| Sephiran said: Complaining about Pokemon selling well even though the games look bad seems just like console warriors that are angry that Pokemon outsells AAA games that releases on their platforms of choice. Its not Pokemon's fault that no one is buying FF7 Rebirth on PS5 and instead just play Gacha and other live service games on the console. |
Doubtful, considering how you'd think there would be a correlation between success, and increase in quality in areas where there is a lot of room for improvement.
I'm of that opinion as well, and I own the prequel.
Gamefreak may not have the talent/manpower capable of producing something that would look a bit more akin to what I'd expect from a big release from such a massive franchise.
But all it really should take is money, which they print.
It's not unusual for studios to expand, or move people over from other divisions who have the experience needed.
I'm only referring to the visuals for the environments btw, but to me it is startling to see this being a new Pokemon release.
I think thats 8 tufts of grass next to him.
The car almost appears to have one flat color for each texture.
The often repeated and simple building patterns in the one single city this game takes place in is a choice.
Some definitely have a lot more character than what's seen in this particular shot though. And I think the pavement looks fine.
Persona 5 is a 2016 PS3 game, which is notably weaker than Switch.
And Switch even runs the upgraded Royal version.
P5 is very simple and unremarkable when it comes to its environmental textures.
But not that simple, and they make use of colors and object placement to make things look more lively.
Lots of different signs, colors, shapes, and lights. There are some signs similar to these in Pokemon Z-A, but seem to be more like an exception rather than the rule.
The books on the left side in this shot look very simple and flat. But the ones with the spines facing outwards have a lot more and varied detail.
The bookshelves are very simple. But they do look like wood.
I need to see the flower beds in Z-A more up close, but from a distance it looks like they used the bucket tool in MS paint to fill it with brown.
Which is fine at times, but that's right behind the car with the same issue, and surrounded by a lot of similarly flat and empty presentation.
And while I think the pavement looks fine in Z-A, here in P5 there are asymetrical paterns, popping colors, cracks in the tiles, garbage/flyers lying on the ground, some knocked over cones, etc.
With how much Pokemon is earning, I think the environments in a Pokemon city should look way better than Persona 5.
But if anything I think they look notably worse in most regards.
Not referring to character models, which I think look better in Z-A. At least when it comes to detail. But with the drawback of having notably fewer npc's it seems.
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