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Im sorry that haappend to you
That's true though they at least try to put the effort in to making these games evident by the fact that they're always well-received by fans.No, they are running out of ideas.
With Gen 1, Pokémon was a humble project, an earnest attempt from a young game designer to make a game he always dreamed of, with a new gameplay concept that he hoped would encourage social interaction (capturing, trading, and battling creatures across two versions of the same game).
Gen 2 was him trying to prove this is something that could stick around, by doing the same thing again, but bigger and better. Trying to live up to the lofty expectations set by the massive success of the first game.
After that, Pokémon became increasingly about the merchandising because of it's guaranteed pedigree. The games exist to sell toys and trinkets nowadays, and not much else.
When they make a Pokémon nowadays, it isn't usually because they want to do something creative with it. It's because they want to make something they can make an easy piece of merchandise out of.
Keychains, Teddy Bears, Sandcastles, etc. These are all things that are no brainers for some kind of merchandising.
Someone is going to try and argue with me about how Pokémon is pure and everything it does is done with the utmost creative integrity and thought.
But let me remind you that the new Pokémon game is being released with this.
Eh, he'll get over it. There's much worse out there in the deep dark web and yaoi barely scratches the surface.
My friend, this is bait. Don't do this.I love how Genwunners say that new Pokemon are "uncreative"
Yeah because that's ****ing creative
Ditto.
You shouldn't have done that...or, say that, because she probably will.... :|
You wouldn't dare think about doing that next time.
He's only going to scream if you use "haters" in a sentence."haters".
Yeah, you're right.
Relax love, I already said I have little intention of doing that.
You wouldn't dare think about doing that next time.
Im....not 100% sure this is a good thing
You wouldn't dare think about doing that next time.
TIL Kid Icarus: Uprising's multiplayer was copied directly off of Dark Souls.
They're not even running out. It's partially that a huge proportion of the good ideas left are Water, Bug, and Flying type or Fossils.
When it comes to Pokémon with an evolution line, I look at the recurring concept across them, and not the individual design. Because for all intents and purposes, Charmeleon is a teenage Charmander, and Charizard is an adult one.I love how Genwunners say that new Pokemon are "uncreative"
I'm not saying Pokémon games are bad games. They are technically fine, I just don't see them as particularly compelling and don't think the developers care about that or are capable of that.
"A sentence word (also called a one-word sentence) is a single word that forms a full sentence."He's only going to scream if you use "haters" in a sentence.
It was like that from Day 1.
No because a bunch of reviewers are saying the same thing.
For me, I think a lot of it had to do with the uproar that happened a while back. Which by the way was absolute bullcrap.
looks pretty relax. I wonder how Alolan will look. is nice too. More ghost types, which is a plus for me, along with a additional fire typing to add an hawaiian fire performer theme to it.
Kinda feel the same way, yeah.
Just to add my two sense (cents?) to the discussion: if you're making a game it needs to marketable through merchandise. Zelda, Sonic, Mario, Pokémon and plenty others are guilty of building for merchandise. If a characters series sells them so probably will it's merchandise. It's just how it is.
The most I see of pokemon stuff is cards at my food lion and Pokemon Center where I get my toys
No it wasn't. The first game was not a proven concept, so it was primarily the vision of one man just trying to make his dream game. The merchandise came after the explosion of popularity, and then with sequels, they discovered it was a winning formula, and decided to put the marketing potential of the games to sell toys, over the creative potential they had.
I challenge you to quote where I said this.
Same. My PS4 backlog is big enough on its own (and that's not getting into the Wii U games).
Nice to hear that they managed to get back most of their original cast. I'm a bit disappointed in some of the missing cast members, but it's still great to see most of the gang back together.
That's my point though. There-in lies the problem.
I literally said exactly this myself. The problem isn't basing them off inanimate objects, the problem is the lack of purpose to them other than being "a mon to be caught in the game and bought in the toy shop".
Yeah.
You did it for me.
Yeah I actually don't have a very high headcount of Pokemon I like in any generation, and considering how much praise it gets it's especially noticeable with Gen 1.
>The first two
FalKoopa
Pokémon literally did not have the amount big name brands (Good Smile, TOMY, Figurarts, and many, many more) making toys for it in the 90's as it does now (let alone parterships to make products to release with the game on release), like not even close. The game also wasn't packaged or sold with toys. There also wasn't such a thing as Pokémon planes or Pokémon specific shops.
). It just means I'm recognising the intended purpose of it's design. A floating keychain is actually pretty funny and novel to me personally, but I am hard pressed to believe that it was created for anything other than at attempt at making something merchandisable (especially since none of it's creative potential is realised).
