• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Go play the Pokémon games you played as a kid today and tell me they aren’t on rails and have boring dialogue. The games haven’t changed much, you’ve just grown up.

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      2 months ago

      I’m not saying they were perfect, but it’s definitely a bigger problem now.

      I have replayed the older ones a few times, but can’t get through the new games.

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        2 months ago

        Agree to disagree, I suppose. I have my own issues with the newer games but the dialogue and plot rails aren’t new, imho.

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      2 months ago

      I think that it’s less that the dialog is more interesting and that it’s less in your face. It’s much easier to mash A and not pay attention to textboxes than it is to sit through a scripted cutscene of banal drivel.

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        2 months ago

        To be clear, I still like the old Pokémon games. I wasn’t trying to say they were bad, per se. I’m actually replaying Y right now with my partner, though of course I wouldn’t really call that an old one.

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          2 months ago

          Oh I super didn’t downvote you, but I have a huge connection to old Pokémon games. I hated sword and shield and scarlet/Violet thoug.

          SMOON was my last favorite games.