ArceusSupremacy

@Friscobay what low standards. The simple fact that it doesn't have Platinum content makes these games not worth it imo.

I mean wtf, the story is terrible, Cyrus is just called boss, and what are those ridiculous math puzzles??

@Fizza yeah I was thinking about this. ILCA don't do a lot of games themselves, so I assume they would have time to start working on Gen 5 remakes right now.

Maybe this means that contrary to past gens, we could get two remakes in the same console gen? Like Gen 9 2023, Gen 5 remakes 2024, then Legends Kyurem as a crossgen game early 2025?

@UltimateOtaku91 they can, they won't because they don't need to, unfortunately.

Because the masses of Pokémon fans are sadly not very smart consumers and don't vote with their wallets. I thought BDSP looks like one of the most stupid projects I've ever seen, so I passed, I'm very happy replaying Platinum.

@Pokester99 yeah because sales totally means quality. Totally.

The games are OBJECTIVELY shameful technically, you might still like it, but no one can deny they have poor technical quality, this is a shame for the biggest franchise in the world, I and millions of others will not give them a pass.

Well, at least BDSP has by far the worst reviews in the series, which I'm very happy about.

Contrary to what people believe, and what I myself used to believe, I think Arceus shows that GF is not a 100% cynical, they do seem to have taken the SWSH critics into consideration and reacted in the next game, despite SWSH being a huge success unfortunately.

So maybe the negative reception will be enough for them to never make faithful remakes ever again, Gen 5 has to be modern style, with the Let's Go series, it doesn't make any sense to me to make two remakes in a chibi art-style. Or maybe they will evolve Let's Go and make it an in-between style to SWSH?

That would make business sense, you sell the crappy faithful one first, and ten years later you sell them something slightly better.

I think people are underestimating how well the Switch will most probably sell from 24 onwards. You got to realise that Nintendo still never lowered the price, when they do, the Switch most certainly will brake all the records for late-life sales for consoles. It will continue to sell probably 2-5 million per year for 2-3 years even after the new console is out.

The Switch will most certainly reach 125 million this year, 140 at least in 2023, so it probably will pass the DS.

@Blizzia no, my argument is that Rise is smaller in scope and presentation due to being on a much more limited hardware. That's completely objective. Rise is technically the lesser World.

How is world a mobile spin-off if it's not on a mobile platform??

Like I said, your logic of continuation of series tradition makes zero sense, because by that most long-going series would all be spin-offs by now.

My whole point is that it's weird to followup a full fledged PC game by a mobile port, Capcom should've enhanced the graphics further so it loses in nothing compared to World.

This way, it only creates confusion for broader audiences on PC, to the point that someone could think MH just sucks now, like wtf does this game look so much worse than the previous, and maybe even give up on the series.

So... Dread flopped? You never see a Nintendo game this new get these kinds of discount.

@Blizzia your argument isn't valid since it's entirely subjective.
For many people, BOTW feels like a regression in many aspects as well, many critisize the lack of more and more substantial dungeons and puzzles and breakable weapons.

The fact is, both are mainline and both are just different from their predecessors, that's the fact.

I also didn't say Rise is a spin-off, I also said it feels like one, and yet, you're questioning my definition, so I can question yours.

@Blizzia Capcom has said World is a mainline game. It's just a new direction.

By your logic, GTA from 3 onwards are all spin-offs, and Chinatown Wars is a mainline game because it's much more similar to the first 2D games. By your logic, BOTW is a spin-off and Links Awakening is the mainline game (it's a topdwon mainline).

@Jeronan you obviously don't know very much about game dev, it's okay.

I'm a dev myself, grass blades are very expensive assets, to have a world full of them like BOTW in a hardware as limited as the Switch, takes lots of effort and probably years of optimization. Look at games like Xenoblade, where in order to have a world full of details like masses of grass blades and other plants, they have to reduce the game's resolution to sub-HD levels many times, while BOTW always runs in HD, because the game is a technical masterpiece, and LA is the exact opposite, it's a technical shame unfortunately, it looks like a bad (!) remaster of a Wii game (with not so great graphics even for the Wii). Xenoblade Definitive Edition, a remaster of a Wii game, looks much better than LA.

Flat grass grounds like in LA are very outdated and something most games got rid of in the early 2010s. Again, XB on the Wii had more vegetation variation than LA.

And don't pretend grass blades was the only example I gave you why LA is much uglier than BOTW, and you call others trolls...

I don't understand know someone could think they are on the same level, you just need to make the side by side comparison. BOTW is on another level.

@nhSnork no, with Metroid it's different. First, Metroid is has a continuous story and consistent lore, the sidescroller games are clearly the mainline because they tell the main story. Prime is the side series that tells side stories, and they're on the same platform (or will be), so they have the same hardware ressources to create the game.

Rise is on a platform that's severely less powerful than even the cheapest gaming PCs, so of course Rise will feel like the lesser World in terms of scope and graphics.

@Varkster Rise still feels pretty much like a portable spin off too me. What you said might've been true for the time the series was basically just on the 3DS after the end of the Wii-series, but that changed with World.

If feels like the Vita-Versions of God of War and Uncharted, with the difference that Rise has much more of an own identity, heart and quality to it.

@iLikeUrAttitude I've read your comments I'm just saying that you might be mistaking older footage for current ones.

I have seen the trailers so many times, I can tell right away "That footage is from the first trailer". And I really have not seen any frame drops in the main trailers 2, 3, and 4, except for the already mentioned pasture.

EDIT: The comment got really long, not judging you if you stop here.

For example, have you seen the new western trailer released a couple of hours ago? That trailer has a lot of footage from the first trailer with all the frame drops.

"I doubt they will considering GameFreaks track record though, Sword&Shield being a example of how little things were changed from what was shown vs launch."

That might be true, but I'm confident that it will be nothing like in the first trailer. And since we agree on BOTW, I think you would agree that occasional frame drops are not enough to ruin a game, so I don't think it's fair to give up on Arceus because of that. If it was as bad as on trailer 1 I could understand it, but I don't think it will be.

I think it's important to support Arceus even if the game is far from perfect, it's at least conceptually, let's wait for the release, 100 times better than the garbage that was SwSh, so I think we need to send a message to TPC that this is the right direction, I think it would be very bad if Arceus sold like 7 million units just because people didn't like the frame drops and bad graphics, and TPC went like "Oh, people obviously like SWSH more, so lets cut on some of the LA features we planned for Gen 9 and make it more like SWSH. Then Gen 10 we do a baby RPG like SWSH again". If that happens, even I might drop Pokémon, I despise both SWSH and BDSP, those are the complete wrong direction for the series.

Say what you want, E3 sucked in the last 2 years, but it was still way better than SGF. Wait the Dread reveal was E3 right? The Microsoft show too? I always get confused, if yes than it actually didn't suck that much at all.

The only way SGF can be cool to be, is if it's across one week max, with longer streams everyday and more big companies, not a big indie guy, sorry.

@CharlieGirl I always hate when games don't have cross-save, this has made me give up on so many Switch ports I wanted badly like Dragon Quest XI.

I always wondered how Capcom imagined that PC transition, are you gonna completely remake the graphics or will you really release a game that looks s lot worse than the previous? Rise looks great for a Switch game, but on PC it looks like a remaster of a 2010 game.

I hope no one gets confused and thinks "What is this, MH sucks now" and that people know World is the mainline game and Rise is the mobile "spin-off" (not really a spin-off but you get what I mean).

It will be interesting to see how much it will sell on PC, I think the gameplay is strong enough to justify playing this dispite the graphics, since it offers many features World doesn't.

But if we ever get a Rise 2, I hope the next Switch is so powerful that the PC port doesn't look like an enhanced mobile port.

@Jeronan I think you're the one who needs to play BOTW. I agree that the graphics were not perfect, but it's way better than Arceus. I recommend you to compare the footage side by side.

BOTW's grass ground is all covered by grass blades, in LA it's just here and there, there's a lot of flat grass ground. The trees in BOTW look much better, and yes the textures in BOTW are not completely crisp either, but it's 2x, 3x times higher resolution than LA.
The terrain in BOTW is has higher poly count, the mountains look very realistic and beautiful. In LA unfortunately, it looks like someone randomly brushed the mountains into the terrain, without looking for any reference of how mountains actually look like, without the care of using realistic mountain brushes instead of the standard round ones.

I might be excited as heck for Arceus, I'm a Pokémon freak, but I'm not a fanboy, I can see the flaws and I will critisize them and hope they get better in the next game.

@dimi it has both real time and turn based combat. It's realtime when you face the Pokémon as a trainer, and it's turn-based when you order your Pokémon to fight for you.

I appreciate that the transition to Pokémon battle is seamless, but I think it would have made more sense to don't have battle screens at all, you just release the Pokémon, keep walking freely, doing stuff like throwing berries, while you idk, press ZR+ Face buttons to tell your Pokémon which attack it should use.

But yeah, the way it is is at least way better than everything Pokémon has done before.

@iLikeUrAttitude so you think it makes sense to assume a problem from older footage will be present in the part of the game we have not seen, although the new footage doesn't show the problem?

I watch the trailers again and again in my free time, sometimes I spend hours just watching them. I didn't see any frame-drops in all newer footage since trailer 1, you might have seen those TV spots with the older footage.

Regardless, BOTW also had massive frame-drops before the patch, and people still enjoyed the game. As long as it's not constant, it's okay.

That's a cool trailer, you can tell it's made by americans and not based on the japanese ones because of the epic cuts and music, and also the classical sexy deep male voice lol I like these 2000s-style trailers, all trailers from 3-5 were like that in the west.

@Jeronan no, if it was the BOTW engine the game would look way better, it's probably the same 3D-Pokémon-engine, you don't change an engine for the graphics to look worse than SWSH.

The reason why the assets and UI look similar are: 1- the game is intentionally inspired by BOTW, 2- the third parties that make the assets for Pokémon also worked on Zelda and Xenoblade, look up the credits of all games.

It's unbelievable how bad Game Freak is at visuals, but hey, it's the first truly new Pokémon experience in 25 years, I'm excited.

@Don the tax is applied to chinese products, they become more expensive and brands like Huawei which had competitive pricing as a big sellin-point, lose their strength, which is good, because China is evil.

Say what you want, after the Joy-Cons I don't trust Nintendo hardware quality anymore.

Never buying the OLED-model, in my opinion it's a complete waste of money, and I say that as a handheld-player who had an OLED-Vita, I don't think the prettier screen justifies an upgrade.

@iLikeUrAttitude you were talking about the frame drops and low-fps Pokémon in the first trailer, they were the only performance issues we have seen and they are a 100% fixed as seen in the trailers and leaked footage, at least they never appeared again with the exception of the pasture, but that's irrelevant since it doesn't interfere in gameplay.

You may say the game appears to have other problems, but none of them are related to performance, that's just objectively not the case, unless you're one of those who consider a stable 30 fps game unplayable.

It seems you just want to critisize the game without even paying attention to the footage.

@iLikeUrAttitude those people who see the first trailer and then pretends to have seen the rest.

The performance issues seen in the first trailer are 100% fixed.

People like you are my hope for LA, unfortunately, I think many of the core fans are not sold on LA, here in Germany, people are completely negative about it.

Wow, how niche. Didn't expect that.

lol this article

10 million for all "others" lifetime? That's not
that much. So what if it's the fastest selling console in China, that doesn't say anything, that only tells you the official console market there is just terrible, as many things in that country, Nintendo and Tencent is a concerning partnership, and one of the reasons I don't trust Furukawa, the man seems to focus only on the money, unlike Nintendo's historical philosophy in the last 40 years.

Taxing the heck outta China was one of the few right things orange-face did, more needs to be done against them.

Like always, this site loooooooooves to promote Switch piracy, WHY share the links so people can look for similiar ones or go look right now before they're taken down????

lol absolutely not IT'S TERRIBLE.
It doesn't come anything near the emotional storylines of season 1, the whole logic of the series is completely lost with the presence of Goh.

They go through silly trips instead of going through an actual adventure in Galar, which became a completely rushed saga which should've been the climax (I gave up after that, but seen things that made me hate the series even more that come after it, like Goh catching Suicune).

Journeys definitely killed a series that for me has already been a huge waste of time with the exception of a handful of episodes ever since season one. I wished Goh was burned to his bones by Entei, on-screen. Best anime death ever.

@Meteoroid sorry, but this doesn't make sense. You say yourself, reviews are subjective, there isn't such a thing as an objective score.

I think this games fully deserves a 6/10 for it's lack of ambition, and overall cheapness.

You also can't compare scores directly to each other, you always have to keep the context of release in mind.

Let's Go was a gap filler, we all knew that, and so expectations were lower. Pokémon remakes ALWAYS used the newest gen style, imagine Sinnoh with a more natural, realistic environment, it would serve the epicness of the region way better. So it was completely reasonable to have high expectations for Gen 4 remakes, and this games fall very short of that.

I personally disagreed with the score for SWSH, for me, Let's Go 7/10, SWSH 6/10, BDSP 6/10. I personally feel that both SWSH and BDSP are an insult to the community, especially SWSH, they're cynical, they delivee the very minimum because they know we, idiots, will buy any cashgrab they make.

@VoidofLight definitely not. They deliberately ignore the anime in the games (rightfully so, the anime is garbage), therw are very few references. I'm pretty sure they care zero about the Rangers movie, they would not put a reference to it in a place so important to the Pokémon lore (yes, it is).

It's definitely a hint at something coming. It's probably teasing how you get Manaphy in Legends.

@Anti-Matter lol you seriously comparing Pokémon to Yokaj Watch?
It's a completely different game, the progression is completely different, and you fight with multiple Youkais at once, so it makes sense there.

@johnvboy *** a very large amount of people.

@RainbowGazelle we need more people like you. I also did not and will not buy BDSP, but I admit I'll probably buy Legends no matter what, I'm just a huge sucker for sandbox Pokémon, so I'm part of the problem.

But Arceus is at least conceptually a revolution, BDSP is lazy conceptually and technically.

@johnvboy that's unlikely. It's more likely that the majority of the players come from the 70% 20 years+, than from the 10% 14 years-, what I would call "children", since we're talking about criticism, and I think older teens are able to tell these Pokémon games are not as good as other games technically, to some extent.

In anyway, you should not use that argument since there is no proof to that, and data actually tells you it's unlikely. And even if it is, there is no proof kids can't tell these games are not that good, 13 year old me could tell Pokémon Blue didn't look nearly as good as Harry Potter on GBC.

@johnvboy not entirely, SWSH's draw distance and animations, are objectively terrible. No one can deny that, if anyone thinks SWSH has good animations, they're just wrong, they don't know what good animations are.

I don't like that whole "subjectiviness" talk, that's an easy way to escape constructivism and dismiss every argument. There are a lot of aspects of a game that are completely objective.

Most people playing Pokémon are probably not children, as backed up by data from Nintendo themselves which tell us the vast majority of Switch owners are adults. I wouldn't use that as an argument.

@johnvboy but people who don't like the style are backed up by the fact of as I said, all past remakes have used the newest style.

People who like the style are just accepting an (again, objective) lower production value, it's not justified by anything. You can like it all you want, but you can't tell it's the best the games could've been, so you can't dismiss people's criticism (not talking about you specifically).

I hope a next-gen Zelda in 5 years has graphics like Kena on PS4.

@johnvboy I understand and respect if someone likes the chibi more, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss people who don't like the chibis, and rightfully expected SWSH's style but slightly better, like every other remake so far. ILCA expected that themselves, as you can see in the concept art.

@johnvboy that's what I'm saying, the sales don't matter in that aspect, it's a matter of respecting the fans of the biggest franchise and delivering the best quality.

That's their job, if the games don't sell more (I personally think they would) it's their problem, they still have to deliver a product that's not 15 years behind the rest of the industry.

@Dragonite89 the concept art is amazing, my arceus, this is better than the art GF uses to actually promote the games.

I'm still flibberjimbled by how bad SWSH's cover-art are. They look like they're drawn in two days.

@johnvboy I personally never said they're terrible, I enjoyed Let's Go okay, SWSH disappointed me, but DLC was great. BDSP is one of biggest disappointments ever in the franchise for me, remakes use the newest game's style, it has always been this way, period.

I'm just saying Pokémon deserves way better, it should be way better, and it deserves heavy criticism for being so synical despite making so much money. You can enjoy the game and still see it has flaws and demand improvement from the companies instead of defending bad products (from an objective technical standpoint).

@RainbowGazelle it's not TPC, it's Game Freak.
Game Freak decides when the games come out. They rush their games on purpose because they don't care about quality, we know we're stupid and will buy anything anyway.

Masuda said himself that no one pressures GF. Joe Merrick said that information about GF choosing the release dates, I trust him on that one, because it fits previous information.

@johnvboy you hust can't deny there are major short comings in all games, that's an objective fact.

If you don't care about quality, it's your thing, but Pokémon is objectively not at the same level as other game franchises.

It's the biggest franchise in the world, Pokémon should be the GTA of JRPG, something so amazing no other company could do.

@Dragonite89 thank you, a Pokémon fan with a brain.

It's just sad to see how good other JRPGs like Dragon Quest, Shin Megami Tensei, Persona are, and to see that Pokémon doesn't even come near them, while it easily could. I'm not talking about complexity, I'm talking just about the raw production value, about respecting the fans of the biggest franchise in the world.

And we don't need to talk about how mediocre most games past BW2 (god that game was great) are compared to the classics.

@johnvboy did you see the concept art ILCA did? Did you see what this game could've been? That they deliver this instead, is disrespectful (not ILCAs fault, probably GF/ TPC).

I'm not saying BDSP are terrible, but it could've been the best games in the series, but GF, TPC and Nintendo are just too synical.