Well duh that’s the point of the surprise. It wouldn’t feel the same at least for me anyway.
I've never played LGEP, but as someone who has played a game from every generation, often multiple times (as a kid I only had enough money for one game for a couple years, I played soulsilver countless times), and NEVER encountered a wild shiny, running through the wild area and having to do a double take cause a MF'n SHINY just RAN BY ME would probably be one of the hypest things imaginable.
People are setting their expectations too high by wanting a game to justify a higher cost and a more powerful system? I mean, I can't say I disagree with you. This franchise has taught me to never have any expectations.
And, I usually like to keep my expectations low. As a result, I find myself less likely to be disappointed.
And this is a bad thing because...? You're not wrong but I think those are things people should want. Why can't Game Freak make a game as revolutionary for Pokemon as BOTW, SMO, or any other first party Nintendo game? And why should fans be satisfied with a 50% price hike for a game that has less content?
Don't you see that as a problem, though? We're trained to accept increasingly diminished returns. We're paying more for less. Pokemon should be like other franchises: evolving and taking things to the next level, instead of constantly taking things away and gong backwards. We should actually expect them to be at their very best on the Switch, because the system is much stronger and they need to justify the price hike we're getting.
You don't know how hard it is for me to ditch my Gwenpool sig and use Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle. Again.
I'd as go as far as to say that, barring stuff like an all-regions epic MMO, there's no such thing as too high of an expectation for Pokemon. They have the fanbase. They have the resources. They can even have all the time they need. The problem is purely on management and how they refuse to properly train employees, hire competent ones, and divert from the annualization.
This is especially considering that Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time. It's estimated that Pokemon has brought in more than 92 BILLION dollars in revenue. The Zelda franchise and Mario franchise's combined revenue doesn't even scratch that, coming in at less than half. The quality of content being produced is not consistent with other 60 dollar games, and certainly doesn't approach what you'd expect from a franchise bigger than Star Wars and the Avengers. Does this mean Pokemon games need to consistently be contenders for game of the year? No! It should mean that proper turning animations for the games mascots should exist, however. Instead, we get moonwalking wolves and levitating wingulls.
Agreed. Which makes me upset that whenever people try to bring these valid points up, reasonably, it's mischaracterized as unnecessary complaining and a toxic attitude. That's why this Sword & Shield controversy is as notable as it is. It's not solely just the condition of how these games are being released with the content they do and do not have, no-it's a culmination of years of Game Freak choosing not to make effective gameplay choices, choosing to constantly disregard amazing features, purposefully releasing remastered versions of the same game unnecessarily, etc. Bringing a mainline game to the Switch was their chance to tip the point back in their favor; instead, they didn't and because they took away even more of precedent staple than ever before (Dexit) without really offering up any type of reasonable compensation for denying fans such an integral part of their Pokemon experience (because, yes-every Pokemon is someone's favorite), and doing so in light of other very successful Switch releases such as Breath of the Wild, here we are.
