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Pokémon Direct announced for February 26th, is 5 minutes long
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Pokemon Go is a Nintendo thing.
Oh man, I REALLY hope they do this. X and Y's story was a bit bland and I would prefer that they do something new rather than just retelling it with slightly more polish.
After seeing how awesome the Delta episode part of ORAS's post game was, I want to see them try some more stuff in that same vein. It was my favorite part of those games because it was such a breath of fresh air.
ArchedThunder
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Because Pokemon "Z" hasn't been announced. If it was for a previously announced game they would specify that as they always have.
The XY Direct was 11 minutes and about 7 of those were a retrospective of the franchise. 5 minutes is enough.
Heh, just when I was thinking "do we really need anymore Directs until the NX comes out?" here we are.
Not sure why people think "5 mins? That's not long enough for anything new" when it is a WW thing. Sounds like we're spoiled by long directs...looking forward to it regardless.
Not sure why people think "5 mins? That's not long enough for anything new" when it is a WW thing. Sounds like we're spoiled by long directs...looking forward to it regardless.
Because the game is not revealed, so it's just a Pokémon Direct.
It's illogical for them to call it a Pokémon ____ Direct if that game is the thing being revealed
But Pokemon GO could also be big news!
Maybe of cheapskatness.
Then it'd be a Pokémon GO Direct
Not quite. It's more of a TPC thing, but Nintendo is involved. They're behind the Pokémon GO+
But they gotta get your hopes up to Go download the app.
ArchedThunder
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If it was Pokemon Go they'd want people to know that.
We all know the Superbowl advert was a Pokemon Go promotion in disguise. Maybe, maybe, this is the same.
Obviously you have way more knowledge in regards to Pokemon than myself, but as far as I'm aware Nintendo is providing the legwork in regards to the distribution and the hardware, correct? As I recall, Iwata was one of the minds behind the idea and the two (Nintendo and TPC) have always had a mutual and symbiotic relationship.
Art.Menegatti
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Wow, TWO Direct threads today and it finally happened!
Bring it on!
I miss you Iwata so much.
MaximumSpider
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Hope it's not GO (doubt it is), because I'm ready for a new main game.
If it was GO why not call it a Pokemon GO Direct?
The hardware for sure, yeah
We obviously don't know the specifics yet, but it was a TPC lead venture that Ishihara then brought Iwata in on
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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That was one of my favorite directs, it's a shame I ended up not liking the game when I finally played it but the hype train was fun.
MaximumSpider
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they would want people to know about it because it's a big app coming from Nintendo.
Japanmanx3
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5 minutes?
NeonZ
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There's free movement, but the overall world design still is made following a "tileset" approach that has no reason to exist in a 3d game - and that's actually an even bigger issue in ORAS than in XY, since they often just took the 2d areas to 3d without really attempting to make their geometry more natural at all.
The Direct that revealed X/Y was 11 minutes and 7 of them were devoted to the history of the series.
MaximumSpider
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Just enough to announce the new main game!
It's because movement puzzles require the tileset nature.
Axe the tileset and you kill at least half of the puzzles in the game which have been a feature since G1.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Kyogre's an Orca, they'd be wrong anyways.
You can still do movement puzzles without the whole game being tileset, I was just playing a dungeon in Tales of Graces with block-sliding that did it just fine.
Pokemon XD featured environmental puzzles with no tileset.
As stated earlier, I'd rather Gen 7 not be trapped on the 3DS. The thing is kinda already on its way out, no need to prolong the system's life with the NX Platform incoming.
Yeah, pretty much this.
Have someone at Gamefreak play a Zelda game. These puzzles work in 3D.
I really doubt this will be Gen 7 for various reasons.
Well if that's the case, we need tons of Mega Evos, and all of them are dolphins
Yeah, a big farewell Gen VI game sounds about right. I'm super excited since I skipped ORAS and I put like 120+ hours into X/Y, so I'm more than ready to get my hands on a new entry. I don't even mind if they just reuse the X/Y map, I'll be there day 1 regardless.
Also, 3D on all the time, pls.
Also, 3D on all the time, pls.
Vanillalite
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Z gonna be trapped on the 3ds too.
Honestly I'd rather them just skip this shit all together if it means we can get an NX Pokemon that much sooner.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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MaximumSpider
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No, I love the low amount Kalos had. Had a lot more quality over quantity. Now if Z did introduce more Pokemon, hopefully most of them are as good as the new Pokemon in Kalos.
Man, this sounds familiar...except 3 years ago
Also just rewatched the pokemon direct from 2013. That trailer was like a minute or so long. Again, 5 minutes should be plenty
madstarr12
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Hmm, it'll be a mystery what could be in it. I guess they could reveal Pokemon Z, or Pokemon XZ and YZ. It could also just be trailers of Pokken and RGBY + new Detective Pikachu trailer too.
3DS is a fading system that is running on fumes, it isn't comparable to B/W on the healthy DS. At all.
You will get Mega Evos but no dolphins.
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