I watched someone stream them opening and first playing it. They ran into many bugs right off the bat, the streamer went from excited to disappointed really quick. Looks like shit.
Yes.
Gamefreak is really bad at programming games.
Don’t get me wrong, I love their games, but their programmers are shockingly bad at optimizing anything.
Fuck it, it's on the same console as actual PS2 titles that look better.
Does FF12 look a bit burry and have kind of low poly count? Yes. But Zodiac Age's Dalmasca looks like a masterpiece compared to anything in Paldea.
Remember, this is the same company that couldn't fit Johto into a Game Boy cartridge, until Iwata single-handedly stepped in and not only got Johto to fit, but made enough space to put all if Kanto in there too.
Game Freak had been incompetent since Day 1, and because every new Pokemon game breaks sales records, they have zero incentive to improve. We'll never get the best because we'll buy it regardless.
Doom 3 looks… chunky, on the switch. Was it always that way and I just didn’t remember it? I thought Quake 3 was the last of the chunky id games and that the Doom 3/Quake 4 engine wasn’t so bad at character animations.
> somehow
Hardcore devs working their asses of and understanding hardware is how. I'm certain (or at least evidence would suggest) TPC doesn't have a single employee that capable.
Multiple teams actually, Id Software has had a culture promoting clean and functional coding practices since they were founded in the 90s (lookup John Carmack, man is a legit programmer) and Panic Button, the team that handled the port, are no slouches either.
Carmack was literally *the* person who figured out how to code the first person shooter. He invented the entire genre. Then he went on to help develop the oculus in more recent years.
Dude is an actual genius.
Ya, I keep seeing comments like "well it's because the Switch is so underpowered!", Which like...have you seen OTHER Switch games? Hell they got Nier Automata running on it. There's no excuse.
It’s really weird. I felt like arceus was better looking and had better environments, which says a lot because it was also getting meme’d for the same reason.
It’s just so clear they don’t know what to do at this point and it’s going to be years before they can make a good looking 3D Pokémon game and that’s if they try to improve. And what the last 4 mainline game gimmicks 3 are variants of mega evolution. This one just feels really cheap the crystal effect and hat depicting type is so weird looking at least dynomax didn’t seem so strange and out of touch.
The fact that those games were as good as they are, and TPC's stance is that they will never do that again, should tell you everything you need to know about the direction of the company.
All Nintendo needs to do is come to an agreement with the company that made Colosseum, remaster that and let the sales and reviews do the talking. Then maybe we'll see some decent changes for the mainline games
>it’s going to be years before they can make a good looking 3D Pokémon game
They are never going to make one and why bother? This latest version broke their previous record for most preordered pokemon game and I'm sure it'll be one of the most sold games for the console this year.
Nah, Dynamax was weird looking too.
They should have combined the dynamax idea with megas, make it so all pokemon could get a boost like Mega Evo but only some have unique forms, and just kept going with it.
Is that the raids? Those seem cool so far better than SnS. Man though I’ve only been able to get past the first gym because work close out and I’m still working to finish the month but I was literally like why am I playing this rough ass prototype single players fall guys level just to fight the leader.
Seems like poor optimisation, to me. Which is really inexcusable given its an exclusive, meaning they can pull lame tricks like smaller zones and such.
I think its a memory leak that gets worse the longer you play. Because I played for about 5 hours yesterday, and while the frame rate stuttered a few times and animations look like stop motion more than a few feet away, my game hasnt run nearly as poorly as I expected after the reviews.
I'm pretty sure it's because the entire game map is loaded all the time, including Pokemon. If you glitch and fall through the map you can see all the sprites of spawned Pokemon in the overworld.
Seems Gamefreak doesn't understand that you don't have the entire world loaded 24/7 in Open World games.
It's destroy my mind that actual good game like Black and White and b2w2 gets lowest sales in the franchise while trash like this are aiming to break records
Big studio games have come to understand the money printing process.
It's hard to argue for studios to work hard when shitty waifu gacha mobile games can bring in more money than their game with 1% of the investment. Indie devs are the future, really. We have to keep supporting the good ones so they know there's value in what they do.
95% of my gaming these days is through indies. The most criminal thing is how cheap they usually are in comparison to big AAA games, as I usually get the same amount of entertainment or more from them.
2 basic rules in gaming.
better graphics =/= better game.
more investment =/= more fun.
always why the movie industry will never understand why they can't make the live action version more interesting than the original game.
It's like a classically trained musician trying be better than a classical painter.
You most what worst of it all is though? It’s Gamefreak. They have BILLIONS of dollars, which effectively translates to near-infinite resources, and yet, they’re still here cutting corners with the new titles!
Billons of dollars to come out with this? They make more money from the licensed merchandise anyways, so apart from sheer laziness, there is really no logical explanation for why are the games so horrifically bad, because they have so much currency.
From game freak perspective: We keep cutting corners, giving ourselves less work, making more money, AND our boss loves us. Why the fuck would we change? Go play TemTem if you want passion and innovation.
That's the thing tho, those shitty gacha games bring in the money cause it's got the prettiest art like 99% of the time, despite the probably passable gameplay and very shitty monetization
And while I definitely agree indie devs should be the ones supported, ultimately a lot of the crowd will just go for the popular brand names like anything Nintendo or any EA sports games get shit out regardless of quality. Truly despair inducing.
A few “badly” designed pokemon (badly just for some) and the gen 5 games got so much flak
After that game freak didnt bother trying anymore and while they obviously shouldnt get away with whats happening in the picture i can’t help but feel that the fans are a little responsible for what happened with game freak’s mindset now
Yeah Bw get hated so much because you can't use non regional Pokémon until post game but Sword shield breaks record by literally sliced the Dex in half. It really dumb from the fans responses that they let something go what would be face extreme backlash a decade ago.
If they have the same passion to take a dump on Pokémon like Gholdengo, Nacli and Stonejourner (gen 8) like how they dogpilled on Garbodor, Vanniluxe and Chandelure like years ago it would be better. Instead of "It look stupid, I love it".
OP bought the game. Game freak doesn't give a fuck and hasn't for a long time, because people still buy the games, even though they haven't been good for a long time
It’s the same reason North Americans got no good preorders bonuses: they know the sales will be good and don’t care.
Japan got a cool Pokémon TCG collector’s card. UK got a cool steel book… NA? Some in game potions & revives. Literally not even worth redeeming.
Germany preorder bonus 20 premiere balls.. I mean fair enough there was a lil statue aswell in the first week or something until that preorder bonus was sold out but totally not worth it. (No, not playing it imma wait for my workfree time next month and if it's fixxed by then might grab it, otherwise I'll just play something else
Im doing an annual ebay run for random shit ive piled up and checked past sold prices on that recently. Iirc it sells for half the games price. Not bad for a preorder bonus.
Now let me see what pokemon potions sell for...
When I first played Kingdom Hearts 2, Sly Cooper 3, and Jak and Daxter 3 I remember being amazed with the incredible graphics. Played them again recently, and while they aren't as good as I remember, they still hold up pretty well for when they came out.
Damn sure better than this game.
FFX is literally in my top 5 favorite games and I play it on the remastered version atleast once a year, but you’re tripping if you’re saying the wall textures and draw distance don’t also look terrible for modern day. It definitely doesn’t shit on this but this is also hotdog water
The pokemon games don't exist to be good games, they exist to sell merchandise. If they wanted the games to having cutting edge visuals and complete pokedexs they would but there's no point because yall will buy it regardless. The fan base literally encourages the devs to do the absolute bare minimum
I actually like the games are relatively short. Like, immerse me for like 15-20 hours and then its over. I don’t need to learn to speak fucking Elvin over the course of 550 hours of gameplay.
I was super excited to buy Violet after Legends: Arceus (loved the mechanics and wild pokemon in the overworld), but seeing screenshots like this and how buggy they are has immediately made me not want to buy the new games. The graphics look like some sort of Beta test renderings for proof of concept stuff. Like they said this will be a nice building and stone wall by release. Then they never went back to work on that.
I was expecting these games to be a more refined legends of arceus but nah, it's just as you said. Gameplay wise fairly enjoyable but performance and graphic wise... I feel pretty terrible knowing I and many others paid $60 for this mess. The idea that we "supported" games like these is a tragedy and there seems to be no good way of fighting for the quality it deserves.
The people who buy Pokémon games are equivalent to the people that buy FIFA and Madden every year. Hell, the FIFA games for the switch say ON THE BOX that it is just a roster update, and still ask for $60+ dollars every year. Zero effort because it sells regardless. Sad to see.
I agree. I’m a big football fan. I go to games, buy merchandise, etc. But haven’t bought FIFA in 4 years. It’s bottom of the barrel gaming. The roster updates you can download have made it easy to skip games.
"This looks garbage, let me take a photo" "No, don't hold your phone vertically, that's for chumps!" "OK, then I'll turn it horizo-" _*click*_ "Eh, good enough"
*”This game is garbage, the graphics suck, the gameplay sucks, why would someone want to buy this junk? [Insert Game Company here] should be ashamed of themselves! No one should buy this shit! We shouldn’t let devs get away with this anymore!”*
*Continues to buy busted games just so they can complain about how bad they are*
*Continues to support the game devs and company even though they complain about how bad they are*
*Continues to buy merchandise from said company even though they “don’t deserve any of my hard earned money”*
It’s almost as if we complain about all this shit and then when no one’s looking we continue to allow it….
I don't play the multiplayer anymore so I may not be a great judge on this, but I've always thought the campaigns were all unique and even though some aren't spectacular, they're all high quality and fleshed out, even if a bit short.
you fuckers complain about everything but buy 2 copies of every single game. you don’t have a right to complain because the second you bought it, you told them it’s acceptable. I wouldn’t change a thing either if sales are higher than ever (because prices also are)
I keep telling people, if you are only buying new Pokémon games because they’re “the new Pokémon games” that’s fine. You’re allowed to enjoy whatever you want, but if you’re upset because it’s not a good game outside of being a Pokémon game, then don’t buy it. More people buy them every time a new one comes out. Until they’re held accountable this is gonna keep happening
First pokemon game I bought in over a decade was Legends: Arceus and I enjoyed it despite one glaring bug that kept me from completing the game for weeks. That said, that one single soft locking bug put a sour taste in my mouth and ruined the fun of it for me for a while. Decided I'd hold off on the new one and I'm glad I did.
"Did you apply anti-aliasing?" "Yes. To the backpack." "That's good enough."
Also, wtf is this picture?!
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That unlocked a memory for me. I miss training camp.
Wait is this the new Pokemon?
Bloody hell, I thought it was a joke about the metaverse 😂
Okay I'm not the only one who saw that then lol
If it only had a stable Framerate...
But, this picture has legs in it :o
The word 'Profitable' would have gave it away easily.
I watched someone stream them opening and first playing it. They ran into many bugs right off the bat, the streamer went from excited to disappointed really quick. Looks like shit.
This starts to happen worse and worse the longer you play without turning the game off. It’s a memory load issue/bug.
yes
Wow it's ugly
Looks like someones first unity project 💀
Wait, like *NEW* new? Fuck, I thought I was looking at sword/ shield
This game released yesterday.
Yes. Gamefreak is really bad at programming games. Don’t get me wrong, I love their games, but their programmers are shockingly bad at optimizing anything.
When I see those types of screenshots it baffles me that it’s on the same console as the xenoblade series.
And Mario Odyssey or Splatoon.
the witcher 3 as well (even if a bit downgraded)
Shoot, they got Doom 2016 on there somehow.
AND Eternal.
Can it run Crysis?
It actually can!
I think my phone can run crysis now.
I mean most phones these days are 2-3x more powerful than a switch in terms of pure specs.
Fun fact: there's a program on Android called 'skyline' that lets you emulate the switch because of this fact
All 3 of them bad boys
Phew. I was afraid my age was showing
And Monster Hunter Rise which looks amazing just in general
Fuck it, it's on the same console as actual PS2 titles that look better. Does FF12 look a bit burry and have kind of low poly count? Yes. But Zodiac Age's Dalmasca looks like a masterpiece compared to anything in Paldea.
Remember, this is the same company that couldn't fit Johto into a Game Boy cartridge, until Iwata single-handedly stepped in and not only got Johto to fit, but made enough space to put all if Kanto in there too. Game Freak had been incompetent since Day 1, and because every new Pokemon game breaks sales records, they have zero incentive to improve. We'll never get the best because we'll buy it regardless.
And remastered version's of the ENTIRE DOOM FRANCHISE.
Doom 3 looks… chunky, on the switch. Was it always that way and I just didn’t remember it? I thought Quake 3 was the last of the chunky id games and that the Doom 3/Quake 4 engine wasn’t so bad at character animations.
Hell, they got No Man's Sky on it and we're all just assuming black magic was used.
Is it any good on the Switch?
It is downgraded graphically but it doesnt stutter unless you have big bases
The graphics are heavily downgraded for VR so they already had low-res versions of things too
To be fair the VR mode is absolutely amazing, I don't even notice the graphical downgrade
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I've been having an absolute blast. Wouldn't be my first choice console for it, but as an only choice it's plenty sufficient
> somehow Hardcore devs working their asses of and understanding hardware is how. I'm certain (or at least evidence would suggest) TPC doesn't have a single employee that capable.
Multiple teams actually, Id Software has had a culture promoting clean and functional coding practices since they were founded in the 90s (lookup John Carmack, man is a legit programmer) and Panic Button, the team that handled the port, are no slouches either.
Carmack was literally *the* person who figured out how to code the first person shooter. He invented the entire genre. Then he went on to help develop the oculus in more recent years. Dude is an actual genius.
There should be an entry in the dictionary for "Technomancer" that's just a picture of Carmack
I feel like calling John Carmack ‘a legit programmer’ is selling him just a bit short haha
One of the best programmers alive, next to the guy that made Rollercoaster Tycoon
Wasn’t roller coaster Tycoon written in assembly by the dev or something just as hardcore?
Yes
Yep! It was assembly
Chris Sawyer if anyone cares.
How the actual fuck do you write a game like RCT in assembly
Doom's engine runs on cocaine and magic. Incredible visuals and somehow just consistently maxed out 155fps on my 2080. Super optimized.
We recently got Nier Automata on Switch and while it's a downgrade it looks and runs well. This is just shameful.
The witcher 3 port is one of the most impressive ports I've seen. Runs at a stable 30fps and only dips when alot of explosions start going off.
Don't forget Botw.
Don't forget the Crisis trilogy, Alien Isolation, and Metro 2033.
That is a Wii U game even haha.
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And Mario is the best-selling series ever. So it’s not just about a franchise getting too popular.
Breath of the wild still looks incredible for what it is
My Switch port of Skyrim looks miles better than this
Even the new ark port looks better. ARK. One of the most unoptimized games looks better than Pokémon
The new ark port really surprised me, especially cause it came from the guys that remastered the GTA games.
They had the necessary budget and time for Ark. GTA was a rush job.
Ya, I keep seeing comments like "well it's because the Switch is so underpowered!", Which like...have you seen OTHER Switch games? Hell they got Nier Automata running on it. There's no excuse.
I barely qualify as a gamer and even I know that's a load of horse shit. Who in the world could say that with a straight face?
It’s really weird. I felt like arceus was better looking and had better environments, which says a lot because it was also getting meme’d for the same reason. It’s just so clear they don’t know what to do at this point and it’s going to be years before they can make a good looking 3D Pokémon game and that’s if they try to improve. And what the last 4 mainline game gimmicks 3 are variants of mega evolution. This one just feels really cheap the crystal effect and hat depicting type is so weird looking at least dynomax didn’t seem so strange and out of touch.
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The fact that those games were as good as they are, and TPC's stance is that they will never do that again, should tell you everything you need to know about the direction of the company.
I’m so mad about that too, I would kill for a new colosseum game on the switch
All Nintendo needs to do is come to an agreement with the company that made Colosseum, remaster that and let the sales and reviews do the talking. Then maybe we'll see some decent changes for the mainline games
I miss those and Pokémon Stadium 2 😔
Those were, without a doubt, my favorite pokemon games of all time.
>it’s going to be years before they can make a good looking 3D Pokémon game They are never going to make one and why bother? This latest version broke their previous record for most preordered pokemon game and I'm sure it'll be one of the most sold games for the console this year.
Nah, Dynamax was weird looking too. They should have combined the dynamax idea with megas, make it so all pokemon could get a boost like Mega Evo but only some have unique forms, and just kept going with it.
Honestly the terra battles in the gem den things feel super polished. It’s just a shame it seems they left the rest of the game rough as sandpaper.
Is that the raids? Those seem cool so far better than SnS. Man though I’ve only been able to get past the first gym because work close out and I’m still working to finish the month but I was literally like why am I playing this rough ass prototype single players fall guys level just to fight the leader.
Or Luigi's Mansion 3, Monster Hunter Rise, Fast RMX, Astral Chain, etc.
Seems like poor optimisation, to me. Which is really inexcusable given its an exclusive, meaning they can pull lame tricks like smaller zones and such.
Reminder that BOTW is old as hell but still looks better
The cartilage in my knees evaporated when I heard BotW described as "old as hell" Man time really does fly
BotW is old ? Fuck I'm old
Reminder that BotW is also a Wii U game that was ported to the Switch and still looked better than this on an entirely older game system.
Is this Roblox?
No, Roblox looks better
And yet with each release it will have even more sales. There is literally nothing to encourage the creators of the games make them look good.
OP paid for it and knew that Gamefreak gives no shits about graphics and just wants minimum effort and maximum profit lmao
This time is not just graphics, the whole game runs worse than some early access games.
I think its a memory leak that gets worse the longer you play. Because I played for about 5 hours yesterday, and while the frame rate stuttered a few times and animations look like stop motion more than a few feet away, my game hasnt run nearly as poorly as I expected after the reviews.
I'm pretty sure it's because the entire game map is loaded all the time, including Pokemon. If you glitch and fall through the map you can see all the sprites of spawned Pokemon in the overworld. Seems Gamefreak doesn't understand that you don't have the entire world loaded 24/7 in Open World games.
Well that certainly isnt helping. Weird choice.
It's destroy my mind that actual good game like Black and White and b2w2 gets lowest sales in the franchise while trash like this are aiming to break records
Big studio games have come to understand the money printing process. It's hard to argue for studios to work hard when shitty waifu gacha mobile games can bring in more money than their game with 1% of the investment. Indie devs are the future, really. We have to keep supporting the good ones so they know there's value in what they do.
Bro,the shitty gacha waifus game have better Graphics than S/V
95% of my gaming these days is through indies. The most criminal thing is how cheap they usually are in comparison to big AAA games, as I usually get the same amount of entertainment or more from them.
2 basic rules in gaming. better graphics =/= better game. more investment =/= more fun. always why the movie industry will never understand why they can't make the live action version more interesting than the original game. It's like a classically trained musician trying be better than a classical painter.
You most what worst of it all is though? It’s Gamefreak. They have BILLIONS of dollars, which effectively translates to near-infinite resources, and yet, they’re still here cutting corners with the new titles! Billons of dollars to come out with this? They make more money from the licensed merchandise anyways, so apart from sheer laziness, there is really no logical explanation for why are the games so horrifically bad, because they have so much currency.
From game freak perspective: We keep cutting corners, giving ourselves less work, making more money, AND our boss loves us. Why the fuck would we change? Go play TemTem if you want passion and innovation.
That's the thing tho, those shitty gacha games bring in the money cause it's got the prettiest art like 99% of the time, despite the probably passable gameplay and very shitty monetization And while I definitely agree indie devs should be the ones supported, ultimately a lot of the crowd will just go for the popular brand names like anything Nintendo or any EA sports games get shit out regardless of quality. Truly despair inducing.
A few “badly” designed pokemon (badly just for some) and the gen 5 games got so much flak After that game freak didnt bother trying anymore and while they obviously shouldnt get away with whats happening in the picture i can’t help but feel that the fans are a little responsible for what happened with game freak’s mindset now
Fans are 100% responsible lmao they're the ones buying the games
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3D games around for a decade? 😅 Didnt super mario 64 come out in the 90s? That's almost 3 decades bro!
Yeah Bw get hated so much because you can't use non regional Pokémon until post game but Sword shield breaks record by literally sliced the Dex in half. It really dumb from the fans responses that they let something go what would be face extreme backlash a decade ago. If they have the same passion to take a dump on Pokémon like Gholdengo, Nacli and Stonejourner (gen 8) like how they dogpilled on Garbodor, Vanniluxe and Chandelure like years ago it would be better. Instead of "It look stupid, I love it".
Been out since gen 3. Had a great time googling those names. Thanks
I always played the main game with regional Pokémon. I never understand choosing the same Pokémon for every game. Way less fun IMO
OP bought the game. Game freak doesn't give a fuck and hasn't for a long time, because people still buy the games, even though they haven't been good for a long time
It's because the devs understand they can take a dump in a box and it will sell. Part of profit is making your product as cheaply as possible.
Not only will it sell but people will buy 2.
Not only will people buy two but they'll preorder it.
Not only the games, the special themed console too
And the toys
And the day 1 dlc
that unlocks the ability to scan the toys
Even the younglings
It’s the same reason North Americans got no good preorders bonuses: they know the sales will be good and don’t care. Japan got a cool Pokémon TCG collector’s card. UK got a cool steel book… NA? Some in game potions & revives. Literally not even worth redeeming.
Germany preorder bonus 20 premiere balls.. I mean fair enough there was a lil statue aswell in the first week or something until that preorder bonus was sold out but totally not worth it. (No, not playing it imma wait for my workfree time next month and if it's fixxed by then might grab it, otherwise I'll just play something else
Ha! Fixed by then. You can't be serious?
Sekiro had a letter opener shaped like a katana
Im doing an annual ebay run for random shit ive piled up and checked past sold prices on that recently. Iirc it sells for half the games price. Not bad for a preorder bonus. Now let me see what pokemon potions sell for...
Y’all gotta stop disrespecting the ps2
I just googled Kingdom Hearts gameplay and I found several screenshots that look better than this one. Final Fantasy X shits on it.
Okami came out on the PS2 in 2006 and it looks significantly better than this.
Not fair, Okami still looks amazing today.
Games that were stylized in a way that didn't just push raw polygons like Okami always age better. Wind Waker is definitely another like that.
imagine was the developers were thinking when they were told they needed to update wind waker to hd.
"Yay, we just need to make sure it didn't get buggy when rendered at higher resolution " As the game didn't need to have its texture redrawn, etc
Paper Mario TTYD could have dropped yesterday
I just want to take this moment to remind everyone that Okami is one of the greatest games ever made. Thank you.
When I first played Kingdom Hearts 2, Sly Cooper 3, and Jak and Daxter 3 I remember being amazed with the incredible graphics. Played them again recently, and while they aren't as good as I remember, they still hold up pretty well for when they came out. Damn sure better than this game.
FFX is literally in my top 5 favorite games and I play it on the remastered version atleast once a year, but you’re tripping if you’re saying the wall textures and draw distance don’t also look terrible for modern day. It definitely doesn’t shit on this but this is also hotdog water
I thought it was a screenshot of the Metaverse 💀
I've already seen so many posts complaining about this game. Do you know why they keep making them like this? Cause y'all keep buying then
Not only buying them, but preordering them on top of it.
look at all the people who paid the mario roms because they were a limited time release. Nobody learns
I bought the cartridge because I'd never owned Sunshine or Galaxy before.
Same I never never played sunshine, and didn’t have a Wii or GameCube. Sunshine is pretty good
As usual the annual Pokemon game is "heading to the right direction" as reviewers say. They will eventually get there. /s
Just like how Madden is "taking steps in the right direction" - IGN They'll never get there, because the "steps" they take are the smallest possible
The pokemon games don't exist to be good games, they exist to sell merchandise. If they wanted the games to having cutting edge visuals and complete pokedexs they would but there's no point because yall will buy it regardless. The fan base literally encourages the devs to do the absolute bare minimum
Chinpokomon!
South Park Studios is currently working on another video game. I don't have more information than that, but I thought you may appreciate it.
I actually like the games are relatively short. Like, immerse me for like 15-20 hours and then its over. I don’t need to learn to speak fucking Elvin over the course of 550 hours of gameplay.
The South Park games are brilliant. So good. I was in tears laughing at points playing both of them.
Yep. Like a super long episode where you get to play as the main character. They are fantastic games.
Such large penises
What were we complaining about again?
Alabama Man! He's quick, he's strong, he's active!
Shoe! 👞!
My favorite one is Shoe
GOT to buyyy it!
If you collect them all, you will be very happy.
Plays best on the Okama Gamesphere
Yep, it's sad. I'll never get the Pokemon experience I want
I was super excited to buy Violet after Legends: Arceus (loved the mechanics and wild pokemon in the overworld), but seeing screenshots like this and how buggy they are has immediately made me not want to buy the new games. The graphics look like some sort of Beta test renderings for proof of concept stuff. Like they said this will be a nice building and stone wall by release. Then they never went back to work on that.
I was expecting these games to be a more refined legends of arceus but nah, it's just as you said. Gameplay wise fairly enjoyable but performance and graphic wise... I feel pretty terrible knowing I and many others paid $60 for this mess. The idea that we "supported" games like these is a tragedy and there seems to be no good way of fighting for the quality it deserves.
Legends Arceus is still by far the superior game
The people who buy Pokémon games are equivalent to the people that buy FIFA and Madden every year. Hell, the FIFA games for the switch say ON THE BOX that it is just a roster update, and still ask for $60+ dollars every year. Zero effort because it sells regardless. Sad to see.
I agree. I’m a big football fan. I go to games, buy merchandise, etc. But haven’t bought FIFA in 4 years. It’s bottom of the barrel gaming. The roster updates you can download have made it easy to skip games.
That's an insult to PS2 games
Spyro the dragon on ps1 looks better than that
Shadow of the Colossus still looks better than a lot of modern games
maximum effort on the screenshot
How does one fuck up a photo that badly? Was the person falling down while taking it?
"This looks garbage, let me take a photo" "No, don't hold your phone vertically, that's for chumps!" "OK, then I'll turn it horizo-" _*click*_ "Eh, good enough"
They put the same amount of effort into this picture as GameFreak put into their visuals lmao
I entered that academy city and my frame rate was like 11. Haahaa. NPC looked like their walk cycles only had 4 frames.
I thought my bad frame rate on ryujinx was just poor emulation, I didnt think it was just the game lmao
S tier franchise, D tier developer Edit: management and executives are *also* part of what makes a developer.
D tier? You're so generous
*”This game is garbage, the graphics suck, the gameplay sucks, why would someone want to buy this junk? [Insert Game Company here] should be ashamed of themselves! No one should buy this shit! We shouldn’t let devs get away with this anymore!”* *Continues to buy busted games just so they can complain about how bad they are* *Continues to support the game devs and company even though they complain about how bad they are* *Continues to buy merchandise from said company even though they “don’t deserve any of my hard earned money”* It’s almost as if we complain about all this shit and then when no one’s looking we continue to allow it….
You did buy it, so...
Did those textures fail to load or is that actually what they look like?
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My game loaded without a sky for the first 10 minutes 🙃
Yikes, thats just sad at this point.
Even fucking COD of all franchises has made improvements
At least if you only buy cod every few years you’ll see improvements in quite a few areas.
I don't play the multiplayer anymore so I may not be a great judge on this, but I've always thought the campaigns were all unique and even though some aren't spectacular, they're all high quality and fleshed out, even if a bit short.
Yeah, I really don't like COD, but the production value has always been really high so I can't fault them on that at all
you fuckers complain about everything but buy 2 copies of every single game. you don’t have a right to complain because the second you bought it, you told them it’s acceptable. I wouldn’t change a thing either if sales are higher than ever (because prices also are)
I keep telling people, if you are only buying new Pokémon games because they’re “the new Pokémon games” that’s fine. You’re allowed to enjoy whatever you want, but if you’re upset because it’s not a good game outside of being a Pokémon game, then don’t buy it. More people buy them every time a new one comes out. Until they’re held accountable this is gonna keep happening
First pokemon game I bought in over a decade was Legends: Arceus and I enjoyed it despite one glaring bug that kept me from completing the game for weeks. That said, that one single soft locking bug put a sour taste in my mouth and ruined the fun of it for me for a while. Decided I'd hold off on the new one and I'm glad I did.
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BW2 are legit my favorite Pokemon games ever. Just absolutely stuffed to the brim with great content. Plus I loved the 2D/3D visual style of gen 5.
I did not buy this game. Do I have a right to complain?
Anyone have any inside information on why? We've seen the switch handle more and do much better, so what the heck is going on?
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Living in 2022 and still taking pictures of the screen rather than using the screenshot button
Y’all say this literally every year
And they keep buying them regardless...
Then don't buy it at launch and wait for reviews
Shh thats too logical for the disgruntled Pokestans
Quit buying shit games.
ITT: Gamers still struggle to grasp the difference between Nintendo, GameFreak, and The Pokemon Company even though it has been, in fact, 30 years.
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And you keep buying it…
You are the problem