How do you cope with the fact that your beloved game franchise has been overtaken by scalpers, youtubers and literal children? Doesn’t it leave you feeling hollow? I personally gave up midway of BW2 back in 2012.
By not caring about nu pokemon, I still play emerald's battle frontier these days.
>>59537660I was gonna play BW2 now since it was the last of the 2d games I haven’t played. Yea, retards, retarded children and jewtubers looking for the next paycheck have taken over the franchise, but I will still try to find enjoyment where I can.
>>59537660I'm hype for Aniimo.
>>59537660I already caught em all and got a shiny charm. Why should I even care anymore?
i spiritually cut the series off just before that nonsense came to head. i just laugh at the viral articles of fat unemployed men gouging each other's throats out over playing card sets and move on at this point
>>59537716gen10?
going to youtube comment sections and telling griping every time something is revealed and how 1998 was way better and the franchise is dead and gamefreak couldnt program a swatch let alone a game
>>59537660It's been a decade since I realized the games would never cater to me again, so I just learned how to code so I could make my own rom hack to replay every couple years instead of playing official crap.
I bowed out after Sun and Pokopia is the only game I've boughtedficationated since then, I mostly stick to ROM hacks and stuff.
>>59537730>can’t catch em all>ends up killing tbe online battling scene in the games themselves for good>no competitive battling facility aside from maybe a gutted battle tower riplollmao
>>59537741Battle Towers are dead, gen 9 didn't even bother with one.
>>59537660Wait there are actual uncs posting on 4chan????
>>59537660>>59537707Based receding hairline characters
>>59537660Ash would look good bald
>>59537660I play Emerald Rogue online with my wife or some other shit like that when it's about pokémon. I always hated youtubers and it's really hard for me to buy card packs so I avoid those like the plague.The new games are hot garbage and I've only ever seen the deviantart-tumblr-like faggot posters spamming them.
>>59537660Pokemon was never my absolute favorite IP in the first place and even the best mainline games were only mediocre by general JRPG standards, so watching it shit the bed doesn't sting nearly as much as, say, Final Fantasy doing the same.
>>59537696i breathe a sign of relief knowing at least im not still into Sonic
>>59537851sonic mania was cool
>>59537707Same
>>59537851I'm glad I got back into it around Frontiers, everything before that was mid, Shadow Generations was one of my favorite games last year and I have a shit ton of hours on CrossWorlds
>>59537851Sonic is living through the IDW comics.
>>59537660I can't bother to change 2024 to 2026
>>59537870Same Crossworlds had been fun. Who’s your main?
>>How do you cope with the fact that your beloved game franchise has been overtaken by scalpers, youtubers and literal children?I don't give a shit for the "franchise", I only care about the core games and they're still targeting the same people it targeted when I first started playing Game Freak's pokémon games, so there's no change in my experience.How does it feel to be a disaffected manchild, deluding herself while simultaneously trying to make the world believe you're not? Because frankly, I gave up on nigger simulator after San Andreas and never once felt the need to go to any GTA fanpage to virtue signal to make myself appear above it like you're here trying to get us to believe you stopped giving a shit for pogeymans. Just looks like you're looking for a safespace support group.
>>59537967Knuckles, Joker and Proto Man, waiting on Beat now
>>59538032Based choices. Currently a Blaze/Red/Proto Man main with an occasional Charmy & Silver.
>>59537660I just come here for the memes and memories. I don't really care about this franchise anymore.
well you see, I worked multiple jobs nonstop from the age of 14 to 34, missing out on pretty much all contemporaneous pop culture while dealing with life's bullshit, so I'm only got a 3DS a gew years ago and am now playing through gen 6 and 7, so idrc having fun
I just come here to laugh at zoomies and alphies. Give me your youth, cunts.
>>59538078ok third worlder ESL :)
>>59538078Why did you choose to play those generations specifically?
>>59538078Imagine not living the NEET dream in 2026
>>59538083it's true rural america is a 3rd world country>>59538099i was told they were the best of the old formula
/vp/ and IRL friends are the entirety of my interaction with the Pokemon community. Don't watch Poketubers, done with Twitter, don't play Go. As such, it's a non issue.
>>59538125America is a third world country
>>59538125>i was told they were the best of the old formulaBy whom? They're ok, but generally Gen 4's HGSS is considered the peak of the franchise. If you're enjoying 6 and 7, definitely give HGSS a try.
>>59537660It doesn't bother me; I haven't bought the games or watched the anime in years. I simply enjoy the fan-created content and the way the Pokémon world is enriched with each generation. If it were up to me, I’d like TPC to focus more on projects like Pokecology or the Legends series, but specifically to showcase historical eras like Legends Arceus did, rather than Z-A, which added little to nothing to the franchise.
I just play fangames like Rejuvenation or Empyrea
>>59538148Thanks for the tip!
>>59537660This is what you want. This is you
>>59538177Is that Ringo Star??
>>59537660I just masturbate to a lot of Lillie porn.
>>59538177>hehe if we say adults welcome, it will be seen as good and normalThey said the same for let's go, btw.
>>59537707>balding at 12 years oldGrim
>>59538065Nased
>>59537660i just play the games, draw pictures, and have a good timehonestly things are kind of fine as long as you're not obsessive about merch and not on twitter all daythe games kind of suck but it makes them easier to put downI gave up during the dexit dark ages but it turned out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise because now I can safely treat the games as consumable pieces of media like i used to as a kid, having now shed the feverish obsession over my game files that i'd been building between gens 4 and 7I suppose the only thing i dislike about the current state of pokemon is that it feels kind of hard to find degenerate pokephiles to hang around with. I feel like I used to stumble over them no matter where i went back in like 2015
I came to the realization that GF will never model all 1k mons. So I stopped caring to catch them all. I still play them, but just don't bother to be the very best anymore.
>>59538361Literally every Pokemon can be used in a Switch game now, the only ones you can't import from old games for now are Alolan Ratatta, Raticate, and Spinda.
>>59538361you're right, they won't. at least there's cobblemon and the community did it themselves.
>>59538112Ameripoors can't live the NEET dream because they don't have free healthcare and they have a shit welfare system :)
>>59538361>I came to the realization that GF will never model all 1k monsFuck are you talking about, retard? Every single Pokemon has a 3D model.
>>59537730>gen 10Ah yes, let's review what we have to look forward to in Gen 10>Bank's closure prevents official transfers from anything prior to the Switch and retroactively fucks up connectivity between 3DS games, forcing players to rely on fanmade workarounds or live with the broken compatibility.>Home is still $16 annually for <5 MB of storage and basic features like additional GTS slots and transfers from previous generations are locked behind that paywall. The tranfers from previous gens are being taken away and despite that being a feature of Home's paid plan we likely won't see a price decrease despite features being stripped from the service.>Nintendo Switch Online is still a thing so you'll have to pay another $20 minimum for basic online access,>SV didn't even have a Battle Tower and with the introduction of Champions, they likely won't include any facilities in the new game whatsoever with their main argument being to go play Champions if you want that despite not even remotely being the same thing.>Paid DLC is confirmed via the Teraleak, so the game won't even be a complete product yet again.>Switch 2 exclusivity = price hike. Minimum $70 for each version with rumors saying they could be $80 each making this the 2nd price hike within a decade after pokemon from GB to 3DS only went up twice in 20 years.>Dexcut is still a thing so it won't even have all the Pokémon in it. How could anyone be excited or optimistic for the next Pokemon game? Everything's been piecemealed to shit and is way more expensive for such an inferior product. The past 13 years of Game Freak's track record shows this is just gonna be another pile of dogshit.
>>59538480>How could anyone be excited or optimistic for the next Pokemon game? new mons and new gimmick get added to cobblemon.
>>59537660The games already went to absolute shit generations ago after years, the fuck do I care.
>>59537660I started with blue when it came out as a kid so idk if it’s overtaken by children it’s what it was made for. Haven’t looked at cards since 3rd generation so could care less about that too. Don’t watch influencers on YouTube so could care less too. Games are fun an occasional boredom killer that I still enjoy to this day
>>59538480You will buy it anyways and GF and TPC knows retards will spend 1000s of dollars on plusses and lego. Don't believe me? Look here >>59538177. GF and TPC are contempt with mediocrity and knows their aging millinals will buy their slop unconditionally. AND SO WILL YOU.
>>59537660Meh. I realized as far back as SM that the series wasn't for me anymore. I went through all the stages of grief, but at this point I'm unattached enough that I can just laugh at the state of things. There's enough of a back catalog of content, and fan made content that I can still get my Pokemon fix every now and then without engaging with any of the modern crap.
>>59538125America in general is like 5th world already, rural is 6th world.
>>59538361They have, they just want you to pay extra to use more in a game, like that obviously was what dexcut was for to sell the DLCs.
>>59537660>and literal children?So...the same age group I belonged to in 1998???
>>5953766030yo Pikachu should be fat, with a mustache and smoking a cigar.
>>59537660>literal childrenIs this meant to be bait for is most of /vp/ trying to deceive themselves into thinking Pokemon was made for adults in mind?
I just play the older games from time to time, or do stuff like type challenges or hack in mons for solo runs.
>>59537660my "favorite franchises" aren't so important to me that any of that would make me sad, I would just move on to another interest. My favorite things have nothing to do with games or movies or other types of media franchisesJust play the games and talk to other people here who also play the games, man. Ignore the rest
>>59538762It feels funny buying TCG from a clerk that might be younger than me and then sharing the dupes with random kids.
>>59538762>>59538771Other series grew up with their audience - see Digimon. Pokemon could have had series aimed at children while also making content for the core fanbase.
>>59538778The core fanbase are children because its a cross generational franchise that didn't stagnate and die. It's fine to enjoy the franchise meant for children, as most videogames are targeted at them, it's another to be so delusional to think that you're still the targeted audience.>digimonDigimon isn't even comparable to Pokemon. You're comparing an asteroid to a gas giant.
>>59538778To be fair, you can't have every IP "grow up with its audience" or else actual kids will have nothing. The problem isn't necessarily that Pokemon isn't growing up, it's that it's racing towards the other extreme, becoming infantilized shovelware.
>>59538793just create new stuff for the kids, retard
>>59538800Or, keep selling stuff from the most popular franchise on the planet meant for kids, to kids. And not just for genetic deadend autistic manchildren.
>>59538778>Other series grew up with their audience There was a time where it seemed like they were trying to do this. BW was going for a more mature story (whether or not it succeeded is arguable, but that was clearly the intent), and both BW and XY had older protagonists. Then Ohmori took over and reversed course, the series became more kiddified than ever under him. >>59538810I don't think the games need to be "mature" necessarily, but SM and onwards are just pure todderslop. I think even as a kid I would have found it infantilizing. The early games had a much broader appeal. As a 10 year old, I played Pokemon back then with my 18 year old brother and we were both into it. I don't know why society started to think that anybody under the age of 15 or so needs to be treated like a literal baby. What happened to all ages media?
>>59538829>SM and onwards are just pure todderslop.But they sell. Immensely. Especially in Japan where Pokemon games are far more proportionately gobbled up than anywhere else.
>>59538778>Other series grew up with their audience - see Digimon.Digimon is garbage (more than Pokémon) and I've only ever seen retarded gooners praising it, never someone well adjusted. While Pokémon has the same pedotranny problem, Pokémon at the very least has normies saying "Yeah, gen 1 was cool because X and Y examples", Digimon only ever have MAN I LOVE FAPPING TO MONSTERS AND THAT'S MY SOLE PERSONALITY TRAIT.
>>59537660>literal children?Wasn't that always their target demograpic?
>>59538829I don't think 3D helps with all ages appeal due to protagonists. With sprites, you could be a lot more vague with the character ages so everyone sees what they want to see, with 3D, you are explicitly a small child. Look at May and Dawn, their designs work for porn regardless of if you draw them as a loli, a Hebe, or an adult.
>>59538857Kill yourself.
>>59538851Pokemon as a franchise is designed around a core set of games Gamefreak releases every 3-5 years. Meanwhile Digimon has no core for the anime, games, trading cards ect to build off of, thus everything influences each form of media. It originally derived from being a 8-12 year old boy version of tamagachi. But once that fad faded away, it had a hard time trying to market itself outside of being seasonal standalone anime series and a few random subpar games every 10 or so years.If you were to ask random Joe what Pokemon is, they'll say its a game series where you collect monsters, use said monsters to challenge trainers/leaders/villains and eventually the champion of the Pokemon league. It's a simple and straight forward concept.Meanwhile Digimon is....uhhhh tamagachi. Nevermind, just focus on angel or devil girl with big booba design. Or if you're a deranged webartist, that one frog with big tuba!!!
>>59538851Holy cope and seethe, Batman!
>>59538773>I just play the older games from time to time>>59537694>By not caring about nu pokemon, I still play emerald's battle frontier these days>>59538148>generally Gen 4's HGSS is considered the peak of the franchiseThese are literally me. I don't play any Pokemon games beyond Gen 4 because Sinnoh is the last canon region in my opinion (in the sense that it's the last region based in Japan and it's the climax of the series, having literal gods of time, space and the universe)Also, HGSS, which came out near the end of Gen 4, is a fitting end to the series and it's basically the swan song of classic Pokemon.Finally, between the main series games like RSE and DPPt, the remakes like FRLG and HGSS, and the spinoffs like Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue Team and Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, there's just so much content to play and enjoy from that era of Pokemon, and I never grow tired of it.I'm a little busier these days too, but whenever I have enough free time and I feel like playing old school Pokemon again, I just load one of those games in my emulator and spend a good amount of time playing it in order to get my Pokemon fix.
>>59537660Pokémon is literally FOR children, what kind on entitled manchild is mad about children liking Pokémon lmaoIt's just a consumerist hobby, it's not that deep bro. If it makes you "feel hollow", I recommend not interacting with the franchise anymore and possibly seeing a therapist
>>59538857Going to ignore the bit about porn and just address your first point. The first 3D protagonists in the mainline games, Calem and Serena, were also the oldest Pokemon protagonists to date. Mind you they were still kind of chibified in actual gameplay, but I think it was a deliberate choice to make the protagonists since then be noticeably younger. As >>59538836 said though, shit still sells like hotcakes. At one point I was upset about the infantilization of the series, but after a certain point I can't be mad. Gamefreak is a business at the end of the day, their goal is to make money, and they're obviously doing very well at that. There are a lot of things I wish were different about the series, but would it still be as profitable if I had my way? Probably not. You can cry all you want about the quality of the franchise, but at the end of the day Gamefreak is going to do what makes them money, and you just have to learn to live with that.
>>59537660I just play the pokemon mobile games and emulate gen 2 and 3
>>59539055XY was still a sort of transitional period. Yeah, it was 3D, but it was still grid-based and had chibi world models. Then Sun & Moon released and dropped the final two remaining things from the old 2D games.
I have nothing against kids playing it, I worked in an after school program and loved talking about moms with them. It was even funny when they called me Unc for still having my original game boy colorI HATE scalpers and I hate that I decided to start building my tcg collection and now I’m stuck in a sunk cost spiral
>>59539084Talking about mons*Stupid phone
>>59537660>Pikachu isn't balding too
>>59537660I dont care about nu Pokemon and they can never take away my physical copies of Silver, Sapphire, and Diamond, so I'm good
>>59539087Kek. Don't worry about it. This is a funny fail.
>>59537660>30+ anonsSo no one on /vp/?
>>59538877>tamagachi*tamaGOTchi = tamago (egg) + watch
>>59539159I turn 33 soon. Yes I'm autistic, live with my parents, and have never been on a date
>>59538851t. furFAG that only knows about the porn
>>59537660i never got into cardstheres 8.3 billion people on the planet, there are bound to be bad youtubersi have never been bothered by a kid and pokemon beforethe fuck happened to you to get effected by all 3 of those things?
>>59539168>I turn 33 soon. Yes I'm autistic, live with my parents, and have never been on a dateDon't worry anon, you're not alone... but I'm in my late 20s myself, not yet in my 30s.I'm also autistic, I still live with my mom and I've never been on a "real" date (there was this one time though when I shared an Uber with a girl I really liked who was helping taking care of my grandma because she was a home attendant at the time, but nothing ever came out of it and that's really the closest I've been to being on a date with someone... as pathetic as that may sound)
>>59537660I don't buy switch pokemon games, the legends series looks fun but I'd rather just watch people stream it rather than purchase a switch for one franchiseI mainly play Pokemon Champions (i played singles before but compared to VGC its a bore and it seems like there's way more viable pokemon in doubles, also f smogon and their gay bans) and i play fangames like rejuvenation
>>59538771Honestly with the hidden mechanics like EV's, natures and IV's, they definitely wanted some of the OG fanbase to stick around well into adulthood, it's insane how complex a supposed children's game is
>>59537660I'm really really sad i'd had pokemon in my atmosphere all my life but it took me playing pocket to realize I liked played the tcg [I jumped over to Live cause actually trying to play pocket instead of using it as a png collector simulator was giving me diseases] and was gonna use it as an excuse to go out more.Lmao.
>>59539168>>59539203My worldly status is the sameI found irl Arceus and i'm Christcopemaxxing and its freeing to know that the true birth comes after the death of the flesh for those who believe in Jesus. The Bible explains a lot about why the world is the way it is, if i read Proverbs earlier in life i don't think i'd make even close to the amount of mistakes I did
>>59539159anon, I...
>all my peers are married>two brothers. both younger, one engaged, one married>nearly 37 and still single living in a flat>dead end job>no degree>absolutely no reason to wake up any morning except for WW next year life is grand :')
>>59539326Stay strong, man. And I really hope you will enjoy Winds and Waves when the game comes out. God bless.Personally, I am also looking forward to Winds and Waves, but I'm not even sure if I will be able to buy a Switch 2 to be able to enjoy the game. I usually only buy a new console to play Pokemon games, but the Switch 2 is so much more expensive than previous Pokemon main series consoles.I will most likely wait for a future "Switch 2 Lite" version that's cheaper than other Switch 2 versions.
>>59537660I pretty much take everything past gen 5 as not canon and even gen 5 is pushing it since gen 4 introduced all the retarded expanded mythos of God Arceus and humans being Pokemon and whatever else stupid shit.
>>59537660Im alright with children liking it, it will never be what it once was, but I’ll always appreciate and support the fanartAs for scalpers Fuck them with an ebola infected dildo. Wish Pokemon Centers would ramp up production of plushes snd merch to a scale that Fucks scalpers.
>>59539551>Im alright with children liking it,I don't think kids even like Pokemon. I asked my nephew, who is now the same age I was when Pokemon came out, what he thought about it and he said he was the gayest shit ever and he's absolutely right.
>>59537660I’m more annoyed that the fanbase has been overtaken by retarded zoomers
>>59537660My son is 10 and him getting into Pokemon 2 years ago made me get into it again.
>>59537660>How do you cope with the fact that your beloved game franchise has been overtaken by scalpers…This is a problem that comes and goes. The TCG had it for a bit with Darkness Ablaze due to the pandemic, cooled off for a bit when everything went back to normal, and only started to get bad when NFTs and sneakers crashed. It’ll go back down again when those new printing facilities are up and running, >…youtubers…Youtubers have always been a thing, they started to become bad when the above started to get rancid.>…and literal children?Who cares? Kids have always been a major part of the Pokémon IP and you were probably a kid when you got into Pokémon in the first place.>Doesn’t it leave you feeling hollow?Not really. There are some issues I have with the way the IP is handled but they’re minor at best, the only one that I consider to be really bothersome is TPC lack of foresight regarding an alternative for DS/3DS-to-HOME transfers once Bank shuts down.
>>59537660i dont consider anything after gen2 cannon.ez.none of them are capable of grifting gen 1 or 2 without playing the orignals, since the updated versions lack the sovl of the first two gens.they are wholly impotent in their ability to enshittify my childhood experience.i won
>>59539187>nemona taking your big one from behind
I actually just played Pokemon Blue caught all 150 then had a 15 year break and when I got a job I just bought a 3ds with X because I had to travel 1 hour by train.Then I had a 13 year break and now that pokemon bank Is going bust in half a year I will just try to catch them all before end of Feb.Do not really care about ytubers, the only thing that annoys me is that the nu rivals counterpick themselves and praise you whenever you whipe the floor with them, also I miss classic villains like Giovanni who was just a cool guy in a suit leading the pokemon mafia.
>>59539891>deliberately restricting himself to early-instalment weirdnessYour childhood experience sucked.
>>59537660Makes me happy that Pokemon is alive and fun right now compared to being on life support back in 2010-12.
I'm not upset about children liking the games/cards, that's what's supposed to happen. Scalpers suck primarily because they are a hurdle for kids to get into the series.
>>59541861sucks to be poor.
>>59538778Cause they kinda had to. If you want your franchise to grow up with you, it can't be too successful. Once it has cross generational popularity, it makes more sense for the franchise to just cycle through the same successful pattern, but for a younger generation.You want something that's essentially forced to grow because only a specific age group identifies with it in the first place.
>>59541867Bro it's kids, they usually don't even have their own money.
>>59541896sucks to not have rich parents that spoil you
>>59537660It doesn't bother me. I'm happy new generations of people can love the game. Scalpers suck but they always existed and I never played the card game anyway. As for the kids? I enjoy fandom content outside the game and competetive scene. I enjoy the bootlegs and fangames hat are more serious. I'd love them to make a more "Adult" pokemon game but gamefreak can barely make a pokemon game as it is.
>>59541904That's probably most people who have to bother scalping to make money in the first place.
>>59541931sucks to suck.
>>59541892I think this could be an issue with games as it stands right now. We are lacking early generational games, everything's a reboot or a remaster. When was the last game that really spoke to the younger generation that release fast enough to keep people happy. People don't want to admit one of the reasons fortnite, pokemon, cod and (insert sports games here) are as big as they are is they are fast. A kid who gets into games at 10, by the age of 20 will have. 3 generations of pokemon, 8-10 call of duty's 10 new sports games, and about 50 seasons of fortnite. If you got really into grandtheft auto now you're looking at 10-15 years for the next game and it's not something sustainable. We need to go back to smaller cheaper faster turn around complete games with a smaller budget and asking price.
>>59537660I just stick to/cultivate my own community now instead of participating in a larger one that focuses on the newer parts of the series and its flaws. It's been much more rewarding.
>>59537660why doesnt he just shave his head clean?
>>59541946Deltarune.
>>59541810>peak pokemania suck bro>not-yet ultra corporate media - games, comics, anime - made by people with real passion sucked broHoly copium. You're a retarded, brain-damaged child that has never experienced real connections if not through screens, never played a game that didn't have DLCs and extra paid bullshit. Sit down lad.
>>59538810kids aren't nearly important enough that the most popular franchise in the planet should cater to them, and that in fact is HOW you get genetic deadent autistic manchildren: by telling them that these childish interests are actually culturally validated so they never grow out of it.Kid content should be small and allow for one to grow out of and forget it. If people couldn't do away with Pokémon, then Pokémon, as the world's largest media franchise, had the DUTY to grow up with its audience.
>>59545996cool how you are talking about the stuff behind the content and not the actual quality of the contentYes, there are a bunch of things from before not-yet ultra corporate media - games, comics, anime - made by people with real passion and which fucking SUCKED. Passion does not guarantee quality.
>>59537660I don't. I became disillusioned with Pokemon before I turned 30, and have been going with fan made post Dexit content ever since.
I just went to world/xp and there were not a lot of children. There were virtually no children when i went through the pokemon center on thursday. Maybe because its the biggest event so it is a very pressurized environment but mostly there were asian scalpers, generic asians, and 40 year old redditors. I don't think i will ever go to another pokemon exclusive event ever again.
>>59545306Tourist here.To continue to give everyone the impression that he's still the bright-eyed kid that he always was.
>>59546180I mean Pokemon Center costs money and children aren't going to get their parents to take them out to a store on Thursday, big context difference from a tournament. I didn't start collection Pokemon merch until my 20's when I bought the Dawn statue to stare at her panties.
>>59541946It's literally how the music industry has become. 2 minutes incomplete demos in the TikTok-feed for generating more content fast, therefore is profitable.Video games are the same now. Frequent releases and forced live-services to keep said IPs relevant for kids not even born yet.
>>59546029Who decides what quality is? You, a bitter and jaded manchild or the actual target?Because I assure you literally every kid at school was star eyed playing the games (first two gens), watching the show and opening card packs. Nobody cared about inconsistencies in the anime or bugs in the games. We just immersed in this world and didn't care about some retarded measure of quality decided by some bitter retard on a scandinavian straw shoes making forum.
>>59543899>I just stick to/cultivate my own community nowBro any tips on how to more effectively do that? Between nugenfags and literal faggots every community is totally screwed now. Even 4chan has become infested with people like >>59548269 now.
>>59548285You can fuck off where you crawled out of, for a start.
>>59548406You sound bitter and jaded, anon. ;)
>>59548410Kek bodied that freak.
>>59548515>bodied that freakJesus Christ, this is like the 100th time I've seen you post that same shit in a thread on /vp/Is "bodied that freak" the only thing you know how to say?
>>59548410Never said I wasn't, but as a child I enjoyed this franchise immensely. It's literally the point of this thread, retard, for oldfags to talk how what they loved turned into a soulless money making machine.Imbeciles trying to put down children's games because they're Mature Gaymers (TM) is just damn ridiculous.>>59548529They have nothing else anon, their childhood was shit so they have to project. A tale as old as time.
>>59537660Pretty much every franchise has gone to shit, often much worse than Pokémon. Just look at Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who. WiWa at least looks better than any mainline game in a long time, but generally I’m more interested in fan-made content these days.
>was here in 2012 and 2013 during the Pokemon Bank total shitshowthis place was lit as fuck when it finally dropped though, still have some of the Pokes from giveaways
>>59548529Kek obsessed. Also not the only one who posts that phrase, dipshit.
>>59548599>Also not the only one who posts that phraseYeah I'm sure you aren't, samefag.Now go jump off a cliff.
>>59548599Bodied that freak. ;)
>>59548696Bodied that GAME FREAK = >)
>>59548696Still not reading a counterpoint, you bitter and jaded manchild.Now, back to my original question.>I just stick to/cultivate my own community nowBro any tips on how to more effectively do that? Between nugenfags and literal faggots every community is totally screwed now. Even 4chan has become infested with people like >>59548269 # now.
>>59548406Nta but sounds like you got triggered. Did the word faggot hit a little close to home?
>>59537660>overtaken by literal childrenDude, it’s literally a children’s franchise. Of course there’s children everywhere.The scalpers do annoy me, though. I used to collect cards, but now they’re always either sold out instantly or being sold for way more than MSRP, so I can’t collect anymore.
