It's like other m when samus literally does none of the major things near the end of the game.
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An Overly Long and Critical Review of Pokemon Sword and Shield (Arlo)
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Thats not what the person was asking. The person clearly asked whether members of the board harassed devs, because every single time there's criticism, there's always "...but harassment happened."
like what is the point of bringing that up if people are making constructive and fair criticism? Are we supposed to shut up just because you're mad that a vocal minority of people from different websites harassed GF devs? It's irrelevant.
I'm not sure I'd call it frustrating personally. Like yeah the story isn't good but it's established in the opening moments that first and foremost, the adventure is about your own league challenge. Having the champion deal with the "serious" stuff was a pretty neat way to separate the "oh no the world is ending" legendary-oriented plots of previous games and the more minimalist story approach of the first gen.
Granted, with how rushed the climax was, gf would've been better off just not including that sort of conflict at all
If you like a video game, then like it, and don't let other peoples' opinions affect your enjoyment. These are just video games. A luxury. Not everyone is going to like everything, especially when it comes to a massive series like Pokemon.
I was debating on doing this myself. IT's hard to explain to people because the "pokemon battles" Have always been good and will continue to be awesome minus some complaints about the meta. It's the rest of the game that keeps getting worse.
The "story" is bad, the characters are bad, the world is bad and you can tell blatantly where features were cut or screwed over in production. I look forward to seeing his complete breakdown. Watching now.
The "story" is bad, the characters are bad, the world is bad and you can tell blatantly where features were cut or screwed over in production. I look forward to seeing his complete breakdown. Watching now.
What sucks is that there's plenty of ways we could branch out as shown in the animes, including how they handle gyms, to make it less about world battles and let people pick their routes (Breeder/Professor/GymLeader/etc). There's so much potential to the pokemon IP and that's why it makes literal boat loads of cash. I just wish it felt like the game tapped into that.Shit, what about the ten year old that prevented the destruction of the universe?
All I've seen from this dude is 45+ minute long videos of a puppet hating nintendo games. What a weird world we live in.
I'm on his boat, the last game I played was Platinum, and I jumped into Sword and Shield expecting it to be fresh, but I was disappointed. Pokemon fans have told me that Sun and Moon were better, so maybe I should try them out.
Pretty much all the games since gen V have been a mixed bag personally.
...does Arlo even have any non-BotW videos on his channel over 45 minutes long?
Don't think so. And I like that he's tackling longform content. It says a lot more than the usual thumbs up or thumbs down that 10 minute vids do.
His BOTW review got a lot of positive feedback so I hope he continues down this road. It tackles all the content in the game, goes in depth and explains his points. I'm really happy that his content is leveling up. You'd expect him to not say anything critical of Nintendo but I'm happily surprised that this video addresses most of my complaints.
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Apart from direct reaction videos as they happened, nope.
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So one Zelda video, and a pokemon video that came out yesterday that's under 45 minutes?
look all I know is this dude only makes videos about nintendo games and when I click on them they're really long and he seems annoyed and also he's a puppet. I find it strange, our modern world of game critique. That's all
So you didn't actually watch the video then and came here to shit on Arlo? Cool.
FYI, he's complained about how his more negative videos tend to do better. He has plenty of positive videos, but I guess the algorithm prefers to show him when he's negative.
Can't say I'm surprised when someone in this thread called Arlo "trash" for criticizing a game they like.
There's plenty of real "trash" pos people on YouTube. A puppet doing friendly reviews on Nintendo games is not one of them.
For illustrative purposes (i.e. since folks are too lazy to watch), I'll just quote the video:
"Many people have accused Game Freak of being lazy, but what I see here doesn't look like the work of someone who just didn't feel like making the game nice. What I see is a game where as much was done as possible with a strict time limit. [...] If my entire review could be summed up in one word, it's rushed." [20:00]
"Many people have accused Game Freak of being lazy, but what I see here doesn't look like the work of someone who just didn't feel like making the game nice. What I see is a game where as much was done as possible with a strict time limit. [...] If my entire review could be summed up in one word, it's rushed." [20:00]
Huh? Nitro Rad mainly reviews PS2 games and has a fairly critical review of Sunshine. Do you even know wtf you are talking about?
not really? to think something is bad and wanting things to be better isn't the same as not liking it and wishing it was doing something else entirely
Seriously, where the fuck did this idea of Arlo being down on Nintendo this year come from?
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People who can't take any criticism of first party Nintendo output.
Lol, I'm not mad about it, it's just a really weird thing for you to say. Console warring about consoles decades in the ground is a bit odd.
Derailing is calling out arlo as a gamecube famboy when this has nothing to do with it.
You mean like starting the conversation about Arlo being a Gamecube fanboy in the first place?
The first page or so in this thread is straight up from a different dimension. Stopped checking after that.
Arlo has some good points others haven't brought up. Really makes it obvious how slapdash parts of this game was designed, even if you assume the game was made this way to maintain the ancient original GameBoy experience and if your target demo is 8 year olds.
Edit: Alright 8 pages in and the same shit is apparently happening. You are all bad and wrong.
Arlo has some good points others haven't brought up. Really makes it obvious how slapdash parts of this game was designed, even if you assume the game was made this way to maintain the ancient original GameBoy experience and if your target demo is 8 year olds.
Edit: Alright 8 pages in and the same shit is apparently happening. You are all bad and wrong.
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This is true but I wonder if the same will happen if they make another mainline game on the Switch.
Not saying it won't sell well but I wonder if there will be a significant drop off even though the install base continues to grow.
It's pretty baffling when he tries to stay on the positive side of things and makes tons of positive videos and videos that aren't necessarily positive or negative. Even his negative videos he tries to stay as fair as possible.
He mentioned everything wrong with the game halfway through the video. The game was rushed and Game Freak simply doesn't have the time to implement and flesh out their ideas. The DS days are long gone :(
Games are getting harder to make and the higher ups want nearly yearly releases to coincide with lots of other stuff like the anime and merchandising.
And others seem unreasonably annoyed with a muppet. Not sure one's better or worse than the other.People are in here caping for a muppet?
God no. Voice acting would make the slow intros and repetitive story structure of Pokemon 10 times worse. It's much quicker to just read the text and in a game like Pokemon that's more than adequate.