nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 20 days agoPokémon Go launches Gigantamax raids to mixed response, as developer bans countless players by accidentwww.eurogamer.netexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
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minus-squaresimple@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·20 days agoNiantic will just keep falling upwards forever, huh?
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·20 days agoI can’t think of an IP that has carried mediocre devs harder than Pokemon has.
minus-squareDoom@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 days agoI feel like it is an IP that has always operated with one of them weighted clothing shits Goku or Rock Lee wears. If they unleashed full potential Pokemon it would be top 5 games. Maybe not anymore but they had over a decade window to do so and never did.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 days agoBetween Game Freak and Niantic, yeah, that’s a pretty compelling combo for mediocrity.
Niantic will just keep falling upwards forever, huh?
I can’t think of an IP that has carried mediocre devs harder than Pokemon has.
I feel like it is an IP that has always operated with one of them weighted clothing shits Goku or Rock Lee wears.
If they unleashed full potential Pokemon it would be top 5 games. Maybe not anymore but they had over a decade window to do so and never did.
Between Game Freak and Niantic, yeah, that’s a pretty compelling combo for mediocrity.