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By the post-game only a fraction of players would even care about added Pokemon/features.
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Pokemon Co. says "trust us" with Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, explains why they picked Pokemon Yellow for inspiration
His response to the game's divisive nature, I presume.
Maybe this is something lost in translation, but this seems like a really silly point to me. Change is a concept that can be applied in all sorts of ways to a game. Adding new Pokemon is a change, and so is removing old Pokemon. You can't expect people to have the same reaction to both-even though both are examples of change, they change the game in wildly different ways.However, we have been continuously changing the formula of the games since our inception, and in the end the players have accepted those changes.
If we wanted the basics, why not just buy the VC RGBY games? They're cheaper and have no wait.We will not go wrong with the basics, so please, trust us.
Maybe this is just me being petty, but I find it kind of frustrating that he's acting like following Pokemon only started with GO, when the concept was originally in HGSS. It feels like he's overlooking positives of previous main series games just to justify changes.In Pokemon GO, you can take with you an associated Pokémon and walk with it, but if we return to its origin, we get to Yellow Pokémon. In Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! We wanted to expand this feature even more
"So, of course, we wanted to remove Eevee's ability to evolve in LGPE. Eevee's popularity was beginning to rival Pikachu's, and we needed to take that sucker down a peg."while Eevee has become very popular because it can evolve in many different ways.
There are also Pokemon from later games that appear in Go that aren't being featured. Heck, Mew appears in Go, but you can't even transfer it over to LGPE even if you've caught it.And as I mentioned before, we want this to be the game that people go to play after Pokémon GO, since Pokémon Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Yellow appear in Pokémon GO, so it seemed like a good decision.
Just so you know, regular trading is still in (and works online). They've removed the fancier forms of trading: GTS and Wonder Trades.by taking out trading
He's actually just acknowledging Yellow as the game where the feature originated. HGSS greatly expanded it well before Go did, but I can see why they haven't mentioned that. If anything, it's weird that the Pokewalker hasn't been referenced yet, but that probably has to do with the new variant not offering any unique gameplay.Maybe this is just me being petty, but I find it kind of frustrating that he's acting like following Pokemon only started with GO, when the concept was originally in HGSS. It feels like he's overlooking positives of previous main series games just to justify changes.
By the post-game only a fraction of players would even care about added Pokemon/features.
And there isn’t much point at adding cross-Gen evolutions in the post game unless you can do something with the Pokemon you raised other than rematches.
They’re going out of their way to block gen 2/3 Pokemon from being transferred from Go to LGPE. It’s pretty obvious there isn’t going to be any gen 2-7 Pokemon in these games, main story or not.As such, I could see them pulling the same stunt with these games.
Yeah, they added the Pokémon to HGSS’ dex that evolve by knowing a move. However, they didn’t add any areas for evolution, and therefor didn’t add those evolutions to the dex. Same with newer stone evolutions. They simply just restricted access to the stones. Still salty I had to wait that long to evolve Togetic.Weren’t Mamoswine and Lickylicky obtainable in HGSS though? Magnezone was missing due to the lack of a magnetic field, so they did allow cross-Gen evolutions whenever possible.
Yeah, they added the Pokémon to HGSS’ dex that evolve by knowing a move. However, they didn’t add any areas for evolution, and therefor didn’t add those evolutions to the dex. Same with newer stone evolutions. They simply just restricted access to the stones. Still salty I had to wait that long to evolve Togetic.
Pokemon Co. says "trust us" with Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, explains why they picked Pokemon Yellow for inspiration
His response to the game's divisive nature, I presume.
Don't they remove content like all the time. And I swear simplification isn't a sin. People like little teenagers that get angered when people tell them stuff they know.Hard to really trust them when the last 5 years have been defined by them simplifying the game for casuals, removing content, and generally just providing bare minimum experiences that end up disappointing when we finally see the full package. Their actions don't really give a reason to trust them.
And people get frustrated then, too. (How often have we seen people asking for the return of walking Pokemon since the feature disappeared?)Don't they remove content like all the time.
Nobody's claiming it's a moral issue, but that doesn't mean people aren't allowed to be frustrated when a game that costs more contains less content.And I swear simplification isn't a sin.
It's a yellow remake, a game set in kanto where other gen pokemon didn't exist and your starter couldn't evolve. This was practically expected when rumors first showed up. Also Gen 4 brought back following pokemon, then planned to comeback during gen 6, and now it's coming back for real in this game, and potentially in gen 8. Heck remember when they said they wanted to take out customization because it was supposed to be gen 6 only till we changed they're mind? They do listen.And people get frustrated then, too. (How often have we seen people asking for the return of walking Pokemon since the feature disappeared?)
Nobody's claiming it's a moral issue, but that doesn't mean people aren't allowed to be frustrated when a game that costs more contains less content.
And the people that would be pleased by this simplification could have enjoyed gameplay like this without removing the choice for others. If the starter Eevee was allowed to evolve, players that didn't want to evolve their Eevee could still press B. If Pokemon from other regions were allowed to be used in the game, players that just wanted to use Kanto mons could just refuse to catch other Pokemon. But instead, they've removed the ability to make that choice without including anything to make up for it.