Pokemon Sword & Shield Has EXP Share Always On Because Players Had It Always On Before

Junichi Masuda, lead producer of Pokemon Sword and Shield, and director Shigeru Ohmori have revealed some details about the upcoming Pokemon Sword and Shield game.

[mania568]

or...we could have an option to turn it off, you know, options and all that. For anyone who likes atleast a little challenge you will not get it from this game, someone already beat the game in streams, people saw it, its not good, the guy skipped several fights and was still 5 levels or so above everything. its like they are getting out of their way to make the worst game they possibly can to see how lazy they can go and still keep on selling, so many bad decisions for this game that go way beyond this, if this was any other company people would be jumping on it, its pokemon no one dares say nothing...

[KeenBean345]

"It's pokemon no one dares say nothing"

Quite the opposite actually, all I see is people bashing this game and bashing the people who are excited for it. Can't let others be excited if you aren't at the end of the day

[mania568]

when other companies do this all the gaming websites and youtubers, the like go on doing videos on it and why it isnt ok, in pokemon you get forum users, how is it the same? Most people dont know whats happening with this game.

[gold_drake]

i feel like alot of ppl are just disappointed, because this is supposed to be the next gen pkmn game, HD graphics etc etc. and now all of a sudden, not all pkmn are included, not all attacks and abilities are in the game, animations seem to be very basic and all of the other things. of course not everyone knows whats going on, the game will sell regardless of all of that but it sure leaves me wondering what the hell they were doing with it.
im not a developer, but even i know that if u hire ppl for animations, 3d models, u have those for life and for future games.

[TK-66]

"when other companies do this all the gaming websites and youtubers, the like go on doing videos on it and why it isnt ok, in pokemon you get forum users, how is it the same? Most people dont know whats happening with this game."

You're saying I cant find any Youtubers talking about the negative aspects of this game? You're living in a bubble right now if you think S&S is coming out unscathed by the media.

[mania568]

not enough of them to be relevant, we got yongyea and jim but his is making fun of it, who else is talking about it that isnt a pokemon or nintendo channel?

[TK-66]

"not enough of them to be relevant"

Tell me the exact amount of youtubers/media outlets that need to be piling on to this for you to be satisfied. I need an exact metric because with one search and less than 5 seconds I can find IGN, and Gamespot articles which are two major outlets. Characterizing an outlet as "relevant" is incredibly vague and subjective. what counts as enough to be "relevant". Be very specific please because thus far your standard is dumb and is changing just to validate your view.

"who else is talking about it that isnt a pokemon or nintendo channel?"

Moving the goalposts. You're basically saying that the channels you dont like are covering it, and then claiming that the remaining major outlets aren't enough. At this point you're just crying about media coverage while offering zero contributions.

[mania568]

im saying not as many as other games get when they do something like this, did ign and gamestop report about whats hapening or say why its not the right move? i'd say the former. reporting news is not criticism, if they did do as i said, then its on me for not seeing the videos.
I am not moving goalposts, im talking about making that everyone knows about the flaws, if you follow a pokemon channel you already know about it, if you do not you will never find out about the flaws until you are playing it yourself.
Tell me again, who is giving them valid criticism and not just reporting the news, (the game has over 20 flaws, you only hear about the 1 or 2 things) outside of the ones i showed you, again not saying there arent, but it goes to you to give the proof there are if you are denying everything im saying. Reporting news =/= valid criticism.

[TK-66]

@mania568

"Tell me again, who is giving them valid criticism and not just reporting the news, (the game has over 20 flaws, you only hear about the 1 or 2 things) outside of the ones i showed you, again not saying there arent, but it goes to you to give the proof there are if you are denying everything im saying. Reporting news =/= valid criticism."

Let's just start at the beginning and acknowledge that you made the inital claim that "most people don't know whats happening with this game". That puts the burden on you to demonstrate that the coverage has been lacking. You made the claim, so the burden of proof is on you, and not me. You then backtracked twice and said "not enough to be relevant", and that Nintendo/Pokemon focused channels didn't count. So no matter what links I bring you it'll never be enough for you, and you'll change the standards again.

"Tell me again, who is giving them valid criticism and not just reporting the news"

Once more, you're moving the goalposts. One minute it's about the games controversy not being covered and no ones knows whats happening, and a few minutes later you want "valid criticism" of a game that's not even released yet. Once more you're using vague buzzwords that can't be easily defined in the context you're using them. Wtf counts as "valid criticism"??? Do I need people who've played the full game from start to finish? Because you know that neither of us can find a critic who's done that, and to me criticism pre-launch is never valid compared to the criticism someone can offer after completing the game, so until reviews are out there are no valid critics. This is why your entire complaint is fucking dumb.

[mania568]

what do we know as the games flaws? forced exp share and pokemon cuts, theres also one on cutting attacks, that is nowhere near the amount of flaws the game has, thus my point stands there is no news about all the flaws, valid criticism is reporting it and giving an opinion, we did get however posts here defending it with baseless reason that make no sense like there were too many pokemons and you were fine using 150 in the first game so why arent you now kinda nonsense (defensive and wrong criticism), thus this is not valid criticism.
there are already full playthrough out, though those streams were probably deleted, the people who saw the entire thing cant give criticism because they didnt beat it themselves? video proof goes a long way. I can see if a game is bad without playing it myself, everyone can.
Everyone knows games like mass effect andromeda, fallout 76, ghost recon breakpoint, wwe, the like are flawed, its plastered everyone, even before release we knew they were going to be bad, and my point is not everyone even knows pokemons have as many flaws as they have.
If you want to talk what i think that are its flaws and why you probably didnt even knew the half of it we'll talk, otherwise you are beyond my words and im wasting your time.

[TK-66]

"what do we know as the games flaws? forced exp share and pokemon cuts, theres also one on cutting attacks, that is nowhere near the amount of flaws the game has, thus my point stands there is no news about all the flaws"

So wtf are you doing in a comment section to an article LITERALLY GIVING YOU COVERAGE OF NEWS WHICH YOU CONISIDER TO BE A FLAW? Are you dense? You can't say theres, "no news about all the flaws" while in an article covering one. Please, get some wrinkles in this brain of yours.

"we did get however posts here defending it with baseless reason that make no sense like there were too many pokemons and you were fine using 150 in the first game so why arent you now kinda nonsense (defensive and wrong criticism), thus this is not valid criticism."

This doesn't make any sense; You said nothing here. I'm assuming English is not your first language, so I'm moving on from it.

"there are already full playthrough out, though those streams were probably deleted, the people who saw the entire thing cant give criticism because they didnt beat it themselves? video proof goes a long way. I can see if a game is bad without playing it myself, everyone can."

Hold the fuck up. Are you saying that criticism from someone who hasn't played, or completed the game is valid? Okay, you can stop now; You got me; Good trolling dude. we can end the conversation here.

[mania568]

see, you disregarded everything, you are beyond reasoning, have a good day Sir

[TK-66]

@mania568

I disregard stupidity, yes. You believe that merely watching a game being played allows you to make valid criticisms of it. I can't discuss criticisms of video games with someone who thinks they don't even need to play them.

[mania568]

if you watch the entire game, 100% of it you cant give opinion of it because you didnt touch the buttons? if you think that makes sense, again have a good day Sir

[TK-66]

First off yes. Your criticism is not valid. It is an impression, at best, based off marketing and interviews. The criticism has to be formed from experience to be considered valid. Otherwise, I can say anything I want about any game without playing it, and consider it valid criticism.

Also, stop up-voting your own comments with an alt account, it's pathetic.

[gold_drake]

i never had it on.

[mania568]

they are talking about sun and moon data that most people turn it on, i doubt most did for the story but yes for the end game grinding in making douzens of pokemon lvl 100, and now its always On by default because they dont understand that options are good.

[AspiringProGenji]

Keep Rolling Iwata in his grave with every stupid decision Matsuda...

[Nebaku]

Might want to learn how to spell other's names correctly before accusing them of doing stupid things.

[Outlawzz]

I appreciate exp share cus I don't care to waste hours training each individual pokemon it's very time consuming but they should have given the choice tho.

[AspiringProGenji]

Why reward other pokemons for not doing anything? A big Part of the fun In Pokemon is training your pokemon and getting closed to them. “Pokemon Trainer”

[Outlawzz]

Lol for you that's fun. For me it's not, it's a waste of time since it's just a mechanic made to increase the longevity of the game it doesn't add anything for me and eventually gets me tired of the game since it's basically busy work. This is why I hate the grind in games, but I do realize others actually like these mechanics. I once liked them too as a kid before I realized why they were put into games.

[rainslacker]

@Outlawzz

That's why it would be nice if they just left it as an option like they used to have it. Best of both worlds. Regardless of how you want to play, you can.

[ZeroX9876]

completely agree with you.

hours of left/right movement in grass while pressing "A" repeatedly (always setting the move with the highest PP on top) without ever looking at the screen.

I'm usually doing this while watching a TV show at the same time, since there's absolutely NO need for any interaction. You could participate in the mindless grinding by switching move from time to time, but the end results is exactly the same. Could potentially lose a shiny though (it did happen to me haha)

removing it just means more time doing left/right in wild grass while pressing A. I personally don't really care, love watching TV shows ;)

[thepatientgamer]

Don't know why pokemon exp share just sucks when in other rpgs it actually can help elevate the game. I guess it's because I like playing with each pokemon and it feels more personable than if you just use exp share. but hey, that's just my opinion

[phoenixwing]

seems the only game i'll want if i buy a switch is fire emblem 3 houses now. I wanted pokemon but with all the missteps it seems to be not worth bothering. still waiting on joycon drift fixed switch to hit the market

[Majin-vegeta]

Yea here's a list of currently what's wrong with the game.
https://www.reddit.com/r/po...

[Lore]

I just don’t under why they can’t simply add harder difficulty “OPTIONS.” Seems lazy at this point.

[phoenixwing]

I agree a harder difficulty would have been very much appreciated. half the reason i barely finish pokemon games is later in the game i'm way over-leveled and it just takes the fun out of the final bosses when you steamroll 3-6 pokemon in their lineup with your one main pokemon and thats just from average play. It's not fun and makes you think why you even bother playing sometimes. or at least it does to me

[Domestupidname]

Smashing your genitalia with a hammer should definitely be an option as well. Pretty much the same choice here. If people want to waste their time meandering in grass and pressing A, for the love of god let them do it.

Who knows? They might have less time to bitch and moan about every aspect of a game that hasn't been released yet.