BDSP Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl General Discussion

[swiftgallade46]

That would mean that three Sinnoh Pokemon (Electivire, Magmortar, and Gliscor) are locked behind a Home subscription, assuming that these games use the original DP Sinnoh Dex.

I think it’s highly unlikely the Porygon-Z shown in the trailer wasn’t part of the regional Dex.

 

[Silktree]

I think it’s highly unlikely the Porygon-Z shown in the trailer wasn’t part of the regional Dex.

Electivire got a big reveal prior to DP (in the anime and CoroCoro) and Dragonite was in a B2W2 trailer. Still, you'd think Masuda wouldn't want to be that conservative considering that no one was satisfied with the original Sinnoh Pokedex.

 

[BackSet]

Electrive? Really? Were they trying to force popularity on it?

I mean, at least Lucario and Zoroark look cool.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Electrive? Really? Were they trying to force popularity on it?

Not necessarily.

 

[Ghost Diplocaulus]

Electrive? Really? Were they trying to force popularity on it?

I mean, at least Lucario and Zoroark look cool.

Well that's a bit harsh considering there's plenty of people out there who genuinely find Electivire cool

Anyway, I'm not sure if they were "trying to force popularity" so much as Electivire was simply chosen as a representative of the new evolutions for old Pokemon, and imo it was a pretty good pick, considering it's the evolved form of a Gen 1 Pokemon and it had an Ability that was completely new back then and also completely unique to it.

 

[BackSet]

Well, if I’m being fair, it is cooler than Electabuzz.

 

[swiftgallade46]

Electivire got a big reveal prior to DP (in the anime and CoroCoro) and Dragonite was in a B2W2 trailer. Still, you'd think Masuda wouldn't want to be that conservative considering that no one was satisfied with the original Sinnoh Pokedex.

I don’t think they’d go out of their way to show PZ in the trailer while at the same time claiming that the game would be faithful to the originals if they weren’t suggesting that it was an exception. Having two examples in the past out of hundreds of Pokémon shown in trailers isn’t really much of an indicator to me.

 

[RileyXY1]

Electivire got a big reveal prior to DP (in the anime and CoroCoro) and Dragonite was in a B2W2 trailer. Still, you'd think Masuda wouldn't want to be that conservative considering that no one was satisfied with the original Sinnoh Pokedex.

Yeah, and I don't think that HMs are gonna return either.

 

[Norzan]

Speaking of Electivire, still waiting for Electric/Fighting Mega Electivire to be a thing.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Speaking of Electivire, still waiting for Electric/Fighting Mega Electivire to be a thing.

That typing should've been used with Zeraora.

 

[Borjitasstoi]

all i can say is i m satisfied with the result its something what i expect certainly but it can be worst i dont expect in this point the complete dex with all generations because for logic maybe we have the dex like original games maybe forms but who knows

but still i feel something goes wrong and it can be in a dissapointing thing and unpleasant for veteran players for new ones its another entry to play basically without any complain

 

[kingkong&djunglegirlsuwu]

ofmg im pretty sure its going to be so much fun!! (from bulgaria)

 

[NealIRC]

Speaking of Electivire, still waiting for Electric/Fighting Mega Electivire to be a thing.

While I do like the concept of new-type combinations, I don't believe in high-jacking them in a mega evolution.

Would rather there just be new Electric/Fighting types, or, new regional variants as a 2nd, than to have them in mega evolutions as new types.

However, there are certain advantages to mega-evolving into a different type, strategically. So I will list a counter-example. Suppose Electivire were fighting a Psychic type, then situations like that you don't want to mega evolve into Electric/Fighting if it will give an immediate disadvantage. But the idea of different abilities is already known.

 

[EternalPokéFanGirl]

If you don't expect much from the remakes this will give you hope .


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nifq487pX4

 

[Puddle]

If you don't expect much from the remakes this will give you hope .


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nifq487pX4

I wonder whether we actually will see the protagonist doing that shrinking animation, like in the original games?

 

[Maniacal Engineer]

I am hopeful that, this time, I will be able to accomplish my goal of rewriting reality.
I believe that is actually possible this time, since the Pokémon universe has acknowledged alternate timelines and realities in the decade+ since Platinum debuted.

 

[EternalPokéFanGirl]

I wonder whether we actually will see the protagonist doing that shrinking animation, like in the original games?

I'm sure yes, I don't see why not. I would doubt it if all the character models were small, but we saw that in battles (and probably in cut scenes as well) they have their normal size.

 

[Puddle]

Do we know when the next trailer and news announcement will be? It's been well over a month since the last one! The ORAS trailers mainly showcased the new Mega Evolutions, but assuming there isn't going to be anything like that in BDSP, I wonder what the trailers will focus on? And will they continue to release information for BDSP and Legends alongside, or will they focus on BDSP first? I'm looking forward to seeing what they do.

 

[lucarioknight56]

I don't think they'll be announcing anything until summer. I remember previous release cycles being sparse on info for months on end.

 

[prog rocker]

I sincerely don't know, considering the Gen VI and Gen VII cycles revealed too much but the Gen VIII revealed too little.