The Best Developer in the Industry

[Joelcool7]

MrT-Tar said:

Onibaka said:
IMO Gamefreak is one of the worst developers. I loved pokemon but the franchise didn't evolved.

Pokemon in 1996:

 

Pokemon in 2011:

 

They just put uncreative new monster instead of improving the game itself.

They certain are one of the most greedy developers. Slightly more than Activision. The fact is: they make A LOT of money and they don't reinvest that on the game itself. They could at least invest like 5% of the revenue that they get, instead of probably less than 1%.

I think that Nintendo could modernize Gamefreak a little more. What would be cool is if Nintendo made a spin-off Pokemon with a Third-Party dev like Level-5.

Another problem is the yearly releases for the franchise. A Pokemon game will never have the same personality and impact as the Blu/Red. It turned out to be a single-player experience instead of playing with friends.

IMO Nintendo should make only 1 pokemon X/Y for 3DS.

Please tell me you're not serious.

You are using a screenshot from a fake game, based of a GBA game, to illustrate Game Freak in 2011.  Why didn't you use a screenshot from Black/White?  You either don't know that much about Pokemon, and aren't aware of Black/White or just what to spread an anti-Pokemon/Game Freak sentiment.

Something like this would be far more appropriate (I'm using Japan release years):

1996:

2010:

 

And you talk about 'yearly releases', but that fact is that the main line games are released at what I would consider good lengthed intervals (1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010).  Spin offs are released practically ever year, but one shouldn't count them when talking about Game Freak as they don't develop many, if any of them.  For example the Mystery Dungeon games are developed by Chunsoft and Pokemon Colloseum by Genius Sonority.

And there is a good chance that only one new Pokemon generation will be on the 3DS, given how 3/4 years between Gens is looking standard and how Black/White are being released right at the end of the DS' life.

 

I agree GameFreak is definatly one of the best RPG developers if not the best. But I personally think their lack of ability to produce a fully 3D game is a point against them. However Onibaka was insaine for passing off a fake screen and not using logic. I can't wait for GameFreak to bring Pokemon to 3DS, what would be really cool is if Pokemon: Grey was on 3DS.