It's FUBAR. Everything. Main games, spinoffs, anime, manga, designs, the fans, etc.
Just nuke it from fricking orbit at this point. There's nothing good left.
Play romhacks and fan games instead of the Gamefreak ones.
Other than that Pokémon is an incredibly versatile IP. It can be used to almost anything and worth a lot.
But for me, unless there is something radical changing, mainline Pokémon games aren't meant for 3D graphics.
There's nothing to fix. The formula works. SV were the most popular pokemon games to date, each new installment makes tons of cash. Maybe you've just outgrown the series?
a lot of people still crave pokemon shit but the stupid childish, cringe ass, buggy games like S&V is all they can hope for since GF is just a bunch of lazy Black folk
>"will you be my friend?" >"yes/no"
jesus fricking christ unless you're an autistic troony weeb Black person or a fricking 3yo the cringe levels in this game will turn your face inside out
ditch the fricking cringe ass storyline
ditch the 2001 tier 3D graphics and just stick to pixelart or fricking flash if you can't do any better
fricking reinvent the battle system already
or just give us PS 3
You would need to pare back the gens back to something like Gold/Silver/Crystal (because there are TOO MANY SHITMONS).
Retcon everything. Pokémon are now rare as frick, like ghosts or yokai. Trainers are people who risk their lives training 2-4 of these supernatural monstrosities. Even things like Stantler, Girafarig and Fearow are treated with the reverence of a Souls boss.
They need to make the most important part of the IP - the Pokémon characters themselves - important again. No waifus, no trans shit, not even NEW Pokémon for a while. Return to tradition.
People like you need to be shamed more often. You're looking at a franchise torn apart developer incompetence and your first instinct is to address the lore. Fricking vile idiot.
Romance mechanics, force ALL battles to be double battles, make it so all the Pokemons of enemy NPCs are automatically 10 levels above your highest leveled mon, give enemy Pokemons access to every single attack they could learn.
>the glitches and performance are just too bad and I say this as someone who can usually handle dropped frames, tackle that first by having dev times of over a year and hiring a few dozen interns for QA and coding grunt work >and ONLY QA and coding grunt work, don't tempt fate by letting them possibly alter the artistic or design direction, it can always get even worse >if you're going to not have the complete pokedex in a game, then fricking commit and have a tightly-designed dex of 200-300, like the regional dexes of old, this 600+ regional dex nonsense is a middle ground nobody really benefits from >on the note of Pokemon- restrain their placement a little harder, make fully evolved shit appearing in the wild supremely rare, make some species appear in an utterly tiny corner of the map, make a few more moronic evolution conditions, those're always fun >design a region with one main path through it, then make that path loop on itself a few times and give players a way to jumble up the order a little if they put their back into it >make gyms scale up if you arrive late but not scale down if you arrive early >enforce that main path mostly via unlockable field abilities, leave actual move-based field abilities behind and instead let Pokemon fulfill their functions if they could've learned the HM; a Lapras should be able to ferry people even if it doesn't expressly know Surf >have a relatively light story that's more meant to explore an interesting facet of the Pokemon world than it is to be epic and create stakes, if it turns out to be weighty and dramatic anyway that's fine >have some kind of small bonus campaign after the main one that LEADS INTO but is not entirely COMPOSED OF whatever repeatable endgame content exists >oh, and make that content aesthetically distinct from the main game
unironically just give GF more dev time per game, like beneath the sea of rancid bugs and visual cancer SV did have some cool stuff mixed in there
It almost seems like the games are just getting churned out every year soley to shill the merch/cards, which is a damn shame
GF is contaminated, the highest authorities within it have expressed that they believe Pokemon is competing with free mobile games. The bad design decisions they make and obscenely rushed pace are GF's idea, not anyone else's.
It's dead, Jim. Killed by their shit eating community and not by gamefreak. Those morons will eat up anything. If I could get away with providing a shitty product and get billions in return without receiving any major backlash, I would do the same
You can't fix it. The people in charge don't care if the games are good. The games aren't even what makes the majority of the IPs money anyway. They just exist to set up the generations. You would have basically fire most of Nintendos management, TPCis management and probably everyone who works at Game Freak and that'll probably never happen.
Unironically the latest game being an open world where you can challenge any gym or boss at any time is a good idea. Just take that concept and hand it to devs that can actually code instead of Gamefreak.
>When did Pokemon go to shit anyway
after gen1, no no after crystal, no no no after emerald, nooooo after platinum, no wait after hgss, ok after gen, noooo wait a second after usum of course
It's been decaying slowly as all the component people have their ideas on what needs to be done for the games to be good shift ever so slightly. It's hard to pin a specific generation as the point it all went wrong, if you're not a hardline moron about it.
Some people pick gen 3 because it was their first foray into removing mechanics.
Some people pick gen 4 because it simplified the puzzles in spite of having way more, and used its new-mons like total garbage akin to Johto but without the charm of a whole second region attached.
Some people pick gen 5 because it has a lot of story and some genuine atrocious designs.
Some people pick gen 6 because it was obviously rushed for an anniversary, is the birth of the current models and all their problems, and never got something like Platinum to square it up and make it more complete.
It sort of goes on like this. There's a known discord clique that generates most of the hate for DS-era Pokemon and most of the defense for 3DS-era Pokemon, this should tell you what the most common opinion of the point of no return is.
With the 3DS games they straight up said they're targeting mobile phone addicted children which is why it's all hand holdy with constant encouragement from every single NPC because they'd have a crisis and drop the game if they felt any sort of challenge or obstacle to overcome
>Replace PP with a stamina bar >Stop with all the handholding and cutscenes every 5 seconds >Stop making everything look so embarassing (a fricking motorbike pokemon what the shit)
Trouble is that only older audiences would appreciate these things, and they're not the target market.
A pokemon game with a stamina bar would be interesting. Different moves would cost different amount of stamina which is a unique way of balancing their power than just having lower PP co-
wait i'm just describing standard MP bars
I had that same realization years ago. >pp is meaningless 99% of the game >it'd be cool if they made it matter >what if all moves shared the same pp and had different costs, they they could balance it >wait, this seems familiar
I still think it'd be a cool change though.
The funny part is, I usually can't fricking stand vancian casting because most games I've seen it in give you fewer charges of many more spells. Pokemon letting you have like 16 uses of three solid damaging moves and some status thing is a HUGE step up.
Maybe it's fans fault for not playing more dragon quest and games better then pokemon?
Honestly pokemon people are kinda autists who can't stop playing no matter how bad, or how much worse it gets.
And i know, cause i was a long time pokemon guy.
I can't understand how there are people who can look at what this franchise used to be, and look at what it is now, and feel anything less than visceral, seething disgust.
>I can't understand how there are people who can look at what this franchise used to be
I don't know, it still looks like casual crap for 5 year olds to me.
Timeless in the sense that any kid likes it.
If you are an adult and play Pokemon then consider giving suicide a chance.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Being an adult means being a miserable, alcoholic, depressed, robot who goes through life on autopilot and feels nothing except for the occasional urge to jump off a fricking bridge.
Where did these kinds of ideas come from? Is this a capitalism thing? Is this because Americans glorify the military and so PTSD vets have been seen as the pinnacle of manhood for generations? Is this a puritan hold over thing where not hating life is seen as some kind of moral failure and having fun means that something is wrong with you?
5 months ago
Anonymous
No, I think I'd be miserable and depressed if I still played Pokemon these days.
And that's without counting how much of a mess the games are these days.
5 months ago
Anonymous
youre trying really hard to be a cool and tough adult lmao
look im not gonna say playing pokemon is something you should proudly tell other people as an adult, the same goes to telling them that you even play vidya at all
now what board is this?
I've spent the past week trying to learn to play Command Modern Operations.
5 months ago
Anonymous
And to 99.99999% of the world who dont know what that is you’re just playing a dork game for kiddy dorks. Games are inherently a childish hobby, you will never grow past being a “big boy”. Even children can master games made for “adults”.
5 months ago
Santa Claus
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5 months ago
Anonymous
Nowhere did I say I hate gaming. I hate pretentious homosexuals who act holier than thou because they dont play “kids games”. homie every game is a kids game played by kids, even the mature ones. Gaming is a childish hobby, and I am content with that. I dont get insecure about playing games that are intended for wider audiences because it’s a fricking VIDEO GAME. That’s like saying Sonic 3 and Knuckles is a kids game, because technically that’s the market it was going for. Who gives a frick, they’re just games. No amount of violence, dark grittiness, and deep pseudo-philosophical writing will make you come off as a more “mature” gamer. You’re still just a homosexual gamer whether you’re playing hamtaro for the GVA or your super duper complex CRPG made for big boy gamers. Just play whatever the frick you like, who gives a shit.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Least it could do is not go out of their way to make me feel embarassed by the hilariously childish writing of the game.
They could just make a sandbox mode where there's no plot and I can just catch Pokemon and battle instead of shoving yet another awful kid story down everyone's throat.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Bro you need to move the frick on, stop playing these shitty games. They’re not gonna give you what you want. Modern pokemon isnt even worth an emulate and the difficulty is only one small piece of the problem. They’re shit half baked games through and through, dont expect anything resembling quality. Just play better games, that’s my advice
5 months ago
Anonymous
I don't care, it's a fact that Pokemon is made for kids.
What's pitiful is adults who are still waiting for the games to not be made for kids when that will never happen.
The games will continue becoming easier and easier, the stories will never move on beyond some power of friendship crap, and the technical state of the games will continue getting worse because kids have no standards.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Kids had no standards during the days of NES difficulty as well. Nobody playing pokemon in the modern era expects pokemon games to start catering to some kind of audience that wants dark souls difficulty. The games are laughably easy but even gen 1 could be cheesed with just your starter mon. Who gives a shit, if you dont care about pokemon literally just move on. The whims of devs have and will change regarding player difficulty. Right now they realize that making the games piss easy makes them more money because the fans of the series are moronic normies who want their hands to be held. If the difficulty of old games was a result of arcade design philosophy leaking into console games which was a new market. Games were more difficult to encourage people to spend quarters, but now they realize that they should go the other way around if they want entice non-gamers into playing their games. It is what it is, but anyone expecting difficulty from a Pokemon game is fricking braindead.
5 months ago
Anonymous
They could if they focused on the online, which is the only redeemable aspect left of the franchise.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>expecting Nintendo to have competent online features
Anon they only just recently included an ethernet port on the OLED dock. Nintendo is laughably behind when it comes to anything online, especially their games feature’s and netcode.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It's a simulator that "plays" itself. Basically something for posers to show their high playtime.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It doesn't play itself, it's one of the most unintuitive pieces of crap ever made.
I swear they made the UI bad on purpose.
Buy Pokemon Myatery dungeon and support it as the best Pokemon games there is. Make a sequel for DS's Conquest. Those gameplay changes make Pokemon so much more fun, and avoid the stagnation GF has with regular game modes.
Pokemon as an IP is healthy. The people who think Pokemon is "dying" are almost always people who are old enough to remember 1999/2000. Pokemania is never coming back. It was lighting in a bottle that was only possible during a very specific time in a very specific place. The convergence of factors that led to a nationwide freakout simply can't and won't be replicated in this day and age. To hold the franchise to that standard is to set yourself up for disappointment. If you're lucky enough to remember how magical it felt as a kid when it seemed like the whole world was losing it's mind over your favorite thing, then just cherish those memories and don't become bitter.
I don't think Pokemon as an IP is unhealthy. It's doing well. It's still making money hand over fist.
I think Pokemon games used to be enjoyable on some level, and lost that over time.
That's fair. I just think the enjoyment factor was heavily influenced by the excitement surrounding the IP. That excitement started at a hysterical fever pitch in 99 and has slowly declined ever since. They can innovate on the formula; they can make games open world, add more Pokemon, add more regions, add character customization, etc., but some things just can't be bottled and sold.
And that too is fair. Part of the fun was the sense of universal excitement, and that is pretty much irreplaceable.
But I get the sense you're trying to shift the blame for Pokemon "feeling" worse now onto Pokemania more than it deserves. Open world Pokemon, as SV did it, compromises things that are fun about Pokemon and would've been fun even if a total of 10 people played it.
People complain about grindy battles in JRPGs all the time. Pokémon has the ability to make every single fight mechanically unique and just refuses to do anything interesting, regardless of however the discussion of difficulty factors in. They removed set mode of all things.
It makes sense if you think about it. People aren't playing Pokémon because the game is of superior quality, they're playing it because it's Pokémon. Just like Dragonball. The anime and merchandise eclipsed the games in the public consciousness anyway.
Most games trying to be "alternative Pokemon" just take one step away from Pokemon and call it a day. That really isn't enough to make an actual good game at this point.
Surely the biggest franchise of planet earth needs the opinion of some moronic homosexuals on Ganker to figure out how it needs to be run. >All the "it's dead/dying" posts ITT
Fricking LMAO.
>it's successful so nothing is wrong with it
it's so bad journalists can't even bring themselves to heap praise onto it to make the success look justified like they do for other utter shit like botw
Of course they wouldn't listen, but it's not the franchise itself, it's the games, the only thing people actually care about. Even in your own image, it's the second biggest thing next to merch. People will always buy the merch. The problem is the games. Gamefreak fricking sucks at making video games and they have clearly wanted to move away from making just Pokemon, and failed. They literally made their biggest money-maker a second for some years to focus on other projects. They wouldn't love to move away, as it's their biggest and best way to make money and the other games they made, no one fricking cared about.
Miss gen 1/2 artstyle and creature design style
Love current battle system the most. They never have time to playtest mechanics like Last Respects, Fisheous Rend, and Intrepid Sword but even then the battle system is at its finest with a rich and diverse treasure trove of mechanics currently. I live VGC double battles in particular but 6v6 singles and 6v6 doubles is neat too.
Wish power creep wasn't so strong that it invalidates 50% of the pokedex of fully evolved pokemon, but what can you expect when the average BST is sub 500? There are going to be shitters with the rest.
-Give players a difficulty option
-Not allow Gaijin to design mons
-Go back to 2D sprites, something like the hd2d stuff Square enix does.
-Do “start over gen like black and white
-Give it appropriate development time.
-Hire more programmers to create assets (move animations, mon models, etc.)
>-Hire more programmers to create assets (move animations, mon models, etc.)
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
The programmers do the models and animations now.
-Give players a difficulty option
-Not allow Gaijin to design mons
-Go back to 2D sprites, something like the hd2d stuff Square enix does.
-Do “start over gen like black and white
-Give it appropriate development time.
-Hire more programmers to create assets (move animations, mon models, etc.)
Modelling and animating the Pokemons has always been handled by TPC, not by Game Freak.
Imagine if you refined your coding skills for all your life, only for some dingus to hire you and force you to model and animate, even though you have no experience in those things.
>Switch to Unreal 5 next gen, they already likely switch to Unreal 4 for this year's Pokemon games >Have 3 to 5 studio produce the mainline games. >Game Freak only once in the console's generation if 5+ companies start doing the mainline games.
After all, it would be stupid to hire specialists to model and animate, when you can hire people who are specialised in something entirely different like programming, to do so.
I think they are fixing some things with Pokémon Legends gameplay design. But that game’s director was different than Scarlet/Violet. Management has to shift.
The games need more time in the oven combined with more competent developers. So basically you would need to un-tether the games from the franchise i.e. shows, cards, movies, and merch pipelines. Those all have strict dates tying in with the new generation which doesnt give the developers the option to give their games more dev time. So yeah it’s not gonna happen, the series is too big for its own good and Gamefreak are too proud to let go, not to mention wouldnt want to relinquish that power because none of their games outside of Pokemon are able to stand on their own. Even if Gamefreak stayed in control but they got significantly more dev time and freedom the games would be a LOT better. They’re all halfbaked now to meet a rushed deadline to coincide with all the other franchising crap. Even if you gave the series to Nintendo’s most competent teams, they would still suffer if they had to adhere to these moronic deadlines. No other nintendo studio has that same constraint and is generally allowed to take as much time as they want developing their games with much more wiggle room. Gamefreak doesnt get that leisure and them being incompetent/understaffed only makes matters worse.
Release a Pokemon Stadium game that connects to Home and has Showdown features. Any Pokemon you have in Home can be used in the Showdown mode and have their stats/moves/item changed freely. Run all battles, tournaments, and everything out of that mode in Stadium. Now Game Freak and everyone else are free to make whatever game they want with whatever gimmick they want and the only thing the games need is the ability to connect to Home. They can make actually good single player games like PLA and not have to worry about pvp balance. They can make a single player JRPG with actual difficulty and a level curve and not need to worry about exp candies and the "quality of life features" needed to keep multiplayer from sucking but trivialize the main game.
You can't, Pokemon is shit at a fundamental level.
You can fix all the bugs you want, increase the level of enemy trainers as much as you want, it's still going to be a casualized, turn based RPG with a story based around how the power of friendship fixes everything and how Pokemons are totally your ebin friends even though you need to pretty much brainwash to make them follow you.
Any doubles players here? Tailwind in prankster seems too good right now. Tornadus and Whimsicott seem so strong and invalidates any other tailwind setter. Outside of hard TR how does one combat this reliably especially in open teamsheet?
Balance teams. Urshifu/Rillaboom/Incineroar/Flutter Mane plus two others. TW teams go first and hit hard, but eventually their TW peters out and they're left sitting there without their speed control. Between two Fake Outs, Protects, your own priority moves with Aqua Jet and Grassy Glide, and whatever else you bring in your last two Pokemon, you can usually just weather the storm for three to four turns and then win; the same way you'd stall out Trick Room. Speaking of which, Flutter Mane CAN learn TR and your opponent seeing it there in open team sheet can give them hesitance to click TW turn one, and you, presumably, outspeed them outside of TW so you can get a cheeky KO.
Its a good idea but whats stopping me from eunning a tw support in sucu a balance team? I feel like thats what everyone else does. Urshifu + Tornadus is such a threatening combo for a reason
More dev time.
SV is a fine game at its core (it's more fun than trash like gen 5 at least) but it's covered in a massive amount of crust. They should have released PLA November 2022 and released SV in November 2023 instead.
>>>>MUH FWEEDUMB
Being "free" to walk to any town in the game and catch any pokemon in the game as soon as you step out of your front fricking door is insultingly bad.
You are moronic if you're entertained by it.
Pokemon don't have value if they're not hard to obtain.
>Being "free" to walk to any town in the game and catch any pokemon in the game as soon as you step out of your front fricking door is insultingly bad.
What's insulting is forcing me to go after the 8 badges after 25 years.
Just let me catch whatever I want and hop onto the online and stop wasting my time with this routine.
That sounds legitimately awful. If you want that, why not just demand an official version of Showdown and be done with it?
I want Pokemon games to go back to being RPGs that happen to have multiplayer bolted on.
It doesn't have to be 8 badges, but I don't want them to ever stop having a fricking campaign entirely.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Why?
The combat system is the focus, everything else is a distraction.
Plus, GF couldn't come up with a single original idea for a campaign for shit.
You only need the tera orb to play online. Due to a weird account issue, my kids' actual save files weren't tied to the user account with Nintendo Online, which is required for VGC tournaments. They basically just had to start new games on the second account and replay the first 45 minutes then trade their teams over from their actual games in order to participate. Forty five minutes is still a terrible slog; there's no reason the games shouldn't have skippable cutscenes and the ability to disable animations like Fire Emblem. It should have taken five minutes from game start to tera orb, but at the very least they didn't need to replay the entire game.
>Being "free" to walk to any town in the game and catch any pokemon in the game as soon as you step out of your front fricking door is insultingly bad.
No, it's what makes the game actually fun and engaging. Unlike Gen 5 where it's effectively a fricking idle cookie clicker game where you just mindlessly mash A while you just walk the single direction NPCs let you go.
>it's "fun and engaging" to have whatever you want to do instantly validated by the game >it's "an idle game" to have a path you have to follow
yawngay alert
5 months ago
Anonymous
>>it's "an idle game" to have a path you have to follow
When there's no challenge or anything else that makes the game engaging, yes, this is correct.
Linear games are only good if they're A. challenging or B. have a well written narrative. BW2 has neither and SV is better in both these categories despite being open world, which is pretty fricking sad.
The shit games would still sell like crazy because muh coomers are a vocal minority. They dont carry the franchise; indoctrinated normies do.
The reality is it doesnt matter how shit these games are. The brand is so strong that people will keep buying them even if the games barely fricking function. They made their money, they clearly dont care beyond that.
>remove all the shit mechanics past Gen 7 >stop fricking 100-200 new mons every gen >especially stop adding legendaries. legendary mons used to be 1% of the roster, now they're like 20% >bring back megas/primals and keep regional forms instead to keep some novelty >try my darndest to alleviate some of the insane powercreep of these past generations
I spent a lot of time nolifing on Smogon Ladders
I'd have a lot more ideas but this is just off the top of my head. Gen 9 isn't as bad because Terastalization isn't the worst mechanic, but Pkmn like pic related are absolutely ridiculous and I do not understand how the frick this got approved.
I remember everyone being assmad about Pkmn like Kartana and somehow the devs decided to powercreep even harder.
>bring back megas/primals and keep regional forms instead to keep some novelty
Stopped reading there.
Mega evolutions are the Pokemon equivalent of Dragon Ball AF.
you can't recon something like that out of the games after adding it in my opinion and the fact that they did is actually kind of moronic
Rayquaza for example is supposed to be able to mega-evolve at will, but uhh "he can't in later games JUST BECAUSE OKAY"
I get what you're saying but we're saying "how would you fix it NOW", not how would you fix it if you had a time machine
>Pkmn like pic related are absolutely ridiculous and I do not understand how the frick this got approved.
Because it's frail as shit and dies in two hits or one super effective hit.
yeah that's how people downplayed Kartana as well, but that's not necessarily
my biggest issue here.
the biggest problem I have is the design choice:
mainly why the frick does a god damn bubble-eyed goldfish have more attack potential than most legendaries. and there is nothing leading up to this Pkmn, you just SUDDENLY can find a shrine which shits out one of the most powerful attackers ever.
The optional classes only tell you the story, and there's just zero markings for where the stakes are.
I honestly had to use a guide because by myself I only found 3 of the 40..
Remember the Pokemon TV show with cool battles? Do that. Actually embarassing it took 20 years for the Pokemon to actually start sounding like the TV show instead of 8-bit trash.
>Even Assassins Creed has more potential to be fun than Pokemon.
I hate modern Pokémon too, but this is waay too cruel to modern Pokémon.
Assasins Creed is much, much worse.
>zero difficulty >buggy as frick >technical aspects always a generation behind all other games in their platform >story might as well not exist
No idea how this franchise lived on for this long.
let it die
It's FUBAR. Everything. Main games, spinoffs, anime, manga, designs, the fans, etc.
Just nuke it from fricking orbit at this point. There's nothing good left.
Play romhacks and fan games instead of the Gamefreak ones.
Other than that Pokémon is an incredibly versatile IP. It can be used to almost anything and worth a lot.
But for me, unless there is something radical changing, mainline Pokémon games aren't meant for 3D graphics.
small dex of only new mons
There's nothing to fix. The formula works. SV were the most popular pokemon games to date, each new installment makes tons of cash. Maybe you've just outgrown the series?
>t. he pokemon company international
a lot of people still crave pokemon shit but the stupid childish, cringe ass, buggy games like S&V is all they can hope for since GF is just a bunch of lazy Black folk
>"will you be my friend?"
>"yes/no"
jesus fricking christ unless you're an autistic troony weeb Black person or a fricking 3yo the cringe levels in this game will turn your face inside out
ditch the fricking cringe ass storyline
ditch the 2001 tier 3D graphics and just stick to pixelart or fricking flash if you can't do any better
fricking reinvent the battle system already
or just give us PS 3
>cringe
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Spend some time outside of Twitter and acquire a fricking vocabulary, you dumb amerimutt.
nice try Black person, the only reason why pokemon is alive is because of twitter
I have no doubt you are the ones still feeding that corpse.
>fricking reinvent the battle system already
i was with you till this
As it is, it's nearly impossible.
You would need to pare back the gens back to something like Gold/Silver/Crystal (because there are TOO MANY SHITMONS).
Retcon everything. Pokémon are now rare as frick, like ghosts or yokai. Trainers are people who risk their lives training 2-4 of these supernatural monstrosities. Even things like Stantler, Girafarig and Fearow are treated with the reverence of a Souls boss.
They need to make the most important part of the IP - the Pokémon characters themselves - important again. No waifus, no trans shit, not even NEW Pokémon for a while. Return to tradition.
>This is the most reddit post I've read all week
Who are you quoting?
People like you need to be shamed more often. You're looking at a franchise torn apart developer incompetence and your first instinct is to address the lore. Fricking vile idiot.
Go back to 2D game development.
>we
i dont work for or at gametendo
you could get really into romhacks but honestly there are enough bad fake pokemon games out there as is
>phone is not good enough for gen 6+
>Not having a hacked 3ds in 2024
>paying for consoles
you are not missing anything
Gen6~9 are LGBT garbage with ugly designs, moronic stories, and piss-easy hand-holding gameplay
Drop generations 8 and up, then start them over from scratch using GSC design and less waifu designs overall.
Hire Mojang.
/thread
Based. They'd turn this series around instantly. The franchise would sell billions. Jeb is literally the best developer on this earth.
please tell me you're shitposting for the love of god
add a dating sim on top of the main game, i want to have sex with all of the female npc trainers
Romance mechanics, force ALL battles to be double battles, make it so all the Pokemons of enemy NPCs are automatically 10 levels above your highest leveled mon, give enemy Pokemons access to every single attack they could learn.
>the glitches and performance are just too bad and I say this as someone who can usually handle dropped frames, tackle that first by having dev times of over a year and hiring a few dozen interns for QA and coding grunt work
>and ONLY QA and coding grunt work, don't tempt fate by letting them possibly alter the artistic or design direction, it can always get even worse
>if you're going to not have the complete pokedex in a game, then fricking commit and have a tightly-designed dex of 200-300, like the regional dexes of old, this 600+ regional dex nonsense is a middle ground nobody really benefits from
>on the note of Pokemon- restrain their placement a little harder, make fully evolved shit appearing in the wild supremely rare, make some species appear in an utterly tiny corner of the map, make a few more moronic evolution conditions, those're always fun
>design a region with one main path through it, then make that path loop on itself a few times and give players a way to jumble up the order a little if they put their back into it
>make gyms scale up if you arrive late but not scale down if you arrive early
>enforce that main path mostly via unlockable field abilities, leave actual move-based field abilities behind and instead let Pokemon fulfill their functions if they could've learned the HM; a Lapras should be able to ferry people even if it doesn't expressly know Surf
>have a relatively light story that's more meant to explore an interesting facet of the Pokemon world than it is to be epic and create stakes, if it turns out to be weighty and dramatic anyway that's fine
>have some kind of small bonus campaign after the main one that LEADS INTO but is not entirely COMPOSED OF whatever repeatable endgame content exists
>oh, and make that content aesthetically distinct from the main game
Learn when you are supposed to greentext, newbie.
just give it to Monolith, done.
the joke only works if you propose giving it to a BAD developer, anon
Mono is good?
Give it to Kojima
>You were Lopunny's cumdump all along
>>You were Lopunny's cumdump all along
As long as their main audience, children, like it then its not broken.
I hear 343 is looking for a new franchise. I mean, they can't possibly make a worse game then game freak can, right?
the last one i played was soul silver
pretty sure if you're still playing this you're gonna be playing it forever so they don't have to do anything
>return to 2d
>make it rated Ao
fixed
unironically just give GF more dev time per game, like beneath the sea of rancid bugs and visual cancer SV did have some cool stuff mixed in there
It almost seems like the games are just getting churned out every year soley to shill the merch/cards, which is a damn shame
GF is contaminated, the highest authorities within it have expressed that they believe Pokemon is competing with free mobile games. The bad design decisions they make and obscenely rushed pace are GF's idea, not anyone else's.
Get rid of Game Freak, which isn't happening because they also own the IP and it's the only successful thing they ever did.
It's dead, Jim. Killed by their shit eating community and not by gamefreak. Those morons will eat up anything. If I could get away with providing a shitty product and get billions in return without receiving any major backlash, I would do the same
>It's dead, Jim.
You can't fix it. The people in charge don't care if the games are good. The games aren't even what makes the majority of the IPs money anyway. They just exist to set up the generations. You would have basically fire most of Nintendos management, TPCis management and probably everyone who works at Game Freak and that'll probably never happen.
it's beyond saving
wait for dokev, roco kingdom, new yokai watch, palworld, etc
or continue eating pokeshit like a subhuman mutt consoomer
For me, it's Cassette Beasts
Fire everybody who works on the games that isn't Japanese
Unironically the latest game being an open world where you can challenge any gym or boss at any time is a good idea. Just take that concept and hand it to devs that can actually code instead of Gamefreak.
There’s no hope
It’s just going to keep trucking along, more or less the same unless it runs into financial issues in which case they’ll adapt or die
Make Ivysaur the mascot and remove every furbait/anthro pokemon
make gf give an official statement labeling gens 5-9 as a'10s fools prank
Pokémon is living breathing proof that capitalism does not always improve the quality of products
Yeah, capitalism always produces just shit products. Everybody knows that communism always produces the best products.
Based communistbor.
unironically go back to pixel art
They were never good at pixel art either.
>Desaturates all the Pokémon colors in your path for no reason
I know, right? How could they do this to us, bros?
It can't be fixed.
They need to pump out a new game every year to get the next wave of merch started.
When did Pokemon go to shit anyway? And why? Same people (more or less) since the GB days, right?
>When did Pokemon go to shit anyway
after gen1, no no after crystal, no no no after emerald, nooooo after platinum, no wait after hgss, ok after gen, noooo wait a second after usum of course
What's important is you woke up and moved on. Gen 3 btw.
You have dropped the franchise, right?
>You have dropped the franchise, right?
For now yes, but I will definitively replay my Pokémon games later.
I still play the new pokemon games cause my friends play them and it's a social thing, but i'm never terribly thrilled about them.
It's been decaying slowly as all the component people have their ideas on what needs to be done for the games to be good shift ever so slightly. It's hard to pin a specific generation as the point it all went wrong, if you're not a hardline moron about it.
Some people pick gen 3 because it was their first foray into removing mechanics.
Some people pick gen 4 because it simplified the puzzles in spite of having way more, and used its new-mons like total garbage akin to Johto but without the charm of a whole second region attached.
Some people pick gen 5 because it has a lot of story and some genuine atrocious designs.
Some people pick gen 6 because it was obviously rushed for an anniversary, is the birth of the current models and all their problems, and never got something like Platinum to square it up and make it more complete.
It sort of goes on like this.
There's a known discord clique that generates most of the hate for DS-era Pokemon and most of the defense for 3DS-era Pokemon, this should tell you what the most common opinion of the point of no return is.
Most of that discord clique has moved on, it's largely just yawngay again.
With the 3DS games they straight up said they're targeting mobile phone addicted children which is why it's all hand holdy with constant encouragement from every single NPC because they'd have a crisis and drop the game if they felt any sort of challenge or obstacle to overcome
>Replace PP with a stamina bar
>Stop with all the handholding and cutscenes every 5 seconds
>Stop making everything look so embarassing (a fricking motorbike pokemon what the shit)
Trouble is that only older audiences would appreciate these things, and they're not the target market.
>a fricking motorbike pokemon what the shit
Anon don't be silly.
There are 3 motorbike pokemon.
A pokemon game with a stamina bar would be interesting. Different moves would cost different amount of stamina which is a unique way of balancing their power than just having lower PP co-
wait i'm just describing standard MP bars
I had that same realization years ago.
>pp is meaningless 99% of the game
>it'd be cool if they made it matter
>what if all moves shared the same pp and had different costs, they they could balance it
>wait, this seems familiar
I still think it'd be a cool change though.
The funny part is, I usually can't fricking stand vancian casting because most games I've seen it in give you fewer charges of many more spells. Pokemon letting you have like 16 uses of three solid damaging moves and some status thing is a HUGE step up.
Sell the rights to a company not as shit as game freak (any company?)
pic related.
>that company sucks
But compared to game freak, anything is good.
Or square enix.
Maybe it's fans fault for not playing more dragon quest and games better then pokemon?
Honestly pokemon people are kinda autists who can't stop playing no matter how bad, or how much worse it gets.
And i know, cause i was a long time pokemon guy.
If you're above the age of 14 "looking forward" to the next Pokemon game you should just hang it up now because you're not gonna make it
Stop drawing creatures that look like furryshit, and return pokemon to their animal appearance.
>he doesn't think this is furryshit
>Featureless crotch
Is Freeza furry?
So, his tail is just his dick?
I can't understand how there are people who can look at what this franchise used to be, and look at what it is now, and feel anything less than visceral, seething disgust.
Pedos and Furries don't care about quality or style
just more children/fursona slop to fap to
>I can't understand how there are people who can look at what this franchise used to be
I don't know, it still looks like casual crap for 5 year olds to me.
if you can't tell the difference between old pokemon and nu-pokemon then you are beyond help.
You tell me I'm beyond help when you unironically play Pokemon in your adulthood?
Look at that shit you posted and tell me that's not made for kids.
theres literally nothing wrong with playing pokemon as an adult
having pet monsters battle each other is timeless
Timeless in the sense that any kid likes it.
If you are an adult and play Pokemon then consider giving suicide a chance.
>Being an adult means being a miserable, alcoholic, depressed, robot who goes through life on autopilot and feels nothing except for the occasional urge to jump off a fricking bridge.
Where did these kinds of ideas come from? Is this a capitalism thing? Is this because Americans glorify the military and so PTSD vets have been seen as the pinnacle of manhood for generations? Is this a puritan hold over thing where not hating life is seen as some kind of moral failure and having fun means that something is wrong with you?
No, I think I'd be miserable and depressed if I still played Pokemon these days.
And that's without counting how much of a mess the games are these days.
youre trying really hard to be a cool and tough adult lmao
look im not gonna say playing pokemon is something you should proudly tell other people as an adult, the same goes to telling them that you even play vidya at all
now what board is this?
>I only play games made for BIG BOYS!
This is you. Now share with the class what BIG BOY games you play.
I've spent the past week trying to learn to play Command Modern Operations.
And to 99.99999% of the world who dont know what that is you’re just playing a dork game for kiddy dorks. Games are inherently a childish hobby, you will never grow past being a “big boy”. Even children can master games made for “adults”.
Go here if you hate gaming:
You will like it.
Nowhere did I say I hate gaming. I hate pretentious homosexuals who act holier than thou because they dont play “kids games”. homie every game is a kids game played by kids, even the mature ones. Gaming is a childish hobby, and I am content with that. I dont get insecure about playing games that are intended for wider audiences because it’s a fricking VIDEO GAME. That’s like saying Sonic 3 and Knuckles is a kids game, because technically that’s the market it was going for. Who gives a frick, they’re just games. No amount of violence, dark grittiness, and deep pseudo-philosophical writing will make you come off as a more “mature” gamer. You’re still just a homosexual gamer whether you’re playing hamtaro for the GVA or your super duper complex CRPG made for big boy gamers. Just play whatever the frick you like, who gives a shit.
Least it could do is not go out of their way to make me feel embarassed by the hilariously childish writing of the game.
They could just make a sandbox mode where there's no plot and I can just catch Pokemon and battle instead of shoving yet another awful kid story down everyone's throat.
Bro you need to move the frick on, stop playing these shitty games. They’re not gonna give you what you want. Modern pokemon isnt even worth an emulate and the difficulty is only one small piece of the problem. They’re shit half baked games through and through, dont expect anything resembling quality. Just play better games, that’s my advice
I don't care, it's a fact that Pokemon is made for kids.
What's pitiful is adults who are still waiting for the games to not be made for kids when that will never happen.
The games will continue becoming easier and easier, the stories will never move on beyond some power of friendship crap, and the technical state of the games will continue getting worse because kids have no standards.
Kids had no standards during the days of NES difficulty as well. Nobody playing pokemon in the modern era expects pokemon games to start catering to some kind of audience that wants dark souls difficulty. The games are laughably easy but even gen 1 could be cheesed with just your starter mon. Who gives a shit, if you dont care about pokemon literally just move on. The whims of devs have and will change regarding player difficulty. Right now they realize that making the games piss easy makes them more money because the fans of the series are moronic normies who want their hands to be held. If the difficulty of old games was a result of arcade design philosophy leaking into console games which was a new market. Games were more difficult to encourage people to spend quarters, but now they realize that they should go the other way around if they want entice non-gamers into playing their games. It is what it is, but anyone expecting difficulty from a Pokemon game is fricking braindead.
They could if they focused on the online, which is the only redeemable aspect left of the franchise.
>expecting Nintendo to have competent online features
Anon they only just recently included an ethernet port on the OLED dock. Nintendo is laughably behind when it comes to anything online, especially their games feature’s and netcode.
It's a simulator that "plays" itself. Basically something for posers to show their high playtime.
It doesn't play itself, it's one of the most unintuitive pieces of crap ever made.
I swear they made the UI bad on purpose.
>genwunner
>steelix
at least fricking use Onix, even if it's not a steel type.
Gen 2 Pokemon were by and large designed at the same time as gen 1
True. Nothing I can argue against there.
Just give up on it, I did already.
Buy Pokemon Myatery dungeon and support it as the best Pokemon games there is. Make a sequel for DS's Conquest. Those gameplay changes make Pokemon so much more fun, and avoid the stagnation GF has with regular game modes.
Pokemon was dying after Gen 2 and truly died after Gen 3.
Just let it go
Sex with pokemon and 10 year old girls
Pokemon as an IP is healthy. The people who think Pokemon is "dying" are almost always people who are old enough to remember 1999/2000. Pokemania is never coming back. It was lighting in a bottle that was only possible during a very specific time in a very specific place. The convergence of factors that led to a nationwide freakout simply can't and won't be replicated in this day and age. To hold the franchise to that standard is to set yourself up for disappointment. If you're lucky enough to remember how magical it felt as a kid when it seemed like the whole world was losing it's mind over your favorite thing, then just cherish those memories and don't become bitter.
I don't think Pokemon as an IP is unhealthy. It's doing well. It's still making money hand over fist.
I think Pokemon games used to be enjoyable on some level, and lost that over time.
That's fair. I just think the enjoyment factor was heavily influenced by the excitement surrounding the IP. That excitement started at a hysterical fever pitch in 99 and has slowly declined ever since. They can innovate on the formula; they can make games open world, add more Pokemon, add more regions, add character customization, etc., but some things just can't be bottled and sold.
And that too is fair. Part of the fun was the sense of universal excitement, and that is pretty much irreplaceable.
But I get the sense you're trying to shift the blame for Pokemon "feeling" worse now onto Pokemania more than it deserves. Open world Pokemon, as SV did it, compromises things that are fun about Pokemon and would've been fun even if a total of 10 people played it.
Make the girls catchable.
This, also add a lot more racist girls. The more racist the better.
Remake all the games and make them ARPG.
People complain about grindy battles in JRPGs all the time. Pokémon has the ability to make every single fight mechanically unique and just refuses to do anything interesting, regardless of however the discussion of difficulty factors in. They removed set mode of all things.
Hard reboot from a different developer.
Pokémon Scarlet is pretty good for an anime adaptation. I mean, have you played the latest One Piece or Dragonball games?
Hahahahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
god, taking it from that perspective, the quality would almost make sense. shame I'm not delusional enough.
It makes sense if you think about it. People aren't playing Pokémon because the game is of superior quality, they're playing it because it's Pokémon. Just like Dragonball. The anime and merchandise eclipsed the games in the public consciousness anyway.
all they need to do is turn off exp share or make it a toggle. Exp share makes an easy game way too trivial. that and release finished games.
haven't played a new one since USUM, is it not a toggle anymore? that's fricking stupid
People still play pokemon?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vewointeractive.nexomon.extinction
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pockettrend.neomonsters
https://www.gamingscan.com/best-games-like-pokemon/
https://dotesports.com/pokemon/news/pc-pokemon-games-best-alternatives-to-play-in-2023
(i used last year so you would know that nothing in beta hopefully)
Seems like quite a few alternatives.
Most games trying to be "alternative Pokemon" just take one step away from Pokemon and call it a day. That really isn't enough to make an actual good game at this point.
Surely the biggest franchise of planet earth needs the opinion of some moronic homosexuals on Ganker to figure out how it needs to be run.
>All the "it's dead/dying" posts ITT
Fricking LMAO.
>it's successful so nothing is wrong with it
it's so bad journalists can't even bring themselves to heap praise onto it to make the success look justified like they do for other utter shit like botw
Of course they wouldn't listen, but it's not the franchise itself, it's the games, the only thing people actually care about. Even in your own image, it's the second biggest thing next to merch. People will always buy the merch. The problem is the games. Gamefreak fricking sucks at making video games and they have clearly wanted to move away from making just Pokemon, and failed. They literally made their biggest money-maker a second for some years to focus on other projects. They wouldn't love to move away, as it's their biggest and best way to make money and the other games they made, no one fricking cared about.
Miss gen 1/2 artstyle and creature design style
Love current battle system the most. They never have time to playtest mechanics like Last Respects, Fisheous Rend, and Intrepid Sword but even then the battle system is at its finest with a rich and diverse treasure trove of mechanics currently. I live VGC double battles in particular but 6v6 singles and 6v6 doubles is neat too.
Wish power creep wasn't so strong that it invalidates 50% of the pokedex of fully evolved pokemon, but what can you expect when the average BST is sub 500? There are going to be shitters with the rest.
Next games should let you mega evolve, gigantamax and terastalize Pokemons all at the same time
-Give players a difficulty option
-Not allow Gaijin to design mons
-Go back to 2D sprites, something like the hd2d stuff Square enix does.
-Do “start over gen like black and white
-Give it appropriate development time.
-Hire more programmers to create assets (move animations, mon models, etc.)
>-Hire more programmers to create assets (move animations, mon models, etc.)
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
The programmers do the models and animations now.
Modelling and animating the Pokemons has always been handled by TPC, not by Game Freak.
Yeah, but by the PROGRAMMERS, not by artists and animators.
The PROGRAMMERS make the models and animations.
Good advice. If some developer wants to go broke and no one buys his games, you should definitely be hired there.
>-Go back to 2D sprites, something like the hd2d
moron detected
Imagine if you refined your coding skills for all your life, only for some dingus to hire you and force you to model and animate, even though you have no experience in those things.
Heres what the insiders have been saying.
>Switch to Unreal 5 next gen, they already likely switch to Unreal 4 for this year's Pokemon games
>Have 3 to 5 studio produce the mainline games.
>Game Freak only once in the console's generation if 5+ companies start doing the mainline games.
After all, it would be stupid to hire specialists to model and animate, when you can hire people who are specialised in something entirely different like programming, to do so.
You don't, you just go play some games aimed at adults instead of this toddler shit.
How can anyone above the age of 10 still play this shit?
I think they are fixing some things with Pokémon Legends gameplay design. But that game’s director was different than Scarlet/Violet. Management has to shift.
The games need more time in the oven combined with more competent developers. So basically you would need to un-tether the games from the franchise i.e. shows, cards, movies, and merch pipelines. Those all have strict dates tying in with the new generation which doesnt give the developers the option to give their games more dev time. So yeah it’s not gonna happen, the series is too big for its own good and Gamefreak are too proud to let go, not to mention wouldnt want to relinquish that power because none of their games outside of Pokemon are able to stand on their own. Even if Gamefreak stayed in control but they got significantly more dev time and freedom the games would be a LOT better. They’re all halfbaked now to meet a rushed deadline to coincide with all the other franchising crap. Even if you gave the series to Nintendo’s most competent teams, they would still suffer if they had to adhere to these moronic deadlines. No other nintendo studio has that same constraint and is generally allowed to take as much time as they want developing their games with much more wiggle room. Gamefreak doesnt get that leisure and them being incompetent/understaffed only makes matters worse.
Release a Pokemon Stadium game that connects to Home and has Showdown features. Any Pokemon you have in Home can be used in the Showdown mode and have their stats/moves/item changed freely. Run all battles, tournaments, and everything out of that mode in Stadium. Now Game Freak and everyone else are free to make whatever game they want with whatever gimmick they want and the only thing the games need is the ability to connect to Home. They can make actually good single player games like PLA and not have to worry about pvp balance. They can make a single player JRPG with actual difficulty and a level curve and not need to worry about exp candies and the "quality of life features" needed to keep multiplayer from sucking but trivialize the main game.
You can't, Pokemon is shit at a fundamental level.
You can fix all the bugs you want, increase the level of enemy trainers as much as you want, it's still going to be a casualized, turn based RPG with a story based around how the power of friendship fixes everything and how Pokemons are totally your ebin friends even though you need to pretty much brainwash to make them follow you.
Any doubles players here? Tailwind in prankster seems too good right now. Tornadus and Whimsicott seem so strong and invalidates any other tailwind setter. Outside of hard TR how does one combat this reliably especially in open teamsheet?
>gen 5 pokemon
>ruins the meta
many such cases
Balance teams. Urshifu/Rillaboom/Incineroar/Flutter Mane plus two others. TW teams go first and hit hard, but eventually their TW peters out and they're left sitting there without their speed control. Between two Fake Outs, Protects, your own priority moves with Aqua Jet and Grassy Glide, and whatever else you bring in your last two Pokemon, you can usually just weather the storm for three to four turns and then win; the same way you'd stall out Trick Room. Speaking of which, Flutter Mane CAN learn TR and your opponent seeing it there in open team sheet can give them hesitance to click TW turn one, and you, presumably, outspeed them outside of TW so you can get a cheeky KO.
Its a good idea but whats stopping me from eunning a tw support in sucu a balance team? I feel like thats what everyone else does. Urshifu + Tornadus is such a threatening combo for a reason
More dev time.
SV is a fine game at its core (it's more fun than trash like gen 5 at least) but it's covered in a massive amount of crust. They should have released PLA November 2022 and released SV in November 2023 instead.
gen 9 is in no fricking way less fun than gen 5 if you're not brain poisoned by "muh freedom"
>gen 9 is in no fricking way less fun than gen 5
Correct. Glad you agree.
>>>>MUH FWEEDUMB
Being "free" to walk to any town in the game and catch any pokemon in the game as soon as you step out of your front fricking door is insultingly bad.
You are moronic if you're entertained by it.
Pokemon don't have value if they're not hard to obtain.
>Being "free" to walk to any town in the game and catch any pokemon in the game as soon as you step out of your front fricking door is insultingly bad.
What's insulting is forcing me to go after the 8 badges after 25 years.
Just let me catch whatever I want and hop onto the online and stop wasting my time with this routine.
That sounds legitimately awful. If you want that, why not just demand an official version of Showdown and be done with it?
I want Pokemon games to go back to being RPGs that happen to have multiplayer bolted on.
It doesn't have to be 8 badges, but I don't want them to ever stop having a fricking campaign entirely.
Why?
The combat system is the focus, everything else is a distraction.
Plus, GF couldn't come up with a single original idea for a campaign for shit.
You only need the tera orb to play online. Due to a weird account issue, my kids' actual save files weren't tied to the user account with Nintendo Online, which is required for VGC tournaments. They basically just had to start new games on the second account and replay the first 45 minutes then trade their teams over from their actual games in order to participate. Forty five minutes is still a terrible slog; there's no reason the games shouldn't have skippable cutscenes and the ability to disable animations like Fire Emblem. It should have taken five minutes from game start to tera orb, but at the very least they didn't need to replay the entire game.
>Being "free" to walk to any town in the game and catch any pokemon in the game as soon as you step out of your front fricking door is insultingly bad.
No, it's what makes the game actually fun and engaging. Unlike Gen 5 where it's effectively a fricking idle cookie clicker game where you just mindlessly mash A while you just walk the single direction NPCs let you go.
>it's "fun and engaging" to have whatever you want to do instantly validated by the game
>it's "an idle game" to have a path you have to follow
yawngay alert
>>it's "an idle game" to have a path you have to follow
When there's no challenge or anything else that makes the game engaging, yes, this is correct.
Linear games are only good if they're A. challenging or B. have a well written narrative. BW2 has neither and SV is better in both these categories despite being open world, which is pretty fricking sad.
why do you disingenuous homies keep talking about gen 5 as if it's the only game that does this
Maybe release a generation that isn't composed entirely of shitmons, for once.
I had a dream that every pokemon game ever made was released on steam and they were all on sale for like $5
Get rid of the coomers who keep buying the games because muh mildly attractive tranime characters!
The shit games would still sell like crazy because muh coomers are a vocal minority. They dont carry the franchise; indoctrinated normies do.
The reality is it doesnt matter how shit these games are. The brand is so strong that people will keep buying them even if the games barely fricking function. They made their money, they clearly dont care beyond that.
Go back to the gen 2 art style, hire someone else to write the graphical engine and do generic assets.
>remove all the shit mechanics past Gen 7
>stop fricking 100-200 new mons every gen
>especially stop adding legendaries. legendary mons used to be 1% of the roster, now they're like 20%
>bring back megas/primals and keep regional forms instead to keep some novelty
>try my darndest to alleviate some of the insane powercreep of these past generations
I spent a lot of time nolifing on Smogon Ladders
I'd have a lot more ideas but this is just off the top of my head. Gen 9 isn't as bad because Terastalization isn't the worst mechanic, but Pkmn like pic related are absolutely ridiculous and I do not understand how the frick this got approved.
I remember everyone being assmad about Pkmn like Kartana and somehow the devs decided to powercreep even harder.
>bring back megas/primals and keep regional forms instead to keep some novelty
Stopped reading there.
Mega evolutions are the Pokemon equivalent of Dragon Ball AF.
you can't recon something like that out of the games after adding it in my opinion and the fact that they did is actually kind of moronic
Rayquaza for example is supposed to be able to mega-evolve at will, but uhh "he can't in later games JUST BECAUSE OKAY"
I get what you're saying but we're saying "how would you fix it NOW", not how would you fix it if you had a time machine
> not how would you fix it if you had a time machine
You don't need it, just don't mention any of those gimmicks ever again.
>stop fricking *adding 100-200 mons
besides being a smogongay I have to add being a phonegay to the list of my crimes
>Pkmn like pic related are absolutely ridiculous and I do not understand how the frick this got approved.
Because it's frail as shit and dies in two hits or one super effective hit.
yeah that's how people downplayed Kartana as well, but that's not necessarily
my biggest issue here.
the biggest problem I have is the design choice:
mainly why the frick does a god damn bubble-eyed goldfish have more attack potential than most legendaries. and there is nothing leading up to this Pkmn, you just SUDDENLY can find a shrine which shits out one of the most powerful attackers ever.
You learn about all the four legendaries throughout the optional classes in the game.
You also need to find the 10 stakes needed to open it.
>optional classes and a fetch quest
>get you one of the, if not the strongest special attacker ever
I rest my case
The optional classes only tell you the story, and there's just zero markings for where the stakes are.
I honestly had to use a guide because by myself I only found 3 of the 40..
Remember the Pokemon TV show with cool battles? Do that. Actually embarassing it took 20 years for the Pokemon to actually start sounding like the TV show instead of 8-bit trash.
>copy the non-sensical anime that's 99% filler and where Pikachu goes from being able to damage ground types to jobbing against an unevolved bug mon
More like make the game have real time battles more like Mortal Kombat where you shout out moves to your Pokemon.
Add dating mechanics.
>hebe dating sim
it would print money
None, let it die.
Even Assassins Creed has more potential to be fun than Pokemon.
Also
>>>/vp/
>Also
>>>>/vp/
pfffft hahahahaha
>Even Assassins Creed has more potential to be fun than Pokemon.
I hate modern Pokémon too, but this is waay too cruel to modern Pokémon.
Assasins Creed is much, much worse.
It’s totally fricked, man. Let it go.
Grab a time machine and turn yourself 5 again.
Unless you are mentally ill you won't enjoy Pokemon past a certain age.
>numalemon
>zero difficulty
>buggy as frick
>technical aspects always a generation behind all other games in their platform
>story might as well not exist
No idea how this franchise lived on for this long.
Embrace the only part of the series people still like and make it about romancing trainers and Pokemon.
For the love of God, stop expanding the Pokedex and inventing new gimmicks.
Focus on making the games good instead.
it's a nice sentiment but i can already see the flood of
>no new mons, no buy
posts this would cause
It's all trash. They can't come up with good designs anymore.
Such many cases
Give it to literally anyone but GF
They haven't learned a damn thing since Iwata carried their asses
No way to fix it.
Game Freak is awful, and the fan suggestions would make the franchise even worse.
Pokemon is a black hole formed out of pure cancer.