there is Pokémon Discourse on the twitters and this is frustrating for multiple interrelated reasons that are difficult to convey one tweet at a time—
- occasional frame drops are, generally, just not that big a deal
- people get like angrily vicious about minor graphical issues
- game freak seems to be rushed for reasons that have nothing to do with game freak
- many gamers won't just dislike something, but couch it as a Diagnosis that is usually based on vibes and it drives me up the wall
- it is really weird to have felt like pokémon mainline has been a string of betas since black and white, but other people only noticed once it's visual stuff anyone can notice
- most bigly, i guess i have the vague sense of a parallel between this and the hesitance to try and buy a lot of smaller indie games — both relate to buying AAA games by default, because they're there and they're what everyone else is playing
so as someone trying to do indie games, this all sort of sucks. like if you truly care this much about a pristine framerate then this would be the perfect opportunity to take your $60 and spend it on 3–6 lesser-known games and talk about /those/, but virtually no one is going to do that. and on the flip side, is this how people will feel about me if i drop a frame? not... encouraging...
@eevee As weird as it sounds sometimes, when I see imperfections in some big-budget games it feels humanising. I see the ways people have to compensate for engine limits or things they too struggle with.
Though it becomes a bit more unfortunate if such things manifest because of crunch...
@Taylor honestly yeah! i see a game chug for a second and it feels like, oh yeah, this is hard actually
i don't know if game freak is actually crunched, or if they just don't have enough time without crunching