Why did Pokemon even jump to 3D?

[Darwinianevolution]

Jumpin said:

Darwinianevolution said:

While I agree that I may have overestimate the power difference between 2D and 3D design, I'm also using it because, at least in my eyes, the problems with the series began in earnest with the jump to 3D. And while correlation is not causation, I wanted to explore this line of thinking. Most of the games GF have been 2D, so it would not be difficult to assume they would have more difficulties realizing their vision on 3D rather than the tried and tested 2D. And I also wanted to know whether people would accept a complete game on 2D rather than one with missing features on 3D.

Regardless of 2D or 3D, this lack of features cannot, and should not, be just merrily accepted. This is just going to get worse and worse if we don't make a clear stance against it.

Also, no shit the resources for Town would be better used on Pokemon. Even if they didn't fix the National Dex, there's also things like Triple/Rotational battles, Mega Evolutions, Z moves... And all of the fan requested features that probably won't come such as the Battle Frontier, Contests, multiple regions... If the people in charge of Town can't do none of this things, I wouldn't trust them with Town as a decent RPG either.

I was only pointing out that the dev team for Town is not synonymous with the skillset required for the National Dex. What you are saying above is an entirely new argument, a bit of a red herring.

It seems like what you're actually trying to say is that Gamefreak should not make other games (Town in this case) because they take resources away from knocking adding in items from an endless list of fan-requested features that could be in Pokemon games. In other words, you want Gamefreak to only ever churn out Pokemon games.

I don't have much of an opinion on that. Other than it's a bit sad that we can't see what other games they want to make. I don't even know what you mean by "Contests" and "Battle Frontier" but Multiple regions (as in numerous game worlds?) alone sounds like a very tall order. Maybe Town won't be a decent RPG in your book. 

The thing is, I don't hate town. For all we know, it might be the best game ever, it might be the worst, we don't know. But in regards to the state of Pokemon development, they have been diverting resources from Sword/Shield from years now (USUM and Let's Go), and now they want another high profile game, this time a non-pokemon one. If Town turns out to be bad, it will be the proof of GF overstretching beyond their capabilities, and if it's good, people are going to invariably (and justifyingly so) ask where that dedication was on the Pokemon game. Unless Town becomes a Splatoont-like success, it's a lose/lose situation for them, which could've been avoided by either having a better organization or a bigger team.

Also, it might just be me, but the first thought that came to mind when Town was announced was that it was a trial run for things like the engine, artstyle and mechanics for the next Pokemon, which is not the case since they have different people working on each one (under the same studio, but still). I can't avoid being somewhat dissapointed in the difference of the presentation. Town looks way better than Sword Shield...