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Game Freak still operates at the level of a "Double A" company (as opposed to a "Triple A" studio). They probably have about 50 or so people handling development and other jobs needed to run a small company.
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https://twitter.com/Doodlelot/status/1104698458118807552
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Mar 11, 2019 04:19
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And people were apprehensive about Sun and Moon's artstyle...
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https://twitter.com/griegriegrie/status/1104676210963955712 Next week it's Precure (Glitter Force for the west)
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Zuzie posted:Game Freak still operates at the level of a "Double A" company (as opposed to a "Triple A" studio). They probably have about 50 or so people handling development and other jobs needed to run a small company. This is true and something I came to terms with recently. They'll never grow and operate on a AAA scale, because that just risks a game getting delayed, and the IP is too big to not get a new generation every 3 years on the clock. If it was just games, I'm sure we'd be getting an RPG with camera controls and stuff. But it's not just a game; if it got delayed by 4 months for whatever reasonable situation, that'd gently caress over the anime, the anime movies, the card game, the toys, the keychains, the towels and all that crap that's planned out a year in advance minimum. If we assume Z did exist at one point, then Z was the scare that makes them want to play it safe. It wasn't gonna make November of its intended year, so instead they ignored it and let Zygarde and Ash-Greninja show up in everything else that was coming up rather htan delay those things to match up with a delayed Z release.
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The Pokémon Center in Sunshine City owns. It has a full-size Solgaleo and had a bunch of holiday exclusive plushies.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:They'll never grow and operate on a AAA scale, because that just risks a game getting delayed, and the IP is too big to not get a new generation every 3 years on the clock. That and they want to avoid going over Dunbar's number (the number of stable relationships a person can maintain, which is about 150). Many times that a work lost its vision or underlying theme is when too many people have different ideas that all get included. Too many cooks spoil the broth after all. As much as we joke about the nonsense Pokedex information on each Pokémon, there's at least some kind of coherency with Pokémon's main themes and world. Zuzie fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Mar 11, 2019 04:57
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To be clear, the largest Pokemon Center in Japan literally has only about 130 of the original 150 plus fewer than 20 post-RBY mons for plushes. You can get a Grimer but not a Togepi, Celebi or Mudkip. Many fan favorites are nowhere to be seen. It's hardly a matter of space; multiple plushes appear across different shelves. My favorite thing, which I bought, was this cookie box whose cover looks vaguely like the start screen of Pokemon Yellow.  All in all you'd be better off shopping online from Etsy and other places.
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Mar 11, 2019 04:59
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The lack of non-Smash/non-Detective Pikachu amiibos absolutely fascinates and baffles me. I know The Pokemon Company probably thinks it would interfere with their own toy sales, but...c'mon! Sun and Moon should have at least had amiibo for the starters! And if they don't want to make Pokemon amiibo for Pokemon, then make them for the human characters. They don't get as much merch, and you can't tell me that if they made amiibo for the playable characters that they wouldn't sell.
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Mar 11, 2019 05:06
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I'd be surprised if Pokémon Sword and Shield didn't have amiibo compatibility since it'll be the first time that they'll be developing a mainline title on a system that started off with amiibo support (the 3DS only had it with later models or a separate accessory) . Although I bet it'll only be compatible with the Smash Bros amiibo and not a line dedicated to Sword and Shield. My guess would be you scan the amiibo and you get the Pokémon represented with moves similar to their Smash Bros counterpart, like scanning an Incineroar amiibo will get you an Incineroar with Cross Chop, Revenge, Darkest Lariat and Vital Throw (the closest thing to Alolan Whip).
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Mar 11, 2019 05:19
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At some point I need to get a set of three starter plushies (must be same gen, not necessarily newest gen) and put them in front of my Nephew so he can make his Most Important Choice. (He'll be turning 3 this summer, not sure when I should plan to go ahead with it :P)
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Mar 11, 2019 05:22
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Just draw them in chalk on the driveway that's what me and my 5 year old cousin did last summer he got a huge kick out of my terrible Pikachu drawing
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Mar 11, 2019 05:28
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Let's Go came out last November so of course you're gonna find merch featuring the first 150 in stock when Pokemon Yellow HD came out fairly recently. No mudkips is a little odd because its one of the more popular starters and starters in general are safe bets if you're looking for a variety of products but something like Togepi hasn't been series relavent for three generations spanning seven waves of mainline games. I mean what do you expect?
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Vegetable posted:I went to the largest Pokémon Center in Tokyo last week and it was pretty pathetic. They don’t even have plushes of every mon. No cool events or in-game gifts either — brought my Switch for nothing. I brought a dollop of yen to spend and genuinely struggled to find interesting things to buy. lmfao
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[busting thru the door of the game freak office] listen here you stupid pieces of poo poo, what the gently caress are you even doing. your big store doesn't have 807 different varieties of toy or a special prize for going inside the big store. i brought my game boy and told the cashier to put a mew on it and it was like i was speaking a different language. and then come to find out you dont have a goddamn pikachu roller coaster? you're all a bunch of clowns [swatting everything off the receptionist's desk] get out of here, let me do this.
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Mar 11, 2019 05:35
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Heads up guys. I just received a Marshadow and another shiny Mew in the wonder trade if anybody wants these guys or anything else on the shiny list just give me a ring.
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Mar 11, 2019 05:36
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Flopsy posted:Heads up guys. I just received a Marshadow and another shiny Mew in the wonder trade if anybody wants these guys or anything else on the shiny list just give me a ring. Vandar posted:The lack of non-Smash/non-Detective Pikachu amiibos absolutely fascinates and baffles me. I know The Pokemon Company probably thinks it would interfere with their own toy sales, but...c'mon! Sun and Moon should have at least had amiibo for the starters!
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Mar 11, 2019 05:39
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:Aaah, I want the Marshadow something fierce but I'm on Japan time so arranging a trade would probably be a nightmare. Are you on vacation or is it something more permanent? I can trade right now if you want.
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Flopsy posted:Are you on vacation or is it something more permanent? I can trade right now if you want.
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Mar 11, 2019 05:49
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:Long term employment, although approaching the end of my term here. Either way, it's another half a year out and I'm at work. T_T I appreciate the offer though! I'll hold on to it for you until you're able to trade okay?
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Mar 11, 2019 05:50
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Flopsy posted:I'll hold on to it for you until you're able to trade okay?
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Mar 11, 2019 05:56
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Eastern standard time. Just give me heads up on here when you're available.
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Vandar posted:The lack of non-Smash/non-Detective Pikachu amiibos absolutely fascinates and baffles me. I know The Pokemon Company probably thinks it would interfere with their own toy sales, but...c'mon! Sun and Moon should have at least had amiibo for the starters! Funny that they have did e-Reader cards and the Pokemon Rumble U NFC Figure (that even had shiny ver) for the Wii U. But amiibo, nope leave that to the companies to do that for us if they want. They could even just do amiibo cards like Animal Crossing and even have it cross with trading cards like they did the e-Reader ones.
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Maybe it's also because the "toys to life" craze is dying down and I think amiibo are the only ones that haven't become discontinued yet.
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Flopsy posted:Eastern standard time. Just give me heads up on here when you're available. Surely it's Eastern Daylight Time as of today?  I'm assuming you're in the US.
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Nth Doctor posted:Surely it's Eastern Daylight Time as of today? Yesh indeed.
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Howdy pokemon thread I have a random question for y'all. There was a website linked I think on SA where somebody went and ranked every Pokémon line but went into so much detail about the background of each line that it was really interesting. The person writing it was really into the bugs if I remember correctly.
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PASS THE MASH posted:Howdy pokemon thread I have a random question for y'all. There was a website linked I think on SA where somebody went and ranked every Pokémon line but went into so much detail about the background of each line that it was really interesting. The person writing it was really into the bugs if I remember correctly. That would be Bogleech. http://www.bogleech.com/pokemon/parchive.html His stuff is really good. He even reviewed the Pokemon from the Gold/Silver beta that leaked out recently!
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Be sure to read his review on Team Skull too.
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Vandar posted:That would be Bogleech. Yeah Bogleech writes some pretty awesome science and horror articles as well if I recall.
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Iirc Pokémon Centers rotate their stock pretty regularly and have various themes and stuff, you can't expect to see everything in one visit.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Iirc Pokémon Centers rotate their stock pretty regularly and have various themes and stuff, you can't expect to see everything in one visit. they introduce a new, limited edition product line every other saturday if it does really well they keep it
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absolutely anything posted:[busting thru the door of the game freak office] listen here you stupid pieces of poo poo, what the gently caress are you even doing. your big store doesn't have 807 different varieties of toy or a special prize for going inside the big store. i brought my game boy and told the cashier to put a mew on it and it was like i was speaking a different language. and then come to find out you dont have a goddamn pikachu roller coaster? you're all a bunch of clowns [swatting everything off the receptionist's desk] get out of here, let me do this. It's friggin weird how entitled that guy is lol
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Vandar posted:That would be Bogleech. I agree with most of the ratings I've read so far but he gives Gothitelle 5 stars which seriously brings his judgement in question 
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Vegetable posted:I went to the largest Pokémon Center in Tokyo last week and it was pretty pathetic. They don’t even have plushes of every mon. No cool events or in-game gifts either — brought my Switch for nothing. I brought a dollop of yen to spend and genuinely struggled to find interesting things to buy. Think of all the money they'd be making if only they stocked plushies for *checks notes* jumpluff, linoone, and lumineon.
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Dienes posted:Think of all the money they'd be making if only they stocked plushies for *checks notes* jumpluff, linoone, and lumineon. Those would be friggin great Pokemon to have tho
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There are rumors a Pokemon theme park is in development but honestly I'm not sure it would work well. They translated ok into live action via CGI in a movie but I'm not sure they can transfer into the real world in a satisfying way
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??? It would be a normal rear end theme park with people in mascot costumes and rides with pokemon designs slapped on them just like all the Disney parks. The hell would it not work.
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Maybe if you engineered the Pokemon with a lycene deficiency, that way they couldn't escape into the wild
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