So what's the verdict, was 3D a mistake?

So what's the verdict, was 3D a mistake?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no. ohmiro was a mistake

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fibbity bibbity

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      fibpib bibpip

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    not as much as that disgusting pixel style.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gamefreak was a mistake

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not entirely. SWSH had some pretty nice character models, it just shat all over everything else. Then SV went and shat all over its character models too

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >dude she's a ghost type gym leader because... SHE HAS SKELETON HAIR!!!!!!!
      Nu-gens are a mistake holy shit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Actually it's
        >Dude she's a ghost type gym leader because... black rappers ghost more homies than anyone else

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think it's more that she chose to be a ghost type trainer, and just based her look on that. For the record, I don't like her. But I do think whatever argument you're reaching for isn't good.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >dude he's a ghost type gym leader because... no reason, he just is!!
        >dude she's a ghost type gym leader because... she dresses like a drifblim!!!!!
        >dude he wasn't enough of a ghost type gym leader the first time we did him... so now he has a ragged scarf!!!
        lose weight.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      she looks better 2d

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Black person

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >SWSH had some pretty nice character models
      No

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like her fat breasts and belly chub
      I hope someone can fix her face though

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Man that looks fricking great sigh

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    for gamefreak yeah but it's not like you can't make good looking characters in 3d

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wait, why isn't he a blurry mess? why isn't his outline pixels and why does his visor look better than literally anything in SV?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        because it's a HD render of a low polygon model. Visor is literally metal mario level reflection, not very impressive.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    for gamefreak it was
    >use 3D models to future proof games aka put even less effort in the next game
    >copy and paste animations and models
    >can't even add new animations to the pokemon to spice things up
    >can't even figure out how to optimize their games for the hardware

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They cant even copy paste an animation properly all the time. The train cutscene in SwSh had your character clipping through your phone the second time and swiping the air.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe but not looking like this shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frick you, it doesn't look that bad.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No, anon's right.
        It's steps backwards from BW1 and 2.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          BW1 and 2 looked horrendous what the frick are you talking about, with those lanky ass character sprites broken from the pixel grid by perspective tricks, flat trees, over reliance on 3D, low contrast colors etc.

          The games visually peaked with HGSS.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Too bad they're shitty boring games

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah Digimon was alwasy better

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            HGSS is 3D as well I hope you realize.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >HGSS is 3D as well I hope you realize.
              It's a 2D game that just uses 3D effects. The 3rd dimension does not at any point actually come into play gameplay wise.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The entire game is rendered in 3D.
                Are you trying to imply grid locking is a good thing gameplay wise?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >The entire game is rendered in 3D.
                not really? None of the buildings have back faces. I guess TECHNICALLY it is but the world as-is wouldn't lend itself well to a real third person perspective instead of top-down with sprites.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Sounds like lazy devs to me.
                But we overlook laziness when it comes to old games because...........................................................................

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >But we overlook laziness when it comes to old games because...........................................................................
                Well in this case, technical limitations is a real factor, since on actual Nintendo DS hardware, only one map cell is loaded at a time. That means draw distance would be significantly more noticable froma third person perspective. All those 3D map viewers you see online are able to render the whole map at once, but the DS was not able to do that.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Calling it laziness was a bit of tongue and cheek. Obviously technical limitations are always the biggest factor for graphics, but for some reason for newer gens we resort to calling the devs lazy instead. Wonder why that is.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >but for some reason for newer gens we resort to calling the devs lazy instead. Wonder why that is.
                Anon, this is the same console that runs BotW. And BotW was a WiiU game technically, and it looks miles better. That's why we're calling GameFreak lazy this time. Because this time we actually have games to compare them to and legitimate reasons to hold them to higher standars.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It doesn't actually look better, though. Same bad textures, same ugly trees, same frame drops.
                Stop gaslighting and pretending any switch games look good outside of animal crossing which does not have to deal with demanding rendering.
                Switch is a shit console and nintendo needs to move to pc.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The geometry alone is much, much better in BOTW

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I can fire up BotW right now and give you better looking screens than SV

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Now compare to something like this and its more clear the two really aren't on the same caliber

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                goddamn i can't wait for tears of the kingdom bros

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Neither can I. Even if TotK is 99 percent similar to BotW and the most they do is add mechanics and fix some bugs I would totlaly be okay with that. Aside from some minor shit, BotW is pretty close to a perfect game

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >None of the buildings have back faces.
                Yes Anon this is basic optimization in a fixed camera 3D environment.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                "fixed camera 3D environment." = "effectively a 2D game"

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So just like Unova?
                >inb4 Castelia and Pokémon League
                99% of Unova would look stupid in 3D because almost every building faces the same way and only has a front door. You know, like a 2D game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Wrong. Watch out of bounds HGSS on YouTube, there are buildings with backs to them, fully rendered

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >there are buildings with backs to them, fully rendered
                Wrong. Only a couple of buildings do that. Most of the buildings have no backs to them.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The original claim is none of the buildings have back faces. That is wrong. Bell sprout tower does.

                You don't know what none (0) means (hint: it doesn't mean only a couple). Get a dictionary your c**t.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You're pedantic and probably autistic as well

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                And you're shifting the goal posts trying to cope.

                >None of them do
                >Only a couple do
                Pick one you sore loser.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >The 3rd dimension does not at any point actually come into play gameplay wise.
                XY is my favorite 2D game with 3D effects bros

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                X and Y have at least one section that's actually in 3rd person so it technically is 3D albeit barely.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Lumiose City
                Checkmate, atheists.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I like HGSS's sprites but gen 4 grass colors makes my eyes bleed. I actually love Gen 5's color schemes and world aesthetics.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    no

    it's weird how people keep saying 3D is a mistake yet can't even reference a single thing that demonstrates it's worse than 2D

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >see simplistic pixel world and characters
      >mind fills in the blanks that it's actually real and detailed and immersive

      >see simplistic amateur 3D open world
      >mind goes "yep that's all there is" and doesn't fill in the barren static wasteland
      That's all I have

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That’s fricking beautiful.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This image reminds me how every time throught generations when hardware resolutions went up I wished 2D games would just expand how much you see. Rather than increasing rsolution of assets just let you see more of the map.like a 256x256 tile would still take up 256x256 pixels even on a 4k screen. You would just see significantly more of the world at once.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Pokemon wandering around a lifeless 3D open world will always be inferior to the subtlety of tall grass. It was a technological limitation, and it worked. Now we can have pokemon wandering around, but they suck.

        >2D is better because my brain can just pretend it isn't shit!
        uh, wow, compelling argument.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, exactly. Both look shit but one offers a way out.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes moron. Literally how the human brain works from what we know. One of the reasons world building in a book is much more vibrant and effective than in a movie.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The human brain is engineered to fill in missing information. This is why concepts of terror and fear of darkness or small spaces work so well. The same happens in a book or pixelated environment. Your brain fills in the missing details by using the best possible interpretation.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >2D is better because my brain can just pretend it isn't shit!
            uh, wow, compelling argument.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Hahahahaha
          you have never read a book

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Where the hell are the romhack or game of this, anon? All show and no tell. If someone wanted it, they had two decades to make this

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Lol why would you waste years of your life on something you can't sell

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The thing is, SV cities get really close to this feeling, they're very big but ACTUALLY feel big and feel like a CITY or big town. The problem is there's fricking nothing to do in them besides buy food and gym shit.
        The best example is the electric gym city, that city was legitimately beautiful to see in the distance while I was just fricking around doing tera battles to fill out my team.
        I expected it to look shitty once I got there but the layout was GOOD it was big without being spacious and all the NPC's made it feel big and lived in. There were alleyways and nooks and crannies that MADE SENSE.
        But there's fricking nothing to do in it, there's a DOCK with BOAT but you can't GO anywhere or talk to anyone. There's a giant building with signs to indicate EACH building but there's fricking nothing in them.

        It's painfully sad because the city is breathtaking, but it's nearly hollow. It's the exact opposite of SwSH where everything looks like it's so much bigger than it is.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        if they made a switch game with this quality everyone on planet earth would play it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It would sell less than SwSh and you know it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            because it wouldn't release until 2030

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pokemon wandering around a lifeless 3D open world will always be inferior to the subtlety of tall grass. It was a technological limitation, and it worked. Now we can have pokemon wandering around, but they suck.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There's a way they can make it work. Just take BotWs animal AI/animations but make them Pokemon. There. That's all you need to do. GF is too incompetent, that's the only reason the 3D overworld encounter system fails.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I'd say it fails because of the wandering around part. Giving them more scripted animations isn't going to fix it, you need to have behavior schedules and such. It'd be pretty complex if you only had a dozen species you needed to do, but hundreds? It's not gonna happen.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >you need to have behavior schedules and such
            i know this isn't what you meant by that but a majora's mask style game with pokemon when? have it be a pmd game though

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Again, that's more or less what BotWs animal AI did. That game did a lot of technical shit right.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Pokemon wandering around a lifeless 3D open world will always be inferior to the subtlety of tall grass.
        It really won't. Stop being such a purist c**t. Random encounters are shit. Always have been, always will be.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          nah random encounters are great, scratches that gacha game/ casino itch where i don't know what i'll get until it appears

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Random encounters fricking suck man, I hate wasting 30 minutes aimlessly walking in circles just because I wanted to use a Raichu or something, with absolutely no way to influence its odds of spawning, and because it’s such low odds, you could easily spend a lot longer there. Overworld roaming Pokémon at least save you time looking around and don’t interrupt you with overly long text boxes and battle-entry animations.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They could do that in 2D but it would break the shitty game to code in random sprites appearing grass in the overworld that you must touch go get a battle

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Its just fricking ugly brah.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If this is the alternative 3D is the greatest decision in Pokémon history
    Disgusting attempt at pixel art

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >was 3D a mistake?
    No.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      .All 3D Pokemon spin-offs look great
      Meanwhile the main series barely even caught-up to Battle Revoltuion on the fricking Wii.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Even XY looks better than PBR does.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's been like a decade (and they've been using 3d since the DS games if you want to be technical) and they still have no idea what the frick they're doing.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If any marketer from Gamefreak is listening, NO. This is the wrong message to be giving Gamefreak.

    Gamefreak is capable of good 3D when they want to put in the effort. Key word being effort. What sadly may happen is that marketers will see SV perform poorly and decide nobody wants 3D environments and go back to 2D completely. That would be a huge waste of potential when theyve shown us they are capable. All we need for TPCi to do is cut down on some of the red tape and deadlines in production so Gamefreak can see their full potential. And maybe have them scale the environments down a smidge.

    >"A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever - Shigeru Miyamoto"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Rayman franchise switched from 3D to 2D 10 years ago and the quality of the games increased tremendously. Pokemon can do the same.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Pokemon can do the same
        How would the quality improve by switching to 2D?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >can't even put all Pokémon in a 3D game
          >expects GF to make 1000+ new sprites

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Sprites should be, in theory, a lot faster to make. A good sprite artist could probably do one Pokémon in, I dunno, an hour? It’s just one picture. And besides, if they’re really so terribly hard, they could just reuse the first 650 from gen 5.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Shut the frick up. Please.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Make me.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's meant to exaggerate how moronic your post read. I don't care to, continue being dumb. I do agree that pokemon suited 2d better, but the amount of dumbass shit you can read about people estimating how much work/time a sprite or a model takes on Ganker is egregious. It takes away from the point you're trying to make.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Okay. *Unzips*.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >they could just reuse the first 650 from gen 5.
              >reusing 3D models = bad!
              >reusing sprites = good!
              Especially gen 5 sprites were awful

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The goal here is to get all Pokémon in one game using sprite, right? In that case, reusing them isn’t crazy
                >gen 5 sprites are awful
                Fine, just freeze them so they’re not animated. Or hell, I don’t care, use the gen 4 sprites again.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >who cares that the game is dramatically worse! you’ll be able to transfer volbeat in after months when home updates!
                this is why no one takes dextards seriously

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        a 2d platformer and a 3d platformer may as well be different genres

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        When was the last 2D non-port Rayman game done exactly?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          1995—Rayman1 (2D)
          1999—Rayman 2: The Great Escape(3D)
          2003—Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc(3D)
          2011—Rayman Origins(2D)
          2013—Rayman Legends(2D)
          To answer your question, in 2013. But that's because Ubisoft forgot about Rayman because they're milking the Assassin Creed franchise while Rayman was initially more of a passion project. And yes, the 2D games are better.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Your birth was a mistake, quick; go fix it.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I doubt people would be happy to pay $60 for a 2D game on a home console.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How about instead of having ugly shitty pixelated games from the 90s GF just uses some of that 100b+ budget and makes a good looking game that they're charging 60 bucks for. Absolutely no one except nostalgiagays are going to buy a game that looks that shit and dated in 2022.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that we got Diamond and Pearl, legends and not this all in one fricking year. They legit need to let these games sit in the over an extra year or two

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    always was.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Well, they felt forced to make the movements sluggish in gen 7 to fit with the 3D models, so yes.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not only was it a mistake, but it was an ultra mistake thanks to the garbage Pixar art style.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Something about that pixel makes me want to puke, and I don't know why.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Could it be that they're chunky as hell?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Same, I think it's the tight crop and close zoom, this is what DS games looked like in their native res

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The sprites are still disgusting but this is much better.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, Game Freak just needs better development documentation to cover the effect of their astronomical turnover rate

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do think if they stuck with 2D, even if they moved from pixel to handdrawn, that sales wouldn't do as hot and you'd have people b***hing they should go 3D. GF is a literal "Damned if do or don't" company, it's too big to please everyone and 3D is more appealing to the majority. Sticking with 2D would have been a disaster sooner.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Well elephant in the room here, but most of the development staff from the original games likely moved on to green pastures or no longer represents the bulk of the development team of today. Game Freak has made its claim to fame as a scratching post for game development graduates in its latter years, so a lot of fresh meat technically is better equipped to handle 3D modeling than it is to do dot graphics or 2D animation, speaking strictly from a skillset perspective.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It absolutely was.
    GameFreak wasn't the best in the world in 2-D artwork, but they were far better at it than they've ever been at 3-D.
    3-D pokemon can genuinely just be ugly.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    graphics gays were a mistake.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    3d is fine
    im pretty sick of pixel shit now because it's almost always an indicator of dogshit indie development

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kys corporate shill

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i dont play triple A games too
        you might be shocked to hear this but people get sick of playing vidya all the time anon

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          why go to a vidya board then
          well admittedly i haven't played a mon game in years myself but there's the new one, you can shitpost over it

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, but this chibi pixel art isn't any better

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But Pokemon was chibi until gen 6

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but the op one reeks of indie game

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That might be up to the designs then because apart from the bigger heads and the tight crop it's pretty much what gen 4 looked like pixel art wise

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That doesn't look like "old pokemon" that just looks like a shitty phone game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. Where are the ugly out of place looking 3D building like in gen 4 and 5?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      at this point I'm convinced all the apologists played their first pokemon game on a 3DS or switch

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    this is oversaturated pixelated eye cancer
    smooth it out

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those look color picked from the game

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    nice 160x90 resolution

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