TiMi Studios Describes Pokémon Unite As An 'Unprecedented Opportunity And Challenge'

I like smite and loved paragon so this is up my street

"Are you keen on the idea of a MOBA-style Pokémon game?"

HELL NO !!

What a stinker.

I loathe MOBAs, but they're huge these days so now the Pokemon company can cash in big and make another sub-par mainline title.

I'm so done with this goddamn franchise.

Nothing wrong with MOBA games, I recommend playing Smite to start with

I actually think this looks fun. I'll definitely give this a try. I've played this style of game before, and had a decent time. I can totally understand the frustration with the direction the series is taking lately. With all the mobile games, and the mixed reception to Sword/Shield..which I actually really liked. Hopefully next major game they will have a Diamond and Pearl Remake, or a more open world type of game to get a lot of people back on board with the series.

Oh my God. This was “the big announcement”? Really? I’m at a loss for words right now.

Unprecedented opportunity to drag the Pokemon name through the mud more like.

@Fazermint My wife hated them to until I got her into LoL, took a few years until she actually sat down and really tried it. It is one of her favorite games now.

I've been asking for this for awhile. Mainly a Nintendo character themed MOBA but a pokemon based moba was my second choice! This is awesome! Now if they add another lane and more pokemon, we'll have a winner here!

I suspect most of the challenge stems from having royally pissed off the entire fanbase.

Sure, an “unprecedented opportunity” to screw people over with microtransactions to a level never seen before.

This actually looks more fun to play than Sword and Shield.

@Lando_ It was, they call it a unprecedented opportunity, I called it a missed opportunity!! 😂

I get the sense the Switch release will be an afterthought and will be riddled with HORRIBLE mobile game UI/UX elements. I am not even that big a Pokemon fan and I’m legit bummed by this announcement.

So much rage over a game most people won't touch and forget about in a week that has nothing to do the main games.

The Pokemon name is going to be carrying this hard, otherwise it's mainly going to hold on to addicts who can't let MOBA's go. I want to try it out, but I can't imagine it'll avoid all of the annoying pit falls of the genre. At the very least, Tencent can keep a game going, so this shouldn't be shut down some other Pokemon phone games recently.

EDIT: Changed "any of the" into "all of the" because it seems to have shorter match rounds, and the simpler upgrade path should be less complicated than with items in something like LoL.

@Fazermint okay, bye bye

@Fazermint But it's being developed by TiMi, I doubt it's taking up much time or resources from The Pokemon Company. You should be happy it wasn't a new mainline game announced, maybe if they stop releasing a mainline game every year or two they'll have the time to make something great.

@playstation_king I loved Paragon so much that I still feel bitter towards Epic for killing it.

To be fair, capturing Pokémon while you are battling sounds new and Pokemon Company do have enough integrity to not just release a reskin of an old game. I'm sure it's big news in the MOBA world.

My 10 year old: Dad, I missed the start of the Pokemon announcement, can you start it again for me please? All I saw was something about a phone app.
Me: that's all there was.
His bottom lip trembled

So Nintendo pull out from making mobile games and just get everyone else to do it for them.

@HollowSpectre
Pokemon Go's immense and continued success is enough reason alone for TPC to continue their mobile efforts.

Lol how many of you watched or read about this title?????its for the switch and mobile phone lol stop whining about mobile and play it on the switch which I'll be doing

It even says that it's for switch and mobile phone in the first paragraph lol

And the word of the year is....... unprecedented

MOBAs bore me. Hard pass.

I seriously think that if this was shown last week as a part of the last Pokemon direct, and Snap was saved for this week, this reveal would have gone completely differently. In my opinion, a lot of the hate seems to be coming from jilted expectations that the TPC set up, which is really their fault.

As to the game itself, it looks like a lot of fun to me. And it changes up the classic "MOBA" formula by going for high scores rather than just kills. I've quite enjoyed MOBA style games when I've played them before like SMITE and Arena of Valor (a little of the latter, but it ran horribly on Switch). I've tried to get my girls into them to team up and play with me, with no luck till now...but they will play pretty much anything with Pokemon in the title, so now maybe I finally can get them to join me. It looks like it could be a lot of fun, and have some depth to it. I'm interested to learn more.

I feel like most people on this site are not competitive enough for MOBAs, hence the large backlash. I think its a great idea and we should at least give them a chance instead of spitting in their faces (which most of this community does...). Sure, I would have preferred a Pokken 2, a new Mystery Dungeon, or (even though a reveal this early is unlikely) a new main line entry, but I do enjoy MOBAs and the genre makes sense since there is so much they can work with, over 800 pokemon now. If MOBAs arent your thing then that's cool

I don’t hate the fact that it’s a MOBA. I’ve played a ton of LoL back in the day and liked it a lot.

I hate the fact that it’s a free to start mobile game, probably stuffed with micro transactions so you will never be able to get the full experience.

I actually think the idea for this game is really awesome. A MOBA with Pokemon sounds super cool to me. However... it being tied to console and mobile phones... that upsets me. MOBA's only feel good on PC for me. Also, it says "free to start"... so yeah, there will probably be a lot of micro-transtions and controversy.

Ugh. Tencent.

I don’t buy games from the CCP.

if The Pokemon Company didn't say this was "a big project", and instead "we will be revealing a project with timi studios at next week's Pokemon Presents" nobody would be as upset or had their hopes up just for it to be a MOBA game.

that being said, i'm gonna see where this goes, before giving it a try.

Pretty much, this is Diablo Immortal all over again, except Pokemon Unite is not exclusively coming mobile, like Diablo Immortal is.

Why did they hype this up? What a disappointment.

@Cevil Quick bucks?! You must be an incredible programmer yourself then? Sit down. What do you do for work, can we ask?

@drewber2635 I’m pretty excited for this too. And I never am concerned with micro transactions. It means if I enjoy the game I can pay a bit to get some stuff, and if not I pay absolutely nothing. Even on games I love I tend to pay far less than a full price game so it’s WELL worth it. And I’m happy to pay some money to support the developers for a job well done!

It's basically Pokemon League of Legends, right? Then there's a lot to think about. It's a neat idea in concept, but how they will execute it is what I am wondering. I know how huge (both in terms of content and popularity) League of Legends is, how it unites players, and that is their ambition with this title. That said, I hope there's much more than meets the eye here.
These games weren't my type before, but maybe this could interest me. I once downloaded Arena of Valor, and while it's graphical quality and character designs are top-notch, I couldn't fully understand the gameplay. I really need to play it first, however.

@Darkyoshi98 We know, that's not the only issue. It's not simply the platform it's releasing on but the style of game, business model, and target audience. This game is technically releasing on Switch, but it's designed with a mobile game's mindset, being a low budget, free to start game that will surely be riddled with microtransactions, and targeting a casual audience. It's just much simpler to label it a mobile game than call it a console game with a mobile playstyle.

The people that are on this website and buying a Switch are looking more for a BotW/Mario Odyssey type of experience, a deep and ambitious full scale $60 retail game. And TPC is giving us... pretty much the opposite. That's what people are upset about and that's why a lot of fans haven't been happy with this series for the last few years.

This was their big announcement? This is worst than the Sega Famitsu "it will rile up the gaming industry" announcement. What a big disappointment.

Gotta admit that the mid-battle evolutions after enough levels are an interesting twist

@ThatNyteDaez Good to see some people are genuinely looking forward to this

Not my thing, but somebody's thing somewhere.

@RPGamer Not only people are interested, but you can bet this will be the biggest financial success ever for The Pokemon Company.

@RPGamer Noisy Pokemon fans are pissed. As with so many other communities before, the haters are most likely < 50%. Game just have to be good enough to be a total financial success. And at the end of the day, that's the only metric that matter.