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Official Pre-Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield Speculation & Leaks thread

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Stygian said:
I feel like the lower amount of pokemon isn't even really a big issue, the way they're distributed among older pokemon in the region is.

I've been replaying platinum lately and I've noticed that while if you exlude the evolutions of previous gen mons, sinnoh's dex isn't really big at all. Despite this, you're mostly encountering only sinnoh mons throughout t he game (or least early on) which while there isn't this massive amount of new pokemon, there's certainly the illusion of it.

Meanwhile in alola a lot of the new pokemon are legitimately elusive and you tend to encounter old gen pokemon quite frequently. It feels mostly old with a sprinkle of new rather than a completely new experience. I hope this is something taken into consideration in gen 8
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I suspect this was partly due to Black and White... with Gen 4, FireRed/LeafGreen and HeartGold/SoulSilver meant that Gens 1-3 were all very recent and nothing was unobtainable. But then Gen 5 basically chucked all of the old pokemon out and then proceeded to not have a remake, so Gen 6 and 7 had to compensate a bit because suddenly everything but Gen 3 was several years old again. It seems to me that they do a decent job of not requiring anyone to get a really old game to get a pokemon, so incorporating a lot of old pokemon into a region is probably a necessary thing, especially with the large gap that was Gen 5.

Maybe they could do it better, though? Instead of overloading them throughout the region, they could sprinkle a few here and there and just add a huge safari zone each game to cover what's missing.
 
Oriden said:
I suspect this was partly due to Black and White... with Gen 4, FireRed/LeafGreen and HeartGold/SoulSilver meant that Gens 1-3 were all very recent and nothing was unobtainable. But then Gen 5 basically chucked all of the old pokemon out and then proceeded to not have a remake, so Gen 6 and 7 had to compensate a bit because suddenly everything but Gen 3 was several years old again. It seems to me that they do a decent job of not requiring anyone to get a really old game to get a pokemon, so incorporating a lot of old pokemon into a region is probably a necessary thing, especially with the large gap that was Gen 5.

Maybe they could do it better, though? Instead of overloading them throughout the region, they could sprinkle a few here and there and just add a huge safari zone each game to cover what's missing.
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That's because the Japanese Regions are concealed to itself. So there is an obvious reason as to why Unova has a good deal of Pokemon if that as well as the next couple of regions are based outside of Japan.
 
Champion Cynthia said:
That's because the Japanese Regions are concealed to itself. So there is an obvious reason as to why Unova has a good deal of Pokemon if that as well as the next couple of regions are based outside of Japan.
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I think you missed my point... Gen 5 did not have most of the past gen pokemon, so when Gen 6 rolled out, a lot of pokemon were only obtainable in games that were 4+ years old. Thus they would have had to distribute a lot of the older gen pokemon among Gen 6 and 7 to keep everything recent.

I don't really care why Unova didn't have pokemon from the first four generations, it's just a fact that it did leave a considerable gap for obtaining those pokemon in later gens.
 
Stygian said:
I feel like the lower amount of pokemon isn't even really a big issue, the way they're distributed among older pokemon in the region is.

I've been replaying platinum lately and I've noticed that if you exlude the evolutions of previous gen mons, sinnoh's dex isn't really big at all. Despite this, you're mostly encountering only sinnoh mons throughout t he game (or least early on) which while there isn't this massive amount of new pokemon, there's certainly the illusion of it.

Meanwhile in alola a lot of the new pokemon are legitimately elusive and you tend to encounter old gen pokemon quite frequently. It feels mostly old with a sprinkle of new rather than a completely new experience. I hope this is something taken into consideration in gen 8
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I would have to agree on that. I remember in the beginning of Sun and Moon Kukui was all like "Alola is chalk-full of rare Pokemon" meanwhile I mostly was bumping into older Pokemon.

I personally feel though that this issue needs to be resolved with having a little more new Pokemon sprinkled in. We don't have to go over a hundred, that's not what I'm saying, but helping add some more creatures in the dex would be helpful. Or at least expanding upon and adding more varients in the game so the Pokemon feel new, without taking up a new dex number.

I think another way that could help it is filling the region with not only the new Gen 8 pokemon, but Pokemon that are actually pretty rare. That would be really cool. For example, you could only get Glameow in Pokemon Pearl, and in post Mega Latios/Latias in ORAS (might even be postgame). That is a good example of a Pokemon that has barely been seen since it's debut, and would be a good Pokemon to add in Gen 8's dex, because even though it wouldn't be new, it's also a Pokemon that isn't very common to begin with. A bad example of a Pokemon to add to the dex would be Zubat. Zubat has been in every main series Pokemon game as an encounter (except for BW, but you could encounter Golbat and breed it for Zubat) since the first games, and we do not need it in the dex of this game.
 
techitisJ said:
I would have to agree on that. I remember in the beginning of Sun and Moon Kukui was all like "Alola is chalk-full of rare Pokemon" meanwhile I mostly was bumping into older Pokemon.

I personally feel though that this issue needs to be resolved with having a little more new Pokemon sprinkled in. We don't have to go over a hundred, that's not what I'm saying, but helping add some more creatures in the dex would be helpful. Or at least expanding upon and adding more varients in the game so the Pokemon feel new, without taking up a new dex number.

I think another way that could help it is filling the region with not only the new Gen 8 pokemon, but Pokemon that are actually pretty rare. That would be really cool. For example, you could only get Glameow in Pokemon Pearl, and in post Mega Latios/Latias in ORAS (might even be postgame). That is a good example of a Pokemon that has barely been seen since it's debut, and would be a good Pokemon to add in Gen 8's dex, because even though it wouldn't be new, it's also a Pokemon that isn't very common to begin with. A bad example of a Pokemon to add to the dex would be Zubat. Zubat has been in every main series Pokemon game as an encounter (except for BW, but you could encounter Golbat and breed it for Zubat) since the first games, and we do not need it in the dex of this game.
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Psh naaah, we need a region full of just Zubat. Nothing else. Only Zubat. =I

Also Magikarp aka water Zubat.
 
Hi guys, I asked Vegetable Parep on Twitter if he/she known Gen 8's real titles are and he/she says "don't know",but it gave me hints that she/he knew the next titles for are.
 
LunarCaliber said:
Well, I did made a poll for her/him to what's the right ones are the real titles.
Here's I putted down,but this is he/she gave me:

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/kitsumepixie/status/1083393085382418432

Please don't bring up Pokémon's going to be Digimon Frontier.
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See... you pretty much asked them "Which of these most likely fake titles are the real titles?"

1) they likely don't know what the titles are because their source can only really confirm what the titles aren't without getting in trouble,
2) if I knew what the real titles were and you asked me which fake titles were the real titles, I would 100% shrug at you too.
 
I think Vegetable Parep known the titles,but I believe he/she is hinting the true titles with the Green Ranger.

Do you known how Green Ranger control/summons his Godzilla zoid in the original Mighty Morphing Power Rangers show? Guess.
 
LunarCaliber said:
I think Vegetable Parep known the titles,but I believe he/she is hinting the true titles with the Green Ranger.

Do you known how Green Ranger control/summons his Godzilla zoid in the original Mighty Morphing Power Rangers show? Guess.
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...how the heck do you interpret a shrug gif as being a hint.
 
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