Pokémon Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield General Discussion

[xSuperMario64x]

Game Freak seriously needs to update this game. No Pok?mon should be allowed to have three turns per round. I was fighting 5-star dynamax Pok?mon, and some of these wild Pok?mon are taking three turns during each round. That’s unfair.

They need to fix a lot more than that lmao

 

[-Apples-]

They need to fix a lot more than that lmao

Another thing they should do is to expand the learnset for Power Gem. Why have a technical record for it when hardly any Pok?mon with a good special attack stat use it?

 

[Envy]

It?s like finding two shiny Pok?mon in a row, without any factors that increase the chance of obtaining shinies. Even if the odds are low, the outcome matters more.

The pattern continues the more I play the game, though. The wild Eevee evolutions I've run into in the wild area have been female like 90% of the time I've run into them. (granted that's been like one a day, but still).

 

[Dim]

Finally got big apple dragon with Hidden Ability <3

 

[-Apples-]

I was crafting Pok?mon teams recently. I finally came up ideas for two of them. For your information:

1. Both teams as a whole has moves that can cover all 18 types (including type combinations with only one weakness).
2. Each team doesn’t have more than one Pok?mon of the same type. However, they can have the same weakness.
3. Each team doesn’t have more than one Pok?mon of the same generation. Both of them even have one 8th gen Pok?mon, and one 7th gen Pok?mon.

Right now, I’m working on breeding for perfect natures. I know that they can get their nature changed, but I’m a purist.

 

[Geoni]

Ultra shinies are a thing now.

aaaaaaaah the shiny I caught does this!

I thought I'd just caught a simple shiny and the animation had changed. The funny part of this is I only caught it because I just started the game up and my left control stick wasn't responding for a good sixty seconds. I don't know if this is the reason why it's an ultra-shiny or if it's just a coincidence, but said shiny was also glowing and gave watts.

 

[Sprinkles_penguin]

I really think they had no reason to cut like more than the half of the Pok?dex just for their "high quality animations". Like, there are Wii and DS games with better animations. Also, the graphics and textures still look bad in my opinion, almost comparable to a Wii or 3DS game. And please stop using the argument that "Pok?mon is small". Like, they are one of the biggest franchises, yet games of way smaller studios like Breath of the Wild or ACNH look a lot better, almost as if they weren't even from the same console.

 

[Zane]

I?m not someone who cares how games look generally but even I gotta say these Gamecube-level graphics are jarring at times, especially because there?s certain areas that look SO nice (I?m in the ice stadium right now this is one of them ;.;)

 

[Envy]

Yes, the production values should be soooo much better than they are for Pokemon games. Sure, Pokemon games sell regardless. We get it. Pretty sure Zelda and Animal Crossing would, as well (Zelda was falling behind in sells before BOTW, but I sincerely doubt it was the graphics that made BOTW sell really well), yet the care and money is put into making those games regardless.

Usually I wouldn't rag on the graphics themselves, but when you go into Wild Area it's too hard to ignore. Most of the game seems to be about GCN/Wii level (aside from the character and Pokemon models, which are great), but Wild Area just drops even worse at times. Many joked about the OOT trees when Wild Area was first shown, but now it isn't a joke. The trees are really that bad. And the general textures? Sure they are better than N64 level, but they are very low quality, and not even lighted properly (when it is thunderstorming, go in front of one of the towns' outer walls and see how badly oversaturated the grass/ground texture is compared to the wall).

With that said, Wild Area was a great step and I don't want to take away from that. GF needs to keep on building from this foundation... But, I know darn well, the franchise deserves better production values than this. What is TPC doing with all of the money they get from Pokemon? Is it sitting somewhere in a vault that they all go and sit on throwing it around like in a cartoon?

 

[Midoriya]

Just became the champion of the Galar region and beat the game! My final team:

Spoiler

Inferno the male Cinderace, Lv. 69
Ivory the male Eldegoss, Lv. 69
Lochness the female Barraskewda, Lv. 69
Yang the female Sirfetch’d, Lv. 69
Valkyrie the female Corviknight, Lv. 69
Draconia the female Hydreigon, Lv. 69

I have to say, I really enjoyed these games a lot, and now that I’ve played through one of them completely, I can say for sure that these are better than Pokemon Sun/Moon, IMO. Never before have I played through a Pokemon game in such a short amount of time, even if it wasn’t that long of a game.

Now I’m just looking forward to doing the endgame, doing more raids, and working on completing the Pokedex. :]

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Yes, the production values should be soooo much better than they are for Pokemon games. Sure, Pokemon games sell regardless. We get it. Pretty sure Zelda and Animal Crossing would, as well (Zelda was falling behind in sells before BOTW, but I sincerely doubt it was the graphics that made BOTW sell really well), yet the care and money is put into making those games regardless.

Usually I wouldn't rag on the graphics themselves, but when you go into Wild Area it's too hard to ignore. Most of the game seems to be about GCN/Wii level (aside from the character and Pokemon models, which are great), but Wild Area just drops even worse at times. Many joked about the OOT trees when Wild Area was first shown, but now it isn't a joke. The trees are really that bad. And the general textures? Sure they are better than N64 level, but they are very low quality, and not even lighted properly (when it is thunderstorming, go in front of one of the towns' outer walls and see how badly oversaturated the grass/ground texture is compared to the wall).

With that said, Wild Area was a great step and I don't want to take away from that. GF needs to keep on building from this foundation... But, I know darn well, the franchise deserves better production values than this. What is TPC doing with all of the money they get from Pokemon? Is it sitting somewhere in a vault that they all go and sit on throwing it around like in a cartoon?

This issue has layers. Many mistakes were made, that still need to be fixed. If these games don't do well many feel that would justify shifting the franchise to more mobile gatcha crap than traditional main line entries. Still these games are clearly half-butted in a lot of places. I'm both miffed and enjoying this game.

 

[Zane]

is the entire city of spikemuth for real just a long straight line with no buildings beside a pok?mon center loooool am i seeing this right

 

[xSuperMario64x]

The quality of this game definitely does not, in any way, command a Switch game's price tag. If they were gonna cut so many corners like this, they should have stuck to the 3ds for now. This is inexcusable.

 

[Dim]

The quality of this game definitely does not, in any way, command a Switch game's price tag. If they were gonna cut so many corners like this, they should have stuck to the 3ds for now. This is inexcusable.

People were asking for a pokemon game for switch before usum though XD

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I specifically remember arguements about it on this very site too

 

[xSuperMario64x]

People were asking for a pokemon game for switch before usum though XD

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I specifically remember arguements about it on this very site too

And people also asked for a full pokedex.

 

[Dim]

And people also asked for a full pokedex.

well i guess stuff like that happens when people want a game to switch ASAP huh?

 

[-Apples-]

Actually, here’s a better idea. Before they make another remake or another new generation, they should have another spin-off. It has all of the Pok?mon available and every way you can customize the Pok?mon (not like PKHex, but like how you could in previous games). You can grind your EXP and breed for perfect natures and perfect IVs, or just use items to boost your stats. However, it won’t have a story mode, and anything like the gym system or trial system will be like Pok?mon Stadium’s instead.

 

[Corrie]

Yeah, the rush of the game is the big issue. If they had more time, I'm sure they could have put actual effort into it. Just watch, when the second game of this gen comes out, it'll be what Sw/Sh should have been.

Or just as lame.

 

[Noctis]

How's everyone liking the game so far? I'm a huge fan of pokemon and I always have to play the mainline games but sword/shield isn't doing it for. I feel like it's lacking a lot. For some reason it just feels small to me. In my opinion last gen game I thought was good was 5. Loved gen 6 and 7 but still felt like it was missing something that the older games didn't have. Aside from that ORAS was the last one I enjoyed. Loved every second of this remake. What I hate the most about Gen 8 has to be thr trading system. The link codes are a disaster. You either connect with the person you're trading or you get someone else using that same code. Getting stuck on searching is the worst. There's time I have to try up to five link codes just to trade with someone and that's a pain. Also who knew how badly thre GTS is needed. The PSS was a gem and a shame it never came back.

 

[Romaki]

Just reached the post-game and wanted to write down my thoughts for the campaign. Just for context, my favorite (recent) game is Black/White because it limited itself to one generation and had a solid story with interesting characters. I love Sword/Shield for the same reasons. The rival was pretty vanilla and hasn't grown throughout the adventure, but for me the existence of Marnie really makes up for it. She and Team Yell are such interesting additions to the story, I really didn't miss having a team with an "evil" plan. I really like how they tied the "Elite Four" and the last fight into the story, I didn't really care for the main "evil" storyline but at the very least it was pretty short. I also like that the story continues after the campaign, the game usually has something to offer afterwards but here I feel like it's actually a good continuation. Gameplaywise... definitely no struggle, and I never fainted which is a new one for me. The game looks pretty to me, I think the camping is fun to heal your team without wasting items (though they were almost never used anyway). Kinda disappointed with customization, I wish more hairstyles would unlock and they definitely didn't add a whole lot of different clothes imo. Literally only 2 types of dresses, there are more color than style options overall.

So, yeah, I'm not really too in tune with the technical or competitive side of Pok?mon, but now that I understand what the problem is with the National Dex I really don't understand why they did it. The main series has to evolve, yes, but the idea of "let's randomly change it without warning, the players will have to get used to it" has never worked out well. You could have worked harder on Sword/Shield and you could have announced that the next game will be different due to the increase of Pok?mon overall.

I really do like the game though, so it's a shame they seriously dropped the ball in too many aspects. Delaying the game wouldn't have been a terrible choice considering we already have Let's Go on the Switch and people in general are more supportive over a delay than a less than perfect game.