Orphalesion
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Unless they change up the battle system this would be extremely tedious.
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Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Speculation/Discussion Thread!
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masdog
What is the airspeed of an unladen Swellow?
So...a traditional JRPG style combat system (like the older Final Fantasy games) but with Pokemon?
Vini310
Well-Known Member
It's basically that.
The main inspiration for this idea was Robopon 2 (GBA), where your entire team goes to battle at once. The difference is that in Robopon, the maximum team size is 4, while in Pokémon it's 6.
As for the Exp. Share discourse, what annoys me the most is this narrative that the older Pokémon games were there super hard games that forced you to maximize the potential of your sextet in order to win any battle.
And, well, they were not. Pokémon games ARE easy, even before the mandatory Exp. Share, having to grind your entire team was never essential to win. The only things you need to win in an older Pokémon game are:
- A starter with versatile moveset (i.e. it learns coverage moves) (leader)
- A secondary Pokémon with equally versatile moveset (helper)
- A bunch of weak Pokémon to be your HM users (subs)
You can go as far as to make the secondary Pokémon a HM Slave too.
With that in mind:
- Overlevel the leader and the helper (via Exp. Share for the latter).
- During difficult battles, use your subs as shields to recover you leader and helper.
- Spam healing items.
With this strategy, you can beat ANY pre-Gen 6 Pokémon game.
Do they look hard now?
Pokémon isn't even optimized for a team of 6, since you can only use one at a time and Double Battles are rare. And then there are the Triple Battles and Rotation Battles...
By the way, Digimon Story has obligatory Exp. Share since 2006, and shows the type effectiveness since 2016. The entire Digimon franchise does Dexit since 1999. But it's wrong when Pokémon does the same thing, for some reason.
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Sham
The Guardian of War
And your point it? I never said grinding didn’t take any time. Obviously I would prefer grinding no matter how time consuming it is because as I said I enjoy it. I’m not gonna enjoy having to box all the time. So not sure what you think you’re doing right now.
Ignition
We are so back Zygardebros
That makes no sense. How does removing the option benefit them? Also I highly doubt Pokémon feels the need to follow after either of them considering how big it is
Mr.Munchlax
Great Ball Rank Trainer
I’m kind of hoping we’ll be able to use the PC boxes when facing the Elite 4. One thing I loved about SWSH was how we could rotate our pokémon when first taking on the Champion Cup because I had more than a full team of six and it felt similar to the Pokémon Leagues in the anime (more specifically the Sinnoh & Johto Leagues since Ash used all of his pokémon during those tournaments).
Since I’ll probably have more than six Pokémon in BDSP, I’d like to have the same thing when challenging the Elite 4 since it gives everyone a chance to shine and keeps my main team from being too strong when battling Cynthia
Since I’ll probably have more than six Pokémon in BDSP, I’d like to have the same thing when challenging the Elite 4 since it gives everyone a chance to shine and keeps my main team from being too strong when battling Cynthia
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Vini310
Well-Known Member
Pokémon always take inspirations from other games. Even the DIve in RSE was inspired by Robopon 1.
Ignition
We are so back Zygardebros
I didn’t say Pokémon doesn’t take inspiration from other games. You can see a lot of Dragon Quest in Gen 1. My question is why would they take inspiration on a feature that’s already in their game with more options? They lose literally nothing with said options especially considering how the EXP Share is on by default. Obviously something caused them to force it on at all times but I highly doubt they were influenced by other games to make that change.
Orphalesion
Well-Known Member
I wouldn't mind an ATB system (like in the older FF games) for Pokemon, but even then, I'd make it like 3 against 3 (or 3 against a "boss", as it were)
Captain Jigglypuff
*On Vacation. Go Away!*
I like being able to switch out Pokémon especially for the E4 which will be useful when facing Lucian as he has a pretty good team and his Bronzong and Alakazam were pretty hard to KO in one super effective hit especially if you don’t have Rapidash or Infernape which you probably won’t because of Bertha’s team.
Tsukuyomi56
Emblian Royalty
Not sure whether the use of the mobile PC Box is disabled while doing the Championship Tournament in SWSH and the Pokemon League in Let’s Go. If it is the same could apply while you are challenging the Pokemon League in BDSP.
Edit: Use of the mobile PC Box is indeed temporarily disabled in SWSH during a Gym Challenge or the Championship Tournament.
janejane6178
Kaleido Star FOREVER in my heart <3
Do u think the contests will have another round besides the rhyme game?
Dragalge
"Orange" Magical Girl
This is a good post! Johto is a place where grinding is dumb! You and me, we are both...allies. *sparkle*
PsychoLogical
Black and White, Yin and Yang, Light and Dark.
I don’t want to be reminded of the horsecrap I had to go through every time I played HGSS. And having to resort to using Legendaries at times wasn’t fun either.
Spider-Phoenix
#ChespinGang
Specially when Pokémon's beaten them all at some point.
Autobot N
Well-Known Member
The secret is to only use 3 or 4 Pokemon for the majority of the game, it means there's more EXP for each Pokemon. Whenever I do that, I don't have to resort to much grinding
PsychoLogical
Black and White, Yin and Yang, Light and Dark.
Now that I think about it, I think I’ll enjoy the TMs being single use again (as long as you can replenish easily like with the TRs in SwSh). A massive pet peeve of TMs going reusable starting in Gen 5 was that a decent amount of good TMs were locked to the postgame for whatever reason.
Yeah!
