Are there other examples of video games that are a hate letter to their fans?
>>743360107QRD?Never heard about Digimon Up
>>743360107What's Digimon Up?
at a glance it looks like your standard low effort cashgrab dime a dozen mobile games that plagues the 2010s
Dropped today. Its a monster raising sim w/ afk features and auto battles
>>743360435that is literally what it is>watch this ad to speed up your resource farm!pure cancer and an insult
>>743360107I hadn't even heard of this until now.
>>743360107Ninja Gaiden Yaiba comes to mind.
>>743360316Not much. You?
>>743361450The jokes on 4chan are this dry now.
>>743361532>Now
eh maybe im up for some slop if its digimon flavored
>>743360578how
>>743360316think 1940s conveyor belt production line but instead of putting beans in a can, you're clicking the number go up button
I heard about this in a Digimon thread but without context I didn't know what they were talking about.
>>743360107danganronpa v3
>>743360107Nu-God of WarEvery Pokemon game past Gen 2SkyrimStreet Fighter 5Donkey Kong Country 3Just off the top of my head.
It's weird how making an expanded version of the virtual pets were you raise and battle seems like the ideal for a phone game, but they keep doing different things.
>>743360107>hate letter to their fansThe closest thing I can think of is Diablo 3 adding a pony level to make fun of people complaining about the cartoony aesthetic.
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>>743360503so its just like time stranger then
>>743371708They probably think that would negatively affect sales of the actual v-pets. Whether that's a real concern for any reason I can't say, but I'm sure that's their rationale.
>>743371987Time Stranger has more game attached to it than this shit.
>>743360107Yes, every single wokeshit AAA garbage developed in the last decade
>>743361532I chuckled, you humourless cunt
So much for Digimon being on the upswing. Back to being the redheaded step child i suppose
>>743375827One of the series of all time.
>>743360520Sounds like early 2010s mobile game game design
>>743360107idk why i'm posting this since none of you know what tribes is, but i will anyway fuck hirez forever
>>743360107As a Digimon fan I can say I'm not surprised. Which sucks because the sprites for the Digimon look good so I hope someone rips them eventually
it'll be 50 years from now and they'd still have no idea what the fuck to do with digimon
>>743375827>So much for Digimon being on the upswing.Every time Digimon is on the up, Scamco seem to move heaven and earth to cash out all of the goodwill at once.
>>743379204hi-rez are probably one of the best examples of>do not make a product if you are not passionate about the productif you don't give a shit, why should anyone else?
>>743379513Holy shit, Scamco just can't make anything without trying to jewmax
>>743371987Time Stranger has a plot, and characters, and walking around
>>743375827in February Bandai launched a new JP exclusive IP called Gyakuten Bariba Reverse which is basically Virtual pets x Beybladeand it have been a massive success so far, so Digimon might get kicked to the street sooner than we think
>>743360107All mobile digimon games are like this. Just stick with the console games.
>>743371482adding Uncharted 4 and TLOU 2I'm also suspecting Witcher 4 to be womeme-led disaster
>>743379903Im not seeing the V-pet part of that. They are plastic pogs. And let's be real those kinds of things only last like 4 years tops. Even if bandai drops digimon they will pick it back up eventually.
>>743379903This is just Digimon but even more furry.
>>743380237it's in the manga lorethe creatures come from another universes through dimensional hole and get adopted by humans, the exact same plot as digimon, and they even digievovle when the pog thingy get flipped
>>743380536it's not digi-evolution, it's the main gameplay gimmick. you pick either darkside or lightside as your faction and if your opponent flips the pog you lose.
>>743360107Parasyte Eve The third Birthday
>>743379903From the thumbnail I thought this was Duff McWhalen
new Spiderman is a hate letter to Peter fans and a love letter to Miles fans
>>743380536Digimon isn't the only thing to have a human world and a monster world. There was Zatch Bell and shit. And again, where's the virtual pet shit? Evolution isn't a Digimon-exclusive concept. Where's the need to feed the pet? Where's the feces? Where's the death?
>>743381412>Where's the feces?>>743381412
>>743381162>Miles fansDoesn't exist.They don't actually like him, they just want the entire series to be shut down because it was previous enjoyed by a demographic they don't like.
>>743380306>>743379903Damn it really is Furry Beyblade.
I do not care about Beyblade
>>743362468And TLoU2And Ragnarok And Yotei.
>>743360107Idk why they won’t just make vpet for mobile. It seems so simple.
>>743382619Because then people won't buy the plastic V-pets. And then those cocksuckers don't sell them overseas easily.
>>743360520Yeah I still haven't reached the acceptance stage yet
>>743360107>OH NOOOOO THE IP THAT NEVER HAD A SINGLE GOOD VIDEO GAME GETS ANOTHER NOT-SO-GOOD VIDEO GAME AAAAAAAAcome on gangsta. are you really surprised?
>>743360107tried it for few hours. boring slop you might play while waiting for alysion
>>743360107>Are there other examples of video games that are a hate letter to their fans?Yeah the medabots game and code vein 2
>>743360107Most pokemon games after gen 3. *but the fat ass little girls*I'm talking about the games themselves
Remember the shitty digimon mmos that were ruined by Brazilian favela rats
>>743383626You can't ruin something that's already garbage.
>>743360316NM, you?
>>743383069Digimon fans literally just wanted pic-related but as a phone gameSomehow Bandai fucked it up and the game is ASS compared to a 90s toy
So you're saying this isn't a digimon themed tamagachi with combat on my phone?
>>743383859it's still not surprising given we are talking about modern Bandai Namco here. They fuck up everything these days.
>>743383929yeahI feel bad because I said it was, and now I'm a liar.
>>743383859They wouldn't sell the shitty toys if there was a better alternative
>>743384162but the toys are good when they arent the same one they already made 13 times with a different paintjob
>>743383929It's an idle autobattle gacha with QoL features locked behind watching ads
Discuss.
uninstalling right now
>>743383929>>743383859Fucking hell That sucks then
>>743383251I like it.
>>743383251>>743384534>Devs shit on the fans>Gameplay is still funI can't think of any other game that's like that
>>743384321I'm pretty sure the flat category has like another 100 entries if Renamon is being included
>>743365529By having a life, I guess. :shrug:
>>743384321I like how X antibody makes tits bigger except for Mervamon
>>743384162>They wouldn't sell the shitty toys if there was a better alternativeYou say that but Bandai's other VPET Tamagotchis actually look like they come from this century. So I don't know why they left Digimon to stagnate with 90s tech.
>>743383859Oh no, if only DigitalPartner and Digital Tamer 02 and VBBE were a thing...
>>743387275>Digital Tamer 02I fucking hate that piece of shit. Horrible grind and boring combat. I haven't really tried the other two. I have Digipartner downloaded, so I'll play it right now, and I didn't know there was a VB fangame. Unless you're talking about the actual Fitbit. That was also shitty.
>>743387590I just like the watch because it's a pretty decent implementation of user action influencing digimon stats, at least in the hack you can get off trooncord which streamlines some aspects and adds some features.
>>743362468A great example, but then again, most Spider-Man comics and Spider-Man adjacent comics are hate letters to the fans.
>>743384321I love flat Digimon and I love all Sistermon.
>>743387257I never had a Digidevice but Tamagotchi are fun. Idk if Tamagotchi characters could make as good of a JRPG as Time Stranger though lol
>>743388164Writers aren't allowed to do anything except keep up the status quo and/or obey the exec overlords.They literally try to make people stop buying the comics but nerds are spineless consooomers
>>743387257>>743388338The newest Tamagotchi games that are on Switch also get bad reviews
>>743388338>I never had a Digidevice but Tamagotchi are fun. Idk if Tamagotchi characters could make as good of a JRPG as Time Stranger though lolProbably not, but maybe something like Digimon World but with more focus on exploration, town building and puzzle solving could work for a Tamagotchi game.
>>743388063Maybe I'm just a fatso, but I didn't like it. I thought it was more of a digivice than a virtual pet. It didn't have enough mechanics for me. I want the full experience. I want the shitting, I want injury, and I want an adventure mode that is on par with the Digimon Xes. Also, I have played Digital Partner and dropped it for being ass. I just forgot to uninstall it.
>>743388660>I want the shitting, I want injuryOH SAY CAN YOU SEE
>>743384284>locked behind watching adsPersonally, I feel like this is worse than any other type of user-hostile shit in mobile games. Nothing takes you out of a gaming session like an ad.
>>743388653Tamagotchi Soulslike
>>743360107Digimon games are always a joke. I thought you fags would be used to it by now.
>>743391253Good enough for the Nintendo Seal of Quality
>>743387275DT2 is possibly the worst balanced game I have ever played
Meanwhile China is running damage control
>>743391516>More Omegaslopvgh
WOOO OO OO OOO-OOOWELCOME BACK TO THE GLORY DAYS
>>743391516So what is the name? Alter-C?
>>743388581Tamagotchi console titles have been infamously awful for decades. Half the time it's Wii tier minigame slop.
>>743379903what is it called?something baribaribas? I can't read that fucked up title font
>>743360107I'm so sad to learn that it finally came out but was filled with the biggest mobile garbage ever since they know they're not going to really make money off it, like watching ads within the game to make it tolerable and stuff. But what >>743379204 is arguably the biggest middle finger I've ever had from a dev, since they killed their very successful and fun Tribes Ascend that people loved to dedicate to a MOBA, then pushed this out and loaded it with a year worth of AI slop battle pass and other microtransactions out of the gate and were swinging that if it failed it was the player's fault for letting it happen. They still sell it despite it being completely dead on their servers according to Steam reviews, so yeah.
Say it aint so
>>743392487>woman yelling at a cat meme but it's Terriermon in a bad Digimon gacha
>>743383859Funny how this DS game was the closest thing to an official traditional vpet sim experience on mobile but the game is lacking Jogress evolution. How do you even sell a Digimon game without Omegamon? That's senseless.
>>743371938This
>>743392331its BariBarEverse
>>743392807Who gives a shit about that? It's raising and combat are barebones and unfinished.
>>743394149ah gotcha, thanks anon, feels kinda surreal for a new boyslop IP to come out in 2026, I'll check it out
>>743371482>Donkey Kong Country 3Huh? It's flawed but still a good DKC.
It somehow managed to be worse than the medabots game which is a clone of vampire survivors
>>743384321Lilimon my beloved
>>743360107"We had people who we hired who hated Halo because of X, Y or Z, and we brought them in to fix those X, Y or Z problems."
>>743395902The worst part is that even though the story and writing is trash, it still could be adequately fun to play if Prometheans weren’t fundamentally shitty enemies to fight against. I mean, they suck so hard down to their core, especially Knights, that you can’t even design good encounters around them.
>>743360316It's a game about Steve Jobs
>>743396145I don't have a Job
>>743396483LIGMA BALLS
>>743372090Vpets don't even make that much money. It's a niche product that costs nothing to produce and sells reliably to a dedicated user base. I can't imagine a mobile vpet would have any significant impact on its sales at all, and even if it did, it'd take them so little to start outselling their vpets.
All they had to do was basically remake the digivices but modernized for mobile and it would be perfectHow the fuck did they manage to fuck this up?
>>743394149Man ain't nobody is going to say that name. BBE's just roll off the tongue.
>>743392807you've got to be shitting me. championship is a chore to play>digimon don't auto-train so you have to constantly fling the fuckers from room to room>weird stat caps. no explanations on how they work>autobattler which god knows how it works>circle detection for lasso is spotty (more like C detection)>god knows how evo conditions work>digimon get injured god knows the fuck why, even outside of winter. even if you heal, your evos are still fucked>no story, quests or events. nothing to look forward to, other than ranks maybe. monster rancher had stuff like errantry and ruin exploration and more
>>743397798>>god knows how evo conditions workThere's another horrible detail that you need to look up a guide of that game to uncover. It has species EXP.
This was the best one, btw.
>pick the wrong evolution tree>your cute little Agumon is now a skeletonThat's the power of DigimonAt least he didn't turn into garbagemon
>>743398330ReArise was better.
>>743396145The Eureka Seven version of Steve Jobs?
>Video game screen cap as a card
>>743398368You can just devolve him in this game.
>>743398875I take lots of screencaps of video games so I feel I'd be perfect for the job
>>743398875>could have made good official 2d art of Kanan, maybe even give her bigger tits>instead use a video game screenshotThe artists shouldn't be so lazy.
>>743398875Slightly better than a blurry anime screenshot.
>>743384162All they would have to do is drop the shitty 90's tech , add phone connectivity, and essentially make the app a digi-farm and battle arena.
>>743396746This sucks. All those digivices more are so ridiculously rare and expensive too. Just give me these but on my phone. Indeed how is that so hard?
anyway I'm not reinstalling Bluestacks for this
>>743400103fucking this.they dont even need gacha, they could sell the apps at regular console/indie game price and they would fucking sell. HARD!all i want is for a virtual digivice, preferably one i could access from either the lock screen or the home screen of my phone. is that too much to ask?
>>743398068not exp. it's AP and you get it via training rather than grinding encounters
>>743403295same shit different name.
>>743402956>>743400103Why are the good idea people stuck as anons on 4chan while blithering know nothing idiots are decision makers at bamco?
>>743403478Maybe Bamco thinks too highly of Digimon fans to think they know how to emulate digivices
Any Alysion news lately?
>>743400103>200 dollarydoosdafuqwere these things as good as uncs make them out to be?
>>743403570I don't think that's possible yet, actually. And every fangame I played sucks compared to the Digimon X2. So I think they're right to believe that.>>743403671You're looking at old collector shit. You need to see their prices before the aftermarket to call them overpriced rightfully.
>>743403671itch.iosearch digivicesee if you like it. it's pretty hard to like those without nostalgia though.
>>743403749Never knew about this. Let's see
>>743404873I tried it like a month ago. Only the really old one worked and I wasn't enjoying it so much. Maybe new gen digivices are more stimulating.
>>743403749Different guy, not one of those that I tried was any decent. The worst being Net Drivers. Because while it looked great, it felt like it was a mobile game in the pay-to-win way, even if it didn't have any way to pay. I want to give it another shot just to see if it has gotten better since then. But I doubt it. But if the virtual pet found in the fucking Red Triangle Super Collection ends up being one of the better ones, I don't know how I'm gonna feel.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761680/Red_Triangle_Super_Collection/(in case you're curious)
>>743360107>>743360435>>743360520>>743366061Well that's unfortunate. Guess I'll stick with redigitize on azahar for android then
>>743405263I was gonna start looking for digital desktop pets on Steam that were more fun than emulated digivicesSo yeah I don't really know how big a digivice market would be
Thanks for reminding me this was out. I didn't much care for AFK journey, but was looking for some kind of idler, so I've been waiting for this. Getting filtered on the beach currently.
>>743405343>AzaharApplimon got a translation recently. It has all sorts of wacky mons. I was gonna beat it after I beat Time Stranger.
>>743405442*fan translation
>>743405485Cool. Good to know I'll check that as well
>>743405409So how is it then from the perspective of someone who doesn't immediately go GACHA BAD?
I HATE IT SO MUCH. ITS SO DOGSHIT. Shit on pokemon all you want, champions didnt drag fans faces into the dirt and make them stare at porn ads to see lizardon>>743383859This. I just want a vpet on the phone. Is it too much to ask?I cant even blame jeets or chinks for this. It has akiyoshi hongo, bamco and everything.
>>743362468
>>743406139>So how is it then from the perspective of someone who doesn't immediately go GACHA BAD?Nta, but i am >>743406158I am fine with gachas, though the only idlers ive played are dedicated browser ones like a dark room and candybox 2. I think weed inc ive also played way back when. Purely reviewing the game ignoring the IP, Digimon Up is terribly designed as a phone game (the button you mash will force you to sell your equipment and equip dogshit drops), the idle gameplay itself is just pulling gachas ad infinitum to get better numbers since there is no such thing as builds. You pull gacha for your supportmons, you pull gacha for support tamers, you pull gacha for your support cards. Everything has a timer and an ad attached to it.>Wanna levelup your mon?Watch an ad or wait 8 hours>Wanna upgrade your machine?Watch an ad or wait 8 hours>Wanna farm meats?Watch an ad or wait 8 hoursYou get the gist of it. Also it bombards you with new player sales all the time. Ive played chinese games like persona 5X which wasnt this obnoxious with the monetisation. All in all 0/5
I love Lanamon!
>>743395902And then they brought people who also hated 4 into 5.