Totally agree.

I could accept a 5 or 6 review from a customer (maybe even lower) because he really disliked this game, but 0-4 seem like totally unfair to almost any playable game.

Haven't played yet and possibly will take a while to buy, but considering the few pokemon I played even a 7 would be a low score for what the games usually have. They are fun, have a lot of content, pretty pokemon and all (even the low IQ and some lazyness of game freak didn't made the game bad in the past so I hardly see how it could become worse than "any pokemon game before").

Yes it is an odd comparison and I don't know if when brought to DS was just to mock it that even with all the Hype and Kojima it would lose to pokemon.

The thread is spoiler free until the last page or so, don't worry to much. but there were a lot of "not good posts there", and from a quick look this thread also received a lot of flack from people that don't like Pokemon.

Seems almost the opposite behavior from DS thread =P

The game deserves personal good and bad opinions and even those in the middle,i'm sure the negative reviews weren't blocked out of this so tell me with a straight face why the overly good ones can't stay ?

And from an objective standpoint it still looks like a good game without bad practices.

It's Pokemon,everything released after  red and blue brought a fun samelike experience but not anything groundbreaking so this is not really a step back.

Yeah, cause your opinion is the objective one. Understood, sir.

Pokémon sells two versions with like 3 trivial differences, even to this day, which has always been a cash grab. It's a bad practice since the start.

Yeah, but there's also review scores of 55 and 60. These ultra low review scores drag the average down harder than the scores of 100 or 90 bring it up. It takes two or three scores of 90-100 to counter one score of 55 or 60. 

For example...

Let's say you have a game with three reviews. One is 100, one is 90, and one is 55. Well, that game's average review score comes out to 81.66/100. Even though there's two really good reviews, and one really bad review the score isn't that high. Now what happens when we add another score of 90? Well the average score goes up to 83.75/100. What if we add another score of 60 instead of that 90? Well now the average score is 75.6. Notice how adding another low score tanked the average? But adding another high score did not send the score skyrocketing upward? This just goes to show that a handful of really low review scores can tank the average. 

Anyway as a whole, the critic consensus is pretty reasonable. As a whole they didn't give the game a free pass, and they didn't buy into the hate bandwagon either. 

Uhhhhh... dude... unless the scores fall into a very narrow range, which is incredibly statistically unlikely, then by definition some scores are going to have to fall outside of what you feel is deserved.  That's just what tends to happen when you don't have a game reviewed by a hive mind. I would actually find it way more suspicious if every outlet had the same opinion and there were no outliers.

What are the last five games you bought?  Look them up on Metacritic.  Assuming they have more than a handful of reviews, let's say 25 is the minimum, which of those five games only have scores on Metacritic that you think are warranted?  I'd be shocked if any of them do.

10 hours in now and I have to say...when it comes to actually playing the game, there's no significant downgrades. I get that a lot of people are upset about Dexit and all, but there are so many improvements that I don't even care. 400 Pokemon is still a lot (Seriously, it's so much), and I can honestly say I haven't been THIS into Pokemon since Gen 5 (Black and White). why is that? Because this is the first time since Gen 5 I haven't been able to trade my pokemon forward and had to treat the game as its own, unique entity.

Things like the removal of random battles, the integration of the box link, the controls, the wild area/zone, the feeling of adventure, the simple but refined story, the well-developed world, etc...all of that help the game while dexit has, so far, had zero effect on me personally. To me, that was just eliminating a bunch of redundancy. Best I can tell, this is the Skyrim of the Pokemon series; sure, a bunch of the features and options/pokemon were pared down, but what is left is more refined and a lot more fun and functional.

IT's still way too early to know for absolute certain, but this might be my 3rd favourite gen, with 5 and 1 still edging it out.

For the life of me, I do not understand the hate. I get that people are upset about not being able to use Ekans or Hidden Power, but the things we got in exchange are just so, so much better. Sheer Volume of pokemon does not make a game good, especially if it means there's a bunch of redundancy. 400 is still a LOT of pokemon, and while there will always be some of your favourites that don't transfer forward (I lost my precious Garchomp), people need to stop thinking of Pokemon games as an expansion and start thinking of them as their own games, with each game picking and chosing from a list of Pokemon.

If no pokemon game ever has more than 500 again, I'd be happy with that. That said, I think if we got this game and a DLC pack with the remaining pokemon, it'd be the best game in the series, I just don't think it's necessary.

Comparing it to Skyrim is a weird one, because my main complaint with the game (other than difficulty) is how basic the world is. Routes are short and very straight forward. It's one of the least "open-world" pokemon games from what I've played so far.

Edit: Though on rereading I think you're more comparing the streamlining from oblivion to skyrim... ahhhhh.

I'm curious, what would you consider a step back then?

I never said 06 wasn't broken? My judgment is proper in the only relevant sense. I know I will not enjoy Sw/Sh were I to buy it much like Sonic 06 which I did buy due to my blind fanboyism, deliberately ignoring information about the game, and ended up returning it shortly after. Again, at least 06 was not indicative of future titles, I very much enjoyed Unleashed, Colors, and Generations.

Just beat it. It was a decent game. Nothing great, but fun enough.

Anyone out there wanna breed me a Scorbunny egg? I need to replace mine since Sword and Shield's online trading system is shit and I accidentally traded my fully evolved Cinderace to some random fuckstick in Korea when I thought I was connected to my friend.

I have Sword and Shield, and the way I play is to get all three starters, then trade them back and forth between the two versions, leapfrogging the gyms as I go. (Up to gym 1 on game one, then trade over and do up to gym 2 on game 2, then back to game 1 and play up till Gym 3, etc). Well, since Pokemon Sword and Shield don't have Pokemon Bank/Home integration yet for some moronic reason, I have to rely on trading with friends online. So, I trade from my game to My friend's game, she holds all three of my starters, I go back to my other game, and take them back in order to make this happen!

Well, in this game since there are no friend codes or ability to just reach out to friends and custom-trade with them, they have a code system, which is 4 digits. Person A goes online, puts in 1234, person B puts in 1234, and the game connects you! Foxi and I both logged in, put in the same 4-digit code, and when I saw her pop up with a Wingull (The same one she traded to me last time), I agreed to trade my Cinderace (The fully evolved form of Scorbunny and the single pokemon I'd been using since the start of the game and MAYBE my favourite starter ever).

Only once the trade was completed and the other person disconnected did I realize something was wrong. I said to Foxi "You disconnected", and she said "No, we haven't connected yet"....
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FUCK!

Turns out some korean jackass was using the exact same code at the exact same time, and since the other trainer's name is hidden when you first connect, I didn't think to double check...and now I've lost my Cinderace.

I am livid. Absolutely livid. you have no idea how pissed off I am right now and all I want is a Scorbunny egg so I can re-train them back to level 35 where I was before. I don't want a traded one, I just want one I can hatch from an egg so it will obey me (I'm not even at Gym 2 yet, so it's not like I can get my Pokemon to listen)

So, anyone wanna breed me a scorbunny or loan me a Cinderace and a ditto so I can breed my own?