>>58032053 (OP)
>Now
Has been like that since platinum

>>58032053 (OP)
Is what i said after finishing xy and she hades no post game

>>58032053 (OP)
More like a zombie series. The games are fucking dogshit now but people will buy them anyways.

>>58032053 (OP)
Always has been.

>>58032053 (OP)
Me when BW relied on a defunct flash game website to grow berries

>>58032053 (OP)
>now

>>58032053 (OP)
They need to go back to HGSS Art style, make it 3 times as big with 3 times as many Pokemon and add more post game content and large wild areas with repeatable elite battles. Then put it on mobil somehow. It's telling that the most dedicated community doesn't care about the games past Gen V. Really I think it was the success of Pokemon GO that turned them into a joke.

>>58032110
>It's telling that the most dedicated community doesn't care about the games past Gen V.
Nothing past that is canon anyway. It's pretty easy to just ignore the Mega Timeline entirely.

>>58032117
>just ignore the Mega Timeline
More or less what the pokemon company did for a decade anyway,

>>58032053 (OP)
>Series dead even though it's selling more than ever doebeit

>>58032053 (OP)
me when swsh cutted sttantler

>>58032195
It's a zombie corpse only being kept running in the zog cog machine by normies and mentally ill women who buy all the plushies

>>58032195
literally anywhere i go people are shit talking the series lol

>>58032077
B2W2 has the Join Avenue schizoid

This is such a Reddit term so excuse me but enshitification hit Pokemon hard since Pokemon Go reminded everyone that it was still around.

Since Pokemon Go (which is in itself slop) there's been:
>Ultra Sun & Moon
Copy paste game with every legendary thrown in
>Let's go Eevee
Lol, lmao even
>Sword and Shield
Soulless shitfest with a boring straight line world, terrible graphics, reused assets (also lied about it) and the beginings of DLC
>BDSP
Vomit-inducing outsourced slop, didn't even have the decency to include Platinum content
>Legends Arceus
Admittedly good attempt to try something new, fell short of a good game
>Scarlet & Violet
Barely functional, forgettable story, disgusting marketing Pokemon like Lechon and Smolive, giant world with fuck all in it
>Legends ZA
Looks DOA

And yet.. TPC is in the best financial shape it's ever been in. People buy playing cards quicker than they can make them, grown adults kill each other over them. Plushies fly off the shelves, games are almost at Red & Blue levels of sales, slowly venturing into Netflix exclusives (and you know how much they pay for slop)

>>58032314
They still buy it anyway

>>58032053 (OP)
It's been dead since 2013

>>58032053 (OP)
I haven't played since gen 6, what happened?

>>58032665
gen 6

>>58032665
Pokemon gone woke

>>58032053 (OP)
The official death of the video game is Sword/Shield, this is when they really stopped trying. I didn't liked XY or SM but at least they still felt polished and you could be a bit hopeful for the future. Since SWSH there is no hope left and it keeps getting worse with each new release.

good, the truth there are better collection monster game now, palworld, the new digimon game, the new honkai game, roco kingdom, azur promillia. animo etc..pokemon is just a zombie brand for sell merchandise in japan

>>58032837
SM is when I stopped being hopeful but SWSH was definitely the final nail in the coffin

>>58032665
dogshit gimmicks

>>58032845
and none of these has a dogshit fanbase like the poketurd fanbase

>>58032859
mega evolutions were a mistake

>>58032837
They put their attention on beast of reincarnation. I'm pretty convinced the PLA only exist as guinea pigs for it and got released to look like they're still invested in pokemon.
they clearly didn't expect it to be a series since ZA is thrown together like a regular entry with the barest essentials copypasted from the first legends to keep the brand distinct.

>>58032053 (OP)
I still have no idea what they meant buy putting troon NPCs in S/V, did they think that kids wouldn't notice a troon in the mining town,
it makes absolutely no sense, maybe if there were just in Levincia, but seeing a troon in a rural town is probably a 1 in 4,000,000 probability

>>58032427
Lego Pokemon too

>>58032427
the SV DLC with Ogerpon was memorable, Area Zero was memorable, but I concede the point that those parts of the game probably last an hour in game at best.

>>58032077
i never got why people care about berry growing in any pokemon game

>>58032924
>beast of reincarnation

Don't be delusional it'll sell about 10k copies and you'll forget about it until Gamefreak's next non-Pokemon game you use as a conspiracy

>>58032053 (OP)
why r u back tho

>>58032314
Almost as if the internet userbase of where you visit errs towards the more younger element. Those same people assumed Switch 2 would fail, because it was $450 and are similarly aggrieved over Pokémon, as it's done to them what it does to everyone and ignored them after a certain age bracket.

>>58033169
GF putting all their effort into BoR and it not doing well aren't mutually exclusive concepts anon

>>58033273
>gear project
>having effrot put in
Cannot wait for it to be another LTH-tier effort, but with GWAFFIX and seeing all the shitheels fail to buy it because it was a proof-of-concept for further graphical improvements to the core games.

>>58032427
>Giant world with fuck all In it
They commited the cardinal sin of open world games on only their first attempt. Just take it back to 2D please.

>>58032845
This. How can you still like pokemon over all those other franchises you mentioned. They're not degenerate and don't have gay pedoshit in them. And they're not homophobic or misogynistic, so that's a major plus.

When they announced shit like pokepark Kanto , pkmn is not a videogame franchise anymore, fartendo just want be like disney

>>58032427
>Let's go Eevee
>Lol, lmao even
No you can say it, it's a horrible laggy Pokémon Go tie-in game that's just a third Kanto remake except now with even more censorship than FRLG. Why did they even bother to remove the casino if the series still hypocritically promotes gambling through Masters, Pocket, Unite, etc.?

I am so glad gen alpha and gen beta have other games to enjoy.

>Strategically puts plushies behind to nostalgia bait fans
>Bored nip out of his mind trying to convince fans to blindly buy their products
I genuinely believe it’s time for people to abandon Pokemon. This is just pathetic

>>58032427
Use "beshiting" or "beshittening" instead if it bothers you that much.

>>58032195
it was the blockbuster sales that revealed to the populace how bad it had gotten

>>58032053 (OP)
then stop posting on this board and leave it for the people who like the franchise

>>58033904
those people should die

>>58033913
Nah, you should kill yourself for becoming a bitter hateful little cunt, because a game series stopped pretending to care about you after mummy disowned you.

>>58033928
you are not only a fan of a game for children, but of its nadir

>>58033658
>Strategically puts plushies behind to nostalgia bait fans
The entire preshow was also nostalgiabait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsskPQsZRaE

>>58032077
>Xhe cares about berry farming

>>58033934
Yes, I'm not a edgetard "adult" seething she invested so much of her life into the thing for so little reward.
Newsflash, it's ALWAYS been a mid kiddy series WHENEVER it got compared to of-the-era teen and adult offerings. That's no different today, but it still succeeds because casuals don't care about the opinions of autistic "adults" kids ignore the opinions of spergs to buy into it as it's fun (because you niggards ALSO ate shit and LOVED it as 7 year olds too) and people like me enjoy what it brings than having the whole property adjust itself to suit one autistic little statistic with a sad. Fuck off to discord with the rest the snowflake fuckers with a sad please. 'Elsewise dea with the fact you're a fucking dose without a hanky to be blown into.

>>58033961
but of its nadir

>>58032053 (OP)
You now realize the hectic pace of rushed releases wasn't just a way to keep the money flowing. It was to keep the franchise ever fresh in the public conscious and not let the fans have a moment of self-reflection. With this longer cycle fans are starting to realize most recent releases have been nothing-burguers, at least imo.

>>58032053 (OP)
>official take on a battle simulator releasing
>Legends ZA is the most experimentation the series has ever done
>/v/edditor: NOOOOOOOOOOO WHY AREN'T THEY REHASHING RED AND BLUE FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME LIKE MY PRECIOUS UNOVA THE SERIES IS DEAD

>>58034050
boring

>>58033935
This entire franchise is nostalgiabait. Its whole existence hinges on it. Kanto itself was nostalgiabait about being a kid growing up in post-war Japan and catching bugs n' shit. It's just that now fans are being a bit more self-aware about it.

>>58034057
Agreed. The average brownoid from /v/ flooding this board after every presents is boring.

>>58034067
does TPC cut your checks, or is masuda doing it out of his own pocket?

>>58032053 (OP)
Gen 5 was the peak of the franchise and it's been downhill ever since fr fr imo no cap

>>58034050
>battle simulator
Dog-shit roguelite Pokémon Stadium made by ILCA
>Legends ZA is the most experimentation the series has ever done
They took what made PL:A cool and shat on it by turning back to a pseudo-league formula and constraining the player to a single city.

Oh, and all new Megas are Gen I pokémon because of course they are.

>>58034071
>/v/tard can't contemplate forming your own opinions

>>58034082
i was just trying to be polite, that's even more embarrassing

>>58032427
a valuable lesson can be learnt here for all those who want their franchise to become popular
advertising and marketing works wonders
there's still retards all over the world who jack their tiny brown cocks off to charizard, pikachu and mewtwo
if tpci didn't plaster those faces everywhere, pokecrap would've been dead after gen 5
just give fans what they want
they want more pikachu, charizard and mewtwo, and that's what they'll get until the end of time even if the games are shitty and ridden with bugs

>>58033658
they have truly mastered the art of marketing
other monster collector franchises need to take notes instead of shitting out indieslop with garbage monster designs
this is how you sell your crap to the masses
shameless nostalgiawanking everywhere, get a thousand different remixes playing in the background of some iconic tune from the old media/games, have trading cards and merch shown to the goyimcattle
this is how you sell crap to sheeple
there's no need to put any effort into games anymore
gamers these days are literal shiteaters who will blindly defend and buy whatever if they feel emotionally connected to it through their childhood memories

Pokemanchildren deserve it, this thread is hilarious

>>58033965
That's not Gen 3 or 5 anon. THEY were the nadirs. Figures a child like you wouldnt know the difference.

>>58034147
What does this translate to?

>>58034147
You do understand you're including yourself in that? I mean you're manchild, still invested in Pokémon but crying it doesn't do what you want, instead of acting cringe for ad revenue. You
re both sides the same coin - spergs who NEED pokémon to define their existence.

>>58034173
Crying about palworld, which just goes to show how sperg palniggers are (best way to throw shade at something is to not recognise it as an entity in the sligthest, worst way is to parrot what others said in a vain attempt to staarise them).

>>58034147
based

>>58034176
this anon eats chigyu

the official stuff always have been garbage, at least romhacks and fangames exist they already mogged official games

>>58034200
>chigyu
From the cursory googling I've done, that applies more to you than me. See, you're not Japanese, yet pretending to "understand " the nips. They despise weebs though andd absolutely would consider one running around pretending to be a glorious Nipponese, how's it go "chigyu".
Amazing how you can't see the wood for the trees though, they're big enough keke.

>>58034226
tldr

>>58034230
>timestamp
We both know that ain't true.

>>58032314
If people are still talking about the franchise that means they're doing something right. All it takes is one really good game to undo all that badwill and reputation. True death for a franchise is indifference and 0 discussion

>>58033658
ngl the park idea sounds cool but then I saw the concept design and it killed it for me. its a glorified trail at best.

>>58032427
Maybe everything you said is just wrong and they are all good games. Food for thought