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TPC: Pokémon Sword & Shield has sold through 6M copies (2M in Japan alone). It's the fastest selling Nintendo Switch software ever. [SEE STAFF POST]
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I just played the game normally. And I spent a lot of time in the Wild Area, but eventually had to move on as my Pokemon started to become even more over-leveled than they already were.
I'm truly stunned that you're 32 hours in and only on the 6th badge. The only way I can see that is either a lot of idling time, or time spent trading/battling and not playing through the story.
Probably not connecting online and doing online raids and battles
I'm at 27 hours and just entered route 6
These are definitely the shortest mainline Pokémon games I've ever played, and US/UM are the only ones I haven't touched.
It's undoubtedly because of the incredible linearity and rushed pacing after gym 4
It's undoubtedly because of the incredible linearity and rushed pacing after gym 4
They addressed a number of the criticisms people had about gen 7 and will do it again. What they will choose to address is unknown, but they see everything people say.
Loving this game and happy to see it's doing well. I'm sorry for those that feel disappointed.
Based on my experience so far (Gym 7 now) I think my greatest wants for a Gen 9 would be:
Based on my experience so far (Gym 7 now) I think my greatest wants for a Gen 9 would be:
- Expand the wild area, to be something that grows in scope with almost every gym. They did this after Gym 3, and less so after Gym 6, but I would have liked to see the area wrap around Hammerlocke and up north.
- Implement a queuing system for raids or other group activities. I love Max Raid battles, but scanning the Y Comm system is a bit rough sometimes.
- Sorting options for the boxes.
Thanks for posting the opinions. I'm curious to see the opinions of lapsed players because of how can they change the perception of the gen. For a seasoned player that gets invested too much into a game I can see how the next one can sink it hard by dropping something. While not always being a hit some novelty ideas also have appeal and compel to pick up the games or play more even if that might just be some improvement or something not valuable enough to keep which is where opinions may also vary.
Well, it was one of the few options the game gave you to increase difficulty so I don't think it shouldn't be removed, even if most people didn't use it.
And I'd be fine with forced exp share if the game actually had difficulty settings like in Black/White 2. But unfortunately that's one of the features that's still missing from Pokémon games for some weird reason.
I'm not saying you can't voice criticism. The game definitely deserves criticism, but people some people are making this game the worst thing ever which is not. What I don't understand why do it in every thread. This thread is about the sales success, and it turned into game freak and Pokemon franchise criticism like every other thread.
This isn't true. XIII is a little past 6M while XV is past 8.5M.
I hope they do and they hit it out of the park.
It's not in every pokemon thread that's the thing, You are right there are plenty of threads that have criticism but there are also lots of praise.
While I think BW are overrated I do think that if the only pokemon introduced into it were Trubbish, Garbodor, and fuck it let's say some 60-70 new Unown to represent katakana characters, it would still have the best pokemon designs in the series this side of Sword/Shield.
There's no idling time in this game, man. The game expects you to take a break from the main story fairly often (You can literally catch more pokémon in the wild area after each badge) including yes, battling and trading, along with max raids (Of wich you can access stronger pokémon as you get more badges)
At this point mislabeling boomers should be an automatic ban.
Would you be able to share that PR? I can't find it anywhere online.
Not really, It's the lowest reviewed mainline game ever, It's not that it's a bad game by any means but it also doesn't mean that it's the best ever, it's probably somewhere in the middle. Again I'm really glad your enjoying it but it's not without it's problems.
Dunno its probably my favourite game in the franchise since Black and White
It's not the lowest reviewed mainline game ever. Black 2/White 2 are lower, and we all know how much the Pokémon fan base loves those two. XY are also the highest rated mainline games ever. I guess those are now going to be considered the best games in the series.
It has issues, yes. So did every past game. Presumably future ones will too. The issues can be severe enough for you personally to not enjoy the game or even want to get it. I understand and empathize with that. But to state that there's some universal barometer of quality (Metacritic, apparently) that these games don't meet, and so aren't "quality games" is nonsense. Spare me that.
I agree it's middle of the pack (I even said so in my own rankings!). That... still makes it quality.
Congratulations to the devs! Must feel good to be them after the thrashing they've received by the vocal minority to see this type of success.
If somebody doesn't consider them quality games, then that's that. They dont need to meet your standards for that to be valid. It doesn't give you authority to "correct" people expressing dislike.
Sure. You were expressing your take (they don't have quality), and I replied with mine. That was the end of that. It was a pretty short, albeit unremarkable, interaction.
Well both games are basically hallway corridors running from the start to the end of the game. I can see how someone would like both.
I do, I stated it, but if "Like that game" is too hard for you to grasp there's no need to continue.
This game is very polarazing since it does so many things right, but it totally drops the ball on other things. Having a bunch of Pokemon available to catch from the start and always having PC access to switch out Pokemon is great. The core of Pokemon is battling and giving you many options very quickly is great. On other other hand they totally dropped the ball with online functionality. The game becoming a slideshow in online wild mode and having no GTS is just terrible.
I didn't see your rating and you are right black and white 2 are lower so that point is incorrect because when i last looked it was lower than they were. Saleswise it looks like it's paying off for them but I don't think these are going to end up as the best games in the series, they are selling but it's absolutely polarizing.
Yeah? Tit for tat?
Well, no. Your quote came with the clear implication that I was wrong for saying what I did. Which is just completely unnecessary and super insecure.
Yeah, I do agree with you. I hope they are able to make improvements from here on out to retain current fans, and bring back anyone who feels alienated with these ones :)
At the very least, SwSh are a great base to work from.
It's too vague an argument because it doesn't describe why those games are as challenging as they are.
Yeah that's how I played it. I just got all the badges and I'm at 60 hours.
But part of that is because of time.
Each game has been released to a bigger group of people with more access to social media and internet. I wouldn't say that this game is any more polarizing than previous games, simply because there are more people voicing their opinions than before.
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Nah, Game Freak is in a super cosy position now that the market has deemed Sword/Shield to be an acceptable standard for a home console Pokemon game. They'll just try and see how many more corners they can cut, if anything.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mt.Coronet got turned into a straightforward spiral to the very top in the D/P remakes.
So, I have no doubt it'll either be this, or they'll go with a top down perspective.
