Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and the Cancelled Quality - RadicalSoda [02]

As someone who plays vgc. The crafting system is baffling. They literally perfected tms by making them infinite and then were like "what if we reintroduced the problems caused by having single use tm but make it even more annoying and time consuming".

The reason why the game performance degrades the more you play it is because it can't clear unused assets correctly (basically a memory leak)...a problem that can be easily fixed with simple bug testing and more development time

Fun fact, the game records your play time, and so does the switch. Turns out that the game's counter ignores lag, meaning at the end of your playtime you can check to see how much time the game sucked from your life. When i checked i had lost about 8 hours...

Gamefreak: "Kids these days don't have the attention spans to play video games for a long time" Also Gamefreak: Moves back to the stone age where TMs were single use and requires grinding specific Pokemon materials on to of that to craft said single-use TMs.

I know this is a bit off topic, but I’m impressed at how much Rad’s art style has changed with these thumbnails! Like, even how the eyes are drawn are so different now and it still looks as good as his old art to me!

Rrcently, Bayonetta Character Designer Mari Shimazaki confirmed she worked on SV by designing Miriam, Raifort, and the bread dogs Fidough and Dachsbun.

Pokemon is that kind of franchise, that I occasionally remember out of nostalgia, and think "if they improve X, I might have a look at the next entry". But even if they improve whatever I hoped for, they do it in some inconvenient and bafflingly overcomplicated way, and manage to mess up 5 other things in the process. Truly the epitome of "one step forward, [five] steps back". They'll never get there. If Pokemon was invented today, I would get laughed out the door with this quality.

12:14 - "Mai Bachurt" sounds like a character you'd find in a chiropractor's office in an Ace Attorney game

MY fave thing about scarlet and violet- When I first booted up the game, I learned that when you confirm you character the game takes a screenshot to use for the trainer ID/ student passport in game. "Why are you saying that like its news" you may ask. It isn't new information, you are correct. but you see, when I confirmed my character, For a half second one of their eyes imploded into polygons. That half second is when the game took the photo, and as such, my characters id now has them looking like their eye was gouged out by a vengeful deity. ever since I started the game, to this day, I have NOT changed my passport photo, and I never will. Edit- SOMEONE (not naming names) had the GALL to doubt me. I HAD TO MAKE AN IMGUR FOR THIS. Edit 2- my hubris is punished. I cannot post the pic due to anti-link stuff (Or maybe it was me calling youtube a cockblocker). someone get me mental help, or a solution Edit 3- People wiser than me have assisted. Check my profiles community tab for the pic.

What I love about MrSodaBerg is that no matter how Broken the game is, he will always bring the entertainment that the game severely lacks

20:25 Pokemon Showdown is a free online simulator used by competitive players to practice battling, both for official and unofficial formats without needing to be hindered by the time sink of Pokemon's stat maxing. The Shedinja strategy you are talking about was used in the AG (Anything Goes) format. The Anything Goes format has no banlists or rules. Not even a Species Clause. The format got ditched due to complaints with that Shedinja strategy. Because the program is open source, Game Freak and Nintendo cannot do much about it. Edit: My bad. The format got dropped because of ReviveCats (Liepard/Purrloin Prankster Assist Revival Blessing). Tera Shedinja is not that good in practice.

Botw and Totk actually uses a feature for the NPCs where they have a bunch of premade clothings and hats in different colors with their faces and hairstyle coming from Default Miis. Pokémon games would profit A LOT with this kind of mechanic for the next game (Can't wait for whatever the fuck they're cooking up with Legends ZA)

I do want to add personally, the Dexit problems get even more ridiculous the longer we have to deal with it. By the time the SwSh debacle was over, the generally accepted "excuse" was that Gamefreak wasn't able to really bring all the Pokemon over (which is still complete BS due to how they designed the models to begin with). Come SV, we've finally got every Pokemon in a Switch game in some capacity, yet Dexit is still being harshly enforced. There's no actual "developmental woes" problem, they're just arbitrarily forcing it on the consumer, likely to force them into buying HOME subscriptions to keep their Pokemon around. Gamefreak, we are 5 Games into the Switch's life cycle, what is going on

I think I’ve had more total enjoyment from radical talking scarlet/violet, than if I were to actually buy the game

It is very refreshing to watch someone being utterly and continuously annoyed for the missing Set Mode option. My frustrations have received a voice. Thank you! Never let them forget.

I watched four Radical Soda videos whilst eating ramen, and now it's kinda of a tradition. If I'm hungry, there's ramen in the cupboard, there a Radical Soda video I haven't seen, then that's exactly what will happen. Even if I don't like it.

Gamefreak heard someone tell pokemon loyalists to touch grass or go outside and they took that personally so made it so the player can't stop being outside. Even though no other open world game has really ever done that. Look at botw and totk, or even fallout and those are all settings where there are actual lore reasons for there being less buildings instead of Iberia even though Iberia has had buildings and cities and urban areas since before the punic wars

27:53 No no, you see there's an entirely different reason for that. They said early on that all clothing options would be available for every player, regardless of gender. And they couldn't go back on that. ... they didn't want boys to wear skirts. I'm certain that's the real reason.

Remenber when people ask Gamefreak to fix the game, and they said "There is nothing wrong with it" 🤣🤣🤣

Nah chief. The random trainers in Scarlet and Violet are actually a step in the wrongest possible direction as far as character design is concerned. We got from great designs that genuinely stand side by side with the gym leaders (Heck, the gen 6 Hex Maniac surpassed every other human character from that game in terms of popularity) to the blandest, most cookie cutter designs imaginable.