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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 27 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Finally, hardware is powerful enough that even Gamefreak can make a decent looking 3d game!

In all seriousness though, it looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the return of diving. South-east Asia is an interesting setting for a new region. I have a feeling IGN isn't going to like it though...

[–] _Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub 7 points 4 hours ago

Lol

IGN reviewer walks in.

Pkmn Waves: chuckle I'm in danger

[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 19 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Huh, so they're actually going to wait a year. I honestly expected them to push a Pokemon game ASAP for the Switch 2, but I guess it's better that they take their time than release a mess like Scarlet & Violet.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

They have to make time to finish that Sekiro-like.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Legends Z-A was the title for the switch 2. I mean, Scarlet and Violet was clearly supposed to be the switch 2 title (its obvious they developed the game for that hardware) but they needed to rush it to get their one game a year quota.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

What was wrong with scarlet and violet? I enjoyed them, but they were my first Pokemon game since the Gameboy SP.

[–] popcar2@piefed.ca 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Borderline broken on release, terrible framerate & graphics on Switch 1. Did you play them on Switch 2 by any chance?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 5 hours ago

Nope, I played it on the switch lite and didn't have issues with framerate and graphics, but I didn't buy it on release.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Why design routes when "open world"? PS2 ass graphics. Horrible frame rate and performance. Unnecessary number of shops with no life at all. Because "you can take the challenges in any order" none of them have any actual interest or difficulty. First main line pokemon game I ever DNF'd.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

As someone who hasn't played a pokemon game since Gen 3, what are they like these days? Have they totally jumped the shark?

[–] natecox@programming.dev 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Terrible. They are terrible today. The last game pair they put out was an absolute joke in every regard.

I recommend never giving them another penny.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds good, I'll continue to emulate Soul Silver and Emerald on my phone 😁

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 4 hours ago

HGSS is peak Pokémon.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

DS generations are probably the last ones worth playing - although hard to emulate on a phone with comfortable controls, I'd imagine.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I think I tried Platinum for a bit but yeah it was too cumbersome to play on my phone.

[–] MisshapenDeviate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It definitely depends on how much they incorporate improvements from Legends: ~~Arceus~~ Z-A (one of the side games). Gens 6 - 8 were all so easy that a popular way to play each of those is with a difficulty mod, if you are able.

Gen 9 tried to mix it up a bit, but as another user mentioned the performance on the Switch was so poor that it was hard to enjoy.

Legends: ~~Arceus~~ Z-A has introduced several quality of life features that could be game changing if they make it into Winds & Waves, but we shall see. This could be the most fun mainline gen, if they do it right, or they could fumble it again.

Edit: Looking back, both times I meant to say Z-A I said Arceus. Whoops.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Arceus turned the whole game into pokemon snap with balls. Or the safari zone. It wasn't good, unless you like playing pokemon games to catch every pokemon as fast as possible

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Not only that, Arceus is terribly empty

I meant to say Z-A. My bad. Arceus didn't really hold my attention, likely for the reason you mention.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I've played every main-line and reboot pokemon game since they came out. I didn't finish Scarlet and Violet, it was so bad, also didn't finish Legends Arceus cause it was so lazy, and I've never played Legends Z-A. They've stopped putting in any amount of effort, so why should I bother to play them?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 6 hours ago

Let's see what kind of unbelievable powecreep they come up with to upstage Urshifu and the horses.