Billionaire franchise btw
That's still better than the new ones, at least in that you can customize your girl to be cute.
>>738523264Don't like, don't play. Simple as
>>738523264>>738523296>>738523302>>>/vp/
What is the appeal of the Pokemon franchise? It just seems completely uninteresting beyond the porn. Is it just one of those things you'll only understand if you grew up with it?
>>738523358Yes. The quintessential manchild franchise.
>>738523358You're really going to ask something like that along a gachashit character?
wtf there's Dr Slump game?
>>738523264Digimon won Palworld wonPokeslop lost
>>738523540Nikke is unironically better and more polished than any Pokemon game release within the past five years.
>>738523264>Playing as a woman
>>738523358>Is it just one of those things you'll only understand if you grew up with it?Yes. GameFreak knows Pokemon is a comfort blanket for millennials and zoomers who went through awful childhoods. That’s why the NPCs glaze you constantly, and use your name as often as possible. (Wow, Anon. You’re such a great trainer!) That’s also why they refuse to change the formula from the GameBoy era.
>>738523632Here we go again.
>>738523742>who went through awful childhoods.More like people who had awesome childhoods and don't want to grow up (me). That said I don't plan on getting more Pokemon games after S/V even though I loved S/V. The franchise is just getting too pozzed for my liking, and If I see one more character creator that dodges male and female labels I'm gonna lose my shit
>>738523264Once you learn most of the financially successful gaming IPs have always looked utter dogshit (Minecraft, Roblox, Fartnut, Pokemon once they left their sprite shit which was already low quality by comparison) you'll realize graphics do not make the game its essence. Pokefags, in particular, will always revolve around it as Pokemania was genuinely more influential than 9/11. I say this as a millennial who was there and Pokemon lover to this very day. I'm also a gamer and those games are just so fucking ass, especially after I came across a real turn-based series that being Megaten that I realized how kick ass the genre was.
>>738523831All of those games are better than Pokemon too.
>>738523895For me it was SWSH. I know a lot of people panned it but for me it was the pinnacle of the hallway pokemon era.
>>738523358If you played the games other than the mainline ones it would interest you too.>>738523963No.
>>738523910Graphics don't matter, but effort does
>>738523963Protesting nintendo because of their perceived anti-consumer jewishness while sucking off gachaslop has got to be the most utterly retarded, lacking in self-awareness take in the hostory of takes. You legit have the IQ of a fencepost.
>>738524238Nintendo and the Pokemon company are different entitties.
>>738524182Is this thing some sort of mimic? What a strange design, more like some strange Digimon evolution.
Why do pokefags slurp up garbage?
>>738524392It's one of the poster mons for Scarlet/Violet: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Koraidon_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
>>738523993The hallway regions like Alola and Galar were because they didn’t want kids to get frustrated and stop playing. Pokémon’s main competitors for the past 10 years have been YouTube and mobile games. That’s also why Paldea has fast travel points and objective markers everywhere.
The only cool pokefags are the ones just making their own pokemonhttps://youtu.be/m6c62DmF_tQ?t=58https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH_g6ELbBpU
>>738524461You say that as if Pokefags are somehow unique in this respect. Look at Disney adults, Marvelfags, or AAA-slop enjoyers
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>>738524182That explains why they tried to excuse the dexcut by saying they wanted to focus on improving the games's quality, even though Swsh was a piece of shit that was far less polished than the last 2 gens which did manage to have all pokemon in them (despite being on a shittier console).
>>738523264why bother to improve when your retarded cult followers will buy it regardless
>>738523358>What is the appeal of the Pokemon franchise?simple>get encyclopedia, get balls and go wild>set out to defeat each leader and become the champion>start capturing monsters, always excited to snatch a new one and see how much cooler and stronger it is>there's some sort of criminal gang operating in the background or something but uh you just happen to take them out while passing, so whatever>spend all day at the casino (odds overwhelmingly stacked in your favor since it's a retail game, so it's actually fun)>get all the badges and face off against the top dogs in the region in a gauntlet of intense battles>then you remember there's still the champion behind themthis is all assuming you're not a wet blanket and play without a guide, of course
>>738523358merchandise and gamblingthe actual games have sucked for a long time
>>738523264IK is hard you know!
>>738524568>https://youtu.be/m6c62DmF_tQ?t=58Why the fuck did they add a song with lyrics? Just awful>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH_g6ELbBpUToken female spokesperson
>>738524589Pokefags are the ones who have paid shills posting here every day
>>738524719>Why the fuck did they add a song with lyrics? Just awfulWhy's that?
>>738524654Whatever lie they have to tell to cut down on their work
>>738523264name an alternative
>>738523358First and foremost: wish fullfiment.It's the modern equivalent to something like Star Trek. Genuine utopian setting that exists in defiance of the modern world without being reactionary.
>>738524770Because it sounds awful and doesn't fit the game at all
>>738524703>Play without a guideI tend to look up Pokemon stats and movelists in older games. Fuck grinding heart scales.
>>738524813What precisely are you looking for? The setting? The gameplay? The community?
>>738524907>I need to minmax in this game for toddlers where you can just get to lv 100 and mow everything down instead of having funyou're what's wrong with video games
>>738524962>The community?lol
>>738525824Fuck if I know what keeps people coming back to this franchise
>>738524962gameplay and setting are the only things important to me
>>738523358>It just seems completely uninteresting beyond the pornHe says, posting a gacha character.
>>738523358merchandise cute pets monsters like mickey mouse and hello kitty
the games are just cheaply made promotion for the merchandiseand on top of that they still manage to somehow bring in record sales every time with a bare minimum productwhy put in effort when your franchise is too big to fail?
>>738523910Minecraft and Fortnite have actual styles that they are going for. Sure, they aren't necessarily the most appealing, but there's a degree of consistency and artistic intent to the visuals. Roblox is a 20-year-old indie game.Pokemon is just aggressively ugly due to unskilled developers and poor execution. It's harder to overlook now because it's more noticeable in 3D on higher-spec consoles and because they explicitly promised to improve the visuals in exchange for cutting the dex, but the games are still ugly as fuck.
>>738526945There's several Pokemon clones in terms of gameplay, but I'm not sure there's any with the same utopian setting. Guess you're stuck
>>738523358I grew up with it and still don't see the appeal. Most long standing franchises evolved but pokemon has strayed stagnant for like forever.
Remember that pokemanchildren should be made fun of at every opportunity
>>738524182God new Pokemon are fucking ugly
>still caring about pokemonlol op who cares that garbage is only popular in japan
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>>738523358nostalgia, nobody gives a shit something past gen 1 that's why most of merch and marketing are kanto
>>738523264I can't even tell which Pokémon game this is.
>>738523264they know tendies have no standards>>738523358the concept is appealingsetting out on an adventure to collect monstersthe monster designs made a big impact though, which is why most other monster collector franchises have faded into obscuritytoo bad about the actual games though, they're all low effort slop
