We could have had a Pokemon game that looks like this

The DS games look much better.

That looks like trash but whatever lets meme

GAMEFREAK

HIRE

>buzzword sprites

Yes bros thankfully gamefreak is better right

3D models are great amirite

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DEEZ
NUTS

wtf is lucario doing there, tf is this shit

Nobody uses NU-Typhlosion anyways

No we couldn't, Pokemon still belongs to Gamefreak

They unironically are great.

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Thank god.

>you can only have tumblr indie pixelshit or mediocre 3d, there are no other options

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>2019
>Pokedrones still exist

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yes because it looks all artsy fartsy pretentious when it would look awful in motion. Just compare op picture to any metal slug you faggot

>implying gamefreak knows how to make good games

I've seen NES games that look better than this, are you retarded?

here's your $60 home console game released in 2019 bro

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>380x214 resolution
>water looks like cement
>one lazily mirrored tree sprite copied over and over
>trees are on a grid but grass isn't
NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN!!!!

Good. That looks way too cluttered.

>comparing a mostly lax/still JRPG with a high motion action shooter

This. How the fuck can people still play pokemon anymore? Each game is worse than the last

oh you silly little oaf.

NINTENDO
HIRE THIS MAN
RIGHT NOW GKJDGKJKJGDJKGD

>moving around in metal slug and moving around in pokemon world can never be compared!

ah yes pokemon the only franchise where the spin offs are better than the main games

Well yes. You're just making yourself sound retarded at this point.

>It's okay for it to look like shit because the devs can't balance the game at all and end up with tons of absolutely useless pokemon!

A+

what exactly is so silly? there are actual pokemon games with spritework that already look much better than the op's picture.
dppt, hgss, bw, b2w2, the pre-3ds mystery dungeon games, conquest, and the ranger series all run circles around that tumblr shit aesthetically.

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Thank you, you'll find I'm top of the class.

>lucario
>lucario with tits

>we could've had a Pokemon MMO with every region
>could've had a open world BotW style game where you can fly around

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final fantasy is in the same boat now.

Why do memepixelshit look so soulless compared to actual SNES and GBA games?

>every new game has to look better than any game that came before it

Fixed

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if it was a different developer maybe
we're stuck with the most incompetent one that keep using the excuse
>a open world pokemon game wouldn't work

That lacks soul

If you purchase any product from Game Freak you deserve to be scammed for the rest of your life.

HOLY SHIT
HIRE
THIS
MAn

>model fits with lore
>shitty frozen 2d

>didn't play Mystery Dungeon

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Pixelart looks worse, not better, at lower resolutions

Appreciate the pixels

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they just place shit haphazardly instead of actually trying to create A E S T H E T I C

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these both look good tho

sure, if you're blind.

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Pretty sure Crystal had minor short animations when you first sent Pokemon into battle

yea that guy is a fag these games look good. never played mystery dungeon games but watched my buddy play them when I was in china but think im gonna find a few to play

There's that retarded word again

You really couldn't.

Depends on the pixel art.

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Just know
Explorers of Sky > Super > Rescue Team > Gates to Infinity

hmmm...mostly yes?

that's how typholsion looks, user.

not even rockstar has been able to make a legitimately good open world.
open-world game design is a meme. it's just an excuse to sell less content for the same price and trick normalfags with the illusion of freedom.

noted

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But that is the "native" resolution
They scaled the pixels by 9 (3 in the x, 3 in the y)

Play them.
Those furry right simulators had absolutely no right to be that good.

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Ah there's the soul, good work user

fair enough but these games dont really need superb graphics rather they spent time on the extra tidbits which is where these games used to excel up to like gen 5

this is a monster collecting game franchise where you explore to collect shit
open world would benefit it greatly

those screenshots are from the pokemon ranger games, not mystery dungeon, fwiw. mystery dungeon also looked good in the sprite era, though.

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This looks like a cheap 3D model faking a 2D effect, especially the tree

yeah thats pretty much how I felt about those hamtaro games so probably will give em a go

Is Chocobo Mystery Dungeon on the Switch similar?

Pokemon Sword and Shield looks fucking great and the female character is a cutie.

Omg with Skyrim quests and Dark Souls combat am i rite???

i have yet to see a single game benefit from ditching actual structure in favor of open-world meme trash. meanwhile, i've seen final fantasy, metal gear solid and zelda release awful, content-starved "games" after selling out to the open world fad.
nu-pokemon lacks actual content as it is, and you're advocating for most of the budget to be pumped into making a big empty world instead of content. that's retarded. pokemon really just needs more regions like unova, where there's clear linear progression but also plenty of side content off the beaten path and an actual postgame.

Yes. Mystery Dungeon is actually a franchise, the developers get rights to Final Fantasy and Pokemon to make games with its gameplay set in their universes.

Got any more like this?

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I dunno man.
Not him, but I hate the open world meme as much as the next guy, but I really feel like if there is a franchise that can make it work it's pokemon.
Usually in those shitty open world meme games, you can explore, but the world completely empty.
Like you can climb that mountain, but there is absolutely nothing there.
While in the theorotical open world pokemon game if you climb said mountain you can find a cool Onix that only spawns in that mountain area.
Exploring would reward you with finding cool new mons instead of some shitty crafting item to craft some atomic dildo or whatever in the other open world games.
But that is just me spitballin.

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Nice trips
Also while I agree and I know we're talking about sprite-work, I think PMD had a decent enough transition to 3D. I still prefer the sprites, but this doesn't look bad.

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I won't want a Pokemon that looked like that, the franchise did too many idiotic things, I won't put any hope into them anymore

DUDE WHAT IF POKEMON BATTLE ROYALE

WITH SEKIRO COMBAT

Had no idea, thought Pokemon just ripped the name off.

Somone's working on a romhack that looks like this.

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Gamefreak is a soulless company.

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Why does this remind me of Pokemon 2000 when they went back in time

NINDO HIRE THAT OP

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Neat

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HIRE
THIS
MAN

Does it have a name?

I hate the catchpa

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I don't think it has a name yet. Guy who makes it posts in /rheg/ on /vp/ and on discord though.

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the problem with these games is that they are story driven and don't really need a open world
however collectathlons like this where you go out to explore a huge region and catch pokemon
you don't really need a huge map just a lot of open areas to explore
that way they could easily add overworld encounters without it being a cluttered mess that was LGPE

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Shit blob pixel if you think this is good consider killling yourself.
Fucking SOUL.

This is it in motion before anyone says its fake.

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any battle screens?

>Pokemon Sword and Shield looks fucking great
Do you eat shit?

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This looks so much smoother than those Pokemon RPGMaker fangames
Why are those so laggy?

but user, you have to understand that making video games is hard!
never mind that we're the second most profitable IP in existence!

the trailers for sumo looked great too and look how it turned out

holy shit looks fucking terrible

It does
Like its not the best looking Switch game ever but it looks pretty all the same.

Also Yokai Watch has good graphics but I don't like its monster designs or character designs. Looks like prime shotacon bait tho

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Everyone jerks off Mystery Dungeon 2 but I missed finding gardens for all your teammates and turning you base into your fucking FACE in 1

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art style > graphics
I'm gonna be stopping to look at the scenary in the next Pokemon a lot, the trailer looked great.

>turning you base into your fucking FACE in 1
I get what you mean, but I liked the dorm life.

Fucking hell

But this looks so much better.

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>the problem with these games is that they are story driven
pokemon is a jrpg. it's supposed to be story driven too. game freak just sucks at writing stories.
>you don't really need a huge map just a lot of open areas to explore
you don't need to make an empty open world or sacrifice linear progression to do that. unova proves it.
>however collectathlons like this where you go out to explore a huge region and catch pokemon
collectathons don't necessarily beneift from wide open spaces. that's why everyone hated banjo-tooie and yooka-laylee. an open world would be that but even worse.
>that way they could easily add overworld encounters without it being a cluttered mess that was LGPE
again, you don't need an open world to make overworld encounters work. plenty of linear jrpgs have them.
the reason why it looks cluttered in lgpe is because game freak didn't redesign kanto to get rid of the old grid-based map design from the game boy era.

Looks great apart from the walking/running, legit would love Gamefreak to make a game like this.

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digimon has low-budget vita games that look better than swishy swoosh.

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Nah, I dont have faith in Game Freak, Id be more excited if another dev willing to build on GFs mistakes were at the helm

>it's supposed to be story driven too
thats exactly what ruined pokemon in gen3
they have been doing the same shitty box legendary storyline for years now
we don't need that shit
i take
>have this open space to explore until the next town
over
>lets stop you every 10 steps to tell you about this shitty new gimmick nobody gives a shit about

Cyber Sleuth recycles the same 4 environments over the course of the whole game.

Cyber Slueth has 12 areas. You can say "I dont think cyber slueth has enough unique areas" without lying to a ridiculous degree

cyber sleuth also wasn't made by a $90 billion franchise on more powerful hardware than the vita.

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>pokemon is a jrpg. it's supposed to be story driven too. game freak just sucks at writing stories.
Most turn-based RPGs require a story to work with because without a good story.
However, Pokemon absolutely does not require a story at all besides the barebones minimum. Pokemon is one of the few RPGs out there that has such mass replayability thanks to an incredibly diverse cast of characters to build your party around and ways to get them that no run will ever be the same.
Pokemon is one of the few RPGs that would benefit much MUCH more with a large focus on gameplay and worldbuilding than story. Especially since one of the sidequests that is prevalent throughout every single Pokemon game is filling out the entire Pokedex. Which is built around rewarding exploring the world.

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I just remembered how satisfying its "SMT-lite' digivolution mechanics were. Cant wait for the new one

>because without a good story
Accidentally cut off a point I was gonna make
Most turn-based RPGs require a good story because you can only do so much with a turn-based RPG in terms of gameplay elements.

>thats exactly what ruined pokemon in gen3
that's a problem with game freak, not a problem with story in pokemon games. explorers of sky has a great story. so does colosseum. neither were made by game freak, of course.

It depends on what we call "better"
For example having better graphics could be looking like Battlefront II (the bad one), but it can be simpler if it looks good aesthetically
But a 2019 game can't have deformed bricks like these

That street reminds me of this gif

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if battling is all you care about, just play showdown. a jrpg without a story is like a rhythm game without music.

such a shame that that shit is what the pokemon formula became
>here's a shitty team rocket reskin thats totally not evil except for the boss which is the absolute worst
>also you need to catch this mandatory box legendary pokemon because reasons
there's now almost 1000 pokemon and they're still doing the same bullshit every single gen

This isn't an actual romhack or something on a fan engine. They're purely mockups.

yeah, and the solution isn't for game freak to put even less effort into their games. the solution is to use some of their limitless resources to hire better writers and stop letting ohmori direct the games.

That's not even a good comparison and you're not even refuting any of my points.

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Yeah it sucks. People see GF fuck up the story over and over and their response is to just take the story out. There's like 100s ways to create an engaging story set in this world, its just theyve settled into this "formula"

How the hell does a fan romhack pack so much more detail into the world while using a limited sprite design yet an actual gaming company has been putting out soulless shit after soulless shit for over 2 decades?

gamefreak knows that people will buy the games regardless of what they do or don't
just look how much LGPE sold despite being as low effort as possible

>thinks looking like shit is art style
Yikes

Go on the /rheg/ discord. It is being actively developed.

but dude, just look at this amazing scenery! i could stare at these n64 sprite trees for hours!

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but in the post that you replied to, the game that ISN'T Pokémon is the one with the superior art style

Recently, yes - but Pokémon games used to have soul

Gen 6 was when it turned to shit imo

link? this looks like good shit. do they have music i'd love to write for this

discord.gg/HfWa4Dg

Yeah, when we're talking 8 years of progress and a system 3 generations higher.

A wii would cost $30 to manifacture today. since you're spending $300 for the system, those new specs have to account to something.

so by your own claims when pokemon started getting into 3d, it both shit graphics and shit attention to gameplay details.

why were you defending it again?

unironically looks better than S/S.
because at least this one has one thing going for it: good aesthetics.
S/S is not competitive technically while having awful plastic aesthetics. you need one of the two.

Are you for real?

the style of plastic-looking soulless dead eye as cringy as if it were an early 1990 gci show.

Nintendrons ladies and gentlemen.

and pokemon recycles a 200 items tileset, often throughout an entire generation. your point?

>that fucking backpack

they couldn't even be bothered to fit the straps onto the character model

let's recap the accomplishments of pokemon as a franchise, over the years
the serie has:
-awful pacing
-nonexistant difficulty that got even more ignored in the last generations
-story has always been shit, it was better when it was just a kid getting badges, it's a waste of time now, especially with forced cutscenes about a terrible story - another downgrade
- outdated mechanically both in terms of complexity and quality of individual mechanics. turn based works if you make it interesting or engaging - pokemon combat just isn't.
- somehow runs at 20fps
- no endgame, cut off endgame going forward
- cut off environmental elements like pokemon following you and a myriad other things throughout the years
- no balance whatsoever, most of who play competitive claim gen 4 or 5 were much better
- collecting stops being fun since collection hasn't evolved past gen 2, when it introduced gimmicks for some mons; nothing else interesting has happened since, the collection has been secluded to awful embarrassing shit like the friend safari in the past, but it's generally just "walk in grass randomly" with less interesting gimmick encounter mechanisms than there were in the past

why is this series selling again? how does it manage to get worse and sell just the same? any other answer than "autists and children" welcome.

there's no better monster collecting game

yeah, graphics...... that's where pokemon needs to improve..

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>implying the vast majority of those on gen 5 are bad designs
Fuck off, nigger.

most of these are excellent though ?

>Litwick family
You have shit taste and the big gay

Is this also just fanart?

>hating on scrafty, chandelure, shieldon abd jirachi.
>conveniently forgettimg shit in other gens like corsola, remoraid, octilery, stantler, girafarig, ledyba, exeggcute, paras and parasect.

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SOULLESS HIRE THIS SOUL

its way too busy looking

god I want to fuck Keita so bad

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>nonexistant difficulty that got even more ignored in the last generations
Honestly I thought USUM was the hardest gane to date.
You're on tge money with the other things though.

Leave paras and parasect alone.

>bidoof
this is fucking BAIT

>Litwick, Chandelure, Elgyem, Beheeyem, Cottonee, Whimsicott, Swadloon, Oshawott

Those are all fine. The rest I pretty much agree with though.

That looks like Jagged Alliance a bit. I'd rather have that than Pokémon.

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>talking shit about chandelure

fuck you say you little bitch

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smt is better, persona is better, yo-kai watch is better, even digimon's games have improved by leaps and bounds while pokemon stagnates.

>shitting on parichisu

The bad ones actually far outnumber the good ones

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you mean like everyone who ever played a pokemon game did?

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Reminder that "soul" is literally nostalgia

looks like shit

no

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...

>yo-kai watch is better

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Typhlosion and Tyrannitar have pretty much never actually looked good outside of the first game they were in, it's only the fan art, gamefreak has no idea how to get the flame spikes right

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soul = effort and talent
soulless = no effort or talent but with lighting and shaders so it looks "modern"

soul = game made by someone with passion for it
examples: Halo trilogy, Star Wars Battlefront 2

soulless = game made for the sole purpose of making money
examples: Halo 4, Halo 5, Star Wars Battlefront 2 EA

>second

Pokemon is the largest grossing media franchise in the world.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises

This is the game Pokemon fans deserve.

cutfags are mentally ill.

PokeMMO is adding Sinnoh soon so that's Kanto Hoenn Unova and Sinnoh all in one game. Only thing missing is Johto, and it will be the perfect game then.

a good majority of the gen 1 sprites are fucking awful dude, geodudes and mew are pretty shit until yellow or gold/silver but this was bait anyway

>hating Magnemite and Magneton
Fuck you.

pokemon are supposed to be monsters
they are meant to look scary and threatening
the anime designs ruined everything by turning them into neutered mascots

>gen 1 geodude
>threatening
you are absolutely retarded

Why do indie fags make 8-bit pixel art instead of the much more gorgeous 16-bit stuff seen in the SNES era? This just looks unfocused and ugly