>>55341772Simple.
The investors finally see a knockoff actually competing with the Pokemon brand.
The opportunity cost of not making a game that isn't afraid to try something different and commit to it now clearly visible. Even if it dies in a month, 19 million sales is *still* 19 million sales.
>>55347755We don't have to stick to GF. We should be able to "Yes, and" here rather than "get rid of the mainline RPGs."
It competes not because of its core gameplay, but because it sells that idea that the anime and worldbuilding always sold us in a way that Pokemon's RPGs have mostly always shied away from. I don't want full on guns, but I want a game like this where the wild Pokemon aren't just a threat to mine, but also to me and my house. Your little farm is starting to look nice? Here comes a stampede of Bouffalant, hope you took preparatory measures to fence it off. Out in the wilds, and whoops we stumbled across a Scyther swarm. We got lucky and they didn't notice, but if they did we might not have gotten away. Wow my base is looking pretty solid now - is that a hungry Aggron crashing through about to start eating the metal walls. Pikachu's not feeling well today, let's get him something nice to cheer him up. If I encounter a horde of angry Spearow, I don't want them to be a quarter of my level doing 1HP of damage at a time, I want to be thinking "oh god run," at least for a while until I'm strong enough to deal with them.
I don't even need the whole dex for that. I just want to be able to come across stories like that I can actually participate in rather than clicking through text boxes.
