The shiny sound from PLA was such an awesome feature. I was once roaming around the Coronet Highlands. It was a dark, stormy night, so when I flew over the Alpha Rhyperior, I couldn't immediately tell it was shiny, until the shiny sound/sparkles played. It would have been fantastic in SV, especially with how small some pokémon like Pichu or Tandemaus are. And speaking of Tandemaus, barely noticable shinies would be so much easier to identify.
The problem is that the way pokemon despawn, tons of shinies would already be far gone by the time the sound plays. I think that the sparkle should come back, but not the sound.
Gamefreak have this approach to design where they like to make normative decisions about how you’re supposed to play their games. Other companies who make better games try to focus on giving you as much choice as possible as a player.
They should make it toggleable for every single mon in your party, imo. Maybe even make it into some kind of held item, where they give you six copies pretty early on in the game instead of doing something crazy like, I don't know, locking it to only one copy per file, and only giving it to you after catching 1/3rd of the entire regional Pokedex.
@jcnot9712 Game Freak forcing you to play how _they_ want? Next thing you know, you'll tell me that they have an addiction to patterns that has them forgo any sort of difficulty options and force one save file per game even when their contemporaries have been throwing them out like candy since the early-00s.
Overworld Ability effects should also come back since Pokémon have always been the focus in Pokémon that they can do other stuff outside of battles with people helping them.
My most wanted features I want they return: -Infinite TMs. Seriously, if GF wanted no cheating, why they turned one use tms? And even with that, I would not mind if you can get multiple easily, but you have to farm in order to get one which is tedous! -The Battle Tower (or variant) Once you finish the story and the DLC, you end up with NOTHING. Why the removed this Battle facility. I think it gives replayability to the game, now you have to pay an online suscription in order to have replayabilty beacuse if you not, Scarlet and Violet ends there, bye bye!
When XY introduced character customization, they hit peak. To this day I think it's by far the best version we ever got in any game. And that's saying a lot because I don't hold Gen6 in high regards in general.
U forgot to mention: 1.The Set Battle mode which was removed in SV. It was a series staple feature since 1996 Red and Blue. Most ppl speculate that this is done due to the Union Circle mode. This explains how incompetent GF really is. Kinda reminds us of the Challenge mode mess they made in Black2/White2 where they have given fake levels with exp benefits & the SwSh mess where they couldn't give us overworld shinies. They are really incompetent & are rushing for the Holiday season 2. Linking cord=An item that fixed trade evolutions in PLA no longer exists in SV. Bcoz we need to evolve backwards right? Just like SwSh did with LGPE Trade evos were outdated & really need rework just like how fangames do. They are kinda forcing u to take the Online subscription which is paywalled, which also helps in advertising the Ranked matches(which is a much bigger paywall)
I don't know if this really counts as a "feature" but they gotta replace Freeze with Frostbite going forward. Frostbite essentially being Burn for Special Attack was such a great idea, especially since then you could give it a dedicated move that inflicts it like the other statuses have.
1. I want Frostbite. Make it so that moves only have a 10% chance of inflicting it but the chance increase if the user is Ice type and another boost if Snow is on. I don't want Water types freezing everything with their Ice coverage moves, leave the task to Ice types. This mean the status move would also be like Toxic (only 100% accurate if the user is same type). Oh and Frost Orb would be nice. 2. I want Thick Fog back LOL. Maybe just make it so the accuracy is only affected when using single target moves. I want Sound immune to the accuracy drop. 3. Rotation and Triple battles. 4. Some of the old Frontier styles as battle formats (Arena, Palace, Arcade in particular) with lil modifications.
why would you want the return of the fog, if i recall, everyone hated it in gen 4 and why it only existed in DPP, since unless you used the HM defog, fog made the fights EVEN SLOWER then they already where
@@bulborb8756 coz it's funny. It was only annoying coz the NPCs were cheating and that the stat drop also affect spread moves, which don't make sense. If it was modified a bit, it would have been an interesting field effect.
Random grass encounters aren't a thing in S/V and what I really miss about them is their interaction with certain abiities. Like Synchronize to get a pokemon with the same nature or Magnet Pull to force steel type encounters. That was really cool imo!
If I were to tinker with the EXP share system, I'd remove EVs being given to Pokemon not participating in the battle and make a slider ranging from 0% to 50% exp shared in the options menu. That way people can find what works for them.
Rematches and fully fleshed out parties for random trainers in the world would be great, even if they aren’t as “good” as the BB elite four and Geeta but just showing the growth of trainers you’ve encountered throughout your journey as world building, so of course we won’t get it.
Sadly, that’ll almost certainly not happen since trade evolutions increase the chance of someone buying Nintendo Switch Online or even potentially using another Switch and SV copy to trade by yourself. So amazing
@@x_bell1142 Yes. I just really want one, seeing as Bottle Caps exist they need to make a reverse one. I have wanted this for years, and one guy kept leaking a 0 IV Bottle Cap but it never happened.
I want the Pokenav from ORAS or something functionally similar beastiary. "Here's every mon you've encountered in an area, with an indicator of wheter you've found them all or not. If you caught a member of species, can specifically search it out, with chain searches gradually increasing chances of shiny, egg moves, hidden abilities, perfect IVs"
I don't think the Exp share should be a held item or a key item. I think there should just be a toggle in the party menu to turn on or off sharing exp with each individual pokemon, and the options menu should have a setting for having shared exp turned on or off as default.
I can only play Gen 3 on my phone and thankfully the Exp Share is a key item than can be turned on and off. Then in Options we can set the Exp gain to x1, x1.5, x3 or x0. The latter you actually still gain exactly 1 XP, I suppose it was necessary so you can still gain EVs. I usually just set it to x2 since I play with the level cap on (based on difficulty on game start).
Okay this is gonna be a long explanation. Surely they made this decision(Forced Exp share) in a way that benefits them in ways a player won't even imagine: 1. Forced Exp share leads to overlevelling of the traded mons which don't obey you if they are above your current obedience level. Proof? They dislike u for using traded mons-NPCs, Mystery🎁,Home.... Try renaming the mons you get from in-game trades which are already renamed, it won't work. Why? Bcoz they are already nicknamed. Apart from this u have obedience issues too. As nice as they were for giving us a Gengar in SV via trade. The above restrictions are applied to it as well At the worlds🏆 🏆they literally encourage u to get the mon by yourself-meaning that u should buy both the versions to get all the mons u need 2. They aim to make the game too easy & the forced Exp share is a key for them. Proof? Why do u think Pokémon lacks a difficulty mode like other RPGs ? Why do u think base SV & SwSh are damm easy? The Gyms, E4 & Champion ain't any obstacle at all. This is prolly another reason why they haven't given us a battle facility too despite paying for the DLC This would most likely lead players into the Big game: Ranked battles/Tournaments which does have loads of paywalled mons as u already know.
I'm surprised you didn't mention how, in PLA, you can throw a pokeball at a pokemon without having to battle it. I would love if that were brought into the main series
I just want cut scenes to be skippable so god damn much. Even when you switch them off on SV you still have to mash A through so much boring af dialogue and it only skips like 50% of the actual cutscenes that don’t involve button mashing.
Gym/Story battle level scaling being mentioned kind of makes me want to see a "Missing Features that can be easily added to Pokemon" list. Gym level scaling, difficulty options, and even the slightest stat/ability tweaks to every old mon are things that can be done in one or two days casually by a somewhat focused team.
The Link Cable was a godsend; being able to evolve trade evolution without the need to go online made getting Pokémon like Scizor and Alakazam way easier. It baffles me that they didn't include it in Scarlet and Violet.
I want all the features from the gen 6 games tbh. Plus the new ones from SV and the shiny sound !!! I won’t even talk about a difficulty mode because no way we get that . But set mode and toggle exp share is the best difficulty mode they did have
The only thing I really miss is the shiny sound from legends arceus and I could also say the capture system. I miss to hide and throw pokeballs everywhere
While i agree that it's cool you can buy battle items with money instead of BP, i do miss the simulated pvp battles of the various Battle institutes. I.e. all participating pokemon are set to lvl 50 and you play with species clause and item clause. That has existed in every generation since gen 3. What do we have in Scarlet and Violet, the Ace Academy Tournament? Yeah, that's not really a challenge. There is no "endless post-game battling" anymore unless you're down to play online, and i'm sure online battling will stop working once the next generation rolls out.
Is it me or do you guys miss the trainers calling. Honestly think it would help with grinding and maybe they could expand it and give us like a relationship simulator and get cool stuff.
No fishing rods was ass because I basically didn’t get a water type until I had beaten all the titans. I know some of them spawn on beaches but none I liked
You did forget the Battle Facility in SV. I know there really isn't much of a use for them in the base game, but with the introduction of the Blueberry Academy which specializes in battling, and with the new BP currency, it would have been perfect to include. Plus, there would be more of a reason to play the game after the final credits role. Big missed opportunity by GF.
Exp.Share not being turned off is kinda balanced by the PC access being instant. You can just dump the ‘mons who shouldn’t be getting exp in the boxes…..right?
They should get rid of the Freeze status completely, it’s just so dumb. It doesn’t even have its own move that inflicts freeze so why even bother keeping it id it’s so uncompetitive. Instead they should bring back Frostbite from PLA, the best replacement and it should get its own move like Will-o-wisp for burn. There’s no Special equivalent to Intimidate, which fair, but at least it would open new ways to deal with the absurd special attacking legendaries like Calyrex Shadow and Miraidon for example.
officially, it's categorized as main series, but a lot of people consider both it and lgpe different enough from the rest of main series games to be spin-offs
The features that make competitive more approachable aren't enough and no feature like them will ever be enough. There is no reason why in the year of our lord 2024 there is not a competitive or multiplayer mode that is separate from solo adventure, with an interface similar to pokemon showdown that lets you acquire the pokemon you want and adjust them accordingly for multiplayer. Literally no other esport right now has requirements of either hacking or spending several hours to days preparing a team to be functional. The only time spent on competitive pokemon should be spent actually battling or theorizing and crafting various team comps. There should not be a need for pokemon showdown, it should simply exist in the games.
@@gligarguy4010 bad take from you bud. Theres no reason for comp pokemon to only function like every other competitive game on a fan site and not in the real games
@@gligarguy4010he has a point though, making a competitive team let alone a single pokemon is a literal grind. You have to brainlessly hatch eggs and have the perfect IVs which are nothing but a brain cell destroying thing then you have to EV train which the forced exp share makes it so much worse and don’t even get me started on Tera Shards, I know it’s a bit easier now but it still needs improvements
pokemon showdown esists because smogon exists, they cannot make a game that is balanced around both singles and doubles, and people on cartridge ladder will not respect smogon tier for obvious reasons showdown is a necessity if you want to play balanced singles matches
The shiny sound from PLA was such an awesome feature. I was once roaming around the Coronet Highlands. It was a dark, stormy night, so when I flew over the Alpha Rhyperior, I couldn't immediately tell it was shiny, until the shiny sound/sparkles played. It would have been fantastic in SV, especially with how small some pokémon like Pichu or Tandemaus are. And speaking of Tandemaus, barely noticable shinies would be so much easier to identify.
The problem is that the way pokemon despawn, tons of shinies would already be far gone by the time the sound plays. I think that the sparkle should come back, but not the sound.
also the shiny sound is useful when it comes to THOSE shiny's, you know the ones: the shiny's that look identical to the non-shiny
I have no idea why the exp share thing was forced being able to turn it off and on was the best thing to happen to it
Gamefreak have this approach to design where they like to make normative decisions about how you’re supposed to play their games. Other companies who make better games try to focus on giving you as much choice as possible as a player.
They should make it toggleable for every single mon in your party, imo. Maybe even make it into some kind of held item, where they give you six copies pretty early on in the game instead of doing something crazy like, I don't know, locking it to only one copy per file, and only giving it to you after catching 1/3rd of the entire regional Pokedex.
@jcnot9712 Game Freak forcing you to play how _they_ want?
Next thing you know, you'll tell me that they have an addiction to patterns that has them forgo any sort of difficulty options and force one save file per game even when their contemporaries have been throwing them out like candy since the early-00s.
@@jcnot9712it’s exactly why I had more fun playing BOTW and TOTK than any of the mainline pokemon games since 2019
Fr, I used to "Ev Train" during playthroughs, now my Pokemon's Ev's are all over the place since exp share transfers Ev's too
Overworld Ability effects should also come back since Pokémon have always been the focus in Pokémon that they can do other stuff outside of battles with people helping them.
My most wanted features I want they return:
-Infinite TMs. Seriously, if GF wanted no cheating, why they turned one use tms? And even with that, I would not mind if you can get multiple easily, but you have to farm in order to get one which is tedous!
-The Battle Tower (or variant) Once you finish the story and the DLC, you end up with NOTHING. Why the removed this Battle facility. I think it gives replayability to the game, now you have to pay an online suscription in order to have replayabilty beacuse if you not, Scarlet and Violet ends there, bye bye!
When XY introduced character customization, they hit peak. To this day I think it's by far the best version we ever got in any game. And that's saying a lot because I don't hold Gen6 in high regards in general.
Even those deserve the Generation 7 custom colors.
U forgot to mention:
1.The Set Battle mode which was removed in SV. It was a series staple feature since 1996 Red and Blue.
Most ppl speculate that this is done due to the Union Circle mode. This explains how incompetent GF really is. Kinda reminds us of the Challenge mode mess they made in Black2/White2 where they have given fake levels with exp benefits & the SwSh mess where they couldn't give us overworld shinies. They are really incompetent & are rushing for the Holiday season
2. Linking cord=An item that fixed trade evolutions in PLA no longer exists in SV.
Bcoz we need to evolve backwards right? Just like SwSh did with LGPE
Trade evos were outdated & really need rework just like how fangames do. They are kinda forcing u to take the Online subscription which is paywalled, which also helps in advertising the Ranked matches(which is a much bigger paywall)
And abilities being used outside of Battles, Wider Move-Pool and Transfer Moves.
Please bring back the shiny noise from legends arceus
I don't know if this really counts as a "feature" but they gotta replace Freeze with Frostbite going forward. Frostbite essentially being Burn for Special Attack was such a great idea, especially since then you could give it a dedicated move that inflicts it like the other statuses have.
1. I want Frostbite. Make it so that moves only have a 10% chance of inflicting it but the chance increase if the user is Ice type and another boost if Snow is on. I don't want Water types freezing everything with their Ice coverage moves, leave the task to Ice types. This mean the status move would also be like Toxic (only 100% accurate if the user is same type). Oh and Frost Orb would be nice.
2. I want Thick Fog back LOL. Maybe just make it so the accuracy is only affected when using single target moves. I want Sound immune to the accuracy drop.
3. Rotation and Triple battles.
4. Some of the old Frontier styles as battle formats (Arena, Palace, Arcade in particular) with lil modifications.
why would you want the return of the fog, if i recall, everyone hated it in gen 4 and why it only existed in DPP, since unless you used the HM defog, fog made the fights EVEN SLOWER then they already where
@@bulborb8756 coz it's funny. It was only annoying coz the NPCs were cheating and that the stat drop also affect spread moves, which don't make sense. If it was modified a bit, it would have been an interesting field effect.
Random grass encounters aren't a thing in S/V and what I really miss about them is their interaction with certain abiities. Like Synchronize to get a pokemon with the same nature or Magnet Pull to force steel type encounters. That was really cool imo!
If I were to tinker with the EXP share system, I'd remove EVs being given to Pokemon not participating in the battle and make a slider ranging from 0% to 50% exp shared in the options menu. That way people can find what works for them.
I’d also want the return of the VS seeker.
Rematches and fully fleshed out parties for random trainers in the world would be great, even if they aren’t as “good” as the BB elite four and Geeta but just showing the growth of trainers you’ve encountered throughout your journey as world building, so of course we won’t get it.
I think they should bring the ability to evolve trade evolution pokemon without trading from PLA to the main series.
Sadly, that’ll almost certainly not happen since trade evolutions increase the chance of someone buying Nintendo Switch Online or even potentially using another Switch and SV copy to trade by yourself. So amazing
We need a 0 IV Bottle Cap.
True, but not a feature that has ever been in the game
@@x_bell1142 Yes. I just really want one, seeing as Bottle Caps exist they need to make a reverse one. I have wanted this for years, and one guy kept leaking a 0 IV Bottle Cap but it never happened.
For the clothing options, why not take inspiration from animal crossing and have customizable clothes similar to new horizons does
@bruhmoment5974 I agree
I want triple battles!!!
At the time I wrote this comment, there were only two other comments lol.
@@kailesperance1922want rotating battles.
Rotation and Triples!
Really glad these aren’t popular comments lol
@@Someguyonline7732 And you are as Vanilla as bread. Moving on.
I want the Pokenav from ORAS or something functionally similar beastiary. "Here's every mon you've encountered in an area, with an indicator of wheter you've found them all or not. If you caught a member of species, can specifically search it out, with chain searches gradually increasing chances of shiny, egg moves, hidden abilities, perfect IVs"
The swsh match viewing was perfect, it's just sad what there is in sv
I don't think the Exp share should be a held item or a key item. I think there should just be a toggle in the party menu to turn on or off sharing exp with each individual pokemon, and the options menu should have a setting for having shared exp turned on or off as default.
I can only play Gen 3 on my phone and thankfully the Exp Share is a key item than can be turned on and off. Then in Options we can set the Exp gain to x1, x1.5, x3 or x0. The latter you actually still gain exactly 1 XP, I suppose it was necessary so you can still gain EVs.
I usually just set it to x2 since I play with the level cap on (based on difficulty on game start).
Okay this is gonna be a long explanation. Surely they made this decision(Forced Exp share) in a way that benefits them in ways a player won't even imagine:
1. Forced Exp share leads to overlevelling of the traded mons which don't obey you if they are above your current obedience level. Proof?
They dislike u for using traded mons-NPCs, Mystery🎁,Home....
Try renaming the mons you get from in-game trades which are already renamed, it won't work. Why? Bcoz they are already nicknamed. Apart from this u have obedience issues too.
As nice as they were for giving us a Gengar in SV via trade. The above restrictions are applied to it as well
At the worlds🏆 🏆they literally encourage u to get the mon by yourself-meaning that u should buy both the versions to get all the mons u need
2. They aim to make the game too easy & the forced Exp share is a key for them. Proof?
Why do u think Pokémon lacks a difficulty mode like other RPGs ?
Why do u think base SV & SwSh are damm easy? The Gyms, E4 & Champion ain't any obstacle at all.
This is prolly another reason why they haven't given us a battle facility too despite paying for the DLC
This would most likely lead players into the Big game: Ranked battles/Tournaments which does have loads of paywalled mons as u already know.
For outfits, stop giving us androgynous crap. If I’m playing a boy, I want boy outfits and vise versa.
Fr
Sex dimorphism is why there is a boy or girl option. Never make the characters too much of the same as each other.
I'm surprised you didn't mention how, in PLA, you can throw a pokeball at a pokemon without having to battle it. I would love if that were brought into the main series
I just want cut scenes to be skippable so god damn much. Even when you switch them off on SV you still have to mash A through so much boring af dialogue and it only skips like 50% of the actual cutscenes that don’t involve button mashing.
Fully skippable cutscenes should be mandatory in every video game, period. There are absolutely no excuses.
Gym/Story battle level scaling being mentioned kind of makes me want to see a "Missing Features that can be easily added to Pokemon" list.
Gym level scaling, difficulty options, and even the slightest stat/ability tweaks to every old mon are things that can be done in one or two days casually by a somewhat focused team.
Fishing rod was also in gen 1
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The Link Cable was a godsend; being able to evolve trade evolution without the need to go online made getting Pokémon like Scizor and Alakazam way easier.
It baffles me that they didn't include it in Scarlet and Violet.
They should make it a regular item but make it hard to get your hands on.
I want all the features from the gen 6 games tbh. Plus the new ones from SV and the shiny sound !!! I won’t even talk about a difficulty mode because no way we get that . But set mode and toggle exp share is the best difficulty mode they did have
the outfits issue is pretty much just an SV thing, because of its school setting. i don't think it's ever coming back
The only thing I really miss is the shiny sound from legends arceus and I could also say the capture system.
I miss to hide and throw pokeballs everywhere
While i agree that it's cool you can buy battle items with money instead of BP, i do miss the simulated pvp battles of the various Battle institutes. I.e. all participating pokemon are set to lvl 50 and you play with species clause and item clause. That has existed in every generation since gen 3. What do we have in Scarlet and Violet, the Ace Academy Tournament? Yeah, that's not really a challenge. There is no "endless post-game battling" anymore unless you're down to play online, and i'm sure online battling will stop working once the next generation rolls out.
Is it me or do you guys miss the trainers calling. Honestly think it would help with grinding and maybe they could expand it and give us like a relationship simulator and get cool stuff.
Not at all, why?
@@gligarguy4010 I feel like it had potential
@@amazingsceptile224 I don't need to know how strong Joey's Rattata is.
No fishing rods was ass because I basically didn’t get a water type until I had beaten all the titans. I know some of them spawn on beaches but none I liked
i mean there is the option to potentially find certain water types in raids before beating Bombirdier
You did forget the Battle Facility in SV. I know there really isn't much of a use for them in the base game, but with the introduction of the Blueberry Academy which specializes in battling, and with the new BP currency, it would have been perfect to include. Plus, there would be more of a reason to play the game after the final credits role. Big missed opportunity by GF.
I want them to bring back the frostbite status from Pokemon la and remplace It for the freeze status
Exp.Share not being turned off is kinda balanced by the PC access being instant.
You can just dump the ‘mons who shouldn’t be getting exp in the boxes…..right?
but these days, they seem to be balancing the games around the current Exp. Share, meaning having far fewer required battles then in the past
And keep them* along with the rest of the cut pokemon.
They should get rid of the Freeze status completely, it’s just so dumb. It doesn’t even have its own move that inflicts freeze so why even bother keeping it id it’s so uncompetitive. Instead they should bring back Frostbite from PLA, the best replacement and it should get its own move like Will-o-wisp for burn. There’s no Special equivalent to Intimidate, which fair, but at least it would open new ways to deal with the absurd special attacking legendaries like Calyrex Shadow and Miraidon for example.
When will they let us release eggs?
Is you remove the exp share, the game turns into a grind.
How about switching from eggs to live birth？
Pla is main series the marketing for the game tells us such.
officially, it's categorized as main series, but a lot of people consider both it and lgpe different enough from the rest of main series games to be spin-offs
Exp share gives nonparticipants EVs??
Yep
@@x_bell1142 Good thing I stuck to vitamins for training lol this would've driven me mad
The features that make competitive more approachable aren't enough and no feature like them will ever be enough. There is no reason why in the year of our lord 2024 there is not a competitive or multiplayer mode that is separate from solo adventure, with an interface similar to pokemon showdown that lets you acquire the pokemon you want and adjust them accordingly for multiplayer. Literally no other esport right now has requirements of either hacking or spending several hours to days preparing a team to be functional. The only time spent on competitive pokemon should be spent actually battling or theorizing and crafting various team comps. There should not be a need for pokemon showdown, it should simply exist in the games.
Yikes, this a joke, right? You can tell this dude has never made a real team in his life.
Where to even begin...
@@gligarguy4010 bad take from you bud. Theres no reason for comp pokemon to only function like every other competitive game on a fan site and not in the real games
@@gligarguy4010he has a point though, making a competitive team let alone a single pokemon is a literal grind. You have to brainlessly hatch eggs and have the perfect IVs which are nothing but a brain cell destroying thing then you have to EV train which the forced exp share makes it so much worse and don’t even get me started on Tera Shards, I know it’s a bit easier now but it still needs improvements
I heard they were supposed to make one, but the only reason they didn't IS because of Showdown lmao
pokemon showdown esists because smogon exists, they cannot make a game that is balanced around both singles and doubles, and people on cartridge ladder will not respect smogon tier for obvious reasons
showdown is a necessity if you want to play balanced singles matches
I for one, hate only having overworld encounters, to me sword and shield had it right with both over world and random encounters