Yeah I don't understand it either. The game is gonna be piss easy. I don't wanna play tap A the game.
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Pokémon Sword and Shield: Spoiler, leaks and datamine thread (Discussion guidelines in OP)
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I was in the leak thread all weekend gushing about the designs and how amazing they were.
They're the only reason I've ever been positive about this game.
Echoing the sentiment elsewhere on this page: the top-tier creature designs are the only thing saving the game for me so far.
The issue is that Gamefreak is balancing around the exp share on, it's just their intended balance is ludicrously easy. It's not a mistake, it isn't a bug, it's literally working as intended because Ohmori and Matsuda think Kids are braindead
I'm personally very pleased with the rival from that snippet I just saw and I usually only travel around with three or four Pokemon so I guess that'll help with the blatant XY-dom of the difficulty.
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#ThankYouGameFreak for treating your fanbase like a bunch of children who are incapable of thinking for themselves, taking away options, and lying to our faces last year!
And everyone though we were being overly pessimistic when we didn't buy it.
Holy shit, I need to play that.Shame things have turned so sour, I cancelled my pre-order earlier this week thinking I'd get it at a launch event or from another retailer but now I'm half tempted to just... not bother. I never finished Ultra Moon, might just do that instead and pick up SwSh later.
Collosseum was basically a Pokémon version of Final Fantasy VII visually and I love it
You really shouldn't idealize people who you'd think would do more of what you want based on... what, exactly? It's just like with Morimoto. Involvement in something previous (or a completely different game) is no guarantee they'd do the same thing now. Especially since they're still involved in titles like this one. It feels like appropriating people who may or may not agree with you as "supporters" and appeals to authority.
If it's too hard people will just play games on their phones instead.
It will but Game Freak has heard the outcries from Veteran Pokemon Fans. The Casual Pokemon Fans will buy this in droves, the Hardcore fans not so much
Coliseum and it's sequel XD are great spin offs. Definitely try them if you can get your hands on them.
Building on this, I do think it's also very easy to get sucked into the idea that the games are easy based purely off a stream of the first few hours where the player is using pretty optimised Pokemon for the situations he's facing. Now, let me make this very clear, I'm not saying these games aren't going to be stupidly easy, in fact, I think they almost certainly are. But I also feel like if you watched some play-through the start of HeartGold/SoulSilver using the traded Onix, or Black 2/White 2 using Riolu and their starter you'd probably think they looked pretty easy as well. One thing is for certain though based off this stream, the Exp. Share in this state is not compatible with the way that the majority of players have played the games for 20 years. If you keep a consistent team of six Pokemon you're going to be over-levelled and it's not going to be fun. I suspect that the idea here, especially with the ability to now switch out from the Box on the go, is to encourage players to use a varied number of Pokemon. However, forcing players to ditch the playstyle that they've had ingrained into them for 20 years with no way of getting it back is pretty shitty.
Lol of course voice acting is needed. If they're going to keep this cutscene heavy focus in their games they need to have all of them voice acted. After all, aren't these games made for kids?
We don't know but I think the streamer has never swapped a Pokemon in battle So yeah it seems really really easy
Why not just let Nintendo make the main series for the hardcore fans and GF make smaller titles? The real problem is Gamefreak's management simply has no interest in investing in bigger budget projects and growing the studio because their incredibly simple games print money. In Gamefreaks mind: "If it aint broke, dont fix it.".
Yep, they aren't perfect, but you can really see that they put alot of heart into the game. 10+ years later and the pokemon animations are still top notch with some outclassing the efforts of Sword and Shield. Like look st the fainting animations:
Heck, more amazingly, each Unown has a unique faint animation.
Yes, it's level gated. 25 is max with 0 badges I believe. or something along those lines.
Basically, After Let's Go, Game Freak wanted to make a Game that appealed to long-time fans of the series aka veterens.
And the ones who have been critcising the game most are the Veterans/Long Time Fan of the series. While the game won't fail for the casual market and in terms of money. A lot of the Veterens thanks to the dexit controversy have denouced the game and have been opening criticsing it.
From Game Freak's perspective - they create a game they thought Veterans would like and it backfired.
What they can do is either try and make another game that appeals to long time fans despite knowing the backlash their previous game got or have a game like Let's Go that will appeal more to Casuals and Mobile Games. Which one do you think is more likely
I still can't believe that if they didn't bother to make a background for an area - and this includes inside a gym - you basically get teleported to a weird void and then when the battle is over, you're back wherever you spawned the battle. That low level of effort is something else. Funny how that hasn't shown up in trailers yet.
Yeah Diamond and Pearl were pretty trash overall. Platinum made it a better game.
tbf it was in the demo. We all just assumed it was not final footage though.
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