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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl and Legends Arceus release dates announced
jshackles
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Shame Arceus won't be out by Christmas. I guess that's by design though, so it doesn't eat into what will inevitably be massive holiday sales for the Diamond / Pearl remakes.
ValiantTraveler
Member
I like the boxarts for BDSP. Nothing special but they work. But the one for Arceus is great, it has a slight Mystery Dungeon vibe with the different Pokémon standing together.
Absurdly close release dates. Feels like the Pokemon Company's greed knows no bounds, they just REFUSE to take their time with any one game.
It also implies that they aren't big on one of these two games. Perhaps it's the outsourced remake that looks far lower effort than previous remakes. Perhaps they see Arceus as an experimental spin-off that might not catch on. But releasing both within two months of each other almost ensures neither will be the sales hit it could have been with a year to breath on its own.
If I was a cynic I might wonder if they're going to put out a deliberately half-assed open world pokemon game just so fans stop asking for it ever again.
It also implies that they aren't big on one of these two games. Perhaps it's the outsourced remake that looks far lower effort than previous remakes. Perhaps they see Arceus as an experimental spin-off that might not catch on. But releasing both within two months of each other almost ensures neither will be the sales hit it could have been with a year to breath on its own.
If I was a cynic I might wonder if they're going to put out a deliberately half-assed open world pokemon game just so fans stop asking for it ever again.
Hosam6xavi
Banned
Pokemon Arceus is way earlier than I thought
The demo they showed the game looked like it was early in development
The demo they showed the game looked like it was early in development
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Pokemon Arse looked like shit
Missingnomer
Member
Pokemon Legends Arceus releasing in January confirms it will be trash. The first and only trailer looked like an early build of some demo for upper management. I can't imagine it being much better than what we saw, but it will make more money than most other games, so who gives a rat's ass.
I am still going to buy it because I am a loser
Banjo64
cumsessed
I’m not a graphics snob by any stretch of the imagination, but Arceus looked pretty lacklustre in the earlier showing. I thought it was still in early development. If it’s anything like the wild area in Sword/Shield, where Pokémon are poppining in from about 5 meters away, then forget about it.
Hardensoul
Member
StormCell
Member
Expect objects popping in at about 5 meters away then. My confidence in GameFreak products is pretty low, and I was hoping that they would make an honest effort and give this game about 3 years to bake while also enlisting the help of Nintendo and Monolithsoft to give this world the polish it deserves. Alas, nope.
mcjmetroid
Member
Let's see;
A remake of a DS game that nobody holds nostalgia for.
And an open world game that looked as if it needed 3 more years in the oven coming out early next week.
Next!
A remake of a DS game that nobody holds nostalgia for.
And an open world game that looked as if it needed 3 more years in the oven coming out early next week.
Next!
Codes 208
Member
I was expecting arceus sometime mid next year so this is a pleasant surprise.
You definitely don’t speak for me, fourth gen is best gen (especially if it were platinum)
The Chairman
Member
Watch the reason for Arceus January release is because it's a launch Switch Pro game 
Captain Toad
Banned
supernova8
Banned
I guess we have to thank all the people who keep buying it in the millions every single time.
I never played Sword/Shield but it looked like trash from the videos I watched of people playing.
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. I enjoyed Gen 4 a lot, even more than Gen 3 (still love Gen 3).
The diversity in the biomes really stood out to me in D&P.
Cutty Flam
Banned
Wow, there’s actually a lot of Pokémon games for the Nintendo Switch. Might be time to ease back into the greatness of Pokémon series
Has anyone here played every single Pokémon game?
Has anyone here played every single Pokémon game?
Astral Dog
Member
ParaSeoul
Member
Interesting take
Skifi28
Member
For the rest of us that it's not our money but our mother's, I'm afraid we won't be getting them.
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