Personally, I like using only one Pokémon, usually one from the first route (so for Gen V, it would be Liepard or Watchog). Helps make the game more difficult at some points.
If Gen 8 is anything to go by, that giant game will never happen outside of fangames. Which is fine by me, I love Pokémon Clover.
Was there no this copypasta (am I using tha term correctly?) on how Satoshi printed out comments from fans that wanted every region in one game, then Satoshi and his workers laughed a those comments?
I've been playing BW2 as well and the full dex is probably my only complaint so far. At least there's plenty of good gen 5 mons unlike SwSh where I forced myself to use bad gen 8 mons.
That has to be a joke. After all, that is a meme.
sort of. Megami Tensei was before all of them.
I do. It's not my favorite pokemon game, but I like it. Honestly, I think it doesn't deserve all the hate it gets.
I don’t hate them. I definitely had more fun with Shield than I did with Y, Alpha Sapphire, or Ultra Rehash. Galar (without the DLC) is definitely the worst region in the series though, and it has quite a few of my least favorite Pokémon designs yet.
I know, right? I actually hunted for Mudkip in ORAS because the uncatchable Poochyena was shiny locked and I didn't want the pain of finding a shiny I couldn't catch. But once I'd gotten it I felt... empty. In fact nearly all the shinies I have in gens 6 and 7 I feel nothing but apathy towards and I tut and roll my eyes whenever I see normies on youtube going apeshit shiny ponyta style over finding them with the easiest methods.
I'm curious - what did you like about them? I hate them with a passion so I'd like to hear a response from someone who isn't a consoomer who thinks everything Game Freak does is right.
Snom/Frostmoth were the only good ones. Change my mind.
Falinks and Centiskorch exist. I also really like Rillaboom and Eternatus but that’s just me. Alcremie and Applin are cute and fun, and Grimmsnarl is badass.
I do. It's a really flawed game but it's not as bad as some people make it out to be.
I’m not Bunny Tracks but I’d like to answer the question anyway. I liked the concept of the Wild Area, the execution was pretty ugly and bland but open world could be a good fit for future Pokémon games. They certainly need more room for exploration than they’ve had in recent years. I also liked the atmosphere of the gyms, the soccer theming was fun and I really like the gym leader battle music. This doesn’t really count, but I must admit that the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra were nice improvements upon the original Wild Area, shame you have to pay an additional $30 for them.
Oops, you just made me think of another criticism. I hate the story in Sword and Shield because you don’t actually get to see Rose’s plan unfold at all until the forced climax. It’s also ridiculous how Rose is obsessed with solving an energy crisis that won’t happen for another millennium. Does he have autism? A hero complex? Never explained. And don’t even get me started on the plot of the postgame.
Really? He looks like he got in a fight with a sports store and lost.
No, this person is correct. Dragon Quest did it before Pokemon and did it better. But that isn't so important.
Here’s the thing though. Actually animating the moves and cutscenes is not a luxury, especially for the most profitable media franchise on the planet. There’s no excuse for Double Kick, Tail Whip, Decorate, Nuzzle, or NPCs clapping with no actual clap animation.Really? He looks like he got in a fight with a sports store and lost.
Personally, speaking of pokemon I like, Wooloo is absolutely precious. Corviknight's such a striking standout among the route 1 birds, I love that they made the mid-stage starters all look like edgy teenagers, particularly Raboot, and I love the abominations that can be made by mashing fossils together.
I like Sword and Shield for it's strengths - more accessible than ever PvP/Tower-style battling, for example - but I can definitely feel it's weaknesses. But I see it's failings less as a cynical cashgrab of it's own and more as a consequence of the inevitable bandaid-rip of removing things rather than just endlessly adding moves, pokemon, and mechanics with no limit, as seems to be the only acceptable alternative to so many of the negative opinions. It's a game made by a team who's just getting into HD 3D development who is expected to operate under the rules of a team who's entire games were less than 5 megabytes.
I assure you that they've been wanting to cut back on the dex for a long while, probably since ruby/sapphire's days. They can do it now because they have the mobile storage of Pokemon Home, and don't have to manually bring every Pokemon over in the main line game. And a lot of the expectations laid against the game are ab-fucking-surd to literally any other game development team, without even factoring in that things like traditional recolours or making ninety percent of your skills the exact same moves in different elements along very strict and basic power levels is not an option.
In short, it's not so much that I see the games as perfect or anything, and it's not that I don't think the games could be improved with someone helping to revitalise and whip the team behind them into shape. It's that I see the game people want, and I just don't see a way to make it a reality that doesn't involve the company disappearing into a bunker for ten years or sacrificing SOMETHING for it.
Well, okay, I see one way, and that is to make it an mmo that slowly builds the dex from the ground up. But that'd still take ten years, a whole different dev team with experience coding mmos, and Temtem's acted as the canary in that mine... and it is VERY dead.
They've been hoisted by their own petard - blown up by their own bomb. When you start considering what Pokemon's actually accomplished - that there are pokemon that were generated by a gameboy advance 19 years ago that their trainers are using RIGHT NOW on switch - you realise that so many of the things seen as baseline necessities are sometimes-unimaginable luxuries to anyone else.
What? Tail whip being a lateral back and forth movement is stunning and brave. Dozens of seconds went into animating it. Dozens!!
