Pokemon is literally the same game over and over, I hugely regretted my purchase of pokemon x cause it was literally a cloned game with barely any new features. It's probably Nintendo's most effective cash cow in terms of effort to capital reward.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is literally the biggest money maker in the world. The games sell about 3/5 as many copies as COD with a tiny fraction of the budget. And then they sell even more in merch. And there are people (like me in the past) that buy Nintendo consoles just for those games.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn't contradict what they said. It being popular says nothing about quality, variety, or effort. In fact, it may be counter to them, as your example of CoD indicates.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wasn’t trying to contradict them??

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Good! I couldn't tell. I thought it could be an appeal to popularity saying they're good games because they sell well, not they sell well regardless of them being repetitive.

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

X and Y introduced Mega Evolution, arguably one of the greatest iterative improvements in Pokémon.

With the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A in 2025, I’m thinking about replaying X and Y.

Scarlet and Violet were so disappointing that I too am hesitant about future Pokémon games. But I’ll keep my eyes and ears peeled to see how their upcoming games are. I no longer am a day one buyer of Pokémon games, after being burned badly on the rushed Scarlet/Violet games.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

The fact that Mega Evolutions are one of the greatest iterative improvements speaks to how stale it is.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

X&Y were awful though

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

I jumped through a couple hoops to get Pokemon Infinite Fusion working on my Steam Deck & I've been having a blast slapping shit together to see how fucked up it looks.

Cleffa + Geodude made me giggle for a good 5 minutes.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sub in literally any Nintendo franchise and it's the same problem, but Nintendo fans don't care.

[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm going to disagree. While it seems to you that it's the same game over and over. They do add more creatures per generation, there are new moves, there are new ways in how pokemon does battling and just new things added per generation.

The formula may have been a little stagnant or not as impressive as other leaps before, but still new things.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear this argument all the time, but I don't really understand it. I remember when Pokemon first came out and me and all the other kids were imagining wandering through dense jungles hunting for rare and elusive Pokemon. Sure, we'd imagine battles too, but the franchise always seemed way more about discovery and adventure than about battling. That's why I haven't managed to finish a pokemon have since X and Y, in spite of trying each one. The battles get better, sure, but I just don't really care. Luckily, Legends Arceus was exactly what I always pictured Pokemon to be about, and I had a blast playing through it. Hopefully the next Legends game will be just as good.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

As someone who started with Red/Blue all the way at the beginning, but has grown tired with the formula, I agree Arceus was exactly what I always wanted, but it was also too little too late. It was cool that it finally got to that point, but they're so far behind the rest of the industry. It easily could have been made 10 years before and it still wouldn't be ahead of any trends.

Its obviously a game for children, and that's great. I loved them when I was a child too. I just wish they'd put more effort into it. They make stupid amounts of money, yet they can't even try to innovate.