Games

While think graphics in pokemon games could be better , also think reactions to them waaaaay overblown

Also :

• No, we don't need to retvrn to 2d pixel art style
• Pokemon should not lꝏk like octopath traveller . All mockups I seen of it lꝏk ugly , HD2D and pokemon don't go together imho

Haven’t bought a Pokémon game since Shield, and it was absolutely shit. I refuse to touch the series until they can genuinely try something different. Pseudo open-world is not different

I think, part of the frustration is that many people have been wishing for realistic Pokemon games for a long time, to experience their favorite anime as if it was real. Pokemon Colosseum gave people a lot of hope when it came out a million years ago and then it's just been disappointment after disappointment. Even the recent games hardly look better.

Part of the problem is a lot of pokemon weren't designed to live in a world, just be a sprite on a battle screen. It also got more egregious in later titles, but there's always been some problematic pokemon. So not only do you have to make a ton of models, you have to fudge the scales a lot to make Pidgey vs Onix look remotely good. There's really no way to make a decent looking game without drastically reducing the scope like pokemon snap did.

Maybe I’m nostalgic, but I think Pokémon graphics peaked with the Gold and Silver generation. They really nailed the color palette in that one.

Not a very hot take, only corpo bootlickers pretend that Nintendo isn't squandering the franchise.

It's supremely frustrating that franchises like these get enshittified to hell and there's fuck-all anyone can do about it if they are not willing to work completely for free (i.e. fanfiction writers). Same with the Star Wars content mill which also went to shit while we're forced to sit and watch or give up on the franchise entirely. Or LoTR which in the past 20 years only gave us The Hobbit (🤮) and the Amazon show (🤮🤮).
Human stories were meant to be evolved and expanded on; that's how all of our ancestors built a rich tapestry of myths and folklore over generations, constantly retelling and updating stories. But we aren't allowed to.

I'm Belgian. My grandparents, my parents, my cousins and my cousin's children all grew up reading Belgian comics such as Tintin, Spirou&Fantasio, Lucky Luke, the Smurfs, etc, which were written in the mid-20th century. Yet if any of them publishes anything set in those universes they'll get sued into the ground, so instead these important cultural works are left to rot and wither and be slowly forgotten by each subsequent generation while the Estate shits out a soulless (if not outright racist and sexist which shits on everything that Franquin ever stood for) reboot that no-one cares about every 15 years or so. Such a sad end for such important cultural landmarks that used to be the pride of our country.

Copyright should last 25 years, just like patents. That's more than enough time to recoup your initial investment and doesn't prevent you from making money after then, you'll just have to compete for it on the marketplace of ideas. Isn't that what capitalists should want?

It's such a shame. Pokemon has so much potential, but Gamefreak/TPC are... a bit shitty.

They could take a leaf from Morrowind. Open world, but use terrain and fog to hide the limitation and funnel the players along the points of interest.

Then late game let them go nuts, flying everywhere seeing the less than pretty areas.

Like Breath of the Wild had some empty ugly areas, but the worse areas were off the beaten path.

Also the bland areas were also usually hiding a shrine or something.

I didn't mind the graphics of the Pokemon games. Aside from the occasional framerate drops, my only gripes with the graphics has been the animations (moreso in Sw/Sh) and the slow speed of the battles.

I get why people want the games to look better, but as someone who still plays the originals on occasion, it's probably not even in my top 10 wants for the series.

Pokemon fans are some of the dumbest people in fandom. They will take bottom tier slop with a smile and get upset when you suggest that maybe the highest grossing franchise in human history should maybe do a little bit better. The reborn lineage of games is the only thing keeping me from abandoning the franchise entirely.

If they really wanted to kill Palworld, they'd just make a Pokemon game that is similar to it. Both in presentation and mechanically.

But I mean... It's an over 100-year old Japanese company. Changing how they do shit is unlikely.

The only time graphics bothered me is with Violet where everything would slow to a crawl and windmills got super choppy. Otherwise I don't necessarily care that much.

I wish more time was spent getting rid of cutscenes and story. Pikemon is never going to have anything interesting to say because it needs to appeal to everyone on earth. But they keep shoving more cutscenes that say nothing into the game. Just let me wander and catch pokemon dammit.

I didn't mind the graphics in Arceus, but the game was just boring. And hours of cutscenes which were only walls of text didn't help.