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Pixel art will always be great but...do you really need another fucking Pokémon game?

That's called corromon. But yes in several ways the old sprites were better

Old graphics sure but mechanically Pokémon games kinda suck, especially the older ones. I'll be honest I love the collection and monster part of the game but everything else is simply bad and I usually give up after 10 hours. It's such a pointless slog.

An old style game would be perfect for mobile. Not too graphically intensive so battery won't drain as fast as Pokémon Go and should run on even budget phones.

They could then keep the 3D games for consoles.

I want a Pokémon MMO

I want a real 3rd person open world coop Pokémon game, instead of Nintendo attacking indie devs that are eating their 30 year old lunch Nintendo never felt like eating.

HD/2D Johto remake let’s fucking goooooooo

Absolutely yes. I much prefer the 2D Pokémon artstyle to the 3D models.

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I really stopped caring for Pokemon after X and Y, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. The switch games were big misses. I kinda liked Sword and Shield, but they had no lasting power on me. Scarlet and Violet are by far the worst Pokemon games to have ever come out of mainline Pokemon.

I didn't play through ~~Marcus~~ Arceus at all, even though I own it. Maybe I will give that a shot.

3D was a mistake. Gen 5 is peak graphics

I want to see pokemon red/blue/yellow absolutely fully maximum modernised. I want to go through the world in VR. I want to throw the poke balls into battle for real stashed on my belt. I want to be able to yell commands to a living, breathing pokemon dancing around in the arena.

No.

I'd want to see a mainline Pokemon game that actually meets in the middle between experienced players and newcomers. An entry that isn't seemingly too convoluted or stupid simple to approach, not to mention try to be interesting as a story. But I think GameFreak has long passed that point of making it interesting. Like where can you go with the story and lore after you had a generation that presented pokemon that controlled time, space, distortion while introducing what is essentially a pokemon 'god'? You really cannot go far above and beyond that.

at least to unova generation and a little 6th generation. not after MASUDA went all "i dont like pokemon anymore, so im going to create a half-assed game" aftER SWSH, and i have heard nothing but bad reviews from every game since, glad i dint get a switch.

they still have triple battles? and special and physical are not seperate anymore?

i mostly play card game LIVE, which is barely a functioning game.

Ever since the switch to 3D, I knew they would never look back. Biggest reason why fan games are so valuable to me. The only thing I like about the upper half gens (not including 5) are the pokemon (case by case and not including regionals) and the terastal mechanic, in terms of the games and their mechanics. Gens 6-9 I really don't have almost any care for any of the important characters outside of the designs for characters/character art for characters like Geeta, Diantha, Brasius, Kiawe, and Rika. Those are pretty much the only characters who's names I could even remember.

That's mostly due to, in my opinion, when I think they started absolutely dumbing and watering down the story and characters so they could start focusing on nostalgia baiting people to keep them coming back while also completely dumbing down exploration as well. I think two of the only characters from gens 6-9 I really care about were Lysander and Kiawe because I thought Lysander's genocide plot was interesting enough and Kiawe only because of the episodes of the anime I saw (which is kinda cheating since the anime is where they put every ounce of character into 99.99% of all important NPCs).

Pretty sure a large amount of fans would absolutely love returning to an older form, at least aesthetically, myself included, but good luck convincing Sintendo of anything without getting their corporate legal open secret stasi (lawyers) getting involved.

Just go play pokemon unbound. It's better than anything nintendo would come up with.

I didn't really like the games when they were the new hotness and think the format of Arceus is way, way better.

Not particularly, but I've played maybe 40 minutes of pokemon in my life total so my opinion probably shouldn't count.

More zelda like aLttP, though....

If it means a return to random encounters, no absolutely not. There's a reason I don't go back and replay the older games even though I have fond memories of them. That reason is largely Zubat. Fuck you Zubat.

But also, aside from a handful of bugs and performance problems Scarlet/Violet and Legends: Arceus are the best the franchise has ever been. I'd rather they refine what they're already doing and keep making things better rather then regress purely to appease someone's misguided nostalgia.

I mean, this is just Cassette Beasts, and it is indeed a damn good game.