| thatguymarco said: Sorry if I sound like a troll here, but wasn't Pokemon basically, well, that, already? Its yearly releases aren't enough to prove it? - Sorry to sound like a pesimist, but if they wanted to make Pokemon bigger and better they would've already tried it, they don't seem interested in the idea to be honest, GameFreak seems perfectly fine in its CoD/AssCreed position. Honestly, why would they bother to make a remarkable game when they know anything, and I mean ANYTHING, that they'll do will print money? It's really hard to find a reason to give a shit about something you're making when you know that success is 99.99% guaranteed. Plus, they have been in this position since basically Gen 3, if they wanted to change their ways they would already have. By the way PokeMoanz sux, and its cancerous for Nintendo, k thnx bye. |
Yearly releases aren't enough to make it a souless money maker. The only Pokemon game that I felt lacked soul was XY. Aside from one post game mission, it is, by far, the most lifeless Pokemon game I've ever played. Anyone who plays and truly enjoys Pokemon understands what makes them not like COD or AssCreed. The biggest element is the world building, which I will always claim is the best of any gaming franchise around. Not that I could explain that to anyone who would compare it to those games. Unlike COD or AssCreed, I'd argue that Pokemon is better off releasing as often as it does because of the way the franchise develops and builds on itself.
I'm optimistic them not doing it has more to do with them being complete morons than them doing the bare minimum to make a steady profit. I truly think that they honestly believe that Pokemon belongs on handhelds only, and that they are idiots because of it. A remarkable game like I described just was never possible on handhelds until the N3DS, and I'm positive that the next Pokemon game won't be exclusive to it for very obvious reasons. You can tell that they care what they're doing when you play the Looker missions in XY or the Delta Episode in ORAS. They care deeply about these games. They're just a little stupid when it comes to what hardware Pokemon belongs on, and that has limited their scale thus far.
And they haven't been any particular way since Gen 3. If anything, the change happened at B2W2, since that's when the games started getting noticably worse campaign wise. XY was borderline unbearable. ORAS was good, but mostly because RSE where amazing games, and a lot of the story tweeks are worse than the originals, like all of the Team Aqua and Magma redesigns. RSE were amazing. FRLG were amazing. DPPt are the best single Pokemon games of all time. HGSS absolutely demolish the originals and probably tie with DPPt even though their story is lame. BW have the best plot of any Pokemon game with the most well developed characters through out. Then B2W2 was disappointing, but still solid because the elements in the originals were such a good foundation and saved a lot of moments.
