If Gu Feng were to judge the success of an IP, then in his opinion, when a fictional image is known to 70% to 80% of people, the IP is already incredibly successful.
Pokémon is such an IP. Maybe many people will be confused just by talking about Pokémon, but as soon as Pikachu is mentioned, these confused people will immediately show a look of surprise.
"Oh - you mean Pikachu, you know it."
What does it mean to get out of the circle? This is it.
There are naturally many IPs like this besides Pokémon, such as Mario, Marvel, Ultraman, etc...
When it comes to the influence in the gaming industry alone, Mario is second to none; when it comes to the influence in the film and television industry, Marvel is the most powerful; when it comes to the influence in the animation industry, Ultraman... well... is really not enough for Pokémon.
He was beaten with one hand. If he had not been interested in learning about it in his previous life, Gu Feng would not have thought of the most influential anime in the world.
ip, Pokémon actually came out on top, and what surprised him even more was that the ones ranked second, third, and fourth were Hello Kitty, Winnie the Pooh, and Mickey Mouse.
However, although it cannot beat Mario and Marvel in a single circle, in terms of overall influence, many people may find it unbelievable. Even if all the above-mentioned IPs are tied together, they may not be able to beat Pokémon.
Compared with other IPs, Pokémon has truly achieved 360-degree comprehensive development without blind spots.
Gu Feng's biggest wish in this life is to turn his original intention into a true legend in the history of game development. It would be somewhat funny for a game company that can be called a legend without even an IP to support its appearance.
Just talking about the past life, among the companies that have become a giant in the gaming industry, who doesn’t have one or two IPs that can be called monsters to attract money? Blizzard’s Warcraft, Riot’s League of Legends, Activision’s Call of Duty, Rockstar’s GTA, and EA’s FIFA
,SE's Final Fantasy, MiHoYo's Genshin Impact, and Nintendo's Pokémon and Mario...
Of course, League of Legends and Genshin Impact are also games in Gu Feng's future plans. The former has established its unique dominance with more than ten years of dominance, and the latter has demonstrated its influence around the world in just two years.
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In the early days of League of Legends, it was unknown because the company was not well-known, and in the early days of Genshin Impact, it could only do so under pressure.
Both of them have proven one thing to everyone with their actions and facts. In the gaming industry, time will really prove everything.
Gu Feng has a steelyard in his heart. He knows what a good game is. Besides, his original intention is not MiHoYo. When the day comes when his original intention is to make Genshin Impact, he firmly believes that no one can suppress him. Even after being injured in China,
The humiliation of going abroad to lick your wounds will not happen a second time.
However, although League of Legends and Genshin Impact are both big IPs, Gu Feng once thought carefully that whether it is moba or Genshin Impact's unique human-cutting mechanism, neither of them is actually very suitable for VR or even future holography.
develop.
Technology is advancing, and the future of games cannot stop at mobile games. Although phenomenal VR games have not yet appeared in the past life, this is the general trend of game development. If it did not appear in the past life, it does not mean that it will not appear in this life.
He has a system and valuable experience left by countless predecessors in previous lives. Who says that time travelers must only do what they have done in previous lives?
What Gu Feng wants to do is to be a pioneer in this life, to open up the path that has been opened in the previous life, and to open up the road that has not been opened in the two lives.
The appearance of Pokémon caused Gu Feng to have a lot of ideas in a short time.
Unlike League of Legends and Genshin Impact, the stages of League of Legends and Genshin Impact are on the PC and mobile game sides. However, Gu Feng privately believes that the stage of Pokémon is not on the PC side, nor on the mobile game side, nor even on the mobile game side.
On the host side, it’s VR! Holographic!
No matter how classic the turn-based combat mechanism of Pokémon Heirloom is, from the perspective of a professional game designer, Nintendo may not have tapped even one-tenth of the potential of Pokémon in previous generations.
The turn-based system greatly limits its combat performance, and the limit on the number of skills greatly limits the depth of tactics and upper limit of operations.
Try to imagine that you are in a gym battle at this moment. The rules of the battle are doubles. The battle venue is a water venue. The combination sent by the gym trainer is a fire-breathing dragon and a water arrow turtle. The sea and air are integrated.
It's difficult to deal with. You have to think about which two Pokémon to choose to fight and what tactics to use in the next command.
Command your most trusted Pokémon to battle like a real trainer! To win! This is the real charm of Pokémon.
Imagine again, you are currently in the finals of the Fengyuan Regional League Competition. Five Pokémon from both sides have fallen. There is only one final battle left in the 6v6 peak showdown between you and your most trusted starting Pokémon.
Dream Pikachu, fight against the opponent's Flame Chicken, who is also an ace and whose fighting spirit is at its peak. The virtual characters in the audience are all real players. They are cheering for you and shouting for you.
Because it is a 1v1 battle, players can enter a state of concerted effort and directly control the Pokémon's body with their consciousness. At this moment, the Pokémon is you, and you are the Pokémon, enjoying the terrifying energy in the Pokémon's body.
Wonderful, enjoy the passion and pleasure of experiencing the battle firsthand.
Whether you are commanding or participating in battle in person, the battle scenes and immersion that VR can display are unparalleled by any previous Pokémon series.
Maybe it’s not that Nintendo doesn’t want to do this, but it may simply be that the technology isn’t up to it.
The above scene imagined by Gu Fengchang cannot be done by consoles, PC games, and even mobile phones.
Only VR and holography have the opportunity to turn the purest fighting charm of Pokémon into reality.
If the picture imagined above really becomes a reality one day in the future, then the era of moba dominance may really be ended by a new king, and VR Pokémon will write a new chapter in the e-sports industry.
Gu Feng sat up from his chair excitedly, turned on his computer and searched for information on VR, holography, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.
Boom!
After hearing the defender's voice, Gu Feng knew that the senior sister was knocking on the door.
"Enter."
The office door was pushed open from the outside. The person outside the door was indeed Clivia, but she did not come in. Instead, she stood at the door and called: "Eat."
"Oh, okay." Gu Feng subconsciously responded, and then he said "Ah" and looked at the time in the lower right corner of the computer.
"I'll go! Why is it already noon?"
Clivia was already used to this scene, so she just urged: "We lose track of time when we are working. We are all siblings, but Pigeon has never been like this. Let's go, let's come back after dinner to get busy."
"Clivia! You are getting more and more outrageous now!" Gu Lan's voice sounded outside the door.
"Nonsense, where did I go too far?"
"Did what you said just now mean that I am active in eating?"
"That's right."
"Look, if you admit it, you are implying that I am not serious about my work and only think about eating, hum!"
Gu Feng locked the screen and stood up. Hearing the "argument" between the two people outside the door, he couldn't laugh or cry. Why did he feel like his elder sister was acting coquettishly?
"You are too imaginative." Clivia was also a little bit dumbfounded. She directly hugged Gu Lan, who was 165, like a boy. "Didn't you always say that you all in Shu have a saying: 'Not active in eating?
, is there something wrong with your head? I used you as a positive teaching material to criticize him, and you don’t care about your body at all.”
Hearing these words as he approached the door, Gu Feng suddenly stopped laughing...