Im all for opinions until a child decides to hate on something literally for the only reason of "wanting to hate on it because its cool". You have no proof and no substance to your frustrations, regarding this title, and it seems youre looking at it like, "that one strand of grass looks like a ps2 game! This game is horrible! Lazy devs!" - can't you see how ridculous and silly your argument, AND your reasons for shitting on the game are? Youre hating just to hate. Its not an opinion. Its bandwagon mentality. Betchya hate fortnite and call of duty too.
I don't have to go run in front of a double decker bus to know that it would not be a good time for me. By your own logic, that's what you should be doing before someone's allowed to form an opinion on how much a vehicular accident hurts.
There's plenty of legit reasons to hate Fortnite, too, since you want to go there:
- EGS on PC basically guarantees an identity theft incident, given that Tencent has a sizable controlling portion/stake in Epic Games, and Tencent has well known ties to the Chinese government. Do not the blatant cover-up and repeat offenses to human rights in the country not concern you? Of course not, you trying to be holier than thou on this threat and insulting people for a different opinion. You're too busy worrying about getting stabbed, seeing as that's the running crime stereotype in the UK, where your profile implies you're from.
- Epic Games promised a strong single player component for people that paid $40~ or so when the game launched... yet dropped it because everyone was playing the multiplayer and giving in to the predatory loot boxes. Which of themselves are glorified gambling, but your precious Parliament got their TRIPLE AYYYYYYYYYY campaign contributions and thus ruled that they weren't. Yeah, shut your $2 pc off before I verbally smack you again.
- Epic's runaway success over PUBG with Fortnite has in itself created a knock-on effect for wholesale monetization sodomy in paid-for games; Overwatch laid the groundwork and fortnite ran away with it.
- Did you conveniently forget how Sony basically held accounts hostage if you ever played the game on the PS4? Or how much of a stink was made until Sony barely caved in to finally allow cross play? The way you type on here, you clearly don't, so I'm reminding your ignorant ass.
- Epic Game Store launcher is a 2019 storefront without even the most basic shopping cart system. And before you cry "but they didn't have the years of development like steam did" ... first of all, yes, I'd be talking out my ass if I didn't recognize how much Steam improved from its hey-day back before Half Life 2 launched. but Steam upped the game so much, that the market and the standards have since changed. It's akin to if Nintendo released Star Fox 2 as a native Nintendo Switch title, without indicating it was a virtual console release or anything and trying to say "that's the new star fox". It doesn't work that way, you imbecile. And it pains me to say this, because I had so much respect for Epic Games as a developer, back even when Apple was still on PowerPC for their Macintosh line. Back even before the Athlon64 was a thing in AMD's eye, let alone in anyone's hands. They went from creating a masterpiece build of UT2004 for the G4/G5 cpu's that embarrassed what the x86 platform had on PC, and later the amazing playable tech demo of Unreal Tourney 3 on PS3, to shilling for lootboxes and shooting out a malware-laden launcher with lax security and suspicious behaviors this side of EA's Origin.
Much of the same could be said for the
Call of Duty franchise in general, especially with Bobby Kotick's attempt (in my cynicism) to basically erase all the search results talking about how OG CoD4 was such a high point in the franchise by re-re-booting it again as Call of Duty Modern Warfare. As gorgeous as the trailer footage looked, Bobby Kotick's history, and Activision's history in business behaviors, give me every reason to pause for concern and
not support such an endeavor.
Back to the topic of this thread, finally...
By all accounts, the Nintendo Switch should be showcasing much better than this from Game Freak. And the 3DS game carts for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon also don't take up nearly the same amount of data, but still look good as they do, so from where
I personally am sitting and viewing the footage, I'm not convinced that GF's efforts justify anything resembling a purchase from me. And the news of the omissions hit hard for me, personally. It's something I'm going to object to until either a new mid-gen refresh game comes out that fixes it all (most likely) or GF actually releases a post-game update that restores what's been lost (possible, but less likely).
When I first saw the trailer for Sword/Shield and the Dynamax feature, I already had in mind one thing I wanted to do in such a situation... Take my beloved Incineroar, Dynamax, and unleash
Malicious Moonsault, and just be in awe at the spectacle of it all as they come down with an explosion that would be seen from space, most likely.
But no, only after I posted that as my reaction did I find out that Dynamax was coming
at the expense of Z-Moves and Mega's, not in addition to. It's bad enough that they (Game Freak) routinely cut out favored features (such as having your pokemon/entourage traveling with you) from one game to the next. But to remove this, and not even knowing
how much of the National Dex cast is lost? That
hurts. And if you still want to relent that this is somehow okay, then that's just showing you haven't actually built or bonded with a team all the way through, because even though the tag line is
gotta catch 'em all, being able to complete the journey with your favorites is what makes a pokemon game worth playing. And it's taken me a LONG time since the likes of Gen 1 (and to a lesser extent, Gen 3) to be able to say I did that again.
