Firstly Both brilliant diamond and scarlet are the same price And furthermore both brilliant pearl and breath of the wild are

If you want good pokemon games pokemon colosseum is hard and has character. Pokemon ranger is like having a dedicated series in pixel art with tons of charm oozing from each character. An pokemon park which pokemon arceus copied heavilly with its base story and combat. Are sadly games game freak refuses to port ignoring these legacy games are heavily pirated online.

Deeply agree

@@sujimatsubackupaccount194 Legends: Arceus is also a huge rip-off off Guardian Signs. Seriously, the "story" in Legends: Arceus is like the multiplayer mode of Guardian Signs, except without the multiplayer... Hell, even the villain story twists are the same...

I'm still dying to know why MarioKart 8 is full price. It's literally about to be a decade old.

They also say their excuse for not allowing multiple save files is "It's tradition to only have one now!", not "We're copy and pasting the same code from the previous games and don't want to take time to improve it!"

Gen 5 and 6 are the same engine? Pretty sure the problem is it makes money from the obsessives

I think it just comes down to budgeting at that point with how little the games have in the first place. It also makes me question why tpc isn't contributing part of it's $6+ billion annual profit to help out with even hiring d list VAs considereing they're on the same side

If that's the case, at least text sound effects is needed not the silence when characters are talking. Other games where there isn't voice acting uses text sound effects when characters are speaking.

To be fair I think the player shouldn’t have a voice so it keeps a similar charm to that of Link. I think there’s no excuse for there not being voice acting for all the other characters though.

so that they can take more time to find voice actors for the anime or a shitty moble game XD

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DLC...DLC....DLC.....DLC..... I didn't get the game and I am glad , the path has been lost

New gens have always been rolled out three years after the previous one. ... YMMV on whether or not they should continue to do that, but I digress.

Same with me, except I played the Pokemon Ranger series. Holy crap... The amount of lively Pokemon and fairly good plot that these games have is something Gamefreak never approached - Legends: Arceus are considered good solely because it's a rip-off off the Ranger games. Features like different behaviors of Pokemon in the overworld and a human-vs-Pokemon capture/boss system? Oh, that's from Ranger, alright.

For me, it was Black 2; I enjoyed Unova. I listened to the awesome soundtrack. I starred in most of the movies at Pokestar studios. I fought on the battle subway, switching up my playstyle whenever I got bored of one rail-line, and felt like doing double battles, or rotation battles or whatever. I rode the Ferris Wheel and partook in Poke Musicals in Nimbasa. I collected medals and journeyed through the sewers to find the hidden section of Castelia that was cut off from the rest of the city. I fought against the Pokemon equivalent of PETA (anybody remember those hypocritical jerks who preached treating animals right, but abused and killed just as many to make their 'Save-A-Life' commercials, and force their ideals on people?) after they froze half the city, and climbed the Victory Road, getting beaten down but always getting back up, to hear the awesome Elite Four VGM (which was basically 'You Are Gonna Die and Love It' in music form), before finally challenging Iris to become the Unova League Champion. I loved it all. The variety. The Pokemon. The dramatic narrative. The awesome music. I loved it so much that when I heard people rag on it, I was initially confused; then _LIVID!_ They called _Gen V_ BAD?!?! *DID NONE OF YOU GUYS PLAY THE PROCEEDING GENS?!?!* Hmmph! 😡🤬😤😠 At the very least, I felt vindicated by the disappointment of longtime Pokemon fans when they saw what they had to deal with for Gens 8 and 9. I don't hate the Pokemon so much as I do the bland non-existent story, the extremely linear progression between the Stadiums, the ridiculously short pacing, the lack of anything to do outside of camping or beating up Pokemon in the Wild Area (and given what Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee are supposedly like, where you don't even get to battle, you just huck pokeballs at them like it's THAT SHITTY AR GAME THAT GOT PEOPLE RUN OVER BY CARS OR ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE THEY WERE CHASING FUCKING BUTTERFREE ; AND YOU MESS UP THE FIRST NINE TIMES BECAUSE FOR ACTUAL POKEMON PLAYERS, NOT CASUALS, IT DIDN'T *USED* TO REQUIRE ME SHAKING A STUPID IPHONE LIKE A BABY RATTLE, AND HAVING TO ADD POKEMON I DIDN'T WANT TO MY TEAM, FORCING ME TO DO THE DAMN POKEDEX THAT NOBODY DOES, they took away even _that_ bit of catharsis, expecting me to get carpal tunnel and a cracked switch screen from what was supposed to be an "enjoyable" experience, for the "immersion"; I wish I could tell whoever's bright idea that was to shove it up their ass and then fire themselves... out of a howitzer into the sun) . [ _Takes A Deep Breath After Nearly Forgetting To Breathe In The Midst of My Rage-Fueled Rant_ ] ... If this is the future, please, please, _PLEASE_ let me go back to the past; I'd rather die happy, with my memories than be forced to adapt to a future founded on shitty compromises and increasingly dumb, un-fun features! I'm sobbing right now, thinking about how my Pokemon's gone forever. They'll fuck up the Gen V remake; they'll turn it into an abomination! It'll strip away everything that made it enjoyable and turn it into a mediocrity fest! And there's nothing I can do about it!😔😟😢😭😭😭

for me that was playing black and white in 2021 after not playing for a about a decade

I recently attempted a Nuzlocke of the entire series in random order. And even playing the earlier games later, where you'd expect to have burnout from playing several games before that point, it was actually the later games that I'd played earlier that sucked more. Once you hit that X/Y wall, it's just dogwater. So many cutscenes of crap you don't care about. So much going back and forth for plot points that you spend more time mashing A than playing the game... And so much less soul in any of it.

Idk how that game blew your mind if you take issue with the structure or laziness of these games. Sinnoh still has an absolute dogsh't story and NPC dialogue. Baby-difficulty so you don't have to engage with the mechanics. And a terrible quality of life. (like every other gamefreak Pokemon + conquest).

The fact that some pokémon haven't been in a game since the 3DS era really says something

Game Freak actually coming out and saying they cannot be bothered to add every pokemon into the games going forward signalled the beginning of the end of this franchise. It shows just how lazy and complacent this company has become.

@@durpanda123 Of course Gamefreak can't be bothered because HOME exists, it's gonna hold hostage all the Pokemon for additional money and the idiots (yes, everyone who bought the newest games and HOME subscription are idiots who contribute to the problem) are gonna pay for it (they are now even paying for online, despite Gens 4-7 providing it for free). I legit encountered someone that said "wait, you didn't require paid-subscription storage software to transfer Pokemon between older gens?" - and that's the people who defend the newest Pokemon games. When a casual's standard for a good Pokemon game is 3-D soulless trash that Gamefreak's been outputting since XY, of course they are gonna ignore everything that is bad, because those games consist of nothing but bad.

There is something called Pokemon Go, however you can’t really catch em all because of the paradoxes and most gen 9 pokemon gone. Plus the game is really falling apart as of now.

​@@durpanda123but luckily for TPC, they'll own the licence till at least 3000C.E. because of the second highest grossing mouse...

compaire pokemon colosseum which had alot less lower budget than the switch pokemon games. An made by a staff who never played pokemon. But understood rpgs and created a more fleshed out world that game freak fails to understand how to do. When a 2004 game on a gamecubecube looks , feels, and musiclly plays better than a 2023 pokemon game on more advanced hardware. Thats just awfull on game freaks end. Ignoring pokemon arceus opening and combat is a copy past job and made things worse since, the game is based on 2012 pokemon park 2.

Why would they need to contribute anything if they can sell crap? I've been saying since XY that the new soulless 3-D garbage was falling off more and more (save for the dying gasps of the old standards, like ORAS and SM), but it was selling better. It even became a meme in Korea - "it will sell well anyways". Even Let's Go sold - and that got away with cutting out God knows how much Pokemon and, of course, took us to Kanto. Again. As if we didn't have enough of Kanto through the first 4 Gens...

@avenger4027 that's more so our fault as the consumers for both placing gf on this diamond encrusted pedestal when we shouldn't have and buying the games thinking they'll do better with this one (because we're basically drug addicts looking for our next hit and just accept anything at this point). It still falls under the "multiple issues that need to be addressed."

@@TlocRevelc I dunno, I'm not like most people. I said I wasn't going to buy anything below BW2 levels of quality anymore and I stuck to it. But the most baffling thing to me is that some people literally buy the games and expect them to be better where there's a very clear pattern of 4+ games (starting from Let's Go in Gen 7) having less content and less stability then any previous one. The worst part is that each successive game sells better, but brings us all to the new lows. But the people who KNOW that the games are going downhill are still buying them! I could at least get the casuals, because they don't know shit and wouldn't know a good Pokemon game from stuff like Pokemon Dash, but people who are supposed to be fans of the series shouldn't be swallowing the latest trash solely because of the yet another cute starter trio or a box legendary. It's just disgraceful. And don't get me started on the retards who DEFEND this latest bout of idiocy. They should get out of the Gamefreak church, because that is like a goddamn religion for them. It must be - because if that was Bethesda or Blizzard putting this trash out, we all know they'd be deservingly shat on by everyone, instead of people from the lowest casuals to freakin' Joe Merrick going on like "I don't see anything bad, ever" (despite the game literally glitching on them right as they say it) and "you're just toxic" (it's, like, their two NPC-programmed phrases).

@@TlocRevelc The only issue that needs to be addressed is that the fans and casuals alike shouldn't buy dogshit. A Pokemon mainline game - not a remake, but the leading one - needs a good, fat flop. Because only this will cause the company bigwigs to at least purge everyone who failed and maybe learn something from this, too - and maybe with extended times and some new blood (Gamefreak are 2-D developers. They are ancient in their design philosophy and outdated skillsets, hence the playing-it-safe (we never got a shakeup to the Pokemon formula, actually, since maybe Gen 3 adding legendaries to the plot) and the dogshit design since Gen 6), Gamefreak can finally become an actually good developer.

dude, they failed to program a CALCULATOR, one of the easiest things to program that a literal 7 year old could do. this is NOT the hill to die on.

@@polocatfan ILCA failed at this game, but I feel like there was more going on under the surface considering how good One Piece Odyssey turned out. I think ILCA may have been rushed.

unoptomized work flow sounds about right. its like game freak doesn't know what QoL is half the time with pokemon nowadays. point in case: why the everloving fuck did they ever make tm's consumables again?

Gamefreak actually talked about making "future-proof models" in the 3ds era. They've been using those models scaled down to resolution for a long time. They could literally move some files, copy over the stats and moves, and have every Pokemon in the game.

Doing that for every subsequent game is and always was a pipedream. If anything, trying to add so much content to appease customers regardless of quality control is damaging the series far more. What they should have done is make one long lasting game designed for every Pokemon to be in it, instead of trying to do that exact thing in every other adventure.

Which is ironic, since Unova honestly was where Pokémon actually peaked.

@@SockieTheSockPuppet truly, imagine the timeline if Black and White were the successes they deserved to be

Same

I almost returned Y on Day 1 because it just didn't feel right. The bottom screen suddenly being filled with new shit threw me off. Gen 7 was better, though.

Except for pla

You know it's a great game when it works to only scratch the gambling itch about 1% of their consumerbase have, love gamefreak

“It will sell anyway”

To be fair, updates and DLC weren't really a thing yet back when they were still doing third versions. They've kinda stopped doing it now that they've realized they can just make large-scale expansions for the Switch games.

@@The73MPL4R I'll throw my hat in this ring and say I preferred the 3rd versions instead of the DLC model. I know it sounds crazy, but let me explain... With the third versions, it was not just a chance to ADD content like DLC does, but it was also the chance to FIX the content in the base game. They only ever treat the DLC now as additive, but Crystal, Emerald and Platinum didn't JUST add things, they also FIXED the base games and became the definitive versions. Crystal: Besides the quality of life improvements, such as area title cards, being able to play as Kris and animated Pokemon sprites, it also adjusted some encounter tables to get some of the mon easier and earlier. Sneasel, for example, isn't just a post-game mon anymore, but is available in the Ice Path now. Crystal also actually enhanced the graphics some more, by making places look more polished: Burned Tower actually looks like a ruined building on the outside now, instead of just a normal house. Ice Path actually looks like a crystalline ice cavern, instead of just a lighter grey cave. Emerald: Besides the animated Pokemon re-introduction, this is the first major instance of the main gameplay experience being affected. Instead of just fighting one of the teams and the other being relegated to background support, you fight both teams. Rayquaza has actual involvement in the story now (glorified babysitter for Kyogre and Groudon, lol), and the progression was also altered slightly with the gyms in the middle. A whole lot of new mon to get, and the Battle Frontier is one of the largest pieces of end-game content to come from a game since the whole second region of Kanto in GSC. Platinum: Arguably the 3rd version that was most desparately needed, because base Diamond/Pearl are really fucking slow games. Not just story pacing wise, but I mean the actual engine: there's a delay in DP after everything that happens in battle (selecting a move, the pokeball indicators sliding in, a mon coming out/fainting, etc.), and it wastes a ton of your time over the course of the game because of it all adding up. Platinum not only removed those delays and sped up the engine (surfing is literally more than double the speed it was in DP), but also fixed some serious roster issues with DP as well. The only two fire types a player could get before the postgame, was Infernape (if you chose Chimchar) and Pontya, and that's IT. Platinum added way more mon to the dex you can get before the postgame, and fixed this issue, as well as the important trainer teams (Volkner, Flint) that were affected by such droughts in options. Not to mention, it also heavily buffed the postgame and the story, because Cyrus barely shows up in DP, but is encountered much more frequently in Platinum. And the post-game story with the remnants of Galactic and Charon. They'll never use DLC to make these sort of adjustments to the base games, so if the base games suck now like Sword and Shield, they'll always suck and won't be redeemed like Platinum redeemed Sinnoh. Also there's the problem of preservation; the third version having all the adjustments baked into it means it'll always be accessible as long as you have a copy of the game. Meanwhile, the DLC will be unavailable once they shut those servers down, if you haven't already bought it, so the game will forever remain in its incomplete state.

this is why i actually prefer the dlc approach that's been happening with recent games, its essentially the same amount of new content but for less price.

Incredibly well said. Agree with this whole comment.

So my thing is I initially didn't want to buy Shield for the price it was going for due to the lackluster stuff from it I saw, but then S/V come along and I rent Violet off gamefly and immediately returned it then got the notification about the 3DS shop closing so last chance before the deadline to transfer my mons over to an actual quality Switch Pokemon game that I've been waiting for, but yeah had no choice but to get Shield then which thankfully got it for $30 on Ebay for a more deserved price and maybe for the best just because I do prefer more of the Galar Pokemon designs over what the latest region mon designs offered like shesh didn't like any of the starters final evos. But yeah standards with Gamefreak here in that they made Sword and Shield better than Scarlet and Violet for the bar drop.

Monster hunter games actually get reasonable budgets that's why they end up good

@@thefanciesttortoise557 Instead of 300+ people and 200,000,00$ (scarlet and violet) they have 100+ team members on the team for producing the portable monhun games and a variable budget from 1m-1.5m

@@thefanciesttortoise557 so... no.

X/Y IMO is... Okay. I knew what it was back when I got into it. It was not going to be great but very much a "Proof of concept" of what a 3D Pokémon can look like. It was very much needed for Gamefreak to learn the ropes with an entire new dimension and using models instead of sprites. And it paid off. Once they got around to OR/AS, the potential of the new 3D has been put to full use. I'll never play X/Y over OR/AS, but I'll always be aware that without X/Y, we wouldn't have had a foundation to build OR/AS upon.

Gen 6 and 7 were when the cracks started. They were still good games though. There's a reason all the crap starts with sword and shield.

Truth be told cracks happened before the 3DS games, many fans left because of it, then were later dubbed as genwunners, but the 3DS games revolutionized the series to the point where it revived its popularity. They had flaws but people who grew up with gens 4 and 5 pretend these don't have flaws when so many people had issues especially with Gen 5 during its time.

@@Garde_Mystik No, genwunners are nostalgia poisoned fans who think gen 1 was anything other than a buggy mess that inspired great games later. People didn't have issues with gen 5, a lot of people didn't like certain designs... that's really it.

@@PlatinumAltaria Gen 5 fans have become the new genwunners, overly praising their Gen so much they praise even its major flaws and praise it for things it didn't actually do.

It's that new york blood what can I say

​@@Kyler360don't keep cursing its a sin dude

Except none of those are really issues w/ SV aside from the graphics and performance part

@@gengargamer5657 Agree to disagree.

It is weird that curry was in the uk based region as a focal point but curry is actually somewhat popular there although it is a lot more bland because people can't handle the spice. Also what Italian region? Paldea is Spain, they haven't done Italy yet.

Gen 3 is still very good, especially Emerald, just a step down from GSC. I thought Sun/Moon were decent but other than that I just can't stand the rest of the Pokemon franchise

SV had creative potential too, they were just released too early

Me too. Gen 7 was fun and had great story, gen 6 is just really cozy, and gen 3, 4, and 5 are gens 3, 4, and 5. I HATED SWSH and SV.

Sword and shield was surprisingly fun to play, especially compared to the 3DS games

@@rethardotv5874 I think they were all fun in their own ways. Like a short story? Play gen 1-2! Want a riling adventure into the unknown? Play gen 3-4! Like story and want something to do afterwards? Play gen 5/7! Do you just want to hang back? Play gen 6! And regards to gen 8, they weren't half-bad, ESPECIALLY with battling. Online play was good, and it was surprisingly easy to train a team thanks to Nature Mints being a thing alongside the previously added Bottle Caps and Ability Capsule. It's the ultimate Pokémon Online experience.

Cynthia easy? Bruh you must have overlevelled. She had a competitive level team.

@@dinosaurtimeandfunnyvideos no, he probably had our lord and savior, Weavile.

With the difference that Mario kart 8 and smash ultimate are arguably the best games in their respective franchise while most Pokémon games released in the last 10 years were worse than what we got in the DS era.

@@rethardotv5874 Yes agreed, my point being that Pokemon was never bad because it was a rehashing repetitive franchise, but rather because the games that were being released were actually terrible. Especially pre-Gen 8, when bad Pokemon games released, people would criticize them for being rehashes, which took focus away from the fact that the games were just plain terrible regardless of if they were rehashes.

@@rethardotv5874 no, gen 7 may have been a bit mid, but there was actual time and love put into it, and there were so many small details that they wouldn't have had time to put in if it were rushed.

@@bluebaron6811 the pacing was still so bad that I couldn’t bear to replay or even nutzlocke it. Just because the developers took their time doesn’t mean that the end product is great or fun to play. And don’t get me wrong, I liked the art style, new Pokémon and the island challenge idea but the pacing ruined any replayability of sun & moon for me

@@rethardotv5874 yeah the story did take a long time. Might not be replayable, but playing it once is a good experience.

try ranked it’s very fun if you’re a competitive person adds some challenges

If I could like a comment 4000x it would be this one

@@Kyler360 thanks

I bought Scarlet because it looked like a genuine improvement. And some of the pokemon models DID get upgraded. But I feel like a retard for having paid $60 for an alpha build. I enjoyed my time with the game, and I wanted to see what the DLC is like, but as much as I liked the story of Teal Mask... it should've been free. $35 is WAAAAAAAY too much money for ONLY TWO DLC adventures on a game that's already $60. A pokemon game should NEVER be (almost) $100 by themselves, ESPECIALLY is they're not even finished.

@@excalibur493 I only bought Violet because Arceus was such an improvement over Sw/Sh that it had given me hope that they'd actually figured out how to make a good Pokemon game after screwing it up horribly. That, obviously, was a mistake.

@@Brianycus just watched some of your vids. They're really well done. Earned a sub outta me

@@Kyler360 The same honor goes to me as well. I cant wait for what other videos you have cooking! Keep it my friend!

It is insane that most gamers (particularly nintendo-fans) think video games have to be toys, particularly for kids. We praise kids shows like Avatar the Last Airbender for its complex story and fun adventure. Game series like Klonoa are accessible to kids and also teach hard emotional lessons. But Pokemon (and nintendo almost as a whole) can't be bothered to hire a writer.

Ever hear about pokemon conquest?

yes, Pokemon Conquest WAS a breath of fresh air.. thats been ignored ever since

Would make for a fun "generation gimmick" like the Triple and Rotation Battles in Gens 5 and 6

Or make another 2.5d pokemon game, like Black and White. I liked BW because fun fact: the sprites aren't actually locked to a pixel grid; it's what makes some of them appear ridged, and I dunno, I REALLY liked it's look. Maybe a game in Octopath Traveler style or an Earthbound style would be cool.

How about a Mario and Luigi Style Combat?

They're more polished than Scarlet and Violet in which yeah can still have fun with them, whereas the lack of polish with the latest games prevented any fun could have had with them and I asap returned my rented Violet copy back.

@@SonicLegends I definitely agree with that. I didn't have as many issues as I saw online, just a few visual glitches here and there and occasional frame drops but overall Sword and Shield felt like a more put together game despite the fact that Scarlet and Violet have more to offer in terms of stuff to do and places to explore.

game is still ass tho

X and Y were my first games too, I actually replayed X recently and while it's story is definitely a bit lacking, it's honestly such a beautiful and fun game. Was such a blast playing it again. Probably in my Top 7 Pokemon games.

@@AmirPrinceling actually, I liked it's story because it leaned more towards morals and facing reality instead of the whole "dis team be dun doin' bad thangs, we godda stop 'em!" shtick. It makes you question things like "is it really worth *some* people being happy if *most* people have to suffer? It doesn't seem like it, but it *really* digs deep, and I remember 9yo me crying at the end of the game. Also AZ deserved more from us. For someone with only 5 minutes of screen time, he is a very well developed character.

Sun and Moon were the last good Pokemon game