The Pokmon Spinoff machine is dead

In its place are mobile games that generate triple the profits and a few stragglers clawing for air, are you sad to see it go?

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    dude chill out. The best Pokémon spinoff came out on switch only two years ago

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      weak bait

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wrong file. You meant Pokemon Snap.

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    remember, they killed pokemon duelkino for masteraids

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    my pokemon ranch is what pokemon home should have been

    imagine a ranch where you can hold and play with all your pokemon. It would be absolute kino. That's actually how I used to use my app back in the day, dump the pokemon in my pc onto my ranch so they can play and frolic.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >my pokemon ranch is what pokemon home should have been
      You couldn't even move Pokemon between games. Stadium is what Home should have been.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        who frickin gives a shit about moving pokemon around except gamefreaks target audience of drooling monkeys? why does gamefreak insist on pretending humans and people live mostly peacefully together and then keep depicting pokemon strictly in a relationship closer to Black folk and pitbulls?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      100% agree. Should have a pokemon amie/camp/ranch sub game where I can just pet and play with my mons

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ranch is a great idle wallpaper, if Home had a similar function i'd keep it on my second monitor all the time. Even if it couldn't run all ~3000 low poly models for all the mons in my home account i'd be happy if it just displayed like a random selection of 100 mons, or let me hand pick which boxes or individual mons I wanted on display.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pokemon Home does the job, but
      >No way to interact with Pokemon
      >No music
      >No box themes
      >No model viewer
      >Clunky as frick UI
      I understand they wanted to make it small because all their servers have to store probably millions of Pokemon, but I'd unironically pay for a $30 Pokemon Box style game with more features, just gate the cloud access behind the subscription but give me all other features from the start

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        A lot of those features wouldn't even need to be server-side, you could definitely cram a bunch of Pokemon Rumble-esque low poly models into an update and have a bunch of them running around in random procedural patterns in a wide open field.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    spinoffs have been shit since gen 5

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >introduce shitmons from unova and up in the games
      >the game instantly become shit
      thank you turner

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The best spinoff has Unovamons

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          What's the best spinoff because its certainly not that shit

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          pic unrelated btw

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine a new TCG game where the player character matures in life across every TCG set release and can maintain a collection. An aspect of the game can involve individual cards getting either "played" and worn, or preserved instead so as to resell them in-game years later. The player could start by playing against school classmates and end up entering tournaments. It could even be compatible with online play.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      More moronic than those gym leader spinoff pitches where the goal is to lose on purpose.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >those gym leader spinoff pitches where the goal is to lose on purpose
        kek, ive never heard of this

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        No; in fact, it's a great idea.

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >DS had 9 games
    >Wii had 5 games
    >3DS had 11 games
    >Wii U has 2 games
    >Switch has 6 games
    relax

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he included Pokken, Unite, and Quest
      The Switch has 3, Mystery Dungeon DX, New Pokemon Snap, and Detective Pikachu Returns.

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I need the Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky remakes.
    >Ranger coming back would be godlike.
    >Conquest was pretty fun tbh, wish each pokemon had at least two moves because needing to be 3(?) spaces away to land Thunder with Luxray for example was cancer. The post-game is so long that even a completionist like me hasn't found the energy to do it all.
    >Never played Stadium/Colloseum/Battle Revolution but they look sick, animated 3D models when we only had pngs on handheld. Maybe that's why it's gone :/
    >Heard Pokken is too simplistic or not fun in some way but it looks like it has lots of potential, real-time Pokemon fighting games like Type-Wild will always be sick
    >Only played a demo of Rumble back in the day but it was fun for whst it was, just a beat-em-up type from what I remember
    Haven't played the rest.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Haven't played the rest.
      Aside from Pokepark & Snap if you're into that sorta thing don't bother, there's a reason most of these are dead.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pinball was good but far too short-lived. It was supposed to have had a gen 4 DS pinball game developed by the guys who made Metroid Prime Pinball, perfect for the two screens, but TPC cancelled it for no apparent reason. And it's been dead since then.

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I miss Mystery Dungeon, Stadium and Colosseum. Don't care about the others.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      No Conquest? I remember enjoying Ranger too, but that was a long time ago.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pokken had a lot of potential. It needed a much bigger fighter selection and most importantly a story mode that unlocks a unique legendary that you can transfer to a mainline game

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      pokken is kino but
      >urshifu, #1 strongest VGC mon that gets shoved down your throat like shit in all teams, is now locked behind a $60 fighting game

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The fact that Mystery Dungeon was bastardized with GoI and Super makes me sad, at least Super tried but GoI was infamously bad

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      super just felt weird.
      >the visuals don't suck but they don't really stand out in any meaningful way either, and just looks fairly flat most of the time (though gti shares this problem too)
      >only non-trio starter choices are pikachu and riolu, when the oddball picks were often the more interesting mons
      >extended school tutorial sequence is kinda dumb
      >it's weird that there is specifically one of each pokemon that you can recruit in super, and even weirder that they can just be absent some days
      >control scheme differs just enough to trip me up, i.e. pushing instead of swapping places. it's a welcome addition but i always do it on accident
      >i just dont really like looplets and emeras, items have always had a place in the series and genre but all the main held items with effects being samey looplets instead of them being different items felt boring
      >additionally i don't know why most wands couldn't have been made into seed effects, since they fill the same purpose (one-time action from consumable item)
      that being said most of my problems just come from "it feels different and the vibes are off" so it's just subjective bs lmao

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The absent days thing sucked. Sometimes you just wanted to use your favs and they just weren't there. That shouldn't have been a thing after beating the game.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      RTDX sold better than Gates and Super did, which leaves me hopeful that PMD isn’t dead just yet. I don’t think a new game is coming anytime soon because they’ve been working on Shiren, but I’d be thrilled at the prospect of a new game or an Explorers remake in a year or two.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        what did the RTDX remakes add? Cause I don't like the visuals as much and i feel like I'd rather just play the original sprite versions of Explorers if there was a remake, is there extra content?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I do wonder how they'd approach the number of available pokemon in a new game. Super had everyone but the total number has increased quite a bit since then.

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >we still don't have Pokken 2: Tag Tournament
    Fricking Harada, get on it. And no, I'm not "asking for shit", that's an order.

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Still no Pokemon musou
    >Still no Pokemon character action game
    >Still no Pokemon soulslike
    >Still no Pokemon survival horror

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shouldn't it be WariOVER?

      Also, even tho it might work, i think it's impossible for a Pokémon Survival Horror game to exist.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        They'd unironically be good at it if they tried.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Still no Pokemon RTS
      >Still no Pokemon first person anything

      Is there any future for this franchise's spinoffs?

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    PMD, Ranger and /Stadium/Colosseum/PBR are the only good ones
    I do miss Pinball though

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Conquest, Pokken, and Battle Revolution are the only good games here so it’s not a big loss

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hahahaha how old are you

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        27

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    they'd never make anything like this again, even though it was a huge part of my childhood

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      what even was this exactly? you have comfy menus and then watch fake weather reports?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        It was a cute game where you got to take care of a Pikachu
        I agree with others like

        my pokemon ranch is what pokemon home should have been

        imagine a ranch where you can hold and play with all your pokemon. It would be absolute kino. That's actually how I used to use my app back in the day, dump the pokemon in my pc onto my ranch so they can play and frolic.

        where Gamefreak must be insane to not cash in on a dedicated game where you can just interact and have fun with pokemon

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Surprised there weren't any Pokemon racing games considering how importing riding Pokemon is in the mainline games.

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    take me back to the ds era where all the mainline games and spin-offs were top tier.

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >still no Pokémon Rhythm game

    Come on, we all enjoy pokémon music, it's ridiculously recognizable and popular, it's widely remixed in the gaming community, there are 9 whole generations of content to pick from

    Ever since Final Fantasy fans got this thing years ago I've been having hope that Pokémon would do something similar

    And then GameFreak made HarmoKnight with some limited Pokémon tunes and I've kept waiting

    Pokémon just did collabs with Miku Hatsune and I'm still waiting

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