Daely Snack: No Hoenn Games This Year, Please

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Warning, controversial opinion inside. Read the article instead of commenting right away, at the risk of whatever I can throw at you ;).

When I’m on the internet reading stuff about Pokémon, nearly the only thing I see are people screaming for Ruby and Sapphire remakes. There have been two remakes before, and it isn’t a far of a stretch that Ruby and Sapphire will see a glorified version for 3DS, too. They where both great games, with the best crafted region the games have ever seen. I can’t hardly wait myself for the games to release. But please Gamefreak, not this year.

Stop this annualisation of the franchise. Five games in the mainline series have been released in the past five years in the US. Annualisation is what is killing COD, it is what made Battlefield 4 such a hot mess and it might make the consumer grow tired of Assassins Creed too. It makes you rush out to release a game that year, just to make a quick buck, instead of wanting to make an actual good game. It makes you run out of ideas quickly. And you try to circumvent that by putting in ideas sparingly. You don’t want to make this one game the best, because you want the next one to sell.

Pokémon Black and White 2 and Pokémon X and Y are perfect examples of this. BW2 was just a recycled BW1 with a worse story. XY showed lots of potential but eventually fell short. Where’s the endgame? What is going on with that frame rate? I can understand you wanted to rush the game to save the 3DS, but the 3DS doesn’t need to be saved anymore.

Just take your time this installment. Try to craft the best game you can. Forget all this moneymaking shenanigans, and listen to Nintendo’s vision about games. “Make the best game you can, and it will sell by itself.” Make people love Pokémon again. I can take two disappointments, even three, but I seriously begin to doubt everything after four and will likely quit after five. And I might not be the only one.

I can wait an extra year to play the remakes. The same goes for XY2 and certainly for XY3. The 3DS’ life may not be that long anymore, but there’s no need to rush out to bring your ‘vision’ to the console if there’s no way you can completely fulfill it.

Pokémon doesn’t deserve to be milked out. Pokémon should maintain the quality of its livelong existence. Video games should be art, not a way of printing boatloads of money.

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1,638 thoughts on “Daely Snack: No Hoenn Games This Year, Please”

  4. Dae, you and your daring side… I want us to conquer the world, we can build our own kingdom and experience our inner anarchy.

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  9. And as for a Ruby and Sapphire, I’ve been taught the universe works in mysterious ways
    I was told that the more we want something to happen the less chances we have of it being true
    Dudes, we can’t force GF to make remakes and we’re not entitled to them
    We just got to hope that GF hears our pleas!

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  11. Although i really want Hoenn remake i think this will happen, The games are releasing fast, Black and White was the first new generation game to last a year, i feel they will announce a new game but it will be released next year.

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  13. Wait, B2W2 aren’t bad games, the post game and the story was awesome and all the characters were memorable for me, easily my favorite game in the franchise

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  15. A bit off topic(actually very off topic) but I thought of an idea for a Mega Stoutland
    HP: 85
    Attack: 145
    Defense: 105
    Sp attack: 50
    sp. def: 110
    speed: 100

    Ability: Fur Coat

    And in regards to the Hoenn thing, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the next game, but I definitely want it to happen

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  16. Thinking about it, gen 5 might be my favourite to date. I thought I disliked it but if I think about it, I ABSOLutly love it.

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  18. I loved BW2. I think it added more to BW’s already great storyline and had a great postgame. It also had good character depth-better than X and Y imo. I agree that Ruby and Sappire remakes can wait a year, but I’d like to see announcement later this year.

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    • 2009 – Platinum
      2010 – HeartGold & SoulSilver
      2011 – Black & White
      2012 – Black2 & White2
      2013 – X&Y

      I want something in 2014 to keep the trend of having new games every year. It doesn’t have to be RS remakes but I just want new games this year.

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  21. while i feeled BW2 were complete, mainly because i played bw2 before bw, i want they take time for the hoenn games just how they did it for HG/SS

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