>>49427349People who say the new game is shit just to say it's shit. At least, that's what it feels like right now.
But it's in reality people who believe Pokémon is dead and can't ever become good again, so it's doom to hope and every game coming now is a disappointment.
I'm more of a realistbro, no hope or depression, just acceptance. I think Pokémon wasn't that amazing to begin with and it's only because of the emotional ties we have with the game(s) we like we think these are amazing but not the other games, even though each main Pokémon game has been pretty much a copy paste of each other.
As a personnal example, I stopped playing since Gen 4, bought Gen 8 just to get back into the loop and it doesn't really feel different, it's almost the same games, which is what's disapointing for many deep down : these games don't really evolve, they stagnate. Even if I don't love BOTW, I don't feel like I'm playing OOT or ALTTP at all on the other hand, and that's fucking Zelda we are talking about which is always using similar ideas in its story and gameplay in a way. But even then, with these similarities, these games don't feel like a copy paste, Pokémon kinda does a lot. Outside of that, it doesn't mean to me Pokémon is dead or bad, it's alive and decent, like it always has been. A safe bet for casuals and parents to buy.
So Pokémon won't change because it doesn't need to, GameFreak has no incentive to do so, what they are doing work well enough on a business level, not because somehow "there is no hope because they don't care anymore but cared before" when they never truly cared, at least for the things we care. They cared if it meant money, that's all. For the rest, they are doing what they have been successfully doing for 35+ years.
Accepting reality is way better than being tied emotionally to what I wish some multi-million company would do for my special snowflake ass, just to be disappointed or blinded by hope/love.
