Umm, people that dislike the game and have problems with it have just as much right to express their opinions here as people that like the game...
Sure - if they make actual criticisms that are valid and that we can actually discuss. I don't see much of a point in posts - positive or negative - that don't further any sort of dialogue or discussion, you know?
I don't get why you guys need to shun anyone who says something negative about the games.
Just cause it isn't for us doesn't mean we can't criticize it.
I see the GameFreak apologists are out in full force like always. We have every right to be concerned about these cashgrab games and what effects they will have on the future of the series. "B-But GameFreak said Gen 8 -" Yeah. They also said USUM would have "ultra changes" and we all know how that turned out. There was literally a screenshot where the female trainer's feet weren't visibly touching stairs. They couldn't be bothered to animate Blastoise firing water from its cannons even though it did in the Pokemon Stadium games released two decades ago. Forcing players to use type advantages for the gyms instead of figuring out everything on their own like they should is just downright insulting.
Or maybe - just maybe - we could be talking about actual, legitimate criticisms that aren't problems people have with the very fact this game exists. I'm not here to constantly hear "ugh so hand holdy" five thousand times before release. We have WELL established that there are people who despise the fact that these games are easier, who can't fathom why on earth Game Freak would do that, and think the series was already easy enough for kids.
We have also well established that those people are decidedly
not the intended audience for these games. That criticism loses value after the six hundredth time, or so, it is brought up.
You can say "Game Freak apologists," Cradily17, but there's certainly a sect of the fanbase that is the exact opposite. There are members who I have seen say nothing positive about these games, Game Freak, or even Nintendo since the outset of these games' announcement. It's exhausting to try to engage in conversation about new games in our favorite series when so much of the discussion is
this kind of criticism.
Criticize the visual presentation. Criticize the story, insofar as we know about it (very little). Criticize this, that, or the other thing, but when the
literal point of these games is to be easier, entry-level games with Go features to pander to Go players, there's only so much criticism of that purpose you can do before it's just not productive to discuss at length anymore.
Has no mentioned how you need to pay $50 for Mew? How do you defend this? Please..
They have not yet said a word that indicates there's no other way to get Mew. There could be plenty of other distributions over the lifetime of the game, both physical and digital, and they could change whether you can transfer the Mew from Go at literally any time.
Plus, if you really want, we can get into a socio-economic discussion about how plenty of event pokemon were locked behind an effective implicit paywall that acted as a function of those with opportunity versus those without, but that's a bit much for tonight.
