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Pokémon Sword and Shield | Review Thread (READ STAFF POST)
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Judging by the bit you quoted, I'd say it's cause they weren't able to test the online.
Certain people love Black and White and to them X and Y is the antithesis to that.
Kids just want and instant complete button these days dammit.... Instant gratification via free handout or buy-up option! damn whipper snappers!
Which is absolutely pathetic and another reason why I don't want GF touching D/P/Pt again
What disingenuous about the replies you're getting?
People like fun. Yes, it could be better going from the reviews and I hope GF improves their work on future games but reviewers are still saying it's enjoyable and most are recommending it.
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that would make sense. maybe they'll give it a score in a week or so.
Story is terrible, introduced the lowest amount of new Pokemon in the series, difficulty is ridiculously easy even with Exp.Share off, post-game is lacking, battle music is bland.
I see at as the point where the mainline games hit a rut in quality.
I liked Sun&Moon's story so I'm disappointed to hear Sword&Shield's story is bare-bones. The character designs were so good...
Don't get me wrong. I plan on getting Pokemon Shield. But I'm getting it second hand, and I don't expect it will be my favorite game in the series.
If anything, I'm much more hyped for the next generation, where hopefully they ACTUALLY embrace newer tech and fix a lot of these shortcomings.
I expect SwSh to be.......just another entry in the series. Maybe the worst. But I'll probably try it at some point.
If anything, I'm much more hyped for the next generation, where hopefully they ACTUALLY embrace newer tech and fix a lot of these shortcomings.
I expect SwSh to be.......just another entry in the series. Maybe the worst. But I'll probably try it at some point.
The most popular game kids play is fucking Fortnite, a skill based game with a ton of complexity. The idea that kids don't want any complexity or challenge is a dumb one.
GTS existed in DP with a ~500 roster. This game has fewer Pokémon than that, but not by much.
Diamond and Pearl were a slow dragged out HM filled mess with the worst group of starters and terrible pacing. Platinum made the region lightyears better.
Diamond was the only Pokemon game I ever gave up on and had to come back like...a long time later with Platinum to actually be able to get thru it. Diamond and Pearl killed Pokemon for me for a while
I guess we're in an eternal cycle now where people complain "there's too much story", then the next gen gets a barebones story and people complain "there's no story" and then we get a game with too much story, etc.
I personally prefer the games that have decent story. SM may have many flaws, but the story and characters are good enough to make me care, XY had nothing.
I guess everyone is different, but some of these quotes are absolutely baffling to me. The frustrating and boring and UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES EVERY 10 STEPS is still absolutely an issue with Sword and Shield. NPCs blocking your path from exploring the world until you go to house #3 in the town to speak to character #2 and trigger cutscene b is all over this game. Walk 10 steps, cutscene, walk 5 steps, cutscene, battle, friendly rival restores your health, walk 10 steps, cutscene. If this game respects the player's time, then literally every game ever made respects the player's time.
Pokemon, really since XY, feels like it's stuck in 2007, a era jam packed with handholding and unskippable tutorials. In this post-Dark Souls world, and really in this post-Minecraft world if we're looking at more kid friendly titles, such design choices have no place in ANY game. Yet Pokemon is filled to the fucking BRIM.
It turns them into an unplayable, slow, monotonous chore. Either I lack patience (As I happily prepare for a 30 minute long on foot delivery in Death Stranding), or reviewers just don't place much emphasis or importance on these things, which I find totally bizarre.
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Exactly, kids will be able to take a challenge just fine, plus they have great tools now, like the Internet, to empower them if stuck. It's a huge shame GameFreak aren't willing to give them a challenge.
I think Fallout 3 is generally considered one of the best examples of a game with inaccurate reviews.
Gen V: "too much story!"
Gen VI: "too little story!"
Gen VII: "too much story!"
Gen VIII: "too little story!"
So you think the gts is necessary or makes the game better because?
Make the case for it! :)
I can't.... hold.... my.... wallet.
My local store is already selling. (At ridiculous 350 reais in Brazil, around 85 us dollars). A 30 minute trip, is holding my happiness. But this price is outrageous.
My local store is already selling. (At ridiculous 350 reais in Brazil, around 85 us dollars). A 30 minute trip, is holding my happiness. But this price is outrageous.
Same. I'd still have issues with missing features and linear world design, but at least I'd have a fun romp through the story.
How dare people criticize a commercial product that isnt to their liking.
- The supporting cast, gym leaders and Elite 4 were a bunch of unmemorable and/or annoying goons.
- Team Flare's plan made even less sense than Team Magma's.
- The game shipped with a game-breaking bug that would erase your save if you saved outdoors in Lumioise City IIRC.
- The transition to 3D models meant that a lot of Pokemon lost their personality as they were essentially A-posing during battles.
- I personally hated the chibi overworld.
- Those. Fucking. Barnacles.
- Single-digit FPS whenever there was more than two Pokemon on screen, which was a problem considering this generation introduced horde battles.
- Tangentially related, but ORAS were very underwhelming remakes that ignored everything Emerald did.
Because there are people who don't have access to friends? Convenience through use of advanced technology than what we had before?
So you think the gts is a good feature because? Make a positive case for it instead of lamenting its absence.
And don't forget before that it was Minecraft, another game where kids seemed to have fun getting lost and exploring just fine
I refuse to believe you're responding in good faith
I know it's intentional. But it's also been bad. Alola had some terrible level design. Galar seems better but still suffer from lack in interest in doing more. Like Game Freak is afraid of anything more than a hallway. Kinda amazing they left Kanto intact with Let's Go.
Rather than make aids to help people from getting lost (markers and maps and whatnot), they just said "fuck improving, just cut dungeons entirely"
Hmm, the scores seem good but some of the things mentioned in the reviews make me think the game isn't for me. In particular, things like the difficulty and there being no dungeons.
Also, graphics/animations aren't that important to me, but this game doesn't look particularly good. Seeing things like a "Would you like to shake the three" text box in the barren wild area makes the game feel a bit too simple for my tastes.
I think I'll wait over the weekend to see impressions on Era and make my decision then. Not sure if I want what the reviewers seem to praise.
Also, graphics/animations aren't that important to me, but this game doesn't look particularly good. Seeing things like a "Would you like to shake the three" text box in the barren wild area makes the game feel a bit too simple for my tastes.
I think I'll wait over the weekend to see impressions on Era and make my decision then. Not sure if I want what the reviewers seem to praise.
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Disagree. Their plan makes sense: they want to kill a lot of people. The problem is that their goal is never implied until like 10 minutes before we defeat them.
It allows people without a large network of pokemon-playing friends to engage in the fun of trading for something you want. It allows a person with two copies of the game, but not with two switches, to evolve pokemon through trade evolution. It's an effective tool to fill out the pokedex without having to comb through gamefaqs message boards hoping for the best. It's fun to passively trade pokemon while playing through the game.
