There's conflicting reports at the moment; it's not entirely clear.

From what I can tell it's like a glitch Smash had a while ago, if your SD card is offbrand or formatted, it'd delete your save data as Nintendo were unable to replicate the glitch at HQ

As the only save data on my SD card is Yugioh and a little bit of Kirby so I can test the physical copy for the glitch. My SD card is Nintendo licensed.

The absolute PR storm of SWSH is beautiful.

Despite all the issues, who’s been playing Sword & Shield and have you been enjoying it?

Speaking of, anyone got a spare $50 for a loser like me to be able to grab Sword/Shield? :lol

Well if I could I let you play the game for me since I so busy these days not a lot of time to play. Matrixbeast there not much it the game it similar to the graphs of let go eevee just to give you an idea. Still feels weird not having favorites mons in the game.

I just enjoy playing Pokemon. It's my de-stresser :lol

If you don't own Sword and Shield and are still on the fence about it let me tell you. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNLESS YOU CAN GET IT FOR LIKE $30 OR LESS.

Why? I've played through the game and I definitely feel it's much more worth the pricetag than many recent entries.

Not much of a story till post game. Dialogue is weird and akward at times. Stufff just happens and no real surprises. Gameplay is average If this was a Gameboy game I would have nothing bad to say. Things seem oddly safe. At least there is a post game even though even that was bad for different reasons.

That is all I can remember right now, will post more if I remember more. I wanted to like this more but Ijust can't and so far this was the worst main game for me. This game would probably be great for a kid but for me a guy where dropping $50 on one thing is a lot of money this game I just can't recommend at full retail.

Also all the cut features including National Dex, Megas, and Z-Moves.

Eh, given that the last game didn't have a national dex until Bank was updated months later and Megas weren't available until you'd completed the entire game, I think it's very comparable in quality to SM. And I can't say I'm missing Z-moves.

What I'm left with is a very solid and focused entry that I feel a lot more motivated to not just replay, but even get into competitively for the first time in years.

I think the point is that over half the actual Pokémon are missing, not that the national dex itself is missing.

I know, and those Pokémon also weren't available to Sun/Moon until Bank updated either. And yet, that didn't hold Sun/Moon back from being a good game. Almost as if it's a feature not many people used and they just enjoyed the already vast in-game selection.

And? Both Sun/Moon and Sword/Shield are good games, but SuMo had far more to offer because you could transfer in your older Pokémon, and you could breed them, or teach them new moves,or play with them in Amie/Refresh.
I'm genuinely enjoying my playthrough of Sword, and, thankfully, the only older Pokémon I wanted for my party - Sylveon and Tsareena - both made it in.
But two of my all time favourite Pokémon - Piplup and Liligant - aren't. I would have loved to go camping with them, or run around the Wild Area with them, and I do find it upsetting that you can't.
Does no National Dex make SwSh bad games? In my opinion, no. But it does make them worse games than SuMo/USUM.

No, I'd disagree; as someone who does sorely miss my Infernape and Crobat and Porygon-Z. Would I have liked them in? Yes, but if they were given, say, another year to work on the game; I would prefer to see them prioritise improving other aspects of it and giving new, original content. If Pokémon wishes to grow as a series, it has to move away from being £50 updates to The Big Pokémon Collection and improve other aspects. It's a nice feature, but not one that a lot of people actually use and one that would take away from the more important parts of the game.

I will say that if they're keeping transfer around, though, then it would make sense to have a larger selection than 435 -- I personally would have said that around 550, or if you're pushing it 600 is a better more representative number. Further, I think they should have had all starters; I think those are the ones most people would care about transferring up. Not everyone used, for instance, Pidove or Roggenrola in their Gen 5 games; but you can all but guarantee that most will have used Snivy, Tepig or Oshawott.

But I think asking for every single creature and feature Game Freak has ever made is asking them to put all their workload on providing us everything from the past rather than moving forward and creating something new.

Though, really, all these problems arise from them bringing out a new game yearly. Maybe if they were given anything other than the most ludicrous work schedule in the world, we could have had more content...

Yes, and all of those are fine opinions - but so is missing the national dex. Not everyone that misses it and marks the games down because of it is doing so out of spite, or for the hell of it. It is a perfectly valid opinion to have.

I do definitely agree on the topic of the starters, though - and that the whole 'game a year' think is really hurting them...

Oh, totally; and I agree that it hurts not having it around. Like I said, I'm really sad that I won't be able to transfer up so many of my Pokémon -- and I certainly don't want to chastise anyone simply for feeling sad about it. I think I've just gotten to used to people being a bit too extreme about it and creating awful discourse about it; sorry if I came across too strong because of it.

Funnily enough, one of the examples you brought up - Lilligant - is one of the Pokémon I would have specifically added to the game besides the starters since Whimsicott is in but she isn't

I doubt we will see new Mega Evolutions until Gen 6 gets a remake which probably won't happen for at least another 15 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRUWgM31BRQ&t=1s

Still no National Dex, no Megas, and no Z-Moves. Pass.

How much they charge for this will determine how I feel.

The pass is 30 bucks, half the price a third version would be and without forcing you to start all over again

I do want Gen 4 remakes because that Gen got me back into Pokemon for a while. I loved the story in Platinum version with the new lore that they added into the game.

Regi Drake is also nice. Damn might just have to get it.

Zapdos became a Chocobo. I can see why the only people who are upset about the DLC is that they want to spend more money

As someone who isn't much into playing Pokémon anymore, the ideo of region forms for legendaries is fascinating and the designs for them look awesome.

Sorry for the double post, but WTF? :lol

https://i.imgur.com/Pautk1H.jpg

Please tell me they are joking. They can't seriously think RegiDrake is Galarian Cubone.

Oh they can. And I don’t know if should cut them some slack or not since I have no idea how their work process functions, but if this was one guy rushing it out as fast as possible then well, I’ve made some dumb mistakes in that situation too.

Anyways, as much as I like the idea of new Regi's... a dragon one? This is kind of a "one of these is not like the other"-situation here, you have inanimate objects / elements with Rock, Ice, Steel, Electric and then... Dragon? Huh? Unless I've missed something this doesn’t add up :lol

Personally I would’ve made a Grass-one, especially since Regigigas already has little bushes on him. The Electric-one they could've incorporated as the "power source" this behemoth and the Grass-one already works as is.

But I guess trying to fit it all into Regigigas only unnecessarily limits creativity, and the Dragon Regi does look really cool. And as far as I know Regigigas only molded the other three, they were not born out of elements present in itself. Although this means - did he grind up some poor dragons into a little meat puppet or how did this work?

Maybe it's suppose to be made out of dragon type bones. Would like to see a Super Hive used for RegiBug if they ever do it.

Regional variants on legendaries is a neat way of keeping them fresh and interesting. I can't wait to see more!

I can't say my thoughts on this have changed terribly much since the first teaser -- this is certainly a shameless, lifeless recreation of the original. One thing that does stand out is that there appear to be a few new scenes in there relating to Team Rocket (the organisation, not the trio) but hardly ones that seem terribly interesting or worth seeing the movie for. I never liked the interpretation of Team Rocket as this sort of generic world-conquering legendary-hunting threat anyway; they were originally presented as and work best as successful (well, until a 10-year-old shows up) organised crime.


Anyone been playing SwSh recently? I'm really looking forward to the DLC; it's not just the content we would have gotten in a potential third version for cheaper, it seems far beyond the scope of any content third versions have added in the past. Usually it goes as far as a battle facility place and a legendary-hunting place, but here we've got new fully fledged story and lore and entirely new very large areas to roam around. I'm very happy with getting a lot more for a lot less.

Watching Indigo League due to Boomarang skipping it and Orange Island on DVD.

As someone who's been broadly fine with SwSh's decisions so far (my disappointments mostly lie in the game not having quite as much content as it could; whether in regards to dexit or otherwise), this... is something I absolutely hate.

You can say as much as you want about other things that have been done with Pokémon's pricing recently; but that mostly comes from decisions outwith of Pokémon specifically (NSO is hardly GF's policy, nor is the standard switch game price), or subjectivity (you can argue DLC held back content to make you pay more than standard price for it, but you can argue this for any game including some of the best practises of it like Smash and it's ultimately up to the person to decide value).

But this is straight up a hefty price increase for apparently no reason.
Bank costing £5 a year was... a bit frustrating, but mostly acceptable. It was contentious to begin with because the previously free service of Pokémon transfer was free as long as you had the games, but that was its biggest crime; otherwise, £5 a year to cover server costs for a storage service is acceptable and understandable. But now things have been increased to £15 a year, for... no good reason?? They doubled the storage space, but it's not like there's an option to have half the storage space for £8 or something. The extra features are also hardly stressing out the servers; maybe GTS and Wonder Trade but that's being offered for free, so... huh?

Even if some of these features are free, they're also ones that really should have been in the game to begin with or at least added to the game via a later free update. At best making them part of an external free service is just very awkward, clunky and inconvenient and actively discourages me from using it. An IV judge being part of the premium package is, at best, just strange when it's available in SwSh's base game. And then despite the free plan existing, once again; transfer is one of the ones locked behind a paywall. ... oh, and you still need to pay for the outdated Bank service to even be able to transfer, so that's extra awesome.

There's so many decisions here that are bizarre or just straight-up scummy. When you get right down to it; this is asking triple the price for a service that ultimately does not have the value to justify it for any but the most hardcore players and those that just have money to burn, and it especially does not help when there's other costs this generation like NSO.

I was so happy to see the DLC because it actually showed Game Freak moving to a much better, customer friendly model. But, wow, they just saved all their malice for this one.

Honestly...I think it's a fair price.

For what's being offered, not really. Especially next to NSO - which, for a single year subscription for one person; is pretty much the same price - it's really a pittance. This is a storage system with a couple hardly notable bells and whistles attached, and should barely be worth anything. At least with NSO I get, like, a huge library worth of games. With Home I get... maybe Hidden Ability starters eventually.

It's just greedy.

Yeah for full Home functionality meaning including Bank, you need to spend 41 bucks a year