Hot take: Gen 5 is the worst gen
I respect you opinion Milkman but I've never disagreeded with something more. Gen 6 is comfortably the worst gen while I see gen 5 as the peak.
I can forgive Gen 6 being the first full game into 3D (sans consoles at the time) and I really liked Megas. Yes, Kalos was a bit empty but I was hoping it would be rectified in Z that never game. ORAS on the other hand is easily one of the 3 best pairs of games which came out as part of Gen 6. Hoping Legends Z-A can give us some Gen 6 love. The Kalos Pokemon also had some fun designs.
I’d be happy if they never released another new mainline game and just kept cycling through remakes of Gen 1-5.
There wasn't a huge amount of battling in Arceus, catching was definitely the big drawcard and they did it exceptionally well.
The 2 current "theories" I've read have either been it being set after the war when the Ultimate Weapon is fired and rebuilding the city or super into the future. With the Paris catacombs being an explorable area.
The game is much more about catching. You get some forced NPC fights but basically all wild Pokemon can be caught without having to enter a battle. It's a fun game and I do recommend it.
Gen 5 has improved in estimation over time due to an overall detailed storyline that felt like it was coming from a number of angles plus, importantly, the fact that there are a number of really good Gen 5 Pokemon (Excadrill, Conkeldurr, Seismitoad, Krookodile, Darmanitan, Cofagrigus, Zoroark, Reuniclus, Amoongus, Ferrothorn, Glavnatula, Chandelure, Bisharp, Braviary, Mandibuzz, Hyrdreigon and Volcaron and the minor legendaries and mythicals are cool, the box legendaries are a bit lame though). Those two factors made replays really strong, because you knew where the cool pokemon were and had a good story line to play through.
Really, very interesting I don't know much about it at all other than there being like 'captain' pokemon or something. I'll have to give it a go. What's the point of having pokemon if you don't battle them?
This was my vibe from the trailer and what i'm going for. Also, i think a futuristic setting makes sense for a number of reasons - 1 in the context of Scarlet/Violet past and future, with one Legends game set in the past it makes sense for the other to be set more in the future and 2 being that I think they'll want to introduce Megas for the Kalos pokemon. It doesn't make sense for there to be Mega Evolutions for Kalos pokemon in the past because why weren't there megas for them in the X & Y games?
No one could find their Mega Stones/Mega Stones were too rare/Mega Stones got destroyed/that Pokemon was removed from Kalos completely before the events of XY
It's a much more traditional "catch 'em all" concept - that's your goal here, not becoming the Champion etc. I can't remember the details, but you're a researcher and get points for catching particular Pokemon. Of course, that sounds incredibly boring if you're thinking of the usual game mechanics, but Arceus flips it on its head - you throw Pokeballs in the overworld, and different Pokemon behave differently requiring different strategies.
Yeah some Mons will try to kill you if they so much as smell you in the area
