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At this point we don’t even need them, we have indie devs making games like Casette Beasts that are better than pokemon ever was.
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Submitted 11 months ago by GreyTechnician@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Goronmon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So it’s not that the games are bad, it’s that the goal of the games is to provide a simple and fun game for kids to be introduced to Pokemon.
Makes sense to me and clearly they are doing a good job of it. Even if it makes the hardcore games angry that their tastes aren’t being catered to.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just because they are for kids doesn’t mean they have to be garbage. The quality of the games has gone downhill fast and they refuse to do simple things like update the ancient animations or polish any of the 3d assets beyond the ps2 era.
It’s a joke compared to other kids games these days.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just because they are for kids doesn’t mean they have to be garbage.
The hyperbole makes it hard to take you seriously. Games being either amazing or garbage is just an exhausting mentality to be around.
toastus@feddit.de 11 months ago
I didn’t watch the video but the newer Pokémon games are actually bad by different measures.
The graphics of the newest one (whatever it is called) is at least a whole generation behind other Switch titles and still it suffers from FPS drops and textures that just pop up while already in view.
That is just objectively bad.That they never really innovated very much on the turn based RPG formula or that the newer games are very easy are things that I don’t even mind, especially because the games are supposed to be accessible for children.
That could make for a nice relaxing game after a long day of work.But I am not willing to pay 70 something bucks for a game that is so obviously made without the necessary care for the product.
electrogamerman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not only kids. Im not a “hardcore” gamer and I enjoy the pokemon games because they are simple and I know what I have to do. I can start the game at any point and know what I have to do.
As they say, different strokes for different blokes. If you are not happy about the games, then dont buy them and expect enough people wont buy them and TPC will take action. If not enough people stop buying them, then it means you are a minority and peopöe are enjoying the games.
Judge216@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Scarlet and violet aren’t bad though, just the performance is. To some this may make the overall package bad but I personally have played for 245 hours and while the performance should be better that doesn’t necessarily make it a bad game, just a flawed one.
ram@bookwormstory.social 11 months ago
All games are flawed; SV’s unacceptably so and your copium just justifies GF getting worse on that front.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The answer is pretty simple. People continue spending money. Vote with your wallet, and they’ll make a good game again
Goronmon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People are voting with their wallet, you just don’t like the results.
At the end of the day, people who post on places like Reddit and especially even more niche communities like lemmy making up a meaningless percentage of the gaming market. And expecting the entire market to cater to your personal whims is just unrealistic.
The video game market encompasses people who buy Pokemon games and FIFA games is the same market where people buy Baldur’s Gate 3, Witcher 3, Factorio, etc. All you can do is buy and play games and you enjoy and go from there.
sour@kbin.social 11 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
if personal whims include not making a bad game
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Expecting a bit much from people.
The masses don’t seem to understand that not every piece of media related to a franchise you enjoy is good. More of a thing isn’t always good. They will keep pumping out progressively worse and worse garbage because the fans will slurp up anything with the right branding.
Same reason why movies keep are becoming dumb shallow “spectacles” that can hold the audience’s micro attentions. No substance because it might scare away the box numbers on opening week.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All of this is fundamentally the truth
quams69@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In this industry, and specifically for pokemon, a huge portion of total purchases are done by parents for their children. Children don’t understand or care, and parents aren’t motivated to deny their children pokemon games based on their quality.
Pokemon, as a product, has very little incentive to improve. This is also an observable effect in the music industry.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Against a massive multimedia empire, supporting a competitor is far likely to induce change anyway. Unfortunately, that requires real action, and not just complaining about it…
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People stop paying for Pokemon games? I just use rims since they are just all copy and paste.
Game freak why the fuck did you turn Pokemon into? Wtf is wrong with you?
grayhaze@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not that it’ll ever make enough of a dent in their profits to make any difference anyway, but this could also swing the other way. If nobody buys their games because they’re bad, the impression those in control could get is that Pokemon games are no longer profitable rather than there being a need to make them better.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Red and Blue are held together with hope and dreams. They’ve always been like this.
sour@kbin.social 11 months ago
people won't care