Yeah it's not like other games that have 1000 people working on them and the highest budget in video game history have issues or anything.
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Pokemon Sword and Shield New Japanese Trailer [read staff post]
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Yeah it's not like other games that have 1000 people working on them and the highest budget in video game history have issues or anything.
At least compare it with another animation, this is just a dishonest comparison.
I'm really curious about how TPCi is actually run. Is Gamefreak just given a shoestring budget or something? I think I read in an interview with Masuda they like being a small company. Pokemon is one of the largest media franchises in the world, period, and we're here discussing how the main developers don't have enough resources. It's absurd
Why is it dishonest, because it doesn't help your agenda that Game Freak suck and are the only devs that have issues with development?
Pokemon isn't just the mainline games. It's merch, movies, anime, mobile games etc. A lot of money goes into maintaining it as a top IP including a whole load of marketing which costs $$$.
I can't get past the semi realistic visuals, the game looks hideous to me. Why can't it look more like this:
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It looks better than Let's Go to me but art style is so subjective.
A lot of people would have complained if it had the same art style as Let's Go.
I can't get past the semi realistic visuals, the game looks hideous to me. Why can't it look more like this:
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Cerulean Gym is blindingly bright lol
I do like Celadon
They actually chose to use that shot though. They didn't need to show it or they could have fixed it for the trailer.
because it's a bland as hell art style. it's sterileI can't get past the semi realistic visuals, the game looks hideous to me. Why can't it look more like this:
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just look at Level 5 and it's poor coordination with the Yokai Watch anime and Yokai Watch 4. or Inazuma Eleven and its game. the Ares game was supposed to coincide with the Ares anime, but didn't. now the anime is on the sequel, Orion (which got a huge budget decrease because of these fuck ups). at least the game now has time to put in Orion content.
point is, synchronizing all these moving parts is difficult and something has to get cut. unfortunately, it's gonna be dev time for Game Freak
As many problems as I had with Let's Go, the artstyle really, really fit the world of Pokemon. I feel like they're trying too hard to go with a realistic style for the Wild Area. I'm not sure why the berry trees are the only colorful trees, why not have every tree be vibrant and bright? Same with the ground, why is it so dark? I feel like a lot of people would be way more into the art style if it was more stylized.I can't get past the semi realistic visuals, the game looks hideous to me. Why can't it look more like this:
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That's a damn good point. I really hope you're right and it's explained why our starters can Gigantamax.
The only other thing I can think of is if a in game story event happens and your starter inherits the Gigantamax potential which is unlikely
The lack of anchor points on the attack of the Dynamaxed Charizard very much looks like a conscious decision rather than it being for lack of trying. It seems kind of obvious the developers want to prioritize making attacks that have screen consuming effects, and making it trail with Charizard's exaggerated animation is definitely going to obscure it - and that's an attack that's going to be able to be used by way more Pokémon than just it.
Like, I don't agree with why they made it the way they did, but I get it, and using it as a gotcha is perhaps the weakest nitpick so far in terms of the game's animation.
Like, I don't agree with why they made it the way they did, but I get it, and using it as a gotcha is perhaps the weakest nitpick so far in terms of the game's animation.
It looks incredibly tiny considering how much of the region it takes up.
I never once complained yet about Pokemon quality in this game but damn can't defend this, behind one of the best selling games biggest name worldwide and this is how they treat this
In this case that's the one fire attack animation used by the Dynamax Charizard though as far as we know. So, it will actually have a much bigger in-game presence than various individual attack animations. And the point where there are most effects Charizard is facing forward anyway, so it's not like they'd lose flashness or it'd look confusing. It just shows how generic the attack animations are doesn't matter how important they are.
That's a weak ass excuse. It would just require a small bit of camera adjustment.
We'd be talking a lot of camera adjustments for multiple Pokémon that are likely able to utilize the attack, which is on top of accommodating whatever potential anchor point they'd be having if an animation is too over the top. For a regular sized Pokémon I'd be more inclined to agree to include them where size is less of an issue. Conversely, Dynamax scale and the amount of particle effects they're throwing onto it complicates things.
You're still talking about one of hundreds of animation combinations. Like if there's one IP where this gets a pass its Pokemon for being so absurdly modular in nature. If there's a similar IP that's similar in that sense and actually does it how you say im not aware of it. "but they make money" doesn't really justify a lot of that kind of excess work.
If they really aren't cutting megas but repurposing them into gigantamax pokemon, then wtf is going on with the marketing of this game. It's like they want the backlash about cut features to happen.
no it wouldn't and it really shows that you think this is all it needs
It's pretty easy to get a sense of the scale just based on how close the dragon city in the north looks. There was a really good post illustrating this in another thread.
They won't do that. I have no idea why so many people speculate/hope that it'll happen.
Not only does it not make sense at all for them to do that, I don't get why people think that'd be a worthy substitute for Megas. Getting bigger and having an inflated HP stat isn't suddenly going to make Mawile or Beedrill good like their Megas did.
Some say they'd be fine with the designs returning and nothing more, but that's a superficial thing that wouldn't truly please anyone. And I've said it so many times now, but it makes infinitely more sense to show off a new Gigantomax form instead of something we've already seen before.
It's quite weird seeing all these people suddenly liking megas when they were seen in quite a negative light (except for a select few) and now people are complaining that it has been replaced by something else that will be given to different Pokemon. The same for the art style of Let's Go, suddenly it's amazing and not the plastic-looking 3DS/mobile game that everyone said it looked like in every thread about the games.
Do we know that is all that gigantamaxing is going to do? You're talking about dynamaxing aren't you?
Do we know that is all that gigantamaxing is going to do? You're talking about dynamaxing aren't you?
Some people still are stuck in one of the stages of grief and can't quite let go.
I've been trying to gauge what the final dex count will look just going off what we've seen so far.
At the moment we have 197 Pokemon announced to be in these games, with only 13 of those being new Pokemon. Based on X&Y and S/M, we're probably looking at the total count of new Pokemon being in the ballpark of 70-80, which brings us to around 260 total, which leaves us to wonder just how many more past gen Pokemon will make the cut.
Considering that the Wild Area exists and the pretty wide selection of Pokemon that we've already seen, I can't imagine the Galar Dex being smaller than 400 at bare minimum. And while that might seem like a lot, it would fucking suck because that's still less than half of the total Pokemon count. I'm gonna be seriously bummed out no matter what because of Dexit, but 500 is probably the lowest final count that I could accept as being a decent roster with cuts, but I'm not sure how realistic it is to expect.
At the moment we have 197 Pokemon announced to be in these games, with only 13 of those being new Pokemon. Based on X&Y and S/M, we're probably looking at the total count of new Pokemon being in the ballpark of 70-80, which brings us to around 260 total, which leaves us to wonder just how many more past gen Pokemon will make the cut.
Considering that the Wild Area exists and the pretty wide selection of Pokemon that we've already seen, I can't imagine the Galar Dex being smaller than 400 at bare minimum. And while that might seem like a lot, it would fucking suck because that's still less than half of the total Pokemon count. I'm gonna be seriously bummed out no matter what because of Dexit, but 500 is probably the lowest final count that I could accept as being a decent roster with cuts, but I'm not sure how realistic it is to expect.
Up until Sword and Shield, Game Freak's size and conservative nature was one of their most remarkable successes- nitpicks aside, the fact that they were able to bring out massively successful, widely beloved games out on a yearly cadence on a shoestring without betraying their core values was a feat that absolutely anyone else in the industry would have killed to replicate.
Unfortunately for them, it seems like we've passed the point where that's sustainable for them without taking an axe to some of the most principle features of the franchise, and the current backlash is testament to that.
You'd think the negative people would get tired, but their energy to shit on things they are no longer interested in Is infinite. That's Era though.
Every new Pokemon has me excited. They each look so neat and fit right in with every other monster in existence. Every other aspect of the game increasingly becomes a yawn fest for me. It just looks like the same old thing that bothered me years prior but ever so slightly changed and not really for the better.
Someone on the inside secretly wants all the backlash to shake things up eternally.
Someone on the inside secretly wants all the backlash to shake things up eternally.
Its speculation, but I think they just did a dynamax animation for charizard, but the dynamax fire move always appears at the same height for all Pokemon. So it didnt quite line up for Charizard, but for other Pokemon it would.
Also Charizard has a gigamax form, so they mightve not cared as much that it didnt line up since dynamax Charizard wouldnt be seen much anyway.
they take them out of a lot of pre release videos for some reason, there's a good screen showing this but I don't know where it is.
I guess the spoiler is speculation, since I don't think we know that based on the leaks.
Because unlike what some of you may think we don't hate Pokémon. Quite the contrary. This is actully puting a damper on our enjoyment of the franchise and we don't enjoy shitting constantly on the games and receiving backlash for voicing our concerns. What we want is for something to be done, and we won't stop until something is done, and we sure aren't stopping just because some of you find it annoying. Honestly, I don't care.
It's also not like we made a heel turn because GF has decided to stop letting us transfer our Pokémon. I'm barely affected by it, I don't care that much. What I DO care about is raising awareness of the trend GF adopted back around Gen VI which has led to this situation and will lead to more in the future. We've been warning everyone for years, particularly last year with Let's Go and very few people actually listened. Mostly because they never cared much, which is fair, but we could do without your constant whining about people's criticism towards GameFreak.
We aren't stopping just because you find it annoying.
Am I doing this right?
I know, but it was worth trying.
And I also knew you were going to say something like that, but there is a big difference. We actually want something to be done. But what's your end goal? Wanting something NOT to be done?
We want to be able to talk about and discuss a game we are looking forward to without it descending into pointless bickering.
