this ended up transferring the hype train to the TemTem Station
I remember playing TemTem during early access, I did enjoy the game for what it was, but I feel like that tried too hard to make it an mmo instead of a single player adventure.
Honestly, the last time I found real hype was from Pokémon Legends: Arceus because of the semiopen world and more action-based gameplay, and even then that died off once that game lost support due to the announcement of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
It's still insane to me that between 2021-2022 there were 3 pokemon games in the span of a single year (BDSP, LA, and SV)
If anyone reading this thread genuinely, unironically believes Z-A has the potential to be anything more than inoffensive mush at best, can you elaborate on why? Is there anything more to your hope than wishful thinking or childhood nostalgia? I can't imagine this sentiment becoming so widespread without some kind of reasoning to it, so I'm curious.
In my opinion, the last truly great pokemon game was ORAS back on the 3DS.......which was released in 2014 (i.e over 10 years ago)
Also the fact that ZA has dlc content for a post game story, something even fucking USUM and XY had in base game, definitely does not scream that the game will be good. At best the game will be extremely average...which is considered good by modern pokemon standards.
Completing the Kalos legacy of being an incomplete pile of shit which is sadly highly likely. This will make people bitch for a while “What the fuck was that waiting for?” …. Then a decade later we will see soytubers be like : “ZA the Misunderstood Legendary NOT A CLICKBAIT”
The Kalos curse strikes again. I do think that the last chance for a kalos game to finish what XY started (and do it well) was during the 3ds, when pokemon still looked like it could come back from the initial poor transition (XY was still decent compared to the dumpster fire that was DP, so optimism wasn't unwarranted)
Assuming a large part of the fanbase remains, and if ZA is really as bad as it looks, there will be videos created a decade in advance that shit on it lmao.