Seasons? Well if they bring those back, they should make it more accurate to the calender instead of having it change every month and have 3 cycles a year. Actually, no, I don't want them back because you'd have to wait for a specific month to catch a Pokémon. And you know what? The Winter kind of stuff can stay at the Snowpoint area. Having snow everywhere for a third of the year can make Snowpoint's surrounding area feel pointless. Ice-types and Pokémon that should be found in Winter should be found in that area. Would you want it to snow on Stark Mountain where the Fire types are? How about walking through deep snow in Twinleaf Town when you start the game in December because you just got the game for Christmas? That'll be a terrible first impression. It's better for the seasons gimmick to stick to Unova. If you're worried about Deerling and Sawsbuck's forms, well it could depend on the location caught, like Route 217 could have a Winter Deerling. Spring form could be somewhere like Route 204 which is next to Floroma Town. Summer form could be at Route 229. Autumn could be at, I don't know, Route 211? Well, if you can still transfer Pokémon from Alola, then you can get your Deerling from Unova to Kalos, to Alola and then to Sinnoh.
That only affected one Pokemon line. And someone could easily just change the system clock if they wanted it that bad. It's only a 24 hour penalty.
Why? Snowpoint is still completely unique 75% of the time (seasons take up a fourth of the year, not a third), and for wintertime, there could easily be something added to it to make it stand out.
There are locations in Unova where the season changes aren't as drastic. It's just like real life-just because it's winter doesn't mean snow appears everywhere.
Deep snow hasn't been a thing for a few games now. And why do you assume that they'll include deep snow over the snow that could be walked on, like in Snowpoint? They certainly didn't do that in the Unova starting towns.
No, there were areas where Pokémon like Tranquill and Watchog disappear in Winter to be replaced with Ice Pokémon like Cubchoo. Oh and changing the clock? I am not changing the clock to cheat. And besides, the remakes could use the atomic clock or something when you try that.
Okay, that "third of the year thing" was a miscalculation on my part. I was thinking more of the three months a year thing without dividing twelve. And what could be added to make Snowpoint stand out? Extra deep snow? Something that could have still be placed in Snowpoint even without the season tracking?
Yeah, that's true. But that also shows another reason seasons aren't needed.
Well, they could have an idiot in charge of the seasonal changes for each town. But you're right, I was getting paranoid about the deep snow in the starting town. Would they do that? Not if Nintendo thinks of first impressions. And even if it's just shallow snow with footprints, some veteran players starting in Christmas could get confused about why Snowpoint's gimmick is happening in the southern part of Sinnoh. Then again, Twinleaf could have no snow like in our third point.
Well, most criticisms are about change. The thing about Gen VI being too easy was the way they changed how the Exp. Share works. People hated how Ruby and Sapphire had a lot of old Pokémon missing, and people hated Gen V for being stuck with completely new Pokémon. And Gen V is probably the most hated Gen, so implementing a time-based gimmick from that in the Gen IV remakes can be mocked. Even if Platinum had snow patches in Twinleaf Town, people could still get mad about the seasons. Oh and the Honey Tree Pokémon can get even more annoying if the seasonal encounters also affects the trees and you could only get Combee in Spring. Bad enough that you'd have to buy Honey to slather on a tree and wait six hours in real time for an encounter that may end up being not the Pokémon you wanted, but to add a time limit to the month? Oh that is not a problem because there's already a 24-hour time limit. But Pokémon that are only available on certain months are annoying. Especially when the in-game season doesn't match the real world season. If a game were to reuse the season gimmick, it should be the Unova remakes.
Only Route 7 and Dragonspiral Tower, not the whole region. You could just go somewhere else and catch those same Pokemon.
Alright, that's your choice. Doesn't mean it's not an option all the same.
Why would they? Devices have all switched to clocks that can be set because sometimes people cross timezones.
Yes, whatever addition to Snowpoint could be made with or without the seasons, but my point in suggesting it was that Snowpoint can be made to feel unique even if other locations get snow.
Nobody's saying that they're necessary, just that they could be a nice addition.
I think any veterans players are probably smart enough to recognize seasons if the game says "Winter" like it did in Gen 5, but like you said, there's no reason it has to start off that way.
Honestly, I'm glad those are rarely a thing anymore. I just feel awkward cause in all likelihood I won't be buying anything at whatever store the promotion is. Not to mention that in older generations it meant there was a one day event in a single location, which was a two hour drive/train journey away from where I lived. For a lot of people that's not exactly accessible.
And Route 6, Route 8 and Route 20, Iccirus City, Twist Mountain, Moor of Iccirus, Undella Bay and Castelia Sewers. Those locations have Pokémon changing between seasons. Shelmet in Black and White 1 could only be found in puddles, which freeze in Winter.
And they fixed that in BW2-clearly making a Pokemon totally season-locked isn't their goal.
You don't solve power creep by making overpowered Pokemon even more so. Besides, they're banned from standard play.
The snow and the marshlands are areas I always both love and dread. On my last playthrough of Platinum, the snow routes went a lot faster than I remembered, despite the slow pace. But it would be nice if you got a pair of snowboots or something after you arrive in Snowpoint for the first time, cause braving the weather conditions more than once is not really fun. The first time feels like an adventure, the times after not so much. Additionally, they might make it so that the weather occasionally clears up, making the route easier to traverse.
