Pokemon Direct : new Pokemon games! Sword / Shield

[Leave a Whisper]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/10/01/exp-share-is-baked-into-pokemon-sword-and-shield

I've got no issue with this. The exp share is a great feature that eliminates some of the tediousness of grinding and takes the sting out of training up pokemon that are late bloomers, so to speak. Now its just like any other rpg with random encounters.

[Carrehz]

Doesn't bother me, either. I always used it, I can see why others would dislike the change though.

Looks like that site has some other info, I think most of this is new:

http://www.gameinformer.com/pokemon

- HMs aren't returning (no surprises here, since they were missing from Sun/Moon too)
- Apparently the main reason for cutting the dex down was because in the past, it's often come down to having to decide between having every Pokemon in the game, or adding a new feature. Pokemon take up a lot of space, I guess.
- Pokemon that don't make the cut for this game, will return in future games.
- this thing about raid battling doesn't really mean anything to me (maybe it'd make more sense if I was a PoGo person), so I'll just link to it
- There's going to be an autosave feature in the game, but you'll be able to turn it off if you'd rather save it manually (THANK GOODNESS)
- this thing, idk how to summarize it either, but it sounds interesting. Doesn't make a difference to me - I don't give a fig about ~competitive~ battling or anything like that, I just use my favourites x) But it does sound very intriguing, I'd like to hear more about it. As someone who's always an advocate of using the Pokemon you like instead of ones that have the most IVs or w/e, it's nice to hear the game makers pushing that line of thinking too ^^

[Pokeyonekenobie]

Anybody see anything on the "live camera" yet?  All I've seen is floating dust specks. 

[Ragamuffin]

Anybody see anything on the "live camera" yet?  All I've seen is floating dust specks.

Morelull and Pikachu were confirmed. How exciting...

[Harmonie]

Yeah I heard the first one that showed up was Pikachu and I knew not to expect much. Pikachu has already been confirmed and was the most obvious one.

[Ragamuffin]

Phantump now...

Can we get on to the exciting ones? It might take a while seeing this thing runs for 24 hours...

[Sora]

I think I just saw something, as did others. But I don't have the patience to sit and stare for 24 hours, so I only caught a glimpse when I moved through the tabs.

[Leave a Whisper]

Now eventually, you might have actual pokemon on your pokemon live stream right? *taps window* Hello! * rubs and cleans window*

[Pokeyonekenobie]

Now eventually, you might have actual pokemon on your pokemon live stream right? *taps window* Hello! * rubs and cleans window*

 

[Sora]

Is there any reason Sonia didn't use Honey to lure some wild 'mons in? Is she even still there?!

[Pokeyonekenobie]

Maybe the surprise is that the Galar region doesn't actually have any Pokemon and it's all a hoax.

[Carrehz]

Maybe the surprise is that the Galar region doesn't actually have any Pokemon and it's all a hoax.

[Leave a Whisper]

Maybe the surprise is that the Galar region doesn't actually have any Pokemon and it's all a hoax.

  We should have np filling out the dex eh Pokeyone?

[Pokeyonekenobie]

The only pokemon I've managed to see on this thing is Phantump.  I heard something running but I didn't actually see anything.  Maybe I'll just wait and look up images later from people who are getting screenshots.

[Leave a Whisper]

We saw a pikachu and an impidimp and a weird white creature with iridescent rainbowy hair.


Someone else spotted cottonee and an unknown pink thing and possibly a wooloo.