Honestly, I was always thought it was because a game like Pokemon had never been made for the Gameboy before, and that they had rush it out before they could fix all the bugs. Upon learning this new knowledge, however, that seems to be not the case.
I have a thread already set up for a pokemon furry who has started acting like regulas upon hearing about what game freak did. It was made back in 2017 and much of his behavior is limited to furaffinity and his twitter
To be fair, RBY were insanely complex games for the time and they actually fixed that shit in GSC. Those games are probably the only Gameboy titles that have crash handling. Nowadays they just include crash handling with console firmware.
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Keep in mind though this game isn't finished and that this is the playable demo. It does looks pretty bad for them though. Hopefully it looks better on release (Also was the Bethesda comparison really necessary).
the hand holding, un-skipable cutscenes and more focus on story are big turn offs for me. im playing pokemon to go on a journey. not listen to other characters issues and being part of a story i almost have no say in.
But it's an RPG. Sure the stories in pokemon aren't all that impressive but one the biggest components in RPGs is the story. As for the hand-holding, the most that older pokemon fans complain about is the fact that you can't just skip the tutorials. Hell, the mario and luigi RPG series allows you to skip the tutorials so I'm not sure what stops gamefreak in this department. However, I never thought that the cutscenes were that long. I never minded them since I found them to be enjoyable to watch.
That was my problem, I like listening to rlm and shit when I game and the cutscenes had me stopping any video I was listening to constantly. When it was over I'd unpause and have to pause again within less that 10 minutes
beacuse the story was not up its own ass and had a interesting concept. the problem with gamefreak is they refuse to fully commit to their story out of fear of guilty tripping kids or talking about child abusive.
You know i think that's the heart of the problem i have with the later games. They really want you to be invested in these boring characters that have the depth of a puddle while pacing the cutscenes as if they were voiced. The main draw of the pokemon games should be the pokemon not the uninspired anime stereotypes they feel obligated to keep recycling. Anytime there aren't pokemon on screen, you should be asking why aren't there any pokemon on screen?
Probably to cater to the older audience who constantly pestered Game Freak to give the series better plots and characters. With Generation 7 it seems Game Freak couldn't decide whether their target audience was kids or the older adult fans who were playing since R/B/Y. The hand holding game play clashed with the cut scene heavy plot. Trying to please everyone is a really bad thing to do. Pick a target audience and stay with it.
This is really the best way for them to go about. If you want the kids keep the kids. If not, appeal to the older fans. Game Freak also claims that this entry will appeal to the older fans as well, so I'll just see where they go with that.
Seeing as how the "Bring Back the National Dex" hashtag was trending Twitter after Masuda made the announcement, there's a good chance they may have shat on the bed a bit too hard this time.