It's time to air some grievances, what's happening in pokemon that you don't like?

>>58035860 (OP)
Why are there so many cynthianiggers infesting this board

People still buying bad games

>>58035860 (OP)
3D

>>58035860 (OP)
There is a black guy in the new game and i don't like how they force you to be his friend

>>58035860 (OP)
no natdex still makes me sad
>>58035911
also this

>>58035911
God, this. There's so many black people in the games now, it's ridiculous.

>>58035860 (OP)
Verlisify still exists. Lewtwo still exists. BLAINES still exists. So many examples of pedo/zoophiles in the community that still exist.

>>58035944
What the fuck does Blaine has to do with those Poketubers?

>>58035860 (OP)
Pokemon is a monster collector.
The minimum viable product to this is that the monsters you collect have to look cool enough to warrant collecting; else the whole formula falls apart.
As of 2013, not only have all pokemon looked lifeless in game and not worth collecting, but they retroactively made all past pokemon look lifeless and not worth collecting

>>58035860 (OP)
Well, some old bitch that's in charge of my city's redevelopment project has been colluding with organized crime to fill the streets with gang violence at night

>>58035860 (OP)
>what's happening in pokemon that you don't like?
Mega Dragonite. It looks so fucking awkward.

>>58035967
Not Blaine. BLAINES. This rapist who claims to live in Japan. He spreads misinfo and starts drama. Also allegedly fucked his own daughter.

>>58035860 (OP)
it's looking less anime and more calarts every installment

>>58035860 (OP)
There seems to be a lack of interest in updating the overworld graphics. I understand the focus of the games are the creatures, and the world itself is just an accessory, but come on. It looks flat, lifeless, textures are all over the place. Pokemon world deserves some care put into it.

We've had this issue for a long time now. They've had so much time to catch up.

>>58035860 (OP)
All of it

>>58035911
>>58035919
>>58035926
Biggest losers itt.

>>58035860 (OP)
3D

>>58036027
Cope, nigger. The whole world is getting sick and tired of your useless race.

>>58035860 (OP)
I like pokemon shield but those gay faggots Allister, Avery and Hop show up to the Galarian star tournament uninvited. I have to use a level 100 legendary like Lunala or Reshiram to clear those maricons out quickly. I target their pokemon first because their trainers are ugly.

>>58036041
>he actually thinks racism has a chance
The only reason you're seeing a resurgence in public racism is because leaders of purist ideology groups can see the writing on the wall and they've gone full retard in desperation.

>ywnbw
Preemptively letting you know I'm the whitest dude you could imagine, so even if I'm wrong I'd still win in the end. Calling me a nigger would just be a flimsy attempt to trick yourself into believing your world view is safe.

>>58035860 (OP)
I'm still mad. Real letters can still be used for team logos, but not anywhere else? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

>>58036124
>>58036041
>>>/pol/
Go argue there

>>58036143
>MX
*MZ

>>58036143
Is it me, or does it say "LOGAE RADEON<"?

>>58035860 (OP)
>what's happening in pokemon that you don't like?
Nintendo's war on emulators. Like, buddy, you killing Ryujinx ain't gonna make me buy dat newest console, cause I ain't got no money to spare, but now the world of Pokemon is forever done to me (not really, but srsly, emulation should be saved).

>>58036041
"People" like you should've been culled a long time ago. You hold humanity back, you make others of your "race" look bad, nothing you guys believe can be backed by science -- only out of context and manipulated statistics at best. Biggest hypocrites, biggest projectors, biggest obsessors, most mentally ill award champions. Your ideology is dying, your descendants (if a lowlife like you manage to have any offspring) will look like those you hate sooner or later, and if hell is real you're gonna have plenty of company with people just like you.

Pokemon :)

>>58036124
Picrel.

>>58035860 (OP)
I want them to bring back battle facilities, set mode abd animation toggles, and maybe make the game prettier. Also those assholes need to stop doing stuff like locking true raidon flight behind dlc and neutering the base-game flying and hovering mechanics as an incentive. The recent FPS and render distance updates are a step in the right projection, but took much too long.

>>58036278
"LOGAE" is MIARE as seen in Z-A's first teaser.
"RADEON<" as far as I know is gibberish. Letters are only consistent within the same phrase, so you can't use another phrase to decipher it, e.g. The O representing I in MIARE CITY also represents O in POKEMON CENTER.
For fuck's sake Game Freak, just put it all in French!

>>58035860 (OP)
Fujo pandering characters like Rika and Corbeau.

I am coming out as a pedophile

>>58036684
How can a woman pander to people who want to see men fuck other men

>>58035860 (OP)
Champions is catering to compshiters, the second least tolerable group after cucklockers.

>>58036027
loser website, normalfag

>>58035860 (OP)
My waifu Candice not appearing in the new games :(

>>58035860 (OP)
The fact that most new pokemon, moves and abilities are designed with VGC in mind
>>58036124
>>58036540
Capeshit

I wish you didn't need to trade Pokemon and could just give them away instead. If I need my living dex to visit another game pre-Home I gotta catch a fuckton of shitmons just to trade them to and back. Just let me send the Pokemon without needing to fuck around with a colossal amount of crap.

>>58035860 (OP)
The idea that I can’t pkhex an alpha fenniken in legends za bc of switch 2 security makes me a lil sad. That’s about all though.

>>58037387
Your waifu was in the last Legends game.

>>58035860 (OP)
Honestly, I prefer Tajiri and Masuda's storytelling over Ohmori. I actually think that SV have the best conventional story of the mainline games, but I don't really think that kind of story is what fits Pokémon games best. Ohmori's stories seem to be told vicariously: you're either not the main character, or share the spotlight with other characters (this is most obvious in SM with Lillie). They're too human-centric: the human characters are the main thing about the story, and everything surrounds them.
While this was already started to be seen in Masuda's Gen V and VI, I feel like their environmental storytelling was good enough and the regions had enough character (yes, even XY's Kalos) to mantain this idea of nature and Pokémon being at the center. After all, BW's story, while centered on N's character, is still themed around Pokémon.
But really, I think that the best storytelling is not in the latest games, and it isn't even in Gen V. It's in RSE: the entire story is centered around nature, the entire game is centered around nature. Hoenn is a vibrant place, full of interesting people and Pokémon. And the idea of Pokémon as kami, as nature personified, is one that is still carries a lot of weight and can be clearly seen; unlike in newer entries, where, at least to me, Pokémon - aside from the occasional legendary - don't really tie into the world; they're just there. Galar and Paldea also don't really have strong characters or identities of their own.
I don't want to sound like a hater, nor some kind of nostalgia-blinded Hoennbaby. I still enjoy and have fun with the newer games. But I think that Hoenn was Pokémon at its best - that feeling of grandiose adventure, that newer games can't capture anymore.
(I also just miss Masuda as a director. I think /vp/ gives him too much flak)
Sorry if I come off as very rambly. My thoughts are a disorganized mess...

>>58038919
>(I also just miss Masuda as a director. I think /vp/ gives him too much flak)
They do, because they miss the actual figurehead they should be criticizing
Ohmori
That son of a bitch
Masuda only said that shit about "smartphones" and "haha I don't know" or "don't set you hopes too high" during ORAS/SM time, aka when Ohmori started to take over in directing. Ohmori then proceeded to treat pokemon as a retard-gloves theme park about his childhood family trauma and alternate dimensions for some reason. He doesn't care about the pokemon, he doesn't care about the adventure, he doesn't care about the lore or how the game plays or anything like that. It isn't unreasonable to think Masuda was only falling in line with this retard.
I haven't played ORAS, but I haven't liked a single one of his other games, and it amazes me people don't point to him more often

>>58038919
>>58039813
I played ORAS not too long ago. Thankfully, it being a remake of Masuda's RSE help keep it from going full Ohmori cancer, but the signs were there in the new content, namely the Delta Episode.
>environmental storytelling
This is where I think main series Pokémon does storytelling best. I was more invested in knowing about the history of Sea Mauville than I did for anywhere Gen 7 onwards because it let me explore the place and reward me with lore if I knew where to look.
The core essence of a Pokémon adventure is (You) and the Pokémon that join your party taking on the world with and against others and their Pokémon and how Pokémon shape said world. It's not about a human who has problems with his or her parents with some questionable creatures tossed in on the side and it being shoved in my face, not told very well, and in a game that won't let me fast-forward or skip it even on repeat playthroughs.

When you think about it,
>ohmori taking over as main pokemon director
>spin-offs going primarily freemium
>nintendo changing leadership
>the shift in overall worldbuilding for the pokemon games
These all happened around the same time. Quite a lot for it all just be mere coincidences.

>>58039813
That's an interesting way to think about what Masuda said, I hadn't thought about it that way.
>>58040273
ORAS, despite being directed by Ohmori, do show a lot of environmental storytelling. It's not just Sea Mauville - this is a minute thing, but I really liked how you get to see plushies of the “Hoenn Rangers” series all over Hoenn. It feels like the region itself is lived in, that it has a culture of its own.
I think one of the biggest issuues with Ohmori's games is that they lack a theme. Gen II is about the contrast between old and new, about tradition giving way to modernity while still respecting it. Gen III is about nature. Gen IV is about old myths and legends. Gen V is about truth vs ideals. Gen VI is about serendipity, beauty and friendship. Everything in these games eventually ties back into these core themes. But Ohmori's games don't have themes. I feel like this is why there was the whole imagination vs. time travel thing with SV; thematically, imagination made more sense, as dreams and treasure were what the characters were talking about all the time, so Terapagos' powers would've tied back into all of that, forming a cohesive theming. But that wasn't the case - the curtains were indeed blue. It literally was just time travel, to the detriment of the storytelling (imo).
> The core essence of a Pokémon adventure is (You) and the Pokémon that join your party taking on the world with and against others and their Pokémon and how Pokémon shape said world.
But, at the end, it's exactly this. Pokémon is about the creatures themselves, not humans.

>>58035860 (OP)
Open world. GF just can't do it right.
Making the region a basically one big Wild Area makes it feel hollow, empty and loreless. Lack of interiors makes the exploration feel incomplete compared to previous gens (here come zoomers yelling "hurr durr nobody cares about your useless NPC houses". Shut up, they were part of the charm, made the region lively and often expanded on the lore. Zoomers just can't stand reading because of their limited attention span).

>>58041070
And while I can agree that some of the buildings in old gen games were utterly useless and could be removed, it's still no excuse for changing Pokecenters into fuckin' shelters and most of actually useful buildings into an NPC standing in front of the door (what is this, 2004 and World of Warcraft) and a selectable menu (again, effortless shit for zoomers and their short attention spans).

>>58035860 (OP)
>dexit did nothing to improve the games' quality, in fact it seems like each Switch game is worse in the technical department than the one before it
>new pokemon designs are lazy, it's not like this is the decades old "they're running out of ideas" spiel, they clearly have ideas they just suck ass at executing them. Paldea's dex is padded to shit with "it just gets bigger" evolutions
>spinoffs are nonexistent, all we get is mobileslop
>the only parts of the franchise geared towards adults are luxury merchandise, everything else is for children first and foremost. We don't even get to have a more difficult game aimed at a more mature audience
I think the worst part of the franchise, however, is the fanbase. Most of this fanbase are reddit-tier slopsuckers who would get to their knees and fellate Masuda if they had the chance, and the ones that aren't are here on /vp/ either goonposting or baitposting. There's basically no possible discussion to have about this franchise anymore, none of the media is worth playing or engaging with, all we have left is maybe some cool merch but most of it is Japan only anyway.

>>58035860 (OP)
>pogo is insanely popular
>TPC lacks the self-awareness to realize its because of THEM and their IP that it did well, not niantics dumbass ideas\shidpoasts.
>heckin raids
>heckin multiplayer shoehorned in
>heckin arbitrary restrictions\timegates

just be fucking normal
there is NOTHING comfy about having to FOMO and click f5 every day on some faggy website to check for "EVENTS" constantly

>>58041088
>>dexit did nothing to improve the games' quality
in all fairness, we all saw it coming
hopefully the "battle app with all the monsters" is actually fun
because right now they feel like they're in jail\rotting in storage

WHICH COSTS MONEY , MONTHLY

>>58035860 (OP)
Gen VI+

>>58041102
>WHICH COSTS MONEY , MONTHLY
I did the math a long time ago and Pokemon HOME is by far the most expensive cloud storage service when taking the size of a pokemon's data and how many pokemon they allow you to store. It's several orders of magnitude more expensive per GB than Google Drive or OneDrive. I lost the post with all the math I did though

>>58038919
>>58039813
>>58040273
>>58040621
You know shit is getting bad because of things from the Teraleak like Sugimori complaining about how Pokemon is not about Pokemon anymore but more about just Humanwank.
Pokemon have become increasingly secondary to, well, Pokemon.
There's also this omnipresent feeling of "adult supervision" in the games nowadays. Ever since SM.
You aren't just some random dude exploring this ever-wider mysterious world of POKEMON anymore. It's always at the behest of someone, under someone's plans. Even PLA set in oh so horrible past where Pokemon are dangerous™ murderous creatures has you being under the Galaxy Team.
SM gives that feel of a summer camp where adult figures are guiding you activity to activity. Swooshie feels like a little league sports, and you have to be vouched by someone else to participate at all to boot, and SV is a literal school/field trip.
It's so limiting and constraining. Asphyxiating. And all these Friend Groups™ make it even worse since it's not about what (you), you're just a glorified camera to watch their lives/convenient weapon to solve their problems.
You can even feel this in the anime too as far as SM as well. Ash, the ever-wanderer, is somehow willing to stick to one place, and to a fucking school to boot. Like, really nigga? And then Journeys makes the world feel so fucking small by having Ash and Go just fly the world over just like that. And not even Horizons escapes this because it doubled-down on the world-travel format and people like Friede there being the kid's tard wrangler always solving their problems making any growth the kids experience feel extremely unrealistic because of how little they get to do themselves.
The storytelling in this franchise has completely lost itself.

>>58035860 (OP)
This "fandom" is full of battered wife syndrome faggots who waste their time shitting on the newer games (which they usually haven't even played) yet can't move on from the franchise they obviously grew to hate because "muh old games were good"
Fuck off, get a new hobby, you do nothing but make yourself miserable by being an annoying whiny faggot who doesn't even have any actual criticism

>>58041157
>who doesn't even have any actual criticism
pray tell anon, what do you think constitutes "actual criticism"?

>>58041168
Actually naming specific things that suck about a game instead of just "muh glitches" or even worse "muh woke"

>>58041171
>Actually naming specific things that suck about a game instead of [specific things that suck about a game]
yeah that's what I thought

>>58036684
Men lost. Women's franchise now.

>>58041173
Regurgitating overblown normie "opinions" is not valid critism, you're exactly the kind of faggot I'm talking about
Whatever glitches whichever gen is having is not even in the top 10 issues they actually do have and should actually be brought up
But cucked faggots like you do nothing but parrot sensationalist clout chasers instead of forming their own opinion

>>58041184
>Regurgitating overblown normie "opinions" is not valid critism
why? a problem doesn't stop existing just because many people complain about it. As a matter of fact, the more people complain about something the bigger a problem it is. Complaining about wokism isn't a normie opinion, it's not even mainstream
>Whatever glitches whichever gen is having is not even in the top 10 issues they actually do have
glitches are actually the number 1 biggest problem a game can possibly have because they directly interfere with playability
>But cucked faggots like you do nothing but parrot sensationalist clout chasers instead of forming their own opinion
I played the games, anon.

>>58041193
SV has SO many other problems that interfer MUCH more with the gameplay than whayever fucking glitches you believe it has
>"Oh no someone's character did weird animations in the multiplayer mode that no one fucking uses hurr durr licherally unplayable!"
How can you say this is THE number one issue with it when there's
>tons of Pokémon spawning in walls (chance to miss shinies)
>extremely ugly terrain textures
>abysmal performance
>whatever the fuck they thought they were doing with the star base raids
>shittiest "gym challenges" in the series
>empty, soulless cities just plastered in the middle of the wilderness
>retarded timewasting fetch quest for the treasure legendaries that didn't even bother with an animation for removing the seals
>other shamelessly lazy shit like the fucking wall in the north that's literally just a block of sloppily modeled landmass
You have not played the game or you'd know that glitches are literally one of its least problems

>>58041211
the first thing you named is literally a glitch and the rest are by your definition normie complaints as they're regurgitated over and over by people on the internet

>>58035860 (OP)
faggots who are only here to start arguments

>>58041234
back to your contaiment threads coomer
some of us actually want to talk about the franchise

>>58041231
It's not a fucking glitch, please look up what the word glitch means
It's GF being incompetent and lazy and not setting up their spawn points right
It's 100% expected behaviour from how they programmed it therefore not a glitch, fucking moron

And no I've literally never seen any normie bring up how shitty the star base raids or gym challenges are, it's always just hurr glitches or durr ugly characters because those are the most superficial criticisms one can shit out for basic bandwagon clout chasing from other normies going "so true bestie"

>>58041257
>It's not a fucking glitch, please look up what the word glitch means
alright
>glitch
>noun [ C ]
>uk /ɡlJtʃ/ us /ɡlJtʃ/
>a small problem or fault that prevents something from being successful or working as well as it should
you literally said pokemon spawning in walls makes you miss shinies, is that "working as well as it should" to you?
>And no I've literally never seen any normie bring up how shitty the star base raids or gym challenges are,
well I guess air doesn't exist either because (You) can't see it, apparently that's what determines whether something exists or not

>>58041193
Woke may be a valid complaint but some people are overreaching it. Pokemon luckily isn't overdoing it, even though some of its (non-pervasive, at least not enough to be valid for complaint) influences are evident.

I'm talking about official Pokemon, obviously. Romhacks are pushing it too far totally (because they're mostly done by trannies themselves) but it's not sane to care about them too much.

>>58041280
the only people overracting are baitposters, the usual complaint is shit like ugly NPCs, disproportionate skin color representation, and body type a/b bullshit, which are all valid complaints

>>58041286
None of these are valid complaints.

>>58041291
ywnbaw

>>58041297
Thank god. Imagine wanting to be the inferior sex.

>>58035860 (OP)
Forced EXP share
EXP for catching Pokemon
The battle menu telling me how effective a move is (and not giving me an option to turn it off)
Dexit (both pokemon and moves)
Gamefreak nerfing moves/strategies because of competitive players

There's probably more, but that's it for now.

>>58035985
This is easily fixed by only playing games made before 2013

>>58035860 (OP)
Pokemon.

>>58036001
>it's looking less anime and more calarts every installment
Where are you getting that from?