Pokémon Sword & Shield (Crown Tundra Out Now - Play It Quick Before It Votes For Independence)

Snowballadeer wrote:The latter one. Invaluable for making a certain late-game monster actually useful.

Can't you just feed em berries? That's what I did with any Pokémon to make em happy to fill the dex when I had around 50 left.

Just completed the Fire Gym and yeah this game is a blast, really having a lot of fun exploring the Wild Area.
One thing I wish the game had was voice acting for cut scenes.

so pokemon have confirmed that isle of armour is based on the isle of man and the crown tundra is based on scotland, shame its not a full region with bagpipe pokemon

Can't wait for Isle of Wool where there's 200 new varients of Mareep and Wooloo.

The Isle of Man is well known for its Japanese dojos

And its bears.

I wonder if they will release a physical version later this year that contains the expansion content as well as the base game? Another way they could get a new version in stores.

I tried the demo of Mystery Dungeon and it seems pretty good, I like the art style so I’ll keep an eye out on that

I wonder if we can do time trials on our bike around the Isle of Armor?

Snowballadeer wrote:And its bears.

Good nightlife then, is there?

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Might be useful for some of you here

Snowballadeer wrote:Thread title not particularly accurate:

I don't think it's fair to call the model of multiple SKUs 'double dipping' in Pokemon's case, as I genuinely don't think it was ever really expected for anyone to buy both versions of any particular gen. Especially in the earlier gens where it wouldn't matter if you bought both because you'd still need a second GameBoy to get all the 'mon on one cart, I think it's pretty clear that the intention was to split the gen across multiple players and have them trade.

Same with the generational Third versions like Yellow and Crystal; they always struck me as GOTY-style editions for people who didn't jump in at release. I don't know anyone who bought both the flagship titles AND the same-gen follow ups. I only ever picked up the other versions much later (like a decade) on for collector reasons rather than to play them.

Skarjo wrote:

Snowballadeer wrote:Thread title not particularly accurate:

I don't think it's fair to call the model of multiple SKUs 'double dipping' in Pokemon's case, as I genuinely don't think it was ever really expected for anyone to buy both versions of any particular gen. Especially in the earlier gens where it wouldn't matter if you bought both because you'd still need a second GameBoy to get all the 'mon on one cart, I think it's pretty clear that the intention was to split the gen across multiple players and have them trade.

Same with the generational Third versions like Yellow and Crystal; they always struck me as GOTY-style editions for people who didn't jump in at release. I don't know anyone who bought both the flagship titles AND the same-gen follow ups. I only ever picked up the other versions much later (like a decade) on for collector reasons rather than to play them.

Everyone I knew would buy the flagship titles and the same gen follow up, myself included.

Yep, I was conned into buying Yellow because I was a child who watched the anime, and then both Ruby and Sapphire because I loved that gen. so much. I can just about buy the argument about the first two games being designed to promote trading, but the third edition has largely seemed a bit iffy.

Pedz wrote:

Skarjo wrote:

Snowballadeer wrote:Thread title not particularly accurate:

I don't think it's fair to call the model of multiple SKUs 'double dipping' in Pokemon's case, as I genuinely don't think it was ever really expected for anyone to buy both versions of any particular gen. Especially in the earlier gens where it wouldn't matter if you bought both because you'd still need a second GameBoy to get all the 'mon on one cart, I think it's pretty clear that the intention was to split the gen across multiple players and have them trade.

Same with the generational Third versions like Yellow and Crystal; they always struck me as GOTY-style editions for people who didn't jump in at release. I don't know anyone who bought both the flagship titles AND the same-gen follow ups. I only ever picked up the other versions much later (like a decade) on for collector reasons rather than to play them.

Everyone I knew would buy the flagship titles and the same gen follow up, myself included.

Really? Would you buy both the flagship or pick just one?

And the follow up too?

YOU MUG.

Skarjo wrote:

Pedz wrote:

Skarjo wrote:

Snowballadeer wrote:Thread title not particularly accurate:

I don't think it's fair to call the model of multiple SKUs 'double dipping' in Pokemon's case, as I genuinely don't think it was ever really expected for anyone to buy both versions of any particular gen. Especially in the earlier gens where it wouldn't matter if you bought both because you'd still need a second GameBoy to get all the 'mon on one cart, I think it's pretty clear that the intention was to split the gen across multiple players and have them trade.

Same with the generational Third versions like Yellow and Crystal; they always struck me as GOTY-style editions for people who didn't jump in at release. I don't know anyone who bought both the flagship titles AND the same-gen follow ups. I only ever picked up the other versions much later (like a decade) on for collector reasons rather than to play them.

Everyone I knew would buy the flagship titles and the same gen follow up, myself included.

Really? Would you buy both the flagship or pick just one?

And the follow up too?

YOU MUG.

Mostly buy one flagship and the same gen followup. This is imo way better for the way people that I knew bought the games. Instead of buying the exact game twice with an extra tower in one version this way the get 2 new islands to explore.

I have bought both flagships, though. Only once or twice.

Pedz wrote:

Skarjo wrote:

Pedz wrote:

Skarjo wrote:

Snowballadeer wrote:Thread title not particularly accurate:

I don't think it's fair to call the model of multiple SKUs 'double dipping' in Pokemon's case, as I genuinely don't think it was ever really expected for anyone to buy both versions of any particular gen. Especially in the earlier gens where it wouldn't matter if you bought both because you'd still need a second GameBoy to get all the 'mon on one cart, I think it's pretty clear that the intention was to split the gen across multiple players and have them trade.

Same with the generational Third versions like Yellow and Crystal; they always struck me as GOTY-style editions for people who didn't jump in at release. I don't know anyone who bought both the flagship titles AND the same-gen follow ups. I only ever picked up the other versions much later (like a decade) on for collector reasons rather than to play them.

Everyone I knew would buy the flagship titles and the same gen follow up, myself included.

Really? Would you buy both the flagship or pick just one?

And the follow up too?

YOU MUG.

Mostly buy one flagship and the same gen followup. This is imo way better for the way people that I knew bought the games. Instead of buying the exact game twice with an extra tower in one version this way the get 2 new islands to explore.

I have bought both flagships, though. Only once or twice.

I guess for me there was never enough content to justify getting the same gen follow ups. I've got them all now but that because I went on a bit a collecting spree and got a bloody fantastic deal from a mate who was leaving the country and selling off his kids gooseberry fool. (I think it was like 200GBP for a 3DSXL and Pokemon X, Y, Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon and White 2).

The kid only put like three hours into each of them, can't believe he kept buying a franchise he clearly didn't like.

You know how I like to concept maps, right? Well how about a redesign of the Galar region? I'll spoiler the image owing to how large it is, or you could just head inside to get the details and map at the same time. The map itself is labelled clearly enough that you shouldn't need the details, and if you're familiar with the region, you'll know what's going on with it anyway.



Would you have wanted something more open and connected like this?

I'm really enjoying just exploring the wild area at the moment and filling up my pokedex. My friend has been doing a lot of gigantamax battles with me so it's starting to fill up pretty nicely! The weather element in the different parts has been pretty awesome to see. I'm definitely going to buy the DLC. I'm hoping shield will be my first game since crystal where I complete my pokedex in full.

I still want Spinda in the game. I'm hoping later updates include it!

Any Shield owners want to do some fossil trading?