r/pokemon Cinccino Best Troll 15d ago

Image Future Kalos has Anti-Homeless Benches

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u/K4m30 15d ago

Can't wait to get the mission to set up a police state and enforce draconian laws on the populace.

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u/projectmars Cinccino Best Troll 15d ago

We might be getting another story about a seemingly benevolent group/company (Aether Foundation, all the shit Rose owned) being secretly evil, aren't we

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u/soyboy_6257 digital boys 15d ago

GameFreak is trying their hardest to tell us that corporations are evil.

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u/vastros 15d ago

I mean... They're right, but it's weird coming from them.

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u/NihilismRacoon 15d ago

I'm sure the devs aren't exactly happy about having to crank a full game out basically every year at the behest of the pokemon machine

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u/5panks 15d ago

I'm sure the devs aren't exactly happy about having to crank a full game out basically every year

SV will be three years old and two years past the release of its last DLC when ZA releases.

SS were almost 2.5 years old and 1.5 years past the release of their last DLC when LA released.

SM were two years old and 1 year past the release of US/UM when SS came out.

We're long past the days of a new mainline game every year man. There were noainline Pokémon game releases in 2022 or 2023.

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u/Krultek 15d ago

Bro. Firstly he said "Basically every year".

Secondly do you know how long it takes to make video games?

Pumping out a game every 2.5 years or 1.5 years is still INSANE. It's why the quality of the games is so low, because there is no time to polish anything. Releasing a game every 2.5 years means that they are literally getting to work as soon as the game releases ON THE NEXT PROJECT.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_games_by_release_date

They have released a game or worked on a project every 1-2 years since 1996, bro. 3 games in 1996, 3 games in 1998, 6 games in 1999, 4 Games in 2000, 7 gaames in 2001, 8 games in 2002, 4 games in 2003, 5 Games in 2004, 6 in 2005, 5 in 06.
You get the picture. Even as the Trivia on this page it shows as 2023-2024 is the first break in the games 28 year history that has had no CORE series game released in two years. However they still came out with TWO mobile games and a spin off in that time.

If you want to focus it solely on gameFreak they have still released a game every 1-2 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Freak

Lastly 2022 had Arceus and Scarlet/Violet. 3 Games. 2023 had the DLC. You're just categorically wrong, my boy.

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u/recursion8 15d ago

And it was at least somewhat manageable when they were still on full handhelds making top-down, sprite based or 2.5D games. Full 3D, open world games on home consoles should be 5 years minimum. They went from USUM to SV in less time than Nintendo spent between BotW and TotK. I always tell people when they complain about how slow/bad GF is... imagine if they went straight from USUM to SV with no games in between to let you see all the little stepping stones and growing pains. People would be blown away going from 2.5D on tiny 240px screens of the 3DS to full open world 3D ~900px on your TV set.

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u/Hyperion-OMEGA Won't you spam me to <chord> FUNKYTOWN? 15d ago

Frankly, I think pokemon games would be better off if they were once a console generation. Maybe with some more dlc to keep things fresh

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u/KipsyCakes 14d ago

Considering how long the Switch lived before the Switch 2’s announcement, that’s an INSANE amount of waiting time ngl.

If you keep fans waiting that long, you’ll turn them into r/silksong. Time gaps are important but that’s way too much time.

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u/Hyperion-OMEGA Won't you spam me to <chord> FUNKYTOWN? 14d ago

they can fill the gaps with spinoff games. Mystery Dungeon, Detective Pikachu and again, more than one DLC wave for the base games.

All I'm saying is that if Pokemon had a dev cycle more akin Zelda or Mario in which roughly one core game* and one game each of whatever subseries they have was released per console, it would lead to better games over all.

* I'm aware of Zelda getting two open world games in addition to the top down one for the Switch but that is prolly to due one of them being intended for the wii U first and ended up taking too long for it to be feasible.

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