They don’t even believe in their products,unless that’s just an excuse to pat theirself on the shoulders while saying:”people wouldn’t fully complete the game anyway so why bothers to add new contents or post game contents?”Which is technically true cause there are lots of players who just complete the story,defeat the Pokémon league and never touch the game again,but these kind of people where always there but they didn’t stop them from making masterpieces like HG/SS,platinum(which I hope they’ll do a good job with the distortion world) or BW2.Sadly no matters how low effort a Pokémon game can be,people will always buy it.From my point of view I will buy only the gen 4 remake and never buy a Pokémon game again until they’ll pull themself together,stop pattIng theirself on the shoulders and most importantly,stop being lazy,soulless and money hungry idiots.
@@Gimas96 Me who played days and days and months getting every pokemon in BW and B2W2 played each of these 2 games more than 30 times EACH meanwhile I played sun and moon once and couldn't even finish SWSH. What a shame, they were an exemple of originality and great game developing, now they're just a bunch of lazy asses with lame ass games.
@@PolarGuy I meant more detailed maps for specific areas. Like dungeon maps or overworld/route maps that give the player more of an idea of where they are
@@Toadthefungi Not to mention, Pokemon is an RPG... You can save and quit at anytime that you arent locked in a battle or cutscene.. You have literally as much time as you can put aside to finish them. If you feel you won't be able to beat a battle before you need to quit, but want to try anyways, save before the fight, quit when you run out of time. GameFreak either grew lazy or The Pokemon Company grew impatient. Either option is awful. I often fantasize that Pokemon never moved to 3D models and the 2D sprite animations got more advanced, leading into animations that actually interact with one another. Punches that connect to the enemy model, taking size into account and having actual unique animations for moves.
@@Toadthefungi Yeah. Its embarassing people believe those Lies. Makes me wish for 'The Take' making a Video about this, but they are not much into Games, unfortunately...
"I hope people don't get their expectations too high." is a statement equal to "I'm here for your money, not for your praise." which is absolutely disgusting considering that Pokemon is the largest franchise of Nintendo overtaking Mario and Zelda which have better good-looking games. Let that sink in.
This Channel is the perfect middleground between Arlo and his Calmness and the Radicalness of Radical Soda. I'd say they are the 3 you need to check before Buying (!) and Distant Kingdom may be the very Best of the 3, tbh.
A very accurate quote I once heard that summarizes the state of the franchise: "Pokemon once sold merchandise based off the incredibly successful video games. Now it sells video games based off the incredibly successful merchandise."
These Guys talk such utter Nonsense. 'You either die as a Hero or live long enough to become the Villain' is really personified with Masuda. He's talking like he's on bad Medicine. For real. His Interview-Statements are kinda similar like if he talked about how Meoth evolved at Lv.15 into Pikachu and then again 10 Levels later at Lv.8 - in to Giratina himself. Thats the level we're dealing with. People are literally calling out every single bullshit of him, no matter age and gender. My 8 Years old Step-Siblings basically said 'WTF' about Masudas claims.
...The Franchise is burning and Gamefreak has literally no idea. Its amazing... I mean, we dont even have to ask for finally getting the reason for Regigigas weird Ability that makes it seem like it was cursed in-story/lore! Or the Unknown's secret! No, we have to hope for much less important stuff. We have to hope for the quality-fall to stop, or even reverse! Gamefreak officially thinks of Players Age 10 having the intellect of Age 4 and of Players Age 30, they think were useless so who even cares about our Age? Thats more than worrysome. They officially think kids are too stupid and lazy to play games through, and make official statements about us Fans being lazy and dumb. Oh, and no one wants a difficult game, sure. Yeah, sure. ...Oh my...
Masuda: "People don't have time to play long games. People have a smaller attention style." Oh yeah I remember how BOTW got a lot of criticism for being super long and full of depth. People stopped playing it in a week. It has completely driven the Zelda franchise into the ground. It barely sold any copies. People don't even talk about it anymore.
Ironic for what is basically a Nintendo 2nd party developer to not realise this. GF really are the weakest link in the Nintendo family of developers. TPC should strip them from the franchise and had it to a better team.
...The Franchise is burning and Gamefreak has literally no idea. Its amazing... I mean, we dont even have to ask for finally getting the reason for Regigigas weird Ability that makes it seem like it was cursed in-story/lore! Or the Unknown's secret! No, we have to hope for much less important stuff. We have to hope for the quality-fall to stop, or even reverse! Gamefreak officially thinks of Players Age 10 having the intellect of Age 4 and of Players Age 30, they think were useless so who even cares about our Age? Thats more than worrysome. They officially think kids are too stupid and lazy to play games through, and make official statements about us Fans being lazy and dumb. ...Oh my...
"People have no time to play games" Here's something they don't understand, people will MAKE time for a game if it's really that good. If it's shit quality like gen 8 then ofc they're going to drop the game pretty quickly after release while gen 4 and 5 are revisited at least once by most pokemon fans despite being released so long ago.
Not to mention the gen 2 remakes and BW2 are the most expensive games to buy used now. HGSS with the pokewalker can go as high as $200 with the box and B2 and W2 are $100 each whereas ORAS is usually $30 being cheaper than any of the gameboy/gbc/gba games, and X/Y and after is usually $20 at most
They say that and beside there is Persona 5 which is a blast in Japan and worldwide, or Monster Hunter franchise, and it's REALLY long games. So stupid. I want so bad to have a good pokemon game like old times but I'm sure it's done for ever.
There's a bit of irony about a series where your character is meant to go on a journey and grow alongside your Pokémon not only remaining stagnant, but also having its mascot be a Pokémon that refuses to evolve and shoving it into your face in every generation.
Are people seriously angry about this? A lot of the complaints hurled at this game can also be applied to the older games, I think you guys have just started to grow out of Pokemon and you don't want to admit it.
@@crimsonmaverick8237 he would of if his character was allowed to grow, X&Y's anime was so fucking close to greatness, but then ash didn't get the win he deserved and by the time it reached alola everything was for nothing
the video talks about immersion in the map design section, but I wanted to mention the exact point my immersion was shattered beyond salvage. I tried to be as immersed as possible, so when I got to the snow town, I looked at my character and thought "he's literally in a t-shirt and jeans. there's no way he's not freezing his ass off." so I went to the clothing store to update my look to reflect my location. there were no coats. in the town where it is always snowing no matter what time of year it is, the local clothing store where residents without pokemon have to go shopping due to how dangerous wild pokemon are, there are no warm clothes to buy.
As much as I wish I could agree, weren’t those games poorly selling, especially BW2? That seems like proof for them that complex games are popular among fans but bad at drawing in younger children and a casual audience, thus losing sales
@@dmate9889 BW was the peak of people aging out of pokemon. then after another four years people went "Oh wait I'm an adult and I can still like pokemon, gimmie more of that!"
the “same model used for everything” comment betrays the fact that they don’t know how to model, animate or stylize 3D models in order to get them to look good. Look at any CGI animated movie. They should’ve gotten people who actually know how to do 3D well for it to not look soulless.
Since 3D uses the same model isn't it theoretically possible to create new animations while linking them to natures? That could give more "soul" to the Pokemons. Basically nature exclusive animations.
How are the models any worse than the models in Pokemon Stadium Or in XD Gale of Darkness. Yeah the models should be better Im not going to dispute that but if people are happy with the terrible Sprites that red and blue had and the still images that gen3 and Gen4 had then I really don't understand the fan outcry here.
Pokemon Colosseum did an EXCELLENT job with the battle camera dynamically granting an overview of the battle, and switching between different perspectives during attacks. Giving the attacking pokemon a lovely front facing shot of their attack, before switching to another front facing view of the opponent receiving it. Not just the arbitrary back facing hop with the standard damage reaction. Back to the animations too, I absolutely love the recovery animations from defending pokemon, who took time to shake themselves off after being thrown backwards from a powerful attack, then retake their position on the battlefield, rather than a small little flinch we see today.
They also gave a lot of flying type pokemon more character-based animations instead of having them slowly flap their wings all of the time. Another cool thing is that they actually scaled the pokemon sizes in-battle properly back then so Wailord was like 30 feet tall instead of 3 feet tall as shown in Sword and Shield
Another interview moment had them asked if they would ever make a game similar to Colosseum and XD, and their answer was flat out "No, next question." It's likely that they don't do research on what worked to make a good pokemon game. They just go with their gut feeling of how they think gaming is trending, and tell everyone else to make the game accordingly.
Yeah if they just made the battles like Colosseum and Revolution they would look so much better but they cram the Pokémon in a really small area instead
yep. tho to be honest Animal Crossing is imo a fairly overrated game... it is good fun for quite a while until you realise all the stuff you buy for your house is just decorative useless sh*t and the most content is actually collecting fish/insects. the game absolutely needs some The Sims treatment...
I tried to get into New Horizons and enjoyed it for about a few weeks, but then I just lost interest. I also wasn't a fan with how content from older games like swimming was just drip fed to give the illusion of free DLC. Still better than SwSh though.
One of the great things about animal crossing though is its endless, so players decide when it ends when theyve had their fill :D could be days or months or years until the game "ends"
To be fair, Pokemon is too big to fail, and it is sad when you think about how mediocre the anime and game have become. But, that is just the way it is, since Pokemon will always continue to make money, no matter how bad the games are. P.S. The fact that there are people who are so dumb, they don't understand how copyright works, saddens me to no end. If the concept of catching and training monster is somehow only GameFreak and/or Nintendo's, then video games wouldn't exist pass a couple of titles.
Since Pokemon is literally the highest grossing franchise in the world it makes sense that their ego has them what they are now. They can make an entry even worse than sonic boom it will still sell. And the overly milked anime that is literally just a soulless glorified commercial for merch can use an idea from the worst written pokemon fanfic ever and it will still have millions of views In short it's too big to fail but it has suffered the curse of massive yet soulless companies.
@@straightbusta257 Sure its no masterpiece and it recycled blasting off team rocket waaay to much. Ash became boring once he stopped being a shitter with a huge ego.
Glad you addressed the map design. Always felt the fun in pokemon wasn’t just the casual gameplay of making a team of 6 and fighting your way to the league but the exploration of the region. Pokemon games didn’t need the hand holding that they’re justifying, they just needed to make the journey more fulfilling instead of a straight line. I mean come on they expect us to beat the strongest trainers and pokemons in the region but they cant trust us in finding our way through a town?
The worlds of each region have always been so much fun!! I think region design peaked around Gens 3-5. Some of the caves/dungeons in Sinnoh and Unova are sooo much fun to get lost in. Gens 6 and 7 were fun but increasingly accrued certain problems as the franchise went on, and I will go as far as to say the map design in SwSh is objectively bad and not fun.
@@tristanneal9552 Eh, Kalos is a perfectly fine region in my eyes. Its probably also the region with the most variety in biomes. Sure, the Power Plant thing sucks, but the rest of the map is still up there with gens 3-5 for me (Hell, gen 6 as a whole, or at least XY, is up there with those gens in my opinion, but I can definitely see why people don't like 6 that much)
@@oggiv I really enjoy Kalos!! Just probably not as much as the predecessors, but imo it's nowhere near as bad as Alola or Galar. When I said increasingly bad I meant Kalos was still pretty good, Alola was okay, and Galar was bad. I actually enjoy all of them conceptually, just not the execution in mapping and linearity. That's all just my opinion though, ofc.
@@retro_nintendom8493 Leon was the first fight I didn't one shot every pokemon in the league to that point, excluding the Eiscue in the Ice gym (I two shotted it only because it had a Sturdy like ability).
I feel like they know the “not everyone wants to progress by battling” stance is bullshit. Because it doesn’t matter if you level up your whole crew via Curry... you can’t finish the game without battling the gyms. To piggyback on this: how sick a Pokémon game would be if you could choose the battle or pacifist route and each one has a different criteria for “winning” Think different paths you decide to take early on and at any point you can end your pacifist run and try your hand at the gym challenge. I mean shit. Let’s actually do something with the idea of “not everyone wants to battle”. Almost every single Pokémon story has had a character who doesn’t necessarily want to be your standard battle trainer.
@DiaKorrus 18 and Silver straight up steals gym badges. It also shows that most people barely even know type matchups, let alone ability interactions. It also explains why most gym leaders are mono-type. Seeing as, if you’re generally staying in one place, and have certain interests, knowledge, jobs, and preferences, having similar (or the same) Pokémon is more convenient.
@DiaKorrus 18 I’m not saying that as criticism. Stealing gym badges would actually be an interesting concept, although I understand why they won’t implement that. Although I can’t imagine switching to silver for more than a few battles every once in a while to allow for interesting ways to tell the player information that gold wouldn’t have come across naturally. Using someone else’s Pokémon is fun, but doing it too much (with the exception of the battle factory) ruins the overall connection you feel with them.
Everyone: “Why did you remove ‘this’ add ‘this’ bad thing and do ‘this’ bad decision?” Gamefreak: “Oh, well we believe our consumers have brains the size of walnuts and can’t handle those features existing.”
I think they still think ALL of their Fans are Kids. And with every year they think "we" somehow get Younger and make it fit for "our Small Child brain"
@@yaboipktendo As someone who grew up with the early gens, that's kind of an insult to kids, though. I really don't get why they think that the games that made them popular with children at the time are too hard for today's children. Does Gamefreak think that kids have grown significantly dumber since the generation before them?
“They are aren’t interested in things that are so challenging.” Not only are we interested, we’ve been begging for it for years. AND WHO SAID GAMES THAT ARE CHALLENGING ARE BAD!?
It seems the head honchos at Game Freak can't distinguish fun/fair challenge and what's cheap. Pokemon has had examples of both: Fun/fair challenge: Cynthia in DPPt or Ghetsis in BW. Straight up cheap: R-2 Psychic Trainer in Pokemon Stadium or Greevil in Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. For Pokemon Stadium, if you know how OP the Psychic Type was, imagine facing a trainer who only used Psychic Types! And for the latter, I apply this logic if you try catching all of Greevil's 6 Shadow Pokemon in one go! WHile Rhydon, Exeggutor, and Tauros aren't too much to handle, catching 3 Legendary Birds who have unlimited PP on their Shadow Attacks? Yeah, that's far too much! And besides, there was a difficulty feature in Black/White 2, though it was strangely unlocked after beating the game, which makes sense for Challenge Mode, but why did you have to unlock Easy Mode?
@@georgecortes3416 Another example of unfair I think off is Red. My team is most likely only level 60-65 so Red will have 20 levels of advantage which in short means "You deal half damage, he deals double damage, and he will almost always outspeed you". Or U-Necrozma who is even worse due to that double buff it has, only beatable with cheese strategies or a Bisharp with assault vest.
@@N12015 To be fair, the most intimidating thing about Red is the level jump where he has at highest, a Level 81 Pikachu in GSC. And being that it's post-game, one can easily grind wild/trainer battles to face him. But if you want a prine example of level jump that you can't exactly prepare for, look no further than Evice from Colosseum! Your mons might be in the high 40's to the low 50's, while his Pokemon are in their low-to-mid 60's! And this is in the main story! Whether it's his Salamence and Shadow Tyranitar being some of the sacriest pseudo-Legendaries around, Scizor passing buffs, Machamp being the physical monster with Guts, or worse of all: Slowking using Skill Swap on Slaking to take away Truant so it can attack every turn! Levels are one thing, but complex strats from an AI where the Pokemon you can catch is extremely limited means you're in for a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnng battle!
@@majinmj1663 True, and while 11 year olds are the demographic as Masuda went on record saying he only tries appealing to children around 10-11 years old; he's also putting Pokemon against literal smartphones which is like pitting a canoe against a submarine, they're not meant to be compared that way. But if that's the case, then why create any sort of postgame or try balancing the competitive meta at all if only children are what you're concerned with in terms of marketing? And if they don't want to make their games challenging, why include battles such as an omniboosted Ultra Necrozma which plenty of people struggle with? For me, I think the issue is a lack of focus in what they wanna do. They want to appeal to children, seeing that their parents are the ones with the most money, but in that case, why not appeal more to smartphones instead? If the market is supposedly "children with smartphones", then why bother making games on handhelds/consoles if Masuda himself said that's what the children use these days? I'm only trying to understand his perspective, but his words and actions make that like nailing jello to wall; aka impossible.
This is the first time I have ever seen anyone praise HMs or Mt. Moon's layout, and somehow you managed to do it in a detailed and convincing manner. Well done.
Honestly I want Hm’s to come back. It was rewarding unlocking them and using your Pokémon to explore the world. It wouldn’t even be bad now that you can access your pc box from anywhere in the game.
Why are people begging for remakes? They are inevitable. They are not that hard to make and make a lot of money. On top of that, the quality would be comparable to the current generation.
"People don't have that much time to put into a single game" My Switch Game Times Don't Starve- 650 Hours or more The Binding of Isaac- 500 hours or more Hollow Knight (only halfway through)- 75 total hours or more Pokemon Shield- 30 hours, data deleted so that I could download Hollow Knight.
Honestly for a company who's main game has the main audience be kids, they fail to realize that if there is one thing kids hate it's being told what to do. Deep down we knew it was never about gaming but about sales, but it didn't feel that way in the past.
The old games definitely have a certain magical feeling to them that the new games don’t have. I always felt it but never could put my finger on it til I had my siblings (10 and 12 years old) play the new game and then had them play one the games I played when I was their age (I’m 24) Firstly they loved the graphics of the new games and were much more drawn to it (which I figured would happen) What I didn’t expect was they said they’d rather replay games from my childhood cause they didn’t have to watch a cutscene again if they wanted to try a new team out. That it was extremely annoying and dumb they have to play a story they already know and can’t skip through at all due to unskippable cutscenes whereas older games was mainly text you could mash through in no time. They also enjoyed being able to wander around and take routes whereas in the new game they noticed they did everything the exact same way. Old games they noticed they played drastically different from each other and found they were talking to each other about what they did and got excited that there was something they haven’t experienced yet. This really made me take a deeper look into the games and realized that Pokémon a game where I dreamed of was dying. They are sitting on a throne in Olympus but it’s starting to crumble beneath them. They just haven’t noticed it yet
The most disappointing part for me is that as a child I could never afford a console or to play pokemon games, the only thing u had was those giant grey TV boxes with a pokemon DVD and some channels that I could watch pokemon and I always wished as a child that I could one day play pokemon. Now that I have a job and can afford it I'm genuinely disappointed as I waited my whole life to be able to afford my own games like pokemon just for them to go this route and make bad games. I genuinely hope one day they go back to making good games and become the Pokemon company I was proud of
Dude I feel this too. There are soooo many games that I wish I grew up with when I had time to play them, and had more chances to really enjoy them. Now that I am in a situation where I can buy pretty much any game I want, and I don't have time to play them, plus my more cynical views on art, it makes playing and completing games impossible.
Yeah let's compare the still images that Emerald had with sword and shield. Let's also compare the complete lack of story and the agonizing amount of time you have to use hms to get through literally everything. How about the fact that the originals literally had no post-game and they took out the feature of going back to an old region. I think fans need to stop pretending that the old games were even good to begin with if they can't accept to the newer games.
@@supremecourt4131 I never really liked the Battle Frontier in emerald in the first place, it was incredibly unfair and training your Pokemon all the way to level 100 is not what I would consider fun when the payoff is getting killed by a quick claw horn drill rhydon. In my opinion the older games weren't that good to begin with, the series never Fell From Grace because it never had Grace.
@@thabluetails You could also just train to Level 50 and for the really lazy ones you could have bought a cheatmodul for generating Pokemon with the right DV/EV spread The new games are not well desigend at all and way to easy, Gamefreak has a lack of quality these days But this is just my opinion
@@supremecourt4131 Cheating is cheating so I don't really count that and to me the games have always been easy, I really don't think the newer games are substantially easier than the older games especially since I distinctly remember people struggling with ultra sun and Ultra moon when it came out despite all the experience we have with Pokemon now. I don't think the games are necessarily getting easier it's just that we're getting better. I imagine I would struggle a lot more with sword and shield if I didn't fully understand what Pokemon are good or bad at a glance or what stats even are like when I was a kid.
I feel like what happened to Sword and Shield can also apply to Balan Wonderworld. Both were really hyped up from reveal, the demo comes out and it doesn't live up to expectation, both have a lowered difficulty, both have a bad plot, both have things that are reused, both have a gimmick people don't like and both have their fans. Only difference between the two is that Balan Wonderworld had a legitimate reason for how it turned out because the creator of the original Sonic worked on it and he didn't have experience making complex games.
Fun fact: They delayed Diamond and Pearl because Masuda said he wanted them to be the ultimate Pokémon games, so they needed more time for development.
Yet I think we both know, deep down, that will never happen and the gen 4 community will be tortured with disappointing games that can’t bring back their nostalgia as a kid.
Morimoto should've been the one chosen to direct the Pokemon games. He directed Emerald, as well as Heartgold and Soulsilver. He's clearly very passionate about Pokemon and would've been a better choice. I don't understand why he wasn't chosen.
@@liquidstereomusic Did you watch the video? Also, Kazier claims 'he doesn't understand' but his post answers his own question. Just pay attention, its obvious
My biggest gripe with the comment about how "players get frustrated more easily" is that is automatically assumes the player doesn't want to be frustrated. Frustration and anger makes games much more fun because of that satisfying feeling when you finally overcome that part of the game that has been challenging you! Frustration should be an integral part of any good game, as it requires players to adapt and overcome. Dumbing down a game so players wont get frustated isnt doing anyone any favors and if you quit a game because it frustrates you too much, that's a completely personal decision.
@UCFKgKuXeJKzPVBK8eqt5WGQ thats to reward players who remember seeing a waterfall to come back to get an item for later, dumb ass. You shouldn’t just be rewarded for walking in a straight line without backtracking
Seems backwards to not include features because they assume players will get bored - I get bored of Pokemon games because of a lack of features, not the other way round
There is also other quality of life features from gen 6 like super training and the PSS system (which NO ONE can argue was objectively better than palace plaza from SMUSUM)
It's really bad (and stupid) to design a game asuming what the player will and will not do. I understand that Gamefreak is pressured by Pkmn Co. to make a fully new gen in 2 years. But the excuses are getting really insulting xD
I- BRJDUSURO BRO i have pokemon let's go eevee, and for some reason the fights seemed insanely easy. The pokemon in my party gained like a huge fraction of exp that my fighting pokemon. Also, in Pokemon Moon, aka my favorite pokemon game, Hau actually posed a threat and made me feel like he was a rival worth practicing to fight. I literally can't even remember the rival in Pokemon Eevee. TL:DR - The pokemon games are becoming increasingly easy and less challenging.
Go and find those max mushrooms! Me:Finally I get to look around the isle of armor and get a true sense of adventure with how big the island is. Master Mustard: Actually I’ll hold your hand and show exactly where you need to go because this is Sword and Shield and not black and white
Haha. Dora. Ok, but on a more serious note: I ask around, trying to find out how many people are (rightfully) mad about the ridiculous Difficulty BUT YET have not played Mystery Dungeon (especially 'Sky')?! Award-winning Music and the most complex Story in the Franchise are present things, but most importantly: The difficulty. The stress, the challenge, the Everything. This is how Pokemon Games should be. Mystery Dungeon Sky is literally the same Story-producing Stuff like that legendary Miltank - you know which one. Everything that is good about Challenge and Self-Worth and all that; its all in this Game. If make a mistake, you will most likely die; and if you die, it will hurt. So? Youre mad about the Franchise, you feel its lacking - but you never played PMD-Skye or P-Ranger?!
GameFreak: "People don't have time for that stuff, so it won't come back." Also GameFreak: *Proceeds to add Curry and a fucking CurryDex that you can complete*
This Channel is the perfect middleground between Arlo and his Calmness and the Radicalness of Radical Soda. I'd say they are the 3 you need to check before Buying (!) and Distant Kingdom may be the very Best of the 3, tbh.
For real though, they only reason why they gave Meowth a regional forme is just for the anime. Same goes for the GMax Kanto Starters,Snorlax and Gengar. They don't need another gimmick, they've already gotten one, give other Pokemon a chance.
Also even though these two are the mascots. Pikachu and Eevee didn't need GMaxes, nobody ever uses them, and their Max Moves are extremely fucking useless.
Gen VI didn't have narrow routes like Gen VII and VIII as far as I recall. In fact, the thing about Gen VI is that it feels like a classic 2D game made in 3D, with its chibi designs and such, that's why, even with all its problems, I still liked it. I'm not saying the games should return to that design, but it worked well for the 3DS.
The best thing about your videos is that you dont insult gamefreak, you just tell it how it is, making a valid criticism -gamefreak: we dont listen to those
@@victorford5047 bruh the publishers make so many decisions and have so much power. Remember why ea games aren’t like it’s because ea made which ever company they have make a game add features that others wouldn’t like.
@@jboers4265 tbf some fan game creators make very good games - good story, pacing, etc Even if they normally use the base Pokémon games for inspiration, it shows some promise to what much smaller teams are capable of
One of the biggest problems is the yearly release, this leads to rushed games, I would be happy to wait 2-3 year between Pokemon games if this meant they were of the highest quality, I mean Pokemon is one of the biggest franchises in history so they can make quality games.
pokemon's average wait time is 4 years. swsh took 2 years and it's rushed. like you told your limit is 2-3 years and they shouldnt make it rushed? yeah, no
@@hemalathapajaniraja1990 you also gotta look at the fact that they were working on multiple projects at the same time as sword and shield so they didnt have the full amount of worker
@@hemalathapajaniraja1990 2019: SwSh 2018: Let's Go 2017: USUM 2016: SM 2014: ORAS 2013: XY 2012: B2W2 2011: BW 2010: HG SS ... 9 games in 10 years. It's pretty much 1 game per year.
Honestly the thing that pissed me of the most about SwSh surprisingly wasn't the trees. It's that they got rid of Decidueye's animation for Spirit Shackle. It's signature move. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same for the other 2 Alolan starters as well honestly. It just really makes me mad because they most likely had the animation in the game. They just didn't use it.
An easy workaround would be to have the gym leaders teach the players how to utilize personal skills, highlighting the age old idea that pokemon and humans are really one in the same, just that the humans need to be trained in the way of using their untapped abilities.
@@shaesullivan Brilliant idea! Instead of forcing a Pokemon to know Strength, any Normal-type Pokemon would be able to clear the obstacles after beating the Normal-type Gym! Same for all the other moves - that way you would even be able to justify mono-type gym leaders in-universe and put an increased emphasis on beating them to progress without feeling arbitrary! Go get yourself a cookie, you deserve it!
In addition to the "skills" idea, here's another one. So, in the anime, if a bush is in the way, Ash has options. He may call out Bulbasaur to chop it down with razor leaf. Or maybe Brock brought an axe and they use that. So I think that each obstacle should include a bunch of pokemon that are capable of clearing it (for if you happen to have one of them on you, or have an idea of one that may work), but I also like the idea of, in addition to being able to use a pokemon, finding equipment and figuring out what it does. It could even have a durability system. There could be an axe, grappling hook, whatever. I just want pokemon to have more for interactive options, and ones that we can figure out ourselves! Hell, the obstacles could be incredibly varied, almost like Zelda puzzles where each one is unique. Instead of 50 bushes around the map, there could be a bush, a broken bridge, a fallen tree, etc. We don't need a small list of all possible obstacle-types when we could have different, unique obstacles with different, unique solutions. I want the pokemon to be immersive, as well as the environment in general. And in real life, if I don't have a pokemon with some type of cutting-power, I might have access to a saw.
I just started playing alpha sapphire, and my torchick's scratch animation has it jump, scratch, and then turn around and come back. That's animation, and it genuinely shocked me that it was so detailed, considering I have delt with over 200+ hours of sword and it's sh*t animations.
The virgin Game Freak: forces you into a certain play style, removes things from the original titles in their latest remakes, nasty graphics, and a very limited amount of content in their games in general The Chad Spike Chunsoft: Remade a title, all the while not removing content, giving it a gorgeous art style, and all the while adding a copious amount of quality of life improvements.
I'm more worried about the start of the game being in a TIme-Loop. Like in Higurash no ni, we are all trapped in a little village!!!! Ahhhhh! Seriously: I wanna be a Make-a-Wish-Foundation-Member for once! Searching out the Champ not cause 'thats what you do', but because a dying child wants to see him one last time. But oh no: He vanished?! Yes, he did, while he searched for a living Legend.
12:12 Holy SHIT someone else finally said it about the washed-out models! I remember talking to a friend back in like 2014 or 2015 about how I didn't like how greyscale the models looked, and how the colors just don't pop anymore. I'm so glad there were other people who pointed this out!
@@TheChildofAuraReborn Exactly!! Honestly its really frustrating because its a really easy fix?? Just boost the saturation. Problem solved. 3D models have certain advantages sprite art doesn't and yet GF still doesn't use them. 🙄
One of the things that bothers me to no end about the fandom is when they say: "Let people enjoy their games" I don't know who needs to hear this, but criticism existing in the space around you doesn't affect your experience or stop you from getting enjoyment out of them. If there is so much negativity surrounding the past titles, it's because there is PLENTY of stuff to be mad about.
i disagree, i once told i disliked sinnoh and thought galar was ok, and i got cancelled on twitter. i lost most of my interest in the franchise because of the fans. like bro, we get it you like sinnoh and hate galar but you dont have to be an asshole about it
@@hemalathapajaniraja1990 Hi. Let me clarify what I meant. Criticism of the game should not affect one's particular experience, and is pretty easy to ignore. Criticism of a certain player is not tolerated. I get that people are mad about the recent games, I am too, incredibly actually, but players who found enjoyment out of them should not be attacked. We, as the audience, are supposed to criticise the product, and we can have conversations about who enjoys what and why, but straight up bullying, I won't tolerate. I'm sorry you had that experience.
I remember celebrating the removal of HMs. Oh how wrong I was. Honestly, I find the HM system annoying for how it bogs down your team with weak ass moves or HM slaves, but it's a whole lot better than the new roadblocks and corridors.
I feel like my perfect implementation of HMs would work like this: Pokemon have different field moves based on which pokemon they are, a lapras can surf, an ampharos can light up caves, etc You do not need a single field move to obtain all the badges and defeat the champion You may need specific field moves to traverse certain routes and reach certain towns but anything locked behind them can be skipped This would allow for more exploration, different experiences, keep exploration tied to the player and their pokemon as opposed to "keys" obtained throughout the journey, and allow for there to be many more types of them without the player having to waste team and move slots
JayDeeJay Or just have one pokemon that can do something, if you have a fighting type you could use strength or Rock punch, or the ability to choice a Pokemon so it could learn an HM without learning a new move, obviously with logic, you couldn’t teach Rock punch to a fucking Metapod
What if Sword and Shield is actually secretly about the player character struggling with dementia? The reason NPCs seem to talk in such a handholding way is because their mental state genuinely merits that level of care.
@@DistantKingdom Well both titles are good... But the new one fits the situation we all be in! We will fall deeper and deeper because there is no ground to be land on. Gamefreak could make Gen 9 with Microtransactions for special items or even Pokémon and defenders would still come up with the stupidest excuses because it's Pokémon. Nowadays we see all over the world how many idiots there are!
Can't believe people still believe Gamefreak after we can all see they are either lazy or lying about it, but have the Todd Howard 100 charisma with them and therefore the "fans" defend them. These are the same devs that couldn't finish Silver/Gold and had Iwata finish the game and even add another region for them, something they haven't done aside from HGSS
@@greenandeievui7834 either way they couldn't finish gold/silver and had to ask for help. Because they don't know how to program properly and make duplicates of unnecessary stuff and load them individually instead of getting them from a pool
DK, I want to express my immense appreciation from your work and message. An amazing dialectical analysis of the continual downfall of my favorite childhood game series. It's depressing, but I'm glad someone's taking the time and effort to do so. I implore you, ignore the hate. You rock. Keep it up.
I hated caves in pokemon actually I am glad they are gone lol. Tons of wild encounters, annoying trainers, HM's needed halfway through it so I have to go all the way back to get a different pokemon. Tons of dead ends and alternate routes only for you to ger rewarded with something stupid like an X defend. Worst part of the games for me, not something I want to go back to, I agree SWSH are lazy but removing the tedious caves was a good idea. Pokemon needs to learn how to make caves fun.
I'm more worried about the start of the game being in a TIme-Loop. Like in Higurash no ni, we are all trapped in a little village!!!! Ahhhhh! Seriously: I wanna be a Make-a-Wish-Foundation-Member for once! Searching out the Champ not cause 'thats what you do', but because a dying child wants to see him one last time. But oh no: He vanished?! Yes, he did, while he searched for a living Legend.
@@cjw8497 I actually liked 6 better than 7, but it may have been mainly the novelty of the jump in graphics not having worn off yet. I also think I like the chibi art style of 6 better than more realistically-proportioned style of 7.
*And yet everyone will lick their boots when the next gen comes out, the cycle is pretty clear, no matter how bad they do their job, the idiots will buy anyway*
Im replayng Pokémon white 2 and dude........i fell so depressed on how the new games are so mediocre compared against a 11 years old game.(this is not a bad thing...but it's ridiculous)
I recently decided to buy every pre-3ds Pokémon game to do a complete series Pokédex 100%, and I am dead set on BW2 being that newest ones I own and play
I love how nostalgiakids like you are this easy to trick even though he also made the games you pretend to like. All because you fell for a spammer whos spreading misinfo disproven since 2015. Guess all you need to trick an idiot is to spam it everyday, worked for qanon tricking americans, worked for this troll spamming the same lie for 6 years straight
@@bbbsharank4667 Did you even heard what Masuda himself said in some interviews? Clearly the whole brand took a road where the profit is the only important thing and at the moment, they made the right choice. But with this choice the very original spirit of the games has been lost, that spirit that made millions of kids falling in love with the brand 20/15/10 years ago.
After Gen 5/6 I was done. I've been watching alot of critical reviews of Pokémon and the Gamefreak company in genreal, and you'll be very surprised with the amount of things Gamefreak have left out, been lazy with regarding the production of recent Pokémon games, and changing things up way too much. I feel sorry for new Pokémon fans because they will never know the magic of the older generations (gen 1 - 5)....just my opinion tho of course 😌🤷🏻♂️💯
Can't say I expected a comprehensive analysis of the pokemon games and their issues through the years but seeing this 34 minute video in my notifications was a pleasant surprise
I feel like with how Go ended up becoming way more profitable then the mainline series of games, that was the economic justification behind next to everything giving you EXP in Gen's 6-8. In Gen 1, there was an item called the EXP All and it was your reward for catching at minimum; 50 Pokemon for your Pokedex but it didn't exactly work the way the modern EXP Share works. The item was kind of bugged since Trainers don't rematch in the original Gen 1 game. This was "fixed" in FR and LG but the EXP All was replaced with the EXP share which replaced it in Gen II which back then was an item you had to actually work hard in order to earn. In Gen II you absolutely did not get the EXP Share until you did a large sequence of events out of order. If you really wanted to, you could beat Morty in Ecrutek to get the permission to use Surf in Battle, beat all the Kimono Girls to get the HM for Surf and then skip all the way to Mahogany Town where Lance is already programmed to wait for you the player character to show up and start the Red Gyrados Sidequest. Gen II was wild it had the same programming oversights that Gen 1 had but it created more exploration for the player and created the illusion that the game felt less linear. Gen III kind of had this but not nearly as expansively. Gen III was when programmers wanted to keep the main character focused on the overall goal of the plot but even then some sequences can be done completely out of order.
On the difficulty bit, I agree with them and I'll use my partner as an example. My partner understands how to play Pokemon, but her playstyle is what makes the game infuriatingly difficult for her, as she will only use "cute" Pokemon and not evolve Pokemon so they stay cute, were as I'll make a team optimally for whatever gym/challenge I have and steam roller it and fly through the game and completing my PokeDex before my partner has even gotten her 5th badge. Turn based RPGs are just like Dark Souls honestly, they're only as difficult as you make them.
Masuda keeps saying "people don't have enough time to play" and I'm wondering where all that time went because lots of people had lots of time to play in the past. Where did it all go? Are we not on the same 24hr clock as we were in 2006? Have kids begun doing extra things besides playing with each other? As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed in the last 20 years and people have just as much time now as they did then. Perhaps if they cared enough to hire enough people and give them ample time and resources then people would actually begin making time FOR pokemon in their day.
Also remember that they're forced to make each entire game in time for the cards and anime. If something's not ready it either get released unfinished or it gets cut down. Also, it takes so much more work to make the 3D games. So while making the 2D games it's easier to get it finished by the time the cards and anime are released.
Regarding the battle frontier, he should've just said "it's not in the game because we made ORAS for children and they're not smart enough to comprehend it nor do they have the patience to learn new strategies". Meanwhile adults and teens were the main playerbase
And then explain, WHY DO THEY HAVE A CHILDREN SECTION FOR VGC?! I know children are better than adults at one specific thing: Learning. Not in knowledge but in the rhytm they adquire that knowledge. Specially with the help of some tools online (damage calculator) a 10 year old child can in fact become the very best.
Adults and teens are not their main player base. Theyve said this often. I'm surprised people keep pushing this narrative that most pokemon players are veterans/adults. Most of the players are kids.
I feel like saying, “It’s for kids” is just a lame excuse now. Just because something is made for kids doesn’t mean it has to be extremely dumbed down. Kids aren’t stupid, they can understand at least some complex things. They aren’t babies.
I think a good way to avoid the "been there, done that" feeling is to play fan games. I was sort of in a blah moment after I played Pokémon ultra moon. The new switch games were unappealing to me and I felt like I was betraying my 3DS if I played them. Then I discovered Gameboy advance ROM hacks. There are tons of good fan made titles that still gave me that fresh feeling. What was really neat about them was the fact that a lot of fan games have little known knowledge about them through wikipedia or fandoms so you really are diving in without knowing what's in store for you.
Happy New Year! In your "Pokemon wants ALL of your money video", that one where you highlighted how money hungry Pokemon is for putting a fee on the Pokemon GO transfer feature for Pokemon HOME and so on, I left a comment as a joke. I said that the apologist will defend it. (The paid Pokemon GO X HOME connectivity) And guess what, the apologist DID defend it. They said it is necessary because it might crash the server and (insert bootlicking here) and several other excuses Smh... We will never have a high quality Pokemon game anymore. Gen 7(at least for me) was the peak. Its all downhill from here on out. As a Pokemon fan since Gen 2, I am so sad. Alexa, please play Pokemon Black and White "Emotion".
I just started a play through of Y and I gotta say, I does feel new coming from b&w. The game feels like a normal Pokémon game since i don’t the exp share yet and I haven’t beaten a gym. I think that GF had a valid excuse for XY being content lacking, but the rest are LAZY
26:31 I think that aspect peaked with gen 5, as those games had pretty a rich and compelling story and nice cinematics, yet left enough room between story progression events for the player to do whatever they want most of the time
This Channel is the perfect middleground between Arlo and his Calmness and the Radicalness of Radical Soda. I'd say they are the 3 you need to check before Buying (!) and Distant Kingdom may be the very Best of the 3, tbh.
I honestly feel like Sonic 06 is better than modern Pokémon games. It’s bad but you can tell the devs actually cared they were just rushed and under staffed. Game freak doesn’t care they’re happy to stamp out the same copy pasted crap every year
As great as the Crown Tundra was, (I hated Isle of Armour) the steep $40 CAD price really kills it for me. Playing through this new area and solving puzzles to unlock the Regi's really made me feel like I was doing something. The problem was that I had to go through a massive paywall to get it, plus purchase another pack just to enjoy the good parts.
I feel like something needs to be said about S/M. While it is a victim of gfs new problems with design, its focus on story pays off: the story was incredible. SwSh had barely any, and still suffered from the same handholding, this time with absolutely no benefit. That is all.
@@DistantKingdom wow. I didn’t think you would agree with me here. Honestly, I would defend SM too much because of nostalgia, which is why I usually shut up, but I thought I needed to say something here.
i agree!! the story was AMAZING! the characters were dynamic and had arcs and the story was SUPER dark for a pokemon game, almost on gen 5 level with the whole abusive parent thing. the only thing that'd make it as dark as gen 5 is if you fought corrupted lusamine herself instead of just her corrupted pokemon
Fortunately usually third versions or remakes tend to be handled by a different team. The B team have something to prove and tend to make solid games (think Emerald, Platnium, HGSS, ORAS, and FRLG) that expand on mechanics, add new things, add to story, and QoL that the main team may not completely carry over to the next game due to time constraints.
I'm a professional pixel artist. I love and respect Pokemon's pixel art artistically. I've done 3d for less than a year, and most of the environment graphics in the new games feel like something someone with almost no experience would make. That is not something anybody should expect from a massive franchise like Pokemon.
@@elgatochurro Even the Pokemon mystery dungeon remake was not long ago, and it's 1000 times more competent than games released around the same time. Something is seriously wrong in their hiring practices for the swing to be that dramatic.
Saying no one has time to dedicate to a single game is a pathetic excuse for having easy games. . Have they looked at the internet?? There are hundreds of communities dedicated to Pokémon. The amount of TH-cam channels with a large subscriber base is in the hundreds... what a cop out. No one has time to dedicate to your game? Maybe if you made your game better, more challenging and customisable, the fans wouldn’t worry about other games or franchises to share your audience’s time with. Not to mention we’d have to rely less on mods, fan games and other third party Pokémon platforms. Doing the bare minimum isn’t gonna cut it forever. I love Pokémon, but if this crap continues, I’ll just be happy to play old games instead buying every release every two years. I’m sick of Game Freak’s incompetence. Hire more staff and make better games! You’re not an indie developer anymore and you haven’t been for well over a decade!
...The Franchise is burning and Gamefreak has literally no idea. Its amazing... I mean, we dont even have to ask for finally getting the reason for Regigigas weird Ability that makes it seem like it was cursed in-story/lore! Or the Unknown's secret! No, we have to hope for much less important stuff. We have to hope for the quality-fall to stop, or even reverse! Gamefreak officially thinks of Players Age 10 having the intellect of Age 4 and of Players Age 30, they think were useless so who even cares about our Age? Thats more than worrysome.
Man I miss getting lost in caves and finding cool secret areas with new Pokémon and items as well as finally being able to get over a waterfall to be greeted with a whole new area to explore. These new games just don’t feel the same.
I mean I agree on the lack of evolution. Outside of some 3d animation, and tons of competitive (mostly catering to THEIR format, VGC) quality of life after gen 5 not much was done. However this year Pokemon Go made 1.92 BILLION Dollars and Sword and Shield was one of Gamefreak's most successful games in a decade or so. Additionally they have a stranglehold over the monster collecting market (whether by design or unintentionally) which make it difficult for any newcomers to enter the market. From a Business perspective, Gamefreak is a n amazing success story from a consumer perspective, wtf how do they get away from this.
I FINALLY broke down and played Shield because at this point it's already broken sales records and me not buying it does literally nothing. These games were so painfully close to fantastic that it hurts. The Dex not being full (even after $90 worth of base game and DLCs) still stings. The online experience is atrocious--the lagging when connected to online in a wild area or in the two DLC areas is horrendous. The bizarre choice to put the GTS on the Home app on your phone but not in the Switch app makes using Home actually confusing at times. Just to trade something from the game on the GTS, you have to open Home on the Switch, transfer the Pokemon from the PC to Home, close the Switch Home app, open the phone Home app, then do the trade from there. Then there's the NAT Type issue that the Switch has where if your connection is anything below Nat Type B, you can barely use the internet. I literally have to connect to my desktop's wifi hotspot while being connected to the internet through a VPN to be able to use the internet features at all. That's all because Nintendo has no clue how to do online gaming at all; no other console has this issue so widespread. Then the story was nonexistent and every time something almost happened, Leon swooped in and told you "nah just don't worry about it, you keep doing the gym challenge while I do the stuff that matters". The ending felt like it came so far out of left field. Dynamaxing feels cheap since any pokemon can do it, Gigantimaxing feels a little better because it's a bit more exclusive but still doesn't change much and makes you wonder why it exists. Mega evolution was still way better when it could change typings, abiltiies, and even the stats of pokemon. The camping thing is pretty stupid. I used it once when it was given to me, then I forgot about it until after I'd beaten the main story and filled the pokedex and saw it chilling in the menu and remembered it was a feature. So with all of those issues, it also had so much good. The raid system and dynamax adventures (in the Crown Tundra DLC) makes the game have an actual co-op experience that isn't that bad (unless you mysteriously can't get the link code system to work which happens sometimes) and the rewards you get for it make doing them worth it. The game (excluding parts of the Wild Area) didn't feel overly empty like X/Y struggled with. The appearance of the game was nice (but we know it could've been pushed further when you've got games like Breath of the Wild or Three Houses on the Switch). A lot of the new pokemon have really nice designs (Hatterene, Grimmsnarl, Grapploct, and Obstagoon were favorites for me). The return of weather systems was nice and the total number of pokemon you can find (including trade evos like Rhyperior, Mamoswine, Tangrowth, Milotic, etc) was nice... but it also made me realize probably why they didn't include all pokemon. It became clear to me they wanted you to be able to find every single pokemon in the Galar dex somewhere in the wild, rather than just requiring them to be traded over. Instead of just coding them all in somewhere, they stopped after a good chunk of them. There's nearly 698 pokemon of 932 total pokemon in the games now. That's WAY more than any other game has ever had to be programmed to spawn in locations before and it makes me wonder if the game would've felt too crowded spawning all of them. There were some areas that already felt too crowded as it was but then it makes me think they should've just made the regions in the DLCs larger and included all of the pokemon left out rather than just some.
I do feel like the pokemon encounter problem could've been fixed fairly easily (because spawn overload was a problem in LGPE) Simply code certain mons to only be encountered via spawns and some that are exclusively encountered in the tall grass. Tada! now you can have a dynamic biome while still retaining the mystery of searching for specific mons.
I agree almost totally but the glaring problem is time and the fact that game freak and the Pokemon company always make sure there are no game breaking glitches
Ehh kinda relatable, I also almost pick Sword bc I thought, "Well, it'll not really change anything since the sale is beyond well already." But in the end I didn't bc I already swear to not buy Sword\Shield lol
I still don't think they have an excuse for not including all pokemon in the game (by that, I don't mean that all pokemon should be catchable in-game, but rather having them be transferable). Pokemon Sun and Moon's dex was 400 pokemon, but pokemon from all gens prior were transferable. This means over 800 pokemon were coded in. A 3DS title has more pokemon coded in than a switch game. THAT boggles my mind.
3d isn't the problem. The Sinnoh remakes are proof of that. They either need to give each game more time or use their enormous bank account to hire enough people to make the games with quality on time. Side note: I never want to see hms again. I'd even take the team yell roadblocks over hms ever coming back.
Game Freak is pretty much ignoring the only possible options it has left to make pokemon more diverse. Typings : Somehow, out of almost 900 damn creatures, there's more than a dozen unused combos... COME ON MAN. Where's Electric/Fighting or Ice/Poison. WHY IS THE ONLY FIRE/ELECTRIC A DAMN OVEN ? Megas : These were THE hype back when they were released. Everyone and their grandma adored them. They felt special. Now every mon gets a... cheap godzilla mode... Yay. Fusion : Everyone wants this but they still never touched this mecanic except for Kyurem and this other deer thing from the DLC. The list just goes on and on while these f*ckers go full Disney mode and pump out half as*ed games just like those live action movies.
I honestly have no words to describe my disgust and sadness when I saw the interview, especially in the part where they talk about "Expecting the audience not to raise such high expectations" seriously? is this the same franchise that featured legendary games with extreme effort and soul placed in them? which caused us wonderful memories, epic adventures and are still perfectly playable to this day? and the worst of it, is that in fact Gamefreak already has a monopoly of this genre and a very well established title, they don't need to try anymore, since they will sell absurdly well regardless of the effort put in. All of that and several other factors unfortunately make me think that the franchise is lost and only tends to get worse.
Idk I feel like you’re giving sun and moons routes too much flacc, while yes, they’re very linear, they’re usually pretty interesting locals, when compared to sword and shields. They’re also quite a bit more complex than swsh. Take route one for exapmle. There are multiple paths you can take, reasons to come back (once you get surf to get to the bay, once you get Taros to get to ten karat hill or to a 3rd path with lots of rewards, and once you get sharpedo to get to the secret cave, which has multiple rare Pokémon. I feel like the routes in this game link to separate areas contained within the route, and it just makes it feel really nice to me. Tbh I strongly dislike both of these directors, but I feel like sun and moon gets a whole lot of hate. (Some of which is warranted, but these games are some of my favorites in the series, which is why I’m defending them lol)
SuMo still had an HM-like system in tact so that alone makes its routes infinitely more engaging than Swsh, but it is what introduced the restrictive corridor map design we see today
@@DistantKingdom yeah I totally agree, my actual biggest issue with swsh was lack of any exploration, which is most likely caused by the lack of the religion opening up as you progress. Great video by the way! Thanks for responding!
@@corn8837 Not that many of SM's routes had this extra content to explore, but SwSh made it SO bad I won't even complain about SM again. And to their credit, the entire Poni Island's map design was fire.
sun and moon is one of my favorites because of its complex characters with actual development and a wonderful, complex, and dark story. it kinda reminded me of black and white with the whole abusive parent thing. in swsh, the characters barely have one trait to their name and the story hardly exists.
If you could replace Game Freak with another studio to develop Pokemon who would it be and why?
Yoko Taro, because that would be hilarious
Genius sonority, they proved ages ago that they can do it way better.
Square Enix. The quality of their games is always consistent.
GUYS I KNOW THE AVENGERS GAME EXISTS OK I KNOW PLEASE STOP REPLYING
Annapurna.
Bandai Namco
They actually care about the Pokémon
Imagine designing a game around the concept that people would rather play other games and do other things instead of playing your game.
They don’t even believe in their products,unless that’s just an excuse to pat theirself on the shoulders while saying:”people wouldn’t fully complete the game anyway so why bothers to add new contents or post game contents?”Which is technically true cause there are lots of players who just complete the story,defeat the Pokémon league and never touch the game again,but these kind of people where always there but they didn’t stop them from making masterpieces like HG/SS,platinum(which I hope they’ll do a good job with the distortion world) or BW2.Sadly no matters how low effort a Pokémon game can be,people will always buy it.From my point of view I will buy only the gen 4 remake and never buy a Pokémon game again until they’ll pull themself together,stop pattIng theirself on the shoulders and most importantly,stop being lazy,soulless and money hungry idiots.
They just have a bad PR team
@@Gimas96 Me who played days and days and months getting every pokemon in BW and B2W2 played each of these 2 games more than 30 times EACH meanwhile I played sun and moon once and couldn't even finish SWSH. What a shame, they were an exemple of originality and great game developing, now they're just a bunch of lazy asses with lame ass games.
Stupidity is in their heads.
welcome to 2020 generation of VagAnal males.
If they’re so worried about players getting lost in more complex routes, towns, and dungeons then why don’t they...add a map?
It’s impossible for a billion dollar company to add a map if they somehow can’t add others features and all Pokémon.
W-What? No way, maps are way too complicated for children.
Gen 7 has maps for the places we visit but can we really get lost in those games?
@@PolarGuy I meant more detailed maps for specific areas. Like dungeon maps or overworld/route maps that give the player more of an idea of where they are
@@PKmeloa the rotomdex in gen 7 did that. even if the rotomdex was annoying there, it did the overworld map right.
"People have less time to play"
*locks me in a 20 minute cutscene with galarian hau that i neither asked for or wanted
Not to mention Sun and Moon that have the most annoying cutscenes ever
If people didn’t have time to play then they wouldn’t play at all….. wtf are they even talking about
@@Toadthefungi Not to mention, Pokemon is an RPG... You can save and quit at anytime that you arent locked in a battle or cutscene.. You have literally as much time as you can put aside to finish them. If you feel you won't be able to beat a battle before you need to quit, but want to try anyways, save before the fight, quit when you run out of time. GameFreak either grew lazy or The Pokemon Company grew impatient. Either option is awful.
I often fantasize that Pokemon never moved to 3D models and the 2D sprite animations got more advanced, leading into animations that actually interact with one another. Punches that connect to the enemy model, taking size into account and having actual unique animations for moves.
@@Toadthefungi Yeah.
Its embarassing people
believe those Lies.
Makes me wish for 'The Take' making
a Video about this, but they are not much
into Games, unfortunately...
Masuda literally makes this up.
As Distant Kingdom literally asked "Was there a Survey?
...Was there?"
Its all made-up. Legit.
"I hope people don't get their expectations too high." is a statement equal to "I'm here for your money, not for your praise." which is absolutely disgusting considering that Pokemon is the largest franchise of Nintendo overtaking Mario and Zelda which have better good-looking games.
Let that sink in.
This Channel is the perfect middleground
between Arlo and his Calmness
and the Radicalness of Radical Soda.
I'd say they are the 3 you need to check
before Buying (!) and Distant Kingdom
may be the very Best of the 3, tbh.
No Nintendo game besides maybe super smash bro’s has ever been made for anything except money that’s what it is now they’re just being honest
Having high expectations of pokemon is pointless because they will always let down the players to get the game out for the holidays
Pokemon actually is the most selled franchise EVER not only Nintendo's franchise
I think Pokemon hit Seasonal Rot with X & Y.
A very accurate quote I once heard that summarizes the state of the franchise:
"Pokemon once sold merchandise based off the incredibly successful video games. Now it sells video games based off the incredibly successful merchandise."
These Guys talk such utter Nonsense.
'You either die as a Hero or live long enough to become the Villain' is really personified with Masuda.
He's talking like he's on bad Medicine. For real. His Interview-Statements are kinda similar like if he talked about how Meoth evolved at Lv.15 into Pikachu and then again 10 Levels later at Lv.8 - in to Giratina himself.
Thats the level we're dealing with. People are literally calling out every single bullshit of him, no matter age and gender.
My 8 Years old Step-Siblings basically said 'WTF' about Masudas claims.
@@slevinchannel7589 you should make that a comment
Yeah but that became reality by the game boy advance. Was originally ending with GSC
The BS cards in a few years they would be worthless. But pokemon games will never die
I mean. Isn't every company like this? Especially other indie companies?
If people "don't have time to play" then why make a game at all
See my comment in Newest first. its below yours
I don't think GameFreak would be able to survive financially if they stopped developing Pokemon games.
@@queentsareena1768 actually they would because the Pokèmon franchise includes not only videogames. There's also a TCG and loads of merch
...The Franchise is burning and Gamefreak
has literally no idea.
Its amazing...
I mean, we dont even have to ask for
finally getting the reason for Regigigas weird
Ability that makes it seem like it was cursed in-story/lore!
Or the Unknown's secret!
No, we have to hope for much less important stuff.
We have to hope for the quality-fall to stop, or even reverse!
Gamefreak officially thinks of Players Age 10 having the intellect of Age 4 and
of Players Age 30, they think were useless so who even cares about our Age?
Thats more than worrysome.
They officially think kids are too stupid and lazy to play games through,
and make official statements about us Fans being lazy and dumb.
Oh, and no one wants a difficult game, sure. Yeah, sure.
...Oh my...
We NeEd MoNeY
Am I the only here who thinks that they should just chill a bit? they don't have to release a new game every year?
No, you’re not. I completely agree. It would also be less stressful for the devs.
Every 1 year and a half or 2 years are good options, they need to take their time to make a good game like D/P/P or B/W/B2/W2
@@tricksfollies9549 the devs don't do a good job so how could they be stressing
They've had a year now so hopefully next game will look ok
@@poopee2731 no cause ppl like you will buy it no matter what
Masuda: "People don't have time to play long games. People have a smaller attention style."
Oh yeah I remember how BOTW got a lot of criticism for being super long and full of depth. People stopped playing it in a week. It has completely driven the Zelda franchise into the ground. It barely sold any copies. People don't even talk about it anymore.
The problem is that you buy a 60$ game that you finish in 1 hour
Bro...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ironic for what is basically a Nintendo 2nd party developer to not realise this.
GF really are the weakest link in the Nintendo family of developers. TPC should strip them from the franchise and had it to a better team.
That happened to dk 64 lol
@tom gu because Nintendo doesn't own TPC, and owns only about 30% of pokemon franchise. They don't make the rules in this case.
"Dont expect too much"?
Imagine the people behind Zelda tell their Fans, "yea, dont expect too much from BOTW 2"
*C H A O S*
after all the money they earned by loyal fans
they say dont expect too much
wow
Panik
-Reporting live - large riots in japan as they chant “death to Nintendo” more at 11-
...The Franchise is burning and Gamefreak
has literally no idea.
Its amazing...
I mean, we dont even have to ask for
finally getting the reason for Regigigas weird
Ability that makes it seem like it was cursed in-story/lore!
Or the Unknown's secret!
No, we have to hope for much less important stuff.
We have to hope for the quality-fall to stop, or even reverse!
Gamefreak officially thinks of Players Age 10 having the intellect of Age 4 and
of Players Age 30, they think were useless so who even cares about our Age?
Thats more than worrysome.
They officially think kids are too stupid and lazy to play games through,
and make official statements about us Fans being lazy and dumb.
...Oh my...
"People have no time to play games"
Here's something they don't understand, people will MAKE time for a game if it's really that good. If it's shit quality like gen 8 then ofc they're going to drop the game pretty quickly after release while gen 4 and 5 are revisited at least once by most pokemon fans despite being released so long ago.
Not to mention the gen 2 remakes and BW2 are the most expensive games to buy used now. HGSS with the pokewalker can go as high as $200 with the box and B2 and W2 are $100 each whereas ORAS is usually $30 being cheaper than any of the gameboy/gbc/gba games, and X/Y and after is usually $20 at most
Yes. My black 2 copy having an im(perfect) team. I had 18 pokemons on lvl 52 because why the heck not?
They say that and beside there is Persona 5 which is a blast in Japan and worldwide, or Monster Hunter franchise, and it's REALLY long games. So stupid. I want so bad to have a good pokemon game like old times but I'm sure it's done for ever.
I wonder how many hours of WoW or LoL have been played just last year...
@Jesus Pernia really cause you got time to watch an vids on youtube
There's a bit of irony about a series where your character is meant to go on a journey and grow alongside your Pokémon not only remaining stagnant, but also having its mascot be a Pokémon that refuses to evolve and shoving it into your face in every generation.
And let's not even get started on Ash Ketchum
@@isetmfriendsofire Ash has changed so much over the years he gets a pass imo
Are people seriously angry about this? A lot of the complaints hurled at this game can also be applied to the older games, I think you guys have just started to grow out of Pokemon and you don't want to admit it.
@@thabluetails Nah
@@crimsonmaverick8237 he would of if his character was allowed to grow, X&Y's anime was so fucking close to greatness, but then ash didn't get the win he deserved and by the time it reached alola everything was for nothing
the video talks about immersion in the map design section, but I wanted to mention the exact point my immersion was shattered beyond salvage. I tried to be as immersed as possible, so when I got to the snow town, I looked at my character and thought "he's literally in a t-shirt and jeans. there's no way he's not freezing his ass off." so I went to the clothing store to update my look to reflect my location.
there were no coats.
in the town where it is always snowing no matter what time of year it is, the local clothing store where residents without pokemon have to go shopping due to how dangerous wild pokemon are, there are no warm clothes to buy.
Story focus doesn't need to mean "handholding", Black and White and their sequels are proof of that.
Very true. At least the story is ok tho.
The story in Sun Moon is really good, but it also can be boiled down to like 8 lines of dialogue and 2 cutscenes.
As much as I wish I could agree, weren’t those games poorly selling, especially BW2? That seems like proof for them that complex games are popular among fans but bad at drawing in younger children and a casual audience, thus losing sales
@@dmate9889 BW was the peak of people aging out of pokemon. then after another four years people went "Oh wait I'm an adult and I can still like pokemon, gimmie more of that!"
@@dmate9889 many people consider BW2 to be really good pokemon games retroactively
the “same model used for everything” comment betrays the fact that they don’t know how to model, animate or stylize 3D models in order to get them to look good. Look at any CGI animated movie. They should’ve gotten people who actually know how to do 3D well for it to not look soulless.
Oh, they know. Non-Pokémon games like Little Town Hero are evidence of this. Gamefreak just doesn't bother.
Since 3D uses the same model isn't it theoretically possible to create new animations while linking them to natures? That could give more "soul" to the Pokemons.
Basically nature exclusive animations.
Arc system works does a really good job at both
How are the models any worse than the models in Pokemon Stadium Or in XD Gale of Darkness. Yeah the models should be better Im not going to dispute that but if people are happy with the terrible Sprites that red and blue had and the still images that gen3 and Gen4 had then I really don't understand the fan outcry here.
No wonder DK has been missing for so long, he’s been working on a whole movie 😂
ye while writing the script it kept growing and becoming larger than I realized at first xD
@Oliver Domke that's exactly how I read it lmaoooo
@Oliver Domke yeah where is donkey kong
and his gf's hole too hahaaaa
DK WEST DK WEST HE'S THE BEST
Pokemon Colosseum did an EXCELLENT job with the battle camera dynamically granting an overview of the battle, and switching between different perspectives during attacks. Giving the attacking pokemon a lovely front facing shot of their attack, before switching to another front facing view of the opponent receiving it. Not just the arbitrary back facing hop with the standard damage reaction.
Back to the animations too, I absolutely love the recovery animations from defending pokemon, who took time to shake themselves off after being thrown backwards from a powerful attack, then retake their position on the battlefield, rather than a small little flinch we see today.
Yea
They also gave a lot of flying type pokemon more character-based animations instead of having them slowly flap their wings all of the time. Another cool thing is that they actually scaled the pokemon sizes in-battle properly back then so Wailord was like 30 feet tall instead of 3 feet tall as shown in Sword and Shield
Another interview moment had them asked if they would ever make a game similar to Colosseum and XD, and their answer was flat out "No, next question."
It's likely that they don't do research on what worked to make a good pokemon game. They just go with their gut feeling of how they think gaming is trending, and tell everyone else to make the game accordingly.
@@MidnyteSketch Can you remember the source for that interview moment? I'd be interested in seeing it.
Yeah if they just made the battles like Colosseum and Revolution they would look so much better but they cram the Pokémon in a really small area instead
"People don't have time to sink into one game"
Someone please make him a collage of people's play times in Animal Crossing
yep. tho to be honest Animal Crossing is imo a fairly overrated game... it is good fun for quite a while until you realise all the stuff you buy for your house is just decorative useless sh*t and the most content is actually collecting fish/insects. the game absolutely needs some The Sims treatment...
I tried to get into New Horizons and enjoyed it for about a few weeks, but then I just lost interest. I also wasn't a fan with how content from older games like swimming was just drip fed to give the illusion of free DLC. Still better than SwSh though.
One of the great things about animal crossing though is its endless, so players decide when it ends when theyve had their fill :D could be days or months or years until the game "ends"
Your profile pic is amazing
@@charliez077 like it or not, people still put hundreds of hours into it which is the point that matters here. people MAKE TIME for things they like.
To be fair, Pokemon is too big to fail, and it is sad when you think about how mediocre the anime and game have become. But, that is just the way it is, since Pokemon will always continue to make money, no matter how bad the games are.
P.S. The fact that there are people who are so dumb, they don't understand how copyright works, saddens me to no end. If the concept of catching and training monster is somehow only GameFreak and/or Nintendo's, then video games wouldn't exist pass a couple of titles.
Since Pokemon is literally the highest grossing franchise in the world it makes sense that their ego has them what they are now. They can make an entry even worse than sonic boom it will still sell. And the overly milked anime that is literally just a soulless glorified commercial for merch can use an idea from the worst written pokemon fanfic ever and it will still have millions of views
In short it's too big to fail but it has suffered the curse of massive yet soulless companies.
@@straightbusta257 makes sense cuz the original pokemon anime story stemmed from some hard drugs
@@ohmeohmicah The pokemon anime was the best in the earliest seasons because Ash constantly tought he was hot shit but then got his ass handed.
@@NisseDood I honestly thought the Pokemon anime has been mediocre/trash for the most part.
@@straightbusta257 Sure its no masterpiece and it recycled blasting off team rocket waaay to much.
Ash became boring once he stopped being a shitter with a huge ego.
Glad you addressed the map design. Always felt the fun in pokemon wasn’t just the casual gameplay of making a team of 6 and fighting your way to the league but the exploration of the region. Pokemon games didn’t need the hand holding that they’re justifying, they just needed to make the journey more fulfilling instead of a straight line. I mean come on they expect us to beat the strongest trainers and pokemons in the region but they cant trust us in finding our way through a town?
The worlds of each region have always been so much fun!! I think region design peaked around Gens 3-5. Some of the caves/dungeons in Sinnoh and Unova are sooo much fun to get lost in. Gens 6 and 7 were fun but increasingly accrued certain problems as the franchise went on, and I will go as far as to say the map design in SwSh is objectively bad and not fun.
@@tristanneal9552 Eh, Kalos is a perfectly fine region in my eyes. Its probably also the region with the most variety in biomes. Sure, the Power Plant thing sucks, but the rest of the map is still up there with gens 3-5 for me (Hell, gen 6 as a whole, or at least XY, is up there with those gens in my opinion, but I can definitely see why people don't like 6 that much)
@@oggiv I really enjoy Kalos!! Just probably not as much as the predecessors, but imo it's nowhere near as bad as Alola or Galar. When I said increasingly bad I meant Kalos was still pretty good, Alola was okay, and Galar was bad. I actually enjoy all of them conceptually, just not the execution in mapping and linearity. That's all just my opinion though, ofc.
don't worry they made the strongest trainers pushovers too lol
@@retro_nintendom8493 Leon was the first fight I didn't one shot every pokemon in the league to that point, excluding the Eiscue in the Ice gym (I two shotted it only because it had a Sturdy like ability).
I feel like they know the “not everyone wants to progress by battling” stance is bullshit.
Because it doesn’t matter if you level up your whole crew via Curry... you can’t finish the game without battling the gyms.
To piggyback on this: how sick a Pokémon game would be if you could choose the battle or pacifist route and each one has a different criteria for “winning”
Think different paths you decide to take early on and at any point you can end your pacifist run and try your hand at the gym challenge.
I mean shit. Let’s actually do something with the idea of “not everyone wants to battle”. Almost every single Pokémon story has had a character who doesn’t necessarily want to be your standard battle trainer.
"People don't want to _play_ the game in order to finish it, so why should we bother letting them!"
@DiaKorrus 18 yellow is a girl bru
@DiaKorrus 18 and Silver straight up steals gym badges.
It also shows that most people barely even know type matchups, let alone ability interactions. It also explains why most gym leaders are mono-type. Seeing as, if you’re generally staying in one place, and have certain interests, knowledge, jobs, and preferences, having similar (or the same) Pokémon is more convenient.
@DiaKorrus 18 I’m not saying that as criticism. Stealing gym badges would actually be an interesting concept, although I understand why they won’t implement that.
Although I can’t imagine switching to silver for more than a few battles every once in a while to allow for interesting ways to tell the player information that gold wouldn’t have come across naturally. Using someone else’s Pokémon is fun, but doing it too much (with the exception of the battle factory) ruins the overall connection you feel with them.
Then why even make that game?
Dexit was the final straw for me. When you start removing the Pokémon from Pokémon, you've done something very wrong.
Everyone: “Why did you remove ‘this’ add ‘this’ bad thing and do ‘this’ bad decision?”
Gamefreak: “Oh, well we believe our consumers have brains the size of walnuts and can’t handle those features existing.”
I think they still think ALL of their Fans are Kids. And with every year they think "we" somehow get Younger and make it fit for "our Small Child brain"
@@yaboipktendo despite them hiring an adult fan to design a pokemon...
@@mr.preston1632 Think of it Like this:
Pokemon Fans = Everyone
But the people who Play the Game (in their mind) = Only Kids
@@yaboipktendo As someone who grew up with the early gens, that's kind of an insult to kids, though. I really don't get why they think that the games that made them popular with children at the time are too hard for today's children. Does Gamefreak think that kids have grown significantly dumber since the generation before them?
@@songpoetry1 yes.
“They are aren’t interested in things that are so challenging.” Not only are we interested, we’ve been begging for it for years. AND WHO SAID GAMES THAT ARE CHALLENGING ARE BAD!?
It seems the head honchos at Game Freak can't distinguish fun/fair challenge and what's cheap. Pokemon has had examples of both: Fun/fair challenge: Cynthia in DPPt or Ghetsis in BW. Straight up cheap: R-2 Psychic Trainer in Pokemon Stadium or Greevil in Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. For Pokemon Stadium, if you know how OP the Psychic Type was, imagine facing a trainer who only used Psychic Types! And for the latter, I apply this logic if you try catching all of Greevil's 6 Shadow Pokemon in one go! WHile Rhydon, Exeggutor, and Tauros aren't too much to handle, catching 3 Legendary Birds who have unlimited PP on their Shadow Attacks? Yeah, that's far too much! And besides, there was a difficulty feature in Black/White 2, though it was strangely unlocked after beating the game, which makes sense for Challenge Mode, but why did you have to unlock Easy Mode?
@@georgecortes3416 Another example of unfair I think off is Red. My team is most likely only level 60-65 so Red will have 20 levels of advantage which in short means "You deal half damage, he deals double damage, and he will almost always outspeed you". Or U-Necrozma who is even worse due to that double buff it has, only beatable with cheese strategies or a Bisharp with assault vest.
@@N12015 To be fair, the most intimidating thing about Red is the level jump where he has at highest, a Level 81 Pikachu in GSC. And being that it's post-game, one can easily grind wild/trainer battles to face him. But if you want a prine example of level jump that you can't exactly prepare for, look no further than Evice from Colosseum! Your mons might be in the high 40's to the low 50's, while his Pokemon are in their low-to-mid 60's! And this is in the main story! Whether it's his Salamence and Shadow Tyranitar being some of the sacriest pseudo-Legendaries around, Scizor passing buffs, Machamp being the physical monster with Guts, or worse of all: Slowking using Skill Swap on Slaking to take away Truant so it can attack every turn! Levels are one thing, but complex strats from an AI where the Pokemon you can catch is extremely limited means you're in for a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnng battle!
"They" is kids. Not sure how old you are but for 11 year olds his statement is probably correct.
@@majinmj1663 True, and while 11 year olds are the demographic as Masuda went on record saying he only tries appealing to children around 10-11 years old; he's also putting Pokemon against literal smartphones which is like pitting a canoe against a submarine, they're not meant to be compared that way. But if that's the case, then why create any sort of postgame or try balancing the competitive meta at all if only children are what you're concerned with in terms of marketing? And if they don't want to make their games challenging, why include battles such as an omniboosted Ultra Necrozma which plenty of people struggle with? For me, I think the issue is a lack of focus in what they wanna do. They want to appeal to children, seeing that their parents are the ones with the most money, but in that case, why not appeal more to smartphones instead? If the market is supposedly "children with smartphones", then why bother making games on handhelds/consoles if Masuda himself said that's what the children use these days? I'm only trying to understand his perspective, but his words and actions make that like nailing jello to wall; aka impossible.
I miss the Black and White Sprites
Back when THE Pokemon had their personality!
Yea same
Ever played Pokemon Showdown? They have an option to display the BW animated sprites instead of models. I personally find it a huge improvement!
@@MrSwag-zv3pg Bruh I always put the Option Up all the time!
An old man, nice.
@@Saphman4 I'm assuming you only played the 3D games? I feel bad you never got to experience an actually good Pokemon game.
This is the first time I have ever seen anyone praise HMs or Mt. Moon's layout, and somehow you managed to do it in a detailed and convincing manner. Well done.
You know the games have gotten bad when we look back at the old days of Mount moon and hms and say… yeah that’s better then what we’re getting now
Honestly I want Hm’s to come back. It was rewarding unlocking them and using your Pokémon to explore the world. It wouldn’t even be bad now that you can access your pc box from anywhere in the game.
I think ride Pokemon in sun and moon was way more interesting.
Both of those suck. Say goodbye to a good move slot so that you can get around. Have fun going through a maze infested with Zubat.
To all the people begging for gen 4, remakes think of this
Piss easy cynthia
Oh no
Why are people begging for remakes?
They are inevitable. They are not that hard to make and make a lot of money.
On top of that, the quality would be comparable to the current generation.
@@tvboxmimic7887 It'd be cool to play that same game that I loved but more atmospheric and stuff
@@randomuser5369 Well, you're gonna get it less atmospheric and stuff now.
@TVBoxMimic I also don't understand why people want them so much, they'll obviously be bad...
"People don't have that much time to put into a single game"
My Switch Game Times
Don't Starve- 650 Hours or more
The Binding of Isaac- 500 hours or more
Hollow Knight (only halfway through)- 75 total hours or more
Pokemon Shield- 30 hours, data deleted so that I could download Hollow Knight.
I cant imagine how many joy con you burn through
"Deleting Pokemon Shield to download Hollow Knight instead"
Now that's a person of culture as well
@@pokedude3221 stfu youre names pokedude
@@kooe9554 why the hell would you even use that trash ass joycon
@@pokedude3221 those hours don't mean that he or she doesnt go out
Honestly for a company who's main game has the main audience be kids, they fail to realize that if there is one thing kids hate it's being told what to do.
Deep down we knew it was never about gaming but about sales, but it didn't feel that way in the past.
The laziness in Gamefreak's design philosophy never ceases to surprise me.
Is that an Avdol profile pic lol
I think they're more incompetent then lazy.
Theire not lazy, they just know they can do as little as possible for maximum profit
Lazy and Greedy billion dollar company.
@@delphoxxthevulpera68 those two words go together for Gamefreak
The old games definitely have a certain magical feeling to them that the new games don’t have. I always felt it but never could put my finger on it til I had my siblings (10 and 12 years old) play the new game and then had them play one the games I played when I was their age (I’m 24)
Firstly they loved the graphics of the new games and were much more drawn to it (which I figured would happen)
What I didn’t expect was they said they’d rather replay games from my childhood cause they didn’t have to watch a cutscene again if they wanted to try a new team out. That it was extremely annoying and dumb they have to play a story they already know and can’t skip through at all due to unskippable cutscenes whereas older games was mainly text you could mash through in no time. They also enjoyed being able to wander around and take routes whereas in the new game they noticed they did everything the exact same way. Old games they noticed they played drastically different from each other and found they were talking to each other about what they did and got excited that there was something they haven’t experienced yet.
This really made me take a deeper look into the games and realized that Pokémon a game where I dreamed of was dying. They are sitting on a throne in Olympus but it’s starting to crumble beneath them. They just haven’t noticed it yet
The most disappointing part for me is that as a child I could never afford a console or to play pokemon games, the only thing u had was those giant grey TV boxes with a pokemon DVD and some channels that I could watch pokemon and I always wished as a child that I could one day play pokemon. Now that I have a job and can afford it I'm genuinely disappointed as I waited my whole life to be able to afford my own games like pokemon just for them to go this route and make bad games.
I genuinely hope one day they go back to making good games and become the Pokemon company I was proud of
you can probably get the older games like gen 3/4/5, but watchout for fakes
Play Pokémon soul silver or platinum, those are the best games. Pokemon white is good too
Dude I feel this too. There are soooo many games that I wish I grew up with when I had time to play them, and had more chances to really enjoy them. Now that I am in a situation where I can buy pretty much any game I want, and I don't have time to play them, plus my more cynical views on art, it makes playing and completing games impossible.
Same here.
I'm 17, still can't afford a switch, and tbh I'm quite pissed oof
Just compare Emerald with Sword and Shield ..
heartbreaking
Yeah let's compare the still images that Emerald had with sword and shield. Let's also compare the complete lack of story and the agonizing amount of time you have to use hms to get through literally everything. How about the fact that the originals literally had no post-game and they took out the feature of going back to an old region. I think fans need to stop pretending that the old games were even good to begin with if they can't accept to the newer games.
@@thabluetails No post-game? Do you know Battlefrontier?
Sword and Shield is garbage, Dynamax is just ridiculous
@@supremecourt4131 I never really liked the Battle Frontier in emerald in the first place, it was incredibly unfair and training your Pokemon all the way to level 100 is not what I would consider fun when the payoff is getting killed by a quick claw horn drill rhydon. In my opinion the older games weren't that good to begin with, the series never Fell From Grace because it never had Grace.
@@thabluetails You could also just train to Level 50 and for the really lazy ones you could have bought a cheatmodul for generating Pokemon with the right DV/EV spread
The new games are not well desigend at all and way to easy, Gamefreak has a lack of quality these days
But this is just my opinion
@@supremecourt4131 Cheating is cheating so I don't really count that and to me the games have always been easy, I really don't think the newer games are substantially easier than the older games especially since I distinctly remember people struggling with ultra sun and Ultra moon when it came out despite all the experience we have with Pokemon now. I don't think the games are necessarily getting easier it's just that we're getting better. I imagine I would struggle a lot more with sword and shield if I didn't fully understand what Pokemon are good or bad at a glance or what stats even are like when I was a kid.
“People don’t have time to play” yet they make a challenge to catch every legendary Pokémon by requiring you to have 4-5 battles to get one
@rajesh vengat no you cant, you need to sit there and grind you cant just save in the middle of a raid.
They also make you replay raid battles for random drops for good TRs but yeah they're trying to respect our time
@@C3l3bi1 dont think toilet breaks and lunch breaks take 10 mins
Also poketubers, they're whole shebang is pokemon and playing Pokemon
@rajesh vengat So does the 3ds. That doesn’t excuse ORAS’s absence of Battle Frontier.
I feel like what happened to Sword and Shield can also apply to Balan Wonderworld. Both were really hyped up from reveal, the demo comes out and it doesn't live up to expectation, both have a lowered difficulty, both have a bad plot, both have things that are reused, both have a gimmick people don't like and both have their fans. Only difference between the two is that Balan Wonderworld had a legitimate reason for how it turned out because the creator of the original Sonic worked on it and he didn't have experience making complex games.
Fun fact: They delayed Diamond and Pearl because Masuda said he wanted them to be the ultimate Pokémon games, so they needed more time for development.
*Platinum:* Hold my soda pop.
I wish Gamefreak did that with there games nowadays
@@frazer4457 coming from someone who's very nostalgic to gen 4, I don't want remakes of them until The Pokemon Company cleans up their act.
Yet I think we both know, deep down, that will never happen and the gen 4 community will be tortured with disappointing games that can’t bring back their nostalgia as a kid.
What the hell were they doing during the delay? I doubt it changed.
Morimoto should've been the one chosen to direct the Pokemon games. He directed Emerald, as well as Heartgold and Soulsilver. He's clearly very passionate about Pokemon and would've been a better choice. I don't understand why he wasn't chosen.
You know why he wasn't chosen.
@@Ergeniz why?
@@liquidstereomusic Did you watch the video? Also, Kazier claims 'he doesn't understand' but his post answers his own question. Just pay attention, its obvious
@@Ergeniz What does that have to do with Morimoto not being able to direct a game? These 2 he directed are like the best Pokemon games next to gen 5.
@@ScoutNess You can't be this stupid, right?
My biggest gripe with the comment about how "players get frustrated more easily" is that is automatically assumes the player doesn't want to be frustrated. Frustration and anger makes games much more fun because of that satisfying feeling when you finally overcome that part of the game that has been challenging you! Frustration should be an integral part of any good game, as it requires players to adapt and overcome. Dumbing down a game so players wont get frustated isnt doing anyone any favors and if you quit a game because it frustrates you too much, that's a completely personal decision.
This Channel is the perfect middleground
between Arlo and his Calmness
and the Radicalness of Radical Soda.
its like writing a play without the conflict
Yeah, I felt SO rewarded to learn waterfall to get to an area I was forced to leave alone 3 gyms ago… emerald wasn’t perfect either.
@@totallynotthebio-lizard7631 ...No game was perfect, duh.
But they were once waaay better than now.
@UCFKgKuXeJKzPVBK8eqt5WGQ thats to reward players who remember seeing a waterfall to come back to get an item for later, dumb ass. You shouldn’t just be rewarded for walking in a straight line without backtracking
Seems backwards to not include features because they assume players will get bored - I get bored of Pokemon games because of a lack of features, not the other way round
There is also other quality of life features from gen 6 like super training and the PSS system (which NO ONE can argue was objectively better than palace plaza from SMUSUM)
It's really bad (and stupid) to design a game asuming what the player will and will not do. I understand that Gamefreak is pressured by Pkmn Co. to make a fully new gen in 2 years. But the excuses are getting really insulting xD
Pokemon has turned into Dora the explorer... "Do you see the building?"
I- BRJDUSURO BRO
i have pokemon let's go eevee, and for some reason the fights seemed insanely easy. The pokemon in my party gained like a huge fraction of exp that my fighting pokemon. Also, in Pokemon Moon, aka my favorite pokemon game, Hau actually posed a threat and made me feel like he was a rival worth practicing to fight. I literally can't even remember the rival in Pokemon Eevee.
TL:DR - The pokemon games are becoming increasingly easy and less challenging.
Hop: I’ll race you to the station! *Then proceeds to run to the station like he said he would while the camera shows where he stops*
"no" "Great! follow me!"
Go and find those max mushrooms!
Me:Finally I get to look around the isle of armor and get a true sense of adventure with how big the island is.
Master Mustard: Actually I’ll hold your hand and show exactly where you need to go because this is Sword and Shield and not black and white
Haha. Dora.
Ok, but on a more serious note:
I ask around, trying to find out how many
people are (rightfully) mad about the ridiculous Difficulty BUT YET
have not played Mystery Dungeon (especially 'Sky')?!
Award-winning Music and the most complex Story in the Franchise are
present things,
but most importantly: The difficulty. The stress, the challenge,
the Everything. This is how Pokemon Games should be.
Mystery Dungeon Sky is literally the same Story-producing Stuff like
that legendary Miltank - you know which one.
Everything that is good about Challenge and Self-Worth
and all that; its all in this Game.
If make a mistake, you will most likely die; and if you die, it will hurt.
So? Youre mad about the Franchise, you feel its lacking - but you never
played PMD-Skye or P-Ranger?!
GameFreak: "People don't have time for that stuff, so it won't come back."
Also GameFreak: *Proceeds to add Curry and a fucking CurryDex that you can complete*
This Channel is the perfect middleground
between Arlo and his Calmness
and the Radicalness of Radical Soda.
I'd say they are the 3 you need to check
before Buying (!) and Distant Kingdom
may be the very Best of the 3, tbh.
its like a twisted joke
@@slevinchannel7589
Wtf?
GameFreak: Soooo... You're saying you want more Kanto Content? Specifically Pikachu,Eevee,Charizard and Meowth.
For real though, they only reason why they gave Meowth a regional forme is just for the anime. Same goes for the GMax Kanto Starters,Snorlax and Gengar. They don't need another gimmick, they've already gotten one, give other Pokemon a chance.
I hate that meowth got two regional forms and a GMax form. (And the kanto pandering )
Give the other cat mons a chance dam it!
Also even though these two are the mascots. Pikachu and Eevee didn't need GMaxes, nobody ever uses them, and their Max Moves are extremely fucking useless.
@@Nosretep Their Gmax forms were created only to give a excuse to buy Lets go Pikachu/Eevee, theres no other reason..
Gmax Pikachu was actually on a winning VGC team a bit after SwSh.
It caused a huge pay to win concern as Isle of Armor wasn't out yet
If you find yourself teetering on the edge of lying about every design decision you made for fear of backlash... maybe you made a mistake?
Although every comment here has some merit, yours is the most accurate
you wrote what i was feeling
You know what they say.
If you have to fish for explanations and resort to sophistry to have your world make sense, the problem is you.
Gen VI didn't have narrow routes like Gen VII and VIII as far as I recall. In fact, the thing about Gen VI is that it feels like a classic 2D game made in 3D, with its chibi designs and such, that's why, even with all its problems, I still liked it. I'm not saying the games should return to that design, but it worked well for the 3DS.
Yeah the art style was jaring going from gen 6 to gen 7.
Gen 7 had many places to explore, Kala E Bay, Haina Desert, etc..
The best thing about your videos is that you dont insult gamefreak, you just tell it how it is, making a valid criticism
-gamefreak: we dont listen to those
You know that the pokemon company makes a lot of the decisions right
@@Zepellin They don't, they're just publishers but the games are made by Game FrEAk.
@@victorford5047 EA is also "just a publisher". They have far more power than you think.
@@victorford5047 bruh the publishers make so many decisions and have so much power. Remember why ea games aren’t like it’s because ea made which ever company they have make a game add features that others wouldn’t like.
@@lukebytes5366 EA is a publisher, but they're ALSO developers, that's two different things. In Pokémon SwSh, TPC are publishers but not developers.
Alternate title: Why Game Freak is a bad game designer and should not be in charge of the franchise anymore.
Yeah man we really need to fire the Game Freak from the GAMEFREAK office
how to dislike comments but it actually shows
@@jboers4265 tbf some fan game creators make very good games - good story, pacing, etc
Even if they normally use the base Pokémon games for inspiration, it shows some promise to what much smaller teams are capable of
@@jboers4265 dont you mean the company higher ups rushing them?
as long as The Pokemon Company is publishing the games, changing the development studio won't solve anything
One of the biggest problems is the yearly release, this leads to rushed games, I would be happy to wait 2-3 year between Pokemon games if this meant they were of the highest quality, I mean Pokemon is one of the biggest franchises in history so they can make quality games.
pokemon's average wait time is 4 years. swsh took 2 years and it's rushed. like you told your limit is 2-3 years and they shouldnt make it rushed? yeah, no
@@hemalathapajaniraja1990 you also gotta look at the fact that they were working on multiple projects at the same time as sword and shield so they didnt have the full amount of worker
@@hemalathapajaniraja1990 2019: SwSh
2018: Let's Go
2017: USUM
2016: SM
2014: ORAS
2013: XY
2012: B2W2
2011: BW
2010: HG SS
...
9 games in 10 years. It's pretty much 1 game per year.
@@JoaoGamePlays1 i mean MAIN series games, like the main series of the main series games that excludes remakes and enhanced versions
@@thekingbwdee3505 Good argument, this is why people shouldn't hate on swsh for being rushed
Honestly the thing that pissed me of the most about SwSh surprisingly wasn't the trees. It's that they got rid of Decidueye's animation for Spirit Shackle. It's signature move. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same for the other 2 Alolan starters as well honestly. It just really makes me mad because they most likely had the animation in the game. They just didn't use it.
That Jibanyan reveal after shrinking down Dialga was such a funny gag that didn't need to be there, but is greatly appreciated.
Yeah, everyone always hated on HM moves, when in reality they were great, just the way they were forced into the battle system was bad
Exactly!
An easy workaround would be to have the gym leaders teach the players how to utilize personal skills, highlighting the age old idea that pokemon and humans are really one in the same, just that the humans need to be trained in the way of using their untapped abilities.
@@shaesullivan Brilliant idea! Instead of forcing a Pokemon to know Strength, any Normal-type Pokemon would be able to clear the obstacles after beating the Normal-type Gym! Same for all the other moves - that way you would even be able to justify mono-type gym leaders in-universe and put an increased emphasis on beating them to progress without feeling arbitrary!
Go get yourself a cookie, you deserve it!
It would be fine if they were “skills” that only certain Pokémon could learn, but didnt affect the mon’s moveset
In addition to the "skills" idea, here's another one.
So, in the anime, if a bush is in the way, Ash has options. He may call out Bulbasaur to chop it down with razor leaf. Or maybe Brock brought an axe and they use that.
So I think that each obstacle should include a bunch of pokemon that are capable of clearing it (for if you happen to have one of them on you, or have an idea of one that may work), but I also like the idea of, in addition to being able to use a pokemon, finding equipment and figuring out what it does. It could even have a durability system. There could be an axe, grappling hook, whatever.
I just want pokemon to have more for interactive options, and ones that we can figure out ourselves!
Hell, the obstacles could be incredibly varied, almost like Zelda puzzles where each one is unique. Instead of 50 bushes around the map, there could be a bush, a broken bridge, a fallen tree, etc. We don't need a small list of all possible obstacle-types when we could have different, unique obstacles with different, unique solutions.
I want the pokemon to be immersive, as well as the environment in general. And in real life, if I don't have a pokemon with some type of cutting-power, I might have access to a saw.
I finally made it to the big screen mum
great vid btw
Congrats! Good luck on your future videos.
Woooah. Didnt expect to find you here!
Hey man! (Or woman lol) I enjoy your videos. You’re really one of underrated TH-camrs
Bruh holy hexx u also watch him? Dope
Stinky
I just started playing alpha sapphire, and my torchick's scratch animation has it jump, scratch, and then turn around and come back. That's animation, and it genuinely shocked me that it was so detailed, considering I have delt with over 200+ hours of sword and it's sh*t animations.
Cuts to eternata beam.
instead of asking players what they want they're TELLING us what we want.
"Player's don't like being frustrated and don't have time to play anymore"
So I guess Dark Souls doesn't exist then...
Dark Souls is not a good exemple tho, that game sucks
Or Monster hunter
And that to me is a far better comparison
Because that game's charm also comes from the creatures that inhabit its world.
@@Usario321 Show an actual example, rather than just saying "it sucks xd"
they just reading too much article from "game journalist" who always whining about games being too hard
Or F-Zero GX Doesn't exist either which is the Dark Souls of Futuristic Racing Games before Dark Souls was a thing....
The virgin Game Freak: forces you into a certain play style, removes things from the original titles in their latest remakes, nasty graphics, and a very limited amount of content in their games in general
The Chad Spike Chunsoft: Remade a title, all the while not removing content, giving it a gorgeous art style, and all the while adding a copious amount of quality of life improvements.
I'm more worried about
the start of the game being in a TIme-Loop.
Like in Higurash no ni,
we are all trapped in a little village!!!! Ahhhhh!
Seriously: I wanna be a Make-a-Wish-Foundation-Member
for once! Searching out the Champ not cause 'thats what you do',
but because a dying child wants to see him one last time.
But oh no: He vanished?!
Yes, he did, while he searched for a living Legend.
12:12 Holy SHIT someone else finally said it about the washed-out models! I remember talking to a friend back in like 2014 or 2015 about how I didn't like how greyscale the models looked, and how the colors just don't pop anymore. I'm so glad there were other people who pointed this out!
literally what i pointed out to my friends years ago and they thought i was crazy lmao
@@sunjour They should go the PMD DX color route, I love how they colored the models in that game.
@@TheChildofAuraReborn Exactly!! Honestly its really frustrating because its a really easy fix?? Just boost the saturation. Problem solved.
3D models have certain advantages sprite art doesn't and yet GF still doesn't use them. 🙄
One of the things that bothers me to no end about the fandom is when they say:
"Let people enjoy their games"
I don't know who needs to hear this, but criticism existing in the space around you doesn't affect your experience or stop you from getting enjoyment out of them.
If there is so much negativity surrounding the past titles, it's because there is PLENTY of stuff to be mad about.
@@sugartoothYT cough at cyber punk people attacking people critizing and critizing project CD red
*cough*
i disagree, i once told i disliked sinnoh and thought galar was ok, and i got cancelled on twitter. i lost most of my interest in the franchise because of the fans. like bro, we get it you like sinnoh and hate galar but you dont have to be an asshole about it
@@hemalathapajaniraja1990 Hi. Let me clarify what I meant.
Criticism of the game should not affect one's particular experience, and is pretty easy to ignore.
Criticism of a certain player is not tolerated. I get that people are mad about the recent games, I am too, incredibly actually, but players who found enjoyment out of them should not be attacked. We, as the audience, are supposed to criticise the product, and we can have conversations about who enjoys what and why, but straight up bullying, I won't tolerate.
I'm sorry you had that experience.
@@newcarloswig5147 most pokemon fans i've encountered are like that, i've rarely seen legit criticism of pokemon
I think what they mean is don't put people down for enjoying something that you did not
I remember celebrating the removal of HMs.
Oh how wrong I was.
Honestly, I find the HM system annoying for how it bogs down your team with weak ass moves or HM slaves, but it's a whole lot better than the new roadblocks and corridors.
SM had the right idea to delegate them into key items you can use on the spot but there's not much opportunities to use it to begin with
@@inconemay1441 always has been
@Apple Sundae i mean, i didnt complain or anything. SM is perfect if it comes to not waste an attack for a HM.
I feel like my perfect implementation of HMs would work like this:
Pokemon have different field moves based on which pokemon they are, a lapras can surf, an ampharos can light up caves, etc
You do not need a single field move to obtain all the badges and defeat the champion
You may need specific field moves to traverse certain routes and reach certain towns but anything locked behind them can be skipped
This would allow for more exploration, different experiences, keep exploration tied to the player and their pokemon as opposed to "keys" obtained throughout the journey, and allow for there to be many more types of them without the player having to waste team and move slots
JayDeeJay
Or just have one pokemon that can do something, if you have a fighting type you could use strength or Rock punch, or the ability to choice a Pokemon so it could learn an HM without learning a new move, obviously with logic, you couldn’t teach Rock punch to a fucking Metapod
What if Sword and Shield is actually secretly about the player character struggling with dementia? The reason NPCs seem to talk in such a handholding way is because their mental state genuinely merits that level of care.
Comparing B2W2 to SwSh makes Gen 8 look so embarrassing...
lmao bc it is embarrassing
gen 5 is completely superior
Black and White and B2W2 will always be my favorite ones.
@@terra_the_nightingale135 Game wasn't too hard but not too easy, story was glorious
There's a timeline where Pokemon Sword and Shield are 3Ds games?? And we're not on it???
Real OGs remember when this video use to be called Gamefreak X Pokemon.
😂
I do!
I remember too
I remember
@@DistantKingdom
Well both titles are good...
But the new one fits the situation we all be in!
We will fall deeper and deeper because there is no ground to be land on.
Gamefreak could make Gen 9 with Microtransactions for special items or even Pokémon and defenders would still come up with the stupidest excuses because it's Pokémon.
Nowadays we see all over the world how many idiots there are!
Can't believe people still believe Gamefreak after we can all see they are either lazy or lying about it, but have the Todd Howard 100 charisma with them and therefore the "fans" defend them.
These are the same devs that couldn't finish Silver/Gold and had Iwata finish the game and even add another region for them, something they haven't done aside from HGSS
@@greenandeievui7834 either way they couldn't finish gold/silver and had to ask for help. Because they don't know how to program properly and make duplicates of unnecessary stuff and load them individually instead of getting them from a pool
It isn't a full region tho.
Getting to explore Kanto again is neat but its veeery empty in retrospective
I miss when pokemon designs had sharp edges and shading. Now they're all rounded and slick/smooth.
lmao even bisharps points are smoothed out and the models are so desaturated
They're already so chibi that even Porygon 2 and Z look like they have too much detail...
THINK ABOUT THAT
DK, I want to express my immense appreciation from your work and message. An amazing dialectical analysis of the continual downfall of my favorite childhood game series. It's depressing, but I'm glad someone's taking the time and effort to do so.
I implore you, ignore the hate. You rock. Keep it up.
thank you :)
Oh, shit. I forgot that dungeons with multiple levels existed.
I hated caves in pokemon actually I am glad they are gone lol. Tons of wild encounters, annoying trainers, HM's needed halfway through it so I have to go all the way back to get a different pokemon. Tons of dead ends and alternate routes only for you to ger rewarded with something stupid like an X defend. Worst part of the games for me, not something I want to go back to, I agree SWSH are lazy but removing the tedious caves was a good idea. Pokemon needs to learn how to make caves fun.
I think the series peaked at gen 5, then Gen 6 was kinda lame, 7 was better, and I haven't tried 8.
I'm more worried about
the start of the game being in a TIme-Loop.
Like in Higurash no ni,
we are all trapped in a little village!!!! Ahhhhh!
Seriously: I wanna be a Make-a-Wish-Foundation-Member
for once! Searching out the Champ not cause 'thats what you do',
but because a dying child wants to see him one last time.
But oh no: He vanished?!
Yes, he did, while he searched for a living Legend.
@@cjw8497 I actually liked 6 better than 7, but it may have been mainly the novelty of the jump in graphics not having worn off yet. I also think I like the chibi art style of 6 better than more realistically-proportioned style of 7.
This is a well made video but it made me very depressed honestly just knowing this is the reality of Pokemon now.
I have felt this way about pokemon for a while, but seeing so many people in agreement here is what really got me sad.
@grim_ With all that money they're hauling from standardless fans? Never, lol
*And yet everyone will lick their boots when the next gen comes out, the cycle is pretty clear, no matter how bad they do their job, the idiots will buy anyway*
@Luca Seresin yea
Its really sad if you think about it...
We never give up hope that the next Game is great
@Luca Seresin we dont have any alternative do we ?
Ahhh, Yes. Because I enjoy building a team in a fantasy RPG. And get exited when I can do that again but different. I am a idiot.
@@DeinTheEdgelord exactly
"People can play games on their phones so we decided to make our console games garbage."
Which is ironic considering the mobile Pokémon games are also garbage.
Fokii
Because those are totally the same market 🙄🙄🙄
@@colbyhill-nixon6815 woosh
Mauy
Bruh that was sarcasm
“Also, people were riveted by Pong in the 70’s, so we very much aspire to make our games as simple as that. Even simpler, if we’re being honest.”
Im replayng Pokémon white 2 and dude........i fell so depressed on how the new games are so mediocre compared against a 11 years old game.(this is not a bad thing...but it's ridiculous)
The only pokemon games I still play are the ones compatible with ds light.
I recently decided to buy every pre-3ds Pokémon game to do a complete series Pokédex 100%, and I am dead set on BW2 being that newest ones I own and play
Same
Pokemon ended after Gen 6 for me
@@cornwalter1123 Pokemon became newer Paper Mario after gen 7 for me.
*Because sword/shield is a sticker star if I’ve ever seen one.*
Same. I only play gens 3-4.
How to create a good Pokemon game: Don't let Masuda be the director of that game
Ohmori is worse than him. They should just give Gen 9 to Hiroyuki Tani.
What about Morimoto(Emerald Director) and Kawachimaru(Platinum Director)?
@@garburias Also Unno, he was the director of Black and White 2 am I right?
I love how nostalgiakids like you are this easy to trick even though he also made the games you pretend to like. All because you fell for a spammer whos spreading misinfo disproven since 2015. Guess all you need to trick an idiot is to spam it everyday, worked for qanon tricking americans, worked for this troll spamming the same lie for 6 years straight
@@bbbsharank4667 Did you even heard what Masuda himself said in some interviews? Clearly the whole brand took a road where the profit is the only important thing and at the moment, they made the right choice. But with this choice the very original spirit of the games has been lost, that spirit that made millions of kids falling in love with the brand 20/15/10 years ago.
After Gen 5/6 I was done. I've been watching alot of critical reviews of Pokémon and the Gamefreak company in genreal, and you'll be very surprised with the amount of things Gamefreak have left out, been lazy with regarding the production of recent Pokémon games, and changing things up way too much. I feel sorry for new Pokémon fans because they will never know the magic of the older generations (gen 1 - 5)....just my opinion tho of course 😌🤷🏻♂️💯
Man, those past game title screens are so amazing and nostalgic to look at.
I think we can all say…
Pokémon had a rocky transition to 3d
Can't say I expected a comprehensive analysis of the pokemon games and their issues through the years but seeing this 34 minute video in my notifications was a pleasant surprise
I feel like with how Go ended up becoming way more profitable then the mainline series of games, that was the economic justification behind next to everything giving you EXP in Gen's 6-8. In Gen 1, there was an item called the EXP All and it was your reward for catching at minimum; 50 Pokemon for your Pokedex but it didn't exactly work the way the modern EXP Share works. The item was kind of bugged since Trainers don't rematch in the original Gen 1 game. This was "fixed" in FR and LG but the EXP All was replaced with the EXP share which replaced it in Gen II which back then was an item you had to actually work hard in order to earn.
In Gen II you absolutely did not get the EXP Share until you did a large sequence of events out of order. If you really wanted to, you could beat Morty in Ecrutek to get the permission to use Surf in Battle, beat all the Kimono Girls to get the HM for Surf and then skip all the way to Mahogany Town where Lance is already programmed to wait for you the player character to show up and start the Red Gyrados Sidequest. Gen II was wild it had the same programming oversights that Gen 1 had but it created more exploration for the player and created the illusion that the game felt less linear.
Gen III kind of had this but not nearly as expansively. Gen III was when programmers wanted to keep the main character focused on the overall goal of the plot but even then some sequences can be done completely out of order.
On the difficulty bit, I agree with them and I'll use my partner as an example. My partner understands how to play Pokemon, but her playstyle is what makes the game infuriatingly difficult for her, as she will only use "cute" Pokemon and not evolve Pokemon so they stay cute, were as I'll make a team optimally for whatever gym/challenge I have and steam roller it and fly through the game and completing my PokeDex before my partner has even gotten her 5th badge.
Turn based RPGs are just like Dark Souls honestly, they're only as difficult as you make them.
Masuda keeps saying "people don't have enough time to play" and I'm wondering where all that time went because lots of people had lots of time to play in the past. Where did it all go? Are we not on the same 24hr clock as we were in 2006? Have kids begun doing extra things besides playing with each other? As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed in the last 20 years and people have just as much time now as they did then. Perhaps if they cared enough to hire enough people and give them ample time and resources then people would actually begin making time FOR pokemon in their day.
Also remember that they're forced to make each entire game in time for the cards and anime. If something's not ready it either get released unfinished or it gets cut down. Also, it takes so much more work to make the 3D games. So while making the 2D games it's easier to get it finished by the time the cards and anime are released.
I finally beat the game, wait, is that... post game content..? I'm... I'M FEELING ANXIETY AAAAHHHHHHH
-Masuda's logic
Regarding the battle frontier, he should've just said "it's not in the game because we made ORAS for children and they're not smart enough to comprehend it nor do they have the patience to learn new strategies". Meanwhile adults and teens were the main playerbase
Yeah that was bullshit, I've played a lot of games as a kid, I figured ahit out in a lot harder games than Pokemon
And then explain, WHY DO THEY HAVE A CHILDREN SECTION FOR VGC?! I know children are better than adults at one specific thing: Learning. Not in knowledge but in the rhytm they adquire that knowledge. Specially with the help of some tools online (damage calculator) a 10 year old child can in fact become the very best.
Adults and teens are not their main player base. Theyve said this often. I'm surprised people keep pushing this narrative that most pokemon players are veterans/adults. Most of the players are kids.
its targeted at kids, nobody asked teens and adults to play it
I feel like saying, “It’s for kids” is just a lame excuse now. Just because something is made for kids doesn’t mean it has to be extremely dumbed down. Kids aren’t stupid, they can understand at least some complex things. They aren’t babies.
I think a good way to avoid the "been there, done that" feeling is to play fan games. I was sort of in a blah moment after I played Pokémon ultra moon. The new switch games were unappealing to me and I felt like I was betraying my 3DS if I played them. Then I discovered Gameboy advance ROM hacks. There are tons of good fan made titles that still gave me that fresh feeling. What was really neat about them was the fact that a lot of fan games have little known knowledge about them through wikipedia or fandoms so you really are diving in without knowing what's in store for you.
Happy New Year! In your "Pokemon wants ALL of your money video", that one where you highlighted how money hungry Pokemon is for putting a fee on the Pokemon GO transfer feature for Pokemon HOME and so on, I left a comment as a joke.
I said that the apologist will defend it. (The paid Pokemon GO X HOME connectivity)
And guess what, the apologist DID defend it. They said it is necessary because it might crash the server and (insert bootlicking here) and several other excuses
Smh...
We will never have a high quality Pokemon game anymore. Gen 7(at least for me) was the peak. Its all downhill from here on out. As a Pokemon fan since Gen 2, I am so sad.
Alexa, please play Pokemon Black and White "Emotion".
I just started a play through of Y and I gotta say, I does feel new coming from b&w. The game feels like a normal Pokémon game since i don’t the exp share yet and I haven’t beaten a gym. I think that GF had a valid excuse for XY being content lacking, but the rest are LAZY
26:31 I think that aspect peaked with gen 5, as those games had pretty a rich and compelling story and nice cinematics, yet left enough room between story progression events for the player to do whatever they want most of the time
I feel like the only way for Pokemon to get a wake-up call is for them to have their own Sonic 06
If it's so bad that it's funny, I'll take it over something like Sw/Sh
That would be so funny
This Channel is the perfect middleground
between Arlo and his Calmness
and the Radicalness of Radical Soda.
I'd say they are the 3 you need to check
before Buying (!) and Distant Kingdom
may be the very Best of the 3, tbh.
lol Sonic 06 is a better game than Sword and Shield in many aspects like, graphics. Pokémon will never have it's Sonic 06, unfortunately.
I honestly feel like Sonic 06 is better than modern Pokémon games. It’s bad but you can tell the devs actually cared they were just rushed and under staffed. Game freak doesn’t care they’re happy to stamp out the same copy pasted crap every year
Remember Pokken Tournament....don’t you wish game freak put out models of a similar quality
@@THGMR-ox7sd that's a glitch that happens sometimes
Or even the models from pokemon battle revolution. Those had so much personality.
Stop using mobile gamers as excuses, even mobile game today has complicity and depth. (I am a AAA dev
Games like Mindustry and Arknights on mobile are far better than some AAA games.
As great as the Crown Tundra was, (I hated Isle of Armour) the steep $40 CAD price really kills it for me. Playing through this new area and solving puzzles to unlock the Regi's really made me feel like I was doing something. The problem was that I had to go through a massive paywall to get it, plus purchase another pack just to enjoy the good parts.
I feel like something needs to be said about S/M.
While it is a victim of gfs new problems with design, its focus on story pays off: the story was incredible.
SwSh had barely any, and still suffered from the same handholding, this time with absolutely no benefit.
That is all.
true
@@DistantKingdom wow. I didn’t think you would agree with me here. Honestly, I would defend SM too much because of nostalgia, which is why I usually shut up, but I thought I needed to say something here.
i agree!! the story was AMAZING! the characters were dynamic and had arcs and the story was SUPER dark for a pokemon game, almost on gen 5 level with the whole abusive parent thing. the only thing that'd make it as dark as gen 5 is if you fought corrupted lusamine herself instead of just her corrupted pokemon
Now I don't want a Pokemon Pearl/Diamond remake, but a remaster, honestly I'm so scared they will mess up my favorite region entirely
Fortunately usually third versions or remakes tend to be handled by a different team. The B team have something to prove and tend to make solid games (think Emerald, Platnium, HGSS, ORAS, and FRLG) that expand on mechanics, add new things, add to story, and QoL that the main team may not completely carry over to the next game due to time constraints.
I'm a professional pixel artist. I love and respect Pokemon's pixel art artistically.
I've done 3d for less than a year, and most of the environment graphics in the new games feel like something someone with almost no experience would make. That is not something anybody should expect from a massive franchise like Pokemon.
Just look at Pokemon stadium... Its backgrounds look amazing in comparison
@@elgatochurro Even the Pokemon mystery dungeon remake was not long ago, and it's 1000 times more competent than games released around the same time. Something is seriously wrong in their hiring practices for the swing to be that dramatic.
Saying no one has time to dedicate to a single game is a pathetic excuse for having easy games. . Have they looked at the internet?? There are hundreds of communities dedicated to Pokémon. The amount of TH-cam channels with a large subscriber base is in the hundreds... what a cop out. No one has time to dedicate to your game? Maybe if you made your game better, more challenging and customisable, the fans wouldn’t worry about other games or franchises to share your audience’s time with. Not to mention we’d have to rely less on mods, fan games and other third party Pokémon platforms. Doing the bare minimum isn’t gonna cut it forever. I love Pokémon, but if this crap continues, I’ll just be happy to play old games instead buying every release every two years. I’m sick of Game Freak’s incompetence. Hire more staff and make better games! You’re not an indie developer anymore and you haven’t been for well over a decade!
I think game freak removing HMs are a good thing because they waste move slots
...The Franchise is burning and Gamefreak
has literally no idea.
Its amazing...
I mean, we dont even have to ask for
finally getting the reason for Regigigas weird
Ability that makes it seem like it was cursed in-story/lore!
Or the Unknown's secret!
No, we have to hope for much less important stuff.
We have to hope for the quality-fall to stop, or even reverse!
Gamefreak officially thinks of Players Age 10 having the intellect of Age 4 and
of Players Age 30, they think were useless so who even cares about our Age?
Thats more than worrysome.
Man I miss getting lost in caves and finding cool secret areas with new Pokémon and items as well as finally being able to get over a waterfall to be greeted with a whole new area to explore. These new games just don’t feel the same.
ironic a game that's about evolving couldn't evolve to stay alive
Gamefreak gave it an Everstone.
I mean I agree on the lack of evolution. Outside of some 3d animation, and tons of competitive (mostly catering to THEIR format, VGC) quality of life after gen 5 not much was done. However this year Pokemon Go made 1.92 BILLION Dollars and Sword and Shield was one of Gamefreak's most successful games in a decade or so. Additionally they have a stranglehold over the monster collecting market (whether by design or unintentionally) which make it difficult for any newcomers to enter the market. From a Business perspective, Gamefreak is a n amazing success story from a consumer perspective, wtf how do they get away from this.
Oh Pokémon is evolving alright, but it's not called "Evolution" it's called "EVILution":
Congratulations! Pokémon EVILved into BOKEMON!!!
17:53 hold up why is dialga fighting jibanyan? he's from yokai watch
I FINALLY broke down and played Shield because at this point it's already broken sales records and me not buying it does literally nothing. These games were so painfully close to fantastic that it hurts. The Dex not being full (even after $90 worth of base game and DLCs) still stings. The online experience is atrocious--the lagging when connected to online in a wild area or in the two DLC areas is horrendous. The bizarre choice to put the GTS on the Home app on your phone but not in the Switch app makes using Home actually confusing at times. Just to trade something from the game on the GTS, you have to open Home on the Switch, transfer the Pokemon from the PC to Home, close the Switch Home app, open the phone Home app, then do the trade from there. Then there's the NAT Type issue that the Switch has where if your connection is anything below Nat Type B, you can barely use the internet. I literally have to connect to my desktop's wifi hotspot while being connected to the internet through a VPN to be able to use the internet features at all. That's all because Nintendo has no clue how to do online gaming at all; no other console has this issue so widespread.
Then the story was nonexistent and every time something almost happened, Leon swooped in and told you "nah just don't worry about it, you keep doing the gym challenge while I do the stuff that matters". The ending felt like it came so far out of left field. Dynamaxing feels cheap since any pokemon can do it, Gigantimaxing feels a little better because it's a bit more exclusive but still doesn't change much and makes you wonder why it exists. Mega evolution was still way better when it could change typings, abiltiies, and even the stats of pokemon. The camping thing is pretty stupid. I used it once when it was given to me, then I forgot about it until after I'd beaten the main story and filled the pokedex and saw it chilling in the menu and remembered it was a feature.
So with all of those issues, it also had so much good. The raid system and dynamax adventures (in the Crown Tundra DLC) makes the game have an actual co-op experience that isn't that bad (unless you mysteriously can't get the link code system to work which happens sometimes) and the rewards you get for it make doing them worth it. The game (excluding parts of the Wild Area) didn't feel overly empty like X/Y struggled with. The appearance of the game was nice (but we know it could've been pushed further when you've got games like Breath of the Wild or Three Houses on the Switch). A lot of the new pokemon have really nice designs (Hatterene, Grimmsnarl, Grapploct, and Obstagoon were favorites for me). The return of weather systems was nice and the total number of pokemon you can find (including trade evos like Rhyperior, Mamoswine, Tangrowth, Milotic, etc) was nice... but it also made me realize probably why they didn't include all pokemon. It became clear to me they wanted you to be able to find every single pokemon in the Galar dex somewhere in the wild, rather than just requiring them to be traded over. Instead of just coding them all in somewhere, they stopped after a good chunk of them. There's nearly 698 pokemon of 932 total pokemon in the games now. That's WAY more than any other game has ever had to be programmed to spawn in locations before and it makes me wonder if the game would've felt too crowded spawning all of them. There were some areas that already felt too crowded as it was but then it makes me think they should've just made the regions in the DLCs larger and included all of the pokemon left out rather than just some.
Mamoswine and Tangrowth aren't trade evolutions. Level up while having Ancient Power in their moveset.
I do feel like the pokemon encounter problem could've been fixed fairly easily (because spawn overload was a problem in LGPE)
Simply code certain mons to only be encountered via spawns and some that are exclusively encountered in the tall grass. Tada! now you can have a dynamic biome while still retaining the mystery of searching for specific mons.
I agree almost totally but the glaring problem is time and the fact that game freak and the Pokemon company always make sure there are no game breaking glitches
Ehh kinda relatable, I also almost pick Sword bc I thought, "Well, it'll not really change anything since the sale is beyond well already."
But in the end I didn't bc I already swear to not buy Sword\Shield lol
I still don't think they have an excuse for not including all pokemon in the game (by that, I don't mean that all pokemon should be catchable in-game, but rather having them be transferable).
Pokemon Sun and Moon's dex was 400 pokemon, but pokemon from all gens prior were transferable. This means over 800 pokemon were coded in.
A 3DS title has more pokemon coded in than a switch game. THAT boggles my mind.
3d isn't the problem. The Sinnoh remakes are proof of that. They either need to give each game more time or use their enormous bank account to hire enough people to make the games with quality on time.
Side note: I never want to see hms again. I'd even take the team yell roadblocks over hms ever coming back.
Game Freak is pretty much ignoring the only possible options it has left to make pokemon more diverse.
Typings : Somehow, out of almost 900 damn creatures, there's more than a dozen unused combos... COME ON MAN. Where's Electric/Fighting or Ice/Poison. WHY IS THE ONLY FIRE/ELECTRIC A DAMN OVEN ?
Megas : These were THE hype back when they were released. Everyone and their grandma adored them. They felt special. Now every mon gets a... cheap godzilla mode... Yay.
Fusion : Everyone wants this but they still never touched this mecanic except for Kyurem and this other deer thing from the DLC.
The list just goes on and on while these f*ckers go full Disney mode and pump out half as*ed games just like those live action movies.
Necrozma gets fusion too
I honestly have no words to describe my disgust and sadness when I saw the interview, especially in the part where they talk about "Expecting the audience not to raise such high expectations" seriously? is this the same franchise that featured legendary games with extreme effort and soul placed in them? which caused us wonderful memories, epic adventures and are still perfectly playable to this day? and the worst of it, is that in fact Gamefreak already has a monopoly of this genre and a very well established title, they don't need to try anymore, since they will sell absurdly well regardless of the effort put in. All of that and several other factors unfortunately make me think that the franchise is lost and only tends to get worse.
Idk I feel like you’re giving sun and moons routes too much flacc, while yes, they’re very linear, they’re usually pretty interesting locals, when compared to sword and shields. They’re also quite a bit more complex than swsh. Take route one for exapmle. There are multiple paths you can take, reasons to come back (once you get surf to get to the bay, once you get Taros to get to ten karat hill or to a 3rd path with lots of rewards, and once you get sharpedo to get to the secret cave, which has multiple rare Pokémon. I feel like the routes in this game link to separate areas contained within the route, and it just makes it feel really nice to me. Tbh I strongly dislike both of these directors, but I feel like sun and moon gets a whole lot of hate. (Some of which is warranted, but these games are some of my favorites in the series, which is why I’m defending them lol)
SuMo still had an HM-like system in tact so that alone makes its routes infinitely more engaging than Swsh, but it is what introduced the restrictive corridor map design we see today
@@DistantKingdom yeah I totally agree, my actual biggest issue with swsh was lack of any exploration, which is most likely caused by the lack of the religion opening up as you progress. Great video by the way! Thanks for responding!
@@corn8837 Not that many of SM's routes had this extra content to explore, but SwSh made it SO bad I won't even complain about SM again. And to their credit, the entire Poni Island's map design was fire.
@@abcdef-ms9mb yeah the routes get more simplistic in ula ula but I can only think of about 2 that aren’t complex
sun and moon is one of my favorites because of its complex characters with actual development and a wonderful, complex, and dark story. it kinda reminded me of black and white with the whole abusive parent thing. in swsh, the characters barely have one trait to their name and the story hardly exists.