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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

We have to see how much they will botch the performance further with this one!

Its unfortunate SV has gone that way. I was so excited for it, and I actually still am now as the DLC adds some many Pokemons I like

[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I actually wasn't expecting any footage of this today, that was a surprise. If anyone remembers that 4chan leak from a little while back, how is its credibility looking now?

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if Yamask is gonna be part of the Teal Mask DLC.

Still, these games are so poor compared to other Switch releases.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Performance-wise they're a mess, but I also think these games introduced some of the best ideas in Pokemon in many generations, and they've been my favourites by far since Generation VI. There are lots of super fun easter eggs, character designs are great, terastalising is the best and most complex gimmick since mega evolutions, and I actually thought the story was interesting this time around. I think they got too much hate for what they are, which in my opinion is the best Pokemon games since Gen V.

Should Game Freak be spending more money on larger development teams or more talented programmers, to ensure games run smoothly and graphics and animations are better? Absolutely. But are the games awful? I really don't think so. I thought they were super fun and I enjoyed them a lot.

[–] amtwon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree! Looking past the performance issues, I had a lot of fun with SV.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For single player gameplay, I found terrastelizing very boring. It just makes one type stronger. Of the few NPCs that use it, they almost all waste it in extremely dull ways.

Nothing has yet to come close to megas, which at least we're really fun to find the various forms of and breathed a breath of fresh air into a few species.

[–] MartysBetter30@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really disappointed in the 1st DLC being pushed from summer to "fall 2023". I'm guessing the 2nd DLC won't actually be "winter 2023" either.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Its probably for the best

[–] LilBagOfBunnies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm cautiously excited for these DLCs. The content that Sword and Shield's pass brought were the best in the game, so hopefully that standard continues here. I also really, really enjoyed SV other than the performance issues...which I must have been lucky with because beyond some framerate issues, I didn't experience anything game breaking.

Still not preordering them, but I'll be happy to give them a fair shake with impressions after they release!

[–] MattyXarope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm getting the feeling that they realized that salvaging the performance would require a complete redesign of the game, and just gave up.

The performance patch is not coming. They're just going to push out these dlcs and focus on the upcoming games.

[–] BenignLarency@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Admitadly, the footage they showed looks far smoother than the games do. It could just be then cherry picking footage, and I'm expecting nothing from GF, but we'll have to see.

[–] MattyXarope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We'll see, but I don't think there's any indication at all that the footage is representative of the game.

[–] Mulkor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Despite all the performance issues and barren open world, the game is still pretty fun. If the DLC is as good as Crown Tundra was in Sw/Sh then I'll end up getting it but I don't do pre-orders.

[–] Ectra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was quite annoyed because it was so fun, but the performance and style was just so bad.

I was having a decent time, but thinking how good it couldve been... Yeah that annoys me.

[–] falconfetus8@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing this immediately after playing ToTK is just...depressing.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are people doing so much with Pokemon style games. I really want GameFreak to step up their game.

[–] deepseastronaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even Pokémon rom hacks are getting better and more advanced by the year where some games surpass mainline Pokémon games i.m.h.o.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, when the game keeps making them bajillion dollars, they don't have any motivation to improve it.

Just hope they get some new blood, who have passion to make the best Pokemon game, and the higher ups let them make it.

[–] Polkira@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely won't be buying these after the total disaster the base game was. hopefully the next game is a lot more polished. Absolutely no more pre-orders from me though.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The performance of the base game was a hot mess. But I did personally still have fun. It's certainly a pretty flawed game even looking past the performance issues. There's almost no level scaling, despite it being an open world game where level matters massively. And it once again makes it far too easy to be overleveled even if you follow the absolute mess of the "leveled order" (ie, ordering content from lowest to highest level). But that said, the story and exploration was fun. Paradox pokemon were great.