A have a lot of thoughts about Pokemon Home controversy. Here's a run down.
- Even with their future proofing, I don't think Gamefreak was prepared to jump to a home console that quickly. I think they were caught off guard. It's not immediately obvious but I think I've seen some evidence they're touching up on old models and textures on top of new ones. You also have to consider its not just new pokemon they're designing, but also an entirely new region to explore.
- Gamefreak has been stubborn about content patches and I don't really see that changing here. We'll probably have to wait for future titles for them to fix it, sadly.
- Their PR kind of sucks, not gonna lie. No one was going to believe it was for balance reasons.
- The sort of backwards compatibility they've had so far is actually super impressive, I don't think any other company has pulled something to that scale off. I think it's sonething the fandom kind of took for granted. On this note, I garuntee you that if Pokemon made massive innovative changes to their mechanics then we would have seen a cut like this far sooner.
- Being vocal about critism is import but its possible to be critical and understanding/patient at the same time. I see too many people picking up pitchforks and torches over this.
Kenny the Garchomp, man.
Named after a cartoon shark, caught him when I was nine years old.
He’s not shiny, he doesn’t have beefed up stats or anything, he’s just mine.
Wait, someone remembers Kenny the Shark?
Even I had forgotten about that show.
I thrive on positivity, negativity physically makes me feel sick. I know that sounds really stupid and melodramatic but I swear that’s the truth.
I know that feeling. Negativity brings me down, but even more then that, so does outrage. Maybe it has to do with growing up with parents with anger issues but I have little patience when it comes to outrage culture.
It ironically can get me pretty angry myself.