3 Reasons Why I Stopped Playing Pokemon Sword & Shield (And 3 Easy Fixes!)

[@DistantKingdom]

Do you still play Sword and shield? Why or why not? Leave your thoughts down below! Edit: Some of the most hype moments in the anime was when Ash went all out in 6v6 singles. It's so bizarre how Game Freak are now deliberately sabotaging this style of play. Thoughts?

[@TRIXTER95]

Never bought it and never will, i didnt even get pokemon lets go i want a Good pokemon game before transferring all my pokemons from bank.

[@RoarkeIsBored]

Think I would only play to help my friends out with Dynamax Adventures, other than that probably not

[@gamehive8025]

No after i finished there was not much else to do I moved onto other games like age of calamity. botw is an example of a good game which is enjoyable to replay I think that's why people love it so much i hope gamefreak learns from this and moves in the right direction in the future.

[@AmoniPaleo]

Bought it and regret it! I even Restart the safe file just to see if I could do it... I didnt even bother to pass the first town...

[@hawkhollywood2127]

I haven’t touched it since last year and I never even beat the champion. Too bland, no soul, and no reason to even play again.

[@zorrento14]

"People are too busy to play the game" ***proceed to create 63 alcremie forms and 151 curry recipes nobody cares about

[@DistantKingdom]

Priorities am I right

[@RoarkeIsBored]

Of course it's 151...

[@LUNACYCL]

to be fair they're not really in-depth forms or recipes, just reskinned versions of the same thing over and over with slight differences...which makes it even worse tbh

[@EternalSeabed]

They added too many cutscenes in Gen 6, 7 and 8 too

[@speedymunchlax5733]

Gotta cook em all!

[@4xzx4]

It's crystal clear: they don't make Pokémon games for Pokémon fans, they make Pokémon games for non-Pokémon fans.

[@Dani-Claw]

I hate how true this statement is. :( A casual fan friend of mine who just buys Pokémon games, beats them, and leaves them alone after blasting through them bought a new Pokémon Sword because it was on sale when he got a Switch. He can enjoy Pokémon the way he wants, but me just trying to explain all the issues and nasty things GameFreak did with their lies and trash efforts didn't sway him or bother him one bit. Meanwhile, I've been trying to develop a great pool of competitive ready mons for teams for at least 2 years now (of course just as I got UM and the Pokémon company moved on...) and have one of the worst (if not THE worst) gens to join in competitive now. I love Pokémon so much and it just crushes me.

[@sunny.d21]

and for money

[@zeo211]

Play Pokemon Crystal Clear

[@themysticcharizard1395]

@@sunny.d21 They don't need money, they are SWIMMING IN IT. TPC AND NINTENDO ARE TO BLAME FOR RUSHING. THEY MADE THE CONTRACT.

[@rainpooper7088]

*i mean there are more non pokémon fans than pokémon fans right? u guys are clearly in the minority here* -GameFreak, probably

[@lama99654]

2:53 The fact that shiny hunting exists completely disproves the idea that people don't want to spend that much time into a game.

[@DistantKingdom]

yea like i said there's so much wrong with that statement lol. will cover it more in depth in future vids!

[@thedarkesper5290]

To be fair, shiny hunting is a bit of a different ballgame than normal gameplay. You can do shiny hunting in addition to most other tasks that leave you with one hand free- which isn't quite the same as normal gameplay where you need a bit more thought dedicated to the game itself. Source: am a shiny hunter myself. I do get what you're saying though, and agree for the most part. Shiny hunting is just probably not the best example to give.

[@raddreokami6892]

Exactly. I've put roughly 600 hours into SwSh exclusively because of Shiny Hunting. I just wrapped up a Shiny Regidrago hunt two days ago. If I want something I definitely will put in the time and energy into it, even if it becomes monotonous along the way.

[@JohnboyTheGamer]

@@DistantKingdom I think one thing you can include in a that video is the fact there isn't a lot of shiny hunting methods at all. I remember aDrive expressed this issue, and I agree. Even shiny hunting in SwSh can be tiresome over time. In previous gens you had so many options. I can't name the previous methods before XY but there was a lot added and removed since XY. XY: - fishing chains - Masuda eggs - soft resets - poke radar - horde battles/random encounters - friend safari ORAS: - hordes battles/random encounters - dexnav - dexnav updated where you can catch new pokemkn outside Hoenn - fishing - soft resets - Masuda eggs - hordes Sun and Moon is when shiny hunting methods started to get cut. SM: - sos - masuda - random encounters/ island scanner - soft resets - wormhole (usum) LGLP: - random spawn (this was arguably shiny hunting at its worst, people get a catch combo and simply wait) - soft resets SwSh: - random encounters - broken chaining with a 3% chance to get higher odds - soft resets - Mesuda method - Dynamax adventure (of course something not base game) As a shiny hunter I already know what it means to be patient. But the fact there isn't many options is upsetting. I do like Dynamax adventures but that's with DLC not base game. I like how things were in gen 6. Fishing combos also facts since conceptual wise. It's like I'm actually fishing for something rare. As a shiny hunter I can't say I'm looking forward to DP remakes so far. And it's bad enough I did play the original. I'm sure there will be other flaws but I *may* not notice them comparing it to the original at first. I'm not sure if these are intentional changes because they believe people don't have time anymore.

[@wizconsin6104]

This is coming from someone who has 450+ hours on swsh because i shiny hunt, I feel like shiny hunting is what keeps a lot of people into swsh but if I am looking at it from the view of someone who doesn’t I can see that there is maybe 10 hours of postgame content if you stretch it

[@FeederBot]

Gamefreak: People dont have time to play our games Also Gamefreak: Proceeds to create long, unbearable, and unskippable cutscenes in SuMo

[@abarette_]

I wouldn't say unbearable though

[@justmeok2]

@@abarette_ ive finished every mainline pokemon game, SuMo was the exception. It WAS that awful

[@EndermTheSwordsman]

@@justmeok2 As someone that beat it without ever losing a single battle or maxing out my levels or grinding from start to finish. I concur, it is legitimately the actual worst when it comes down to it and all prior generations, because everything was so unbearably long, and it doesn't help that I'm pretty sure Hau would give you his grandfather's soul, house, and his mother and sister to you, for a chance to battle or eat Malasada because he has no personality other than Happy Trainer Rival Buddy and OMNOMNOMNOM

[@blackcat2333]

hey, at least SuMo HAD cutscenes

[@justmeok2]

@@blackcat2333 with that kind of cutscenes id rather it didnt have any

[@blvalverde]

"Modern players frustrate too easily and don't have time for difficulty" Some games modern players made successful in the last few years; the Dark Souls franchise, Sekiro, Cuphead, that one Star wars game with the ginger. "Modern players don't want to spend a lot of time on a game" Modern players; Gacha style games that take hours to grind, playing multiplier games for hours, stuck at home during a pandemic replaying games...

[@sasir2013]

to be completely fair, that statement was made way before the pandemic but yeah, he is shit

[@blvalverde]

@@sasir2013 yeah, he couldn't imagine the pandemic. That's fair. But it just makes the whole thing funnier that something forced free time on people, free time he said no one had.

[@sasir2013]

@@blvalverde that's true XD

[@yiangaruga4928]

I'd like to add a long list of Indie games here too. Hollow Knight, Ori, Celeste, Hades, Rain World, Spiritfarer, Spelunky, Subnautica... I could go on. What all these games have in common is that they're a result of people with passion coming together to make something with the little resources they have available. Contrast that with the game series owned by the richest multimedia franchise in the world and what do you get? An overpriced game that reeks of passionless, soulless, rushed developent that disrespects its fanbase.. Driven by greed. Pokemon doesn't need to be difficult but it should at least make the player do more than spam A all game. Gen 4 & 5 were games that were challenging but still fair and fun for anyone. It baffles me that GameFreak suddenly thinks that hyper easy games are fun and satisfying..

[@blvalverde]

@@yiangaruga4928 when I was a kid before google got big, back when I could not speak english and there were no translated gameboy games I managed to beat pokemon just fine. The kids of today have wikis, google, youtube tutorials... Kids are not stupid. Hell, if anyone has time to grind pokemon, it's a kid.

[@exzyyd392]

Their explanation for making games easier is basically "The game isn't good so we want you to stop playing it as quick as possible"

[@Ironpecker]

Pls stop playing before you start noticing too many of the issues. Nono don't look at that moonwalking zamasenta/zacian, NONONONO DON'T MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT

[@nicke.8622]

What a beautiful Duwang

[@noukan42]

It is not even easier lol, it just that we got gud and they cut some grind. Having a 20 level gap between wild pokemons and Clair is not difficulty, is wasting my fucking time. Clair goes down as easily as gen 8 gym leaders if you are not underlevelled. Also, gen 7 are notably difficult nuzlelockes.

[@juice3287]

chew

[@kyotanaka920]

@@noukan42 it is easier. Rival chooses the mon its weak toward yours, opens up with a 2v1 tutorial fight and Hops still lost. Less grinding means easier time steamrolling through everything that it just becomes a vicious cycle of steamrolling through everything, said grind only ended up being a joke in the first place thanks to raids. The fight against the strongest pokemon to date ended up being a joke thanks to the Anti-Dynamax nuke doggos. Its not that we got gud. This game is literally easier. You would not have as much ease in steamrolling the past games. Only reason this game doesn't end up being 20 minutes short was because of the unskippable cutscenes.

[@liamheneghan4977]

The fact that the BIGGEST MULTIMEDIA COMPANY is threatened by indie Mobile apps is really worrying... If the company themselves don't believe in their product, why should the consumer?

[@Martin-yh7vi]

@Always Causality Instead of improving their Product to increase trust from the community ; They're doing the opposite. It seems really disappointing and pathetic from them to keep moving forward in this direction. I really hope a renaissance of some kind would happen sooner. Until then, I'm just going to play fan games.

[@DragonArbock]

@Always Causality I really don't think that's why that happened. I used to play that too. I thought the creator just moved on to something else. And calling it an MMO is kinda a stretch. Nowadays yeah, they do nuke stuff, like Pixelmon and Prism..

[@DragonArbock]

@Always Causality "Soon I will be graduating from college. Life has its demands and responsibilities, life will be changing, and it is not going to be possible to maintain PokémonCrater.com. As a result I have decided to shut down PokémonCrater.com on December 1, 2007." I feel like any claims of cease and desist were just part of a rumor mill. DP was already out for months and months by that point too.

[@alanbrito141]

@Always Causality "otherwise their IP could become reclassified as public domain" That's not how it works, if that was the case then sonic would be public domain by now

[@Joe_334]

They need to bring back Pokemon Duel, as a full game. Edit: As an offline game, with the option of online? I quit the mobile game scene after Terra Battle went down...

[@dragonmaster5377]

"People are too busy to play our games" If you make a game good with plenty to do then people will play it instead of other games

[@aceclover758]

Thats gotta be the most retarded statement I’ve ever seen. ARe we are on a time limit now? Is the game gonna explode if I dont play and beat it within a certain time? The fact many adults come back from work and would want to play your game but guess what! I wont be buying Pokemon anymore and put my “limited time” as your put it into another game

[@supersonicsandshrew9742]

True I spent 240 hours playing botw because I seriously love that game

[@nsreturn1365]

Exactly, and fuck thoose peolple complaining about timer, first fix the whole game then you can gater to the 2% consisting of tryhards in a casual chill Game.

[@minxyayala]

Thier going to need some Heal Burn for that

[@trustypatches4042]

Can confirm. I've been playing dark souls for like ten fucking years. Like, there's only so much content to that game but the game is so good I still play through it regularly

[@IYIirage]

God I wish there was more competition for the Pokemon company. This is what happens when one entity dominates a market.

[@GlitchCityMissingNo]

monster hunter stories 2! highly recommend it, game is absolutely amazing

[@taipaulsen4347]

Hopefully temtem will be good

[@lampad4549]

Well fans are to blame, they don't feel incentive to change cause fans keep buying it.

[@michelecastellotti9172]

Its the same problem with Game workshop. The competition EXISTS (tem tem, digimon, Lbx even for game freak) the problem is that fans call them out for copying pokemon without giving them any chance.

[@milesleonhardt8240]

If people are too busy to play the game then explain the side quest where you have to collect millions of watts for some lame rewards that no one asked for

[@DistantKingdom]

Good point

[@ps4pro668]

Even then all you get is a battle with honey and her lvl 60 Pokémon that you can steamroll through, and her rare league card

[@appletherapy3492]

They really need to hire a new guy to give them a new prespective.

[@Hyper_Drud]

Or 151 Alolan Digletts.

[@JayRedGear]

Also, a reminder that Gamefreak didn't include the Battle Frontiers in either ORAS or BDSP yet they kept Contests in.

[@TheYconic]

They really just said:"No one gonna play this game,so why bother"

[@dreamareakoso3791]

yeah, pretty much

[@lovethatdarkness]

Self-fulfilling prophecy right there.

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

Then why make that game?

[@FredericJohnsen]

More like: ''Everyone's gonna play the game anyway no matter how bad the game is so why bother.''

[@TheYconic]

@@FredericJohnsen tru

[@AmoniPaleo]

Gamefreak: People dont have time to play our games Also Gamefreak: Has Multiples forms of Alicrieme, shiny, the dex, the Curry dex, the breeding mechanic, evs and ivs, the masuda method. HECK the game itself is a time waister

[@M3rtyville]

Also also Gamefreak: Making a Pokemon that requires to crit trice to evolve

[@pikablu_25]

Ouch

[@february31th66]

The Digletts!

[@TheCatslock]

@@february31th66 remeber 151 guys? That magic number? Remember? Hey hey guys we got 151 curry and 151 digglets! Remember Kanto? The best thing ever lets give you almost nothing but G-Max Kanto Pokemon cuz you love Kanto sooo much! We even made a spin off remake of it! Original 151 guys!

[@Me-xl7xy]

Waster**

[@lovethatdarkness]

GF: No one has time to play this game. Also GF: Releases two $30 DLC for the same game.

[@lovethatdarkness]

@@incognitodon5779 Gamefreak could be viewed as a bad Girlfriend too lol.

[@bugonboris6681]

@@lovethatdarkness Remember! You can't spell Game Freak without EA! I know people say that a lot, but it's still really fun to say.

[@mynameisirrelevant7000]

This comment is at 69 likes. I must not like it.

[@Monty2289]

DLC that probably wasn't worth the price for admission when you consider they offered both versions at 60. 20 dollar higher than ANY game they've ever presented. They also had a bundle set. So lets do the math. 90 dollars for the bundle 60 dollars for both DLC (if you really wanted everything) 20 dollars for Nintendo Online 16 bucks for a yearly sub for Pokemon Home. Within a year's time You've spent $186 for all of this when an earlier gen's anniversary games would have cost 80 dollars and for 120 dollars you would have gotten the 2 gens plus the remixed 3rd game. You didn't need home or to pay for online, you got more features and less hassle for OVER the price of another console game.

[@michelecastellotti9172]

@@Monty2289 do i need to mention how much content you got in bw, bw2, emerald, platinum and hgss gave you for 50? Granted it was still a bit too much, but id take a finished and polished 50 bucks game than an unfinished, ugly, boring and scummy 200 bucks game

[@vasilias7987]

"I've never settle for mediocrity as an acceptable standard and neither should you" - Seto Kaiba, Yugioh DSOD -

[@TSPH1992]

Kaiba is a true role model

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

Too bad yugioh is literally pay to win (tcg/ocg + duel links at least)

[@tivednagol9127]

@@TSPH1992, no he’s not.

[@youwayo]

@RaichuRulers we got rival, Silver

[@mr.preston1632]

BLAST HIM WITH ULTIMATE BLUE EYES DRAGON AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

[@AwsomeArceus641]

They actually make a character that genuinely doesn't like the main mechanic of the generation and, on top of that, they STILL get rid of Mega Evolution which, let's not forget, was a fan favorite mechanic that they kept in Generation 7, put in Let's Go, and are currently adding in Pokemon Go... Absolutely unreal.

[@caav56]

>Let's Go Not quite related, but I find it jarring, how they've dumped a much better following Pokemon system from the Let's Go! games in favor of a subpar one we have now.

[@Officewaffle]

The community was split down the middle on megas, it isn't really a fan favourite when compared to dyna/gigantamax

[@Officewaffle]

Just because they put them in ten games doesn't mean that they should stay unconditionally

[@SecureInMyHead]

@@Officewaffle ten games is a lot for a franchise line

[@Officewaffle]

@@SecureInMyHead I don't really see your point

[@windwaker0rules]

"People are too busy to play the game" more like "People are too busy to play a bad game"

[@theatomicbob9067]

Next Gen: Yeah, so, people don't have time to play the game, so we're only gonna put in 3 gyms

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

More like too busy investing money into games actually worth my time

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

Gen 10: people are too busy to play so we just made an idle clicker game

[@Ramparafo]

I liked sword and shield, in fact it's probably one of my most played games. It's not 1st in my most played game though. That goes to 3D world.

[@Ramparafo]

But other than that, it wasn't a "bad" game, at least, not in my opinion. Its genuinely fun, it's just if you're in it for like,the wild area trees and all that crap, you're not going to be able to have much fun with the game. That's my take on it at least. I'm probably going to get yelled at now.

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

Looks like GameFreak forget their Soul and Heart when transitioning to 3D

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

they forgot to add ho-oh and lugia, that's the problem

[@rusty8311]

They no longer see Heart and Soul in the franchise, they only see Gold and Silver $$$

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

Heart, soul, blood, sweat, and tears.

[@antoninocuffaro2804]

@@rusty8311 FUCKING bars

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

@@rusty8311 *Silver and Gold song from the Rudolph movie starts playing in the distance*

[@tomfoolery5211]

"Why I stopped playing sword and sheild" Me happily playing showdown with every single pokemon for free: you guys bought that game?!?

[@willbow1304]

Yeah, it's so funny how Showdown became the mainstream spot for battles instead of just a battle simulator. It already had a lot of fame, but was never a substitute to the games until gen 8. I remember playing gen 6 back in the day and the online community was very active (in both battles and trades); gen 7 caused the community to slow down due to the Carnival Plaza system, but it was still strong. Now, in gen 8, I barely see people even talk about the online community outside of Showdown. The only thing keeping gen 8 alive is VGC and some draft leagues that chose to have the battles in the games. I really miss gens 4, 5 and 6... Thanks for ruining it, GF!

[@tomfoolery5211]

@@willbow1304 couldn't have said it better myself

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

I play that because I can use all Pokémon and Megas on there.

[@shrigmamale4641]

@@xlbthedemigod5662 facts, never left gen 7 OU

[@micnik3573]

Same

[@sasir2013]

-People are busy -Which people? -Us, we are a small company after all

[@Freefork]

Busy doing what? Pokemen: Beating our Pikachus. Buy our games.

[@sasir2013]

@@Freefork shocking

[@getolde7966]

"People don't like hard games." Doesn't it feel more completing to beat a hard level, than an easy one?

[@Spazza42]

If anything, people prefer hard games - how else would anyone explain the rise in more Souls-like games?

[@CalebePriester]

I remember the first time I beat The Lion King on the snes! That was a hard game! When I finally beat it the feeling of accomplishment was very REAL! I remember I got outside the house and was feeling so excited! I wanted to share that moment with somebody, but I was alone!

[@michelecastellotti9172]

The fun part is that the battle mason was actually quite hard, from the second stages on, your opponents pokemon casually seemed to be perfect to counter your team, why wasn't that the standard for every other NPC in the hardest areas?

[@yiangaruga4928]

Masuda basically has the same developer mentality as mobile games nowadays. Make a cheap game that people play and then move on from. Except they sell said game for $60 and advertise it as a AAA experience. Which is the complete opposite of how the old games used to be. There are moments in every gen 1-5 games that I will probably remember forever... Yet I find it hard to believe that anyone will remember anything from SwSd which is just sad.

[@miaustic1470]

Calyrex dancing will be in my heart forever

[@shrigmamale4641]

Everybody still remembers cynthia's team 15 years later, but what will the kids remember from Sw/Sh or even XY and S/M ? nothing, thats what they'll remember because these games have no soul in them.

[@Zepellin]

@@shrigmamale4641 but sm had cynthia so

[@TheSolBlader]

@@shrigmamale4641 I will remember Leo's/whatshisface champion guy having a Charizard because Charizard is the best pokemon ever and I'm not tired of seeing it everywhere no sir

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

I have played mobile games that have way more soul and genuine effort put into them than SWSH. It feels like a game I would buy off of the eshop for like $5. It’s definitely not worth $60 and it upsets me that it costs the same as some of the incredible switch titles

[@CollinBD]

I don't even want to listen to Gamefreak their arguments anymore. It's all a load of crap. I love your video's Distant. Keep putting pressure on it. I hope Gamefreak will notice your channel one day and listens to your feedback. Keep it up!

[@TSPH1992]

One bad excuse after another. You could tell whatever you want about square and Bandai. But they don't put their eggs in one basket and don't make weak excuses

[@MrSuperAJ]

You tubers mean nothing to gamefreak. If they cared about what their fans were thinking, we wouldn't have this disaster of a pokemon gen. The only thing people can do is to vote with your wallet. Literally nothing else matters to the company. Especially if they still sell the same numbers.

[@thunderspark1633]

@@MrSuperAJ Not to mention the amount of misinformation the Company spreads around. Seriously you I have tried to spread this around do not even freak pay for Pokémon Go and you know what most people did with me? Put me on a Laughing stock they freaking laughed with the Idea, people are so spoonfed with "the idea whether you pay or not is a choice" and everything has just improved you are just a "complainer". Seriously? There is no freaking choice if the paying people clearly get an advantage over those that do not. And clearly people do not freaking realize most of them are just impatient and they capitalize on it. Do people not realize that Pokémon got Away by pricing these games so high and delivering poor quality and fucking got away with it too...that will bring out the Message. "Oh it succeeded with Pokémon, what is us" an also beloved franchise stopping "from doing this?". Imagine this happening with a series like The Witcher...Yeah would not be nice does it?

[@MrSuperAJ]

@@thunderspark1633 You left a lot of words out, but I think I got the message. Either way, it's no use to argue with other people who defend this business. They made up their mind. All that's left for the other people who don't like this, is to move on to other games and hope that they improve in the future.

[@themysticcharizard1395]

Don't argue, just leave. If you really care about GAMEFREAK's excuses leave the fanbase. You are doing absolutely nothing but arguing over opinions the company makes and and that's just it. Leave. You should too, Distant.

[@yiangaruga4928]

Back in my day when I finished league I had tons of things to do.. Sometimes even a whole other region to explore. Not only is there a lack of post game content, now the main stories are also shorter but somehow the price of the games has risen by over 50%.

[@NagaYamiyo]

No post game!? But that AMAZING event with the Sword Hair and Shield Hair are the BEST post game any game has ever had!! HOW DARE YOU!!!

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

The whole game is a joke tbh. It’s a joke that it costs the same as other big switch titles

[@NagaYamiyo]

@@dreamingahopefuldream4439 it is... And it's almost infuriating that it has sold this well...

[@ShinyMew76]

@@NagaYamiyo SwSh should have never sold more than 500k copy’s, that way game freak would have NO CHOICE but to make the games better due to them not getting there precious money... then we can use a certain spongbob scene to our advantage! Game freak is mr. krabs and we will give him a taste of his own medicine by saying “oh boo boo! Let me play a sad song for you on the worlds smallest violin” because you have to make better games now!

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

@@NagaYamiyo yeah it makes me mad that this game sold well

[@chrispoe27]

I stopped playing online when I was against a dude who realized I had set up for them to loose and so they sat the remote down and timed out spamming protect. They won by mere HP points.

[@chowder5202]

Gamefreak: "People don't have the time or interest to invest in a higher difficulty" Fans who have been playing for two decades: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@necro9541]

I mean the fans only got invested in one generation of difficulty. It was gen 7. If you wanna disagree my arguement is that most nuzlokers find some of the totem pokemon to be hard.

[@mellowasiam]

@@necro9541 the games are not designed around nuzlocke. It is a custom play mode created by the community which GF hasn't even shown awareness of.

[@cataclysmchildernsvoid3455]

@@mellowasiam because they don't give 2 shits about them like me

[@Whocares158]

Fans : "Fine we create fangames for fans ourselves!"

[@fruitloops2058]

*Remember when people said Black and White were called bad games* Fools. EDIT: Ok so i might have started a war-

[@TSPH1992]

Noobs

[@virtualboygodot8251]

We didn't know how good we had it until it was already over

[@ShinyMew76]

@Oxnard Darcy That is the exact opposite of what it actually was... and the 2d animated sprites should have stayed instead of 3D models

[@Peku_G]

Honestly, i love black And white lol, always had, never understood fully Why people disliked it, i mean, yeah it could be that i just was younger when i first played it on an emulator, but i still Like it a lot

[@vasilias7987]

why people used to hate BW? i dont know, in my eyes BW is like the actual evolution of pokemon from every aspect its still a pixel game yet fully animated the character actually feels like how the pokemon should be the villain team that makes sense the bgm the all new pokemon experience, new world with no pidgey and zubat for once so much stuff to praise from such a good game

[@TheOriginalEwan]

Said it before so allow me to say it again. *Black and White was, still is, and probably will be the peak of Pokemon games for a long while.*

[@rainpooper7088]

You’re wrong *BW2 was*

[@hagman1579]

It’s a shame no one gave a damn about it, sold the worst out of all the games, if we gave a damn, than maybe we wouldn’t be in the situation we are now 😔

[@machina5]

You're right. Gamefreak put their all into Gen 5 and when it was recieved as poorly as it was, they decided to just give up and copy-paste the Kanto starters every 3 years like the Pokemon Go crowd want. And it sucks cause it's working. The Pokemon playerbase is self destruction in it's purest form.

[@illusion25012]

@@rainpooper7088 gen 5 just hits different

[@machina5]

@@rainpooper7088 You know what he meant.

[@julianvela3712]

My partner and I laughed way too hard at the “GayGengar” in the background.

[@3d4skin]

Did you see the "Sitonmyface" Pokemon lol

[@raging_rain]

fr it was hilarious lol

[@krimorant]

Pikachu really likes the name huh? So which nature is he? Serious? Calm? Hasty?

[@spiggly_digg]

Gayngar

[@aaronearth1639]

Gaygar

[@Lyrikle]

"We didn't put the most requested feature into ORAS because we're no longer confident in our products", that's what I heard.

[@shockleaf1115]

When all of my friends and cousins got Sword and Shield, I was on my 3ds from 2012 playing, HeartGold, White, White 2, Diamond and Platinum. Because those games are part of the DS era. And IMO the DS era was the peak of Pokémon

[@elfmonster1476]

Personally, I found Emerald to be the best game.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@elfmonster1476 emerald is the definitive hoenn experience not oras

[@bigal_5585]

Honestly, for reason #1, by cutting out features in the end-game by believing the assumption that no one will play them ultimately causes less people who were invested in the afterlife of recent pokemon games to continue playing them. In short Gamefreak is CAUSING more people to bot play because of the lack of content. I, and I'm sure most of the pokemon playerbase, would continue on with the game if there was some fun and exciting challenge at the end *ahem* battlefrontier *ahem*

[@Gimas96]

I don’t think people really care about these events cause there’s no reason to play these modes,at least I never cared too much about the battle frontier,I liked the battle factory in emerald cause it was a fun mode but that’s it.I think they really should incentives more these events like they did in BW2 that reward you for completing the battle tree by giving you a free shiny and rewards you for completing the Pokédex by giving you a tickets to go on a place where you can catch a shiny haxorus.These are good incentive and rewards for playing hard modes but giving you points to get useless items,that’s not incentive at all except for the hardcore players that cares about competitive.

[@yiangaruga4928]

@@Gimas96 And...? Some people still enjoy them. And *nothing* stops GameFreak from polishing those extra features to a point where majority of people can enjoy them. That's literally the purpose of a long running series, to test things and see what sticks and then improving upon it. But GameFreak is literally doing the opposite by removing everything that people really liked and replacing them with worse versions of them or locking them behind paywalls. Imagine if they actually made the battle frontier in ORAS and gave it genuine depth. They could've made the Frontier Brains function akin to gym leaders rather than being a grindfest like in Emerald. Maybe you'd have to prove you have the skill to face them first by playing each mode a few times or something, I for one would love an endgame like that. And of course they could tie them with great rewards and different charms with various good effects. You know, *actual* endgame content. The potential is right there and GameFreak uses absolutely none of it.

[@SilverSand17]

So according to the ORAS interview, they made the game "balanced" (easier) because people are too busy and will put the more difficult aspects of Pokémon (like battle frontier) in the post game... to only remove the post game content cause people were still too busy?? wut?

[@lamihadamshareef5270]

Sad indeead

[@getthegoons]

Basically, either he's lying or he's stupid. Probably both.

[@tiruliru1189]

@@getthegoons Both.

[@TheSilverwing999]

@@getthegoons He's fucking dumb lol

[@CalebePriester]

Don't think about it! Just keep on consuming!

[@hagman1579]

Everyone, this is what happens when you don’t give Gen 5 the love it needed.

[@da-barrera]

Wait, gen 5 didn't get any love?

[@hagman1579]

@@da-barrera when it was first released, now we all look back and regret the hate we gave it

[@delphoxxthevulpera68]

And giving gen 6 too much love?

[@dreamingahopefuldream4439]

I actually theorize the hate Gen 5 was one of the reasons GameFreak has their current mind set. It’s such a shame because Gen 5 was amazing and did so many new and cool things yet people hated on it for bad designs or whatever. Now we’re stuck with mediocre games and I doubt they will get better any time soon

[@hagman1579]

@@dreamingahopefuldream4439 the thing is, I don’t even SwSh, but I understand that this isn’t there best work

[@BubblyBlackbird]

Jesus, they're literally insulting the attention span and patience of their core audience, and then trying to use said insults as a justification for removing key features from their products. And they expect people to be okay with that?

[@Wildflower2760]

You know something is overpowered when it's banned to the same tier as Mega Rayquaza

[@tomyhervas2422]

"Gen 5 Bad" No, they have animated and expressive sprite animation, huge lore, one of the best stories, amazing designs, a lovely world and amazing characters "No, Gen 5 Bad stop protecting, this gen is killing Pokemon" *3 Doritos later* "Gen 8 Best" No, the world i so poorly made it looks like a beta, almost no expression, it does not have a quarter of the lore, the story is inexistant, the designs are not better than the previous ones we have seen and this also applies to the characters. Also they are lying to the community in its face to sell you their laziness and greedy cashgrab mechanics so much that the only thing that is missing is that Sword and Shield turns into a gacha game "No, Gen 8 Best, stop hating, this gen is the most innovative, ambitious and is a blessing to the Pokemon community, apologise to Game Freak" So, it is true. We cannot be sure about if the universe and the Zubats in caves are something infinite, but human stupidity really is

[@kyotanaka920]

Can confirm zubats in caves are infinite. But i doubt their numbers will top the stupidity of those people.

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

Literal N64 textures on nintendo's most powerful system and 3ds usum looks better still

[@chich-ai]

@The Weavile I hope this will happen someday to SM and USUM. People love to hate on these games (and gen 7 in general) nowadays... And it is my favorite generation

[@manuelfiuza6440]

actualy in pokemon sword zubats in caverns only are infinite if you pay for the dlc

[@yiangaruga4928]

Fun fact when Gen 5 games were coming Masuda was asked in an interview on why they chose to use animated sprites instead of 3D models and Masuda himself said that it' because the animated sprites allow them to convey the personality and movement of the pokemon better than 3D models ever could. One gen forward and they introduced the terrible lifeless 3D models... While I think going 3D is part of the natural progression of the games a part of me will always wish Pokemon never took that direction. Not when GameFreak is clearly incompetent with 3D programming... 5th generation games were criticized for things that I'm sure most people didn't realize were, in every way, good for the franchise. If the 5th gen games were a smash hit maybe the Pokemon games would have continued to be great.

[@Store_64]

i left the game when my console suffered an error and i had to reset it and delete everything including my save files, turns out game freak would never allow you to have your save file stored in the cloud for free, so i lost my first ever shiny pokemon caught in the wild

[@Sharonthebaron]

I feel you man. I lost a Shiny event zeraora to a controller problem on my switch.

[@Store_64]

@@Sharonthebaron in my case it was a shiny and gigantamax hatterene

[@Sharonthebaron]

@@Store_64 Kinda late but I also lost much more shiny pokemon. Including shiny gmax orbeetle :(. I'm just glad I could get my shiny leavanny into swsh. Its my first wild shiny.

[@kevinjr6650]

Game freak: people don't like hard games Dark souls games: am I a joke to you? 😭

[@ezotheripe7340]

Nioh, Shin Megami Tensei, literally any game with difficulty: allow us to introduce ourselves.

[@kevinjr6650]

@@THGMR-ox7sd personally, I'm jumping ship until the game freak we all grew up with comes back. Time to exchange my poke coins for rupees

[@crazend282]

Hollow knight

[@virtualboygodot8251]

Bruh I've literally dropped games for not being hard enough. I like having to try hard just to make progress

[@masterblaster2678]

@@ezotheripe7340 Nioh's difficulty was kinda cheap. Some things don't have enough windup animation, or any at all. That flame wheel with no windup animation haunts me to this day. Of course I'm saying this based on the first game, I can't play the second game until it's out on PC. Hopefully things got better.

[@Peku_G]

Gamefreak: People are too busy to play our game so they wont spend as much time in it The people who are always trying to complete the pokedex And do shiny hunting: *.__.*

[@kingworldadventures]

Game freak: people don’t have enough time and are to busy. Corona virus: ok I’ll pretend you didn’t say that

[@parkouremaster]

If now no one would "appreciate" the BF because we "don't have time", then why still making Shinies? if we "don't have time" to "appreciate" these features.

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

we haven't got time for story development but we sure do have time to soft reset 4000 times

[@freezeburn9875]

remove pokemon battles entirely cause no one has the time for it

[@silvignis2028]

Offtopic but your pfp...is that Hyde??

[@blackcat2333]

dont jinx it

[@darknessknows1235]

It's because shinies take no effort at all. They're literal color palette swaps that iirc are more or less predetermined by their original colors, which is why we have a whole bunch of shinies that are completely unattractive.

[@venkappanaiky4952]

Pokemon was way different in my days

[@kevinjr6650]

I feel like pokemon lost it's charm. The company has lost sight on what made it fun and now they just repeat what they think people like

[@Leon-b5g3j]

Same. No sense of challenge or difficulty anymore. Now alot of it is spoonfed to you and lowered to appease a majority of casual fans who don't like that kind of stuff in the first place.

[@hagman1579]

@@kevinjr6650 can u blame them though, they put all there work into gen 5, and we didn’t give a fuck, so that might have made them think that this isn’t what people wanted

[@kevinjr6650]

@@hagman1579 so in short.... The pokemon fanbase has created a what we dread most 😭 lol hopefully since they moved into nintendo HQ they'll change things up

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

@@kevinjr6650 fax, xyoras were the last pokemone games

[@prinxen1733]

*"Man, no one wants to play our games for as long" _removes all features that make finishing the game worthwhile._ *I still haven't finished Sword. There's nothing good waiting for me.

[@wycodi]

a solution to include megas, z-moves, and d-max/g-max while keeping the meta simple is to put an option in the battle rules. so people can choose which gimmicks they want to include in battle.

[@machmach6981]

Large and passionate teenage to adult fanbase for Pokémon Masuda: I'll ignore that

[@ninjathecat133]

The fact that Pokemon Black 2 was the first game I’ve ever played and have played it through so many times and still enjoy it today, while I have only played through Sword and Shield once shows how much of a difference there is in the gameplay

[@aninymouse1651]

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse to start with the best one. I mean, all the other pokemon games you try after this won't feel as good.

[@mattsmyntek]

that interview might explain a lot about swsh actually, a reason why they didnt put every pokemon in the game might be because they didnt think most players would “bother to get every single one”

[@chich-ai]

Then why did they bother to sell these Pokémon back to us? For money I'm guessing

[@mattsmyntek]

@@chich-ai most likely for money yeah

[@M3rtyville]

Are you following DrDava on Twitter? He is making random trivia about Pokemon cut content but lately he is putting out a lot of quotes from Masuda and the likes. Some of the quotes are just hilarious in a sad way. twitter.com/drlavayt

[@tatsu8741]

Is no one going to talk about the clefable with the nickname "GayGengar" LMAO

[@TheBenchLord]

Gaygar

[@Kurameno]

Honestly gold

[@RA7OR]

I was scrolling through comments for this 💀🤚🏼

[@crispyhottakes]

You remember those gorgeous trailers revealing the starters and the legendaries? And then we got the tree?

[@kanemansfield9943]

I really wish you was in charge on pokemon lol.

[@TheSplendidSolitude]

Don’t relax

[@foxril9126]

Don't settle for less

[@guthetanuki256]

I mean it's really not hard to make an interesting and fun Pokemon game. Fans have been doing it for years and sometimes they turn out better than the actual games themselves.

[@leonardofarias8843]

The timer was reduced to 20 minutes because we complained about wi-fi battles alot by the way

[@azazefer3175]

Don't we all.

[@ShyShyTAS]

I beaten the game, made a lot of comp teams, finished my Pokédex, made my livedex in-game and in Pokémon Home and I bought the DLC but I have never touched the DLC at all. I just lost interest in the game to be honest even though I love Pokémon and all my friends who are hardcore Pokénerds like me dropped the game.

[@paologrisanti4627]

Tbh same, except I didn't do as many things as you did in SwSh. I just finished the postgame which without DLC is an hour?? Then I kinda played online once, but limited battles were annoying so I just dropped it. Also I am a huge Pokemon fan, but I never finished Ultra Sun, it was too boring. Especially considering how I had played Sun just a year before, so it felt ripetitive

[@jasonreinherz7164]

Same but I did not buy the DLC

[@paologrisanti4627]

@@jasonreinherz7164 Me neither

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

@@paologrisanti4627 I recommend you go back and play some older games, Platinum and B/W and B2/W2 are good, the remakes are good (I'm still salty they cut battle frontier tho)

[@paologrisanti4627]

@@hamburgercheeseburger7959 I already played all of those games bro. Platinum was my first ever game so yeah

[@prehistoricworld_]

The amount of disconnect that the developers show is fucking extraordinary

[@TSPH1992]

They are so stuck in the 90's that they lost contact with reality

[@gregorymirabella1423]

they're right, there are a lot of other games competing for our time. *they're called pokemon gens 3-5.*

[@TheBenchLord]

And 2, Gen 2 is great

[@gregorymirabella1423]

@@TheBenchLord not really. i just played through it, it's vastly inferior to the remakes.

[@yammez1]

"Kids these days are too distracted. They won't focus on one specific game for too long" aka an excuse to release an unfinished game at full price.

[@persona4011]

Satoru iwata is rolling in his grave seeing how shady and greedy Nintendo in general have become.

[@TSPH1992]

I think this more TPC than Nintendo

[@RayoMcQueen95990]

@@TSPH1992 i think he is meaning Nintendo with all of the Mario stuff recently: -Emulation collection -Limited availability with most Mario stuff the the FE translated game This is not Mario but: -Still 60 dollars for old ass games -All the Pokémon stuff that’s gone wrong in every way

[@goGothitaLOL]

@@RayoMcQueen95990 I know this is more on Bandi-Namco then Nintendo, but here it is -Still not putting Rollback Netcode in Smash Also, this but it is 100% on them this time -Shut down a Big House Online Melee that was using Slippi, during a global pandemic

[@skulltothebone5003]

2030 children: what is vs recorder and fun solo 6v6 battles?

[@M3rtyville]

2030: Timer doesn't last for a 3v3 singles battle. 2040: Region has only 4 towns 2045: You have to pay to unlock new Gym Leaders 2050: You have to pay to add more Pokemon into your game. 2051: Kanto remakes.

[@skulltothebone5003]

@@M3rtyville in 2045, EA takes Pokémon

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

“What is having all Pokémon like?”

[@hydrangeandarkknight6218]

@@xlbthedemigod5662 omg, they might look at all the gens before 8 and call them pokemon mmos that aren't connected

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

@@hydrangeandarkknight6218 my collection of Pokémon I’ve caught are still in my 3Ds and they won’t move until a main game on the switch allows all Pokémon in.

[@brothbrother1525]

Can you really make a vid on what the developer said? His discouragement is stunning.

[@thekenyonsquad5672]

I'd watch that

[@Martin-yh7vi]

It's a very insulting statement to be honest. And based off of what he said in previous interviews. He's basically asking for the community to hate him.

[@DragoSmash]

there was this other interview with Masuda and Ohmori Interviewer: wouldn't it be kind of fun if the game was just really hard? Ohmori: we want to make it enjoyable for everybody Interviewer: have you considering making multiple difficulties in a Pokemon game? Masuda & Ohmori: no Interviewer: why not? Ohmori: i think players can choose the right playstyle in terms of difficulty for themselves

[@Martin-yh7vi]

@@DragoSmash I mean, he's not wrong, people basically just make ROM hacks with higher difficulty or community made game modes like Nuzlocke. But it just seems lackluster that they're behind times over simple concepts. Although, you could say the same for Souls like games as the opposite for Pokemon's easy difficulty.

[@DragoSmash]

@@Martin-yh7vi sure, people make hackroms and more personal challenges like "no weapon run", "no damage run", etc, but the game developers give the games a proper difficulty regardless, if you take it too far what Ohmori said and did, then you are blaming the responsibility on your players Don't like the difficulty? It's your fault for not coming up for a proper way of playing Too easy? It's your fault for not coming up with a way to make the game harder You are putting the blame on the players for having a bad experience when it's the developer's job to provide a good experience and provide with the options of more challenging runs for the more enthusiasts And let's also add that this game isn't easy to mod and Nintendo isn't really happy when people do

[@MxGerryNava]

“Abusing dry skin” bruh you can still do that and it looks great. You’re losing sooooo much of the experience by not playing doubles, the official format of the series and one that you clearly avoided talking about for obvious reasons

[@DistantKingdom]

I did talk about it tho. And just playing 4v4 doubles all the time is boring

[@MxGerryNava]

@@DistantKingdom True, that’s why 3v3 also exists

[@DistantKingdom]

@@MxGerryNava but dynamax ruins 3v3, as i already went over in this video

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@DistantKingdom i feel like dynamax is broken and deserves to be banned because 1 it doesn't take up an item slot like z moves and mega stones, also it gives the pokemon better hp and attacks

[@lordquastheonly]

Masuda is killing his franchise he takes 1 step forward while also taking a few steps back

[@Kingreed69420]

*100 steps back

[@cannabishornliu6119]

@@Kingreed69420 One step forward, all previous established steps back...

[@tiruliru1189]

1 steps forward, 1 million steps back.

[@AngryLittleAmericansCartoons]

I'm starting to believe that. I mean, people like Sakurai put a lot of effort into a Game like Smash for it's long time fans while Masuda gets to make a game for the biggest Franchise in the world and just treats it like a shitty mobile game

[@crushcrimsonh7912]

Bless you DistantKingdom. Your many videos on Sword and Shield has helped a lot in sorting together my gripes with the game, and shown me things I didn't even know or realize before. I doubt it will happen, but I pray the games return to being the game series I've loved since childhood.

[@tracker2010plays1]

What game freak needs to do is start outsourcing the franchise it's clear they are sick of working on pokemon and are only doing it for the paychecks

[@kyotanaka920]

They aren't going to do that because it costs money to hire different people to put in better effort.

[@dometalican1990]

More like...Gamefreak needs to stop making mainline games (they can continue Let's Go if they prefer). Give Monolith Soft a chance. They would make a much better Pokemon game.

[@TSPH1992]

Give them to monolith, inti creates or intelligent systems and kick Gamefreak to the curve. Fire the upper management at TPC. Job done

[@acc314]

Imagine square Enix in charge of the franchise

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

@@acc314 imagine EA

[@estaciondejuego1916]

Sadly i think pokemon is beyond salvation. Hell, sword/shield sold like crazy, why would the even bother to try and make a good game. For me, i played the mediocre main story and left after seeing there was no gts, trading is a nightmare, battle tower is so boring and all of my old pokemon are trapped in ultra sun. Also what is this dlc crap? I spend $60 on a game that should have been complete from the beginning. Smh. Oh, and don't get me started on the graphics an animations.

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

no gts? dayum. n64 graphics + no easy access to trading.

[@souptime8420]

"They aren't interested in things that are challenging" Bruh I downloaded Radical Red cause Sw/Sh was too easy

[@monkeyappmenace]

bro same😭😭😭

[@dometalican1990]

I was stuck on Misty and Bugsy for over a week. Radical Red is freakin' awesome. Lol

[@banal4975]

Might as well have just bought the console if you're gonna just click the same button to win.

[@254zero]

I never thought I'd see a game developer say people will get bored of their game. The interview was a huge red flag for me and I will not be purchasing anythanything from gamefreak until I see a drastic improvement

[@carreragt006]

Sword and shield was boring and bad. That's all im gonna say

[@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656]

It’s not necessarily bad, but it could of been way better. It’s probably bad compared to the other games, but it’s not like the game on its own is bad, it just could be way better.

[@carreragt006]

Imo it was bad because it had a lot of potential and just threw in the bin Edit: oh and the battle timer killed it for me aswell

[@Leon-b5g3j]

@@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656 I would give it a D rank, slightly above Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. They may not be the worst in the mainline series, but are not exactly the peak of Pokemon excellence.

[@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656]

@@carreragt006 oh yeah, the battle timer is annoying as hell

[@MrLuffy9131]

It wasn't bad but the cutscenes make it not replayable. Just hate how you can have like 3 battles and have like a 10 minute cutscene like I just want to play the game lol

[@shapeswitch_mood7221]

Now I wonder how the GF apologists are going to react to this video... In my mind, they cannot because there is nothing to say, it's straight up opinion and personal experience. But then again, they are GF Apologists for a reason...

[@TSPH1992]

They're like a cult

[@vasilias7987]

some people actually dont really care about it last time i checked they are more into something like... hey guys you see this youtuber, that guy is milking content again from SwSh flaws! my god how outrageous!

[@alanbrito141]

Something they'll say is, "why would someone want to have an hour long battle?, having the timer be 20 min. is good"

[@Dani-Claw]

Just look in the replies to Distant's pinned comment...there's somebody actively standing up for senpai GF and SW/SH...

[@M3rtyville]

Dude, there are people like MysticUmbreon in the community. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a #DontBringBackTimer or some shit.

[@speedymunchlax5733]

I'm pretty sure years ago I read some interview where they said they are aware of fan feedback but for the most part just do their own thing. Which is a shame. I miss going on new Pokémon adventures but I refuse to play SS and any future releases that fail to deliver. Also great choice of song!

[@legoferrari14]

Ignoring consumer feedback is the *worst* thing you can do as a game dev, bar none! Especially since unlike most traditional mediums, video-games can be revised with new content updates and error corrections much more easily.

[@antoninocuffaro2804]

Before? They may have been slightly open to criticism, with the obvious genuine love for their craft. Now? Marketing is priority, look at their merch store and they just constantly have new crap coming out. It’s quite sad.

[@tinytuna4660]

I’ll say this again “Pokémon games should continue to be made, but NOT by gamefreak” they are lazy and after the disaster we got in sword and shield. I really hope they pass the baton to another company. Gamefreak stopped making good games after gen 5

[@KirkWilliams300]

I find this so funny, the Souls games add features that people don’t discover until almost a decade later, and yet Fromsoft still made the choice to keep adding hidden features.

[@manofculture5548]

The devs are pulling this data out there ass. I want the full package, Gamefreak.

[@mr.x2567]

Gamefreak: “That’ll be $30.”

[@AmoniPaleo]

IF Gamefreak decides to do Sinnoh remakes the same quality as Sword and shield, I will be so Upset! Not only they will ruin one of the best generations in their catalogue... But also being a total disrespect of the nostalgia and childhood many of us have to the original. I really have my fingers crossed that wont happen... But unfortnatly we dont live in a fantasy world so... My hope for pokemon is gone already! :"c

[@TSPH1992]

If they ad megas and primal reversion it could work. Dynamax and it sucks. Either way at this point. Everything is possible

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

@@TSPH1992 megas and primal were actually a very good idea, I don't know why they just decided to completely drop megas in favour of a new mechanic in which pokemon do a special animation, but then decided to get so lazy they just made the new thing be "pokemon get bigger"

[@MrCrow-tl5tv]

If Masuda was in charge of smash bros: We removed Ryu and bayonetta Smash fans: why Masuda: because not a lot of people have the time nor the energy to learn their combos and special inputs, please understand this makes things better for the majority.

[@virtualboygodot8251]

"We also removed all of the bottom tiers and half of the mid tiers since no one really even played with them and we wanted the game to remain competitive. Although in a year we can sell you a character pack of 5 removed fighters for 30 dollars if you really wanted them"

[@M3rtyville]

Also we removed Trophies, come Pokemon from the Pokeballs, 70% of the music because nobody got time for that. But here is various amount of curry to collect.

[@goGothitaLOL]

@@M3rtyville *Assist Trophies they literally replaced the trohies with spirits, assist trophies are still there

[@seraphimzero6612]

To all those who bombarded Gen 5 with undeserved hatred: Are you happy now?

[@somechupacabrawithinternet8866]

@Danish Dey and genwunners ruin everything once again

[@AzuraDragonFaether]

A franchise as legendary as Pokémon can only be brought down by itself from the inside

[@LuxrayLloyd]

They're lazy and it works for them. I LOVE S&S but it could've been SO SO SO much better

[@Ironpecker]

It's easy to lobe sw&sh because the formula is very similar to the old games and game freak are just great at designing pokemon looks. They've got really lazy and complacent, not innovating enough and just focusing on selling games instead of improving their franchise

[@雪者]

Same here @Luxray Lloyd

[@tord4336]

Yeah I play more on my phone than my switch. The funny thing is that I mostly just play on Pokemon showdown. lol.

[@YarakaOfficial]

Pokemons peak was gen 3-5 and the summit was B(2)W(2)

[@cyanide_crow7970]

I still play, but I've restarted my main save file about two times now. I'm on the third file and I've completed the mainland dex three times and the IoA dex two times. I personally don't really care about the time limit since I don't play competitive, and think the DLC was a fun idea, but I've noticed my attention span for these games is drifting as I join more fandoms. Hell, Age of Calamity has made me more invested in its story than most pokemon games now. I've even started drafting a Sword and Shield rewrite at this point, DLCs included. Pokemon is slowly going down the same path as the Sonic games are going, and I just hope both of them make more interesting stories at some point in the near future. Before you reply to this, I'm much more of a story person than competitive. If I'm not interested in the story, I'm not interested in the game. Thanks for coming to my rant, I might edit this with a few story gripes I have.

[@roryleal6473]

I think gamefreak is confusing gamers with four year olds that play angry birds on their moms phone.

[@fabriciolamana4106]

3 reasons why I stopped playing the game (After the 6th gym leader) 1. It is too easy to get exp, I can raise my Pokémon's levels by 10 every gym leader due to easy exp (Exp share and exp candies), grinding and evolving Pokémon is not as satisfying anymore. 2. The story is too bland, the characters don't look interesting and it is just told in a way that makes your character just feel like secondary character. 3. The routes and region map, I always get through every route and trainer without even breaking a sweat, the routes are too simple, with a few trainers but bland, the region design is also boring, you start from the bottom and go up, what type of region is that? Unova, despite being also bottom to up had quite a lot of content, I didn't even know how many things there were when I first played that game. Have a great day.

[@hydrangeandarkknight6218]

It's funny you say that cuz when I played thru Ultra Sun (I played through moon b4). I literally stopped playing right before the dragon trial cuz I was at the end of my patience playing through that game. That was the first time I straight up quit playing a pokemon game.

[@bowserboy44]

I stopped playing after December last year, and only came back during the Shiny Gyrados Event. (Which was in January if I remember correctly)

[@Kurameno]

Bowserboy44 Fr at first i was like “oh a shiny gourgeist event i should check it out!” And i never did

[@NataliaNeeSama]

Masuda's excuse is like "Not everyone would use airbags, so lets stop putting them in cars!"

[@Slashser]

Everybody: *Agreeing with DK and/or giving their own insight* Me: Hehe, GayGengar...

[@furfousir1420]

The VS Recorder was one of my favorite feature because I loved watching my favorite matches of my Alolan Sandslash sweeping 3-0 in BattleStadiumSingles or when I had a 67 turn match in VGC with Soak Shedinja against Xerneas and Incineroar. I was disappointed to learn that it was removed in SwSh. I've been told the most likely reason why SwSh doesn't have the VS Recorder is because battles were hosted on the GTS and the GTS was removed, they did not feel the need to recode it since it was a relatively low usage feature. ( Facepalm)

[@raccoonman6251]

Game Freak deadass doesn't want people playing they're games anymore, going 3D was a mistake

[@BisonGaming3334]

I hope the VS Recorder will be readded in Gen 9.

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

I hope they support all Pokémon again so people can transfer their Pokémon from Gen 7 and 8 to Gen 9.

[@BisonGaming3334]

@@xlbthedemigod5662 I also hope that there are actually high quality animations in gen 9.

[@yiangaruga4928]

Hopes and dreams: ^ Reality: All those features and more behind a paywall

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

@@BisonGaming3334 that too

[@somechupacabrawithinternet8866]

man i miss the vs seeker from FRGL

[@sheridan5175]

I think the whole reason behind battle frontier being removed is just (masuda?) bsing because he doesn't want to admit his products are rushed

[@ionutpetrisor9073]

''Players get frustrated more easily and they aren't interested in things that are so demanding and challenging'' and yet the Dark Souls tipe of Games are some of the most apriceated genre among gaming comunity.

[@GameBreaker1055]

No one is "too busy". If people look away from your product to instead play on their phone, your product is boring to them. I did not spend too much time on Sword, but that was because without using the XP-Share I was basically an unstoppable force, so in a day or two I legit ran out of product...

[@SquadalaWereOff]

Dodged a bullet by avoiding this one. What a disappointment.

[@TSPH1992]

I dodged a bullet of 136 bucks on my bank account. I have no regrets

[@TwilightWolf032]

2:00 "We created a balanced game" That made me laugh XD

[@crispyhottakes]

Balanced. Zacian. Calyrex. Huh.

[@ShinyMew76]

ORAS: 7.8 for “too much water”? SwSh: 9.1 for “the best Pokémon experience ever, and perfectly resembles what the franchise is” Me: Visible confusion SwSh were the worst in the series, and ORAS was the best Pokémon game from the gens 6-8 era by far

[@bugonboris6681]

For me, I thought ORAS was just meh. It wasn't terrible, but it has some major things that bugged me, like the broken Mega evolution for Rayquaza, or the Battle Frontier being removed. It was still way better than SwSh, however, the worst Pokémon game in the series for me is Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. Let's Go was absolutely NOT worth $60, it feels more like a $20 game with the very small amount of content that's in it.

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

@@bugonboris6681(i do have some bias because ORAS were my first games) ORAS I thought was pretty good, it was really fun just having a power trip on what was supposed to be a "difficult" trainer fight, but I went to the battle resort not knowing what to expect, and even then, it still disappointed me. Let's Go was a joke of a pokemon game and I like to think of it as a spin-off game.

[@sw1shstyx777]

Even tho Swsh wasn’t great, let’s go are the worst in the series IMO. They are so dull and uninteresting

[@ShinyMew76]

@@sw1shstyx777 True true

[@hamburgercheeseburger7959]

@@sw1shstyx777 yeah, lets go were just like that one kid at school

[@MasonOfLife]

I’m someone who has played and loved every Pokémon generation, even 6 and 7 But I couldn’t force myself to even beat the game with Sword and Shield, absolutely nothing of substance The first time I’ve ever felt disinterested in completing or even playing a mainline new Pokémon generation

[@etaquince5220]

Give me a good game, and Ill stick with it. Even if Im busy: I put 700+ into smash. 100+ into hollow knight. 30 hours into Minoria! And Im a grown ass man with a full time job! Just do a good game, and people WILL play it

[@TheMegaPlay2456]

28 hours in bloodstained Ritual of the night, I still want to do 100%

[@etaquince5220]

@@TheMegaPlay2456 fun fact about my time in hollow knight: I still havent 100% it. I just took my time to explore the universe and all because everything in this game is so appealing to me. If pokemon was near that good. Ill play the shit out of it. Just like I did back then!

[@dometalican1990]

Insane amount of hours on Splatoon 2...that game is short and repetitive but the online is so freakin' addicting.

[@luxitozx5459]

Masuda: today players aren't interested on demanding/frustrating challenges Me: *laughs in kingdom hearts critical mode and enjoys it*

[@sandywolfr26]

Everyone who play hard games like cuphead and dark souls etc. I’m trying to unlock ultra spicy mode for pikmin 3.

[@Triattack007]

While I hate the 20-minute timer I do random 6v6 pretty regularly and rarely run out of time. I have been hoping they would add the 60 minutes back :(

[@JustAnArrogantAlien]

Imagine a chef who refuses to cook you a steak or pasta dinner, because he considers it a waste of time when you can just buy a cheap microwave meal instead. Makes no sense, right? So why does Game Freak feel so threatened by cheap mobile apps that they won’t create an in-depth Pokémon game anymore? It’s nonsense. Did people’s busy schedules stop Breath of the Wild from being a hit? No, and Zelda is way more in-depth than Pokémon. Make your game the best it can be, and people will actively choose to invest their time in your game instead!

[@accountant7872]

I recently started playing Pokémon White 2 randomized. I noticed in the second gym, Roxie, the leader, actually sings while your in her gym. It’s a shame that peirs couldn’t do the same in swsh, even though gamefreak has done it before with another gym leader.

[@red-man7017]

People REALLY need to stop asking for diamond and pearl remakes. I Because of how bad the lets go and gen 8 games are. I don't even WANT diamond and pearl remakes anymore. Outside of GamfrEAk and TPC loyalists like Publisify, Who the hell would even genuinely want to play a pokemon remakes thats way more of a demake than a remake? With bad animations, bad and reused models, missing features, Bad story, nonexistent difficulty and missing pokemon. Hell, I won't be surprised if the Shit Diamond and Piss Pearl DEMAKES actually have the full national dex as of gen 4 instead of currently. I STILL would not be surprised if they even removed pokemon that was obtainable in the ORIGINAL gen 4 games.