.
In the meantime, I'm trying my hand at a better Gen 1/Gen 2 map.
47ae98 No.15767803
>>15767761
That map looks autistic, elaborate because you've caught my interest. Here's another thing to note, I don't know if it will help or completely destroy your theory. In Black and White, you can pretty much visit other worlds (other player's games). While you could argue that communication options shouldn't really be considered canon, that would also eliminate the Time Capsule from Gen 2, the whole Sevii Island quest from FRLG, and a number of other minor things throughout the series. As a matter of fact my biggest argument for how big the multiverse is comes down to how the games connect to each other. I'm sure you'd make the argument that your first timeline uses trading, the second revolves around one way transporting, and the third relies on Bank, but given how omnicombinational Bank's transfer is, I'm not sure exactly how to work this out. Given how many universes there were at the start of the franchise (the games and the Pocket Monsters manga, although Pokemon took like a year to get full steam as a franchise), and how many more have come to exist, saying any one is more canonical or more related than another is a bit reckless, if not foolhardy. I'm sure if you asked somebody at TPCi what the canon is they'd give you some marketing speak about how every story is valid and important or some shit, thankfully these days I'm pretty sure nobody actually cares about Pokemon canon. After all Let's Go is fucking confusing and I'm not sure but it might be some sort of spin on Mystery Dungeon except you become part of the plot of Gen 1 instead of becoming a Pokemon. We really shouldn't be thinking hard about this sort of thing.
d37ae3 No.15768535
>>15767803
The map project came about from several things:
Initially, I wanted to try my hand at a limited remake of Gen 1 to learn how to use some game engine.
Naturally, this would include implementing the Town Map. At first I wanted to try upping the resolution on the tilemaps they used, but then I remembered they included the Town Map as a feelie in the Japanese versions. Looking at that, I kinda thought back to how some other games around that time, e.g. Zelda OoT, featured their own downscaled rendered maps.
Besides all that, I've found that, prior to Gen 4, there don't seem to be any clear, high resolution versions of the region maps. I've spent some time digging around for the Gen 1 and 2 maps, and I've managed to come up with a rough reconstruction of the Gen 1 map, included here. Any weird splotches you see are where I masked out any text bubbles from the Japanese town map. Gen 2's been a different story entirely: I've had zero luck finding a hi-res, unmarked copy of the full map, though I recently found a relatively hi-res of the Kanto half.
Still, while looking through both maps, I noticed all the towns' buildings seemed to be roughly parallel with each other, while each town's oriented towards a given direction, and that general orientation persists for a few towns between generations. e.g. Pallet and Viridian Unlike what you see with the Gen 3-5 maps, and any remake maps , especially the ones by Kawayoo (ORAS, Let's Go), 1 & 2 don't try to replicate the orthogonal orientation of the in-game maps.
Going back to what I said about the region maps, starting with Gen 4, they've been putting out hi-res region maps, detailed enough you can easily make out all the routes and buildings and such. Looking at Kalos, I noticed all the routes and towns seemed to follow a similar non-orthogonal approach with their placement, likely because it's the first set of mainline games to feature true, non-orthogonal movement. I've never played X or Y; the setting there tries so hard to be inoffensive and saccharine I'm just put off by it. Maybe I'll force myself through it someday, but it doesn't seem worth it.
Putting all that together, I now wanna try making a composite map of sorts that takes elements from both region maps in Gens 1 & 2, along with the in-game maps. Starting off, I'm aiming to use Gen 2 as a basis for the overall geography and town/route orientation. Might also look into using the 3d maps from the Stadium games for reference. Ultimately, I wanna have a separate variant for both generations.
From there, if I ever get around to making that limited remake, I wanna have those maps follow a similar orientation, with the camera turning to wherever a given map's "north" is, if that makes any sense. I put up a crop of the Kalos map to try and illustrate what I mean.
d37ae3 No.15768782
>>15767803
While it's still a work in progress, I think I've got the makings of a classification system of sorts that might resolve any remaining conflicts in that timeline I got. It's not that organized yet, so bear with me:
Generation: A series of events that consistently occur between all main games in that generation. Generally self-contained in its own era, but subsequent generations will build off and reference events from previous generations.
For instance, Kanto has no geographic reference to Johto or Mt. Silver in Gen 1, while Gen 2/4 onward, both regions share a map.
Game: A subset of Generation. Events generally follow whatever's overall established in that Gen, with some variation, e.g. what pokémon can be found, what Legendary takes precedent, or even, in Gen 5's case, how some towns appear or people behave. If there's an enhanced third version, those generally take precedent over the originals, with the exception of Blue version in Gen 1, e.g. Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, Z, USUM
Era: An estimated period of time in which a Generation, or multiple Generations, is believed to take place. Much like how each region is based on a real world area, the first 2 Generations were also set roughly concurrent to the year they came out.
Gen 1 appears to be set around 1996, with Gen 2 in 1999, respectively the years both sets of games came out.
The 1997 Spaceworld demo corroborates this theory, with the dummied out story claiming to be set 1 year after Gen 1.
The cut story's likely also why Gary became a researcher in the anime, because here, Blue became Oak's aide after a bit of soul searching.
Personally, I suspect Gen 6 to be set around 2007, because that roughly lines up the apparent reveal of the Holo Caster with the irl reveal of the iPhone.
Timeline: A collection of Eras in which Generations share a consist continuity of events, character designs, lore, etc.
Every few Generations or so, a catalyst is introduced that fundamentally conflicts with the previous timeline to the point it must be branched off into its own standalone instance.
Under my proposed timelines, the catalysts for the Advance timeline include, but aren't limited to:
-The GB games' inability to transfer to the Advance games
-Character and location redesigns brought about with FRLG, elements of which persist in HGSS and even as far as SuMo.
-The Johto pokémon were considered newly discovered in Gen 2, something that doesn't persist in subsequent timelines. It's really a leftover element from the cut story presented in the Spaceworld builds. Other elements unique to the GB timeline include the Time Capsule.
As for the Mega timeline:
-Gen 6 introduces the Kalosian War, set 3000 years before X & Y, to give a lore justification for Mega Stones.
-Arguably leads to some minor alterations in that timeline's instance of FRLG, leading to Origins Basically, Mr. Fuji now gives Red a Mega Stone in addition to the Poké Flute.
-Definitely affects this timeline's instance of Gen 3, ORAS. The Devon Corporation reversed engineered elements of the Ultimate Weapon to develop an alternative means for energy production.
There's a ton of other miscellaneous differences, but I think those examples stand out in particular.
I'm not sure what else to add there yet, but I think it's a good starting point.
bebdc4 No.15768917
>>15768782
You can probably put Let's Go in replacement of Gen 1 in the mega timeline. Red and Blue are off on their Pokémon journey but you have Elaine/Chase as the protagonist instead. Though we'll have to see if there's a Let's Go Jotoh to confirm.
d37ae3 No.15769669
>>15768917
I'm a little apprehensive about that because Let's GO uses their Gen 1 designs, whereas Gen 7 bases their look on their Gen 3/4 designs. Origins seems like a better fit since it's fundamentally just FireRed with a Mega Stone.
bebdc4 No.15771113
>>15769669
So a new "Pokémon Go!" timeline has to be created then?
d37ae3 No.15771775
>>15771113
Now that you mention it, it'd probably be easier to treat it as a parallel Gen 1, like Yellow is to Red, Green, and Blue.
8c1364 No.15771855
Reminder that all you Pokemon faggots are 10 years old and have no pubes.
f9d5b3 No.15771920
>>15768782
Doesn't R/B/G/Y and G/S/C immediately count as their own world since they treat Pokemon as these wonderous new creatures (That started appearing around the same time as the space program being in full swing) that no one understands, meanwhile all the other games treat Pokemon like they've been around for multiple millennia?
792b9a No.15771973
>>15771920
And does any other game mention the War that Lt Surge mentions in Red/Blue?
f9d5b3 No.15772019
>>15771973
Doesn't look like it. However, what is the actual line in the original Japanese game? The reason I ask this is because, in Japan, the Sonic series has all the games play into one another. While the West had it's own canon that semi-rebooted with Adventure, the East all had a backstory and history with the events and details of the games leading all the way up to Advanced 3.
792b9a No.15772157
>>15772019
I don't know, only relevant information I could find.
Wasn't the concept of "America" removed in one of the later games? Seems to be in Fire Red / Leaf Green if the text on Bulbapedia can be trusted.
Can anyone verify if the war was referenced in Lets Go?
d37ae3 No.15772173
>>15771920
I don't think Gens 1 & 2 ever specified when Pokémon started appearing, but considering you can clone fossilized mons from millions of years ago (Gen 1), and crafting Poké Balls out of Apricorns is considered an antiquated art (Gen 2), it's pretty safe to say they've always been around in some form in that world.
What is considered new when Gen 1 rolls around are things like Porygon (synthesized ~10 years prior), and the Storage System. The modern Poké Ball was probably developed sometime within 20~40 years prior to the start of the series, if we're to assume technology back then resembled what they portrayed in the anime. Going by the proposed timeline, that would mean twist-open Apricorn Balls would've been commonplace around the late 50s/early 60s.
As for Gen 2, the original backstory stated that a year ago (instead of three), Red and Blue collectively managed to catch at least 150 kinds of Pokémon. In the time since, Oak started hearing more reports of undocumented Pokémon all over the world (or country, I'm not sure). Realizing he'd hit a limit in what he could research by staying in Kanto, he packed up shop and moved the lab to Silent Hills (New Bark). Daisy can be found in the old lab, for reasons unknown.
>>15771973
I honestly don't remember.
792b9a No.15772198
There's also the "Mew was discovered in South America" thing.
c939fe No.15772243
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15772157
There's the expected army references, but 'war' is limited to a metaphor:
< 'Gentleman' trainer in the gym, post-battle
>"When I was in the army, Lt. Surge was my strict CO. He was a hard taskmaster."
< Lt. Surge, during pre-battle dialogue
>"A pokémon battle is war! I'll show you, civilian!"
f9d5b3 No.15772250
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15772198
I can confirm this is in the Japanese version as well.
<South America (みなみアメリカ)at 29:29
d37ae3 No.15772364
>>15772250
I'm just gonna assume South America gets retconned with an equivalent region, if they ever make one.
0c2785 No.15772419
>>15772250
>>15772364
>>15772243
It doesn't say Lt. Surge was from North America, only America. Could South America have been the only geopolitical region of the world left unaltered after a large world scale war?
47ae98 No.15772423
>>15768782
Interesting note you might want to consider, the backstory of Black and White takes place in the same time period as the ancient war in XY. Are they related? Who knows, but it does show the ancient world was weird. But then again, apparently 1500 years ago writing was invented, or at least the one originating from the Ruins of Alph. Don't take it too seriously.
d37ae3 No.15772912
>>15772423
They don't seem to be. According to Bulbapedia, the time the Relic Items were made coincides with the war, but they don't seem to be anything more than glorified Nuggets. The earliest notable event seems to be 500 years after that war, when two brothers united a bunch of warring tribes with a dragon, then started another war over truth and ideals or some shit. The dragon split into the main 3 legendaries for that gen. Looking back, Gen 5's story was gay as fuck. Sengoku in New York? Fuck that weeb shit.
47ae98 No.15772957
>>15772912
Given that the relics are 3000 years old and the place where they reside is currently underwater, I have to imagine some shit went down. That having been said the lore on the walls of the place seem to imply that it does predate Unova's own war, not to mention the language seems to predate the Unown. If I had to guess, the Regi's sealing also predates the Unown.
ee87a4 No.15774412
>>15700880
>Erika Has a floating pokeball
Was she originally suppose to be the Psychic Gym Boss?
d37ae3 No.15774423
>>15774412
She could just be tossing it. Don't overthink it.
bebdc4 No.15774601
If Gamefreak wants to, they can name the Pokémon continents based on real continents. All the regions up until Gen 4 we're based in Japan. Gen 5 was Manhattan. 6 was north France. And 7 was Hawaii. Colosseum and XD were the Arizona desert. Pokémon world is parallel to our own at least with geography. And knowing my luck Gen 8 will take place in Brazil. Hue hue hue.
023aa7 No.15774710
>>15742667
Misty, but I will say that OG May's design is really nice too.
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a73293 No.15774764
>>15699539
Asking like its even a question.
ccac66 No.15774766
>>15774764
Here's a real question: WPWYF?
d2aa5c No.15774772
a73293 No.15774783
>>15742667
Marley and Dawn.
967007 No.15774805
>>15745579
Looks like they put up Episode 126 and someone went "holy shit, her teen tits are way too big to be kosher", and that's when they gave her a breast reduction.
a73293 No.15774812
>>15774766
If my porn folder is anything to go off of, its got to be Glaceon or Meowstic.
ccac66 No.15774822
>>15774812
Okay, Glaceon I can get, especially anthro, but why autistic cat?
060a48 No.15774855
>>15774822
>Okay, Glaceon I can get, especially anthro, but why autistic cat?
probably because it's bipedal and very loosely resembles a cat
d2aa5c No.15774875
ae5238 No.15775011
>>15754496
Christ I hate rddit.
>He stated that they like to switch up the girls because it gives the boys some new eye candy every once in a while.
>It's not pedophilia if they're a minor too! (apparently)
No, no it's fucking not you stupid cocksucker. Do you know what the definition is? Did you not have an erection until you were 18? Rddit trying to convince anyone that they are and always were above sexuality is like someone trying to convince me that their shit doesn't stink.