| Xxain said: @Frogger - Your attitude is why Pokemon is where it's at. It's the same attitude that GameFreak has; were ok with Pokemon just being "ok". Not terrible but not amazing or even great. Just passable. Then there are other developers working their asses off to make sure their franchises remain relevant and up to date with all the new tech/design philosophies with a fraction of the budget and marketing that Pokemon would get. Nobody cares that it's an improvement over the previous outing. There is absolutely no excuse why Pokemon "feels" like it has the budget of a Ys or a Compile Heart game...... that's not fair. Their games look better than anything Pokemon has done in the last 8 years or so. |
The thread isn't titled "Pokemon Legends: Z-A and Champions are just passable looking games." I think they actually look good. I actively like how ZA looks. I like its graphics AND art style. I don't know what Pokemon game you think feels like it has that kind of budget. Ys and Compile Heart don't look better than ZA. And it's fine for Pokemon to not overindulge on spending for a spin off. People do care that it's an improvement.
Ahhh wait I get it. You want Pokemon to be a AAA franchise when it works well being a AA franchise. I want a game that looks better than ZA, but I absolutely never need that better to be an expensively made AAA game.
Give me this with better looking buildings you can actually enter, some differences in elevation, and better lighting and I'm pretty much good, but you seem to need much more merely because the franchise earns more. The characters look perfect, the Pokemon look great, the moves look great, the battle animations look great, the colors look great, and the scale is huge.
My attitude made Pokemon successful. It's the same attitude that made the original games the best selling games in the franchise. They could have made a proper explorable rpg on the n64, gamecube and wii, but instead they made the 5 best games in the series that were cheaper to make yet stands toe to toe with some of the best games ever made. It's silly to claim that pokemon's flaw is that they don't spend enough. XY are so bad, and it has nothing to do with how much money was spent on them. Pokemon was losing its soul. SV is a clear indication that they're getting some of it back, even if there were growing pains. ZA looks like the growing pains are clearly over. It's a silly and completely ahistorical idea that Pokemon needs to be some AAA technical marvel to be quality or respectable. It just has to be good.
Idk if ZA will be good, but it's off to an amazing start. Pokemon sucking for two console gens have completely rottened people's minds on this topic.
