@el-shmiablo said:
unacceptable and insulting to be asked to pay full price for a game that has pop-in in empty areas less than 10 feet away from the character
Haven't seen any of this personally, unless you mean the Wild Area online, because players can drop into your world from anywhere. It is less pop in, more drop in. Now I have noticed the occasional pop in for towns and routes, but it is always on the edge of your camera, not as close as 10 feet away from your character. Also, it is worth mentioning that the loading between areas in this game is super fast, as games with worse pop in usually suffer that as a result of the decision to make loading breezy, instead of trapping the player on a loading screen until every asset is preloaded into memory. It is a trade I'll take for minimal pop in. We're not talking Xenoblade Chronicles 2 here, where you can load into an area and not even the geometry and floor are loaded. The only thing that really ever pops in and out is NPCs and Pokemon, and again only on the edge of your camera view. You should watch footage from people who aren't making videos to condemn the game or just you know, play it yourself, so you have more informed takedowns, because this game does have problems, just not the ones you're acting like it does.
