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It absolutely was for a week. There is no content beyond breeding pals and the second you Google anything the game is boring. No story, no interesting fights, everything is level based and the second you are within 5 levels of something you can kill it.
Depends on how its done, and how you find those text thingies.
Imagine a game where you explore some military lab that had some sick experiments get loose and you're piecing together what happened from chat logs and such. Or a murder mystery where you're sifting through letters between a serial killer and the victim you're trying to get justice for.
Hell, some of the charm in Fallout is reading those little flavor text logs to flesh out the "why" behind what you find in the dilapidated areas you're exploring.
That’s the thing, it doesn’t matter if your game has world class graphics, diversity, originality, innovation, or is made by a great team of people, all that matters is that playing it IS FUN. Seems all these studios are forgetting that part.
Normal gameplay is fun if it wasn’t it wouldn’t sell 20M copies every release. People like to dunk on pokemon and there are many reasons to but they are still fun to play for millions of people.
It being pokemon helps it sell as well, though especially for kids I bet it being pokemon is more important than gameplay for wanting the games. It being the pokemon brand reallys helps to sell the games.
Though yeah fun is subjective so I'm sure a bunch of people who buy it do find the gameplay fun. Or some parts of it.
Exactly this. I havent played a pokemon game in 10+ years because theyre ALL the same. I played palworld start to finish and loved every second of it, in my head its the pokemon game we deserved and what fans have been wanting for DECADES. Its just sad that it took an indie company to do it instead of nintendo with its billions.
After nintendo sued them for copying the 'throwing a ball to capture monsters', i said im out, cant support that company any more.
The only issue is that it has basically no artistic merit and is basically a tech demo that exists purely to say 'look at what you could have done with your IP' instead of doing anything interesting. It has no identity other than 'pokemon clone with guns' in the public mind and frankly, the worst mainline pokemon games absolutely style on it in terms of tone, writing, and consistency.
Shit on nintendo all you want, but if you choose to uplift the brain rot, don't be surprised when everything falls to shit.
It’s not even a ripoff of pokemon. It’s ark with creatures where a lot of them are very similar to pokemon. People keep saying it’s pokemon with guns but it’s not even close.
Thats a fault of where it's positioned in the market and the deliberate aesthetic overlap.Â
People who are capital G gamers and 'in' on the scene know that. But the average consumer doesn't. Thats not how the public consciousness works. You can try to deny it but you throw balls and cute, furry fuckers with elemental affinity. If you say that and think of anything but Pokemon, the largest and most valuable franchise on earth, you're cracked.
to be fair, they have introduced new stuff, the problem is all the new stuff is worse than the old stuff lol. Pixel-era Pokemon was still the best, everything after has been a bit weird and ultra gimmicky.
Black and White 2 just feels like literal perfection having a beloved style, story and there is so much content to do. I wish they would make a proper pixel game again, but that's a fever dream.
I'm personally very fond of ORAS though lmao. I played Black first, but it's the main pokemon game I spent several times more than the others at about ~500 hours. I actually loved Scarlet's gaameplay but I only sunk 120~ and that's several times more than the usual of 30 or so like Shield 💀
I do recommend the DSI XL for the sprite pokemon games lol. It's the perfect ratio + a vibrant dual IPS. They're pretty cozy to hold too compared to my floppy 3DS LL. (N3DSes did fix that though.)
True, today‘s content in games is 50% slapping PBR materials and reflections on everything so the graphics will help sell it. Sometimes I believe having to be clever with your resources on limited hardware also made people to come up with interesting mechanics and ideas. Many mechanics today are more like good coding practices but from a players perspective more like who asked for this to begin with? Eastern devs still mostly get it but western studios somehow forgot this ancient knowledge over the last 10 years. Just go back and play any rpg from 15 years ago and you can spot and feel the difference in like 15 minutes and see why they are shutting down one after another. It’s the same reason why anime pretty much replaced all tv shows for my generation and the ones afterwards. I can’t name a single tv show that runs in western tv channels.
There was a plot line where you have to fight a Hypno over a child but I think Hypno was protecting the kid and you were just meant to think it was a kidnapping.
There is a Drowzie who kidnaps a child in the pokemon mystery dungeon games though
Black and White 2 just feels like literal perfection having a beloved style, story and there is so much content to do. I wish they would make a proper pixel game again, but that's a fever dream.
I'm personally very fond of ORAS though lmao. I played Black first, but it's the main pokemon game I spent several times more than the others at about ~500 hours. I actually loved Scarlet's gaameplay but I only shit.
I genuinely think teras is mechanically the best system they've created post gen 4. However, conceptually mega evolutions were my favorite.
The problem with megas was that competitively it was terrible and pokemon traditionally does not update fast enough to fix the limited pool of viable pokemon.
This is the game where Landorous terrorized competitive for like 3 gens straight and is still meta.
I'll say this everywhere and anywhere -- If anyone is looking for a better version of a pokemon-style game, play Monster Sanctuary! It is a platform jumper and turn-based monster catching game that involves a whole lot more strategy and team compositions than pokemon!
What I love about Monster Sanctuary is the skill trees involved with each monster, which allows you to play each monster in different ways, AND the order in which moves you use really comes into effect! It is a super fun and strategic-minded game! So much better than pokemon IMO. And its cheap! I bought it on sale for $4.99 a few weeks ago and can't stop playing!
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u/Mughalbadsha12 23h ago
leave the billion dollar corporation alone theyre just a small indie team