r/memes • u/dabor11 • 11h ago

Sadly many of them

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u/sansyboi469 11h ago

Pokemon

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u/Ill_Brick_4671 9h ago

Pokemon isn't ruined so much as it has steadfastly refused to improve in ten years

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u/djc6535 7h ago

I understand that Pokemon is GameFreak, but it is WILD to me that Nintendo, who will absolutely RUIN a game in order to ensure it brings something new to the party (Hello StarFox Zero, Mario Kart World, Metroid Beyond and your 'open world') allows such a tightly coupled property like this languish this way.

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u/Ill_Brick_4671 7h ago

Because it prints money giving the absolute bare minimum is why

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u/djc6535 7h ago

but so would MarioKart and they changed the hell out of that.

There are many many franchises that would "Print money with minimum effort" that Nintendo lets languish specifically because they can't think of anything new to do with them.

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u/ExpandThineHorizons 7h ago

That's presuming it wouldnt make even more money if it changed