Single post in Zero's Wall of Ramblings

So without spoiling anything as per site rules, is it bad that nothing has really excited me when it comes to Pokemon Sword and Shield? Like it looks pretty but substance wise, is it going to have much postgame content? Pokemon games have never been too crazy with their stories. While a lot of fun happens in between, it's still about becoming champion and defeating the bad guys. So what will this game have in terms of post game? More battling? I suppose I've just be spoiled by older games? The Game Corner of each game when gambling what still ok alone was cool but Hoenn had contests and the Battle Tower, the Johto remakes had the Pokeathlon, Sinnoh had contests, the Underground, Amity Square and a small island to explore post game, alongside their own battle resort and you even got your own villa to buy items for. Then B/W2 came along and gave you contests to participate in, movies to star in and then watch afterwards, medals to collect like achievements, the battle trams, the PWT and more. And that's not mentioning the Legendary Pokemon you could find hiding in all of the games. But the 3D titles have really lacked much postgame outside of battles. Even though Sun/Moon had some story after the becoming champion, it was still just battles. Once you'd done that... then what? Even Legendaries outside of the mascots are just handed to you on a silver platter through DLC, or are made super easy to catch in the game. In B/W2 not every activity needed you to battle. Join Avenue was about owning a shop that would be frequented by people you'd interacted with through wireless communications/online. Even the movies were scripted fights, you just had to figure out what would work. It wasn't about winning the battle (sometimes losing was a requirement!) but about using moves that applied to the genre you were filming and it was a lot of fun to then watch these stories unfold. In Sun/Moon there was the battle tree or Wormholes and Shiny hunting. :/ Everyone in the Discord server seems ecstatic about the game. Maybe it's just me? I did enjoy Let's Go Pikachu more than I thought I would but even then the game was still lacking post game content... The new Pokemon are cool though and the region being based on my country is awesome. And another thing! It's retailing at $59.99. But they're releasing a version with both games for... $119.99! (It won't actually let me check preorders on the UK site yet.) So basically the same price it'd cost for buying both games separately, yay! I mean no, no, don't even consider adding a small discount for people buying the same game twice. That'd be absurd, how could you make a profit doing that?! It's not like these games are going to be obsessively played by the Youtube community or anything... I mean, throw in an artbook or something at least to make that double pack more worthwhile, sheesh.