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Out with the Old and In With the New
With Pokemon X and Y being fully 3-D, are you afraid you might lose a feature in order to cram 700+ pokemon, a storyline, post-game, etc. in one tiny cartridge? What would you rather lose? What would you like to keep?
I can see them getting rid of Triple Battles...those kind of got boring after a while as they all go the same way. Normal, double, and rotation battles are keepers though. I was thinking that they might get rid of a few hidden mechanics like IV's/EV's. If so, I sincerely hope they get rid of the Masuda Method coding and anything that makes shinies easier to get. It just feels so great when you meet a shiny by luck, and you know that the same shiny can't just be gotten with a few clicks through RNG'ing. |
NO! Evs and Ivs will have to stay. The games wont be the same without them. All pokemon of the same species would be the same. I dont think we will lose any features tbh. GF will be able to fit everything on one cartridge.
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Moving onto the 3DS platform gives them more room to expand on things, it doesn't necessarily mean we'd be losing out on some of the bigger or smaller mechanics and features that have been introduced to us just because the graphics will be in 3D and they'll be over 700 Pokémon. If anything, they should be able to do even more since they're finally moving forward from the DS platform. |
If they got rid of IVs and EVs they'd have no game, those are two aspects which have basically defined the Pokemon franchise whether you were aware of them or not. I doubt they would get rid of the Masuda Method, which was included to encourage trading over the GTS, which they'll still want to do since it's become a selling point in the franchise.
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Getting rid of EVs and IVs is not going to happen. Even in gen I, there was some sort of system. Scrapping EVs and IVs would be drastic to the competitive community and they wouldn't do that.
I'm opposite of the OP though. Scrap rotation and keep triple battles, please! |
Triple battles: sayonara.
Rotation battles of two to six Pokémon: yes, please. Though there is one annoying aspect in that you are forced to guess what Pokémon will come out; I once got skunked in the Opelucid Battle House when I guessed wrong. Twice. Still won the battle, but my type triangle didn't really gain from it. Cyclone |
The only thing I'm really hoping they scrap is B/W's experience system. I'd enjoy something a little more stable again.
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Rotation battles are about thinking three steps ahead of your enemy, triple battles are about having a lot of sprites on screen to show them off. |
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I don't think we'll really lose anything except for the minigames being the musicals and pokestar studios. Most other things in B2/W2 and BW were fine, and given it's a bigger console there might be more space...? (not sure how exactly it works, though, but I'm assuming there's more memory capabilities than ones designed fro the DS).
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I thought rotation battles were actually pretty fun, but triple battles were just boring, so I won't shed a tear if they got rid of them.
Get rid of Musicals. They weren't any more fun than Contests, so I never really got that involved with them (even less than Contests in Gen III). Even PokeStar Studios and PokeAthelon were more fun. They need to keep World Tournament. Also, it's been said to death, but they're very unlikely to get rid of the EV/IV system. It's been one of the most important mechanics behind competitive play since the very beginning. @Sydian: With all due respect, I freaking loved it when it asked if I wanted to use another repel after the previous one faded. Saved a lot of time from not having to pause and scroll through my menu all the time. |
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And yeah, Game Freak has proven that their best features will only ever be in one game/duo. |
The best thing about the Pokemon Following feature was the hilarious dialogue you'd sometimes get in HGSS.
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However, I don't want IV's and EV's gone, they just seem too secretive, so when I do it, I don't feel like I'm actually following the game's method, it doesn't feel legit xD |
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(And yes, I still have to do the second E4 in Black as well. I have a lot of low 70s there, generally maxing at Lv.75 while I get others up there.) Cyclone |
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But now that you mention organization, I hope they remove the weird TM organization they added. All the TMs get put into your case in the order you get them in B2W2 instead of in numerical order. Why was THAT implemented? That's silly. I hope that if they get rid of anything, they get rid of that and just bring back the old system of organizing them by number, while allowing other options like alphabetical or type order. Bring back L = A while I'm at it. |
No, Sydian, I was just voicing my own opinion on the feature since it was brought up. I was making no perception on your own statement earlier. :)
As for TMs, I agree. However, they now let you sort them by name, so they have to let the folder collect them in the same way. In a sense, it's not all bad; you can see before a Gym Battle what new TMs you picked up and haven't used before sorting them into place. Cyclone |
I hope they don't remove the repel and item switch between party additions in B2W2, I liked those.
If they have to remove something remove the minigame...though I doubt they'll take anything except for Battle subway and PWT of course. |
I want RSE contests back. DP contests ruined everything.
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Dear God, I hope they don't take away PWT.
That was one of the things that really sold BW2 for me. |
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Kid Icarus Uprising also showed that the 3DS is capable of having a ton of 3D models on the screen at once and the graphics on both that and OoT3D looked tons better than what we're seeing so far in X & Y (thought I think they said those graphics aren't final). I don't think they're going to have much problem in the way of space unless they make the region extremely huge.
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Well, knowing Game Freak, they wouldn't be bound to remove a feature like triple battles or rotational battles. But they surely would be bound to remove a feature like being able to connect to the Dream World or something like that, or they would be bound to remove some small features that occur during battle or outside of battle, like how Generation V removed the effect poison status ailment had outside of battle where one of the Pokémon lost one HP per 5 steps you took.
So if they're going to remove anything, I would much prefer them to remove the C-Gear in place for something even better. But what I'd like to see kept... would be the Video Chat functions as well as the Online Battling. |
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