Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Are EMBARRASSINGLY BAD

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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are an Embarrassment of epic proportions. Not only are they suffering from massive technical problems, but a great vision under a rushed deadline. The games are extremely unpolished and bad by Pokemon standards and the open-world is a lifeless, empty husk. But what redeeming qualities do the games have?
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___TIME STAMPS___
#1 Introduction - 0:00
#2 What The Games Do Right - 2:11
#3 The Open-World & Level Design - 4:10
#4 An Aging Formula - 12:26
#5 Cutting Features for No Good Reason - 14:38
#6 Graphics, Visuals & Performance - 16:01
#7 Camera - 20:25
#8 The Production Values - 21:22
#9 Conclusion - 23:12
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[@TheActMan]

Get up to 33% off your Displates here: displate.com/promo/theactman/?art=5f1a04cfccdfd Pokemon 2042 or Pokemon 2077?

[@chillgiver]

❤❤❤

[@nosferatuoddz7974]

Speaking of embarrassing, you remember that time you released a gamer's ID on Twitter because he said a slur?

[@meedogh9378]

Pokemon 76

[@Sh0ckWolf]

42 definitely

[@linko.mp3]

2042 sounds better

[@YusufYildirim61]

"Don't defend it, you deserve better." Wise words.

[@tombstone118]

GameFAQS is still defending this rubbish game?!

[@yaboiiunclephil1552]

Pokemon fans: “N-No we dont!! We’re happy with trash!”

[@Red-hw5ue]

@@tombstone118they say it’s “fun” overlooking all issues this game got.

[@HyperFire16]

True

[@senabecool7232]

We Poke-fans have been getting Rubbish for 9 years now I think i want good stuff back

[@TheRaider1815]

The Pokemon fanbase is the epitome of toxic positivity. Every year they get fed these mediocre games, and anyone who criticizes them gets shamed and ridiculed.

[@joshuagonzalez4183]

same

[@bishopofeternity48]

Bottom feeders deserve trash.

[@digduck9463]

Blinded optimism

[@joshuathomas6275]

10000000% truth

[@bramskii08]

I know this shit is from 4 months ago but mfer they do this with all Pokémon TCG cards, games, P GO, mobile games TCG online. These are all ass

[@crowquet56]

It's absolutely insane how they took everything people hated about Sword and Shield and then decided to crank all of that shit up to 100 in Scarlet and Violet

[@XXLRebel]

It's insane that they made me appreciate Sword and Shield😂 That says a lot. I'm not even past the second gym in this game and I'm throwing it away. What a garbage ass game.

[@wastelandlegocheem]

I made 45 minute ranr video om sword and shield. I ALMOST actually said sword n shield is good in the comments

[@shogunender8752]

I’d rather have an interesting story than just a really boring game sword and shield is so boring. I only beat it to get the legendary Pokémon for scarlet and violet but I actually wanted to kill myself a few times. In general 9 yes it’s really laggy at times and isn’t optimized but I still was having fun even before the dlc can’t say the same for gen 8 hell even the dlc is bad to me it’s just there for getting Pokémon no fun at all. I can’t defend nor want to for Nintendo but I can say this game is one I still play even after catching every Pokémon and am now shiny hunting in because it is so fun.

[@ssmokiee1827]

..dont hate me but whats wrong with sword and shield?

[@wastelandlegocheem]

@@ssmokiee1827 pokemon being removed from thebgame for reason that were LITERALLY lies, lack of new ankmations, lack of an actual story, N64-ahh trees, a 30 dollar post game, and a general emptiness felt in playing compared to SunMoon

[@TheCian19]

It always baffles me that pokemon a multi billion dollar company cant make a full polished game

[@HUYI1]

they don't need too, they know their fanbase will buy this game anyways lol

[@shriekinambassador5042]

they dont need to. Gamefreak may want it but nintendo has very tight release cycles put on gamefreak

[@darknesswave100]

Why should they? Pokemon fans will suck off anything they put out. Why should they put in any effort when their customers are braindead morons who will buy anything with the name on it? Hell I wouldn't try hard if I knew I was guaranteed money even if I put 10% effort into it

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Why would they do that? It would sell just as well as an unfinished, buggy mess

[@magibubu]

​@@HUYI1I own at least one game from gen 1 up to gen 7 but I stopped there. When I found out that from sword and shield I can't transfer all my old mons to the newest gen I abandoned the franchise and I wish more of us would so that gamefreak realize that they have to put in some effort.

[@kukelhupf]

It genuinely looks like one of those homemade Unity games somebody made within a month.

[@deadlan2424]

Fr

[@enegizedadam]

That's what yearly releases and creative bankruptcy give you

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Millions of people are perfectly fine with a half-finished, broken mess. As long as it says "pokemon" in the title

[@ProjectRedfoot]

Those grafx R SO SIK

[@ajflink]

100%

[@td3pa837]

It's weird how the bad guys you encounter constantly in Pokémon have devolved from companies trying to dominate the world to bad guys that you find in places with a lot of graffiti and now they’re school bullies (I gotta explain something, I’m mad that they’re school bullies that aren’t menacing I’m not mad about the storytelling)

[@NukeCaulfield]

School bullies that turn out to only bully bullies.

[@StepSisRUstuck]

Have a bad guy part of a corporation that is trying to take over the world half the companies in the world are gonna look at Nintendo and be like "WHO THE F YOU TALKING ABOUT" 😂

[@TheTeraFurret]

Wow, a realistic and sympathetic villain with motives and a heartwarming backstory instead of a boring generic team with no actual motive, just awful

[@LanceRedCock]

​@@TheTeraFurret Villains don't need to be sympathetic to be interesting.

[@mistermann4163]

@@TheTeraFurret Where was that in V&S? Just from the first Boss I encountered I can already guess that each of the 5 bosses are just motivated from conflicting ideas with the school regulations with the Leader of them being the other character dedicated to that side story. The flavor is kind of bland compared to prior groups in which they wanted to rule the world through controlling eldritch gods with them being the end game next to the Elite Four instead of something you avoid altogether when exploring the open world. The sandwich herb side story is more interesting since you help out a friend(I say that loosely for being shoehorned into what he's doing but we get the Legendary Pokemon from him to act as our mount) and give the legendary pokemon new abilities you could use to go through the open world. Including bypassing the "bad guy's" where your just rewarded with chump change when beating them and a TM.

[@Subpar1O1]

Replacing Gyms with shitass minigames was the biggest crime to me. The Gyms give the games their personality if nothing else does, you always remember what the Gyms look like. How dare they

[@wyxyr]

I still remember every single trial from USUM. Couldn't explain the current gyms to save my life.

[@Number1SethRollinsFan]

That comma should be a period, and you need a question mark at the end of your last sentence!

[@wyxyr]

@@Number1SethRollinsFan ☝️🤓

[@justinnyugen7015]

@@wyxyrFlick the big bean, Find the Sunflora, FNAF security cam and...Ski?? Those are the only ones I really remember.

[@GothamDrama]

​@@Number1SethRollinsFanYou really shouldn't continue a sentence after a comma with "and". You can use a different and more proper transition word combination such as "You also" or add a Period then follow with "Also,". Sarcasm at it's finest! 😂

[@Roz_Clear]

As someone who lived in Spain when these games released, they don't capture the beauty or vibes of Spain at all. There could've been an olive farm in the olive fields where you could battle trainers for olive oil that could do something for your Pokémon. There could've been these big bridges connecting canals. There could've been a city split into the old section history-filled section and a new modern section. I can't speak on regions in Spain outside of Andalusia but that just speaks to how much wasted potential there was in the whole region. Now the DLC is based in Japan and The Ocean (??) and there's not going to be any more additions to this area I'd love to see represented. It sucks.

[@datboi_gfx5504]

Wait this was supposed to be based in Spain... i genuinely thought it had no theme from the videos and photos ive seen. This is genuinely depressing not just because of pokemon but its just terrible representation

[@Roz_Clear]

@@datboi_gfx5504 yeah, these games are meant to be based in Spain and Portugal. It makes me sad because I was really excited to see Spanish culture embodied in a Pokémon game 🤷.

[@datboi_gfx5504]

@@Roz_Clear Yeahhh this is such a wasted opportunity. For two countries with such distinctive cultures it says a lot about the effort they put into the game if someone familiar with it didnt even notice it... the games just look so bland and uninspired its insane

[@koenwijnen8278]

They didnt wanna make it look like the middle east, like Spain

[@Roz_Clear]

huh? (elaborate)@@koenwijnen8278

[@TheLastArbiter]

One frustrating detail is how you have to constantly wait for NPCs to go through stupid animations to get through a conversation. They’ll say one line and then do a six-second animation. Fast text speed doesn’t matter because of the amount of interruptions

[@grundierungtaglich6241]

For real they do be like: "Hello!" *Walks towards you for 5 seconds* "My name is Gloop." *Waves hand for 3 seconds.*

[@TheLastArbiter]

@@grundierungtaglich6241 yep exactly!

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

The frame rate and glitches got to me. It felt like I was playing Deadly Premonition 2 again. When I start comparing a big company like gamefreak to a SWERY game that’s a problem.

[@TheLastArbiter]

@@BlueAizu_ oh yeah those too 🙄 can’t even call it illusion of choice because it’s blatantly obvious

[@SoulCrusherEx]

Bye bye speed running

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

The quote of “don’t defend it, you deserve better” is the description of me leaving so many fandoms lately.

[@yorecf9641]

I shudder at some if the rumors I’ve heard about the KotOR remake lately.

[@howdoichangemyprofilepictu9839]

This is why I play indie games. Sure 95% of indie games suck, but at least there is a possibility of finding a good game unlike with triple A titles.

[@shatteredsentient5321]

@how do I change my profile picture when I played Hollow Knight and Ori. I said fuck all to so many games now. I gave myself high standards now. Small teams making these compelling games.

[@BlakeWR81]

Very true. It's not like I get happiness out of having a shittier experience than I did in the last iteration of a franchise. I want to enjoy AAA games and I want to recommend them to my friends, but by golly it is getting harder and harder in today's industry. I don't know, when I buy a game I want to get hundreds of hours of play time out of it. I want it to be so enjoyable that I'm thinking about it when I'm at work. I want it to be so fun that I get transported back to when I'm 14 years old again and stayed up way too late playing and didn't care. In the past 5 years only two games have made me do that, RDR2 and Ghost of Tsushima. Just give us what we had. Give us the core experiences we long for and we will come back. I don't like living in this cynical cocoon where every time a new AAA game gets released I have to wait for reviews to come in telling me, "it's fine but nothing special, oh and it needs at least a year more of work." Cool, I'm never playing that game. I hate that this is what has happened to a pastime that gave me so much joy.

[@R3in_Ch]

@@howdoichangemyprofilepictu9839 not to mention the price of aaa games is beyond what they offer

[@user-mx1ph2tb5w]

It continues to amaze me that this is literally one of the highest grossing intellectual properties of all time, and they can't do better with our money.

[@erikh5512]

i mean, they CAN. They just don't. because why put in more effort, when garbage like this still breaks records. They're okay with teens and adults dropping the franchise, Because dumb children are still being pelted with Pokemon ads via the TV show and toys, so they'll love it. And that dumb kids parents will buy them the new game, even if they're aware of how bad the games have become. Because they wanna make the kid happy

[@donsq4306]

It's up to the consumer to voice concerns and boycot a product. If most people would lookup revieuws of the games they would buy, the budget and time spend on games would be multiple times higher. So in short we suffer because lazy stupid people.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Stop paying a company who fucks up 5 times in a row

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Old pokemon fans indoctrinate their kids into pokemon despite it being nothing like how it was when they were growing up

[@wastelandlegocheem]

IT'S WHAT?!

[@mightymurph3949]

Black and white 2 was the pinnacle of pokemon. Everything was, if not damn near, perfect

[@steffimaier7297]

Those were great games when it came to brandnew Pokemon versions. My personal all-time favourites are Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

[@mightymurph3949]

@@steffimaier7297 I never got to play HGSS but if they are anything like the original GSC games on Gameboy color than they for sure would’ve been great

[@sodabeat689]

@@steffimaier7297 with heart gold and soul silver you can really tell the developers gave it their all. I remember that the lead developer grew up playing gold and silver and as such tried to capture the essence of these games as close as possible. These games also had a developing time of 3 years whereas other pokemon games have a much shorter developing time. So much care went into those games which are the reason that they are most players favorite. With all the technological advancement now you would think that pokemon could make even more impressive games now but I really feel they peaked at HG and SS.

[@aporue5893]

vanillite and vanilluxe.... those designs are awful.I feel like I like everything else about the series but some of the designs such as those are terrible still.

[@aporue5893]

pokemon crystal was awesome.original johto was really good. @@sodabeat689

[@eldiandevil]

They won’t pay for voice acting but they’ll pay Ed Sheeran to do an end credit song. I was so pissed when I found out.

[@sgtmuffinbadger6147]

Hol up what

[@pooppooper9033]

That was stupid.

[@positivea9111]

I think I know the reason why there’s no voice acting, remember in the beginning game it said choose your language and there several languages options, so if they add voice acting they have to have so many different voice actors that speak different languages and that will take a very long time.

[@eldiandevil]

@@positivea9111 they don’t have to voice every little thing. Honestly I’d be ok with just the cutscenes.

[@positivea9111]

@@eldiandevil Yeah the animated cutscenes that’s what I’m talking about.

[@eiderace]

Tbh I'd have no issue going back to pixel graphics in return of a actual interesting, open world with solid Pokémon sprites and animations.

[@eiderace]

@Meme University indeed, many criticised pixilated trees and such. I honestly don't mind it if it had not been for example for the trade of no nationaldex so they could make the world and pokemon better.

[@sakutaro3musik486]

imagine if we could have pokemon with 2d-HD like octopath traveller

[@haroldnecmann7040]

@@sakutaro3musik486 we need other developers to do that, gamefreak seem dead set on poor 3d graphics

[@Rob-hb7wh]

That would be interesting, I think an open world (the only selling point of these games) pixel Pokemon game would be so cool

[@SMEGEL145]

Id pay $70 for it

[@ShermTank7272]

The saddest part is that there's echoes of a good game in there. The battle music is, as always, pretty good. The final sequence with Area Zero gave a proper sense of exploration and mystery (that imo the main part of the game didn't live up to). Most of the new designs are pretty good. Nemona does the "friendly rival" concept perfectly, giving you a proper challenge and being excited for how both of you are getting stronger. The fact that the sparkles and particle effects from Tera attacks aren't causing major lag on the switch is commendable. I _want_ to defend this game, I really do. I can see the good concepts hidden beneath the poorly executed crust. But I can't in good conscience recommend this game. The open world was something we all requested, but it shows it destroys challenge and level design. Having a free camera during battles forced them to oversimplify animations (just compare Brave Bird in Gen 6 to Gen 9). The bugs, glitches, and lag are frankly inexcusable. And sure, I'll throw in the dead horse of the National Dexit.

[@ewanmitchell4656]

I get what you mean currently replying the game and i still have the same feelings i did when i fist played the game. Personally i find the games fun i do but their not brilliant

[@Draeckon]

The open world concept for Pokemon can work, but I i dont think GameFreak can pull it off themselves. They need to farm the design out to people with more experience there.

[@angelmelendez6924]

Who here after Palworld came out?

[@JJS563]

hello there

[@joseguerrero9331]

My boy. This appeared in my feedback.

[@jongiles415]

Finallly popped into my algorithm. Hello Palworld, buddies

[@veggsbacon1891]

I've been searching for this kind of comment. Hello there. 👍🏻

[@rando27enco]

Would like but 69 likes I cant

[@mrswizzlestickz2646]

The fact that you can't even go inside houses anymore is depressing

[@deoxysandmew2162]

Lmao. It teaches kids to not tresspass someone's property in real life.😂

[@Mookie12911]

Yup. And shops and centers being nothing more than menus. When I first seen that, I knew these games were on a new level of bad

[@DingoPegas]

@@deoxysandmew2162 except for the fact you sometimes get rewarded for just entering their homes. so what message are they trying to convey here?

[@thrash208]

​@@deoxysandmew2162 Ah yes we 90s kids favourite passtime of going into random peoples houses and snooping around it was directly due to us playing pokemon

[@deoxysandmew2162]

@@thrash208 ikr lol

[@joshtheryuk]

Remember all those cool optional dungeons in Hoenn and Sinnoh? The Wrecked Ship between Dewford and Slateport, New Mauville, Shoal Cave, Sky Pillar with freaking Rayquaza on top, Mirage Island, the Sealed Chamber to unlock the Regi Trio Caves, the Old Chateau, all the hidden caves in Meteor Falls and Mount Coronet... Remember how badass you felt when you discovered how to catch the Regis, Rayquaza or just found a new optional dungeon with some cool exclusive items and pokemon? Well in 2023 GameFreak can't even be bothered to create working cities, let alone "optional dungeons"

[@Bloooo95]

Yeah, this is why I can't understand people saying, "Well, it's for kids!!!" as an excuse for its mediocrity. When I was a kid, I was working on learning braille to try to understand some random ass writing I came across in a cave that might give me a riddle to discovering something cool. Kids aren't stupid. Plenty of kids like opportunities to explore. This constant coddling from GameFreak is not justifiable.

[@Blackemperess]

@@Bloooo95 It isn't coddling. It's cost cutting. They know they don't have to try. They know they don't even have to release a functioning product. They can continue to cut corners and spout blatant lies because the fans will continue to defend them.

[@themasterofw4295]

@@Blackemperess Yup as this was the most successful game yet( sale wise and that is what they care about) ... They are never likely to improve on this ...

[@Blackemperess]

@@themasterofw4295 Which is the most disappointing thing, because the franchise is versatile enough to cover multiple genres of games in their own titles. But GF bosses are tightwads fixated on money and nothing else.

[@jacobleclaire8976]

Pokémon emerald was peak pokemon

[@GeorgeNoiseless]

Game Freak employees also deserve better, their job satisfaction reviews are rather dire. Props to Gireum Red for that sad revelation.

[@steffimaier7297]

"Everything is old!" Fits perfectly.

[@jackmayor3574]

Pokemon fans have legitimate Stockholm Syndrome. So many people in the comments "But I had fun playing the game! Therefore I disagree!" Monkies can have fun throwing shit at a wall. That doesn't mean throwing shit at a wall is a compelling experience. Just because you managed to have fun playing this disaster of a game, doesn't change the fact that it's a garbage product being sold at AAA prices.

[@yaboiiunclephil1552]

“The people that defend this game and its open world have no further ambitions than the developers, and that makes me sad.” Thats the perfect way to word it bro

[@chris_kyleartist279]

I think the people that feel this strongly about it are miserable and need lives.

[@retrohanska4441]

Sad thing is that we have no idea of their actual ambitions when they've never given the time and proper amount of manpower to make the game they're envisioning. According to some interview 200 GF staff and 100 creature inc. staff were involved with the game. For reference that number is usually somewhere between 700-1000 or even above it like with CP2077. Meanwhile those games usually also have longer development cycles than any Pokémon main series game. Any delays are also always out of the question because every single merchandising deal and side project is tied to schedule of these games but despite the problems with this equation being absolutely clear by now, Pokémon Company still refuses to give GF more time. If you wanna point finger at someone, point at them, and anyone who bought SwSh, Legends Arceus and DPP remakes at launch

[@derigel7662]

Why do i need to its GF and a pokemon game, im not here for GOW or Last of us...im here to collect silly animals

[@chris_kyleartist279]

@@BlueAizu_ such an innovative response.

[@UnwantedGhost1]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[@jkashuba07]

Here is Game Freaks biggest problem for me. They continually keep pandering to younger and younger audience with every release. They forgot that the people that contributed to this being a global success are now in their 30s and late 20's. It's quite ironic because the first three generations in the series didn't feel like that at all.

[@cyberzombie038]

I share a similar perspective. It also doesn't help that in retrospect, 3rd gen was the most feature-dense among the sprite era. But almost none of it ever got retrofitted into the newer games. Except for Battle Tower and day/night cycle from 2nd gen.

[@sentii8131]

the first three generations were all worse than gen9, although maybe not gen 3

[@itachi93674]

The head of Gamefreak stated in a interview they think kids are dumb. That's why they dumbed everything down. That's why routes and paths,caves are so linear, that's why the story is no longer intriguing, that's why battles are so easy. This interview was around the sword and shield release.

[@twotamatos]

Yah I still am so bummed they cut challenge mode after b&w 2 it just felt like that would be the bare minimum having over leveled fights isn’t really challenging it’s frustrating the trainers still have piss poor teams n even the gym leaders and elite 4 so if I played it with 2 people it’s even easier yah

[@cyberzombie038]

@@itachi93674 Not doubting ya but do you have a link to that interview?

[@flying-magpie]

As a huge Pokemon fan, I am depressed with these games. I love this franchise, and I wish that the same kind of love would be put into these games. But it's all about that mighty dollar, and a I worry for future games. This video hurt to watch because it's sad to see what this franchise had become, fallen into the same traps many games have fallen into before. It really sucks.

[@zkme2734]

But boy oh boy does it sell well

[@Kaierutv]

@@zkme2734it only sells well because idiots will buy anything. They’re so pathetic

[@Kaierutv]

@MCAnimationofficial but its 2023 graphics do matter now and the story and characters are horrible

[@Kaierutv]

@MCAnimationofficial what are you talking about. Scarlet is a hot mess

[@Kaierutv]

@MCAnimationofficial then you like the bare minimum

[@L0neWolf06]

Mesagoza having 5 of the literal same copy pasted restaurant on each side of the street killed me. Also the frame rate around the flowery area and the Fairy Team Star base was so fucking bad OMG.

[@getitoutofme]

Mesagoza was supposed to be this huge capital city but feels smaller than than the towns from the GBA games which only had like 10 buildings. At least there was no repetition and you could go inside the houses and apartments. Lumiose City was done so much better than Mesagoza and that was 10 years ago.

[@Justforfun-td7uq]

What make me feel sad is that in the past, we fought criminals with some random rats. Nowaday, we ride a legend as a bike and deal with bullying in school.

[@aardwolf6668]

The best part about that is? The person you're helping, Penny, immediately starts bullying Arven in Area Zero (she even insults him, Nemona, and the player at one point) so it's like...yayyy I actually helped a bully!

[@Justforfun-td7uq]

They make some great plot twist, I am so suprise. Now im fighting the BIG BOSS, the headmaster. LOL

[@JohnWick-rh1zz]

I actually prefer the smaller stories, playing as a 10 year old fighting mafia boss gets really boring after the third remake

[@86lanzo]

First Pokemon game we fought Giovanni..and took down the Mafia.. Lol

[@justinTime077]

@@JohnWick-rh1zzLOL. Yah the world has become a strange place. The simulation is rampant.

[@thelegolistme3250]

What really bugs me is that the cities are so lifeless. The only buildings you can enter are shops, no random NOCs that might trade with you or give you a tm or sth

[@lo11163]

dont expect everything upon release

[@hubertduck9177]

@@lo11163 sir its not a live service game its gonna be like this

[@a.h6045]

@@lo11163 ??? man im just expecting the series to live up to standards it set before.

[@SoccYT]

@@lo11163basic features and experience are now dlc?

[@brucelindahl9814]

GTA5 and San Andreas had a lot of things to do.

[@antitroller101]

Then Palworld came along and Pokemon has one of two options: Sink or swim

[@ARandomUser5]

Much as I hope (cope?) that this would be true, we all know The Pokemon Company won't learn a damn thing from Palworld's success. Why would they? S/V are among the worst games in the Pokemon franchise yet they're the highest selling. They can continue to release utter dogshit and the fans will still gobble it up.

[@sorubro2193]

Pokémon fans have no standards

[@staringcorgi6475]

The ones who constantly moan about the games do though and there’s too many of them in the fandom

[@KisukexMomohime]

The question I ask myself all the time is "What would these games looks like if they had another year or more hands for news ideas and polish" this yearly contract they have is such a detriment to the franchise.

[@dingus748]

I personally had fun with the game and as someone who does competitive battling teambuilding is fun although I'm not used to the meta as I was in sword and shield. This game really should have gotten delayed to early 2023 or like you said, gotten another year or two of development. Although it's not likely I do hope the fact that nintedo had to apologize for the performance makes them reconsider how they release these games and either give the developers more time or put more hands on deck.

[@jonnymario771]

The question you should ask yourself is: What if another company made a pokemon game instead?

[@retrogamer64007]

@@jonnymario771other companies did make them but spinoffs. The look good like pokken and new pokemon snap

[@Frame_Late]

@@jonnymario771 Gamefreak pulls in sales because a lot of Pokemon fans have the IQ of your average houseplant. The only way Nintendo will ever switch studios is if Gamefreak has back to back colossal failures that drop sales. Besides, Nintendo is a Japanese company, the Japanese people are used to buggy, broken and subpar products. Nintendo will simply hire another studio that is complete trash and we'll get even more crappy games because Nintendo literally gives zero fucks about quality. The only way I see Nintendo ever focusing on quality is if they have a change in upper leadership that puts emphasis on quality (unlikely) or a large media/tech giant buys Nintendo (Disney and Microsoft are most likely, but the Japanese government would most likely block it because Nintendo makes up like a 10th of Japan's GDP.) Pokemon will only drop in quality from now on. And Nintendo doesn't care and will never care.

[@KisukexMomohime]

@@jonnymario771 I do ask that but if you were GameFreak would you ever hand the game to another company nope because it makes them so much money

[@jignjorf9076]

The saddest part of all this is that it will only continue to get worse because people keep buying it, positive change will never happen unless sales take a significant hit which unfortunately ain't gonna happen anytime soon

[@Jay7707]

Are you seriously believing what this guy says his takes are trash!

[@Kaermorhan]

@@18s No thanks cowpoke im good

[@ActionJacksonForever]

10 million copies in 3 days, sword and shield sold 12 million in total, pokemon will only get worse

[@justanotherrandomdude7961]

@@ActionJacksonForeverto think this crap sold more than god of warn

[@BlackMoonHowls]

Like the DVD Rewinder.

[@valentines7639]

I would love a more complex story with real stakes in pokemon. Acreus raised the bar and they just immediately threw it all that good will away

[@anarche4900]

This hopefully Legends kyurem on the next console will deliver

[@kamatari1220]

It kills me that this company can afford to hire the best writers in the world but they consistently refuse to. THEY CAN HIRE WHOEVER THEY WANT to do EVERYTHING but won't.

[@SkunkFarmer420]

It’s the fact that there are people that love Pokemon that seriously refuse to point out the series recent years of brutal mediocrity just because it’s Pokemon. Grow up. These games have been the same exact thing for over 10 years now. They are literally playing you and just taking your money while barely trying while making the games

[@nolsee1176]

I didn’t leave the franchise, it left me. I deserve better quality gaming for my hard earned money. It seems to me the biggest problem the blind fandom has is a lack of self respect.

[@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDuke]

well you certainely sound self centered

[@DarknessIsThePath]

@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDuke compared to gamefreak he sounds sane.

[@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDuke]

@@DarknessIsThePath if you blame the people who work on pokemon don't blame only gamefreak. The 2 others are as bad as gamefreak and no one realises that. Nintendo has been way worse for way longer

[@TimothyGod]

​@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDuke hell no it hasn't, that's insane comment to make

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@DukeTheDukeTheDukeTheDukef course someone with a Pokémon profile pic would start stuff on a video about the newest Pokémon game.

[@guitardude125]

I like how act man kept doing the awkward freezing transitions even after he moved on to the next problem. Really hammers the point home on how distracting it is

[@aardwolf6668]

It made me motion sick which goes to show just how bad SV are for that issue lol

[@mistermittens3533]

@@aardwolf6668 how did it make you motion sick?

[@aardwolf6668]

@@mistermittens3533 Frame rates, lag, and other graphic problems commonly cause motion sickness so all the problems with the game (at least back then -- I haven't played it recently) were perfect conditions for it. Apparently SV caused motion sickness in quite a few people who had never experienced it before.

[@mistermittens3533]

@@aardwolf6668 huh.... i know the feeling when in VR but I've never experienced it 2D on a TV before. I wonder why some people it effects them in just VR and not 2D? Or if there's people that only get it in 2D and NOT VR 🤔

[@aardwolf6668]

@@mistermittens3533 I'd give you links if youtube didn't autodelete comments that had them but if you Google motion sickness in games, you should get quite a bit of info since it's talked about a fair amount online. Might even be able to answer your specific questions.

[@JL-xh4jh]

I have this urge every year to come back to Pokemon for a few month, normally around a new Pokemon game... But since Scarlet and Violet were so bad it drifted me towards the old games again and I rediscovered a few that i havent played like Black and White, X and Y, Sun and Moon or Alpha Saphire / Omega Ruby which will hopefully last me until they manage to put out a game we deserve...

[@andrejz8954]

Which will be.. never imo

[@Dorya_Ora]

It's sad to see what was once a lot of people's favorite childhood franchise get so soulless all because they never took the time to make an actual great game, even though they have all the time in the world to make a good one if they actually tried

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Why make good game if bad game sell lots?

[@Dorya_Ora]

@@SlimeBlueMSgood point

[@KnightSlasher]

The only Pokémon game where instead of catching them all you catch depression

[@Freddieology]

This is a comment that I did not want to like but dammit is it a winner.

[@Goaner89]

Sure because its gae and for children

[@TheRibottoStudios]

The story hits so hard man.

[@dylives7667]

Nemona: You finally catched them all. What did it cost? Me: Everything.

[@ridleyz205]

Only?

[@sonloto8010]

In all fairness, if this was any other game, people would be demonizing it to hell and back for being a buggy mess. But hey its Pokémon, so it has to be good.

[@sourcefreak7997]

And that’s why GameFreak keeps getting away with it. Everyone buys their sh!t because it’s Pokémon.

[@loreta4665]

I played Pokemon Violet as someone who has never played any Pokemon games before, I did enjoy it apart from pretty frequent frame drops. Good to know I started with the worst one, now I can enjoy all the other games.

[@Depressed_Dandelion]

Word of advice: once you're done with the rest, or if any one particular gen gives you trouble, just grab an enhancement hack and I promise it'll be a better time. If nothing else, for gen 4 sinnoh play following platinum instead of bdsp

[@edorasmarauder5761]

I still stand by the opinion that Gen 8 was the worst one.

[@matrixcom69]

The fact that Gamefreak abandoned older fans of the games and still made more money than ever is a sign the games will only get worse. I played Sword and Shield and decided to never buy Pokemon again after that game disappointed.

[@niksn022]

I quit at Pokemon Y and I'm so happy that I missed out on the more recent crap that Gamefreak/Nintendo has been spewing out. Two friends of mine were swallowing massive amounts of copium when scarlet & violet came out, it looked truly awful when I watched them play it. I'm about to buy a dsi xl and pokemon platinum or soulsilver and it's going to be such a good experience in comparison.

[@Unprotected1232]

Gamefreak didn't need to perform miracles for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet to succeed. Open World Pokémon has been a dream for so many. It's honestly about time we had one. Gamefreak simply needed to finish up the game. It's simultaneously shocking and sad (but not surprising) Pokémon Scarlet and Violet ended up this way. If only the Pokémon company would let go of the annual release schedule. Gamefreak needs a much larger team, a new game engine, less complacent management and more time.

[@rometherevenant8749]

Said the same thing and fully agree

[@Puggy42069]

And they need to pay their workers more. That’s capitalism for you. They know they can get away with it cause their brain dead fans accept it.

[@eldontyrell4361]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the Pokémon set in pseudo-Britain on Switch also open world? I kinda thought they all were basically, only this is the first 3D free-camera open world one, y’know like how Assasins Creed, Just Cause etc are. I don’t play it though so I’m probably wrong. Honestly open world games are only ever good when they remember why they made the open world in the first place. I normally just shake my head when I hear XYZ game is going to be open world.

[@arumaka3662]

I definetly would not complain if they taked at least 3 years or so to make a new game They really need to put a time gap in the game production

[@Puggy42069]

@@arumaka3662 That doesn’t maximize profits though.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

GameFreak fighting to the death with 343 on who can do the least amount of effort with a Million Dollar budget in their Games

[@TheActMan]

It's a close fought battle

[@steffanyschwartz7801]

Can we add Activision to the battle?

[@revampedagain9225]

@@TheActMan feel like GameFreak winning that fight to be honest. It feels like 343 is at least trying, evening it’s only little, which I can tell didn’t happen with this game.

[@yvesgingras1475]

At least 343 game dont look like release title for the ps2 :p

[@dratinithedagon7508]

Yeah. Game freak is lazily getting forced to work under an annual release schedule. For real tho, Gamefreak is not the problem, it’s the pokemon company.

[@OrderOTCB]

One of my first experiences with this game was trying to catch a Pokémon outside of the flower town, and watching the entire town deload around me, and the game freezing

[@TheMamaluigi300]

“Welcome to the world of Pokémon!”

[@Hannah11876]

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet is the natural result of years of blind support from the fans. If you keep buying garbage, the seller won't improve that garbage because it is been sold anyway. This game is pure, objective garbage, not only from the technical side: it's gameplay, which heavily relies upon massive and unusual grind (Terra Shard farming, Removal of Pokerus, one time usage TMs, breeding takes longer) is insane. It is absolutely ridiculous.

[@noahharley9916]

The bottom line is if you gave them money you are telling them this is acceptable and i want more please! Doesn't matter what you say or how you justify it . Why put in more effort and make a truely cutting edge game when you can make this and be the best selling game in the series .

[@EmmanuelPR427]

​@Part-Time Gamer yeah stop defending people who clearly dont give a crap about you and only money

[@marthflores3515]

@Part-Time Gamer this is good bait

[@ZelosSama]

@@part-timegamer2712 it wont put them out of biusiness at all what is this extreme troll answer?

[@TheInfiniteNine]

@part-timegamer2712 I hope you're trolling because if you're that stupid I feel painfully fu**ing sorry for you, bro..

[@voidgivenfocus]

Pokemon fans would literally buy a pile of shit from a gamefreak employee and tell you it's the best thing since bread lol, I can only see pokemon games getting worse and worse from here since no matter what gamefreak does it will sell well with their captive audience

[@masonrockwood7732]

Thanks for spitting the truth Act Man. I've seen far too many lifelong Pokemon fans basically Stockholm Syndroming themselves into thinking 'this is fine' with every new game.

[@staringcorgi6475]

Same with cod but why play pokemon when you can play final fantasy

[@UnwantedGhost1]

Exactly! Newer isn't always better.

[@JustJohn8]

I have seen the light, thank you for releasing me from my delusions

[@Danny328DT]

It's better in its gameplay, but the performance issues hinders the game experience.

[@bumponalog5001]

@Kevin Your friend let you borrow cause he doesn't want to look at it lol

[@davancleere5957]

Nah after seeing tears of the kingdom u cant say it’s technical limitation

[@AviatorAlan]

Exactly

[@bangoouygi6372]

it’s just blatant laziness and it’s so disrespectful to the community. it’s like they just take a gigantic shit and put it on a silver platter and tell us it’s gourmet and for us to enjoy

[@lucasanders4131]

"Pokemon is a shadow of what it once was, and it's never been more SUCCESSFUL" 😂

[@thekleanupkrew8381]

“Don’t defend it, you deserve better” needs to be used more often. It fits the bill for almost any game these days

[@phantomshadowfax5431]

no it does not. gamers are entitled little brats with barely an education most of the time. get a job.

[@HumanPerson_final]

True enough, but it's especially true for Pokemon fanboys/Nintendo fanboys. I've never met a group of thicker brick walls in my life. Any time you go into their spaces and suggest something like a more mature Pokemon for the adults who grew up playing the games, they get irrationally angry. Suggest not having to play as a pubescent child? They will damn you to hell. Suggest that GameFreak has been lazy for years and essentially remaking the same story over and over? They will curse your entire family line. "It's a game for kids!" says the adults on the Pokémon subreddit who play every game to death, as if that's the final word and desiring anything more out of the series is sacrilege. The reason GameFreak/Nintendo get away with this is because their hardcore fanbase accept it so happily. They'll sit and get pissed on and thank Nintendo for the shower of "gold".

[@johnnymcblaze]

You sound like some crazy Qanon conspiracy theorist. Everyone gets what they deserve. Especially epstien when he slipped.

[@johnnymcblaze]

@@HumanPerson_final What you said is true of people in general i think. Political tribalism, losing the right to repair, and epstiens murder, prove most people deserve what they have coming.

[@mochoman312games2]

or you can like let people enjoy im having fun more fun then the game of the year i hated elden ring

[@irreligiositat]

I feel like this whole "pokemon never had good graphics" argument started in the 3DS era because the graphics in pokemon improved A LOT in the 2D era and they were really good, the sprite animations in BW2 are amazing and full of life

[@Gatitasecsii]

Absolutely true, People don't realize how good B&W graphics were.

[@bishopofeternity48]

Colosseum

[@joohyunglee1815]

I thought Gen 5 moving sprite looked terrible 😅

[@user-lq4ct6dr5m]

@@joohyunglee1815At least better than what we got now, BW sprites has souls in it

[@GerardMenvussa]

Mario, Zelda, Final Fanta, Street Fighter and so many others managed to transition to 3D decades ago. Shame Freak is still trying to understand how cameras work.

[@707abhishek]

I hate the people who say "you don't like it because you grew up".

[@chainbomb]

I grew up so much i'm still playing gen 3, 4 and 5 to this day!

[@MiguelGarcia-dn8qm]

Crazy how disappointing Pokemon is now. They keep introducing new transformations but they don’t do anything different. I say they should’ve stuck with Mega Evolution. But the thing that bothers me most about Pokémon is how lifeless the world is. It’s empty there’s just open space but nothing inside it. The Pokémon don’t even act like Pokémon. They walk. Do a roar. Turn. Roar again. And then walk. Repeat. The Pokédex literally tells you the kind of behavior we should be seeing from them. In my dream Pokémon game. The city’s are densely packed with pigey’s nesting on buildings, the alleyways have Gengar hiding in the shadows. Forests are filled with trees you can climb to find materials that Pokémon leave behind. NPC’s actually make some noise and don’t all run and walk the same way. They actually hustle and offer meaningful side quests. I don’t want clear cut paths in my open world, I want to get lost in it and find something unique.

[@sebastiansantiago4350]

When the Pokemon team came up with the tag line, "Catch Them All", what we failed to realize was that it was in reference to them attempting to catch more than 10 frames per second for their games.

[@millenniumvintage9726]

Gotta catch’em all! (If you bought the DLC…… and even then we’ll leave out 200)

[@DogeCena]

@@millenniumvintage9726 tbf you could never catch them all, not even in the 1st generation

[@millenniumvintage9726]

@@DogeCena yes you could, except for mew. Every Pokémon was at least programmed into the game up until SWSH. This is just straight up untrue and there’s zero excuse.

[@gunsandroses896]

@@millenniumvintage9726 you have to trade for version exclusives and some evolutions. That's not catching.

[@millenniumvintage9726]

@@gunsandroses896 every Pokémon was programmed into the games and obtainable prior to Gen 8.

[@GranMaj]

"Don't defend it. You deserve better" never a truer words has been said and were completely ignored by the pokemon fan. The amount of justification this community had during a broken launch is astounding. You know the launch period was so bad that the developer itself was addressing it, which never been done before by Gamefreaks.

[@aardwolf6668]

Nintendo is pretty infamous for not refunding stuff snd yet not only did they publicly apologize but they also refunded a lot of games. Nintendo wouldn't do the last one there if things weren't awful. I genuinely wonder what the actual numbers are as in how many were refunded. Probably not a huge huge amount but I'd still like to see the numbers one day.

[@bubalackgaming8892]

@@aardwolf6668 I missed my chance to get a refund :/

[@aardwolf6668]

@@bubalackgaming8892 oof that sucks, dude. I'm sorry.

[@jacksond7956]

I literally played Pokémon games on ROBLOX that were more fleshed out than this. That’s probably why Nintendo purged all the Pokémon games off the site, so they don’t look so bad. It’s actually insane how terrible the map design is.

[@ThatDiecastGuy69]

I just finished Violet and I have to say, its awful. The world is choppy, the battle animations are laughable, the gameplay is subpar at best, for a 3d world Pokemon game...my disappointment is immeasurable and my day ruined.

[@adummy9664]

Every Pokemon generation that passes I start to appreciate Gen 5 more and more, which was honestly the one I kind of initially scoffed at but in hindsight it was basically a complete refinement of gen 4. Much faster battle animations, idle animations for the Pokemon portraits instead of static pictures, the introduction of reusable TMs, an Elite 4 that's initially easy for the story but then absolutely kicks your butt on the rematch (They go from 4 level 48-50 mons to 6 level 71-77 mons.) a story with characters that were actually interesting, Triple Battles, an almost completely original set of Pokemon that didn't lean into constantly reusing Gen 1 mons to milk nostalgia (Not every one was a hit and a lot of them were arguably derivatives of gen 1 mons, but in hindsight I appreciate the attempt to keep things fresh.) and probably more that I don't remember off the top of my head because it's been like 10 years since I played it. (And I should probably play the Gen 5 games again really.)

[@TheHalfLeft]

Gen 5 definitely holds a majority of my least favourite Pokémon, but there were more than enough for me to find multiple teams I loved.

[@ChibiFlonne]

I never understood the hate for gen 4 since movesplit was such a game changer, it made a lot of pokemon usable at least casually, platinum was an amazing game imo and as far as gen 5 goes, I didn't play the original B/W, but Black 2 was quite possibly the best pokemon game I've played after platinum, which I managed to enjoy after already being sick of playing pokemon. Fans actually had it really good, the games also had their style and looked good back then, but the series has been on a clear downhill trend since the move to full 3D and just look like budget mobile games now.

[@devilhunter553]

I've always had a love for Gen 5, black and white 2 personally had everything I ever needed in a Pokemon game besides the nature mints. I would spend hours and hours on the white Forest tree and the PWT which I would love to see again. The opportunity to fight champions and gym leaders always brought something amazing to me

[@hug-the-raccoon]

The modded version made it even better, too. Props to the community.

[@chrismdb5686]

@@ChibiFlonne Base Diamond and Pearl are as awful of entries in the series as X and Y. Rushed games that should have never been released in the state they were, yet were shoved out the door far too early because Nintendo needed a Pokemon game on the console to boost sales figures. If Platinum never happened, then Diamond and Pearl would be just as divisive as X and Y are.

[@garaktartv3647]

The quality dips with every New Pokemon entry if it weren't so frustrating for me because I love pokemon I'd think it would be hilarious how a multi billion dollar company gets away with serving a bigger portion of garbage with new entry and people just eat it up.

[@chilakilorompeortos]

I mean it's nintendo fans were talking about here their quiality standards are not exactly the best. I think they jus don't know better

[@garaktartv3647]

@@chilakilorompeortos yea also true i mean if no one told them they would probably also eat literal garbage so

[@Drums_of_Liberation]

@@chilakilorompeortos Their standards are better than the idiots who pay for Cock of Doody and sports games yearly

[@Dz73zxxx]

@@chilakilorompeortos exactly. Because mostly nintendo (or id say pokemon fandom) rarely touch or dwell a rabbithole to games outside their own

[@leon4000]

@@chilakilorompeortos Let's not get too complacent with that line of thought. Most consumers are kids who don't know anything about technology and adults who won't think twice if it will make their kids happy.

[@JoshArtisto]

I remember when new Pokémon generations were the highlight of my year. Now I'm just concerned for the future. They had something going with Legends Arceus, but that momentum sure died with SV. And they didn't even fix a lot of the issues with Teal Mask dlc

[@mars7357]

If you pay for this kind of quality and keep buying future pokemon installments you deserve this.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Especially the snarling, drooling, ravenous fans who would strangle you for *not* enjoying the newest pokemon games. They literally hate people who don't like Pokémon, lol

[@buttholesurfer3213]

⁠@@SlimeBlueMSIt’s typical bugman behavior. An attack on Pokémon is seen as an attack on their childhood, and therefore must be an attack on them.

[@expressrobkill]

@@SlimeBlueMSits so tru and will go out of there way to hate your opinion piece, the number of times ive seen on reddit on a subreddit not related to Pokémon getting aggressive Pokémon fans in there droves trying to stop out any critasisusm. They never try to refute the points they just call people old or say I’m having fun. Or say the take is dogshit. Its like you’re insulting there family. Its so frustrating how brainwashed they are for nostalgia that it doesn’t even feel worth the effort.

[@ChaseSeaborne]

Game Freak is in a position that most game companies can only dream of where they don’t really have to change or evolve much, if any with each new game in a series as so many people will buy them every time. I always figured that would be its decline, but it seems like Scarlet’s and Violet’s bugs and lack of polish could be its decline. I haven’t played Pokémon since Diamond version (the original) and to see it decline to… *this* is really sad. I don’t play the games anymore, but I will always have a special place in my heart for this series. Pokémon has fallen so far, I only hope it rises back up better than ever after this.

[@NoBuddy89]

Lol... Maybe actually pick up a game and play them, videos online are scewed for views. The games are nowhere near as bad as they're made out to be. And gamefreak has changed pokemon ALOT since diamond. The core gameplay loop is ofc the same, otherwise it wouldnt be pokemon anymore, but everything else around it has changed many times over. KZbin redesigns their website several times a year, i hate it everytime. Sometimes you dont need to constantly change things if its already good. Also, there is a big difference between the developers of these games and the guys who set the deadlines for em.

[@Spinner891]

@@NoBuddy89 I bought the game and I've played it. Ya. It's bad. It's really bad. It is easily the worst mainline Pokemon game ever released. I've played lots of Pokemon games, and I've played lots and LOTS of other games of many genres. So I can compare ScaVi to both old Pokemon games and a multitude of other non-Pokemon games. It's a terrible game with bland uninspired gameplay, a bland uninspired plot, bland uninspired characters, and a bland uninspired world, all experienced in a distracting and consistent ~20 FPS.

[@shatteredsentient5321]

@Incantus It's bad lol. My game froze and crashed a lot. Raids I got frozen for so long to even get a turn. Got my refund.

[@geraldthegoose1685]

@@Spinner891 the one positive that this game gets from me is that the music goes hard

[@rubberduckian2538]

The nostalgia factor comes from fucking nowhere considering it has never gotten good. Always the same. That idea of "Nostalgia". It's a slippery rope. Cuz shit ages, you need to adapt it to the times. Pokemon refuses to grow up. It's a travesty even thinking that THE POKEMON HOLLYWOOD MOVIE was even better than the games, cuz it used Nostalgia as complimentary condiment but it's main shtick was the fantasy of fully fledge imagery life in Pokemon world. Wich it's main line games have refused to incorporate. I hope Pokemon burns and ceaases to exist.

[@falconlord7811]

Cant get over how gen 5 had bustling and real feeling cities and somehow now we have empty, lifeless cities that are literally copy pasted. What happened?

[@liver6513]

Gamefreak is lazy, they should stick to 2D if they aren’t capable of doing modern games.

[@Saroku1000]

they didn't feal bustling and real, its just some 3D building blocks with 2D sprites that move in a grid. You don't see them jumping or eating/drinking while walking like in SV, I don't see how that feels more alive.

[@Name..........]

​@Saroku1000 someone's fan boy, yes my one npc in scarlet and violet fading into the either with lagging mouth movements is the very pinnacle of a nice realtic bustling town.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Pokemon has NEVER made a good city. They're all just pixels and 3D models.

[@Samir-rd8xp]

gen 6 had amazing cities

[@darkbribe777]

We are cursed to never receive a pokemon game that is up to current gen standards. The masochistic fanbase refuses to admit that these games are extremely far off from being an acceptable product, because they mistake an attack on the game's quality as an attack on their nostalgia, like he says in the video. We are not criticizing you for liking these games, we just want to band together to scorn nintendo/gamefreak for the garbage they created and is succeeding in passing off, due to fan base blindly accepting the quality of these games. WE ALL COULD HAVE MUCH BETTER POKEMON GAMES! Agreeing to these games' massive flaws does not remove the franchise, it improves it. I didn't buy Scarlet & Violet and after these 8 months I'm glad I didn't. I'm a massive fan of the games, so can we please band together so we can receive a well made game. Please people, I implore you to listen to reason.

[@xduwu4257]

Maybe I'm just disconnected from the fandom but I think a good majority of the fans have been disappointed and critical for a while. The mass majority of sales are from young kids who don't care, they like pokemon, their parents buy them the games. Some adults still do too ofc but these games do insanely well. Regardless of what actual fans think they've got away with this for a very long time and even if every single adult fan boycotted the games they'd still make millions in sales, and most of their sales don't even come from the games. I can't imagine them starting to give a shit anytime soon unfortunately.

[@fractalisomega9517]

Paldea has a lot of potential that just never was actualized.... lots of interesting lore and small bits in the open world map that should lend itself to the indication of dungeons.... but nothing is actually done with it Tons of ancient towers, ruins, historic lore, 4 ruin pokemon.... but no underground dungeons to explore and encounter unique pokemon

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

I refuse to believe technical limitations are the reason they couldn't have the school as a full building you can walk around and explore, the Switch isn't that weak. Scarlet & Violet isn't trying to pull off any crazy shaders, lighting, reflections, etc.

[@TimothyGod]

Just look at Zelda and zenoblade

[@254zero]

Anyone who tries to use technical limitations as an excuse are just in denial. Like other comments stated, breath of the wild (a launch game at that) blows Scarlett and violet out of the water.

[@totallynotaclone]

​@254zero Let's be real. The switch is no powerhouse in the slightest. But I agree, this is not a switch problem. This is a pokemon problem. How can the game play so horribly on the one and only game system it was designed for? It almost seems deliberate.

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

@@totallynotaclone It doesn't need to be for a game to look good. The Xenoblade games, Bayonetta 3, DKC Tropical Freeze, BoTW/TotK, etc. all look far better and run just fine.

[@bluedistortions]

It reeks of a developer having no clue how to optimize code.

[@samhebert3170]

Back when Sword and Shield released, the developers actually gave an explanation for features getting cut at random: they use it to make each entry a surprise. ...I wish I was joking.

[@Galamoth06]

Kinda like how they had to scrap the national Dex so they could focus on making new models and animations- only for it to be quickly proven they were still using the exact same assets.

[@Ramsey276one]

Not all surprises are good…

[@cyberzombie038]

So is that why they cut Pokémon contest, berry farming, dive as an HM, and the mach/acro bike split?

[@W0lfMan26]

@@Galamoth06 i still don't know why people didn't boycott that to oblivion. The fact that people accepted that fills me with emotion.

[@Abyss0fDelta]

It's really sad they lock easily the best region of the map until the end of the game. Area zero is awesome but I'd bet a decent chunk of people never got to see it.

[@TheNuts1225]

Dude, I never even got to see the school because the game was so laggy, I couldn't play it. I wish I bought a physical copy so I could return it.

[@danmiy12]

and i wonder why pokemon fans defend this game over palworld, and this is before the dlc as well. It only got worse in the dlc of poekmon s and v

[@MonteCreations]

This video is SO refreshing. I'm really sick and tired of all the fans praising this game saying that glitches are the only problem. The game is a sub-par product; even without the glitches it would STILL be the weakest entry in the series. Fans deserve WAY better than this

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

That’s because that’s what most fans probably expect from a regular Pokémon game. Don’t act like some entitled fanboy buddy.

[@takumiyoshimoto9542]

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 The only problem with that argument is that they already have the formula to make it better. Say what you want about Legends of Arceus but it was the one of best iteration for Pokemon in terms of UI, battle animation, and even Pokedex completion. You actually felt like someone trying to complete and field guide about Pokemon. TLDR: They have shown they can already so better but chose not to, which is disappointing.

[@drphilsranch6782]

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964, Oh yeah, how dare he act so entitled by wanting a competent product from the single biggest media franchise in history. Just because you’re fine with eating the spoonful of dogshit that AAA developers have been trying to feed you in recent years doesn’t mean that we have to.

[@joeldowell5059]

I'm glad to hear that. I've never really played a Pokemon game before, this one was the first one I ever purchased, and I figured that since I couldn't get into the game, the series wasn't for me. Are there any recent titles that you'd recommend?

[@seximexi5820]

​@@joeldowell5059 Sword and shield is really fun. Omega Ruby and Alpha sapphire or X and Y. All of them I recommend.

[@jabba9919]

Spain is a vibrant country full of character and personality. Paldea somehow managed to capture absolutely none of it. For all Sword and Shields faults, at least they captured the vibe and feel of the UK

[@deadlan2424]

Fr

[@icyatlasartworks]

I don't even know how they managed to make Spain look like a cloudy day in Scotland with Spain vibes

[@matiasluukkanen7718]

Sorry, but Galar (UK) was disappointment as well considering how much fun things you could do with the concept. When all the fun ideas by the fans were 1000% better than we got, something must be wrong. Just think of all UK inspired places, legendary fakemon and plots fans poured out before game came out from uncovering widespread corruption in (football)Pokemon league to the idea that evil team(Rocket) tries to do something inspired by the gunpowder plot to take over the region. Trainers inspired by famous classic British pop, rockbands, etc. Nothing in the final product comes close to creativity people wanted or showed themselves. Just one example, the idea that Queen was a region champion or at least post-game superboss trainer and Elite Gym were nobles, royals or knights. And that game ends with player character being knighted.

[@FrenchDinosaur]

​@@matiasluukkanen7718 that doesn't prove or disprove any of the OP's claims, no? They just said that, even with its plethora of faults, Galar still felt better than Paldea. If anything, your point is only trying to solidify how bad Paldea is.

[@lumeronswift]

How in the world did three trees and snow + a desert in a single park capture the feel of the UK?

[@jakethelittlecat]

What makes it so much worse was that it came out AFTER Legends Arceus. Arceus was by no means perfect... but sooooo much better. Just... Why?

[@PrismOpal64]

It's just sad that people still gladly buy these games on day 1 and defend it like their lives depend on it. I never bought SwSh or Scarlet/violet. I just don't think they're worth the price they charge, the latter ESPECIALLY looks like it's held together with used gum and prayers. I'm not going to give Game Freak/TPC my money when they're churning out garbage. They need to stop mandating that games release alongside merch and anime, it's obviously not working.

[@lo4tr]

A bit of a correction on the statement about graphics not being everything. It's the graphics fidelity that isn't everything; the style and art direction play a major role in the overall enjoyment of a game. Especially an open world game, where exploring the world is the main focus. The world has to look good to want to explore it, because there isn't anything to explore otherwise.

[@Roost-xr3lc]

Hell, look at Xenonlade 3, a game he brought up. Or the first 2 Xenoblade games. They're fucking beautiful, and it makes you want to explore the world. Like "Ooh, look at that big thing, wonder if I can go there". And pretty much 100% of the time, you could. The Mechonis? You can go there. The World Tree? You can go there. The Great Sword and Uryian Mountains? You can go there. And you want to go there, because the world is pretty, and looks fucking cool. Scarlet and Violet looks like a bad Gmod map.

[@xoxo.pochacco]

Truee

[@grizzlycharizard0017]

Graphics is the main thing, if everything look like complete diaherra water no one don't wanna play that bull.

[@Takato2527]

Just because graphics aren't everything, doesn't mean you have the right to make the game so ugly to look at. Nobody likes seeing framerate drop for no reason. Nobody likes seeing a random person or Pokemon doing smth out of place. Nobody likes experiencing story and not taking thing seriously cuz the scenery is so hard to look at.

[@justadragonnamemarcus1751]

Black and white does better with pixelated animation

[@adventuresteamstudios242]

It's really sad that many other Nintendo IPs like Fire Emblem are improving and evolving their gameplay, while Pokémon is just stagnating for over 10 years now, shame Game freak shame

[@orangecup1187]

Its not even stagnation anymore, there GOING BACKWORDS

[@TimmyDaTurtle]

The thing is, Back when pokemon was still an "rpg" It felt like It did keep evolving, while still sticking to what made it work. I feel like the main issue that was presented from gen 7 onwards was the change in that formula. One of the most noteable differences between Gens 1 - 6, and Gens 7 - 9 is the distinct lack of change in visual style, which was something the first 6 gens were known for. Gens 7 - 9 kinda feel like the New Super Mario Bros of pokemon. I think the grid style worked perfectly for making each region feel distinct and different.

[@JellosNotDead]

If someone can convince pokemon to release a new game every couple years instead and really focus on stuff like the world and graphics, even make it for pc or something, I assure you that it would be the most played game, fuck it put shark cards like gta5 or something in its own way , monetize it more, but at least make it really good and fun.

[@christophsiebert1213]

Not stagnating, regressing.

[@cosmicsvids]

@@orangecup1187 pokemon is unquie enough that they don't need to improve . People will still buy it anyways. They have the copyrights for all the pokemon so no one else can make a game better then pokemon because pokemon is to iconic and anything else will just look bootleg game with fakemon to pokemon fans. Anything thats a fan game or a game slimar to pokemon just feels like im playing a cheap copy.

[@hannahw7023]

6:00 When it comes to world diversity, I think Gen 5 takes the cake. That gen gave us Nacrene City, which is populated with warehouses instead of houses and has a hipster artist vibe. Castelia, a huge metropolis similar to NYC. Nimbasa, a city inspired by various forms of entertainment like sports, theatre and an amusement park. Driftveil City, which was inspired by industrialization and mining. Anville Town, which is characterized as being a pitstop for trains. Lentimas, a town sat beside a volcano that is known for clay pottery. Virbank, which has a dark and grungy, possibly polluted aesthetic. Lacunosa Town, which is very traditional and surrounded by walls due to fear of a "monster" living in a nearby crater. Opelucid City and Black City/White Forest both change to fit the aesthetic/ideal of their respective title. All of these locations feel as though they could easily be from entirely different regions. But world diversity was a key focus in gen 5, since Unova was inspired by New York and North America in general. Scarlet and Violet's towns, while still unique from one another, honestly lack a lot of the personality that Gen 5's towns had. I think a key part of that is the NPC's - an NPC in North Paldea is no different from an NPC in South Paldea. But an NPC in Castelia or Nimbasa or Driftveil is completely different from one in Lacunosa or Undella.

[@blueythedragonknight3949]

As someone who likes this game in spite of the mess, I also believe Scarlet/Violet deserved way better and i will happily critise the games along with game freak, I'll also admit that some of the more hardcore and devoted Nintendo/Game Freak defenders are crazy and they will defend them no matter how badly they treat them. I swear the series peaked with Gen 5 and Gen 6 was the start of Pokemons seasonal rot.

[@Clou9Gaming]

When will people learn that pre-orders are no longer what they used to be .. stop PREORDERING!!

[@BWMagus]

They are exactly what they always have been--the fact that you think it was ever different just means you, too, were once fooled.

[@Clou9Gaming]

Never said I wasn’t fooled but it’s sure been 7 years since I haven’t given my money out blindly for a game that was half assed & that was marketed as finished or playable. IMO I think it’s changed so much, back then it MEANT something to release a finished product to customers .. if your game was shit then it was forever tainted as such . Now you will get a game marketed as finished yet get drip fed content and now even FUCKEN OPTIMIZING THEIR CODE THROUGH PATCHES?!? They rely too much on “we’ll patch it later but let us get your money first”

[@RobinOfOhara]

@@Clou9Gaming No reason to pre order anyways - if you aren’t getting a steelbook or a nice collectors item then why even pre order the game

[@neoconker2k8]

People like you are WHY I preorder

[@YWNBAW69]

people are dumber than you think, whether it's the consumer or the creator

[@craycraykian508]

One other criticism is that they downgraded the pokemon camp feature, in sword and shield you could talk to your pokemon and they'd talk about their mood. In scarlet and violet if you interact with them they just do an animation then run away

[@RAC00NFANGIRL]

Heck pokemon arceus could talk Pokémon let them out their ball and have multiple Pokémon out too..

[@aardwolf6668]

@@RAC00NFANGIRL tbf in legends, they're stuck to the place you sent them out to so that feature is still lacking in that game, despite it being better than SV

[@wumelaex387]

I really miss the 3ds care options where you can actually feed and pet your pokemon too

[@Nemissis4265]

So they got rid of the usless interaction 🤣😂🤣. Good

[@knightshade2654]

As someone who thoroughly enjoyed curry making in SwSh, I was very disappointed with sandwich making in SV. Not only were the ingredients and "eating" animations embarrassing, but sandwich making being nothing more than drag-and-drops with poor perspective made it worse. I cannot imagine using the feature unless you are a shiny or size hunter.

[@bartbasil3704]

Guys, please stop buying these games. They need to learn a lesson. They must learn they have been making mistakes. Paying them for their mistakes teaches them nothing.

[@Ayeato]

It annoys me that gamefreak can drop this dogshit game and it casually sells 20 million copies, yet the worldwide sales for all xenoblade games combined is 8 million.

[@VGLounge]

No one should ever forget that Pokemon is *literally* the *largest multi media IP the world has ever seen,* and this is how they treat their flagship title.

[@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825]

The thing is that he main games may be the "flagship" because everything originated there, but the real money maker and the reason it is the largest multimedia IP ever is the card game/merchandise, and sadly those need a constant, steady and synchronized launch of new games/pokemons. Which conflicts quite a lot with the increasing developing time of games (specially with gamefreak apparently not really knowing how to program in 3D...) Still I agree with you, it sucks, and they have more than enough money to multiply thousandfold the staff of game freak to at least help a bit if they wanted to. They just don't give a crap, they have figured out that regardless of what they do 15 to 20 mil copies sold are guaranteed at the very least, kids don't care/know and adult fans complain but still buy the game. Plus the new Pokemon designs will dwarf that sales in cards and plushie sales. Our best hope is that this keeps degrading another generation or two, community keeps complaining louder and louder as they we are doing, and nintendo itself "enters the chat" and tells gamefreak that, in a way, Pokemon are nintendo games and nintendo has a reputation of quality to maintain. Like them or not with nintendo games (with very few exceptions) you can be pretty certain that the game is going to be quite polish and overall work properly. They dont tend to like half ass bs, you can expect a minimum level of quality that Pokemon doesn't provide any more, and the voices saying it are getting louder and louder. I am sure nintendo is not happy with that being the reputation garnished by they biggest console seller. Let's hope they force the Nintendo Company and Gamefreak to do better.

[@just_another_internet_man755]

Pokemon being the largest multi media IP IS the main problem, because when your franchise has achieved this status, you can literally release any shit and people will buy it. In the last 9 years, Pokemon has received mostly garbage and mediocre stuff (MOSTLY), and still, all these games will be in the top charts and be the best selling games of the year, hell, S & V just sold 10 million copies in 3 days. I legitimately don't blame Nintendo nor Game freak for all of this, if i was the boss of a game studio, and noticed that the fans will buy literally anything from my franchise, i also wouldn't care that much por polishing and the quality of my games.

[@VGLounge]

@@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825 Unfortunately, since I believe this was the fastest selling game in history at launch, I don't think they will *ever* listen to the quality complaints of the fans. Even as a game alone Pokemon has become too big to fail regardless of lack of quality

[@aritzmartinezrodriguez1825]

@@VGLounge I am sure that the Pokemon company, as a multimedia company, doesn't give a crap about the quality of the games as long as those sweet yens keep coming. But I hope that Nintendo, as a video game company, one that has always always been known for making quality polished games, is not happy about their name attached to such broken games.

[@Dliciousization]

The difference between this and TotK is absolutely insane. In TotK, I can see stuff that catches my attention and I want to go see what's there. The world feels alive and full of things to explore. The open world in Pokemon is something I always dreamed of, but it's somehow worse than the linear style since.... there's nothing in it. It makes me sad.

[@demyxix1273]

Yeah its sad the old ones are more interesting like fire red and leaf green

[@Blackemperess]

It's the wasted potential that drives me insane. The franchise is such that it can easily be molded to fit multiple genres of games, but gets pissed away by cheapskate upper management that would rather release an unplayable disaster to avoid spending money developing it properly.

[@kamatari1220]

Same! It drives me crazy that this company is putting in way less effort/money than before but somehow is making more money than ever before. Instead of trying to do better, they make every excuse in the book to cut corners even though every excuse has been shown to be BS. Just like in SwSh when they said they wouldn't add every Pokemon in the game to focus on enhancing the models/animations... only to ultimately have minor/no changes. I don't mind them not adding in every Pokemon in each game as that's a HUGE ask now that there are over 1000 Pokemon but don't lie about the reason you won't! The glitches in SV were funny but absolutely unacceptable. I hate putting out there about people losing their livelihoods but people should have been fired for this mess (if they weren't).

[@BongzooMaster]

@@kamatari1220Yeah I don’t think having all the Pokémon is necessary. Like sure using a Pokémon I like is cool but giving me a game with any sort of life and enjoyment is better.

[@kamatari1220]

@@BongzooMaster Exactly! I'd rather have a game with 300 pokemon but I spend days to weeks playing. I played SV for maybe 2 days max. I didn't even get close to finishing it! I played Tears of the Kingdom for 6 WEEKS STRAIGHT (not all day everyday but I didn't play a different game in that time) and I'm just missing some armors. Pokemon as a series has made FAR more than the LoZ series so there is no excuse for why Pokemon's games lack.

[@djsierra777]

Remember when people were complaining about the N64 looking ass trees in Sword and Shield? I miss those times because they actually made a whole game that looks and runs like an N64 game with Scarlet and Violet.

[@michaelmjb9945]

Something that bothers me a lot is that re-challenging the elite 4, battle tower, battle frontier, and any other form of post-game offline battles that are challenging is gone, not even present in the 1st part of the dlc. Embarrassing, even the ILCA managed to keep it in bdsp.

[@dragonninja3655]

I think a lot of pokemon players haven't played many or any other open world games. My biggest disappoint was the lack of non-battling activities. No contests or underground or base building or poke studios. Not even a battle tower, which are still battles. I thought we'd be able to at the very least get to decorate our dorm.

[@banziattack1354]

Yeah I agree all you really got is either competitive battling or shiny hunting

[@DakotaofRaptors]

What's your pfp?

[@bonjouritsready]

@@BlueAizu_ Competitive less so as it has regular circuits/cups/seasons to actually play once you have the team, as well as regional and international tournaments. Shiny hunting though, that's the viral way that GameFreak can 'add post game' content because there's so many people that think running around in circles to hatch a shiny pokemon and banish it to the box forever is good. I honestly blame shiny hunting and the rise in it for the decline in pokemon post game.

[@LcInfantrySr]

Base building? It’s Pokémon not rust lol

[@sheesh3214]

It sold 10 million copies in the first 3 days you haters are insane … and late on the hate train that’s been at a standstill for weeks now Lmaoo … just doing this for clicks

[@Naterkix]

There was a recent episode of Boundary Break that showed off what I think may be a huge factor in why the game runs so badly: at _all_ times the ocean is rendered. You'd think that'd be a small thing but past the ocean you see, there's an absolutely _massive_ sphere of water that looks to be at _least_ 100 times the size of Paldea. Even though it's just a blue sphere, it's ridiculous size _has_ to be contributing when it's constantly being rendered. I don't know why they left this in when you can't even see that far out to begin with but it feels like another oversight due to how rushed Game Freak has to be as the key part of the massive Pokémon Merch Engine. This game needed at _least_ a few more years and ideally a bigger team with people with open-world experience but then the people in charge wouldn't be able to make new plushies of new 'Mons to sell. At this point there's at least 1000 of the things so you'd think letting a truly good (or at least competent) game come out to regain confidence in the series would be priority one but that's money _later_ and the people who make money decisions for giant companies can't stand the thought of less money now, even when their moneymaker is literally the highest grossing thing ever.

[@pete5516]

I don’t even think it needed a few more years, that’s a bit excessive. 1 more year at most would’ve fixed enough problems to make it an acceptable product that runs well. I don’t it can be justified to scrap the project and build it from the ground up again to fix every problem, they would just make that a new game in the same vein as platinum.

[@miguelzurita3216]

It sounds like the team has zero experience with making a 3D Open World, games like this tend to have a draw distance for things like that, thats why San Andreas had fog(if I remember correctly) Either way its not saving the game for how lifeless basically everything is but the Pokemon. When people are talking about about how much time the team needed, I gotta say I have no idea, this game i think was in development for three years. GameFreak had tons of outsourced help so I have no idea what went wrong.

[@purpleemerald5299]

@@miguelzurita3216The fact that they spent that time juggling quite a few other games that already involved outsourced help, including their biggest departure from the norm just several months prior to this, probably answers a lot of that… I’ve never seen a company crunch like a college freshman in their finals to this degree in a long time…

[@SPRSuperplayer]

They don’t. Game freaks are good for 2D games. Not 3D

[@420_Emi]

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[@eraybasmaya7704]

I’m giving Pokémon one more chance for the gen 10. If things ain’t getting better, I’m out and never buying any Pokémon game again.

[@clusterchuck7346]

The glitch not annoyed me. The most is the one where you get ambushed by a Pokemon that's trapped in the wall so you can't possibly see it and when the fight's over you're now stuck in the wall that one pissed me off the most

[@Tortilla_Pizzeria_Pixels]

The thing that is infuriating is that just this year we also got Legends Arceus, that flattened out a lot of problems I had with Pokémon… and now they’re back in SV. Even the battling got changed back to the worse version.

[@derigel7662]

that wasnt even a year ago....you do know that. thats how soon the next games came out in the development cycle

[@77wolfblade]

@@derigel7662 pokemon is Nintendo's cod.

[@yusefdelvillar6566]

@@77wolfblade bro at least cod was a 1 a year and not twice.

[@LordOverTheLightOfRa]

Arceus was so boring after 15 mins I deleted that garbage. At least I actuall played Scarlet.

[@Reptile149]

The worse battling version? I’m surprised you got that many likes on such a bad take. People love to be hating

[@corey2232]

Remember when diehard fans were saying "Look! Nintendo acknowledged the problems & will release patches to fix it!" Here we are, months later, no fixes. Game still runs in slow motion, looks miserable, has glitches everywhere, online is atrocious, can't connect to raids, weird bugs within raids, etc. It's crazy how much hell was raised over Cyberpunk's release, but at least CDPR was constantly communicating, improving performance, releasing patches to fix bugs/exploits, while working on new content. Game Freak has been dead silent, has fixed nothing, and game released in a crappier state than Cybperpunk did... Just because the publisher, Nintendo, "ACKNOWLEDGED" the problems, doesn't mean the developer is going to fix them. I'm sure all they're doing now is just working on whatever crappy, overpriced DLC they can release while ignoring the game's quality. If only the fanbase had some restraint & wouldn't reward them by inevitably purchasing any new content until the game was fixed.

[@asl6304]

I'm so glad I didn't buy bdsp, legends Arceus, nor scarlet/violet. I'm waiting for just dqxii and botw2

[@deoxysandmew2162]

Yeah thats the issue. They can acknowledge the issue, but technically are not obligated to do anything about it. People pre-ordered the game, they made the transaction, they bought the game, therefore they agreed that this is ok essentially. Its down right sad.

[@corey2232]

@DeoxysAndMew 2 Crazy I made this post 2 months ago, and it's still been nothing but silence & no performance fix. And now that TotK released, we see a FAR more ambitious game, yet it manages to look exponentially better while simultaneously running better. Pokemon Scarlet/Violet are a fraction of the game in terms of size, scope, detail, physics, NPCs, and layers upon layers of mechanics & systems that just work from the onset.

[@deoxysandmew2162]

@@corey2232 its just gamefreak simply cant do better job anymore. Thats what im getting out of this. Going into 3D was the biggest mistake they were told to venture into. The games honestly should have stuck with pixel art, but now since thats impossible, it wont get better. And the whole pixel art design, isnt out of nostalgia. Its just a fact that they were doing way better. In fact, i would argue they WERE improving since 1st gen to gen 5 only to hit a clean slate, migrating to 3D. And after this "reset", through each gen, its worse. Probably at gen 18, people will start praising gen 1 lmao.

[@positivea9111]

@@deoxysandmew2162 And then at Gen 24 we’ll be praising Gen 6

[@tommyvercetti9434]

You don't understand, Act Man. I'm Spanish and I can tell that an empty, desolate world is exactly how Spain feels the moment you step outside the coastal aeras or Madrid. Honestly, though, we were actually kinda hyped for Pokémon to have a region based in our country, it's a shame these happened to be the worst mainline Pokémon games to date.

[@Memorial_Memory]

You must eat batteries I don’t think your brain works

[@sourlab]

I guess cool comment but not a good excuse tho

[@invinciblemikey]

THANK YOU. This is the first Pokémon game I have genuinely not enjoyed. The only reason I still play it is because my girlfriend likes to watch. It’s terrible. Everything feels lifeless and empty. I was usually on the side of Pokémon games before when they got hate because even if they were, like sword and shield for example, lazy in many ways and deserving of criticism, I felt they were overhated and people talked about them very much in black and white. Scarlet and violet are the only Pokémon games I feel are UNDERHATED. Even the story was lackluster and unexciting; literally the only interesting part of it was at the very end. It could’ve been good. The potential was there. But they used none of it. Not to mention every single gimmick the game advertised didn’t work?? “You can do the story in any order you want!” Yeah maybe so if it weren’t for the fact everything is level locked?? These games are TERRIBLE and I never see anybody talk about just how ugly and unexciting Paldea is. Even when there are landmarks, like the towers or ruins, they’re just copy pasted from other locations across the map. And I have no hope the next games will be any better because every year game freak puts out worse and worse games because they know no matter what fans will buy. Even if they somehow lost the adult market (which they won’t because they’re always creaming on game freak’s fucking dick) they have the market of parents buying for kids. And they will never lose that market. I think gen 10 is gonna be the first time I don’t buy the new Pokémon game because game freak has zero incentive to change this and I refuse to pay ninety fucking dollars for a piece of shit game that looks and feels like it was made by somebody who just learned how to code and its equally shit dlc.

[@asterisk4424]

I've come to realize in this industry and through those around me that people will pay for a game without any good reason to buy it other than loyalty or nostalgia. I gave up on trying to convince people that if they just spend 1 or 2 years not buying the newest cod, madden, 2k, pokemon, and so on that those games that they complain about after wasting their money would improve vastly on their next release, because if there's one thing that these companies care about, it's money, and if you stop giving it to them so easily they will do everything in their power to get it back from you.

[@YWNBAW69]

so it is literally everyone's fault. the industry, the audience, all stupid.

[@supermodestmouse]

the school thing threw me off. why can't i actually walk through it? and then i got lost in the early game just following my nose and wound up being super OP before i encountered my first gym. so of course i just plowed through them like a hot knife through butter.

[@oldnosoul4183]

Makes me appreciate how cool games like Bully and Psychonauts were. So few games actually provide a rich and emersive fictional school environment. Pokemon could've had one of the best fictional schools but it ended up being one of the worst imo. Taking away halls, timing, and dynamic relationships really killed any actual chance at achieving that. For a second I thought I was actually gonna be able to choose if I was a part of team star... How silly I was.

[@4evermilkman]

@@oldnosoul4183 it's a pokemon game, not classroom simulator

[@oldnosoul4183]

@@4evermilkman Tell that to game freak. I'd much rather something not be done than done poorly.

[@4evermilkman]

@@oldnosoul4183 the game is really fun, also I'm 20 hours deep and only at the second gym, and I havent seen a single bug. I bet you havent even played it :P

[@sparrow9663]

You should watch RT Games play it. he beat the game after only 3 gyms, well, maybe not *beat* but he went through and got to like level 80 and did everything else.

[@oner64]

Just give it 2 or 3 more generations and people will say scarlet and violet was underrated and one of the best. This happens almost every new gen.

[@oner64]

@@garbagelmao2730 people said black and white was the worst generation and now people think it's the best one. X and Y was considered absolute garbage and now people are saying that it's underrated and is actually one of the top games. This always happens. New one comes out, the community hates it, next gen comes out people hate the previous and the newest one, the gen after comes out and somehow the the gen before last becomes good. Pokemon fans don't know what they want.

[@oner64]

@@garbagelmao2730 see even with you. X and Y back then was absolute trash now it went from trash to mid Black and white being one of the worst to one of the best Sun and moon literally could not stop hearing bad things about it back then now it's pretty good. Like I said wait about 3 generations and the gen before will just go up in how good they are

[@oner64]

@@garbagelmao2730 wait 3ish gens people will come around it. Always happens. You can even see it in real time with sword and shield it's starting to come around.

[@PrayLuna]

This vid after palworld came out aged like fine wine

[@HawkTM-cm8ti]

I love how everything I liked about Legends was not in this game. The Ui from Legends I would say is the perfect Pokémon UI. You can swap what was the lead of your team in seconds with out having to pull up a menu. You could us multiple potions on Pokémon without having to select it again. We are evolving just backwards.

[@agr0nianTV]

Agreed I feel like they a completely separate team on Arceus

[@ocfrey9706]

@@agr0nianTVits because they fucking are, both games were being developed at the same time, i am sure the next game will include what people liked in legends

[@agr0nianTV]

@@ocfrey9706 🤣😂🤣 Gamefreak listening to player's feedback good joke man... if only they actually did 🗿

[@Monitice]

@@ocfrey9706 Gamefreak doing what their players like.... never happening unfortunately.

[@MyBitch925]

Tbh this game started development before legends so maybe thats why?

[@twomur_]

i think an indie team with the pokémon IP could do infinitely better than gamefreak at making a game

[@maylabrown4584]

Facts, we'd probably get a cool character based RPG out of it too

[@oMaruMesmo]

Well, it actually already exists! Coromon is so much better than these last titles, not joking, if you enjoy pokemon you will enjoy coromon 3x more. Also, Coromon creators listen to the community and they update the game for free and added lots and lots of new functions. You should definitely check it out bro!

[@twomur_]

@@oMaruMesmo well you’ve piqued my interest lol now i definitely have to check it out

[@oMaruMesmo]

@@twomur_ Hope u enjoy it ❤

[@monkelord6186]

Look at any of the fan made games that have been made, we already do

[@steven20653]

This is all video games anymore. Us gamers are about the dumbest fans that their are. We will always justify crap products from our favorite companies….Bethesda, game freak, CDR, BioWare, any of em really. And before you reply with “derp derp indie games”; I’ve yet to find one that appeals to me.