battle revolution, pokemon stadium and even colosseum and XD all had way better animations than any mainline pokemon game lol, and now pokemon GO has more catchable pokemons than the next mainline pokemon game lol.I feel like I love Pokémon too much to not buy it. Though I do feel like Game Freak are quite a lazy company when it comes down to it. The game should look a lot better in graphical detail than it does, they literally contradict themselves to reasonings of why Pokémon are cut. THEY USE THE SAME ANIMATIONS FROM SINCE XY for Pokémon, Battle Revolution had better animations! Yet apparently they're adding more detail by cutting other Pokémon, where???
Though it's true graphics don't make a game I feel like the company tries to cut corners too often, especially now that they're trying to cut Pokémon out. I expected so much more from a true switch Pokémon title graphically and by giving Pokémon more movement than just an idle pose. At the end of the day though, I know I'd still buy it or well, in this instance I won't have to in order to play it.
battle revolution, pokemon stadium and even colosseum and XD all had way better animations than any mainline pokemon game lol, and now pokemon GO has more catchable pokemons than the next mainline pokemon game lol.
Buying the game despite being unhappy says the exact opposite to Gamefreak. It tells them that you don't care about the national dex being cut. All you're doing is incentivising them to do it again.I’m getting both even though I’m not happy about the national dex thing. Hopefully the backlash changes their minds even if it’s just a patch.
I think that if you ignore what the game is missing and release your expectations you can still have a good time playing it. I strongly believe gamers should not support incomplete games so I will not buy it myself.This game is not worth pirating. Game went from hype to the game is shit after the reveal
I honestly still consider the whole temper tantrum over pokedex rather childish, and not a good look for the fanbase.
1) For the first time in a while, GameFreak tries to introduce some new mechanics, as well as experiment with core gameplay and online features - naturally, they're going to prioritize that over adding 800+ fully animated models into the game.
2) During previous generations, there were constant complaints about how "they just add new Pokemon and don't change anything" - and suddenly we have a complete 180, but with the same (if not bigger) amount of nerd-raging and hashtag-flinging.
Either the whole situation is telling about some of the toxic parts of Pokemon community as a whole, or it's just the kind of thing that will make more sense for hardcore fans of the franchise. Or, as a combination of all above, hardcore fans suddenly started finding out that their favorite series isn't really catering to them, and relies much more on its cyclic demographic of kids/teenagers - in which case, refunds and disappointment are understandable, but an army of overly nostalgic adults starting a twitter campaign over what's primarily a kids franchise is just kinda embarrassing in grand scheme of things.