Lucas and Dawn are not customizable avatars. They are already established characters and I don't think that they would allow the player to change their designs too radically.
They are established characters with more than one outfit. They wore winter clothes in Platinum. Their clothes have already been changed, long ago. Giving you the ability to get different outfits, even if it's full outfits, not mix and match, is not pushing them away from what they've already done. And I prefer Dawn's Platinum outfit, so I'd like to be able to put it on.
At the very least, I'm pretty confident that they're not going to revive Mega Evolution in the potential D/P remakes. I'm fairly sure we won't see Mega Evolution become an in-game feature again until X/Y are remade, which will be over a decade from now most likely.
Good grief I hope not. That would be a couple of gens of throwing gimmicks that will just have us going "Why the heck can't they bring back Megas" every time. And my Shiny Mawile is doomed to virtual uslessness.
Also considering how side games are very much willing to use Megas, and Go put them in, they are still on the minds of someone, and there's still a lot of people who like them.
Besides you don't need to make jumbo sized merch to have it feel the right size.
That's even IF we reach that point. 10 years is a long time...at least 2 more Pokemon mainline games if the 3-4 development cycle holds consistently. I know its a cash cow, but if the next game causes a division as big as Sword & Shield did, Gamefreak may not have the chance to get far enough to consider a Gen 6 remake.
I love the Pokemon games, but I don't expect this series to last forever. There's going to be an end to the game series eventually.
Well despite our complaints, SWSH sold over twenty million copies... It's going to take a lot more to genuinly damage the franchise it seems.
I would have liked at least a little ding to get Game Freak to do some things differently, but I guess not.
They will probably give Gigantamax forms to the Sinnoh starters, Lucario, Garchomp, and some of the aces of the Gym leaders. Like with Zacian and Zamazenta the creation trio might be incapable of it
I'm sure they'll give the Creation Trio something. They gave Giritina a new form back in Platinum after all, Kyurem new forms for B2W2, and Primal Reversion in ORAS. I imagine it will be like Primal Reversion, something mechanically similer, but also different.
The thing is, Megas are honestly much easier to fit into a region than Dynamax. Quite litirally, since you know, giant sized. Dynamax is always going to be limited by requiring a lot of space, so there's going to have to be huge wide open areas in Galactic's bases for example. It's also really tied to Galar, but they can figure some way around that if they want to, I suppose. For megas, you just need the keystone and the mega stone. And it turns out at least one Pokemon, Rayquaza had a form naturally from before the ancient weapon. For Dynamax you need a Wishing Stone, ambient Galar Particles, and Eternatus to give off both of them. I suppose you could always say another Eternatus crashed in a different region, or someone figured out how to snythesize it or something... But you might as well just say that about Megas.
Is it just me, or are they really not future proofing the generational gimmicks?
Eh, maybe we'll learn something tomorrow. I gotta go beat up Pikachu.
