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Will gamefreak ever be a good games studio?
Posted on: 04/23/25 11:55PM
This isn't a pokefan complain, we all know that Gamefreak's games have been decent at best, all of them, and being decent rarely ever brings success to a studio, and considering how not a single one of gamefreak's games have been well received aside from Drill Dozer then can we expect something out of the studio?
I know for a fact not a single one of you did play their most recent non-pokemon game, Little Town Hero, and how do I know that? 3 reasons:
1. Right now, it has zero posts here.
2. It has the first literally empty wiki i have ever seen, not even worth using for shitpost.
3. Because it only has like 10 reviews on steam, with a peak player count of 16 players, at least Dustborn had 80 players at the same time, meaning the modern audience is bigger than the amount of people who cares about gamefreak.
Gamefreak will release Project Bloom in 2026 and have shown NOTHING about it other than a single piece of artwork I just uploaded, and I don't think there is a single soul expecting it to even decent, and if it was to be released on Steam day 1 I bet it wouldn't have over 1k wishlists, but I like to think that some day will gamefreak release a game that is more than decent so they can actually catch an audience of their own and prove they can make good games
I know for a fact not a single one of you did play their most recent non-pokemon game, Little Town Hero, and how do I know that? 3 reasons:
1. Right now, it has zero posts here.
2. It has the first literally empty wiki i have ever seen, not even worth using for shitpost.
3. Because it only has like 10 reviews on steam, with a peak player count of 16 players, at least Dustborn had 80 players at the same time, meaning the modern audience is bigger than the amount of people who cares about gamefreak.
Gamefreak will release Project Bloom in 2026 and have shown NOTHING about it other than a single piece of artwork I just uploaded, and I don't think there is a single soul expecting it to even decent, and if it was to be released on Steam day 1 I bet it wouldn't have over 1k wishlists, but I like to think that some day will gamefreak release a game that is more than decent so they can actually catch an audience of their own and prove they can make good games
Posted on: 04/24/25 11:02AM
Orphan_crippler said:
This isn't a pokefan complain, we all know that Gamefreak's games have been decent at best, all of them, and being decent rarely ever brings success to a studio, and considering how not a single one of gamefreak's games have been well received aside from Drill Dozer then can we expect something out of the studio?
I know for a fact not a single one of you did play their most recent non-pokemon game, Little Town Hero, and how do I know that? 3 reasons:
1. Right now, it has zero posts here.
2. It has the first literally empty wiki i have ever seen, not even worth using for shitpost.
3. Because it only has like 10 reviews on steam, with a peak player count of 16 players, at least Dustborn had 80 players at the same time, meaning the modern audience is bigger than the amount of people who cares about gamefreak.
Gamefreak will release Project Bloom in 2026 and have shown NOTHING about it other than a single piece of artwork I just uploaded, and I don't think there is a single soul expecting it to even decent, and if it was to be released on Steam day 1 I bet it wouldn't have over 1k wishlists, but I like to think that some day will gamefreak release a game that is more than decent so they can actually catch an audience of their own and prove they can make good games
This isn't a pokefan complain, we all know that Gamefreak's games have been decent at best, all of them, and being decent rarely ever brings success to a studio, and considering how not a single one of gamefreak's games have been well received aside from Drill Dozer then can we expect something out of the studio?
I know for a fact not a single one of you did play their most recent non-pokemon game, Little Town Hero, and how do I know that? 3 reasons:
1. Right now, it has zero posts here.
2. It has the first literally empty wiki i have ever seen, not even worth using for shitpost.
3. Because it only has like 10 reviews on steam, with a peak player count of 16 players, at least Dustborn had 80 players at the same time, meaning the modern audience is bigger than the amount of people who cares about gamefreak.
Gamefreak will release Project Bloom in 2026 and have shown NOTHING about it other than a single piece of artwork I just uploaded, and I don't think there is a single soul expecting it to even decent, and if it was to be released on Steam day 1 I bet it wouldn't have over 1k wishlists, but I like to think that some day will gamefreak release a game that is more than decent so they can actually catch an audience of their own and prove they can make good games
And that's one of these issues from Gamefreak. Instead of focusing on their games, they're just wasting time and money on other projects while their main IP is on development. Shouldn't be a issue if they're big in numbers, which they don't even use their 300+ employees who some are also programmers as well. That and combined with their dogshit work force, yeah they're always bad, even before any of this.
How? Red & Green (the actual japanese versions) were all broken since launch despite it had a lot of time to develop. Blue is a re-release yet it's pretty much the same, it's changes are so little and it didn't fixed a lot of outrageous bugs, hell it even created it's own bugs. Yellow is the most "refined" release since it had less bugs to encounter.
They were beloved because the standard from this industry was low when it comes to quality at these games' release, it's how many games (most notably rpgs with bullshit encounters) are getting frown upon by their flaws when time goes on. If Pokemon Green was released today, it would had been shit flinged from even our dogs.
Posted on: 04/24/25 11:31AM
Orphan_crippler said:
This isn't a pokefan complain, we all know that Gamefreak's games have been decent at best, all of them, and being decent rarely ever brings success to a studio, and considering how not a single one of gamefreak's games have been well received aside from Drill Dozer then can we expect something out of the studio?
I know for a fact not a single one of you did play their most recent non-pokemon game, Little Town Hero, and how do I know that? 3 reasons:
1. Right now, it has zero posts here.
2. It has the first literally empty wiki i have ever seen, not even worth using for shitpost.
3. Because it only has like 10 reviews on steam, with a peak player count of 16 players, at least Dustborn had 80 players at the same time, meaning the modern audience is bigger than the amount of people who cares about gamefreak.
Gamefreak will release Project Bloom in 2026 and have shown NOTHING about it other than a single piece of artwork I just uploaded, and I don't think there is a single soul expecting it to even decent, and if it was to be released on Steam day 1 I bet it wouldn't have over 1k wishlists, but I like to think that some day will gamefreak release a game that is more than decent so they can actually catch an audience of their own and prove they can make good games
This isn't a pokefan complain, we all know that Gamefreak's games have been decent at best, all of them, and being decent rarely ever brings success to a studio, and considering how not a single one of gamefreak's games have been well received aside from Drill Dozer then can we expect something out of the studio?
I know for a fact not a single one of you did play their most recent non-pokemon game, Little Town Hero, and how do I know that? 3 reasons:
1. Right now, it has zero posts here.
2. It has the first literally empty wiki i have ever seen, not even worth using for shitpost.
3. Because it only has like 10 reviews on steam, with a peak player count of 16 players, at least Dustborn had 80 players at the same time, meaning the modern audience is bigger than the amount of people who cares about gamefreak.
Gamefreak will release Project Bloom in 2026 and have shown NOTHING about it other than a single piece of artwork I just uploaded, and I don't think there is a single soul expecting it to even decent, and if it was to be released on Steam day 1 I bet it wouldn't have over 1k wishlists, but I like to think that some day will gamefreak release a game that is more than decent so they can actually catch an audience of their own and prove they can make good games
You are absolutely right because this is the first time I’ve even heard of Little Town Hero. They have all that Pokémon money, they couldn’t even bother to advertise it?
Posted on: 04/24/25 05:41PM
As a person looking from the outside as I don't play Pokemon games (love the anime though), Gamefreak does seem to develop some pretty cool art designs and potentially interesting concepts for new Pokemon games, but they just never give enough time to their game developers (either because of Gamefreak's and/or upper Ninentdo's executives) to actually make their games.
Isn't pretty much every recent Pokemon game of the past few years made in less than a year? No game is ever going to be great with such a short development schedule.
Isn't pretty much every recent Pokemon game of the past few years made in less than a year? No game is ever going to be great with such a short development schedule.
Posted on: 04/24/25 05:46PM
GameFreak has no incentive to make better games. Pokemon has been a cash cow from the start, and there are legions who will buy anything.
... They were Bethesda before Bethesda, honestly.
... They were Bethesda before Bethesda, honestly.
Posted on: 04/24/25 06:06PM
I liked drill dozer...
Posted on: 04/25/25 02:20AM
Xalrun said:
I liked drill dozer...
I liked drill dozer...
Me too, it is very good for the GBA and that's why I said "aside from DD", but it is sad that they peaked on the GBA and haven't been able to make anything as fun since then
I'm glad they didn't make Drill Dozer 2 because I know it would suck and look like shit
Posted on: 04/26/25 12:50PM
I've only played 3 non pokemon gamefreak games.
Pulseman, Drill Dozer and Giga Wrecker Alt.
The 1st two games I mentioned were pretty fun and I'd replay them every now and then. Giga Wrecker however can only be described as "alright." The designs for all the characters were pretty and the music was mostly forgettable outside of the boss tracks. But some of the games puzzles were frustrating due to it all being physics based and the camera was pretty dogshit. If you ever want to try it yourself, I recommend only getting it on sale because otherwise I truly don't think its worth wasting your time on.
Pulseman, Drill Dozer and Giga Wrecker Alt.
The 1st two games I mentioned were pretty fun and I'd replay them every now and then. Giga Wrecker however can only be described as "alright." The designs for all the characters were pretty and the music was mostly forgettable outside of the boss tracks. But some of the games puzzles were frustrating due to it all being physics based and the camera was pretty dogshit. If you ever want to try it yourself, I recommend only getting it on sale because otherwise I truly don't think its worth wasting your time on.
Posted on: 06/08/25 03:18PM
It seems like project bloom will be interesting at the very least, what the fuck did they do wrong with little town hero? Did they realize they needed help so they hired devs from From Software or what?
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