You needs to reread that post. He was talking about a majority of critics, not a majority of players.
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The poster was talking about people who are disappointed, not all fans.
The point of those games was having the Pokemon in 3D, so they are obsolete.
Imagine being personally affronted that people are playing and enjoying a game you didn't like.
Imagine.
Game Freak has never made a game a fraction as bad as Colosseum/XD.
Imagine.
Game Freak has never made a game a fraction as bad as Colosseum/XD.
I don't need, I just have to see here people with an air of superiority saying that their tastes are more evolved or that people are dumb and buy anything.
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That the textures, animations, and framerate of this game are of a budget PS2 title and I'm not exaggerating one bit.
Pathetic take. Let's Go were never going to replace the main games, it's a pity people like you feel threatened by the title so much that you wanted it to fail instead of giving it a chance.
I tweeted that I was enjoying the game and people who didn't even follow me were being rude. People are literally searching for this stuff.
But they can't even do a 3D RPG right since the size scaling is completely off in and outside of battles.
In 2019, on the Switch.
Also that the weird notion that just because you criticise something doesn't mean you hate it or still like it in others way, in fact most of the time criticism comes from people who love the work of fiction and want to see it improve.
Honestly, I don't get why people are going out of their way to be antagonising or generalising in this thread other then to start a fight or just be nasty, very few thought Pokemon wasn't going to sell because of the sheer fact Pokemon is so ingrained into Pop Culture that it would be weird if it didn't. That doesn't mean criticism and issues people had whether graphics, NatDex, lost moves etc are invalid, no less then the criticisms people had about the Bayformers moves were just because they also made a lot of money. You can still like a series without liking it without question same with me and Transformers (mostly for the comics nowadays).
Five star raids, battle style "set," ranked online.
It has a "Strong" opencritic rating with 72 percent of critics recommending and a 82 on Metacritic.
Unless there is a new criteria for "good reviews" that I'm not aware of that fits the vocal minority's anger better I would say my post (which didn't say anything about past games) was correct in stating that the games got "good reviews."
I don't doubt most of those "disappointed fans" bought the games anyway.
The reviews are good. They're just relatively worse than the previous mainline entries.
Funny because the final battle caught me off-guard with the level jump and almost wiped me.
That's obviously an intentional design choice. It has nothing to do with power or technical skill. A Stadium or Colosseum game in 2019 would potentially follow suit as well.
Ooooh I get ya.
Oh, you got me wrong, I'm being honest here. Did you see the wild area? I enjoyed the game, but trying to shut down criticism with sales is not a good excuse.
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I almost died on the 4th gym even though I was slightly overleveled compared to them. The game can be tough for people just getting into Pokemon
Well I guess I need to pick this up. The Dex thing apparently hasn't phased people. I choose fallen order over this and have been having a blast. Once I finish the game I'll look into Pokemon then. Congrats to GameFreak, TPC, and Nintendo.
Sword and Shield are definitely way above XY difficulty-wise. WIth XY you didn't even have to Switch Pokemon and could just spam Mega Lucario every battle.
Not a single one of them mentioned that the criticism wasnt valid.
They poke fun at the idea some people here quite often stated that the criticis(that one might or might not find valid) affected sales.
You just assumed they said it wasnt valid.
And not sure why you included Serebii, his post was clearly in reference to things that actually happened, including to him.
Like if you complain about the people criticising being thrown into a bucket with the people doing the bad stuff, maybe dont just turn around and assume everyone disagreeing with your criticism is saying it isnt valid.
I am having fun with it (because, as it turns out, it's really really hard to mess up the appeal of the core gameplay loop) but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed by many of the design decisions Game Freak have made.
I mean, congrats to them for it selling well (though I do feel it's cruising on the brand appeal and the Switch success) but I fervently hope they take the constructive criticism to heart and build something a bit more complete (if not a bit more ambitious) next time round.
I mean, congrats to them for it selling well (though I do feel it's cruising on the brand appeal and the Switch success) but I fervently hope they take the constructive criticism to heart and build something a bit more complete (if not a bit more ambitious) next time round.
Their reasoning was some gibberish that had to do with the size of the 3DS display. A Stadium/Colosseum follow up would absolutely not follow suit, nor is there any reason to believe that.
The screen is still small, so if that was the reason they probably would.
And therein lies the rub. Pokemon games will sell regardless, so why do they need to bother pushing the boundaries? Sword and Shield are fine games. But Game Freak (or at least a company with Game Freak's resources) can do so much better.
I mourn for what pokemon could be. But I will forever settle for what it is, because despite being upset about all the removed features, the core of pokemon is still pokemon, and provided they don't get in the way of that like they did in Sun/Moon, I enjoy that core.
I mourn for what pokemon could be. But I will forever settle for what it is, because despite being upset about all the removed features, the core of pokemon is still pokemon, and provided they don't get in the way of that like they did in Sun/Moon, I enjoy that core.
When did I mention Serebii or grouped people as a single entity?
I think people actually search Twitter for this stuff, I get so many replies from people who don't follow me when I talk about Pokemon
The 7.2M Zhuge noted was built from first week EU and Japan and 2 weeks of NA. Sword Shield could do similar if the NA second week is very big. Initial sales should be roughly equal regardless.
the serebii part was for the other person i quoted in the same post.
Sadly they can
I am enjoying the game but that won't stop me from saying that gamefreak Is a shitty developer because the game is still a subpar product.
A streamer I watched that was going "maybe" on playing Pokemon Sword got harassed enough in his emails that he was turned off playing it altogether.
Are the people that cared about all the controversy too few in number to make a dent or are they just too weak to skip these games? I guess we will never know.
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Definitvely seen that a lot.
Been browsing some low viewcount Twitch streams(like sub 50 viewers) where random people jump in to tell the streamer they are a shill for playing a shitty game.
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The frame rate is solid. Digital Foundry have said that, apart from two blips when it goes through to encounters or when the camera splits in battle.
Woof. I'm enjoying my time with it but the game is def not a looker. Idk why the performance Is so bad, given how it looks.Oh, you got me wrong, I'm being honest here. Did you see the wild area? I enjoyed the game, but trying to shut down criticism with sales is not a good excuse.
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Are you basing this on actually having played the game? I own the game and the framerate is solid.
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NVM I've seen your other posts and you have played it. Weird that I haven't had framerate issues. The performance is definitely better than Gen 6 and 7 in my experience.
Yup.
And to be honest, I didn't had to do much to keep the game challenging. I set the game to "set" as I always do, didn't do every single trainer battle and kept all the Wild Area stuff for after the game.
It's a nice contrast to my brother who complained about the game being too easy and it turned out that he did everything he could do as soon as he had the possibility. He spent like 15 hours in the wild area just raiding and battling wild Pokémon.
Of course he would be overleveld for what came after.
Not that I'm trying to tell people how to play the game, but it really isn't difficult to keep the game fairly challenging.
You should probably be saying this to yourself.
There are terrible people in the Pokemon community.
Of course it was gonna sell well, who the hellis crzy enough to think it wouldn't make bank despite its glaring issues? I have serious issue with the games but that's about it. Now using sales metrics to ignore any and every criticism and call us strawmen like some of yoh are doing in this thread on the other hand, now THAT'S hilarious.
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Basically, if you're playing online in the Wild Area, it'll sometimes stutter. This is due to latency due to it bringing people in, in real time, into the Wild Area. However people are strangely misconstrueing it as frame rate issues
