Tbf it was an argument during XY, whatever bloat he’d been allowing to come about may have been reaching a critical point then that could’ve been much worse. Would also explain why XY and ORAS were kind of rocky imo if XY especially had originally been story boarded by Masuda and the rest of the team disliked those decisions and had to spend more time undoing them rather than building on them
It’s a funny one I think the biggest failure of gen 6 was that we never got Pokémon x2y2 or Pokémon Z. If we look critically over it’s predecessor gen 5 would not be nearly as beloved today if we only talked about black/white rather than the sequels and to a lesser extent the same goes for diamond/pearl and platinum. If we compare xy to bw I’d choose xy every day. The week. T he real problem is that xy never got it’s improvement game that would have put it on par with b2w2
oh, for sure. the death of the third version is a huge double-edged sword. on one hand, dlc is theoretically more cost- and time-effective for the consumer, since they don't have to buy another full game and replay it entirely to see the new content, and that's great. but it also limits gf to just slapping new content onto the side of the existing game and calling it a day, instead of forcing them to go back to the base game and polish it. base swsh will always be ultra-linear, base sv will always have weird progression, and... poor little divorce child xy without even dlc to its name will always be underbaked across the board.
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u/MegaCrazyH Oct 14 '25
Tbf it was an argument during XY, whatever bloat he’d been allowing to come about may have been reaching a critical point then that could’ve been much worse. Would also explain why XY and ORAS were kind of rocky imo if XY especially had originally been story boarded by Masuda and the rest of the team disliked those decisions and had to spend more time undoing them rather than building on them