Why was the following feature so damn good? It added more than

>he actually fell for the following pokemon meme

It added nothing of practical use except the sprites could be used for Pokethlon.

I don't mind if it sees a return, but it better be optional.

>>31988630
Totally agree OP, it added so much personality to the adventure

>they have 3D models they can just reuse as much as they want
>too lazy to just shrink some of them and make walking/running animations

>>31988630
Cool for you. The amount of time they put into making those sprites could've been put into something productive, something that wouldn't be unusable in the very next game.

I'm glad they jumped to 3D. At the very least, there's little to no chance of GF wasting time on Pokemon following bullshit.

As a side note, Amie/Refresh >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Following Pokemon

>>31988668
>just make walking/running animations
>as if they can just snap their fingers and bring them into existence

There are unused walking/running animations as of SM, though.

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>>31988630
Actually just started up SS yesterday, really like this feature. Sure its simple but it's cool to walk and see sights with your pokemon and has a kind of bonding feel to it.

>>31988630
It's just comfy. It's cool the idea of an adventure between you and your pokemon.
Exploring areas without trainers with your pokemon feels great.

>>31988630
>Why was the following feature so damn good?
It's very endearing, helps with immersion and bonding much more than Refresh does.

It's much nicer to have all that small but contextual flavor text than to watch them respond to petting and feeding with the same one animation over and over. Refresh feels like putting money in an animatronic and watching it do a thing.

>>31988769
>much more than Refresh does
How so? What does it do that's so better than Refresh? Don't get me wrong, I like it, but claiming a Pokemon just following you is better than playing with that Pokemon just sounds ridiculous.

>>31988769
The thing is the flavor text is the same for 95% of Pokemon and like 70% of areas.

It's not bad in premise, like Amie/Refresh, but needs way better execution.

>>31988801
>What does it do that's so better than Refresh?
It changes.

Like I said, Refresh feels like interacting with an animatronic, because it's always the same. Pet or feed the Pokémon and it plays a single, short animation.

Following Pokémon flavor text changes depending on where you are and what you do. Fire Pokémon get sad if you bring them to the edge of a body of water, whereas Water Pokémon get happy. They respond to the environment by doing things like peeking on two NPC trainers who are trading, greeting other Pokémon present in the overworld, swaying back and forth while on the SS Aqua or becoming alert in dangerous locations like Cerulean Cave.

It probably does more for people with a lot of imagination. You'd have to picture what the text says in your head.

>>31988739
if they can make 2D sprites they can make 3D animations, this isn't a 10 men indie team for fucks sake

Is this the cringe thread?

>>31988647
Why optional? Does seeing it really bother you?

>>31988909
did you name your cat "cat"?

>>31988923
Yes.

>>31988935
then this is a cringe thread, and you are the cringe

>>31988873
I guess it's not something I would understand. To me, the very idea that each Pokemon interacting with you in it's own unique way, and you seeing and having an active part in that interacting is somehow more animatronic than just a sized down sprite following you, some text telling you what happened, and that "happening" being the same for most Pokemon is just completely ridiculous.

>>31988942
Okay.

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>>31988722
>The amount of time they put into making those sprites could've been put into something productive, something that wouldn't be unusable in the very next game.

But Black and White still had all the overworld pokemon sprites, they just weren't used. And you're acting like those sprite were fluid ultra hd sprites and not one low quality, off scale, off model, tiny sprite with 2 frames of animation only just endlessly bobbing up and down even while standing still.

you are entirely right about refresh/amie being better

>>31988637
>>31988647
>>31988722
Go die in a hole, you worthless niggers

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>>31988630
>there will never be a pokemon game with following pokemon and amie features

>>31988630
It added to the atmosphere and also made your team feel more personal, they also made the world far less empty.

>>31988722
Refresh is good but in different ways, why must there be one or the other? And I'd certainly take followers + a more detailed refresh expansion with more minigames over the next boring as shit reskinned battle tower with a somewhat different gimmick they'd give us otherwise.

>>31988954
In a way you're both right, Refresh certainly varies a lot from species to species and is more interactive, but I do agree with him that after a while you're just getting the same animations and not as much real interaction, followers may have said the same thing 70% of the time but it still felt much more personal and influenced by my own journey.

Shit's all good, I want both of them and they'd be great together.

>>31988630
Can't say I miss it.
Wasn't really a feature I thought about much, could take it or leave it.

>>31988880
No, he means they already have walking/running animations. They were found in the code a while back. Every single Pokemon has them and the only explanation anyone can come up with for them is that SM was going to have a following feature at some point.

>Baaaaaw I don't like having more features help me daddy gamefreak please remove more of them next game!
Only in /vp/ this is defended and encouraged

What the hell is wrong with Pokemon fans? Why are they such drones?

>>31989525
>I don't like a feature and would like it to be optional
>this means I don't want it to be in at all

lmao

>>31989525
They think that there can only be one new feature per game and simply attaching the existing animations to all the Pokemon is going to rob them of something they like or something.

That or closeted furfags so afraid of being outed they'll scream at anything that has to do with interacting with Pokemon outside of battling or things relating in some way to battling.

>>31989563
Those guys are fine though, that's how it should be especially for some retardedly big ones.

So, uh... what's up with all those walking and running animations for literally every single Pokemon, form, and mega evolution found in Sun and Moon?

Surely those mean something, right? Even if they aren't gonna be used, it means that they at least actually considered it, right?

And if they ARE gonna be used, then when?

>>31989581
Who knows. It would be pretty cool if they did it in Gen 8 though.

>>31989581
There's lots of things it could be used for, I wouldn't expect anything involving the overworld in Gen VII unless they pull a Crystal and go New 3DS only which is very unlikely since the N3DS hasn't done as well as the GBC did for a hardware half-step, but in Gen VIII for Switch or a proper 3DS successor there's very little reason not to include following.

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>>31989568
>closeted
lurk for two more years, or better yet, just fuck off entirely, the threads that tend to be actually decent typically scare you dumbasses off, which is a good thing

>>31989659
>projecting this hard

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>Having my azumarill follow me
Killer

>>31988954
Objectively wrong.

>>31989840
>I have no argument so I'm going to use the memey buzzwords

>>31988923
>Set over a hidden item
>not you have to make even more extra movements because your pokemon is on top of it

It's shit

>>31988630
Meh, it wasn't anything special to me and I don't really miss it, kind of annoying actually since I dislike following party members in other RPGs as well. Like others have said, refresh did more for me without feeling as intrusive and irritating.
I do want to see the run animations used in some way though.

>>31990017
Good thing the grid is gone.

>>31990414
the lack of a grid in SM confused the fuck out of me for the first few days I played the game

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>>31990436
I felt kind of the opposite, it was weird as fuck that I didn't even notice it was gone until I saw Gen 6 screenshots again and the synapses started depolarizing.

>>31988647
This. Following pokemon was a very meh feature over all and I wish I had the option to turn it off.

>>31989499
you are a special kind of dumb aren't you?

>>31988630
Go play Pokemon Yellow

>>31988630

I wonder how they are going to handle overworld kyogre following sprite... it's impossible to use it like that...

>>31988647
>it added nothing of practical use
>practical use
>videogame
>practical
>use

maybe it was for fun

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>>31992108
you are stupid man, please get out

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>>31992117
no

>>31992117
>Fun is stupid, get out

You must be fun at parties

>>31990510
You can actually look them up and see them, low poly walking and running animations for all 7 million pokemon and forms. They'll probably be in the switch version

>>31992139
Fuck off normie twat

>>31988647
>It added nothing of practical use except the sprites could be used for Pokethlon.
Thing is, those sprites were designed for the entralink so everything involving them in HGSS was literally just tacked on.

>>31989159
>they just weren't used.
Except they were and for their original purpose.

>>31992139
There's fun and then there's a feature that is literally just there to add more points to the back of the box. Not to mention they dumbed the pokemon down hard and didn't take nature nor personality into much account so it was horrible for autists who wanted to imagine their pokemon the way it was written.

>>31989159
Remember the dream world?

>>31989499
>and the only explanation anyone can come up with for them is that SM was going to have a following feature at some point.
Or, you know, the far more sensible and logical conclusion the pokefinder.

>>31992189
Okay? I'm just saying I found it nice and I know OP and some of the other people in the thread did too.

>>31991893
Are there any pictures of Kyogre following the player? I couldn't find any.

>>31992195
Yes, because GF would make animations for every Pokemon to use solely for the PokeFinder when not even all the Alola dex is used.

>>31992189
>there's fun and then there's fun i don't like


gotcha

>>31988722
>amount of time they put into making those sprites
lol

>>31992247
Uh yes?
Developers do this all the time for debugging or potential feature integration. On top of that there's nothing else indicating walking pokemon.

>>31988630
BATTLE FRONTIER GODDAMNIT

>>31992254
As opposed to
>I like wasted development time for useless features that actively take away from the game!

>>31992165
whats the counter of normie again?

i say this almost everyday but fuck some of yall are fucking retarded

>>31992189
>what is immersion
You must have had a shit childhood having literally no imagination.

>>31988630
HGSS are my favorite games because of this reason alone

>>31992951
>immershun
Oh yeah, knowing that every pokemon in my team is thinking EXACTLY the same thing, and acting EXACTLY the same way does wonders for my immersion. Turns out I'm not training a team, I'm training a fucking hivemind. No fucking individual thought whatsoever. if one starts barking, they all start barking. The feature fucking REMOVES immersion.

>>31990017
>Too lazy to move up a space then back down a space.
Good lord. It takes like 1 fucking second.

>>31992690
>take away from the game
HGSS was incredibly feature-packed and blew any modern gen out of the water on content. GF isn't 5 people in their mom's garage, multiple teams can work on a project at once.

>>31989188
Drink Clorox Fag, The feature was just a Porkeyman Sprite Following you, And had no rewards for it, No Competitive items, No Berries, No In-game Utility items(Nugets, Shards), Just some Contest bullshit

Pokethlaton was better Faggot

I think it's be cool if they let our Pokemon follow us, and as part of interactions we can also pound them.

>>31988637
>I don't like this feature, so it must be a meme
What a waste of first post :^)

>>31992195
>let's spend months rigging up all 800 models with unique walking and running animations including legendaries and even fucking megas for some one-off feature nobody gives a shit about that is barely used in the game with a dex containing barely a quarter of that to begin with
-(You)
Whether or not it was their original motivation for making them, it's pretty obvious they had intentions to use these animations for something beyond the shitty Pokefinder.

>>31992333
>debugging
You're fucking retarded my man.

>>31994159
>everything must contribute in some tangible way to MY gay-ass playstyle
It's a video game, you mewling bitch.

>>31994393
>Everything must be a Useless Gimmick with no Utility at all so I can Make my autism stronger
It's not you sound smart either

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>>31994420
That's some real basic bitch fanboy-tier logic there, that coupled with how defensive you're getting over the idea of adding in a cute gimmick that at this rate would take less than a week for a small team to implement is really making me doubtful of your authority to judge who is and isn't "sounding smart".

>>31994479
Enjoy Having a Pokemon sprite and having no reward for it, Fag

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>On beach by Olivine City
>Check my Pokemon
>Feraligatr is splashing in the water
>2 are curious about the waves
>2 are playing in the sand
>Arcanine is scared of the water
>mfw

Comfiest feature ever in a Pokemon game. Gave your Pokemon personality and really helped you bond with them. Plus it was fucking adorable.

>>31988630
The following feature is shallow and overrated.

>They will never bring back the follow feature that lets you access amie/refresh just by clicking on your pokemon

>>31995850
It would feel so much more natural but I could see a lot of mis-click opportunities.

>>31995799
not as shallow as your personality

>>31989866
What does the hottest PokeGirl have to do with based Azumarill

>>31990436
The grid was a pain in the ass in XYORAS, I still miss it, though.

All of you are fucking retarded

>>31998884
why bother capitalizing the first letter of your sentence and then not bothering to use end punctuation?

who's really the retard here????????????????????????????????

>>31998630
>Implying you know anything about my personality.

>>31999175
You're literally just doing the opposite though, so maybe you're both retards?