Why Pokemon Will NEVER Get Better- The AWFUL Sad State Of The Series: Scarlet/Violet DLC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 2023
- Nintendo just announced DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on the Nintendo Switch. Considering the state the games released in, I was honestly at a loss for words. Many just want a patch to fix the game, but it remains one of the most broken games ever made. In a world with Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, Pikmin 4, and many other games that showcase the potential of the Switch, Pokemon has failed to keep up. But why? There are many reasons.
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I feel like this needs to be said.
It feels like there's a cult of personality surrounding the Pokemon fandom. So many are willing to accept mediocrity on a silver platter, denounce any kind of criticism as just people hating, and attacking people for expressing criticism and a desire to see the series improve and get better. There's just this insane level of fanaticism surrounding this franchise and frankly, it's just sad these people, some of them grown adults and older than myself act like these babbling cavemen. These people don't want to hear the truth, they'd rather just mindlessly praise and act like the game's a masterpiece when in reality, it's not.
Last year before Mario Strikers: Battle League released, I bought up concerns regarding the game's content and how it looked comparable to Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, and I got blasted, called ignorant, people telling me I'm being too cynical, and the series is known for not having a ton of content. And then the game came out and it was woefully pathetic, basically an hour's worth of content and yet this game got a cult of shills that would defend this game at any costs, throwing hate and harassing people who were expressing criticisms about the game's minimal content. Demeech got blasted on Twitter for months over being critical of the game, people claiming he's over-exaggerating the game's flaws, he's strawmanning people's comments, it wasn't a review on the game just a rant on free updates, and that he makes people up who don't exist, etc. They even had the gall to say he's attacking people for liking the game which was false.
Demeech is expressing his criticism because he's passionate about the series and cares about it and wants it to improve. He was highly critical of Kirby Star Allies and look at the redemption arc Kirby's gotten. I've made it clear I don't like Super Mario Party and a lot of people feel the same way, so NDCube took the feedback and gave us Mario Party Superstars. When you care about something and want to see it get better, that's perfectly normal to do. There's nothing wrong with asking for better. I appreciate Demeech because he's willing to speak his mind and tell the truth, not let bias cloud his judgment. He has integrity and that's something quite lacking in the Nintendo community. He's not just an amazing and talented content creator, he's also a great friend.
If the fanboys and shills of this franchise had even a shred of integrity, they'd not buy this DLC and send a message to Game Freak and Nintendo to demand better. It's unacceptable the fact these games released in the state they did, and it's appalling they have the nerve to charge paid DLC for a broken game. The games's numerous performance issues still aren't fixed. Stop mindlessly accepting crap. Don't bend to these soulless corporations, stand up and fight back. We're the consumer, we deserve better.
If you're hankering for an RPG to satiate that itch, there's Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. It deserves all the support it can get, it's a game crafted by talented developers and filled to the brim with love, passion, and creativity. The first wave of DLC is coming out tomorrow, please give this game a try. Same for Xenoblade Chronicles 3, or Fire Emblem Engage, heard a lot of great things from those titles.
I'd also like to add, these same shills that are defending Scarlet and Violet, would absolutely rip Nintendo apart if Tears of the Kingdom launched in a similar state, or a brand new mainline Mario game. I promise you these people would tear into Nintendo ten times harder than Demeech, or I would if they saw a new Mario, or Zelda come out looking and running like garbage. But for whatever reason, Pokemon gets a free pass because reasons.
Miitopia is also a great RPG to have as well as recommend instead of Scarlet and Violet. Even some indie RPG'S like Coromon and Crosscode are good recommendations to own on switch too 😎
Well said! Why defend or embrace mediocrity?
It's mostly just nostalgia
@@Demeech Thanks! Appreciate you pinning my comment!
@@devonerichardson2065 You're right. It's not my business what other people do and what they spend their money on. But if they want the series to get better, they have to speak with their wallet, express their criticism, and demand for better. If they keep buying crappy products, they're going to keep getting crappy games.
The worst part about the situation with Pokémon right now is that I feel like a lot of people are just simply tired of complaining about Pokémon. Many people are realizing that complaining on the internet isn’t going to do anything and the only thing we can do is not buy the games. With the gold mine of a situation Pokémon is in currently, even that won’t do anything so all we can do is watch the games get worse while sales numbers go up
What about all the refunds we issued?
A lot just don't want to deal with the community that hates criticism of these games.
@@Demeech I agree. It's crazy how divided the fanbase has gotten
There are people who are just suckers. Fans know this. That is what happens in any industry. Anything gets sold based on the name, not the quality.
People who hate criticism and attacks others who criticize the game
people who dont bother dealing with said people
people who criticize the game then proceed to buy the next one anyways
people whose taste in games is a bit too bland so they give out no criticism despite the game sucking
Honestly, I think these issues reflect the fact that gamefreak feels like they have to release a new mainline Pokémon game every year and that includes the DLC. They don’t have to do that!
If only the whole fandom could send them a letter saying that. And in a respectful manner at that
Tbf i think if i were the CEO id stick to making 500 million a year from a dedicated playerbase. that sounds fine
Well, apparently people are saying that the DLC is causing save corruption. This is what happens when you excuse poor performance and visuals, the problems make their way into gameplay itself. Losing your save data is the Second WORST thing that can happen, with the only worse thing being for the game to literally brick your system, which is where I think this is going at this rate.
And you people are still defend gamefreak even if the latter does end up happening.
I have never had this issue happened to me. So either that was an actual rumor or Gamefreak had actually patched it.
@@sonicfan2403 Does patching it give back the save data to people who already had that happen?
No, the save data is lost forever is the save data gets deleted.@@dsdude8441
The Pokémon situation is a dumpster fire that I gave up on in 2019... I've been a fan for over 25 years and it pains me to see how the developers are viewing and handling such a big part of my childhood and whole life really. They make me feel like after 25 years, I should move on from Pokémon as a fan so they can continue catering to children and people who don't know or care enough about the franchise to want better. But it shouldn't be that way at all. I still love Pokémon just as much as I did when I was 5, if not more. As fans, we deserve better. Pokémon deserves better. Pokémon deserves developers that care just as much as the fans. How does Nintendo keep letting Gamefreak handle the highest grossing media franchise in the entire world like some irrelevant indie game with no fanbase? It really blows my mind.
They cater to children but then turn around and release pokemon merch collab with freaking Fenti that wants $4800 for a PURSE. It's actually disgusting how money hungry they've become. (yes I know a company's sole purpose is to make money, but they could be a little more inconspicuous about it)
I found myself to really enjoy the game a whole lot, but it's issues are embarrassing and inexcusable for the highest grossing media franchise of all time.
Enjoying the games is okay, just don't use it as to why the gameis good.
You could also say its the biggest franchise in entertainment
It's the merch sales that carry the series, not the games.
It's issues don't hinder the enjoyment of the game clown, and it doesn't ruin anything. You're crying because their first open world pokemon game has glitches that can be fixed later, how pathetic.
@@leonardofarias8843 and the crazy thing is that in just 25 years Pokémon has made more money than Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse and friends, which those franchises have been going on for nearly a century.
I was there when Pokemon first swept the world in the 90's. I played Pokemon Blue, I bought the trading cards, I was hyped for the movie. Pokemon was GREAT and I've always been a fan.
That said, Pokemon Shield was ROUGH, but it was at least playable. The "Wild Area" was pretty bland, but the traditional "route" areas looked pretty nice for the most part. Tons of character customisation too. Legends Arceus was actually pretty damned fun, the changes to the battle system gave me a lot of hope for their next mainline title. I saw the coop multiplayer and open world and I was pretty hyped to play it with my friends. I was shocked by how technical inadequate Violet was. Up close the character models looked pretty cool, but the world itself was just shockingly basic. The texture tiling was the most blatant I've seen for a long time.
People were bashing the Switch itself saying it just couldn't handle the scale Game Freak were aiming for. The hilarity being that Breath of the Wild looks infinitely better despite being a Switch launch and Wii U cross-gen game. Then look at Xenoblade Chronicles 3, or the Witcher 3 and Doom Eternal ports. The Switch can run some visually impressive titles when developers are competent and optimse accordingly. Heck, the relatively small size of the dev team at Game Freak is no excuse. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was made by a team of just 40(!) developers, yet it was still a fantastic game with impressive visuals for an early Switch release.
Game Freak are either criminally incompetent, or they're willfully making games this bad... because they know in the long run it doesn't matter. It'll still sell 10 million copies in its first week, people will still buy the fucking DLC.
It honestly guts me to know where Pokemon games COULD be now, if the people in charge of the franchise actually cared about it and the fans.
Once Demeech's Fury burns out, we're left with Demeech's Numbness; the _true_ biggest sign that a franchise is at its worst, even bigger than Demeech's Maximum Fury. Indifference really is more damning than backlash.
It truly is.
$35 for DLC is disgusting
There have been worse cases,I agree.
It's an expansion not just some DLC. I think it all depends on how much you get for the price, we'll have to see.
No it's not. That's like an average price for DLC
Even in a game that is complete.
You must hate Monster Hunter then.
I think the problems with the series stem from 2 things: the jump to 3d, and the strict 3 year cycle for each generation/game development.
Except Legends Arceus, i stopped my journey with Pokemon Sun and Moon. When the franchise will restart their games prioritizing quality again, i will surely come back to one of my fav series ever
I have no plans on it untill we get to x and y remakes
Literally me for real. Original Moon was my last stop until Legends Arceus and SC/VI and no matter how much I love CERTAIN parts of these two games, they needed more time in the oven and feel like missed potential. And no amount of fanart of characters like Nemona are gonna change that opinion of mine.
What carries my love for Pokemon ANYTHING at all... well... the _Pokemon_ and the human characters. It's sad, isn't it? Lmao. The games can be so mediocre but at the end of the day, our imaginations and nostalgia take over. Cynthia the Sinnoh Champion is still a fan favorite since the DS days. XD Larry of SC/VI is probably the most relatable character in that game and Iono is low-key a Vtuber even though she isn't.
@@MinisterChicken thats most likely gonna happen in mid 2030's to early 2040
@@frosty1865 yeah...
I still find it funny how I was excited for bdsp and nervous about legends but ended up hatting bdsp and loving legends. I would have been very disappointed if we only got bdsp for all the waiting we gen 4 did.
I'm sad about the current state of Pokemon. I used to be so obsessed with it, and in my younger years I'd be known for being a particular Pokemon fanatic. But the franchise didn't seem to grow up with me; the aspects that did (mainly regarding the spinoff games) died off in favor of money-grabbing mobile titles. Their greed and carelessness will only continue to get worse, because they have no financial incentive to do better.
Pokemon will remain in a special place in my heart, but I can't follow the franchise as it currently is now. I haven't kept up with newer Pokemon media since S&S.
It's not entirely gamefreaks fault you can blame Nintendo for having a strict release deadline
@@antiblock1649 You can kinda blame fans too for shilling to the point that they’ll openly buy broken games and defend them
@@sebastianxftw who? Who will defend them? Also I really hate this type of convo. Consumers shouldn't br hit just because of a lazy company(companies)
@@antiblock1649 One again, Nintendo is the one who is only letting GameFreak and TPC to allow the Pokémon games to be on the switch. They can approve or deny any games to be on there platform for any reason because that's there own platform that they made in-house. They do not make the games in anyway at all. I will say that Nintendo is part of the downfall of Pokémon because they simply allow these half-assed games on their own platform because they know it will sell well. Nintendo don't give a shit about quality and the recent Pokémon installment shows this with a open window.
@@antiblock1649 fallout new vegas was made in 18 months by a _smaller_ team completely unfamiliar with the engine and tools they were using. gamefreak is incompetent and you people need to stop trying to defend it.
My biggest problems with this game are the lack of quality of life features.
Lack of QoL? Haven't you noticed that it's a lot easier getting into competitive now? How less hassle it is to grind levels?
@@Gigi-zr6hp I’m not talking about competitive play
@@Gigi-zr6hp well if you're not competitive, that's basically useless to you. Like me, I don't care how easier it is to raise a pokemon to be perfect for that and that most items are buyable now since I never play competitive.
Interesting...my biggest problems is QUALITY.
@@tomsanders2094 blah blah blah
I don't understand how things went downhill so fast. Sword and Shield are flawed in many ways (mainly from a plot standpoint), but it ran silky smooth all things considered. I don't recall issues with lighting, collision, frame rate etc. It doesn't make any sense to me. Legends: Arceus didn't even have this many issues even though that game was graphically/ gameplay intensive (for Pokemon standards). It is my firm belief that Scarlet and Violet would be universally well received if it didn't launch with debilitating performance issues. It baffles me how the Pokemon company and GameFreak felt that it was okay to release the game in a broken state. It isn't even a Switch issue either. I mean we all see how well Botw runs. It's an embarrassment that modern Pokemon runs worse than 5 year old games on THE SAME SYSTEM!! GameFreak and the Pokemon Company need to fundamentally change everything on the video game side.
Pokemon SwSh structure was basically a 3DS game "remastered" into the Switch and pretty limited in scope hence why it ran well (but it had like 12 GB used for its small content compared to most Switch games) while SV was kinda ambitious with the big world but seemingly keeping their old engine - games like New Pokemon Snap shows you can make high quality graphics (even if it's mostly by using smart techniques rather than smoothing edges or something) in 60fps so it isn't impossible in the Switch.
The biggest problem with modern Pokémon games is locking major parts of the story behind paid dlc, the past games didn’t do this. They were more polished and complete at launch as well.
We waited for the game to release only speculate about the whole story of the game even after finishing it ridiculously sad.
It's even worse now that they omitted a series staple the *battle tower*. Cut features and all, even Sword and Shield had the decency to include it in the base game. Nothing is safe from being locked away into an expansion pass.
Definitely true. At least the 3rd versions just expanded the series, and at least SwSh didn't have main staples of the game locked behind a paywall. SV did what I hoped would never happen with pokemon DLC. Cutting main features and selling them to us later.
@@GumCow SwSh did lock 200 Pokemon to capture, as past games like BW and B2W2 usually have post-game Pokemon built in. I'd argue for the increased price from the 3DS, I think "third game" content should've been expected IMO like Battle Frontier or Pokemon World Tournament. I'd argue at least Isle of Armor should've been part of the base package like a Sevii Islands. Overall there should've been more for a $30 DLC IMO. As MK8D DLC is kinda meh at first it's just $25 but has 48 tracks and some new characters which I argue is a lot (and base MK8D had also the Wii U DLC content so the Switch version is worth it even if a Wii U version just existed).
they did its called the third game
They only did that in two games… and it’s more interesting that way
I've kinda become numb to it as well. Hopefully there's a decent spinoff or mainline release in the next year or two but til then I think I'll be stepping away from pokemon releases.
It's sad to see how much they've run the quality of this series into the ground. Truly suffering from its success.
I've said this many times, I'll say it again: Yo-Kai Watch was much better than this.
It got so much flack for being a Pokemon clone, but it had so much passion, fun moments and characters, and unique options that, ironically, Pokemon fans are asking for
Youkai Watch failed in the US as people noticed the dialogue changes against the Japanese-to-English translation. Any dialogue related from sex to fat to possibly others.
I'm someone who tried it out, but the gameplay was not for me
It's pretty sad that the new games are so bad that people want the old games from gens 1-3 released on an online service that has a library of retro games.
You don't even get to own the game. Imagine paying a subscription to play old roms
@@Gigachad-hb7ji ouch, what a reality we live in. I'm about to buy the virtual console Pokemon games for the 3ds, granted not physical but it's better than paying for a subscription to play the game. Nintendo really making the most out of people's FOMO.
@@pacolago2229 don't buy the virtual console games. Just mod your 3ds.
Better yet emulate. You can use any controller you want and save states and play with wireless headphones and a big screen and all that awesome stuff and actually have a nice time
Yeah... Hate to be a nihilist here, but if this is what we have to expect from Pokemon from now on, we should just keep our expectations real low, so we'll never be disappointed... And that is depressing
Hate to be one too, but I'm already willing to say we can simply have NO expectations and they would still disappoint us somehow...
Me as well, personally I left Pokémon not cause of games getting worse but rather not caring about the franchise anymore. But there’s just nothing to be hype about with this franchise anymore. At least New Pokémon Snap was alright.
You can have no expectations and still be disappointed
@@a17yearoldonyoutubeluigi yeah that's the main problem with the franchise right now. They (and the fans if I'm being fair) can't seem to get past gen 1. I get if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but they've been using the past formula for a little more than 2 and a half decades now and it's already long stale. I guess legends Arceus and scarlet and violet was an attempt to break out the formula, but I think game freaks gonna do a lot more to please people
@@littlemeow124 realistically it isn’t the formula of the games that is bad, more so the execution of it, they seem to think that they can get away with pumping out low quality products consistently every year and while they can get away with it from the perspective of money, they won’t be able to get away with it from the perspective of reputation, the more that there reputation continues to worsen the more that they would be forced to actually do something to make there games higher quality and meet the standard that Pokémon used to been known for ever since generation 3-5, whether that he gamefreak working with different companies to assist them in there mainline games and have other companies do assets and buildings for them while gamefreak focuses on other aspects of the game to get things done on a timely manner, etc. they will likely need to partner up with different companies to get the highest possible quality and release it in a timely manner because let’s be real, the 3 year release window for the games isn’t going to change whether we like it or not since the Pokémon company prioritizes profits over the quality of there own product. There would likely need to be a complete restructuring of the Pokémon company in order to assure that the games have enough time to meet the triple A Quality Pokémon has been known for in the past.
I’ve been playing the series since gen 4, here’s what I think will happen to Pokémon. Because of good sales they will continue to cut every corner possible. I think around gen 10-11 the fandom will start to get burnt out from these recurring problems, and then maybe sales will tank to a point where GF will hire more than like 20 people to make a friggin game. That is dependent on the fans actually boycotting tho. So idk if it’s even possible…
They have until gen 10 to fix this problem. If not I'm done
I've also been around since gen 4 game wise and I really hope not. Like I already bought the game because I didn't look deep enough into it. And I don't think the story, despite it being a good one in a long while, can save it if the game is this broken. I don't feel safe playing the game either until it's legitimately fixed. I'm kinda regretting buying the dlc now because I feel like I'm supporting a broken game
@@malikrobinson9922I’m already done. Stopped buying Pokémon games after gen 8
@@malikrobinson9922 Dude jump ship already, even some GameFreak employees admitted that there games was rushed out to the door to meet strict deadlines for TPC and it looks like that will never change. Just move on like I did, nothing will get better if people still buy the game without a second thought.
@@haaxxx9 i know . I just love battle. I hate rhe thought of falling behind the times .
Just going to say that Persona 5 Royal, Shin Megami Tensei 5 and Monster Hunter Stories 2 are significantly better monster catching games than every Pokemon game on Switch.
pokemon invented the genre, and stayed stuck in the same place where they began and got beat by every other competitor (in terms of quality). It reminds me of how English people keep wishing for the World Cup to come back home because the English created football and only won the World Cup once when they hosted the tournament in 1966. So many countries have outclassed and beat England at their own game, just like so many developers make better "Pokemon" games than Pokemon themselves.
@@AysarAburrubsmt came before Pokémon. Pokémon didn't invent anything.
Let's get realistic, as long as we complain while others just take it well and forgive these flaws because "the game is fun and has a nice story" plus the game is being very sold (at least not as sold as MK8DX) and the DLCs may be best seller as well, GF will NEVER change their mind and will make worse stuff than the latter
I hate that
Ya, the group you’re referring too is definitely not a crowded field. I’m willing to bet cold hard cash that the ones bitching the loudest, are actually the ones “letting shit slide” outside of their petty, half baked rants on TH-cam.
thats why piracy will help. realize that the game is shit and be able to give proper criticism about said game, without paying a single dollar to the greedy lazy devs.
@@dylanzlol7293 is it even worth the time to pirate considering how much work itll take for them to be playable sometimes. pokemon isnt even that good
@@ShaftCommander if that's what you're betting on then you'd be broke.But ofc I really don't see you as a wise spender coz ofc you're a Pokemon fan.
As much I had fun with Violet.
The game is truly what happens when you push a game out due to corporate greed.
I mean to the one who’s enjoyed it I’m glad for you but in my personal Opinion. I feel like If They Added Voice Acting, made the performance better, and the Towns not Rushed. The game could be a whole lot better.
But at some point Pokémon fans need to Back down and Realized how Rushed these games are starting to become.
@@jonahabenhaim1223
Tbh, SV is going to be my last pokemon game.
I’m glad someone is finally talking about this! I remember coming back into the community when SV were announced after taking time off since SwSh’s release, and for some reason nobody talked about the national dex anymore, and if you did you were considered crazy. Same thing happened with people who dared to say that the game would run horribly, I ended up skipping it. My point is that the fans continue to give GameFreak and Nintendo excuses for their missteps, and I for one an sick of it, it’s the whole reason I sadly won’t be buying anymore pokemon games unless they get their situation together
Pokemon is just becoming like Disney now...
Weirdly enough, S&V and Wish both have Spanish settings
@@arlequinelunaire418 Coincidence? I think not!
@@arlequinelunaire418 Coincidence? I think not!
@@arlequinelunaire418 Coincidence? I think not!
its unfortunate the higher ups at gamefreak think that there needs to be a pokemon game each year
To think that they’d release a broken game & then have the audacity to release PAID DLC to boot?! Nuts to that; I refuse
Another reason Pokemon went downhill is Competitive Pokemon. Gen 8 was effectively designed for Competitive play with Quality of Life improvements and easy access whitch could explain why the Singleplayer and postgame were mediocre. Not only that, The DLC introduced some Overpowered Pokemon like Regieleki, Urshifu, and Calyrex and are locked behind it so VGC Players need to buy the DLC to get them. It's likely Gen 9 will make the DLC for Competitive Players in mind leaving the Games broken as they are and Casual Players in the dust.
And that's a problem 'cause?
I mean, it's not like the focus on competitive and the introduction of broken mons will hurt the enjoyment of casuals or anything, as most of those are barely a factor on the main campaign.
Also, the games always had battle-centric post games, with good examples being the Battle Frontier and the PWT.
Hell, people have been complaining since the release of the games that trainers and gym leaders don't use "competitive viable teams".
Yet the 6v6 battle timer is still locked at 20 minutes. This is why you play on Showdown
@@thebestworst8002 not anymore.
As of the 1.2.0 patch, the battle timer can now be set to 60 minutes.
@@gsp6517 wait you’re saying they fixed The Time Problem that was present in Gen 8 so we can have a full hour of 6VS6 Single Battles?
@@voltingmaster5458 yep.
I’m just going to play the Pokémon games I currently have on switch and not buy anymore till they start improving their games.
Plus DLC is annoying and if they want any of my money it better be worth it.
Anytime I think about pokemon I smile. Anytime I think about gamefreak I get depression. :(
I was immediately turned away from adding Scarlet & Violet to my collection the second Staryu & Starmie didn't make it into the dex.
So I never bought or played Scarlet or Violet.
This video wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I agree with you on alot said here. I've never been that into Pokemon but I understand how it feels to have a series you love turn out like this. I loved paper Mario and the Mario sports games growing up and I hate seeing how those games are now. But at this point it's probably best to just not get hopes up anymore with Pokemon. It's not worth getting that angry over.
The saddest thing is that no matter how awful these games are, no matter how poorly they run, no matter how much content they cut, people will gladly lap it up and beg Game Freak to charge more for less. Scarlet and Violet are some of the best selling games in the series, so they have no reason to be better. As long as MILLIONS of people give them their money, pokemon games are going to continue to get worse.
I walked away after generation 9s abysmal failure, i dont see how people defend it like its actually good. I threw both my copies in a bonfire and recorded it and sent it to Pokémons twitter account which about 15 mins later got taken down and i got banned for some reason.
This the same thing happening to Warcraft. They prioritizing marketing when they are alrdy good with profit, but sacrificing the proper creative growth of the franchise or games..
To me, I enjoyed the games because of the collecting and moving my Pokemon up from gen to gen. I traveled through all the regions, side games and events, and collected Pokemon with rare moves. And although I like the new Pokemon, I have stopped moving most of my Pokemon from going into the Switch games. First of all Dexit didn't let me get to enjoy all my Pokemon in SWSH. Second, they took away moves like return and pursuit so some of my Pokemon move combos became obsolete. The Lets Go games, although they looked great, had a mechanic that I didn't enjoy very much, didn't include breeding, and didn't allow newer Pokemon into the games. It's supposed to be some kind of remake of Yellow. But even the fire red and leaf green games which were remakes allowed Pokemon from up to gen 3 to be included, plus it allowed breeding. But now after SWSH, all my collecting and breeding and hunting in Dream worlds and liberating Shadow Pokemon and teaching rare move tutor moves... its all lost. If I bring in my Chancey with Sweet scent, Wish, Seismic Toss, and Toxic, or my Charm Mamoswine from Orre into PLA, BDSP or SV then they lose what makes them special. Even Pokemon that I bred in SWSH to be perfect and with specific tutor/egg moves or TMs/TRs lose them. They said they wouldn't use BDSP for competitions, so why reset their moves in those games? In SWSH for how bad it was at least lets you keep some of those special moves, but it seems they keep taking more away every gen and that's why I feel I'm going to stop. The fun has been taken away. Not everyone plays because they want to compete, some of us just like the Pokemon we've picked up along the way.
I agree 100% with you. I really love Pokemon, and was very hyped for Scarlet/Violet. After the release, even knowing all the technical mess that was, I though "well, it can be like Cyberpunk, it's broken now but, eventually, it'll get patched", so I bought it with this hope. Played a couple hours when received it and just put it to rest because the performance issues was too much for me to have a really good time (and I'm not a visual guy, I still play Playstation 1 games that look like junk nowadays). After the last Pokemon Direct I felt really disappointed, thinking that it was almost a joke what they were doing selling a DLC for a broken game. I don't expect anymore that they will fix this game, not for the current nintendo platform anyways. As a Product Designer myself I see this piece of software delivered like this and really think how money talks and the user experience is just a second though in the end. Sad.
What’s really bad about this… is gaming industry would see this as a means to release worst unfinished games. Maybe, there should be new laws to prevent this from happening because it’s not worth paying $60 since if Nintendo really values the price these games issues would definitely should be price at $30 or less. I don’t like that they never even addressed the issues or even show how things will be fixed since like you mentioned about them not really showing any gameplay I probably have doubts as well.
If that Pokémon Dev leaker is legit then we might have true fix for the game but only in the next generation console 😓
Really, they don’t need to rush games out. Take the time to finished them is all most of us want.
People need to stop settling for mediocrity. It's really sad how pokemon will sell like hotcakes no matter *how* bad it is.
It's a series that panders to the lowest common denominator, that includes dumb kids and casual unaware people who play games.
There are people who have played pokemon their whole lives and would love to see it improved with stuff like extra post game, megas returning, harder battles, level scaling, battle frontier, optional exp share and of course all pokemon but we'll never get that from gamefreak and it's an absolute shame.
Gamefreak keeps doubling down on not putting any effort into their games. They actively refuse to work with more pokemon and keep fixing things that aren't broken like the exp share gain being forced instead of optional.
To make things worse it's now the *visuals* that are going down in quality. BDSP is a huge letdown and downgrade from the Swsh style we were expecting. It looks worse than base DP. How is that possible?
SV look very mediocre. The attacks look pretty bad and a messed up attempt to change them for overworld battling. The mons clip through the ground when sending them out. You can see the map out of bounds. The models don't even have *shadows* sometimes, something that was rectified in the late *90s* with most 3d games
For all of you pokemon shills I implore you to stop buying the mainline games. They won't get better ans you should be playing better stuff. I played SV and while it's not awful it's too easy, and pretty darn bad in many areas like visuals as mentioned, and mediocre content wise as theres not even a battle tower which is sad beyond belief. I've never encountered game breaking bugs and its playable but disappointing.
If you truly love pokemon I recommend you let it suffer financially so we can force GF to give us what we want.
Truth is, some people are just too attached to what they like. And in some cases to their own idea of what they think the thing they like is. And that is an issue.
For those saying that Red/Blue were sold as glitchy games, and it still sold so much:
Yeah, because the community was actively hunting for ways to break the games and prolonged their play of a game they'd already beaten without otherwise obvious glitches or issues. On an old gameboy cartridge.
A game where every little piece of content had to be specifically tailored to fit on the limited cartridge size. And if you did encounter a game-breaking glitch somehow, or something visually bad, it was because of the hardware, not the software.
Now-a-days. devs have all of the space they need for their cartridges, and instead of carefully curating everything that should go on it, they release bloated games that only require the cartridge or CD to install and play the game, on top of bloated updates and patches, because they couldn't be arsed to complete the game the first time around since they could 'always fix it later' if there was a loud enough controversy about it.
well no, gamefreak is well known for being bad at programming. the issues with old pokemon games are all just as preventable as issues with new pokemon games. need i remind you of the story of HGSS; once someone even vaguely competent came around to fix their code they could literally put an entirely new game on the cartridge.
NO MORE DEX CUT IN ALL THE FUTURE POKEMON GAMES!
The Dexcuts are a joke and those who defend it still are the biggest jokes. They bring shame to the fandom.
@@xlbthedemigod5662yeah! they are a joke & useless & idiots! the dex cut are not the future to pokemon!
Agreed and they should also fix the galar fossils
Whenever I bring up criticisms I get so much backlash, while nobody actually provides counter arguments to what I'm saying.
I finished after Sword and Shield.
Pokemon is the very best like no one ever was. It's just not in a good way.
I've sorta come to terms that Pokemon is just not a great franchise anymore. It's not like I hate the games, luckily Pokemon is just inherently fun. But that can only go so far. Since the transition to consoles it's just struggled to keep up with the times. Their business model doesn't seem designed around the longer development times needed for HD games.
I played Xenoblade 3 right after completing Pokemon, and it really just highlighted truly how terrible Pokemon is by comparison. The visuals, the performance, heck, even the map design. Everything is pretty poor in Pokemon Scarlet / Violet. Xenoblade is this 100+ hour RPG, a massive world, tons of enemies and characters on screen at all times, fully voiced too. It looks great and runs perfectly. You really cannot comprehend just how much better Xenoblade 3 is till you play them side by side.
So, I'm not outraged with Pokemon, I've just given up dreaming of this perfect epic Pokemon game. I just can't see it happening. So, I just expect the next Pokemon game to be like a 6/10 kinda thing. It's just interesting cos I was pretty easy on Sword and Shield since it was their first attempt at a console mainline title. But I was expecting a huge jump in quality for the next set of games. Then I thought Legends was a stepping stone game as to what's to come. But that wasn't the case. Scarlet and Violet have some good moments, but I think in regards to making an open world Pokemon game, it failed in what it set out to do. And it looks and runs TERRIBLY. I still can't get over it. Casseroya Lake was almost unplayable.
My advice for anyone who is upset with Pokemon. Just play another RPG. There's so many and they're all better than Pokemon. Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade, heck even Octopath. I don't think Pokemon will ever be the game I want it to be. And frankly, they've already slowly got rid of a ton of things I liked about Pokemon games anyway. Ever since forced EXP it's not been the same imo. Like you say, just kinda numb to it by this point.
Personally, even when the mainline VIDEO games don't deliver on what they promise, the POKEMON and the characters themselves do sometimes.
Heck, I WISH characters like Arven, Larry, Iono, etc. Were part of an overall BETTER Pokemon game or another game. There's a reason they seem to get highlighted alot.
The gameplay of Pokemon can only do so much in this situation.
Gen 8 was when I could tell Pokémon was not going to improve
I never wanted to return to Pokémon Scarlet after beating it. I saw everything that I found to be cool. Didn't want to deal with the awful performance and visuals.
I loved Scarlet and Violet in my playthrough. The new mons are good, the story is interesting, and I actually cared about the characters.
That being said I agree with everything in this video. Its a shame that these games have great stuff burried under all the rushed content that barely functions.
Its open world is pointless though. It's doesn't pull you by visual interest or intrigue like Breath of the Wild does. Could be because it's an ugly looking game but yeah, I feel no desire to go explore.
Even if the graphics were better and the performance was fixed it would be just a nice looking screensaver because there is literally nothing to do in the over world and you can’t even peoples houses anymore. ( btw there is a video that this guy made his own Pokémon open world game in just one video)
It's because Game Freak got rid of they iconic labyrinth design from gen1-2. Listen to fans and implement Skyrim-like open world was a mistake.
They should've stick to they labrinth route design and make it bigger to give the Illusion of "open world".
@@PapierDeutscher I agree to an extent, but I also have to disagree. The whole appeal of a open world is the idea that you can go anywhere, such as to the mountain that's normally locked to the background. The issue that SV and SwSh faces is that... they don't really have any unique areas, and you can go anywhere without any drawbacks. Legends Arceus actually did this quite well, since I'd argue the areas in that game actually followed traditional route philosophy, but SV basically throw a bland-ass path at the player that you can easily skip. Yeah sure, there's multiple ways to do it but when each individual way is bland as all hell it's not fun.
Scarlet and Violet is so unapologetically broken, I'd rather emulate a fixed rom hack of it, then play it on the Switch! I know I should support game developers, but if they are just going to half heartedly rush a project and not bother to fix it, than why should I or anyone else care?
I really wanted ORAS style Sinnoh remakes, I really did. ORAS and HGSS are the definition of an amazing remake, I wish BDSP got the same treatment…
BDSP are amazing games absolutely brilliant Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire are the best Pokemon games ever made.
@@AdamDawson3 bdsp is trash dude, doesn’t even compare to Oras and even then Oras set the bar low for remakes aswell considering it’s lack of a battle frontier (which is likely due to its 3 yr development cycle) and short post game. With that being said Oras we’re good games and good remakes, they just weren’t the pinnacle of remakes for Pokémon, that was mostly HGSS and arguably FRLG with its expansive post game through the sevii islands.
The only legitimate reason we didn’t get the proper beautiful gen 4 remakes we wanted in ken sugimori’s art style is simply because of the existence of the horrifically ugly legends game that we got instead, I do not believe that was a good trade off. Legends arceus is the reason why we didn’t get the beautiful gen 4 remakes we’ve always wanted and instead had to settle for an ugly game like legends arceus.
@@GodSlayer330 ORAS are amazing the Contests more than make up for the lack of a Battle Frontier which I am glad they didn't include because the one in Emerald was hell to beat
@@AdamDawson3 that was the entire point of the battle frontier, the fact that it was hard to beat. Also I don’t think Pokémon contests makes up for the lack of a battle frontier but I think it was still a good thing that they included Pokémon contests.
I got my copy of Violet used as well. What's worse is that there's a gamebreaking bug in version 1.2.0 that can potentially corrupt your save file.
And as far as I'm aware it's yet to be dealt with. They mentioned it, again, but didn't fix it.
I'm my personal opinion Pokemon peaked at gen 6 with ORAS. Both Alpha Sapphire and Sun we're my childhood, and I spent a majority of my late elementary and middle school years playing those games. Heck, they're part of the reason I like Emerald so much.
However, when gen 8 rolled around, something felt...missing. I don't know how exactly to describe it, but during my entire playthough of Sword, I didn't feel anything. The game felt rushed, and I felt that it was severely lacking in, well, ...something...but I couldn't figure it out.
I played Legends Arceus after, and although that game was an enjoyable experience for me at least, the world felt dead and barren. There was only ONE village in the whole game to "explore" and other than catching pokemon and filling out the dex, I would find myself zoning out more often than not.
But yeah, these new games aren't gonna fly. Unless Game Freak pulls an uno reverse card and fixes things by next gen, my hope for the Pokemon series is dwindling fast.
There is absolutely NO excuse for SV to be THIS bad. Pokemon is literally the highest grossing media franchise in the WORLD, yet they couldn't hire someone to render textures like trees and grass properly.
Rant over. If you've made it this far, thank you.
Scarlet & Violet are not bad
I feel the same as you, down to the last minute detail. I too started my pokemon adventure with oras, loved sun/moon and thought that there was something missing in sw/sh. I feel like despite the great music, sw/sh was just such a dissapointment for me.
The only difference is that my dumbass sold my 3ds to buy a switch, that has to be the worst decision of my life.
One could consider Pokemon Sword and Shield to be the most controversial Pokemon games in the world. Those games have extremely linear paths, a forced Exp. Share that even carries over to gen 9 (I can only assume this was done to mitigate any grinding), bland characters, a slashed PokeDex (including the removal of the NationalDex), removal of at least 100 moves, a story that can't make up its own mind, eve more boring characters, bland villains, towns that also feel too linear or too empty, lazy and/or recycled animations, DLCs that can make you shake down your money to gain access for more Pokemon (though one could just argue that can be worked around through trading), the Wild Area is somehow more empty than that of Zelda BOTW, and an online system so bad it makes gen 7's online system look good. The only saving grace from this game is the music but other Pokemon games - most notably gen 5 - just do it better.
I mean, that's literally the whole point of Legends Arceus, though.
It's explicitly set in a the past before the land has been settled.
There's no other towns to explore BECAUSE there's nobody else living there aside from the Diamond and Pearl clans.
I just find that a weird criticism when that's literally the stated point of the whole game.
@@AdamDawson3 nope, they are not bad games, they garbage games with garbage levels of quality.
See my favorite franchise downfalling to its death is such a hurt i cant describe: knowing i ll never have another chance to feels the emotion pokemon had give to me is depressing... Other francise are already dead and pokemon is next
Needs an entire series reboot if you ask me. Start all over again from the first game. Quite a lot of my ideas would be met with resistance though I believe. We already had the melt down about a limited dex, well, every game going forward would be that way because an attempt would be made to squeeze as much out of the pokemon that are in the game as possible. I'd also be looking at reinventing battling too which wouldn't go over well initially because people fear change. That's to say nothing on the drastic change in presentation and storytelling that I'd want as well.
I never really noticed the frame rates but the bugs really bothered me. and this biggest one is the worst.
I enjoyed the game myself, and I personally found the glitches I encountered to be funny. But it is a blatant fact that for the largest media franchise in the world, Scarlet and Violet were underwhelming at best and completely broken at worst. I definitely agree that they should’ve had Legends: Arceus be the winter 2022 release, and given Scarlet and Violet another year of development for a winter 2023 release. Then the amount of new Pokémon games coming in wouldn’t feel so over saturated, and the games would have as much time as they need to be the best they can be
I was thinking of preordering it, but this made me change my mind. I’ll wait until winter
I skipped the Switch Pokemon games so far because of the national dex thing.
I decided to try out this new gen and while I was having fun for a couple days, something just didn't feel right. Eventually I figured it out. This comes across like some Chinese pokemon knockoff. Even if it's not a scam it feels like one.
I still played a ton of creature collectors while boycotting Pokemon, and TemTem, Coromon, Monster Sanctuary and Siralim all were way more fun, deeper, polished and way cheaper than this mess is even without the DLC.
Pokemon X and Y failed to impress me, especially after the strides made in Black/White. It was blamed on the transition to models over sprites that took the time and processing power, which made X and Y subpar. Then, Sun and Moon came along touting a lot of changes to the formula, but it didn't actually do anything to change the formula. No gyms? Well, we still had to do island trials leading into the island bosses. No league? Wait, we still have to do the league, we're just pretending it's different because we're 'creating' the league.
But, what really killed it for me was Ultra Sun and Moon. They were 'new games' that were essentially full-priced DLC stacked on top of the original games. They had fun features, sure, but they were things that felt like they should have been there from the start. If they were priced lower, I might not have been so critical at the time, but they weren't. That was when I stopped caring about anything Pokemon had to do.
Sword and Shield hit the Switch as the first mainline game to be put on console. This was the time to really put the best foot forward, to show us exactly what Pokemon could become... but they didn't. They removed a ton of features that were beloved from past games, did a sit job on the Wild Area, and added big Pokemon as the replacement for Megas. The excuses they used for things like the Dex cut (the animation improvement) was provably bullshit and the fact that they forced you to buy DLC to get access to many favorites was evil. If they were that concerned over the amount of Pokemon we have, just make it so that we get a brand new Dex with all new Pokemon instead. Pokemon Home could become the universal multiplayer system with access to every Pokemon in a sprite system while the new mainline games could focus on story, exploration, and discovery.
It has reached the point where I didn't even bother looking into Scarlet and Violet at all. I haven't played them, haven't watched anybody play them, and will not bother looking further into them at all. We've been burned by mediocrity for four generations now, with lackluster remakes thrown in to break up the monotony. It doesn't matter if the next games are perfect, I will not be supporting anything to do with them at all. If you like Pokemon, feel free to give your money to them, but the number of people that continue to justify the mediocrity of the games because they have one throwaway feature that seems interesting astounds me.
The switch from 2D to 3D can be seen as the series' downfall. GF/TPCI were pressured by the critics about the graphics. The companies should have listened to the fans, take more time on the games, and understand that there are old Pokémon that are useful.
Alola is that bad tho?, it just didn't changed the formula that much, is not like a crusial aspect to be good, mostly agree with all the others tho
@@Ale-Y I wouldn't necessarily say that Alola was that bad overall. My complaints mostly stem from it not being as revolutionary to the game design as Gamefreak tried to say it was as well as the Ultra versions pretty much DLC that forces you to buy an entirely new game.
If I wasn't jaded from X and Y, I might not have been as harsh on Sun and Moon when I first played them... but it jut ended up feeling like a continuing trend of mediocrity. Same thing for Scarlet and Violet. I probably wouldn't dislike them as much if not for the disappointment of Sword and Shield continuing that trend.
For me it was the opposite, it felt pretty cheap to release Gen 5 on the DS and not on the 3DS, because by that they had an excuse to not modernize the main-series by introducing 3D-Models. Instead they used outdated 2D-sprites for one of the most popular game series worldwide. I didn't like Gen 5 at the time it came out because of that and was hyped when X/Y where released.
I stopped caring after the Dexcuts too.
i agree. I stopped buying their products from Sword and Shield on.
the series has lost its soul. No love for the game and they are making excuses for their efficiency (in a bad way, making more money with less effort) because they knew people would buy their shit just for their brand (for new players) and nostalgia (for old players).
ironically 3D made the series look more dead, and the series just get worse and worse it's embarrassing to say the least.
and the blasphemy that was D/P remake was the last travesty they could possibly make to shake away any love I have for the series.
at the end of the day we'll remember Pokemon in the past as good memories and it's time to put the nail on the coffin for any dead-ass game those greedy corporates will release in the future.
It's depressing how so many players keep making excuses and refusing to do anything about it.
Easy answer: People are still buying the games. Pokémon: Scarlet and Violet might be the worst games of the entire series, but they sold more than Kirby and the Forgotten Land and DKC:TF combined. As long as people still are willing to spend money on bad games, GameFreak and Nintendo will never improve the quality of Pokémon.
That combined comment is actually like depressing
Nah fam. I like it more then XY
@@JMaster9877 Liking a game does not equate to it being good on any objective level.
@@LucasDanielCab5 Ok but it's not either because a game is good that it will sell good. People buy what they like
@@LucasDanielCab5 And since when were you or the original comment given the ability to determine objectivity? It's all opinion. Someone could say SV are the best Pokémon games and that would be just as objective as you claiming they're the worst.
I can honestly say I enjoyed scarlet and violet and bought the dlc basically the moment I could...but I can't deny it really is horrible how unfinished it is. And now there's some kind of glitch that could very easily just wipe your save data. Cool. Much as I hate to admit it, main reason I bought the dlc was my favorite mons were coming back in it, but now I can honestly say I'm regretting that decision. And the real kicker is if you're someone who likes to play through both versions to get the small differences in each, then you have to buy the almost $40 dlc twice. Gamefreak has really hit a serious low, and I am hopeful they'll pull out of this and somehow fix all these issues. Of course, the biggest kick in the pants is Netflix made pokemon look absolutely gorgeous with the mewtwo strikes back reboot. We all watch that now, and can only think "this is how Pokemon should look today"
if they can release a $35 paid DLC for a broken-ass game when it hasnt even been a year since release, then rest assured this DLC is just cut content that should've been in the game to begin with. In any case, i dont have to worry myself about any of this since i didnt buy the games. Ever since i bought Pokemon Sword i swore not to buy any Pokemon games ever again, unless they make a game that rivals Zelda BotW.
As much as i often disagree with you, i somewhat agree with your perspective here. Especially the part about the fans
Thanks!
I am with this guy. I disagree with you one hundred percent
How do I feel about Pokémon? I have a Switch but never bought a single pokémon game, instead I am relying on Rom Hacks, especially Renegade Platinum and Crystal Clear, and guess what? Crystal Clear is Open world, in GameBoy Color, and has level scaling, depending on how many gym badges you have.
It's funny how free romhacks are better than the new pokémon games that come out
@@IceYetiWins passion is the key. Gamefreak clearly has zero passion and rush the game because money.
They care more than GameFreak
I stopped after beating Nemona cause the post game set up was so boring with the dog just killing the interest fast. I did do my midterms before doing the E4 so that was hard.
They need to hire more people. They can’t give them more time because the investors want their money now.
I completely agree with you!
I'm officially done with Pokemon until we don't see any major changes, no paid DLC for me (any new story content I'll just watch it here on TH-cam), and I find it especially disgusting that they're only giving away H-Zoroark in order to make people buy it because THEY KNEW people would hesitate into buying it
And yes, if you told me this game was from the GameCube I'd totally believe you, even if they were to fix all the bugs and glitches, the game still isn't very pretty to look at. And the animations are just so stiff, currently replaying the old 3DS games and damn, you can tell they actually poured love into the animations unlike nowadays where everything is so stiff and with no creativity
And it's sad to say, because I actually enjoyed SV as well as LA ALOT!, but enough is enough, even if it's just one dollar they won't get from me then that's fine
This is how the power and love for nostalgia blinds, corrupts and enslaves people from seeing the flaws and warranted criticism. Essentially we're all bound and programmed to always buy regardless of quality because of nostalgia.
"Don't ask questions, just consume product then get excited for more products."
I don't even know what my favorite Pokemon game is because the early stuff (what I grew up on) was primitive and the later stuff, packed so many extra stuff the actual game was sidelined a little. I haven't played this one; honestly didn't care much for Sword and Shield. I find the stories less interesting as each entry, from Gen 1 to now. But Legends, which I also haven't tried, really seems the inspirations for this one. So who knows. I think the problem is being on a console as opposed to handheld which was Pokemon main series bread and butter, so the ambition is different, that is my guess. Like your critique as usual Demeech. Yeah I feel that dip in quality happens in some Nintendo franchises for whatever reason.
The problems started when they stopped making new Pokemon mystery dungeons games.
Think about it, gen 6 was the very last time they innovated the games. They went 3d and they stopped trying.
Also if i see another brain dead fan say "the games have never been about good storytelling" im going to launch the nukes.
At 5:42 when you mentioned it’s on the level of Sonic 2006, you are right, it literally is just like it in the fact that it’s broken, and both Sonic 2006 and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet got dlc.
Solid video and def agree with whats being said here, especially the game releasing so close to arceus. If they just gave the game a couple more years to polish it up, I feel like it would have been a lot more interesting but instead we just got a mess that has some cool ideas.
By far
@@Demeech Would we have spin-offs with online battles?
People are saying "cry me a river" and "cope" in the comments? Why are these people so accepting of getting trash from the biggest franchise in the world?
Because they are so tied to the Pokémon brand and characters alone that they are either in denial, or defend it.
Or maybe it’s because every game, every company is gonna have its ups and downs. They work so hard to make you guys happy.
@@SillyRyemoment "every company is gonna have its ups and down, they work so hard to make you guys happy" ehem *35 dollar dlc*(aka content that should have been included on the full game), if the game developers worked so hard then why did the game turn out to be shit?, simple because they put 0 or almost no effort into making the game good, if they would want to make the players happy they would make the game good, yes every game developers have problems but if you truly put effort into making a good game you will make players happy, stop defending the devs that make s/v, its a hot crap game that clearly has no effort put into
Got both so me and my sister can play Pokémon together. Scarlet was her first Pokémon game and while she doesn't have an issue with it, I find it hard to even play the game. Us fans really deserve better and Pokémon deserves better than what SV currently is like. No game should sell this badly optimized! GF had better learn to actually make a change for the better but doubt they'd learn. Started in Gen 5 so it's shameful to see things get this bad. Even PLA, while great, started to have issues when SV launched. Can't find that to be a coincidence.
What I still don't get is the jump in quality between dynamax raids to tera raids. I've seen some raids glitch and the tera pokemon was able to force the battle to a stand still, with the timer STILL GOING, and it manages to win because of it.
I don’t really have much issues with SV. Besides minor lag I can easily get rid of by reloading the game, the game is great. I play to get shinies and collect.
My issue with SV isn’t the story or pokemon or thematic or stuff like that, I actually enjoyed most of those things! My main issue is the freaking performance it has, this would’ve been an awesome game if it didn’t have any performance issues, I don’t want to go on ANY lake ever again until they fix the performance
Fixed or not the game still garbage stop been a Poke Simp
I love pokemon, but if this continues, they need to be canceled. It's like seeing an old friend turn to the dark side
The video is truthful and many will have to say the franchise is not for them anymore and move and remember what it used to be and what it could be. The older titles are still available to go back and play, as we do not have to accept the new mediocre main line titles. I personally stopped played since generation six Alpha Sapphire Disappointed me.
Pokémon Sword disappointed me. Pokémon Scarlet had me like "yeah, I'm done"
It would have been so easy to make Legends Arceus the 2022 holiday title, delay Scarlet and Violet to 2023's holiday season, and have both games turn out better for it. The fact that SV DLC was announced before the game has actually been fixed is disgusting. I didn't buy the Sword and Shield DLC, and I will not buy this DLC. Neither game deserves my money if they think they can put a bare minimum amount of time into them.
Arceus was the 25th anniversary game. It couldn’t release Nov 2022.
@@UltraBall23 The majority of people would rather the game be polished than released on an anniversary. This is what killed Sonic 06.
Listen, I loved Pokémon Violet. I just hate that both games get so much praise despite its current state. And despite not having played them I've gotten exposed to all sorts of other games, games that might be new to you. I've gotten invested into fighting games like Street Fighter and Tekken, but also games that you probably haven't thought of. Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, King of Fighters and Bloody Roar (Which was made by the same people behind Mario Party.) I also have a ton of party games, Pac-Man Party, Fortune Street, My Sims Party and Rabbids Party of Legends (That one is my favorite). And Mario Party is the King of the Party genre. (Mario Party 1-8, Super & Superstars). I am definitely expanding that bubble of what games I'm familiar with. And it will continue to expand if I see something new that has my interest.
You should realize that no one is praising the games technical quality or the graphics, they are praising the gameplay, the open world. That is a legit praise.
Pokemon is Nintendo's version of madden, COD, or 2k. Same old crap year after year with some dumb gimmick to hook in suckers and small children. Graphics never change or get worse, the gameplay is stale. No puzzles, barely any side quests. The heavy RNG is garbage. Don't let gamefreak touch this franchise anymore.
Eventually we'll end up with an official Pokemon game that is essentially the Sonic 3D Blast 5 (Gameboy) of Pokemon.
Though to be entirely fair, Nintendo also was willing to release Doctor Who: Return To Earth on the Wii the way it was & BOY was that game absolutely abysmal even for Wii shovelware standards.
I do agree with you, I don't like how greedy they've gotten with the games and don't care whether they're bad or not cause they just care about making the money. I still get the games cause I know I don't see any of it changing for the better and might as well just have something to enjoy, whether it's bad or not.
Not even the DLC, can fix this.
Just like the SwSh DLC.
@@LuigiTheMetal64yep the garbage swsh dlc didn’t fix the galar fossils and dexit yet idiots overhype the crown tundra
i actually really enjoyed Sword/ Shield. The controversy around it held me back, but while playing it, I had a lot of fun. Huge but- when I heard about the performance issues on the newest game, I was really dissapointed. I hoped it would become better after really
“I hope Pokémon can eventually live up to being the best there ever was“
On that note I will subscribe 😭😭😭
I was reluctant to buy a new pokémon game after Sun because of the lack of innovation and improvements.
I gave in and bought the revolutionary open-world Pokémon Violet game but the bad perfomance and countless bugs ruined the experience for me.
Yet Pokémon Scarlet & Violet sold really well because Pokémon fans will buy the yearly Pokémon game no matter what and will send backlash to anyone who critisizes the greed of the Pokémon company and the incompetence of Game Freak for releasing such a broken game that could have been great if they took more time to polish it.
Because narratively it's really good and it would have been the best Pokémon game if it wasn't for all the technical issues.
this actually makes sense to me & I hate the fact Nintendo couldn’t put more time into their games. I hate the D & P remakes and how tiny you and the NPC’s looked, it was so Lazy, the animations & animations in the moves. And Scarlet and violet was super buggy.
It is worth taking into account the fact that the Pokémon company international is indeed a separate entity from game freak itself. GF was never a big studio, and every game up until now has been a rush effort to get it out in a playable state-just look at the first two generations. With stringent holiday deadlines and ever-increasing demands for features and performance, the studio that is Game Freak is, understandably, unable to deliver a quality product under such restrictions. I’m not the biggest fan of GF, mind you, but I don’t think all of the blame lies with them. I think the best hope for the franchise is for a new studio to take over development of future entries.
As much as I’m enjoying Violet, I still just don’t think Pokémon is quite ready to move to open world. Remember when the Game Boy and DS games use to give us lore through NPC’s? Or when we use to get stuff like the “haunted house”, or even the Lumiose Ghost Girl in X/Y? Yeah where is stuff like that? If we lose out on quality stuff like that, then I don’t want open world or even full blown 3d games.
Scarlett and Violet to me are just okay games, However the state of mind is with other games that actually have many more people playing them. Splatoon and Kirby for example has a strong community. Kirby's Return To Dreamland Deluxe is actually fun too.
3:33 what worst company? I’m curious
Tencent, they made Pokemon Unite
I love your pfp by the way.
@@vslazer6728 Thx, it’s George Washingtoad
@@cringycontent I know, I love George Washingtoad, he's so funny. Just the Implications of what's happening in the Mushroom Kingdom if they need George Washingtoad are too funny.
My problem is knowing that my Pokémon will be invincible and will heal itself of poison. It will dodge attacks and hang on all because it didn't want me to feel bad. I fucking hate that.
I do agree that the issues are bad, but i play games offline so i didn't get most of the lag, but i did find myself deeply interested in the story, which i was not expecting at all
I'm a shiny hunter, and scarlet is the easiest way to get shinies to date, so that along with the exploration of the world I really like. The constant lag, and for now a glitch that COMPLETELY ERASES your ONE AND ONLY save file, means that I can't play the game I paid for price for. I'm sitting here wanting to play, but I can't due to the risk of having my save full of shinies I worked so hard to collect be erased forever.
It's ridiculous that we have to even put up with this nonsense.
I, to this day, just don't get why shiny hunters like shinies being handed to them on a silver plate, because that's exactly what it is nowadays. The appeal of shinies was that they were rare and not everyone had one, at least not unless they specifically farmed for it, which back then took thousands if not tens of thousands of encounters. Not saying that the rate should be 1 in 8000 or something but 1 in 500 is definitely waaaaaaay too common. What's the point of getting a cool shiny if everyone has it? Doesn't feel very shiny at all now does it. At least lock the ability to increase shiny odds behind some mechanic that takes some amount of skill like in generation 4 where you would use the poke radar to chain a specific pokemon, increasing its shiny chance only a little bit with each encounter.
This is the sad reality of Pokemon.... and many fans doesn't want to realise.
Cause REAL fans don’t play the game just for the graphics. If it has a good story, then I’ll play it.
I don’t give a fuck about how ‘perfect’ you guys want the games to be
@@SillyRyemoment ?
Dont know exactly what you are talking about but the game buggy nature, as well as other issues like the lack of level scale and empty open world is what it doomed.
@@SillyRyemoment we do not want the game to be "perfect", all we want is atleast a good fucking quality game, nothing more else, all we want is a good quality game, is that too much to ask for?
@@SillyRyemomentgo to Azkaban
A big problem for me with pokemon lately is there's way too many games out rn and it's hard to pick where to start. Before it was like 1 main game per console on the switch there's been like 3. 5 if you count the alt versions and I'm not including remakes.
Since the DS every console had 2 generations on it. The gameboy advance was the last console that only had one Pokémon Generation.
@Saroku1000 shit you right I was getting it mixed up with the gba. Still feel like they could slow down on the games now a days
And there’s a bad news that Scarlet & Violet’s new update a month ago could corrupt the save data beyond the repair which I found in gamexplain 1 hour ago.
You've literally said much of what I've been thinking. When I saw that Pokémon Presents, I automatically knew I wasn't going to get the DLC. I already regret getting the games starting with Pokémon Ultra Sun, except Legends Arceus.
It was Sword for me