The actual reason is the player character's name. Unlike some other languages, English has multiple sounds for a single letter, especially the vowels. If voice acting were to be introduced, we would be far more limited in how we name our player character. While we could still choose, we would be limited with pre-picked names. Fallout for example, has voice acting, so you are forced to use a pre-picked name because of cases where NPCs do say your name out loud.
It's not, it's because the games are rushed. Not doing voice acting because you can name your character makes no sense because there are tons of RPGs where you can name your character and they still have voice acting.
The reason is because Link isn't a blank slate character. He has history inside of the world that the player can't influence, where in pokemon all protagonists are blank slates outside of a couple of things like their parents and who they are form.
They could do something like in the Elder Scrolls games, where pretty much no one ever says your name. Other than the rival and a few other key characters, people wouldn't know your name anyway.
It's a lot more complicated than that. A character that's referred to by name is a lot more memorable than one that's only referred to by pronouns. In a sense, your character's name would never even appear in a character conversation.
Nah, it's pretty simple because it's not like there aren't memorable characters where you can name them, Sheppard in the Mass Effect series is easily one of the most recognizable characters in gaming and you can give them any name you want. You can name The Courier in New Vegas anything you want and yet every Fallout player knows who they are.
A lot more of a blank slate than in Breath of the Wild. None of those Links are shown in flashbacks fighting in a war, hardly any of their backstory is told to the player outside of a couple things. Just like a Pokemon protagonist. A Link to the Past Link is literally just some kid living in his uncle's house, his uncle goes to the castle because he fears something bad happened in Hyrule Castle, Link goes there when he realizes that it's been a while since his uncle went there. That is it.
I might say otherwise. I prefer Legends Arceus over Sword and Shield. Though, there are fair arguments that Sword and Shield are overall better games. Many people also just have different preferences too as they might not enjoy a game like Legends Arceus and prefer RPGs. In the end, I’ve enjoyed Legends Arceus the most out of the Gen VIII games.
I like the overworld game play better in Legends Arceus, and it's obvious BDSP are by far the worst, but I think with the expansion packs Sword and Shield edged out the former by a hair per se.
The problem is that Game Freak does not like options. they took away set battle style and the ability to turn the exp share off. why do you assume they'd let people play the game how they like on this front?
That's the main reason why I don't want voice acting in Pokemon, because Game Freak will always try to pick the easy way out of an issue every time, which in this case, would be severely limiting the player on how they can name their character or worse, the player character's name not being said by any NPCs at all, and not even be said by the important ones like your rival or the professor.
The last few generations have been quick to throw internet references out there and hope they stick. Besides the obvious Lechonk and Smoliv, it would seem that TPC has caught on to the "AI generated Pokemon" meme. Mons like Flittle and Glimmet/Glimmora look almost random and hard to fathom as existing in the real world. Which is a shame because I think they are actually based on real world things.
that's another thing, so many final evolutions in this gen don't actually look like final evolutions.
Just checked and yup, several don't look like final evolutions. Stuff like Killowatrel, Dachsbun, Lokix, Spidops and Oinkologne definitely look more like mid stage pokemon rather than actual final stages.
