I honestly can't get over the fact that their solution to not wanting to design interior battle areas wasn't just to move those battles to an outside area, but to just have you battle in the fucking void instead.
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Pokémon Sword & Shield Spoiler, Leak and Datamine Thread 2 | Page 401 (Update: Datamining has begun)
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To be fair the series wouldn't exist without those investors, and them making a return isn't a bad thing. I'm more worried about how GF isn't being a good steward of the franchise and I believe will slowly run it into the ground as they keep depleting goodwill with each launch.
"Video game franchise exploits IP with repeated cash grabs for short-term returns -> IP is now worth less long-term" is a tale as old as time. Just ask Atari
It honestly wild to me that they don't even do balance patches. The 3DS was perfectly capable of that
Well I guess selling a 40$ balance patch is an option too
Gamers will pay money and take time off of work to watch video game press conferences and get advertised to.
It's like the Animus loading zone from Assassin's Creed but instead of being a mindless time-killer while the game loads it's where the primary gameplay takes place.
It isn't even just random battles either! So far, the ones we've seen like this are a battle against the evil team grunts, a battle against one of your rivals, and every single battle within a gym. It's ONLY important battles that take place in the void like this.
They all skip over that obvious conclusion and head to that gosh darn cultural marxism and PC culture that are really causing their problems instead. Somehow
Presumably GameFreak is a publicly traded company and is beholden to their stockholders. A company's purpose under capitalism is to grow every year over the last. So they can't really be a "good steward" if the stockholders believe releasing a subpar game to tie in with merchandise and anime is more profitable than delaying it.
The gym trainer battles taking place in a colored void is baffling considering they already have the stadium modeled and these are battles that only take place in 8 separate interiors in the game that every player is guaranteed to go through in the main campaign. This was jarring in the demo and it's still jarring now, especially since we've seen Milo's gym.
Do you really think people are that dumb that they will buy games just because of the Pokemon in it and nothing else? In that case, then why isn't Game Freak more forthcoming about who's in the game?
Your "theory" is pure unadulterated nonsense. Would help that you don't look at everything solely with a business lens.
This is a really great point, and I'm glad someone pointed it out.
Really, if anything, Game Freak is putting far too much effort into the video games, considering how low the ROI is. What's the point in shelling out billions of yen for AAA production quality when a bunch of entitled whiners are going to mock you anyway? It'll sell the same regardless, and it's just a distraction from merchandising.
In fact, why even bother making video games to begin with? I'm sure the merch on its own will sustain the franchise's profits for years on end. No screwing around with metagames, no pesky technology, and of course, none of this kvetching from these pitiful gamers. It's out of the goodness of their hearts that such a useless product as a video game is released, and frankly, these so-called "Pokémon fans" don't deserve them, especially at the cost of efficiently milking the cash cow.
Isn't Gamefreak privately owned? So they have no shareholders?
Ok, watched the gif showing trainers disappearing to see what the fuss was about. My god, if that is how it is Friday lol. Was pretty down on this game til the new mons leaked and got hyped with all the new designs, but now Im back to worried about the quality.
Fair enough, but someone has shares in the IP and is driving this. A series that regularly sells 15 million has investors. Whether it's Nintendo, GameFreak, TPC, Creatures, etc.
Especially comparing it to titles like DQ8 which at least managed to have interior backgrounds for its battle arenas...
That's why my suggestion has always been that they need another team to work on games simultaneously. I know it's unreasonable to ask for fewer Pokemon games just like it's unreasonable to ask for fewer Marvel movies — they just make too much moolah. But at the cost of a moderate increase in expense making the game (compared to the revenue they bring in at least) they could double the amount of time each team has to work on each title which would really help in not releasing these shoddy products. Nintendo as a whole's business model is centered around being smart and not devaluing its IPs for short-term gains, and that's partially why Game Freak's approach sticks out like a sore thumb among other Nintendo published titles
Okay so I understand that Game Freak doesn't want to drown out the music, but the crowd noise is way way way way way too low in the gym battles.
Makes the gym feel completely dead.
Makes the gym feel completely dead.
We live in a capitalist society, the shareholders don't care about making the best Pokémon game ever. They only care about making as much money as possible quickly as they can and without spending any money.
Yes the main series needs a longer development time but unfortunately due to the nature of the Pokémon IP, that is not going to happen.
That is just straight up false;
X and Y patches update notes,
Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire patches update notes;
Sun and Moon Patches update notes;
Ultra Sun and Moon Patches update notes;
Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee;
Also Ruby and Sapphire also got patch updates to fix the berry glitch and the Japanese Diamond and Pearl also got patch updates to fix the glitch where the player could use surf in door to surf out of bound and get themselves trapped.
The third gym leader looks like he might have a more difficult team, but Dynamax water moves trivialize it. It literally makes it rain, lol
Shouldn't Fire Dynamax moves do the same but with Sunny Day?
Honestly is there any reason the games can't just be released after the TCG and anime launch? In fact, that might even build anticipation for the games if they release 6 months to a year afterwards if you think about it.
So, I remember a lot of people speculating that the first train station had additional detail in the past few months:
Going back to the stream footage (27:54) these details appear to not be there, so I think it's just a different station. One could argue it's a passage of time but that doesn't explain the mural.
Going back to the stream footage (27:54) these details appear to not be there, so I think it's just a different station. One could argue it's a passage of time but that doesn't explain the mural.
Yeah its odd... how hard is it to come up with like... a handful of generic battle areas. "Grass area, there are rocks around its amountain area, etc etc"
So, I remember a lot of people speculating that the first train station had additional detail in the past few months:
Going back to the stream footage (27:54) these details appear to not be there, so I think it's just a different station. One could argue it's a passage of time but that doesn't explain the mural.
oops. might have to delete a few tweets now LOL. This is really bizzare though. Literally identical but one has more asset density than the other.
He didn't get to do one. Got one-shotted by the Dynamax water move.
Wait doesn't the Gym Leader Dynamax their Ace as soon as they're sent out?
Wasn't the whole point of the bickering in the past few months, that there would have been upgrades to models and animations?
So, I remember a lot of people speculating that the first train station had additional detail in the past few months:
Going back to the stream footage (27:54) these details appear to not be there, so I think it's just a different station. One could argue it's a passage of time but that doesn't explain the mural.
This reminds me of the FFXV retro diners
Oh c'mon nooooooo :(
Not expecting but I was told about a hundred times that those would be completely new models with new rigs etc which after some time I believed in cause all those Pokemon experts and game developers told me.
Bah.
It's not the first time. The Celadon hotel in Pokemon Red/Blue is a copy/pasted Pokemon Center, to the point of having an invisible PC.
Yeah, the first turn, but his ace is a medium-slow Pokemon.
I finally saw the Nessa fight.
...Honestly that seemed fine? People overreacted way too much, lol.
...Honestly that seemed fine? People overreacted way too much, lol.
But I thought Dynamax would activate before moves would happen. Did the streamer Dynamax as soon as the battle started or when the Ace was sent out?
Yeah I don't blame people for thinking it was the same location with more detail. I thought so too especially cause the 'text' is the same, but it may just be Galarian for 'Station' or 'Departure' and not an actual in-game location name.
Maybe a different station? It is weirdSo, I remember a lot of people speculating that the first train station had additional detail in the past few months:
Going back to the stream footage (27:54) these details appear to not be there, so I think it's just a different station. One could argue it's a passage of time but that doesn't explain the mural.
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This thread is toxic and seems mostly full of armchair game designers rather than actual Pokemon fans.
People who praised despite the odd music and quirks of DQ13 Original are not giving GF the same leniency.
I'll just say it. GTS has been potentially removed.
Only options on the trade menu are wonder trade and Link Trade like in let's Go. Streamers have not used them for fear of Nintendo ninjas so there's a small glimmer of hope that it might be behind Link Trade.