>tfw we'll never go back to sprites >it'll always

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>>30359334
>3D was a mistake

I agree

tesst

>>30359334
It is kind of weird seeing Pokemon just stand around awkwardly until they attack / get hit. 3D is meant to make the battles more believable but it ends up making it less in some ways because you can't use your imagination to flesh it out easily, the scene is presented to you at face value.

>>30359334
Yellow's Nidoking sprite is still top tier.

>>30359334
pokemon go models look delicious

They can reanimate the existing models with minimal effort, compared to redrawing sprites for every new pose.

That's actually one of the main benefits of using 3D models over sprites. But it's GF so who knows how they handle anything in their development.

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Did he deserve it?

>>30359393
Stadium games kept it interesting through the use of camera angles and cuts to make battles look more dynamic.

I wish the games took a cue from that. Stuff like zooming in on the Pokemon's face as he approaches for a close quarters attack, then cutting to the other Pokemon receiving the attack adds a lot of punch to things.

I wish the 3rd models had more personality. Even in Stadium the pokemon had their own little idle animations. I guess it would shit up the frames on the 3DS even more.

>>30359582
Yeah, 3D can be done right for sure, I remember liking Battle Revolution for the same reason.

>>30359334
I don't know why by removing the outlines makes them more bearable.

>>30359334
>>tfw no new poses every gen
Fuck off retard.

>>30360086
Autism.

>>30359334

>Judging a model by its idle pose

You are fucking retarded, they move when they attack

>>30360173
>second and half animations
>only have two or three of them for attacks and one for hits
>not to mention shit like Blastoise shooting water from his mouth or Xatu's floating plank
>98% of the time they are just standing straight looking at nothing

Fuck, those 3D animations sure a fucking beautiful! :^)

>>30360173
Not OP but the idle poses still suck. The last non-Pokemon game I played was FF9; the characters in that and in most games have an actual battle stance where they look like they're readying to attack. If they stood around doing nothing at all when they weren't attacking, like Pokemon, they would look stupid.

Oh boy, it's another "models = animations" thread.

>implying you wouldn't complain about gamefreak not getting with the times if they tried to release a mainline game with 2d sprites
Sprites should stay in the 00s where they belong.

>>30359621
I remember BR because every match would last 30 minutes

>>30360420
What do you want to rate then? How do they look in their generic as shit idle stance?
It's Nidoking, yippee!

Give them dynamic animations that aren't just "standing/gliding/wobbling/flapping until the opponent uses a move or you attack" and future-proof models won't be as bad.
But GameFreak already dug themselves a grave by not doing that with XY, there's no way in hell they'll bother doing it for 850+ Bastards and their forms, regional variations, Megas and formes in Gen 8.

>>30360455
>Sprites should stay in the 00s where they belong
16-bit still looks good today and always will, because it doesn't have shitty polygons like early versions of models do

sprites are still entirely valid

>>30359568
How long before Sugimori retires and we get a new artist doing the official art?

Man, I still really love the look of Crystal's sprites.

I like models better than sprites in general.

>>30360666
As expected of Satan.

>>30359512
>They can reanimate the existing models with minimal effort

They didn't even bother doing that in Sun/Moon.

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>>30360455
but you're wrong

>>30360712
They didn't bother doing a lot of things, including making at least half of the buildings in the game explorable.

It's Game Freka.

>>30360420
Some models could look better

For example, Empoleon's Battle Revolution model, if I'm not mistaken, was a bit better than what we have now

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>>30359334

>>30360455
I wouldn't mind if they at least kept a default sprite+single animation for when viewed through the PC. i hate having to find fan made sprites of generation 6/7 pokemon. 3d can stay in all other situations.

>>30360581
And on that note, they already spent their efforts on Amie Animations during Gen 6, which was undoubtedly pure hell to a point where they can't see themselves ever dropping it in future games, compared to HGSS which was just "make really small overworld sprites and a bunch of generic scripts and a few unique dialogues."

>>30359502
They're just the XY/SM models without the lighting effects that are used to make them look like sprites.

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People are saying it's the idle animations that suck but I fucking miss how dynamic the fainting animations were in colosseum/battle revolution

I'm pretty sure for some mons like swinub all they do now is slow down the idle animation and call it a day

>>30359334
What pisses me off is that a lot of the 3D models are lazy and have different proportions than their sprite counterparts. The gen5 sprites were all really adequate.

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>>30361035

And another one, they were all great

>>30361035
>Wanting to slow down the game even further

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>>30361036
Given how garbage the 3DS' Resolution is and GameFreak can't optimize for shit, I'd expect proper sizes and proportions in the inevitable Switch Games next gen, assuming they take advantage of camera angles to get a good view of both sides rather than what Gen 6/7 did.

>>30360627
is Sugimori even still the art lead these days?
All I see is some other shmuck doing the job for him, like hg and ss and b2/w2 for exmample where god damn awful.

All he does is show off his massive toy collection on twitter.

>>30361036
>gen5 sprites were all really adequate
Eelektross, Purrloin, fucking Hitmontop

>>30361135

He made the alolan forms aaaaand that's it for this gen

>>30360285
Yup, still better than any immobile sprite which uses the same pose for everything. And we don't talk about BW's sprites around here.

>>30361035
Azurill's 3DS faint is pretty great. Other than that I agree.

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>>30359352
No, it's not. Kys.

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>>30361084
What we probably need is a new console battle sim.
It'd be nice to have pvp battles in places other than cyberpunk stadium.

Yeah, I love the Gen 5 sprites that just shuffle around for a few seconds and that animation loops forever even during moves.
Fuck off, OP.

>>30361140
Eelektross is weird, because I actually like his 3D model better than his sprites. If a Pokemon levitates, show it floating, not standing on it's fins like they're hindlegs.

Purrloin stands on its hindlegs in the 3D model but is quadrupedal as a sprite so that kind of fucks me up, too

Hitmontop is a shitty Pokemon through-and-through and every sprite/model of it is awful just because its design is awful.

>>30361162
The Rattata art is an edit of the Fire Red and Leaf Green artwork for fuck sake.

>>30361284
Still managed to look better than what we have now.

>>30359334

People wanted 3D and now the game suffers for it. It's those same faggots that want DMC combat and open world in every video game.

I'm more sad about the fact that they will never fix those retarded flying animation.

>>30360824
Is it bait if it's true?

they are 3D models you fag, its easier to put them on a pose now.

>>30362991
and yet gamefreak doesn't do that

hmmm

>>30363008

cuz only autist care about it

>>30361403

Honestly I get the impression that Sugimori was forced into it. Maybe that's why there's so few alolan forms and why most of their artworks are copies of the originals

>>30363008

because they can just transfer the models form one game to the other , no need to redo the sprites like the previous generations.

The reason they had to redo the sprites in newer games is cuz they now had more memory,add colors , more detail it was basically because of new technology thanks to 3D models they can jsut grab the model they previously made , scale it to new resolution and there you go,no need for more work.

>>30361640
They'll never make it so that flying pokemon glide, but shift to a standing animation when grounded by gravity/iron ball/smack down

>>30361135
Sugimori has stated himself that he has been suffering from artist's block. It's why there in't a Mega Flygon.

Frankly, he's been suffering from artist's block for years. There are just so many fantastic Fakemon to compete.

>>30361035
I remember Alakazam used to bop himself in the head with his spoon in the Stadium games. I loved that shit.

>>30363260
After 700 approved concepts and god knows how many rejected, it's only natural.

>>30364034
I figured he can't be the only one working on designs. But of all the leaks that come through every release, I'd love for someone to leak a rejected/unused/prototype design documents.

I don't think there's been a release of unused Pokemon since Gen 3- but most of those were implemented and used in some capacity even. After that, there were only slight alterations in beta design, and I think the last mention of unused/prototype content was an alternate design of Hydregon mentioned in an interview.

>>30359334
3D is best thing happened to pokemon series.

>>30363260
>There are just so many fantastic Fakemon to compete.

That was sarcasm right?

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>>30364970
Not at all

>>30361035
better than vanishing to the ground

>>30359334
The trainer poses give me hope that pokemon poses will come back somehow

>>30359334

Here is to hope... This game lags so damn bad.

>>30361192
Because that way kids can fill in the blank information with their imagination.
Now they can't

IIRC that new Digimon game has them circle each other, that could work. We already have mega evolution

>>30365200
Oh yeah, so good, not even a little bit of EDGE on this fakemon. Nope, not at all.