I'm personally fine with it as it is now. It was either PBR or Colosseum/XD that mapped the "beam" moves to the correct places but as a result this made the beam physically move around like, well, a solid pole. It looked horrible and still hit on the other side of the screen in its original trajectory.
The biggest sin in Pokemon is the one open blank space in Pokken Tournament DX's full roster with DLC:
Come on you could have easily added a random selector there or a Battle Pack 3!
Obviously it isn't a real sin but it does bother me cause I'm weird lol
Always with the excuses.
I honestly don't know someone could look at that trailer and not see it as embarrassing for Game Freak. It has a smaller scope, sure, but it's not being made by a billion-dollar studio. Sword and Shield battles look hella static in comparison.
This is the only active Sword & Shield thread atm. The others have been locked. So...no, sorry.
And they have been locked for a reason, don't you think?
While they do look nice, they're designed with only one move in mind. Could you see that Greninja animation being used for, say, Power-up Punch? Waterfall? That type of animation would be one that would show up for a Z-Move or signature move exclusive to Greninja. As I said earlier in the thread, they have to limit it to one contact animation and one non-contact animation (with some exceptions like Mewtwo I believe, it's been a while) that work for all sorts of move effects or else the scope of the project would become way too massive even for one of the biggest franchises in the world.
I guess you are being sarcastic, anyway this is definetly true and makes much more sense
The thread specifically about the Pokemon cull was seemingly locked after someone used a phrase that's often used to mock people with autism. And it didn't come from someone critical of Game Freak, if that's what you were thinking!
To point out how poor Sword and Shield look in comparison? Congrats, you figured it out.
As I said - obviously the scope of this game is much smaller, but that's to be expected from a chinese knockoff. And yet I genuinely think almost all of those animations look considerably better than what Game Freak has been able to achieve. You're right that some of those animations probably couldn't be used for a wide variety of attacks as is, but I'm not arguing Game Freak should be copying these wholesale. Just that this is a good example of what I think they should be aiming for. And I feel that the developer of one of the biggest game franchises in the world should be capable of better.
I really can't remember what it was they said at E3, I don't remember them mentioning being forced to recreate Pokémon models from scratch because of porting issues, I just remember them talking about making new animations. If they did, then Mandela effect is working hard against me on this one.
Yeah that warning was 100% right. I didn't know the history of the phrase
There was an example that the Charizard animation did seem to be at the very least based on a Pokkén animation from Charizard
I don't know about that. It might be a more understandable reason, but designing assets to be future proofed and having them not actually be future proofed adds a whole lot of fuel to the sentiment that Game Freak are inept.
They mentioned it at some point right after the news and people said it was either a lie or incompetence.
That idea has potential.
In case it was not clear, the other post i made was indeed sarcastic.
How is it incompetence?
Can we stop this? It's not only half. Gear Project didn't gut half of Game Freak and there are people who work on both too. Plus, GEAR PROJECT HAS EXISTED SINCE 2010.
Creatures Inc. do the bulk of the models and animation for Pokémon games, yes. Game Freak outsource it to them.
I don't really think that Redditor knows how game dev works. Pokémon, like most other development studios, gets a whole lot of work done through outsourcing. The number of people involved with Sword & Shield is guaranteed to be way more than just 143 people, and it doesn't really behoove a studio like Game Freak to expand when their output outside of just Pokémon is limited in scale.
That's why I said "if what's said there is true".
Half-full/half-empty and all that.
Game Freak has been expanding. They even own subsidiaries
Maybe they like this art style?
Well 500 individual people are listed in the credits...
