(Nov 19th, 2022, 12:23 AM)Mr EliteL Wrote:

I take it Sword/Shield, the Pearl/Diamond remakes and Legends Arceus all run better than Scarlet/Violet in comparison then, since I don't remember any or enough to stand out when I played Shield. Damn.

EDIT: I'm a donkey.

1. There seems to be a memory leak in the game which means the longer you play, the worse the performance will be until you restart the game entirely to flush out the Switch's memory.
   
2. I've seen claims that the entire game map and all entities within it (items, Pokémon, NPC's, etc.) are loaded at all times, rather than the typical approach where things out of sight of the player are unloaded or if at a far distance away are rendered in significantly lower polygon and texture quality.
   

(Nov 20th, 2022, 02:36 AM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

If this is a memory leak, good luck finding it to patch it in the first place. Even if that were true, though, most of the bugs I've seen surfing the web have none of the expected issues from a memory leak: performance drops, long loading times, or even crashes. What I keep seeing is collision detection issues, ESPECIALLY with that stupid cycle pokemon and its jumps! If it doesn't land on the floor, it'll lock into an infinite fall animation! Dropping out of bounds, contorted animations, pokemon just straight falling off cliffs; all of that screams "Engine problems" from my experience with bugs in games. This game was, simply put, NOT READY for prime time, and should have been pushed back at least a year, if not more.

(Nov 21st, 2022, 04:36 PM)Dragon Lord Wrote:

I really can't believe how had the Pokemon shills are defending this game. You can say that you're still enjoying the game despite the problems, that's fine, but to come out and say that people are overreacting to the horribly performance and bugs of these games is insane. I've even seen defenders go as far to say that these issues only happen "when you go so far out of your way to find them that it's impossible to happen to casual players."

@Moonface  - A memory leak is very likely considering that I've seen so many people reporting that the longer their play session is, the worse the FPS gets to the point where they have to close the game entirely and start it back up in order to fix it. That's got all the markings of a memory leak. Hopefully it doesn't take Gamefreak too long to get a patch out for it, because memory leaks can be extremely deflating when it comes to wanting to play a game.

Also someone else found out that if you're riding your motorcyclemon and you jump up cliffs backwards, you can actually get up them when you're not supposed to. Between that glitch and all of the other issues, this game is basically a 1:1 copy of Skyrim on rele.... never mind, it's a 1:1 copy of current day Skyrim when it comes to how poorly it performs.

• Broken Cutscene Animation
  
• Child NPC Wandering into a Battle Mid-Attack
  
• Oversized Pokémon
  
• Partner AI Struggling with Narrow Ledge (not necessarily a bug but still funny)
  
• Compilation Video of Various Bugs
  
• Moon Just Suddenly Shows Up
  
• Two Controller's Equals Double Speed
  
• Backward Slope Jumping
  
• Spinning Fuecoco
  
• Flying Jigglypuff's (not a bug, but the audio overlay on this one is brilliant)
  
• Sprigatito Sliding Around a Ball
  
• Random Pokémon Spawning in Cutscenes
  
• Exorcism NPC
  
• Fuecoco Slides Into The Depths
  
• Invisible Motorcycle
  
• Camera Mode Expression Bug
  
• NPC Randomly Changing Sizes
  
• NPC Gets Stuck in Place then Despawns
  

(Nov 25th, 2022, 10:09 PM)ShiraNoMai Wrote:

Reviews don't mean shit to the big wigs unless it directly affects profits. Besides, we already know what happens when publishers pay review sites to review well or else. And because these games sold so very very well, there's no chance in hell they'll ever consider not doing exactly what they're doing.

(Nov 25th, 2022, 11:00 PM)Maniakkid25 Wrote:

(Nov 25th, 2022, 10:09 PM)ShiraNoMai Wrote:

Reviews don't mean shit to the big wigs unless it directly affects profits. Besides, we already know what happens when publishers pay review sites to review well or else. And because these games sold so very very well, there's no chance in hell they'll ever consider not doing exactly what they're doing.

I would again point to Resident Evil 6 as an indication that reviews and fan outrage can (NOT WILL) influence the higher-ups to rethink their positions. That game sold ridiculously well, but they took a look at the divisive review scores and fan backlash, and deemed it a failure, deciding to go back to roots with RE7 instead of continuing the action-oriented bend of RE6. It is possible to slap some sense into developers with our words and not our wallets. Will it happen here? Probably not. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.