The Day That I lost hope for Pokémon 

I think Palworld was a good thing to hit the pokemon company in the face, their official letter was clear jealousy, and it goes to show that you can polish a game, bring it out, and people will be satisfied with it. While competative pokemon is still ongoing, game freak really need to address the consumers who want to buy a game because it's good, not because it's nostalgic or has the gimmicks they can use to continue arranging tournaments.

Hey! I would personally appreciate a video covering ALL the improvements and deterioration seen in every generation of PKMN games.

Generation 2 is without doubt the best generation in terms of innovation. Just like you mentioned in your video: The list goes on and on and on. And this is the problem: Instead of expanding each new generation with new and also the old stuff, the old mechanics just get scrapped. No more visiting the old regions. No underwater exploration. No more underground. Again: The list goes on and on and on. The "Dexit" and all the lazy excuses were the reasons why I skipped Sword/Shield. Legends Arceus was alright, because it felt new and fresh, despite being subpar at many other fronts (story, graphics and so on). The early nail in the coffin for me when playing Violet was, that they scrapped the ambush mechanic from Legends Arceus, which was the best addition to the franchise ever (capturing Pokémon without fighting them. I barely finished the tutorial of Violet, and gave up on the game after the whole school introduction. Palworld gives me, as a player, so many things I want from a Pokémon game. More action, more exploration, just more stuff to do. It's just the freedom of choice I always wanted: Craft your own experience. Meanwhile whenever I answer "No" in a Pokémon game it either has no impact or it leads into an endless loop of "You gotta say Yes, if you want to progress". Gamefreak showed multiple times, that they can't handle this IP anymore. Just imagine what kind of open world game a studio like Capcom (Monster Hunter) or Monolith Soft (Xenoblade Chronicles) could make. Imagine. A part of me wants to see the Pokémon franchise thrive. I want so see new and exciting games, with meaningful choices, an interesting story and an end of almost three decades of this "action button simulator". But another part of me just wants to see this franchise burn. This part of me eagerly awaits the next big announcement, which will look like hot, steaming garbage (oce more again). And this part of me wants to see, how people keep comparing this multi-billion dollar franchise with the small indi scale of Palworld, and how Palworld does so many things so much better. Btw: Nice Game Theory reference at the end of the video.

I was listening to this video while I was building a new base in Palworld

Very solid presentation of information. I'm always happy to see new channels release videos that really do their research. I definitely lean more towards the likelihood that The Pokemon Company only released that statement to stop users from contacting them about it. Similar to one of those automated responses, "Thank you for contacting ----. We understand your concern and our team is currently investigating the issue." They are very aware of the game, and know the legal system involving their game better than anyone else, but they are also aware that nothing was infringed upon enough for them to take any legal action. (Unlike a romhack that calls itself Pokemon [ ], or a game that is clearly just a modded/edited copy of Pokemon) It has some similar mechanics (catching little monsters in sphere-like objects and releasing them to both fight and mine materials; Like Legends: Arceus) and some of the Pals are pretty inspired by Pokemon designs, but they would fall more into Parody than Infringement. (Note: I am not familiar with the law in any way, shape, or form.. so this is mostly conjecture. If someone knows better than me, please go ahead and let me know if I'm wrong about something)

One of the worst things about the Pokemon fandom is that they need these ridiculous "disclaimers" from content creators about how they really do love Pokemon before they'll listen to any criticism. I have never seen it from another fandom that I'm a part of. But then again, I've also never seen a fandom so eager to eat up a turd with the franchise's logo on it, either. It's embarrassing.

Love the video, now I became the 360 dude subcribed to this. Thanks for the video bro

If pokemon do anything i hope it's getting rid of version exclusives (they won't)

What do I want? I want "pokemon world" where you can literally travel to every part of the world that we know of to-date and maybe even have hints at new regions not yet released. I KNOW they have the capability to do something like that. They dont even *need* to make every single location accessible. Just being able to go around the entire world would be mind blowing...

Is the switch really a "Home Console," It has the chip rumored for the vita 2 and is technically less powerful than the WiiU. It has a way easier to code for architecture, but less flops. Nintendo even instructs things to be coded primarily for handheld mode.

Its funny how 14 years ago we got black and white, and that was the last good pokemon game they made. Not one has been good on the Switch. And I wish it wasn't "Black and white" I wish it was just ONE version of the same game. They got away with 2 copies of the same game and 2 copies of the same dlc for too long. Pokemon should have lost out on revenue years ago, 2 things would have happened, either pokemon would be dropped or they would actually have to make something decent.

stop after pkm BW2 and got back with Legend Arceus, borrowed pkm Shield and bought ScarletViolet

Pokémon will never die 🥺

for me it was the numerous times I got burned waiting for a "Definitive extended versions" IE Crystal emerald platinum edition and having them not come. they didn't do it for a few games and I was missing out so when I could save up and get enough time I got moon only to hear later on that the "ultra" games were happening yeah I put the series away for good after that.

11:12 - except... Scarlet and Violet and Legends Arceus both exist, which have so much effort put into them. The biggest issue with SV is the technical issues and that's a time issue, not an effort one. Honestly I think the whole dexit thing was blown out of proportion, quite frankly the dex cut was inevitable, I don't think Game Freak handled it the best but it was going to happen eventually especially now that there are over 1000 Pokemon, it's just not feasible to include them all in every single game. And regarding Palworld I think aesthetically it is similar to Pokemon but in terms of gameplay it is VERY different.

The "pokemon like" designs are actually a huge draw for me because to me they are less so, "rip offs" and more reminiscent of classic Ken Sugimori artstyle with alot of pals sporting simplistic yet iconic designs.

1:02 I doubt it's creatively, but I do see some missed potential. Also don't even get me started on how much I don't approve of Palworld, ever since PETA made twisted games of respected IPs and used Iwata's death to promote, I won't trust any knock off that aren't passionate fangames or the real deal.

To me; Pokémon died when they stopped programming all existing Pokémon into their games for the (pretty much false) promise that their games would have better looking graphics and animations, just for all of them to turn out embarrassingly bad anyway... Pokémon lied to us.

Dang sucks. No pal world for Switch and I have a PC but it’s slow.

Pokemon won't die honestly. But, i'm glad palworld might push game freak to innovate. Legends has a shit ton of potential believe it or not.

What if only 8 Regions existed in the Pokemon franchise? And they came out together in 1996 as Gen 1's version-exclusives? Each with 250-unique Pokemon. Each with 8 Badges. All Regions share the same Pokemon League on Mt. Silver where every Protagonist get to battle each other to become the world's first Champion. And after that, what if every 5 years, a sequel Gen came out on a new hardware? With 5-year timeskips, new forms like Variants and Megas, some Trainers were promoted or retired, and new protagonists beating the current Champions(previous protagonists) to be their successors. And transfers between Gens(with GB and GBA being compatible). Imagine growing up with altered memories in that parallel universe. How'd the Pokemon franchise have looked like? What would've changed about it, how well would it be recieved, and how'd the Anime be written(with Shudo Takeshi as chief writer and without his executives meddling)?

The creators got very lazy the games worked and were more fun on the ds The online is horrible cant join a raid? Wait for like half a minute Games keep crashing It looks horrible for today Its horribly unbalanced No new animations or new ideas Only positive is that pallworld is kicking its ass😂

I mean, at this point, Gamefreak should care less about Palworld offers considering the stans of the Pokemon community continues to prove why Pokemon continues to sell well and grow regardless of the outcry. We’ve already seen it with Sword and Shield, then Scarlet and Violet. But I’m shocked they’re starting to care now over a indie studio making a good Pokemon meets Ark game, except who knows if they actually kept their word when they announce they’re planning to put more care in their games. Only time will tell.

What Palworld did was basically offer an actually great Pokémon-like alternative for PC, I mean there were other Pokémon-like games and a few were pretty good albeit short or not as polished as Palworld, but at the end of the day Palworld's success comes from the fact there was a huge niche open on PC gaming; The many players that had formerly played Pokémon for a multitude of years who then swapped to PC gaming (myself included, since many years by now) It just does not feel worth it to buy a console if you'll only do it for one franchise that you're not even that satisfied to begin with, and now Palworld gave me a bigger reason to not care. I do still play Pokémon games, but they are mostly fanmade games such as PokeOne or PokeMMO (and the Pixelmon mod for Minecraft, if that counts), with the only official Pokémon product that I touch now being Pokémon Go on rare occasions.

Great pokemon documentary. You have earned my sub and like. Glad the algorithm found me. Keep the videos coming!

Pokémon died 3 days after SV was released, when TPC had to refund millions of defective copies.

this is such a based take. The franchise died as soon as they moved away from pixel art, X & Y were a huge downgrade and it only got worse from there

Everytime I see him grinning like that, I remember what they did to Paper Mario.

Im gonna say the day US/UM came out was the day Pokemon died.

Pokemon has grown complacant at the top, leading them to releasing them more & more unfinished as the years went by , Palworld may be a clunky survival game but hope it will make tpc & gf step up their game, or inspire others to make creature catchers

Your theory at the end doesn't really work because releasing on console there will always be a ceiling to total sales, i.e. you will run out of people to sell to as a function of total console sales, which they don't control. Palworld being on PC (and Xbox) allows for far more growth due to having nearly limitless potential for sales. So the sales/popularity of Palworld can (and likely will) be brushed off by them as unimportant. Only saying this because you brought up sales, but probably should've waited a day to upload tho homie, since literally a few hours after this vid was uploaded the Nintendo sales report dropped. From that we saw SV still isn't slowing in the sales department, about to pass SwSh. It's also the 4th fastest selling title on the Switch, and it's unlikely to ever pass the other franchises even if they make a perfect Pokemon game (Mario Kart and Smash will always be more popular games). Basically everything in that sales report tells us far more about the future than anything Palworld related, so I highly recommend looking into that. And hey, while I personally hope they don't make another Legends game because I disliked it, I hope they make another one just for you lol

you couldve made this same video without shitting on palworld in the process. we've had several indie and non-indie monster tamer gamers before and after pokemon that pokemon fans gloss over cause all they care about are their mediocre monster-tamers from nintendo while complaining about them constantly. you dont rly add anything to do the conversation either

...Im gonna go ahead and pause this videoc zu i see now why the dislike ratio is that big Heres a list of shit u said that i just flat out dont agree with "Gen 3 postgame pales in comparison to Gen 2." Gen 3 is loved not just cuz of the battle frontier, but because its generation (which does include FR/LG) shows what competitive battling TRULY MEANS from how the frontier operated. There are so many avenues of how to approach a battle and it was introduced and introduced very well from Gen 3. Gen 4 and onward soldified it by simply introducing the phys/special split. but the foruma itself was still the same as it was from Gen 3. Gen 3 also has one of the best DLCs. Each one is quick to the point but still feels unique, not just some guy at a shop saying "heres a pokemon" Im going to assume majority of the dislikes came from this alone Everything else is fine

What about pokemon yellow??? You left that one completely out

Palworld sucks. I hope Pokemon never becomes anything like it.

Agreeeed ❤ I hope they recognise palworld as competition so they up the "game"

You know it really annoys me whenever there’s complaints about Pokémon, it always seems to be about the games, never the anime or movies. They seem to get away with a lot of things it seems. At least in my eyes anyway.

NO MORE DEX CUT IN ALL THE FUTURE POKEMON GAMES!

It's not dead sure had a rockstar to Scarlet Violet that doesn't mean it's so not a good game just doesn't have the best quality but it's still a good game also I don't mean this with any hate it's fine if you don't Don't like the games and that's fine

These crazy Clout Chaser / Hater videos are _so_ whack, lol. Talk about a misinformed 'opinion' - yet Pokémon sales keep 📈📈

Lmao but yet they continue to make millions of dollars off this game…. People like us are not even their targeted audience. Young preteen, and newer players, or what they really go for…. We can continue to complain about this franchise all we want but as long as they continue to make money or break records to them, they’re winning…

then leave old man your prune juice is getting warm in the retirement home.

Sword and Shield have to be a psyop man, there’s no way people can actually enjoy playing those right?