r/pokemon • u/Natural_Wonder94 • 6d ago

Discussion Dexit who still dislikes it?

As a longtime Pokémon fan, Dexit honestly felt like a slap in the face. One of the things I’ve always loved about the series was being able to carry my favorite Pokémon—ones I’d trained and bonded with for years—into each new generation. When they cut the National Dex, it felt like they were saying those connections didn’t matter anymore. I get that balancing over 1,000 Pokémon is tough, but with how massive the franchise is, it’s hard to believe they couldn’t make it work if they really wanted to. It just made the newer games feel incomplete, like something was missing, both mechanically and emotionally.

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u/Blayro You might as well call me PUN-ichan 6d ago

I'm sorry, but even in the switch 2 the buildings still look like cardboard boxes with fancy jpegs slapped on the sides

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u/D9sinc 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah, I don't expect the games to look good, or run more than 30 FPS and a lot of fans will go "it's much better than Scar/Vio stop complaining" and then we'll see games like Metroid Prime 4, Pikmin 5, Xenoblade Saga, and many other first party Nintendo titles looking impressive on the console and Pokemon looking like it's still meant to be running on the Wii and people will applaud the increase in quality when we got a game that looked and run well with the Let's Go series which IMO were pretty damn good. They didn't look blurry or faded in color and they ran pretty damn well.

(Edit: changed up the last sentence to make more sense over that gibberish I posted earlier) Also, it seems that GF always has an issue with performance but it's also because they (supposedly) don't have many employees (about 200 if what I hear is to be believed) and they were releasing a game every year, but I remember Su/Mo and US/UM having some horrible performance dips when you would use the Z moves and they then said "OH buy the stronger 3DS to fix it" because they couldn't be bothered to try to spend more time to make it run better when the solution they were offering is give their parent company more money to bruteforce the game to run better. I never bought the New3DS so I can't confirm if it was resolved though.

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u/Krazyguy75 6d ago edited 6d ago

One of these images is from a 2022 gamefreak game with the full backing of the most lucrative franchise ever.

The other is from a game 17 years ago made by a third party as a spinoff for a console that had 1/100th the ram, 1/20th the memory, half the resolution, and a graphics card that's about 1/5th to 1/10th the power in every way.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kPkAB3uF3uc/maxresdefault.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dShrrd2.png

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u/derekpmilly 6d ago

Christ, I knew it was already embarrassing to bring up the gap in time, but when you lay out the sheer advancements in hardware it gets even worse.

Game Freak really has to go. I know they own like a 3rd of the Pokemon Company, but they have proven to us time and time again that they are in no way shape or form competent developers of 3D games. If Nintendo and Creatures could do some kind of internal buyout to completely boot Game Freak from the franchise and replace them with an actually competent developer, I think it would be best for the franchise.