The Deliberately Bastardized Pokémon Game - RadicalSoda
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Lifeless, lazy, greedy, uncaring- If you have noticed a drop in quality over the last few years in Pokemon games, you're not alone. Doing a little research makes it easy to see why that is; rushed games, lazy executives, merchandise timing requirements- Sure, you can rush out a handheld game and maybe people won't notice as much. But a console game? That's much harder to do. In this video we go over almost every aspect of Sword and Shield, from the very start, to the "postgame" and I'll show you just how much they try to get away with. Dexit was only the beginning.
This is a compilation of the seperate parts of the review, the way it was intended to be published.
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You know what’s hilarious?
Eternatus has the same catch rate as a freaking *caterpie.*
Both have 255 as catch rate
So Leon was right in throwing that Pokeball
Leon is Really Unlucky man
And we were making fun of him
@Pyzon when ash starts his adventure knowing even less than he did
From Bulbapedia:
"If the player has no Poké Balls when they are prompted to capture Eternatus, one will appear in their bag.
It is also the first Legendary Pokémon that can be caught with any Poké Ball without the chance of failing."
I used the Gen 8 Catch Rate Calculator, and it gets even crazier
If your Pokemon is the same level as eternatus or higher, you can catch Eternatus with a regular Pokeball, at full health with 44% chance of success. So you didnt even have to battle it
I hate when people treat the pokemon company/gamefreak like they're an indie dev. People trash cod for milking the franchise but nah, not pokemon.
maybe it’s cause Pokémon adds new things to do and new monsters to catch every entry, that’s just me tho
@@ziragatooepic And then immediately remove it the next game no matter how much people liked it.
@@Kekira it’s not even that. Even Call of Duty includes new gimmicks in their installments, and even manages to keep them in for a few of titles. (Wall running, acrobatics, and exoskeletons existed for a few games at least)
Pokémon is throwing away mechanics that most people loved like walking with your team, and introduce things like permanent experience sharing that nobody asked for. It’s an honest shame.
@@ziragatooepic lol
Although you're right, gamefreak themselves are probably seeing only a bit of the money, as most of it is just merchandise, and pokemon games are just advertisement for all the merch so they don't care that much. Does it justify ? ABSOLUTELY NOT ! Does it make sense ? Yes, and it's really sad that it does. Oddly though the fans are to blame too, this game sold faster than mario and Zelda even though it's INFINITELY worse than them. If you like pokemon give Shin Megami Tensei V a chance, it's coming November this year, it's basically pokemon but actually well made.
1:05:15 I'd just like to point out that Xenoblade Chronicles had a day/night cycle and its cutscenes not only took into account the time of day, but also the weather.
And it was released back in 2010.
For the Wii.
GameFreak has no excuses.
Also that game is incredibly fucking huge. Although a lot of it's ridiculousness can be attributed to it's long development.
I mean, Xeno2 came out with the switch and its actually bonkers. As an aspiring dev, what they achieved in that game is absolutely madness.
Omfg
So did fucking Silver and Gold
@@silverchord5790 So did b&w actually
I just realised something.
"with the future proof models"
That is why pokemon disappear at a certain distance. It is the models.
You see: You normally produce models at differing resolutions. Basically reducing the polygon count by removing details. That way you get a model that can be loaded when you observe something at larger distances. And finally reducing that to basic shapes for extreme distances.
Take a dice for example. The three models would be:
1) High poly. Rounded corners, inset dots. Used for closeups.
2) Mid poly. Slightly rounded corners, dots painted on using Normal Maps (illusion of depth comes from the normal map). Used for mid range.
3) Low poly. Basically a straight up cube with the dots painted on. Used for wide range.
The models, which caused slowdown for the 3DS are the high poly ones. And back then: This could not be fixed by loading a mid range model because: They do not exist. Why should there? There were no Pokemon in the open world.
There are only High Poly models. That is why pokemon can not be loaded from a distance. Because then multiple pokemon could be seen and due to the high poly count: it would cause a slowdown.
Meaning these models were unfit for an "open world" style game. And Gamefreak did not give the team enough time to produce low-poly versions of each pokemon. Which is why they had to use this work-around. Gamefreak had their devs skip an important step in optimisation because they wanted to rush the game out.
But the future proof models aren't even high poly models. I haven't downloaded them, but looking at the wire frame, it really doesn't look that bad. My assumption is that they aren't using optimization techniques correctly or at all.
I mean, that scene with the group of people that drops frames like they're made of lava is just embarrassing. My assumption is that they weren't using occlusion to de-render all of the objects not in frame. That, and they likely don't scale animation framerate or texture resolution with distance. Meaning if they wanted a field full of Pokémon, they'd all be animated at max framerate with their normal texture resolution. Which would obviously tank performance. I can't say what it is exactly that they're doing wrong, but they're certainly doing something(s) wrong.
In my humble opinion, it all boils down to a lack of care. The higher-ups just don't care, and that is reflected in the product they produce. Which I think is evident from the lifeless environment and textures.
There's no excuse for the dirt and grass textures to be desaturated and lifeless. That's a simple issue that could be fixed by a teenager with Photoshop, much less a team of professional artists and coders who make their own shaders. It's just a careless and silly issue to have.
@@Edward-Not-Elric "I haven't downloaded them, but looking at the wire frame, it really doesn't look that bad. "
You have to consider that the GPU inside of the switch is on paar with a GTX 260 (no: not the 2060. The 260. From 15 years ago) then "high poly" is relative.
For the hardware the games were on (the 3DS and Switch) a model with 7000 tris is considered "high poly". (For reference: Tyranitar has 7352 tris)
@@Edward-Not-Elric "In my humble opinion, it all boils down to a lack of care. The higher-ups just don't care, and that is reflected in the product they produce. Which I think is evident from the lifeless environment and textures. "
100% agree.
And the sad thing is that it works. The Executives do not get as much flack as the devs, while the game sells reasonably well.
Meaning: We will get more 2fps windmills and plain plains in the future ... because it worked out for them.
@Bass-D C I understand that the switch is an underpowered system, but considering the cavalcade of games that are more graphically and technically intense that are already on switch and playing at 30fps kind of disproves that theory, I think.
Especially considering a game like Fortnite runs pretty decently at 30fps with a bunch of 7k~ poly characters on screen at once and all of the extra buildings with scripts attached to each destructible square and prop. Not to mention the physics on items that can be knocked around by certain weapons.
Things like that, Warframe, Paladins, etc, really make me wonder what they did to have so much trouble running that game on switch.
Unfortunately, I have no way of finding out since Gamefreak won't ever make a "What Went Wrong" GDC talk about any of their games, so I'm left to wonder. Though a more experienced coder might tell by ripping the game and pulling it apart.
@Bass-D C It really is an incredibly unfortunate reality for modern gaming. Established companies basically can't fail and so are rewarded for putting the least amount of money and effort into a game that they can get away with.
Minimize spending, maximize profits. Creativity and fun be damned lol.
I sure love Piers rythm, the way he stomped while emiting no other sound whatsoever really struck my heart. No electric guitars needed to accompany his show, no drums, nothing. State of the art.
Plotwist: Piers always wanted to be a tap dancer instead.
Except it wasn't art
He's meant to sing
Its meant to be a concert and we have poor VA in the game
So yeah...it wasn't a statement it was just greed
@@lillith7257 do you... not understand sarcasm?? Dear lord.
@@maister482 Internet and sarcasm doesn't mix well, especially with hot topics like this that you don't know if statements like these are crazy defenses or sarcasm towards those defenses, hehe.
Highest grossing franchise, everyone.
The curry art is more detailed than the box art
It’s more detailed than the entire damn game let’s be honest here
I know and It looks f*cking delitious
@@santiagobarreraruiz7280 Agreed! I'd eat those.
Pokémon sweet and sour
Maybe they shield just stop with this sword of thing.
It took me 2 hours and 42 minutes to realize why he was upset every time Sonia gave him revives.. God im slower than Regigigas
Wait I don’t get it-
_oh_
She’s giving him _revives,_ on a _nuzlocke_
@@-AirKat- hey, more money
I mean you probably forgot it was a nuzlock most of the time
Don't worry, we all get a Slow Start sometimes. I did find it strange the first time but the second one it clicked and was like "Oh, right. Nuzlocke rulez".
I am kinda doing a sun/moon nuzzlocke and I get revives all the time as well and it's just so funny xD
Fun fact, most of Sonia’s dialogue works really well if you interpret it as toxically passive-aggressive.
Was that intentional? Giving Sonia an actual voice would have cleared that up. Just another reason why there should have been voice acting in this game.
I can't help but wonder if you've seen BDG's nuzlocke, where he does this exactly thing xD
@@arleebean yep, that's exactly where i got it from :D
wait, isn't she? people need to try and interpret it like that? well color me impressed i though it was the whole idea of her character, being an annoying chat-box for plot points, jeez.
If the devs considered people that would Nuzlocke the game then I agree with you
We're entering the "fuck it, they'll buy it" era of gaming :(
I'm waiting for the renaissance which will take about 20 years or more
@@thelostmessenger
I’d say 6. People aren’t that stupid.
I think we've already been in it for a while
@@goroakechi6126 true, but they choose (conciously or not) to be one
I wouldn't say that we've recently been seeing a surge of great games genre defining titles
GameFREAK made 80% of their region grassy and boggy, 10% icy and rainy because that's Britain, and then they realized they wanted more areas and so they stuck 5 different biomes in the last 10%... and then stuck it all next to each other
funny how a moslty grassy region and 1 snow place is the basic formular since gen1.
You can't make this shit up lmao
Just like the famous desert temples in new york being represented in Unova.
@@henrycowen8164 Unova was kind of a half-done American Stereotype region. We still had tons of Japanese stuff in the game like the Ice Gym Leader, The Genie Trio, Throh and Sawk, etc..
They could have gone with the Grand Canyon, Hollywood, and the rest of Unova tbh. I don't think we could do a pokemon lore version of Mount Rushmore... unless it literally was a few statues of the Swords of Justice (even though they are technically French Pokemon)
@@henrycowen8164
Yeah! Hey, remember how New York has a marshland that constantly freezes over into a pristine winter wonderland?
Just wanna point out that Chairman Rose disowns Bede and then they never interact with each other ever again.
Almost like he disowned him
@@exzyyd392 yeah, but you'd think after he turns his attitude around and strives to become a better person, that Chairman Rose, who was basically his foster Dad would acknowledge him and admire how much he's grown. Or maybe Bede would take issue with Chairman Rose, the man who disowned him, trying to bring about the Darkest Day, as that seems pretty hypocritical. But nope. Nothing.
@@AC_Dragneel Chairman Rose clearly shows he barely even remembers him when the two first interact on-screen.
Why would you think that interaction would take place? The whole point is that Bede is obsessing over a man who doesn't give a shit about him and working too hard and too carelessly to please him.
I'm not calling this grade-A writing or anything, but you can argue he grows up a bit when he finally stops caring about the Chairman's approval.
@@Lucifronz ok, so then why wouldn't he come join us in stopping Chairman Rose bring about the Darkest Day? Typically when you write an arc in a story, you establish it, develop it and conclude it. But Chairman Rose disowning Bede is just one little note in the story that start and ends in that scene and is never brought up again. My point is that it was clearly lazy writing and much like how they forgot to have a villain until the very end of the game, they forgot they even wrote this immediately.
I dont unserstand why people are defending gamfreak in this commonent section
I did a nuzlocke at one point before the DLC came out, and a Clefable used Metronome and it got Blue Flare, a move only Reshiram could use. So all the coded Pokemon and moves for the DLC were already in the game, but it was just inaccessible. Wow.
(Black) Kyurem was "allowed in immigration" before the DLC so Blue Flare was already coded in the 1st version.
That doesn't really matter Legendaries are really common from trade
I’m surprise you use metronome in a nuzlocke since it could’ve use the move self destruction, explosion, retaliation and mods.
@@positivea9111 Oh no it was the opponent
@@crossagento3961 That’s make sense
Sword and Shield shills : You can't criticize the game if you haven't played it
Also Sword and Shield shills : lol you're saying all that about the game but you still bought it
Exactly
@@espurrseyes42 Hoops has many Videos on the
Name-Origins and/or Design-Origins.
Those will fill your logic-gaps and
make you understand way more.
-Just saying.
@@slevinchannel7589
What does that have to do with the PokeSIMP hypocrisy of devaluing your criticism for not playing the game, but then devaluing your criticisms because you bought the game?
@@RyanKirkland05
True.
To be fair, the bar is set pretty low for pokemon fans in terms of IQ This is a fandom that finds ice sliding puzzles difficult and freaks out over silhouettes. Christ, even the Super Mario Bros fandom got fed up when Nintendo kept releasing New Super Mario Bros games that were pretty interchangeable. Not the Pokemon fans though. Nope. In fact, they actually get upset when gym battles aren't at the center of everything.
I seriously wonder if anyone actually thinks, "they're just kid's games", is a good argument in defense of these games, when super mario odyssey, and breath of the wild were released on the same console years before
My personal belief is that the argument that "It's just a kids game." To try and wave away criticism is beyond stupid. The fact that it's a kids game should be more of an incitive to make it good. If I had kids I wouldn't let them play this stuff, because it's low quality. Kids deserve better than this.
The mark of something thats good and made for kids, is something that they enjoy as kids and will come back to many years later and still find something to enjoy. As a kid I loved Pokemon Red, as an adult I have a lot of nostalgia for it and can see, despite being very primitive compared to later games it had a lot of good design choices and interesting broken mechanics that makes it fun to play.
@@MrSupersonic2012 exactly, there are so many games for kids, that I played in my childhood to the present day, that I could replay and still enjoy them
@@scarletnight4554 Exactly. I had a conversation with my stepbrother around Christmas. We were talking about cartoons from our childhood and present day. I told him that I can rewatch a lot of those older shows, because there's things to enjoy as an adult viewer and then I asked him if he could imagine his kids watching the cartoons they have nowadays when they're our age. He said "No, I can't. And I'd be very surprised if they did."
They do, and they're idiots.
Even if it was "a kids game" it's still poorly done. My 12 year old sister played this and 30 minutes in, she started complaining with how much handholding there was. And she's been playing complex Rom hacks with me like pokemon unbound and volt 2 and what not, and she has well over 300 hours on them. Again, this is a 12 year old girl. Kids are smart, they don't need this amount of retardation in their games.
The sad thing is that Gamefreak could make games called “Pokemon: Fuck” and “Pokemon: You” that only adds 1 new pokemon with reused animations and cuts the national dex and it would sell 10 million within a week.
Edit: Damn on second thought everyone would buy a Pokémon game with “Fuck” in the title so this would sell either way
OMG! Sounds like the most STUPENDOUS idea that I've ever hear in such a long time! Screw Game Freak for saying that they need to cut the National Dex and moves like Bubble and Pursuit for "Better animations."
*wheeeeeze*
I mean, continuing to sell a "double pack" of both games that isn't even cheaper basically IS the "fuck you".
@@fuzzydude64 I've never had an issue with Red and Blue/Ruby and Sapphire/X and Y/etc. or even Black 2 and White 2. You don't need the second game to have the full game experience. Especially today: just get online and trade. Blue wasn't enhanced by owning Red (White and Black might have been that way with Opelucid City or the other city unique to each version) I don't feel like that's a good argument.
I have more of an issue with the Emeralds, Crystal, Ultra Celestial Bodies, etc. being full price. Those are DLC sold for the same price. You paid for two games for one game with good DLC.
That technically has been addressed via DLC...unfortunately, SwSh was so incomplete, it didn't feel like an add-on or a proper sequel.
It felt like an incomplete game that lacked a satisfying post-game that finally got two good post-game episodes for the still incomplete game for $90.
Well, I’m not gonna sit here and pretend I wouldn’t buy them both
For almost the entire game I thought Bede was a pissed off old lady who was never allowed to become a trainer because she had to work to support a family, then she's finally retired and is determined to become the champion now and prove everyone wrong who never believed in her, and she becomes your rival because she's just sick of children getting the chances she didn't have.
And frankly I think that would have been much more interesting.
God damn that is so much cooler than just a weird looking little shit
@@Droid_2332 thank you!
You know that picture of the REALLY big book next to the incredibly thin book? The character you've described is the big one, and the Actual Bede is the little book
@@Sugardrop50 aw you flatter me! I'm just sad that it's not even a particularly complex idea but is still better. And it's not like Pokémon characters have ever been super deep on average, but compared to that book meme, it's so disappointing to see that they're becoming a single sheet of paper.
I'm so glad someone else thought Bede was an old lady. When I first saw him I thought "Wow, this is a really unique rival!" I wish no one ever corrected me...
'This is not an XY review... unless you want it to be...'
I for one would love me a 4 hr XY review
The review would be longer than the game's story
@@majidsoprano93 More engaging too
@@AdumskaH lol right
The Sand-Snake is meant to be like this.
Lockstin has a video about that, too.
Check it out.
Its worth it.
Weird that he does know the Coral-Pokemon-Video
of Lockstin but not the Matter-of-the-Snakes.
And:
2:37:30: EXCELLENT POINT!!! I SAY THIS FOR YEARS! DECADES EVEN! Yes, i say this for longer than Pokemon exists now!! ...Wait... what did i just say? Ah, whatever. You get the gist.
Yessss
If this was really a Pokémon video you would have sold each of the first parts separately with stuff removed and then released this version a year later with all the stuff that should’ve been in the original separate parts as well as minor improvements.
Underrated comment.
You have to subscribe to his patreon to get the alternate version of the review, where he plays a copy of pokemon sword instead, where he says all of the same exact things but occasionally mentions a Pokémon Sword exclusive thing. 10 minutes of different content.
Needs more likes.
And, all of them are at full retail price
So this the Emerald version
Making a pokemon big is the most primitive and cave man way of making it stronger, mega evolution was so much cooler
@@HondaBrandy I believe people hated megas because they obliterated the competitive scene for a good while, and there were the usual pokémon getting preferential treatment. Most casual players loved them.
@@HondaBrandy I honestly don't know much about competitive pokémon so I'mma pass on trying to answer you there. xD
I'm just parroting an opinion I saw many competitive pokemon content creators have.
@@HondaBrandy It's about balancing and adding those who can add another angles to battle strategy but won't centralize it.
@@veradrost9654 They could've just NOT put a mega on their team.
@@joshuabennett8256 I think you misunderstand the word "Competitive". You don't have much of a choice. The vast majority could agree not to use them and there'd still be a huge risk that one person ignores the agreement and crushes everyone as a result.
Casuals in their own games though? Ignore them all you like.
Funny thing, around 2:20:00 you start talking about Pokerus. I remember back when X and Y first came out one of my pokemon caught Pokerus on the very first day after the release. My buddy and I hung out that day so we could play together, and I remember he freaked out a little bit when I showed him one of my mons with pokerus. Can't remember what first had it, sadly. Anyway I traded something with it to him so he could get it, and then he posted about it online somewhere and we started giving it out to other people and spreading it further with wondertrade. No idea if it's entirely true but we've always joked that I was patient zero for the 6th generation strain of Pokerus.
Cool!
I hate that the games sold well and all people say is "oh now you have standards" like... do you not?
It just encourages the higher ups to continue this cutting corners technique and hurts both the fans and employees.
listen man i just wanna play some pokemon and if it keeps me busy for like 2 hours its worth it to me
wish their games werent overpriced as shit tho
Nintendo fans are Brainwashed it's bad
@@aqua.dot908 prime example
@@muby102 listen man, i still think the newer ones are pretty shit when compared to the older ones but a game is a game to me :/
The starter designs are becoming CHARACTER designs rather than a SPECIES design
I see, a fellow Tam Valley viewer ^^. I agree though, that the modern starter designs have their focus waaaay to much on the non-animalistic/monster aspect which makes them so much more like characters than like species.
- 6th gen had 3 bipedal humanoidish animal based starters
- 7th gen had 2 of them and Primarina
- 8th gen has 3 bipedal humanoid animal starters that look humanoid to a point that they're basically furries. I despise each and every one of them.
On isolation these pokemon are not the worst but as starters they really lack variety and creative design. I don't want a fire rabbit wearing soccer clothes, I want something like Torterra, a "monster" who has a very creative and unique design. Heck.. Starters like Sceptile and Blaziken are the perfect example on how to make a bipedal slightly humanoid pokemon without it looking more like a person than a monster, why can't we have that anymore?!
A nice rule of thumb I've seen for good starter final evos is: can you imagine a group of this Pokemon living in the wild like animals?
Fighting type: "Allow us to introduce ourselves." X3
@@bluestreaker9242 Yeah, but even most fighting types didn't look _human._ Machoke might wear a speedo, but it looks like a buff dinosaur. Hitmonlee was a uterus with legs. Medicham looks like an alien. You could belive those were "monsters" rather than humans in fursuits.
I'm kinda glad this was my first Pokémon game, because everything I've played since has been better, it's like everything is uphill
Your username should appear next to the definition of optimist, Webster, Get on it
hell yeah, lol. Any of the other 3D games are better and the 2D games are pretty different from those. My personal favorite 2D game is Heart Gold so you could maybe check it out if you're interested
Oh yea, all the other games are much better.
Though if you want to play some or them without emulation... be prepared to fork out a pretty penny...
£75 for Pokemon Black 2 nowadays at the cheapest with most being £100 or more.
Gen 5 is definitely when the series peaked so... I actually would buy it for £75 but that’s just me.
Edit: for me though, it’s either the older Pokemon games or bust.
Consider yourself lucky my friend. That right there is truly a privilege that cannot be understated. I hope you keep having fun
*IT'S LIKE A ROLLER COASTER*
You didn't rate this fairly, you rated it as a game when it is just supposed to be a cash grab. It deserves a 10/10 cuz it was so successful at scamming Pokemon fans.
I'm an idiot for falling for the pokemon switch hype. Waste of money
@redloiyu654jay scavio is more worth it imo
@@beepobeepo it's not stfu
I don't understand how people don't realize that they are totally being fed dogs**t by gamefreak
@@johnkenneth8746 I realized that when Diamond/Pearl wasn't as interesting as Ruby/Sapphire, and then Black/White was so boring that I didn't bother fighting the Elite Four. As an adult, I revisited the first three generations on emulator, and I had lots of fun with all of them. Anything past that is so boring that it can't keep my attention.
did ... a budew just use fusion flare?
Yup. Make me remember when I used to hack Pokémon in BW
@@RaspyCh would be funny if it was a event budew. aborted so much sun energy , starting channeling the power of TRUTH
@@SuperUnknownPerson that would definitely make up for the lack of hidden power in gen8, with regards to roserade.
Budew with Fusion Flare?
I call....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKS!
@@douglasthequilava be a really funny event pokémon tho
I can't believe I just watched four hours of a guy convincing me to hate a game I already know I hate. Subscribed.
Pokemon is bringing people together...
I didn’t even know anything about Pokemon besides the basic concept, yet I enjoyed the whole video. As an ex-Bethesda Studios fan, I know how that sheer hatred feels.
Ikr, I haven't played a Pokémon game since Sapphire and Ruby, and yet I'll sit here and watch a train wreck in slow motion haha.
I feel like I’m the only person who actually likes the new gen games. The old ones sucks so bad I’m sorry they were so boring I-
@@reap3514 I just got bored of the stories, the writing has never been super amazing, there's always 1 or 2 evil teams, 1 to 2 pokemon champions, a global catastrophe, and a couple of random character tropes tossed in for spice, rinse lather and repeat 🤷♂️
"Oleana didn't sit on my face but we still gonna smell fish"what a fucking line
Read Oleana as Obama and I will never be able to sleep ever again.
@@ShibuNub3305You too, huh?
@@ShibuNub3305 poor soul
@@BugBoss1205
P o o r
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You touched on a point I really appreciated- Mentioning that you criticize this so much not because you hate Pokémon, but because you love it and want the best for it. This was a point I tried so hard to stress to my friends who openly, repeatedly and to this day (Seriously? People still defend all this scummy shit to this day? Surprises me every time) mocked me for hating dexit, and hating how lazy Swoosh looked, felt, and seemed through all that we saw. For the first time in my life, I didn't pre-order a Pokémon game. And I'm someone who liked Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, still kind of do! Granted, I think USUM should have been the only ones we got, as they make SuMo essentially... pointless, even more so than sister third games of the past, but...
Swoosh just felt insulting. That's what it is, at the end of the day- a true feeling of being insulted. Masuda's non-statement about the backlash to dexit is now the gold standard of non-committal 'we hear you, we see you' trash replies that I use whenever I need an example of the archetype.
And, of course, it still broke records. As far as I know, they are still the two best-selling games on the Switch? (Please tell me I'm wrong.) At this point, Game Freak could take a dump in a box, slap a Pokémon sticker on it, and still shatter records, and that makes me sad, because... that's what they're doing.
Ultra Sun and Moon changed a bunch of shit that was done better in Sun and Moon. So it failed at being the better version, further making it the worst third version in the series. Plus it didn't fixed the handholding, and how even by the last island you still feel like you are in tutorial land.
Sword and Shield only sold as well as it did because it was the first actual mainline title on an home console and not some bad remake of generation 1 with pokemon go mechanics.
@@okagronTell that to Scarlet and Violet. Pokemon will always sell, because so much of the audience are either ignorant children or fanboys with no self respect
I will say , i still consider sun and moon and ultra sun and ultra moon to be really good games, they were imperfect , but were an evolution of the pokemon gameplay that i felt was pretty good.
@@okagron I don't consider them the worst third version , for me that would go to either crystal or yellow , cause they change so little it's almost meaningless.
I think it says a lot that during the dlc direct NO ONE IS SMILING, not even trying. They're not proud of what they're pushing out AT ALL.
They look dead inside.
Right? Like look at the Sora Smash reveal. Sakurai was smiling, making jokes, getting laughs. Multiple times during that stream, I thought "Sakurai's so adorable!"
But it's purely business in the DLC Direct and not even business you get the impression they're happy about
They look terrified.
Pokemon legends arceus better be fuckin the best game ever programmed to make up for Dexit, and they even handed off the DP remakes to another studio entirely, so all of their staff should have been focused on PLA.
the videogame industry is dead
it breaks my heart that the best generation of Pokémon was the least successful and then SwSh is the best selling game in the franchise in a long time
Because we're a bunch of hypocrites, unfortunately. We literally enabled TPC (aka smart EA). Honestly, I'd just end the franchise there, we don't deserve anything
What gen?
@@justavulpixlol i believe gen 5? imo best gen but really controversial for no reason tbh
i liked it
But Gen 3 was very successful
:)
Magnolia's model does change when she gives Sonia her lab coat, the clothes she has on underneath are just a similar colour to it. You can see the seam between her cardigan and skirt becomes visible. Sonia is wearing the same coat Magnolia took off, but in a more open style.
Jim Sterling put the current model of Pokemon games quite well- the only reason no one cares that they sell the same game twice is because the notion of trading monsters between friends was new in the 90s, and the different versions were made to capitalise on it. People don't call out Nintendo for still selling the same game twice because its just part of Pokemon, but if EA or Activision or Ubisoft tried it today everyone would be in uproar over it.
Haha "uproar"
You really dont need to buy both copies. Either get it from your friends or go onto reddit or discord and find people willing to trade.
Hell, there was an uproar when Fire Emblem released 2 games at the same time with (kinda) different stories. Even Nintendo can't get away with the Pokémon model. Guess we should be thankful they didn't think to make Pokémon go into two different mobile apps
@@recino2 only that fire emblem lets you download the alt path of the other game with a discount while being distinctive enough on its own, it's not just the same game with a different roster of characters. Pokemon doesn't even give you a discount for the few pokemon that do change and expects you to have pokemon home now if you want to fill the national dex (should it ever return)
@@PancakemonsterFO4 And to add to that, Three Houses have 4 distinct paths with major plot and level differences, and an added dlc side story. Even Zelda got to it first with my personal favorites, the Oracle games, being 2 completely seperate games released at the same time.
Why couldn't they just stick to Mega Evolutions? It's way cooler than this balloon shit.
Because why have something fun when you can have something NEW?
@@espurrseyes42 -_-
>_
All I can ever imagine is a dev, standing behind another co-worker showing them that they're nowhere near ready for the deadline, when suddenly his mouse slips-up, and he enlarges a stock image of pikachu, and they both look at each other as it f to say, "fuck it, that'll do..."
i find that the designs of the gmax forms are more interesting than most of the megas. I think the megas are cooler because of the gameplay changes to pokemon that come with them, such as different abilities and typings, and how megas can: revitalize pokemon that are weak, like with mawile; switch up the gameplans of more popular pokemon, like charizard or mewtwo; and brings a new light to older forgotten pokemon,adding newer levels of depth either with the design or the stats, like medicham or kangaskhan. I sitll think that a lot of the megas are overdesigned and look really bad, especially ones like manectric or aerodactyl, and that the gmax pokemons designs are way more visually complex and interesting
I understand Galar is based on the UK... But they really could've done more than soccer... They could have went for Rugby, Golf, or Cricket outfits. Like having all the leaders and champion just wear soccer outfits was kind of unimaginative imo.
Also, huge missed opportunity would've been any knight or fairy or more monsterous classical fantasy pokemon.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the devs didn't knew that Cricket is a thing.
@@budakbaongsiah Probably not. I only know about Cricket from Elementary school. From what I understand Cricket is only big in the UK and India. Which
@@sketchstevens5859
Yeah, Cricket is only big on Commonwealth countries.
Soccer ain't British
@@cursedbulb Pretty much them Spain and South America are the most intense about it.
'Does the UK have a overweight delinquent problem or something?' Yes. Yes it does.
You even got one as a prime minister
@@SludgeManComethNO LOISENSE NO OPINION SORRY THAT'S HOW IT GOES
@@arbitrary-human OI DO YOU GOT A LOISCENSE FOR THAT LOISCENE ENFORCIN?!
Don’t forget the shanks
Most of them aren't even british, funnily enough. London is no longer an english city.
*Removes mega cuz it's too strong*
*replaces it with 2 other mechanics that are more broken and way less cool or fun*
"We don't want people to feel like some Pokemon are privileged"
*Gives Charizard and Gengar another fucking form*
@@HondaBrandy right? Weren't we mixing zmoves and megas not too long ago
@@thanatoast gives meowth a regional form two generations in a row getting even uglier than the last somehow
Boss: Hey, is gen 8 ready to go?
Dev: Yeah, it's playable. We just need to touch up on a lot of things and fix any bu-
Boss: Nah. Ship the games or you're fired.
We'll just release Ultra Sword and Ultra Shield a few years later and sell the game twice once its finished!
@@Qwade
Dev: We can use this engine for Gen 8, now let's make it a Game!
Boss: We shipped the Game yesterday.
yea bassicly.
It's really always the suits that are responsible for shitty games and movies.
@@Qwade what? It has a post game what are you talking about?
I’ve seen this review so many times now. Great replay value, something that can’t be said about Sw/Sh.
I'm looking forward to his one on S/V
@@mrfhd6227 think he's done with pokemon
Wait. So you’re gonna tell me that rare candies... RARE candies, are supposed to be rare? Now I think you’re pushing it.
There are 11 throughout platinum, and only 4 pokemon that have pickup that make it possible to get more, free exp used to be rare
I’m past Lt. Surge in red and have only ever gotten 1 candy
They hand it out to you like, like Yknow candy
@@whoisanarnb
wow, good on you actually playing Red in 2021 xD
Literally an over 2 decade old game...... what is time
A bit random, but here in spain they're "weird candy" instead. Funny how I never pieced together the translation error until now.
My favorite to this day is that ORAS had better facial expressions and character movement that SS
ORAS was beautiful, despite being on a very limited hardware.
honestly the 3ds games looked great for 3ds games. but, they were 3ds games, very limited cartridges for a very limted console. gamefreak's problem is they think they can make the same stuff look good on a switch, which... if a 3ds is a honda civic, the switch is a freight train - sure, several moving boxes would fill up a honda quickly, but the train just absolutely dwarfs them.
@@leeeeeeeeeeeeeviathan I was legit blown away by ultra sun and ultra moon with it's graphics and story (gen 5 story is still better, but it's still an amazing story). plus being able to hold every single thing like the national dex, megas, z moves, and alolan forms, totem forms. They legit pushed the 3ds to it's limits. And I loved the xy map as well. And oras was amazing plus my first ever pokemon games :)
1:41:56 Rillaboom is a combination of ''Rilly scary man who looks like he wants to hurt me'' and the word ''Boom'' LOL🤣
Pokemon really REALLY needs to innovate and expand.. they have coasted for far too long.. they make so much money.. this is just insane..
not just that. like they do yeah but they are have loads of features that were good not in for previous gens and all previous gens have better designs although that started going downhill with unova which made up for it in other ways. Liek simple things as adding back follow pokemon (I guess they did in the DLC...) seasons, day/night cycle etc etc
@@kamikoto1558 You can thank the fans. :l
Unfortunately they are still coasting and if anything have only gotten worse
>types in "69"
"Nah, that'd be immature."
>typed in "420" off camera
lmao I love this video already
I didn't understand.
I know exactly what this means buddy. I am not telling you it since I don't want to get in trouble! LOL
@@zekapaugordinho.6577 he didn't set 69 as his number because "haha funny sex number" would be childish, but then chose 420, the "haha funny weed number" which is equally childish
@@gugubope21 Dude.. YES 👍🏽 way to challenge a weird, yet accepted, norm (with your username)
Nice
Gen 8s most memorable feature will be the collective beatdown it received.
Also the sweet $32 USD you from Gamestop for trading it in~
@Noah Donson You're right, cannot forget the Major Mascot of Gen 8 Wooloo OwO
And the Record breaking Sales It got anyways because UA-camrs need that Sweet pokémon vídeo money.
The long of it short is simple: despite being *THE* most profitable game series in the entire world, Pokemon SwordShield is easily *THE* cheapest of all the games, period
I just wish it was clear what the fuck is actually going on inside Game Freak. By now, it just seems like the Pokemon Company might have switched out all of the original GF devs with cardboard cutouts and nobody noticed, they're too focused on the game and not the people behind it
You can actully see Leon holding an ultra ball, but in the next scene, a broken pokeball rolls forward, good job game freak
High quality animations.
I know this as old comment, but I checked and he was actually holding a regular pokéball. It's just that his glove has a similar colour scheme to an ultraball so it looks like one at a glance.
@@dootdoot3065 ohhhh, +1 for gamefreak I guess
Where does he hold the ultra ball? I got to this point in the video, watched through, and I only saw a pokeball
When they removed moves, they removed return and frustration. Probably the best normal type move. Gone. Also Lopunny's 'signature' move. Lopunny is the only pokemon to learn Return naturally(learns at level 13) AND buneary(learns frustration at level 13, so there's an interesting bit) is the only pokemon to start with 0 friendship points.
they're shit moves logistically with powers based on an invisible stat that can't be increased quickly. maybe they could have added another Normal move with similar power to take its place, but Return being gone is good
@@andrewhedstrom4113 not really, getting rid of an option (the move return for example) is not good, even if many people don't use it. It's the fact that there is a pointless removal of an option for players, some who may love the move. Also, who are you to just shit on this person's comment? Not everything that comes to mind has to be spoken, so think of that next time
@@andrewhedstrom4113 ever force fed your Pokémon Drugs?
Yeah. Return is that. Frustration has also been used to serve the narrative in Gen 5. Ghetsis’s Hydregon has a Max Power Frustration.
@@FrostGlader so the full power Frustration was used to show Ghetsis is cruel and a bad trainer? I'll accept that. but the way to be the opposite (kind and a good trainer) is force feeding drugs? it doesn't really make sense
@@andrewhedstrom4113 force feeding your Pokémon drugs is an easy way of maxing friendship. There are of course multiple ways of doing it (including passively during gameplay and using a Luxury Ball when catching the Pokémon), but drugs are the easiest. The move is meant to show how much you and your Pokémon have bonded over the time you’ve spent together, but no, Drugs. Like, 50 drugs. I immediately Maxed the friendship of a Pheromosa, a Pokémon that has 0 Friendship upon capture, with nothing but drugs. And it’s one of my favourite Pokémon I own anyway (It IS Shiny).
In contrast, it’s actually pretty difficult to _lower_ friendship. There’s the Herbal Items, but intentionally fainting your Pokémon also works. But it’s definitely slow AF.
"It's Him!... it's- it's kind of him!" that was my immediate thought on my first playthrough
Also Snipe shot only has 5PP so that fight with hop in Circhester was fuckin' wild!
Either he use a lot of PP Max or they made it that he had unlimited moves.
15, actually. i assume the 5 was a typo
Now this is what a TRUE pokemon Fan is, this man made a whole 4 hour video dedicated to Pokemon and this isn't a Hate video it's more of a Review saying pokemon needs to do better
@Kodiak KDK-85X even AVGN messes that up at times (I’m not bashing AVGN. James is a national treasure and we need to protect him)
What I’m saying is that so often these reviewers kinda just see the review aspect. They just hate on things when that’s not what’s fun.
We want comedy we want what you like and dislike. Full on anger reviews can be fun but not when that’s all there is.
if you need a 4 hour video to see the flaws of one game, then thats just sad lol
@@DeathGripsIsOffline696 Sad for the game, yes.
People have basically made hour+ long videos tearing Sonic 06 and Fallout 76 apart for similar reasons.
@@DeathGripsIsOffline696 if someone can go on for 4 hours describing every issue, that’s a LOT of issues with one game
@@MxPokirby fallout 76 is objectively a better game than this was though. Just played it recently and it’s way more enjoyable than sword/shield was
It really made me mad when they just gave us a legendary Pokémon from a random npc in some tower somewhere
Imagine if you got mewtwo from a random scientist in "science tower" because mewtwo wouldn't listen to them so they just give it to a random kid because he won a lot of Pokémon battles
Which legendary? Also this is reminding me of the floaroma town mew in BDSP
@@ochuspin the weird glitch one that the scientists give you its got inventory items that effect its stats i dont remember what its called
@@astolbro7183 oh no, type: null? That Pokémon is great and it’s got a backstory that makes that make absolutely no sense!
There’s only supposed to be three. One is your rival Gladion’s in SM, one is for you, and one stays deep in the aether foundation. So yeah having it just be in a random tower is absolutely asinine
@@ochuspin oh im not saying its a bad pokemon it looks cool and has very interesting game mechanics it just feels almost like an insult that its just randomly given to you for no real reason its almost like the devs have to hide anything intresting they make
@@astolbro7183 i didn't think you were insulting it, i agree that it's really dumb to give it out like a party favor considering its whole story
Pausing at about the two hour mark to make my own observation about the exciting stuff with pokemon randomly dynamaxing happening off camera and the fact that it's not only handled by someone else, you're not even allowed to participate even a little. My big question being why? Even in S/M/US/UM, you get to partake in the larger plot. You protect a girl and a baby legendary from Team Skull and the Aether Foundation, You get to square off against an Ultra Beast when it first shows up, you get to be INVOLVED! And that's more shallow than even X and Y. Team Flare drives the B Plot and you get to at least interrupt or slow down their plans multiple times. And don't even get me started on Gens 3-5 Where you're actively fighting villains and learning pretty early on about big epic plans that would result in worldwide consequences. Having not played Sword and Shield, it really looks like the entire game you're not the main character. Hell you're barely a side character, everything happens regardless of what you, or any of the characters you've met (outside the champion and probably Rose) actually do. You're among the least important characters in this world, and you're THE PROTAGONIST!
Emerald did this so well, you stop Aqua stealing parts, slowing them down so Magma has time to steal the Meteorite. Aqua now has to distract themselves again b/c they're going to set off the Volcano, and you don't want that either so you intervene b/c you're one of the only people that KNOWS about it and there's no time to warn anyone else. Doing so gives you time to get back to your life but, of course, Neither team is done with their shenanigans. You're too late to stop them getting the orbs to wake up Kyogre and Groudon, and you storm each of their bases the MOMENT you learn their location, only to once again be too little, too late. During all this time some of the most powerful trainers in the region have become aware of how talented you're becoming, and when the final confrontation happens, they trust you to be the one to try and plead aid from Rayquaza, because the "Big Boys" are going to be way more effective at damage control than you are. You get to be the Hero, even if you're not considered "The Very Best." it's awesome!
And in Gen 1+2, you're constantly bumping into Team Rocket and their plots, with them acting as a sort of roadblock to your adventures. And in both cases, you're eventually forced to confront them for a final battle in a past area. In Gen 1, Giovanni turns out to be the Gym Leader of Viridian City, meaning that just when you thought you had beaten him at Sylph Co., you're forced to fight him once more at his strongest. And in Gen 2, Team Rocket's remains hijack the Goldenrod RAdio Tower, forcing you to infiltrate the taken over building by sneaking in and fighting the leadership to free the area.
i genuinely think they should just have a skin tone slider
Yeah right. That would require like, $3 and thirty minutes of dev time. That’s gunna be a big “fuck that”.
@@SlimeBlueMS LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Just put a color wheel so you can be any color you want. Even green.
@@SlimeBlueMS Thing is? It doesn't even take $3 and 30 minutes to program it.
I've bought the Sword + Expansion physical copy, and sure, that may in some way invalidate my point -- especially after price inflation (O Canada!)
My thing is... besides the points raised in this video... why is who I connect with in the wild areas (because, that's basically what the expansion is) based on RNG? I know that I can set battles and trades to require a code, sure, but what if I just want to run around the same wild area as my significant other or friends with their switch and instance of a wild area serving as a host in a similar vein to Animal Crossing? Why not be able to ask people in the same camp if we can battle or at the very least trade? Why can't we set the render distance for ourselves?
Can't wait for Pokemon Sword and Shield: Flintlock of Justice DLC.
@@mike5449 because they probably spent $30 and a week of dev time on the entirety of the Wild Area lmao
I just remembered something.
Pokémon brick bronze, which was a roblox game that got shut down by Nintendo because it was gaining lots of traction, had backgrounds for not just common areas in battles, but every single unique area where you fight a trainer in the game.
A roblox game.
Okay gamefreak…
I'm begging Nintendo to let the Pokémon team have more than 2 years of development dear God this is just terrible....
They shouldn’t have a time limit at all.
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
-Shigeru Miyamoto
@@LoKing1337 Duke Nukem Forever.
I don't think more develop time would allow Gamefreak to make better games, as long Masuda is in charge. Masuda pretty much has this horrible mentality that the pokemon games have to compete with mobile games.
His reasoning that people have access to a much wider games than before because of the mobile game market and therefore less time to invest into one game is not wrong, the problem is that he forgets that pokemon games cost money. Plus more money to get an home console. Meaning no one buys a pokemon game with the same mentality that they are gonna treat it as a mobile game. Something to just play a little and then throw away. People want more substance in comparison to mobile game.
This is why pokemon games in recent times have gotten faster and faster, just easier to make the game much quicker to complete. Basically he's making games for the wrong audience.
Nintendo isn't actually involved with the pokemon development
The last time they where involved i belive was Gen2
@@jesusramirezromo2037 they were involved in the form of Satoru Iwata until Pokemon Black 2 and white 2. He was the one who fit kanto on pokemon gold and silver then oversaw pokemon and many of its spinoffs as executive producer until he stopped with X and Y... You probably know what happened next
Why should they? When they have a choice of paying for 2 years of development to make a Billion, or 3 years of development to make the exact same billion, you are going to choose the cheaper 2 years and stuff your pockets.
And then you continue until their game suddenly does not make massive amount of money, then you blame some underling, promise extra development time in the future, and then give the team 2 years and 1 week, knowing that your desperate fans will take whatever you dish out, and they will have forgotten in when a couple of years rolls around.
Hell, EA has been dumbing down the Madden franchise for years just like that, and they still make skadloads of money from it. They hear the fan complaints but they don't care as they know the fans will still believe the hype and will still hand over their wallets. See also Battlefield.
Until the public gets wise to marketting and demand quality before they hand over their money, this will keep happening.
I really can't say I'm happier to see a real love for Black and White. Black and White is my favorite gen.
Gen 5 is one of those gens that gets a lot of flack but it has such a strong following for real pokemon fans, gen 4 is that for me with gen 5 as a close second. Just sitting here hoping to God that when/if they announce dppt remakes this month they don't completely destroy my childhood with greed and laziness...
@@TheSpidercorn most likely will lmao if its a remake
The only real core reason Gen 5 received hate was the fact that it was another 2d pokemon when people were expecting the series to finally go into 3d. It's ironic really, considering that most reasonable people who aren't shills consider gen 5 as the last great pokemon games and that pokemon going into 3d was the downfall of the series.
I loved Black and White 2! Just Black and White were bad other than the story but Black and White 2 had a lot of content and hard mode stuff to keep people playing.
@@NoobGamer-di1dw Were black and white bad other than story? The graphics are the best presented in the series and the gameplay is how pokemon always is and is considered one of the harder games.
As someone who enjoyed Pokémon Y, I can admit that I remember absolutely none of it
Funny, x was the only Pokémon game I remembered everything in.
I had X and my brother had Y
I hated XY i remenber beating them and feeling so empty the game is so easy and has nothing special about it
@@valletas that’s probably why I ended up forgetting it completely. Everything about it felt so incomplete
Yep. I like it, still have a copy for my 3ds even. I'll probably never play it again, but it was still a fun experience from what I can recall. I'd call it a solid 6.5/10 roentgens; not great, not terrible
Easy Mode is actually harder than Normal Mode because all they did was lower the levels of trainer's Pokemon without properly lowering their stats. So all that happens is you get less Exp (and the enemy occasionally does less damage because level is part of the damage formula).
Challenge Mode is only harder because the Gym Leaders have extra Pokemon.
oh god OTL
No, there's plenty of stuff they changed for Challenge Mode. All trainer Pokémon have higher levels, trainers have higher AI and significant trainers (Gym Leaders, Champion, etc.) have held items as well as updated movesets (and an extra member as you mentioned). Not a completely different gaming experience but honestly, what much else is there to buff?
@@handsoaphandsoap I'm fairly certain the extra levels work the same way across all trainers, being that the stats stay the same. Only time a higher level matters is if it rises to or above a number that ends in 0, 3, 5, or 8 because then you get a slight boost in damage due to the way the damage formula works.
I didn't realize the Gym Leaders had held items and different movesets and regular trainers had better AI, though.
@@metleon you only need 1 more speed than your opponent to move first so that alone could make a difference.
@@robertharris6092 But the stats of the AI's Pokemon don't actually change. So Easy Mode had the same opponent's stats as Normal Mode, but you end up getting less Exp throughout the run.
Not putting sheildon in gen 8 is like not putting Solrock and Lunatone in gen 7.
I just watched almost four hours worth of a dude ranting about a game I already know is trash. Absolutely fantastic, subbed
One of the unfortunate things about SWSH was their art director, Jamie Turner. He went on record stating that Pokemon should all look friendly and cutesy. Thank god he quit Game Freak following this generation.
The biggest problem in this game, in my opinion, is that nothing happens. With every other problem, you could at least enjoy the base Pokemon formula, but you just don't do anything in this game. Any time something is about to happen, your told to move along. You have no stakes in the story, you have no connection, if your character wasn't in the game, nothing would change.
Logically speaking, that’s actually something a child should do, lol.
But yeah, this is the Pokémon world, who cares, if a 10-year-old wandered off by themself, defeated an entire evil organization, and captured a literal GOD.
@@cyberneko4913 I mean, logically speaking you probably shouldn't give a 10 year old a dangerous animal and send them into the world alone.
@@berylredburrow__8810 I mean that’s exactly my point in the second paragraph, lol?
Agreed, I hated it so much. It was so boring.
@@cyberneko4913 Your comment is pointless. You’re appealing to realism in your first paragraph then admit it doesn’t apply anyway.
THE RADICALSODA MOVIE
This movie has to win an oscar or some kind of award
As one of the best and most loyal Mystery Dungeon Players ever,
i tell you: Super Mystery Dungeon is levels beneath all the others,
who are ALL EPIC, and i dont know why.
I was honestly surprised and shocked while playing and i kinda still am.
I dont know whats up with that, but hey, whatever,
at least you can always return to the old games!!
But it makes you wonder: In regard to the main-games, where are the
guys who wrote the Humor for Pokemon Ranger? That outstanding humor?
Where are the ones who wrote the amazing and complex story for
Mystery Dungeon?!
Did Gamefreak fire them all or what???
Where are they??
YESSSS
The water gym puzzle is literally copied from Unova
I’d make a joke about how surprising it is to see you in another youtuber’s comment section, but to be honest it makes perfect sense.
"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
"
~Shigeru Miyamoto
, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors.
Also the guy that ruined Paper Mario.
@@espurrseyes42 Miyamoto didn't really do anything big there, it's just Tanabe and co who thought the art style of Paper Mario is a character design and built the modern games from there.
Duke Nuken Forever and Alien Colonial Marines. Ironically, both done by Gearbox. So i guess Randy Pitchford has a knack for making bad, delayed games.
@@zjzr08
I'm pretty sure he said something about Paper Mario not need a story or some other nonsense. Just because Tanabe changed the series and refuses to go back despite the hate his games have gotten, Miyamoto isn't innocent since he gave Tanabe that push and hasn't reprimanded his ass for continuing to push a formula that just doesn't work.
Cyberpunk 2077:
This is what I've been waiting for
I've been waiting for this!
(X) Attack (O) Relent
"WOOOOO! YEAH BABYYY THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! ᵂᴼᴼᵎ"
Wtf
holy shit its the shuckmeister on a radical soda video
Hey it's you
I hate seeing videos like this about Pokémon because it's exactly how I feel, and I know it's exactly how so many fans feel. But we all know that there's a little chance that any of this is going to change.
As much as I love Pokémon, scarlet and violet was the last straw. It was a great franchise that used to be a huge part of my life, but I think it's finally time to say goodbye before the very company that lovingly crafted such beautiful memories taints them beyond recognition.
More than they already have I mean...
I dropped the video games after ScarVi but because I still love the IP/franchise I started playing the TCG instead (thanks to TCG Live). It's hella unbalanced but pretty fun
@@valpix7007Try Pokemon Masters if you can (although beware to not be sucked with the gacha system, although it is mostly playable without it).
I'm surprised you held out as long as Scarlet/Violet. I swore off as soon as the DexCut happened because the writing was on the wall after USUM showed a decline in quality.
@@MrJoeyWheeler It wasn't Dexit itself that turned me away so much as the hard evidence that we were repeatedly lied to. Frame-by-frame animations ripped from SM/USUM and models reused from XY. I can understand that at some point, the dex will need to be cut down. But to chop it in half and then flat out LIE to us about the reasons for it? Nope. I'm done with GameFreak.
When a free to play gacha game looks better that a Game Series with a history and fan base surrounding it.
This post was made by the Battle Cats gang
As well as the Genshin Impact clan
I'd rather pay for all the things in among us than pay for sword and shield and the dlcs
Hell, Dokkan battle clan and the DB legends clan will join in
brawlhalla gang? idk yall are confusing me so imma just toss my favorite game in there (which actually has an incredibly impressive record might i add)
I just want to point out that Magnolia is the ONLY professor in the games that you NEVER see in her own lab!
She was completely insignificant to plot also.
@@Loner098Which is kinda sad as we don't have an old female professor previously...we did get Sonia but we already had a young female professor in Juniper so she isn't unique anymore (and maybe we can count Burnet in Alola) hehe.
@zjzr08 Burnet barely even seemed to do anything remarkable in the games, either other than being Kukui's wife (unless if you're counting the anime). While Kukui didn't really do much for the plot either in Sun & Moon, I personally find him to be my second favorite Pokemon professor. And if you really think about it, Kukui feels like a father-figure to the player despite there not being one present.
Actually, now that I think about it...NONE of the Pokemon professors do anything integral to the plot in ANY of the Pokemon games other than to just act as a beginning guide for the player.
@@Loner098 Professor Rowan did give the Team Galactic grunts some talking to in Platinum hehe.
@zjzr08 I mean, I guess that's true, but then he just kinda shows up at the Pokemon League just like Oak to congratulate you for being Champion.
Now, if you really want a Pokemon game that has a professor being part of the story, then you should check out a fan game called Pokemon Infinity. The story in that game might be the best-written story of any Pokemon fan game/ROM hack.
I'm not good at Pokemon games. I had such an easy time getting through the first gyms that I was worried I'd leveled my Pokemon up too fast from hanging out in the first wild area a little too long. Glad to know that it's just that the game is a bit broken.
Just a lil bit, right?
He is like the final boss for professor Oak.
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
"uuhh..."
"Am a YES!"
"Uhhh...no?"
Although I did not do a nuzlocke run my first time, I decided to play the game with an all bug team. The weakest typing in the game by far, and I managed to beat it in about eight hours.
It was certainly one of the easiest, and quickest Pokémon games I’ve ever played. But that didn’t piss me off, what pissed me off is that the game allowed me to buy the bug type gym uniform, and I wasn’t even allowed to wear it in the gyms. WHY THE FUCK CANT I WEAR MY GYM UNIFORM IN THE GYMS?!?
Maybe it’s a sign to GameFreak that what you buy is not worth it like this game.
Nostalgia blinded much
That... that _innocent_ and overly _friendly_ language and phrasing in those Nintendo Direct clips really makes me feel like throwing up. Like, holy shit.
Something about them made me uncomfortable but I couldn't put my finger on it, and...yeah, now that you said it, that's exactly it.
@@atinysoftbean1645 yeah I felt
Scripted
No...
More puppted
If you watch the UK versions of the Nintendo directs, you hear them speaking Japanese and its with English subtitles. It feels far less patronizing thats for sure.
I mean, at least Klara is not the
HI CAN I HELP YOU?!! HERE TAKE A MASTER BALL YOU WARNED IT OWO DJDHHHSHHHH
I think I got that wrong-
@@lamihadamshareef5270 They LOOK like puppets.
Yay I can watch them all in one sitting
I just watched the last part again last night, so this is great.
Gross, you’re going to sit and watch something for almost 4 hours?
Yes, we all are
@@blackstep_dad2572 dont act like you've never binged watched a show in one sitting
Woohoo
Nintendo, disney, and big tech can be summed up with this: they're too big to fail
Give em time, the bigger they are, the harder they fall
@@mr.x2567 I hope so
"Twice the pride, double the fall"
@@mr.x2567 not when it comes to money and stocks. Big companies don’t fall hard, the government bails them out every time
Really only big tech because we actually NEED them nowadays.
As a former rather successful competitive player, _and_ as someone who has several years of game design study under his belt: The notion that cutting the Dex is supposed to help with balance is really, really stupid. And also funny. Because it's so stupid.
as someone who doesn't play competitive, wouldn't it actually be MORE balanced with all the pokemon because it means for more creative ways to best each other? like restricting it would just mean people using the same op strategy over and over again bc they can't be creative like before?
@@colbaltmind5696 That's not really how balance works, no. But it's very much mostly specific outliers that disturb balance in Pokémon most of the time, so just reducing the roster by a _lot_ doesn't do anything.
@@AniGaAG
And the most confusing aspect to all of this is that ONE generation prior, Gamefreak was on the right track with balancing with stat, ability, and moveset buffs and nerfs only to throw all of that in the trash for seemingly no reason.
@@joshuakim5240 I would disagree; gen 7 is when stall went completely over the top in the competitive environment. It became entirely oversaturated.
@@AniGaAG interesting. What would those outliers specifically be? 🤔 thanks for answering my previous question BTW
It took me about two whole watchings of this video to realize why he was angry about constantly getting revives from Sonia
Sonia. And yes, you can't use revives.....that being said, you can sell them for cash at least
@@garreonlefay6703 Thank you for the correction!
Leon: "Good lord, what is happening over there?"
Rose: "Aurora Borealis"
Leon: Aurora Borealis?
In this time of day
In this part of the Region
Localized entirely within your tower?
Rose: Yes
@@howard8614 Leon: May I see it?
@@shinyagumon7015 Rose: “No”
@@h.p.wallnut9912 Oleana:"Rose! Eternatus broke out!"
(When putting 69 as his jersey number):
"Nah, just kidding, that would be both immature AND foolish."
(BARELY 3 FUCKING MINUTES LATER)
Jersey: *420*
**peak Humor**
I knew what the answer would be before I'd even seen the question.
Am I missing something?
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 funny sex and weed number
@@baldkiwi444 ah I see
Hell even in ultra sun and ultra moon, the previous games, I'm fairly certain if you lose as the champion the person you fought becomes champion and will still be waiting for you
I even have my first fave starter In there. Popplio!
I hate ultra sun and ultra moon so much. I bought original sun and I thought it was fine, when I got it. But for some reason I thought it was a good idea to literally be ripped off of 40 dollars for less content then what was in a dlc.
@@keychain3554 Honestly, i don't think Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon are DLC. I think they're enhanced versions much like Yellow, Crystal, Emerald and Platinum, the Ultra versions at least have content and they were at least trying.
@@eric4636 I don’t think they were trying. You don’t charge 40 bucks for a game that is literally the same exact game except with minute changes.
Just noticed after watching this so many times, but they said to keep the team small for communication yet they didn’t communicate the fact that they had a rival and team yell fight on a bridge without the bridge background yet had one rival battle right after with the bridge background. Not only rushed but they didn’t even communicate well
eternitas looks more like a digimon than a pokemon.
Eternatimon would be a badass final boss for season 2 instead of miotismon coming back. That twist, looking back, I guess is ok but considering he was less tough to kill than the final bady of season 1, apocolymon, feels wrong for him to be a super mastermind with a plan 3 years jn the making to get revenge. Even devimon can be considered a bigger threat because angemon had to die to stop him (granted minor characters died to miotismon but still)
Since Gen 5 many Pokémon look more like Digimon. Long gone is the simplicity of Pokémon design.
@@AarturoSc
Aye.
Gen 7 isn't really specifically worse about this, but it's my go-to example.
Incineroar isn't an animal, it's a character. It has an innate personality. The idea of multiple Incineroar starts to feel odd, because they all have this same character.
It's definitely gotten worse over time. Digimon at least runs with the idea of forms filling a narrative purpose for the individual digimon taking them, but Pokemon just drops off these characters as animals, and hopes it'll work out.
Also, the name _"Eternatus"_ is so bland, for a Pokemon.
@@tiruliru1189 much better as a digimon. Eternatimon. It'd be like ganon. An undying beast of darkness.
What if I want to be a boy character and also dress stylishly. I can't.
What if I want to be a girl character and wear the boy clothes? I can't.
_How in the world_ do you feel bad for Hop...? He's such a bad, awful, annoying, _horrible_ character! The dude doesn't cause pity in me, it's just raw anger every time I see his stupid unjustified smug grin while squatting like he's taking a dump.
I think Marnie's design is one of the few things that is supposed to be conflicting, since her town, brother, and city are punk driven but she doesn't seem to want to be a punk as she doesn't even want to be Piers' successor. This is also shown in her signature pokemon and its ability to change types and designs, directly reflecting her conflicting internal struggle.
I’m conflicted when I saw rule 34 Marnie on the net.
... Still doesn't change the fact that she's still pretty bland though. She could still have some of the mannerisms of a punk since she grew up in that place, even if she doesn't fully act like it.
"struggle"
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Wow the champions from past games didn't even wanna go to galar
For good reason, they'd be dumbed down waaaay to hard.
Galar makes no exceptions when it comes to their ban on mega evolution. 😂
Nobody wants to go to Galar lmao
Leon probably banned other champions because he knew he would lose his title of unbeatable champion really quick if he had to fight Red or Cynthia.
@@wintersong2266 or Joey
20:02 "I don't even know how Salamence didn't get in. I guess they're saving him for the next one."
And thus, Salamence was saved for the next one. Thank you, RadicalSoda. Who knows if he would've made it into Scarlet and Violet without you willing it into existence. o7
pmd gates to infinity is actually criminally underrated, i've been replaying it recently and while it has some shitty design decisions it's still really fun and engaging
Don't forget...this game has "high quality animations"
The only good animations are.
Eternabeam
Pyro Ball
Behemoth Blade/Bash
Single Blow
Mind Blown
That's literally it.
As one of the best and most loyal Mystery Dungeon Players ever,
i tell you: Super Mystery Dungeon is levels beneath all the others,
who are ALL EPIC, and i dont know why.
I was honestly surprised and shocked while playing and i kinda still am.
I dont know whats up with that, but hey, whatever,
at least you can always return to the old games!!
But it makes you wonder: In regard to the main-games, where are the
guys who wrote the Humor for Pokemon Ranger? That outstanding humor?
Where are the ones who wrote the amazing and complex story for
Mystery Dungeon?!
Did Gamefreak fire them all or what???
Where are they??
I mean, so what about those??
2:37:30: EXCELLENT POINT!!! I SAY THIS FOR YEARS! DECADES EVEN! Yes, i say this for longer than Pokemon exists now!! ...Wait... what did i just say? Ah, whatever. You get the gist.
have you not heard of colosseum?
@@loturzelrestaurant Gates of Infinity was pretty bad too tbh. Good music, but bad gameplay & story. Super was more or less the same as that.
1:53:03 that was because of Torrent, the Starter's Water Type move does more damage when it's at a third of its health. Of course pretty much nothing in the game alerts you when it's active, you just have to know.
I've always thought that was a strange decision. Other abilities have little info texts telling you the ability is activating or the swooping textbox that comes in telling you the name of the ability and making it clear that it's either changing or activating. I understand maybe not having that for something like Rivalry that would be activating for a good half of the battles, but for the starter-specific abilities, I really wish it was more clear exactly when those abilities activated. Is it half health? A third? A quarter? The game just says "when in danger" or "when low on health" or something like that.
the ghost gym looks like a half baked fall guys level
the fact Alister looks like a half baked among us character, with a mix of shy guy.
Brah wait until this guy sees the fighting gym.
My sister played this game with an all fairy team, wearing all pink clothes. You can imagine the disappointment when there was no special line from Opal and she simply "wasn't her type" like girl what do you want.
I literally did the exact same thing. Even gave my Grimmsnarl 'Max Soup'. I was thoroughly disappointed when she said my hot pink outfit wasn't pink enough and gave Bede the position. But it did feel good to crush him in the Pokemon league🥂
She wants Bede
Unfortunate
Programing.
It's time for:
Radicalsoda's
Awesome
Pokemon
Evaluation
This video is longer than Sonic Forces
Haaaaa! Gottem.
It's longer than Sword and Shield counting only the main story.
The fact that's acctually true scares me
Longer than Doki Doki Literature Club
*It’s literally four times longer*
Fun fact, with dlc you can catch/evolve over 500 pokemon before the first gym... You can basically complete the pokedex and have a full team of legendaries before murking grass boi
Trainer: *sends out Necrozma*
Milo: Hahah! I'm in danger
@@giroandkarin2822 "Go FireChicken!"
"Did he say firech- OH MY GOD RUUUUN!"
@@gogetenks001 *with speed boost*
I'm just imagining casually a child throwing a Reshiram at a Gym Trainer and making them question their life decisions.
It's honestly funny the more such thoughts enter my head XD
"Pokemon Gun" is still my favorite joke about this generation.
No Pokemon Spear :(
@@athanasshia Pokemon Trebuchet will never exist >:'(
Pokemon Bow
no wait, that was one of Su/Mo starters (Decidueye)
Eternatus is a giant living canon.
@@Nosretep Tru dat, but imagining a wolf with a giant gun on it's back is also pretty funny.
I can't get over how there's a gym leader who's entire gimmick is that he's a singer and they don't have him singing
yeah and Roxie's band actually kinda did sound like singing and playing even on DS in BW2!
THAT was a great gym
@@charliez077 P! O! K! E! M! ON! POKEMON!
The best part about that was how the music lost instrumentals and the Male vocals as you defeated the gym trainers.
That wad hilarious
@@charliez077 I loved that because there are actually multiple versions of her singing. In the Japanese version she sings D! O! G! A! R! S! DOGARS!(Koffing in Japanese, her favourite Pokemon)
the virgin Piers vs the chad Roxie
This game is so bad that I’ve watched like 15 hours of videos shitting on it and haven’t gotten bored once.
I've probably been more entertained by people shitting on it than I was playing it.
Grinding to a full team of level 100 before the first gym because it's just that fucking easy and I'd be irritated by any actual challenge that arose because it could be fixed so easily did NOT help either.
@@Deadflower019 That’s depressing
@@parkingmeters2646 If you are Big Brain High IQ enough to watch Radical Soda,
you are also qualified to now watch HBomberguy... MAYBE!
Oh fun fact, it was discovered that Breath of the Wild uses a modified version of the Mii creator for its NPCs! Pokemon could LITERALLY just do that!!
Throwing my two cents in, i was insulted when fairy gym leader chose bede for being “pink”
I was the literal definition of pink. pink hair, clothes, and pokemon during my gym fight. But sure bede’s purple coat is more pink, grandma lookin ass.
Lol
i think she said in the dialogue about it involving a sort of pink personality as well
I had the same scenario. I was using ALL FAIRY TYPES (dual types) and WEARING ALL PINK and yet i didnt qualify lol
I like the idea of becoming a gym leader in the games
@@grey8478 I'd like to know what a pink personality is supposed to look like...
you know what funny, after playing this again I realised that the player charecter barely had any interest in doing the gym challenge considering you dont even know what it is at the begining but the game treats it like its something theyve always wanted and not just a "meh may aswell " kind of thing
All of pokemon is your character just walking tword the next objective and some shit going down then them begrudgingly dealing with it.
@@robertharris6092 LMAO truth
This is a really good idea for a future pokemon game. But gamefreak won't do it because they can't make a current pokemon game properly.
It's always been this way. I wish there was a good reason for it like "making our father/mother proud" or some sht like that. Doesn't have to be anything too deep but at least make it more believable than "I just left home a month ago and I already beat the last gym leader because I could". I guess Scarlet/violet made it a little better with the school thing but even then we kinda just do it because we can and that's it.
I got flamed in the comment section of an ad for the games when I said, "they don't need to keep making two versions" thank you for saying it here
I will say it did give me a chance to have to replay the region without resetting a game (I try to complete Pokedexes so it's hard to do that) but Pokemon really should have multiple save files now (that's not loopholed with Switch).
@@zjzr08 MULTIPLE SAVE FILES WOULD BE SO AWESOME
i deleted my X save file so my mom could play it and its so annoying not having multiple
yeah, people don't understand that others can have a difference of opinion. Even when the difference makes sense.
I love Pokémon, and it's so hard to read any comment section of any of their ads because the simps for the game will always be far louder than anyone who has valid/constructive criticism.
"I wish they'd add a Virtual Console"
And the finger on the Monkey's Paw curled
This is the best comment I've read so far lmao
oh hey i think i get this reference, thanks ab class!
Referance
isaac?
@@commie_dog_boy no, common mythology