Pokemon May 29th 2018 reveals

[Marchbaby]

Posting this now so I can edit it as time goes on. The Pokemon Twitter and Facebook just confirmed the press conference and said they will post info as it goes on. I will update this post as things are announced and will update the title of this thread with a better name once it is all over.


News:

Niantic, The Pokemon Company, Game Freak, and Nintendo are all listed for the conference. 
Eurogamer says it is called the Pokemon New Title Announcement Conference
The CEO was going over the history of the franchise.
Pokemon Go has been downloaded more than 800 million times.
Both Switch and mobile titles are being announced for 2018 and 2019.
A new spinoff called Pokemon Quest has been announced for both Switch and Mobile. It is free to start.
Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee is confirmed coming out on November 16th, 2018 for the Nintendo Switch.
Pokeball Plus is an optional accessory that allows you to put Pokemon in Pokemon Go.
The capture mechanic from Go is used in the games.
A new core RPG is confirmed for 2019.
Some following capability for Pokemon is in the game.
The leaked Lapras picture from a while back was real.
Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are set in the original Kanto.
Alolan Pokemon have started to spawn in Pokemon GO.
There is a Co-op mode to battle and train together.
Price for LGPE is $59.99 each. Amazon already has a preorder up.
Eevee and Pikachu can be dressed up.
It appears to be locked to only the original 151 Pokemon if the note about transferring from Pokemon Go is correct.
The Switch version of Pokemon Quest is coming out shortly and the mobile version comes out the end of June.
The 2019 games will be in the style of X,Y, Sun, Moon to appease competitive players while LGPE is aimed at all audiences.
Pokemon Quest is now live on all the Eshops for the Nintendo Switch.
Wild Pokemon cannot be battled but rather captured like in go, also some Alola Forms can be obtained in game.
Wild Pokemon have CP and levels shown.
1 unnamed completely new Pokemon will be in the game.
Each account on the Switch can have a save file on LGPE.
No online multiplayer just local co-op for LGPE.( Serebii says the no online is a mistranslation so there may be online afterall.)
The starting Eevee and Pikachu cannot evolve but you can encounter others in the wild which can.
The core Pokemon game mentioned at last years E3 was confirmed as Pokemon Switch 2019 and Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are stopgap games to both have a Pokemon game on the Switch and prevent a year gap.
Gen 1 Pokemon and Alolan Pokemon in Pokemon GO can be transferred to LGPE.

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English Trailer for LGPE.

[Lamont]

Woooo, new game!

Not a fan of not being able to evolve the starters though :/ The whole love of Eevee is that it can be anything, kinda silly idea.

But! I think I'm more excited to this Pokémon Quest, since I can actually get it on mobile without buying a whole new console system ;D

[Thirdie]

I find it interesting that you can play together with a friend (on seemingly the same console), but I'm not quite caught on the whole thing. Having to buy another console hurts my miser heart some. My husband seemed to like the idea of being able to play together too, and he isn't as cheap as me...

[Noerd]

OK. I'm clearly the odd one out here. My feelings in a nutshell: "Let's Go" indeed.

Seriously. Like. What the actual hell? This game has no right to be anywhere near as good as it's currently looking in my eyes. It's Yellow, but... not? It's Pokemon Go in RPG form? And yet it works. Well. If this is Game Freak's answer to the whole "remake" conundrum, bring it the frig on, I say. Take. My. Money. Just... um... argh... I have lost all ability to even. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! YES! YES! YES!

... Did I mention I'm actually looking forward to this and will definitely buy a Switch this calendar year now, no questions asked? Because that is all true.

OK. Serious face. This time I mean it. Let's talk. So. Some of this is definitely my shock speaking rather than my brain. Some of it is the fact that I had a particularly bad couple of days, and this is really relieving in that sense. But, with that all said, I am seriously, seriously impressed with this (just in case you couldn't already tell :P). This is brilliant. Genius. It's the perfect way to advance Pokemon Go. And I ridiculed what was basically this concept earlier. Hah! (OK, so it's technically NOT a "Yellow remake", but it's damn close. I was wrong here. VERY wrong.) I'll certainly say that it's a bold concept, but if it doesn't work then I'll dunk that Switch that I don't yet own into my toilet. OK, so I won't do exactly that. But. I'll be shocked. While this doesn't have Go's accessibility, what it does do is really bring Go back into the public view. Especially the Pokemon players out there who aren't too keen on Go right now (like me). Not only that, but its Go tie-ins and basic-looking gameplay should appeal to a wider audience. The Switch didn't exactly need any more sales, but I'd wager there will be a few extra consoles sold due to this game.

As for any features I like... Co-Op stuff looks interesting. I'm surprised I've not seen much talk on that. I can't say much, because we saw basically jack all in the trailer, but I'd like to hear a little more on that. But I have no RL friends so it's all meaningless! Ride Pager mechanic is back in some sense, which is cute. I'm not always apathetic towards cute. This kind of cute I like. Speaking of "cute", Eevee is a bloody starter. <3 Aaaand, the promise of a recognisable battle system is nice. Levels, HP, 4MSS... all those things I love about the games. Except EVs/IVs. Boo!

I'll admit it has its flaws. We're promised "depth", but how much of it I can only guess. The simplified capture system and overall lack of wild battles has me a little concerned in that regard, but at the same time we have a relatively normal-looking battle screen. It also has its gimmicks. Like the silly Pokeball Plus (Are you ready to CONTROL. With. Poke Ball?) that doesn't seem to offer anything useful whatsoever. But it's all early doors so far and, well, SHUT UP I WANNA HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE.

Again, brilliant. Bloody brilliant. I doff my cap to you, Game Freak (and any other involved parties). You did well. Very well. Awesome news to round off the day.

EDIT: Oh, and I am SO glad that I just made a move on a flat that actually has the space for a TV. Because I am gonna NEEEEEEED it. So bad. :D

EDIT 2 - THE REHASHED JOKE: Oh, this "new Pokémon" is... interesting too. The games only contain the original 151, so... unless it's a new Alolan form, I'm at a loss as to what it could be. 'S got to be a new form of some kind though, right? Unless this is sneaky and it won't actually appear in the game but instead be sent immediately to Go. Then it could be just about anything. But I'm pretty sure it's not a new species. It's just... not right to have it appear in this title. This isn't Gen 8. This is... OK, I'm not sure what it is. But it's not Gen 8. (Speaking of, HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE yet again.)

[Marchbaby]

I was sold the seconds the most believable rumors were confirmed true. Sure there are a few unknowns like Bank support and whether or not it can connect with Pokemon Switch 2019 but overall being a modern re imagining of Yellow with ideas borrowed from Pokemon GO along with following Pokemon and rewards for both GO and in Game. 

I know they said the new Pokemon could be transferred to GO but they did not say if it could be used in LGPE or not but a long running rumor about the next movie is that Eevee is getting a flying type Eeveeloution so it could be that or Gorochu which was discussed a few weeks ago out of the blue. Beyond that I am clueless.

The starters no evolving is true to Yellow as Pikachu could not evolve in that game and though it is really annoying with Eevee in particular I like that they stuck true to the originals there. With all the big changes they are doing maintaining one feature of the original like that makes this feel like they are really trying to honor the original with a completely new take on it. By all means I would rather see them keep the capture or gain exp from wild battle feature instead of the older games but overall it is a minor thing to me. Either way it makes the games a bit harder. I did hear that EVs would be reworked and IVs would be limited to 15 so there might be some shakeups there.

There are a few other nitpicks but overall November 16th cannot arrive soon enough and neither can the 2019 game. 

As for Pokemon Quest I downloaded it on the Switch and it is like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Pokemon Rumble combined. It is kinda hard to explain but it is fun in its own weird way. Here is a ling to Serebii's page which shows the trailer and some info on it. Being free to play it is nice to pass the time if nothing else.

[Noerd]

Bank is almost certainly not happening. There might be a separate Bank account (unwitting pun master, right here) made for Let's Go and potential future titles if the whole thing looks popular enough, but there is no way that we're getting to transfer our Go creatures over to other titles. Way too abusable. Or abuseable. Chrome likes neither. Huh.

As for the new Pokemon, it's difficult. The language I'm seeing on coverage sites suggests that it can't be a new species. There's a lot of "the game will feature/contain a new Pokemon", which to my mind makes it a bit sketchy if they suddenly say "oh hey it's a new thing!". It also, as said before, just doesn't seem right for a new species to be introduced in what is essentially a spin-off. I do seem to recall seeing somewhere that it was implied that the 'mon will only be usable in mobile Go though. MoGo? Actual Go? No, that doesn't work, there's a board game called "Go". Ugh. This is the problem with simplistic titles. :c

I'm actually a fan of Eevee not evolving, for the record. Sure, it feels weird (especially with no Eevium :c ), but it makes sense. If you're going to start with Eevee, you'd better not be able to evolve it. Eevee's already damn popular as a starter, but evolving capabilities mean you kinda get 8 starters in one with it. In the sense that there are 8 different Eeveelutions that will all appeal to different demographics, so one would expect somewhere close-ish to an 8:1 ratio in sales in favour of Eevee. It won't be exactly 8:1, naturally (6:1 might be a better guess), but you get my point. It also allows for cool things like following and customisation that would be a nightmare if you could evolve your starters.

EVs/IVs... gah. Nah. I honestly don't care how they're reworking them; it's gonna be hard to keep the game simple and accessible while maintaining the feel of them. They'll be included, naturally, but it won't be the same. At all. This isn't a huge complaint since the games look really good on their own merit, but they will be less of an "RPG" for it in my eyes. Here's hoping they make up for that though. Which I expect they will.

Aaaand done. That's the sane follow up to the hypebeast ramblings I left yesterday.

Re: Quest. Just started looking into it. Imma just leave my immediate reactions here, with rough timestamps referencing the point in the trailer that conjured the thought. Because frankly I started recording them and realised before long that I probably won't have a lot else to say. This is more fun, I think.

0:00 AAAAAAAAAAH! I THOUGHT I'D ESCAPED MINECRAFT!
0:07 Yes, I get it. Cubes. It's clear as day. Their components are also not all cuboid. But. Y'know. Details. Who needs 'em?
0:30 Well, this is fine. I could see myself playing this. If my phone wasn't trash. I need space for Go, damn it!
1:04 "Yellow Curry a la Cube". Who? Who do I have to murder for this monstrosity of a nonsensical name. I GET IT. THEY ARE CUBOID. Don't flaunt your quick, lazy, easy to animate model design like that. Gets old fast. Because I'm a cynical git.
1:05 ... Also, the Pokemon aren't really gonna-
1:07 They did it. They actually just promoted FEEDING ANIMALS CURRY. Anyone got the number for the RSPCA (or whatever organisation you Americans have instead... PETA's the closest thing I can think of :P)?

So. Um. Yeah. Self-indulgence over... It's a reasonable mobile game, by the looks of it. I'll see if I have room for it. I don't understand what it's doing on Switch, but eh. Minecraft made it to PlayStation and Xbox... somehow.

[Tarlar]

I, on the other hand are more skeptical. Only thing that makes me rethink my decision not to buy a new consol and the game, is that you can play two in the same game. It is going very slow for me and my boyfriend in Insurgence, but this would be more interesting for him I think, as he hate playing alone.

The main reason to not buy it, is that the only games I have really ever playing for nintendo is pokemon, and most of the time I don't get to finish them, so I think it probably would be a waste of money for my case

The game otherwise looks good, although I'm rather conservative when it comes to stuff like that, and I think it looks less funny just throwing pokeballs at wild pokemon in the attempt to capture them. I haven't tries Pokemon Go (due to ancient phone), so I might find it funny if I tried.

I'll wait until it comes out and see how it all works and then make a decision at that time

[Marchbaby]

A bit more information has been revealed lately. The first being that the games will require motion controls to capture Pokemon and the other is confirmation that the special Pokemon will indeed be a new species. They also confirmed the 2019 game will be full of new Pokemon and will feature less casual elements because of LGPE. The other thing noted about the 2019 games is that they will have the best graphics of any Pokemon game to date and they will be coming out in the second half of 2019.

I can honestly say I can hardly wait for next year as well since that will be quite a big year.

[Noerd]

So this is a bit old now, but here's the E3 coverage of Let's Go for those who haven't seen it:



Plenty of small details here. Most notably, Mew is only obtainable in Let's Go if one purchases the Pokeball Plus and is not transferable from Go. Nice, Game Freak. Really nice. (Really don't care, myself; I just think it's a silly restriction.)

Candy also exists and appears to be the way to boost EVs in the game, while Pokemon will earn EXP with each catch you make (very similar to Pokemon Go's EXP system). Unclear as to whether EXP earned via captures will also grant EVs depending on the 'mon caught (like in the traditional Pokemon RPGs).

Not gonna list the rest; 's all on Serebii (and other news sites probably!). I will say one last things: I'm really impressed with the graphics of the game. 'S kinda nice to see Kanto updated like this.