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The Return of Pokemon Riding?
The ability to ride certain Pokemon was introduced in X&Y and was much loved by many of us. With Generation 7 on the horizon, would you guys like to see this feature return and be expanded on? Perhaps with more Pokemon available to ride and interact with and maybe not being restricted to certain areas, for example riding an Arcanine around the region like a bike.
What do you guys think? :P |
I'd like that, features like Pokemon riding are small but add some immersion into the games' world. As unlikely as it is, it would be great if it could be expanded to include every Pokemon reasonably large enough to carry a small human, so you could use your own team for areas where it's required or helpful.
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Riding Pokemon was a nice, albeit small feature in X/Y and while I would love to see it come back, I kinda feel that it's going to be unlikely at the same time since Game Freak do love to give each region a "unique" feature that no other region has present.
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I didn't enjoy the way Pokémon riding in XY, mainly the map you were riding around in was really dull. If there are no trainers, I'm going to be pretty bored, so put some more effort into the area around me or do something to draw my attention away from the fact that I'm basically holding the walk buttons for 20 uninterrupted minutes.
Riding something like a Stantler, as ScoSap mentioned, through a really cool/well-designed forest might be fun. Also make it walk faster than Rhyhorn did ffs |
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Mamoswine and Rhyhorn were painful to ride, particularly the rock hard Rhyhorn. (Pun not intended) The problem is they walk slow and this hasty person right here is not a fan of slow paced things.
The Skiddo ride on the other hand, I really love it! |
XY Needed a Gogoat Race.
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Considering in the Anime Serena is actually riding Rhyhorn for racing if I remember.
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That could've just been a decoration to make the world feel richer. It also helps explain why you have a Rhyhorn at home, and why the player can easily ride one themselves.
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Unlike most random really cool features I don't think this'll be limited to XY. Given that these games could potentially be a sequel and could potentially be close by geographically, it's not too much of a stretch to assume that certain features, like Pokemon riding (that aren't specifically because of France) will make an appearance. There's no reason to scrap it either (and on another note the following feature could make a return but........) because we can surf, we can fly on mons, so why not properly ride on 'em? :) We need more than just the Pokemon available in-game imo.
Skiddo was the best though legit. |
Followers are possible, it just needs to be a big priority since you need map-view models of every pokemon other than the handful that were in the previous games and time to make sure it doesn't break any scripts or the pokemon don't clip through parts of the map.
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Does anybody remember when a limited species of Pokemon could follow you in the Amity Square in Gen IV? Then, Game Freak expanded that feature in the Gen II remakes to which all of the Pokemon could follow you, which was similar to Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow.
I don't think ORAS had any Pokemon to ride on; although, I would think that it would be a possibility to ride on any Pokemon in Sun & Moon. As much I would love to ride on a Haxorus, I don't think the feature would be expanded on, since it seems that the feature would be too much work for Game Freak. |
I don't get the deal with the riding Pokemon. It's cool, but I didn't used it and I wasn't excited about it. It come back, cool. It don't, okay.
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I hope they make it like an alternative to the bike, and make it like an HM that only fast pokemon can learn, so you are not that slow. The flying on Latios and Latias was really amazing aswell, I hope they return that, so instead of just seeing the flying animation, you can actually fly to the town yourself.
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It's definitely a possibility.
Game Freak are known for testing features that they'll implement on a bigger scale in the next games. An example of this is following Pokemon. In DPP, it was restricted to a small area and then we got following Pokemon in HGSS. Because of this, I wouldn't be surprised if riding Pokemon was something you could use anywhere on the map in S&M and using your own Pokemon (with a bigger selection of Pokemon, obviously). I'm also hoping we'll finally get to see every Pokemon when using Surf since Game Freak experimented with that a bit in XY and ORAS. Maybe other HMs too! |
I think it would be pretty cool if they brought back the thing from SS/HG--When the first Pokemon in your party follows behind you. ;v; Probably wouldn't translate well, seeing as this is 3D now and not 2D sprites. But for some reason I just really loved that whole idea.
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It'd be cool if there were a surfing tournament, with certain pokemon models making the cut. Return of surfing pikachu?
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I like the idea of Pokemon riding, though I'd like to see it more expanded if it were to return. In X/Y it was a cool feature but it felt limited to being only in certain areas for a short amount of time only to cross a short distance. As other people have suggested it would be awesome to have some sort of competition that used this feature.
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I probably don't expect riding to return, especially now that the full-sized overworld sprites is going to make it harder to do without doing stress. Plus with the vehicles shown I feel like that's going to be the new riding gimmick.
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I'd actually really like to see this feature return, I really enjoyed it. I do think it should be restricted to certain areas, but I would love it if they allowed you to ride your own Pokemon. Now THAT, would be cool.
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Like others, I don't expect it due to console limitations. If it was on a home console and not a handheld, maybe. That said, I think it'd be possible to have a specific list of Pokemon able to be ridden in certain routes. A handful of Pokemon being ridden on a handful of routes is much more plausible than having to render 800 Pokemon (most of which wouldn't make sense) everywhere. Each Pokemon could even a different riding ability such as different speeds, jumping, etc.
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Over the ledge
Do you think we'll be able to finally ride Skiddo over ledges all over the game in Sun and Moon, or you do think that might not ever be a thing that happens?
It seemed like pokemon had just been testing the waters in the last games. Giving us the ability to ride them over ledges but only in select parts of the game. Ooh, that made me a little ticked, not much mind you, but ticked none the less. I wanted a mount pokemon for all over the game. Ooh! Do you think we should get other mounts? Like from the pool of existing Pokemon? What Pokemon would you want as a mount? http://i.imgur.com/6UEHOiY.jpg |
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