If you want good pokemon games pokemon colosseum is hard and has character. Pokemon ranger is like having a dedicated series in pixel art with tons of charm oozing from each character. An pokemon park which pokemon arceus copied heavilly with its base story and combat. Are sadly games game freak refuses to port ignoring these legacy games are heavily pirated online.
@@sujimatsubackupaccount194 Legends: Arceus is also a huge rip-off off Guardian Signs. Seriously, the "story" in Legends: Arceus is like the multiplayer mode of Guardian Signs, except without the multiplayer... Hell, even the villain story twists are the same...
I love that their excuse for voice acting is "we want players to imagine!" when the anime and numerous other side games exist that are FULLY voiced. Pokemon Masters, a MOBILE, game gives a voice to every character, so what point were they trying to make?
They also say their excuse for not allowing multiple save files is "It's tradition to only have one now!", not "We're copy and pasting the same code from the previous games and don't want to take time to improve it!"
I think it just comes down to budgeting at that point with how little the games have in the first place. It also makes me question why tpc isn't contributing part of it's $6+ billion annual profit to help out with even hiring d list VAs considereing they're on the same side
If that's the case, at least text sound effects is needed not the silence when characters are talking. Other games where there isn't voice acting uses text sound effects when characters are speaking.
To be fair I think the player shouldn’t have a voice so it keeps a similar charm to that of Link. I think there’s no excuse for there not being voice acting for all the other characters though.
What sucks for me is the fact that they didn't even innovate on the battle system for each game. All they ever did was put one gimmick on one game, just to throw it away at the next. The battle system was created that way due to hardware limitations, but now those limitations are gone, so what's even holding them back?
First time I saw the S/V trailer my first thought literally was “damn, a new gen this quickly?” They just showed their greediness more than ever before this time fr.
For the longest time I thought my disdain for the newer pokemon games was just me growing out of the franchise, but then I played Pokemon Platinum for the first time ever (I somehow skipped that one when I went from HG/SS to Black/White) and it blew my mind. Sure its still the same formula, but it also felt like there was so much passion put into the game design, especially the distortion world. I now know it isn't me being nostalgia blind, because I can't be nostalgic over something I had no prior experience of. Anyway this was a very well crafted essay and you deserve way more than just 200 subs, your humor and editing is top notch. (also- I'm a Cleveland Browns fan so I get your pain)
Same with me, except I played the Pokemon Ranger series. Holy crap... The amount of lively Pokemon and fairly good plot that these games have is something Gamefreak never approached - Legends: Arceus are considered good solely because it's a rip-off off the Ranger games. Features like different behaviors of Pokemon in the overworld and a human-vs-Pokemon capture/boss system? Oh, that's from Ranger, alright.
For me, it was Black 2; I enjoyed Unova. I listened to the awesome soundtrack. I starred in most of the movies at Pokestar studios. I fought on the battle subway, switching up my playstyle whenever I got bored of one rail-line, and felt like doing double battles, or rotation battles or whatever. I rode the Ferris Wheel and partook in Poke Musicals in Nimbasa. I collected medals and journeyed through the sewers to find the hidden section of Castelia that was cut off from the rest of the city. I fought against the Pokemon equivalent of PETA (anybody remember those hypocritical jerks who preached treating animals right, but abused and killed just as many to make their 'Save-A-Life' commercials, and force their ideals on people?) after they froze half the city, and climbed the Victory Road, getting beaten down but always getting back up, to hear the awesome Elite Four VGM (which was basically 'You Are Gonna Die and Love It' in music form), before finally challenging Iris to become the Unova League Champion. I loved it all. The variety. The Pokemon. The dramatic narrative. The awesome music. I loved it so much that when I heard people rag on it, I was initially confused; then _LIVID!_ They called _Gen V_ BAD?!?! *DID NONE OF YOU GUYS PLAY THE PROCEEDING GENS?!?!* Hmmph! 😡🤬😤😠 At the very least, I felt vindicated by the disappointment of longtime Pokemon fans when they saw what they had to deal with for Gens 8 and 9. I don't hate the Pokemon so much as I do the bland non-existent story, the extremely linear progression between the Stadiums, the ridiculously short pacing, the lack of anything to do outside of camping or beating up Pokemon in the Wild Area (and given what Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are supposedly like, where you don't even get to battle, you just huck pokeballs at them like it's THAT SHITTY AR GAME THAT GOT PEOPLE RUN OVER BY CARS OR ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE THEY WERE CHASING FUCKING BUTTERFREE ; AND YOU MESS UP THE FIRST NINE TIMES BECAUSE FOR ACTUAL POKEMON PLAYERS, NOT CASUALS, IT DIDN'T *USED* TO REQUIRE ME SHAKING A STUPID IPHONE LIKE A BABY RATTLE, AND HAVING TO ADD POKEMON I DIDN'T WANT TO MY TEAM, FORCING ME TO DO THE DAMN POKEDEX THAT NOBODY DOES, they took away even _that_ bit of catharsis, expecting me to get carpal tunnel and a cracked switch screen from what was supposed to be an "enjoyable" experience, for the "immersion"; I wish I could tell whoever's bright idea that was to shove it up their ass and then fire themselves... out of a howitzer into the sun) . [ _Takes A Deep Breath After Nearly Forgetting To Breathe In The Midst of My Rage-Fueled Rant_ ] ... If this is the future, please, please, _PLEASE_ let me go back to the past; I'd rather die happy, with my memories than be forced to adapt to a future founded on shitty compromises and increasingly dumb, un-fun features! I'm sobbing right now, thinking about how my Pokemon's gone forever. They'll fuck up the Gen V remake; they'll turn it into an abomination! It'll strip away everything that made it enjoyable and turn it into a mediocrity fest! And there's nothing I can do about it!😔😟😢😭😭😭
I recently attempted a Nuzlocke of the entire series in random order. And even playing the earlier games later, where you'd expect to have burnout from playing several games before that point, it was actually the later games that I'd played earlier that sucked more. Once you hit that X/Y wall, it's just dogwater. So many cutscenes of crap you don't care about. So much going back and forth for plot points that you spend more time mashing A than playing the game... And so much less soul in any of it.
Idk how that game blew your mind if you take issue with the structure or laziness of these games. Sinnoh still has an absolute dogsh't story and NPC dialogue. Baby-difficulty so you don't have to engage with the mechanics. And a terrible quality of life. (like every other gamefreak Pokemon + conquest).
Did you ever see the Japanese glassdoor equivalent reports from gamefreak? They don't abuse their staff or anything, but at the very least everyone knows what they're making is garbage and they feel no pride in it.
Another thing you failed to mention is that most of the Pokémon ARENT EVEN IN THE SWITCH GAMES, which is made even worse by the fact that that they uploaded their video "1008 Pokémon" showing the national Dex numbers and saying "Did you catch em all" NO I DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CATCH EM ALL.
Game Freak actually coming out and saying they cannot be bothered to add every pokemon into the games going forward signalled the beginning of the end of this franchise. It shows just how lazy and complacent this company has become.
@@durpanda123 Of course Gamefreak can't be bothered because HOME exists, it's gonna hold hostage all the Pokemon for additional money and the idiots (yes, everyone who bought the newest games and HOME subscription are idiots who contribute to the problem) are gonna pay for it (they are now even paying for online, despite Gens 4-7 providing it for free). I legit encountered someone that said "wait, you didn't require paid-subscription storage software to transfer Pokemon between older gens?" - and that's the people who defend the newest Pokemon games. When a casual's standard for a good Pokemon game is 3-D soulless trash that Gamefreak's been outputting since XY, of course they are gonna ignore everything that is bad, because those games consist of nothing but bad.
There is something called Pokemon Go, however you can’t really catch em all because of the paradoxes and most gen 9 pokemon gone. Plus the game is really falling apart as of now.
While there are multiple issues that need to be addressed, one big thing that makes no sense is that the games have an abysmally low budget and tpc does not seem to be contributing any part of their $6+ billion dollar annual profit considering they both can't survive without the games. You'd think they'd be on the same side as a semi joint business, but apparently not.
compaire pokemon colosseum which had alot less lower budget than the switch pokemon games. An made by a staff who never played pokemon. But understood rpgs and created a more fleshed out world that game freak fails to understand how to do. When a 2004 game on a gamecubecube looks , feels, and musiclly plays better than a 2023 pokemon game on more advanced hardware. Thats just awfull on game freaks end. Ignoring pokemon arceus opening and combat is a copy past job and made things worse since, the game is based on 2012 pokemon park 2.
Why would they need to contribute anything if they can sell crap? I've been saying since XY that the new soulless 3-D garbage was falling off more and more (save for the dying gasps of the old standards, like ORAS and SM), but it was selling better. It even became a meme in Korea - "it will sell well anyways". Even Let's Go sold - and that got away with cutting out God knows how much Pokemon and, of course, took us to Kanto. Again. As if we didn't have enough of Kanto through the first 4 Gens...
@avenger4027 that's more so our fault as the consumers for both placing gf on this diamond encrusted pedestal when we shouldn't have and buying the games thinking they'll do better with this one (because we're basically drug addicts looking for our next hit and just accept anything at this point). It still falls under the "multiple issues that need to be addressed."
@@TlocRevelc I dunno, I'm not like most people. I said I wasn't going to buy anything below BW2 levels of quality anymore and I stuck to it. But the most baffling thing to me is that some people literally buy the games and expect them to be better where there's a very clear pattern of 4+ games (starting from Let's Go in Gen 7) having less content and less stability then any previous one. The worst part is that each successive game sells better, but brings us all to the new lows. But the people who KNOW that the games are going downhill are still buying them! I could at least get the casuals, because they don't know shit and wouldn't know a good Pokemon game from stuff like Pokemon Dash, but people who are supposed to be fans of the series shouldn't be swallowing the latest trash solely because of the yet another cute starter trio or a box legendary. It's just disgraceful. And don't get me started on the retards who DEFEND this latest bout of idiocy. They should get out of the Gamefreak church, because that is like a goddamn religion for them. It must be - because if that was Bethesda or Blizzard putting this trash out, we all know they'd be deservingly shat on by everyone, instead of people from the lowest casuals to freakin' Joe Merrick going on like "I don't see anything bad, ever" (despite the game literally glitching on them right as they say it) and "you're just toxic" (it's, like, their two NPC-programmed phrases).
@@TlocRevelc The only issue that needs to be addressed is that the fans and casuals alike shouldn't buy dogshit. A Pokemon mainline game - not a remake, but the leading one - needs a good, fat flop. Because only this will cause the company bigwigs to at least purge everyone who failed and maybe learn something from this, too - and maybe with extended times and some new blood (Gamefreak are 2-D developers. They are ancient in their design philosophy and outdated skillsets, hence the playing-it-safe (we never got a shakeup to the Pokemon formula, actually, since maybe Gen 3 adding legendaries to the plot) and the dogshit design since Gen 6), Gamefreak can finally become an actually good developer.
In defense of ILCA, they released the concept art for early BDSP and it show that wanted to make a better game that’s similar to what we see in Legends Arceus and had crazy concept arts for what the game could have been (from here they weren’t fully not transparent on what happened but I’m just putting out my little hypothetical based on how companies sometimes work) but then it appears Gamefreak stepped in and took those ideas to make Legends Arceus while leaving ILCA high and dry forcing them to literally port over the original ds games, which the base of the code was 1 for 1 with, but add a small amount of extra features so it’s not completely the same game. But yeah, BDSP is trash and there is no defending that.
@@polocatfan ILCA failed at this game, but I feel like there was more going on under the surface considering how good One Piece Odyssey turned out. I think ILCA may have been rushed.
I know you said you didn't really care about the national dex issue but it really does sum up a major issue with that new games. The lack of care, especially for the old fans, and a lack of effort and competency. I can see how adding specific spawning area for pokemon and making sure they aren't bugged or their modules don't jank into the ground for every pokemon is a lot of work. but in a franchise built on this legacy of taking your old team through the games for literally decades the fact only the bare effort was put in to adding some of the older pokemon is crazy to me. Like, surely by this point they don't custom makes each pokemon model and stat profile for every game. By now you would expect them to have a central pokemon database, and create some kind of system where you can easily port them into the new games. It should be as simple as drag and drop. I'd be fine with a limited spawn list if you could still bring every pokemon into the game, bc if you have to custom build every single pokemon profile you are already creating way too much work for yourself even without a national dex. Dexit is either laziness, or a massively unoptimized work flow that hasn't changed in 2 decades
unoptomized work flow sounds about right. its like game freak doesn't know what QoL is half the time with pokemon nowadays. point in case: why the everloving fuck did they ever make tm's consumables again?
Gamefreak actually talked about making "future-proof models" in the 3ds era. They've been using those models scaled down to resolution for a long time. They could literally move some files, copy over the stats and moves, and have every Pokemon in the game.
Doing that for every subsequent game is and always was a pipedream. If anything, trying to add so much content to appease customers regardless of quality control is damaging the series far more. What they should have done is make one long lasting game designed for every Pokemon to be in it, instead of trying to do that exact thing in every other adventure.
I've seen people defend scarlet and violet because all the gen 1 games also had a million glitches, but that's not a good excuse. Pokemon has been around for decades and makes so much money, they should be able to put out a functioning game by now.
"Ironic." A franchise that's about "evolving" your creatures, doesn't get to evolve that much. Look I'm gonna be honest. I don't like Pokemon, but you talked shit about France so you have gotten my like man.
I almost returned Y on Day 1 because it just didn't feel right. The bottom screen suddenly being filled with new shit threw me off. Gen 7 was better, though.
I loved Pla, but my bigest fear is they are just going to never do anything like it again. I don't think scarlet and violet were horrible, I think it is definitely a step in a right direction after swsh but compared to pla it just wasn't that great and they are probably going to do more of that instead.
This video was literally painful to watch and the fact that my most cherished franchise is now becoming hated hurts...but The TRUTH Hurts and it can be Painful
Sword and shield did the majority of the work in demolishing my love for Pokémon, but I finally hit my breaking point with the release of scarlet and violet. So many careless mistakes and lazy decisions piled up to produce the unfinished unoptimized pile of garbage that was Gen 9, which somehow beat prior sales records. This company will never learn or change, which is agonizing to recognize as a fan who has loved the series for almost twenty years now. I find myself wanting to play the series I grew up and fell in love with, not what it’s turned into.
So my thing is I initially didn't want to buy Shield for the price it was going for due to the lackluster stuff from it I saw, but then S/V come along and I rent Violet off gamefly and immediately returned it then got the notification about the 3DS shop closing so last chance before the deadline to transfer my mons over to an actual quality Switch Pokemon game that I've been waiting for, but yeah had no choice but to get Shield then which thankfully got it for $30 on Ebay for a more deserved price and maybe for the best just because I do prefer more of the Galar Pokemon designs over what the latest region mon designs offered like shesh didn't like any of the starters final evos. But yeah standards with Gamefreak here in that they made Sword and Shield better than Scarlet and Violet for the bar drop.
Been with Pokemon since gen 1 was released, with Yellow as my first game. I bought every single mainline game as they were released. My last game, poetically, was Let's Go Pikachu. After SwSh's reveal, I was devastated. It's been tough to see a franchise I used to love churn out utter slop, year after year. Genuinely such a sad state of affairs. On the positive side, it's given me a lot of reasons to branch out and find new games to enjoy. Pokemon has a special place in my heart, but if they're not making games worth playing, let's play some that are, eh?
Imo, Sun and Moon were fine. They weren't as good, but you could tell through the game itself as well as interviews that they put like, fukking *passion* into it. And actual *time.* And I know people shit on gen 6, but they did give us ORAS, which to this day feels like "Pokémon: Definitive Edition." I dunno, something about it just feels right Past gen 7 though, I began to see a stark drop off rather than "they're shifting gears a bit." Like, it felt like they wanted you to forget their past works. Like tell me, how many cameos were there in Black2&White2? How many cameos were there in USUM? A lot? Great! Now tell me why in SWSH, we don't even see fukking LOOKER. You know, THE throwback character. There was no heart. And the story was so ill. Gen 1-4 stories were good, but 5-7's focused more on a deeper message, and I appreciated them a lot. (Questioning the truth was the theme of gen 5, the beauty of life for gen 6, and past trauma & the balance of nature in gen 7.) In SWSH, the story isn't good, and they don't even try to incorporate a message into it. It's just "flashy mechanic go ARRRGRGRGRGRG!" The music is also mid. And tell me why, in a place where you hunt the Legendary Pokémon, you don't play ANY of their themes. Again, I feel like they want us to forget what we used to have. My final gripe with the "new" series is that the locations are so fricking boring, or they effectively don't exist. I used to look at things like Croagunk and go "oh look, he hails from the Great Marsh!", at Munna and go "oh she's from the Dreamyard, ain't she?", or at Dhelmise and go "what a nice fish-up at Seafolk Village!". Meanwhile, you find Rolycoly in a place titled *"Galar Mine No. 2".* What. The. Fuk. That's not a location, that's a chemical compound. It doesn't feel special at all. All the locations feel like "just places" instead of places with history and some lore. I remember Brooklet Hill, Petalburg Woods, Reflection Cave, Desert Resort, Iron Island, and Lake of Rage all at the ring of a bell. On the contrary, I couldn't tell you the name of any Paldea location if my life depended on it. And the thing I REALLY don't like is that in gen 9 the franchise is curving more towards realism. We've seen other franchises like Street Fighter and Final Fantasy succumb to such fates, and I'm *extremely* worried about this franchise going forward. SWSH was awful, but at least it kept its signature anime-looking art style. I don't know what gen 9 is supposed to be, and honestly, I'm too afraid to ask. This is making me extremely worried for gen 5 and 6 remakes, since their respective artstyles are what *makes* them so special.
I really wish people would give Gens 6 and 7 a break. XY was kinda rushed but it's still a fun game, and it brought some serious innovations. Sword and Shield did not care. Pokémon GO made a billion dollars and they gave up forever.
X/Y IMO is... Okay. I knew what it was back when I got into it. It was not going to be great but very much a "Proof of concept" of what a 3D Pokémon can look like. It was very much needed for Gamefreak to learn the ropes with an entire new dimension and using models instead of sprites. And it paid off. Once they got around to OR/AS, the potential of the new 3D has been put to full use. I'll never play X/Y over OR/AS, but I'll always be aware that without X/Y, we wouldn't have had a foundation to build OR/AS upon.
Truth be told cracks happened before the 3DS games, many fans left because of it, then were later dubbed as genwunners, but the 3DS games revolutionized the series to the point where it revived its popularity. They had flaws but people who grew up with gens 4 and 5 pretend these don't have flaws when so many people had issues especially with Gen 5 during its time.
@@Garde_Mystik No, genwunners are nostalgia poisoned fans who think gen 1 was anything other than a buggy mess that inspired great games later. People didn't have issues with gen 5, a lot of people didn't like certain designs... that's really it.
@@PlatinumAltaria Gen 5 fans have become the new genwunners, overly praising their Gen so much they praise even its major flaws and praise it for things it didn't actually do.
Absolutely incredible video man. You basically summed up all of my issues with the franchise the last several years. I want to like the new games so bad but every time I play them I get sick thinking about how much potential was lost, all just to serve some money hungry company who doesn’t care about quality or their fans at all
Take a shot every time this guy drops an F-bomb. Jokes aside...yeah, it just *BAFFLES* me that these guys are some of the richest in the world, yet their products don't reflect that. It honestly does not hurt to give the games like 6-18 extra months in the oven to iron out bugs, improve the presentation and add more content that's convenient for the player and gives them something to do instead of putting it behind a DLC paywall.
Me playing Pokemon Scarlet be like, "What was your favorite town?" Uh, which town was which? "Who was your favorite gym leader?" Me who can't remember any gym leaders and proceeds to fail the elite four test. People say that the characters are great in this game, but honestly only the three direct companions were okay. Playing this game kinda felt like a waste of time.
It's captured in you sharing how bad Sword and Shield are and that you put 200+ hours into it. Not matter how much they push the border of releasing garbage, people will still buy and play.
I got Brilliant Diamond as a Christmas gift, I literally couldn’t even get past the 1st gym and feel bad for my family member that bought that atrocious game for 60 dollars. Now I literally only use the game to shiny hunt legendaries, I cannot care less for anything in the game aside from just full-odds shiny hunting legendaries.
Not saying that you're wrong in the video (because you barely touched on this point), but the idea that "Pokemon (or any X franchise) is bad because it is formulaic and repetitive across the games" is a garbage narrative parroted by pseuds because it is low-hanging fruit. Time and time again it is proven that many people want trivial/aesthetic variants of the same games. Look at the ROM hacking community: fans wanted to play the same Gen 3 games over and over with only new regions to explore, maybe some hackmon and some other minor variations. They wanted it SO MUCH that the community cracked the games at the ASM-level and made those games themselves. This isn't just isolated to Pokemon. Monster Hunter spent most of its history releasing essentially the same game with more content and minor system tweaks, and people went crazy for it. Super Smash Brothers just adds new characters and stages (yes there are gameplay feel differences but people tune into the Nintendo Directs to see the additional content, not how many frames you save when L-cancelling). Mario Kart is the highest selling game on the switch and I can't think of a franchise which changes less across releases. Yes people do dunk on these games for being rehashes, but "being a rehash" is effectively a non-complaint when it is an objective fact that this is literally ONLY what people want. Typically these franchises end up ruining their games as soon as they try something new for no reason.
With the difference that Mario kart 8 and smash ultimate are arguably the best games in their respective franchise while most Pokémon games released in the last 10 years were worse than what we got in the DS era.
@@rethardotv5874 Yes agreed, my point being that Pokemon was never bad because it was a rehashing repetitive franchise, but rather because the games that were being released were actually terrible. Especially pre-Gen 8, when bad Pokemon games released, people would criticize them for being rehashes, which took focus away from the fact that the games were just plain terrible regardless of if they were rehashes.
@@rethardotv5874 no, gen 7 may have been a bit mid, but there was actual time and love put into it, and there were so many small details that they wouldn't have had time to put in if it were rushed.
@@bluebaron6811 the pacing was still so bad that I couldn’t bear to replay or even nutzlocke it. Just because the developers took their time doesn’t mean that the end product is great or fun to play. And don’t get me wrong, I liked the art style, new Pokémon and the island challenge idea but the pacing ruined any replayability of sun & moon for me
Such a shame the franchise has gone the way it has. I grew up playing gens 5, 6 and 7 and even middle school me could feel the strings starting to come apart in Sun and moon. While Legends was a step in the right direction, it still was definitely not worth $80 (especially since Xenoblade and Zelda are available on the same system for comparable prices and Genshin Impact is “free”). At the end of the day, just like Disney, the franchise is literally too big to fail. Why should GameFreak spend the time and money to make a better game, when millions of consumers are happy to pay premiums to eat their shit off the floor? Despite all the backlash, nothing has changed and we shouldn’t hold out hope for change.
Pokémon Shield is my favorite Pokémon game. It’s short enough that it doesn’t feel overwhelming like S/V, plus I love the Pokémon designs and aesthetic of the game. I respect that a lot of people have problems with it… I don’t know, I have fun every time I played it and I even got the DLC just so I could have more of it after beating the main game a few times.
@@rethardotv5874 I think they were all fun in their own ways. Like a short story? Play gen 1-2! Want a riling adventure into the unknown? Play gen 3-4! Like story and want something to do afterwards? Play gen 5/7! Do you just want to hang back? Play gen 6! And regards to gen 8, they weren't half-bad, ESPECIALLY with battling. Online play was good, and it was surprisingly easy to train a team thanks to Nature Mints being a thing alongside the previously added Bottle Caps and Ability Capsule. It's the ultimate Pokémon Online experience.
I just so fucking disappointed in this franchise that I sometimes wonder why do I even bother still play it cause everything just doesnt feel the same anymore..I just hope that the next gen will be better then cause this was just a mess..but I still play them all regardless of the changes cause it's something that I like to play. Not every game is perfect.
I've made videos about these in the past and I can already understand the sentiment of how we feel about the "modern era" of Pokemon. However, I believe that if you revisit these games in a fresh lens, you'll realize that these games have their magic, even the newer ones. I've talked trash about SV and I still will, but there is still merit in understanding what they did right and promote what they did right so that they can actually work on those elements for the future. Something that Legends ZA hopefully will achieve.
The simplest explanation as to how they can get away with putting out such mediocre titles out there despite fan outcry, is that the series is good at making new fans that they don't need to listen to the old ones to stay afloat. Like hell, if the only Pokemon content that existed had been Red and Blue? I'm sure the game wouldn't have had nearly as much staying power worldwide, it could have fizzled out really easy. It was the fact it released alongside an anime that made the games be the secondary source of income. Like, I sure as hell did not have a Game Boy when I was 2 years old, but I certainly did have a Pikachu plush and a rubber Squirtle for bathtime. It's a shame that them being so lucrative means the games are secondary to their success. And frankly, I'll be blunt here, I only like the games because I liked the anime, as RPGs I find them frustratingly limited (4 move slots lol), but I generally enjoy the universe more through the TV show rather than the actual game, I can feel the battles better in motion than in this limited format. I think Miyamoto was kinda right, that Pokemon is on the wrong genre
I agreed with all your points, but I definitely appreciated the ending bit about respecting everyone's opinion. I wanted to add another example here. The funniest part of all of this is that if you REALLY wanted easy cash grabs, you'd go for the lowest hanging fruit possible: your oldest titles. Nintendo, I'm sure, would pay TPCi hefty licensing fees to get Pokemon on NSO. Talk about a draw to NSO! Some of your most beloved and profitable handheld titles on your subscription service. If Nintendo wouldn't pay the fee you wanted, then put together a Mario 3D All Stars collection, or sell them individually on the eShop. TPCi has multiple avenues to milk the hell out of some fan favorites, and has chosen not to. TPCi can't even do money grubbing correctly.
I've said it before, but for me Sword&Shield was the straw that broke the camel's back; the quality of the games steadily declined after Gen 5. Gamefreaks lies and pure incompetence just made SwSh a slap in the face for life long fans.
Scarlet & Violet is the first pokemon game where i just can't even bother to get through the main story. I had some decent amount of fun with sword and shield and that games bar was so low. (500+ hours ;-;)
Or make another 2.5d pokemon game, like Black and White. I liked BW because fun fact: the sprites aren't actually locked to a pixel grid; it's what makes some of them appear ridged, and I dunno, I REALLY liked it's look. Maybe a game in Octopath Traveler style or an Earthbound style would be cool.
YES! Blame the corpos that demand ever larger games every four years (which has been rediculous since the end of the DS era) and not the devs that have to deal with their shit. I was initially worried this was gonna be another rage fest against the devs, but you basically mirrored my own thoughts (if quite a bit more harshly) that the ridiculous deadlines and clear lack of proper funding despite being the single largest media franchise ever are to blame for the series' decline, not a lack of care by the devs who try their best with the shit hand they're dealt. Which is also 100% the reason they stopped making Mystery Dungeon games to tie-in with every new Gen and just killed of all the spin-offs entirely. And while i did have fun with Sword and Violet (even bought both DLCs for Sword, and actually quite enjoyed the Team Star story, especially the climax), Violet is definitely gonna be the last pokemon game i buy until gamefreak higher-ups get the fucking message and let their devs make good games again. It was also clearly a mistake to skip Legends XD. Also gen 4 is not the peak of pokemon, that would be gen 5, but 4 is easily my second favourite, so your wrong opinion is excused (joking)
Scarlet and Violet Cons: -Most of it Pros: -Though boring in concept, Terastalization is strategically deep in high level play -Penny's full team of Eevee evolutions -Bread dog
"annoying fans defend bad game" proceeds to claim OG Diamond/Pearl are perfect games lmfao. No, they were incredibly POORLY made, so much that Platinum had to make anTON of corrections to the games bad story and pacing
with the amount of care and thought put on small details in the recent games the problem wiith the quality comes from lack of time and manpower, gamefreak refuses to increase staff that is getting busier with each passing year and the understaffed dev teams have to keep up with the insane one main line content plus spin off a year schedule that tcpi makes them work under
After Sun & Moon, I was getting over Pokemon. I thought to myself that the next game had better have some big improvements for me to get the next one. And right at the start of the sword and shield marketing they announce they aren't even including all of the pokemon. So not only did they NOT imporve the game they decided "fuck it, we can't even do the bare minimum of having Pokemon in the Pokemon game." At this point the franchise deserves to be burned to the ground and have everyone collectively spit on its ashes. Edit: I disagree with the last 1/3rd of the video. Pokemon should be Pokemon, not Dark Souls. The way to fix the franchise is to make good Pokemon games, not fundamentally change what Pokemon games are. Rom hacks and fan games prove that the issue isn't the core gameplay of pokemon. I also don't think that it's fine to just say "If you like eating dog shit, that's fine" because saying that things will never get better. Pokemon has been on a downwards spiral since at least gen 6 and if you disagree you have bad taste and should feel bad.
I had a visual glitch happen where I couldn't even see the menu popup happen in the first 5 seconds of Pokemon Scarlet. I gave them a chance to get me back into pokemon. they dropped it in 5 seconds.
5:58 first the "Poverty Franchise" explanation and now this curse after curse I... 😂❤ Love it unironically! This foul language was what Made UA-cam funny back in the days of JonTron & PBG and Brutalmoose I just 😅😅😅 this is such a Guilty Pleasure, now that I am not in Puberty Years❤❤❤
One wise man once said ~If you dont like it, you dont have to buy it~ you are actively supporting them making bad games and because one game gets outsold by the next and every game gets into the highest grossing videogames of all time, they have no reason to fix a working moneyprinter... dont make a fool outta yourself.
I started falling out of love for Pokemon when I started playing XY (well also because I chose Fennekin as a starter but I always choose the cuter options) but when playing Sword and Shield i just couldn't finish it because I don't enjoy playing it anymore. I thought it was because i was already in my 30s and this was the start of losing interest in the franchise but when I gave Legends Arceus it reignited my passion for playing Pokemon yes its not a perfect game but it was different and actually enjoyable but Scarlet and Violet were such a let down. I just realized it wasn't me losing interest in the Franchise it's just as the guy making this video said the franchise is like Ultra Molded Bread now.
You talked about how long it takes to battle and catch a pokemon in S/V, but you forgot to add the time for it to bring up the registered to pokedex screen, the book flip animation, and the name this pokemon screen! (if you have naming turned on)
i live in england. and ngl when i go outside it genuinely looks as grey and colourless as the wild area 8 months a year. however i still think the pokemon designs from gen 8 are some of the best imo.
I have for a long while though that ORAS was the last good pokemon game. I might need to replay Legends Arceus, that might be up with my standards. BDSP are objectively bad. I have my big issues with Diamond and Pearl (and haven't played platinum, although i dont know how a 3rd version game would fix enough issues for me to be like "oh this is ok now" for me) but BDSP adds modern day Pokemon issues. Pokemon XY? Why did the plot try to sympasize with Team Flare after their defeat? Something that saves it and most Pokemon games for me is the post game, where I'm able to work on the pokedex and grabbing items and exploring parts of the region that i didn't have before. XY barely passes for me. USUM are ones i need to actually enter the post game again to see, but i remember that being its highlight. Sword and Shield didn't really have post game. And then Scarlet and Violet have 0. 0 post game. Having nothing to do except dex, shiny hunting (which is a whole other thing i won't bring up right now), and grind tera shards and money. Its basically as much post game as Red and Blue, because it's just Mewtwo/Cerulean Cave are a thing and thats it. If i weren't a competitive player i wouldn't have bought the DLC for Violet. And i hate how Kerian was potrayed. Straight up he's on the Autism Spectrum just like me, and I remember when he punched the statue area wall that the disloyal 3 revive from, i punched my bed, I was so pissed. I don't want people to take away from the Teal Mask that people on the spectrum are all like him, or at least what people think of him on the outside. I would list positives with games like BW2, but i need a break. Maybe ill edit this comment with some positives.
The pokemon rom-hack community has been making more interesting games than Game Freak for years. Sword and Shield was the straw that broke the Numel's back for me and I'll be content playing fan projects until GF sorts their priorities out. Haven't given them a penny since 2019, but gladly would return if they stop embarrassing themselves.
Tbh, I loved Sword and Shield. It definitely had it's issues but it was still a fun game and one that I'd consider pretty good. I liked that the art style felt closer to the anime and the designs of the Pokémon themselves. My only real issues with it were the animations and the fact that the story itself was kinda meh. But, I'm someone who plays online a good amount so that wasn't as big of a deal to me as it would be for someone who doesn't. I'm not denying that the game should've been better but I'm not going to act like I didn't still have fun with it.
They're more polished than Scarlet and Violet in which yeah can still have fun with them, whereas the lack of polish with the latest games prevented any fun could have had with them and I asap returned my rented Violet copy back.
@@SonicLegends I definitely agree with that. I didn't have as many issues as I saw online, just a few visual glitches here and there and occasional frame drops but overall Sword and Shield felt like a more put together game despite the fact that Scarlet and Violet have more to offer in terms of stuff to do and places to explore.
Great video. :) They did add the themed zones to catch pokemon in the underground in BD/SP, which I quite enjoyed, but as far as gameplay is concerned, it was okay-ish. I felt like Cynthia was too easy for some reason (rose tinted glasses maybe). I was not thrilled about the MySims style of graphics either.
Yup. It's because there's clowns buying low quality trash that the franchise will never change. I haven't bought a game since gen 5. The Pokemon name has been dragged through the mud. Now you should be embarrassed to like it.
SWSH was where I pretty much chose to bow out of the series out of personal protest of the terrible decisions made with the game and very evident lack of quality it possessed and so I didn't buy the game, I also didn't buy New Snap despite being excited that Snap finally got another game, I additionally initially skipped Leg Arc despite how genuinely interesting it looked though admittedly a month ago I saw it at a used game place for cheaper than I ever expected to find a Pokémon series game at so I caved and bought it since it was used and thus my purchase of it would neither be part of sales statistic for the series nor would it give the Pokémon Company any money and honestly I've been loving it and am kinda glad it was my first full 3D (at least as far as the point after Pokémon came to the Switch) Pokémon experience, also I'm sure by this point it's obvious that I also didn't buy SV despite being ever so slightly tempted by the advertising making it seem like they stepped up their game from SWSH, but I thankfully didn't cave since I still didn't trust that the game wouldn't have some bad issues that the ads of course wouldn't give any indication of plus I was also still not ready to stop said aforementioned protest of the series.
Awesome video and well said. The biggest thing that gets to me as a Pokémon fan, is watching Pokémon not learn from mistakes, or giving up on good ideas. There are a ton of games of multiple genres that are "graphically behind" or intentionally retro looking. Even for games with good graphics, I might turn them down for performance like in Overwatch or other FPS games. I don't care about graphics if the gameplay loop is good enough. A game like Octopath Traveler 2 might make some people turn up their noses because of the pixel art. But that game has charm, has polish, improves on the last game, expands the combat system, takes consumer feedback. Pokémon's battle mechanics and battling when competitively playing are fun and great. I love the Area Zero ending. I like that we have a school and classes that finally explain mechanics. Good Toby Fox music. But this is stuff that is expected and the norm. So if this the standard, expectation, the other stuff drags it down. Games should feel good and if you've played a variety of quality games, there will be a lot of times where Scarlet and Violet don't feel good. The loading, the menus, the tera raids, the lag, the uncomfortably long dialogs that say nothing for hours. It made me feel like I was dealing with Swordward and Shieldbert again. (Worst part of sword and shield)
As a pokemon fan I am so glad I got this video in my recommended. I despise gen 8 and 9 and seeing yet another video (constructively) hating on it with great comedy is my cup of tea. I feel like tackling the DLCs would've been nice.
I bought Scarlet because it looked like a genuine improvement. And some of the pokemon models DID get upgraded. But I feel like a retard for having paid $60 for an alpha build. I enjoyed my time with the game, and I wanted to see what the DLC is like, but as much as I liked the story of Teal Mask... it should've been free. $35 is WAAAAAAAY too much money for ONLY TWO DLC adventures on a game that's already $60. A pokemon game should NEVER be (almost) $100 by themselves, ESPECIALLY is they're not even finished.
@@excalibur493 I only bought Violet because Arceus was such an improvement over Sw/Sh that it had given me hope that they'd actually figured out how to make a good Pokemon game after screwing it up horribly. That, obviously, was a mistake.
The only thing that's been going consistently uphill in this franchise is the quality of the 3D pokemon models. Not the battle animations, just standing idle while waiting for you to navigate the battle menu. I'm sure they skipped working on those awful trees in favor of making sure Skwovet's fuzzy cheeks still glisten properly when a cloud moves over the battlefield. Which is... certainly one order for your priorities.
There is a silver lining. Because Legends Arceus and SV were in development around the same time and there was a few items that they added after the reception of LA's mechanics.
nah screw the "dont emulate" shit. well made rom hacks have been the only thing pokemon ive played recently and its miles better than what gamefreak has been putting out I've been having a lot of fun lately!
Is so sad that fans were capable to build off ilca bdsp remakes to make one of the best pokemon games in excsistence and still ongoing development, that being luminicent platinum, gamefreak trully has no excuse
Nintendo and Gamefreak consistently treat Pokémon like the red-headed stepchild of franchises, when it is arguably their most successful... it makes no sense why it can't be better after 20 years. So glad I cut my losses after Sun and Moon.
Monster hunter rise is on the same console. What the actual fuck 30-45 fps, beautiful graphics, FUN gameplay, innovative, fast paced and more open world than monster hunter WORLD. Compare the graphics, look at the quality and look at the frames. Aaaaaaaaa
@@thefanciesttortoise557 Instead of 300+ people and 200,000,00$ (scarlet and violet) they have 100+ team members on the team for producing the portable monhun games and a variable budget from 1m-1.5m
hey man, I'm like 9 months late, but I think you made a great analogy about where pokemon as a franchise is now. people love their sports teams, especially when they used to be good. I think likening legends' noble battles to souls-like combat is awfully generous, but I understand it's more stylistic than anything. here's hoping legends za earns its price tag and our time.
X and y were my first pokemon games and I do agree with you in the flaws of it, but you know, to me x and y are Like family, u don't like some stuff in them, but I still love them
X and Y were my first games too, I actually replayed X recently and while it's story is definitely a bit lacking, it's honestly such a beautiful and fun game. Was such a blast playing it again. Probably in my Top 7 Pokemon games.
@@AmirPrinceling actually, I liked it's story because it leaned more towards morals and facing reality instead of the whole "dis team be dun doin' bad thangs, we godda stop 'em!" shtick. It makes you question things like "is it really worth *some* people being happy if *most* people have to suffer? It doesn't seem like it, but it *really* digs deep, and I remember 9yo me crying at the end of the game. Also AZ deserved more from us. For someone with only 5 minutes of screen time, he is a very well developed character.
Game freak are good at one single thing no other company appears to be able to replicate, and that's designing pokemon. No other monster training videogame has managed to give their monsters the same charm that pokemon have. This is why they keep getting away with mediocrity, no matter how bare minimum the games are you won't find a better monster training game anywhere else. Though I personally feel like gen 9 has dipped in quality when it comes to the pokemon designs, I thought the same about gen 5 and that was more incidental than a trend.
While your video isn't bad I will say that a lot of your opinions just kinda reword what the community has been saying for years now. And I don't understand why you take jabs at the music and character design of the newer games, because Game Freak is suffering from not having enough developers/time for the game itself to be made. The music and art design are elements that can be created outside of the games has always done great and have trended upwards. But yeah, every element that is translated into games is susceptible to being underdeveloped and buggy because GameFreak outsources important work to other game devs, developers don't get the time to finish the games fully and ex-GameFreak employees have reported that they've been overworked in the past. The only people to blame here is GameFreak's upper management of the Pokemon video game series and their employees.
Yeah, I’ve played every single generation, every single main line game, the last 2 generations have just felt super lack luster. I usually play enough to finish everything in the game and post game, but these last two, I’ve stopped playing after completing the main story. It makes me sad. But now, the Pokémon Company has has grabbed me in another way, the TCG, which is even worse for my wallet. 😅
Catching pokemon shouldn't be quick and simple. Do you want pokemon go? Because that's how you get pokemon go. The menus shouldn't be as sluggish as scarlet and violet, but you shouldn't just be shotgunning balls at pokemon like it's pokemon snap. I'd like to play my game thanks. I want to spend 40 hours In battles. That's what pokemon is to me. If I wanted to catch 30 buizel I'd play pokemon go.
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I hate how almost every “popular” game on the switch is the same price despite drastic quality differences.
Firstly
Both brilliant diamond and scarlet are the same price
And furthermore
both brilliant pearl and breath of the wild are
If you want good pokemon games pokemon colosseum is hard and has character. Pokemon ranger is like having a dedicated series in pixel art with tons of charm oozing from each character. An pokemon park which pokemon arceus copied heavilly with its base story and combat. Are sadly games game freak refuses to port ignoring these legacy games are heavily pirated online.
Deeply agree
@@sujimatsubackupaccount194 Legends: Arceus is also a huge rip-off off Guardian Signs. Seriously, the "story" in Legends: Arceus is like the multiplayer mode of Guardian Signs, except without the multiplayer... Hell, even the villain story twists are the same...
I'm still dying to know why MarioKart 8 is full price. It's literally about to be a decade old.
I love that their excuse for voice acting is "we want players to imagine!" when the anime and numerous other side games exist that are FULLY voiced. Pokemon Masters, a MOBILE, game gives a voice to every character, so what point were they trying to make?
They also say their excuse for not allowing multiple save files is "It's tradition to only have one now!", not "We're copy and pasting the same code from the previous games and don't want to take time to improve it!"
Gen 5 and 6 are the same engine? Pretty sure the problem is it makes money from the obsessives
I think it just comes down to budgeting at that point with how little the games have in the first place. It also makes me question why tpc isn't contributing part of it's $6+ billion annual profit to help out with even hiring d list VAs considereing they're on the same side
If that's the case, at least text sound effects is needed not the silence when characters are talking. Other games where there isn't voice acting uses text sound effects when characters are speaking.
To be fair I think the player shouldn’t have a voice so it keeps a similar charm to that of Link. I think there’s no excuse for there not being voice acting for all the other characters though.
"We wont voice act mainline pokemon games so the players can imagine"
Im imagining a better game rn tbh
so that they can take more time to find voice actors for the anime or a shitty moble game XD
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Having a sitting animation whenever you eat in sv but not being able to sit in any chairs sums up the whole game
What sucks for me is the fact that they didn't even innovate on the battle system for each game. All they ever did was put one gimmick on one game, just to throw it away at the next. The battle system was created that way due to hardware limitations, but now those limitations are gone, so what's even holding them back?
First time I saw the S/V trailer my first thought literally was “damn, a new gen this quickly?” They just showed their greediness more than ever before this time fr.
DLC...DLC....DLC.....DLC.....
I didn't get the game and I am glad , the path has been lost
New gens have always been rolled out three years after the previous one.
... YMMV on whether or not they should continue to do that, but I digress.
For the longest time I thought my disdain for the newer pokemon games was just me growing out of the franchise, but then I played Pokemon Platinum for the first time ever (I somehow skipped that one when I went from HG/SS to Black/White) and it blew my mind. Sure its still the same formula, but it also felt like there was so much passion put into the game design, especially the distortion world. I now know it isn't me being nostalgia blind, because I can't be nostalgic over something I had no prior experience of.
Anyway this was a very well crafted essay and you deserve way more than just 200 subs, your humor and editing is top notch.
(also- I'm a Cleveland Browns fan so I get your pain)
Same with me, except I played the Pokemon Ranger series. Holy crap... The amount of lively Pokemon and fairly good plot that these games have is something Gamefreak never approached - Legends: Arceus are considered good solely because it's a rip-off off the Ranger games. Features like different behaviors of Pokemon in the overworld and a human-vs-Pokemon capture/boss system? Oh, that's from Ranger, alright.
For me, it was Black 2; I enjoyed Unova.
I listened to the awesome soundtrack.
I starred in most of the movies at Pokestar studios.
I fought on the battle subway, switching up my playstyle whenever I got bored of one rail-line, and felt like doing double battles, or rotation battles or whatever.
I rode the Ferris Wheel and partook in Poke Musicals in Nimbasa.
I collected medals and journeyed through the sewers to find the hidden section of Castelia that was cut off from the rest of the city.
I fought against the Pokemon equivalent of PETA (anybody remember those hypocritical jerks who preached treating animals right, but abused and killed just as many to make their 'Save-A-Life' commercials, and force their ideals on people?) after they froze half the city, and climbed the Victory Road, getting beaten down but always getting back up, to hear the awesome Elite Four VGM (which was basically 'You Are Gonna Die and Love It' in music form), before finally challenging Iris to become the Unova League Champion.
I loved it all.
The variety. The Pokemon. The dramatic narrative. The awesome music.
I loved it so much that when I heard people rag on it, I was initially confused; then _LIVID!_
They called _Gen V_ BAD?!?! *DID NONE OF YOU GUYS PLAY THE PROCEEDING GENS?!?!*
Hmmph! 😡🤬😤😠
At the very least, I felt vindicated by the disappointment of longtime Pokemon fans when they saw what they had to deal with for Gens 8 and 9.
I don't hate the Pokemon so much as I do the bland non-existent story, the extremely linear progression between the Stadiums, the ridiculously short pacing, the lack of anything to do outside of camping or beating up Pokemon in the Wild Area (and given what Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are supposedly like, where you don't even get to battle, you just huck pokeballs at them like it's THAT SHITTY AR GAME THAT GOT PEOPLE RUN OVER BY CARS OR ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE THEY WERE CHASING FUCKING BUTTERFREE ; AND YOU MESS UP THE FIRST NINE TIMES BECAUSE FOR ACTUAL POKEMON PLAYERS, NOT CASUALS, IT DIDN'T *USED* TO REQUIRE ME SHAKING A STUPID IPHONE LIKE A BABY RATTLE, AND HAVING TO ADD POKEMON I DIDN'T WANT TO MY TEAM, FORCING ME TO DO THE DAMN POKEDEX THAT NOBODY DOES, they took away even _that_ bit of catharsis, expecting me to get carpal tunnel and a cracked switch screen from what was supposed to be an "enjoyable" experience, for the "immersion"; I wish I could tell whoever's bright idea that was to shove it up their ass and then fire themselves... out of a howitzer into the sun) .
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... If this is the future, please, please, _PLEASE_ let me go back to the past; I'd rather die happy, with my memories than be forced to adapt to a future founded on shitty compromises and increasingly dumb, un-fun features!
I'm sobbing right now, thinking about how my Pokemon's gone forever. They'll fuck up the Gen V remake; they'll turn it into an abomination! It'll strip away everything that made it enjoyable and turn it into a mediocrity fest! And there's nothing I can do about it!😔😟😢😭😭😭
for me that was playing black and white in 2021 after not playing for a about a decade
I recently attempted a Nuzlocke of the entire series in random order. And even playing the earlier games later, where you'd expect to have burnout from playing several games before that point, it was actually the later games that I'd played earlier that sucked more. Once you hit that X/Y wall, it's just dogwater. So many cutscenes of crap you don't care about. So much going back and forth for plot points that you spend more time mashing A than playing the game... And so much less soul in any of it.
Idk how that game blew your mind if you take issue with the structure or laziness of these games.
Sinnoh still has an absolute dogsh't story and NPC dialogue. Baby-difficulty so you don't have to engage with the mechanics. And a terrible quality of life.
(like every other gamefreak Pokemon + conquest).
Pokemon is basically pulling a COD every year. It's literally the same thing
Did you ever see the Japanese glassdoor equivalent reports from gamefreak? They don't abuse their staff or anything, but at the very least everyone knows what they're making is garbage and they feel no pride in it.
“It will sell anyway”
Another thing you failed to mention is that most of the Pokémon ARENT EVEN IN THE SWITCH GAMES, which is made even worse by the fact that that they uploaded their video "1008 Pokémon" showing the national Dex numbers and saying "Did you catch em all" NO I DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CATCH EM ALL.
The fact that some pokémon haven't been in a game since the 3DS era really says something
Game Freak actually coming out and saying they cannot be bothered to add every pokemon into the games going forward signalled the beginning of the end of this franchise. It shows just how lazy and complacent this company has become.
@@durpanda123 Of course Gamefreak can't be bothered because HOME exists, it's gonna hold hostage all the Pokemon for additional money and the idiots (yes, everyone who bought the newest games and HOME subscription are idiots who contribute to the problem) are gonna pay for it (they are now even paying for online, despite Gens 4-7 providing it for free). I legit encountered someone that said "wait, you didn't require paid-subscription storage software to transfer Pokemon between older gens?" - and that's the people who defend the newest Pokemon games. When a casual's standard for a good Pokemon game is 3-D soulless trash that Gamefreak's been outputting since XY, of course they are gonna ignore everything that is bad, because those games consist of nothing but bad.
There is something called Pokemon Go, however you can’t really catch em all because of the paradoxes and most gen 9 pokemon gone. Plus the game is really falling apart as of now.
@@durpanda123but luckily for TPC, they'll own the licence till at least 3000C.E. because of the second highest grossing mouse...
While there are multiple issues that need to be addressed, one big thing that makes no sense is that the games have an abysmally low budget and tpc does not seem to be contributing any part of their $6+ billion dollar annual profit considering they both can't survive without the games. You'd think they'd be on the same side as a semi joint business, but apparently not.
compaire pokemon colosseum which had alot less lower budget than the switch pokemon games. An made by a staff who never played pokemon. But understood rpgs and created a more fleshed out world that game freak fails to understand how to do. When a 2004 game on a gamecubecube looks , feels, and musiclly plays better than a 2023 pokemon game on more advanced hardware. Thats just awfull on game freaks end. Ignoring pokemon arceus opening and combat is a copy past job and made things worse since, the game is based on 2012 pokemon park 2.
Why would they need to contribute anything if they can sell crap? I've been saying since XY that the new soulless 3-D garbage was falling off more and more (save for the dying gasps of the old standards, like ORAS and SM), but it was selling better. It even became a meme in Korea - "it will sell well anyways". Even Let's Go sold - and that got away with cutting out God knows how much Pokemon and, of course, took us to Kanto. Again. As if we didn't have enough of Kanto through the first 4 Gens...
@avenger4027 that's more so our fault as the consumers for both placing gf on this diamond encrusted pedestal when we shouldn't have and buying the games thinking they'll do better with this one (because we're basically drug addicts looking for our next hit and just accept anything at this point). It still falls under the "multiple issues that need to be addressed."
@@TlocRevelc I dunno, I'm not like most people. I said I wasn't going to buy anything below BW2 levels of quality anymore and I stuck to it. But the most baffling thing to me is that some people literally buy the games and expect them to be better where there's a very clear pattern of 4+ games (starting from Let's Go in Gen 7) having less content and less stability then any previous one. The worst part is that each successive game sells better, but brings us all to the new lows. But the people who KNOW that the games are going downhill are still buying them! I could at least get the casuals, because they don't know shit and wouldn't know a good Pokemon game from stuff like Pokemon Dash, but people who are supposed to be fans of the series shouldn't be swallowing the latest trash solely because of the yet another cute starter trio or a box legendary. It's just disgraceful. And don't get me started on the retards who DEFEND this latest bout of idiocy. They should get out of the Gamefreak church, because that is like a goddamn religion for them. It must be - because if that was Bethesda or Blizzard putting this trash out, we all know they'd be deservingly shat on by everyone, instead of people from the lowest casuals to freakin' Joe Merrick going on like "I don't see anything bad, ever" (despite the game literally glitching on them right as they say it) and "you're just toxic" (it's, like, their two NPC-programmed phrases).
@@TlocRevelc The only issue that needs to be addressed is that the fans and casuals alike shouldn't buy dogshit. A Pokemon mainline game - not a remake, but the leading one - needs a good, fat flop. Because only this will cause the company bigwigs to at least purge everyone who failed and maybe learn something from this, too - and maybe with extended times and some new blood (Gamefreak are 2-D developers. They are ancient in their design philosophy and outdated skillsets, hence the playing-it-safe (we never got a shakeup to the Pokemon formula, actually, since maybe Gen 3 adding legendaries to the plot) and the dogshit design since Gen 6), Gamefreak can finally become an actually good developer.
In defense of ILCA, they released the concept art for early BDSP and it show that wanted to make a better game that’s similar to what we see in Legends Arceus and had crazy concept arts for what the game could have been (from here they weren’t fully not transparent on what happened but I’m just putting out my little hypothetical based on how companies sometimes work) but then it appears Gamefreak stepped in and took those ideas to make Legends Arceus while leaving ILCA high and dry forcing them to literally port over the original ds games, which the base of the code was 1 for 1 with, but add a small amount of extra features so it’s not completely the same game. But yeah, BDSP is trash and there is no defending that.
dude, they failed to program a CALCULATOR, one of the easiest things to program that a literal 7 year old could do. this is NOT the hill to die on.
@@polocatfan ILCA failed at this game, but I feel like there was more going on under the surface considering how good One Piece Odyssey turned out. I think ILCA may have been rushed.
I know you said you didn't really care about the national dex issue but it really does sum up a major issue with that new games. The lack of care, especially for the old fans, and a lack of effort and competency. I can see how adding specific spawning area for pokemon and making sure they aren't bugged or their modules don't jank into the ground for every pokemon is a lot of work. but in a franchise built on this legacy of taking your old team through the games for literally decades the fact only the bare effort was put in to adding some of the older pokemon is crazy to me. Like, surely by this point they don't custom makes each pokemon model and stat profile for every game. By now you would expect them to have a central pokemon database, and create some kind of system where you can easily port them into the new games. It should be as simple as drag and drop. I'd be fine with a limited spawn list if you could still bring every pokemon into the game, bc if you have to custom build every single pokemon profile you are already creating way too much work for yourself even without a national dex. Dexit is either laziness, or a massively unoptimized work flow that hasn't changed in 2 decades
unoptomized work flow sounds about right. its like game freak doesn't know what QoL is half the time with pokemon nowadays. point in case: why the everloving fuck did they ever make tm's consumables again?
Gamefreak actually talked about making "future-proof models" in the 3ds era. They've been using those models scaled down to resolution for a long time. They could literally move some files, copy over the stats and moves, and have every Pokemon in the game.
Doing that for every subsequent game is and always was a pipedream. If anything, trying to add so much content to appease customers regardless of quality control is damaging the series far more. What they should have done is make one long lasting game designed for every Pokemon to be in it, instead of trying to do that exact thing in every other adventure.
I've seen people defend scarlet and violet because all the gen 1 games also had a million glitches, but that's not a good excuse. Pokemon has been around for decades and makes so much money, they should be able to put out a functioning game by now.
"Ironic."
A franchise that's about "evolving" your creatures, doesn't get to evolve that much.
Look I'm gonna be honest.
I don't like Pokemon, but you talked shit about France so you have gotten my like man.
It's crazy how much my expectations of a new pokemon game have gone down since black & white came out. Everything was downhill from there
Which is ironic, since Unova honestly was where Pokémon actually peaked.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet truly, imagine the timeline if Black and White were the successes they deserved to be
Same
I almost returned Y on Day 1 because it just didn't feel right. The bottom screen suddenly being filled with new shit threw me off. Gen 7 was better, though.
Except for pla
Why is the quality of this video so fucking good? The dude has 500 subs, that's a crime.
im guessing the franchise decided to just drop off a cliff once they realised the next location was based off the uk
"How much swearing do you want in this video?"
This guy: YES
It's that new york blood what can I say
@@Kyler360don't keep cursing its a sin dude
I loved Pla, but my bigest fear is they are just going to never do anything like it again. I don't think scarlet and violet were horrible, I think it is definitely a step in a right direction after swsh but compared to pla it just wasn't that great and they are probably going to do more of that instead.
proud of you for publicly admitting you’re a giants fan, i know that’s hard for some guys !!
This video was literally painful to watch and the fact that my most cherished franchise is now becoming hated hurts...but The TRUTH Hurts and it can be Painful
Sword and shield did the majority of the work in demolishing my love for Pokémon, but I finally hit my breaking point with the release of scarlet and violet. So many careless mistakes and lazy decisions piled up to produce the unfinished unoptimized pile of garbage that was Gen 9, which somehow beat prior sales records. This company will never learn or change, which is agonizing to recognize as a fan who has loved the series for almost twenty years now. I find myself wanting to play the series I grew up and fell in love with, not what it’s turned into.
Incredibly well said. Agree with this whole comment.
So my thing is I initially didn't want to buy Shield for the price it was going for due to the lackluster stuff from it I saw, but then S/V come along and I rent Violet off gamefly and immediately returned it then got the notification about the 3DS shop closing so last chance before the deadline to transfer my mons over to an actual quality Switch Pokemon game that I've been waiting for, but yeah had no choice but to get Shield then which thankfully got it for $30 on Ebay for a more deserved price and maybe for the best just because I do prefer more of the Galar Pokemon designs over what the latest region mon designs offered like shesh didn't like any of the starters final evos. But yeah standards with Gamefreak here in that they made Sword and Shield better than Scarlet and Violet for the bar drop.
Please people, remember to remove the dislike and give a like.
This opinion is right.
Been with Pokemon since gen 1 was released, with Yellow as my first game. I bought every single mainline game as they were released. My last game, poetically, was Let's Go Pikachu. After SwSh's reveal, I was devastated. It's been tough to see a franchise I used to love churn out utter slop, year after year. Genuinely such a sad state of affairs.
On the positive side, it's given me a lot of reasons to branch out and find new games to enjoy. Pokemon has a special place in my heart, but if they're not making games worth playing, let's play some that are, eh?
Piracy is a win/win solution. You get to play the game, without financial supporting the Pokémon company
Imo, Sun and Moon were fine. They weren't as good, but you could tell through the game itself as well as interviews that they put like, fukking *passion* into it. And actual *time.*
And I know people shit on gen 6, but they did give us ORAS, which to this day feels like "Pokémon: Definitive Edition." I dunno, something about it just feels right
Past gen 7 though, I began to see a stark drop off rather than "they're shifting gears a bit."
Like, it felt like they wanted you to forget their past works. Like tell me, how many cameos were there in Black2&White2? How many cameos were there in USUM? A lot? Great!
Now tell me why in SWSH, we don't even see fukking LOOKER. You know, THE throwback character.
There was no heart. And the story was so ill. Gen 1-4 stories were good, but 5-7's focused more on a deeper message, and I appreciated them a lot. (Questioning the truth was the theme of gen 5, the beauty of life for gen 6, and past trauma & the balance of nature in gen 7.)
In SWSH, the story isn't good, and they don't even try to incorporate a message into it. It's just "flashy mechanic go ARRRGRGRGRGRG!"
The music is also mid. And tell me why, in a place where you hunt the Legendary Pokémon, you don't play ANY of their themes.
Again, I feel like they want us to forget what we used to have.
My final gripe with the "new" series is that the locations are so fricking boring, or they effectively don't exist. I used to look at things like Croagunk and go "oh look, he hails from the Great Marsh!", at Munna and go "oh she's from the Dreamyard, ain't she?", or at Dhelmise and go "what a nice fish-up at Seafolk Village!".
Meanwhile, you find Rolycoly in a place titled *"Galar Mine No. 2".*
What. The. Fuk. That's not a location, that's a chemical compound. It doesn't feel special at all. All the locations feel like "just places" instead of places with history and some lore.
I remember Brooklet Hill, Petalburg Woods, Reflection Cave, Desert Resort, Iron Island, and Lake of Rage all at the ring of a bell. On the contrary, I couldn't tell you the name of any Paldea location if my life depended on it.
And the thing I REALLY don't like is that in gen 9 the franchise is curving more towards realism. We've seen other franchises like Street Fighter and Final Fantasy succumb to such fates, and I'm *extremely* worried about this franchise going forward. SWSH was awful, but at least it kept its signature anime-looking art style. I don't know what gen 9 is supposed to be, and honestly, I'm too afraid to ask.
This is making me extremely worried for gen 5 and 6 remakes, since their respective artstyles are what *makes* them so special.
I really wish people would give Gens 6 and 7 a break. XY was kinda rushed but it's still a fun game, and it brought some serious innovations. Sword and Shield did not care. Pokémon GO made a billion dollars and they gave up forever.
X/Y IMO is... Okay.
I knew what it was back when I got into it. It was not going to be great but very much a "Proof of concept" of what a 3D Pokémon can look like. It was very much needed for Gamefreak to learn the ropes with an entire new dimension and using models instead of sprites.
And it paid off. Once they got around to OR/AS, the potential of the new 3D has been put to full use. I'll never play X/Y over OR/AS, but I'll always be aware that without X/Y, we wouldn't have had a foundation to build OR/AS upon.
Gen 6 and 7 were when the cracks started. They were still good games though. There's a reason all the crap starts with sword and shield.
Truth be told cracks happened before the 3DS games, many fans left because of it, then were later dubbed as genwunners, but the 3DS games revolutionized the series to the point where it revived its popularity. They had flaws but people who grew up with gens 4 and 5 pretend these don't have flaws when so many people had issues especially with Gen 5 during its time.
@@Garde_Mystik No, genwunners are nostalgia poisoned fans who think gen 1 was anything other than a buggy mess that inspired great games later.
People didn't have issues with gen 5, a lot of people didn't like certain designs... that's really it.
@@PlatinumAltaria Gen 5 fans have become the new genwunners, overly praising their Gen so much they praise even its major flaws and praise it for things it didn't actually do.
Absolutely incredible video man. You basically summed up all of my issues with the franchise the last several years. I want to like the new games so bad but every time I play them I get sick thinking about how much potential was lost, all just to serve some money hungry company who doesn’t care about quality or their fans at all
Take a shot every time this guy drops an F-bomb.
Jokes aside...yeah, it just *BAFFLES* me that these guys are some of the richest in the world, yet their products don't reflect that. It honestly does not hurt to give the games like 6-18 extra months in the oven to iron out bugs, improve the presentation and add more content that's convenient for the player and gives them something to do instead of putting it behind a DLC paywall.
Me playing Pokemon Scarlet be like, "What was your favorite town?" Uh, which town was which? "Who was your favorite gym leader?" Me who can't remember any gym leaders and proceeds to fail the elite four test. People say that the characters are great in this game, but honestly only the three direct companions were okay. Playing this game kinda felt like a waste of time.
Great video! one issue though; i am in your house
It's captured in you sharing how bad Sword and Shield are and that you put 200+ hours into it. Not matter how much they push the border of releasing garbage, people will still buy and play.
I know having this position is ugly and radical. I refuse to buy another game after sun and moon/ bdsp/legends.
I got Brilliant Diamond as a Christmas gift, I literally couldn’t even get past the 1st gym and feel bad for my family member that bought that atrocious game for 60 dollars. Now I literally only use the game to shiny hunt legendaries, I cannot care less for anything in the game aside from just full-odds shiny hunting legendaries.
You know it's a great game when it works to only scratch the gambling itch about 1% of their consumerbase have, love gamefreak
Great video. Lets hope Gen10 gets rid of stupid sandwiches and introduces voice acting at the very least.
Not saying that you're wrong in the video (because you barely touched on this point), but the idea that "Pokemon (or any X franchise) is bad because it is formulaic and repetitive across the games" is a garbage narrative parroted by pseuds because it is low-hanging fruit. Time and time again it is proven that many people want trivial/aesthetic variants of the same games. Look at the ROM hacking community: fans wanted to play the same Gen 3 games over and over with only new regions to explore, maybe some hackmon and some other minor variations. They wanted it SO MUCH that the community cracked the games at the ASM-level and made those games themselves.
This isn't just isolated to Pokemon. Monster Hunter spent most of its history releasing essentially the same game with more content and minor system tweaks, and people went crazy for it. Super Smash Brothers just adds new characters and stages (yes there are gameplay feel differences but people tune into the Nintendo Directs to see the additional content, not how many frames you save when L-cancelling). Mario Kart is the highest selling game on the switch and I can't think of a franchise which changes less across releases. Yes people do dunk on these games for being rehashes, but "being a rehash" is effectively a non-complaint when it is an objective fact that this is literally ONLY what people want. Typically these franchises end up ruining their games as soon as they try something new for no reason.
With the difference that Mario kart 8 and smash ultimate are arguably the best games in their respective franchise while most Pokémon games released in the last 10 years were worse than what we got in the DS era.
@@rethardotv5874 Yes agreed, my point being that Pokemon was never bad because it was a rehashing repetitive franchise, but rather because the games that were being released were actually terrible. Especially pre-Gen 8, when bad Pokemon games released, people would criticize them for being rehashes, which took focus away from the fact that the games were just plain terrible regardless of if they were rehashes.
@@rethardotv5874 no, gen 7 may have been a bit mid, but there was actual time and love put into it, and there were so many small details that they wouldn't have had time to put in if it were rushed.
@@bluebaron6811 the pacing was still so bad that I couldn’t bear to replay or even nutzlocke it. Just because the developers took their time doesn’t mean that the end product is great or fun to play.
And don’t get me wrong, I liked the art style, new Pokémon and the island challenge idea but the pacing ruined any replayability of sun & moon for me
@@rethardotv5874 yeah the story did take a long time.
Might not be replayable, but playing it once is a good experience.
Such a shame the franchise has gone the way it has. I grew up playing gens 5, 6 and 7 and even middle school me could feel the strings starting to come apart in Sun and moon. While Legends was a step in the right direction, it still was definitely not worth $80 (especially since Xenoblade and Zelda are available on the same system for comparable prices and Genshin Impact is “free”). At the end of the day, just like Disney, the franchise is literally too big to fail. Why should GameFreak spend the time and money to make a better game, when millions of consumers are happy to pay premiums to eat their shit off the floor? Despite all the backlash, nothing has changed and we shouldn’t hold out hope for change.
Pokémon Shield is my favorite Pokémon game. It’s short enough that it doesn’t feel overwhelming like S/V, plus I love the Pokémon designs and aesthetic of the game. I respect that a lot of people have problems with it… I don’t know, I have fun every time I played it and I even got the DLC just so I could have more of it after beating the main game a few times.
Sword and shield was surprisingly fun to play, especially compared to the 3DS games
@@rethardotv5874 I think they were all fun in their own ways.
Like a short story? Play gen 1-2!
Want a riling adventure into the unknown? Play gen 3-4!
Like story and want something to do afterwards? Play gen 5/7!
Do you just want to hang back? Play gen 6!
And regards to gen 8, they weren't half-bad, ESPECIALLY with battling. Online play was good, and it was surprisingly easy to train a team thanks to Nature Mints being a thing alongside the previously added Bottle Caps and Ability Capsule. It's the ultimate Pokémon Online experience.
They still teaching how to catch a pokemon in the grass 😩 sun and moon was 50% tutorial 40% depressing unskipable dialogs. 🕯️
I just so fucking disappointed in this franchise that I sometimes wonder why do I even bother still play it cause everything just doesnt feel the same anymore..I just hope that the next gen will be better then cause this was just a mess..but I still play them all regardless of the changes cause it's something that I like to play. Not every game is perfect.
Pokémon are the 2010s ny Knicks .
Gen 9 so lazy they literally didn't name all the pokemon
I've made videos about these in the past and I can already understand the sentiment of how we feel about the "modern era" of Pokemon. However, I believe that if you revisit these games in a fresh lens, you'll realize that these games have their magic, even the newer ones. I've talked trash about SV and I still will, but there is still merit in understanding what they did right and promote what they did right so that they can actually work on those elements for the future. Something that Legends ZA hopefully will achieve.
@@Brianycus just watched some of your vids. They're really well done. Earned a sub outta me
@@Kyler360 The same honor goes to me as well. I cant wait for what other videos you have cooking! Keep it my friend!
The simplest explanation as to how they can get away with putting out such mediocre titles out there despite fan outcry, is that the series is good at making new fans that they don't need to listen to the old ones to stay afloat.
Like hell, if the only Pokemon content that existed had been Red and Blue? I'm sure the game wouldn't have had nearly as much staying power worldwide, it could have fizzled out really easy. It was the fact it released alongside an anime that made the games be the secondary source of income. Like, I sure as hell did not have a Game Boy when I was 2 years old, but I certainly did have a Pikachu plush and a rubber Squirtle for bathtime.
It's a shame that them being so lucrative means the games are secondary to their success. And frankly, I'll be blunt here, I only like the games because I liked the anime, as RPGs I find them frustratingly limited (4 move slots lol), but I generally enjoy the universe more through the TV show rather than the actual game, I can feel the battles better in motion than in this limited format. I think Miyamoto was kinda right, that Pokemon is on the wrong genre
I agreed with all your points, but I definitely appreciated the ending bit about respecting everyone's opinion.
I wanted to add another example here. The funniest part of all of this is that if you REALLY wanted easy cash grabs, you'd go for the lowest hanging fruit possible: your oldest titles. Nintendo, I'm sure, would pay TPCi hefty licensing fees to get Pokemon on NSO. Talk about a draw to NSO! Some of your most beloved and profitable handheld titles on your subscription service. If Nintendo wouldn't pay the fee you wanted, then put together a Mario 3D All Stars collection, or sell them individually on the eShop. TPCi has multiple avenues to milk the hell out of some fan favorites, and has chosen not to.
TPCi can't even do money grubbing correctly.
I've said it before, but for me Sword&Shield was the straw that broke the camel's back; the quality of the games steadily declined after Gen 5.
Gamefreaks lies and pure incompetence just made SwSh a slap in the face for life long fans.
Scarlet & Violet is the first pokemon game where i just can't even bother to get through the main story. I had some decent amount of fun with sword and shield and that games bar was so low. (500+ hours ;-;)
try ranked it’s very fun if you’re a competitive person adds some challenges
I'll say it now; a pokemon game where you send out all of your pokemon at once for Fire Emblem style combat would absolutely fix the franchise.
Ever hear about pokemon conquest?
yes, Pokemon Conquest WAS a breath of fresh air.. thats been ignored ever since
Would make for a fun "generation gimmick" like the Triple and Rotation Battles in Gens 5 and 6
Or make another 2.5d pokemon game, like Black and White.
I liked BW because fun fact: the sprites aren't actually locked to a pixel grid; it's what makes some of them appear ridged, and I dunno, I REALLY liked it's look.
Maybe a game in Octopath Traveler style or an Earthbound style would be cool.
How about a Mario and Luigi Style Combat?
YES! Blame the corpos that demand ever larger games every four years (which has been rediculous since the end of the DS era) and not the devs that have to deal with their shit.
I was initially worried this was gonna be another rage fest against the devs, but you basically mirrored my own thoughts (if quite a bit more harshly) that the ridiculous deadlines and clear lack of proper funding despite being the single largest media franchise ever are to blame for the series' decline, not a lack of care by the devs who try their best with the shit hand they're dealt. Which is also 100% the reason they stopped making Mystery Dungeon games to tie-in with every new Gen and just killed of all the spin-offs entirely.
And while i did have fun with Sword and Violet (even bought both DLCs for Sword, and actually quite enjoyed the Team Star story, especially the climax), Violet is definitely gonna be the last pokemon game i buy until gamefreak higher-ups get the fucking message and let their devs make good games again. It was also clearly a mistake to skip Legends XD.
Also gen 4 is not the peak of pokemon, that would be gen 5, but 4 is easily my second favourite, so your wrong opinion is excused (joking)
Scarlet and Violet
Cons:
-Most of it
Pros:
-Though boring in concept, Terastalization is strategically deep in high level play
-Penny's full team of Eevee evolutions
-Bread dog
The mouth on this guy.
"Boom *click* that's a snake" cracked me up way more than it should have.
"annoying fans defend bad game"
proceeds to claim OG Diamond/Pearl are perfect games lmfao. No, they were incredibly POORLY made, so much that Platinum had to make anTON of corrections to the games bad story and pacing
with the amount of care and thought put on small details in the recent games the problem wiith the quality comes from lack of time and manpower, gamefreak refuses to increase staff that is getting busier with each passing year and the understaffed dev teams have to keep up with the insane one main line content plus spin off a year schedule that tcpi makes them work under
"Sure, I have the freedom to go anywhere, but I might get jumped." Tbf, that's just called leaving your house. 😂
After Sun & Moon, I was getting over Pokemon. I thought to myself that the next game had better have some big improvements for me to get the next one. And right at the start of the sword and shield marketing they announce they aren't even including all of the pokemon. So not only did they NOT imporve the game they decided "fuck it, we can't even do the bare minimum of having Pokemon in the Pokemon game." At this point the franchise deserves to be burned to the ground and have everyone collectively spit on its ashes.
Edit: I disagree with the last 1/3rd of the video. Pokemon should be Pokemon, not Dark Souls. The way to fix the franchise is to make good Pokemon games, not fundamentally change what Pokemon games are. Rom hacks and fan games prove that the issue isn't the core gameplay of pokemon.
I also don't think that it's fine to just say "If you like eating dog shit, that's fine" because saying that things will never get better. Pokemon has been on a downwards spiral since at least gen 6 and if you disagree you have bad taste and should feel bad.
I had a visual glitch happen where I couldn't even see the menu popup happen in the first 5 seconds of Pokemon Scarlet.
I gave them a chance to get me back into pokemon. they dropped it in 5 seconds.
I'm more excited for Legends: Kyurem than Rayquaza
5:58 first the "Poverty Franchise" explanation and now this curse after curse I... 😂❤ Love it unironically! This foul language was what Made UA-cam funny back in the days of JonTron & PBG and Brutalmoose I just 😅😅😅 this is such a Guilty Pleasure, now that I am not in Puberty Years❤❤❤
Great video man, top tier video essay material, keep on keep on
One wise man once said ~If you dont like it, you dont have to buy it~ you are actively supporting them making bad games and because one game gets outsold by the next and every game gets into the highest grossing videogames of all time, they have no reason to fix a working moneyprinter... dont make a fool outta yourself.
22:42 yes Legends Arceus is the type of Pokémon game I want going forward
I started falling out of love for Pokemon when I started playing XY (well also because I chose Fennekin as a starter but I always choose the cuter options) but when playing Sword and Shield i just couldn't finish it because I don't enjoy playing it anymore. I thought it was because i was already in my 30s and this was the start of losing interest in the franchise but when I gave Legends Arceus it reignited my passion for playing Pokemon yes its not a perfect game but it was different and actually enjoyable but Scarlet and Violet were such a let down. I just realized it wasn't me losing interest in the Franchise it's just as the guy making this video said the franchise is like Ultra Molded Bread now.
You talked about how long it takes to battle and catch a pokemon in S/V, but you forgot to add the time for it to bring up the registered to pokedex screen, the book flip animation, and the name this pokemon screen! (if you have naming turned on)
you deserve way more subscribers bro, great video 👍🏻
The fact that this channel doesn’t even have 250 subs is a federal crime
I agree 100%. Still gonna buy the next gen when it releases in six months though
i live in england. and ngl when i go outside it genuinely looks as grey and colourless as the wild area 8 months a year. however i still think the pokemon designs from gen 8 are some of the best imo.
game is still ass tho
I have for a long while though that ORAS was the last good pokemon game. I might need to replay Legends Arceus, that might be up with my standards.
BDSP are objectively bad. I have my big issues with Diamond and Pearl (and haven't played platinum, although i dont know how a 3rd version game would fix enough issues for me to be like "oh this is ok now" for me) but BDSP adds modern day Pokemon issues. Pokemon XY? Why did the plot try to sympasize with Team Flare after their defeat? Something that saves it and most Pokemon games for me is the post game, where I'm able to work on the pokedex and grabbing items and exploring parts of the region that i didn't have before. XY barely passes for me. USUM are ones i need to actually enter the post game again to see, but i remember that being its highlight. Sword and Shield didn't really have post game. And then Scarlet and Violet have 0. 0 post game. Having nothing to do except dex, shiny hunting (which is a whole other thing i won't bring up right now), and grind tera shards and money. Its basically as much post game as Red and Blue, because it's just Mewtwo/Cerulean Cave are a thing and thats it.
If i weren't a competitive player i wouldn't have bought the DLC for Violet. And i hate how Kerian was potrayed. Straight up he's on the Autism Spectrum just like me, and I remember when he punched the statue area wall that the disloyal 3 revive from, i punched my bed, I was so pissed. I don't want people to take away from the Teal Mask that people on the spectrum are all like him, or at least what people think of him on the outside.
I would list positives with games like BW2, but i need a break. Maybe ill edit this comment with some positives.
If I could like a comment 4000x it would be this one
@@Kyler360 thanks
The pokemon rom-hack community has been making more interesting games than Game Freak for years. Sword and Shield was the straw that broke the Numel's back for me and I'll be content playing fan projects until GF sorts their priorities out. Haven't given them a penny since 2019, but gladly would return if they stop embarrassing themselves.
Tbh, I loved Sword and Shield. It definitely had it's issues but it was still a fun game and one that I'd consider pretty good. I liked that the art style felt closer to the anime and the designs of the Pokémon themselves. My only real issues with it were the animations and the fact that the story itself was kinda meh. But, I'm someone who plays online a good amount so that wasn't as big of a deal to me as it would be for someone who doesn't. I'm not denying that the game should've been better but I'm not going to act like I didn't still have fun with it.
They're more polished than Scarlet and Violet in which yeah can still have fun with them, whereas the lack of polish with the latest games prevented any fun could have had with them and I asap returned my rented Violet copy back.
@@SonicLegends I definitely agree with that. I didn't have as many issues as I saw online, just a few visual glitches here and there and occasional frame drops but overall Sword and Shield felt like a more put together game despite the fact that Scarlet and Violet have more to offer in terms of stuff to do and places to explore.
Great video. :)
They did add the themed zones to catch pokemon in the underground in BD/SP, which I quite enjoyed, but as far as gameplay is concerned, it was okay-ish. I felt like Cynthia was too easy for some reason (rose tinted glasses maybe). I was not thrilled about the MySims style of graphics either.
Cynthia easy? Bruh you must have overlevelled. She had a competitive level team.
@@dinosaurtimeandfunnyvideos no, he probably had our lord and savior, Weavile.
Yup. It's because there's clowns buying low quality trash that the franchise will never change. I haven't bought a game since gen 5. The Pokemon name has been dragged through the mud. Now you should be embarrassed to like it.
SWSH was where I pretty much chose to bow out of the series out of personal protest of the terrible decisions made with the game and very evident lack of quality it possessed and so I didn't buy the game, I also didn't buy New Snap despite being excited that Snap finally got another game, I additionally initially skipped Leg Arc despite how genuinely interesting it looked though admittedly a month ago I saw it at a used game place for cheaper than I ever expected to find a Pokémon series game at so I caved and bought it since it was used and thus my purchase of it would neither be part of sales statistic for the series nor would it give the Pokémon Company any money and honestly I've been loving it and am kinda glad it was my first full 3D (at least as far as the point after Pokémon came to the Switch) Pokémon experience, also I'm sure by this point it's obvious that I also didn't buy SV despite being ever so slightly tempted by the advertising making it seem like they stepped up their game from SWSH, but I thankfully didn't cave since I still didn't trust that the game wouldn't have some bad issues that the ads of course wouldn't give any indication of plus I was also still not ready to stop said aforementioned protest of the series.
Awesome video and well said. The biggest thing that gets to me as a Pokémon fan, is watching Pokémon not learn from mistakes, or giving up on good ideas.
There are a ton of games of multiple genres that are "graphically behind" or intentionally retro looking. Even for games with good graphics, I might turn them down for performance like in Overwatch or other FPS games. I don't care about graphics if the gameplay loop is good enough.
A game like Octopath Traveler 2 might make some people turn up their noses because of the pixel art. But that game has charm, has polish, improves on the last game, expands the combat system, takes consumer feedback.
Pokémon's battle mechanics and battling when competitively playing are fun and great. I love the Area Zero ending. I like that we have a school and classes that finally explain mechanics. Good Toby Fox music. But this is stuff that is expected and the norm. So if this the standard, expectation, the other stuff drags it down. Games should feel good and if you've played a variety of quality games, there will be a lot of times where Scarlet and Violet don't feel good. The loading, the menus, the tera raids, the lag, the uncomfortably long dialogs that say nothing for hours. It made me feel like I was dealing with Swordward and Shieldbert again. (Worst part of sword and shield)
I can see you are getting a lot of views on this video compared to your previous ones. I am looking forward to the future of your channel.
As a pokemon fan I am so glad I got this video in my recommended. I despise gen 8 and 9 and seeing yet another video (constructively) hating on it with great comedy is my cup of tea.
I feel like tackling the DLCs would've been nice.
I bought Scarlet because it looked like a genuine improvement. And some of the pokemon models DID get upgraded. But I feel like a retard for having paid $60 for an alpha build. I enjoyed my time with the game, and I wanted to see what the DLC is like, but as much as I liked the story of Teal Mask... it should've been free. $35 is WAAAAAAAY too much money for ONLY TWO DLC adventures on a game that's already $60. A pokemon game should NEVER be (almost) $100 by themselves, ESPECIALLY is they're not even finished.
@@excalibur493 I only bought Violet because Arceus was such an improvement over Sw/Sh that it had given me hope that they'd actually figured out how to make a good Pokemon game after screwing it up horribly. That, obviously, was a mistake.
The only thing that's been going consistently uphill in this franchise is the quality of the 3D pokemon models. Not the battle animations, just standing idle while waiting for you to navigate the battle menu. I'm sure they skipped working on those awful trees in favor of making sure Skwovet's fuzzy cheeks still glisten properly when a cloud moves over the battlefield.
Which is... certainly one order for your priorities.
There is a silver lining. Because Legends Arceus and SV were in development around the same time and there was a few items that they added after the reception of LA's mechanics.
nah screw the "dont emulate" shit.
well made rom hacks have been the only thing pokemon ive played recently and its miles better than what gamefreak has been putting out
I've been having a lot of fun lately!
Sword and shield was so boring and just mid, whenever I try and think of a ranking of every Pokemon region I just forget about it
Is so sad that fans were capable to build off ilca bdsp remakes to make one of the best pokemon games in excsistence and still ongoing development, that being luminicent platinum, gamefreak trully has no excuse
Nintendo and Gamefreak consistently treat Pokémon like the red-headed stepchild of franchises, when it is arguably their most successful... it makes no sense why it can't be better after 20 years. So glad I cut my losses after Sun and Moon.
Monster hunter rise is on the same console.
What the actual fuck
30-45 fps, beautiful graphics, FUN gameplay, innovative, fast paced and more open world than monster hunter WORLD.
Compare the graphics, look at the quality and look at the frames.
Aaaaaaaaa
Monster hunter games actually get reasonable budgets that's why they end up good
@@thefanciesttortoise557 Instead of 300+ people and 200,000,00$ (scarlet and violet) they have 100+ team members on the team for producing the portable monhun games and a variable budget from 1m-1.5m
@@thefanciesttortoise557 so... no.
hey man, I'm like 9 months late, but I think you made a great analogy about where pokemon as a franchise is now. people love their sports teams, especially when they used to be good. I think likening legends' noble battles to souls-like combat is awfully generous, but I understand it's more stylistic than anything. here's hoping legends za earns its price tag and our time.
definitely gotta be generous especially with pokemon! appreciate the nice words!!!
Eh, I didn’t even bother getting Scarlet and Violet anyway. I ended up getting Black 2 instead. Also, Yo-kai Watch is better!
X and y were my first pokemon games and I do agree with you in the flaws of it, but you know, to me x and y are Like family, u don't like some stuff in them, but I still love them
X and Y were my first games too, I actually replayed X recently and while it's story is definitely a bit lacking, it's honestly such a beautiful and fun game. Was such a blast playing it again. Probably in my Top 7 Pokemon games.
@@AmirPrinceling actually, I liked it's story because it leaned more towards morals and facing reality instead of the whole "dis team be dun doin' bad thangs, we godda stop 'em!" shtick. It makes you question things like "is it really worth *some* people being happy if *most* people have to suffer?
It doesn't seem like it, but it *really* digs deep, and I remember 9yo me crying at the end of the game.
Also AZ deserved more from us. For someone with only 5 minutes of screen time, he is a very well developed character.
This means you're not going to buy the new one, right? *right???*
Game freak are good at one single thing no other company appears to be able to replicate, and that's designing pokemon. No other monster training videogame has managed to give their monsters the same charm that pokemon have. This is why they keep getting away with mediocrity, no matter how bare minimum the games are you won't find a better monster training game anywhere else. Though I personally feel like gen 9 has dipped in quality when it comes to the pokemon designs, I thought the same about gen 5 and that was more incidental than a trend.
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dude this is one of the funniest videos ive ever watched, great job!
While your video isn't bad I will say that a lot of your opinions just kinda reword what the community has been saying for years now. And I don't understand why you take jabs at the music and character design of the newer games, because Game Freak is suffering from not having enough developers/time for the game itself to be made. The music and art design are elements that can be created outside of the games has always done great and have trended upwards. But yeah, every element that is translated into games is susceptible to being underdeveloped and buggy because GameFreak outsources important work to other game devs, developers don't get the time to finish the games fully and ex-GameFreak employees have reported that they've been overworked in the past. The only people to blame here is GameFreak's upper management of the Pokemon video game series and their employees.
Star Wars is also poverty franchise
Yeah. It's probably more of a poverty franchise than Pokémon
24:07 Which is really sad. You should be excited to see the story not be disgusted by it. A game without a good story is worthless.
Never thought I’d see the day that pokemon and the giants are compared💀
Sun and Moon were the last good Pokemon game
Yeah, I’ve played every single generation, every single main line game, the last 2 generations have just felt super lack luster. I usually play enough to finish everything in the game and post game, but these last two, I’ve stopped playing after completing the main story. It makes me sad. But now, the Pokémon Company has has grabbed me in another way, the TCG, which is even worse for my wallet. 😅
Me too. Gen 7 was fun and had great story, gen 6 is just really cozy, and gen 3, 4, and 5 are gens 3, 4, and 5. I HATED SWSH and SV.
Catching pokemon shouldn't be quick and simple. Do you want pokemon go? Because that's how you get pokemon go. The menus shouldn't be as sluggish as scarlet and violet, but you shouldn't just be shotgunning balls at pokemon like it's pokemon snap. I'd like to play my game thanks. I want to spend 40 hours In battles. That's what pokemon is to me. If I wanted to catch 30 buizel I'd play pokemon go.
Another Giants fan that is also tired of Pokemon selling mediocrity, what are the odds?
Great vid man, you got a new sub outta me.
Poverty franchise is so incredibly American it's insane