Are these acceptable graphics for an HD mainline Pokémon game?

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You think that's bad? You should check out the graphics in the leaked SwSh betas.

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA

This. Pokemon has never pushed hardware boundaries pr even really had a strong art style

Graphics are only one issue with SwSh

Why Nintendo are so retarded? A big triple A open world mmo Pokemon games would bring so much money.

I dont give a shit about graphics. The real problem is that it's too fucking easy. Those fucking retards at gamefreak have been coasting for too long

It’s far from unacceptable but it could be better, though it’s tough with the lackluster power the machine has due to portability. Xenoblade 2 looked really good but had lots of frame drops and became comical in handheld mode. They certainly could use a pro non portable model, I love their quirky ideas for hardware design but miss me with mini discs again.

And they will continue to coast and stagnant after SwSh sold more than 20 million copies. I expect the next gen to have even more Pokemon and features removed so they can heavily market the next once and done battle gimmick

graphics? sure.
gameplay, content, difficulty, and pace? not even fucking close

And cost so much money

sure but they could milk it for years. There's still people paying a monthly fee to play FFXI and it was released almost 20 years ago.

Yes, actually. Graphics don't matter if the game is good. The problem is, fanboys who slavishly defend Pokemon even when the games have been taking a nosedive since the 3DS will not realize this. You can point out how awful the games have become and it slides off them like water. People figure maybe attacking something that plebs seem to care about will get it though their soft heads.

I had no idea xi was still ongoing, I played it for a good 7 years and still feel it had the best sense of accomplishment from a mmo. You weren’t just gifted maps to each area, had to buy/quest running around blindly at first was a hoot on top of no teleporting everywhere at will. Still can’t believe 14 v1 was what they chose as it’s successor, what a disaster that was.

The graphics should be better considering how massive Pokemon is, but they need to take a step back and think about how to make a Pokemon game with today's tech instead of just making incremental improvements to a tired formula with a temporary gimmick every generation. I don't mind turn-based combat, although Pokemon's is a little basic, but the exploration and sense of wonder are non-existent in a game that's supposed to be all about exploring a world filled with pocket monsters.

Pokemon should have never stopped being a grid-movement 2D-topdown game with flat sprites. Ideally fairly static sprites, too; that wiggly shit they did in B/W was garbage. Game Freak can't design an engine that can handle things moving, they can't design a 3D map to save their lives, and their models are just garbage.

It's not really about the graphics for me. Unfortunately, the gameplay is also garbage.

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2D is different than 3D. Old games didn't have good or detailed pixel arts but didn't look bad, since they didn't have to deal with bad models and low quality textures which actually look like shit.

This. Fucking /vp/turds outta nowhere wants to shit on graphics, even tho they are the same fags who say "3D bad 2D good"

XI is still going but it's much more solo-based, you can summon NPC team mates so you don't really have to sit around finding a group until you get to endgame. I play it twice a year for a week during the free returning adventurer campaign. It's great to be able to solo the story without having to give a shit about other people's time, but it's also sad to see the Valkurm Dunes and other classic leveling areas barren of leveling parties.

I swear that GameFreak refuses to even think about designing things beyond 90s game boy art style.

IMO last time Pokémon had acceptable graphics was black/white 2. 3D was such a mistake for this franchise it cannot be understated

Why does Colosseum have so much more SOUL compared to Sw/Sh

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That's not how that works chud!!

Because GameFreak had nothing to do with it.