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Legends Arceus shows they can release a quality product, they just choose not to.
Even legends Arceus could've used more time in the oven, even though it got a lot of things right.
The biggest thing Arceus needed was voice acting. It is ridiculous that the biggest franchise in the world doesn't have voice acting in a game that has such animated discussions.
I feel it in my gut that some day Pokemon is going to have his "BotW"-like game that will make it revolutionary and relevant again, but until then we're gonna get a lot of stinkers.
Black2/White2 used to be so missunderstood. People would absolutely kill each other for that right now
They don't even have to do anything new, they just have to look at Cassette Beasts to see how to pull off an open world Pokemon-like game.
Now I know what my next steam game is going to be, thanks for that
And you'll have a certain group of diehard fans who believe it "isn't a real pokémon game" because of the changes lol.
with regular releases
I guess having fewer releases isn't an option
Palworld is set to officially release at the start of next year. It's clearly very Pokémon inspired, but looks much more impressive than any existing Pokémon game. I wonder if Palworld will help shake the Pokémon Company into upping their game.
creatures with machineguns
If I wanted that I'd just play Digimon. Not that the idea is bad, it just... feels to me more like an attempt at a replacement for Digimon than for Pokémon. Equipping everyone with machineguns and joining in into the slaughter feels like it absurdily misses the point of Pokémon for me.
(That said, I'm not con adapting some of the Palcreatures minus machineguns as fakémon if I find out I do like them)
Kindred Fates looks more interesting.
For most people the Pokémon IP is a much bigger draw than a potentially better game though. Game Freak are in a position where due to the Pokémon IP they can release a game riddled with issues and still sell well.
There's also Coromon, which even has a similar style.
After the TOTK release, all the amazing mechanics, graphics, and creativity? While I think maybe TOTK is setting new bars, it really shows how much they’ve just churned out the Pokémon games without any thought.
pixelmon!!!
I'm hoping for the minetest version of that, it'd be impressive.
could pokemon take down a foss project?
Under capitalism, a petty company with money can do anything.
On the question of "should it be able"? No. Even if reusing the """assets""" such as the graphics of the mons, they are postprocessed and converted for usage in a project like pixelmon to adjust for the visual style ("cubemon" style), which any pregraduate lawyer can identify as a Transformative Work.