Apart from the wild area there wouldn't be much of a difference anyway. S&S looks and plays how you would expect a Pokeman game to play like. I would actually still call x/y the most ambitious because of the switch to 3D.
I can't call XY the most ambitious because the overworld was still grid based and not far off from BW2. Sun and Moon were more ambitious to me, and they are absolutely my favorite looking games on the 3DS
Holy shit I haven't even seen this lol. Let's hope this is from an earlier build because god damn.
Totally understandable for a franchise that sells 15 million units every year;
outstanding effort ...
The sheer workload needed to create all those pokemon is just impressive to me. I would also agree that Sun and Moon were quite good looking. They really made use of the power of the 3DS. Which is why i dislike S&S so much. It's not the 3DS anymore, handheld game design is just detrimental for a AAA jrpg on a modern console.
It's just what you get when you use cube map reflections instead of screen space reflections (I believe these are the correct terms). It's less taxing but not precise, it's not like they actively put the trees in the wrong place or anything lol
Of course they didn't lol, but it still looks really bad. I'd rather have no reflections than whatever that is.
I don't think it's gonna be very noticeable while playing and moving around, and it looks better than not having them if you don't notice. You said it yourself that's the first time you saw it after all
Yeah because I didn't see much footage of it. Let's hope you're right then.
Just look at how good some PS2 HD ports can look. It's not that far away from most b-tier JRPGs. 60fps, 4k, aliasing, wide-screen alone make a huge difference.
See that's so weird. I know people keep saying in development. But like this is like a detail that definitely should be there.It's weird because the bike produces water ripple effects and so do the Mantyke/tyne leaping out of the water, but Gyarados and Milotic look like they're just clipping through it.
Yup. That's the whole crux. I'd even take the other option too, but not this middle-of-the-road nonsense.
I know this is a constant refrain from me, but this series should've never gone 3D. Gen 4 was the absolute peak of this series and if the games stayed with that aesthetic while adding and keeping all of the QoL changes from later generations, I'd be way more hyped than I am right now.
This is nonsensical. 3D was necessary and 2D would have been significantly more difficult to animate
As opposed to modeling 700+ monsters with their own attack and Amie animations (and walk cycles that went unused) at such high fidelity the games chug when there's more than two Pokemon on screen. Look, I'm not asking for BlazBlue-level animation, I just think the art style used in Gen 4 had more charm and would've sidestepped a lot of complaints about the graphics.
So what, you think we'd just have sub-HD sprites till the end of time? Not to mentioning all those animations would've just been done on the sprites which would have been immensely difficult and had to be thrown out if they weren't reusing sprites for future games. The Gen 4 art style looked good for a small DS screen, but it would be incredibly underwhelming on a large screen in HD. And this is coming from someone who still plays a number of sprite based games. Pokemon just makes more sense in 3D
Ive personally accepted the cut at this point. However I have yet to see something that actually makes me think it was worth it
Totally understandable for a franchise that sells 15 million units every year;
outstanding effort ...
I would much rather have a cute, sprite-based RPG that iterated on its best features than a model-based one with graphics that are nowhere up to par with either current RPGs on the market or other Switch titles while both eliminating perhaps half of the Pokedex and shoving a bunch of shallow gimmicks down everyone's throats with the knowledge they'll be gone by the next game.
Yep and empty.
This is what frustrates me the most about the discourse surrounding these games, it's not just one thing that's fueling a lot of the discontent, it's all of these things taken together. Game Freak's chickens are coming home to roost and the studio's most fervant defenders disingenuously ignore all this and paint all criticism as coming from a place of pendantry, ignorance or toxicity.
Not the most ambitious, just more than XY which played exactly like gen 5. It was such a breath of fresh air to see natural looking environments and smooth walking and running main characters. I hated XY's movement options with a passion.
I have early PS3 games setting a precedent.
the IP doesn't really afford them long gaps inbetween releases. though TPC could be better about spin-offs
