You can't catch the pokémon that are over your level in the wild area if you don't have the right badge
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Pokémon Sword and Shield | Review Thread (READ STAFF POST)
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You put a pokemon up for trade and request another pokemon. It's not convoluted, it's extremely simple and straightforward
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Or maybe people are just salty that the game is being reviewed like any other Pokémon game.Review by IGN with 9.3/10 "amazing" score on youtube have 3k likes and 3k dislikes. Guess people disagree.
I completed the pokedex in SM for the first time using GTS.
The road to first gym takes time , like 2-3 hours then it's basically gym after gym non stop with basically non existent lore or story. At 11-12 hour I have got 5 badges. And yes Pokemon level up quickly too, I don't remember having 40level Pokemon in 12 hrs in earlier games
Monastary was the worst running area in the game, around 20-25 FPS on a constant.
Any TM that was worth a damn, ie Flamethrower, Ice Beam, T-bolt, etc, was turned into a single use item thats put behind raid grinding
I used the GTS all the time and never heard much in the way of complaints about it
It's only now that it has been cut that people are saying it's been bad all along
It's only now that it has been cut that people are saying it's been bad all along
so what i said was factually correct, but somehow false information ?
People expected more from one of the biggest franchise in the world.
Persona 5 is literally PS3 games in 2017 and it reviewed well. FE Three House is not graphic powerhouse either and it reviewed well.
There's no stuff to do. It's just going out of your way to battle a wild Pokémon that you can't even catch. Then if you do beat it you'll get so much EXP the main game will be even more trivially easy.
I'm pleasantly surprised some outlets are willing to go in on it as hard as they have.
It worked better if you put up your own Pokémon. Plenty of people willing to do Haunter for Haunter or Karrablast for Shelmet, basic things like that.
By FE's "stagnation" do you mean the period where it had its two best selling games ever, with Awakening being the best rated entry ever?
They only "changed" in the next game because they felt like it. Not sure if Gamefreak will do that.
Yes, but it's still well within the Pokémon average. We're talking 1, 2 point differences.
The range is 76 to 88.
Speaking of Fire Emblem the head character designer for Awakening and Fates designed Pokemon in this game.
Not sure who but they're in the credits as Pokemon Designer.
Notably while Sugimori oversaw the designs it seems he didn't design any of them this time around.
Not sure who but they're in the credits as Pokemon Designer.
Notably while Sugimori oversaw the designs it seems he didn't design any of them this time around.
Yes? Having to exchange friend codes and schedule times to be online to trade with specific people is a pain in the ass. With GTS I just list a sensible offer and get a trade within an hour.
GTS and TMs wouldn't be things identifiable as "problems" during a review playthrough, or even Dexit. Those are things that become noticeable after months (the seventh time you've grinded the same TR or the lack of long term content, etc)
You are undercutting what the opposing side is actually saying:
- It is not actually polished: There are areas that do not have a day/night cycle and other areas that do. The game world freezes when you climb ladders. The game has massive pop-in and framerate drops. The game also has been shown to crash during some dynamax/Gigantamax battles for no reason.
- It is unbalanced: NPCs can kill dynamax pokemon in max-raids ALONE. You get healed at literally every corner of the game now.
- They lied: They told us, repeatedly, that the dex cuts were due to new animations and models. Both have been hard disproven. They are the same models from the past 2 gens and the same animations from Sun/Moon. Massively advertised Dynamax being this new feature and you can only use it in Raids and Gym battles. Not even trainer battles.
- They cut a ridiculous amount of features: Megas, Z-moves, GTS, 500+ pokemon, any reasonable form of post-game, triple, air, and rotation battles still have not returned.
This almost has nothing to do with graphics or look at all. I could tell you a 100+ more things but if this doesnt get my point across, idk what will. Im frankly disappointed at the number of people hating on those who are criticizing a game they actually want to love.
Gamefreak cuts corners and gets appreciated for it due to the fact that it IS pokemon. If it was any other franchise, it would be dumped into the ground for the same issues.
Should we count third versions for the range? They usually review lower than their counterparts, even if they're better game most of the time
Yes. That's what makes me at least slightly hopeful - that people are saying that it's not up to the standards of even Gens 6 and 7, and that some people are starting to lose patience with the current state of the series.
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Reviewers didnt pay $60 to play this. Let's keep that in mind.
GTS is basically a marketplace. You can either look up a Pokémon you want to trade for, or put a Pokémon up you want to trade and what you want for it. It made getting the version exclusives easy. They removed it. They did not add in an alternative.
Glad to hear it's good. Obviously some missing features are a bummer, but I'm still excited to play through it.
It's online trading. You put the pokemon you have for trade and set what you want.
It's that. It's easy to explain.
I finished Ultra Moon like two months ago, since it's like 2 years old I expected to have trouble with GTS and trading for version exclusives, I didn't ask for anything unreasonable and got the Pokémon I wanted within an hour
Good point - but I'd blame that on Game Freak/Nintendo/whoever decides who gets a review copy. Perhaps they should've made sure someone got a copy to review who you would deem a core fan but who can recognize the series' faults.
They're only reviewing the game for what it is, not for what it's not. If a lack of older Pokemon didn't hamper their enjoyment, why should it be brought up in their review?
Statements like that also tend to leave out what they ADDED - which to me is far more important when you're discussing a new game.
What a well put together summary. Very honest recommendation at the end, too.
Hey, CaVaYeRo! I remember you from the Revogamers days! :P
They review like sports games and always have. You can play pokemon/basketball/football and there's a roster update with some new options added and some old options taken out. Some good players retired but that's ok.
You want to argue semantics with me? This game has tons of missing features from the previous entries. This game is a sequel. That is the very definition of cut content. It is EXTREMELY fair to compare this game with its predecessors.
Was this a place in a separate building you had to go to in black and white? Honestly I hated it and most of the design of black and white. It felt like a bunch of disparate features just added on top of the basic Gameboy game, with no real integration. Which is part of the reason I dropped the game a few hours in
Okay, so then why are people getting angry over them not being mentioned in these reviews?
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There are TMs, but they removed like 90% of the most powerful moves and relegated them to something called TRs, which are basically 1-use TMs like the old games that you have to grind in max raids to get randomly.
How the heck is what is essentially Pokemon Gumtree hard to explain? GTS isn't that hard to understand.
They literally had interviews on the divide of the community and explicitly stated 3H was inspired by Genealogy.
Criticism from long-time fans absolutely matters and Intelligent Systems done phenomenally in bridging the gap between the long-time and newer casual fans.
if it keeps rising at this rate it'll be at 98 by tomorrow morning
But it's not a sequel? It's a new Pokemon game for a new generation - isn't that what every Pokemon is supposed to be?
It's certainly fair, but I don't think it'd be fair in reviewing this game for what it is - I don't see how that makes any sense - especially considering I wouldn't consider it a sequel, at all. There are very clear examples of when Game Freak has done sequels for Pokemon games.
It's basically a request for a specific Pokémon that you wanna trade (you must have seen it before if I recall correctly) while offering a Pokémon you willing to trade it for. You upload the pokemonvand if there is a match, the trade will be done when you connect back.
It's pretty good. There is also another random trade where it's a wild world lol, I received shiny and legendary pokemon with my common pokemon. Pretty sure most pokemon are hacked and uploaded though.
If the missing features hurt the game, make the case though that lens. Without that framing, i can't tell if cutting it was a good or bad decision.
Plenty of fans complained about changes to Zelda in botw. Many of those changes made the game infinitely better
80 mc thoughif it keeps rising at this rate it'll be at 98 by tomorrow morning
Me when I see XY on store shelves:
THIS MUSIC
You know, I breed so much in XY that theme is literally the only music I remember of it.