Were Pokemon Sword and Shield as bad as we thought? 

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As a non-competitive player I must agree, definitely not the best single player experience

yeah great point - one of the best things by FAR about SwSh is how WAY easier it is to get a competitive mon and not having to endlessly soft-reset before a Legendary encounter anymore. also Dynamax is actually pretty solid for Double Battles (and Gym battles are really cool because of it). but otherwise... MID as hell.

Sw Sh are games that only live from the competitive, I have the feeling that gen 9 os going to be the same.

competitive was garbage because the format allowed and encouraged legendary pokemon spamming

The Galar region's map design is worse in structure and content than Red and Blue Gameboy games that first started the series, really embarrassing. Pokemon's story was always bad except Black and White where they tried once and gave up when none of the community cared about it at the time it came out lol. I think honestly Gamefreak should just give up on story entirely and focus more of their attention on making the world as rich as possible in content/lore while having a non-linear structure in how you explore it and you can figure out the story at your own pace while battling some bosses, that's all most people care about to play these games.

The wild area felt more like a test for the more open world that we got in legends arceus and now in scarlet and violet IMO. Obviously not a full excuse for how lackluster it was but I feel it's something to consider.

having a DLC be half the price of the base game to sell back many pokemon they cut from the dex is a scummy practice that needs to stop

@@LuminousArc92 oh no, how dare they ask for money for new content.

@@LuminousArc92 yes how dare they not put all 1000 pokemon into a game and then decide to add some along side DLC. FUNFACT: YOU CAN STILL GET THE POKEMON WITHOUT THE DLC. The dlc just puts those pokemon into the game as obtainable wild pokemon.

@@AntiTako yeah how they dare they rehash the same mon lol.

Wait really? How?

@@ethanbrown6188 Hacking in an eternamax eternatus and giving it just barely shy of max def or spdef means it overflows to 0

@@ethanbrown6188 - it uses multiplication/division involving the defense stat. Multiplying something by 0 is 0, thus the calculation will spit out 0 damage.

Missingno gonna make a comeback

Fun fact: I have 1 hp. Crap.

I know that pain, bro. Mismagius (and Misdreavus) is also my favorite Pokemon and I felt bad when I saw it was cut.

Yeah... they're so cool

@miimii and co. I love the animations. They are full of crazy energy beams and are interesting. Hyper beam is the bomb!

The only problem with move animations were the early route moves everyone got rid of after you beat the third gym leader. Everything else was great

I remember in my Brilliant Diamond nuzlocke, Mars’s Glameow kept spamming Retaliate on my Pokémon and it was hilarious to see the amazing animation only do like 20 damage

Wolfe mentioned how it must be difficult to animate every move for every Pokémon, which is why I think GF is designing more and more signature moves for Pokémon.

I didn't enjoy the main story but I loved the crown tundra DLC storyline! Calyrex Shadow Rider is my favorite mon from s/s

Crown Tundra is the best SS can offer without a doubt.

@@bloopertanooki415 If you mean story-wise, then I’d agree. Although Hop’s character arc was really good imo. But if we’re talking about EVERYTHING about the game, the designs of the Pokémon were 👌👌👌

A shame it was cut and sold to us for the price of the full price. Because I think that we all know that it was the post-game.

@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 On the topic of post game, do you think that Sordward and Shielbert could be descendants of Melli from Legends? They literally have the same personality and they look kinda similar

it's jarring how similar all routes in these games are to a straight line

@@batodo794with just grass patches

I had fun in sword and shield. It was refreshing. I felt like a real champion with all the characters talking about me and cheering in the stadium. that gym battle theme really hits hard when it goes.

Lol yeah a fake scripted tournament

agreed i Actually prefer pokemon sword and shield more than scarlet and violet just cause of dynamax

I would figure out that ALL Wild Area Pokémon would grow to level 60 just before the Champion battle. Although I would shun my Cinderace and Boltund for a duo of Leafeon and Sylveon near Raihan’s gym, I would continue to have incredible memories with all of my Pokémon.

It absolutely is a general bad game. (Tbf the main pokemon games are all objectively pretty bad)

The point, though silly, is due to the removal of HMs. Dig and Teleport can't be used in the game anymore and to make up for this, they made an Escape Rope. It's silly, I agree, but that's basically why.

Lol, some of us don't miss the endless random encounters in a maze of caves. Like the removal of HMs, I think the removal of large caves made the gameplay much less tedious.

While it is a bit silly, I really don’t care. Like, the Escape Rope obtaining scene takes like a minute and it doesn’t clog up your bag or anything, so I didn’t mind it honestly

@@shankapotomus100 man hasn’t heard of a repel…

@@shankapotomus100 Fair enough, but what have you replaced them with? While they were tedious, at least they weren't corridors which every single route in S&S was.

The crowd chanting in the battle theme was freaking awesome. “We’ve come a long way from just beating up an old man in a classroom” -Failboat

The linearity really turned me off hard

@@amiiboguy7288 Kind of reminds me of the clapping in the old R/S/E music.

Unfortunately that's because SWSH were unpolished and unfinished games. They had good potential but Gamefreak executives pushed employees to release the game too soon and what we got is a lackluster game with little content unless you buy the expensive dlc.

@@amiiboguy7288 wait...what?!?

this! I didn't feel like the game was worth the initial cost for sword or shield so I skipped the dlc when I realized the cost of it. it's the first Pokemon game I didn't play competitively and first game I never completed the elite four.

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80$? 60 bucks or ideally 40$. Nintendo price tag is always a ripoff.

@@sionnachrealta5534 Xenoblade and Splatoon both feel well worth the price. Imo sw/sh do not. I don't know about PS5 or Xbox but that sounds like way too much.

@@sionnachrealta5534 perhaps. I can't get with the new battle pass economy. I hated the dlc economy too expansion passes and all that jazz.

True I think back then I was a lot more disappointed and heated, maybe I had too high expectations for Pokémon.

@@Jamman4life the thing that was the most annoying for me was that the game was so easy i had to avoid fight on purpose so i dint get too overleveld

@@baum9048 Thats like all poekemon games for me. Really, if you do everything then the games a breeze.

@@baum9048 So... Every game since Gen 1? You say this like it's a new issue. Pokemon was never hard. Pokemon Red can be beaten with no problems as long as you get a Caterpie. The franchise is easy, my Gamer.

@@flannerysnotebook it was till BDSP came up. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking with the difficulty spike being insane between sunnyshore and elite 4 lmao. I like to think they did this to spite people that kept saying Pokemon was easy lol

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Look what they did to scarlet and violet 🥲

He was very fair and balanced. The fact that that's rare now is sad.

World champ difference baby!!!

Game Freak should make a Pokémon based on the fanbase, it would be a Poison/Dark type

Imagine if the fanbase had even a sliver of this positivity.

@@amiiboguy7288 You mean a normal type? The toxic part of the community is a loud minority

I always thought that the lackluster content was because they spent most of their time developing Scarlet and Violet.

@@Loner098 jokes on us, scarlet and Violet looks even worse on all fronts. Sorry I meant PLAYS worse as well, the technical issues are a joke

They never said this. They said that cutting the Dex was an inevitability considering the size that it was getting to, and implementing high quality *move* animations (i.e. the beam of water for Hydro Pump) is *one* of many reasons why focusing so much time into the National Dex wasn't feasible anymore.

@@zekedafox-vodchannel3829 Scarlet plays just fine for me, Sw/Sh were a joke competitively. At least the textures look better in SV and you can move your camera lol

@@zekedafox-vodchannel3829 scarlet and violet looks and plays worse than swsh it looks way better and runs smoother

That’s why I always have a camera to record gameplay. Thankfully, the switch isn’t as much of a nightmare to record as the 3DS

Doesn't the switch have a record gameplay button?

@@envyLP333 Not for any longer than 30 seconds

Or even just quick voicelines, which were always going to be made for Pokemon Masters EX anyways.

I wish they would talk in the cinematic parts

Pokémons the highest grossing franchise in the world and you’re out here wishing for grunts instead of proper VA. Wild.

@@luar215 I’m asking for *at least* grunts. I’d rather them be fully voice acted but they haven’t even done the bare minimum

@@luar215 Full VA would be far too cringe inducing if Zelda cutscenes are anything to go by. Would much prefer the grunts or a gibberish fake language

Yep GameFreak shot themselves in the foot on that one.

still is crazy that the animations look just as bad in swsh, though none were as bad as twinkle tackle

price increase combine with needing a new console compared to the previous generation that was on 3DS

Well the online system literally didn’t work, like Wolfey touched on.

SWSH had a terrible online system though that made it difficult to connect with your friends. Unfortunately, the game still wasn't very good even with online features because it was unfinished and unpolished. Online made the game a bit better but it was not remotely enough to save SWSH as a whole.

I may only have 150 hours in sword but I am hugely enjoying the suprise trades and online max raid battles. So yeah the online post game is quite enjoyable.

@@KennyMatthewsMonster I'll take laggy weird online with a chance of real humans controlling the pokemon over trying to do a raid battle with 3 AI that spam splash with magikarp any day

@@hazeljoy1 fat chance.

According to leaks you can have legally hacked perfect pokemon now so no more training needed

Even a mobile gacha game does a better job with attack animation.

The difference between singles and doubles is astronomical.

Ironic given its signature move isn’t designed for singles lol

That's pretty cool! Sword and Shield are focused on double battles, so having a distribution-only Pokemon be good for only singles is unique.

@@RGC_animation idk they did some stuff for singles like heavy duty boots. Maybe some dev went rogue and just enjoys some smogon singles LOL

​@Professor Thinker Bro the world championship was won with a Pachirisu, does this thing have to be automatically considered good in doubles and put into OU tier now? Guess what, no, it's still bad.

The last time I was ever interested in a pokemon game was 9 years ago. Over the years, all I ever saw on the internet regarding pokemon was either memes of gen 5 music or video essays of "how pokemon lost its magic". Last week, I tried out Sword on an emulator and thought "I'm gonna lose interest in 30 minutes and delete it anyway". Somehow I powered through until the first gym, and I got hooked. The hype around the stadium and the music, holy shit the music. I thought I'd be done with the game within 30 minutes, but instead I spent 30 hours roaming around, looking at new pokemon, talking to npcs for free stuff, playing around at the camp. SwSh made me fall in love with pokemon again.

@@salt7936 exactly how i felt. The last time i truly enjoyed a pokemon game was pokemon emerald. I tried my hand on other well praised games but all i could manage to do is beat the champion. When i bought a switch in 2019, i saw a trailer for this game. I loved the style of the game and the way it looked colourful and bright. When i bought it, i didn’t expect it to suck me in the pokemon world so fast and for so long. It’s been 3 years since the game came out, and even now i’m still playing it every week. Doing max raids, re-matching characters, the galarian star tournament, collecting all the pokemon and finding all the alolan digglets. Forming a bond with new pokemon, taking out my old ones for a stroll in the dlc areas, making curry with my siblings. I also really liked the characters in the game, and i really don’t understand the hate they get.

Me too! I stopped playing pokemon when X and Y came out cause I was so burnt out. But SwSh TOTALLY reignited the love for pokemon for me, and Legends Arceus made loving pokemon even better!

Same

Lmao the games were fucking awful

I wondered that too, I feel like he's trolling.

That's just kinda part of his brand, purposefully pronouncing some pokemon names horribly wrong

An issue that could be resolved with hiring more people, like a lot of people. But that costs a lot of money so- Oh wait, they’re the number one engrossing media franchise in the entire world, never mind lmao.

How can devs care when you're supposed to pump out pokemon games like they are in a conveyer belt without adding new spins on the overall story concept or combat system? Doing something over and over again is a sure way to remove passion even from the most committed developer.

I believe you meant TPC, not Gamefreak. Tsunekazu Ishihara has yet to improve the business ethics and development procedures of gamefrrak properly. Never forget what this video said. Without the new games, there will be no Pokemon Anime. TGC, merchandise. etc. All of them grinds to a halt without a video game running. Hence, much like Nintendo themselves, TPC are "stuck In the past" in their game designing and business models.

@@jirehtheprovider Yes there would, you create new merch based on different pokemon that we already have, you create anime based on stories we have, like the manga which has been begging for an anime adaptation for the past 25 years. and they are constantly creating new cards without new generations in mind. They have the option to slow down and let the merch sell itself but they're too far up their own ass to see it.

@@jirehtheprovider Orange Islands was because Gen 2 got delayed. Nobody cared then. The Holon region in the TCG was created because Gen 4 got delayed. The anime's Battle Frontier saga was created for this same reason. We didn't stop getting plushies just because a game got delayed. Acting like the entire industry will collapse like it's a tower made of toothpicks, built around a black hole, is completely disingenuous. Pokemon sells and Pokemon mainly sells with things other than the games. So if you make games good, people will continue to buy cards irregardless of if they're based off of Scarlet and Violet, or if we revisit Diamond and Pearl because they got delayed.

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I was so hopeful about sv's outfits until the very end. I still can't actually believe that they made the decision to add detailed face customization... And take away most of the clothing options??? I just don't understand how they thought that would be fine. I just played through swsh again and there are so many options. Jerk move gamefreak. And they still have barely any hairstyles. =/ I like customization. ;)

@@StarNinja77 well there is some logic behind it really. The outfit you wear throughout the game is a school uniform you’re character is required to wear during school and since the Treasure Hunt is a school project it makes sense that you’re required to wear the uniform.

@@flainfan I mean, sure you Can explain it away. But it's a video game in a made up world. The only actual reasoning is that GF just... Said so. =/

Same here

As a vgc player, gen5 was better. The vs recorder alone makes the game top tier in that aspect

As a Non-Competitive player, I loved it. I think the main thing I disliked was the fact I never could get multiplayer to work with my friends. The online aspects are absolute garbage and some people just have problems for no reason.

I definitely disagree. Competitive is a lot more boring now because we can only use like 400 Pokémon and we had way more options to use in SM. They also removed a ton of actually useful moves like hidden power in SS so some Pokémon have even worse move sets than before. The 20 minute time also ruined online battles because now they automatically end before they are over. It is also difficult to connect to and battle your friends online. There isn't a vs recorder either, so saving battles to upload online is a hassle because you need to buy a separate device to record your battles now, which wasn't an issue before.

Yeah I don't like the story at all. And sadly not a fan of the new pokemon designn either 😕

Gotta love that birb-bot

Yeah just pump your Pokemon to level 100, not time-consuming at all.

@@sjb_92 I mean, in SWSH it really isn't with all the xp candies you get.

@@sjb_92 You also don't need to do this for VGC, all pokemon get auto-leveled to level 50

@@Emma-rw8yo I know, but you do if you want to use bottle caps.

A depressing town is one thing, but when your whole town is a SINGLE hallway, that's another level of depressing.

@@RGC_animation p its suppose to be like a ally way,um idk exactly what there called but its suppose to be brimming with stuff to do. There's just nothing to do,it being a hallway tho is literally the point

a perfect example of CUTTING EDGES (I guess because of time restraints mostly but IDGAF, I paid full price for the game. BDSP made by the inexperienced-as-hell ILCA is even way worse)

@charlie z tbh this is like nothing next to the rest or the gameing industry. Releasing games that haven't been polished what so ever is the industry norm now a days. Pokemon is der been limited to make profits higher but never hid like the CoD lows

@@viola8422 well sure, we can compare with stuff like CoD. but guess what - we can also compare with great Switch games like BoTW, Super Mario Odyssey, Luigi's Mansion, Xenoblade 3... and that comparison is really sad for SwSh (BDSP even more). at least Legends is solid, tho the graphics = just bad.

They were evolutions off of regional variants but yes.

I disagree I would prefer if the originals got evos aswell instead of just their galar forms.

@@tmagety8924 mhm I agree

Tbh their original forms were so bad they needed a regional variant. They can’t just have one form being 302 or something to 540

​@@adammorin2955 Not all of the originals needed a regional variant to be worthwhile. Imagine if regular Linoone got a regional variant meaning Obstagoon didn't have the dark type, but instead got to keep Extremespeed and Belly Drum.

13:00 At least he sorta brings it up here

Personally, I don't think he empathizes it enough. Majority of the people who disliked this game and Gamefreak currently was because of this lie, but it always get glossed over for the outrage over the low res tree. I'm just tired of people misconstruing others' disappointment. People were angry that Gamefreak made a false promise to polish the graphics with NEW and FROM SCRATCH models. The dumb N64 tree and Dexit was what the lie was trying to hide from the public.

@@JackTheBlindOrganistAndCrepey Precisely. What's more baffling is that footage from Distant Kingdom was used later in the video, someone who was extremely vocal about GF cutting the dex for higher quality animations and models.

I direct you towards Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. They did it last generation too

@@furiouscorgi6614 except these werent even just DLC but a wholly separate game cartrige. but yeah i agree.

@@thorveim1174 arguably that's worse, since it means that if you jumped to buy the first release, you now need to pay full price for an entirely separate game. At least the DLCs don't actively punish you for buying the first version.

@@furiouscorgi6614 true, but its not as pricey for a later comer however.

@@thorveim1174 ... this is a game with events. Nintendo themselves have a policy that they don't want to reward people for buying the game at a later date. That's why they changed to DLC instead of third/improved versions, because now if you come at launch or later, you're still getting the same purchases at theoretically the same cost.

Long answer : no, it's not

Relatable, I think Megas were cooler too.

I think your comment is a little loaded. Both sides of the Dexit argument were toxic and irrational. I HATED so many people on both sides with a passion. And I say this as someone who didn't like the National Dex cut like you did. BOTH sides had so many immature, awful, dismissive people that always resort to insults or ignoring any genuine argument you want to make. If you disagree in ANY way with someone who hated the Dex cut, you're tossed a lot of rage and instantly labeled as a "bootlicker" no matter what you try to say. If you disagree in ANY way with someone who was okay with the Dex cut, you're labeled a troll or a hater. There were some people on both sides that were civil and willing to have a conversation, but you're wrong in saying the people against the Dex cut are the ONLY ones that were a "cesspool of toxicity trying to shut down any forms of criticism like they were personal attacks." BOTH sides threw personal attacks, ESPECIALLY the people who hated the Dex cut. It made me embarrassed to even have the opinions I did because people would lump me with the thousands of whiny, angry manchildren that wouldn't know how to have a civil discussion if it saved their lives. I'm still against the Dex cut, but the community as a whole has so many infuriating assholes on all stances of this. It's why I've learned to just distance myself from any side and stick with my own opinions, trying to find the few people that are actually chill and mature enough to talk them out with. Even if they have the total opposite opinions as me! That's how you learn to understand different perspectives and broaden your ways of thinking. But that can't happen if everyone's a pretentious jerk about it.

​@@komarunaegi7460 I don't disagree that both sides had toxic shitbags in them. The problem is that one side must've started it and the other side must've reacted poorly to it. Whichever side did whichever is hard to pinpoint but that doesn't change the fact that the anti-anti-dex-people people absolutely fanned the flames with the way they reacted. NONE of them were able to separate message from the messenger otherwise YOU would not have been afraid to have the opinions you did out of fear of being labeled some kind of ad hominem attack by the anti-anti-dex-people people. That alone shows just how much of an immature toxic cesspool the conversation ended up being as well as just how obnoxious this mindset has become across the internet where any form of criticism is instantly seen as bad by the toxic fanboys because they've seen what the toxic messengers look like so they instantly shoot down the level-headed messengers as well, resulting in some level-headed messengers becoming increasingly frustrated and ultimately turning into toxic messengers themselvse. Who'd have thunk that trying to keep people quiet and essentially pressure them into staying silent out of fear of being labelled bad things results in frustration. I was the person you mentioned; the level-headed guy who'd go "look, it's fine if this problem isn't important to you, but it is to me and anyone else who finds out themselves they can't play with their favorite pokemon in the new games after buying the games". I was the guy who tried help people see that the message is separate from the messenger and that there's plenty of level-headed folk who hold the opinion that Dexit sucks. I was only met with more flippant and dismissive bullshit. Not only that, the flippant and dismissive garbage only became more and more prevalent and it became reddit thread after reddit thread of the same dismissive arguments being used which were already refuted in the previous reddit threads. It got REALLY tiring and it became seriously frustrating at some point. I'm not ignorant to the fact that toxic messengers can result in people becoming petty and contrarian in response to them. That too is an unfortunate and evidently human reaction. But that's a completely unempathetic and irrational response at the end of the day, one that should not be encouraged or accepted at all, least of all to even the level-headed folk voicing their criticisms. So yeah, I mainly blame the anti-anti-dex-people folk. The amount of times I've seen them say "I'm tired of all the negativity on my pokemon frontpage" like a spoiled and entitled child who feels like the subreddit should cater to ONLY content THEY like, or just the mere amount of times I've seen the umpteenth regurgigated and repeated "b-b-but it's for competitive reasons, you guys just don't understand!" has made me lose hope for this community. And truthfully the pokemon debacle was the last drop for me. This phenomenon you and I are aware of is not unique to pokemon. Follow any community that has something controversial going on related to a game and you will see this same obnoxious cycle at play: 1: Criticism floods in, mixed of level-headed and toxic messengers 2: Bunch of dismissive responses flood in either in response to the toxic messengers (because people can't separate message from messenger) or just general legitimate fanboy behavior 3: level-headed folk either dip out or turn toxic themselves 4: shitshow of continuous inflammatory remarks as well as inflammatory insinuations keep being made between sides causing a significant drift between them 5: Now the contrarian side is on edge and less tolerant of future criticism, often resorting in them using a bunch of illogical and character-attacking statements in order to dissuade people from voicing critique Don't take my comments as being OK with toxic messengers. But being against toxic messengers means being against TOXIC messengers, not ALL messengers. And the contrarian folk do not understand this hence why I lay the majority of blame at them and why I have turned into a more impatient messenger myself. Because I've seen this shit happen in SO many communities and it just keeps repeating itself. So damned annoying.

Sword and Shield aren't perfect but they definitely weren't that bad, I believe the "Dexit" and the fact that we couldn't bring our favorite Pokemon into the game anymore was what generated the most hate. I know this because I was one of those, I literally lost all desire to buy the game when I learned that I couldn't bring my Typhlosion that I've kept with me since I played Soul Silver.

The problem is that “DLC” was post game content in the old games.

I imagine a lot of people (myself included) missed out on this because the base game wasn't nearly good enough to warrant buying dlc

I couldn't even finish the dlc it was so boring

So basically you have to spend another $30 in order to enjoy an already $60 game? What a winner this generation was.

If you are a VGC player, gen 8 wasn't more expensive than the previous ones, as you were forced to buy the sequel or enhanced version to compete. Those second games got replaced by the DLC, which was cheaper than a full game. For people not interested in competitive that wouldn't have bought the second game, I agree that it was a bad deal.

Yes, exactly! I hate being forced into gym battles and such, which is why I am excited for Pokémon S/V to let you “choose your own path” so you won’t have to fight the gyms immediately.

@@ilovet5926 I don't mind the idea, but what bugs me is, at least from what I've heard, there isn't any scaling. So if I go face gym 2, gym 1 is still going to be the same levels.

@@ivenstorm Yeah… i’m just planning on overleveling, or following the “correct order” of gyms.

Now do it with your own ideas.... Doing it with over peoples handwork and ideas is so cheap....

@@micabryant4513 don’t be so fucking elitist. Of course the people that put time into the building of teams is appreciated. But the rental system is amazing because it lowers the skill ceiling. Making a good team takes time and being able first to learn how to play competitive and then maybe making a team is much more fun to a lot of people. People that have the time, expertise and motivation to make teams: Go for it! But that is a small group, by opening it up or casualizing it you make the game live longer and more people enjoying it

Yeah because sv run like shit and its still not the switchs fault

@@mreevee7785 yeah ik its not the switch's fault i just found this quote funny

I love how I always mentioned this and a lot of other fans deny or minimize what Gamefreak did. Like that was my main reason to be extremely critical with them and now they want me to drop twice as much money for these titles. The low res tree was just the cherry on top and pretty small compared to them lying.

Honestly, outside of 2v2 battles performance was quite fine in gen 6-7 IME. It's also funny that many players made the excuse for GF that it was "too much work" to re-do all the pokemon this generation on-top of adding new pokemon models, ignoring the fact that gen 6 had >700< new pokemon models made for the game. If the launching title for the 3DS was capable of having 700 new pokemon models, you should be able to expect 900 new pokemon models for the Switch launch,. Like cmon, it was the most looked forward to Pokemon launch in the history of the mainline pokemon games; finally a pokemon game on a main console and they botched it in terms of quality and expectations. And yeah, they pretty much re-used the 3DS models anyways so realistically they only had to make 200 new pokemon models, or however many new pokemon there were in gen 8. Just all-around bullshit excuses both from the GameFreak fanboys and GF themselves.

@@QPoily too much work is the dumbest excuse ever. To make something good and great you need to make sacrifices. If you can't do it then you shouldn't be working on the part that's too much or the time doesn't allow you

I don't know if they're either lying or miscommunication especially when translated to English 🤷‍♂️🤣

If they wanted to lower the number of Pokémon, they should have put in more work in other parts of the game like giving Pokémon models actual textures and adding more lifelike battle animations. Instead, Gamefreak lied about their reason for removing Pokémon and they didn't add anything new to justify a dex cut.

Dude if u don't like competitive online battles, it's just your nostalgia hope that makes these woke child games fun to you for a short time

Have you tried any of the spinoff games yet, like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon?

@@Homerboy44 Not the new one, it any good? loved the older ones and my favorite game was pokemon ranger

@@Ember-Rodriguez If you still have a 3DS, I'd absolutely recommend trying Super Mystery Dungeon, it's a really great game with a great story and just overall a ton of content. Ofc the original DS titles (Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Sky) are absolutely amazing. The newest one (DX) is a remake of Blue Rescue Team, so it still has a really great story and a unique artstyle, but imo it's still more of a handheld-intended game rather than something to be played on the big screen.

@@Ember-Rodriguez Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon is indeed a good successor. Take a look for yourself if you want.

Soooo... National Dex AG on showdown?

People are allowed to praise other generations GenFivers

I love the trumpets of Gen 3

Gens 2-5 hit EVERYTHING hard.

@@MarioSonic46 Based

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 stfu he didnt say anything

I don't know how you did it, I've had the game on physical copy since day 1 and I can't bring myself to play it. It's so boring to me.

@@Conical187 its just another pokemon game ive played them all its basically muscle memory

you should know that sword/shield, BDSP, and LoA were all made by different teams, so they really have 3 years of development. that being said it still isn't enough time.

@@cmonkey3698 BDSP wasn't even done by Game Freak, if I recall correctly - which is why it "felt" different. (Also possibly why it was so *strictly* a remake.)

If there is one bright spot about BDSP, it is that no one can strictly blame Game Freak anymore for bad decisions. BDSP sucked under ILCA, so it really is a timing thingy. That being said, it is sad that Sword and Shield’s best quality is (along with Legends Arceus) the beta game for Scarlet/Violet.

@@iantaakalla8180 In a sense, isn't this always the case? The 'current game' winds up being a beta version for the next one, except for massive redesigns... Red/Blue/Yellow (in the NA market mind)and then Gold/Silver/Crystal? Even in the second generation there was a sense I picked up of how Crystal was a more refined experience of G/S. Along with Emerald and Ruby/Sapphire. And Platinum with Pearl/Diamond. I feel like the games often refine themselves slowly until they try new systems - and only then are there breaks in "Generation". We've only had tweaks and changes to the core of the battling since the Special/Physical split. (I want to say that was Gen4? Hazy on it.) We've had *gimmicks* layered on top but the core has been exempt from massive changes. Mega Evolutions, Z-Moves, Dynamax... now Terastalyze. It's hard for me to think of very many large gameplay changes which weren't "locked in a Generation gimmicks". Quality of life changes, or small shifts which make it easier to work on things? Yeah. But anything really major? I dunno... I rather think the game's been in Beta up until Gen 5, and now we're just getting permutations and flavor changes. ... I should note, this is not a problem for me. But it means I get puzzled when people expect the next Generation to be truly revolutionary. Or is upset when it's not like a whole new experience. The games have been the same at the core for a *while* now.

Agree

Agreed

These arent the reasons Sw/Sh had a longevity at all, it was the frequent updates mainly.

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Game Freak aren't a multi-billion dollar company, they are making games for Nintendo who take most of the profit and set their deadlines. It's Nintendo setting unrealistic expectations on GameFreak which is the problem. Nintendo want a new game every year no matter what state it is in, because it isn't their franchise and if its bad then Game Freak get all the abuse, like you're doing now

yeah I agree. I do respect Wolfey's opinion and I myself liked some stuff about SwSh (Dynamax is imo underrated tbh, I def prefer it to Z-moves), but he seems to gloss over quite a lot of legit negative stuff. I do wonder a little whether he's a bit biased since he's kinda intertwined with the Poké brand as a top VGC competitor....

@@charliez077 no..i don't believe for a second the guy is shilling

the weather stuff is jarring indeed. I do remember first time visiting the Wild Area WAS actually exciting bc before this we had never experienced a 3D area in Pokémon. but revisiting it in 2022... it is SOOO ugly lol.