A “Proper” Pokemon Console Game Could Save the Franchise

[TripleSMoon]

Don't you remember that we were kids once too? We were the ones that made the franchise famous by buying Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. We grew up with Pokemon.

Psh, whaddya mean "once"? I'm 22, and I'm still a kid! :-p

 

[Thesolcity]

>Implying the series is dying.

 

[Midna]

>Implying the series is dying.

Fix'd

 

[Hop2089]

The Pokemon demographic is changing while kids make up a high percentage of the market base, people in their late teens to late twenties are growing.

If you don't believe me on this, I'll give you another metaseries that's undergoing a similar fanbase shift, Pretty Cure, the later installents (Fresh - Smile) have a growing otaku fanbase.

Times have changed an Pokemon for Wii U is in order but not because the series needs saving, it prints money like all popular Nintendo products, but to please the fanbase.

 

[gamefan5]

On-topic: The pokemon series need saving? SAVING???? WHAT??? NO!!! We're talking about a series that makes S**TLOADS of money. As long as there are gullible little kids on earth (and the pokemon purists that doesn't complain or still loves the seires), GF will KEEP making money.
And it's one of the main reasons B&W2 is on the DS.

So the next Pokemon game was revealed in Japan to be Pokemon Gray Pokemon Black and White 2? This is slightly getting ridiculous, with Nintendo throwing out Pokemon games on the Nintendo DS as if we actually want them now. I mean I know they sell, but they sell to little kids, not to people my age.

By your logic, you should stop playing kids' games and get a life. Nintendo's target audience for Pokemon was for kids, starting day 1. They're expecting the majority of Pokemon customers to be children.

Don't you remember that we were kids once too? We were the ones that made the franchise famous by buying Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. We grew up with Pokemon.

Yeah I remember, but the kids of this generation will continue to revitalize the seires. The pokemon games was made to have a simple gameplay to pick up and play. Although there is strategy involved if you decide to play seriously (competitively).Their target was and still IS intended for kids. If you don't like it then stop acting like a kid or tell GF that (although they simply won't care.). Again the series doesn't need saving. When a main game will sell less than 1 million copies, then I'll agree to this.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Yeah I remember, but the kids of this generation will continue to revitalize the seires...Their target was and still IS intended for kids.

This is very true of a lot of kids' cartoons, if you think about it. How long have Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes, and countless other cartoons been around, and still making new series that are successful? Though from our viewpoint, they're incredibly bad compared to the classics we may have grown up with, they're successful with the kids of the time. When those kids outgrow them (like we did), the next generation of children take their place. Same thing with Pokemon.

 

[gamefan5]

Yeah I remember, but the kids of this generation will continue to revitalize the seires...Their target was and still IS intended for kids.

This is very true of a lot of kids' cartoons, if you think about it. How long have Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes, and countless other cartoons been around, and still making new series that are successful? Though from our viewpoint, they're incredibly bad compared to the classics we may have grown up with, they're successful with the kids of the time. When those kids outgrow them (like we did), the next generation of children take their place. Same thing with Pokemon.

Thank you for understanding my point.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Thank you for understanding my point.

Yeah. I don't LIKE it, and I really WISH Gamefreak would make a type of "classic" Pokemon game to cater to fans of the original generations, but aside from Fire Red/Leaf Green and Heart Gold/ Soul Silver, I don't think that's ever going to happen. :-\

 

[chyyran]

Don't you remember that we were kids once too? We were the ones that made the franchise famous by buying Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. We grew up with Pokemon.

Kids games =/= A Bad Game

Pokemon is a prime example. It's aimed at little kids, but it's an exceptional game.

 

[BaconBits]

>Implying the Pokemon franchise needs to be saved.

 

[Gahars]

Just perusing through this thread, and it saddens me to see so many people believe that "It's just for kids!" is a legitimate excuse for a lack of quality.

 

[BORTZ]

Wait wait. I'm still lost from reading the title. Since when did the pokemon franchise need saving?

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

A Pokemon game with real time movement and control for the battles would be interesting. You know, actually CONTROLLING the Pokemon for once? It wouldn't be too hard, either. The control scheme could even take a page from the original Pokemon Stadium, where the 4 moves were each assigned to a different button.

Yeah I always wanted a Pokemon game with action-RPG elements during the Pokemon battles. Could be interesting

 

[BORTZ]

I want a pokemon game that plays like advance wars. Pokemon: Mass Attack!

 

[thiefb0ss]

I hope a Pokemon console game will get released.

 

[TripleSMoon]

I want a pokemon game that plays like advance wars. Pokemon: Mass Attack!

HA! That would be hilarious!

 

[Qtis]

Mass Effect meets Pokémon. I'm game. Especially if they could get a good plot in it: "Team Rocket is coming, we have to unite the regions!"

 

[Veho]

I want a pokemon game that plays like advance wars. Pokemon: Mass Attack!

Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition?

 

[BORTZ]

I want a pokemon game that plays like advance wars. Pokemon: Mass Attack!

Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition?

See my wish came true kinda

Honestly i made that post WAY before i even heard heads of tails of Nobunaga's Ambition.

 

[Deleted-236924]

I think it's weird that he's complaining about the series being the same over and over again, but then, in an attempt to "save the franchise", he proposes something vastly similar to what we already had, which still is the same thing over and over.
Not to mention the difficulty curve would be pretty crappy if we started out the next game with everything we had in the previous game.