JFrombaugh
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Okay, how did I miss that picture?
Looks like Chairman Rose's brother to me.
Looks like Chairman Rose's brother to me.
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A well-written reply to my original post obviously deserves an answer/explanation.Then frankly, their job is done as far as advertisement goes. They already showed enough to get your money, and that's going to be the case for a lot of other people as well. I preordered it too. Which gets at another potential factor in their approach to marketing here, which is that they can see numbers that we're not privy to. They can see how many people have already preordered and can make forecasts about the DLC's performance, and can determine based on that how much more they feel like they need to show. Not that I think there's going to be a whole lot more in TIOA than what we've already seen, and I'd even agree with you that League Card content is not even remotely trailer material, but still. They may feel confident enough in the consumer interest thus far that they don't feel they have to show off everything. Certainly that seems to have been the case for the base games and worked out well.
Such as? Let's get some ideas flowing.
Although I would say that from my view, the DLC expanding on things like the Wild Area and Max Raids is them making more out of ideas that are already pretty new. For instance, one of the things I did like about USUM was how they reworked so many of the Totem battles. In the original games, they were already pretty good as a new way for the series to experiment with boss battles. By issuing another pair of games set in Alola, they were able to build on the concept of Totem battles to try out even more robust, competitive orientations than before. Totem Wishiwashi was a brute, but Totem Araquanid was much more strategically built. Similarly, Ultra Beasts were a fresh new concept that, yeah, would've got okay mileage if all we'd ever seen was what we got in SM, but USUM allowed them to introduce a couple more and let us actually see the sorts of worlds that produced them.
In much the same way, the Wild Area is a cool new idea for the series, but the version of it in the SS base game isn't terribly diverse. It's basically a large field with a couple of lakes and one desert spot. Decent enough for a first go, but it's something I expect the DLC to play around with a little more. TIOA map suggests a lot of island-hopping and aquatic areas. Similarly, Max Raids are a major fixture of the base games and a very new territory for the series, but starting one is as simple as walking up to a beam and clicking "start." The Crown Tundra seems set to deepen the emphasis on cooperation that is already encouraged by Max Raids by making players go through a dungeon together first. And yeah, maybe the execution of these mechanics will leave something to be desired, but I think it indicates that they're working more from the perspective of already having taken their risks and done their new things, and now wanting to build on those since they've been pretty well-received.
So, having taken all of the examples I mentioned above into account, I will now look at your last point:(That all being said, I noticed will doing research for another post that the original Direct announcement mentioned there being "new battles for you to challenge once you complete your entire game including TIOA and TCT," while showing that picture of the uniforms covered in sponsorship logos. Along with Restricted Sparring, we still don't know what that's about. And for what it's worth, even after listing "New areas, Kubfu and Urshifu, Calyrex, G-Max forms for the Galar Starters, new regional forms, Pokémon that didn't appear in SS, new Pokédexes, new clothing items, new Pokémon in Max Raids, new items, new tutor moves, Restricted Sparring, and a new co-op play mode," the official site still says "We’re planning to add even more new and appealing features to the expansions than the content listed above." Which yeah could just be loose PR speak, but that's a pretty exhaustive list of what we already do know about, so what else could there be that they're working on?)
I’m thinking it might be the player character’s dad.On a somewhat unrelated note, any ideas who the "certain someone" who leads the Crown Tundra expedition might be? From that wording, it sounds like it could be someone we already know from a past game.
Some people have speculated that it could be Cynthia, because she's always had that interest in mythology & that researcher job on the side.
But watch them make the worst possible choice...like pulling Professor Kukui out of nowhere.
Considering the lesser workload and fact that most of it has already been done I think that a delay is unlikely. There's also no physical copies to ship, which helps.Is anyone else beginning to think that the Expansion Pass has been delayed due to Covid-19? While you could argue that GameFreak is trying to keep the DLC under wraps for the same reasons as before, my gut instinct is telling me that if the plan was still for it to launch “sometime in June” they probably would’ve announced the exact release date by now.
That's a placeholder date.Actually, if you look on the eShop, it says June 30th.
oh.That's a placeholder date.
oh.
It could technically be a placeholder date that stays? idk i'm kinda hoping not so i can get it earlier.
Is anyone else beginning to think that the Expansion Pass has been delayed due to Covid-19? While you could argue that GameFreak is trying to keep the DLC under wraps for the same reasons as before, my gut instinct is telling me that if the plan was still for it to launch “sometime in June” they probably would’ve announced the exact release date by now.
While Isle of Armor is likely to release as plan Though I can expect that Crowned Tundra could be delayed into around December or into very early 2021 due to the pandemic.Considering the lesser workload and fact that most of it has already been done I think that a delay is unlikely. There's also no physical copies to ship, which helps.
And, there's also less things to work on than a full priced game and they don't even need to ship physical copies to stores.I doubt the Crown Tundra would be delayed. Game Freak never announces something before they leave the planning stages unless it's just a tease like what they did with Sun and Moon.