Can We Finally Escape The Dark Ages of Pokemon?
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To this day; I still find it unforgivable that they made the Dex Cut and then gave a bunch of different excuses that turned out to be lies. Pokémon is the most financially succesful franchise ever, yet they couldn't be bothered to put in the effort, budget nor time into their mainline games on the Switch.
Pokemon GO takes less effort and gives more revenue than mainline games
Same for the upcoming TCG pocket
@@luismadeira3101 And that's a valid excuse-- how exactly? Pokémon makes more money than god, ffs. The mainline games is where all other media and products derive from-- so why not put in the resources to make it as good as it can be??
A freaking mobile game can fit (nearly) all Pokémon and Mega-Evolutions, but Gamefreak refuses to hire competent programmers when it's obvious that their games are unoptimized as hell.
It took one man, ONE SINGLE MAN to fit all of Kanto for the post-game of the second Gen. games and he wasn't even a Gamefreak employee. They've been a mediocre studio since the very start and Pokémon's success was a fluke-- I'm sure of it.
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Is not an excuse, companies follow money with minimal effort and that is the hard truth.
Despite how bad a mainline series is, it has always the same formula new x number pokemon, a new region and a new gimmick. No matter how shit the game is the pokemon fan base is so huge that you will always have enough sales for marginal profit and plus more profit from anime/TCG/pokemon go/Pokemon masters Ex/merchandise etc..
I was a mainline series player until gen 4 (Plat was my last mainline game) then, I loved mystery dungeon blue and explorers of sky and I am thinking of buying legend Arceus.
Pokemon Tekken is also fun for me and I love pokemon go and will certainly play the TCG pocket game.
I agree the mainline series games have been underperforming, none called my attention, but even then I think some QoL changes are really amazing and might spark a curiosity for future mainline series games.
Yes, unfortunately they’re not lies. A game like the one you dream of is a useless and huge risk. Just look at the financials of Sony or square enix. Turns out making games is hard
If they had been more honest about it, I don’t think nearly as many people would still have a problem with it in the long run. There are actual benefits to moderating which Pokemon are in each set of games as far as the actual gameplay experience and the mechanics. Because they instead blew smoke up our butts about how they allegedly just had to do it this way, no one really considers anything like that. They never bothered to make the case for any actual benefit to Dexit.
The problem with Ultra Sun and Moon is that they released it as two separate games, if they had of released a single game called “Pokémon Stars” or something it would be ranked a lot higher in the same way that Platinum is rated higher than Diamond and Pearl
Putting Pumpkin Hill in the background is goated as always and the new mic sounds good to my ears.
Going inside of houses and other buildings to explore and talk to NPCs is the biggest thing I missed while playing Scarlet and Violet so I'm excited for the prospect of a fully fleshed-out city in the upcoming Legends game. I hope there's tons of optional exploring to do.
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I understand people are tired of hearing about the Pokedex cut.
But it is still not very justifiable, rheu have the budget to put all Pokemon in and could subcontract another studio for that purpose entirely.
By now though, we have nearly all 1025 Pokemon available on one of the switch titles.
I believe currently only left out if patrat line, pansage, pansear, and panpour, and furfrou.
I'm quite certain that is all the Pokemon that have not made it to the Nintendo Switch.
As somebody who is tryna complete the national dex with only switch, your pretty much right except for maybe some mythicals.
The reasons they gave have been proven to be BS anyways. And I say that as someone who feels Dexit was actually an improvement for each individual set of games. It’s good for the generation exclusive mechanics, game balance and design. Unfortunately, they have never attempted to really highlight why they would have deliberate reason to not include all the Pokemon on purpose (the reality.) They claimed, falsely, that they *had* to do it, and so I don’t think most people would ever recognize that there are positives for Dexit. No one is making the case for that.
The Dex cut and the "barely upgraded" animations fucking pissed me the hell off. I think a lot of the long time fans that started way back in Kanto were older and could see through gamefreaks bullshit. Our first home console Pokemon game and we got tons of Pokemon cut from the game, shit animations and graphics that looked they were from Nintendo 64.
When you put BOTW or hell, Xenoblade next to Pokemon Sword/Shield/Scarlet and Violet there is NO EXCUSE. GameFreak and Nintendo are just greedy and they knew they could ship a half finished game and people would buy it. It's really bad when fans would rather pirate Pokemon games and then emulate them. Not only do you NOT have to pay for half baked goods, but you could also increase the graphical fidelity through upscaling and texture packs. AND add in any missing Pokemon on your own.
According to the riddler this is indeed a blank year Legends ZA wont be too early next year so maybe april or may at the earliest and Gen 10 will be 2026 celebrating the 30th aniversary
I think a blank year makes sense, it wouldn’t surprise me if some sort of Unova remake was considered but ultimately pushed back a generation after the nonsense that was BDSP.
gen 10 will definitely come out 2025 it’s always a three year gap
@@jimmyjohn6479 no way not this time next years game is exclusively Legends ZA, Gen 10 will be 2026 celebrating the 30th Anniversary
@@jimmyjohn6479it won’t. They are pushing the break to 4 years to hit the 30th anniversary
PLA is my FAVORITE pokemon game. ever. it went way beyond my expectations. I hope they continue this with ZA and Gen 10.
I find it funny how i put Sword and Shield as "The Dark Downfall" of Pokemon but then i realized SWSH's biggest cataclysm is called "the DARKest Day" lmao
Usum might have been a shameless cash grab, but I don't loathe it's existence. They're the definitive versions of alola. To me sword and shield were the first sign of dark times to come. Cutting the dex for high quality animations ( a whopper of a lie) lack of story, putting post game behind paid dlc.
Bdsp was pretty much just diamond and pearl remastered, but worse. Forced affection, awful dp dex, no pokemon past gen 4, no game corner, they couldn't even add alolan forms (said to be faithful, another lie).
Arceus was ok.
Scarlet and violet was a disaster of a game. Glitches and framerate dips up the wozzu, locking post game behind paid dlc, AGAIN. Also the fact they had the marbles to announce/release dlc for these BROKEN GAMES, and from what I heard, performance got worse with each dlc!
Z-A is a single player game so I'm not worried about that, it's gen 10 I'm worried about.
The new audio equipment sounds great! Love your vids man, keep it up!
This happens because people kept buying their products. Me, after playing Moon and never beating it because I got bored, I decided to never buy Pokémon games again until they changed their approach. And to this day I still haven't bought a new Pokémon game.
i buy always 2 of them, for people like you to never come back ;)
@@FP99424 People like you are the reason this franchise has turned into shit.
Entirely understandable with the placid story design of gen 7. I’d recommend giving Legends Arceus a look, it takes heavy inspiration from BotW in a good way.
@@justarandompurplefox3243 There's a difference between "placid" and "sluggish".
Legends Arceus looks "okaish" but doesn't strike as an amazing 3D adventure, with the only incentive being it having Pokémon.
@@FP99424 Zealots like you are the reason this franchise has become trash.
technically it was the second time that pokemon had a dex cut. Gen 3 was the first time that you couldn’t have all the Pokemon in one game or trade from the previous gens to Gen 3. Sword and shield was the second time that happened. I would have preferred if ilica started development of bdsp in 2017 for the switch. It was getting to for gen 4 to get a remake as it was 15 years by the time bdsp released in 2021. Team A made scarlet and violet and team B made legends arceus, probably legends z-a, let’s go, and as well as ultra sun and moon. Team A is probably making gen 10 which is far behind from releasing like in 2026 for the 30th anniversary since it only makes sense. Team B is in the process of legends z-a’s development. Who knows what ilica is doing right now since they are still with Pokémon as far as we know. Team B also made the dlcs of sword and shield and scarlet and violet.
If I remember correctly, you could get all of the pokemon in gen 3, it just took multiple games to do it, along with luck that you lived near a place giving away event tickets, and extra cords to connect to gamecube. Basically it could be done, but took much more work than it should have.
Yeah the but the pokemon were still in the code. So you could at least get them with a GameShark or something. And they did provide legitimate means to get almost if not every Pokemon. So you’d have to shell out some cash but it was at least possible. Additionally, that was due to the fact that the game boy and gameboy advance were just too different to talk to each other for transfers and that’s a much more legitimate reason than what we were given with sword and shield
Soul. THANK YOU for calling out Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
It has good ideas, no doubt. The stuff they added was certainly cool. The new Ultra Beasts, Necrozma forms, minigames, etc.
But the fact that they had the gaul to do not sequels but DUAL THIRD VERSIONS just a single year later, with just maybe 10-20% of the game changed... FOR FULL PRICE?!?! It offends me too lol.
DLC would've been perfect for it. But 80% the same game for full price 1 year later? No way. It was the first game I didn't buy since I started playing Pokemon over a decade prior.
Let's not pretend 3rd versions didn't do the same thing. The only difference is the fact that it's 2 instead of 1. At most usum just proved how that practice is not going to cut it these days and the consumers aren't going to take that like they did back then.
@@KazShiro Oh yeah you're 100% right. It just bothered me because it was a third/remix version(s) that came out just 1 year after the original, not two years later like Platinum or Emerald. It wasn't like B2W2 where it tells a continuation. They made it two version because... more money lol. And then of course them expecting third versions to cut in general, 8 or so years after the last true third version, in an age of DLC
@@christianthompson2768 Personally I never liked that practice cause it's scummy(which is why i rather be for expansion dlc). Not saying platinum didnt need to exist cause lets be honest that game saved that region. But to play devils advocate sun and moon, it did need that 3rd version since it gave side quests and is the best version to play(outside of lusamines character chamge). But as you said it came out too soon and in a time when the switch was new while people were theorizing it to be a switch release. I too rather usum be a patch and dlc but considering how much that game struggled to run and how much usum was skirting the size limit it was prolly for the best since the same happend with shin megami tensei 4 when developing apocalypse
tbh i'm just excited that ppl are excited. I personally don't really feel one way or the other about the new game. if its good its good and i did enjoy the last legends too so if this one is better then great.
we'll be out of the dark ages when nat dex is back. Theres no excuse to keep them cut if the models are up to date with the previous games.
I hate that everyone hates on x and y, I think they are great games and the fall probably started with sun and moon, or ultra sun and moon, the x and y games fit all the categories a pokemon game should, plus the gen Pokemon are unique and fun
XY did have the excuse of being the first 3D Pokémon games.
Lets hope so because DS era was peak(Yes despite the flaws in the older games as well.) Some fans say the start of the downfall was the 3DS era then got worse with the dexit with SWSH by cutting pokemon,SV having a bad launch filled with glitches and bugs as much of a Bethesda game and unfinished textures in the world the performance sucked to the framerate was terrible heck Persona 5 Royal ran better since it was better optimized.(Hoping Z-A gets optimized.) But overall Z-A is the hope for us fans after all the hit and misses we got throughout the years.
Every era had their rocky moments, but you’re right, switch era was VERY hit or miss with a lot of people
Idk if i'd call it a dark age. Its moreso an age where a lot of change is happening in pokemon. I like to think of the switch era as a time where a lot of growing pains are happening
Yeah it’s more so a transitional period because of the Hybrid nature of the switch
Pokemon fans who don't care about the Dex cuts in recent generations I feel don't understand why having every past Pokemon in the recent games is such an important key feature of the series. Pokemon as a series is all about personalization and community, meaning everyone has different teams of Pokemon that they like and have formed bonds with over the years.
When you restrict more than half the mons from even being in the latest titles, you're basically telling people who have said cut mons as signature members of their personal play styles that,"We don't care about you. Your way to play doesn't matter."
For me, I can completely excuse USUM's problems and short comings because at least you can play the games with any past Pokemon or gimmick at the time of it's release. Heck, I can even look past the Let's Go games because while Game Freak INSISTS they're main series games, they really feel like more of a spinoff than anything.
Even if SwSh and SV didn't have every mon at launch, I'd be more accepting if they actually followed through with adding the rest in updates. But the thing is, they DON'T follow through with this. Stopping at 200-ish additional mons. I would much rather take more gameplay options like the Pokemon any day over newer, highly detailed graphics and animation. I can't believe that has to be such a hot take.
Before anyone says it, no, it has nothing to do with graphical fidelity or memory space. Sure, you could argue mismanaged development and time crunch. But even then, they were still able to create high poly models and animations for 600+ Pokemon for XY....
But I feel the real culprit is Pokemon Home, pushing for subscriptions over just transferring and storing your Pokemon in one game at a time for free. The free service is so lackluster in the first place that they basically highly encourage giving them more money just to store your mons who aren't in the latest gen in the cloud. Taking away something that was the standard for so many years while swindling every penny out of us feels pretty scummy if you ask me.
What hurts most is that most Pokemon fans out there are perfectly okay with all this and seemingly don't care about the Pokemon they raise and transfer from gen to gen. Without that care and personalization, the Pokemon games are just lackluster and overly easy RPG games. In which I feel there are more and frankly better RPG games that satisfy that itch.
So unless they ever revert this decision, Pokemon is forever ruined for me. :( Nowadays, I only play the games that have my top favorite mainstay.
FINALLY, someone else with some common sense about the Dexit issue.
I am forever baffled at the surprisingly large number of people who don't understand why this is such a big deal to certain other players.
@@blueharuka226 Prolly because 1) Their favorites are either super popular fan favorite or super vialable in VGC in otherwords the Pokemon that will almost ALWAYS appear in every game if possible
2) Having alot of Pokemon availble pre post game kinda makes the game easier due to the many options, X and Y comes to mind for that
@@DDKoD That is kind of a weird pattern I've noticed. A lot of the people I've seen not bothered by the cut, or even fully support it, almost always seem to have the same favorite Pokemon, as you said earlier, usually popular fan favorites or competitively viable ones that always seem to make it into each game with no issue.
"If your top favorites are Charizard, Gengar, or Gardevoir, then you're in luck!
But if you like something like Slugma, then screw you, wait 3 years until we decide to bring him back!"
That's how this feels and that just doesn't seem fair to the player at all, IMO.
Regardless if you believe it or not, every Pokemon is someone's favorite, after all.
For the issue of not having every Pokemon available before post-game, I think BW/B2W2 had the right idea for that: Place a cap in the game that makes players use Mons already native to the game's region, then allow transfers of different Mons only after the game's been completed.
As I mentioned in a separate comment, I feel like the heavy blow dealt by the Dexcut to so many in the fanbase would be lightened considerably if the HOME app just allowed us to be able to continue interacting with our Pokemon while they wait for the next game. There has to be a better way to deal with such problems instead of "Let's just get rid of a bunch of people's Pokemon and make 'em pay extra to MAYBE get them back".
Because without alolamolas, elemental monkeys and finneons in all the main games they suck lol
@@FP99424 ...Okay?...So are you saying the games will suck just because those Pokemon ARE in the game or...?
I know this is likely a troll-bait comment but I'm genuinely curious.
Game Freak definitely had a lot to figure out in the home console market. They still do, as far as I can tell. But it does seem like they're starting to move in the right direction with Legends Z-A.
The sentiment of "this is a step in the right direction" has been parroted for so many Pokémon games that it's become meaningless white noise to me... when will Gamefreak FINALLY make a game worth its 60 dollar pricetag??
That’s that Pumpkin level music from Sonic Adventure 2
Pokemon used to have so much soul attached to it. Everything attached to the franchise used to feel so alive up until Pokemon Go got them money hungry. Honestly, I could see a glimmer of that soul in Scarlet and Violet, they just need to give their developers the actual TIME to truly and fully incorporate that soul into the modern games.
I hope they don't mess this up, otherwise I give up hope on them. If it doesn't work then maybe they should try HD-2D for once and see how well that goes. Octopath 1 and 2 Traveler is VERY beautiful so it would be interesting to see pokemon in it's design.
I’m down for that, especially for Gen 5 remakes considering thats the game that introduced constantly moving sprites to battles in the series, I feel like it’d fit super well, but if they did that for a mainline new game I think that’d be REALLY cool too 😩
I would pay a billion dollars for a pokemon game like that
As someone who’s in his 30s and been in the series since Red and Blue(which I now see for what the actual broken unplayable mess it is), the is no Dark Age, if it was then it was actually around Gen 5 or so. This was more of a rough transitional period cause of the intergration with the handheld and console department so things were bound to get rough but from the looks of things The Switch 2 we’ll be seem to getting leas controversal games. Tho if we REALLY wanna talk about Dark ages, Star Fox, Metriod(getting out of it) and WiiU are great examples😂
I think that people need to understand something simple!
We are getting older and the games are about cute animals for CHILDREN to play!
The games always had a lot of flaws that people still complain, even today, the boring part always have been there lol
Im just like you, in my 30s and started with gen 1 in gameboy color, i still play today for the game loop(that i always liked, team building, become champion.defeat evil team) and a mix of memories and nostalgia from better times
Pokemon made part of my life for 27 years or so and will still be part of it for many more
I just dont get ultra mad like 95% of the community because i understand a simple rule, time have passed and we have grown up
As a kid i used to love the anime for example, i even had the full first season in VHS somewhere in my grandmas house, today i cant watch 5 minutes of that without falling a sleep
I NEED A BATTLE TOWER. I cannot believe the SV DLC didn’t add it. I’m thoroughly annoyed, and won’t buy any future games until they show that QA is a priority.
Excuse me!? So how am I supposed to do semi-competitive battles offline? Do I have to suck it up and pay for Nintendo Switch online and then piss off when the servers shut down? Talk about a shameless cash grab. Whatever happened to replay value?
I thought this RUclipsr might have been exaggerating a little bit with that title, but maybe he's got a point after all. Games these days keep giving you less content as they ask for more money than ever before.
I'm glad I haven't moved on to the Switch yet. I'm happy as is with my 3DS games where decades old game mechanics weren't paywalled or entirely scraped, and performance issues weren't immersion-breaking.
By 3-4 years, you mean 2026, right? Cause that’s the latest that Gen 10 is releasing, lol.
5 years would be better.
Yeah it’s coming out in 2026 for the 30th anniverserary
I think its not really a dark age more so a snag. Black and white were a dark age where from gen 4 to 5 sales dropped like a rock and to this day i still think Black and White are bottom 3 in terms of pokemon games while B2W2 are top 3. I think X and Y they came out of their funk but i wouldnt call it a dark age more of a rough transitional period because it feels like they are moving out the older directors for new young directors that may have very different takes on pokemon and where it should go. along with a heavy transition with a huge console leap from N64 level graphics to ps4 base level graphics.
Sometimes I do think they listen to the vocal minority too much at times and BDSP kind of reflects that in where most people just wanted a revamped DPPT but we literally got a gen 4 carbon copy from a studio that produces amazing work when you let them and i think they need to loosen the reins a bit when other studios handle the property because i feel we would have gotten something better if they just let ILCA fully handle it themselves.
I think scarlet and violets problem was the switch itself. the switch has difficulty handling open world games and for pokemon where around 20 pokemon spawn per time thats a heavy load. Xenoblade 3 which had great graphics would chug if you had more than 2 enemies fighting at a time and hid a lot of loading using its verticality and BoTW would chug heavily in certain areas and if you had more than 3 enemies the frame would start to hurt. I think the only ways they could have fixed the framerate somehow getting the game to overclock the switch to use more power from the chips because its only using like 55% of the chips power or less pokemon on screen. The first nintendo isnt allowing that and the 2nd people would get angry about that so they kind of had no way out. The way this was proven by several creators that its more the switch than pokemon on the frame rate issues.
I think pokemons biggest issue how many releases they have been doing and how quickly and its forcing them to cut corners at times. I think that is the reason they are establishing another studio is because I think gamefreak has realized their current schedule isnt realistic in the long run with how advanced console games are now and how good graphics have gotten. I think they have realized they may have to slow down their releases and so the best way to keep pokemon going is to create another studio that can assist in that endeavor. I think gamefreak learnt from scarlet and violet that they need more time to develop games and doing this 3 year cycle isnt working anymore and I think they realized how much console development has changed and they are prepping for that change.
Black and White came out when the Wii was losing its luster, and the Wii U was announced. It's also didn't help that the 3DS came out between them and BW2. It's likely people skipped BW2 due to anticipation of a 3DS Pokemon game as an early launch title, but would end up releasing in 2013, two years later.
I love Black and White but you’re spitting facts about everything else tho
I still say that the main problem for the modern Pokemon games was that GF didn't properly optimize them for the Switch. I agree that XB3 and BOTW have their snags as well, but they still run far better than SV.
@@manueljaramillo2520 Yet when all 3 of thier successors appear and run superbly on the next system, everyone who blamed the switch for those 3 not preforming as they could on a stronger hardware will feel like they were right. Like if that rumor that backwards compatable games getting better specs and whatnot is true and S/V actually runs like it’s expected then full blame will switch(haha) to the hardware.
I've dropped Pokemon around gen 9. Beating volo was the last good experience that I've had with this franchise.
First i was sad to see what happened to pokémon but I kind of accepted it
2:35 I find that somewhat hypocritical. USUM exist for the same reason that pokemon yellow, crystal, emerald, and platinum exist. Its a directors cut of their base games. The only difference between usum and those is that usum is two versions and not one
As someone who’s been shitting on Game Freak for most of the Switch’s life span…hot take. Scarlet and Violet are some of the best games they’ve ever made. Or they would be, if the game didn’t look like a Wii game and didn’t have terrible performance.
I’ll back this
Game freak doesn’t have much experience with an open world type of game yet. The games are amazing for what they could produce within their timeframe, skill set and budget. They will definitely get better at making these games in the future.
Sword and Shield were heavily flawed, but I feel like they handled open world areas better.
Both swsh and sv are awful lmfao
Well. They did say they wanted to step up to their game after Pal World came out. So im giving them this lasr chance.
A lot of people think that the dark age was x and y when their biggest reveal was that you can sit in benches now.
Personally i loved lets go pikachu and eevee they even had megas in that game. My problem is games do so many things right but also do a lot of things wrong
I agree that the Dark Ages started with USUM. There were changes to the story that I didn't agree with and the changes themselves were few and far between. Then Let's Go came along and I had ZERO interest in those games. Had no problems with skipping those games and waiting for the next titles. And then SwSh happened. This was when I had enough with how GF and TPC was handling the games. Dex cut, the poor textures, the pop-in, the barely existent story, no voice acting which led to the infamous cutscene with Piers, and the DLC which is basically the real post game that they decided to sell to us.
BDSP are the worst remakes ever especially when compared to FRLG and ORAS. Completely agree that these titles were just shameless cash grabs trying to bank off of people's nostalgia for 4th gen. Legitimately if you want to experience the 4th gen games/story you're better off just playing Platinum. PLA was a breath of fresh air and the most fun I'd had with a modern Pokemon game. I was looking forward to seeing what support GF would give to PLA and what updates they'd release for it. AND THEN ONE MONTH AFTER PLA'S RELEASE, TPC COMPLETELY ABANDONS IT AND ANNOUNCES GEN 9. PLA GOT ONE SMALL CONTENT UPDATE AND GOT THROWN TO THE WAY SIDE.
SV have the WORST performance of any modern Pokemon title and it isn't even close, they run like absolute shit. So many bugs on release, pop in is worse, open world yet they have zero level scaling so there actually is a linear path you're supposed to take, story is barely an improvement over SwSh's, still no voice acting which leads to awkward moments in cutscenes that really needed it (like Kieran's shouts in the Indigo Disk dlc), and again dlc which just feels like the real post game being sold separately.
After all this I hope that PLZA turns out good because honestly I'm getting tired of giving second chances to this franchise that clearly doesn't respect its older fanbase anymore.
The series while issues I think will be fixed soon. The switch era took awhile to get adjusted since they planned to stayed handheld. Since the switch is stronger than 3ds the device werent rdy.
What’s the name of the song that you use throughout the first minutes of the video?
Leaving Dark Age of Pokémon hard to say, I do believe that 10th generation will be the start of the Renaissance era.
I think the dark age of pokemon was 7th Gen up to the most current 9th mainly because the sheer amount of bugs that each game had more so with Sword/Shield & Scarlet/Violet i do believe that Legends Arcus & the DLC wasnt too bad those were a good step in the direction to an extent tbh i dont know what the future will hold but the fandom regardless of what you think about them deserves the time & effort that should be put into the series without them Pokémon wouldn't be a thing.
I saw the title, which was open ended, and the thumbnail, a screenshot from a Pokémon presents, so no I didn’t think you were talking about legends Z-A lol
im so happy their finally taking their time with a game. especially a legends game, Arceus had the potential to be even better than it was
I'd argue that the let's go game compete with legends:Arceus as the best pokemon game on the switch. It was a lot of fun, the graphics held up and the new mechanics were fun enough.
I have been playing Crystal Legacy & been replaying B2W2. It's almost impossible to play those games w/o being bogged down with cut scenes. S&M were (probably) made with this idea, but they were developed as 3D games, which really makes the game stop & separate the cut scene from the main gameplay.
USUM should have been released as 2 DLCs: the Ultra-Beast quest & the Rainbow Rocket quest.
does it matter if the game comes out in november 24 or january 25? I dont think so...
This could be a step in the right direction for the Pokemon franchise, we'll just have to wait and see if that turns out to be true or not.
I've been playing Sonic Adventure 2 lately, so as soon as Pumpkin Hill started playing in this video it was so easy for me to recognise that wrap style zone song even though this was an instrumental version of it.
I really hope you’re right. However I think that they may just be adding the extra time to ensure a lack of bugs and only are because it’s absolutely necessary. Look how buggy scarlet and violet were. I don’t think that even developers as talented as Gamefreak could do more than some bug fixes and maybe minor graphical enhancements with just a couple more months. I’m not a programmer or game dev though so I could be completely wrong and I hope that I am
Maybe Legends ZA will improve things but if you are like me and miss old Pokemon, those days are over. I think the dark ages was a gradual thing with XY. The selling point of those games was that it was 3D and had Mega Evolutions to which they definitely delivered but story was mediocre in comparison to Gen 5 and arguably every other Gen and the games were stupidly easy in comparison. This taught GameFreak/The Pokemon Company that they can get away with games with medicore stories and little to no difficulty, that didn't have bother with BW tier stories and developing difficulty modes like they did B2W2 was pointless. As much as I like Megas, they opened the gateway to a bunch of different gimmicks and we ate all up. You pretty much summed up my issues with USUM and Let's Go so I won't reiterate that. Now I can't really comment on anything past SwSh (not including the DLC which I didn't get due to how overpriced it was). However I have been watching from the sidelines (because as much as I dislike what's going on now, I can't fully move on) and stuff does not look so good. BDSP felt like a massive spit in the face especially being a huge Platinum fan. It was a highly anticipated game and they cared so little about that they outsource the game to company who have only ever made ports and Pokemon Home in order to hold people over until Legends Arceus dropped. Moreover, the fact that they made a faithful remake of Diamond and Pearl was even more disrespectful when Platinum improved upon those games in every way and is a remake even worth getting if it does not reimagine anything? At the very least they could have done what ORAS did. This kind of stuff is unforgivable in my eyes. Legends Arceus did seem like a attempting buy but not $60, I might see get one day though. Even less so with ScVi, an open-world Pokemon game sounds cool but without leveling scaling, it doesn't seem all too interesting to me. Also the fact that it released with FPS issues and so many bugs, and bugs are still present in the game despite the fact that they released DLC expansions for the game is telling sign that GameFreak & TPC realized that they can do anything and make millions. Likely because they cultivated a fanbase of children and loyal adult/teen fans because otherwise the games would flop and they would have figure out away to regain our trust. This also might be very very very subjective but since Gen 7 I feel like I've been liking the Pokemon designs less and less with every new batch of Pokemon, to the point where I can count on a hand or 2 how many designs that I like from Gen 9.
I loaded up Pokémon Shield last night to put a Flapple in my Pokeball plus. I felt compelled to roam a bit, and remembered how much more I enjoyed it compared to SV. Really thinking about it in context, SwSh felt incredibly lacking compared to ORAS. It’s sad when you can *feel* the decline like that
I hate how they pump out so many new Pokemon all the time, over half of the Pokemon introduced post-Gen 6 I don't even know the names of. Gen 6 was the last one to do it right, a low pool of only 72 or so new Pokemon, and then 20ish new Megas/Primals of old Pokemon. This was the way to do it. We don't need 100+ new Pokemon every 3 years, it gets old quick.
With me being a person who got back into Pokémon with SV and missed like 5 Gens, I dunno how to feel, i wasn't there and right now im trying to backtrack. I heard all the bad things but i really gotta see it for myself
Not going well this cause whoooo boi too many games out there lol
I've been a fan of Pokemon since the 90s but was never able to play any of the games on their respective consoles until 2013 when XY came out and I received a 3DS from a friend as a birthday gift. Paired with the awesome XY anime, I regained my love for the series and have been obsessed with it ever since. And being an artist/writer that has created their own Pokemon characters and their own Poke'verse just pushed that obsession into hyperdrive. Most fun I've had in forever!
I have a love for collecting, so, of course, I had a blast collecting, and raising each and every Pokemon I got, and I often see them as beloved pets instead of just '1's and 0's' (And anyone 'bothered' by this can go swallow a whole pinecone. I don't give two shits). Every 'Mon I own has a name, has max friendship, and has a fond memory attached to it.
So when the news of that ridiculous Dexcut came around (As well as seeing so many people turn around from being rightfully shocked/upset to defending the decision like their lives depended on it), I was absolutely livid and it just made the games so much less fun for me for years. ESPECIALLY after they just kept...removing so many other great features that brought me back into the franchise in the first place.
Out of all those 'creative' decisions, I despise the Dexcut specifically, not only because it prevents me from playing with the Pokemon I want to play with a lot of the time, but also because I feel like they're making me pay extra $$$ to watch them sit and rot in a box with no way to interact with them.
But honestly, the cut wouldn't bother me nearly half as bad as it does now if only, I dunno...the HOME app was actually a HOME for my Pokemon instead of a glorified prison, that had a battle simulator and Amie/Refresh feature to allow me to keep interacting with my stored Pokemon while they wait 3-6 years for the next game they'll be available in...
Either way, despite how completely bummed and burned out I have been about Pokemon these past 6 years, Kalos is still one of my all-time favorite regions next to Johto. So I'd be lying if I didn't say that returning to that region doesn't give me at least a glimmer of hope for a future of redemption for this franchise. I love all my Pokemon, but I don't know how much more of the 'Dark Ages' I can take at this point.
if we're in the dark ages of pokemon does that make sword and shield the darkest day 🤔
Pokémon went downhill since XY
Nah but xy had the excuse of being the first ever 3d pokemon games. The ultra sun and moon games are where it really went downhill.
No matter how much i dislike lets go its one of the best looking switch pokemon games Snap taking the cake
Mic sounds great!
I thought you were going to say that Sun and Moon were the start of the dark ages and I was going to have to fight you, because I think SM are the best games in the series
I enjoyed Scarlet and Legends Arceus. I'd say we already have.
I’m actually surprised you didn’t say Kalos was the start. I mean yes it gave us Mega Evolution and Fairy types but it was also the games I hear complained about the most because of how easy it had become in many peoples eyes and the story. Granted that might just have been because that was when I really started noticing poketubers and stuff or it might just be my personal experience.
i atcually liked sword and sheild, at least more than paldea
I recently took a break from Pokémon games once in finished Violet, and I started playing open world games like no man’s sky and assassin’s creed, and I just can’t help but feel sort of disappointed at game freak. They could be making incredible games with amazing graphics
unpopular opinion, i really enjoyed Lets Go and the graphics being 6+ years old, look better than scarlett and violet
unfortunately ever sense sword and shield right after that the games were no longer blind accessible
I still have high hopes. The only game i bought was Legends. Violet and Shinong Pearl i bought second hand. Year off for me is still not enough but I trurly believe that they will deliver. Kalos deserve better game. XY is one of my favourite games, but I know it flaws. Now it's redemption time. Just hope it's not another hype train that is going to crush.
I guess I'm in the minority when it comes to the Let's Go games. I actually really liked them and thought they were fun. I get that it's dumbed down but I just see it as it's own thing.
i know im gonna get hate for this but i DONT WANT more mega evolutions, Megas trap and end a pokemons evolutionary line from evolving again. Pokemon like Medacham, sabeleye and mawhile are all stuck sucking because of their lack of megas in future generations.
Megas are a kalos generational gimmick. We got them in gen 6 and we are ONLY getting them in more KALOS (or Hoenn) games gen 10 wont have megas they will have a new gimmick. Gamefreak learned from sun and moon that they had too stop making megas available EVEN IN THE POSTGAME because people latched on too it too much.
when you comepare them too every other gimmick Megas are the worst.
Every pokemon can dynamax or terastlize or use a zmove but ontop of that some of them have exclusive forms that function the same but give a certain pokemon an edge like Signature zmoves, gigantamax or tera forms.
But only like 60 pokemon can mega evolve and get broken stats and a broken ability that you HAVE to have a mega on your limited team additionally megas cant take advantage of a held item.
what i want for gen 10 is some new phenomenon too occur too split Pokémon too evolve away from megas, like you have a sabeleye but instead of mega evolving it you can make it evolve normally into something ells, the base form can mega evolve but can still split off from mega evolving and get regular permanent evolutions that stick around for extra generations.
"but it was a main stay of pokemon!" no it wasnt megas where essential to gen 6, that was it.
Where ells did they appear? sun moon post game but they had too have the national dex which is why we didnt get any new megas in sun and moon. And in lets go pikachu and eevee? its a kanto spin off and unlike the other gimmicks megas are the only ones that occur in different places so if they wanted too spice up kanto they had too chose Megas instead of gmax because it would be a spoiler.
Megas where always suppossed to be TEMPORARY people need to let go legends za is ment too be a slap too the face saying "MEGAS ARE A GEN 6 THING!" and they wont be in gen 10.
Only Kalos generational games and remakes will get Megas.
Here's hoping for fewer higher quality Pokemon titles! 😁
Pokémon US/UM was great but that team rocket episode was really lame and forgettable.
I actually liked most of the “dark age” games (huge emphasis on most *cough cough* bdsp)
Action RPG Bandai Namco 🤞
Oh hey it's every generic complaint I've ever heard about the recent games rolled into one video, you know not everyone agrees that we've gotten nothing but bad games or those sales would not be so high. People don't seem to want to understand that before the switch Gamefreak never had a mainline game on a console before. The hybrid concept forced them to do it and I always knew there'd be a learning curve with that it's why I did'nt come down so hard on Sword and Shield. And while yes the pokemon company has a ton of money it has alot of different branches that all need to be considered when thinking about a delay.
Now should the Pokemon Company have let Gamefreak have more time on each game absolutely I won't pretend I'm not mad about that it's rich execs once again not caring about the actual creatives. But people keep blaming GameFreak and not pointing the finger at the people who actually need to hear it which get's on my nerves so much. Your basically doing the execs job for them at that point, I think the two mainline games and Legends Arceaus were all incredible games and you could absoutely see Gamefreak wanting to push themselves with each entry they put out. And I am happy that their being given more time to work on Legends ZA too. Especially as it seems it's all but guaranteed to be a Switch 2 game.
Truthfully, I think Nintendo must be putting their foot down with game freak. Nintendo generally has a good track record when it comes to quality control (at least with software lol) it makes Nintendo look just as bad as game freak when they publish such low quality games.
Don’t diss let’s go pikachu and evee like that it’s still a really good game
Cobblemon looks and plays better then actual gamefreak games and its a mod for minecraft.
sure it lacks a lot of attack animations but this mod is made by like three guys in a basement somewhere Gamefreak is the most profitable company on earth whats their excuse?
Pokemon content is the best its ever been, its just not GF doing it.
The reason GF is shit at making Pokemon at this time is because they are working on that other game.
most people probably wont even buy just out of spite.
Shame you used Lets Go for the thumbnail when BDSP is right there.
Nahh dark ages started with XY
I mean, having to have a reason to go out of your way to do something different in term of development when it's bad is a problem in the first place. This kind of unethical lazy mindset is the blatant mark of greedy people who have no self respect or will to improve their creative skills and I defy anyone to dare to argue that cause it's not excusable. You don't do anything wrong by buying a product, good or bad. It isn't respectuous of work ethic to sell a mediocre product just because money drops however. They're the problem for not making a decent product. Not people who buy a series they love and rightfully expect to be good or at least decent. Stop accusing the consumers. Can't people see there is a problem in the first place if we have to force them to work? Game Freaks is the one creating this situation in the first place when they should just be serious and involved in their work.
SWord and shield definitely under delivered but it’s not as bad as scarlet violet
Mini dlcs
I disagree. Pokémon is at its historical best.
Why bother working hard to gain good faith of the fans when there are suckers who will gladly play any Mon game no matter how bad it is and defended it as if they own gamefreak stock.
I think it's going to be a repeat of Legends Arceus. another diamond in the rough. only to be abandoned yet again with the next game. as for the dark age of pokemon? I DON'T see that changing at all. They might TRY. but they won't follow through with what they are promising. they are so inconsistent with the games they are releasing. I'm pretty much done with the franchise. I retired the Anime with Ash. and I don't have any intention of buying anymore pokemon games.
Its the lack of complex puzzles, boring npc, and no re work with battle mechanics.
Im still intrigued as to why crystal, emerald and platinum are so well recieved but ultra sun and moon get complaints which are all valid with those older titles too…
I wouldn’t count on it. Not with ZA. Too many things gives me the feeling that it will be yet another crappy game.
Tbh the dark ages began with X/Y... Fucking disgusting, nostalgia driven shit.
Dark ages began with pokemon let's pikachu and let's go eevee
Alola was great, and Sun and Moon anime was great, sure Sword and Shield were a blunder and people hated on BDSP, but all of Journeys was fantastic, Legends Arceus was amazing with a new Legends game on the horizon, we’re gotten amazing animated shorts in Evolutions and Hisuian Snow, Horizons is great, and for all its bugs, Scarlet and Violet were generally well received. We’re currently in a mini golden age of pokemon and nobody knows it. I can’t wait for people in 5-10 years to look back on what we have now with nostalgia, which WILL 100% happen.
WDYM Journeys was “fantastic” there was so much filler and nostalgia bait, Goh is an insufferable Gary Stu who steals all of the spotlight, JN was terrible
Swordward and shieldbert are the most last minute characters (and worst written )and SWSH is the worst . It took the small guy competing with the big guy for even a split second to whip these complacent guys back into shape a little bit , pathetic , we had voice acting in POKEMON STADIUM in like 99 or somethin but cant have a single line of voiced dialogue in scarlet voilet? Miss me nintendo
I don’t think we had a dark ages. We have been eating good on Pokémon games for decades, even on switch.
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You know, I am respectful to all comments, but this. There is no hate toward these creators, but this is why I am starting to hate this community, from people who can't decide to hate someone for buying a broken but yet playable games is fun and bring us joy. We can't all be nice and respectful? Yes, companies can and will put money first. But it is frustrating to me to think that we all can't understand the happiness and joy Pokemon has brought us. It's not the dark ages! It's we all age!
You can't call something broken and playable at the same time, pick one. And please, do not try to use the "you grew up" argument for why we hate the games now. If that was even remotely true, then people wouldn't be enjoying a majority of the games from Nintendo and their subsidiaries. It's GF trying to make Pokemon games like they're still on handhelds and expecting them to turn out okay. Enjoy whatever you want but don't go throwing a fit whenever somebody brings up actual valid criticisms.
@@manueljaramillo2520 I can understand where you're coming from,and I horror it. But everyone is right in their own way, I only said that because, yes, I was mad about the video and I have no excuses for it. But hate comments or good ones, I still stand by what I've said.
Thai man exaggerates to much lol
No pokemon died with gen 8 and it will only get worse
Oh knock it off with the so called "Dark Ages" claim. >:/
Its just for dramatic effect I swear 😦
Truth hurts.
It Its Kinda Dark Inside Glitchy Rocks And Mountains Me Sitting Here Being Stuck Inside The Side Of A Mountain 😆 Lol
@@SoulStoryMode I see. :T
He’s got a point imo. When a triple game releases running at 15 FPS (just one of the problems) it’s an absolutely fair take.
Aside from that, we can have our opinion, and you can have yours. Both are valid, please don’t tell people they cannot express themselves.
Pokémon was already going downhill from Gen 3. Gen 3 had an amazing map but the rivals and gym leaders were boring as hell. Exploration was amazing though with awesome legendaries. So it was still good.
But Ruby/Sapphire/Platinum has the worst map, boring ass gym leaders and a slog to go through.
Gen 5 Unova was another slog with the worst Pokémon designs.
Gen 6 i did not play.
Actually Pokémon improved so much in Alola. Great region design and amazing characters. But exploration and dungeons were ruined. Handholding is at the worst. Gen 7 actually improved Pokémon.
Lets go is just another Masuda trash. So glad he is gone.
Gen 8 Sword and Shield had the best character design, stadium gyms with giant Pokémon was fun. Exploration and dungeons agains take massive blows. Short game with bad story and frankly super disappointing. But have to say, i played the game 3 times as the game+ dlc is very charming.
Legends Arceus was good initially but was tedious and repetitive. But i enjoyed my 30 hours with it. Characters and new Pokémon were amazing though.
Best game is SV. Amazing characters. Map is boring as hell. Exploration and freedom is limited as no level curve. The dlcs are just amazing. Both dlcs are the most fun i had with Pokémon. Every single dlc characters were chefs kiss. The base game looked like ass though. The dlcs were better designed.
So actually Pokémon improvef alot just the dungeon designs and map exploration suffered so much that it hit rock bottom. Character design and story has improved so much.
According to the riddler this is indeed a blank year Legends ZA wont be too early next year so maybe april or may at the earliest and Gen 10 will be 2026 celebrating the 30th aniversary
With me being a person who got back into Pokémon with SV and missed like 5 Gens, I dunno how to feel, i wasn't there and right now im trying to backtrack. I heard all the bad things but i really gotta see it for myself
Not going well this cause whoooo boi too many games out there lol
Pokemon content is the best its ever been, its just not GF doing it.
The reason GF is shit at making Pokemon at this time is because they are working on that other game.
most people probably wont even buy just out of spite.