>>40517815Ok how about this.
Sword and Shield does not look good/fun to play, and it is dissapointing that this is what they want to go with for their first major new title on better hardware. However, it seems like, to me at least, SWSH is the perfect storm of everything bad happening in game development to make it a complete trainwreck that we've seen time and time again with other game studios.
>conforms to a tight, yearly release schedule>had a less experienced B-Team working on it>already announcing that you don't want to leave in content that has become a staple "just because">false reasons for taking out content with "improving animations">and it looks like it will keep on speeding towards a holiday releaseThis kind of shit happens so many times with other major game studios, and it's to ridiculous to me that the majority of people don't want to bring this up. Not to mention that SWSH, from the pattern that gens 6 and 7 have followed, it doesn't look like they can prove that all this content being taken out will be replaced in a meaningful way. There will most likely be just 70 new Pokémon, a handful of Gigantmaxes that are mostly gen 1, regional dex will be anywhere from 200 to 300 Pokémon, there will still be ridiculous handholding, an excess of cutscenes, and no postgame, or at least a bare minimum of postgame. The worst part is that I feel like I can't do anything about it, and that by the time people notice this, it would be too late. They could just do whatever they want because people will still buy it like crazy, and they'll make a third version with the promise of the National Dex so that people will buy it again and not feel betrayed anymore. And this whole National Dex situation came with the announcement of another pay service that you will have to use to keep your Pokémon on, which you can't even use on the newest games in the franchise, and milking us out with $60 games now that have less of what the series is known for
