It's honestly pathetic that wanting the bare minimum effort from Gamefreak is seen as a big ask. Past behaviour is an indication of future behaviour. I see zero reason to expect Gamefreak to learn from their many mistakes when they've been continuously rewarded with record breaking sales.
That's what I'm saying. Can they and should they be better and give us what the fans actually deserve? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. They can and should, if they put in literally any amount of effort into the game. But they don't have to because it's the best selling video game franchise on the planet and they simply have no incentive to put time and resources into it if it's just going to sell like hot cakes and they make hundreds of millions off of it either way. It's sad. They've turned Pokemon into a money printing machine that will still print money even if the thing is actively falling apart
I think an encouraging sign is that the flaws of Gen 9 are FIXABLE. The good aspects of Pokemon Gen 9 (and in the 2020's rally) have me quite excited, BUT they ofc have to fix their issues.
I love Pokémon and all every game out, but Scarlet and Violet broke me. I hated both games, idk if I will ever be able to get back into playing Pokémon again.
I just started Violet for the first time and your points are incredibly obvious from the start. The direction the games are headed are exactly what we all have wanted. But the constant 15 FPS and 480P graphics is definitely not okay for a triple a game
It's just that there are too many blind Pokemon fans that call every Pokemon Game perfect. I don't see myself quitting Pokemon anytime soon but...the games are so unbearably ugly. I just want the franchise to be great.
@dualie-dude-42 Sun & Moon were kinda mid but Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were so good. I loved these games to hell and back. I loved how easy it was to professionally train pokemon and the battle tree and all that. The music was so great, too. Loved megas, too. Oras was great, too. Loved flying over the world.
Agreed, they've also seemingly had more development time available to them for gen 10, you can't convince me that they were working solely on the DLC for scarlet and violet once they came out, they definitely worked on them side by side so at minimum they will have had 3 years to work on gen 10. I'm hoping with Legends ZA they will actually not release gen 10 this year and instead give it an additional year to make it the kind of game we deserve.
People like yourself also said they would fix the bugs when the DLCs dropped. They never bothered. You can give them all the development time in the world. But datamining and end products have proved time and time again that there's a lot of untalented developers making very bad code. Simply look at the last 11 years of Pokemon. Over a decade of 1 trick pony gimmicks, phasing out of features. Simplifying already simple mechanics. Lowering the difficulty of games that were already easy. Half measures on remakes: all of BDSP, lack of battle tower in ORAS and poor level balancing. The 100 Lilys in Gen 7's code among in addition to lag and chugging on the 3DS hardware. Day 1 gamebreaking glitches in XY and a scrapped postgame + sequel. The disaster that was Gen 8's map, story and the lies Gamefreak told about why Dexit was happening. And then of course Gen 9's complete coding failure and Empty Open world map, with "Building interiors" added to the list of phased out content. When other Nintendo properties and other companies in the same genre are able to do better, on the same hardware: you need to ask yourself why you think this company has any reason to do better, when despite doing all of the above, they have been rewarded with record breaking profits, year after year?
After years of hearing Pokemon fanboys screech about how misunderstood Scarlet and Violet were, I decided to pick up a cheap used copy to see if maybe I was wrong about judging the game so harshly. NOPE. The game was worse than I had initially thought. I cannot believe how brainwashed the Pokemon fanboys are in accepting this game. You would have to be absolutely delusional, tasteless, and be entirely without standards to be okay with this game masquarading as a Pokemon game. I really can't see the next game being all that great given how far the series has sunk since it left the DS.
For gen 10 I only want things that have already been done. Let's go level graphics (the characters don't need to be chibi tho). SV and PLA level of storytelling PLA level of playing mechanics and features. If they make that mix, let's go, PLA and SV, they'll make a really good game for gen 10, I'll love it, and it won't take something that they can't already do!
Game freak needs to learn their is no excuses for how bad these games visually look. They are the number one grossing franchise in history. They csn afford to pay for better or more artists. The only way we are going to get less glitch games is if they move away from the yearly release schedule which seeing how we didn't get a game last year they might have.
If Pokemon ZA isn't an absolute banger, then I'm probably done. Maybe it's me getting older and more critical of what I play now, but it feels so disrespectful for GameFreak to charge me $60 for a game of such horrendous quality, when there are games that are the same price (and cheaper) that are so much better. Especially in the monster-taming genre... Great video dude. Keep up the fantastic work.
The problem is not the console power gamefreak is not even using the switch properly (proof are other games on the console doing way more like zelda). The problem are development times this game is unfinished and rushed.
Idc about mainstream games. Where's our spin offs? Where's my pmd that goes past gen 4 mons? Can't wait for them to patent the designs of more household items as pokemon.
gen9 was "streamlined" and too easy to play through.... although my last pkmn-game was silver. didnt like that the shop and pkmn-center was together and it looks like they want to sell you something to eat, npc-trainers not want to battle you even they have seen you, changing your monsters via menu from box to your team and vice vera and not from the pc goes also to the rp issue and too easy and streamlined issue. legend arceus was better imo
Idk, man, the world design is awful. Flat uninspired terrain everywhere. I played some BoTW, and Lost Woods clears anything GameFreak put out on Switch. It's embarrassing. Pokemon has no life, no mesh, no verticality, and no craft in the world they create. It's all boring flat ground with some grass, trees, and rocks here and there. Xenobalde X ooh hoo man, that's how you make a freaking world.
The leaks pretty much confirmed that gen 10 will be on Switch and Switch 2 so it won't be on the most powerful hardware yet. It should be a surprise to no one they will release gen 10 on Switch pokemon has always released on the biggest Install Base it could. That said Gen 10 is a big one and will likely be launching not just as the 10th game but the 30th anniversary game in 2026. As a 30th anniversary game it should let us fight and meet past characters, idk why they couldn't aim for a framework that would let them reuse pokemon masters EX assets so they don't need to make a ton of new 3D models.
It's honestly pathetic that wanting the bare minimum effort from Gamefreak is seen as a big ask.
Past behaviour is an indication of future behaviour. I see zero reason to expect Gamefreak to learn from their many mistakes when they've been continuously rewarded with record breaking sales.
That's what I'm saying. Can they and should they be better and give us what the fans actually deserve? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. They can and should, if they put in literally any amount of effort into the game. But they don't have to because it's the best selling video game franchise on the planet and they simply have no incentive to put time and resources into it if it's just going to sell like hot cakes and they make hundreds of millions off of it either way. It's sad. They've turned Pokemon into a money printing machine that will still print money even if the thing is actively falling apart
They will probs F it up.
I think an encouraging sign is that the flaws of Gen 9 are FIXABLE. The good aspects of Pokemon Gen 9 (and in the 2020's rally) have me quite excited, BUT they ofc have to fix their issues.
Yeah there are some positives in Gen 9 for sure. Just a shame they got completely buried by all of the other issues.
I love Pokémon and all every game out, but Scarlet and Violet broke me. I hated both games, idk if I will ever be able to get back into playing Pokémon again.
I just started Violet for the first time and your points are incredibly obvious from the start. The direction the games are headed are exactly what we all have wanted. But the constant 15 FPS and 480P graphics is definitely not okay for a triple a game
It's just that there are too many blind Pokemon fans that call every Pokemon Game perfect. I don't see myself quitting Pokemon anytime soon but...the games are so unbearably ugly. I just want the franchise to be great.
I loved the 3ds games for the charm. Unfortunately, gamefreak didn't get the memo that the 3DS has been obsolete since 2017.
@dualie-dude-42 Sun & Moon were kinda mid but Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were so good. I loved these games to hell and back. I loved how easy it was to professionally train pokemon and the battle tree and all that. The music was so great, too. Loved megas, too. Oras was great, too. Loved flying over the world.
Agreed, they've also seemingly had more development time available to them for gen 10, you can't convince me that they were working solely on the DLC for scarlet and violet once they came out, they definitely worked on them side by side so at minimum they will have had 3 years to work on gen 10. I'm hoping with Legends ZA they will actually not release gen 10 this year and instead give it an additional year to make it the kind of game we deserve.
People like yourself also said they would fix the bugs when the DLCs dropped. They never bothered. You can give them all the development time in the world. But datamining and end products have proved time and time again that there's a lot of untalented developers making very bad code.
Simply look at the last 11 years of Pokemon. Over a decade of 1 trick pony gimmicks, phasing out of features. Simplifying already simple mechanics. Lowering the difficulty of games that were already easy. Half measures on remakes: all of BDSP, lack of battle tower in ORAS and poor level balancing. The 100 Lilys in Gen 7's code among in addition to lag and chugging on the 3DS hardware. Day 1 gamebreaking glitches in XY and a scrapped postgame + sequel. The disaster that was Gen 8's map, story and the lies Gamefreak told about why Dexit was happening. And then of course Gen 9's complete coding failure and Empty Open world map, with "Building interiors" added to the list of phased out content.
When other Nintendo properties and other companies in the same genre are able to do better, on the same hardware: you need to ask yourself why you think this company has any reason to do better, when despite doing all of the above, they have been rewarded with record breaking profits, year after year?
After years of hearing Pokemon fanboys screech about how misunderstood Scarlet and Violet were, I decided to pick up a cheap used copy to see if maybe I was wrong about judging the game so harshly. NOPE. The game was worse than I had initially thought. I cannot believe how brainwashed the Pokemon fanboys are in accepting this game. You would have to be absolutely delusional, tasteless, and be entirely without standards to be okay with this game masquarading as a Pokemon game. I really can't see the next game being all that great given how far the series has sunk since it left the DS.
Keep in mind that's after multiple patches too lol. Completely unacceptable.
The thing is...
They only play Pokemon. They never experienced greatness.
For gen 10 I only want things that have already been done.
Let's go level graphics (the characters don't need to be chibi tho).
SV and PLA level of storytelling
PLA level of playing mechanics and features.
If they make that mix, let's go, PLA and SV, they'll make a really good game for gen 10, I'll love it, and it won't take something that they can't already do!
They better not mess this up. Switch Pokemon had me 💤
Dying for a good Pokémon experience
Game freak needs to learn their is no excuses for how bad these games visually look. They are the number one grossing franchise in history. They csn afford to pay for better or more artists. The only way we are going to get less glitch games is if they move away from the yearly release schedule which seeing how we didn't get a game last year they might have.
Completely agree.
In a way, I can’t believe gen X will live up to scarlet & Violet. But they good track record lately so let’s see…
@@56ty_ whats the good track record? They released 3 bad games in a row
If Pokemon ZA isn't an absolute banger, then I'm probably done.
Maybe it's me getting older and more critical of what I play now, but it feels so disrespectful for GameFreak to charge me $60 for a game of such horrendous quality, when there are games that are the same price (and cheaper) that are so much better. Especially in the monster-taming genre...
Great video dude. Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks man! And yeah the rise of other quality monster-taming games is definitely another important factor here. GameFreak gotta figure it out
I hate to say it, but for my old slow ass I'd like it to be scaled down. I don't have a clue what to do in scarlet violet
The problem is not the console power gamefreak is not even using the switch properly (proof are other games on the console doing way more like zelda). The problem are development times this game is unfinished and rushed.
I still can't comprehend how people think Pokemon Scarlet is a good game.
It's mostly that the gameplay and story and quality of life features are all actually pretty solid. The only real issues are technical
Idc about mainstream games. Where's our spin offs? Where's my pmd that goes past gen 4 mons? Can't wait for them to patent the designs of more household items as pokemon.
"Undoubtedly the ugliest and buggiest games we've gotten so far" meanwhile Gen 1 is sitting there forgotten
gen9 was "streamlined" and too easy to play through.... although my last pkmn-game was silver. didnt like that the shop and pkmn-center was together and it looks like they want to sell you something to eat, npc-trainers not want to battle you even they have seen you, changing your monsters via menu from box to your team and vice vera and not from the pc goes also to the rp issue and too easy and streamlined issue. legend arceus was better imo
Disagree, not even close to the ugliest Pokémon game we’ve gotten. Will concede it’s probably the buggiest
Idk, man, the world design is awful. Flat uninspired terrain everywhere. I played some BoTW, and Lost Woods clears anything GameFreak put out on Switch. It's embarrassing. Pokemon has no life, no mesh, no verticality, and no craft in the world they create. It's all boring flat ground with some grass, trees, and rocks here and there. Xenobalde X ooh hoo man, that's how you make a freaking world.
The leaks pretty much confirmed that gen 10 will be on Switch and Switch 2 so it won't be on the most powerful hardware yet. It should be a surprise to no one they will release gen 10 on Switch pokemon has always released on the biggest Install Base it could. That said Gen 10 is a big one and will likely be launching not just as the 10th game but the 30th anniversary game in 2026. As a 30th anniversary game it should let us fight and meet past characters, idk why they couldn't aim for a framework that would let them reuse pokemon masters EX assets so they don't need to make a ton of new 3D models.