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by TheCapeGreek 943 days ago
The Switch era of Pokemon games, aside from some interesting spinoffs, has really been slapdash work. They know it'll sell, so it's always minimum effort. The biggest upset is still that newer games no longer support having all pokemon in them.

It's not like it's a massive effort to support those mons - they haven't been doing significant 3D model updates since the 3DS era already.
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gambiting 943 days ago
It's so frustrating seeing as Pokemon is literally the biggest franchise in the world, bigger than Mickey Mouse(!!!!!), and yet the switch games feel like they were put together by a team of 10 programmers on a budget. I know Gamefreak doesn't own pokemon, but jesus christ whoever approved the latest games for release should be fired.

Or actually, maybe they should be given a promotion because despite all the bugs and poor performance the game still sold incredibly well, so why spend any more money and time on development if it clearly doesn't matter.

I can't decide.

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rowanG077 943 days ago
It's definitely a lot of work to have all pokemon. They all need stats. They all need a habitat. They all need a moveset evolution. And if you fuck up even one a ton of fans that really like that pokemon are upset. It's disappointing but I really understand why they don't do all pokemon.
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TheCapeGreek 938 days ago
>They all need stats

>They all need a moveset evolution

Neither of these have to shift a substantial amount between generations. The current stats & moves structure solidified by gen 4 already.

>They all need a habitat

No they don't. Trade them in and out of Home/Bank/whatever to move across generations, trade with other players, etc. This was standard flow up until the latest few generations.

There is not much extra game design consideration needed until you're talking about new features. But a good percentage of mons are still in the new games, so is it really that much extra effort to balance when you have new features in play? It can be as simple as just not giving older mons the same new abilities. Not every one got mega evolutions, for example.

Gamefreak are just lazy. Employee reviews seem to confirm this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWjhfhJJqE

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