Current Events > The last few pokemon games have been unbelievably ugly to look at.

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I don't know how game freak gets away with it.

They need to hire a new art director or something, because these games have no visual style or identity.

I'm not crazy here, am I? When I look at pokemon scarlet it makes me mad, because it looks like some kind of environment for hardware testing. Everybody sees this too, right?

Pokemon has not looked good since it was 2D. GameFreak cannot make 3D models look good.

There was a trailer this year (Summer Games fest?) that looked very good a pretty that was made by Game Freak, which shocked everybody

Here

https://youtu.be/H0r-Kap8kWI?si=GqCjtQ4ZDChOE4oy

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Pokemon has not looked good since it was 2D. GameFreak cannot make 3D models look good.

The 3DS games looked pretty good imo, but I guess it was more 2.5D than full on 3D.

DarthEnvoy posted...

The 3DS games looked pretty good imo, but I guess it was more 2.5D than full on 3D.

the 3ds games are straight up 3d, just that they had fixed cam. SwSh also had fixed cam 90% of the time but it still looked pretty bad. GF had barely gotten used to 3D and then suddenly had to make the jump to HD without really being ready for it, then instead of trying to improve on SwSh's style they just threw it out the window

PowerOats posted...

There was a trailer this year (Summer Games fest?) that looked very good a pretty that was made by Game Freak, which shocked everybody

Here

https://youtu.be/H0r-Kap8kWI?si=GqCjtQ4ZDChOE4oy

they have to be fucking with us

Let's Go Pikachu looked pretty alright.

You could also make an argument for Legends Arceus, but that's stretching it

YoungMutual posted...

Let's Go Pikachu looked pretty alright.

You could also make an argument for Legends Arceus, but that's stretching it

I like Arceus, but the overall look of the game is dog shit.

BDSP has a nice style, it just needs another ~2 years of finishing the game.

PowerOats posted...

There was a trailer this year (Summer Games fest?) that looked very good a pretty that was made by Game Freak, which shocked everybody

Here

https://youtu.be/H0r-Kap8kWI?si=GqCjtQ4ZDChOE4oy

Hope they fix that frame rate issue, though.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4kb5QXQ3Zek

So one, the 3d models are basically the 2d designs slapped into 3d. A lot of Pokemon designs dont really seem to account for an unfixed 3 dimensional camera because the model proportions are absolutely goofy from certain angles. I think some extra work on translating them from 2d to 3d needed to be done so that we dont get 3d Haxorus.

Two, the colors are still absolutely awful for some reason. Idk why they hate vibrant colors now, but since they went 3d the colors have looked horribly washed out and still not returned to the way they should be.

and thats JUST the Pokemon themselves not to mention the awful art direction for the world itself

I blame Legends Arceus. The games were still bearable to look at during Sw/Sh but they seem keen on sticking with the ugly open-world Legends format moving forward.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

So one, the 3d models are basically the 2d designs slapped into 3d. A lot of Pokemon designs dont really seem to account for an unfixed 3 dimensional camera because the model proportions are absolutely goofy from certain angles. I think some extra work on translating them from 2d to 3d needed to be done so that we dont get 3d Haxorus.

That sand hippo is also pretty egregious.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c74d24b8.png
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/08739d41.png

Yeah the visuals have been a bit shit on the Switch.

But what can you do? Not play Pokmon? That would be ridiculous.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

So one, the 3d models are basically the 2d designs slapped into 3d. A lot of Pokemon designs dont really seem to account for an unfixed 3 dimensional camera because the model proportions are absolutely goofy from certain angles. I think some extra work on translating them from 2d to 3d needed to be done so that we dont get 3d Haxorus.

Two, the colors are still absolutely awful for some reason. Idk why they hate vibrant colors now, but since they went 3d the colors have looked horribly washed out and still not returned to the way they should be.

and thats JUST the Pokemon themselves not to mention the awful art direction for the world itself

tbh pokemon have always been made to be seen in multiple angles ever since gen 1 mons got their finalized designs, I mean plushies and the anime have existed for decades. The issue is that they gave most of them really bland idle poses rather than trying to make them more dynamic. The colors seem to have been finally fixed in ZA at least, so there's that

mehmeh1 posted...

tbh pokemon have always been made to be seen in multiple angles ever since gen 1 mons got their finalized designs, I mean plushies and the anime have existed for decades. The issue is that they gave most of them really bland idle poses rather than trying to make them more dynamic. The colors seem to have been finally fixed in ZA at least, so there's that

Anime is still more stylized and closer to the 2d artwork than the models can get imo. Some of the problems are the models themselves for a lot of mons

Haxorus and Hippowdon for example will look bad with their current models no matter what pose they are in. They just look odd.

Yeah honestly BW2 were the last legitimately fun and full of soul games. Never liked how xy and on ruined their cries and toned their color down so damn much. Then every Gen was compromised in one way or another: gen 6 never got Z because they rushed SM, gen 7 got "sequels" that instead of expanding their base games like BW2 felt like weird retellings, gen 8 brought dexit and two lame/babies remakes of KANTOOOO, then gen 9 while legitimately fun was so damn broken, slow AND ugly to look at

I don't think I'll ever stop being a fan, but I will stop buying their games altogether.