maybe im just old and out of touch at the ripe age of 25, but the new pokemon spinoffs just dont have as much """soul""". shit like colosseum/XD, the ranger games, and the mystery dungeon games all made the pokemon universe feel way bigger than it was in a way that i just dont get from the legends games.
it's not nostalgia. the only good switch spin offs were snap, pokken, and pmd. maybe detective pikachu too. everything else is soulless cashgrab slop.
>>58236463i have not played pokemon since XY. do pokemon rangers even fucking exist anymore in pokemon media?
>>58236463You're not old, you're just not retarded.Anyone who could somehow look at what we used to have, then look at the constant stream of freemium slop we've had ever since Shuffle dropped with the odd smattering of something actually decent if we're lucky, it's just a fact.As >>58236472 says, we've literally only had maybe 3 or 4 good spin-offs and it's because they have actual effort put into them because they're not freemium dopamine gameplay loop garbage that subsist off of whales rather than actually having quality. We used to get spin-offs of practically every kind of genre back in the day and, even if they weren't good, they at least fucking tried to do something fun and unique with the Pokemon IP.Now? We get walking around IRL but with Pokemon, microtransactions and battle passes. TCG, but on your phone just like your favourite Gacha games yaaaay! Puzzle game but it ends up becoming largely automated and with gacha mechanics. Sleep IRL but even though I haven't played it lets face it Sleep is probably monetized to shit. No more actually fun puzzle games, no more Mystery Dungeon, no more fighting games, no more Pikachu caretaking sims, no more racing games (even though the only attempt sucked and it should have been attempted again), no more story driven adventure games, no more offline TCG games because they can't be monetized. I'd even take a fucking Pokemon Rumble game at this point and I hated those.>>58236485MIA since Guardian Signs.
>>58236463As someone whose first Pokémon game was PMD Blue Rescue Team almost on release, and shortly after played Diamond and Ranger, it weighs heavily on my love for the franchise that such jewels are no longer anywhere near on sight, and having bought a Switch and a 3DS on the last 12 months just to play some of what I missed during that timespan, I could see a downward tendency. Heck, I could try to argue on Unite's existence and Café ReMix as some kind of successor to Trozei/Shuffle, but it's nowhere as amusing (and you'd think the flashiness would add), and quite honestly feel stale. I had more fun with Rumble World of all darn things, and that's either a metric of how cynical I've grown (22, turning 23 next month), or a display of how shallow whatever else came after is.
>>58236463I’m similar in age, Shadows of Almia was SOVL overloaded
>>58236463It's not a matter of nostalgia.Old spin-offs are full-fledged games, modern ones are mobileslop "apps".
>>58236463spinoffs with soul aren't allowed anymore. They make the mainline games look bad and they're sure as hell not going to put more effort into those so they'd rather just cut what makes them look bad. Hope you like mobileslop
>>58236575I wish GO would get a little more story based or that they would do an anime series or some media based on it, the characters have great designs and I feel like something awesome can be done with them.
>>58236575It's also just cheaper to produce mobile slop that can also coexist on Switch (2) compared to making an actual console-only spinoff, because hardware for the platform has gotten to where the costs of making a dedicated game would far outweigh the "worth it" factor.Plus, you better fucking hope your spinoff can carry 100+ hours of gameplay, because you know for a goddamned fact it's going to cost 60-80 burger bucks, and people are only going to buy if they're absolutely certain the game is worth their while. (Protip, it won't be, because it's not mainline Pokemon as most normalfags just want to capture and battle Pokemon in the familiar, comfortable format they've known since they first became aware of Pokemon.)
>>58236953It sucks, a 30h+ PokePark 3 would be kino
>>58236463SEX with Solana.
>>58236463gamefreaks inconsistency with wanting to expand the pokemon world is what continues to hold the series back. pokemon rangers basically being forest rangers who serve a different purpose than officer jenny/looker was always a cool idea, but like every other cool idea they just gave up on it.
