Drake is early thirties in the first game so Holland is definitely being pitched as a somewhat younger model. It’s not perfect but I can buy it. Wahlberg is awful casting though. Should have gotten Bruce Campbell. Anyone that’s seen Burn Notice knows what a perfect Sully he’d make.

The part that got me most, was when Zack described creating his female character, only to find the options selected were replaced with booty shorts and high heels as soon as the game starts. The “sashay away” walk cycle video kind of cemented it, for me: this game appears to be made for the 13 year old male gaze. Ugh.…

Or hire developers who can truly take advantage of beefier hardwares.

or just let monolith do everything

They’re trained to treat every single engagement with the public as potentially life and death. Coupled with the increased militarization of departmental gear across the country, you get the routine bullshit they keep getting away with.

Well luckily it’s F2P, so you don’t have to buy anything.

Creating a dynamic, open-world 3D engine is a difficult task.

It floors me that people are willing to talk about Gamefreak, stewards of the most valuable franchise of all time, like a bunch of plucky highschoolers trying their hardest. 

It’s one of the ugliest games that I’ve played in a while, punctuated by occasional moments of beauty. The art direction of the world is pretty soulless, the textures are rubbish, and the pop-ins aren’t done artfully. Outside of certain towns, the game’s open world doesn’t have its own identity. Nothing to mark it as…

A lot of people are happy with the overall game, that doesn’t mean individual aspects of it can’t be criticized.  If you like the gameplay, monster design, and the colors, fine.  But the people defending the draw distance, fog, or various other graphical elements might also want to go outside at some.

A lot of people in the comments are saying that they’re fine with how the game is and that’s great. It’s your money spend it how you want, but you gotta admit that for a company that has regularly net over $100M a year in profit for years this game is terrible. No voice acting, horrible horrible textures on…

If you did not know what Pokemon was and someone showed you this game, you would probably think it was made by an indie game studio. It does not look great. This is a game made by Game Freak, published by Nintendo and the Pokemon Company. There simply is no excuse for it not being better optimized to look and run…

It’s not simply for consuming a product it’s out of respect for the people who keep showing up and giving you money.
Heck look at square enix and final fantasy. When FF14 came out the game was a disaster. SE could have just cut their losses and continued as usual.
But the reputation for their main franchise was on the…

The thing is, you can bring in ringers to do 3D modeling, rigging etc. That’s just an excuse IMO. 

This isn’t even their first Switch game, so they can’t even use the excuse of having to work with new hardware.

OR...maybe people engage with games as art and therefore have nuanced priorities of what does and does not make a good game? Art is a bigger priority for some people. Some people love or hate games based solely on the soundtrack.

If I said, “Hey this game is beautiful but it controls like shit” I wouldn’t tell you to…

I’ve been arguing over this for a while now and honestly I am tired of gamefreak. Yes it’s not only their fault that they don’t get a proper budget and have tight deadlines.
But it becomes more and more apparent that they’re not a good fit to bring pokemon games up to today’s standards when they just reached the…

As a first entry in a new series, of course it will take some growing into.

“This is a great foundation for future games to build on” has been the running mantra for every mainline Pokémon game since 2013.

I’m very much in the “art direction beats graphical fidelity” camp, but this game doesn’t really seem to have much of either. And the level of pop-in I’ve seen in some of these videos goes beyond a graphical issue and becomes a gameplay issue.