>>35912947>but my faith in Game Freak just isn't there anymore.This right here gets me. I was worried I didn't like Pokemon anymore, that I outgrew it because I have nothing but critsism for the new games, but replaying romhacks and running through my Black 2 save makes me realize I fucking adore Pokemon, my issues are entirely with Gamefreak.
I want nothing more than a competent dev studio to take over the series, but the only thing we can do is complain and complain till hopefully someone listens and makes a change.
The problem is that Pokemon is so big and so many people are going to sink cash into LGPE that what we say doesn't matter at all. I've seen multiple threads of people saying they don't agree with a single choice LGPE makes but they're still going to buy it. It just baffles me how not only is Gamefreak getting away with awful games, but the fanbase just accepts them because Pokemon is on the title.
If Gen 8 doesn't address at least SOME issues, I might really be off this ride for good. GF was testing me with Gen 6, got on my bad side on Gen 7, kicked me in the balls with LGPE, and now I'm just looking for an excuse to jump ship. There are other RPGs, much better RPGs out there, I should support them instead, but I really, truly want Pokemon to be fun again, and it feels like the only way for that to happen is to remove Gamefreak from the picture.
At least I have Splatoon. 