I am honestly having a way better time in Sword/Shield than in Scarlet/Violet.

In SV we should have had a raid with Nemona Penny and Arven when we went to area 0.

SWSH is boring but finished. Scarlet and Violet are interesting but insulting. I still am baffled they released a game that preformed this poorly and have changed essentially NOTHING and made really NO COMMENT on the state of the game's terrible performance. Instead they offer us more DLC which is probably gonna be just as buggy/laggy.

Still blows my mind that people think sword/shield weren’t good. They were some of the best games we’ve gotten in the franchise.

Gen 9 maybe open world but is barren and the pokemon sizes are negligible compared to pla. Honestly i dont see the next update fixing framerate if at all so we will stay like this till the end of the generation

I recently bought pokemon sword after playing through violet and having some competative battles, etc, and I loved the vibrant colors of pokemon sword, the music, the graphical style i thought was missing while playing violet, I know because while I had lots of fun playing Violet, it wasn't impressive for anyone else onlooking, this kind of felt odd, and not that it matters really - I did think that the finished product of sword and sheild really adds to the experience. but even sword and sheild got lots of criticizms. I guess gen 10 will be something incredible.

For me it boils down to what is worse: a boring game or a broken game. Gen 8 may be technically superior however it is so bland and boring. Gen 9 has some of the worst glitches and bugs I’ve ever seen in a game but it’s core gameplay is fun and I’ve had fun the entire way through, so gen 9 all the way

Sword and shield are still better in my opinion because scarlet and violet are unfinished. It may have more content and be more fun to play, but they lack quality and optimization.

The thing that upsets me the most is that I can't name 1 single town or area other than Area Zero. Everything in this game just felt, lacking in every sense of the word. It's worth noting I have over 100 hours so it's not like I haven't played the game.

So right now would it be worth buying scarlet or sword? Just got a switch about 2 weeks ago and i already beat legends arceus main story, the "post game" is kinda boring just catching pokemon to complete the dex. slighty disappointed with arceus but have loved the gb gba ds and 3ds pokemon games. Is it worth buying both sword and scarlet or would one be better to get sonner than later like for events or support from nintendo. Also not super excited about buying dlcs.

SV are still worse than SWSH, since SWSH accomplished what it proposed itself to be, while SV didn't. Yes, SWSH didn't have open world, but that's because it wasn't the intention, as the games have always been like that. And while I see the point for texture on models, most of them look completely out of place (for example, when a pokemon design indicates a certain leaf design but the texture is just standard leaves pattern, like Rilaboom) and caused the game to look lifeless, desaturated and overall ugly when trying to reach the realistic design. Pokémon was made to look cartoonish, not realistic, and SWSH delivers that perfectly with vibrant and bright colors, 3D Models that look directly extracted form the Anime, and beautiful scene composition. One of my biggest complaints with SV (despite it looking like a dry bush in a desert) is the pokedex. Galar is a british-inspired region and the pokémon you find there are the most british they can get; Tea pokemon, Raven pokemon, JAMES BOND STARTER!!!!, you got the point. Paldea is Iberian-inspired, which means Portugal and Spain, but it barely has any references in its pokedex to those places.Not in the starters, not in the legendaries, not even in the human characters but that's a whole other topic. We went from JAMES BOND, SOCCER and ROCK to magician cat, egyptian crocodile singer and a carnival-like duck. I mean, seriously? There are some references to Iberia in the dex, but they're either a few or subtle. Smoliv, Lechonk, Fidough? Yeah, those fit. Egyptian scarab, egyptian ostrich, and rpg soldier? WHY?! SWSH proposed itself to be a british pokemon game that looks like the anime, it was accomplished. SV, in the other hand, propsed itself to be an Iberian pokemon game with different gameplay that looks more realistic with textures and a new open world. But it was not Iberian enough, the new gampleay had and still has MANY problems and bugs that will never be fixed because the switch CANNOT support their intentions, with textures that have a huge probability of not matching what the pokémon's design is intending to be, and an ugly and unfinished open world that, once again, cannot be supported by the switch. SV is still a huge step in the franchise, bringing the open world, the textures, the many-story-gameplay, but, sadly, it was completely half baked probably due to Nintendo's and TPCi's urge to release a new game every 3 years even if it compromises the entire integrity of the game. The only times this game looks good is when you're inside some building because then the switch isn't forced to overload itself and can actually fully render the room.

Both games are bad. Arceus was the step in right direction.

My biggest gripe is the map. Everything is on the map, but the Zoom in and Zoom out doesn't allow you to actually see where you are going efficiently. You have to Zoom out to see where the Team Star bases are. You can't set your destination while Zoomed out. In fact, you cant even pinpoint the location of a Team star base beacuse the curosor wont stay in the same place it was in when it was Zoomed out. This make the only rematch option of Team Star bases that much more annoying to memorize the locations of.

The gameplay mechanics of Legends Arceus was the PERFECT system to build upon for mainline games. . . I hope Gen 10 embraces the Legends mechanics but refine them while optimizing the open world and give us a good story and content comparable to BW2, and HGSS

idk what everyone thought i had so much nostalgia playing through sword

Sword and shield are not a good memory, gen 9 would be alot better of the game wasn't released in such an unfinished state

Sword and Shield are better games. Get over it haters.

I think wingull actually looks nicer hovering, plus most birds in real life fly as self-defense so it makes sense that the bird pokemon are grounded for their base animation and flying for their battle animation

Still, it would have been better if the Pokémon games are made with 2D anime graphics. There is potential for plenty of content, smoother gameplay, and stable physics when using the said graphics.

The only real thing bothering me is that lack of a battle tower

Reasons why people hate newgen pokemon games: Nostalgia Mega evolution

Someone should do a versus series comparing generations on the same console (4 vs. 5, 6 vs 7, and 8 vs 9)

Nah bad take. These games are objectively worse than sword and shield. I'm not talking about the current graphical state either. S&V are literally just a big open map with very little content and interesting locations to discover while exploring. Very little character customization - why did they ever bother with it? No poke centers, no pokemarts. You can only enter between 10 to 15 buildings IN THE ENTIRE GAME. Every other building loads you into a jpeg menu screen. These games are literally unfinished and being sold for $60 USD. If these games were actually finished before they released with way more content, then yes, they would way better than Sw&Sh Sorry rant over. Done venting. Have a good day.

Tbh This is the first time i've heard people say swsh is better

this sound like cherry picking positives and your argument is also like this "if you ignore the game then its amazing", swsh are one of the worst pokemon games out there but at the very they were somehow more functional than sv

it’s also got BIKE POKEMON

It’s Been A year & the Game Still Glitches 🤷🏻‍♂️

Other than the actually great music in SW/SH, the dumb sandwich required for eggs generation, the bonkers - totally unbalanced 6 star raids and the already infamous visual and performance issues, totally agree... S/V are much better, specially the story and characters.

This video aged poorly tbh I tried to enjoy SV for the past months, but the very fact that the whole area is just empty, towns are meaningless as are npc's, exploration has little to no reward and items were places randomly without any thought put into it The very starting town of SwSh has more soul than whole map of SV

Wrong? How could I be wrong about a product I won't buy because it's garbage?

Yah i will take less detail to have better game play. Graphics are not that high on my list compared to good controls and good game olay that and the game being functional. This and swsh didnt have any of that.

so basically, it's a good game that's badly made according to the video. Shame, since maybe if it had the time to be polished, it could probably be great.

I mean its all subjective in the end but I enjoyed both

So what I’m hearing is, more detail = better everything. And that SW/SH should have known and used Arceus as a template even though it didn’t exist. GTF Outta with this. S/V should have expanded on the ideas of Arceus, not bastardized it.

The only reason why I miss sw/sh is the customization options, the characters, and the fact that you’re an actual trainer and not a student

Wingull and salamence both land quite often, what-

Thank you for explaining this for everyone, Because I do LOVE gen 9 and HATE Sword and Shield.

As someone who has over 200h of Pokemon SV. No. Your whole argument is that they set out to do new things and that's why it's better. Just trying isn't enough, they tried and FAILED. It's not better, it's worse. Especially when comparing to PLA, this game should be like PLA but better, and they did PLA but worse. The textures are all generic and copy paste, the colors are washed out again, it just doesn't look good. They shouldn't have released something that they couldn't have accomplished in the given time, they should have delayed the game or figured it the fuck out. The concept of open world games is NOT new, there has been many open world games in the past. They had resources to learn about this things and figure out the challenges. The story and characters of this game are great. They had a lot of elements to make this amazing. What they lacked was very likely, time. Time and people. The management of the game was bad and it shows

I dont know which i like better but i think its scarlet beceuse igot it for christmas and just tost it away so im going to play it again

Is it better than xy?

I like violet but it isnt on the Same level of Swsh

I don’t wanna have another sonic 006 situation

0:01 WHAT THE FUCK!? I've been playing since launch, and I've NEVER encountered this at all! How did you even get the game to DO THAT??!!!

SWSH are soooo boring and same like every game we can't even jump from small places man SV are the bestest game of allll time people are just exaggerating things to make SV to look bad while in fact they are best

I am deathly afraid that the devs will view this game's criticism as a sign that their gameplay experimentation was a failure, rather than the fact that the game was simply buggy and ran like sh*te

I agree so much! Legends Arceus and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet were so good! I don’t get why people are saying “oh, scarlet and violet were so bad omg omg lol.” God I hate when people,are acting like that and are underrating good pokemon games! This was a open world game! What else do you want? They added a new type, new Pokémon and even a new move in a dlc for scarlet and violet! Why are you underrating Pokémon games?! This annoys me so much.

As a BBND it's a trash vs garbage thing

The problem is gamefreak I would rather play leafgreen and fire red then any new gen Pokémon

IMO it's not even close. Sword and Shield were all around terrible boring bland games. Scarlet and Violet were actually fun and by far the best Pokemon games since at least the last 4 generations. Honestly, they're probably the best Pokemon games ever. I guess it's just me, but the low frame rate barely effected how much I enjoyed the game at all.

Me going everywhere to decide to get Sword or scarlet or let's go eevee........... lll get Arceus regardless

They not going to patch the game at all that’s what I think about Nintendo

its ok to be incorrect swsh is the second best gen ever to release after gen 5 and its especially better then that trash HGSS and garbage platinum

Honestly, due to how buggy and broken the game is, is so funny and bad that I love it more than Sword and Shield because of that alone. At least for Scarlet and Violet, it's funny and has some pokemon I like in it. For sword and shield, there's a couple pokemon I like and that's about it. Under polished and it's boring.

Sword and shield is better in every way.

Dude. Galar was visually stunning and livelier than ANYTHING in Paldea. NO CONTEST. I think that Pokemon should stick with what they used to make their FIRST SWITCH GAMES feel as polished as they are with future games. I don’t think open world can work unless they get MORE TIME. What fix what isn’t broken? Aside from that, I can remember more characters and bigger plot points in Sword than I did Scarlet. To say this definitively doesn’t sound like you tolerate other opinions

Sword and shield is trash compared to gen 9 idc what people say I been playing since gen 1 and this has been so fun to play since emerald and crystal

Sometimes rinsing and repeating is the best thing to do. Yes change is constant but then you have to access the change. Honestly, Sword & Shield is better than Scarlet & Violet. Trying to make Pokémon lifelike is taking away from the anime. Take a look at the basic Pokémon, Picachu in Scarlet & Violet then compare it to what you see in the anime. It’s embarrassing. If you have been playing this game for years, you play it for nostalgia and to compete with unique strategies. God damn man, this game sucks. Yes the story is good but everything else sucks.

violet sucks they gotta over hall Pokémon at this point no goals and no sense on prepose just boring

0:15 ah ah, nope

I love sword/shield more than scarlet/violet

Your the one who's wrong, the games get significantly worse as they keep coming out the story in this game is absolutely horrible and don't worry it won't be the worse for long when gen 10 comes out it will be the second worse and then gen 12, 13, 14, and so on it won't be the worse

Good games, bad games, that is the perception of selfish people. Gamers should play with their favourites.

I have both out of my top 5 pokemon games list anyway. Not even top 10 if we count spin-offs. They are both mediocre. The cities in SV are the worst of all time, they look like an alpha version.

Pokémon X and Y

Pokemon Scarlett and violet is blurry af anytime you move the camera its choppy it jist all around looks like dog shit and camt even play it without getting a headache and the fact people will defend this Garbage seriously blows my mind, i dont care what anyome says arceus and sword were the way better games.

The models being detailed isn't really a point in favour of Scarlet and Violet, it's actually a contributor to their poor performance on the switch! But I agree on the whole with it being better than SWSH

still disagree with the video and i either not played sonic 06 and sonic frontiers pokemon game

I'm not playing scarlet and violet because all the pokemon are ugly

Bugs aside, the game is downright boring. The story stops after 5 minutes and all you have left to do is try and fight gyms/titans/team star with your underleveled pokemon, fail miserably, spend hours levelling up your pokemon, fight more, and then thsts literally it

Sword and shield are better and I'll prove you wrong. Sword and shield are more replayible, looks better, better routes, better new pokemon, better animations take a look at what violet did to Pyro ball, better characters, better gyms, better music, better champion, better towns, better legandarys, the only thing violet has on Sword and shield is open world and pokemon textures

sword is better

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