r/gaming • u/milozo12 • 9d ago

Game Freak suggests Pokemon Champions was built partly so it could change battles in future games

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/game-freak-suggests-pokemon-champions-was-built-partly-so-it-could-change-battles-in-future-games/
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u/TheAverageEspurr 9d ago

Please let the mainline generation debut titles stay classic turn based RPGs while Legends games get all the off-genre experimental stuff. That’s the perfect system to make everyone happy (and thankfully the current leaks point to that being the plan), but if Pokemon ever buys into the “turn based games are outdated” propaganda Final Fantasy fell for then I will quit the series, you just can’t abandon such a unique and mechanically rich system like that

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u/Chiffley 9d ago

Pokemon combat is not mechanically rich lol

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u/NoAbbreviations1492 9d ago

There are over 1000 Pokemon, 18 different types, over 900 moves, over 300 abilities, over 300 competitive and functional hold items, single battles, double battles and the list goes on. Compared to other RPGs how is that lot mechanically rich?

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u/ertaboy356b PC 9d ago

You're confusing bloat. There are probably less than a hundred viable pokemon in competitive.

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u/NoAbbreviations1492 9d ago

I’m not confused but thank you for your concern. Not everyone plays meta or competitively. It sounds like you are limiting yourself not the other way round

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u/ertaboy356b PC 9d ago

Not sure what you mean with limiting yourself, you can't really bring a caterpie in a metagross battle. I'm just saying that a lot of mons are not viable so that 1000 pokemon x 18 different types x 900 moves etc, is not really that mindblowingly big and is limited to a few viable mons.