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”

  1. N E W S – A L E R T

    “Deeming the themes of Pokemon X and Y remakes too controversial for children, Masuda has personally shut down the project. However, many Pokemon fans may still celebrate over the remakes of the original Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. These two titles are to be directed by Satoshi himself and it will showcase the Hoenn region at it’s best…”

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  3. anyone wanna battle? ^^ … ugh what am i doing, i should be finishing my picture LOL
    if i lose, i will go back to drawing ; 3;

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  4. N E W S – A L E R T

    “Deeming the themes of Pokemon X and Y remakes too controversial for children, Masuda has personally shut down the project. However, many Pokemon fans may still celebrate over the remakes of the original Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. These two titles are to be directed by Satoshi himself and it will showcase the Hoenn region at it’s best…”

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  5. PETA doesn’t care about people.
    They would kill themselves in order to save a goldfish.
    I love animals so fricken much but seriously.

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  16. There needs to be an ability that when ever you have an ally that is 1/3 hp left your atk and sp atk raise x1.5

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  20. I think the 3DS will be here for a while. Nintendo can afford to make another handheld that won’t sell right off. I feel like XY were just test subjects for another game. I think it’s very possible another installment of XY will be coming. Then remakes. But Nintendo got off track with their pattern of new games, third installment, remake. Personally I want one big game. Something to keep us playing for a very long time. I like the character development in BW. That was what a good pokemon game should be. I want something lengthy with plenty to do. Why did they get rid of the contests and pokéblocks? Musicals were boring and supplied you with absolutely nothing. Why not a Kalos Battle Frontier? Why not release a game, have one story, and then add installments of other stories about past groups such as Rocket, Magma, Aqua, etc? Granted plasma was around twice as was Rocket, but why can’t there be more? Why not have a game that goes back and let’s you relive the first pokemon war? (What doesn’t make sense to me is how AZ’s pokemon are in Pokeballs and pokeballs seem to be a fairly recent invention. And why are they at that low of a level?!) Why not have all the past evil groups come together and try to relight the fire of war for another attempt to end all life? That’s what I like about these games. Granted, Pokemon designs can be limited to an extent, but the story possibilities are endless and could go in forever!

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