Yesssss...even though they tried to vary the battling in ScarVi, I really wish there was more variety in the paths. Gen 6 had potential with Tierno being into dancing/Pokémon Contests while Trevor was more of a researcher.

The Switch is dog 💩. The game is fun and I’m actually finding it more fun than Ragnorak for the PS5. Ya acting like this game would still have the same issues if it was on a better console. BOTW is trash as well. As long as Nintendo stick with inferior consoles ya just going to keep getting wacky games that the switch can’t handle

@xid I wonder if the games are being seen through RoseGold tinted glasses? The games are definately the problem here, nobody can dispute it. A memory leak does not stop existing just because its on a PS5 or Xbox

@@jmelz155 Low hardware specs do not explain this train wreck of a game. This is solely due to bad optmization, surely the usage of their weird engine that could still be rooted in the 3DS era and of course way too short development cycles.

@@deeep_blue This. Camera clipping, rendering issues and character bugging can't even be attributed to the console at all since they don't happen at all in a ton of other games. All a more powerful console could do for this imo is make the framerate less intolerable and allow for higher res textures, both of which are problems, but not the biggest issues of this game.

they probably tested, they probably knew, they probably tried, but in the end, there is only so much a developer team can do with the resources they get. It is a shit show low budget title. Funny how one of the biggest earning games ever cannot have a proper budget and timeframe

damn. this is just sad

Thanks for the insight on this. Doing Research for a follow up video and this helps a bit

Unless those old people retire, or die... we prob would need to pray for a miracle. Since Japan is still hierarchy oriented, seniority gets the biggest say in a company and the younger employees will have to go along with whatever they say or it'll become very dificult for them.

This just exacerbates the problematic development cycle, 3 years of which after the game is released you now have to find new workers, who pretty much have to internship their actual jobs to get to the start. However time is already gone, along with the design choices that first happen, you are already many months or a year into the hole, 2 years to code a fully open 3D game sounds absolutely bonkers and scarlet/violet shows. These games show that they focused more on creating than optimising and that shows so much through the bugs, glitches, stuttering, memory leaks, emptiness, copy and paste stores.

That's Japan in a nutshell.

Really caught me off guard with the buildings. Especially when after experiencing this vast world, excited to see what the cities are gonna be like, the themes, the people and then… the buildings can’t be entered. The shops are merely gui that can be replaced by an npc and a sign. Lack of level scaling makes certain routes death traps and terastalizing feels like a lazy excuse for a way to have pokemon change types with no new Pokémon designs. Feels like an alpha test or concept build rather than a game.

sidequests would add so much world-building and would fill the void that is left by the mostly empty open-world, it would also add some game-time since the game is really short-lived after you're done with the main quest.

😳 Wow... This sounds like an unfinished game.

Not being able to enter buildings is one giant step backwards. What the Furret were they thinking??

Personally I was happy with not having to enter buildings. I was so annoyed in previous games having to go into every house because one may have an important item I may otherwise miss and then go without for the entire game. Most of the houses just had NPCs with some cute dialogue but nothing useful, I don't really miss them. That said, I do wish they compensated by making more NPCs outside with things like trade requests or side quests. Arceus had side quests...why did they leave them out this time?

clearly PLA was delayed past the holiday deadline; and i would wager that BDSP was just some literal shovelware slop thrown together just to have something to take its place on shelves in time for the holidays that year. BDSP was just a pathetic cash in on the years of demands for gen 4 remakes.

BDSP wasn't made by gamefreak though, but they still split their already small team in 2 for arceus and scarlet/violet

@@Kratos263 exactly, GF couldn't make the cut so they contracted ILCA to throw some slop together in their place i doubt ILCA will become a regular, it was probably just to have something out for the holidays

For me the reason is obvious: they needed to line up the game release with the anime schedule. Which means the release date was set in stone likely years ahead, even though it really needed to be pushed back

The director of PLA said it was in development since before sw/sh So, only a fraction of GF's very small employee base was working on PLA, but they had over 3 years to make it. This is a workforce and tine issue. They have the money and the ambition but won't pump resources into their games.

Yeh by far it’s the most soulless world we’ve visited

​ @Mikey Stojsic This is what confuses me about people acting like it's only graphics. Pokemon has been reducing post game, overall lore, depth and difficulty in each new release. The maps, routes and caves play like straight lines. So much less to explore and discover. I havent remembered a town's name since gen 5. It gets worse every game but i guess the bar has dropped so low that nobody cares anymore

I kinda liked seeing the story when I beat my first Team Star base, but when I went in immediately afterward there was only one NPC with actual dialogue. Every other NPC either had 3 words or nothing at all. It's an incredible display of the poor attention to detail that brings down the quality and enjoyment of the entire game

The main City of this game hava npcs that you cant even talk, like wtf, if there is no interaction for me is the same as ghost city

That's a terrible opinion - not even true and mitigated anyway by the fact you're in an academy where you're _learning_ lore. They're not going to drop Mexico City into Pokemon. You seem to still be stuck in Spikemuth in Sword & Shield from your comment; you sure you're even talking about the correct game?!

Yeah I know it’s a pipe dream but they really should throw monolith software on a mainline game. They would crush it. Or Atleast co develop with game freak

Also, Nintendo and Creatures need to stop forcing them to release games non stop too.

@@Dave102693 that right there is the biggest problem. But it won’t stop being they keep making hand over fist money

And time.

@@Dave102693 Nintendo, Creatures nor the Pokemon company pressure Gamefreak on the release of the games, Gamefreak has complete control over the development of the franchise. If you really think Nintendo has anything to do with that then you wouldn't have the director of Botw delaying the sequel in pursuit of better quality

I never understood this, why force players to have it easy? People enjoy challenges and difficulty, why penalize them for playing the way they like? It makes no sense imo :/

I really wish they could go back to pkmn black and white where there was a challenge mode for those who wanted to try an even harder way to play.

I heard once that the starter was the difficulty selection and water was easy fire is medium and grass is hard, not sure if this is true tho

@@CallmeBlueGaming people said that about some of the older games just cos certain starters made for better matchups against tough trainers early on. The starter type isn’t a literal difficulty selection

My Pokémon journey started with tough as nails Gold (at least for lil kid me). I loved Black and White, but X/Y was such a let down. Haven't played since. Overleveled every step of the way

Harvest moon pokemon is a crossover I've wanted for a while. My partner made me try rune factory. It's not exactly that. But it does incorporate battle rpg exploration mechanics into the general farmer slice of life simulation shipping game. And there are some cute magical animals you can battle or recruit. So there is that at least

As someone who loves RPGs and life sims I would totally buy that

pixelmon

Try the fan game Pokewilds.

Wait for Palworld for this exact reason.

Totally agree. Lack of criticism for the issues in a thing you love will always lead to the thing being worse the next time around.

but sadly everyone who critises it is called a hater and everyone who likes it is called brainwashed id*ot with no standards.

good luck getting that out of the apologists though... I really liked the game this time around, haven't bought a mainline pokemon game since Sun and Moon because they've all seemed like total trash, but the gameplay in this was great. I just can't get past how AWFUL it runs.

@@BeetleBuns I think I've got lucky because I don't have too many issues and i am not bothered by the appearance of the environment, and consequently I absolutely love this game because I honestly believe behind the issues this is one of the best pokemon games ever.

and they are co-existing, most people think this way, lol

This would be fine as well. They turn these games around way too quick. What can these teams do with 4-5 years? Let’s find out. I hope it’s already in the works.

The thing is that not even COD with three different development teams could support a three year cycle and annual releases, its literally why Activision decided to drop the yearly release cycle and isn’t releasing a new cod until 2024

Nintendo and Monolith offered to Help before but GF refused

@@Dante1282 well that's just stupid on their part because if this continues that offer is going to become a demand. I just wonder how long it is going to take.

I agree with this sentiment. They already hire outside to do remakes and the like, but it's almost as if this were a school project to the main team where they look at the calendar and go "Oh wow the assignment is due tomorrow. Guess we'd better present something." and proceed to let their Fidough eat the homework to the point of getting fat on paper every time a mainline title release is due.

The creative process for these games doesnt seem impressive so most of the time is probably spent wrangling with a coding nightmare in an engine that was never meant to leave the 3ds.

The only advantage I noticed so far is the battery lasting much longer compared to games like botw

They probably spend most of the time they used to spend on story and extra stuff, on optimizing. I personally feel like Gamefreak should tone it down with the open world until we get hardware that can handle this kind of thing without having to sacrifice other more important things.

I completed all the pokemon games available on switch and at this point Gamefreak needs to be restructured with new talent desperately.

It’s such a weird thing to play. Because I can tell it’s good under all this. But the issues are very problematic and can’t be overlooked nor shouldn’t they. They need to create a team to begin taking the models and animations to new places. It blows my mind Nintendo doesn’t have 1000 people working on these games versus 200.

Not to mention all of the other games that they make. Because keep in mind that GF develops and has developed other games outside of Pokemon.

I disagree that the two games cause any real issue at all. The issues are on a technical level, any team for Scarlet and Violet specifically would not exist at the level of differences between versions. Developmentally speaking, there are no real differences between the versions. Different or altered lines of dialogue, different sets of pokemon spawning, different character models and textures are not that big of a deal there. Even with the differences mentioned, the vast majority of the time they are the same.

@@prosecutorwalton they're talking about the team splitting up working on two separate projects, such as one working on PLA and one working on S/V. There are actually now 4 teams at Game Freak spreading the manpower even thinner- so for example there was one team working on SwSh updates and support, one working on SwSh DLC, one working on PLA, and one working on S/V. Obviously since the first 3 aren't in development anymore and S/V are released, I'd wager that there are 3 teams working on S/V, including updates, DLC, and people working in the background as support, with the last team working on a release for either late 2023 or early 2024 that will be announced next year, and once early support for S/V decreases one of those teams will be moved over to the next release. Since it seems like DLC and real-time updates will be eliminating their history of "enhanced" versions like with USUM, I wouldn't be surprised if the next big release that's announced is either another Legends game or a new large spin-off and they're keeping gen 5 remakes in their back pocket. In an ideal world, they'd take a longer release hiatus after S/V DLC in 2024, maybe at most doing a remaster of an old game like Mystery Dungeon DX, and then do Black and White remakes or a Legends game for their 15th anniversary.

@@prosecutorwalton I wasn't talking about version exclusive games, GF is known to split their studio into 2 teams to work on separate game all together. For example,the main team worked on SV while a secondary team worked on PLA, and the same thing happened with one team working on SWSH while the second worked on Little Town Hero. SWSH suffered from the lack of team members, SV and PLA clearly needed for time to polish graphical fidelity and they both suffered from that. Also remember, PLA and SV started development at the same time right after SWSH came out. This made two small teams rush to pump out two relatively large games in only 2-3 years. GF itself is already small with only around 170ish employees, so splitting in two doesn't help. Compare it to say Santa Monica Studio that has 400 employees and took 5 years to develop God of War 2018. I only used this reference to compare team size/ time and what was achieved with that much as the development for GoW was well documented, not comparing both games graphical style or anything, just the polish side of things. Team size and time can really make the difference between the level of polish and optimization capeable in games. GF really needs to increase their team size if they want to keep popping out games at the rate they do and if not they need at LEAST 1-2 more years of development time as 3 is clearly not enough.

Pokémon needs more money dumped into in game development wise for how big it is. It’s crazy that Nintendo isn’t throwing money at it

@@Repaduski Why would you throw money at the game, when users throw money at you? The quality did not matter business wise. We are eating shitty food despite knowing it being shitty.

Exactly. I can't understand why people believe Nintendo or Gamefreak would think they've done anything wrong. They even put less effort in this release that in SwSh and it's selling more!

@@user-eer555 YES EXACTLY! They know no matter shitty the game is, Pokémon apologist will still buy it and play it and claim it’s good simply because it’s Pokémon. The have MILLIONS of idiot slaves who will give them their money so why put anymore effort into it

@@cityrat3237 One of the idiot slaves is me.

'hard to focus on the flood in the basement when there's a fire in the kitchen.' These games have too many issues to even criticize them all before the next game releases.

I feel the same way about gen 6, It's a shame x/y clothing didn't even last a year before everyone was copy and paste boy and girl from omega ruby/saphire 😫

Dude yes! Clothing and hairstyle changes make it actually feel like it’s YOUR character. It’s extremely valuable in an RPG

@@deltaloraine I know scarlet and violet has some customization but it’s really not as good as gen 6 was. I hope with the next games we get more routes for cordinating or something

Yes! X/Y to this day have my favourite trainer customization! The little issues I had with it (mostly not being able to remove your hat) were made worth it by the clothing itself, it wasn't just 'this plain t-shirt in 15 colours' the actual clothes themselves had character! (for the girls at least, f to male trainer customization) You could make really unique and interesting designs and you actually *looked* like a pokemon trainer. I remember when playing through SwSh I made a comment along the lines of 'I look like an npc' because I *did* other major NPCs looked cool! Bede had a big pink coat! Raihan had his dragon hoodie! Bea was barefoot! And then I was standing next to them in a solid colour shirt and plain purple hoodie looking for all the world like a background NPC that had wandered onto set by accident.

I hope we can see S/V's character customization and X/Y's clothing selection going forward. I was so happy to make my character look just how I wamted, but was really let down by the clothing choices

And this is why Detective Pikachu is like the only Pokémon game I've bought in recent memory. The game is absolute trash honestly from a gameplay standpoint, but I love it simply cuz they tried something completely different, a new take on the Pokémon world. AND VOICE ACTING.

I'm with you. I play pokemon to have fun,complete the main story and see cool places. The glitches in BDSP were the first ones that were pretty noticeable and legends Arceus didn't have any. Just from the videos on KZfaq, you can see how unfinished it looks. Characters falling through the map seems like a pretty early thing that should have been fixed before release. I currently hoping to get the game for Christmas. Hopefully by then some of the issues can be patched.

I can think of one: Legends Arceus. It has all the same issues. But the reason it seems so out of nowhere is because these are the first open world games. It's on a much, much, much more massive scale than the previous design of routes. Also, "constant crashes"???? I've played for 70 hours and never crashed once. The only issues I've encountered are the fps drops and a few visual glitches. Neither of which are as big a deal as everyone is acting like they are.

@@Akihito_Kanbara Yes, man. Of course your personal experience with it would be shared by everyone else.

@@Akihito_Kanbara ah yes, I do love me some fps drops and visual glitches

@@marcosmauricio7805 it's the majorities experience. As usual, it's the minority that's being the loudest on the matter.

I’m begging them to have monolith co develop or heavily assist

@@Repaduski Imagine a Pokemon game where you can control Pokemon in real time like in Xenoblade, and they have their auto attacks and then their four moves they can use. It'd be awesome.

I imagine monolith was busy with XB3 and helping with the new Zelda.

Oh god it would be another xenoblade chronicles 2 fiasco if they did

@@CrayonConoisseur If you're talking about the gacha then no way that would happen.

*Honestly though, Gen 5 is the best.*

Agree. Technical issues abound, but I'm still having a blast. The story line is my favorite in years, too. Arven, man... Arven...

@@realbutters *I had **_ALL_** my sandwiches **_STOLEN_** BY MIRAIDON!*

@@ActuallyDeath he made extra sandwich! You just eat it off screen probably

@@danielhicks1824 *But I wanted **_THAT_** Sandwich!*

I've gotta ask, are you referring to Game Freak or Nintendo? Or The Pokémon Company? ('cause a lotta people seem to forget that exists.) If it's Nintendo, then I somewhat get it. If it's The Pokémon Company, even moreso! But if it's Game Freak... I gotta wonder what your definition of "big" is. Game Freak doesn't even have 200 employees last I checked, and if what people are saying is also true, then they're spread out into multiple teams to work on different projects. So the only way they could really be classed as "big" is that they make a lot of money (and even that is questionable because again... The Pokémon Company exists.)

@@EsmeraldaTGG Who's paying for this game? I'm guessing the pokemon company is. I'm guessing nintendo is funding it too. So even if those were game freak circumstances, how can those other 2 allow this game to he release kike this? Game Freak is just the developer, it's the publishers that rush things.

@@Something.Something In that case, I totally agree with you! I dunno why TPC is so committed to this whole "one game per year" thing, because Game Freak's development cycle, as well as the open-world nature of Pokémon's latest two games do _not_ mesh well. Game Freak needs more time, more employees, and potentially a bigger budget than TPC seems to be giving them. Because if they don't, we're only gonna get more stuff like this. And honestly, the worst part about that isn't even getting the bad game, but the fact that TPC gets away with releasing it while people slam GF for even making the damn game, because they didn't complete it fast enough.

It’s more incredible that outside the echo chambers of dicussion videos or subreddits, nobody seems to even care.

@@EsmeraldaTGG From what I understand, it's to keep the release date of other pokemon related products on schedule. The Pokemon Company always wants a 3 year time span for a pokemon generation before transitioning into a new one. The new generation is always planned to introduce a new generation of pokemon through two different versions of games (because that strategy makes them the most money). Then the games are followed by the trading cards, a new anime series, merchandising, collaborations with other companies, etc. Because of this framework, delaying the games will delay EVERYTHING ELSE that follows after. If GameFreak had more time and more people to work on these games, then they wouldn't be as buggy. Open-world games tend to be the most buggy since they're so vast, so GameFreak was not done any favors with such a rigid release schedule. It also doesn't help that they had to work on Pokemon Legends: Arceus AND Pokemon Scarlet/Violet simultaneously 😬

The game is fun but runs poorly

This is good advice in general these days. Games are often released in states that don’t warrant your hard earned money.

You should never preorder

Yes, never pre-order

Preordering games is usually pointless. You can just buy the game on release after reviews come out. What does it cost you? Maybe a couple of hours when you could have been playing the game early at most?

A friend of mine suggested that too, and I was intrigued by the idea and I hope it happens, especially if they get a real true overhaul in style(Won't happen because it's meant for kids)

It's funny you say because several key Monolith staff worked on both this and Legends. There's no getting around it, these games need more time and dedication.

at least it's be a an optimised experience with less bugs and perfomance drops for once lol

@@rpgnut5897 Some key players wouldn't prevent the bugginess, though you can see their works with looking features within the game.

monolith already outsources for zelda, splatoon, animal crossing and pikmin--along side their own xeno series and the progression of a new "ambitious" ip--people forget that this is a small company... and the great games they've assisted in creating have all took 3+ years WITH their help... and we all know gamefreak or whoever calls the shots won't allow for more than 1 years worth of work.

Its ironic and unfortunate that they removed the special flash and sound effect in the one game they needed it most...

@@lasercraft32 They removed that!?

@@sharkythegw7843 I haven't played the game but yeah. When the pokemon appear in the open world they don't do the flash... but they might still do if _after_ you trigger a battle though.

I feel the same :( I haven’t even beaten the game yet which I usually do within 3 days for most releases. It ain’t hitting good this time around

@@sharkythegw7843 can confirm they removed it. If I wasn't paying attention I would not have noticed the shiny lechonk evolution at all. And it's a drastic shiny color swap. It does do the little ding sound with star in combat still.

honestly? I highly suggest Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. it's the best pokemon game on the 3ds, better than X and Y.

That shouldn’t be a dream. That should be a reality they work on

I said this in another videos comments but I really want something in a main pokemon game where battling is not the core purpose. I loved contests from gen 3 or the Pokéathlon from gen 5. Being able to do something other than become champion would be a nice change of pace. We get so many different types of trainers in the games an anime but never get to explore it for ourselves. The 3 routes are nice, but they all still end with you being pokemon champion, no alternative or additional endings, you still need to become champion to complete the game :/

Now that's a pokemon game I can get behind but it sounds too ambitious to be official

Mine is basically Pixelmon/Piarxark. You get to tame creatures in a wild environment you change as you wish with a story on the background.

No that’s a terrible idea. You want GTA in Pokémon. The Point of Pokémon is to become a trainer and catch ‘em all not go out looking for berries or become a nurse because you’ve played the game too many times. These are bad ideas your giving. You can’t open the game to do absolutely anything, why not open it to become someone who destroys Pokémon or someone who looks after the lakes - it just gets ridiculous. They should focus on game difficulty because the games are significantly easier now, better maps, improving postgames. Not offering ridiculous options that have nothing to do with the premis of the game.

If the sales continues so will this trend. We need one of these games to fail first. Or Atleast underperform, i don’t want that to happen but the fans will keep this going this direction

​@@Repaduski The fanbase has been conditioned to accept mediocrity and most revenue comes from merchandise rather than game sales. I think a true commercial failure would only come from a Sonic 2006 level fiasco several times in a row and by the time audience dissatisfaction is reflected in reduced profits, it would be too late to course correct.

@@katherinehertel1360 this is atleast a good start. We will only known what this did to gamefreak when the next game comes out or how the sales continue for this

I bet you they already hit their revenue targets. Any new dollar on top of this is a stronger signal for them to keep releasing low-effort games.

Sales was announced at 10 million already. They are just fine

@@Repaduski its not what he asked

At least my play-time is a lot because I wanted to explore everything, but I constantly get lost because the map is huge so I need to see the map. Honestly I think I have like... many, many hours left to finish it xD

@@enjoshi-godrez8775 i don’t doubt average play time is also fine. I’m sure plenty drop out in the first few hours

The sales record is being thrown around a lot atm as if it's some evidence that the game is actually fine and people should just ignore the issues. Initial sales are in no way an indicator of how good a game is though, they are only an indicator of hype. Like you say, i think the real indicator would be playtime and to some extent how many people come back and buy the DLC (although that will still have an element of hype to it as well)

Thank you. Really appreciate that

Reddit could learn a thing or two.

@@FalconFetus8 well, not really. But they should try, at least.

👍 I just find it sad you got barely 10 likes for telling the truth with such a rich and accurate comment. This should be top. Shows the state of mind of the naysayers around here that only like to join the -ve and misinformed bandwagon expecting Pokémon to look and run as detailed as eldin Ring as if they know this series. They're never Pokémon fans.

I find the school theme as a whole terrible so I will not in fact be taking classes I guess everyone has the thing they like about Pokémon games for me it’s exploring and Pokémon

@@angelicsailor1st for me it’s shiny hunting and I can’t even do that in this game

@@sumbunniii8721 They really should bring back the little jingle that PLA had imo

@@netweed09massive cope fanboy comment. People don’t expect it to look like Eldin Ring they expect it to run competently (which it doesn’t).

I hope they catch up soon. I think they will

@@Repaduski Gamefreak is so far behind technologically in skills and technology. The Switch successor will be more powerful than a PS4. Yet the next Pokémon games will likely look like early PS3 games.

Yeah after X and Y I was like well that's the closest we'll ever get to another Stadium game..

Exactly we need to speak about this. They won’t hear it because the sales are really good right now.

@@Repaduski The sales are good because, unlike fans of other games, Pokemon fans can't really just... not buy the next game. We love the pokemon themselves, and we can't experience the pokemon unless we play. Only Pokemon has pokemon, but other series have what other games have. It's a non-choice for those who love pokemon. It's frustrating for us too, and I don't know what can be done about this issue aside from eating up fan games.

@@cortster12 Just don't buy the games! not hard!

@@robokill387 And then get spoiled for the new pokemon before I have a chance to experience them in game, good joke. I already get spoiled by a new one every few days, I'm on the clock.

@@cortster12 guess… I haven’t played since X/Y since I didn’t like the gimmicks or many of the Pokémon designs. X/Y was awesome, my favorite. Mega evolutions was a really cool concept. I’m surprised they just cut it… And I’ve been playing since gen 1. I always follow the games, but haven’t been impressed enough to buy since X/Y. You always have a choice.

There is no way it’s the switches fault given the evidence. But yeah I guess you have the frame rate advantage haha. It’s business as usual

i’ve been lucky enough to only have performance issues in a couple of areas but this is the only switch game i’ve ever had crash on me before

They are fooling most people, look at all the Fan boys defending game freak for years while the do shit games since ORAS. The graphics get worse in every game the design gets worse and worse. ORAS was more detailed in character models on 3DS than all Pokémon switch games besides let’s go. Also how did they fuck up the graphics and design after let’s go?! It didn’t look perfect but was much better and much more fitting for the style of Pokémon. Game freak is just a shit company

Right? Like I have an older pc with an intel 4400 graphics card, and a DSL internet, so I'm used to buffering and lag. But this is ridiculous! The problem is not the switch's hardware (it can run games like XC3 and MHR with their heavy graphics requirements, and runs DQ11 at a very smooth framerate). The problem is they rushed a game out the same year they JUST released PLA (back in January).

@@roukerasati9611 Fr, I wish they'd have taken longer with this... I mean yeah, they have a three year thing they always do, but BD and SP came out like... last year I want to say? Maybe the year before? And then we JUST got legends Arceus earlier this year... we didn't NEED these games just yet, instead of rushing these out, they really should have taken the time to fix and polish them. Fix the frame rates, put a little more effort into the pokemon released for the game, focus on the smaller details as well! In some of the older, but more recent games, if you put a pokemon to sleep, their eyes would close, if you got a shiny to spawn, you'd usually hear it before you seen it... and what happened to being able to just sneak up on a pokemon and chuck a ball at them to catch them without battling like you could in Legends? Like I understand that feature in particular was more attributed to Legends because it was an older era, people were still afraid of pokemon and didn't necessarily want to just rush out at them and catch them like we do in modern day games, but that was *fun*, I'd have loved the option to keep doing it like that. The best feature they put into this game was the ability to let your pokemon walk with you again, but, that's reaaally finicky... it's so easy for yhe game to glitch and return your pokemon to you, and half the time your pre evolutions can't even keep up with you unless you're walking at a snails pace... the game really could have used more quality of life features, and it could have done with a lot more polishing, imo at least.

It’s honestly the biggest issue.

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This is true but given the age group they target the games towards and the fact most parents who buy these games for their kids don't tend to watch videos like this very much I don't see this changing a whole lot. Even if the older fans were to hold back. Not to mention other older fans who just don't care about graphics and such and just want more Pokémon.

You're never going to convince people to not buy the games. I've never had this much fun with Violent/Scarlet since the days of Black/White 2. Yes I admit there are issues which hopefully they'll eventually patch. I'm an older fan, been playing since Red and Blue first came out.

​@@BexstarDuck Pokemon and is too easy to pirate bro, shameful behavior. Shareholders dont give a damn about youtube comments or video reviews, it comes down to games sold. You dropped cash on a modern pokegame thats buggier than your original red and blue but "HOPEFULLY they'll EVENTUALLY patch it and give me the whole game i paid for". So cringe bro this is why nothing will change. Crazy Baka, for sure.

Simply not true, more people always makes things better. This isn't an issue of competency and I suggest you don't talk about issues you don't understand

@@tomatoprincess2709 my bad. Having a degree and career in video games development doesn't automatically give me a good insight in how games development works. Gotcha.

@Tomato Princess are you a moron? They have 150 staff they aren't a small team adding more people isn't going to fix problems if anything it'll introduce new ones.

Yup he was the only reason gold and silver made it on time

Thank you! My goal is always to look at where we are and address things from that angle versus making something super sensationalist

Finally, another actual contructive comment. 👍 Like it raining in a desert! A true Pokémon fan with an actual argument that isn't childish "gaMefreaK is laZy and bad I can dO betteR frOm my school desKtop raWr".

Agreed. I think bits of the optimization best practices missing since Iwata-san passed away started popping up when Pokémon Sun and Moon were released (I believe they fixed the issues in USUM, but why do a rerelease in the first place?).

@@netweed09 I mean, the opinion you're trying to present as unreleasonable isn't wrong, lol. The quality and scale of the game are pathetic for a big title.

Also you only get menus for stores and no fossil some things are just too rushed

Compared to SWSH, SV is much better in almost every department. However there are still a lot to work on be it graphically or story wise. The 3 stories were honestly super great, except the victory road one. The victory road story was so anti climactic, outside of Cayenn or Cyan or whatever, all the others were sooooo underwhelming, the amateurish league where they call each other to come forward in a room that is so f’ing bland, it makes you wanna throw up. It was decent pokemon wise but the league master despite looking super badass had the most boring pokemon roster and it was on the roof of the other bland room and NO PANTHEON PHOTOSHOOT???? Even Alola who had you as its first pokemon master and was a brand new league looked so much better and polished compared to the mess that the Paldean league was. The game had other problems but the league one, I just can’t get it out of my head.

@@TheLastEgg08 not throwing shade but I think the story was definitely rushed , I think they should of added a breeding storyline and made the gym leaders sync to your pokemon average would've been better, also missing fossils bug me alot but that's just me. Aswell as the menu only stores makes me feel they rushed this

I've been saying to a couple of my friends that the technical issues are one thing, but the biggest problem I have been having is that the games literally are not feature complete. Having an open world with 3 different story lines which you can do in any order is actually a negative in my opinion when the battles in the stories don't scale to your level. They would have been better off enforcing an order to complete the stories in but maintaining the open world. Another thing is like you mention, the character customization. There is so much detail included into how you can customize your character's face (many of which you literally cannot tell the difference between), and so many accessories, but you can only pick between 1 of 4 uniforms? It just doesn't make sense to anyone who has ever played any rpg game before, which presumably many of the people at game freak have. Also I feel like the world is empty and has no real character. For an open world game, you really need to have the open world be interesting, with different little secrets here and there that incentivize the player to explore for exploration's sake. Maybe I haven't encountered anything like this yet, but the world has the same feeling as BOTW, which is not a good thing considering BOTW takes place after a massive disaster and Hyrule is mostly a wasteland. Even the main city feels empty and boring, since despite its size, you literally can't go into any of the shops other than the salon? I haven't gotten too too far into the game as I mentioned, so maybe I'll change my mind by the end, but the technical issues, as bad as they are, don't take away my enjoyment of the game that much. I used to play PC games on a shitty old laptop, so i can deal with lag and bad resolution if I have to. The biggest and most concerning issue to me is that either game freak or creatures or whoever it is that ultimately makes the decisions on what each pokemon game becomes don't seem to actually understand how to make a good game at all if there is any deviation to the standard pokemon formula. They hear that fans want an open world, and so they make the world open, but make almost no other changes which are necessary to actually support the open world. Anyone at game freak who played any xenoblade game, or BOTW or ANY OTHER DECENT OPEN WORLD RPG must have known this, and yet they made the game in this way. Scarlet and Violet could have been the start of a renaissance for the pokemon franchise, they were clearly on the right path, but instead they were released as unfinished games, which might have some patches to fix bugs, but probably won't actually ever be truly finished. I have never been the guy to get into a big fuss when pokemon games are released and there are a bunch of issues, and to be fair I'm really not angry, the games are still fun. I'm mostly just confused as to how this could even have been approved as good enough and dissapointed that pokemon probably won't ever get the treatment it deserves unless nintendo steps in and does something about it (they have their own issues, but you can't say they won't make sure games are actually done before they release them, as they have shown with delaying release dates in the last few years)..

Anyone else actually play Xenoblade? You’re not supposed to scale to level. Unless you want a metered experience that doesn’t give you a real challenge. It’s all about expectations, of which it seems y’all didn’t know what you wanted

Honestly they could just stop releasing pokemon per year because they comprimise the quality at this point.

The reason they say to turn off auto save is because of situations involving shiny pokemon. Shinies are very rare (albeit not as rare as they used to be) and so if the game autosaves right after a shiny flees or you accidently KO it, then that really really sucks. By all means, keep the autosave if you're a more casual player.

@@lasercraft32 yeah no dear. There's softlocks and game breaking bugs, and even crashes, it isn't smart to turn it off right now.

@@glitter4686 Unfortunately that can also be a reason to turn autosave off. Because autosave can save you in a place where you've glitched to a point of no return.

@@glitter4686 I'd rather not be autosaved after a game breaking bug occurs, thanks.

Yep. I walked into a shop today and it crashed my game.

The fields aren't empty for me so I'm starting to think this must be a spawning bug for Pokemon. When I step into these areas, I can't escape Pokemon. I'm seeing a handful of people bring it up. I'm not getting these or any of the frame drops or other errors people are mostly reporting. But I am getting the occasional unkillable pokemon that you need a stat affliction to actually down them, even if my pokemon is ten levels above them. So I'm starting to wonder how deep the potential glitches can go.

@@jamie1602 oh starts that sounds horrible. especially considering when i play i dont tend to use stat effects. iv borrowed my friends copy and (without intentionaly trying) ran into floating pokemon, YEET away pokemon, pokemon falling off cliffs, hella mad camera clipping, physical clipping into the backrooms and having to reload a save(i knew the area was trouble so i saved before going into the cave) and the sun being a deadly laser. and thats WITHOUT trying to glitch

@@jamie1602 no way you arent getting frame drops, especially when docked.

Interesting point. I can't imagine it would have been complicated to add, but that also might be an idea that got cut out to make the release date. It makes sense lore-wise, and would make things feel more balanced.

no, the least they could have done was release a finished game... they couldn't even do that.

That's really where the open world nature breaks down for any RPG. The leveling system is at it's base a problem, as it limits any skill being applied. You can just grind and every challenge is overcome. But I do think making it so every gym is at the same level, then when one is beat they all scale up to a next set of levels, would be a possible solution for the uneven levels issue.

The virgin completing gyms in order, vs the chad using the many many glitches to go to the last gym first, beat that, then mock all of the gym leaders for being weak as their level 15 pokemon is just obliterated by your level 40. If these games won't give you an edgy rival, you must become the edgy rival.

Open worlds that scale with the player have always felt toothless to me.

The new video covers this aspect!

So deep, dude.

With legends arceus it's clear that deep down, they really want to make a good game, but their dev team lacks the skills and time. I really want to like scarlet and violet, but I'm just not gonna support a game this undercooked. They need to go and hire some people with the skills for high-end stuff, and drop the tight deadline system entirely. But alas, if people keep throwing their money at them no matter how bad it is, there's just not a motive to do so, and might aswell keep predating that mentality for their wallets.

Exactly, it’s sad because everything we have ever asked was almost all given to us but now they have technical issues

Indeed, very well put. 👍 Or just help from members of a more Experienced team. They have liaised with Monolith soft members before so I'm not sure why this wasn't done for this more substantial release.

What heart and soul? Lol i dont see any of that

I can take even 3D anime graphics similar to the Gal Gun games, although made by Inti Creates. Speaking of Inti Creates, they and maybe Code Mystics could port old Pokémon games with some new additions and bug fixes. Code Mystics ported the Neo Geo Pocket Color games, and they play great.

It always seemed like a no brained to me. But here we are haha

@@Repaduski I have been dying for a Monolith Pokemon game ever since I saw what they were able to do with BotW, not to mention the Xenoblade games ofc. Glad to see other people have the same thought

They had people Work on the wild area in SWSH

Just as long as they don't handle the story

Exactly this. They need time and experience. And monolith software if it was my call haha

More time is a huge issue, since their deadline has to go along with the TCG and anime series. That kind of constraint, without delays, is probably why they had to cut a lot of corners.

But it's sad because after release, that game received NO new content or additional support. It's a huge missed opportunity.

That’s because they are from those games! Haha. Great music

I only paid for this game to make this video without ignorance. Ive been voting with my wallet with Pokémon since 2014. This is frustrating to me even from the sidelines year after year lol

Did you ugys ever consider Pokémon isnt made for you anymore, since you know, youre older now?

@@matthewmammothswine4395 Did you ever consider we are talking about quality, so age doesen't matter? Clearly not

@@seileen1234 Do you think 10 year old kids give two shits about losing framerates for a half a second??

@@matthewmammothswine4395 Actually yes. But even if they didnt, i care about quality and consumer friendly practices. So i believe everyone, even kids, deserve functional product if they (or parents) paid for it. I paid 60 bucks and this game have the Nintendo Seal of Quality, so it's mandatory, not optional, having all that above.

Yeah that’s very very true

Exactly! Hardware is a tired conversation. Its Developer talent. They can be magicians if its the right team. Pokemon deserves so much more

That sucks so bad considering this was supposed to be the big one :/

It's sad because its actually kind of fun. But I would totally have rethought some of the choices they took with it. It's so empty feeling, cant enter most buildings, and cant even talk to npcs.

idk, for me, if i were a huge pokemon fan i wouldn’t buy this game as protest. the fans deserve better and their voices need to be heard-unfortunately, companies only hear with their wallets. if you are a true fan, hold off on buying the game until at least patches are released that fix some of the issues. this is what i did with ACNH, i was incredibly disappointed by all the features missing (that still are and will sadly never be added…) so i waited until the patches/dlc to finally buy it.

Yep, gamers need to understand and get past this "blame the buyers" mentality, already. It isn't conducive to anything other than sheer toxicity. We live in a highly consumerist culture that preys on people's wants, making it an almost inevitable likelihood that there *will* be consumption. So, it's ultimately useless to blame people for participating in that system that has only ever given them the expectation that they ought to have this, or that.

The problem, if Pokemon got their money, there's no incentive to do better. So yes, gamers should share some blame. I loved Pokemon since Gen 1 but I can't pull myself to buy these games and support a B-grade game that indie developers would polish better. I'm sorry.

How are all the people who bought this game dedicated fans when the number *increases*? The reality is that it's mostly normies jumping on the hype train, and most people don't think before they buy something. They just buy it because other people they know bought it, or they've seen lots of ads. That's how games like Destiny continue to get and keep players despite being utterly terrible and treating their own players like shit.

I don’t mind them ditching the route system I think it makes sense. But they need to offer more in their world then the same. All they did was expand the map so you can do the same thing in a larger space ya know?

@@Repaduski frankly all they needed to do was expand the route system to 3D. Dispite all the side paths and ways of transversal, as seen in the gen 5 games, the route system is still a single path on a two dimensional plane. The simple solution to evolving this system is just to make it three dimensional with a three by three grid, three vertical paths and three horizontal paths making a total of nine paths for the route that you could freely switch between with proper transversal. We say the beginnings of this in the incomplete X and Y games particularly in that mountainside coastal route that you can see the lower half from the upper half. This kind of evolved route system also lends itself to the puzzle box mentality that both Breath of the Wild in their divine beasts and Dark Souls in their level design are so fond of on top of being in a manageable space and with a system that they developed and mastered. In latter stages of this evolved route system you could even expand the scope of the puzzle box mentality to the routes throughout the region themselves, each affected others in various ways which not only makes the whole system feel more alive and natural but it also allows previous wasted mechanics such as seasons to make a return and be expanded upon. One of their biggest mistakes was throwing away what they had mastered in favor of something they knew nothing about instead of evolving what they knew to the next stage. That was simply a foolish decision. I would rather take refinement and natural evolution over an open space and tons of objectives if Scarlett and Violet, Sword and Shield, and Legends Arceus are the result. Granted I never liked the concept of an open world for pokemon to begin with and Gamefreak's results have not been changing my mind. Games like New Pokemon Snap, Colosseum, and Gale of Darkness also proves that the franchise never needed this concept and that the more linear pathways can be better for the game as a whole. Gamefreak left their exquisitely crafted sandcastles and landscapes to go chasing flying eggs without a way to catch them which has resulted in mediocrity. To me that is an incredibly foolish decision among a few others.

As much as we can dream, is not gonna happen, Gamefreak is really jealous of the Pokemon ip, if Nintendo asks them to get another studio to help, they are going to tell them to fuck off and that's it, after all Nintendo doesn't own neither Gamefreak nor the Pokemon IP, Nintendo only owns 30% of The Pokemon Company (30% Creatures and 40% Gamefreak) and ironically enough, The Pokemon Company doesn't own the rights to the Pokemon IP, they have the IP leased to them by Gamefreak

@@TheArcantosDraconian that’s interesting I didn’t know about that! Well it’s a shame, then I guess we are better get used to okay at 20 fps 😂😂

Okay, here’s a crazy idea: What if you got to choose what you wanted to be, as if trainer or breeder were character classes. Then keep the online co-op, and then, to some extent, Pokemon becomes slightly similar to DND or Savage Worlds.

It’s a max of 30 and more often then not in the 20s

I've had what felt like single-digit frames in a body of water, probably due to reflections in on the water surface.

Omg wow. Yeah that needs a lot of work then

1st song: Pokemon- Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky- In The Nightmare 2nd song - Pokemon- Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky- Welcome To World Of Pokemon :D

i haven't bought it yet, i was planning on it but just looks awful lol, still thinking about it and i don't think i care too much about graphics but idk lol

I'm renting it and I'm glad I didn't buy it. I'm used to fps issues but this feels more like an engine issue.

You're part of the reason they'll never change.

@@FlamingGnats I decided to give it a chance blindly, and I have other reasons why I decided to get it, but trust me when I say that I won't be doing that again, at least when it concerns Pokémon.

@@CodCats Honestly it feels pretty much like Sword/Shield (I haven't finished Sword yet). So if you played either of those I would advice you to not get it.

You would think scarlet and violet were the launch games and botw just came out