Frogger said:
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. |
I would not be using games like Digimon or Yokai watch to show Pokemon's outdatedness if I wanted Pokemon to an AAA game. Matter of fact, no one in this thread has used any AAA games at all. They're all AA games! So, even comparison to AA games Pokemon is behind. What we want is Pokemon to live up to expectations set my other developers with similar or less status to Pokemon. If its going to do an open city game the do a great one, not passable one. That's it. Smaller developers are doing it This not about graphics necessarily(Just the first and easiest indicator) , its about a billion dollar franchise that takes multiple steps backwards every release. It's about a developer that seems to not be able to keep up with it's competitors or even outdo itself. It feels like Pokemon is gated but purposely.
I'm still determining if this thread is suppose to be satire.
