The Pay to Win Pokemon Game - RadicalSoda

[@RadicalSoda]

Thank you all for being so patient while I sorted out my personal life. I'm super keen to get back into making videos full time, and hopefully start streaming on the second channel again if I can get internet fast enough!

[@NBTV207]

Super glad to see you back, Rob! We missed you Man! Still as funny and clever as ever 😂

[@PlatStrat]

So glad to see more content from you!

[@killerduck9022]

Thanks for coming back

[@ultronxmonika4292]

Hi

[@JTRockYT]

Happy to see you back :D

[@supersonicbro]

Ya know, it's hilarious that this is the same series that took away the fake casinos because they didn't want the kids to do FAKE gambling.

[@nman551]

Ironic ain’t it

[@MrZer093]

Blame the ESRB and PEGI, which have boards made up of the biggest western game companies. They’re the ones threatening higher age ratings on any games with fake gambling but ignore loot boxes (because it makes the game companies on the board a TON of money). Nintendo and GF have to play by those rules or else risk less sales. It sucks but it’s understandable on their end. Not enough people give those ratings boards as much crap as they should.

[@Boomrainbownuke9608]

@@MrZer093 people should start giving those bastards shit!

[@RAFMnBgaming]

That was the law stepping in to be like "actually, yes, that's illegal for kids rated games". Unfortunately for us, the main target of lootboxes isn't so much children as it is people with crippling addiction problems, so when they put those in games they usually don't care so much about the age rating. Still, apparently you can still sell fifa to little timmy though so I guess the ratings boards still have shit to do.

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

@@MrZer093 This is uhh...such strange logic it hurts. Let me correct you here: "Nintendo and GF have to play by those rules or else risk less sales. It sucks but it’s understandable on their end." What you actually mean to say is: "Nintendo and GF, rules or otherwise, are greedy soulless suits who have lost touch with reality and their old way of doing things, and like many companies nowadays, choose instead to forego the days of simply making a profit and paying employees a living wage, but now seek only to satisfy their unjust greed and line their pockets while shaving as many corners and investments of effort as humanly possible." My friend, the day 1 sales ALONE would net A profit. Why cant these companies just make A profit anymore? Why cant they stop grabbing at every tiny little penny? Why cant these companies just pay their employees a living wage? Oh, they pay their CEOs and taxes? The CEOs dont need that big of a paycheck, and while I can forgive the logic of "they are the boss so they get the biggest bucks", what I cant forgive are the unjustified and undeserved company bonuses those bastards get. If they stopped paying them bonuses and the bosses got less of a paycheck, they could afford to pay their employees better, put more money into the products they make, AND THEN SOME SINCE THESE ARE MAJOR BILLIONAIRE COMPANIES MIND YOU, *THEY WOULD STILL MAKE A NET GAIN!!* Pokemon, the HIGHEST, GROSSING, MEDIA, FRANCHISE, is the SAFEST FRANCHISE EVER for making a normal profit! None of this is understandable, no matter what company you talk about. They arent some poor little darlings who "need to do these greedy things to make money", these are things THE SUITS need to MAKE EVERY LAST PENNY THEY CAN, something entirely different from a reasonable and justified profit. By need, I mean "they dont need this at all, they just exist to leech off the belly of their employees to fill the wallets into a burst so powerful it could classify as an actual supernova on a scientific level."

[@XperimentorEES]

I find it frustratingly ironic they remove the casino from the main games for legal reasons, but turn around and throw lootboxes into every side game without repercussions.

[@mrdreamy1747]

WHAAAAT!? A pokemon game that is yet again 94% Corporate Greed!? That's CRAZY!

[@positivea9111]

I’m not surprise because one thing I know about mobile game that If it free then 90% are pay to win (Looking at you Genish Impact).

[@bob69927]

@@positivea9111 Genshin Impact isn't that bad tbh. Its not a competitive game and you can still unlock whoever by grinding. You don't even need god tier items to progress throughout the story. You can also still unlock 5* characters fairly quickly. I have 2 5* and I only have a weeks worth of play time.

[@positivea9111]

@@bob69927 Really I didn’t know, because now of days I don’t trust mobile games because all those false advertising like showing girls taking their clothes off, Gandenscape ads where they show you the pull the line thing and but the real gameplay is just a candy crush rip-off. When I saw the ad of Genish Impact I thought it was fake ad to make you download it.

[@Hiyukifootstool]

@@positivea9111 Genshin Impact is a really pretty good game. I played it since launch. It is in no way p2w, every mission and event is accessible by using the base characters given. The game also give you alot of premium currency for free by playing the game's story, side missions, and limited time events. The premium currency given is more than enough to give you a bunch of characters and guarantee a super rare character. And the game looks just as good as the ads provided you have a phone/pc powerfull enough to play the game. Just dont spend money on it. It is never worth it.

[@jld12er30]

@@Hiyukifootstool agreed i have yet to spend any money in genshin and i have 3 5* and about 5-6 4* hell when i was pulling for qiqi from a 10 pull i pulled 4 sucrose LOL who is a 4* so i got some constilations for her

[@mixwidman5458]

I like how Rad’s just getting less and less sane as time goes on.

[@isthisagoodusername9764]

You say that as if he started as so

[@mixwidman5458]

@@isthisagoodusername9764 You know what, you right.

[@Ozymandias2x]

At least he's wearing pants this time.

[@tadpolegaming4510]

@@Ozymandias2x that's a throwback

[@lordbaconweeb]

Arent we all?

[@Frank_D]

15:11 This. One of the reasons I've lost interest in recent games is because I got tired of seeing the fans gaslighting any valid criticism. They're worse than the so-called toxic fans, and they're enabling GameFreak's bad/lazy decisions.

[@flow185]

Imo being a fan is also being able to critisize things you love. I love Nintendo, I love their games but they make shitty business decision

[@justataco1776]

@@flow185 To love something is to acknowledge its flaws and want it to improve. Yet so many people keep forgetting that and think loving a series means kissing ass endlessly

[@CastellANM]

Sonic frontiers fans are doing that in this moment "How dare you to say anything bad about a game that it's not even out yet! You have to play it first!!! Instead, say good things about the game that it's not out yet even tho you haven't played it 🥰"

[@admiralstone2456]

@@CastellANM I hear there's a term for that kind of thing: Toxic Positivity.

[@h8GW]

@admiralstone2456 The Chinese also have a term for it, they call it "rainbow farts".

[@PrismaticSekai]

And when the world needed him most, he returned... Welcome back RadicalSoda!

[@caitlyn7893]

Welcome back Bear Grills*

[@drachenkeks42]

This

[@youdontneedtoknow7548]

I'm guessing because of holiday ad revenue he will most likely disappear again after January and not return until at least April.

[@SirBlackReeds]

And by "the world" you mean "I."

[@remmytheclown3125]

9:14 really got me there. I love how anyone who wasn't a part of Undertale craze back in the day wasn't having PTSD.

[@tailsprower8118]

I nearly died of laughter

[@noalt4028]

@@tailsprower8118 you still haven't grown out of that 2017 phase huh..

[@SnaksiXD]

Until Bear Grylls waltzed right in, I didn't even realize: *WE'RE BACK TO LIVE ACTION, FUCK YEAH!!!!*

[@paulojosedietrichfilho6953]

This game is E X A C T L Y what I thought it would be. I've been playing League of Legends for about 3 years so when I saw that Tencent was involved I just KNEW how it was gonna be

[@DemiVirus]

i mean this pokemon game is like league before tencent. runes made u stronger u had a higher lvl and could use more runes the longer u play the more runes u have. runes could be bought with real money and so on. i dont see why pokemon gets hated so much. it just needs some time to develop a player base so it can get less pay to win and more pay to look fancy like league is today

[@thetruestar6348]

@@DemiVirus you sweet summer child

[@swoonsupreme7005]

@@thetruestar6348 never spent a penny on the game and I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly since launch. Y’all just wanna complain

[@randomname9723]

@@swoonsupreme7005 same but I think they really need to roll out updates more often the game can drag after a while. (Also there is plenty to criticize about Pokemon Unite it just isnt as bad as a lot of people think)

[@SquaulDuNeant]

@@DemiVirus lmao so out of touch but ok

[@JustJohn43]

I find it so sad that they allow gambling in the mobile games yet we can't have pretend gambling in game corners

[@TheChildofAuraReborn]

You. You get it. I miss the Game Corner so much.

[@ZekeGraal]

It took you commenting this for me to realize that's why its missing from BDSP. I played it about 10 hours this weekend to give it a chance, and as soon as I got back home from my trip I grabbed my DS to play OG Pearl again...

[@acecanti4175]

Voltorb Flip is way better though

[@TheChildofAuraReborn]

@@ZekeGraal The city that's supposed to have gambling as its tourism draw doesn't even have that anymore.

[@Duskool]

It's sad and ironic, also dumb. Yes, protect the children from fake gambling! Unless companies wanna make an easy, fat buck, then it's ok

[@andrewh6951]

I find it hilariously ironic that new pokemon games will no longer include game corner (which has gambling/chance games using in game money) BUT they'll put loot crates, which cost REAL money, in their new MOBA games!

[@BarrenAcc]

"YOU CAN LOOK FANCY OR *funky.* " Love that you're back man

[@SquaulDuNeant]

the "or" shouldn't be in caps tho pfff heretic ;v

[@verylostdoommarauder]

I remember seeing this game being revealed and thinking "This is going to suck."

[@epicmaster46]

Oh my god he’s back And all it took was binge watching his entire channel the past 3 days

[@karinyupinyan]

I wanted to watch all his streams I missed out on recently before Rob came back but you know

[@CoolPlayersVic]

Holy crap that's impressive

[@epicmaster46]

@@CoolPlayersVic Well when you work 40 hours a week at a dead-end job, listening to KZbin is the only thing that keeps you sane 😂

[@alexsilva28]

@@epicmaster46 are you me?

[@Broockle]

first time here I liek him

[@GameApologist]

Welcome back, man. You were very missed!

[@linkful862]

"DO I DRINK MY OWN PISS?" THIS HAD ME LAUGHING SO FUCKING HARD LMFAOOOOO

[@mrcwillis6970]

Same LMAO

[@Schwi02]

Same

[@thefunnyaerialman]

Hey, it's Zelda!

[@TheNorilla]

The shop items that don't list the pay currency can still be paid with the pay currency if you don't have enough of either in-game currency it asks for, and the loot box has a weekly limit to how many times you can use it and if you want to keep using it within that week you'll have to pay money to increase the amount of rolls you can have along with the obvious paying money to roll. Honestly one of the scummiest games I've ever played, it's fun until the game's online was having issues and disconnected me before a match started twice, but didn't remove me for the game, causing my team to report me for idling even though I wasn't even playing, and kicked me out of ranked until I played at least 5 matches for 3 days.

[@cerbusman]

but the lootbox isnt needed... you can legit get enough shit without spending money.. i have a full build for physical attackers and special attackers... and that was without paying any money. I think the problem is people are impatient and want it now. so they spend or get but hurt when the loot box isn't what they wanted.

[@SkafosGnW]

@@cerbusman the issue isn’t that people are impatient, the issue is that people are being rewarded for impatience. Those who show restraint will be at a direct disadvantage, and every loss you take will have you questioning if you lost to the better player or the richer player. That makes it feel miserable

[@Yakobito]

Its not that bad.

[@Bfrumg]

it only takes like a week to get everything you need in unite. Or you can pay money and get it all in a day. The advantage given to paying players isnt that drastic or frustrating.

[@thefunnyaerialman]

@@Bfrumg dude, a week is 7 days you've literally said that paying money removes 6/7ths, or *_86%_* of the grind your defense of this system is worse than your math grades

[@anothergamer112]

When I think of the scummy practices in modern pokemon, I think of the Cram-O-Matic from the Sword and Shield DLC. Hear me out. The thing, once a day, can give you an item after putting apricorns in it. You mostly get crap. However, there's a less than 1% chance of something actually worthwhile. It's literally a lootbox but without the paying. They are using the main series as a front to normalize lootboxes so kids won't call it into question. That's the most amoral shit I ever seen.

[@SpaceDetectiveTravis]

Omg, you're right. I just thought it was an annoying gimmick but I never thought of it like that

[@gabeskai]

...fuck

[@Cyberguy64]

Playing devil's advocate here. When I was a kid, I played the slot machines and other casino games to try and get Porygon and other goodies in the old games. Over time, I began to realize that it was neigh impossible to earn enough coins playing that way, and I generally lost more than I won. Thus, I learned that gambling is a total rip off and developed an aversion to it. This could have a similar effect and possibly turn kids OFF lootboxes.

[@boiyado6717]

@@Cyberguy64 That’s the reason I like the gen 4 gambling a lot. Voltorb flip is a classic, and actually requires skill to play and is pretty engaging. Although it isn’t as good as flip, the slot machines in DPP actually had an element of skill behind them, with an underlying logic you can pick up. I’ve tried to win the Fire Red slots through speed down and save states, but it’s super inconsistent whether or not you get anything. I’ve played those slots a lot, but I was never able to find any rule other than it’s impossible to get all 7’s twice in a row.

[@williamcothrum9199]

@@Cyberguy64 at least there was always one of the slot machines with a much higher chance of success so it rarely makes you go broke.

[@maxledoux3842]

They literally banned gambling in pokemon games for every future generation just to add it in a predatory way for real world money in this game

[@hikaru9624]

And thanks to new laws, namely in Belgium, this dog water game is likely banned in countries with gambling laws.

[@paulpower9959]

Man I don’t know how you keep getting Bear Grylls for this but you make great use of him

[@Little_Lepus]

I feel like the comedic quality of the skits has improved dramaticaly, every single one had me laughing!

[@dynamickirby]

The messiah. The radical one. He’s returned. He’s returned to bring us the good word.

[@daemonnebula]

Wait, what word did the radical one want to bring? What good word?

[@dynamickirby]

@@daemonnebula 😏 🎵 Well everybody knows, about the bird.🎵

[@daemonnebula]

@@dynamickirby *Wait no i take it back-*

@@daemonnebula b-b-b-bird bird bird

[@ShibuNub3305]

I read that as “good wood”

[@alloounou6900]

I was so blinded by my dislike of pvp, I didn't even notice the pay to win while trying it with friends.

[@stevenyoung9738]

What? If you don't like pvp don't play pvp games

[@alloounou6900]

@@stevenyoung9738 I kept an open mind to see if I could enjoy the time spent with my friends despite not liking pvp.

[@stevenyoung9738]

@@alloounou6900 looks like half the player base are bots anyway so idk why you're bothering to complain. Like it is literally the least of its problems and idk why you would bother talking about your dislike of pvp

[@alloounou6900]

@@stevenyoung9738 are you replying with an actual inquiry or for the sake of an argument? I've got no issue having a discussion but not if we're just going to pound brass cymbals to see who is loudest.

[@stevenyoung9738]

@@alloounou6900 you posted a comment that said "I hate pvp" which is not at all relevant, and added nothing to the conversation. What discussion could we possibly have besides your hatred of pvp

[@enter_boneman]

Cannot express the happiness I feel finally seeing you back again. Indontevwn care if the videos are Sonic related or not; I realised that I just enjoyed your comedy style and your voice in general lol Welcome back, king

[@ZawaOnYoutube]

10:08 it's a charged punch that moves you forward. The teleport is the weird bone thing he throws. Too much movement for that stupid blue dog.

[@shadowsnake5133]

He's also a fucking allrounder, meaning he gets medium to high health and fast scoring... the dude can 1 v 4 and win with barely any damage done to him... I did this by accident... there's a bronze achievement tied to this... MEANING THEY EXPECT MORE BULLSHIT THAN THAT!

[@FreyjaHerself]

Since we're comparing things to league of legends. Zapdos is like this: Imagine when you take Baron Nashor all the enemy towers instantly self destruct and the nexus is reduced to 1 health. Now your team just rushs the nexus and hits it once for the game to end! And if the enemy team does it to you they do the same who cares who had more gold or towers or levels at this point in the game!

[@colmlooney5843]

What...

[@sebbnflow695]

@@colmlooney5843 moral of the story: Zapdos is a busted comeback mechanic.

[@j-red9121]

I hate that I completely understood what you said, lol.

[@williamcothrum9199]

I've seen a good handful of games where getting zapdos isn't even enough to win, or that the team wiped after zapdos and only one or two got dunks in, or both teams just rush goals and both score 300+. I'd day about one in five of my games have these kinds of outcomes

[@RoninofCrimsonMaple]

@@williamcothrum9199 My strat is to completely dominate the early game as Absol in case of a zapdos loss to buffer the amount of points the enemy may potentially get. Ive had games where the enemy drops 300 points on us all at once by the end, but we squeak on by just barely

[@dictatorvert2491]

My favorite part is playing as the unevolved form, gives them some spotlight! ... ... ... why isn't pichu in this?

[@PanmasterAtArms]

Because Pokemon doesn't care about anyone in the Chu line other than Pikachu

[@fight_and_die1573]

I guess there’s a rule you can’t play as baby Pokémon, that’s why no Pichu, riolu, igglybuff, happiny, etc

[@mds_main]

@@fight_and_die1573 Which is stupid in my opinion

[@Pablo_Martin_aa]

Not playing as baby Pokemon would be fine if there wasent bs character like Pikachu and lucario who are too good at the beginning

[@ElysetheEevee]

I can't recall since I haven't played since launch, but Pikachu doesn't become Raichu either, right? Raichu is one of my very favorites :(

[@darkmoon2503]

There is little that pleases me more than listening to you take the piss out of Pokémon. Keep doing what you do, Mr. Soda 🙃

[@SirBlackReeds]

Right down to clogging up the thumbnails with his waifus?

[@ryaquaza3offical]

I’m just waiting for Radical Soda to do a review of “Brilliant” Diamond and Shining Pearl and immediately start ripping into them and every single flaw they have

[@DarkLink1996.]

Hey, as a remake of specifically D&P, it's not too bad. It's just incredibly frustrating that it falls short compared to Platinum...

[@antimatter3084]

@@DarkLink1996. Yeah if you want an overpriced remake of Diamond and Pearl with an uglier artstyle and barely any Platinum content than BDSP is for you but comparing this game to the other remakes like HeartGold and SoulSilver(one of the greatest remakes ever made) which added so much and are the definitive Gen 2 experience, then this remake is fucking embarrassing and not even worth it when I can just emulate Platinum with a fast forward button.

[@DarkLink1996.]

@@antimatter3084 Yeah, thanks for ignoring the second half of my comment

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi]

@@DarkLink1996. reading is hard for preteens

[@anubisgodess2353]

Holy crap I forgot this kind of radical soda existed I guess it's time to crack it open and see what's inside. Hopefully from the Hiatus doesn't just explode. Edit: my God I love this man's humor

[@amigomorton7654]

I'd never lost any kind of match in any Pay-To-Win-Games while spending absolutely nothing. How did I do that? I Don't play them.

[@Devyndapplin]

In defense of the game, I think its Play to Win rather than pay to win. At launch, this game was certainly P2W. You could buy item enhancers and end up with level 30 items week 1 and that was a huge advantage. However, as the life of this game goes on, it's become more apparent to me that buying level 30 items will only let you sweep the lower tiers of ranked or standard matches where the enemy team is incompetent. At the end of the day, Unite is still a team game and whaling to get max items still won't save your entire team if either you or your allies are not good at the game.

[@Loner098]

This must be what Team Fortress 2 feels like, except Team Fortress 2 is not completely Pay 2 Win. In TF2, you can actually get weapon drops just by playing the game (though it's only a chance that you can actually get new weapons). So you don't always have to spend money in the Mann Co. Store to buy new weapons (or even cosmetics for that matter).

[@LuluFluffs]

Ooo boy I cannot wait for the [painful] and [heartbreaking] brilliant diamond review! (Also welcome Back Radical Soda it's been a while.) Editor's Note: When I am saying painful and heartbreaking I mean the game itself. These reviews are so well made and thorough on these games.

[@swellsauceFourNumbers]

A review so good, everyone I know is dead!

[@mondoma9861]

Is there even a reason to buy one of the two games

[@LuluFluffs]

@@mondoma9861 The ONLY reason (and an idiotic on at that.) Is Pokémon are on certain versions.

[@swellsauceFourNumbers]

@@mondoma9861 I guess if you sold your copy of the original version and suddenly miss it.

[@liamsgreatbitgaming]

Kinda don’t think it needs a review tbh

[@Hebleh]

Bear Grylls returning alongside you was nice, hes my favorite character you created and I needed a laugh from him today

[@blackdot105]

Genuinely can't believe how I completely moved on from Pokemon. I actually forgot it even existed, until now.

[@dragonicdoom3772]

These Pokemon videos just feel like I'm watching a man's slow descent into madness

[@FlameTechKnight]

What's funny is that RadicalSoda's description of this game can apply to most mobile games in general

[@tompotter8703]

Mostly because a good chunk of these games basically did what DOTA 2 did and followed the formula right to the letter, relying less on innovation to make the games distinct and more on loot boxes to fund them.

[@jackall-trades6149]

RadicalSoda: EYE SHAPE?! It doesn't matter how many times I see it. It's brilliant. Oh welcome back, good sir.

[@renarddubois940]

to be honest it's super easy to get 3 items level 20 without paying.. the level 30 is overkill for most items.. You can get competitive items in a few days as a free to play..

[@Rilobster]

tldr: zapdos is lame and there's an easy way to make him not lame bit of misinformation about zapdos I want to clear up: Zapdos only gives 20 points to the whole team, and only gives them to the players who are alive. Whoever actually killed zapdos gets an additional 30 though. Zapdos doesn't grant double scoring, that's just a thing that happens with 2 minutes of a match left. But either way, a very heavy handed and stupid "comeback" mechanic. It's literally the only part of the match that matters. If a winning team gets zapdos, just surrender then and there. If the losing team gets zapdos, they suddenly become the winning team. I used to play this game a lot with a few friends and if we somehow defended from an enemy push after they got zapdos, we'd legit pop off harder than if we actually won the match. A match shouldn't be decided over who gets *the last hit* on an NPC that spawns after 80% of the match has passed. I think that Zapdos should spawn at 2 minutes, stick around for 30 seconds, and whoever did the most damage to it in those 30 seconds would get a buff for the next 30 seconds (which i'll elaborate on in a bit) because the enemy zeraora hopping the fence and shaking hands with zapdos after my team spent the past 20 seconds beating the shit out of it is not fun. What's even more fucked is that he shows up even in ranked. Why have this dumb mechanic in the "skill based mode?" And another thing, why just zapdos? Like you said, every bird should be able to spawn and they could grant different buffs on kill. Zapdos could stun the other team for a bit and then grant halved scoring time, Moltres could apply a strong burn effect to the entire other team that makes them take a bit more damage when attacked, and articuno can slow down the other team. Each of these provide an advantage to the team that beat the bird, not a win condition. Hire me tencent. Actually no, I don't want to work for them. There's loads more I can talk about, like dreadnaw, there being so few maps in the game, how cucked blastoise got, but let's not turn this into an essay. Anyway, if you read this you're awesome.

[@randomname9723]

Rotom is about as good as Drednaw now. At least if you take out the first tier goal first.

[@bulgna]

Also get rid of the double points at the end it makes no sense

[@Rilobster]

@@bulgna im fine with double points. makes the end more intense, makes it so that the winning team still needs to try and play the game. Double poinst WITH instant scoring though? nah fuck that lmao

[@cerbusman]

no not really. I've had some matches were my team won and Zapdos was killed by the other team. It might seem unfair but trust me if you got a good team you can still win.

[@bulgna]

@@cerbusman it happens but I'd say most matches are won by zapdos. I lost count of how many times my team was really behind, honestly just playing really badly and with a lvl disadvantage and then we stole zapdos somehow and now boom we went from 200 to 700 points

[@Sadfushi]

"Do not give money to these kinds of games" **Genshin player sweats nervously**

[@cerbusman]

Yeah Genshin is a lot worse lol. good luck getting any up coming 5 star... you're gonna need a credit card. Pokémon unit is very fair compared to other gacha games like Genshin. Sure Genshin is beautiful but apart from their events it's basically login do your dailies and off.

[@HereticHighlord]

@@cerbusman not exactly. If you want to be a F2P player on unite Good luck buying new Pokémon, you can either get them with coins, which the cheapest ones being 6000 coins. The twist is, you can only about 2000ish coins a week, the cheapest Pokémon are about 3 weeks worth. Good luck getting the best Pokémon who are 8000 to 10000 coins and about a month and a half of coins saved up. Not to mention you can P2W getting them all. The whole game of Pokémon Unite is P2W

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

Sufficient time and luck will get you to the end of the line in Genshin Impact. It still isn't a good game, but it'll get you there.

[@andyboston3646]

Huh ? Looks Genshin got some useless hate too when it launched

[@bugtypeeevee]

My username had "femboy" in it which I had no issues with for the first few months of this game, then I got a notification that my username was inappropriate and had been changed to a sequence of random numbers. I couldn't change it to a new username unless I paid money. I don't remember the exact price, something like 5-10 american dollars. For a username.

[@mrcwillis6970]

The legend himself is back! We missed you radicalsoda ❤️ Also thanks for making us laughs like always. 0:57 Also I actually got so excited when Bear grills appeared lol.

[@kyburn6195]

I feel your greatest enemy isn’t Anti Arlo, but the elgato.

[@karinyupinyan]

Maybe the Violent Demon gave Rob the elgato capture card*dun dun dun

[@Maho3942]

I'm so glad you've returned. I've been so depressed lately, and your videos always cheer me up.

[@Dante-nc8zn]

Was missing your videos there. Awesome to have you back

[@dylanoshea5065]

Both Radicalsoda and Bear Grills return in their most finest glory. Welcome back!

[@Moltengamer67]

I started playing unite 2 months ago and seeing these differences, all I can say is dang, they made soo many changes and fir the better too, especially the ui. They also added a new arena with rayquaza who works a bit differently than zapdos and that it gives points but instead of giving instant scores on goals for a duration it gives the team a sheild that gives instant scoring as long as the sheild is there.

[@PKspectre]

I'm very happy you're back dude. Your content is the most rewatchable stuff out there for me. Hope all is well!

[@IgnatiusBlaze4]

One thing people also forget is even if they fix the pay to win, for those that pay, they're not only still winning, but prevent people from progressing. It slows progression down for those who don't pay, because in order to level up and get rewards you need to win, so people that are paying... ARE STILL WINNING!

[@pumpkin7446]

This is just so wrong bud. I free played to Master Rank early after learning how the game works. Getting a head start on battle items doesn't suddenly make people good at the game. That said, I agree it's scummy of them to offer a faster advantage for real money. But calling it a win every time is just disingenuous

[@pumpkin7446]

the people that paid before and are still winning are winning because they learned how the game works. Almost everyone has had time to max a core set of items by now. So it's ESPECIALLY not relevant this season. Just have to get good and drop the excuses

[@xinf3ctdx]

@@pumpkin7446 Yup, because this definitely applies to people just picking up the game for the first time who are gonna be at a disadvantage not only because they’re less experienced with the game than those who have had the time to learn how it works, but now also because those same players either had the time or the money to get a statistical advantage, and now these new players can’t even pay to at least get caught up in one of those areas. Yup. Definitely gotta just drop the excuses and get good while playing the game with a handicap.

[@pumpkin7446]

@@xinf3ctdx Look at the numbers on the items before you try getting sarcastic about this shit. It's been common knowledge for a while that the number disadvantage is so small that it can only potentially fuck with people of equal skill. Which...I agreed is still a bad thing. Just not an excuse for constant losses. Items will not lose you the game automatically, which is what most of you make it sound like And... again that isn't even relevant anymore because you can now get at least one set for free pretty easily. I can give you advice right now that will make up for your lack of items, and if you and your team perform that way, you will climb because most players are just dogshit at this game, items or not

[@pumpkin7446]

@@xinf3ctdx just to make myself more clear before you snap back without reading Yes, it's bad to have even small advantages granted earlier through money. I agree with that. It's just not as big of an advantage as people make it sound

[@PlatinumAltaria]

You can draw a line under the popularity of Pokémon GO and perfectly split the good games from the bad ones to the day. The Pokémon Company made more that week than they had done in their entire careers, and decided that they were crashing this franchise with no survivors. People have gotta stop buying these things and start pirating the ever-loving shit out of the good games. I mean... Gen 3-7 is like... 10 whole games. Also play Yokai Watch.

[@antimatter3084]

Or play Shin Megami Tensei or the Digimon Cyber Sleuth games or any franchise that is not the morally bankrupt blackhole that is Pokemon

[@hola-gy8te]

@@antimatter3084 bankrupt isn’t really the right word to describe pokemon. you slap a pikachu face onto something, sit back, relax, and watch how you rake in millions.

[@antimatter3084]

@@hola-gy8te Morally Bankrupt is a compound phrase, meaning without a sense for morals.

[@hola-gy8te]

@@antimatter3084 oh, i'm dumb

[@mirraisnow6050]

Try monster hunter stories as well

[@gon2soku273]

So, they added a lot of gambling but they did remove the gaming corner from Pokemon? interesting...

[@kingbash6466]

All it took for RadicalSoda to come back to life was a freakin’ moba Pokemon game.

[@ZeldaboyOG]

Also this has to be one of the most entertaining and immersive review-y channels I have ever watched. It feels like how I might rant about something, but way better written. Plus you make a point to describe the parts of a game you really did enjoy. Your characters also feel like seperate people. It genuinely doesn't feel corny. It is a lot of fun to watch. I found this channel by watching the entirety of your SwSh review and I was never bored for a second. I think I might even rewatch it after this because I had so much fun. So thank you. This is fun and clever and you obviously put a lot of time and effort into it.

[@SonKosen]

Im happy your back dude, I always enjoyed your videos!

[@wizardsknowledge1138]

Bro it has been 222 days since you have uploaded or: 60.82% of 2021 7 months, 8 days 31 weeks and 5 days 5328 hours 319,680 minutes 19,180,800 seconds We missed you!

[@TheAstrobiologistOW]

HOLY SHIT HE'S FINALLY BACK Missed you so much man hope things are now well!

[@ikaras425]

Your bear grylls impression sounds a lot like Sans from the smash bits animations. I love it

[@lukeb3504]

Ahh RadicalSoda, how we’ve missed thee… Tragically, that game ain’t getting any better months later. Any thoughts on the updates they’ve made since your original recording?

[@SoftwareNeos]

15:40 Radical Soda was so fed up... he went to real life sword and shield

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

Nothing makes a day better then seeing RadicalSoda return.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Not even puppies?

[@3ftninja132]

Nintendo is like the aunt that makes brilliant food but is obscenely racist.

[@DuskLegend]

So a great aunt?

[@HarmonyBunny]

When the world needed him most... he returned.

[@SirBlackReeds]

And by "the world" you mean "I."

[@HarmonyBunny]

@@SirBlackReeds And by "I", you mean "we."

[@dragonicdoom3772]

This is like watching someone reaction to Hearthstone, a game where a bundle of card packs can cost the same as a full price game but won't even give you all the cards in 1 of 3 expansions in a year.

[@industrialillusions22]

The Pokémon company have always been a money hungry exploitation company, especially when it comes to their games, releasing different versions of the same game with the only real differences being certain Pokémon or trainers being locked off to the seperate versions.

[@Xanderqwerty123]

Everytime i see this girl im my KZbin recommendations i get excited, then remember this channel is run by a man, then i get more excited when i remember he is a snarky high-energy personality who is just as attractive.

[@solidskullz5736]

I played unite for a little bit and it’s alright. Nothing really spectacular but it was fun, too bad about the pay to win thing though, you can just dominate any game you play if you pay for enough upgrades

[@Meichrob7]

I will say, even when this was at its worst in terms of pay to win, I know a lot of people who got super high in the rankings without any money spent and with no or few maxed items, so as much as it should have been totally pay to win, the average player base was kinda bad enough that you could win anyways.

[@justanuser9503]

Yeah, I'd like to hear your opinion on PokeMas someday Personally, outside of being a gacha and all the problems and that brings, the game is pretty fun. And gladly I don't need to give the game money with all the broken f2p units they give out

[@craigjones9992]

"Do I drink my own piss?" And with THAT, I am now subbed.

[@zachzap9987]

Hells yes, another Pokemon bashing! Love you calling out companies on their bullshit

[@SnivyO.O]

You're finally back, I miss your videos! You mentioned most of the reasons why I want to stay away from this game as much as possible. Overpriced skins, Bot matches, grindy, etc. Believe it or not, this is the most grindy game I have ever play. I did some calculation on the coin you earn for each match in-game, and apparently, without the daily quest, you need to play for 10 hours+ to earn only 2000 coins, only 1/3 amount of coin to buy the cheapest Pokémon in shop. Not to mention that the weekly quests for battle pass can be expired! Means that if you miss a few week falling to do the quest, you will need to pay extra money to buy battle pass cosmetic which you already paid for. They also pull out quests like play with a friend in rank match, a pokemon you have to buy and play quest(play as garchomp) all that bs. There's more, they release Pokémon made to be too OP in the first few days just to lure people to buy it then they nerf it after, it happens few times and there's no excuse. They also didn't implement a feature to disable people to use game-breaking(op) Pokémon in Ranked or normal game like other Moba did. It just feel dirty to even touch this game, it's sad to see some people actually went on defending this game.

[@Salmonboyo]

From two years later? Honestly? It's not THAT bad. I've been playing from the start and WOO BOY it used to be ROUGH

[@MusicComet]

Honestly it was better at the start. We had more events with free stuff (skins), cheaper license prices. Actually updated ticket exchange shops. Pokemon that weren't made unbalanced by the virtue of their intended design (EX pokemon). Now they even gem-locked licenses for the first week and are trying out mini BPs, lots of worthless customization (avatar skins, card frames/BGs) locked behind gems only. I still like it but it's less friendly it feels like.

[@afrojake5923]

I've never missed a youtuber so much, welcome back. I hope everything is going good for you man, keep up the amazing vids.

[@kryzethx]

19:33 There are other objectives on the map already though.. the Rotom in the upper path becomes a temporary ally and can allow for instant scoring IF he touches the enemy goal, and the Drednaw on the bottom path gives your entire team a huge boost to exp. These spawn way earlier than the Zapdos, and become replaced by the Zapdos in the final few minutes, so there's always group objectives to take. Unless you meant randomly replacing Zapdos with the other two legendary birds, like with the different types of dragons in League of Legends (if they still have those?), that could be interesting... but Zapdos would still win the games that he is in lol

[@daeryk6424]

2:37 Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that Cinderace booty.

[@SniperKing-O]

RadicalSoda-senpai: "As you may well already know, I live in New Zealand!" Me: New Zealand isn't a real country! o3o *Pummelled by kiwi birbs* We need a kiwi birb Pokemon, by the way. :3

[@SirBlackReeds]

So, he's an Australian with fuzzy fruit?

[@isaac-solenus-ch]

4:00 weirdly, I agree with this design decision. The L/R buttons are the bumper buttons which makes them closer, which is lower, and the ZL/ZR are trigger buttons so they should be further back, aka higher.

[@soulsearcher9620]

The comment he makes about League and their sexy characters, I refute. They're allowed to have sexy characters, and they are equal opportunity on the sexy . Man or woman, they all get the treatment. Seen Mundo ? boy be.... too goodlooking

[@ibfs7931]

6:14 And so RadicalSoda immigrated into TF2-Land to increase his ever expanding hat empire! Oh, wait the cosmetics require payment as well... Damn. Nice vid btw! Glad you are back. :)

[@Archangelneos]

Good review and nice to see you return. Its pretty sad on how predatory the game is and even a friend of mine likes the game , but made sure to not buy another pokemon game until GF or TPC either got their act together, hired new and competent directors, or just gave the franchise up to even better corporations like Bandai Namco. At least they know how to make a damn world look like things belong in it.

[@dynomite463]

Really excited to see your upload notification appear outta nowhere, EXCITED TO SEE YOU BACK AND ALL THE FUNKY CAST LIKE BEAR GRYLLS. Glad to be Living in the City again

[@SkorpTS]

Thanks for continuing to dig into the Pokémon Company's Taurospoop, RadicalSoda. More people need to wake up to their schemes.

[@tccraig]

"Do I drink my own piss?" was probably the best way to answer that question ngl

[@bloodwar5005]

The game's basically quidditch, and killing Zapdos is like catching the Golden Snitch *Change my mind*

[@smtandearthboundsuck8400]

Yup, honesty people love complaining about the minor p2w aspect but the game is horrible for other reasons. Also wtf do they mean by « lootbox »? It’s litterally a non issue in unite. Oh the 100% free gacha that only gives cosmetics or very very very tiny amounts of free ressources.

[@luk_143]

A Harry Potter fan, I see?

[@HeroineNisa]

The One and Only RadicalSoda is back! I missed you man, youtube ain't the same without you. Welcome back! Looking forward your next videos!

[@HAXRLITSXY]

i miss bear grills

[@ChadZilch]

I subbed during your hiatus, and I couldn't be happier seeing this in my subscriptions. Welcome back!

[@k1ngy_swingy915]

When the world needed him most… he returned

[@SirBlackReeds]

And by "the world" you mean "I."

[@StarGaleSky7]

I've been worried! So glad you're back. The world needs you!

[@nanart3438]

I’ve played about 50 matches and haven’t lost one so far, seeing how I have absolutely 0 experience in games like these I’m very suspicious that I might just be playing against bots somehow. Even outside of ranked?? I have good connection and other player move strangely calculated which is weird at that level I imagine. I don’t really have much interest in playing an more.

[@martinhodges572]

THE RADICAL SOD HAS RETURNED

[@bioman1hazard607]

So let me get this straight... They took out slots from the old games that dont harm anyone to put in real gambling that absolutely destroys peoples wallets...

[@jefferyt5125]

12:46 The way that almost matched the meter at the beginning, I was getting ready for a musical number to start.

[@compatriot852]

The fact that a mobile game has more character customization options than the mainline disasters of Sword/Shield and the Diamond/Pearl really makes you think wtf is going on at Gamefreak.

[@AWholeLegionary]

Game Freak: Your honor, Pokémon Unite. RadicalSoda: Death.

[@lazymorris5293]

I’m glad you’re back Rob we missed you!

[@ZeldaboyOG]

You can only get away with a line like that from the man Bear Grylls himself. "Do I drink my own piss?"

[@rustysoda1455]

100% worth waiting 23 minutes of pure entertainment love your videos love bear grylls

[@kai_824]

0:58 God i miss that music its been so long