Excitable Boy
is a metaphor
I don't think there's any harm to taking a year off to cool off the franchise fatigue, myself; even mainline Mario, the money-making machine, passed on 2014.
Those kinds of people play Pokemon?
Doesn't that conflict with trying to challenge the people who can clear the main story? Post-game content is usually optional (the Delta Episode isn't because it needs to be cleared to unlock the Battle Resort, but the Resort itself is optional).
Surely you jest. I get that Pokemon has paper-thin plot, but ever since Black and White, the series has been going in a direction of making the story has as much emphasis as gameplay (even if one supersedes the other in certain cases). Even then, people still did enjoy going through the story in the older games. Not sure why you're surprised.
Who said anything about challenging players going through the story?
Furthermore, just because the post-game is optional, it doesn't mean that it suddenly justifies cutting content. The element of choice should always be there between trying to satisfy both the casual and the dedicated market. I mean, is it really going to hurt you if the ratio of people playing the Battle Frontier in relation to those that don't care about playing it are 50/50, 60/40, 70/30 or what have you?
The new movie confirms there's no new game in 2015. If there was then the movie would promote it.
I agree that no more remakes should happen.
Game Freak has had three chances and have not made a good one yet.
I'd only buy sequels.
do you guys think more could be expanded to ORAS or there is no need to go for another visit to hoenn?
Is this about the Battle Frontier not being in OR/AS? Because I still don't see what the big deal is. :x
do you guys think more could be expanded to ORAS or there is no need to go for another visit to hoenn?
One such complaint is the water routes - GF made them better by making encounters there pretty much optional. Unless the RNG hates you, you will randomly encounter maybe 1 or 2 pokemon at the most in any given water route as you pass through and you can still grind on say Pelipper through the usage of DexNav. This is without Repels, mind you.
To simply call them lazy remakes at this point, especially when it is over stuff like having no Battle Frontier, is bogus. BF probably wasn't popular enough in the wider audience for GF to pour what is likely to be a lot of time and money into remaking and it would have probably been subject to the same cheap team selection process that the Maison has if it was included.
do you guys think more could be expanded to ORAS or there is no need to go for another visit to hoenn?
So could the Azoth project take place in Kalos? seeing as it is something with alternate dimensions, I can see it being used for the diamond and pearl remakes. But that wont be for a while.
PROJECT AZOTH
File No. 1
The goal of Project AZOTH is to return the world--return everything--to the beginning.
In order to further the project, we must proceed with research on Groudon's/Kyogre's Primal Reversion.
Primal Reversion is a potential of Pokémon Evolution, a potential different from Mega Evolution.
Mega Evolution is made possible by the energy of people and Pokémon.
Primal Reversion is made possible by natural energy.
In Primal Reversion, Groudon/Kyogre absorbs natural energy into its body, thereby increasing its power dramatically.
Both states significantly enhance Pokémon's power: the difference lies in the source of the required energy.
PROJECT AZOTH
File No. 2
We intend to analyze the power of the ultimate weapon used in Kalos 3,000 years ago and work on the development of a drill weapon utilizing the technology.
The Seafloor Cavern is sealed by the power of a Legendary Pokémon.
The only way to gain access to the cavern is to break the seal with power that exceeds that of the Pokémon.
According to the reports from the Petalburg recon team, Devon Corporation holds the secret of the technology of the ultimate weapon.
We will dedicate all our resources to obtaining this technology.
Is this about the Battle Frontier not being in OR/AS? Because I still don't see what the big deal is. :x
That doesn't address the real issues with the water routes, it's more of a quick fix. The biggest problems with the water routes were the open ended and confusing design and the repetitive distribution (Tentacool and Wingull everywhere) and they did nothing about that.
That's a bias. Sinnoh will be ten years old in 2016, believe it or not. There are people out there for whom Diamond/Pearl were their first Pokémon games, just like there are people for whom Ruby/Sapphire were their first.
They've been going in that direction, but I've never really heard of anyone asking for them to do so (at least, anyone informed of what it would/could entail); certainly, there's been no real desire for them to ever start doing so.
Game Freak did. "The player can choose to keep on playing after the main story and continue to the post-game, where the difficulty rises and there are much more difficult Trainers and challenges to overcome."
That was my point; if they're going to make the main story easier tocompete with Youkai Watchprotect the casuals from challenge, they ought to at least make good on including a higher difficulty with more difficult Trainers and challenges.
Thinking about whether people asked for it or not is irrelevant.
No. They were talking about making the game more challenging after the main campaign was done.
Even when they say they're interested in making things challenging post game, they worry about mundane things like players not wanting to devote time to an RPG that pretty much is a lifestyle.
I'm wondering about something....IF, and I mean if they decide to re-make Firered/Leafgreen for the 20-year-anniversary (personally, I could live without it), do you think that they could change a lot more things in the region (lots of new places, different Gyms) because now it's set in an alternate universe where mega evolution exists? Or would they give the overused "we want to keep it true to the originals" excuse and just do a visual update with minimalistic improvements?