• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Words are cheap.

    I’ll believe it when I see it. The last time I personally believe they last put any effort into their games was X/Y. And only because they went from pixel to polys.

    The story has been crap for a while. Even gen 1 has a more compelling story. The bad guys have been laughably stupid, and your rival… Your rival is an overly clingy person who desperately wants to be your best friend. The mechanics haven’t budged in forever. So much so a goldfish can accidentally win. Every game is more about that games mechanic then building the franchise or gameplay. And a gimmicks are half baked, propped up just to sell but never follow through on. How many pokémon actually got mega evolutions? Or Z-moves, or Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing. I mean, I quit shield like maybe a few weeks after it came out and I have most of them because… It was just a temporary gimmick to slap on the box to try to sell it.

    But beyond just a bare bones mechanics that is the game…

    Scarlett and violet run terribly. And I know a lot of people kept trying to blame the switch hardware because god forbid you blame pokémon. But it’s not like it was just Scarlet and violet, sword and shield also ran pretty terribly not as bad but still bad. And they look like upscaled PS1 games. Mainstream pokémon games are just an example of putting in minimum effort while riding nostalgia and cartoon tie-in.

    I hope when the next game gets announced, no one pre-orders. I know that won’t happen because people are afraid that somehow they’re going to run out of digital copies… But I can dream. I hope everyone waits until reviews come out. Because I want to remind you Nintendo doesn’t do returns.

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      1 year ago

      And I know a lot of people kept trying to blame the switch hardware

      And then TotK comes out and blows that excuse back to Kanto. Pokemon Company just doesn’t care to try.

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        I was about to point that out! I’ve yet to finish TotK but everytime I play it, I still get amazed at what they achieved. Yeah, there are some compromises, but that shit runs like butter.

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          Actual Nintendo is the best at bringing the most out of their hardware. I’m surprised Nintendo hasn’t stepped in quality wise but Pokemon is the money maker.

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            Honestly, I’d say Monolith Soft is the best, IMO. They brought us Xenoblade and they also worked on TotK, they actually do support development for a lot of the big titles for Nintendo.

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      I skipped sword and shield. Pokemon scarlet and violet ran terribly. Yet even though I went into it expecting to have a bad time, I still enjoyed the gameplay loop?

      I’m extremely conflicted because I know that if it wasn’t for it being pokemon I would have likely dropped S&V like a hot potato. And with the lie about reduced pokemon in each game due to having to recreate the models from scratch (and then people finding out Sw&Sh models were just 3ds models) it just rubbed me the wrong way.

      All in all I can’t help but think of what the games could be if they took the time to do it right.

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      Thank you for putting my feelings to words. I haven’t even actually played a Pokémon game for more than 5 minutes since sun and moon as they were just so boring, the tutorials were so long, and the z move mechanic basically didn’t impact the game at all as the game isn’t ever hard enough where you have to use a Z move.

      I still play the older games but it’s because I find the experience more balanced and enjoyable.

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      1 year ago

      people blaming the Switch

      when the S&V devs decided that for some reason the game has to render a skybox for outer space that’s ~1400 times the size of the world-skybox that you already use for sky daylight and it’s already ~80 times too large for that

      Come on!

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      1 year ago

      Huh, you really make it discouraging to keep on the series for me, I’m currently playing them in cannon order and I’m playing Omega Ruby (I’m gonna skip 4th gen because I have already played it).

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        For sure, you’ll be set to black and white 2. But to me there really is an inverse correlation between how popular the game’s got and the quality of the game itself. I will say if you somehow can fit pokémon Arceus into your gameplay if you haven’t already you should. I know it’s not mainline but it was a lot of fun.