• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    What gets me is that there are games that, if made, would obviously print money and people would love. It requires minimal creativity or thought.

    Make the pokemon MMO.

    Make the chao garden.

    Half Life 3

    Right off the top of my head. There are so many games that people beg for that get avoided like we’re asking for healthcare. I’m not even asking for something cool like a 3D platform fighter that makes them have to shit their pants because it’s not formulaic.

    I’ll never forgive profit extraction and investment returns sticking their nose into every last facet of society

    • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been compling many many different ways to make Pokémon better for years; the universe has just gotten to big for Gamefreak to keep monopolizing it and releasing the same unfinished bullshit every year knowing there’s a bunch of people who will just buy it anyway.

      The series has sucked ass since X/Y

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        2 months ago

        Can I have some of the highlights of the improvements?

        And while I didn’t play the expansions nor did much online battling, I had a lot of fun with the gen 9 campaign. I felt like a pokemon trainer on my own little adventure.

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      2 months ago

      Given that gamefreak couldn’t get Scarlet/Violet to run at a steady frame rate despite the simple, outdated graphics, I can’t imagine that them attempting that but with hundreds of players per server would result in anything other that an absolutely broken game.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        I’m generally a defender of modern Pokemon games but to call the online features of Scarlet and Violet “outdated” would be an understatement. The tera raid battle lobbies are inexcusably awful. We figured online lobby systems out in the 90s for god’s sake.