| Majora said: When these games were first announced, I preordered them almost straight away. A few months later I thought better of my decision and cancelled the preorder to wait and see. Now after all this palaver I'm absolutely uninterested in these games, and that makes me sad as I absolutely love Pokémon as a franchise. Something really needs to be done about this. This franchise has so much potential for an incredible gaming experience, and GF for whatever reason either can't or won't provide this. It's a sad day that a new game gets released on a Nintendo platform that is this utterly pathetic. |
"For whatever reason" seems pretty obvious in this case. Game Freak are still a relatively small studio and they just had 3 years to release two open-world games. Even big ass development teams with tons of experience in making games like these only make at most one game every 3 years, never mind Game Freak.
It's just greed, but unfortunately people are giving them all the reason to be greedy. Sword/Shield was a mess yet it raked in cash like no Pokémon game ever before. Legends Arceus was visibly rushed, albeit still the most polished thing they've done recently, just a spin-off and it went on to sell 10m+. Even the Diamond/Pearl remakes which looked like a parody of the series sold like crazy, and now Scarlet/Violet are already looking like another 20m+ seller, if pre-order reports are anything to go by.
Pokémon fans will eat up anything, even when they know it's shit. If you're getting paid for taking a shit, why would you try doing anything else?
