CHECK THIS VIDEO FOR MORE EXPLANATION ON JOBTALK'S VALIDITY, ILCA, TPC, AND MORE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RCcRrCrOv_I.html What is your favorite quote from the reviews?
of course 151 i really think he's kicking himself in the shin with that, but like 251 workers will do wonders for the pokemon games, like 10 of those could be dedicated to bug fixes
Reading a bit some of the reviews as you were reading them, most of the people that said "communication was good and I was heard" were management and artist positions, and most of the people that said "communication is bad and this company is stagnated" are the software and systems people. This paints an interesting picture, specially for the latest games if you think about it. They're having a good time designing the world and padding things. The world building seems to be doing fine. But the technical people that are actually responsible for programming and debugging are begging for more time and aren't getting it. This reflects perfectly the downward slope most people have been complaining about. "The music and the characters are still fine, and there's still a lot of charm BUT the game is outdated at launch and it plays like a bag of rocks and a pile of sticks"
The concepts of Pokemon have been great (for the most part) but execution has been horrible - the GF creative crew should just be its own thing and have another development company shoulder the game design that's been assigned.
@@zjzr08 It's kinda sad, really. If they gave support to the tech team like they should, the prowess of the design and art team would not only shine more, but they would be able to fit more of that in every game.
Is this also why Legends Arceus had the better lighting system, better battles, better story, better gameplay and a load or other things done way better than SV? Because the people who made SV couldn't look at the source code for LA?
@@YujiUedaFan It might be related. Not only GF's staff is small, they also have stated that for many years now their staff has been split. For a while it was Team A does pokémon and Team B ventures into other IPs, flipping members between Teams A and B between releases. But since all new IPs failed, as far as we know they seemingly stopped that for a while and moved on to have it so that Team A does new things and Team B does remakes/dlc/3rd versions. Knowing that it is impossible that SV and LA and BDSP (yes, I know ILCA did it, but Masuda was in on it) were made in less than a year each, all 3 productions overlapped with each other. And the job review things stated there's poor communication amongst groups even to prevent leaks. So yes. It is quite possible that many of the developed systems for LA weren't available for sharing/consultation for SV until fairly late if at all. If nothing is done soon, this might speak tragedy for whatever is after SV, because GameFreak is betting on a new IP named Project Bloom. It'll be even more damaging if teams are split even further on a big new project. It's actually kind of impressive Game Freak ever even managed to squeeze in doing Little Town Hero at all
@@jpcsdutra I think they should delegate more SpinOff titles to others and basically make other entries into those Spinoffs since if they spinoffs are big enough they could either squeeze in more time for the Mainline Games to be made... Or GameFreak could just future proof the Coding as Well or have a Department constantly working hard to improve or upgrade and update the code used for Pokemon Games. Separate from the ones that design the games or anyone else tied to the Creative Designing aspect of a Pokemon Game.
To be fair, they weren't a full fledged company at the time. They were just a bunch of college kids trying to make it by with what they had. The whole production of Red and Blue was roughly twenty people max. It was essentially a indie game.
@@FourteenthAngel Still, the very first games having by far the most amount of development time and still ending up buggy messes just goes to show how bad management is at Game Freak.
It was just a handle of employees, interns back then. around 10 if I am not wrong. With early developers even went on to take no salary to get the game development going when they ran out of funds. Not an apple to apple comparison.
@@WizardSoonOverall the care (as much buggy Gen 1 was and how it has many gameplay interaction issues) at least seems a priority compared to now they can kinda sleepwalk and still sell a lot.
Did anyone realize that the 1-2 star reviews are generally reviews from 2022 and they have far more low-score than high-score reviews? Really says a lot.
@@endermanowa its really a shame...i always loved pokemon and i still do...but everytime i boot up the game and try to look behind its issues it just reminds me of this sh*t
This is likely related to one specific review, where they mentioned that a lot of the current staff has low technical skills and focuses more on internal politics, while the talented staff has already quit. And they can pull it off because the game sells anyway, so.. not much hope for the next few generations of Pokémon.
As a pokemon fan, this is heartbreaking! Nintendo really needs to intervene in gamefreak. The fact that employees admit that gamefreak technology and programming skills is 2-3 generations behind is severely unacceptable for the biggest franchise in the world.
@@Mrfinch9999In this review site it actually got a high rating...Nintendo of Japan genuinely does good for its employees based on other recent info like in 2020 I think.
Why should they intervene? They're actualy the ones asking them to rush the games so they can make the most profit in the shortest time possible, and the fact that SV had record sales just tells them that it's working and thus have no reason to change their ways.
@@TheRicardobtc How the hell would you know that for sure? Does your dad work at Nintendo or something? Like I know Nintendo isn't a saint but there's no real proof that this is true.
@@j.k.4479in interviews Matsuda has been on record that he likes small teams and believe he works optimally only with small teams. He clearly thinks of the "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem but in reality there aren't enough cooks in the kitchen.
Werster the Pokémon speedrunner actually made a good point in a clip I saw. Basically while yes the Pokémon games are selling quite well, they haven't even passed the sales of Red and Blue which is bad. In the Switch era where pretty much every big Nintendo series is seeing record breaking sales like Breath of the Wild, Kirby and the Forgotten Land(is an absolute banger might I add), and Metroid Dread easily selling 2 or 3 times their previous sales records, GameFreak hasn't sold past their first attempt from almost 30 years ago due to the myriad of issues we've known for the last 5 years. Voting with your wallet is actually working to a certain extent as GameFreak isn't seeing the big bucks roll in like their other Nintendo developers are.
At this point, I believe the franchise itself has ceased to revolve solely around the games, which have only become one part of the larger marketing behemoth. The games are the media from which new concepts, especially new designs, regions and storylines, originate, but those concepts go on to be fleshed out and proudly displayed, advertised and marketed to the fans in a thousand other forms of merchandise and media, many of which can reach kids and rope them into the larger franchise more easily than a $60 game on a $300 console which parents might be hesitant to drop the first investment on. The games have lost centre stage, but Game Freak’s role as a conceptualiser remains-thus why the games seem to be losing priority in terms of refinement but are generated on a rapid timescale to maintain momentum for the rest of the franchise to pick up their ideas, detach them from those technologically shoddy pieces of software and distill them into pure marketing fuel. Pokémon isn’t the largest video game franchise in the world, but it is the largest multimedia one, and therein lies the issue. The games may have never caught up to their original performance, but the series as a cultural and marketing phenomenon is always growing larger.
@@jxwong_3982 KnowledgeHusk's "Pokemon doesn't care about their own games (and they never have to again)" video encapsulated this perfectly. 20% of the franchise's profits come from the games, 10% from the card games, and 2% from the anime. Almost exactly two-thirds of Pokemon's profitability is in the merch. Pokemon is a merchandising business, and everything that isn't the merch is just a delivery vector for new creature designs.
Not a good point at all actually, it's rather daft and pointless. No Mario game has outsold the original Super Mario Bros; do you think that series is stagnating too? Besides those exceptions (of which only BotW had a *significant* increase in sales over the previous record), almost all of their series peaked sales-wise in the 80s/90s, simply due to the nature of the industry back then. Not to mention SV have sold 22 million (on a $300 console) compared to the RBY record of 31 million when it was at its peak as a cultural phenomenon. I think SV was dogshit and can't stand modern Pokemon by the way, I just hate dumb RU-vidr logic even more.
@@UnwantedGhost1would make a lot sense Larry is obviously supposed to base on Japanese workers Looking tired, over worked, etc. If I had to gauss when the artists got to make the charater design and personality. They sadly had a lot of references nearby
To be fair pokemon is a good example of consumers preference toward established and familiar and tem tems lifetime sales reflect it. I told people mtx in bo2 would lead to aw consumers vote with their money and it votes louder than the people talking
@@cherryvapr6969TemTem would have been more successful if they actually tried to step into Pokemon's lane. But by focusing on an MMO and always online, they pushed away the people they needed the most.
What's sad is that DeNA is putting a lot of love and care into Pokemon Masters paying tribute to past games and fleshing out the characters even more. There just seems more effort put into that game than the mainline
Sadly DeNA is also cutting corners in a few aspects. Like for one, Characters have noticeably less dialogue when compared to characters released in the first year or so. And well, they are making characters without EX changes like the ones found in the variety scout. Those are the only two problems I've seen, but credit or credit is due, Masters is probably the most interesting product that Pokémon has so far for me. Day 1 PMEX player here btw
@@tuannguyencanh6096Pokémon Conquest is technically the most interesting game in my opinion. It’s a DS game that came out after the 3DS. It’s probably one of my favorite games on the DS next to The World Ends With You. It’s a strategy RPG with a pretty cool premise and it’s also a very clever crossover.
@tuannguyencanh6096 Recent months have been kinda alarming with less free gems, more frequent Master Fairs, Variety Scouts, and frankly lesser effort units (like less interesting Sync Move animations, dialogue, and even Ex forms).
I really question GF's ability to make a game, when both MonolithSoft and Atlus can put out large scale RPG games on the same system, with not only better performance and graphics, but more engaging gameplay too. It's baffling that Pokemon is the more popular RPG series.
Because let's be frank, we like Pokemon for the Pokemon, not exactly the RPG gameplay (PLA seemingly more wanted than SV despite PLA lacking many battles and arguably puzzle elements traditional RPGs have is an example of that IMO).
You can look at their original games too; they're extremely mediocre at best. Little Town Hero is a joke of a game, Giga Wrecker has a lot of issues, ranging from poor physics to bad art direction. Tembo the Badass Elephant is *way* too short and simple (has a nice art direction, though). Harmoknight is a cool concept for a rhythm game but had extremely forgettable music, which is a problem since this is a RHYTHM game. Pocket Card Jockey was actually pretty fun with its writing, but if many people consider THAT one of your best ORIGINAL games in recent times... that kinda says a lot about their competency.
@@zjzr08 I can understand that, but even though I absolutely look the pokemon in the games I just could deal with the same gameplay after X and Y. There's only so much their designs can carry a game in my opinion.
@@SlimeDoesArt It's even worse for their original games because I think they gave even smaller teams/budget, and even less time. No wonder the devs don't get the opportunity to up their skills.
Let’s not forget both those game company’s have other game series to work on gamefreak doesn’t but now they r working on a new game series and maybe now they could work better on Pokémon or they just will allow Nintendo to help more
I hope this video reaches a large audience like the last one, there are a lot of Pokemon fans who need this reality check. It's okay to skip the obviously bad games and come back in a few years when the games are actually worth your money again.
Exactly. They can't make excuses anymore if the company itself is admitting to these glearing flaws. This is a big win for the fans who rightfully call out the bad practices of a company fully willing to partake in anti consumer and even anti employee behavior.
Ikr, I still get my Mimikyu clipping through Medali Gym on online battles. They haven't fixed it yet, it also affects other Pokemon, but they don't care. 😂
@@veggsbacon1891 More like discovering a piece of the land that you weren't supposed to and apparently continue to fall towards the never ending abyss, or even, fall towards (as Gen Xers and Boomers would call it) journey towards the center of the earth. Although, there is no center of the earth, rather, it's a neverending abyss that teleports you back to the ground, as if nothing happen. These characters are going through hell and trauma clipping, falling, and finding places where they aren't supposed to go to and end up falling out of nowhere...And don't get me started with body parts and being giants or ants in the world, that is just Battlefield's 3 beta character becoming so big you can see his organs type of horror.
This really does show how money hungry they are..less employees than they need, as hiring more would require paying more, and using outdated tech because keeping up with latest tech would cost money so instead they stay with tech as long as possible because "it still works" even if it's not efficient; Rushing out games too knowing people will still buy..which is hard on the devs
This is an interesting idea though. Super Monkey Ball's engine, was modified to Run F-Zero GX. Same hardware. But both games are great. Because the Developers put in the effort to make it great. Too bad Game Freak developers are under Constant Crunch to Push game out NOW. Optimization be damned.
I don't think the amount of employees should be any issue. But using outdated tech is a big issue. And not just for Game Freak, but for a lot of Japanese developers. Many still create games that basically look like PS2 games in a higher resolution and still work like them mechanically. Oh and also still animate like them. Falcom is pretty similar. Their games work well on the performance side, but their current games have looked like early PS3 games in a higher resolution for like a decade already. There's been quite literally almost no graphical progress since they released the first Cold Steel game in 2013 (save for higher resolution and some minor details and effects).
They do have multiple dev teams, but they’re all working on their own different games at the same time, so the manpower per game is actually spread a lot thinner. When combined with their already relatively short deadlines, this is a recipe for disaster. And on top of that, as some of these reviews have showed, people different teams are not able to communicate with one another due to security concerns, which can lead to improvements that were made in one game not carrying over to another game that was developed within the same period (see: the fan criticism that Scarlet/Violet didn’t reproduce a lot of the improvements that PLA made).
The thing is... even WAY BACK during Red and Green they didn't document stuff. Granted, they were just friends who worked years on these title back then but especially after Satoru Iwata coming in, saving the code of Pokémon Stadium and even make room for Kanto in Gold/Silver they should've immediately learned their lesson. This was over 20 years ago...
Seems like lack of archival/preservation might be a wider issue for more Japanese companies than just Game Freak, honestly. Sega, Square Enix and Konami have all lost the source code to some of their older games as well. The Nintendo gigaleak from a couple years back is a promising sign for internal archival, but of course Nintendo is incredibly harsh on external preservation as well. Especially in the older days, with these game companies being far smaller than they now are before various logistical complications came into the picture, I get the feeling that preservation and archival simply aren’t huge priorities for many big gaming corporations there.
@@jxwong_3982 I mean in Japan there's bigger generational gaps so anyone who would have been nostalgic for the 90s-early 2000s games would probably be outside Japan. But that is still money on the table.
It hit me that "even if the quality is low, i think it will sell, so I don’t spend a lot of money." this was said a literal 3 days before LGPE's release
Played since Red and Blue and stopped buying after Sun and Moon. And I agree with the statements that "people will buy it regardless", since most Pokemon fans are too brand loyal and at that point even would buy it if the game only showed a test screen.
I dont. Yes people will buy it because its pokemon but if they consistently put out garbage like the past few titles eventually the IP will be tainted and people wont buy it because its pokemon. Obviously this will take longer due to the popularity of the franchise and will probably reset peoples negativity if they put out a good release. But imo if they continue down this route they will eventually destroy that trust in the brand.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 The IP is already tainted. There is consistency in pokemon's inconsistency; their business strategy to keep pokemon relevant is to pump out games yearly regardless of quality. It's only a matter of how long before the trust in the brand has completely eroded.
This sounds like me played the first 7 generations and after sun and moon I was done.I did play legends Arceus though which was fun,but I'm not buying any more mainline games until they make them good again. It angers me that people are willing to put keep shelling out money for mediocre games.As long as the fans keep buying them gamefreak will keep making them.
I think I’ll most likely stop buying as well. After all If I wanted to play Pokémon I could just play some rom hacks, many of them miles better than modern Pokémon will ever be
unironically i don’t get why gamefreak or whoever thinks pokemon NEEDS some sort of yearly mainline release. do they honestly think the pokemon ip can’t survive off merch, the tcg, spinoff made by other devs, the anime, etc.? those other outlets of revenue are the main reason it’s the most profitable ip of all time, i think it’s safe to say pokemon will still pull in millions/billions every year if they took a couple years to develop the next mainline game
Because it likely directly gets more money towards Game Freak (the developer) and Nintendo (the publisher) rather than just TPC which mostly just for licensing Pokemon.
@@zjzr08 nintendo’s other franchises aren’t treated like this though, mainline releases in most nintendo series are usually pretty spread out. i also highly doubt most of the staff at game freak want to keep this up. it most likely is just other higher ups squeezing as much revenue as they can, and nintendo not caring since they still reap the benefits of it, so they probably are still at fault for not intervening and enforcing quality control
@@Shrekinspace I mean I don't exactly disagree on what you said, just saying the bosses of Game Freak likely wants this for more direct income, while you're right Nintendo probably has apathy to the games as long as it sells, although they did intervene with SV's bug issues.
That's what I'm saying, there is no downside to having a regular ass release schedule, they'll just miss out on idk, .6% of the billions they already make. Pure greed
well, the "they don't bother to keep past data" answers the question that's been bugging me of "why don't they just port the older games onto the Switch to give more production time especially when it would make them more money"
They make quality products; the TCG artwork is gorgeous, my Pikachu shorts are comfy like that Youngster’s, and the plush toys are very soft and cuddly. Only the games are mediocre or bad.
Yeah, this all sounds pretty accurate. It really does seem like Game Freak was always meant to be a 2D game company. Once they shifted over to using 3D models for the main franchise, the games released just kept getting sloppier. But it's not like they can't make any good 3D games either. Many of the older 3D spinoffs are actually really good, most likely because they didn't require as much crunch time as the main series. Most of the issue likely has to do with the low employee numbers, extreme crunch times, and general indifference from the higher-ups regarding game quality. In my opinion, I think the only way for the Pokemon games to match up to the quality of the latest technology at this point is for Game Freak to either go back to making 2D sprite-based games or hand the IP over to a different developer, like Bandai Namco. Makes me wonder what company reviews would have looked like back in the 2000s and early 2010s...
"But it's not like they can't make any good 3D games either. Many of the older 3D spinoffs are actually really good" Stadium was made by Nintendo, Orre games and PBR was Genius Sonority. Rumble and Hey You Pikachu was Ambrella. Snap was by HAL. Pokepark was Creatures Inc. What 3D spinoffs are you talking about?
@@zjzr08 Yeah but they will never do it permanently, they may hand a few games over to another developer, but there not gonna give out the whole IP to another developer
From what I'm gathering it seems the people generally happy about Game Freak's work environment are the artist and game planners and other people in management positions, they all seem to have honestly a great workplace for them where they are listened to and don't seem to be having trouble. In more artistic pursuits especially seeing newer faces is a net positive, they might not have the skills the older people have but they do bring new and fresh ideas to the table. Meanwhile, the software engineering side of GF is in shambles. They are not listened to, their efforts are wasted, they are forced to constantly fight against the higher-ups to make something work, all while their talents goes to the garbage and they don't feel fulfilled. GF has a favorite child and it's not the engineering department.
This explains why Pokémon games seem to be really underbaked playable versions of books. Those in control prioritize the stuff that would work for audiobooks.
Feels nice knowing that all my complaints about the rushed development of the new Pokémon games and the incompetence of the development company were right on point, not gonna lie. I hope that they will eventually get their act together, but I guess it's just wishful thinking at this point, considering it sells better than ever regardless of quality.
Hey I randomly found back to unova while looking for gen 5 remixes on deezer, shoutouts to you and everyone who worked on it, I wish every Nintendo game soundtrack got this treatment
Holy smokes the review saying veteran employees aren't acquiring new skills makes so much sense, since there are some legendarily horrible programming design choices made with the 3D pokemon games (like having multiple copies of every model one for each map on the cartridge and loading all of them regardless of if they appear on every level, yes they did this in Sun and Moon look it up). I've been saying for years that my assumption is GameFreak, as a development house - and not necessarily any individual, but the whole - is completely incompetent. Looks like I was right.
@@KStarPRIf he thought the picnic method in SV was any better he's sadly mistaken. It's a boring waiting game that forces you to either farm sweet and salty herbs or buy a bunch of sandwich ingredients
i heard a rumor that game freak had a data loss and that resulted in the permanent pokedex cut. did these job reviews reveal that to be true? "they dont keep past data"
Even if they did lose data most Pokemon data are found in the internet anyway or I assume could be gotten from Creatures (i.e. 3D Pokemon assets) again - all moves and abilities still have them programmed in on SwSh so it wasn't a full data scrub and probably just had no animations.
I mean they made all those models for XY as "future proofing." Though we know that the modeling and animations come from Creatures Inc who are shown to be a bit more competent with documentation (according to modders) as they also handle the TCG and reprint old art work and cards with no issues no matter how old. Likely Gamefreak had poor documentation practices and the transition from 3DS to Switch didn't pan out so well.
Sold my copy of the switch games and haven't looked back since. Gamefreak believes fans are idiots that'll buy em anyway. Tbh, they aren't wrong. No more. No more games, no more dlc for me. I will not support this anymore
Glad you were able to sell, that means they didn't sucker you into pre-ordering the digital copies and that more copies are in the ecosystem undermining the resale value as these don't deserve to become $100 used games, and it gives you money back to scratch that Switch monster collection itch with the many games the system has to choose from. 🤑
I feel sad for the people trying to make a living in this environment because people tend to criticize them instead of the company. Even though there’s corporative greedness behind all this, it’s consumers fault for validate this practices through constant and massive purchase. If the company sees you happy with trash, they’ll offer you trash 2 for 70 bucks + DLC.
Most people are blaming management and the company itself, not the lower level workers. 100% agree that people buying their crap is what is driving them to continue giving us crap. Several of the reviews in this video even mention it!
This was an amazing video. I watch many critical videos about the Pokemon franchise and I have to say this was the most informative one I've seen. You didn't seem too nervous during the video the comedic timing and points you made were solid as well! My first video of yours watched, won't be my last!
They kinda addressed the glitches of SV (interestingly not GF) but other than that they and GF and TPC are just ignoring esprcially with the money they have earned IMO.
This is kinda cool to hear, knowing that a website like this exists to let us know how things actually are behind their doors. Gotta love this content, the kind of stuff I look for, I was glued to this video. 😂
This video confirmed everything that Game Freak was suspected of and then some. I’d like to see more reviews of Japanese game companies like Konami and Kojima productions.
Some wild revelations but I think it kind of makes sense. Japan's culture with seniority and usually trying to uphold more traditional workplace ideologies are not always the most efficient. Also some comments to me came off as perhaps some higher ups like to pick favorites but who knows? Either way it does seem like with time GameFreak is slowly changing to better adapt to the current scale they're now operating at. It's just probably too late given how Gens 8 and 9 have turned out so far. They have some really cool ideas and the concepts are there (Gen 8 has a region heavily based around competition and the Pokemon League being like this grand-scale sport that's deeply rooted into their culture. Gen 9 has an open world with 3 different storylines that feel distinct and allow you to go about exploration as you like, mostly...) but where GameFreak likely fails is in the smaller details and optimization of not only their workplace environment, but also in terms of the general graphics and performance of the game. At the end of the day, most of it is due to the Pokémon Company itself and the demands made on such a comparatively small development team to produce a large scale, triple A title. I really hope the company improves with time and that some form of change is made either within GameFreak so they can meet the heavy demands or the Pokemon Company itself so that GameFreak can find some form of relief. 😎 It's cool to get some deeper insight into GameFreak after all this time and it's actually think it's a genius idea to look into the company reviews to see the inner machinations of the company through the lens of people with strong opinions or at the very least a strong sense of voicing their own experiences. That one guy who put the review saying he wishes there's a system where the older people can reignite their careers in some way was pretty wholesome too! 🥺 Also I'm proud of you for stepping out and using face cam with live commentary! That takes a lot of courage to step out of your comfort zone and do that! That's epic dude! 😁 Also subbed!
They’re right about the title selling well no matter what. Many Pokemon fans are a seperate category from Video game fans. I remember reading a lot of comments from people who were upset that anyone would dare criticize Gamefreak when Sword & Shield got released. Same thing when Scarlet & Violet got released. There’s a lot of Pokemon fans that don’t play any other games so they don’t understand the criticism and don’t like the constructive criticism towards their favorite IP.
Excessive outsourcing is not a good thing. It leads to slower development, feedback, implementation, etc. due to lagging communication, and it also leads to skill atrophy within the company due to the outsourcing of skilled work.
I hate to say I'm not surprised, but as someone who graduated college in 2018 as a comp sci major, has been working for a certain company since then, it lines up with my personal experience. I won't say which company, other than it's not a game developer, and that it's quite large - and that you'd expect us to be on the cutting edge of innovation when in reality, we're not at all. I didn't even get a workstation for the first two months, and my coworkers were urging me to wait even longer since the first one I could have taken only had 4GB of ram! But the two things that stand out most are the stagnation of technical skills and the upper leadership either not knowing or not caring about the technical details of their product. For the former, to give an anecdote from my experience in cybersecurity, I was taught in college that AES was the golden encryption standard in terms of how long it'd take to crack, and that it'd be quantum-proof, but the rumblings I'm hearing through the grapevine is that it actually isn't quantum-proof and we should all be frightened. But nobody knows for sure because the only people researching it are doing it as a hobby or side-interest, and for everyone else just doing normal work there's no incentive to learn more. As far as leadership, yeah it's hilariously inept how I can spend years on a project to vastly improve the overall capabilities of the system, and get 85% of the way to deploy it, only to be told at the last minute, Nope! Too much money (even though they already spent most of it on the work thus far) too much risk (how could you not have seen this in advance) and nobody wants that responsibility (that's quite literally your job higher management! The benefits outweigh all of this!) This whole thing, for both me and GameFreak, is equal parts hilarious and demoralizing.
Thumbs up and comment for algorithm. This needs to be seen by as many people as possible. Knowing that the people working at Gamefreak know full well that the games they are releasing are subpar but continue to do so because they know it will sell well anyway is just too much for me personally. Pokemon is my favorite franchise of all time, but Gamefreak can screw themselves if that's how they're going to conduct themselves. They want a small team to maximize profits, and don't care about the quality of the games they are releasing to make said profits. Only way to make them hear us is to speak with our wallets. I already decided that I wasn't going to buy the Gen 9 DLC until the games were fixed, but I might just skip the next games all together too if this continues.
At this point, I get hyped for indie games like Coromon and Cassette Beasts rather than the actual thing. Let's just give our money to the people who actually deserve it, it's for the best.
it is insulting to even compare cassette beasts. cassette beasts is easily GOTY material, you shouldn't put it anywhere near the same level as that garbage that gamefreak puts out.
If it wasn't owned largely by Nintendo, I'd swear that Gamefreak relies heavily on modders to fix their games for them. It's not an exaggeration when I say that every single mainline Pokemon title from Red to Violet, along with several spinoffs, has at least two mods or romhacks. Shield --> Sacred Shield Brilliant Diamond --> Luminescent Platinum Scarlet --> Compass The three mods I listed DRAMATICALLY improve the games so much, that it's unreal and almost unrecognizable. The only barriers of entry are you either need a hacked Switch or you are unafraid to sail the seven seas and use an emulator that runs games better than the actual Switch does.
Good salaries, low technical skill required, don't have to try hard, don't have to communicate with others, do the same thing over and over without worrying because it will sell well. Honestly I think I'd probably give that a 5 star rating, lol.
I know this means very little, but when I was a child drawing pokemon and inventing dozens of my own, people told me "wow, you should work at Pokemon when you're older!". It's silly - I'm from Europe after all - but that idea did spark something in me and I went on to become an illustrator and graphics designer. I even still create my own creature designs and concepts. The idea of maybe someday working at Gamefreak wasn't realistic, but it set me on a path. It was a bit of a heartbreak then to grow up and realize somewhere in my 20s after my own first crunch jobs that, no. I actually don't want to work at Gamefreak, because that schedule sounds like hell. It was just an assumption at the time and fueled by a recent crunch induced burnout. But seeing that there's at least some truth to it still stings.
9:32 ah, so that's why they "keep making the same game"; they LITERALLY HAVE TO because the company deletes the previously made data. So effectively; the executives at GameFreak are killing their staff mentally by forcing them to make the same thing; yet if they kept previous data future projects would not only be made faster but also better as they can focus on other things. No wonder Scarlet and Violet are a mess; the engine for Legends no longer exists for them!
Wow. Gamefreak is worse than I imagined. 😐 I understand why Omura Yuusuke (BW2 lead artist) went to freelancing. In my late teens I wanted to work for this company. Lawl. Hopefully more people will take the training and grow. Gireum, I love this video and I hope it blows up. These employees have been a saying the very things we as players have been observing with every release. Don’t think I’ll be getting that DLC after all. Oh. Btw. That’s a nice room!
@@WizardSoonInterestingly TPC actually has a good rating, but it's likely because they aren't under game development, and more about hyping the brand, licensing to other companies (mobile game developers or non-games), and probably are finding effective ways to connect to more audiences.
@@zjzr08well TPC don't have much of obstacles,as compared to GF.And especially when they're responsible for making this franchise,the games,the anime,the merch look like water in a desert,things are bound to be better over there.
The lack of love and dedication put into SV is just sad. Alola was the last time I could tell GameFreak put real time and effort into a mainline title. Was it the pinnacle of the franchise? No, but it was on the better end of the stick. Now half the Pokémon are gone. There are no cameos by any previous characters in the series. There is no Battle Facility. There is no growing Berries. Pokémon Refresh was replaced with whatever crud this "picnic" is. They're deliberately making Pokémon worse with minimized movepools (I'm looking at you, Toxapex and Rillaboom; you used to be kings.) All of the magic is gone. As much as I'm hyped for a Black and White trequal, I fear that *somehow, someway,* GameFreak will find a way to screw up the *one* Pokémon game that can't be screwed up. Just... how did we end up here?
How did we end up here? I'll tell you..they're still making employees function off of a schedule that only worked for 2d game making..3d games require more time as they're much more complex but they REFUSE to give more time or hire more staff. The outdated tech surely ain't helping either..And due to the lack of time and being forced to make 3d games the developers can't make anything good enough. They have to remove features because they just cannot add a lot in such little time, and it's led to much worse games as a result. The resent games are a giant red sign showing the lack of time they had to develop it as they didn't even have enough time to patch the mass amount of glitches before it was sold (and even after sending a patch out there are still places with horrible frame rate drops).
absolutely eye opening interesting to see that most of the things we especulate about production at gamefreak get confirmed by the people that work there
From what I know, it might be because of deadlines and content changes during mid development. Fire emblem fates is a great example as IS was euthastic and ambitious to make the game only to realize that making 3 games at the same time in a single development cycle is impossible. It was confirmed that most of Fates's stories were cut for that reason. Even 3 houses had that problem as Edelgard originally wasn't supposed to be playable until some higher up changed it. This resulted in her path being the shortest and the true final battle being teased in dlc Death Knights S Support ending picture. IS is still miles better than gamefreak, though.
Remember that IS has to juggle not only Fire Emblem, but also Paper Mario which is currently in a flaming death spiral. Let's see Game FrEAk make a Paper Mario game with all the tender love and care of a modern Pokémadden game, the headline will be: "Doing Literally Anything Crashes Paper Mario".
I still think we need all of the other Mysticals in Scarlet and Violet, especially Marshadow, Zeraora, Genesect, Victini, Keldeo, Darkrai, Shaymin, Jirachi, Deoxys, Celebi, Manaphy and Phione
There's too many Mythicals for them to feel special anymore, there needs to be a mass demotion of most of them to in-game Legendaries with stories that you play through to catch them in the base game like Deoxys in ORAS.
So basically Gamefreak doesn’t even keep the game source codes... that’s a shame (what I mean by source code is everything form the games foundation). It also sounds like that they need new computers and such.
17:17 the "good point" is the fact that even when the higher ups are incompetent, the regular employees are skillful and when you speak with them, since they are skilled, they can provide a pleasant work environment
Seeing how breathtaking and amazing the recent two Zelda games are, it's really saddening to see how poorly made the Pokemon games are, I wish they took their time and made a quality game
Yeah its been clear for a while the higher ups in GF & TPC higher ups just don’t care as long as they are making money. Unfortunately its the devs that seem to take the slack. Pokémon is the highest grossing franchise. Spend some of that money on updating technology and hiring more people. Give the devs more time to put out something that isn’t a total embarrassment. This isn’t the 90s anymore and you are making games for the gameboy.
FINALLY definitive evidence, we can use for all the people that mindlessly shill, and rage whenever you raise the slightest critique of their beloved gamefreak. smh the most shocking thing for me is the tiny employee number and I wonder how many of that are actual skilled developers...
People will dismiss that as false information regardless like everything when it comes to general backlash, feedback, actual complaints, and criticism.
Let's just hope this video gets viral just like the "6 years difference video." Meanwhile: Unwavering Emotions plays in the background Because oh boy there's a 9 in 10 chance that they're gonna Destroy Unova in the future remakes. (In Gen 10 probably).
If they do it in the style of bd sp then the game is already a failure. Dont get me wrong i love top down 2d/chibi games but god damn did this one look ugly as fuuuuuu Not to mention rushed to the point i wont belive they spend more then 3 months on it and thats being generous!
So, regarding the lack of whistleblowers, Japan only established whistleblower protections in 2006, and their culture heavily emphasizes loyalty and looks down on making a scene about things. So chances are a lot of people there don't even know that whistleblowing is even an option, and even if they do, it's heavily frowned upon culturally.
I get that security is important to prevent leaks but I'll go on a limb and say that happy employee, reasonable hours and fulfilling jobs also go to great length to prevent leaks
I gotta remember to show this video to people whenever they make excuses for Game Freak. It paints a really good picture of what it ACTUALLY is like to work there, when even their OWN employees admit the games are rushed.
These are from Japanese companies so it's unlikely as SEA has a different Asian management I think although these are more on the job side so this may not have info about consumer relations.
@@zjzr08 TPC IS a Japanese companies. Overseas company, if any (because as I recall VG is not delegated to any company unlike TCG), is only a mere executioner - not a planner, so I strongly believe that the "corruption" comes from the top. It's not even about customer relations, it's about how they design a faulty circuit and events. Have you heard about all the turmoil in SEA, HK, and TW? KR was also bad, but it's handled by a different subsidiary, like a TPC Korea.
It's pretty funny that contracted employees really didn't like their time at GF and expand a bit into their experience with their workload and conditions of working were and how working there is basically a waste of your talent meanwhile full time employees are absolutely loving working there and almost all of them are talking about the work place and how working with their colleagues is great and all, it's a pretty jarring contrast depending on the situation of the speaker and it should be somewaht concerning imo
A lot of places that hire contract workers are like this, in fact Nintendo America recently had controversy surrounding how contractors were treated vs. their full time staff
Pretty common because employees enjoy better benefits and protections, while contractors do not. So many companies tend to make things better for employees like lighter work load, more benefits like food, laundry, ping pong table, etc. but try to squeeze every bit out of a contractor until their contract is done (even then they will try to squeeze as much out)
This explains why they continue to do content surrounding Kanto. Yes theres new pokemon every generation, but theres always a focus one way or another on Gen 1. Pokemon needs to take a break, and really focus on giving us a fresh, and balanced experience. Scarlet and Violet just feel like a mess. They keep having problems with their events. Graphicaly, we all know how bad it is, and it feels like they are struggling with having a balanced meta, which has always been the case, but with every new gimmick, certain pokemon just become way too powerful not to use.
God I am so fucking sick of seeing Kanto designs and mainly appealing to older fans. Have you noticed the older fans of Pokémon never really mentioning ANYTHING ELSE other than the Pokémon designs in newer generation when they give there "Criticism" to it? No story/Region/Game-play/Music/graphics or anything to write home about. Yes, the Pokémon is the bases for the games and the media itself but there are other things in the Pokémon games that makes it as a whole. 2ND generation all the way now to the 8th generation of Pokémon have got shafted over the years besides the brand new installment. Only having small cameos and a few "Gimmicks" Pokémon outside of the 1st generation which nearly half of them get's special treatment. I get it, people get's very attached to the creatures they love but there is also other different creatures in different generation that some people also love. It's always the same first generation starters, Pikachu, Mewtwo, Mew and nothing else besides the recent generation of starters. Only thing that can be held up for a generation that mainly get skipped out is the remakes of previous installments and that's it. After a year the public will forget about the mons for that remake generation and move on to the same shit and going to happen again with 10th generation that will inevitably comes out along side of 5th generation remakes which I am so scared to see the final product on giving how Gamefreak track record is recently.
One important thing to note is that Japan uses the ranking as intendet. They dont just give 1 and 4-5 star reviews but also use the other numbers. 3* is the avarage. it is what you expected to get, nothing less and nothing more. Food was decend, arrived in time and was still warm -> 3*. It was not warm? -> 2*. it also didnt appear on time? -> 1*. While we give the expected a 4 or 5* rating and as soon one thing is not right we go down to 1, 2*.
From what I can tell from all this, it seems like GameFreak is in some sort of transitional phase where all their good employees from the gba/ds era are trying as hard as they can to keep their jobs and failing and retiring as a result, meanwhile newer employees and outsourcing are trying to pick up the slack, so given enough time, GameFreak should at least become serviceable but they still definitely need a longer development cycle
That is my view when that happened in Generation 8. I like calling this as growing pains with new technology and skills most of the elderly staff (old gen skill people) either got forced to learn or quit. Let's not forget the generational divide between young and old workers too
The review praising the food is ... insteresting. Kinda puts into perspective how in S&S, you had a considerable part of the game be the curry making minigame and in S&V you had an entire arc dedicated to gathering sandwich materials.
The Pokemon Company is the biggest IP/brand in the world... racking millions and millions each year... yet they can't/won't produce a localized version for Latin America with neutral Spanish, we keep getting the games in Castilian Spanish... just lazy and disgusting, can they not afford to hire a company to do a nice translation/localization for LATAM? Imagine if you were US American and could only play the games in British English...
Even though the did for the anime, they won't for the games. I honestly prefer to play Pokémon in English than in Spanish, it sounds so off, I'm not from Spain.
@@TankEngine75 that might be true, but image the game was filled with British expression like "Oi" "Mate" "rubbish" etc. ways in which US Americans dont speak. If the Castilian Spanish didnt used so many expressions and slangs from Spain it wouldnt be an issue, but sadly it is... At this point I prefer playing them in English... The rest of Nintendo games, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, have a LATAM Spanish version and read/sound great... If Pokemon was a complete property of Nintendo this would've been fixed by now.. .GameFreak/The Pokemon Co. are just greedy and lazy
@@lissewan1739 same, it wouldnt be an issue if they tried to stay as neutral as possible but its filled with slang from Spain that just sounds to silly for me and doesnt make sense... it's way too localized just for Spain
What really pisses me off is that they have all the money in the world, every Pokemon game sells like crazy, and they still make the developers crunch hard just so they can maximize profits. They could easily choose to make 1% less money, but guarantee that all their employees have happier lives, but every day they choose not to. The human greed never ceases to amaze me.
