| Illusion said: This game looks absolutely horrid. Don’t try to defend it, you’ll only look blind. From textures that could, and I shit you not, easily come from the N64 era which includes grass sprites that turn to face your camera like said era, to terrible draw distances and pop-in that are massively exacerbated by fast traversal methods, to horribly low-resolution shadows, to framerate dips and stutters despite being 30fps, the game does not pass the naked eye test unless you quite literally play with your eyes closed. I had to laugh a bit at this part. As a modern N64 gamer, this game looks nothing like an N64 game. It's a cell-shaded game, I mean so the textures aren't suppopsed to be ultra hi-res. That said, it looks a lot closer to BotW in my opinion than anything from the N64 and looks like a significant graphical jump from previous games (especially the Pokemon games we got on the 3DS just a few short years ago, which were still mainly top-down). That said, I do not own a Switch and I do not know what constitutes good graphics on the console. Maybe the standard set by BotW isn't what it was at the end of the Wii U era (a console I owned) but I would say that this game looks really good with solid graphics by that standard. Anyways, my opinion has always been that Pokemon's gangbuster success is a double-edged sword and is a big part of why we won't see major innovation from the franchise. You don't get games like BotW on the tails of massive prosperity. You get it when you're desperate like Nintendo was at the end of the Wii U era. If Pokemon sales ever started to dramatically dip, I think at that point we would get the Pokemon game that everybody has been dreaming of for the past 25 years: a full proper console Pokemon RPG with a modern and innovative battle system. |
Your reply is worth a chuckle, too. Who said it looks like an N64 game? I didn't. Don't be that person that makes up narratives by clinging to select words. I clearly said it has textures that look like they come from an N64 game (and also the sprites that spin to face your camera, which you didn't mention because you know that's exactly how those sprites worked on the N64). You haven't seen the game yourself on your own TV, and you're also talking to someone who spent most of my overall gaming time in my life on the N64. So I'll humor your hyperbole despite knowing you'll see this on a tiny mobile screen or even a PC monitor, and not a big screen TV like I had to since I have to capture via HDMI for my recordings (ergo, imagine seeing this on a big screen TV):
There's a reason virtually no one shares those types of screenshots: they KNOW how bad the textures are.
| Chrkeller said: People are so absurd. Clearly some have forgotten what the N64 looked like back in the day. |
I haven't. That's why I didn't say it looks like an N64 game.
| Manlytears said: I made some calls about how horrible the game looks, and yeah it looks fugly, but N64 ugly!? This is too much. |
I see we're all running with a made-up narrative to find something to attack because, ya know, it's the internet 
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