Mag Prime
The Pokemon Avenger
I think what he’s implying here is the national dex being the make or break decision and some people’s overreaction to it is getting a bit out of hand and starting to overshadow the game itself. It’s one thing to be disappointed by this, it’s another to have a full existential crisis over it.
Again, gen 3, 202/386 initially available in ruby/sapphire, people were understandably upset but those missing mons became available in firered and leaf green. I trust a solution will appear at some point. It may not be the most ideal solution (transferring Pokemon before bank was a chore) and may not happen as quick as people would like (we went roughly a year without all Pokemon being available in gen 3), but I trust it’ll happen. We just need to take a chill pill, be reasonable in our complaints (I.e. not spam twitter/reddit 1000 times a day every day), and wait and see what unfolds with Pokemon home, as we still don’t know everything about that either.
Well, GameFreak should have known that saying they are cutting pokemon out would generate a backlash though. If they really are planning a solution (patch the remaining pokemon, include all the pokemon in the next game, anything really) then it would have been a smart move to say so during the treehouse.
If you just say "Yes, we have too many pokemon so our policy for the future is now to not have all the pokemon in the games" people are understandably worried that there isn't gonna be a solution. Maybe those 1000 posts a day will help convey this sense of outrage and might contribute to a potential solution, or they might not, but it's the best we can do.
Apparently you don't know what obvious means either. They are not lying about anything. While it may be true that no regional Pokedex has ever had more than 500 Pokemon, that's because they always had a National Pokedex. Now that the regional dex is the only dex it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to include over 600 as the regional dex count.
Alola didn't have a National Pokedex and it didn't have more than 500 pokemon either. Again, we don't know either way but 600 to 500 is still well within the realm of what is comparable.
Also, did you ever once stop to think that when they said animation they weren't talking about the Pokemon? Look at the region itself, from the buildings to the wild area to the weather; the animation is epic by Pokemon standards. And aside from that, the Pokemon are in fact more polished than before; it's not like they simply copied and pasted the files from USUM, changes were made. I feel like the most ridiculous part of your argument is that you seem to be implying that Double Kick is the only move in the game. There are countless moves that will require far more detailed animation; just to name a few there's Frenzy Plant, Blizzard, Hurricane, and Eruption. You can't look at one very basic attack and act like it's the standard.
- That's the problem at the core of all criticism. Why are we applying lower standards on the highest grossing franchise of all time than we are on any other franchise? Shouldn't it be the exact opposite? I wasn't too happy after the Pokemon Direct last week but I was willing to give them a pass. If they are gonna remove half the pokemon and blame it on animations then I'm not gonna give them a pass. I'll criticise the animations.
- The models are copy and pasted not only from USUM but all the way back from XY. The textures are new but they are easier to make than models or animations. The animations may or may not be new, I'm not sure, but again, they don't look as good as PBR which is a 10+ year old spinoff. The studio that made it is working with the Pokemon Company on other projects. They could have brought them over.
- I'm not implying that Double Kick is the only move in the game. Moves require animations too and various attacks such as Shadow Ball etc have animations of their own in both SwSh and PBR. The problem is not the animation of Double Kick itself (which is just a 2D image). It's what scorbunny does while engaging in a physical move: nothing. In PBR every pokemon actually runs up to the enemy to perform a physical move.
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