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Do you mind Pokemon being annual?

I love it! I need my yearly fix! 39 18.40%
 
I can tolerate it. 38 17.92%
 
Meh. 17 8.02%
 
I'd prefer it wasn't. 103 48.58%
 
I hate it. I won't even play because of it. 9 4.25%
 
What's Pokemon? Is that ... 6 2.83%
 
Total:212
Spade on 16 December 2014

Not really loving it. Would rather have it every other year and maybe have some spinoffs in between. Plus it sucks that they refuse to put any of them on the home console. Why not put Z on Wii U? I'd much rather have it every other year or so. There is Mystery Dungeon, Ranger, Conquest. So many ideas and potential could go on U as well...

Is a shame.



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BraveNewWorld on 16 December 2014

Yearly releases are fine with me, but looking at things I don't think they'll be able to do so unless they make 7th gen on 3DS as well. They need a new engine as XY's yields a terrible frame rate.

It'd be cool if Game Freak made a non-canonical Pokemon RPG on Wii U instead of starting on 7th gen. They wouldn't be as constrained to the formula and wouldn't be tentative of making changes that could harm the series. They could then implement ideas that worked into the main series in 7th gen.



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Samus Aran on 16 December 2014

I wish Nintendo went all Alpha Nerd on Gamefreak and took away the Pokémon IP from them.

Then sell them to Microsoft. :D



archer9234 on 16 December 2014
artur-fernand said:
archer9234 said:

To me it's not yearly. It's 3 years per new story. I don't count remakes. Because those are rehashes and are not needed. YOu don't lose out on much if you don't buy everything. All the new features added to he remakes gets moved into the future game. Unless it's something time consuming. Like the pokemon following feature in HG/SS.

Sentient_Nebula said:
It's pretty much an annual franchise already. There's been 18 games over the past 18 years (3 per generation). That's not counting any remakes or spinoffs, either. Just the main games.

You count both versions as two sperate games I take it. I don't do that. It's really one. The 3rd game is just a modification, same story. The only time I would count them as new games is B/W 2. Since they continue the story. The 3rd game doens't do that. It tells the same story with some difference and aditions.

Except it is yearly.

You can call Yellow or Platinum "the same game" all you want. They're not. And that's not counting spin-offs mind you.

 

Anyway, I've grown extremely indifferent to Pokemon. I still replay FR/LG somewhat regularly, and had fun with HG/SS, Emerald and Platinum. But... meh. It kinda gets old, I'd appreciate even small changes to the formula, like stop making gyms just one type (meaning you can DESTROY the whole gym with just one pokemon).

And I understand that the handheld games sell A LOT, so there's no reason to change them. But do SOMETHING, for god's sake. Like put it on the Wii U, or make actual interesting storylines, change up the gameplay a little bit, I don't know.

I will. They're alternate versions of the same story. Regardless of what they tweek or added. From that timeline, actual new stories are from Red, Gold, Ruby, Diamond, Black, Black 2,  X. 1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013. Everything else is not a new story. 7 games. Yes, the games are milked and have versions and remakes everywhere. Why wouldn't they. It's all easy money. And ofcourse there is 18 games. But at the end, those are the time periods between  a fully new region. With the exception to B/W 2. Which ends the story. I don't count it as a yearly series. COD is a yearly series. A new story that comes out every year. With pokemon you don't need the other version or 3rd game to follow the story. And you don't need the remakes, if you played the originals before. You can happily function, and stay in touch, if you just bought the 7 games of the series.



BraveNewWorld on 16 December 2014
Samus Aran said:

I wish Nintendo went all Alpha Nerd on Gamefreak and took away the Pokémon IP from them.

Then sell them to Microsoft. :D


So we could play Pokemon on Microsoft phones instead? Microsoft wouldn't do anything differently with Pokemon as its an immortal cash cow.



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Samus Aran on 16 December 2014
BraveNewWorld said:
Samus Aran said:

I wish Nintendo went all Alpha Nerd on Gamefreak and took away the Pokémon IP from them.

Then sell them to Microsoft. :D


So we could play Pokemon on Microsoft phones instead? Microsoft wouldn't do anything differently with Pokemon as its an immortal cash cow.

Nintendo owns Pokémon, Gamefreak would go to Microsoft without Pokémon. I don't care for Gamefreak as a developer.

Just like when Microsoft bought Rare and thought it would get the rights to DK.



burninmylight on 16 December 2014
BraLoD said:

So when AC does it it's milking and ridiculous, but if it's Pokémon it's great and all ok? Lol.
And Pokémon actually comes in two games every new gen... so annual and actually twice a year most of the times and that's ok?

Really, I think it's okay for ANY game to be annual IF they can do a good game every year.
Assassin's Creed was having great games every year and was so massacred because of it, so who thinks it's okay with Pokémon, it's just like this with any other game that someone likes, so no more massacres, ok?

Really hard to try to back it up with the disaster Unity was, but it's the same principle.
When someone likes a game/franchise it's okay for him to want it every year, just like some of you are doing right now


1) As you can see if you read this thread, most fans don't want an annual Pokemon game and would like for Game Freak to shake up the formula.

2) Two versions of the same game =/= two different games. The only differences are a few version exclusive Pokemon and sometimes small changes to the plot in single player.

3) Assassin's Creed and Ubisoft get massacred because Ubisoft keeps releasing buggy, unoptimized pieces of shit that it tries to pass off as AAA blockbuster efforts worthy of $60. AC3 was the biggest piece of turd I played in years. You're obviously aware of AC: Unity, yet you dare to compare it to an effort that was at least an attempt at being polished like Pokemon.



Skidmore on 16 December 2014

I did not catch even 50 yet in Y.



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artur-fernand on 16 December 2014
burninmylight said:
BraLoD said:

So when AC does it it's milking and ridiculous, but if it's Pokémon it's great and all ok? Lol.
And Pokémon actually comes in two games every new gen... so annual and actually twice a year most of the times and that's ok?

Really, I think it's okay for ANY game to be annual IF they can do a good game every year.
Assassin's Creed was having great games every year and was so massacred because of it, so who thinks it's okay with Pokémon, it's just like this with any other game that someone likes, so no more massacres, ok?

Really hard to try to back it up with the disaster Unity was, but it's the same principle.
When someone likes a game/franchise it's okay for him to want it every year, just like some of you are doing right now


1) As you can see if you read this thread, most fans don't want an annual Pokemon game and would like for Game Freak to shake up the formula.

2) Two versions of the same game =/= two different games. The only differences are a few version exclusive Pokemon and sometimes small changes to the plot in single player.

3) Assassin's Creed and Ubisoft get massacred because Ubisoft keeps releasing buggy, unoptimized pieces of shit that it tries to pass off as AAA blockbuster efforts worthy of $60. AC3 was the biggest piece of turd I played in years. You're obviously aware of AC: Unity, yet you dare to compare it to an effort that was at least an attempt at being polished like Pokemon.


Unity was arguably broken, but AC3 was just a matter of preferences. The game worked fine.



generic-user-1 on 16 December 2014

they should change some parts one gen needs to be realy one gen, they fucked that up with x/y and oras, the games arnt close enough to each other.