The thing that annoys me is that they rake in ridiculous amounts of money but they're too cheap to make a good game because they know that people will buy it up even if it's dogs*** because it's Pokemon.
I admit I've played all the main games except Violet and Scarlet, but black and white were probably the last games I really enjoyed.
Here's to hoping the next games on switch 2 are great
Its so sad, honestly. The core gameplay and replayability is so good in pokemon (hence why it became popular in the first place). Imagine the games that could have been, if some passion and talent had been put into these games.
I never really thought any of their games was good per se, not even the old ones. But they were still fun, because of that core concept. I always saw a lot of missed potential in everything. But at least the early games was new, made on hardware that was very limiting etc. And they kept improving and building upwards for each game (well, sort of anyways). After gen 5 they started tearing down instead. Building downwards if you will.
My only hope for a decent new pokemon game is that palworld has had huge success. That game is better than anything pokemon has ever released. Although not the same type of gameplay loop at all, they have a lot of similarities (obviously). Maybe they are scared of that success, their lawyers certainly seems to be, lol. Heres hoping, only to be let down, probably. Its gamefreak after all.
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u/WhatShouldTheHeartDo Aug 19 '26
3D Pokemon (Except the Gamecube games, basically Pokemon after the 5th gen)