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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 00:49:47 No.46216468 View View Reply Original Report

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Last year we saw Genshin Impact rocket up the charts and essentially dominate the global video-game markets for several months. It didn't last for very long, and while the game is still uber-popular, it will eventually fade into oblivion if it doesn't innovate or pull out some dumb gimmick.

However, despite this, it did prove that a no-name nothing developer and pretty awful game could do well in a super saturated market for more than just a meme's lifecycle. With that in mind, what are the odds that a company replicates the Pokemon magic and creates a game nearly identical in formula but for an older crowd and without all the shitty Pokemon gimmicks we're used to?

What could potentially dethrone Pokemon? Is it even possible? Are we all too attached to this IP to ever truly leave it for something else? Everyday I see fanart and ideas that I would have killed to see introduced long ago, but neither Nintendo, GameFreak, nor Creatures seems to have any interest whatsoever in this route.

Tell me, /vp/. Is it possible?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 00:54:44 No.46216506 Report

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>>46216468
Nothing can truly compete with Pokemon because it's not the gameplay of Pokemon people like. The gameplay is dogshit. Always has been and always will be. What people like is the universe, which can't be ripped off like the gameplay can.

Trying to make a Pokemon ripoff misses the point. It's like making a Spider-Man ripoff called Arachnid-Man. Even if the movie is objectively better quality than the actual Spider-Man movies, no one will care because it's not in the real Marvel universe.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 00:58:34 No.46216526 Report

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>>46216506
I would argue that the difference there is that it's one singular character or group of static characters versus an ever-growing cast of characters. If it was well done I would personally give any IP with this general format a try.

I mean, you've definitely poked at the core issue which is that nobody actually gives a fuck about anything but the Pokemon universe. It's all about specific mons and trainers. Most people probably enjoy collecting plushies/merch/whatever more than they do playing the actual games. I get that. It's the only thing that draws me to the IP anymore.

But if a company came along and did it better, did it in a way that felt respectful to the Pokemon origins but also delivered on some seriously amazing world-building, I might be inclined to try it out for longer than just a month or so.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:02:46 No.46216554 Report

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>>46216506
this, plus one of genshin's big advantages was that it was f2p; playing pokemon for free is easy enough with emulation + showdown that that niche can't be filled the same way

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:04:28 No.46216574 Report

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violence is the only answer

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:12:21 No.46216629 Report

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Genshin was backed by China-Government money. Good fucking luck to anyone else trying to replicate that feat.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:16:25 No.46216663 Report

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>>46216468
>Last year we saw Genshin Impact rocket up the charts and essentially dominate the global video-game markets for several months. It didn't last for very long, and while the game is still uber-popular, it will eventually fade into oblivion if it doesn't innovate or pull out some dumb gimmick.
genshinfag here, it's still going strong, although the past month or so hasn't been that eventful, that is because the game is in the "filler" phase, there simply isn't much to do even if they're constantly updating and curing the game. this will continue on the next patch in march as it's going to be filler as well. but after that it's going to get funky again since they're gonna add a new area and introduce a new element effectively, not only that, a new act of the game will begin soon after that and it will be the biggest update since release.
the game is all but dead anon, it's only the beginning

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:24:11 No.46216723 Report

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>>46216468
>Last year we saw Genshin Impact rocket up the charts and essentially dominate the global video-game markets for several months. It didn't last for very long, and while the game is still uber-popular, it will eventually fade into oblivion if it doesn't innovate or pull out some dumb gimmick.
genshinfag here, it's still going strong, although the past month or so hasn't been that eventful, that is because the game is in the "filler" phase, most people already explored the regions and experienced the story, there simply isn't much to do even if they're constantly updating and curing the game. this will continue on the next patch in march as it's going to be filler as well. but after that it's going to get funky again since they're gonna add a new area and introduce a new element effectively, not only that, a new act of the game will begin soon after that and it will be the biggest update since release.
the game is all but dead anon, it's only the beginning.
it's pretty simple, good and soulful games with effort put into them tend to be successful, i.e. genshin, rushed and soulless games made exclusively for money tend to get forgotten, i.e. swsh.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:41:09 No.46216843 Report

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>>46216723
It was just an example.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:43:23 No.46216867 Report

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While you're right about genshin having quite a lot of soulf for a gacha game and SWSH being soulless cashgrab the game will never be forgotten. It will be know by many in many ways, some people will remember it as the worst Pokémon game ever, some will remember it as the first mainline Pokémon game on a home console, some will simple remember it because they get a hard/wet to one of the characters or they like one of the pokemons. Pokémon is simply too big too fail, it has survived stuff which generally would kill other series, the gen transitions, dexit, the constantly habit of taking away features to make older gens unique, soccer moms, religious fanatics, celebrities getting butblasted about it, the polygon episode, and on.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:46:57 No.46216894 Report

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>>46216468
Genshin was also popular because it had an uwu anime style compared to botw's more pronounced character style.
Pokémon already has an uwu anime style.

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