@dipset I was talking about you.

I legit teared up at the ending.
That music.
😭

Just finished watching XO19.
As somebody who doesn't care about subscription services... that was fucking embarrassing. I didn't think they could do worse than XO18, but here we are.

I loved Life is Strange and Before the Storm, but have been avoiding LiS2 after hearing terrible things from a friend who's opinion I trust, so am cautiously optimistic.

Damn dude. Great post. Really encapsulated how I feel about the game far more eloquently than I could ever hope to express.

Over 600 is a strange way of saying around 400.

If you think this level of effort (or lack thereof) is alright then that is fine, but let's not pretend this isn't a laughably bad cash-in. There are plenty of other games with 3 year development cycles with much, much, much less resources available to them that don't end up looking like college fan projects.

Also, for somebody who "ain't excusing shit" you sure have done nothing but excuse the game's shortcomings.

You're right! It's all about time!
Maybe they should remove a load of features from the series to save time.
Oh wait they did that.
If only they had a massive repository of pre-madr HD Pokemon models and assets to use that could save them a lot of time.
Oh wait, they do, and are using them despite saying otherwise.
Well then I guess they should include less Pokemon than usual.
Oh wait, they did that too!

Its almost as if the game is incredibly low effort because they realize that Pokefans will eat this shit up regardless of the quality.
Almost.

@mbun Dude. You really need to stop excusing mediocrity just because you like the games.
Pokémon is the biggest intellectual property in the entire world by a large margin, backed by one of the biggest gaming companies in the entire world.
"It's their first attempt" doesn't cut it when they have the resources resources to make something much, much better than this low effort garbage.
The Witcher 3 was also a developers first time attempting an open world, and yet that game doesn't look like it belongs on the GameCube, even when you play it on the Switch, and CDProjektRed is a much smaller company with much less resources available to them.

Unfortunately I have a feeling that none of this will actually matter and this will be the best selling Pokémon game ever, despite all of the huge cuts and shortcomings in the game.

Having seen some footage of the game, hahahahaaaa holy shit this game is hilariously low budget.
Like geometry popping in ten feet away in mostly barren areas. Animations for some moves are just shaking or bouncing the model a bit.

I know I shouldn't expect much from Pokémon at this point but jesus christ

@themarcv I do not and probably wont until Xmas. I'm very much stoked and have a few friends who are playing feeding me info that just makes me want it all the more.