is pokemon bad now?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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The realization of being mad at a piece of media for not making you feel the same way it would make you feel in the past was something I never had thought about. Trying to figure out what has changed about the game/series and what has changed about your own circumstance really can illuminate what the real source of frustration can be.
Also every time there was fossil fighters noises and music made me screech in recognition, love seeing obscure games I grew up with like that getting referenced
Pokémon fades, but Cyndaquil is forever.
Typhlosion forever!!
Please, PLEASE, _never stop punctuating sentences with clips of Shadow roundhouse kicking Silver in the back of the head._
Timestamp?
Finally finished the video to the end. Seems like you experienced really bad emotional burnout. I ended up getting teary eyed listening. Lots of people escape loneliness through Pokémon. I did during the Pokémania wave of the late 90’s. And I, too, experienced really bad burnout that was made worse by the pandemic. Hopefully you are feeling better. And yes, Pokémon Go is better when you’re playing with friends and it can be awful especially if you don’t make friends easily.
Pokemon sure has changed over the years, and so have we.
Great video! Would love to see more.
This video is how I found your channel and I wanted to take a second to say this captivated me, as someone who was largely obsessive over this franchise from the age of about five during the initial burst of the first two generations until my teenage years as X and Y rolled out, who has largely been on the side of the argument that Pokémon is, at its core, a lazy, rehashing, bland and uninspired franchise for the majority of its run since about Generation 7's roll out. I recall what Pokémon was to me fondly for those years and I still look back at Generations I and II particular as a mix of some ingenious elements of JRPG mechanic blending with a little right-time-right-place classic Nintendo foresight... but I haven't been able to call myself a fan of the franchise for what is now the majority of my twenty-odd year life.
With that said, watching my younger brothers find the series in the 3DS and Switch eras takes me back there every so often. I recall what Pokémon at one point was to me, who it allowed me to meet and bond with, and just as importantly what it led me to - many I'm sure can attest to the Pokémon -> Smash Bros. -> MOTHER/EarthBound pipeline which marked the first time my pre-teen self, emulating on a shitbox laptop, began to understand games as a higher form of art. Pokémon sparked my first bouts of creative writing and original character design, I would create stories in second grade of my best friend and I exploring the Kanto region (we're still best friends all this time later) and I spent hours upon hours looking at original monster designs on sites like DeviantArt and uploading my own. My dad, cool as they come, even had one of those designs I made adapted into a tattoo years ago. It's hard, all that in mind, to look at the franchise now and frankly how upsetting it was to watch the dwindling quality of the series play out and start to forget and push away what it did for me. It's hard not to fall into that tunnel vision, and even now as a founder of a small indie game studio, betray the comradery and compassion I likely should have shown Game Freak in the ever-encroaching fucking nightmare that I imagine mainstream (not AAA) game design and release must be.
As a kid who struggled with bullying and a plethora of metal health and abuse issues largely in the period where Pokémon was at the forefront of my interests, I resonate deeply with what you talked about near the end. The MOTHER trilogy was like that for me, too, in that period of my life. Friends I could be with when my only friends lived an hour away, and we could only talk whittling away at our parents' phone bills until it was lights out. I don't think it's entirely fair to cast out the significance of the series at that point in my life. I have moved on to what may be more narrative and thematically significant work within the medium, but in ensuring I don't neglect the heart and recall the value of that early period of my life and what it meant to me - I'll take this opportunity to both thank Pokémon as a series and you for sharing your thoughts and experiences and allowing me to go here.
I'll leave you wishing the best in processing this loneliness with a relevant quote from my favorite game.
Thanks again, and I appreciate if you took the time to read this.
"Please, don't be afraid of being happy.
Becoming happy isn't the same thing as accepting your current misfortune;
It means creating new happiness out of your current misfortune."
- Maria Ushiromiya, Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Really made me reflect about my distaste for the recent Pokémon games. I always hated the argument of "it's just a kids game" but i understand now that the Pokémon games don't have to evolve (lol) with me as I grow older.
I appreciate the Tim Rogers-ness of this video. Great work!
As i consider myself someone who has seen a lot of the Pokémon discourse (specially on the sword and shield days) its so damn refreshing to see a take like this, it does really feel like you come from a place of love, current love for Pokémon as an experience you had than only nostalgia. And, as someone who has also been playing Pokémon, participating in Pokémon fangames, joining forums, paying w people i was close back then and even subjecting myself to watching all of the Pokémon anime through all my years (sometimes begrudgingly), its nice to see it too, heck, i think Pokémon is what initially inspired me to start drawing, which is kind of my job today. Even how you reference other youtubers is something i enjoy, it shows your passion for making videos imo!
Pokémon has been here for so long and each generation is someone's childhood, is something that we are very emotional about and a lot of people get angry to see Pokémon nowadays, with all its flaws and just have a feeling of tossing it away , wondering why its not the same, why it hasn't changed, why did it change too much and move on to other media, but thats not all and also thats not me. Even back when i was a child i remember also being disappointed, how the battles were not how the anime was, how the anime had SO MUCH filler, how the games were too easy or too hard sometimes (Claire and Watson were my personal hells back then), i remember hating kalos when it came out because it barely had any post game compared to black 2.
Pokémon for me was never a perfect thing, its always been something ive enjoyed, despited and lived for what it is, i love the concept of Pokémon, going on adventures, animals and biology, and even if i feel no game comes to fulfill that ideal for me, some still come close and it still a feeling that's alive within me. Media discourse is something that, imo, should be for leisure, it should be for fun! after all, there are way more pressing issues in our world right now to get angry about, and its definitely BORING to see the same points over and over fueled by the same emotions (twitter), so thanks for sharing something new, nuanced and fueled by love, and this deserves way more views that it has. Great job.
So this is what took you so long 😆 This is honestly super impressive though, I love how in depth you get!
I don't know if I'm adding much, nor do I want this to sound like a jab. But, I do find it funny, maybe ironic is the right word? That as someone who had a Pokémon ranger outfit as your avatar, you couldn't initially see the appeal of the game. Obtaining and keeping a small handful of Pokémon to keep as partners, but the rest to be eventually returned to nature. They were only caught to help with an initial task, to be researched, studied, and for some to find them a new home. Even down the bosses. Yes, you end up doing most of the work, your partner Pokémon don't do too much. But, you're not there to fight, you're there to help the Pokémon, nature and the people.
ok but now that you’ve pointed it out you are SO RIGHT!! I never even made that connection before that’s awesome
Pokémon Ranger games are underrated. But I think the first Ranger did a lot of damage with that awful capture system - which they thankfully made better in the next two entries.
Guardian Signs is my favorite of the three, because you start the game as an experienced Ranger doing its work, but crash lands on Oblivia alone. The story has you builds connection with the locals and their culture as you track down the bad guys and slowly uncovers the mysteries. It is so cool seeing this one lone Ranger working to help Pokémon, nature and the locals all by himself and having the locals slowly respect him as the hero of the legend (because of the Johto dogs).
I relate to your experience... The last Pokemon game I played was Sun/Moon and I just didn't enjoy it at all, despite being a huge Pokemon fan, even now. Pokemon will always be special to me but I'll just never be a little kid again, immersed in a world that felt so exciting and new and like a refuge from how bad my life was. Even if I replayed those old games I'll never be able to capture that feeling again. Someone surprised me recently by getting me a Switch, but I just don't think I can get into the new games and don't want to spend the time and money to try.
Good video, I'm glad it sounds like you've been able to work through some things in therapy. I hope to also one day be able to go to therapy, and to not be so lonely anymore.
I can definitely relate to these feelings. I quit Pokémon cold turkey from gen 5(I was still in high school at the time) until gen 9. It would still creep into my mind from time to time but I ran away from it via booze and other things..
and then here I am in my 30s, married, with a mortgage payment due every month, and something snapped in me and I ended up pokeballs deep back into the franchise. But honestly I traded some deep seeded depression and worries about global politics into spending all my extra money on shiny cardboard with our favorite little cartoon characters. It’s a wonderful distraction. I see it for what it is but I allow the brainwashing to occur in order to enter a state of encapsulated bliss. Thanks for you deep dive, definitely subbing
To each their own, I do understand where your coming from and personally, I don’t really dislike the newer games, but I don't pretend they’re perfect either.
You gave me a new perspective on this franchise wich has been a part of my life since I can remember.
The main line games have surely always been the backbone of this franchise, but for me, the spin-offs have been way more impactfull.
Even it was much fun farming fossils in the underground in Pokemon diamond or talk about the different legendaries you can catch or not catch unless you have been at an event. (Until you meet that one child with the cheat modul :P).
They could never compete with Pokemon Ranger or Mystery Dungeon.
They realy told me friendship and not only using Pokemon as a tool, but as a friend with it's own character.
It feels weird to say something like that about a video game...
Nontheless was it so much fun to play beeing a Pokemon, like the ones from Mystery Dungeons, with some kids I just met at the camp side.
I stoped playing the new Pokemon games after Pokemon black. Not because I didn't like it, but after this, the change to this different "art style" came and it wasn't the same for me anymore.
Your video gave me the understanding, that not only came this disinterest from the games changing, but also from me changing, since I started playing these games.
To this day, I love playing the older main-line games and spin-offs, but it has been another time and another me that experienced them the way in wich I still keep them in my memory.
It was absolutly worth keeping the notifications activated. :)
Also this "Shadow kicks Silver"-clip with the punch sound will stay in my head for a long time. :D
I told you I'd be here when I'm 60😎👉👉
This is such an impressive video, but I cannot help but jam alongside the Bakugan Battle Brawlers shop theme and hear Alice's giggle during the segment about mid-sized studios
I love that your Pokémon in Silver are all named after Bakugan characters.
As far as the Stadium Shiny Pokémon go, the first game based them off of the nickname you gave them. Something about how using the Pokémon's nickname, the Original Trainer's ID, and the Original Trainer's name will cause a shift in the RGB values. Something like this was planned for the Gen 2 games but was changed to specific secondary palettes instead.
Damn man, wasn't expecting this much for your comeback video, but I guess it makes total sense (you can FEEL the exasperation in your voice during the intro bit).
I suppose this is something all Pokémon fan go through at one point or another. For some it was as early as gen 3, for others it began with gen 5 or the Dexit debacle and some might actually be coming to this realisation after the disastruous launch of Scarlet and Violet.
To me the "hater's gambit" came with the 3DS games, I didn't want to accept that the games weren't bringing me joy as they used to are did for everyone else, it made feel guilty on the back of my had and even physically ill to play the game for more than 15 minutes each session.
Pokémon Moon was the last Pokémon game I ever bought and cannot say that I looked forward to the series moving forward knowing the director from that game would be in charge of Sword and Shield. And I never really wanted an "open-world MMO" Pokémon game, that's Reddit's wet dream, not mine.
Really I came to realise that what I liked about Pokémon was how each new entry felt like it was trying to be better than the previous game, because I did play almost all of them in chronological order (I don't mean the enhanced third-editions, never ever actually bothered with any of those, never felt like I missed out on anything the base game didn't offer), and this abruptly came to an end with XY suddendly feeling lesser than the absolute peak in quality that was the Gen 5 duology. And personally I learnt that I never cared much for if a game removed features from the previous one, or if it didn't had a lot of content or if it wasn't challenging enough or if you can't catch all existing Pokémon or if it was totally formulaic, it was the *polish* everything had up to that point.
Polish definitively isn't a priority for Pokémon anymore when they cut half the Pokédex and the games still feel so rushed and unexcusably cheap-looking, their priority it's to flood the market with products to maximize profits, but no one is willing to make the sacrifice of lowering the consumption and demand for these titles (in fact, they make up excuses to keep doing it and will happily lap it up just to belly-ache about it a couple of years after the fact, once it stopped mattering).
Oh man this was so so good - ur recent video was in my recommended so I came back to see this and like Wow... you totally get it...!!! thanks for putting it so so eloquently bc the best i've ever been able to manage is "well its just not the same"
I can say with all sincerity that I appreciated Legends Arceus. It experimented, had some hits and some misses, but in the end it's a game that let you interact with Pokémon in a new way and put a new spin on the game formula. A lot of debatable choices were made, but I liked that they at least made an attempt at freeform exploration and action-adventure.
By now, I only buy and play Pokémon spin-offs, because I feel those are the only games in the franchise that are allowed to try original ideas by now.
Great video dude thank you very much. I will watch this many more times in my life. I think you captured a lot in this video. I’m very impressed and grateful.
That video was honestly incredible on a level i can't describe. Every detail of it was just so amazingly put together.
But, that's not the main reason I'm writing this comment. I can't really say for certain yet, but i think there's a genuine chance that the core message of the video might be what i needed to hear to comprehend the reason behind my art block. To get a bit personal, i started trying to get into art a few years ago, and have tried it off and on since then, but my desire to do it only really started ramping up last year when i graduated high school. I wasn't trying to do it to get a career or anything, i just thought that it would be a fun hobby to have. To give further context as to why i latched onto it, i have to go on a bit of a brief tangent. All my life, i wanted to get into the video game industry, and specifically bug testing, when i grew up. Any thought of what I wanted to do with my future involved setting myself up for that possibility. Well, in early 2022 a miracle occurred. Without even meaning to, i had somehow managed to impress an indie publishing company (one that I'm quite fond of in fact) so much that they approached me with a proposition to bring me on board as a community playtester. Don't get me wrong when i bring this up as a negative, i absolutely love the job and it's everything i hoped it would be, but as a consequence of taking it i found that i had completed one of my biggest life goals, one that brought some of the most purpose to my life. Furthermore, my other big life goal was to make a video game. However, i realized that in all likelihood i would have to give up my playtesting position if i wanted to pursue that in earnest, due to the intense time requirement it would take. After a while of considering the conundrum (and stumbling across the incredible web comic Slightly Damned), i eventually concluded that the best compromise would be to make a comic rather than a game. That would allow for me to both keep my job and create a story, with the added benefit of a comic being much easier to make by myself than a game is. However, the more i tried to create concept art for the comic, the more of a wall i seemed to run into, until i reached the point where i am now where everything felt like it was at a complete standstill. I kept looking and looking for solutions to why this massive block was here, but every time i thought i found something that could help, as soon as i even sat down to try to do anything, i just couldn't bring myself to try. The more this happened the harder i tried to push to get it to work, exhausting me further and further. This is where we finally get back to the subject of the video. Your speech at the end really resonated with me, and it got me thinking about my relationship with my art. Specifically, it got me to confront the core fear I've been doing my very best to push back and deny: i don't like doing art, at least not in the way i want myself to. I've been struggling against that thought's potential validity for months now, trying my best to force myself to experiencing that joy that i thought i was supposed to have. I couldn't accept not enjoying it as a possibility. But now, i think i may try actually accepting the premise that i dislike doing art and start questioning WHAT about it i dislike, as i know that there are parts of it i love. I can't say for certain if any of what I've said holds water (the amount of times I've thought i found the reason for my struggles only to have them fall through is honestly depressing), but it's worth a shot. At the very least, your speech at the end resonated with me, so much so that it legit made me tear up a bit, so here's hoping that's a sign that I'm on the right track with all of this. So yeah, awesome video! Here's hoping it goes as viral as it deserves to!
It's wild to me hearing someone who started in gen 5 get their perspective rocked so thouroughly 4 generations later.
As someone who got into pokemon on the ground floor with the Blue, Black and white was that core shaking moment that nearly bucked me from the series. That same 4 generation gap. Ripping out any familiar pokemon and places and throwing the experience back at me I saw the game without any nostalgia and found the gameplay rudimentary and the story preachy and unaware of itself. I was suddenly out of step with what the series had to provide much the same.
I wont say that i came back around on black and white, but I do appreciate it's strengths through black 2 and white 2. And from then on I've waned on my playtime as the games have continued down the path. Arceus being an exceptionally wonkey time with the basic premise melting away when i discovered how much you could just absolutely pin down the scariest alphas with a mix of smoke bomb, mud ball spam, and heavy balls.
And now I haven't really considered the new games in the state they're in, as much as the core game may be fun. I'm still in the loop knowing what's in store but what i've seen is not for me and I"m okay with that.
Yes, you're back!! I can't wait for more content.
Sometimes I go years without playing any of the games. When I return, I get the urge to play through them.
Amazing analysis, automatic subscribe. I ofetenly feel like this when it comes to Pokémon. The fatigue and burnout of this franchise turned brand now feeling like a hobby turned chore as you become an adult, it's not fun. It's less considering that it can be a hyperfixation to many... moreso when you go beyond everything that's games, anime, manga, cards, etc since the main core doesn't like to take creative risks. I did enjoy how your Silver playthrough roster is nicknamed after the Bakugan protags.
I never really grew out of pokemon i just recently shifted my interest from the main series games on to the off shoot games like snap and rumble rush but this isnt totally new since when i was little i played stadium, snap, hey you pikachu, and puzzle challenge. i also read the comics and watched the specials like orgins, generations, and twilight wings. It also helped that i tried vgc for when i want to get serious but i also held on to the fun and joy the games always dished out. Also helps that i love games where you can care for virtual beings.
Those last 20 minutes were so powerful and beautiful. Thank you.
It's strange, really. My first Pokemon game was Silver and I played all of the subsequent games up until Sun and Moon, which I hated. I tried playing the newer ones but couldn't force myself to beat them, so I eventually fell out of love with Pokemon in most of the same way as you did.
That is, until Legends Arceus which I absolutely ADORED. It was the revolution Pokemon needed IMO. If we could get the same game but in a more modern day setting, with cities and more trainers, man, that would be perfect
Okay Zilllenial Tim Rogers
Your experience is quite similar to mine, despite the different routes we each took. I was one of the National Dex'ers who was deeply worried about the future of the franchise. It wasn't that I viewed the National Dex as integral to what made Pokémon games fun (my favorite games had always been the Mystery Dungeon games, which largely lacked such a thing), but rather that a fundamental promise about the games' goals and priorities had shifted in a way that I had no control over. Pokémon no longer had that special attachment to me that had been there for so long, and instead felt just like other games. So I left. I decided that I'd try a variety of other Monster Taming games inspired by Pokémon to see if I could replace Pokémon for myself. And, I couldn't. Sure, I played a lot of games, many of which I greatly enjoyed, but what I was looking for was a perspective that my now more critical and cynical self could never allow. Instead, I've found myself ever more able to value games on the merits that they do have. I greatly enjoyed my time with a variety of lesser known indie games like Disc Creatures, Monster Crown, and the Nexomon titles, in spite of their flaws. So, when Legends Arceus came out, I gave it a shot, and genuinely enjoyed myself. Despite its many flaws, I still find it genuinely great. So, now I try to encourage people to give all those lesser known Monster Taming games a shot in the hopes of breaking up the Pokémon monomyth that even Pokémon itself has been stuck chasing. I'm done looking towards the past, and instead am excited for what the future might bring. It's unlikely that you, or anyone else will ever read this, but it is really nice to hear from someone else about a problem that increasingly felt like I was alone in feeling. Thank you.
This is one of the best video essays i've ever watched
Those are the most respectful comments I ever saw under a Pokemon video regarding opinions.
Sometimes I look back on how much I use to like Pokémon even when I was a kid and throughout highschool after sword and shield and scarlet and Violet I was basically done with it just started to get really stale and annoying
Your editing is really based so I subscribed lol
Meanwhile digimon fans eating good With their series growing up with them
My first pokemon game was Moon and I remember absolutely loving it, it was also the first video game I ever beat, and that holds just such a special place in my heart, since then I've played, Sword and shield, Legends Arceus, Scarlett, Diamond and I just recently bought White 2 and I can't wait to play it, pokemon has always been something so great for me, it's really pushed me and I felt like this video captured how much I love pokemon and some of the feelings I had about Scarlett and I just, ugh, I love pokemon, thank you for the brilliant video
This is a fantastic video, really parallels my experience with other video games i loved when i was younger. Really appreciated all the insight you give into the pokemon franchise and the perspective you have.
Incredible video that Im so glad I found today. You are strikingly well spoken and insightful and I learned a lot and changed the way I think. This is amazing work and I really hope this video gets some more attention.
been binging your videos, absolutely love your videos!! this one in particular is extremely well done. quality, editing, writing, performance, emotion - god you are nailing this!!
Firstly, i like how you named your Johto team.
Your video, while i treated it as partially background noise to comfort me, i could tell the amount of meaning there was in your essay, and even if you don’t make more Pokemon videos, i hope you can salvage your channel in another way.
If not, whatever, it’s your life.
Yeah, but until Meowth’s Party comes out, I will never be satisfied.
It was a Game Cube mini game that came out around 19 years ago. Meowth’s Party was in the Pokémon Channel game.
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is one of my favorite games. I enjoyed legends Arceus too it felt rewarding to be able to complete the quest riddles by having Pokemon knowledge. The back shot PokeBall sound was also really satisfying. I wish you didn't have to catch hundreds of the same pokemon to complete the Dex though. I wish Scarlet and Violet had those catching mechanics though I found it really satisfying
My first game that I didn't share was Silver. I guess I'm much older, you were in middle school when I'd been graduated from high school for a year. I agree that the games aren't hitting like they used to but I agree that it seems like it's because we have changed
ALSO DON'T GET BRILLIANT DIAMOND OR SHINING PEARL. THE ONLY FUN/SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PART IS THE UNDERGROUND BUT IT'S NOT WORTH $60 I REGRET GETTING IT
Good video, strangely relatable
I personally have a converse relationship with pokemon woth regards to loneliness. I got into pokemon as something I played while hanging out with my partner, so as we transitioned to a long distance relationship, it’s a comfort for me
Glad to see you back!
nice bakugan nicknames in the gen 2 gameplay
ayyy glad someone caught that
It's odd that you're doing such a spot on Tim Rogers impression without glaring into the camera
I'm glad I found your channel, now I've learned that Dark Souls is truly the Pokemon of Dark Souls games.
I’m still a fan of Pokémon but the games will never be the same as they were in the handheld generation. I know they had to progress somehow but the original formula was perfect
Awesome video! I loved all the Bakugan references and music, that and Pokémon were big parts of my childhood!
Its soooo cathartic to hear someone talk about pokemon the franchise the way you do
you sound exactly like action button
holy molly, good thing I stayed subbed all that time ago
Actually the SNES games were double what you said they costed. In 1995 a copy of Earthbound at USA launch was over $100. Makes that copy I got at a used game store for $120 back in 2013 look like a steal when you count inflation. I ended up reselling the game for even more than that because they released the game for 3DS Virtual Console so I actually made money on it. Anyway SNES games were actually more expensive back then.
As a 28 year old its only slightly older than me. Oddly my first game was the tcg on the gameboy. I didnt know what i was doing but was captivated by it. I remember ditching to play emerald lol good times. I think i just got old and i am hating playing a child. Its the same for persona 5 great game but im 28 and dont need 17 year old jail bait. The same figures could be used on college aged protags but no high school again
'It's okay to like stupid things! Pokemon is pretty stupid!'
Finally, somebody said it.
The ending of this left me in happy tears so meny grate points brought up
The way you described your experience with PLA helped me understand better why I could never fully invest myself in this game. I lost interest in Pokémon in 2017 with USM, but tried PLA expecting something revolutionary. After the honeymoon phase was over it made me realise the game loop is boring as f*ck, and the story is forgettable.
Also, PLA has a massive tonal dissonance between the message of Arceus telling you to seek and bond with Pokémon, and the gameplay of using Pokémon as items on a checklist and currency for Exp points for more ranks.
goddamn. what a video.
I just love this type of videos, so much effort and passion put into it. As someone who grew up with Pokemon, I enjoyed to see someone else's journey and perspective growing up with the franchise. Amazing video! 💙
Be like me never grow out of pokemon by pokemon fangames haha. Fans know pokemon the best especially those fangame developers
Well in the meantime you were away Basculin got a sick Evo 🥲
Jetro being featured is wonderful too
I 've been touched and connected with this video. Because I had the same path with the saga. A saga i love, changed and i was angry that it changed. Back when Sun and Moon were presented and we could see how the game would opperate and function it took me out. It was not the pokemon i loved growing up, no gyms (which I love), handholding, lackluster designs and a large etcera. I didn't play those games at launch like I did with all the other games in the franchise. I felt betrayed for some reason and I stopped playing for 3/4 years until de release of sword and shield. Gyms being so present and grandious, the desings were and are amazing, the characters and their motivations. I was skeptical at first but seeing the trailers for the game ignited a fire inside me for this franchise that was extinguished for some years prior to me stopping to play the games. And I played the games with an open mind, not expecting the games to be whatever i wanted them to be, but playing the games for what they offer and I was so pleased. I hadn't had that feeling of enjoyment playing a pokemon game since gen 4 and i loved that game and how it made me feel.
I changed over the years but i found a new way to enjoy the games. I would play to evade myself from reality in a world i was happy and i could build my own adventure. Swsh, DLCs, BDSP, SV all these games i went in with this feeling of enjoyment just playing for fun, like a young boy again and it was amazing every single time.
With Legends it shifted mid game. The first 10 hours i was exstatic, I loved everything, but as well as you said in your rant, it shifted because the game became a to do list. I understand why some people find it fun, but it's not for me. I enjoy collecting the pokedex, but a single pokemon, not 40 of them, like a chore list of tasks i have to do. The gameplay is boring after a while, you just catch the same pokemon over and over again just to progress like you said. It changed the way you make progress in the game and it turned to not be fun, i wanted to play my own way like I've always done, and I had to play the game wanted me to play, completing useless tasks just to progress in a dull story that makes no sense. I completed the game because i wanted to fight Volo, which was amazing, but it was not fun for me. I wanted to play my way, like all the other games of the franchise, i didn't want to catch pokemon for the sake of capturing pokemon, they became a number, a tool and not a friend like all other games tell me, that pokemon are friends, not tools. It was frustrating because I wanted to like this game, and at first I did like this game, but i wasn't playing the game like i like to play them. And all my friends and relatives felt the same way, so i knew I wasn't alone with that feeling, but it was sad, to feel left out of my enjoyment, specially because Sinnoh is my favourite region and Arceus and it's lore, but this lore I was expecting wasn't there at all.
In the end, I understand that this game is not for me. Like with Sun and moon i understood that some games are not for me, and that's ok, that's why I now play the games with an open mind, just to escape from the routine for a few hours and have fun with the saga of my life. And i'm glad you can enjoy the new games as well, for what they are. Hope you are well, nice video man.
1:04:30 best pikachu noise ever
Really great video covering the history of the Pokemon games
Woa no way new styler vid
told yall id come back lol
I beat Shield and got the dlc but it was right in front of the new Moltres that i saved the game and quit. With the lies that came from Shield i avoided Arceus cause i told myself "They'll just take what was good from that game and bring it over since its so popular" and lo and behold... I downloaded Scarlet and tried playing it 2 hours before official release and it played 😮. I took off auto save cause iv been slighted by it before in games and never had it in a pokemon game, then i spent the next two hours making my character, exploring my backyard to see the Pokemons animations so i can choose based on their "personality". Picked my Catmon and it was female, the first fresh start fem iv ever had. I was ecstatic. I talked to everyone i could and was having fun, then i entered the first official town and talked to the black Tauros owner... It immediately froze my game and i lost all my progress. I did the intro again and went right to the guy again and freeze. It was at that moment the games cracks showed more prominent. Tposing students in a cutscene, Vigorath falling from the lvl 17 area into the lvl 4 (named him Lucky cause i used 14 PokeBalls and it missed tons), i jumped past the river and skipped the area i was bound too quite easily and unknowingly progress was absolutely borked. The last gym i had was about 20 levels under cause they dont scale and the map is garbage so i got lost lots and i was still about 10 under the E4 wjich absolutely stomped me cause my type up team was ass to Steel. Once i beat Nemona i closed the game after trading a friend for their Violet legendary info with my Scar legend cause it made me not care about Arvens dog because that was the CHEAPEST EMOTIONAL TRICK in the book (that already was upstaged by the Herdier evolution Pokemon from the anime with old dog dying), i love Pokemon series so much i even got the GB Yellow Pikachu cover art as a shoulder tat.
im glad im not the only person who was incredibly bored by pokemon legends arceus
I find this a very interesting perspective, i think mine is fairly different i read alot of the comments and they seem to be from later gens so i guess ill share my own perspective and how i feel about the pokemon series and potentially why i feel the series doesnt feel the same for me.
i started playing pokemon super young at about 5 or 6 years old, it would have to be around then because i played alot of red and blue with my brother, he had red and i had blue. we even got 151 atleast in his red version he was older than i was. we would get gold a couple years later, he would get silver and i would get gold.
pokemon has almost weirdly always been a constant for me because i was introduced so early and its been around me for its entire existence. the loneliness thing doesnt really apply to me as much, but i did use pokemon to socialise with my friends. when gen 3 and 4 came out, it was aoround high school and i was in that generation that was like uhhh pokemon is so meh thats a baby game when they were teens but i never stopped playing. I loved ruby and i even enjoyed pearl for its incredibly slow flaws but platinum was incredible, if i remember right gen 4 was the first time one of my friends would get another pokemon game.
in college gen 5 came out and i absolutely devoured that gen, it was incredible i got deep into the competive scene and i even love the weird designs like the ice cream. i really fell in love with hidden complexity of pokemon, which im glad in future games they have made much easier to access because that used to suck and i cant even begin defend that. i even loved the themes of gen 5 story.
gen 6 i liked alot too, but i feel like there was a huge missed potential with the missing pokemon z version. in some ways it just felt like the world was unfinished but not in a bad way, like there was meant to be something more there for me to find but it didnt exist yet. the gen 3 remakes were amazing and i loved the delta episode add on and being able to fly on mega latias/latios was a really fun feature.
gen 7 was weird for me, i liked it but it was the first generation of pokemon where i didnt like replaying it. they had to much cut scenes at the beginning and understand why, they were setting up a different structure. it just felt like it took a really long time to get to the adventure, but once it started it was a mostly enjoyable one.
gen 8 i was one of those people who was really put off by the dexit thing. alot of my favourite pokemon werent available at all in the game till later dlcs which felt almost predatory to me because of how much pokemon depnds like you said in your video on they journey with pokemon and growth of your team. i did eventually play gen 8 the game was fine but i dunno there seems to be some issues with the game that i dont think are gamefreaks fault but are actually the switchs fault. this would become far more apparent with gen 9 and legends
legends i really liked when the game wasnt kinda chugging, its a shame that it was like that. i dont think it would be as big an issue if my problem wasnt more medical, so i saved this for the end i have photosenstivity. so when games dont run smooth it can cause pretty bad headaches for me and when gen 9 came out and it was in even worse shape legends i just didnt even try. i still love the pokemon series. there are things that i would like to be better like in gen 8 i do feel like game world was bit to simple. i dont really have much to say about gen 9 i didnt play it.
I understand you bro.
If you were to ask anyone I knew growing up saying they would say me being into Pokémon was an understatement. The Pokémon brain-worms were in deep.
Bw was my first game(and favorite) but what really boosted my love for the franchise was the anime, mystery dungeon, and the (unfortunately underrated)manga.
As the years went by things just didn’t feel right, starting at s/m and us/um while I still like these games I have to admit that it lacks a lot of gameplay depth, but where it really hurt was Pokémon sw/sh. I would be here all day if I were to rant about everything I hate about the game so here is the tldr: I’ll start off by saying that I don’t care about the dex and I think cutting it was a good choice for game development. I also like the characters and the music(klara is a extremely well made character) but the game was an unbalanced rushed mess with a watered down story from s/m, With ever Pokémon game I rate them by charm, writing, and gameplay but unfortunately the Charm wasn’t enough to save this game for me. but the straw that broke the camels back was the fact that they wanted you to pay 20$ on top of a 60$ price for the full game.
And if that wasn’t enough a few years the long awaited dp remakes(a game I adored) came out as an unfinished port that somehow was too faithful and didn’t do enough at the same time! At this point I was done.
But then legends archus came out and I loved it. I loved the idea of becoming servey core member and tracking and catching those Pokémon, I loved challenging the alpha Pokémon, I legit cried while playing hearing the eterna forest and lake music. Like you said I know it has its problems like the sidequest, boss fights, and barren overworld but I cant help but love it. It was a breath of fresh air, for me at least it fostered some hope for Pokémon as a whole. but then they ended up rushing s/v and added on the dlc as 20$ dlc.
Despite how ranty I sound i love Pokémon. But a lot of the problems I feel can be fixed with time and adding options fir the players. I just wish that they would actually take there time with the games instead of rushing them out for Christmas releases.
Growing up is noticing that everyone saying pokémon is satanic was full of BS and if you want the good stuff you need to move one franchise over.
Kid me was never the same after playing a real sheen megoomi tensay game
YESSSSSSSS
22:30 Bro, Red and Blue are 1 MB each, the other 10 megs of your 3ds download are the emulator.
If colosuem is mainline and legend is mainline then so is let's go.
Let's go is also more of a finished game than both previously mentioned titles
1:04:51 Is that a motherfucking Fossil Fighters Champipms reference?!
Play Cassette Beasts. It is the game for us that grew up.
Not really. I've tried it and it's good but it's very different to pokemon on how it works. Definetely fun but pokemon can keep being fun
Hit home
ironically enough, I actually like legends arceus more than sword, shield, and let's go combined
I'm not paying over 100 dollars for a "game" and "dlc" that are basically just shovelware at this point
That’s an exaggeration, but whatever to each their own
@@Santoryu90 by all means enjoy it if you enjoy it, I'm happy for the people that do, it's just not to my taste at all lol
this guy watches tim rogers
It's kinda of funny when you know Game freak design way more better waifus than mons.... WTF
is…is the first 5 minutes a Tim Rogers parody?
no hate i love tim rogers content
ive watched maybe countless video essays with multitudes of the reach this video has that just had absolutely Nothing to say comparitively. Its really heartbreaking this is one of your least viewed videos for just about everything that it is. Absolute sleeper hit i say...may this video find its audience one day :^) You always know a video is gonna be something else when it has this level of introspectiveness and reterospective analysis baked into it obviously informed by how long it took to make and how long the creator has had a relationship with the subject and you definitely excecuted that in a really great way.
This is an Action Button parody? Amazing 😆
P.s.: was the showelvare ds games video a parody of thorhighheels?
wait sorry its the whole video
Again no hate, you make awesome vids
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY I HAD NOTIFICATIONS ON ITS THE DAY
Well at this point in time mostly yes due to the higher ups at both GF and TPCi having been cutting corner or watering down previous game features in the current games such as battle facilities && past pokemin gemics like mega evolution, rushing development time which has lead to cutting out pokemon from older pokemon gens, cuting out older moves and finally removel the old stavle of transfer. But what this current gen has brought to the table has hugely benefited pokemin with God awful typing such grass dark, and grass bug.
damn pokemon killed you for two years
i am in love with ur vids,commentary, and editing. just superbbbb omg finally quality content!
Styler cameo: 36:24
Me looking at the title and thumbnail: thank you
Pokémon fans: wrong! Pokémon sucks now. Gamefreak are a waste of oxygen. We need more competent developers and every single new Pokémon design is terrible. Yes, EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Edit: I don’t think gamefreak are amazing developers but I don’t despise them. There are certainly issues with them and I hope they start taking time instead of rushing the games. I’m making this comment because Pokémon fans are too toxic.
sub for 10/10 voice-crack-on-command skillzzzz
39:55 switch mode huh?
Based
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Was the thumbnail just changed?
yeah, I’ve been trying out a few different ones to see if they help get people to click lol
That "I can" section went on way too long lmao there's beating a dead horse then there's saying "I am beating a dead horse" 100 times over different clips of beating said dead horse.
Cool vid. I think you go on too many long tangents which drag the video. But overall, decent.
Personally, played gen 8 and just stopped giving a frick. I only really focus on fan games and maybe some of the character designs for the 34 sake if you get what im saying. Mostly i publicly associate by sampling the soundtracks the older games had