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This is the quickest new generation pokemon thread to die easily. Still, if anyone needs any new pokemon bred, HMU

Same, though I vastly underrated Centiskorch because damn that thing wrecked house. My endgame Sword team was: - Toxtricity (Amped Form) - Corviknight - Centiskorch - Hatterene - Frosmoth - Flapple My team in Shield now is - Toxtricity (Low Key Form) - Coalossal - Cursola - Mogrem - Eldegoss - Baraskewda I'll probs switch out Eldegoss for Dragapult later though lol

Yeah, it has different evolutionary forms based on its nature. Both are pretty powerful

If its the purple baby thing, it evolves and gets strong af

My only complaint with the graphics is it's below Breath of the Wild in fidelity. BotW set the bar pretty high though but it is a 3 year old game. I agree though it's pretty pretty. The new way they do lighting and textures is great. That's the main thing that rounds out this game graphicswise. If you take Ultra Sun/Moon in Citra, pump the resolution to 4k or even 1080, throw on hardware shading and max out the antialiasing it looks pretty great but it's the new lighting and HD textures that really clean it up and make it glorious. Still disappointing that they halfassed the line up by reusing old models and making nicer textures for them but only because I wish they did it for all of them because dayum gurrrl

Because why not gut everything

The editor for the forums is terrible. You fixing my post is after I had to edit it 3 times in a row. If it was still broken, thats not on me since all I was using were spoiler tags, bolding, underlining and coloring. One of the times I edited it, it straight up didn't save my post so I had to rewrite the final verdict 6.5 is above average which is a fair summation. I've considered things in the long term and while i'm enjoying it now. Frankly the cons vastly outweigh the pros. You don't have to be a hardcore to notice the issues, just familiar in general And while things may not bother you now, when you're done after 30-40 hours, you'll realize that yes, that's it. That's all there is. I was going to give it a 7 but it just didn't feel right to put it on par with games that don't have such a long list of cons. It might be fine for someone who hasn't played pokemon, that doesn't have anything in pokebank waiting months for the release of pokemon home, but new players are a small percentage of pokemon's demographic as the games are made to continue over through generations. Comparing it to the last release (which at 1080p via Citra looks almost as good) taking into account the reused models, the gutted mechanics and staples.. 6.5 is a very fair rating IMHO If there was a rating between 6.5 and 7, i'd have given it that lol Story and region are bonuses in the grand scheme of a pokemon title. You don't want people to be done with it after a week or two. Longevity is important and when you've caught all the new ones and finished the story the game is suddenly very empty and ultimately less satisfying than normal. The lack of legendaries, the fact you are guaranteed to catch them, the single post-game mission to catch the pokemon on the cover of your version.. It's truly just an above average experience. No amount of pretty yet sub-par graphics and re-used models are going to make up for that I'm enjoying it but less so than previous titles. Ultra Moon was better, Omega Ruby was more satisfying, Y was a bigger leap forward. This is very much an "Eh, it's okay" as opposed to a "Holy shit I need this!" I frankly expected better from the first ever console release. It feels like.. almost unfinished. Like Sun/Moon did compared to Ultra Sun/Moon. Like content is meant to be there but is missing. Fingers crossed more content gets patched in soon ❤️

Okay, so I finished Sword and moved on to Shield Pros and Cons Verdict 6.5/10

Welp.. https://www.gamebyte.com/pokemon-sword-and-shield-have-catch-restrictions-people-are-mad/

I'm sad that you're probably totally right with that. Still, you know damn right that you want that habitat feature from B2/W2 back!

They were arguably sequels within the same generation similar to Black 2/White 2. Its been a long while since we've had a third game. Frankly I doubt we will especially since this is the first console release. It's been pretty solidly proven that the models are the same just with higher resolution textures. The animations are exactly the same bar pokemon's heads/eyes following the trainer. There was a big hissy fit about it on twitter. One side being all "Look at this shit, it's exactly the same right down to the 3D model framework. Lazy." and the other side being all "How dare you!" In fact, I might as well have a rant about it. --- Personally I agree that it's both the same and lazy. This is the first console release ffs. What they couldn't get out at launch they could simply patch in later to coincide with the release of Pokemon Home on Switch (Basically Pokebank for Switch for those that don't know) But no.. No national dex (A big fuck you to tournament/pro players) and really just half-assed excuses. I mean i'm sure they're working hard on it. It not being ready at launch isn't what is lazy. To be honest, I think it would be good to keep the focus on the new region and pokemon for awhile, but their lack of valid reasoning for patching it in later is what I consider lazy. They no longer have "handheld hardware limitations" as an excuse. Pretty sure mega evolutions got the axe too. Frankly, I don't like generational gimmicks at all. I think it's counter-productive to add a gameplay improvement and then remove it and add something else next generation. That doesn't keep things fresh so much as it prevents game mechanic refinement and progression. Like Dynamax forms are all well and good but what about next-gen? Are they gonna be gone too? Probably. I'd be fine with Dynamax forms and mega-evolutions being a held item alternate form (well, non-giant versions of Dynamax) or something but just cutting stuff is dumb when the whole point is MORE! To "catch em all" I really do consider these sorts of choices to be regressive at best. I doubt everyone will agree with me on this but it bothers me Why don't I have my stupid pokephone working as an interactive VS Tracker with an inbuilt poketch/pokenav with pokeapps on it which has super training/refresh/habitat/pelago features built-in? Instead they just cut shit out or make it different which is fine but then cut it later too after improving it. Why make the effort to refine a tried and true formula to just needlessly trim out features and mechanics? I dunno, its just dumb. That's my biggest gripe with Game Freak as developers. That said, I pick up Sword in 2 days so i'll try and ignore my grievances for awhile and focus on the positives

Ah yes, can't wait for that Pokemon Crossbow release

From what i've seen, I don't like any of the starters. Grooky is probably the best final evo. They others.. wtf And that poor fox thing is going straight into the hentai blender

So, I finally bought a Switch. I had one but it became my partners so now I have my own and my pre-order set for Sword.

It's literally the official english slogan. They tried to retire it and it persisted so it was officially brought back along with the website in 2013 - https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gotta_catch_'em_all! For Nintendo to act shocked that people expect that now that they have less limitations across the board.. well, this sums it up perfectly

Exactly and frankly, that is fine but they need to stop acting like what they're doing is ground-breaking. It's another eD pokemon game. The only thing ground-breaking is their audacity to omit any Pokemon in a game about "catching them all" lol Any Pokemon left out is potentially someone's favourite. Just increase the res on the existing models and it looks fine and boom, there is the national dex. You can increase Citra's resolution up to 4k and the models smooth out perfectly. There's literally no good excuse not to add things in later. They just fucked around on Let's Go for too long which frankly shouldn't be too much of a stress fest considering its the 3rd remake of the same generation game. Guess we'll see how it is but they better do better than this:

Yeah I'm loving the designs. I still think it's dumb they're limiting the number of pokemon. Mainly because they're choosing to do so now, for the first main console release where they are vastly less limited in terms of space and graphics. They could literally patch the rest in later or make them free optional dlc. The models are just the same as USUM but with alterations and at a much higher resolution. Frankly it seems more like they're just omitting them to meet the launch deadline. They should just patch the national dex in later like they did for X and Y ?

It's so overdue too. I'm so bored with Pokemon now I've resorted to IV/EV training various pokemon to max level in between shiny farming. I even farmed for a shiny Smeargle so I could teach it false swipe, recover, recycle and aerial Ace and trained to max as my shiny farmer. I need a new game badly lol

I prefer strong doggo to knife doggo but I'll probs grab the double pack TBH. And start with Sobble