I think a lot of people see the games as being “the franchise”, but really the games exist to introduce and promote new monsters in the IP.

I personally believe that Pokemon’s three year development cycle isn’t sustainable, but a lot of fans have the property backwards.

The same people are going to buy the game either way. Safer for them to crank out first drafts until people get so annoyed they stop buying. But as long as the bottom line is hit and people are addicted to novelty and re-upping in their favorite consumer good, nothing will change.

Realistically, why would they do that?

Pokemon games should release with the same frequency the main Animal Crossing games do. Builds hype, gives them time to polish the game, lets them think twice before designing a new creature based in whatever they have in hand at the moment, ... countless benefits.

ACAB dipshits in the comments failing to realize the city of New York and the NYPD responded like they did precisely because he didn't file the paper work so nobody had any clue what was going on when thousands of people showed up at one spot and started getting unruly.

accidentally causes a riot by promising to give stuff away is about as low on the influencer scandal scale as you can get.

You want to point us towards a similar event to show us this scale of yours? It’s accident brought about by poor planning. You need a permit to do just about anything in NYC. He knows better, he just didn’t care. Let him get punished for once.

old man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn

up until very recently, it was annoying to me, but largely ignorable. then I saw what happened during r/place this year and... it broke me. I hate influencer culture.

I know, it’s a weird line to draw, but to be fair, it was really just the proverbial Straw that broke the camel’s back.

This guy needs to be sent a bill by the city for cleanup. 

I’m really not a fan of influencer culture.

What do you think “fantasy world” means. Seriously. Do you think they invented all new kinds of sentient creatures and spun out completely alien societies and modes of interaction whole cloth? Or do you think they made stories about human beings that are heavily based on actual human cultures and told stories about…

It’s bad optics if your internationally-marketed blank check-budgeted fantasy world of magical humans is populated like a West Virginia renaissance faire.

Gives a whole new meaning to the concept of “brain-dead AI”.

That seal of quality, as well as the whole quality assurance prerequisite, is what helped save the video games industry back in the 80's.

I know this seal is BS, but I can’t help to think of it every time I hear of the latest Nintendo shovelware that makes into their storefronts.

Can’t say “The zombies don’t follow you or really ever actually attack you” aspect isn’t a bold change after years of tense and stressful survival gameplay in other, higher budgeted, entries in the genre. There could be a huge market with players who like *the idea* of scary zombie games more than they like actually…

I’ve been developing a theory about Kotaku for the past few months and now i full blown believe it. I’ve been a loyal reader of all G/O sites for almost a decade, and I remember well back when Deadspin’s upper management said “stick to sports” so they did all these stories about anything but sports for a while. And…

...except the “inmates” are already the ones “running the asylum”?