Tim85 wrote:Upon some research, some free time, and calculations about the National Dex, I have concluded the following:
According to serebii.net, there has been around 176 Pokemon revealed to be coming back from the old games so far. That gives us 633 Pokemon still up for grabs.
Speculation time: Now there's Pokemon that fall under the category of the most likely to be excluded, legendaries of all sorts and event only Pokemon (excluding Mew, who's coming back), there's 78 Pokemon right there. That drops to 537 Pokemon. Some other Pokemon that have the chance to be excluded are the starters from other regions, possibly sans Kanto thanks to the Charizard line and the fossil Pokemon: another 39 Pokemon, now giving us 498.
Of course not knowing how many new Pokemon are coming out and how big the Dex will be will also factor in. Who knows what GF will be doing? The last few figures are more discussion material then anything. Just thought I'd share.
I have a slight inclination a few years down people are going to look back on this and laugh.
Right now, we really can't make a proper judgement until we see the final product. This goes for not only the pokemon, but graphics as well. The game still has a solid few months of development time. There`s tons of people criticizing the animations and backgrounds even though every trailer the game's graphics improve. if its something like 500 old pokemon, plus around 100 new, I`ll be absolutely content.
People forget the controversy surrounding Black and White, about how they essentially cut all the Pokemon. Don`t give me that BS that they were in the code, because during development people did not know that. It led to any new pokemon being hated because people complained that they were replacing things they like. I have my criticisms of Gen 5 pokemon, but I remember the controversy surrounding that game, and a lot of people look back on that era fondly. I actually liked how the story forced you to use new pokemon.
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