Pokémon is a Poverty Franchise
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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0:00 Prologue
1:28 Chapter 1: Rats, Giants, and the Bread Store
3:57 Chapter 2: The Trees (By Rush)
11:40 Chapter 3: Remake Regression
14:55 Chapter 4: The Straw That Broke the Numel's Back
22:15 Chapter 5: We 'Sinnoh' the Answer
27:55 Epilogue
Written By: Kyler
Edited By: Kyler
QA: Kaimi, Nail, Dan, Mills, Ethan
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I hate how almost every “popular” game on the switch is the same price despite drastic quality differences.
Firstly
Both brilliant diamond and scarlet are the same price
And furthermore
both brilliant pearl and breath of the wild are
If you want good pokemon games pokemon colosseum is hard and has character. Pokemon ranger is like having a dedicated series in pixel art with tons of charm oozing from each character. An pokemon park which pokemon arceus copied heavilly with its base story and combat. Are sadly games game freak refuses to port ignoring these legacy games are heavily pirated online.
Deeply agree
@@sujimatsubackupaccount194 Legends: Arceus is also a huge rip-off off Guardian Signs. Seriously, the "story" in Legends: Arceus is like the multiplayer mode of Guardian Signs, except without the multiplayer... Hell, even the villain story twists are the same...
I'm still dying to know why MarioKart 8 is full price. It's literally about to be a decade old.
I love that their excuse for voice acting is "we want players to imagine!" when the anime and numerous other side games exist that are FULLY voiced. Pokemon Masters, a MOBILE, game gives a voice to every character, so what point were they trying to make?
They also say their excuse for not allowing multiple save files is "It's tradition to only have one now!", not "We're copy and pasting the same code from the previous games and don't want to take time to improve it!"
Gen 5 and 6 are the same engine? Pretty sure the problem is it makes money from the obsessives
I think it just comes down to budgeting at that point with how little the games have in the first place. It also makes me question why tpc isn't contributing part of it's $6+ billion annual profit to help out with even hiring d list VAs considereing they're on the same side
If that's the case, at least text sound effects is needed not the silence when characters are talking. Other games where there isn't voice acting uses text sound effects when characters are speaking.
To be fair I think the player shouldn’t have a voice so it keeps a similar charm to that of Link. I think there’s no excuse for there not being voice acting for all the other characters though.
Having a sitting animation whenever you eat in sv but not being able to sit in any chairs sums up the whole game
First time I saw the S/V trailer my first thought literally was “damn, a new gen this quickly?” They just showed their greediness more than ever before this time fr.
DLC...DLC....DLC.....DLC.....
I didn't get the game and I am glad , the path has been lost
New gens have always been rolled out three years after the previous one.
... YMMV on whether or not they should continue to do that, but I digress.
"We wont voice act mainline pokemon games so the players can imagine"
Im imagining a better game rn tbh
so that they can take more time to find voice actors for the anime or a shitty moble game XD
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Pokemon is basically pulling a COD every year. It's literally the same thing
Another thing you failed to mention is that most of the Pokémon ARENT EVEN IN THE SWITCH GAMES, which is made even worse by the fact that that they uploaded their video "1008 Pokémon" showing the national Dex numbers and saying "Did you catch em all" NO I DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CATCH EM ALL.
The fact that some pokémon haven't been in a game since the 3DS era really says something
Game Freak actually coming out and saying they cannot be bothered to add every pokemon into the games going forward signalled the beginning of the end of this franchise. It shows just how lazy and complacent this company has become.
@@durpanda123 Of course Gamefreak can't be bothered because HOME exists, it's gonna hold hostage all the Pokemon for additional money and the idiots (yes, everyone who bought the newest games and HOME subscription are idiots who contribute to the problem) are gonna pay for it (they are now even paying for online, despite Gens 4-7 providing it for free). I legit encountered someone that said "wait, you didn't require paid-subscription storage software to transfer Pokemon between older gens?" - and that's the people who defend the newest Pokemon games. When a casual's standard for a good Pokemon game is 3-D soulless trash that Gamefreak's been outputting since XY, of course they are gonna ignore everything that is bad, because those games consist of nothing but bad.
There is something called Pokemon Go, however you can’t really catch em all because of the paradoxes and most gen 9 pokemon gone. Plus the game is really falling apart as of now.
@@durpanda123but luckily for TPC, they'll own the licence till at least 3000C.E. because of the second highest grossing mouse...
While there are multiple issues that need to be addressed, one big thing that makes no sense is that the games have an abysmally low budget and tpc does not seem to be contributing any part of their $6+ billion dollar annual profit considering they both can't survive without the games. You'd think they'd be on the same side as a semi joint business, but apparently not.
compaire pokemon colosseum which had alot less lower budget than the switch pokemon games. An made by a staff who never played pokemon. But understood rpgs and created a more fleshed out world that game freak fails to understand how to do. When a 2004 game on a gamecubecube looks , feels, and musiclly plays better than a 2023 pokemon game on more advanced hardware. Thats just awfull on game freaks end. Ignoring pokemon arceus opening and combat is a copy past job and made things worse since, the game is based on 2012 pokemon park 2.
Why would they need to contribute anything if they can sell crap? I've been saying since XY that the new soulless 3-D garbage was falling off more and more (save for the dying gasps of the old standards, like ORAS and SM), but it was selling better. It even became a meme in Korea - "it will sell well anyways". Even Let's Go sold - and that got away with cutting out God knows how much Pokemon and, of course, took us to Kanto. Again. As if we didn't have enough of Kanto through the first 4 Gens...
@avenger4027 that's more so our fault as the consumers for both placing gf on this diamond encrusted pedestal when we shouldn't have and buying the games thinking they'll do better with this one (because we're basically drug addicts looking for our next hit and just accept anything at this point). It still falls under the "multiple issues that need to be addressed."
@@TlocRevelc I dunno, I'm not like most people. I said I wasn't going to buy anything below BW2 levels of quality anymore and I stuck to it. But the most baffling thing to me is that some people literally buy the games and expect them to be better where there's a very clear pattern of 4+ games (starting from Let's Go in Gen 7) having less content and less stability then any previous one. The worst part is that each successive game sells better, but brings us all to the new lows. But the people who KNOW that the games are going downhill are still buying them! I could at least get the casuals, because they don't know shit and wouldn't know a good Pokemon game from stuff like Pokemon Dash, but people who are supposed to be fans of the series shouldn't be swallowing the latest trash solely because of the yet another cute starter trio or a box legendary. It's just disgraceful. And don't get me started on the retards who DEFEND this latest bout of idiocy. They should get out of the Gamefreak church, because that is like a goddamn religion for them. It must be - because if that was Bethesda or Blizzard putting this trash out, we all know they'd be deservingly shat on by everyone, instead of people from the lowest casuals to freakin' Joe Merrick going on like "I don't see anything bad, ever" (despite the game literally glitching on them right as they say it) and "you're just toxic" (it's, like, their two NPC-programmed phrases).
@@TlocRevelc The only issue that needs to be addressed is that the fans and casuals alike shouldn't buy dogshit. A Pokemon mainline game - not a remake, but the leading one - needs a good, fat flop. Because only this will cause the company bigwigs to at least purge everyone who failed and maybe learn something from this, too - and maybe with extended times and some new blood (Gamefreak are 2-D developers. They are ancient in their design philosophy and outdated skillsets, hence the playing-it-safe (we never got a shakeup to the Pokemon formula, actually, since maybe Gen 3 adding legendaries to the plot) and the dogshit design since Gen 6), Gamefreak can finally become an actually good developer.
For the longest time I thought my disdain for the newer pokemon games was just me growing out of the franchise, but then I played Pokemon Platinum for the first time ever (I somehow skipped that one when I went from HG/SS to Black/White) and it blew my mind. Sure its still the same formula, but it also felt like there was so much passion put into the game design, especially the distortion world. I now know it isn't me being nostalgia blind, because I can't be nostalgic over something I had no prior experience of.
Anyway this was a very well crafted essay and you deserve way more than just 200 subs, your humor and editing is top notch.
(also- I'm a Cleveland Browns fan so I get your pain)
Same with me, except I played the Pokemon Ranger series. Holy crap... The amount of lively Pokemon and fairly good plot that these games have is something Gamefreak never approached - Legends: Arceus are considered good solely because it's a rip-off off the Ranger games. Features like different behaviors of Pokemon in the overworld and a human-vs-Pokemon capture/boss system? Oh, that's from Ranger, alright.
For me, it was Black 2; I enjoyed Unova.
I listened to the awesome soundtrack.
I starred in most of the movies at Pokestar studios.
I fought on the battle subway, switching up my playstyle whenever I got bored of one rail-line, and felt like doing double battles, or rotation battles or whatever.
I rode the Ferris Wheel and partook in Poke Musicals in Nimbasa.
I collected medals and journeyed through the sewers to find the hidden section of Castelia that was cut off from the rest of the city.
I fought against the Pokemon equivalent of PETA (anybody remember those hypocritical jerks who preached treating animals right, but abused and killed just as many to make their 'Save-A-Life' commercials, and force their ideals on people?) after they froze half the city, and climbed the Victory Road, getting beaten down but always getting back up, to hear the awesome Elite Four VGM (which was basically 'You Are Gonna Die and Love It' in music form), before finally challenging Iris to become the Unova League Champion.
I loved it all.
The variety. The Pokemon. The dramatic narrative. The awesome music.
I loved it so much that when I heard people rag on it, I was initially confused; then _LIVID!_
They called _Gen V_ BAD?!?! *DID NONE OF YOU GUYS PLAY THE PROCEEDING GENS?!?!*
Hmmph! 😡🤬😤😠
At the very least, I felt vindicated by the disappointment of longtime Pokemon fans when they saw what they had to deal with for Gens 8 and 9.
I don't hate the Pokemon so much as I do the bland non-existent story, the extremely linear progression between the Stadiums, the ridiculously short pacing, the lack of anything to do outside of camping or beating up Pokemon in the Wild Area (and given what Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are supposedly like, where you don't even get to battle, you just huck pokeballs at them like it's THAT SHITTY AR GAME THAT GOT PEOPLE RUN OVER BY CARS OR ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE THEY WERE CHASING FUCKING BUTTERFREE ; AND YOU MESS UP THE FIRST NINE TIMES BECAUSE FOR ACTUAL POKEMON PLAYERS, NOT CASUALS, IT DIDN'T *USED* TO REQUIRE ME SHAKING A STUPID IPHONE LIKE A BABY RATTLE, AND HAVING TO ADD POKEMON I DIDN'T WANT TO MY TEAM, FORCING ME TO DO THE DAMN POKEDEX THAT NOBODY DOES, they took away even _that_ bit of catharsis, expecting me to get carpal tunnel and a cracked switch screen from what was supposed to be an "enjoyable" experience, for the "immersion"; I wish I could tell whoever's bright idea that was to shove it up their ass and then fire themselves... out of a howitzer into the sun) .
[ _Takes A Deep Breath After Nearly Forgetting To Breathe In The Midst of My Rage-Fueled Rant_ ]
... If this is the future, please, please, _PLEASE_ let me go back to the past; I'd rather die happy, with my memories than be forced to adapt to a future founded on shitty compromises and increasingly dumb, un-fun features!
I'm sobbing right now, thinking about how my Pokemon's gone forever. They'll fuck up the Gen V remake; they'll turn it into an abomination! It'll strip away everything that made it enjoyable and turn it into a mediocrity fest! And there's nothing I can do about it!😔😟😢😭😭😭
for me that was playing black and white in 2021 after not playing for a about a decade
I recently attempted a Nuzlocke of the entire series in random order. And even playing the earlier games later, where you'd expect to have burnout from playing several games before that point, it was actually the later games that I'd played earlier that sucked more. Once you hit that X/Y wall, it's just dogwater. So many cutscenes of crap you don't care about. So much going back and forth for plot points that you spend more time mashing A than playing the game... And so much less soul in any of it.
Idk how that game blew your mind if you take issue with the structure or laziness of these games.
Sinnoh still has an absolute dogsh't story and NPC dialogue. Baby-difficulty so you don't have to engage with the mechanics. And a terrible quality of life.
(like every other gamefreak Pokemon + conquest).
Why is the quality of this video so fucking good? The dude has 500 subs, that's a crime.
In defense of ILCA, they released the concept art for early BDSP and it show that wanted to make a better game that’s similar to what we see in Legends Arceus and had crazy concept arts for what the game could have been (from here they weren’t fully not transparent on what happened but I’m just putting out my little hypothetical based on how companies sometimes work) but then it appears Gamefreak stepped in and took those ideas to make Legends Arceus while leaving ILCA high and dry forcing them to literally port over the original ds games, which the base of the code was 1 for 1 with, but add a small amount of extra features so it’s not completely the same game. But yeah, BDSP is trash and there is no defending that.
dude, they failed to program a CALCULATOR, one of the easiest things to program that a literal 7 year old could do. this is NOT the hill to die on.
@@polocatfan ILCA failed at this game, but I feel like there was more going on under the surface considering how good One Piece Odyssey turned out. I think ILCA may have been rushed.
I loved Pla, but my bigest fear is they are just going to never do anything like it again. I don't think scarlet and violet were horrible, I think it is definitely a step in a right direction after swsh but compared to pla it just wasn't that great and they are probably going to do more of that instead.
I know you said you didn't really care about the national dex issue but it really does sum up a major issue with that new games. The lack of care, especially for the old fans, and a lack of effort and competency. I can see how adding specific spawning area for pokemon and making sure they aren't bugged or their modules don't jank into the ground for every pokemon is a lot of work. but in a franchise built on this legacy of taking your old team through the games for literally decades the fact only the bare effort was put in to adding some of the older pokemon is crazy to me. Like, surely by this point they don't custom makes each pokemon model and stat profile for every game. By now you would expect them to have a central pokemon database, and create some kind of system where you can easily port them into the new games. It should be as simple as drag and drop. I'd be fine with a limited spawn list if you could still bring every pokemon into the game, bc if you have to custom build every single pokemon profile you are already creating way too much work for yourself even without a national dex. Dexit is either laziness, or a massively unoptimized work flow that hasn't changed in 2 decades
unoptomized work flow sounds about right. its like game freak doesn't know what QoL is half the time with pokemon nowadays. point in case: why the everloving fuck did they ever make tm's consumables again?
Gamefreak actually talked about making "future-proof models" in the 3ds era. They've been using those models scaled down to resolution for a long time. They could literally move some files, copy over the stats and moves, and have every Pokemon in the game.
Doing that for every subsequent game is and always was a pipedream. If anything, trying to add so much content to appease customers regardless of quality control is damaging the series far more. What they should have done is make one long lasting game designed for every Pokemon to be in it, instead of trying to do that exact thing in every other adventure.
Been with Pokemon since gen 1 was released, with Yellow as my first game. I bought every single mainline game as they were released. My last game, poetically, was Let's Go Pikachu. After SwSh's reveal, I was devastated. It's been tough to see a franchise I used to love churn out utter slop, year after year. Genuinely such a sad state of affairs.
On the positive side, it's given me a lot of reasons to branch out and find new games to enjoy. Pokemon has a special place in my heart, but if they're not making games worth playing, let's play some that are, eh?
Did you ever see the Japanese glassdoor equivalent reports from gamefreak? They don't abuse their staff or anything, but at the very least everyone knows what they're making is garbage and they feel no pride in it.
“It will sell anyway”
Game freak are good at one single thing no other company appears to be able to replicate, and that's designing pokemon. No other monster training videogame has managed to give their monsters the same charm that pokemon have. This is why they keep getting away with mediocrity, no matter how bare minimum the games are you won't find a better monster training game anywhere else. Though I personally feel like gen 9 has dipped in quality when it comes to the pokemon designs, I thought the same about gen 5 and that was more incidental than a trend.
What sucks for me is the fact that they didn't even innovate on the battle system for each game. All they ever did was put one gimmick on one game, just to throw it away at the next. The battle system was created that way due to hardware limitations, but now those limitations are gone, so what's even holding them back?
I got Brilliant Diamond as a Christmas gift, I literally couldn’t even get past the 1st gym and feel bad for my family member that bought that atrocious game for 60 dollars. Now I literally only use the game to shiny hunt legendaries, I cannot care less for anything in the game aside from just full-odds shiny hunting legendaries.
You know it's a great game when it works to only scratch the gambling itch about 1% of their consumerbase have, love gamefreak
They still teaching how to catch a pokemon in the grass 😩 sun and moon was 50% tutorial 40% depressing unskipable dialogs. 🕯️
It's crazy how much my expectations of a new pokemon game have gone down since black & white came out. Everything was downhill from there
Which is ironic, since Unova honestly was where Pokémon actually peaked.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet truly, imagine the timeline if Black and White were the successes they deserved to be
Same
I almost returned Y on Day 1 because it just didn't feel right. The bottom screen suddenly being filled with new shit threw me off. Gen 7 was better, though.
Except for pla
Piracy is a win/win solution. You get to play the game, without financial supporting the Pokémon company
Honestly Pokémon has always had problems. One of them are releasing third versions. Which are basically the same games but fixing bugs and adding a few additional stuff and it cost the same amount. Having two versions even though realistically there can be one. And people basically encourage gamefreak for doing this.
To be fair, updates and DLC weren't really a thing yet back when they were still doing third versions. They've kinda stopped doing it now that they've realized they can just make large-scale expansions for the Switch games.
@@The73MPL4R I'll throw my hat in this ring and say I preferred the 3rd versions instead of the DLC model. I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain...
With the third versions, it was not just a chance to ADD content like DLC does, but it was also the chance to FIX the content in the base game. They only ever treat the DLC now as additive, but Crystal, Emerald and Platinum didn't JUST add things, they also FIXED the base games and became the definitive versions.
Crystal: Besides the quality of life improvements, such as area title cards, being able to play as Kris and animated Pokemon sprites, it also adjusted some encounter tables to get some of the mon easier and earlier. Sneasel, for example, isn't just a post-game mon anymore, but is available in the Ice Path now. Crystal also actually enhanced the graphics some more, by making places look more polished: Burned Tower actually looks like a ruined building on the outside now, instead of just a normal house. Ice Path actually looks like a crystalline ice cavern, instead of just a lighter grey cave.
Emerald: Besides the animated Pokemon re-introduction, this is the first major instance of the main gameplay experience being affected. Instead of just fighting one of the teams and the other being relegated to background support, you fight both teams. Rayquaza has actual involvement in the story now (glorified babysitter for Kyogre and Groudon, lol), and the progression was also altered slightly with the gyms in the middle. A whole lot of new mon to get, and the Battle Frontier is one of the largest pieces of end-game content to come from a game since the whole second region of Kanto in GSC.
Platinum: Arguably the 3rd version that was most desparately needed, because base Diamond/Pearl are really fucking slow games. Not just story pacing wise, but I mean the actual engine: there's a delay in DP after everything that happens in battle (selecting a move, the pokeball indicators sliding in, a mon coming out/fainting, etc.), and it wastes a ton of your time over the course of the game because of it all adding up. Platinum not only removed those delays and sped up the engine (surfing is literally more than double the speed it was in DP), but also fixed some serious roster issues with DP as well. The only two fire types a player could get before the postgame, was Infernape (if you chose Chimchar) and Pontya, and that's IT. Platinum added way more mon to the dex you can get before the postgame, and fixed this issue, as well as the important trainer teams (Volkner, Flint) that were affected by such droughts in options. Not to mention, it also heavily buffed the postgame and the story, because Cyrus barely shows up in DP, but is encountered much more frequently in Platinum. And the post-game story with the remnants of Galactic and Charon.
They'll never use DLC to make these sort of adjustments to the base games, so if the base games suck now like Sword and Shield, they'll always suck and won't be redeemed like Platinum redeemed Sinnoh. Also there's the problem of preservation; the third version having all the adjustments baked into it means it'll always be accessible as long as you have a copy of the game. Meanwhile, the DLC will be unavailable once they shut those servers down, if you haven't already bought it, so the game will forever remain in its incomplete state.
this is why i actually prefer the dlc approach that's been happening with recent games, its essentially the same amount of new content but for less price.
Gen 10 will be the last chance i give game freak, if they dont do a masterpiece like zelda totk, this ols og pokemon fan will drop pokemon and turn to dragon quest and shinigami tensei
nah screw the "dont emulate" shit.
well made rom hacks have been the only thing pokemon ive played recently and its miles better than what gamefreak has been putting out
I've been having a lot of fun lately!
Monster hunter rise is on the same console.
What the actual fuck
30-45 fps, beautiful graphics, FUN gameplay, innovative, fast paced and more open world than monster hunter WORLD.
Compare the graphics, look at the quality and look at the frames.
Aaaaaaaaa
Monster hunter games actually get reasonable budgets that's why they end up good
@@thefanciesttortoise557 Instead of 300+ people and 200,000,00$ (scarlet and violet) they have 100+ team members on the team for producing the portable monhun games and a variable budget from 1m-1.5m
@@thefanciesttortoise557 so... no.
I like how said 2025 there at the end, because time is really what's missing. So much of the issues in recent games are missing finishing touches. In SwSh, it was the weird level curve (the wild area doesn't seem to factore into it at all if you look at the level difference between the starting town and the first town right after the wild area) as well as the big climax of the story having no actual inciting incident (suggesting the script was pushed out too early). In SV, it's all on the technical side - so much optimization and finetuning that probably falls under QA just wasn't done. Or just simply the time to experiment with new conditions. Most studios get room to experiment and improve inbetween projects or as part of the process by playing around with ideas. This doesn't seem to be the case for Gamefreak.
I recently watched the Did You Know Gaming episode about Ken Sugimori (I'm an illustrator and his early work influenced my development a great deal) and that just made me sad, because it pretty much confirmed my suspisions. There's only so much the studio can do besides Pokemon with such a tight schedule - both skill acquisition and actual polish.
Heck, even Arceus has issues with its presentation being rather simplistic in most places - something that majorly holds back SV's story as well. It *can* be good - the plots written for that game actually sound pretty intriguing on their own, but stuff like the Team STAR bullying plot is told in these god awful flashback dialogues instead of something befitting the subject matter. That's all stuff that could have been done with more time, I'm sure.
The thing with bread is how crazy you can go with sandwiches
Such a shame the franchise has gone the way it has. I grew up playing gens 5, 6 and 7 and even middle school me could feel the strings starting to come apart in Sun and moon. While Legends was a step in the right direction, it still was definitely not worth $80 (especially since Xenoblade and Zelda are available on the same system for comparable prices and Genshin Impact is “free”). At the end of the day, just like Disney, the franchise is literally too big to fail. Why should GameFreak spend the time and money to make a better game, when millions of consumers are happy to pay premiums to eat their shit off the floor? Despite all the backlash, nothing has changed and we shouldn’t hold out hope for change.
To me, gen 3 was the first misstep and gen 4 was where Pokemon truly fell off and would never recover
Gen 3 is still very good, especially Emerald, just a step down from GSC. I thought Sun/Moon were decent but other than that I just can't stand the rest of the Pokemon franchise
they should've never left 2d
Also why did the England based region have curries but sandwiches were in the Italian based region… sandwiches which were made by and thusly named after someone from England!
It is weird that curry was in the uk based region as a focal point but curry is actually somewhat popular there although it is a lot more bland because people can't handle the spice. Also what Italian region? Paldea is Spain, they haven't done Italy yet.
The worst part about SV is that If they improved the graphics and performance, added the National Dex, implemented level scaling, made the story not ass and the gyms not insufferable, SV could've been the best Pokemon games in the franchise.
Except none of those are really issues w/ SV aside from the graphics and performance part
@@gengargamer5657 Agree to disagree.
Absolutely incredible video man. You basically summed up all of my issues with the franchise the last several years. I want to like the new games so bad but every time I play them I get sick thinking about how much potential was lost, all just to serve some money hungry company who doesn’t care about quality or their fans at all
Imo, Sun and Moon were fine. They weren't as good, but you could tell through the game itself as well as interviews that they put like, fukking *passion* into it. And actual *time.*
And I know people shit on gen 6, but they did give us ORAS, which to this day feels like "Pokémon: Definitive Edition." I dunno, something about it just feels right
Past gen 7 though, I began to see a stark drop off rather than "they're shifting gears a bit."
Like, it felt like they wanted you to forget their past works. Like tell me, how many cameos were there in Black2&White2? How many cameos were there in USUM? A lot? Great!
Now tell me why in SWSH, we don't even see fukking LOOKER. You know, THE throwback character.
There was no heart. And the story was so ill. Gen 1-4 stories were good, but 5-7's focused more on a deeper message, and I appreciated them a lot. (Questioning the truth was the theme of gen 5, the beauty of life for gen 6, and past trauma & the balance of nature in gen 7.)
In SWSH, the story isn't good, and they don't even try to incorporate a message into it. It's just "flashy mechanic go ARRRGRGRGRGRG!"
The music is also mid. And tell me why, in a place where you hunt the Legendary Pokémon, you don't play ANY of their themes.
Again, I feel like they want us to forget what we used to have.
My final gripe with the "new" series is that the locations are so fricking boring, or they effectively don't exist. I used to look at things like Croagunk and go "oh look, he hails from the Great Marsh!", at Munna and go "oh she's from the Dreamyard, ain't she?", or at Dhelmise and go "what a nice fish-up at Seafolk Village!".
Meanwhile, you find Rolycoly in a place titled *"Galar Mine No. 2".*
What. The. Fuk. That's not a location, that's a chemical compound. It doesn't feel special at all. All the locations feel like "just places" instead of places with history and some lore.
I remember Brooklet Hill, Petalburg Woods, Reflection Cave, Desert Resort, Iron Island, and Lake of Rage all at the ring of a bell. On the contrary, I couldn't tell you the name of any Paldea location if my life depended on it.
And the thing I REALLY don't like is that in gen 9 the franchise is curving more towards realism. We've seen other franchises like Street Fighter and Final Fantasy succumb to such fates, and I'm *extremely* worried about this franchise going forward. SWSH was awful, but at least it kept its signature anime-looking art style. I don't know what gen 9 is supposed to be, and honestly, I'm too afraid to ask.
This is making me extremely worried for gen 5 and 6 remakes, since their respective artstyles are what *makes* them so special.
The pokemon rom-hack community has been making more interesting games than Game Freak for years. Sword and Shield was the straw that broke the Numel's back for me and I'll be content playing fan projects until GF sorts their priorities out. Haven't given them a penny since 2019, but gladly would return if they stop embarrassing themselves.
I love how unabashedly pissed off you are lol.
Not only do they have more money than most major studios they also have more creative potential or at least used to have it I mean legends arceus is a more recent example of potential but overall pokemon games need more time in the oven instead of coming out every 6 months it feels like that's the first problem 😂
SV had creative potential too, they were just released too early
im guessing the franchise decided to just drop off a cliff once they realised the next location was based off the uk
The simplest explanation as to how they can get away with putting out such mediocre titles out there despite fan outcry, is that the series is good at making new fans that they don't need to listen to the old ones to stay afloat.
Like hell, if the only Pokemon content that existed had been Red and Blue? I'm sure the game wouldn't have had nearly as much staying power worldwide, it could have fizzled out really easy. It was the fact it released alongside an anime that made the games be the secondary source of income. Like, I sure as hell did not have a Game Boy when I was 2 years old, but I certainly did have a Pikachu plush and a rubber Squirtle for bathtime.
It's a shame that them being so lucrative means the games are secondary to their success. And frankly, I'll be blunt here, I only like the games because I liked the anime, as RPGs I find them frustratingly limited (4 move slots lol), but I generally enjoy the universe more through the TV show rather than the actual game, I can feel the battles better in motion than in this limited format. I think Miyamoto was kinda right, that Pokemon is on the wrong genre
Sword and shield did the majority of the work in demolishing my love for Pokémon, but I finally hit my breaking point with the release of scarlet and violet. So many careless mistakes and lazy decisions piled up to produce the unfinished unoptimized pile of garbage that was Gen 9, which somehow beat prior sales records. This company will never learn or change, which is agonizing to recognize as a fan who has loved the series for almost twenty years now. I find myself wanting to play the series I grew up and fell in love with, not what it’s turned into.
Incredibly well said. Agree with this whole comment.
So my thing is I initially didn't want to buy Shield for the price it was going for due to the lackluster stuff from it I saw, but then S/V come along and I rent Violet off gamefly and immediately returned it then got the notification about the 3DS shop closing so last chance before the deadline to transfer my mons over to an actual quality Switch Pokemon game that I've been waiting for, but yeah had no choice but to get Shield then which thankfully got it for $30 on Ebay for a more deserved price and maybe for the best just because I do prefer more of the Galar Pokemon designs over what the latest region mon designs offered like shesh didn't like any of the starters final evos. But yeah standards with Gamefreak here in that they made Sword and Shield better than Scarlet and Violet for the bar drop.
Not saying that you're wrong in the video (because you barely touched on this point), but the idea that "Pokemon (or any X franchise) is bad because it is formulaic and repetitive across the games" is a garbage narrative parroted by pseuds because it is low-hanging fruit. Time and time again it is proven that many people want trivial/aesthetic variants of the same games. Look at the ROM hacking community: fans wanted to play the same Gen 3 games over and over with only new regions to explore, maybe some hackmon and some other minor variations. They wanted it SO MUCH that the community cracked the games at the ASM-level and made those games themselves.
This isn't just isolated to Pokemon. Monster Hunter spent most of its history releasing essentially the same game with more content and minor system tweaks, and people went crazy for it. Super Smash Brothers just adds new characters and stages (yes there are gameplay feel differences but people tune into the Nintendo Directs to see the additional content, not how many frames you save when L-cancelling). Mario Kart is the highest selling game on the switch and I can't think of a franchise which changes less across releases. Yes people do dunk on these games for being rehashes, but "being a rehash" is effectively a non-complaint when it is an objective fact that this is literally ONLY what people want. Typically these franchises end up ruining their games as soon as they try something new for no reason.
With the difference that Mario kart 8 and smash ultimate are arguably the best games in their respective franchise while most Pokémon games released in the last 10 years were worse than what we got in the DS era.
@@rethardotv5874 Yes agreed, my point being that Pokemon was never bad because it was a rehashing repetitive franchise, but rather because the games that were being released were actually terrible. Especially pre-Gen 8, when bad Pokemon games released, people would criticize them for being rehashes, which took focus away from the fact that the games were just plain terrible regardless of if they were rehashes.
@@rethardotv5874 no, gen 7 may have been a bit mid, but there was actual time and love put into it, and there were so many small details that they wouldn't have had time to put in if it were rushed.
@@bluebaron6811 the pacing was still so bad that I couldn’t bear to replay or even nutzlocke it. Just because the developers took their time doesn’t mean that the end product is great or fun to play.
And don’t get me wrong, I liked the art style, new Pokémon and the island challenge idea but the pacing ruined any replayability of sun & moon for me
@@rethardotv5874 yeah the story did take a long time.
Might not be replayable, but playing it once is a good experience.
Awesome video and well said. The biggest thing that gets to me as a Pokémon fan, is watching Pokémon not learn from mistakes, or giving up on good ideas.
There are a ton of games of multiple genres that are "graphically behind" or intentionally retro looking. Even for games with good graphics, I might turn them down for performance like in Overwatch or other FPS games. I don't care about graphics if the gameplay loop is good enough.
A game like Octopath Traveler 2 might make some people turn up their noses because of the pixel art. But that game has charm, has polish, improves on the last game, expands the combat system, takes consumer feedback.
Pokémon's battle mechanics and battling when competitively playing are fun and great. I love the Area Zero ending. I like that we have a school and classes that finally explain mechanics. Good Toby Fox music. But this is stuff that is expected and the norm. So if this the standard, expectation, the other stuff drags it down. Games should feel good and if you've played a variety of quality games, there will be a lot of times where Scarlet and Violet don't feel good. The loading, the menus, the tera raids, the lag, the uncomfortably long dialogs that say nothing for hours. It made me feel like I was dealing with Swordward and Shieldbert again. (Worst part of sword and shield)
proud of you for publicly admitting you’re a giants fan, i know that’s hard for some guys !!
Great video. :)
They did add the themed zones to catch pokemon in the underground in BD/SP, which I quite enjoyed, but as far as gameplay is concerned, it was okay-ish. I felt like Cynthia was too easy for some reason (rose tinted glasses maybe). I was not thrilled about the MySims style of graphics either.
Cynthia easy? Bruh you must have overlevelled. She had a competitive level team.
@@dinosaurtimeandfunnyvideos no, he probably had our lord and savior, Weavile.
This video was literally painful to watch and the fact that my most cherished franchise is now becoming hated hurts...but The TRUTH Hurts and it can be Painful
"How much swearing do you want in this video?"
This guy: YES
It's that new york blood what can I say
@@Kyler360don't keep cursing its a sin dude
Scarlet & Violet is the first pokemon game where i just can't even bother to get through the main story. I had some decent amount of fun with sword and shield and that games bar was so low. (500+ hours ;-;)
try ranked it’s very fun if you’re a competitive person adds some challenges
Yeah, I’ve played every single generation, every single main line game, the last 2 generations have just felt super lack luster. I usually play enough to finish everything in the game and post game, but these last two, I’ve stopped playing after completing the main story. It makes me sad. But now, the Pokémon Company has has grabbed me in another way, the TCG, which is even worse for my wallet. 😅
Me too. Gen 7 was fun and had great story, gen 6 is just really cozy, and gen 3, 4, and 5 are gens 3, 4, and 5. I HATED SWSH and SV.
There is a silver lining. Because Legends Arceus and SV were in development around the same time and there was a few items that they added after the reception of LA's mechanics.
you deserve way more subscribers bro, great video 👍🏻
I agreed with all your points, but I definitely appreciated the ending bit about respecting everyone's opinion.
I wanted to add another example here. The funniest part of all of this is that if you REALLY wanted easy cash grabs, you'd go for the lowest hanging fruit possible: your oldest titles. Nintendo, I'm sure, would pay TPCi hefty licensing fees to get Pokemon on NSO. Talk about a draw to NSO! Some of your most beloved and profitable handheld titles on your subscription service. If Nintendo wouldn't pay the fee you wanted, then put together a Mario 3D All Stars collection, or sell them individually on the eShop. TPCi has multiple avenues to milk the hell out of some fan favorites, and has chosen not to.
TPCi can't even do money grubbing correctly.
You talked about how long it takes to battle and catch a pokemon in S/V, but you forgot to add the time for it to bring up the registered to pokedex screen, the book flip animation, and the name this pokemon screen! (if you have naming turned on)
SWSH was where I pretty much chose to bow out of the series out of personal protest of the terrible decisions made with the game and very evident lack of quality it possessed and so I didn't buy the game, I also didn't buy New Snap despite being excited that Snap finally got another game, I additionally initially skipped Leg Arc despite how genuinely interesting it looked though admittedly a month ago I saw it at a used game place for cheaper than I ever expected to find a Pokémon series game at so I caved and bought it since it was used and thus my purchase of it would neither be part of sales statistic for the series nor would it give the Pokémon Company any money and honestly I've been loving it and am kinda glad it was my first full 3D (at least as far as the point after Pokémon came to the Switch) Pokémon experience, also I'm sure by this point it's obvious that I also didn't buy SV despite being ever so slightly tempted by the advertising making it seem like they stepped up their game from SWSH, but I thankfully didn't cave since I still didn't trust that the game wouldn't have some bad issues that the ads of course wouldn't give any indication of plus I was also still not ready to stop said aforementioned protest of the series.
"Ironic."
A franchise that's about "evolving" your creatures, doesn't get to evolve that much.
Look I'm gonna be honest.
I don't like Pokemon, but you talked shit about France so you have gotten my like man.
Please people, remember to remove the dislike and give a like.
This opinion is right.
Great video man, top tier video essay material, keep on keep on
I have for a long while though that ORAS was the last good pokemon game. I might need to replay Legends Arceus, that might be up with my standards.
BDSP are objectively bad. I have my big issues with Diamond and Pearl (and haven't played platinum, although i dont know how a 3rd version game would fix enough issues for me to be like "oh this is ok now" for me) but BDSP adds modern day Pokemon issues. Pokemon XY? Why did the plot try to sympasize with Team Flare after their defeat? Something that saves it and most Pokemon games for me is the post game, where I'm able to work on the pokedex and grabbing items and exploring parts of the region that i didn't have before. XY barely passes for me. USUM are ones i need to actually enter the post game again to see, but i remember that being its highlight. Sword and Shield didn't really have post game. And then Scarlet and Violet have 0. 0 post game. Having nothing to do except dex, shiny hunting (which is a whole other thing i won't bring up right now), and grind tera shards and money. Its basically as much post game as Red and Blue, because it's just Mewtwo/Cerulean Cave are a thing and thats it.
If i weren't a competitive player i wouldn't have bought the DLC for Violet. And i hate how Kerian was potrayed. Straight up he's on the Autism Spectrum just like me, and I remember when he punched the statue area wall that the disloyal 3 revive from, i punched my bed, I was so pissed. I don't want people to take away from the Teal Mask that people on the spectrum are all like him, or at least what people think of him on the outside.
I would list positives with games like BW2, but i need a break. Maybe ill edit this comment with some positives.
If I could like a comment 4000x it would be this one
@@Kyler360 thanks
Nintendo and Gamefreak consistently treat Pokémon like the red-headed stepchild of franchises, when it is arguably their most successful... it makes no sense why it can't be better after 20 years. So glad I cut my losses after Sun and Moon.
Great video! one issue though; i am in your house
dude this is one of the funniest videos ive ever watched, great job!
with the amount of care and thought put on small details in the recent games the problem wiith the quality comes from lack of time and manpower, gamefreak refuses to increase staff that is getting busier with each passing year and the understaffed dev teams have to keep up with the insane one main line content plus spin off a year schedule that tcpi makes them work under
I really wish people would give Gens 6 and 7 a break. XY was kinda rushed but it's still a fun game, and it brought some serious innovations. Sword and Shield did not care. Pokémon GO made a billion dollars and they gave up forever.
X/Y IMO is... Okay.
I knew what it was back when I got into it. It was not going to be great but very much a "Proof of concept" of what a 3D Pokémon can look like. It was very much needed for Gamefreak to learn the ropes with an entire new dimension and using models instead of sprites.
And it paid off. Once they got around to OR/AS, the potential of the new 3D has been put to full use. I'll never play X/Y over OR/AS, but I'll always be aware that without X/Y, we wouldn't have had a foundation to build OR/AS upon.
Gen 6 and 7 were when the cracks started. They were still good games though. There's a reason all the crap starts with sword and shield.
Truth be told cracks happened before the 3DS games, many fans left because of it, then were later dubbed as genwunners, but the 3DS games revolutionized the series to the point where it revived its popularity. They had flaws but people who grew up with gens 4 and 5 pretend these don't have flaws when so many people had issues especially with Gen 5 during its time.
@@Garde_Mystik No, genwunners are nostalgia poisoned fans who think gen 1 was anything other than a buggy mess that inspired great games later.
People didn't have issues with gen 5, a lot of people didn't like certain designs... that's really it.
@@PlatinumAltaria Gen 5 fans have become the new genwunners, overly praising their Gen so much they praise even its major flaws and praise it for things it didn't actually do.
As a pokemon fan I am so glad I got this video in my recommended. I despise gen 8 and 9 and seeing yet another video (constructively) hating on it with great comedy is my cup of tea.
I feel like tackling the DLCs would've been nice.
I bought Scarlet because it looked like a genuine improvement. And some of the pokemon models DID get upgraded. But I feel like a retard for having paid $60 for an alpha build. I enjoyed my time with the game, and I wanted to see what the DLC is like, but as much as I liked the story of Teal Mask... it should've been free. $35 is WAAAAAAAY too much money for ONLY TWO DLC adventures on a game that's already $60. A pokemon game should NEVER be (almost) $100 by themselves, ESPECIALLY is they're not even finished.
@@excalibur493 I only bought Violet because Arceus was such an improvement over Sw/Sh that it had given me hope that they'd actually figured out how to make a good Pokemon game after screwing it up horribly. That, obviously, was a mistake.
I've made videos about these in the past and I can already understand the sentiment of how we feel about the "modern era" of Pokemon. However, I believe that if you revisit these games in a fresh lens, you'll realize that these games have their magic, even the newer ones. I've talked trash about SV and I still will, but there is still merit in understanding what they did right and promote what they did right so that they can actually work on those elements for the future. Something that Legends ZA hopefully will achieve.
@@Brianycus just watched some of your vids. They're really well done. Earned a sub outta me
@@Kyler360 The same honor goes to me as well. I cant wait for what other videos you have cooking! Keep it my friend!
*casually dropkicks the subscribe button*
I can see you are getting a lot of views on this video compared to your previous ones. I am looking forward to the future of your channel.
I started falling out of love for Pokemon when I started playing XY (well also because I chose Fennekin as a starter but I always choose the cuter options) but when playing Sword and Shield i just couldn't finish it because I don't enjoy playing it anymore. I thought it was because i was already in my 30s and this was the start of losing interest in the franchise but when I gave Legends Arceus it reignited my passion for playing Pokemon yes its not a perfect game but it was different and actually enjoyable but Scarlet and Violet were such a let down. I just realized it wasn't me losing interest in the Franchise it's just as the guy making this video said the franchise is like Ultra Molded Bread now.
The mouth on this guy.
I had a visual glitch happen where I couldn't even see the menu popup happen in the first 5 seconds of Pokemon Scarlet.
I gave them a chance to get me back into pokemon. they dropped it in 5 seconds.
5:58 first the "Poverty Franchise" explanation and now this curse after curse I... 😂❤ Love it unironically! This foul language was what Made RUclips funny back in the days of JonTron & PBG and Brutalmoose I just 😅😅😅 this is such a Guilty Pleasure, now that I am not in Puberty Years❤❤❤
X and y were my first pokemon games and I do agree with you in the flaws of it, but you know, to me x and y are Like family, u don't like some stuff in them, but I still love them
X and Y were my first games too, I actually replayed X recently and while it's story is definitely a bit lacking, it's honestly such a beautiful and fun game. Was such a blast playing it again. Probably in my Top 7 Pokemon games.
@@AmirPrinceling actually, I liked it's story because it leaned more towards morals and facing reality instead of the whole "dis team be dun doin' bad thangs, we godda stop 'em!" shtick. It makes you question things like "is it really worth *some* people being happy if *most* people have to suffer?
It doesn't seem like it, but it *really* digs deep, and I remember 9yo me crying at the end of the game.
Also AZ deserved more from us. For someone with only 5 minutes of screen time, he is a very well developed character.
After Sun & Moon, I was getting over Pokemon. I thought to myself that the next game had better have some big improvements for me to get the next one. And right at the start of the sword and shield marketing they announce they aren't even including all of the pokemon. So not only did they NOT imporve the game they decided "fuck it, we can't even do the bare minimum of having Pokemon in the Pokemon game." At this point the franchise deserves to be burned to the ground and have everyone collectively spit on its ashes.
Edit: I disagree with the last 1/3rd of the video. Pokemon should be Pokemon, not Dark Souls. The way to fix the franchise is to make good Pokemon games, not fundamentally change what Pokemon games are. Rom hacks and fan games prove that the issue isn't the core gameplay of pokemon.
I also don't think that it's fine to just say "If you like eating dog shit, that's fine" because saying that things will never get better. Pokemon has been on a downwards spiral since at least gen 6 and if you disagree you have bad taste and should feel bad.
i live in england. and ngl when i go outside it genuinely looks as grey and colourless as the wild area 8 months a year. however i still think the pokemon designs from gen 8 are some of the best imo.
game is still ass tho
Great points! I definitely think having a story and challenge mode would help with the difficulty issues but also having the option there for kids and casuals like me. Probably also won’t see that great storytelling since it is a kids game and gotta keep it simple to them. I would love to see a legends Rayquaza game! Partly cuz my favorite legendaries are Arceus and rayquaza. But another legends arceus type game with improved graphics and performance would be peak!
It is insane that most gamers (particularly nintendo-fans) think video games have to be toys, particularly for kids.
We praise kids shows like Avatar the Last Airbender for its complex story and fun adventure. Game series like Klonoa are accessible to kids and also teach hard emotional lessons. But Pokemon (and nintendo almost as a whole) can't be bothered to hire a writer.
I was so heartbroken over the Diamond and Pearl Remakes... Ive wanted them just a few years after the originals came out. I agree, Complete cash grab. Core memory was playing the underground capture the flag and wanted to do it with several friends on the switch... Never got that.... (The Updated underground was the perfect place and they just wasted it)
"Boom *click* that's a snake" cracked me up way more than it should have.
Thank you for saying what needed to be said.
I thought the stories in SV were pretty good, if clunky, but my god was it hard to get through the game to experience them. I didn't even get into ranked battles/competitive this gen, something I've wanted to do and have been making progress toward since X and Y. As bad as Sword and Shield were, I actually did some competitive battling there with two self made teams and one rental when the restricted formats started getting crazy. I've wanted to participate in Pokemon tournaments for a fucking decade and SV is so bad that I didn't even begin to try despite imo the second best or even best battle gimmick.
I'll say it now; a pokemon game where you send out all of your pokemon at once for Fire Emblem style combat would absolutely fix the franchise.
Ever hear about pokemon conquest?
yes, Pokemon Conquest WAS a breath of fresh air.. thats been ignored ever since
Would make for a fun "generation gimmick" like the Triple and Rotation Battles in Gens 5 and 6
Or make another 2.5d pokemon game, like Black and White.
I liked BW because fun fact: the sprites aren't actually locked to a pixel grid; it's what makes some of them appear ridged, and I dunno, I REALLY liked it's look.
Maybe a game in Octopath Traveler style or an Earthbound style would be cool.
How about a Mario and Luigi Style Combat?
Pokemon fan here. I have a LOT of things I would like to say, a lot of gripes I have with the games and a lot of gripes with this video. I'll try and keep it short and address just the main one:
I personally really liked the story and characters of Scarlet and Violet. Not just for the ending, I liked the struggles the characters go through, I liked how they interpreted team stars and their teen drama, i liked arven's love for his dog and I loved the plot twist at the end. Unfortunately that's all there really is there, the games are completely broken outside of that, but if anything it helps us define a split in gamefreak that will come in handy later: the artistic side of GF and their technical side.
The artists, writers, character designers and music artists are the ones who seem to have more freedom to work, and it shows, as those parts of the pokemon world are the ones that are suffering the least. Area zero is brilliant, the music is great, a lot of new pokemon designs are awesome, you get the deal.
On the technical side however, the development team seems to be aimless, with interns working there for short periods of time and poor communication, plus the usual crunch times of development for a game that needs to pump out entries every two years for merchandise and cards. This collides with a managerial class that's stuck in their old ways, that doesn't see change well coming from newbies and that to put it simply feels comfortable with what they're doing already, and given that it sells, they have no incentive to change.
Source: A video essay on the state of Gamefreak through the reviews left by the employees, by Cydonia, an Italian youtuber. Look it up if you have the time.
Our only real hope moving forward is Nintendo, cause the thing with scarlet and violet is that they're not just ugly games. They're broken. They are an incomplete product, and as such they're not up to the Nintendo standards. Either the managerial class gets replaced, which will probably take a while, or Nintendo steps in and forces to get their act together. We'll have our answer with the new pokemon game: if it's still broken, Nintendo doesn't care cause they're still making a crapton of money. So let's hope not!
Also as far as features in PLA that you don't understand why aren't in SV, you've got to remember these games were in development at roughly the same time. And considering how rushed SV were, they probably didn't have time to implement features from PLA. I WISH they kept the level curve from Legends Arceus cause that literally fixes the level scaling issue (even if you're 20 levels below the opponent you can still deal a lot of damage and viceversa, whereas in traditional pokemon 5 levels are enough to break a fight), but if they want to keep any of those features, we'll see it moving forward in future entries.
Also fuecoco is absolutely adorable and I will fight you for it
Also gen 5 is the best but 4 comes close okay that's all bye
Now Pokemon Company won't be getting money when you buy og gen 4 games for DS, and even when buying DS, Nitendo won't be getting money from the sale.
Pokémon Shield is my favorite Pokémon game. It’s short enough that it doesn’t feel overwhelming like S/V, plus I love the Pokémon designs and aesthetic of the game. I respect that a lot of people have problems with it… I don’t know, I have fun every time I played it and I even got the DLC just so I could have more of it after beating the main game a few times.
Sword and shield was surprisingly fun to play, especially compared to the 3DS games
@@rethardotv5874 I think they were all fun in their own ways.
Like a short story? Play gen 1-2!
Want a riling adventure into the unknown? Play gen 3-4!
Like story and want something to do afterwards? Play gen 5/7!
Do you just want to hang back? Play gen 6!
And regards to gen 8, they weren't half-bad, ESPECIALLY with battling. Online play was good, and it was surprisingly easy to train a team thanks to Nature Mints being a thing alongside the previously added Bottle Caps and Ability Capsule. It's the ultimate Pokémon Online experience.
I agree with most of your points, but one point of contention i had was DP were not incredibly well recieved. DP were lambasted in their day, and rightfully so, for horrendous pacing issues, slow battles, a nonsensical villain team, many poor pokemon designs, and a complete lack of endgame stuff to do. Platinum fixed many of these issues, and i feel that platinum is coloring peoples perception of lackluster mainline generation games.
me when i've completed a complete swsh living forms dex and completely agree
The only thing that's been going consistently uphill in this franchise is the quality of the 3D pokemon models. Not the battle animations, just standing idle while waiting for you to navigate the battle menu. I'm sure they skipped working on those awful trees in favor of making sure Skwovet's fuzzy cheeks still glisten properly when a cloud moves over the battlefield.
Which is... certainly one order for your priorities.
Pokemon games seem so frustrating right now. At least mainline ones. I can't say, since I dropped at gen 7, couldn't finish the game, it was such a slog.
I wonder if Pokemon is suffering the same thing Sonic used to suffer through - basically, apparently Sonic is owned by some pachinko company and after aquiring the franchise that company focused on making money from pachinkos while using Sonic as a child friendly face to appease investors. Sonic kept selling decently well, but games quality was sinking so much due to that mindset - it wasn't important to make good games, it was important to just make games. I think Sonic 06 was the first game under that mindset - and it shows so much (while also shows that devs still were trying to make a quality game, just under someone who didn't cared for that, so they crunched).
It kinda checks - Pokemon Company make tons of money, games are still being made under crunch, just because they need them to be made, Pokemon are a pleasant face for investors etc.
Sadly, considering it was I think Breath of the Wild that showed Sega-Sammy(?) that games can make huge profit (which in the end allowed creation of Sonic Frontiers), I doubt Pokemon will learn from that. And I doubt there will be any game soon that'll greatly beat Pokemon sales (so they would maybe reconsider putting some quality into games). I know that corporations are evil and consumer unfriendly (even if they show otherwisse), but I swear, Japanese ones feel like they are level higher in those terms.
It's captured in you sharing how bad Sword and Shield are and that you put 200+ hours into it. Not matter how much they push the border of releasing garbage, people will still buy and play.
I forget who, but a little over a year ago there was a youtuber looking at the pokemon issues. He ended on this Japanese chat board that discussed their issues, on top of massive under manning they also seem to be working with systems designed to work with the GameCube. I know there was more, did anyone else find who made that video? I think I need a rewatch...
It astonishes me the amount of people writing full essays in the comments
Guys it doesn’t matter if someone on the internet has a different opinion than you, this isn’t Twitter
Legends Arceus genuinely ruined modern Pokemon games for me. Every single aspect of gameplay (past the tutorial) was so quick and snappy and flowed so well that everything beyond gen 5 feels unbearably slow. I haven't even finished Violet, by the time I beat the 8th gym there hadn't been a single thing that made up for having worse gameplay.
22:42 yes Legends Arceus is the type of Pokémon game I want going forward
It's just super sad that now we'll never get a competant remake of dp :(
"Sure, I have the freedom to go anywhere, but I might get jumped." Tbf, that's just called leaving your house. 😂
Gen 9 so lazy they literally didn't name all the pokemon
Great video. Lets hope Gen10 gets rid of stupid sandwiches and introduces voice acting at the very least.
So sad this is true. This doesnt mean that just because we buy the games that the enjoyment is "equal". Really dissapointed with the pokemon games since sword and shield as well.
Sun and Moon were the last games that they actually tried harf
@@SMCwasTaken They tried w/ USUM, LGPE, PLA, and SV, though.
@@gengargamer5657 remove SV
@@SMCwasTaken No, I'm not going to. SV did have ambition behind them as well, but the problem was that the devs were not given enough time to polish them. Keep in mind, SV were only given a few months of dev time directly after PLA.
@@gengargamer5657 OH
I wish I was the controller of the Pokemon company so I can give the devs enough time
This means you're not going to buy the new one, right? *right???*
SwSh and SV are what happens when a project is given 3 years of dev time when it needed 4 years. I enjoyed them, yes but for both games I could've waited another year for both if it meant that they get the dev time they needed.
Ied say more like 5-6 years
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If anyone here wants to play good "Monster Collecting" games on Switch try Shin Megami Tensei V and/or Nocturne or Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (which even has online battling)