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burninmylight on 07 October 2017
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mZuzek said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
it really is a disappointment, maybe they should consider using some of the fan-made designs on youtube :P

Ultra S/M turns out to be totally unnecessary, sounds more like a plain money print for Nintendo

I'm always a fan of Pokemon but I don't think the direction it's taking is the best possible, S/M wasn't epic at all, too simple, too plain, hopefully that changes with Pokemon for Switch, we need a whole new era, and I don't mean in terms of region and monsters

I say Pokémon needs a reboot, but sadly if there's one franchise that'll never get one it's this. They're hellbent on always keeping everything they introduce, and keep the series moving forward without ever going back on any decision - and "moving forward" isn't necessarily always a good thing. There's been far too much dumb stuff introduced recently that I can only wish they'd ditch, but nah they won't.

Crappy Pokémon designs, I can live with. If they can't ditch that in a reboot, I'm fine (yeah Bewear makes me want to say otherwise, but I can pretend to be alright with that). But Ash-Greninja, Ultra Beasts, and worst of all, Z-moves? All that stuff is just plain fucking stupid. I get the point that Mega Evolution was also stupid, but I thought it was cool, because it was just the right amount of stupid - it was the little bit of stupid that added a bit to the game, but now with all this crap, it's just far, far too much. They've gone way out there, and only a reboot can really do anything for this franchise.

In the end though, whatever they decide to do, I'll probably hate it anyway. As long as Shigeru Ohmori is making the decisions, it won't get any better.

Even though I haven't actually played S/M (because I have Future Sight and knew to wait a year for USUM), I don't think Z-Moves are bad. At first I thought that way, but when I learned that they are one-time nukes in a battle instead of constant nukes like Megas, I realized that they are actually way more balanced and give every Pokemon a chance to do something with themselves instead of a select handful (and half of that handful didn't even need Megas in the first place).

But yeah, Pokemon will never completley reboot in the truest since. Way too many licensed critters to suddenly stop selling merch on. It doesn't really need a true franchise teardown and rebuild though, just like Zelda didn't. Just like Zelda, each game is essentially its own little self-contained origin story, and each new game is telling a new character's story and gives GF the chance to put in any single character and Pokemon it wants without worrying about plot continuity. If it suddenly wanted to go in a new direction with the next game, it can easily do that.

I guess it would also be nice if it took a cue from the latest Zelda and get it in its stupid head that most people playing these games know how to play the damn game already, and to stop treating everyone like 8-year-olds who never played a game in their life. The most consistant complaint I'm hearing about S/M is the nonstop cutscenes and tutorials, and I ain't got time for that.