BW/BW2 Seasonal evolutions?

Would you like Seasonal Evolutions?

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oakbark said:
Okay, a couple of points:

- Uhm, I don't know if some of you are familiar with the concept of seasons? Because when it's summer where I live, it sure as heck isn't winter 20 miles down the road. How could you possibly have route-only seasons?? I mean, I can understand caves being immune to season changes, or mountain-tops being snowy most of the year, but you can't walk from an autumn route into a spring route. That'd be madness. If they are introducing seasons, it'll have to work all over Isshu, like the day and night feature.

- Seasons don't have to be in real time, just like how playing a soccer/football computer game isn't literally 90 minutes long. Seasons could change every week, or every two weeks. That way, you'll play through the seasons every month and have lots of variety.

- Seasonal evolutions would be great! Why not? It's an interesting method of evolution. It would've made heaps more sense for Eevee to evolve into Glaceon in Winter or evolve into Leafeon in Summer, instead of battling near a rock.

- There could be loads of cool changes. More bugs in Spring and Summer, more Ice-types in Winter, hibernating animals unobtainable in Winter, migratory birds like Taillow or that new swan/goose/stork pokemon available in Summer/Autumn only, less pokemon battles in forests during Winter and more in other months, etc.

- Maybe certain areas would only be available in a certain season. Perhaps a mountain area is unpassable in the heavy snow depths of Winter, or caves only open up when water levels fall in Summer, or an area becomes Surf-able after heavy rain in Spring - the possibilities are endless!
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Thinking about it like that, seasonal evos seem way more interesting now. God, you should be on GF when it came to this idea. Hopefully they have some of the ideas you posted.
 
oakbark said:
Okay, a couple of points:

- Uhm, I don't know if some of you are familiar with the concept of seasons? Because when it's summer where I live, it sure as heck isn't winter 20 miles down the road. How could you possibly have route-only seasons?? I mean, I can understand caves being immune to season changes, or mountain-tops being snowy most of the year, but you can't walk from an autumn route into a spring route. That'd be madness. If they are introducing seasons, it'll have to work all over Isshu, like the day and night feature.

- Seasons don't have to be in real time, just like how playing a soccer/football computer game isn't literally 90 minutes long. Seasons could change every week, or every two weeks. That way, you'll play through the seasons every month and have lots of variety.

- Seasonal evolutions would be great! Why not? It's an interesting method of evolution. It would've made heaps more sense for Eevee to evolve into Glaceon in Winter or evolve into Leafeon in Summer, instead of battling near a rock.

- There could be loads of cool changes. More bugs in Spring and Summer, more Ice-types in Winter, hibernating animals unobtainable in Winter, migratory birds like Taillow or that new swan/goose/stork pokemon available in Summer/Autumn only, less pokemon battles in forests during Winter and more in other months, etc.

- Maybe certain areas would only be available in a certain season. Perhaps a mountain area is unpassable in the heavy snow depths of Winter, or caves only open up when water levels fall in Summer, or an area becomes Surf-able after heavy rain in Spring - the possibilities are endless!
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YES! Wonderful ideas. I would love finding different types of Pokemon depending on the season. I hope GF takes up the opportunity. It would really add lasting appeal. As for seasonal evolutions, that would be great. Sounds a lot easier and more fun than getting a darn baby to love me.
 
oakbark said:
Okay, a couple of points:

- Uhm, I don't know if some of you are familiar with the concept of seasons? Because when it's summer where I live, it sure as heck isn't winter 20 miles down the road. How could you possibly have route-only seasons?? I mean, I can understand caves being immune to season changes, or mountain-tops being snowy most of the year, but you can't walk from an autumn route into a spring route. That'd be madness. If they are introducing seasons, it'll have to work all over Isshu, like the day and night feature.

- Seasons don't have to be in real time, just like how playing a soccer/football computer game isn't literally 90 minutes long. Seasons could change every week, or every two weeks. That way, you'll play through the seasons every month and have lots of variety.

- Seasonal evolutions would be great! Why not? It's an interesting method of evolution. It would've made heaps more sense for Eevee to evolve into Glaceon in Winter or evolve into Leafeon in Summer, instead of battling near a rock.

- There could be loads of cool changes. More bugs in Spring and Summer, more Ice-types in Winter, hibernating animals unobtainable in Winter, migratory birds like Taillow or that new swan/goose/stork pokemon available in Summer/Autumn only, less pokemon battles in forests during Winter and more in other months, etc.

- Maybe certain areas would only be available in a certain season. Perhaps a mountain area is unpassable in the heavy snow depths of Winter, or caves only open up when water levels fall in Summer, or an area becomes Surf-able after heavy rain in Spring - the possibilities are endless!
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I totally agree with you.The game wouldnt be realistic if the season changes in routes.
 
Pokemon4Ever said:
Sounds a lot easier and more fun than getting a darn baby to love me.
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*DPPt flashback*
"Why don't you love me Budew? Why?" :(
"OMG your health went down 2HP. Here, have a Max Potion, no need to wait til the pokemon center, okay?"

*HGSS flashback*
"Please Eevee, evolve! I've given you everything, you're practically bald with haircuts! I'll even let you be an Espeon instead of an Umbreon. Please evolve!!" :(


Oh yes, I too have felt the pain of making a pokemon love me enough to evolve.
 
Oakbark is right, one change a week sounds good. And they should adjust Leafeon and Glaceon to Winter/Spring, not respectively.
 
You could also incorporate weather into the seasons.

- Some random routes could have rain in Spring.
- Some random routes could have intense sunlight in Summer.
- Some random routes could have hail in Winter.

Maybe the seasons will allow for more weather conditions, like strong gales in Autumn?
 
I AM DEF SEEING IT WITH SHIKIJIKA AND/OR THE CATERPILLAR ONE! I like this idea
 
oakbark said:
Maybe the seasons will allow for more weather conditions, like strong gales in Autumn?
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i think thats a great idea
strong wind conditions could make battling with flying types harder
like 50% less chance of an attack hitting or something
 
Meh, now that I think about it, the seasons changing every week isn't all that bad.
I've played Harvest Moon, and each season only lasts a couple of days. xD
 
kangaskhan said:
i think thats a great idea
strong wind conditions could make battling with flying types harder
like 50% less chance of an attack hitting or something
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Dude, that wouldn't be fair if your facing a flying type. :/
 
That could happen.A pokemon that would seem well put in this genre would probably be something like shikijika.It is a grass type apparently.The promotion musical video shows it using an energy ball of some sort.
 
This all makes sense and its a very good idea for a few weeks of season :]

Also does anyone remember what Corocoro said about items that change weather conditions in battles?? This all connects
 
Well, if the rumors from CoroCoro are true, then this could work. Plus, weekly seasons doesn't seem that bad.
 
As someone said before it would be interesting for Castform to change due to the season,but maybe a FEW season evolutions would be nice and I think it would make more sense for the seasons to be longer then a week.
 
Castformfan said:
As someone said before it would be interesting for Castform to change due to the season,but maybe a FEW season evolutions would be nice and I think it would make more sense for the seasons to be longer then a week.
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Do I hear castform evolution?
 
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