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Gaocarmina
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Considering the games will release in 2027, a part of me wonder if there's anything involving contests or the Battle Tower for that matter.

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  • UnovanZorua
    UnovanZorua Member Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited March 11 #2

    I really hope we have something other than battles and catching. The last one we had that actually had some amount of content was camping in SwSh. SV's picnics were boring and empty and felt more like they were supposed to be something to help with battles and catching, like a precursor to SV's donuts, than something to have fun with. Camping looked better and had a fun minigame whenever you made curry.

    And still, SwSh felt empty in comparison to previous games. Back in Alola we had Poké Pelago and Pokémon Refresh and Mantine Surfing and Ultra Warp rides. In Kalos we had Trainer PR videos and Pokémon-Amie and Super Training and style points and roller skating and a lot of cafes and most of them had cool side quests. In ORAS Hoenn we had Secret Bases (that you could actually decorate with things other than statues) and Contests and Pokémon-Amie and Super Training. In Unova we had movies and unique side quests and musicals and Join Avenue and Entralink.

    I miss having things to do other than train and catch Pokémon and I hope they return in Winds and Waves.

  • Evolve8eon
    Evolve8eon Member Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If there is side content I want it to be not to small amount of content but not to big amount of content

  • TheJeffers
    TheJeffers Member Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I doubt it, unfortunately. For all their grand claims about open worlds and non-linear progression, the games have become a straight badge run with a sidestory for the region's team. Not every piece of side-quest or post-game content was spectacular, but it helped the world feel bigger and avoid the sense that the region just stopped the second you became champion.

    Online play has replaced battle towers and DLC has replaced post-game storylines. People will pay their subscriptions and buy the expansion packs. Twice, to go with the two copies of the game they bought.

    I know Game Freak are struggling to get the base game badge run complete and fully functional these days, but the games could really benefit from making their open world not feel like a linear path to the champion fight.

    Surfing might be some kind of mini-game or side-quest given the name of one of the games, what we have seen of the region and the presence of the board on the protagonist's backpack, but it could just as easily be purely a traversal mechanic replacing ride Pokémon.

    Contests had a very different flavour to gyms, but functionally they were Pokémon battles with different objectives. An alternative challenge or contests to Pokémon battles is a good concept, but contests weren't the answer.

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