Hot take: No. There's gonna be >1000 Pokemon with the new games, it was inevitable that they were gonna have to draw the line somewhere.
You can't cram every single fucking Pokemon into every future Pokemon game. Not just because of effort or development cost, but from a design perspective too. In past generations, you had every Pokemon coded in the game, usually about 70-80% were obtainable in any given game and the rest you had to transfer.
As the number of Pokemon increases, they cannot keep that percentage up, the games themselves would become too bloated. A new player shouldn't have to learn >1k Pokemon.
So then eventually there would come a point where, in order to get every Pokemon, you'd have to transfer >50% of them from other games & generations, and that would suck ass. Sword & Shield already has a "fuck it, here's like every box cover legendary, they're all hiding in this cave for some reason, go nuts" mode and it's still missing a lot.
It's just not feasible, especially in the long run.
Every time I've ever played a pokemon game, my main takeaway has been "arent there like a million pokemon? why have i been playing for hours and only seen like 7 different kinds?"
dump them all in there, it would be way more fun and only upsetting to people who care about nerd shit like "balance"
I'm with you. I don't think they should feel the need to shoehorn in every legendary and have an event for every special pokemon, but if they wrote the code like "this region has 80% bug types and 20% flying types of levels 5-20" and then made literally anything that fits that criteria able to appear, the absolute anarchy that would ensue would make the game more interesting.
Literally everyone. My 4 year old niece is obsessed with pikachu. You are out of touch if you think some Digimon ass legendary or key ring Pokémon is what people are into
Hot take: No. There's gonna be >1000 Pokemon with the new games, it was inevitable that they were gonna have to draw the line somewhere.
You can't cram every single fucking Pokemon into every future Pokemon game. Not just because of effort or development cost, but from a design perspective too. In past generations, you had every Pokemon coded in the game, usually about 70-80% were obtainable in any given game and the rest you had to transfer.
As the number of Pokemon increases, they cannot keep that percentage up, the games themselves would become too bloated. A new player shouldn't have to learn >1k Pokemon.
So then eventually there would come a point where, in order to get every Pokemon, you'd have to transfer >50% of them from other games & generations, and that would suck ass. Sword & Shield already has a "fuck it, here's like every box cover legendary, they're all hiding in this cave for some reason, go nuts" mode and it's still missing a lot.
It's just not feasible, especially in the long run.
Every time I've ever played a pokemon game, my main takeaway has been "arent there like a million pokemon? why have i been playing for hours and only seen like 7 different kinds?"
dump them all in there, it would be way more fun and only upsetting to people who care about nerd shit like "balance"
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I'm with you. I don't think they should feel the need to shoehorn in every legendary and have an event for every special pokemon, but if they wrote the code like "this region has 80% bug types and 20% flying types of levels 5-20" and then made literally anything that fits that criteria able to appear, the absolute anarchy that would ensue would make the game more interesting.
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Play fangames and romhacks if that's what you are looking for
if only they had a modding scene that didnt rely on hacks :angery:
Just wipe out anything after Gen IV except fan favorites and Aloan varieties.
the fact they dont include all of gen 1-4 is infuriating
If I can’t have a Swampert in this game I will riot.
Nah, other way around. Who fuckin cares about gen 1 and 2 at this point except 40 year olds.
Literally everyone. My 4 year old niece is obsessed with pikachu. You are out of touch if you think some Digimon ass legendary or key ring Pokémon is what people are into