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Next League Night: Tonight 8pm Room 1: @BowserBasher is host @Glen-i @BowserBasher @viceview51 @martinist @RedShell @S.C.G

That's gonna be fun! In a sorta depressing way. "Depressing fun!" should be the blurb for his videos.

Gif is strangely appropriate after last week's Double Lightning shenanigans I received.

Honestly, I'd be amazed if we saw Diamond/Pearl remakes in the more traditional style in the near future. Gen 4 fans got shafted so hard by Let's Go. They were this close. EDIT: So I was looking at the official website for S/S and it only just dawned on me that Sobble is a chameleon. A Chameleon that is blue. This means three things. 1. Sobble is well on track to being best starter ever. 2. We might actually get a chameleon Pokémon that isn't rubbish in a fight. 3. Game Freak are defo spying on me.

Not the first time that's happened... That's one of the games in the Pokeathelon. A feature from HeartGold/SoulSilver. It even changed the trainer's outfit when you took part. Perhaps what we see in Sword/Shield is an evolution of this?

Off the top of my head, we've got stuff like Critical Captures, Chaining Pokémon, as well as numerous improvements to the breeding mechanics. The Gen 3 remakes had a device that let you choose what Pokémon in an area you encounter next (Provided you'd seen it once). There's also online trading and of course, being able to transfer your Pokémon between the games through cloud storage. Here's the thread, it's very cool and not even remotely nerdy. Ice beats Flying beats Fighting beats Ice. It's not quite as easy to grasp as Fire - Grass - Water. But it does work with no immunities in there. You could also substitute Ice for Rock and it'd still work. Shut up! I'm not a nerd! EDIT: Oh, and Gen 6 kinda already did Psychic - Fighting - Dark. The starters final evolutions got those three types added to them. Chesnaught was Grass/Fighting, Delphox was Fire/Psychic and Greninja was Water/Dark. DOUBLE EDIT: Oh yeah! Fairy beats Fighting beats Steel beats Fairy. OK, I'm gonna stop now...

Reptile supercedes everything in my book. And I'd prefer to keep some Pokémon a surprise if possible. Also I'm getting all three anyway.

Most of that is just superfluous. Visual spectacle that doesn't actually amount to anything meaningful. That's not what I look for in a Pokémon game. The battling and the collecting is what changes over time and that's the most important aspect to me. I'm sorry you didn't get your BOTW moment with Pokèmon, but Game Freak is still a small company. It's just unrealistic to expect that kind of scale for a game as ridiculously complex as this. Also, X/Y is definitely the worst mainline core series. Like, you couldn't have started any worse.

Ahhh... Spoken like someone who doesn't know jack about how Pokémon games have changed over. I mean, I made a whole massive thread dedicated to showing why this view isn't accurate. At this point, I think anything short of making it not a Turn-Based RPG won't satisfy some people. Anyway, I've watched the footage now, looks solid so far. Just the stuff I like to see. Plus, only having Pikachu show up as far as Gen 1 Pokémon go is a good sign. Cautiously optimistic so far.

I've always maintained that any massive changes will emerge in Generation 9. Haven't seen any footage yet, but most people here are disappointed, so that's a good sign! Looks nice so far. Like the blatantly British region. And the water type being a reptile of sorts means I'll probably choose that one, and then use @Ugh first aid to get all three anyway. Don't you do this to me, man! OR/AS's blatant middle finger was too heartbreaking! Can't go through that again!

Man, that was a... Well, it was a something, that's for sure. I'm trying to get my head around how there wasn't anyone who spoke out and said, "Wait hang on, is this really a good idea?" They're either dangerously ignorant or dangerously right wing.

Is that sillier than a preload for a free demo? Because that happened recently. (Deltarune Chapter 1)

You're way too lenient. Because all I want is portable RE4... With gyro controls.

You're thinking of Manbo's Mambo. The song you learn from the giant fish who shouts "OH!" Mamu's song is called the "Frog's Song of Soul"

Glad to see most of you got your dreadful ideas off of your chest while I was away. You're all awful people and you should be ashamed. LA Noire 2 feat. Detective Pikachu? Except you. Because I'd play that. Dodgy realistic looking Pokémon be damned! I won't be able to watch it. I suppose that's for the best though, it's the first direct where I'm too scared at what could go wrong.

I'm constantly wondering if they will still call him "Mamu" in the remake. Because seriously, what was up with that? EDIT: Wait, hang on, I just remembered Mamu is Wart's Japanese name and for some reason, his name didn't get the translation in English. The French version of Link's Awakening actually changed it to Wart, so someone in the French translation team remembered him.

Obligatory "Sick of Kanto Fist Bump"

In some older games, I do feel like fast travel has spoiled me. But I can't say I felt that in my Metroid Prime playthrough. I wasn't going for 100% items mind, but I did get any items I could remember that I could get. Like you said, the world is very well crafted in that a fully powered Samus can utilise lots of shortcuts to get around. So that's probably why. It's not totally perfect though. I still get a bit irritated when Chozo Ghosts lock the doors even though I've beaten them 10 times in that room already! Just leave me alone! I remember Metroid Prime 3 having a cool late game feature that would show you where expansions were as well as an option to mark rooms on your map so you could remember to go there later. It also handled the "artifacts" better in that you didn't need all of them to finish the game, but getting them all would get you more expansions and even a secret (and really ominous) message that hinted at the final boss and got you a gold token to spend on concept art. That whole wrecked ship section was really cool.

Stuff like this is always going to be a difficult matter. There's no perfect solution that will make everyone happy. But there has to be some sort of line, you can't just leave some games as is and expect it to be OK everywhere. No censorship what-so-ever is definitely not the solution though. Especially when a Japanese game gets released overseas. But I do agree that there's also an opposite extreme where too much censorship can negatively impact a game. I have no idea what the perfect balance could be. But if having some censorship means a company feels they can release a game over here, then I can live with it. I mean, I'd rather have a world where I played the censored Tokyo Mirage Sessions (Ignoring the fact that I actually prefer a lot of the Western changes) than one where it never left Japan. But again, it's a difficult subject. But an interesting one, none-the-less. But I do agree with @Ike's sentiment that people whining about all forms of censorship is just stupid. Because it is. Especially that patch he mentioned.

Gonna split your quote into many sections so I don't overlook something. I can't really speak for you, but for me, the thing that's been missing for me since Gen 5 has been the focus on what was new. Ever since Black/White sold the least amount of copies in Pokémon history (Not counting third versions, remakes, etc.), The Pokémon Company has been desperately trying to claw back the gamer who stopped playing Pokémon after 2000 or so. Even though most of them don't care anymore. There's this image I once saw that I can't find for the life of me now. It shows the distribution of Pokémon based on their region. It's pretty balanced throughout (Except Gen 5, which had far more newer Pokémon catchable than the older ones). However, both Gen 6 and Gen 7 has more Gen 1 Pokémon than any others, even the newest Pokémon at the time. Sun and Moon was particularly bad as it had only around 20 Gen 1 Pokémon that can't be caught there. It certainly didn't help that most of the actual new Pokémon were very difficult to catch. This has the effect of dampening the sense of discovery that a new region brings. Which is my biggest issue with Pokémon these days. I still have hopes of another Gen 5 scenario where no old Pokémon show up until you finish the main story and the spotlight is once again focused on what's new. For all the things LGPE gets wrong (and it gets a hell of a lot wrong) It does have some good ideas that I wouldn't mind seeing make the jump to the core series. I like your suggestion of GO style capturing being a toggable option, it's a best of both worlds solution that shouldn't be too hard to implement. I'm not too sure I can agree with you on wild Pokémon appearing in the overworld though. Call me old-fashioned, but random encounters still manage to have an element of surprise for me. When that transition begins, who knows what could show up? And a shiny Pokémon appearing on the overworld doesn't quite have the same shock of finding one appear randomly when that silhouette reveals itself. I get that people get annoyed by random encounters, but I've always liked them. So it's probably more a "me" preference. Pokémon following you on the overworld is always a good thing though. @Dcubed and I constantly joke about how a Pokémon game tends to look like a previous Generation Golden Sun game (Diamond/Pearl looks like the GBA games while X/Y looks more like Dark Dawn on the DS) Of course, there's no Golden Sun game on the 3DS, so maybe Dragon Quest 8 would be what they aim for. I'd be fine with that. DQ8 is a cool game. And a reasonable bar to aim for Pokémon these days. Certainly more reasonable than those clamouring for BotW, but with Pokémon. That's just loony! I can't really say how much from DQXI I'd like to see Pokémon take inspiration from because I haven't played it yet. (Waiting for the Switch version and I'm staying mostly blind until then) So this is gonna be more of a general thing as to how "open-world" I'd like the series to get. It's no secret here that I really dislike games that put the "open world" concept as the focus of a game. Because having such a massive open world that the player can go anywhere they want from the get-go will always force a compromise somewhere else. And yes, BotW is a prime example of what I don't want in Pokémon. There's such a thing as too big and if I get bored exploring that world, that's a big negative. That said, I do like some exploration in games. Black/White hit a nice balance for the time in that the progression was quite linear, but people who explored each route would find plenty of caves and forests that were completely optional. But I feel like that layout won't do these days. For me, the perfect balance between open-world and focused progression would be something like Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and 2. The areas in those games are pretty big (but not too big) and have plenty of things to discover, but you couldn't actually progress to a later area until you finished with the plot related stuff in the place you were currently in. Gym badges would be a great excuse to deny the player access to later areas because those places could be deemed "too dangerous" for rookie trainers. Makes more sense than a Tauros blocking your way just because it's grumpy. But realistically, that probably won't happen in the Switch's lifetime unless Game Freak get some help from another company (Monolith Soft helping with the world building is a great idea and I want it to happen yesterday), so I'd settle for something along the lines of DQ8. I'm gonna have to agree with @Dcubed on the Mega Evolutions though. The concept is great. But I found the execution flawed because they gave half of them to Pokémon that were already pretty powerful. (Which is definitely what caused the perceived power creep, the likes of Mewtwo, Garchomp and Rayquaza didn't need them) Mega Evolution made Beedrill and Pidgeot actually viable in a fight, and I want more of that. Weaker Pokémon getting new life breathed into them. But yeah, there's my counter long post.

Splatoon says Hi! And that was on a failing console to boot. No-one really wins from this, you know. Especially if EA is your boss. If this doesn't pick up soon, Bioware could be in serious risk here.

But how will I express my enjoyment of omitted words in other people's posts!?

Am I not allowed to have a chuckle at a joke a weather app made?

That's my morning made! Got a good laugh from that.

I've never been so apprehensive about a new generation reveal... I'm finding it hard to get excited because I'm terrified they'll double down on the direction of Let's Go.