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This Dark Id stuff is nuts. I’ve never heard of this guy. We’re all in here yukking it up over Tallarico and then it turns out an extremely similar saga is happening one room over.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:42
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Alaois posted:because millions of people are going to buy them every year either way eh, not really convincing. you could literally make the same argument for mario, zelda, smash bros, mario kart, animal crossing, etc. yet nintendo doesn't treat any of those properties with the same level of half-assedness as they've done with pokemon
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Mar 6, 2024 04:44
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Guess I'm just glad to know there's no dead daughter
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Mar 6, 2024 04:44
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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are extremely good and are some of the best Pokemon games ever made.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:45
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Oh the game looks and runs like a budget ps2 game? One of teh greatest types of video games ever made? drat oh no lol
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Mar 6, 2024 04:48
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I liked sword and shield; they were chill and I just hosed everyone up with my Garbodor.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:52
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Saagonsa posted:Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are extremely good and are some of the best Pokemon games ever made. I like a lot of the new pokemon, like that little gremlin with a hammer. Also they introduced a wet diglett and called it Wiglett and it's like, top ten favorite pokmon for sure.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:53
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They named the olive pokemon Smoliv 
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Mar 6, 2024 04:54
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I tried Scarlet when the hubby got it, made for a bland distraction for an afternoon and never picked it back up. I'm glad ppl are having fun w it, pokemon bringin peeps together is beautiful.
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Mar 6, 2024 04:55
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I really like all the new designs generally, Koraidon ftw
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Mar 6, 2024 04:56
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The Pokémon company is not trying and failing to produce the highest-quality games possible. The people working on the games are certainly doing the best they can, but for the people at the top, the priority is getting the games out consistently. Could they make more money on the games if they were better? Maybe, but it doesn’t matter. Here’s the thing. The Pokémon Company does not make its money by selling video games. It makes money by selling the concept of Pokémon, and selling products based on that intellectual property. The primary purpose of the mainline games, from a business perspective, is to serve as a mechanism for the creation and advertising of new Pokémon. Maybe they could make more money on the next mainline game by delaying it for a year so the developers can give it lots of love and attention. However, the revenue generated by additional sales resulting from that boost in quality would be dwarfed by the loss in revenue for that year due to not being able to sell new plushies, t-shirts, and trading cards with new Pokémon on them. That’s why Pokémon games aren’t like other Nintendo games. Because Pokémon is not a video game franchise, it’s a merchandise franchise for which video games are an important category of merchandise. Please don’t take this as a cynical repudiation of your love of Pokémon. I love it too. I’m just explaining why you can’t compare these games to Mario games. Ariong fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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Mar 6, 2024 05:01
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Pokemon is made by a particularly large indie studio (about 200 strong for the S/V launch) who are given a timeline of about 8 months to release a game. Nintendo's been effectively threatening them with handing off side projects to different studios and forcing them to move to a building in the Nintendo campus so they can pressure Game Freak even more. The games being as good as they are while also being technical messes is as much an indication at how much Game Freak cares when their entire toolchain and work flow gets thrown out every two weeks and the only corporate support they get is Creatures Inc mailing them zbrush files of the latest pikachu model.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:04
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Yeah this year is going to be the first year without a mainline Pokemon game release in 13 years. The reason the games are so slapdash is that they're being turned around on impossible timelines at this point to synch up with the enormous amount of other time sensitive things like the anime, movies, merch, card game etc releases. Frankly the fact SwSh and ScarVio turned out as well as they did is a minor miracle if you think about the dev time for comparable sized games.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:05
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:pokemon has zero serious competition and nintendo has no reason to innovate because of it yokai watch
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Mar 6, 2024 05:21
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euroshopper posted:yokai watch people looking for a pokemon-like are NOT going to enjoy yokai watch lol
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Mar 6, 2024 05:25
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I thought yokai watch flopped
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Mar 6, 2024 05:25
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euroshopper posted:yokai watch Yeah there's a reason that's not around anymore lol
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Mar 6, 2024 05:25
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imagine a world where the catch rate for every pokemon is .00001% and you have 0 control over the flow of battle. welcome to yokai watch baby. note: i love yokai watch. Annointed posted:I thought yokai watch flopped it was the biggest, BIGGEST thing in japan for a few years and bombed in america. i think i was one of 20 people who played it
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Mar 6, 2024 05:26
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its a great game. absolutely not a pokemon substitute. no one should play it. everyone should play it.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:28
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Ariong posted:The Pokémon company is not trying and failing to produce the highest-quality games possible. The people working on the games are certainly doing the best they can, but for the people at the top, the priority is getting the games out consistently. Could they make more money on the games if they were better? Maybe, but it doesn’t matter. Karasu Tengu posted:Pokemon is made by a particularly large indie studio (about 200 strong for the S/V launch) who are given a timeline of about 8 months to release a game. Nintendo's been effectively threatening them with handing off side projects to different studios and forcing them to move to a building in the Nintendo campus so they can pressure Game Freak even more. The games being as good as they are while also being technical messes is as much an indication at how much Game Freak cares when their entire toolchain and work flow gets thrown out every two weeks and the only corporate support they get is Creatures Inc mailing them zbrush files of the latest pikachu model. Zore posted:Yeah this year is going to be the first year without a mainline Pokemon game release in 13 years. The reason the games are so slapdash is that they're being turned around on impossible timelines at this point to synch up with the enormous amount of other time sensitive things like the anime, movies, merch, card game etc releases. okay now these explanations i'm a lot more on board with. they make a lot more sense
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Mar 6, 2024 05:28
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the only good pokemon game is shin megami tensei iii
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Mar 6, 2024 05:29
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Yokai Watch is really fun, just running around the setting and exploring is really rewarding. It's a super dense and detailed little city with a ton to do, even before you get to the critter collecting. Very charming and engaging. Some people bounce hard off the battle system, though.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:37
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Karasu Tengu posted:Pokemon is made by a particularly large indie studio (about 200 strong for the S/V launch) who are given a timeline of about 8 months to release a game. Nintendo's been effectively threatening them with handing off side projects to different studios and forcing them to move to a building in the Nintendo campus so they can pressure Game Freak even more. The games being as good as they are while also being technical messes is as much an indication at how much Game Freak cares when their entire toolchain and work flow gets thrown out every two weeks and the only corporate support they get is Creatures Inc mailing them zbrush files of the latest pikachu model. Its maybe not entirely accurate but pokemon makes much more sense if you compare it to like, a licensed anime game
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Mar 6, 2024 05:37
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Ghostlight posted:the only good pokemon game is shin megami tensei iii I nominate Robopon 2. The first Robopon was a by the books pokemon copy on the GBC. Robopon 2 was on the GBA and takes place directly after the first game and you know you're in for a ride when the game starts with your character, hot after beating the elite four and champion equivalent, gets on a boat to the new pokemon league only to realize he left all of his pokemon back home. About an hour later you're killing the first gym leader equivalent because he's an rear end in a top hat. Not just beating him or anything, but doing an actual murder.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:42
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i'm kinda surprised that pokemon go is still (fairly) successful and that there are still pokemon go events happening. I have a friend traveling to Taiwan for such an event and i'm kinda flabbergasted. If not mistaken Niantic has tried to go into other properties such as Harry Potter which all failed and pokemon is the only thing keeping them afloat
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Mar 6, 2024 05:44
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fun hater posted:imagine a world where the catch rate for every pokemon is .00001% and you have 0 control over the flow of battle. welcome to yokai watch baby. Not only that, but there are multiple Poke ball types (with their own versions of great balls and ultra balls) that have different levels of effectiveness depending on what Pokémon you use them on. However you can only hold 10 of each Poke ball at a time. Also each type of Ultra Ball is ridiculously more expensive so you'll have to grind for money if you don't catch it in 10 tries (which you won't). Also every shiny is a new species of Pokémon so if you want a complete Pokédex you will have to shiny hunt. Also half of the Pokédex is just Pikachu variants.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:46
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I really enjoyed the newest Pokémon games after not really liking any since black & white 2. Didn’t mind the abysmal performance too much and all the bugs I ran into were funny instead of game breaking. I hope they get more time and resources to make games in the future and that this year not having a game is a good thing.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:48
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euroshopper posted:yokai watch https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4003865
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Mar 6, 2024 05:56
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Annointed posted:I thought yokai watch flopped ya it was a joke, most of the pkmn clones historically seemed to flop (don't think digimon counts cuz it was always intended to be "tamagotchi for boys'" rather than a pkmn-like)
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Mar 6, 2024 05:59
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oh yeah what about jade cocoon
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Mar 6, 2024 06:07
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Nuebot posted:I nominate Robopon 2. i liked both robopons, the first mostly for the dumb gimmick cartridge where you pointed tv remotes at it and pressed buttons to get special prizes
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Mar 6, 2024 06:08
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Monster Rancher ruled.
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Mar 6, 2024 06:11
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Ghostlight posted:oh yeah what about jade cocoon Jade Cocoon is fantastic. It has no less than two extremely phallic dick monsters and ends with a father son jam session. Jade Cocoon 2 sucks and should never be played. pentyne posted:Monster Rancher ruled. Still does, you can get 1 and 2 on steam now!
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Mar 6, 2024 06:16
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Jade Cocoon rules 'cause it's a monster catching/merging game that is also a really solemn story taking place in really pretty forestscapes as everything goes increasingly to poo poo for the protagonist and his wife Jade Cocoon 2 rules 'cause centuries later the protag of 1 is now the immortal overseer of the forest which has been tamed and turned into a theme park for idiots and he just barely manages to hide his contempt for the whole circus until he becomes the final boss
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Mar 6, 2024 06:28
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The Saddest Rhino posted:i'm kinda surprised that pokemon go is still (fairly) successful and that there are still pokemon go events happening. I have a friend traveling to Taiwan for such an event and i'm kinda flabbergasted. If not mistaken Niantic has tried to go into other properties such as Harry Potter which all failed and pokemon is the only thing keeping them afloat You could apply this to all things Pokemon. Other monster capture and battling style games come and go but Pokemon persists. That piss-flavored lightning rat is gonna be raking it in long after we're all dead.
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Mar 6, 2024 06:30
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The Saddest Rhino posted:i'm kinda surprised that pokemon go is still (fairly) successful and that there are still pokemon go events happening. I have a friend traveling to Taiwan for such an event and i'm kinda flabbergasted. If not mistaken Niantic has tried to go into other properties such as Harry Potter which all failed and pokemon is the only thing keeping them afloat yeah, when i was doing research for my candy crush video i was shocked to learn that Pokemon GO was still in the top 5 mobile games years after it came out  it seemed super popular when i released, but fizzled out after a few months
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Mar 6, 2024 07:01
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https://yokaiwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Crossover_Characters
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Mar 6, 2024 07:03
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are the colosseum/xd games considered good even outside of the franchise i completely forgot they existed lol
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Mar 6, 2024 07:07
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the dark id claimed to be dying from cancer and only had a day left to live everyone was shocked and then slowbeef tweeted that it was likely a lie because the Dark Id was a compulsive liar. The rabbit hole goes even deeper. Id claimed to have a daughter who died of cancer he does not have a daughter. I blame Yoko Taro for this.
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Mar 6, 2024 07:49
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The Saddest Rhino posted:i'm kinda surprised that pokemon go is still (fairly) successful and that there are still pokemon go events happening. I have a friend traveling to Taiwan for such an event and i'm kinda flabbergasted. If not mistaken Niantic has tried to go into other properties such as Harry Potter which all failed and pokemon is the only thing keeping them afloat pokemon is a natural fit for it which is why it works and harry potter (lol) doesnt
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