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The Dexit debate:

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The Dexit debate:

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1) backwards compatability makes older saves less nostalgic and makes the journey in the new game less enjoyable

2) allowing gamefreak to put more effort into the NEW pokémon and new mechanics, rather than wasting thousands of hours on old ones.

3) balancing becomes increasingly difficult

4) The reason for outrage

I am against national dex coming back, for several reasons.

1) backwards compatability makes older saves less nostalgic and makes the journey in the new game less enjoyable

First of all, the enjoyment of the game should be focused on the journey and the gameplay elements. They want to show pokémon that support the theme and flow of the game, which can only be a huge improvement. Why has pokémon become this seperate genre of gaming where its important to keep backwards compatability and keep on sending through old pokémon? It's only going to become increasingly LESS fun to fill a large dex, meanwhile ripping the original games the pokémon came from, from their precious pokémon. It's way more compelling to me to keep a mythical in a game I got it from, as that can be seen as REAL nostalgic feelings when going back to the old game. Now all you get is this fake nostalgic feeling when sending over a pokémon, for like 5 minutes. And then you either glance at them every now and then and lose the achievement aspect, or you just wait to send them over whenever a new game is out.

2) allowing gamefreak to put more effort into the NEW pokémon and new mechanics, rather than wasting thousands of hours on old ones.

Yes, you could say making a model and upscaling it doesnt take long once you have a library. But as they seem to be changing mechanics, they need to add a ton of new animations, reconsider moves and make it so encountertables aren't overloaded with a ton of superlow % encounters, add stupid minigame-like mechanics like swarms or other time-wasters to make a portion of the old pokémon fit in the game.

3) balancing becomes increasingly difficult

Have you ever played league of legends? Its a game with 150 characters with unique movesets and 4 abilities. The creators, Riot Games, need to push out weekly patches to fix the meta, fix balancing issues and its a never ending cycle. So. Imagine having to do that for a game with over a 1000 characters with multiple thousands of moveset combinations. But wait, there's more! Riot games has a single game they have to adapt the meta to. Gamefreak will probably have 2-3 games with online play at the same time, all with different meta's and different balancing issues they have to fix periodically. This becomes unmaintainable while also working on newer games at the same time. One game could have a completely broken strategy using substitute while in another game substitute has just become a gimic because some new moves and pokémon can counter it completely. Having less pokémon allows for clearer balancing issues and less time to be spent fixing a mechanic.

4) The reason for outrage

Whilst there is definitely a big portion who wants national dex back, they all read or listen to people who know jack s**t about the matter. So many youtubers push their own agenda bcs they want attention by causing this drama or misinterpreting things gamefreak has said just to rally up people. People who want progression and better games and think critically is what we need. I dont say wanting nat dex back is a bad thing, is that they go about it the wrong way.

Thnx for reading :)

Sirfetch'd looks pretty cool. I wonder if Pokemon Shield will get an exclusive evolution, too?

https://www.newsweek.com/sirfetchd-pokemon-sword-shield-4chan-affleck-leak-rumor-1460039

I don't want new Mega-evolutions or new region-specific variants–entirely new evolutions would be great to breathe life into otherwise-dead Pokemon (looking at you, Dunsparce).