http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uudCfK2fKEM
:doge
are gamefreak hilariously inept, or does nintendo still give them handheld level budgets for pokemon games? :thinking
Probably both in a way (the studio refuses to expand and they are stuck in HD curse that most of Japanese developers just free themselves).... this is exactly what is happening. GameFreak is going through the same growing pains as Square "HD towns are hard" Enix and the dark years of Capcom. Nowadays, most teams bring in outside help to ease this transition but not GF because they're a special little snowflake with a small, plucky team that doesn't have time for animations or too many new gameplay improvements because time and money (pls ignore that Pokemon is the biggest IP in teh world worth billions annually k thx)
If it isn't even a big open world, why's it look like absolute dogshit?
If it isn't even a big open world, why's it look like absolute dogshit?
Because Nintendo knows that they can pump out any garbage, as long as it has "Mario" "Zelda" "Pokemon" and the other usual suspects in the title, Nintards will gobble it up and happily pay for it.
In defence of pokemon not redoing all their assets for every new generation, there's like... 500+ fucking pokeymans now, and not a huge amount of animation rigging you can share between them which is why the battle system can't show - for example - 500 variants of a "tackle" move to accomodate the 500 different ways a pokemon can perform that move, and the 500 different ways the receiving pokemon can take it, which is why there's a more generic VFX anim for each of the... probably another 500 fucking possible moves available.
In defence of pokemon not redoing all their assets for every new generation, there's like... 500+ fucking pokeymans now, and not a huge amount of animation rigging you can share between them which is why the battle system can't show - for example - 500 variants of a "tackle" move to accomodate the 500 different ways a pokemon can perform that move, and the 500 different ways the receiving pokemon can take it, which is why there's a more generic VFX anim for each of the... probably another 500 fucking possible moves available.
You could say the main Pokemon team games are proof that making good looking games takes talent.spoiler (click to show/hide)They should hire some talent.[close]
Did we ever discount that Masuda may be legally blind,
Would explain a lot!