Pokemon's Problematic Pacing 

You what now

Indeed

Funke knows his password?

yes

You spoke it into existence

I genuinly laughed when it returned in drayano's renegade platinum hack, which I'm currently playingy through

@@literallygrass1328 renegade platinum? that wouldn't happen to be a gen 4 remake would it?

@@arz563 fan made

@@arz563 You should play it, seriously.

when u cant let the child see the town bc ur dancing in a perfect east west line

It's a rhetorical question

@@gluteusmaximus8881 then why give you a choice?

I like how in super paper mario if you answer no a couple of times to those types of questions you get a game over.

"...but thou must!"

It's like that one guy in Black and White who tries to sell you Fresh Water at a jacked up price and when you say no he asks you AGAIN

Should I play this if i haven't played any other pokemon games before?

I was actually about to bring up Crystal Clear.

@@appleinsanity4733 probably not but only cuz you should learn more about what team you want before hand. Or you can just go full exploration. In that case go right ahead!

If any of you want to look further into Crystal Clear, you should watch Pikasprey Yellow's video about it. He goes into great detail about all the different features of the game, and makes a lot of other great videos too. Go check him out!

@@appleinsanity4733 You probably could but it has significantly less story elements [which usually isn't a strong suit for pokemon games anyway]. There are some non-canon characters too, but the base gameplay is fairly accurate to the official games. If you are interested in getting into the series I'd recommend the official gen 2 games [Gold/Silver/Crystal, but not Clear Crystal which is the fan game] because they do a really good job at guiding players on where to go. If you've never played the game before you won't know which areas will be too tough for you. tl;dr Start with the officials. If you try the official games and find it it's too slow for you I'd try it out.

Really Pokemon needs to go back to being sprite based....cause its so much easier and it can look great.... Doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon

Black and White shows that linear progression systems can still be fun and compelling if done right. Sun and Moon shows that focusing too much on a story can be monotonous as hell

I played black and it was the slowest game i'd played up to gen 6, especially the hours of grinding needed to advance past the grass the cutscenes also moved slower than in gen 3

Because Black and White cutscenes felt like part of the game. They didn't cut to different areas or random camera angles, most of them just showed what was happening around the player. Meanwhile the S&M cutscenes felt rather cinematic, which I didn't like at all

I think that has to do with the story being "GOOD". All the other Pokemon games, I really don't give two flying Fs about the story. BW was good but I'm not sure Gamefreak can pull another one off.

Brightear Nobody shit talks my Chikorita

PetiLUL

him: me, holding my carnivine and roselia: What did you say about my sons?!

Me: *laughs in gen III* Seriously, if you have so much as one Grass type in Hoenn you can cheese the entire game XD

I fucking love Lilligant so much though, one of my favourite Pokemon thanks to the one you trade for in Black 2. One of the MVP's on my team. So amazing. I loved that whole team. Lucario (my ace), Lilligant, Arcanine, Magnezone, Flygon, and Gigalith (also traded in Mistralton)

agree 100%

Thing is Dane that Pokemon isn't a Nintendo developed game. The design philosophies and innovation floating around EAD at the moment are in a completely different place than Game Freak, who is the ultimate example of "playing it extremely safe" Game Freak wont ever take any risks like what caused the success of Breath of the Wild or the failure Metroid Prime 4 would have been. That's why were getting HD 3DS games forever

Breath of the Wild was in development way longer than the span between Ultra SM and Sword and Shield. Doubt they'll try anything new but boy do I pray. Also thanks for getting me into Engie.

Well the thing is Nintendo isnt really behind Pokemon they just publish it. Pokemon is by Game Freak and they wont drop a money making formula till the sales drop.

Mostly just personal preference, but I think I prefer the more story oriented focus of the newer pokemon games. A similar thing applies to breath of the wild; it's a great game, but it felt really lacking in story and after a while I started to get bored of it because wandering aimlessly looking for things to do just doesn't really appeal to me. I like to have a clear goal and motivation which is why I prefer more story oriented games. Long story cutscenes almost never bother me and I actually enjoyed the pacing of the ultra sun and moon games. I think the appeal of open world games and more story driven games is really about which aspect of the game you prefer and enjoy the most, and think a more story driven approach appeals more to a lot of newer pokemon players like myself, who maybe aren't as familiar with the mechanics and play pokemon more casually.

Yeah, some exposition on the main villain and their beliefs (Team Plasma)? 30 seconds to a minute. Learning about how Lillie doesn't choose her own clothes (Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon)? 5 minutes minimum. AND SHE DOES IT TWICE (as far as I remember)

Esteban Maysonet better not play MGS4 then

kojima intensifies

Atleast it has a good story.. more then i can say from sword and shield, who maybe got even more cutscenes

Joseph Darvish it isn't really twice...but I don't think it's quite 5 minutes. but that's what happens when the gqme gets more cinematic.

ive had it happen myself. oh yes. lets just throw this pokeball for giggles. *catches lugia* o.o….

Not too abnormal for me, I rarely use anything better than an Ultra Ball these days. Hell if I do, it's just because the ball matches the Pokemon.

@@trainershade1937 what a mood

PureLSD well Zekrom and Reshiram has low catch rates so it isn’t that hard to achieve

@@trainershade1937 I've always just used ultra balls. I also have a very bad habit of never using the master ball. Except in Crystal.

Also don't forget the abandoned ship. That was such a cool location.

@@rubeng9092 That's easily one of my favorite locations in Pokemon period. Emerald had a lot of really awesome places to explore.

I agree on all but N's Castle. The fact that it literally appears from nowhere, and is required to progress since it's part of the story, makes it almost a perfect example that the problem does exist. The player doesn't go through N's castle because they want to stop Team Plasma, or because they want to get some goons out of the way so they can continue their Adventure, they go through it because the story says they go through N's castle. N's castle isn't a side quest you take up because you want to, it's just the next set of rails

@Druid T I think you are misrepresenting N's Castle. If you want, you can just run straight to the final boss - the thing you definetely signed up for when challenging the Elite 4. The rooms are all optional elements for the story, there's no fetchquest to check every item so you can get a key to the boss door or something like that.

you're forgetting sea mauville

owo aggwon

owo aggwon

fucking loser actually uploads on his main channel? wow

I respect your decision

Counter: Mawile

Peninsula of power is honestly fun, it makes it difficult, and gives the pokemon the power they should have

I feel like levels are annoying to deal with when it comes to exploration. I had so much more fun with Witcher 3 with Enhanced Edition mod, which reworked all of game's balance and mechanics to remove levels from the game. It was a blast to play, I only completed it once in original version, while with the mod I 100% it twice.

Xenoblade be like “oh pay no mind to the LEVEL 80 MONSTER IN THE STARTING AREA”

it is the most basic feature of any RPG. ...which is why it angers me when people call Pokemon an "RPG". yeah, and Call of Duty is a "immersive war simulator"...

And also, if Gamefreak is so worried about people becoming so overleveled that people could steamroll through gym leaders, then Gamefreak should add a feature where gym leaders adjust their team & strategy based on the level of your pokemon. it'd make the game much more interesting and dynamic.

I have. I mentioned it in my first script draft, but cut it out to keep the project low profile. If it gets too much attention Nintendo will probably shut it down, and I don't want to cause that.

that sounds fun

@@FUNKe Maybe if they take it down they'll port its features to sword and shield *eyes emoji*

Having played crystal many many times, i still found crystal clear boring, despite what it offered

Tfw you need to keep a fan project on the down low so the nintendo overlords don’t come down to smite it for “protection of their brand”. God nintendo’s like a super dangerous to flip coin where heads gets you an amazing game/system and tails gets you a company decision so out of touch with the community its in outer fucking space.

@@rastas_4221 S&M is also painfully slow because of all of its handholding and extra dialogue. I like Pokemon for being LESS of a traditional JRPG. I don't mind a bit of change, but S&M was... Meh

Don't give Game Freak that sort of credit. They've never been good with storage management and efficient coding despite being a billion dollar company.

@@PhriekshoTV Pokemon is a JRPG so thats literally your fault

@@Hetsu.. If I enjoyed all previous entries, including 4 with its lack of direction and 5 with its slower pacing, then it is the change in the formula's fault, not mine. I know it's a JRPG.

@@PhriekshoTV Thats because the previous entries were barely JRPG

Blipparipa At least it didn’t have voice acting 😂😂

it did?

@@zad_rasera Yep, they made it blantely obvious who the evil team REALLY was, (it wasn't team Skull, tho they were a extension of said evil Team). they also showed nearly every single Pokemon in the region, which a lot of people hated they done done that cause if left barely no surprises. It was the reason they barely showed any pokemon in trailers for SwSh....tho this still ended up negative regardless.

@@dantemustdie00 have the villians ever not been obvious to be fair

Jayden C I think the criticism with the Sun and Moon villains is that they tried to pretend they were good for moment until the Ultra Beast showed up and Lusamine made that smile. The other games straight up tell or show you they’re bad.

It's just one giant tutorial

I've just barely managed to contain the feeling of being handheld in Sword by taking the progression as slow as humanly possible. Been playing fairly consistently since it came out and just passed the fifth gym. It helps that I'm straight up enjoying the story presented in Sword much more than I ever did Sun&Moon. That was a snorefest and the protagonist had NO FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!!! Sword&Shield are definitely an improvement overall from Sun&Moon, but they REALLY need to stop handholding us.

@@bleachbleachBLEACHER at least you can skip pokecatching tutorial

atleast Hop is actually a likeable rival. It's been awhile since we had one of those.

@@kikir.5194 i wish he was more original tho. He kida just felt like a reskin of Hau (who I prefer over Hop any day lol)

Randomizer runs in a nutshell.

Zuzu player: *OOOHHHHHHH*

Go level 4 rattata!

*This is the part where you realize how fucked you are.*

Player : **surprised pikachu**

Me: Hop off my nuts Lily, GOD A WILD HAU APPEARED: Me: FUCKK

At least they didnt show up after literally every single badge like Bianca and Cheren...

Name someone understands

@@DwynTwo You're right, they didn't show up after every badge, they showed up after every Z crystal.

@@zaxon4765 There was a lot more distance between the trials though. In gen five, there were Gyms in EVERY goddamn city. Also, Hau and Lilly didnt always want to fight you.

*every other team in pokémon games

Everyone knows it has a problem, but the problem with saying there's a problem is that no one tries to think of a solution to the problem which makes a smaller problem a much bigger problem, which is very problematic

I love how it’s like, they went for a parallel to Magma which is fair. Magma’s plan is to make the planet have more land so people just have more room to be. that makes sense but most of the entire planet is water and if you flood it everyone like immediately fucking dies. what the fuck Archie

@@perkypears they just really like fish ok

They want more tuna sandwiches for lunch

Lmao.

it's 9.58 here

I mean it wouldn't get monetized anyways so he might as well.

@@soggypineconefalloutlorema397 Why not? Didn't Nintendo finally allow the use of their games' footage?

@@BlumiTheGhost Yeah but RU-vid hates monetization FUNKe it seems.

@@1un4cy youtube always add +1 second to video

I had not play pokemon for very long time due to it endless gameplay.

Only problem with that is some little kid could be too arrogant to watch the tutorial and never learn how to catch Pokemon.

@@strionic770 Sure but what about a kid that gets so goddamn bored of the excessive dialogue that they drop the game? Besides, who's to say that the kid doesn't just mash A through the text and doesn't learn the tutorial anyway?

James Alexander That's not a problem because literally everyone knows that the tutorial comes before the bulk of the game. Bold of you to assume a little kid would drop a new video game simply because of dialogue they don't care about. Also, even if they just mash A through the tutorial, they can still _visually_ see and understand the process of catching Pokemon. Little kid me was a complete A-masher, but I learned to catch Pokemon through the visual cues the tutorial provided simply.

@@strionic770 Bold of you to assume everyone, especially children are like you. And if the tutorials are anything like in Sun and Moon, is it really that much of a stretch that a kid will get bored and drop the game outright? I'm not even talking about the catch a Pokemon tutorial anymore either, you and I both know Pokemon can go over board with the stuff it thinks it needs to teach you when you could really just figure it out with little to know consequence. Minecraft and Fortnite don't have any tutorials and kids loved those games. I don't even know why you're against the idea of allowing someone to skip a tutorial, almost ever modern game let's you skip it's tutorial because they know people like to replay their games.

Hi! Welcome to the poke- SHUT THE F*CK UP JOY, ALL I WANT ITS TO CURE MY POKEMONS, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT, JUST SHUT UP, GRAB MY POKEMONS, AND CURE THEM.

Literally every game is.

​@@che1r They're really not

@@thomaschristensen2941 GRAB MY POKEBALLS

@@ellog100 no really all of them are like that

Logical

That feels like a road block that makes sense, even if connected to gyms.

gress

he says after suggesting a rock team. smh

Ice team?? Mono ice??? How?

Mines ice, ya wanna watch like 7 types kick my ass?

Seriously though, what the fuck would I even do? There's almost nothing it resists and it's so weak to the most common moves.

You're right, I referred to nintendo as a blanket statement but the points definitely refer specifically to gamefreak and TPC more than just that.

@@FUNKe That's perfectly fine. Let's also keep in mind that BOTW was made with the help of Monolith Soft (they did the environments, level design, etc.), and there really isn't anything stoping TPC or Gamefreak from contracting out folks to make a more ambitious title. The verdict isn't also out yet on S&S, we literally have one trailer as of now So yeah, here's hoping, but the pessimist in me thinks otherwise Thank you again Enjoyed the video

It's all pretty ironic, given how _insanely_ ambitious and creative the original Pokémon games were.

Look into who owns the Pokemon company. If you want a suggestion I'd say read Toucharcade's "Who Owns Pokemon, Anyway? It’s Complicated". The tldr is that Nintendo does not own Pokemon but most likely is the biggest single shareholder of the franchise.

@@superbro6413 TPC and Gamefrak only care about money, more people involved=less profit

did nintendo get too it yet?

@@antoniolewit7852 Sorta. *Winks*

Witty Name Barely, in my case

Reese Labbe This hurts to read because I want this but Idk if it’ll happen

Reese Labbe I just take whatever story is there, and in my head, Cerberus Syndrome it. Here, watch. “Brendan could barely breathe. He began to feel nauseous and the temperature around him swung violently between frigid cold with nigh suffocating rain, and scorching, dry heat. As other humans collapsed around him, he stumbled atop Swampert and rasped, “S-surf!!” With all speed, fighting violent waves and struggling to help Brendan hang on, Swampert surged forward. It sought out the source of the rain-drought commotion, and found it-two titans clashing in the middle of the sea. No, mountains! No, floods! No!! Mountains again! Colossal continents and tsunami-like waves of equal height crashed against each other.... With Groudon and Kyogre thundering at their center. Swampert plunges bravely forward, with Brendan barely conscious on its back. Even Swampert began to shudder from the freezing-boiling-rocky sea. Brendan summoned all his strength, with rain falling on his skin and evaporating off of it at two second intervals. “STOP!! PLEASE! STOP FI-“ All at once, a surge of mountain collided with Swampert and Brendan. Brendan, knocked unconscious by the blow, sunk helplessly toward the ocean depths. Just as he saw a bright light gleaming above the surface, his vision went black...”

Reese Labbe Dude, thanks! XD but until then, a little imagination will always help these games be amazing for me. ....E-except USUM. The real story started at the very end and was over just as fast. I felt a little numb after that one. “Fainting Necrozma = everything suddenly ok now”

Yeah it's like Nintendo is worried kids are too stupid to understand a basic plot without having it spoon fed to them. As a writer, it's obnoxious. As an autistic writer that sometimes struggles with trying not to over-explain things, it's even MORE obnoxious.

trees.

@@itsomega7724 p o o r l y r e n d e r e d s t i c k s o f s h i t

I certainly don't, as that's what makes Red and Blue, along with Sun and Moon pretty terrible.

@@byronlyons3548 Are you implying the pacing in Sword and Shield isn't terrible?

@@byronlyons3548 sun and moon wasn't really terrible and did gen 1 really have bad pacing? Also gen 1 weren't objectively bad games either.

GF understands in currency, not verbal language.

its even more real with gen 9 being open world

the unfortunate thing is that it looks and runs like fucking garbage

Yes.

No

It was pretty cool :)

Is no one gonna talk about that commercial of that bus driver crushing those pokemon?

What's it called

You’re right. The story content itself of SM is fine (until usum took a big shit on it and removed the allegory for parental addiction and how it affects a family... Good job, game freak. You fucked over a complex allegory for child abuse. Thanks.)

I couldn’t agree more. The fancy cutscene disrupt the flow of the game. I miss when Pokemon was sprite based, cutscenes were quick and didn’t waste your time.

Why do people lump BW2 in with BW? BW2 has hardly any plot.

Sun and Moon are the Problems ..have u seen the Abominations they call Pokemon ? i bet with Sword and Shield we get a Toothbrush as the Water Starter a Firelighter as the Fire Starter and a Stick with a Leaf as the Gras Starter and in 2022 we get Pokemon Bathroom and Pokemon Kitchen....

Big agree

Zuu Power wait until this dude hears about the Witcher

Bruh, Skyrim can run on everything, I don’t think that counts lmao.

@@greatestcrow2514 It does count, because it's an open world game. That's the point here, after all.

Assassin's Creed, Minecraft, Terraria, AC:NH.. these are all open world games for the switch. b r u h

I believe he meant one that looked like the mock-screenshot he showed, not just any open world game. We have had open world games on consoles decades old before.

Honestly I think the older games were worse about strange and obtuse roadblocks. Sorry, can't progress till you see a tree and decide to solve it by talking to an npc in a random house in the city, but only after you complete the gym. Sorry bucko you have to navigate the region through an elaborate series of tunnels until someone gives you a drink.

I feel that they're mostly more noticeable and less fun now is because they've taken all of the challenge out of them. The earlier games typically didn't tell you fuckall about what you were supposed to do, you had to wander around and explore or talk to npcs to piece it together, and the whole thing in itself was a bit of a puzzle you had to put together. By comparison road blocks in the newer games feel like there's a time quota they need you to hit before you're allowed into the next section, and the things you have to do to progress are just busywork to keep you occupied. They were never good, but they've definitely gotten worse as what fun they did have was stripped out of them.

Gen 1 had fairly open layout, especially for the last few gyms before giovanni. In fact, you could skip some sea travel by flying back to pallet town and going straight down to cinnabar island, in newer games they would probably have some dumb roadblock there because screw player ingenuity, right?

@@Blackstardragon393 Yes. At least Sun& Moon's roadblocks feel more "natural" than some random NPCs dancing and blocking the gate. In Alola the roadblocks are actual road blocks and are tied to the Trial Challenge. The whole region feels conected and prepared to lead the new trainer through the Island Challenge. Its the best solution? Hell no, but its better than a police guard asking for water.

@@CanaldoZenny Actually, the most stupid roadblock in Pokémon games was that girl on Stoutland in Heahea City. Seriously, what right that girl had to block the road just to find hidden items? IRL I would call a police on her for blocking the road. Sadly, you can't do that in Pokémon game :(

What's 6

And if you wait until Pokemon Bow/Arrow, you'll get a look at the all new walking tutorial!

Honest

I hope they learned there lesson with the tutorial at least. I don’t care about the story I liked black and whites story a lot I just hope they don’t do a two hour long tutorial again because I have sun sitting there and I just don’t want to play it after my experience with moon

Honestly, so far it's looked really open-world to me. It may be just in comparison to LGPE, and the much better graphics, but nonetheless I'm hopeful. I've heard rumors that gyms will be completable in any order so that's a good sign as well.

They put it there so you can not just start a new save all the time.

Even the 3DS FE games are more linear and story heavy than any pokemon game, but you can skip almost any dialogue or cutscene you want, and tutorials are just text popups you can quickly hide to read later if you want. Similarly, recruitable characters are always at specific chapters, but you can do a lot of customization with your army, so it still feels different each time. When I replay a Pokemon game, I find that I usually end up with a similar team. in FE, even if I stick with the same units, I can do different things with them to spice things up. If they don't want to take a page from the open world format, perhaps simply taking a page from FE could do some good.

Casey Wright I agree with you on the cutscenes, Pokemon cutscenes are simply monotonous. But for the switching things up, what’s stopping you trying some challenges like nuzlocke? Treat any fainted Pokémon as dead. Change up the moves of Pokémon, or completely replace your team after every gym?

Thankfully Pokémon Let’s Go added the ability to skip cutscenes in the options menu.

@@TheFoochy well yeah. map-based turn-based combat is more dynamic than 1v1 turn-based combat. the persona series retains interest by having you control 4 characters against X amount of buffed opponents. sadly, pokemon would alienate its audience if it steered toward either option.

​@@scandalouspanda7489couldn't handle? Switch runs Zelda totk and though that game has its frame rate drops here and there too, it's not as bad

​@@scandalouspanda7489 it's not that the switch can't handle it -- it demonstrably can. the problem is that gamefreak is terrible at optimizing their games for the hardware they're working with. this was less noticeable in the handheld days (with a few exceptions like the astonishing slowness of the original diamond/pearl) because the hardware they were working with was never that great anyway, but they're on console hardware now, and that's making the gap between pokemon and other nintendo powerhouses like mario and zelda especially pronounced. unfortunately, while these issues have caused controversy online, most people don't seem to care enough to stop buying the games, so gamefreak never has to get any better at it.

Ike Anduha it was a shit game but I’m not gonna lie black and white 2 had the best storyline in to date in my opinion

Cosmic Cloud yeah the designs were absolute shit! The worst batch of starters ever! I took emboar off my team 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️. Black and white one you could only catch gen 5 Pokémon. Ugh it was a tough time to be a Pokémon fan.

@@Seraserastria Like much of what you said is still opinion. The forces of nature are not even close to the legendary birds. Where'd you even get that from? Emboar is my favourite fire starter, and Serperior is my favourite grass starter. Kyurem is a really good looking legendary, all three of the forms. And you are kinda stretching some of those comparisons, especially the Zoroark one. I Don't agree with the Victini and Mew one either. You might as well say that Manaphy, Meloetta and Magearna also are copies of it. since all of them look vaguely like Mew. Did you have problems with noibat? That's basically Zubat 3. Stufful and Bewear is Teddiursa and Ursaring 3. I just don't see a balanced view here; you didn't like the pokemon in gen 5, that's ok. Then you say that very many of the gen 5 pokemon are copies of older pokemon, but ignores that every gen has had some kind of copies. Also, why don't we critique the very uninspired pokemons from gen one? What about Muk? or Electrode? The only kinda bad Dragon pokemon from this gen was Druddigon, but saying that both Haxorus and Hydreigon are ugly? what are you? A monster? Why are the pokemon you said horrible? i really liked their designs(excluding Stunfisk), especially Gothitelle's. Now, i know most of this is also opinion, but holy shit man i got upset at your comment.

It was a horrible game with a good plot, barred by DLC. Not really something appreciable to the fullest.

Hell no, I'm playing BW2 right now and every 5 minutes control is ripped from me and I'm forced to follow some dipshit to a place I don't wanna go. Gen 5 is where the unskippable cutscenes got out of hand.

LOL idk why this comment made me laugh. As a Fire-type user, both of you guys suck in my eyes. (jk!! lol)

@@kikir.5194 oh yeah, pulls out my Ludicolo pokeball, get a load of this

Ice types are just so much cooler

as a water type fan, i share your pain

Dragon type master race

Bring back the Battle Frontier pls

EASY! 🤨 What? I have one thing to say about that which is: Try to beat Ultra Necrozma without having any Pokémon with a Dark type move, while not giving it any status conditions, not using any kind of healing or reviving item, not using a Z-Move and not PP stalling it.

@@gameman3981 So fight Ultra Necrozma without fighting it?

@@carlosgonzalez2706 No. To say it as simply as possible (It will probably be the same): Use any move unless it's a Dark type move or a move that lowers it's stats/gives it status conditions and don't use healing items while fighting. I should've said that to begin with, sorry.

@@gameman3981 so you're saying the game is hard if you play like an absolute idiot and make wrong decision constantly? shocker. Pokemon is for kids and casual gamers, us millenials just have to accept it. Sword and Shield show no signs of fixing any of the problems like hand holding and mind numbing easy gameplay.

It is really well made I enjoy it alot

I dunno, IMO the melody and backup singers and high scale Justyn chose to sing on are a bit hard on my ears.

@@lrgogo1517 Your face is hard on my ears

@@Kitty_kisses97 It's down boys

Yeah good Weezer cover

It's up to us fans to promote underrated youtubers on other sites.

HE'S REALLY FUCKING S L O W

High quality is why.

@@jacobshirley3457 it was a joke tho

How was it a joke? It's a legitimate question. What *I* said was the joke (albeit, a low-effort one).

Team Rocket: Maybe Team Skull: Yeah, why not? Team Yell: Sure. They are about as threatening as a Wooloo. But the rest of the Teams? Would you want to work for Team Flare?

@@johannesseyfried7933 or team peta?

@Death Team Rocket is objectively the best PokeMon team, its simplicities compliment its attitude, its simply a cooperation that abuses Pokemon for wealth.

@@matrixyst bruh there are tons of fan games like these for example rocket rising on pc

Your Doom it would just be nice if there was an official Pokémon game that allowed you to join the evil team. I’ve also wanted a Main series game game we’re you could join the evil team. An hd quality game with that feature would be awesome.

Oh... So that's what happened to him in the Sun and Moon Anime..

You should see how bad they are in Ultra Sun and Moon, there are 10 times the roadbloacks and for such asinine reasons that they make the stoutland one seem reasonable...... Sword and Shield too.

@@Cyber_Akuma how is USUM any different?

I dont know what are you talking about its just a nice toy you put in your ass

Except nobody said that...?

@@suprememenace2947 I saw a ton of people who did.

We wanted them to do something new, but we wanted the new thing to be of higher quality.

there's rumors about DLC coming soon, and how much you wanna bet they're gonna make people pay for DLC for more dex pokemon. I'm calling it now.

They are adding a DLC. They're adding 200 Pokemon for what I hear is the price of $30

Junebug2 no. They are releasing two new areas and with have 200 Pokémon become available to all players regardless of whether or not they purchase the DLC

@@brrguitarist Are you sure? I heard it was only part of the DLC. You can get slowpoke but can only evolve it if you have the DLC so I'm not sure about that

@@cosmicmouse2 when each part of the pass is released, 100 pokemon will also be released as part of that regions pokedex. all players, whether or not they purchase the pass, will have to ability to trade for or transfer the released pokemon into their games.

they cut the dex to make room for improvement and Im so glad, beause now we have *giant grookey* and *thicc cake* in return, not to mention all the *old and reused* character animations! *and the shit stick tree*

i think for a game like that to really work they should actually wait for a switch pro or the next console that is more powerful imo

@@jeffboy4231 Or do what any competent studio does and hire talent capable of making or utilizing a game engine that isn't brought to its knees by models reused from the 3DS. They certainly have the money and resources to do so.

@@jeffboy4231 It's not completely open world but have you played any xenoblade game? The problem isn't the switch, it's gamefreak not knowing how to make games well

@@dyssil249 well the thing is, for the pokemon open world to be good it would also need to have pokemon be seeable for big distances and like in the air and stuff for it to actually feel full of life and like a pokemon world

doesn't work like that tho. u have to consider that if u beat 2 gyms, the remaining 6 gyms are programmed with different teams compared to when you have no badge or 1 badge etc. It's more like 8 raised to 8.

@@fakku7253 What do you mean?

@@fakku7253 you made absolutely no sense

@@fakku7253 You dumb

​@@fakku7253 He did consider that, idiot. Every gym can only be number 1-8, meaning 8 variations for each gym. 8*8=64.

1- YOU AGAIN 2- i don’t really care at this point anything’s better than Pokémon let’s go

you need a job dude, get out of your house

Galar is literally a straight line upwards so dont count on it.

@@eighteen-naked-cowboys its Canada, plain and simple

Pokemon too

1 year late to the part, but I pray that the gen 4 remakes are more competently made...

And make you pay foR the rest of the pokemon

Ya B&W2 is impressive in how much it managed to fix pacing problem of black and white 1, that said it does have probably the most obnoxious road blocks in the series (looking at you dancing clowns)

You say that but (in all gen 5 games) they just block off half the region for an underwhelming postgame, they wind every separate route and town into the story so it doesn't feel rewarding to explore a new place, because you just re-explore it after the gym battle with all the trainers already defeated and the wild pokemon already seen

@@tTaseric BW2 is considered to have the best postgame in the series, how is it underwhelming? And BW does have some optional areas to explore. Not on the level of some other games, but it is pretty satisfying IMO.

@@tTaseric Yes and no while that is the case black and white 2 at least does a good job of providing interesting optional areas, take the point between the fifth and sixth gym, sure you could just rush through, but there's also the rest of relic passage, you can backtrack through previous areas once you get surf, and also explore mistralton cave. That's why black and white 2 is better, because there's more off the beaten path, that said I wish pokemon would have more optional towns before the post game along with optional routes and dungons

@@oyeh8908 the main problem with B&W's post game isn't it's linearity, but the difficulty spike because of the jump in levels

You wanna dry the *waters*?! ***YOU NEED THE WATERS***

"Me: Dying xD" Because of the flood?

Personally, I would love a game about pokemon pirates.

Holy shit you saw the video too?

@SNES SMWF-0 You wanna darken the *sky*?! ***YOU USE THE SKY***

I hope they fix the barebones route problem at least, the region seems pretty vibrant as of right now.

"we want a game like heartgold again" Game Freak: "What was that? You want to play the same game yet AGAIN? hErE yOu gO!"

If you jinxed the gen 4 remake I'm gonna be so upset man

"We want gen 4 remakes" Game Freak: "what's that you want another KANTO game" "NOOOOOOOOOO" GF: "hEre YoU gO"

Relatable.

Probably because this video was just one big shitpost.

You like 5 hour tutorials and poorly written anime plot?

@@SigandGibbs yup.

it would be interesting to see them try to approach this with two different games, i like that idea

Gen 5 was definitely a good step

I prefer a game to have deep lore, and a story that is driving; but the majority of that should be in the background for you to learn or discover in the environment via things like character dialogue, or books that tell you more of the lore. It helps you flesh out the world; and allows you to continue enjoying the world. But the key thing; is that the storyline should be integral to the plot progression. If the story is centered around confronting say; Team Rocket, and stopping them from taking over, that should be the center focus of the game, but instead Pokemon's progression is completely insane and silly. The opening of the game gives you the lofty goal of catching all the Pokemon for research, then this gets dumped when you decide to take the 8 gym challenge so you can enter the Pokemon league; and while you are going after this goal; Team Rocket gets involved and you thwart them in the span of 10 minutes. Basically, what I'm saying is; Pokemon's progression would be more interesting if they got rid of the 8 gyms/league system. This way, the game could start out with the focus on the Pokemon world; and build up the villain team that is threatening the decisions of the Pokemon and people; and then the emphasis is on stopping the evil team. The closest game to this was Gen V, Black and White; where the main storyline was centered around Team Plasma and N. However, the 8 Gym Badges and league were still required in order to progress; so the storyline was halted because of pointless tradition that seems completely redundant at this point. N is going to capture a legendary Dragon and is planning to begin his ascent to becoming the new King of the land? Using his dragon to assert his dominance? Sorry; you can't stop him until you have the next badge, because some dumb shit will block the road until you prove your worth... what kind of sense does that make?

It doesnt have rivals Blue/gary was the only actual rival

@@putridmoldyman306 Silver?

X and Y are my favourite since gen 2 and 3, sun and moon are the worst pokemon games ive played

It's weird that even though XY had awful pacing, I enjoyed it more than Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. But, I just don't understand why.

@@absolutew33b because its just overall a more superior game in every way?

Grinding!! I had a Lv 70 electric type Pokemon by the time I fought the 8th gym in Emerald. :)

And more importantly, why in God's name haven't you evolved it

@@alec6092 because some believe that bayleef was a better design then megainum

@@Matanumi Also most Pokemon learn good moves quite a bit earlier than their evolved forms, with some like Arcanine that outright didn't learn ANY moves after evolving. Or maybe that was Exeggutor. Or both.

People upset about overleverrs, lol, I don't get this, A) no one else's playthrough affects your own, and B) I went through Kalos' Elite four with a level 98 Sandslash because I couldn't use Houndoom per my original plan, and I don't care about Overlevel Screamers, especially since a lot of them think that the games are too easy anyway and thus overleveling doesn't really change anything.

we wont see it till 2022. Knowing game freak, they are probably gonna find some way to fuck it up

Why is everyone telling me to buy breath of the wild this is the 10th time I've seen botw mentioned??

I don't necessarily want specifically a botw Pokemon but they definitely need to change something. Botw Pokemon would be cool if done right but other ways to spice things up, I would be down with too. The 3ds era was bad for Pokemon. I hope switch will be better but it ain't looking so good with let's go so far...

@@NonJohns Because Botw is one of the greatest games of all time.

Try the Pokemon Crystal Clear rom hack

BotW is one of the only Games I've played that really makes the beauty of nature it's focus. That part of BotW could really work for a Pokemon Game. With that said, bissan0909 I'd really disagree with you here. If the future of gaming holds games inspired or similar to BotW in store for us, you will probably start to realize the problems that many of us people had with it and how much better the Game actually could be.

Yes No Nah, you’re with me brother!

As much as I love gen 4, I'm pretty sure that gen 4's pacing is the slowest in the series and comparing it to gen 5 in terms of that is laughable.

@@mcgoldenblade4765 But there's a reason for 4 to be slow, it's entire design philosophy is "stop and smell the roses"

Gen 4 & 5 were the last games to take it's fanbase seriously. Sure gen 4 is slow but the gameplay is still there and if you're really that inpatient to the point you can't wait for an attack animation you could always turn the animations off.

Old 8-bit and 16-bit JRPGs benefit greatly from their minimalism imposed by technical limitations. In the absence of those limitations, most newer ones have become bloated and overly indulgent with lengthy animations that worsen the pace of a game and makes grinding even more of a chore if the game's difficulty curve is poorly designed (this is _especially_ bad for certain modernized remakes of old school RPGs with godawful difficulty spikes that make grinding practically mandatory).

@@discountchocolate4577 I know that it's bad to be hand holdy, but complaining that the game feels sluggish because of the events which are there because of story feels off. I know pokemon was never known for the story but they tried even though the outcome did feel slow. It's just why complain about a slow start to an rpg when other rpgs have a MUCH longer tutorial and have slow starts

@@fernz_z_z903 I'm not even just talking about the hand-holding and story though. I'm also talking about slow animations (and sometimes even text!) that can't be sped up or turned off, which will always aggravate the tedium of grinding and mandatory bits of story and tutorial. Issues like this can kill a game's replayability if the parts you can't skip aren't relatively short and mildly humorous (TTYD and Superstar Saga are excellent examples that more subsequent JRPGs should have followed in this regard). I might not have made it obvious but I don't play many modern JRPGs precisely because this issue plagues the genre. Any RPG which doesn't allow me to skip cinematic cutscenes and tutorials, turn lengthy attack animations off, and speed up text is equivalent to the designers telling the player that they don't fully respect their leisure time.

Discount Chocolate I completely agree with that

He sounds like a walmart munching orange

Then maybe dont flood the earth

Team Aqua really didn't make sense to me. I mean, Team Magma while heavily misguided at least KINDA made sense, they want more land in a world where (assuming it's anything like Earth) is 71% water so there is more room for people to live on it.... but why the hell would Team Aqua want to reduce the amount of land on a planet that is already 71% water? What would having more water even achieve?

I always assumed they would live on boats or something like that.

@@Cyber_Akuma The problem here is that they wanted more land to save Pokemon, while killing water Pokemon. So no, they're both equally dumb, for pretty much the same reason. They both say life depends on the land/sea, depending on the version you're playing. When you know, life depends on both and not one or the other.

Sword / Shield should effectively fix this thanks to profiles on the Switch having their own save data. Play the game, make a new profile, you can play it again while keeping your old data intact.

@@Dennis-sv2de oh snap that's true! Though at the same time I dunno how much Nintendo considers it exactly as a multi-save-file system

I'm concerned about losing data because there is no local backup.

Isnt that the game where Lugia kills some scientists on a ship

Wait... did people actually call Colosseum an open world game?

I mean Colloseum and XD are great, but open world, he nah, they're even more linear, its pretty much: Go to X place Beat all trainers to proceed Repeat

And then you realize the Shadow Pokemon games weren't made by Game Freak at all, and GF is a bunch of petty fucks and refuse to acknowledge their existence.

SushiMudkip Yeah I don’t give a hoothoot for competitive battling or the ridiculous levels collecting them all has gotten to so I actually enjoy the stories quite a bit (when done well). Gen 5 obviously being the best but SM had some good moments for sure! I agree that it’d be a nightmare to replay though now that you’ve seen it once. Even the games with weaker stories have some really good or intriguing side moments or comments in game. What makes me mad is GF clearly shows they can do a good job on that front if they try but it often feels like they’re teasing something just out of reach

@@emblemblade9245 Damn, I don't like story or competitive, I just like making my team and beating the gyms. Which is probably why gen 1 is my fav, I prefer to make my own story, free of A mashing and forced exposition.

It's ok if you enjoy the story , but you don't have to ditch it out on order to keep things fresh and non linear. After gen 4 i got really bored of linearity i couldn't even play Gen 5 properly , i hated it so much , i got bored to death. Gen 6 was even worse I just played it for 30 minutes because i got bored extremely fast. Omega Sapphire was really good but I'm not playing it another time through that story. I just skipped Sun and Moon because it felt even worse compared to before. It's garbage , i resorted to rom hacks in order to get more entertained. I want to play Pokemon but it has become dogshit with the pacing

The only pokemon stories that got me interested where the mini arcs of giovanni in the original games, and the whole story of black and white, every other story just seemed over simpistic, and would have had me entranced had I not see hundreds of movies and TV shows and have a vast knowledge of decent writing and characterisation.

if you play USUM and play silver straight after then it feels amazing. if you play breath of the wild and then soul silver it feels like "why is this not for all the gyms instead of 3?, we need a new formula".

Shhh dont let nintendo find out

He acknowledged that on another comment.

This

more pinkerton covers Good Life is the best song

True

That's why I love Gen2. The lore was lost until you searched for it, the legendaries were legendary. People never mention Lugia or Ho-oh, just the legendary birds that live somewhere im the region. After Gen3, every legendary is found halfway through the game, you NEED to catch them to progress the story and they all want to be your friend because...reasons? There's no sense of discovery anymore.

@@diode_wow THIS!!! Gen2 is also my favorite. They need to go back to that formula.

@@GayLoveKicksAss sadly they won't

@@diode_wow eh....gen 3 to...as you encounter groudon and kyogre to no matter what

eh....for me it's not impossible to get engaged (as a veteran now) with like the gen 7 games. It had a good endgame, quality of life stuff, and easy ways to train up your pokemon too. searching for extra lore? that could be done better now....but in general there is like more lore related to the legendaries then there was before

Watching this video with the context of Scarlet and Violet having released is hilarious.

They didn’t make the gyms scale with the player, sooo…

Yeah his concept overall is not the solution, even if an interesting one. SV was a mess. From me getting so strong I had to avoid trainers, to...then getting swept by a lv 58 Fighting special Revaroom when my team was very weak to Fighting (3-4 mons iirc)....and I tried it at around 48 cause I didn't know. But then every regular trainer I swept easily. I beat Arven around those levels too, thanks to using entry hazards and some luck. The scaling would be interesting IF they didn't make it a flat curve up (pacing easy and hard sections in difficulty is very important). Or at least telling you where the easier or harder ish sections are. So yeah, the game is a mess. It left me wanting more of a challenge, but not special Team Star Revaroom bosses (mainly just that fighting one) that could setup too fast, had too much HP, and removes statuses, reflecting the horrid trend of JPRGs having status immune boring boss fights. Looking at you Persona and many others; poison, sleep, mute, bind, stun, what are those? -_- oh yes, filler moves for regular battles when you want to be the most MP efficient as the games drains you. At least Pokemon usually doesn't have that issue.

yeah they had generally similar levels but this lead to the level of your pokemon at the endgame being painfully low and even though the elite 4 also had low levels and the champions levels werent too bad kanto seemed rather overkill with their levels. if there was gonna be multiple orders for gyms they should probably scale the levels to avoid this

@ Gen 2 would have been by far (!) the best gen ever (which is pretty bad for Gamefreak if you think about it, since they already reached gen 7 or so), but the levels pretty much destroyed gen 2. If the last third of Johto would have about 5 to 10 levels more, the Pokémon League about 10 levels more and Kanto at least 15 levels more, Gen 2 would have been uncomparable. I'd enjoy a remake of gen 2 which is JUST LIKE the originals, with no changes in story, Pokémon, trainers and graphics ( I darn love the old graphics way more than those ultra-modern 3d shit), but with an adjustment regarding levels.

@@Dartitis-26 Yep, get one level 100 and the entire end half of any pokemon game is completely trivial.