I hate random encounters in most RPGs, but I still feel a franchise like Pokémon still needs it.

I'm looking forward to both of these games. Will be buying a switch for this pair of pokemon games and some others on my list. I for one am glad random encounters still are in the series as it makes getting the rare pokemon I want that much more rewarding when finally captured.

They need to have a toggle option for random encounters or open world spawns.
Also the same could be said with the battle mechanic. Bring in the let's go catch to level or an option for classic battles (I MUCH prefer classic battles but it doesn't hurt to have that option).

I am looking forward to this one, after let's go was a let down with the mandatory catch mechanic.

I prefer the random encounters

I don't have patience for random encounters anymore.

I believe random encounters is the best for the series. Is more challenging and rewarding.

See I’m old school and don’t mind random encounters at all. I’ve always been weirded out when people gripe about them it’s just always been what a JRPG does in my eyes.

Agreed. Can't believe they went back to that. I 100% expected this game to just stick with the tired formula (it looks just like the other games with more detail and that's it) but I at least expected them to do pokemon on the over world.

What a stupid article. Gamefreak has and hopefully always will continue the traditional line of pokemon rpgs. There's a plethora of spin off titles most notably lets go that have different takes.
Nintendo isn't stupid there's a reason their main franchises last for decades.

Nobody's going to pay attention to the fact the graphics look way, way worse than a PS360 game?

I enjoy the art style, slightly. The graphics are so disjointed they can't do the art style any justice though. Also, the graphics SHOULD be good enough we could have gotten a KH3-lite art style going but hell, we're way too far off from that. It's strange because the maps are so small this should all be possible.

Like shit. This looks worse than Mario Odyssey for sure.

And I'm not being a graphics whore here. This is just not acceptable in 2019. Everything looks like stretched PNGs.

Good thing I haven’t seriously played Pokémon in more than a decade because I despise random encounters, a gameplay mechanic that should be dead in this day and age.

So basically he is upset about the mechanic that actually makes the games fun being back in a pokemon game? ...

Only thing I’m concerned about is them releasing 2 identical games for 60 bucks with omissions of select Pokémon based on the previous portable model. I don’t think it was a good idea with lets go eevee and Pikachu and don’t like the idea here either.

Kinda sucks. The Pokemon visible in the world of the Go series was easily the best part of the game, and the best thing that's happened to the series since G/S. It not only gave you more choice in your own progression, but made the world feel more full and realized. It was very much a positive to the entire experience. New games should have had a combo of both: Visible on the map, and still have to fight before being capturing. Random encounters suck, and that is an archaic game mechanic I'd be glad to see stay in the past.
And you can't tell me that after seeing these new starters, that Game Freak is not officially out of ideas.

Agree 100% that random encounters shouldn't have returned. Seeing the comments here tho it's easy to see why the series hasn't changed drastically over the years, the fans want more of the same. Hope to see them someday make something in the style of the first Ni No Kuni. But if they keep making more of the same then I'm simply done with the series.

Shut up, that was one of the reason I skipped let's go. The random encounters are a staple to the style. you won't want an encounter buy repel. I hate how stupid it got with lets go where people will stand around waiting until a shiny shows up because you can tell. It took all the value out of it all. I'm glad they're actually going back completely

I wonder if these new Pokemon games will make use of the Pokeball controller used in pokemon Go

A lot of people disagree with this. I'm happy they brought back random encounters. And something is real, it is here. Like it or not. For those who don't like it, let's go still there. For fans of the old school pokemon series, we have a fresh look.

It needed something more for the occasion of the first new game not on a ds. It feels like they just took the next ds game and put it on switch.

Honestly changes ought to be made to this game. In 20 years the core gameplay hasn't changed. Not only that but the battles still look like their on a 3ds, why do the battles scenes in Pokemon battle revolution look better??