Why Pokemon Will NEVER Get Better- The AWFUL Sad State Of The Series: Scarlet/Violet DLC 

I feel like this needs to be said. It feels like there's a cult of personality surrounding the Pokemon fandom. So many are willing to accept mediocrity on a silver platter, denounce any kind of criticism as just people hating, and attacking people for expressing criticism and a desire to see the series improve and get better. There's just this insane level of fanaticism surrounding this franchise and frankly, it's just sad these people, some of them grown adults and older than myself act like these babbling cavemen. These people don't want to hear the truth, they'd rather just mindlessly praise and act like the game's a masterpiece when in reality, it's not. Last year before Mario Strikers: Battle League released, I bought up concerns regarding the game's content and how it looked comparable to Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, and I got blasted, called ignorant, people telling me I'm being too cynical, and the series is known for not having a ton of content. And then the game came out and it was woefully pathetic, basically an hour's worth of content and yet this game got a cult of shills that would defend this game at any costs, throwing hate and harassing people who were expressing criticisms about the game's minimal content. Demeech got blasted on Twitter for months over being critical of the game, people claiming he's over-exaggerating the game's flaws, he's strawmanning people's comments, it wasn't a review on the game just a rant on free updates, and that he makes people up who don't exist, etc. They even had the gall to say he's attacking people for liking the game which was false. Demeech is expressing his criticism because he's passionate about the series and cares about it and wants it to improve. He was highly critical of Kirby Star Allies and look at the redemption arc Kirby's gotten. I've made it clear I don't like Super Mario Party and a lot of people feel the same way, so NDCube took the feedback and gave us Mario Party Superstars. When you care about something and want to see it get better, that's perfectly normal to do. There's nothing wrong with asking for better. I appreciate Demeech because he's willing to speak his mind and tell the truth, not let bias cloud his judgment. He has integrity and that's something quite lacking in the Nintendo community. He's not just an amazing and talented content creator, he's also a great friend. If the fanboys and shills of this franchise had even a shred of integrity, they'd not buy this DLC and send a message to Game Freak and Nintendo to demand better. It's unacceptable the fact these games released in the state they did, and it's appalling they have the nerve to charge paid DLC for a broken game. The games's numerous performance issues still aren't fixed. Stop mindlessly accepting crap. Don't bend to these soulless corporations, stand up and fight back. We're the consumer, we deserve better. If you're hankering for an RPG to satiate that itch, there's Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. It deserves all the support it can get, it's a game crafted by talented developers and filled to the brim with love, passion, and creativity. The first wave of DLC is coming out tomorrow, please give this game a try. Same for Xenoblade Chronicles 3, or Fire Emblem Engage, heard a lot of great things from those titles. I'd also like to add, these same shills that are defending Scarlet and Violet, would absolutely rip Nintendo apart if Tears of the Kingdom launched in a similar state, or a brand new mainline Mario game. I promise you these people would tear into Nintendo ten times harder than Demeech, or I would if they saw a new Mario, or Zelda come out looking and running like garbage. But for whatever reason, Pokemon gets a free pass because reasons.

The worst part about the situation with Pokémon right now is that I feel like a lot of people are just simply tired of complaining about Pokémon. Many people are realizing that complaining on the internet isn’t going to do anything and the only thing we can do is not buy the games. With the gold mine of a situation Pokémon is in currently, even that won’t do anything so all we can do is watch the games get worse while sales numbers go up

Honestly, I think these issues reflect the fact that gamefreak feels like they have to release a new mainline Pokémon game every year and that includes the DLC. They don’t have to do that!

Well, apparently people are saying that the DLC is causing save corruption. This is what happens when you excuse poor performance and visuals, the problems make their way into gameplay itself. Losing your save data is the Second WORST thing that can happen, with the only worse thing being for the game to literally brick your system, which is where I think this is going at this rate.

I found myself to really enjoy the game a whole lot, but it's issues are embarrassing and inexcusable for the highest grossing media franchise of all time.

Once Demeech's Fury burns out, we're left with Demeech's Numbness; the _true_ biggest sign that a franchise is at its worst, even bigger than Demeech's Maximum Fury. Indifference really is more damning than backlash.

The Pokémon situation is a dumpster fire that I gave up on in 2019... I've been a fan for over 25 years and it pains me to see how the developers are viewing and handling such a big part of my childhood and whole life really. They make me feel like after 25 years, I should move on from Pokémon as a fan so they can continue catering to children and people who don't know or care enough about the franchise to want better. But it shouldn't be that way at all. I still love Pokémon just as much as I did when I was 5, if not more. As fans, we deserve better. Pokémon deserves better. Pokémon deserves developers that care just as much as the fans. How does Nintendo keep letting Gamefreak handle the highest grossing media franchise in the entire world like some irrelevant indie game with no fanbase? It really blows my mind.

I think the problems with the series stem from 2 things: the jump to 3d, and the strict 3 year cycle for each generation/game development.

$35 for DLC is disgusting

I was there when Pokemon first swept the world in the 90's. I played Pokemon Blue, I bought the trading cards, I was hyped for the movie. Pokemon was GREAT and I've always been a fan. That said, Pokemon Shield was ROUGH, but it was at least playable. The "Wild Area" was pretty bland, but the traditional "route" areas looked pretty nice for the most part. Tons of character customisation too. Legends Arceus was actually pretty damned fun, the changes to the battle system gave me a lot of hope for their next mainline title. I saw the coop multiplayer and open world and I was pretty hyped to play it with my friends. I was shocked by how technical inadequate Violet was. Up close the character models looked pretty cool, but the world itself was just shockingly basic. The texture tiling was the most blatant I've seen for a long time. People were bashing the Switch itself saying it just couldn't handle the scale Game Freak were aiming for. The hilarity being that Breath of the Wild looks infinitely better despite being a Switch launch and Wii U cross-gen game. Then look at Xenoblade Chronicles 3, or the Witcher 3 and Doom Eternal ports. The Switch can run some visually impressive titles when developers are competent and optimse accordingly. Heck, the relatively small size of the dev team at Game Freak is no excuse. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was made by a team of just 40(!) developers, yet it was still a fantastic game with impressive visuals for an early Switch release. Game Freak are either criminally incompetent, or they're willfully making games this bad... because they know in the long run it doesn't matter. It'll still sell 10 million copies in its first week, people will still buy the fucking DLC. It honestly guts me to know where Pokemon games COULD be now, if the people in charge of the franchise actually cared about it and the fans.

The biggest problem with modern Pokémon games is locking major parts of the story behind paid dlc, the past games didn’t do this. They were more polished and complete at launch as well. We waited for the game to release only speculate about the whole story of the game even after finishing it ridiculously sad.

I'm sad about the current state of Pokemon. I used to be so obsessed with it, and in my younger years I'd be known for being a particular Pokemon fanatic. But the franchise didn't seem to grow up with me; the aspects that did (mainly regarding the spinoff games) died off in favor of money-grabbing mobile titles. Their greed and carelessness will only continue to get worse, because they have no financial incentive to do better. Pokemon will remain in a special place in my heart, but I can't follow the franchise as it currently is now. I haven't kept up with newer Pokemon media since S&S.

My biggest problems with this game are the lack of quality of life features.

Except Legends Arceus, i stopped my journey with Pokemon Sun and Moon. When the franchise will restart their games prioritizing quality again, i will surely come back to one of my fav series ever

It's pretty sad that the new games are so bad that people want the old games from gens 1-3 released on an online service that has a library of retro games.

I've kinda become numb to it as well. Hopefully there's a decent spinoff or mainline release in the next year or two but til then I think I'll be stepping away from pokemon releases. It's sad to see how much they've run the quality of this series into the ground. Truly suffering from its success.

Yeah... Hate to be a nihilist here, but if this is what we have to expect from Pokemon from now on, we should just keep our expectations real low, so we'll never be disappointed... And that is depressing

I’ve been playing the series since gen 4, here’s what I think will happen to Pokémon. Because of good sales they will continue to cut every corner possible. I think around gen 10-11 the fandom will start to get burnt out from these recurring problems, and then maybe sales will tank to a point where GF will hire more than like 20 people to make a friggin game. That is dependent on the fans actually boycotting tho. So idk if it’s even possible…

I don't understand how things went downhill so fast. Sword and Shield are flawed in many ways (mainly from a plot standpoint), but it ran silky smooth all things considered. I don't recall issues with lighting, collision, frame rate etc. It doesn't make any sense to me. Legends: Arceus didn't even have this many issues even though that game was graphically/ gameplay intensive (for Pokemon standards). It is my firm belief that Scarlet and Violet would be universally well received if it didn't launch with debilitating performance issues. It baffles me how the Pokemon company and GameFreak felt that it was okay to release the game in a broken state. It isn't even a Switch issue either. I mean we all see how well Botw runs. It's an embarrassment that modern Pokemon runs worse than 5 year old games on THE SAME SYSTEM!! GameFreak and the Pokemon Company need to fundamentally change everything on the video game side.

Let's get realistic, as long as we complain while others just take it well and forgive these flaws because "the game is fun and has a nice story" plus the game is being very sold (at least not as sold as MK8DX) and the DLCs may be best seller as well, GF will NEVER change their mind and will make worse stuff than the latter

I've said this many times, I'll say it again: Yo-Kai Watch was much better than this. It got so much flack for being a Pokemon clone, but it had so much passion, fun moments and characters, and unique options that, ironically, Pokemon fans are asking for

As much I had fun with Violet. The game is truly what happens when you push a game out due to corporate greed.

Another reason Pokemon went downhill is Competitive Pokemon. Gen 8 was effectively designed for Competitive play with Quality of Life improvements and easy access whitch could explain why the Singleplayer and postgame were mediocre. Not only that, The DLC introduced some Overpowered Pokemon like Regieleki, Urshifu, and Calyrex and are locked behind it so VGC Players need to buy the DLC to get them. It's likely Gen 9 will make the DLC for Competitive Players in mind leaving the Games broken as they are and Casual Players in the dust.

its unfortunate the higher ups at gamefreak think that there needs to be a pokemon game each year

Pokemon is just becoming like Disney now...

I’m just going to play the Pokémon games I currently have on switch and not buy anymore till they start improving their games. Plus DLC is annoying and if they want any of my money it better be worth it.

Just going to say that Persona 5 Royal, Shin Megami Tensei 5 and Monster Hunter Stories 2 are significantly better monster catching games than every Pokemon game on Switch.

I got my copy of Violet used as well. What's worse is that there's a gamebreaking bug in version 1.2.0 that can potentially corrupt your save file.

I was immediately turned away from adding Scarlet & Violet to my collection the second Staryu & Starmie didn't make it into the dex. So I never bought or played Scarlet or Violet.

I’m glad someone is finally talking about this! I remember coming back into the community when SV were announced after taking time off since SwSh’s release, and for some reason nobody talked about the national dex anymore, and if you did you were considered crazy. Same thing happened with people who dared to say that the game would run horribly, I ended up skipping it. My point is that the fans continue to give GameFreak and Nintendo excuses for their missteps, and I for one an sick of it, it’s the whole reason I sadly won’t be buying anymore pokemon games unless they get their situation together

I walked away after generation 9s abysmal failure, i dont see how people defend it like its actually good. I threw both my copies in a bonfire and recorded it and sent it to Pokémons twitter account which about 15 mins later got taken down and i got banned for some reason.

I'm my personal opinion Pokemon peaked at gen 6 with ORAS. Both Alpha Sapphire and Sun we're my childhood, and I spent a majority of my late elementary and middle school years playing those games. Heck, they're part of the reason I like Emerald so much. However, when gen 8 rolled around, something felt...missing. I don't know how exactly to describe it, but during my entire playthough of Sword, I didn't feel anything. The game felt rushed, and I felt that it was severely lacking in, well, ...something...but I couldn't figure it out. I played Legends Arceus after, and although that game was an enjoyable experience for me at least, the world felt dead and barren. There was only ONE village in the whole game to "explore" and other than catching pokemon and filling out the dex, I would find myself zoning out more often than not. But yeah, these new games aren't gonna fly. Unless Game Freak pulls an uno reverse card and fixes things by next gen, my hope for the Pokemon series is dwindling fast. There is absolutely NO excuse for SV to be THIS bad. Pokemon is literally the highest grossing media franchise in the WORLD, yet they couldn't hire someone to render textures like trees and grass properly. Rant over. If you've made it this far, thank you.

I really wanted ORAS style Sinnoh remakes, I really did. ORAS and HGSS are the definition of an amazing remake, I wish BDSP got the same treatment…

This the same thing happening to Warcraft. They prioritizing marketing when they are alrdy good with profit, but sacrificing the proper creative growth of the franchise or games..

I finished after Sword and Shield. Pokemon is the very best like no one ever was. It's just not in a good way.

To think that they’d release a broken game & then have the audacity to release PAID DLC to boot?! Nuts to that; I refuse

I loved Scarlet and Violet in my playthrough. The new mons are good, the story is interesting, and I actually cared about the characters. That being said I agree with everything in this video. Its a shame that these games have great stuff burried under all the rushed content that barely functions.

How do I feel about Pokémon? I have a Switch but never bought a single pokémon game, instead I am relying on Rom Hacks, especially Renegade Platinum and Crystal Clear, and guess what? Crystal Clear is Open world, in GameBoy Color, and has level scaling, depending on how many gym badges you have.

Anytime I think about pokemon I smile. Anytime I think about gamefreak I get depression. :(

NO MORE DEX CUT IN ALL THE FUTURE POKEMON GAMES!

To me, I enjoyed the games because of the collecting and moving my Pokemon up from gen to gen. I traveled through all the regions, side games and events, and collected Pokemon with rare moves. And although I like the new Pokemon, I have stopped moving most of my Pokemon from going into the Switch games. First of all Dexit didn't let me get to enjoy all my Pokemon in SWSH. Second, they took away moves like return and pursuit so some of my Pokemon move combos became obsolete. The Lets Go games, although they looked great, had a mechanic that I didn't enjoy very much, didn't include breeding, and didn't allow newer Pokemon into the games. It's supposed to be some kind of remake of Yellow. But even the fire red and leaf green games which were remakes allowed Pokemon from up to gen 3 to be included, plus it allowed breeding. But now after SWSH, all my collecting and breeding and hunting in Dream worlds and liberating Shadow Pokemon and teaching rare move tutor moves... its all lost. If I bring in my Chancey with Sweet scent, Wish, Seismic Toss, and Toxic, or my Charm Mamoswine from Orre into PLA, BDSP or SV then they lose what makes them special. Even Pokemon that I bred in SWSH to be perfect and with specific tutor/egg moves or TMs/TRs lose them. They said they wouldn't use BDSP for competitions, so why reset their moves in those games? In SWSH for how bad it was at least lets you keep some of those special moves, but it seems they keep taking more away every gen and that's why I feel I'm going to stop. The fun has been taken away. Not everyone plays because they want to compete, some of us just like the Pokemon we've picked up along the way.

The saddest thing is that no matter how awful these games are, no matter how poorly they run, no matter how much content they cut, people will gladly lap it up and beg Game Freak to charge more for less. Scarlet and Violet are some of the best selling games in the series, so they have no reason to be better. As long as MILLIONS of people give them their money, pokemon games are going to continue to get worse.

What’s really bad about this… is gaming industry would see this as a means to release worst unfinished games. Maybe, there should be new laws to prevent this from happening because it’s not worth paying $60 since if Nintendo really values the price these games issues would definitely should be price at $30 or less. I don’t like that they never even addressed the issues or even show how things will be fixed since like you mentioned about them not really showing any gameplay I probably have doubts as well. If that Pokémon Dev leaker is legit then we might have true fix for the game but only in the next generation console 😓 Really, they don’t need to rush games out. Take the time to finished them is all most of us want.

Truth is, some people are just too attached to what they like. And in some cases to their own idea of what they think the thing they like is. And that is an issue.

For those saying that Red/Blue were sold as glitchy games, and it still sold so much: Yeah, because the community was actively hunting for ways to break the games and prolonged their play of a game they'd already beaten without otherwise obvious glitches or issues. On an old gameboy cartridge. A game where every little piece of content had to be specifically tailored to fit on the limited cartridge size. And if you did encounter a game-breaking glitch somehow, or something visually bad, it was because of the hardware, not the software. Now-a-days. devs have all of the space they need for their cartridges, and instead of carefully curating everything that should go on it, they release bloated games that only require the cartridge or CD to install and play the game, on top of bloated updates and patches, because they couldn't be arsed to complete the game the first time around since they could 'always fix it later' if there was a loud enough controversy about it.

Pokemon X and Y failed to impress me, especially after the strides made in Black/White. It was blamed on the transition to models over sprites that took the time and processing power, which made X and Y subpar. Then, Sun and Moon came along touting a lot of changes to the formula, but it didn't actually do anything to change the formula. No gyms? Well, we still had to do island trials leading into the island bosses. No league? Wait, we still have to do the league, we're just pretending it's different because we're 'creating' the league. But, what really killed it for me was Ultra Sun and Moon. They were 'new games' that were essentially full-priced DLC stacked on top of the original games. They had fun features, sure, but they were things that felt like they should have been there from the start. If they were priced lower, I might not have been so critical at the time, but they weren't. That was when I stopped caring about anything Pokemon had to do. Sword and Shield hit the Switch as the first mainline game to be put on console. This was the time to really put the best foot forward, to show us exactly what Pokemon could become... but they didn't. They removed a ton of features that were beloved from past games, did a sit job on the Wild Area, and added big Pokemon as the replacement for Megas. The excuses they used for things like the Dex cut (the animation improvement) was provably bullshit and the fact that they forced you to buy DLC to get access to many favorites was evil. If they were that concerned over the amount of Pokemon we have, just make it so that we get a brand new Dex with all new Pokemon instead. Pokemon Home could become the universal multiplayer system with access to every Pokemon in a sprite system while the new mainline games could focus on story, exploration, and discovery. It has reached the point where I didn't even bother looking into Scarlet and Violet at all. I haven't played them, haven't watched anybody play them, and will not bother looking further into them at all. We've been burned by mediocrity for four generations now, with lackluster remakes thrown in to break up the monotony. It doesn't matter if the next games are perfect, I will not be supporting anything to do with them at all. If you like Pokemon, feel free to give your money to them, but the number of people that continue to justify the mediocrity of the games because they have one throwaway feature that seems interesting astounds me.

I've sorta come to terms that Pokemon is just not a great franchise anymore. It's not like I hate the games, luckily Pokemon is just inherently fun. But that can only go so far. Since the transition to consoles it's just struggled to keep up with the times. Their business model doesn't seem designed around the longer development times needed for HD games. I played Xenoblade 3 right after completing Pokemon, and it really just highlighted truly how terrible Pokemon is by comparison. The visuals, the performance, heck, even the map design. Everything is pretty poor in Pokemon Scarlet / Violet. Xenoblade is this 100+ hour RPG, a massive world, tons of enemies and characters on screen at all times, fully voiced too. It looks great and runs perfectly. You really cannot comprehend just how much better Xenoblade 3 is till you play them side by side. So, I'm not outraged with Pokemon, I've just given up dreaming of this perfect epic Pokemon game. I just can't see it happening. So, I just expect the next Pokemon game to be like a 6/10 kinda thing. It's just interesting cos I was pretty easy on Sword and Shield since it was their first attempt at a console mainline title. But I was expecting a huge jump in quality for the next set of games. Then I thought Legends was a stepping stone game as to what's to come. But that wasn't the case. Scarlet and Violet have some good moments, but I think in regards to making an open world Pokemon game, it failed in what it set out to do. And it looks and runs TERRIBLY. I still can't get over it. Casseroya Lake was almost unplayable. My advice for anyone who is upset with Pokemon. Just play another RPG. There's so many and they're all better than Pokemon. Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade, heck even Octopath. I don't think Pokemon will ever be the game I want it to be. And frankly, they've already slowly got rid of a ton of things I liked about Pokemon games anyway. Ever since forced EXP it's not been the same imo. Like you say, just kinda numb to it by this point.

See my favorite franchise downfalling to its death is such a hurt i cant describe: knowing i ll never have another chance to feels the emotion pokemon had give to me is depressing... Other francise are already dead and pokemon is next

People need to stop settling for mediocrity. It's really sad how pokemon will sell like hotcakes no matter *how* bad it is. It's a series that panders to the lowest common denominator, that includes dumb kids and casual unaware people who play games. There are people who have played pokemon their whole lives and would love to see it improved with stuff like extra post game, megas returning, harder battles, level scaling, battle frontier, optional exp share and of course all pokemon but we'll never get that from gamefreak and it's an absolute shame. Gamefreak keeps doubling down on not putting any effort into their games. They actively refuse to work with more pokemon and keep fixing things that aren't broken like the exp share gain being forced instead of optional. To make things worse it's now the *visuals* that are going down in quality. BDSP is a huge letdown and downgrade from the Swsh style we were expecting. It looks worse than base DP. How is that possible? SV look very mediocre. The attacks look pretty bad and a messed up attempt to change them for overworld battling. The mons clip through the ground when sending them out. You can see the map out of bounds. The models don't even have *shadows* sometimes, something that was rectified in the late *90s* with most 3d games For all of you pokemon shills I implore you to stop buying the mainline games. They won't get better ans you should be playing better stuff. I played SV and while it's not awful it's too easy, and pretty darn bad in many areas like visuals as mentioned, and mediocre content wise as theres not even a battle tower which is sad beyond belief. I've never encountered game breaking bugs and its playable but disappointing. If you truly love pokemon I recommend you let it suffer financially so we can force GF to give us what we want.

I never really noticed the frame rates but the bugs really bothered me. and this biggest one is the worst.

I enjoyed the game myself, and I personally found the glitches I encountered to be funny. But it is a blatant fact that for the largest media franchise in the world, Scarlet and Violet were underwhelming at best and completely broken at worst. I definitely agree that they should’ve had Legends: Arceus be the winter 2022 release, and given Scarlet and Violet another year of development for a winter 2023 release. Then the amount of new Pokémon games coming in wouldn’t feel so over saturated, and the games would have as much time as they need to be the best they can be

Whenever I bring up criticisms I get so much backlash, while nobody actually provides counter arguments to what I'm saying.

I skipped the Switch Pokemon games so far because of the national dex thing. I decided to try out this new gen and while I was having fun for a couple days, something just didn't feel right. Eventually I figured it out. This comes across like some Chinese pokemon knockoff. Even if it's not a scam it feels like one. I still played a ton of creature collectors while boycotting Pokemon, and TemTem, Coromon, Monster Sanctuary and Siralim all were way more fun, deeper, polished and way cheaper than this mess is even without the DLC.

I stopped after beating Nemona cause the post game set up was so boring with the dog just killing the interest fast. I did do my midterms before doing the E4 so that was hard.

Scarlet and Violet is so unapologetically broken, I'd rather emulate a fixed rom hack of it, then play it on the Switch! I know I should support game developers, but if they are just going to half heartedly rush a project and not bother to fix it, than why should I or anyone else care?

i agree. I stopped buying their products from Sword and Shield on. the series has lost its soul. No love for the game and they are making excuses for their efficiency (in a bad way, making more money with less effort) because they knew people would buy their shit just for their brand (for new players) and nostalgia (for old players). ironically 3D made the series look more dead, and the series just get worse and worse it's embarrassing to say the least. and the blasphemy that was D/P remake was the last travesty they could possibly make to shake away any love I have for the series. at the end of the day we'll remember Pokemon in the past as good memories and it's time to put the nail on the coffin for any dead-ass game those greedy corporates will release in the future.

I can honestly say I enjoyed scarlet and violet and bought the dlc basically the moment I could...but I can't deny it really is horrible how unfinished it is. And now there's some kind of glitch that could very easily just wipe your save data. Cool. Much as I hate to admit it, main reason I bought the dlc was my favorite mons were coming back in it, but now I can honestly say I'm regretting that decision. And the real kicker is if you're someone who likes to play through both versions to get the small differences in each, then you have to buy the almost $40 dlc twice. Gamefreak has really hit a serious low, and I am hopeful they'll pull out of this and somehow fix all these issues. Of course, the biggest kick in the pants is Netflix made pokemon look absolutely gorgeous with the mewtwo strikes back reboot. We all watch that now, and can only think "this is how Pokemon should look today"

I agree 100% with you. I really love Pokemon, and was very hyped for Scarlet/Violet. After the release, even knowing all the technical mess that was, I though "well, it can be like Cyberpunk, it's broken now but, eventually, it'll get patched", so I bought it with this hope. Played a couple hours when received it and just put it to rest because the performance issues was too much for me to have a really good time (and I'm not a visual guy, I still play Playstation 1 games that look like junk nowadays). After the last Pokemon Direct I felt really disappointed, thinking that it was almost a joke what they were doing selling a DLC for a broken game. I don't expect anymore that they will fix this game, not for the current nintendo platform anyways. As a Product Designer myself I see this piece of software delivered like this and really think how money talks and the user experience is just a second though in the end. Sad.

if they can release a $35 paid DLC for a broken-ass game when it hasnt even been a year since release, then rest assured this DLC is just cut content that should've been in the game to begin with. In any case, i dont have to worry myself about any of this since i didnt buy the games. Ever since i bought Pokemon Sword i swore not to buy any Pokemon games ever again, unless they make a game that rivals Zelda BotW.

Needs an entire series reboot if you ask me. Start all over again from the first game. Quite a lot of my ideas would be met with resistance though I believe. We already had the melt down about a limited dex, well, every game going forward would be that way because an attempt would be made to squeeze as much out of the pokemon that are in the game as possible. I'd also be looking at reinventing battling too which wouldn't go over well initially because people fear change. That's to say nothing on the drastic change in presentation and storytelling that I'd want as well.

This video wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I agree with you on alot said here. I've never been that into Pokemon but I understand how it feels to have a series you love turn out like this. I loved paper Mario and the Mario sports games growing up and I hate seeing how those games are now. But at this point it's probably best to just not get hopes up anymore with Pokemon. It's not worth getting that angry over.

It's depressing how so many players keep making excuses and refusing to do anything about it.

They need to hire more people. They can’t give them more time because the investors want their money now.

As much as i often disagree with you, i somewhat agree with your perspective here. Especially the part about the fans

Easy answer: People are still buying the games. Pokémon: Scarlet and Violet might be the worst games of the entire series, but they sold more than Kirby and the Forgotten Land and DKC:TF combined. As long as people still are willing to spend money on bad games, GameFreak and Nintendo will never improve the quality of Pokémon.

This is how the power and love for nostalgia blinds, corrupts and enslaves people from seeing the flaws and warranted criticism. Essentially we're all bound and programmed to always buy regardless of quality because of nostalgia.

The problems started when they stopped making new Pokemon mystery dungeons games. Think about it, gen 6 was the very last time they innovated the games. They went 3d and they stopped trying. Also if i see another brain dead fan say "the games have never been about good storytelling" im going to launch the nukes.

I'm a shiny hunter, and scarlet is the easiest way to get shinies to date, so that along with the exploration of the world I really like. The constant lag, and for now a glitch that COMPLETELY ERASES your ONE AND ONLY save file, means that I can't play the game I paid for price for. I'm sitting here wanting to play, but I can't due to the risk of having my save full of shinies I worked so hard to collect be erased forever. It's ridiculous that we have to even put up with this nonsense.

I completely agree with you! I'm officially done with Pokemon until we don't see any major changes, no paid DLC for me (any new story content I'll just watch it here on RU-vid), and I find it especially disgusting that they're only giving away H-Zoroark in order to make people buy it because THEY KNEW people would hesitate into buying it And yes, if you told me this game was from the GameCube I'd totally believe you, even if they were to fix all the bugs and glitches, the game still isn't very pretty to look at. And the animations are just so stiff, currently replaying the old 3DS games and damn, you can tell they actually poured love into the animations unlike nowadays where everything is so stiff and with no creativity And it's sad to say, because I actually enjoyed SV as well as LA ALOT!, but enough is enough, even if it's just one dollar they won't get from me then that's fine

Got both so me and my sister can play Pokémon together. Scarlet was her first Pokémon game and while she doesn't have an issue with it, I find it hard to even play the game. Us fans really deserve better and Pokémon deserves better than what SV currently is like. No game should sell this badly optimized! GF had better learn to actually make a change for the better but doubt they'd learn. Started in Gen 5 so it's shameful to see things get this bad. Even PLA, while great, started to have issues when SV launched. Can't find that to be a coincidence.

I love pokemon, but if this continues, they need to be canceled. It's like seeing an old friend turn to the dark side

You've literally said much of what I've been thinking. When I saw that Pokémon Presents, I automatically knew I wasn't going to get the DLC. I already regret getting the games starting with Pokémon Ultra Sun, except Legends Arceus.

Eventually we'll end up with an official Pokemon game that is essentially the Sonic 3D Blast 5 (Gameboy) of Pokemon. Though to be entirely fair, Nintendo also was willing to release Doctor Who: Return To Earth on the Wii the way it was & BOY was that game absolutely abysmal even for Wii shovelware standards.

What I still don't get is the jump in quality between dynamax raids to tera raids. I've seen some raids glitch and the tera pokemon was able to force the battle to a stand still, with the timer STILL GOING, and it manages to win because of it.

As much as I’m enjoying Violet, I still just don’t think Pokémon is quite ready to move to open world. Remember when the Game Boy and DS games use to give us lore through NPC’s? Or when we use to get stuff like the “haunted house”, or even the Lumiose Ghost Girl in X/Y? Yeah where is stuff like that? If we lose out on quality stuff like that, then I don’t want open world or even full blown 3d games.

Even in a game that isn’t broken, you just can’t have DLC that’s $35. Nintendo is so baffling with pricing. They can give us great deals one moment with Metroid Prime Remastered and the Booster Course Pass, yet they do shit likes this and with $70 for TOTK.

Horrible game.

My problem is knowing that my Pokémon will be invincible and will heal itself of poison. It will dodge attacks and hang on all because it didn't want me to feel bad. I fucking hate that.

It is worth taking into account the fact that the Pokémon company international is indeed a separate entity from game freak itself. GF was never a big studio, and every game up until now has been a rush effort to get it out in a playable state-just look at the first two generations. With stringent holiday deadlines and ever-increasing demands for features and performance, the studio that is Game Freak is, understandably, unable to deliver a quality product under such restrictions. I’m not the biggest fan of GF, mind you, but I don’t think all of the blame lies with them. I think the best hope for the franchise is for a new studio to take over development of future entries.

I don’t really have much issues with SV. Besides minor lag I can easily get rid of by reloading the game, the game is great. I play to get shinies and collect.

Pokemon is Nintendo's version of madden, COD, or 2k. Same old crap year after year with some dumb gimmick to hook in suckers and small children. Graphics never change or get worse, the gameplay is stale. No puzzles, barely any side quests. The heavy RNG is garbage. Don't let gamefreak touch this franchise anymore.

I was thinking of preordering it, but this made me change my mind. I’ll wait until winter

3:33 what worst company? I’m curious

The video is truthful and many will have to say the franchise is not for them anymore and move and remember what it used to be and what it could be. The older titles are still available to go back and play, as we do not have to accept the new mediocre main line titles. I personally stopped played since generation six Alpha Sapphire Disappointed me.

It would have been so easy to make Legends Arceus the 2022 holiday title, delay Scarlet and Violet to 2023's holiday season, and have both games turn out better for it. The fact that SV DLC was announced before the game has actually been fixed is disgusting. I didn't buy the Sword and Shield DLC, and I will not buy this DLC. Neither game deserves my money if they think they can put a bare minimum amount of time into them.

This is the sad reality of Pokemon.... and many fans doesn't want to realise.

I haven't finished it. I love a lot of the pojemon designs, but I found it overall disappointing. I'm not getting the dlc.

“I hope Pokémon can eventually live up to being the best there ever was“ On that note I will subscribe 😭😭😭

I was reluctant to buy a new pokémon game after Sun because of the lack of innovation and improvements. I gave in and bought the revolutionary open-world Pokémon Violet game but the bad perfomance and countless bugs ruined the experience for me. Yet Pokémon Scarlet & Violet sold really well because Pokémon fans will buy the yearly Pokémon game no matter what and will send backlash to anyone who critisizes the greed of the Pokémon company and the incompetence of Game Freak for releasing such a broken game that could have been great if they took more time to polish it. Because narratively it's really good and it would have been the best Pokémon game if it wasn't for all the technical issues.

pokemon is a classic example of a franchise losing it's passion for profit. it's only good game in recent years has been legends: arceus.(personal opinion) a game i was wary of in the beginning but, ended up thoroughly enjoying. i'm a mmo player so bugs don't typically bother me much since patches can always go wrong but, for what's supposed to be a fully fleshed out game to not only have a ton of issues at release but, also have an expensive dlc that's basically just filler fleshed out with an oversaturation of pokemon. i rather play my pokemon x just cause of roller blades.

People are saying "cry me a river" and "cope" in the comments? Why are these people so accepting of getting trash from the biggest franchise in the world?

Watching the pokemon direct pissed me off as Gamefreak was really smug about introducing dlc that we all knew was coming and waiting til November like that's going to matter for a game they won't take the time to fix up. Also no apology, they don't even want to acknowledge the screwed up.

I think Scarlet and Violet piss me off the most out of every game since the 3DS. XY and SwSh were never going to be good. Even if finished. BDSP is basically just a game from 2006, it's hard to be mad at a 15 year old game. But SV? If you imagine a finished version of this game, without the performance issues and with actual content / building interiors / etc... SV in a finished state would be one of my favorites in the franchise. And they MASSACRED it so they could stick the the stupid fucking 3 year schedule. Fuck The Pokémon Company for that.

To my opinion Pokemon Gen V was the last game that they put their soul to it. As for gen 6 going with 3D animation,they still use the same animation up to sword and shield or violet and scarlet.

And there’s a bad news that Scarlet & Violet’s new update a month ago could corrupt the save data beyond the repair which I found in gamexplain 1 hour ago.

My issue with SV isn’t the story or pokemon or thematic or stuff like that, I actually enjoyed most of those things! My main issue is the freaking performance it has, this would’ve been an awesome game if it didn’t have any performance issues, I don’t want to go on ANY lake ever again until they fix the performance

Solid video and def agree with whats being said here, especially the game releasing so close to arceus. If they just gave the game a couple more years to polish it up, I feel like it would have been a lot more interesting but instead we just got a mess that has some cool ideas.

At 5:42 when you mentioned it’s on the level of Sonic 2006, you are right, it literally is just like it in the fact that it’s broken, and both Sonic 2006 and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet got dlc.

I don't know why so many people didn't expect gens 8 and 9 to turn out the way they did. Game Freak was already struggling on the 3DS with rushed development and a bad change in design philosophy.

this actually makes sense to me & I hate the fact Nintendo couldn’t put more time into their games. I hate the D & P remakes and how tiny you and the NPC’s looked, it was so Lazy, the animations & animations in the moves. And Scarlet and violet was super buggy.