Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Are EMBARRASSINGLY BAD 

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Speaking of embarrassing, you remember that time you released a gamer's ID on Twitter because he said a slur?

Pokemon 76

42 definitely

2042 sounds better

GameFAQS is still defending this rubbish game?!

Pokemon fans: “N-No we dont!! We’re happy with trash!”

@@tombstone118they say it’s “fun” overlooking all issues this game got.

True

We Poke-fans have been getting Rubbish for 9 years now I think i want good stuff back

For real they do be like: "Hello!" *Walks towards you for 5 seconds* "My name is Gloop." *Waves hand for 3 seconds.*

@@grundierungtaglich6241 yep exactly!

The frame rate and glitches got to me. It felt like I was playing Deadly Premonition 2 again. When I start comparing a big company like gamefreak to a SWERY game that’s a problem.

@@BlueAizu_ oh yeah those too 🙄 can’t even call it illusion of choice because it’s blatantly obvious

Bye bye speed running

I still remember every single trial from USUM. Couldn't explain the current gyms to save my life.

That comma should be a period, and you need a question mark at the end of your last sentence!

@@Number1SethRollinsFan ☝️🤓

@@wyxyrFlick the big bean, Find the Sunflora, FNAF security cam and...Ski?? Those are the only ones I really remember.

​@@Number1SethRollinsFanYou really shouldn't continue a sentence after a comma with "and". You can use a different and more proper transition word combination such as "You also" or add a Period then follow with "Also,". Sarcasm at it's finest! 😂

they don't need too, they know their fanbase will buy this game anyways lol

they dont need to. Gamefreak may want it but nintendo has very tight release cycles put on gamefreak

Why should they? Pokemon fans will suck off anything they put out. Why should they put in any effort when their customers are braindead morons who will buy anything with the name on it? Hell I wouldn't try hard if I knew I was guaranteed money even if I put 10% effort into it

Why would they do that? It would sell just as well as an unfinished, buggy mess

​@@HUYI1I own at least one game from gen 1 up to gen 7 but I stopped there. When I found out that from sword and shield I can't transfer all my old mons to the newest gen I abandoned the franchise and I wish more of us would so that gamefreak realize that they have to put in some effort.

School bullies that turn out to only bully bullies.

Have a bad guy part of a corporation that is trying to take over the world half the companies in the world are gonna look at Nintendo and be like "WHO THE F YOU TALKING ABOUT" 😂

Wow, a realistic and sympathetic villain with motives and a heartwarming backstory instead of a boring generic team with no actual motive, just awful

​@@TheTeraFurret Villains don't need to be sympathetic to be interesting.

@@TheTeraFurret Where was that in V&S? Just from the first Boss I encountered I can already guess that each of the 5 bosses are just motivated from conflicting ideas with the school regulations with the Leader of them being the other character dedicated to that side story. The flavor is kind of bland compared to prior groups in which they wanted to rule the world through controlling eldritch gods with them being the end game next to the Elite Four instead of something you avoid altogether when exploring the open world. The sandwich herb side story is more interesting since you help out a friend(I say that loosely for being shoehorned into what he's doing but we get the Legendary Pokemon from him to act as our mount) and give the legendary pokemon new abilities you could use to go through the open world. Including bypassing the "bad guy's" where your just rewarded with chump change when beating them and a TM.

I shudder at some if the rumors I’ve heard about the KotOR remake lately.

This is why I play indie games. Sure 95% of indie games suck, but at least there is a possibility of finding a good game unlike with triple A titles.

@how do I change my profile picture when I played Hollow Knight and Ori. I said fuck all to so many games now. I gave myself high standards now. Small teams making these compelling games.

Very true. It's not like I get happiness out of having a shittier experience than I did in the last iteration of a franchise. I want to enjoy AAA games and I want to recommend them to my friends, but by golly it is getting harder and harder in today's industry. I don't know, when I buy a game I want to get hundreds of hours of play time out of it. I want it to be so enjoyable that I'm thinking about it when I'm at work. I want it to be so fun that I get transported back to when I'm 14 years old again and stayed up way too late playing and didn't care. In the past 5 years only two games have made me do that, RDR2 and Ghost of Tsushima. Just give us what we had. Give us the core experiences we long for and we will come back. I don't like living in this cynical cocoon where every time a new AAA game gets released I have to wait for reviews to come in telling me, "it's fine but nothing special, oh and it needs at least a year more of work." Cool, I'm never playing that game. I hate that this is what has happened to a pastime that gave me so much joy.

@@howdoichangemyprofilepictu9839 not to mention the price of aaa games is beyond what they offer

It's insane that they made me appreciate Sword and Shield😂 That says a lot. I'm not even past the second gym in this game and I'm throwing it away. What a garbage ass game.

I made 45 minute ranr video om sword and shield. I ALMOST actually said sword n shield is good in the comments

I’d rather have an interesting story than just a really boring game sword and shield is so boring. I only beat it to get the legendary Pokémon for scarlet and violet but I actually wanted to kill myself a few times. In general 9 yes it’s really laggy at times and isn’t optimized but I still was having fun even before the dlc can’t say the same for gen 8 hell even the dlc is bad to me it’s just there for getting Pokémon no fun at all. I can’t defend nor want to for Nintendo but I can say this game is one I still play even after catching every Pokémon and am now shiny hunting in because it is so fun.

..dont hate me but whats wrong with sword and shield?

@@ssmokiee1827 pokemon being removed from thebgame for reason that were LITERALLY lies, lack of new ankmations, lack of an actual story, N64-ahh trees, a 30 dollar post game, and a general emptiness felt in playing compared to SunMoon

Wait this was supposed to be based in Spain... i genuinely thought it had no theme from the videos and photos ive seen. This is genuinely depressing not just because of pokemon but its just terrible representation

@@datboi_gfx5504 yeah, these games are meant to be based in Spain and Portugal. It makes me sad because I was really excited to see Spanish culture embodied in a Pokémon game 🤷.

@@Roz_Clear Yeahhh this is such a wasted opportunity. For two countries with such distinctive cultures it says a lot about the effort they put into the game if someone familiar with it didnt even notice it... the games just look so bland and uninspired its insane

They didnt wanna make it look like the middle east, like Spain

huh? (elaborate)@@koenwijnen8278

Fr

That's what yearly releases and creative bankruptcy give you

Millions of people are perfectly fine with a half-finished, broken mess. As long as it says "pokemon" in the title

Those grafx R SO SIK

100%

same

Bottom feeders deserve trash.

Blinded optimism

10000000% truth

I know this shit is from 4 months ago but mfer they do this with all Pokémon TCG cards, games, P GO, mobile games TCG online. These are all ass

i mean, they CAN. They just don't. because why put in more effort, when garbage like this still breaks records. They're okay with teens and adults dropping the franchise, Because dumb children are still being pelted with Pokemon ads via the TV show and toys, so they'll love it. And that dumb kids parents will buy them the new game, even if they're aware of how bad the games have become. Because they wanna make the kid happy

It's up to the consumer to voice concerns and boycot a product. If most people would lookup revieuws of the games they would buy, the budget and time spend on games would be multiple times higher. So in short we suffer because lazy stupid people.

Stop paying a company who fucks up 5 times in a row

Old pokemon fans indoctrinate their kids into pokemon despite it being nothing like how it was when they were growing up

IT'S WHAT?!

I get what you mean currently replying the game and i still have the same feelings i did when i fist played the game. Personally i find the games fun i do but their not brilliant

The open world concept for Pokemon can work, but I i dont think GameFreak can pull it off themselves. They need to farm the design out to people with more experience there.

Hol up what

That was stupid.

I think I know the reason why there’s no voice acting, remember in the beginning game it said choose your language and there several languages options, so if they add voice acting they have to have so many different voice actors that speak different languages and that will take a very long time.

@@positivea9111 they don’t have to voice every little thing. Honestly I’d be ok with just the cutscenes.

@@eldiandevil Yeah the animated cutscenes that’s what I’m talking about.

Yeah, this is why I can't understand people saying, "Well, it's for kids!!!" as an excuse for its mediocrity. When I was a kid, I was working on learning braille to try to understand some random ass writing I came across in a cave that might give me a riddle to discovering something cool. Kids aren't stupid. Plenty of kids like opportunities to explore. This constant coddling from GameFreak is not justifiable.

@@Bloooo95 It isn't coddling. It's cost cutting. They know they don't have to try. They know they don't even have to release a functioning product. They can continue to cut corners and spout blatant lies because the fans will continue to defend them.

@@Blackemperess Yup as this was the most successful game yet( sale wise and that is what they care about) ... They are never likely to improve on this ...

@@themasterofw4295 Which is the most disappointing thing, because the franchise is versatile enough to cover multiple genres of games in their own titles. But GF bosses are tightwads fixated on money and nothing else.

Pokémon emerald was peak pokemon

Those were great games when it came to brandnew Pokemon versions. My personal all-time favourites are Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

@@steffimaier7297 I never got to play HGSS but if they are anything like the original GSC games on Gameboy color than they for sure would’ve been great

@@steffimaier7297 with heart gold and soul silver you can really tell the developers gave it their all. I remember that the lead developer grew up playing gold and silver and as such tried to capture the essence of these games as close as possible. These games also had a developing time of 3 years whereas other pokemon games have a much shorter developing time. So much care went into those games which are the reason that they are most players favorite. With all the technological advancement now you would think that pokemon could make even more impressive games now but I really feel they peaked at HG and SS.

vanillite and vanilluxe.... those designs are awful.I feel like I like everything else about the series but some of the designs such as those are terrible still.

pokemon crystal was awesome.original johto was really good. @@sodabeat689

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I've been searching for this kind of comment. Hello there. 👍🏻

Would like but 69 likes I cant

I share a similar perspective. It also doesn't help that in retrospect, 3rd gen was the most feature-dense among the sprite era. But almost none of it ever got retrofitted into the newer games. Except for Battle Tower and day/night cycle from 2nd gen.

the first three generations were all worse than gen9, although maybe not gen 3

The head of Gamefreak stated in a interview they think kids are dumb. That's why they dumbed everything down. That's why routes and paths,caves are so linear, that's why the story is no longer intriguing, that's why battles are so easy. This interview was around the sword and shield release.

Yah I still am so bummed they cut challenge mode after b&w 2 it just felt like that would be the bare minimum having over leveled fights isn’t really challenging it’s frustrating the trainers still have piss poor teams n even the gym leaders and elite 4 so if I played it with 2 people it’s even easier yah

@@itachi93674 Not doubting ya but do you have a link to that interview?

Lmao. It teaches kids to not tresspass someone's property in real life.😂

Yup. And shops and centers being nothing more than menus. When I first seen that, I knew these games were on a new level of bad

@@deoxysandmew2162 except for the fact you sometimes get rewarded for just entering their homes. so what message are they trying to convey here?

​@@deoxysandmew2162 Ah yes we 90s kids favourite passtime of going into random peoples houses and snooping around it was directly due to us playing pokemon

@@thrash208 ikr lol

So linearity, obsolete legacy limitations we have since Gen 1 and less Quality of life features is more advanced for you?

Linearity isn’t necessarily bad, and gen 1 isn’t necessarily linear when you can choose which gym you want to do 3-6.

@@christopherleja2224 Black and White are arguably the most linear games in the series, and they're still the best imo.

@@Saroku1000 Way to intentionally misunderstand my comment. If you don't understand what I was trying to say here, either you: A) Didn't watch this video B) Are actively looking for things to get upset about C) Are just stupid

@@Saroku1000 It is, actually

"Everything is old!" Fits perfectly.

@Meme University indeed, many criticised pixilated trees and such. I honestly don't mind it if it had not been for example for the trade of no nationaldex so they could make the world and pokemon better.

imagine if we could have pokemon with 2d-HD like octopath traveller

@@sakutaro3musik486 we need other developers to do that, gamefreak seem dead set on poor 3d graphics

That would be interesting, I think an open world (the only selling point of these games) pixel Pokemon game would be so cool

Id pay $70 for it

The best part about that is? The person you're helping, Penny, immediately starts bullying Arven in Area Zero (she even insults him, Nemona, and the player at one point) so it's like...yayyy I actually helped a bully!

They make some great plot twist, I am so suprise. Now im fighting the BIG BOSS, the headmaster. LOL

I actually prefer the smaller stories, playing as a 10 year old fighting mafia boss gets really boring after the third remake

First Pokemon game we fought Giovanni..and took down the Mafia.. Lol

@@JohnWick-rh1zzLOL. Yah the world has become a strange place. The simulation is rampant.

Mesagoza was supposed to be this huge capital city but feels smaller than than the towns from the GBA games which only had like 10 buildings. At least there was no repetition and you could go inside the houses and apartments. Lumiose City was done so much better than Mesagoza and that was 10 years ago.

But boy oh boy does it sell well

@@zkme2734it only sells well because idiots will buy anything. They’re so pathetic

@MCAnimationofficial but its 2023 graphics do matter now and the story and characters are horrible

@MCAnimationofficial what are you talking about. Scarlet is a hot mess

@MCAnimationofficial then you like the bare minimum

I think the people that feel this strongly about it are miserable and need lives.

Sad thing is that we have no idea of their actual ambitions when they've never given the time and proper amount of manpower to make the game they're envisioning. According to some interview 200 GF staff and 100 creature inc. staff were involved with the game. For reference that number is usually somewhere between 700-1000 or even above it like with CP2077. Meanwhile those games usually also have longer development cycles than any Pokémon main series game. Any delays are also always out of the question because every single merchandising deal and side project is tied to schedule of these games but despite the problems with this equation being absolutely clear by now, Pokémon Company still refuses to give GF more time. If you wanna point finger at someone, point at them, and anyone who bought SwSh, Legends Arceus and DPP remakes at launch

Why do i need to its GF and a pokemon game, im not here for GOW or Last of us...im here to collect silly animals

@@BlueAizu_ such an innovative response.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

dont expect everything upon release

@@lo11163 sir its not a live service game its gonna be like this

@@lo11163 ??? man im just expecting the series to live up to standards it set before.

@@lo11163basic features and experience are now dlc?

GTA5 and San Andreas had a lot of things to do.

I like Johto remakes the most

When you came out? Where were you?

Oh Yeah Kanto,Johto,Hoenn,Sinnoh and Unova i Always can Go Back to these Regions.

It made me motion sick which goes to show just how bad SV are for that issue lol

@@aardwolf6668 how did it make you motion sick?

@@mistermittens3533 Frame rates, lag, and other graphic problems commonly cause motion sickness so all the problems with the game (at least back then -- I haven't played it recently) were perfect conditions for it. Apparently SV caused motion sickness in quite a few people who had never experienced it before.

@@aardwolf6668 huh.... i know the feeling when in VR but I've never experienced it 2D on a TV before. I wonder why some people it effects them in just VR and not 2D? Or if there's people that only get it in 2D and NOT VR 🤔

@@mistermittens3533 I'd give you links if youtube didn't autodelete comments that had them but if you Google motion sickness in games, you should get quite a bit of info since it's talked about a fair amount online. Might even be able to answer your specific questions.

I personally had fun with the game and as someone who does competitive battling teambuilding is fun although I'm not used to the meta as I was in sword and shield. This game really should have gotten delayed to early 2023 or like you said, gotten another year or two of development. Although it's not likely I do hope the fact that nintedo had to apologize for the performance makes them reconsider how they release these games and either give the developers more time or put more hands on deck.

The question you should ask yourself is: What if another company made a pokemon game instead?

@@jonnymario771other companies did make them but spinoffs. The look good like pokken and new pokemon snap

@@jonnymario771 Gamefreak pulls in sales because a lot of Pokemon fans have the IQ of your average houseplant. The only way Nintendo will ever switch studios is if Gamefreak has back to back colossal failures that drop sales. Besides, Nintendo is a Japanese company, the Japanese people are used to buggy, broken and subpar products. Nintendo will simply hire another studio that is complete trash and we'll get even more crappy games because Nintendo literally gives zero fucks about quality. The only way I see Nintendo ever focusing on quality is if they have a change in upper leadership that puts emphasis on quality (unlikely) or a large media/tech giant buys Nintendo (Disney and Microsoft are most likely, but the Japanese government would most likely block it because Nintendo makes up like a 10th of Japan's GDP.) Pokemon will only drop in quality from now on. And Nintendo doesn't care and will never care.

@@jonnymario771 I do ask that but if you were GameFreak would you ever hand the game to another company nope because it makes them so much money

Much as I hope (cope?) that this would be true, we all know The Pokemon Company won't learn a damn thing from Palworld's success. Why would they? S/V are among the worst games in the Pokemon franchise yet they're the highest selling. They can continue to release utter dogshit and the fans will still gobble it up.

Why make good game if bad game sell lots?

@@SlimeBlueMSgood point

well you certainely sound self centered

@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDuke compared to gamefreak he sounds sane.

@@DarknessIsThePath if you blame the people who work on pokemon don't blame only gamefreak. The 2 others are as bad as gamefreak and no one realises that. Nintendo has been way worse for way longer

​@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDuke hell no it hasn't, that's insane comment to make

@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDukef course someone with a Pokémon profile pic would start stuff on a video about the newest Pokémon game.

Are you seriously believing what this guy says his takes are trash!

@@18s No thanks cowpoke im good

10 million copies in 3 days, sword and shield sold 12 million in total, pokemon will only get worse

@@ActionJacksonForeverto think this crap sold more than god of warn

Like the DVD Rewinder.

Which will be.. never imo

This hopefully Legends kyurem on the next console will deliver

It kills me that this company can afford to hire the best writers in the world but they consistently refuse to. THEY CAN HIRE WHOEVER THEY WANT to do EVERYTHING but won't.

This is a comment that I did not want to like but dammit is it a winner.

Sure because its gae and for children

The story hits so hard man.

Nemona: You finally catched them all. What did it cost? Me: Everything.

Only?

no it does not. gamers are entitled little brats with barely an education most of the time. get a job.

True enough, but it's especially true for Pokemon fanboys/Nintendo fanboys. I've never met a group of thicker brick walls in my life. Any time you go into their spaces and suggest something like a more mature Pokemon for the adults who grew up playing the games, they get irrationally angry. Suggest not having to play as a pubescent child? They will damn you to hell. Suggest that GameFreak has been lazy for years and essentially remaking the same story over and over? They will curse your entire family line. "It's a game for kids!" says the adults on the Pokémon subreddit who play every game to death, as if that's the final word and desiring anything more out of the series is sacrilege. The reason GameFreak/Nintendo get away with this is because their hardcore fanbase accept it so happily. They'll sit and get pissed on and thank Nintendo for the shower of "gold".

You sound like some crazy Qanon conspiracy theorist. Everyone gets what they deserve. Especially epstien when he slipped.

@@HumanPerson_final What you said is true of people in general i think. Political tribalism, losing the right to repair, and epstiens murder, prove most people deserve what they have coming.

or you can like let people enjoy im having fun more fun then the game of the year i hated elden ring

Same with cod but why play pokemon when you can play final fantasy

Exactly! Newer isn't always better.

I have seen the light, thank you for releasing me from my delusions

It's better in its gameplay, but the performance issues hinders the game experience.

@Kevin Your friend let you borrow cause he doesn't want to look at it lol

Gotta catch’em all! (If you bought the DLC…… and even then we’ll leave out 200)

@@millenniumvintage9726 tbf you could never catch them all, not even in the 1st generation

@@DogeCena yes you could, except for mew. Every Pokémon was at least programmed into the game up until SWSH. This is just straight up untrue and there’s zero excuse.

@@millenniumvintage9726 you have to trade for version exclusives and some evolutions. That's not catching.

@@gunsandroses896 every Pokémon was programmed into the games and obtainable prior to Gen 8.

“Welcome to the world of Pokémon!”

​@Part-Time Gamer yeah stop defending people who clearly dont give a crap about you and only money

@Part-Time Gamer this is good bait

@@part-timegamer2712 it wont put them out of biusiness at all what is this extreme troll answer?

@part-timegamer2712 I hope you're trolling because if you're that stupid I feel painfully fu**ing sorry for you, bro..

Pokemon fans would literally buy a pile of shit from a gamefreak employee and tell you it's the best thing since bread lol, I can only see pokemon games getting worse and worse from here since no matter what gamefreak does it will sell well with their captive audience

And that’s why GameFreak keeps getting away with it. Everyone buys their sh!t because it’s Pokémon.

Word of advice: once you're done with the rest, or if any one particular gen gives you trouble, just grab an enhancement hack and I promise it'll be a better time. If nothing else, for gen 4 sinnoh play following platinum instead of bdsp

I still stand by the opinion that Gen 8 was the worst one.

Said the same thing and fully agree

And they need to pay their workers more. That’s capitalism for you. They know they can get away with it cause their brain dead fans accept it.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the Pokémon set in pseudo-Britain on Switch also open world? I kinda thought they all were basically, only this is the first 3D free-camera open world one, y’know like how Assasins Creed, Just Cause etc are. I don’t play it though so I’m probably wrong. Honestly open world games are only ever good when they remember why they made the open world in the first place. I normally just shake my head when I hear XYZ game is going to be open world.

I definetly would not complain if they taked at least 3 years or so to make a new game They really need to put a time gap in the game production

@@arumaka3662 That doesn’t maximize profits though.

It's a close fought battle

Can we add Activision to the battle?

@@TheActMan feel like GameFreak winning that fight to be honest. It feels like 343 is at least trying, evening it’s only little, which I can tell didn’t happen with this game.

At least 343 game dont look like release title for the ps2 :p

Yeah. Game freak is lazily getting forced to work under an annual release schedule. For real tho, Gamefreak is not the problem, it’s the pokemon company.

I quit at Pokemon Y and I'm so happy that I missed out on the more recent crap that Gamefreak/Nintendo has been spewing out. Two friends of mine were swallowing massive amounts of copium when scarlet & violet came out, it looked truly awful when I watched them play it. I'm about to buy a dsi xl and pokemon platinum or soulsilver and it's going to be such a good experience in comparison.

Nintendo is pretty infamous for not refunding stuff snd yet not only did they publicly apologize but they also refunded a lot of games. Nintendo wouldn't do the last one there if things weren't awful. I genuinely wonder what the actual numbers are as in how many were refunded. Probably not a huge huge amount but I'd still like to see the numbers one day.

@@aardwolf6668 I missed my chance to get a refund :/

@@bubalackgaming8892 oof that sucks, dude. I'm sorry.

Absolutely true, People don't realize how good B&W graphics were.

Colosseum

I thought Gen 5 moving sprite looked terrible 😅

@@joohyunglee1815At least better than what we got now, BW sprites has souls in it

Mario, Zelda, Final Fanta, Street Fighter and so many others managed to transition to 3D decades ago. Shame Freak is still trying to understand how cameras work.

I mean it's nintendo fans were talking about here their quiality standards are not exactly the best. I think they jus don't know better

@@chilakilorompeortos yea also true i mean if no one told them they would probably also eat literal garbage so

@@chilakilorompeortos Their standards are better than the idiots who pay for Cock of Doody and sports games yearly

@@chilakilorompeortos exactly. Because mostly nintendo (or id say pokemon fandom) rarely touch or dwell a rabbithole to games outside their own

@@chilakilorompeortos Let's not get too complacent with that line of thought. Most consumers are kids who don't know anything about technology and adults who won't think twice if it will make their kids happy.

ye but its still a fun game tho

I hate to break it to you, but a bot stole this comment and is sitting on 70+ likes at the moment

@@The-dankster The same could/had be said about Sonic 06 and CyberPunk, that's not a real argument beyond personal standards.

@@The-dankster is what I would say if I either hate myself, have very low standards or paid by the Pokemon company itself.

@@TheGamingBurger734 🤡

Especially the snarling, drooling, ravenous fans who would strangle you for *not* enjoying the newest pokemon games. They literally hate people who don't like Pokémon, lol

⁠@@SlimeBlueMSIt’s typical bugman behavior. An attack on Pokémon is seen as an attack on their childhood, and therefore must be an attack on them.

@@SlimeBlueMSits so tru and will go out of there way to hate your opinion piece, the number of times ive seen on reddit on a subreddit not related to Pokémon getting aggressive Pokémon fans in there droves trying to stop out any critasisusm. They never try to refute the points they just call people old or say I’m having fun. Or say the take is dogshit. Its like you’re insulting there family. Its so frustrating how brainwashed they are for nostalgia that it doesn’t even feel worth the effort.

Lol... Maybe actually pick up a game and play them, videos online are scewed for views. The games are nowhere near as bad as they're made out to be. And gamefreak has changed pokemon ALOT since diamond. The core gameplay loop is ofc the same, otherwise it wouldnt be pokemon anymore, but everything else around it has changed many times over. RU-vid redesigns their website several times a year, i hate it everytime. Sometimes you dont need to constantly change things if its already good. Also, there is a big difference between the developers of these games and the guys who set the deadlines for em.

@@NoBuddy89 I bought the game and I've played it. Ya. It's bad. It's really bad. It is easily the worst mainline Pokemon game ever released. I've played lots of Pokemon games, and I've played lots and LOTS of other games of many genres. So I can compare ScaVi to both old Pokemon games and a multitude of other non-Pokemon games. It's a terrible game with bland uninspired gameplay, a bland uninspired plot, bland uninspired characters, and a bland uninspired world, all experienced in a distracting and consistent ~20 FPS.

@Incantus It's bad lol. My game froze and crashed a lot. Raids I got frozen for so long to even get a turn. Got my refund.

@@Spinner891 the one positive that this game gets from me is that the music goes hard

The nostalgia factor comes from fucking nowhere considering it has never gotten good. Always the same. That idea of "Nostalgia". It's a slippery rope. Cuz shit ages, you need to adapt it to the times. Pokemon refuses to grow up. It's a travesty even thinking that THE POKEMON HOLLYWOOD MOVIE was even better than the games, cuz it used Nostalgia as complimentary condiment but it's main shtick was the fantasy of fully fledge imagery life in Pokemon world. Wich it's main line games have refused to incorporate. I hope Pokemon burns and ceaases to exist.

Gen 5 definitely holds a majority of my least favourite Pokémon, but there were more than enough for me to find multiple teams I loved.

I never understood the hate for gen 4 since movesplit was such a game changer, it made a lot of pokemon usable at least casually, platinum was an amazing game imo and as far as gen 5 goes, I didn't play the original B/W, but Black 2 was quite possibly the best pokemon game I've played after platinum, which I managed to enjoy after already being sick of playing pokemon. Fans actually had it really good, the games also had their style and looked good back then, but the series has been on a clear downhill trend since the move to full 3D and just look like budget mobile games now.

I've always had a love for Gen 5, black and white 2 personally had everything I ever needed in a Pokemon game besides the nature mints. I would spend hours and hours on the white Forest tree and the PWT which I would love to see again. The opportunity to fight champions and gym leaders always brought something amazing to me

The modded version made it even better, too. Props to the community.

@@ChibiFlonne Base Diamond and Pearl are as awful of entries in the series as X and Y. Rushed games that should have never been released in the state they were, yet were shoved out the door far too early because Nintendo needed a Pokemon game on the console to boost sales figures. If Platinum never happened, then Diamond and Pearl would be just as divisive as X and Y are.

Gamefreak is lazy, they should stick to 2D if they aren’t capable of doing modern games.

they didn't feal bustling and real, its just some 3D building blocks with 2D sprites that move in a grid. You don't see them jumping or eating/drinking while walking like in SV, I don't see how that feels more alive.

​@Saroku1000 someone's fan boy, yes my one npc in scarlet and violet fading into the either with lagging mouth movements is the very pinnacle of a nice realtic bustling town.

Pokemon has NEVER made a good city. They're all just pixels and 3D models.

gen 6 had amazing cities

Hell, look at Xenonlade 3, a game he brought up. Or the first 2 Xenoblade games. They're fucking beautiful, and it makes you want to explore the world. Like "Ooh, look at that big thing, wonder if I can go there". And pretty much 100% of the time, you could. The Mechonis? You can go there. The World Tree? You can go there. The Great Sword and Uryian Mountains? You can go there. And you want to go there, because the world is pretty, and looks fucking cool. Scarlet and Violet looks like a bad Gmod map.

Truee

Graphics is the main thing, if everything look like complete diaherra water no one don't wanna play that bull.

Just because graphics aren't everything, doesn't mean you have the right to make the game so ugly to look at. Nobody likes seeing framerate drop for no reason. Nobody likes seeing a random person or Pokemon doing smth out of place. Nobody likes experiencing story and not taking thing seriously cuz the scenery is so hard to look at.

Black and white does better with pixelated animation

Its not even stagnation anymore, there GOING BACKWORDS

The thing is, Back when pokemon was still an "rpg" It felt like It did keep evolving, while still sticking to what made it work. I feel like the main issue that was presented from gen 7 onwards was the change in that formula. One of the most noteable differences between Gens 1 - 6, and Gens 7 - 9 is the distinct lack of change in visual style, which was something the first 6 gens were known for. Gens 7 - 9 kinda feel like the New Super Mario Bros of pokemon. I think the grid style worked perfectly for making each region feel distinct and different.

If someone can convince pokemon to release a new game every couple years instead and really focus on stuff like the world and graphics, even make it for pc or something, I assure you that it would be the most played game, fuck it put shark cards like gta5 or something in its own way , monetize it more, but at least make it really good and fun.

Not stagnating, regressing.

@@orangecup1187 pokemon is unquie enough that they don't need to improve . People will still buy it anyways. They have the copyrights for all the pokemon so no one else can make a game better then pokemon because pokemon is to iconic and anything else will just look bootleg game with fakemon to pokemon fans. Anything thats a fan game or a game slimar to pokemon just feels like im playing a cheap copy.

Kinda like how they had to scrap the national Dex so they could focus on making new models and animations- only for it to be quickly proven they were still using the exact same assets.

Not all surprises are good…

So is that why they cut Pokémon contest, berry farming, dive as an HM, and the mach/acro bike split?

@@bilbobaggins9167 i still don't know why people didn't boycott that to oblivion. The fact that people accepted that fills me with emotion.

Just look at Zelda and zenoblade

Anyone who tries to use technical limitations as an excuse are just in denial. Like other comments stated, breath of the wild (a launch game at that) blows Scarlett and violet out of the water.

​@254zero Let's be real. The switch is no powerhouse in the slightest. But I agree, this is not a switch problem. This is a pokemon problem. How can the game play so horribly on the one and only game system it was designed for? It almost seems deliberate.

@@totallynotaclone It doesn't need to be for a game to look good. The Xenoblade games, Bayonetta 3, DKC Tropical Freeze, BoTW/TotK, etc. all look far better and run just fine.

It reeks of a developer having no clue how to optimize code.

Heck pokemon arceus could talk Pokémon let them out their ball and have multiple Pokémon out too..

@@RAC00NFANGIRL tbf in legends, they're stuck to the place you sent them out to so that feature is still lacking in that game, despite it being better than SV

I really miss the 3ds care options where you can actually feed and pet your pokemon too

So they got rid of the usless interaction 🤣😂🤣. Good

As someone who thoroughly enjoyed curry making in SwSh, I was very disappointed with sandwich making in SV. Not only were the ingredients and "eating" animations embarrassing, but sandwich making being nothing more than drag-and-drops with poor perspective made it worse. I cannot imagine using the feature unless you are a shiny or size hunter.

I grew up so much i'm still playing gen 3, 4 and 5 to this day!

Dude, I never even got to see the school because the game was so laggy, I couldn't play it. I wish I bought a physical copy so I could return it.

They are exactly what they always have been--the fact that you think it was ever different just means you, too, were once fooled.

Never said I wasn’t fooled but it’s sure been 7 years since I haven’t given my money out blindly for a game that was half assed & that was marketed as finished or playable. IMO I think it’s changed so much, back then it MEANT something to release a finished product to customers .. if your game was shit then it was forever tainted as such . Now you will get a game marketed as finished yet get drip fed content and now even FUCKEN OPTIMIZING THEIR CODE THROUGH PATCHES?!? They rely too much on “we’ll patch it later but let us get your money first”

@@Clou9Gaming No reason to pre order anyways - if you aren’t getting a steelbook or a nice collectors item then why even pre order the game

People like you are WHY I preorder

people are dumber than you think, whether it's the consumer or the creator

Yeah its sad the old ones are more interesting like fire red and leaf green

It's the wasted potential that drives me insane. The franchise is such that it can easily be molded to fit multiple genres of games, but gets pissed away by cheapskate upper management that would rather release an unplayable disaster to avoid spending money developing it properly.

Same! It drives me crazy that this company is putting in way less effort/money than before but somehow is making more money than ever before. Instead of trying to do better, they make every excuse in the book to cut corners even though every excuse has been shown to be BS. Just like in SwSh when they said they wouldn't add every Pokemon in the game to focus on enhancing the models/animations... only to ultimately have minor/no changes. I don't mind them not adding in every Pokemon in each game as that's a HUGE ask now that there are over 1000 Pokemon but don't lie about the reason you won't! The glitches in SV were funny but absolutely unacceptable. I hate putting out there about people losing their livelihoods but people should have been fired for this mess (if they weren't).

@@kamatari1220Yeah I don’t think having all the Pokémon is necessary. Like sure using a Pokémon I like is cool but giving me a game with any sort of life and enjoyment is better.

@@BongzooMaster Exactly! I'd rather have a game with 300 pokemon but I spend days to weeks playing. I played SV for maybe 2 days max. I didn't even get close to finishing it! I played Tears of the Kingdom for 6 WEEKS STRAIGHT (not all day everyday but I didn't play a different game in that time) and I'm just missing some armors. Pokemon as a series has made FAR more than the LoZ series so there is no excuse for why Pokemon's games lack.

One of my main problems is that I have to make fucking sandwiches for hours. It's stupid and not fun

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I don't even know how they managed to make Spain look like a cloudy day in Scotland with Spain vibes

Sorry, but Galar (UK) was disappointment as well considering how much fun things you could do with the concept. When all the fun ideas by the fans were 1000% better than we got, something must be wrong. Just think of all UK inspired places, legendary fakemon and plots fans poured out before game came out from uncovering widespread corruption in (football)Pokemon league to the idea that evil team(Rocket) tries to do something inspired by the gunpowder plot to take over the region. Trainers inspired by famous classic British pop, rockbands, etc. Nothing in the final product comes close to creativity people wanted or showed themselves. Just one example, the idea that Queen was a region champion or at least post-game superboss trainer and Elite Gym were nobles, royals or knights. And that game ends with player character being knighted.

​@@matiasluukkanen7718 that doesn't prove or disprove any of the OP's claims, no? They just said that, even with its plethora of faults, Galar still felt better than Paldea. If anything, your point is only trying to solidify how bad Paldea is.

How in the world did three trees and snow + a desert in a single park capture the feel of the UK?

That’s because that’s what most fans probably expect from a regular Pokémon game. Don’t act like some entitled fanboy buddy.

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 The only problem with that argument is that they already have the formula to make it better. Say what you want about Legends of Arceus but it was the one of best iteration for Pokemon in terms of UI, battle animation, and even Pokedex completion. You actually felt like someone trying to complete and field guide about Pokemon. TLDR: They have shown they can already so better but chose not to, which is disappointing.

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964, Oh yeah, how dare he act so entitled by wanting a competent product from the single biggest media franchise in history. Just because you’re fine with eating the spoonful of dogshit that AAA developers have been trying to feed you in recent years doesn’t mean that we have to.

I'm glad to hear that. I've never really played a Pokemon game before, this one was the first one I ever purchased, and I figured that since I couldn't get into the game, the series wasn't for me. Are there any recent titles that you'd recommend?

​@@joeldowell5059 Sword and shield is really fun. Omega Ruby and Alpha sapphire or X and Y. All of them I recommend.

Exactly

it’s just blatant laziness and it’s so disrespectful to the community. it’s like they just take a gigantic shit and put it on a silver platter and tell us it’s gourmet and for us to enjoy

The thing is that he main games may be the "flagship" because everything originated there, but the real money maker and the reason it is the largest multimedia IP ever is the card game/merchandise, and sadly those need a constant, steady and synchronized launch of new games/pokemons. Which conflicts quite a lot with the increasing developing time of games (specially with gamefreak apparently not really knowing how to program in 3D...) Still I agree with you, it sucks, and they have more than enough money to multiply thousandfold the staff of game freak to at least help a bit if they wanted to. They just don't give a crap, they have figured out that regardless of what they do 15 to 20 mil copies sold are guaranteed at the very least, kids don't care/know and adult fans complain but still buy the game. Plus the new Pokemon designs will dwarf that sales in cards and plushie sales. Our best hope is that this keeps degrading another generation or two, community keeps complaining louder and louder as they we are doing, and nintendo itself "enters the chat" and tells gamefreak that, in a way, Pokemon are nintendo games and nintendo has a reputation of quality to maintain. Like them or not with nintendo games (with very few exceptions) you can be pretty certain that the game is going to be quite polish and overall work properly. They dont tend to like half ass bs, you can expect a minimum level of quality that Pokemon doesn't provide any more, and the voices saying it are getting louder and louder. I am sure nintendo is not happy with that being the reputation garnished by they biggest console seller. Let's hope they force the Nintendo Company and Gamefreak to do better.

Pokemon being the largest multi media IP IS the main problem, because when your franchise has achieved this status, you can literally release any shit and people will buy it. In the last 9 years, Pokemon has received mostly garbage and mediocre stuff (MOSTLY), and still, all these games will be in the top charts and be the best selling games of the year, hell, S & V just sold 10 million copies in 3 days. I legitimately don't blame Nintendo nor Game freak for all of this, if i was the boss of a game studio, and noticed that the fans will buy literally anything from my franchise, i also wouldn't care that much por polishing and the quality of my games.

@@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825 Unfortunately, since I believe this was the fastest selling game in history at launch, I don't think they will *ever* listen to the quality complaints of the fans. Even as a game alone Pokemon has become too big to fail regardless of lack of quality

@@VGLounge I am sure that the Pokemon company, as a multimedia company, doesn't give a crap about the quality of the games as long as those sweet yens keep coming. But I hope that Nintendo, as a video game company, one that has always always been known for making quality polished games, is not happy about their name attached to such broken games.

Yeah I agree all you really got is either competitive battling or shiny hunting

What's your pfp?

@@BlueAizu_ Competitive less so as it has regular circuits/cups/seasons to actually play once you have the team, as well as regional and international tournaments. Shiny hunting though, that's the viral way that GameFreak can 'add post game' content because there's so many people that think running around in circles to hatch a shiny pokemon and banish it to the box forever is good. I honestly blame shiny hunting and the rise in it for the decline in pokemon post game.

Base building? It’s Pokémon not rust lol

It sold 10 million copies in the first 3 days you haters are insane … and late on the hate train that’s been at a standstill for weeks now Lmaoo … just doing this for clicks

I don’t even think it needed a few more years, that’s a bit excessive. 1 more year at most would’ve fixed enough problems to make it an acceptable product that runs well. I don’t it can be justified to scrap the project and build it from the ground up again to fix every problem, they would just make that a new game in the same vein as platinum.

It sounds like the team has zero experience with making a 3D Open World, games like this tend to have a draw distance for things like that, thats why San Andreas had fog(if I remember correctly) Either way its not saving the game for how lifeless basically everything is but the Pokemon. When people are talking about about how much time the team needed, I gotta say I have no idea, this game i think was in development for three years. GameFreak had tons of outsourced help so I have no idea what went wrong.

@@miguelzurita3216The fact that they spent that time juggling quite a few other games that already involved outsourced help, including their biggest departure from the norm just several months prior to this, probably answers a lot of that… I’ve never seen a company crunch like a college freshman in their finals to this degree in a long time…

They don’t. Game freaks are good for 2D games. Not 3D

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My god PLEASE tell me this is a joke. This surely can't be true. There is no way any developer would allow this to happen, surely.

@@AbsoluteWoounfortunately this is true, I’ve had it happen to me ALOT

Wut...? Is it 1st of april today or what?!

so it is literally everyone's fault. the industry, the audience, all stupid.

I don’t get it. Especially since I suck at describing anything in general.

that wasnt even a year ago....you do know that. thats how soon the next games came out in the development cycle

@@derigel7662 pokemon is Nintendo's cod.

@@77wolfblade bro at least cod was a 1 a year and not twice.

Arceus was so boring after 15 mins I deleted that garbage. At least I actuall played Scarlet.

The worse battling version? I’m surprised you got that many likes on such a bad take. People love to be hating

Makes me appreciate how cool games like Bully and Psychonauts were. So few games actually provide a rich and emersive fictional school environment. Pokemon could've had one of the best fictional schools but it ended up being one of the worst imo. Taking away halls, timing, and dynamic relationships really killed any actual chance at achieving that. For a second I thought I was actually gonna be able to choose if I was a part of team star... How silly I was.

@@oldnosoul4183 it's a pokemon game, not classroom simulator

@@4evermilkman Tell that to game freak. I'd much rather something not be done than done poorly.

@@oldnosoul4183 the game is really fun, also I'm 20 hours deep and only at the second gym, and I havent seen a single bug. I bet you havent even played it :P

You should watch RT Games play it. he beat the game after only 3 gyms, well, maybe not *beat* but he went through and got to like level 80 and did everything else.