The narrative that mainline Pokémon games are low budget or unambitious is ridiculous and tiring.

[convo]

Pokemon Let's go at least has a nicer presentation technically, the rest will have to be good too for the next entry. More core fans have wishes they want fulfilled and pokemon has the money to do that easily.

 

[Deleted member 42686]

Ive always felt like Pokemon has always kept their production vaules relatively low and gameplay changes minuscule so that when there is a slight bump in presentation, or they add one new mechanic for that generation, it seems impressive to their fanbase.

"Wow! With Z-Moves you now have a total of 5 Moves!" Great, now join every other JRPG since 1993.

Like these games arent bad, they are not bad at all. I enjoyed my time with Moon, but goddamn these games are derivative, and other games in its sub-genre of collect em all monster RPG's (SMT, Yokai Watch) are doing so much more with concept, it just makes Pokemon look old and antiquated in comparison.

Click to shrink...

But thats how the fish people nowadays. Megas with XY and Z-moves with SM.

 

[AzureFlame]

They are and they showed that with 3DS games and Let's Go.

 

[kaisere]

I love Pokemon and will defend them, but it is WILD to say that they are not unambitious. GF is a very conservative developerr by nature and that is great for folks like me that like the formula and don't mind doing it over every year or two.

That being said, I do think Let's Go has a lot of problems, but the graphics are not it. It is a very pretty game.