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It feels lonely to like Pokemon right now...
6 years ago
Once more into the breeches, dear friends!
I'm a bit... torn at the moment. Been going through a buncha rough patches lately. Probably some of the worst ones that I've had to drag my brain through in a good, long while. Normally, this is where I'd turn to video games to help me cope and keep me from spending hours and hours in bed. But, right now, a lot of video games don't really seem to excite me. Most of them feel like going through the motions.
But I have been excited for Pokemon. It's one of those things that really kept me going through the roughest parts of my life, and I've been looking forward to the next game. I still am. I know people have problems with the Dex Cut and I won't lie and say that there are a good bit of decisions that I thought weren't up to snuff, but I'm still planning on buying it and playing it...
I just wish there were more people to talk to about it that didn't completely hate it on principle.
I get where the vitriol is coming from, but it is pretty disheartening to know that I'm probably going to playing this game basically by myself. Just like the "good ol' days" of elementary school, anyone I try to talk to about Pokemon has thus far responded with a ton of negativity. "How can you support them," "I'm done with Pokemon," and "I feel sorry for you." I know a couple people who might pick it up, but... I mean shit, it feels real lonely right now to want to play the game. Not even as a fan of Pokemon in general, just as someone who has seen some of what this game has to offer and is interested in it.
This is a bit of a rant, I suppose. Nothing important. Just kinda pouring out some of my depression here in the hopes that it gets out of my head, and to see if anyone who follows me is still considering getting the game. I'm kind of afraid to open up conversation about it anymore, but if I let other people's lack of enthusiasm affect my desire to play it, then I'd really be screwed. I'm sure I'm also seeming a bit hyperbolic about it, but things do really feel much more skewed to the negative in even some of my most optimistic friends. I'm not gonna blame anyone for their thoughts, especially because I agree with some of them, but not with all of them.
I like the Dex cut. I don't really care for their crappy reasoning, but I like catching new Pokemon and going on a different journey than the ones I've had before. I love the designs of the starter evolutions, despite hating how I had to find out through a leak rather than official channels. There are so many new and interesting things to see and do that have been shown off so far that not being able to have Absol on my team for the 4th time in a row is suppressed. Hell, one of the reasons I loved Black and White so much was that initial limitation of only catching new Pokemon.
I truly hope that Pokemon Home has some battling/trading functionality that will help soften the blow for some people, but, as for me, I'm gonna be playing the new games.
But then again, according to a couple people, I enjoyed Let's Go Eevee, so fuck me right?
But I have been excited for Pokemon. It's one of those things that really kept me going through the roughest parts of my life, and I've been looking forward to the next game. I still am. I know people have problems with the Dex Cut and I won't lie and say that there are a good bit of decisions that I thought weren't up to snuff, but I'm still planning on buying it and playing it...
I just wish there were more people to talk to about it that didn't completely hate it on principle.
I get where the vitriol is coming from, but it is pretty disheartening to know that I'm probably going to playing this game basically by myself. Just like the "good ol' days" of elementary school, anyone I try to talk to about Pokemon has thus far responded with a ton of negativity. "How can you support them," "I'm done with Pokemon," and "I feel sorry for you." I know a couple people who might pick it up, but... I mean shit, it feels real lonely right now to want to play the game. Not even as a fan of Pokemon in general, just as someone who has seen some of what this game has to offer and is interested in it.
This is a bit of a rant, I suppose. Nothing important. Just kinda pouring out some of my depression here in the hopes that it gets out of my head, and to see if anyone who follows me is still considering getting the game. I'm kind of afraid to open up conversation about it anymore, but if I let other people's lack of enthusiasm affect my desire to play it, then I'd really be screwed. I'm sure I'm also seeming a bit hyperbolic about it, but things do really feel much more skewed to the negative in even some of my most optimistic friends. I'm not gonna blame anyone for their thoughts, especially because I agree with some of them, but not with all of them.
I like the Dex cut. I don't really care for their crappy reasoning, but I like catching new Pokemon and going on a different journey than the ones I've had before. I love the designs of the starter evolutions, despite hating how I had to find out through a leak rather than official channels. There are so many new and interesting things to see and do that have been shown off so far that not being able to have Absol on my team for the 4th time in a row is suppressed. Hell, one of the reasons I loved Black and White so much was that initial limitation of only catching new Pokemon.
I truly hope that Pokemon Home has some battling/trading functionality that will help soften the blow for some people, but, as for me, I'm gonna be playing the new games.
But then again, according to a couple people, I enjoyed Let's Go Eevee, so fuck me right?
A lack of a Switch stops me from getting the game, but I can assure you that I'm real sad about that, and hope that I'll be able to play it at some point in the future. 'Cause I'm excited for this game too <3
I hope you enjoy it!
But if you do end up getting it, I'd be happy to play with you. I don't care how many people like the game. I just want people I can talk to about it without getting an eye-roll or being called a blind super-fan or ignorant sop.
What's unforgivable is not allowing us to transfer and expand the pokemon we want into the game after that point.
If I wanted to do official competitive battling with older Pokemon, then other people could too, and the current meta is a stale and broken mess. Landorus T + Mega Kangaskhan + Kyogre + Groudon + Rayquaza were such familiar faces in the meta that it actually soured me to any sort of comp play.
If I wanted to do smogon tier battling, then Pokemon Showdown has me covered, and I can build whatever team I wanted, including the ones from my old games, down to a T.
If I wanted to just play with my old Pokemon, then... I mean they're still there in their own games. Nothing stopping me from booting them up and doing some fightin' with some of their old postgame content. It'd be the same thing I'd be doing in the Switch games, anyway, and Pokemon's never really done much innovating on the battle front. Any innovations they make, they immediately scale back anyway, like triple battles, rotation battles, flying battles... all the unique, fun stuff.
It's possible I'll want to augment my "Dream Team" once I see what Sword and Shield has to offer, but, again, that's what I'm hoping Pokemon Home helps me with. Otherwise? I mean... Pokemon Showdown isn't going anywhere. I can build literally whatever team I want and be able to battle way easier that way anyway. So long as I went through the effort to train the Pokemon in the games, I won't feel like I'm cheating myself out of the experience. A battle by-proxy is still a battle so long as the Pokemon I use feel legit to me.
I dunno. I guess I just don't see a point or a benefit of having old Pokemon in newer games other than token familiarity. I still have all of my old Pokemon in the Bank and in their games if I haven't moved them yet. I've never been the sort to transfer my old teams to my new games or catch the same Pokemon over and over again just because they were my favorites. It just doesn't do anything for my enjoyment.
But that's just one dude's opinion.
But they did not male new models. They did not make new animations. The creators outright said that they will not make anymore pokemon games where you can have ALL pokemon. In a franchise where we don't care about the story, we don't care about anything BUT the pokemon.
If you just want to stand aside and get the game anyway, fine, but I best warn you about Pokemon Home:
Once a pokemon goes it, it never comes back out.
I care about the story. If not the narrative than at least the journey and the story I make myself along the way.
That, and they clearly made some new animations. People just cherry pick the worst ones and ignore the stuff we've seen. And they did make new models in the form of new Pokemon and new forms of older Pokemon. These are new things.
There's just a lot of cherry picking going on. People see the worst and ignore how graphically impressive this game is compared to sun and moon. It's a bigger game.
And yeah, I know about home. I'll do my research before i send anyone there.
But you don't need to take my word for it.
If you're talking about "smaller" in terms of content and what not, that's something that's debatable, but if you're talking sheer size like I am, then yeah, it's clearly bigger...
Still I know that feeling of having a rare passion for something and getting discouraged, so I guess I’m hopeful that it’s the game you need it to be, and the next Pokémon game will feel more like it’s made all it can be, or like maybe this time they really look into dlc expansions?
But without Iwata, Game Freak couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag. I'm not under any illusions that a conservative developer like GF are ready to dig in to something really innovative, so, while it looks better in nearly every way, it's all just a small upgrade across the board. The non-GF games have been better in nearly every way, anyway.
First game GF is doing for the switch. I'm gonna treat it as such. They're just not as good at making games as a dev like Nintendo. I can only hope Nintendo buys them out at some point so they can get the love they deserve. But it's never been about the games so much as it is the world and concepts they bring to the table, and the adventure to have inside of them.
... For me, at least!
Remember, although a lot of people trash the game, for each of these, there's 10 of us that just wanna have fun. Don't listen to reddit or twitter (these places are always filled to the brim with hate for everything), just have fun and you will eventually find other people!
Ps: Love your writting, hope things get better soon :)
But yeah, I don't tend to listen to reddit or twitter. Most of my issues come from the Discord groups that I'm in, most of them Pokemon related, where it's hard to have a conversation about the games without getting buried under a truckload of doomsayers who were counting their chickens before they hatched.
They won't spoil my enjoyment of the game. Just kinda sucks being a Library Kid again after having found the internet specifically as a means to find others that shared my interests.
Say wat yah wanna say
Live how you wanna live
Play what yah wanna play
Dance how you wanna dance
Kick it and slap your pants...
The Addams Family!
(Lyrics altered by faulty memory)
But seriously, if you wanna play the game, then play the game. Look at every Final Fantasy fan out there, every new release they had to relearn the basic mechanics. Even the ones that played X-2 after X.
Familiar elements and some canonical nods and callbacks, but a new story, new characters and new features. That's what I want in a serialized series like Pokemon. Same thing from Final Fantasy.
...Though I suppose Pikachu in this case would be Cid.
......I kinda want to name a Pikachu Cid now.
Yellow raincoat Cid.